The Sun.
London, England, 1804-07-10 00:00:00

THE 1.1 RC CIL A E It A NUSCR IPTS.

r here greir ,t-i.,f,tiott,•in announcing the .
gre4, w! t hr ".n 'Made, . under ale
autipiees cr I I,iighoe'4,s Ate, Pa I Not. ni
in the unr.dling ay ,t recover} of the
found in the *r nins ,1 Itercidattrrqn. The public ,are
.IttrtAy informed that the l'tince,froin that ardent
!,rtertt uhieft so justly:endears hint to the
liberal:and, learned World, exerted all llfeinflluenee
of hi• statinn and character, to procure, the Sustain!)
of the Kt 'et of NAT I. Ns to'the unravelling of those
dotes oi erninen't. iiteraturc, which Were, -tthervvi;,
tionmed to ptirtalt unexptored., Hr completely auc...,
ceeded in his appiiCation. 'The KtsiG. ()f-
-not only rude the PKY NC tr. apretient of the. some
‘notolver of v.b.smrs as he had been induced to gitle
to the Etrteihr NAinLEUNI but he also gave free
leave to t Ili: literary agrrits of. His Roy;d Hi,64r,iess
to exert their skill to recover the hidden tre.giurea
of literature and science. Accordingly the Kev.
Mr. I-1 P.lTt It 1134 been it Naples fur tr CQPltiderAlliej
time, engitv,d, with a number ot .assistants,, hi this,
important work, and scholare a every country
be a
deli..hted 'to hear that he has mde r/sapid 4noiten.'
in the task: • •
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PretiOttili, to the irsserferepre of the
wA.4-q.4.7.-khteol Manuscripts ha.d`',ltetn dpened,.l4l-»
the courie.ol,:forty six ,yearn, bet unties his.obstiftei
nearly /timer, have been opened in little mot:villas,-
Iwo years. This is A patronage worthy 'of the'
Pit INC r, and cantor fail to inspire the Literary,'
With the fOnclest hopes of the magnificent
protraion which Learning and the Arts are likely.
to •iierive ftnm, his future reign., Mr,. liFTYTtit
writes from,Nrtici in May last, m•thai though the
tlifEcultirbin ~tilit•aYnlling the almost extinguished
Fispiri ere incteilible, and the operation, of course,
most dil.itory, as the persons. employed •mareven.
yet he 'consiklered•as Learner Tit;. yet every iltiy new•
lights are opening to their. Above'fnurscore
scripts' harelteen.uortilltd under his en.
tirely, or in part,.. Among. these,
.seven were Latin,.
bite these it was unfortunately necessary ui
linquiSh, 'in consequence of 4 fatal: accident, which
reduced them to tie has dihcovcredat the
end of one. manuscript, the..natne of 'DEMCIVIUS.
PH/item-atm Ftsgmei)tlt cif four Books of Er tc'e-
itus are .ready for publication,. •11#'Engratfings 'of
one
„flank, and. of Six tblortmeof 'another, are
completed,. A Treatise Angeti; 'another be
Phstmr, Dtorpia, as. well as a Logical 'Essay' by
Pit morisixtr,i; are also study for ptiblication. The
Treatise tin Arger is 4npny.mousi, 'That Aatura
Deer:Mt appears to be by Pitieneus, the friend of
Cicero.**

PwARIS, juss,23. .

Tsre .60ecial Military Tribunals were to cease
wit], the Month Floreal,_but, by an Imperial Decree,'
theirezi,iine* it prolonged-,.until the, end, of
preaent', War .;"flueing, twelve months, 14,096 per,
sons have been erandemned by them; 6,45 capitally.
Aaagang of thieves is now, before the crimit!al
Tribunal. at Lyons. ;They were Aitken in On :tna7
gatine of aiichMerchent there,,Cirt;.enl4'.i.taraLz,
in the eery iit of carrying away .seateral lades. Of
silk. Their Chief, callettnuent/R, 1141 Ststaisted",
by thieving and cheatfrig,:foczixteen years past,
since the beginning of the Revolution. In 1792,
however, he suddenly,,, became a frmous Jdenbirt,!'
and i staunch Patriot ; and in 1793, and 1794, he
,ne of the Revolutionary Judges, who con-
thinned so many laiunese petisle to deathiiitnit who
cOntittelited their property. Of these conlit'itions,,
he appropriated to himself to the amount of four
millions ot,livres,'l66,oool. went to. Paris, bought
an hotel, k..!pt his mi•tress, invited all Foreign Mil
nisrers and fashionable people to his balls,„ routs,
assemblies, the*, &C.. married a cousin of RP.i.VBI.L,
from whom :he, was divorced in 1799, to COOL t
young .MidanlOiSelle BIACTAKNOIti, a niece to our
Empress; but in the interval, having met with
other rogues more clever than himself, he was car-
tied to gambling•lmuses, and plundered.ofc his
loge. Being reduced to the stalu qua in which the
Re volution found .him, he colleted . together all
discontented error is ts or Jacobins uniof Aide, and
binned a gang of thieves, and forgers, and
restored to thes4 Patriots plaaes tiestinear for them
by .nature, and which it .had been a blessing for '
France if thernever had quitted. Some Of his ac.
cornplices have already perished,. others occupy the
prisons aral.thezallies; but DUFOUR; himself had
hitherto escaped the searches of the Police,' when a
faithless female betrayed her faithless laver:. His
plan for. his last, *robbery was excellent. fle had
hired sevenl boatcon the River Rhone, on the quay
of which Ft.ttat t Lz's magazine is sitnated.. He laid
postet% at twenty. stepa.tlistance hetween'each, ;en
eentriet in case of al,ttwr, ,and 'entered Iherefore
:marine o'clock in the evening of the ttatli
May',, the magazine, -with Use, keys. The
boats were under ,the.care of twenty.two other se.
comptices, of whom he ordered sixso join.him, and
twelve persons with him in the magazine, and to
assist in packing up its contents. .At a certain sig.
nal, however, live Police Agents, .and eight Grfti-
d'arma, concealed in a Marl closer, rushed forwards
and captured Dvvou it and those thievei within
slants, whilst other Police Agents and Gearsearmer
seized the remainder of them on the quay and in the
Wadi. Fir bad the impudence, before the Ttilannal,
to claim intimate -acytHintance :with our
•Emtieror
and Empress, having treated them both, and tieing
treated by them, iii April, i'19.8. He even pre.
tended to possess the. Emperor's' promise of a plsce
in the Tribunate,. but the shrvivauct reverhipn,
though. signed Bonaparte, .avas visibly is forgery,
which the tack will force him to confess. He has
acknowledged before the Tribunal,that, besides the
four'inilliOns he, et a:Patrio,- appropriated, to hint.
sell at Lyons ten years ago, Rewa Ea, had procured
him opportunity, by cotstrt4la for the -Army and
Navy., tragain three millions,. More,. which turns
were leist, by ,hitri within eis,,hteen months, ,at the
gambling tables at .Paris.. He is. pithy 34 years of
age, and will probably. pats the remainder of, his
days in the. gallics, should norobtain the pardon
of the Eqtperui, for which he hopes.

OLD RiiILEY.

• PI FIR DAY-O.4IOIIIISAY, JULY 9.
Gadaliab Phillips vilfchatged with the commis..
siren of an offence' which' is 'commonly called among
the 'dialers themselves. smashirtg,. and, ,in common
parlance, the praetice'ot circulatinghase coin.
Wm. Hysins, the person who laid the information
a.gainst the Prisoner, stared,. that in consequence of
some knowledge which be had of the Prisoner's,. Way,
of deaThrg, a's. he termed it,. lid. Concerted a plan,
along with Smith and- the two Limbricks (Bow-street,
Officers), for bringiug th,e Prisoner .to justice. Smith
gave'. the Witness- two ludf.ctowns and three shit.
,hngi In silver, all of Which mere marked by Smith,
in the presence. of, theNVitness, They then all
set trif togetherr inrichackney coach, accompanied by
a person of the tame '91!11-iarth, to a well.known
(Muse, rise Blue Anchor, in Pattie-pat-lane, where the.
Prisoner 'usually resorted. The. Officers staid outride
area: short distance from the house, while Harris and
the Witnesswent in. The Prisoner came there in-a
few.minuteir after, and the, Witness asked him -td let
We saint 'kid:. The Pris Oner WAS rather shy on •
account of the presence-of-Harris, until the' Witness
told him that he was. a friend of his, who wan ted some
)reafterriatitrt:terrn lor bank notes). He was then
,perfectly reconciled, priced the *PriSocier •if he
wanted alathr (meaning writcht?''' Tire witness
said, no; Ind thirilasked him for some money. the
PriSt.init Itsiced*het;ter he meant to have spinets,
half beini- tubiirs fehe *first. Was explained by,
the witness, ho'.the cant term for ,seve4.shilling,
pieces„ the second for half** guinea, and the third'a
general word for.all sort (if come rfeit silver ;lie also
'sobierved,that'al'ay bull meant a halictown.) The
'witness said they were all alike to him for the Prj.
soper,to, give hint 0,11)110 .es iie.conla for (4.. as that
was all be had about him. He accordinglygota .seven,
shilling piece, seven shillings in silver, 'and two half., ,
crimps .for his eig,ht. shillings. .• After,;the.
-was concluded, the Prisoner said that ht could,
.not stop any Jong tr, •• and went out. A •signai. w,as.
given, and the officeri. came up and apprehended;,
fiim. He was searched, and one .of- the Marked,.
.shillings ',was found in his pocket., N./ne of the
other.pieces were,got,.. though the 'Prisoner -had . A
deal of good money in his pockets.. The search took
,place in a:Public-house, and the Prisoner said he
,Was
very illy. He called fOr a pot of porter,,drank,
and the pot was finished 'by the , rest t i those, pre.;
sent. There chanCed to be a Jew in the house,, and
the Prisoner conversed with hint in Hebrew, went on
one Aide, and ga've. him the pot to get it filled
again, Upon its being brought in, the Prisimer drank
again, and while 1w was drinking, one of cite
freers heard something jingle in the rt. lie was
tht!Ll ping to band' the put to 'the Jew to drink, butt
the Officer isid, hold of it drank heartily, and
two, leven•xiiilling pieces aCthe bottom.
Par,kiti; die S to the Mint, was
ed, and upon comparing those. two seven-shilling
pietes„,withthe one which the last witness said 11,1,1:
been,giyerr,to lurii by the Prisoner, he said that they,
were all low metitl, and, to tire hem of his judgment,
appear...i to be struck from the same dye. lie ex.
amiPed the. other pticeslof inetal•which were said to,
be, received from rite Prisoner, and declared that
lhey..Wcteall i'st coin. •
attensp
,was Made by the Counsel. for the PO-
song toin“.;litl.re the cvidencc of Hya:ns, which
was over-440'4y the. Court.
Tbr.,g4l C4lll D E CNVi timed the purport of the At
podet:which the Pris,,ner was tried.; .be said it was
n.:vrry oltl ,and very, useful Mt of Parliament (9
"William lii. chap. 6),, and subjeaed such offenders
as the Prisoner was said to AA:, to be punished ;as,
felons.. •