The Sun.
London, England, 1804-11-24 00:00:00

di DR, E

PROM Les Not/1r ELLes A. LA MAIN• Ants .207.1
Y'rAR xI T. oa 10TH OF JULY, 1804.
Iv. PAdas6 ST 7.
,P)torauTsi- and Prophetesses pretend that day
dreams arc more to be depended upon than those of
the night ; my usual modesty prevents me, however,
from• forcing it upon my Readers, either as a proba-
bility, or possibility, though I think it both.
Having witnessed, with thousand other citizens,
lately. metamorphosed with tnyttelf into subjects, the
greed presentation of the grand diplomatic corps to
the grand Emm ar ofthe grand nation, I went home,
my body, fatigued,, from standing in the rand
crowd-for four hours, and my mind occupied with
ludteerious and 'half gay thongitta concerning the
grand scene I had left,. and of which the equal has
not been seen in France, or heard of in Europe tor
fourteen centuries. Meditating on my sofa, on the
grandeur and decline of Empires, on the misery
of some kings, anti on the fortunes of some indivi.
duals, I began to slumber, and finished by falling
fast asleep. In some few minutes I imagined-my-
self in Patadise, where I was surprised to hear the
good, the virtuous, the Christian and forgiving
Louis XVl—reproaching some crowned members of
his family with their late inhUinan and degrading
conduct, and he was going to forbid them his pre.
sence, and disown thetias relations, when the young
Duke of Enghien entered, bleeding through all his
notes, and with a bashful modesty exclaimed, t' Sir !
too, am a 'Bourbon!" His sudden presence, and
particularly his shocking appearance, caused a kind
murmur of pity—of abhorrence—sighs were heard
every where, and tears were running down the
cheeks of Louis XVI. who opened his arms to
embrace his• Royal relative. "My son," said the
kingly martyr, " thou art worthy of our ancestors
and better titnes—."
Here His Majesty was interrupted by the arrival
of several persons, unknown wadi, except the Duke
of Enghlen, who stretched out his hand, and intro-
duced 12 friends, whose virtues and sufferings upon
earth' Piovidence had rewarded with the eternal
blessing of inhabiting the same Paradise with a St.
Louis, Henry IV. and Louis XVI. One of them
began-to relate some occurrences which took place
just before he was, murdered, which caused a degree
Of surprize and indignation that no words can de.
scribe. A confused noise of trumpets, drums, &c.
was then heard, which awoke me for an instant ;
but, falling asleep again, 'my bewildered imagina.
tion carried me to the wood of Vincennes, where
heralds, dressed in imperial liveries, proclaimed the
following Senate: Consultus:
" People of France,.!—your interest and welfare
made Napoleon the First an Emperor of the
French ; his virtues require from your duty and
gratitude, that His Imperial IVI ijesty should be wor.
shipped as a supernatural being. , Your represents.
tives, the tnembers of the Conservative Senate, tie- ,
tree, that temples are immediately to be ereCted in
every city, town, and village, of the French em.
pire, where Napoleon the First is to be, worshipped
as the Providence of Europe."
The crowd immediately was on their knees, re..
peating Napohomr, era isro nohi, !" As I
distinguished several foreign accents, I approached
nearer to the place from whence they came, and,
to my great surprise, Sava the Kings of Spain, Na.
ples, &c. &c. all'call out by proxy, San& Na.
poltane,,ora pro ',obis 1" I was freezing with hor.
roc at these blasphemies, when an invisible hand
carried me suddenly through the air to the inner.
most apartments of St. Cloud, where I observed,
upon a bed' decorated with an imperial crown, a
short yellow figure of a man gnashing his teeth,
tearing his bosom, and, by convulsive movements,
opening and shutting his eyes, turn from one side
to,anotter, jumping tip, and laying down again ;
his eyes staring, and his tongue-exclaiming, 4f Tou.
lon I Paris ) Italy ! Jaffa ! Enghien 1 Georges !
Guards,
,seize them 1 Guards, do, you; not hear
traitors you are sold to the 'Bourbons I at least give
me mrstilletto—my poisoned draft—my dagger—
my pistols, or a rope I" This be repeated so loud,
that the apartment was instantly filled with MAIMS.
Irkes, Italians, Corsicans,• Swiss, and Frenchmen,
who frightened me so much, that I jumped through
the windows, and ran away as fast as I could. A
Clap of thunder and-a- flash of lightning caused me
to look behind, when-I saw nothing but temples,
palaces, imperial crownsoceptres, and,,robes, re.
duced to ashes, to rubbish : •
'et
vue)usques aux cieux s'elever le superbe;
passe je La vois, qui rampe comme 1. herbs. .
' In that instant ,my guardian angel appeared he.
fore me, and spoke, with a severe voice, -as fol.'
1(41; Weak "mortal, cease to murmur at -the
decrees of Providence, when you see that sentences,
of -Criminal tribunals and 'military commissions
often exchange the earths for a paradise ; whilst the
Setratrit Coestd,tur as often make theearth an hell."
Here. ley servant,entered my room, and 'awoke itaya
trllirg me His Majesty the 'Emperor of the
Frencti had ,graciously fixed the day
Lion lot, the 91111 next November

On Monday the sth inst. an alarming fire broke
out in th, oothouses of Mr:Talbot, miller' :slt Wittt.
bourne, •Wiltshire,. whist at one Arne threatened
destruttion to the whole WWII; 7000,11nAe faggots,
200 hard ditto, and 9 cwt. of hay, with the thatch.
•ed buildings, all on-fire together, made a 'dreadful
conflagration tor about. an hour and a half ; and
it.may be deemed an interposition of Proyidence
that the fire extended no farther& as there were three
hay ricks at the distance of only ten yards, and. On
the other Aide Mr. W. ~H. .Hussey',, tallow..
- house, but fortunately ,the wind set so as to blow
the dames between them,: had it blown in a diffe.
rent divetion; the destruaion must. have been very
great. Four..or five houses were scion fire by the
large 11 tlces 'of fire blown' about ; but these were
fortunately,. discovered, and extitignished.. before any
,r,,,rerilt injury was sustained. it is feared that
Mr...Talboi's premises were wilfully set on fire, a
woniati.haviog threatened that ;she would do so,.t.
acs: tot .t.bc .ad vanced price of bread ; but the
• chr.rge .49,1,not,sultictently supported to
,warrant her,
C(4:iiiOtslietit.

Tuesday night, about nine o"clnek, a fire was
discovered in the workshop of Mr. Joseph tore,
tinman,. in Sr. Maryport.street, Bristol, wilicliby
the timely assistance of some Gentlemen in 'the
neighbourhood, who broke into the house (Mr.
toye and family not living on the premise,), was
mnst providentially extinguished beef it got to an
alarming height. Had it been ;lia liter hours in
all probability the houses on both sides of the street
would- have been reduced to ashes, having heed
built at a time when the security of patty wails was
nor atteri4ed to.