The Sun.
London, England, 1804-08-25 00:00:00

FROMTLIE FI?ENCH PAPERS.

Tit r. Privateet%Evtrance, which some time ago
captioul tCutter with diSpatches for Lord NtiesoN,
has nw.v again carried into Alicant. two othet,Eng.,
li,h Sl)ips„ richly loaded, wbich'two days beforehad,
sailed from Gibraltar, anttheredestined for Malta.
The Captain's share of prize.monq in these three'
captures,- amounts to 660,000 liVres, 25
During the fast nine months, year eleven, 249,
and durieg the same period.. this year,'. 3r6 mad; or
lunatic persons, or 138 women and 1-77:men, have,
been sent to our public hospitals. for the reception:
of mad people. It'is curious that'arneng,the men is
a young person,, aged.2s, whose fon:), is, to 'believe
himself Louis XVI. and. among the women; a
young Lady, aged 0, "whose madness is to think
herself the wife of Louis'XVl. the unfoitonate.
Marie Antoinette. They ate both children of re.
turned Emigrants.—(Lo:Gozwede Frr'ince.)
The ,COuntess of Aittatto, one 'of the Ladies in
• waiting to the Empros JO,sElqllllll.. is -the widow,
-of the Austrian Field.Whirshal, Lieutenant Coont
Alia Ono, and born a rtiheess of lialberg.Gedern.
The Emperor and Empress.are particularly desitous
to attach to them, and have near 'their :persons,
Ladies and Gentlemen, of the Nobility of Belgium-
and of the French side of the Rhine.
The Chemist, CADET:DE Versux, having sent
His Prnssian Majesty his Chemical Didionary,
ceited in return from the Prussian AMbassador,
Marquis 1..DCC111.41N1, by the order of bis SoVe.
reign, the usual med4llion of the Academy
•
Sciences am 'Berlin. • -
The Batavian National Debt amounts to .1000
of florins (roO,00oq0091• sterling). The
following Are the particulars oi this debt from the
foundation of 'the , Republic 1579, Holland
owed.only one (pillion (80,0001.), the other Pro.
vieees had not debt ; by. the Peace of Munster,
1648, .1-I,ollan&had'it'debt of 114 millions. By. the
Wars against Cromwell, in 165,23 against Portugal,
in:1664; ;against tvecien, 1656;' against England,
1664.; and against the Bishop of Munster, in 1665 ;
which ended withihe Peace of Nimeguen, in 1678,
the debt amounted to 160, millions. By the. Peace
of Ayswick,-1698,: the debt had augmented to 214.
millions ; and by thePeaceof Utrecht, 17 t,3, to 343
millions. During
,the, War for the Pragmatic Sanc.,
tion,.which began 1743, and ended by the Peaccof
1748, it was 404.raillions. To
this stem were added so millions more. during the
War,. with .England in 1780, and with France in
1793. Since! the Revolution, 1795, and until the.
Peace of Amiens, s hich ended the. last ,War with
England, '446 trillions: hove been added, not .count.
ing pairlotiedonations, ,requisitions, forced loans,
&e.. The interest for these moo millions amounts
to 29460,492 florins'. „This debt is since aug.,
merited during this. present War with several free
and limed loans, the. exatY sum of which is not
known, but is supposed-at least to he sixty millions.
A tradesman, of thename of Thai Afilled • in
tie River Oise, by St, Maixenr, with his dog by his't
,side. A child, playing:•on. hoard one of'the ships,
fell unperceived in t4ie water t nobody observed it
but the dog; who • immediately jumped Into the
water, got hold' of the- childi and carried him
by his gown to his master's side, a distance,. of,
thirty yards. This animal had the sagacity to hold
the child's head above .water, so ,that lie had swal.
lowed but little water, and 'soon recovered. The •
'owner of the ship offered DituLtsyseveral Louis
d'ors for the d,,g, but was answered that the day
befOre he would not have parted .with'it, but that
now no mdney will tempt him to separate himself
from an animal which bad saved: the life of 'a hu.,

man being. This deg is of a curious breed ; its
mother kid 'saved a washerwotnan from drowning,
and its grand Mother saved a young girl, who, from
disappointment in love, threw herself into the
River Oise ; but who has ,since married DAVLIN'S
eider brother, uy whom she:has bad six children.
Workmen are now hulling,. down the Theatre
FeYdeau, because the Emperor WS ordered a new
street to be made between the street FeYdeau and
the street Vivienne, where a new Exchange, sur,
passing in extent and beauty, both, the Exchanges
of London and of Amsterdam, will be construtled.
The Bankers and Merchants, in gratitude 'for the
and
protellion encouragement the Emperor has gra.
ciously given to Commerce, have, by a Deputation,
demanded His Majesty's permission to creel his
Statue in the tniddlc uf this new Exchange, to which
neighbourhood the Imperial Bank' of Ftance will' be
removed. The gmperor's answer Will be known
at His Majesty's return from :the Coast.

Carmarthen fair, on Monday, exhihited'a great
show of cattle,,the sale of which was rather dull, but
such as met with buyers,friched a fair price. Good
horses were scarce and dear. The pig fair, on'Tues.
day, was well supplied, anci'many were sold.at good
prices.
There was a good show of cattle and 4aorses at
Swansea fair on Wednesday; July asst, but •so dull
a sale l 4 lU)t been for many 'years, very few in.
deed havit.g found purchasers.
At Britford fair,the show of sheep and lambs ex.
ceeded that of any of late years by at least 3000,
the .whole. number amounting to zo,ooq. The
breeders had fearfully anticipated a dullsale; but
their expenations were agreeably• disappointed.—
'the heavy rain during the' preceding night, and
the Whole of the fair.day, giving assurances of great
improvement in the turnips, and a plentiful supply
of pasture, the purchasers bought freely.—Ewes at
to pi. scone at 3zs. and one lot of too at 365.
the most general price 28s.—Lambs 131. to zoi.
some as high a:: 221. but the most general price 171.
There were a few tolerably good horses, and
plenty
,Of forest colts : Ole former were eagerly
bought ;It high prices ; the latter proved of so little
value, that it rwiy be said the buyers lead them can

their own terms,
On• Stiturd4 tix goosberries were pulled in 3
garden, parish of Govan, which weighed 3 oz, 12
duchtz►s t, one of tl►etn weighed nearly 12 drachms
and 'Authored 44 iricks by 4•

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