The Sun.
London, England, 1817-10-18 00:00:00

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;.)Dureff MAIL.

rllOll'tHE FRENCH FRONTIERS, 0CT:16."-the
`,whole of the British belonging to the right witig,

•
the Army of Occnpition, consisting'of gix'cotp-
plete 'regitncittsOately retuoupted, with a regi-
,
'Hem of allillery tittongti3g -to the guard, and a
'Congreve-rocket brigade, 11. gs been _reviewed near
Oiner, by his!'Grate:the Duke of Wellintoot
The fille condition of the men, and the beanty,ot
'the horses, excited t.tetteral admiration. llis
Grace then returned to his head-quartet's at Mont
St. Marie, and:the troops went back to their can-
tonme,fts. To-morrow will he the graml ttriew
-of tie Russian corps in the plain between A vesuel
and Manbenge t the troops will be' coltnianded
:by Count Woronzow, and the Duke of Wellington
will be present at this review also. On the 13,11,

the Duke will inspect the whole of the British;
'Danish, and Hanoverian infantry. It is thought
that the Duke will not return to Paris before the

end of the year.
•The present Minister of War proceeds in his
'plan of economy, and there is no doubt hut that
by these means the army may be made much
stronger. It is however said Ow, for the pre-
sent-, the necessary men will be procured only by
voluntary enrolment, and that all the soldiers who'
have served in the old army, and whose conduct
•gives no particular reason to suspect their 'senti-;
merits, may be accepted. The number of French
'Officers that still receive half-pay is estimated at
ketween. 27 and 2,5,000 persons, of whom, in
-the course of this year,. 1200 art to be. placed in
ac►ive service.

liAcurf. OCT. 14.—The article from Stock-
tofu), 23d September, which we copied in-
to our Journal of yesterday (Oct. 13), is not.
conformable to truth, since, as we are now posi-
tively informed from respectable authori:y, there
never could have been any conferences between
the Swedish Minister of Foreign Aittirs, and the
French Minister, about the recognizing of the
Crown Prince by the Count of Frattce„ as there.
never was any question of it ; and he was -tacitly
reec;gnisetf, as %veh as all, the other Sovereigns of
•Europe, or their presumptive successors, .on the
restoration of Loins XVI 11. to the throne. The
rest of article is no less inaccurate: we thus
consider the ‘vhole article as nitll.

Among the persons of rank lately arrived here
Is Prince Christian of Hesse Darmstadt.

As the maintaining. of a Dutch settlemekt on
the coast of Goitiea, has 'for its object not only
directly to benefit made, but also to derive all
possible advantage from the fruitful soil of Africa.,
.for time cultivation of Colonial produce, and to
make use of it for time benefit of time mother couir-
try, it may not be unimportant to the public to.
be informed, as the tWO sons of tie Governor of
that mail are going thither, particularly, in.Jhe
last mentioned view, that all persons o'r larnilies
,who are not wholly Without resources of their
owu, anti who
.may be inelineil to settle 01) mire
Gold Coast, in the neighboomhood of D'aumina,.
trill receive every possible facility ott the part of
the Government.

• The European Colonists may advantageou3ly
employ their kno‘vledge And .their industry in the
enhivtion of that fertile country ; and the Colo-
nization of this Netherland__pos,t•ssion, as ►well as
the trade to-those partS, ►vill receive every eneou-
,ragentent from the state. The department of
Trade and Colonies. affords more particular infor-
mation to all such us desire it. .

PETERSBURGI-1, SEPT. 20.—The invitation from
9ur Cabinet to all the Powers of Europe, to join
in measures against pirates of all descriptions, is
said to have been signed by the Blur ror before
his departure; and .to have been immediately for-
warded to our Ministers at foreign Courts.

r'REJUDICES OF THE FRENCH SOLDIERY

AGAINsT ENGLISH TRAVELLERS.

I'Ve have received'the following account of a
recent affair at Dieppe :
" Among the many disagreeable circumstances
to which Englishmen • are exposed, in travelling
through France, is the rude behaviour of the mi-
litary, which is not confined to the common sol-
dier, but characterizes a great portion of the
subordinate officers ; and it, requires great for-
-bearance to void the unpleasant, and even
clan-
gerous, consequences which might ensue from
resenting their unprovoked and gratuitous inso.-
• lence. As an instance of the truth of this remark,
~.and of the brutal conduct of the soldiery, we are
desired by some of our countrymen just returned
from that country to state the following fact :
As three English Gintlemen were walking on
Sunday last under the Piazza at Dieppe, which
leads to Taylor's hotel, a sentinel on duty before
the Colonel de Jouilli's horse was observed to be
in a violent dispute with two English females,
baying the appearance of servants, who complained
of being struck by the sentinel with th'e butt-end
.alf his musket, as they were passing peaceably by
- the front of the Colonel's house. As the Gentlemen
,*walked past them to the hotel, the females were
appealing to Alr.Taylor, the hotel-keeper, for pro-
tection, who was heard to advise thew to walk on
and not notice the assault, there being Ito redress
• for theth in France.. About an hour atter this at-
fair, these gentlemen were returning to the quay,
..when the sentinel on duty tusked soddenly to-
wards them, and giving them mitt , nOt ice of
,his
in-
tention, and iii the most menacing manner, with
his fixed bayonet drove them front the piazza into
the street, ejaculating the foulest oaths and in-
sults upon the English. The ‘vidth of this piazza,
which fronts the Exchange, is „early 20 feet—,
When these gentlemen observed that all except
Englishmen were allowed to pass and repass with_
Out any kind of molestation, they ventured to ask the
sentinel if he had orders to make this distinction ?
'' Point de reflexion," and a thurst at them with the
bayonet, was the answer ; the consequences of
which they narrowly escaped by a precipitate re-
treat into the street. A gens.d'arme passing by at,
the time, the gentlemen applied to him for 'pro-
tection He directed theta to apply to Colo-
nel de Touilli, before whose house the soldier
stood sentinel. this tittle a considerable
crowd had collected to vindicate the conduct of
the soldier, but our countrymen were not thus

"I to be :from .redress ;
presented themselvei.,before the Colonel's house,
as the 'gene-Wart/le-had instructed then:, and halt-
concealed in 'the crowd rad veached the gain,
and were on the point of etttering the court-yard
of the house, wilen the soldier perceiving them,
they were.again driven back into ale street a third
time at the point of the bayonet. A •Coptaitt of
'the Regiment was next observed
..by them to Kaye
mixed with the crowd witnessing 11. e affair ; "to
hitt) 'they immediately rept esented the conduct of
the sentinel, iii a lOnd andperemptury tone, that
the people might htdr.; he replied. that the soldier
was justified in his conduct toWardS the English, be
having hero insulted by two English tern tits whilst
on eluty ; atid that onless the gentlemen imme-
diately dis6uvered who the females were, he would
ins'antly order the atiest "of all three. In vain
did they urge that they were total strangers in
Dieppe; that they had artived by the diligence
hilt a few horns before, and were, wholly igno-:
rant of the affair. No matter ; they were Eng-
lishmen, and this of itself seems au - offence in
France wh4ch admits of no extenuation. The
Commissaire of Police was sent for, and the gen-
tlemen retired to Taylor's hotel, there to await the
result of those proceedings which were meditated
against them. On representing their situation to
the English, who had arrived there that morning
from Brighton, it appeared that all of them had been
sitnila;ly insulted on their way 'l6 the hotel;
and amongst those whose lives had been exposed
to the brutal• violence of the sentinel, were a Lady
and two Anierican Gentlemen who had been mis-
taken for English. Upon which it was immediately
rewired to make common cause with each other,
and to address a letter to the Colonel, of which
the following is a translation :

"TO COLONEL DE JOUILLI ,MEMBER OF THE LEGION
uF 1-10VOUII,

" Dieppe, Oct. 12.
". 'We, the undersigned Englishmen. are extremely sorry
that we hare occasion to complain to you of tile misconduct of
the sentinel on guard before you house. W shall lie glad to•
know at what hour you will allow us the honour of seeing you
upon the subject.
" We arc, with muchr/spect, &c."