The Sun.
London, England, 1810-09-08 00:00:00

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4,9 M A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE CONCERNING
Atf( AN"ADOTTE, A MARSHAL OF THE FRENCH
04\,8. D PRI NCR OV PONTE COB Vo.
APTIsTE BEIINADoTTE was born on the 2611,
Qtdry' 1763, at Pau, in Ream, in the Depart;
rr `,.,de Lower. Pyrennees. His father %.v.aS a
" Irk'edestnlisied When he «as fifteen years old,
tt .sux,s°°ilafter.in the squadron commanded by
,10,..71ein, and was present .at the battle of
" the East Indies.
.e..-1,1-Leturti to Fiance, -he rose gradually in the
I, "e Revoititton confribuied to his advance-
t„ b" kirying oceision,he.rendered signal sei-
y„t t.eolunct the Marquis D' Atnbert. In the
1"e North he revenged tile death of his friend
fZuguet
Olin the army of the Ardennes, in 1794,
Ivigni4e-tigneUx under the command of Ge-
itlat areedu and Bieber, when he was appointed
attl,,i(4l3rigade. After the battle ot. leo' us, he
ot"x "L!ht rank of General of Division. At the
1 aestricht, the reduction of the fort of Wick
Ltd
&it, "I .0 Mar.
iiy Passage of the Rhine, in 1795, by the
'lie Saulbre and Meuse, BERNADOTTE. was
el in ulockading Mayence on the Cassellside.
afterwards sent with his division to the
"kick
IQ, I;9U his division di'siingu'shed itself very
iii twice crossing the-Wane. The second_
was effected opposite the % illage of
alte
liilltd gener4,astonisiiment . it will serve
fri,,,.'b'''Petual proof of the superiority of an enter-
ulan o%er an adversary rendered negligent by
,4'l' confidence,
tlik,"ArJorre was, opposed to the Arch-Duke
il,,,usts at etunat k, at leinengen, and at EberaCh.
4V;si'n sustained very great oss at Wurtilatirgh.
i'"''not hialbeit. present, on account of illness,
tte haute, the disasters of which
ased by ,the dissensions that prevailed
tit,4 he Generals.
I-
„ "I'aliatte having required reinforcements, Ge-
l)7' 1141tNADOTTE received orders, in January
ittit to PrOceed to Italy, where he arrived „about
of 'March. Be was engaged in the
k °` the Tagliartienio. After,taking Gradisca,
tiNadvancc.l upon Vienna. Upon the signing of
tqleinninaries of Leoben, • he. occupied the
141 with an army of 30,000 infantry and
t) ea • i
.
ea
et having been signed at Cainpo Formio, be
itedaPPointed Ambassador to Vienna. He pro;
Ive',lluPen ttiis,new mission in April, 1798. After
the ni been exposed to great dangers, he was under
tstbi:e'e,sity of quitting , the Austrian Capital ; he
Iliijnet_d to France, and was ordered to blockade.
Iliat‘Psuill. His summons to the Commander of
f'e'tes, •
is well known.
\lta, 1799 • BERNADoTTE was appointed Minister of
He was dismissed by the Direaory, under
she Pretext that he bad sent in his resignation, tho'
h) .I,lao %vas never officially 'made known : BERNA-
L'llsbOtild have contradiaed this. .9n the 18th
is,n`uinaire he refused to assist BUONAPARTE. The
"ter:: of his pa:ty being entirely destroyed by the
tiles of that day, he privately withdrew with his
ItAl4tfr(ll Paris,. and secreted himself at Clia:eau-
-1'04" d country house belonging to Gen. SARRAZIN,
le
lgtlS from that city. ' •
q„ 'lie assurances given to BERNADOTTE by
thiheral SARRAZIN, that BUONA,rART.E tOlgOt every
IliC4 that had passed, and was desirous of his friend,
lour ' e returned to Paris. In March, :800, he was
W-:'"ted Commander in Chief of the Army of the
and lie established his headsquarters at•Rennes.
t"1 it At:is in comemplatton to send him out to
14—sl4na, with the authority of Captain-General.
is t. 1,402 it Was intended to appoint him Ambassador
)ki;''t United States. He passed the year 1803 at
without any employment. 1n.1804 he was
PI om
ud Commander in Chief of the Army of
at_t"lver,,
trf.le \vas present at the 'battle of Austerlitz, that
li,,i(*flas and the campaign against the Russians in
comiliande the''Frenh army in Den-
haß
when Ale Marqui4 ROMANA succeeded in em-
liir's4l% his troops; and [twined to Spain to defend
Sett 11 t lie campaign ofBo9..Gen. BERNADOTTE
44-tett with the Saxon troop.. He commanded at
Dia,ewerp when the EXpedition•to:Walcheren took
fle
was fortunate enough to be eleaed Crown
of Sweden, at a moment that he was at Pa-
ris without any employment.
RftwsonTTE married Mademoiselle CLARY, the
‘‘ititghter of a respeaable merchant at Marseilles, by
! 111 he has an only son:
Nil.. he author of the- biographical ootes,, after de-
-o'"g many other particul.as concerning &RNA..
I,lTel concludes with observing, " that BUON
4 if the tact be true that he haseither given
11 lent eigi4 of francs to Sweden to vied
b:tiNspoTTe, has applied a maxim of politics, :which
galanStd iswor, naniely —to build a'biidgs of
quid for
a retreating enemy. '

A T, 3
-Eacitrtsn CORRESPONDENCE.-11 D3olo'
the 3d of. August says., that the number
of t't'ers intercepted,by Spanishparties in LaLaMan-
(al
as and the other parts of the Peninsula, is very
itl'eat• They ::tfor,l a convincing proof of the con-,-
tbst" the enemy are in, and of the •disappoint-
-1„111 and mortification they experience from the
„ u
g and persevering struggle hich the true and
1,0"Yal Spaniards "..mainta4r. One of these letters,
General Don JUAN BAPTISTE DE CASTRO,
)Thmandant General of Cordova, 'informs tWe Mi-
n 4
~„Mer of War of the impossibility of organizing
t,
lst regiment of infantry of the- line, and the,
t of the horse chasseurs, on account of the ig-
:ratice of heir chiefs, the badtivss of their otti-
i`tirs, and ti infidany of the soldiers, which. are
etie drvgs and 'rinse rhat the insurgents have rept:t-
•Another from Baron DE ALCH AL Y, who corn-
ill4l'db a regimeA of light infantry in (Granada,
bit.erly that his corps still remains a ske-
*(lll. betaittie he r-ceiVes no pay, and is not reim-
6p,Trged fur the sums he has expended out of his
•• "n pocket' in the formation of this corps. '

At a General Court Martial held at Chelmsford,
on the 23d July, t 810, and continue by adjourn-
the 26111, of the's-me nion;4, Lieu ant
-Solomon:Cheek, 4.01 e Derbyshire regimen or mi-
litia,,w:is Smitgaed upon the-undertneutionedchargt s,

•
'6 tat. For absenting himself withiut leave from. duty and
parade at Chetmstord Barracks, on Saturday, June-, he 3ort,.
Sunday, luty the tat, and on Monday, July the ad, If to."
For disobedience of orders, and acting in contempt of.
the authority of his Commanding Officer; Lieut.-Col. Hal-
ton-, in sci absenting himself frOm, the regiment, he having ap-
plied for leave of absence, and been refused by his said Com-
manding Officer."
The Court-Martial found the Prisoner Guilty
of both, the cjtarges preferred against him, and ad-
judged him to be dismissed from the Derbyshire re-
giment of militia which sentence his Majesty
.hag
been pleased to confirm.

The following is the extract of a letter from Paris,
dated 31st 'August :—'4 Fouche, once the terror of
France, 'is now a close prisoner at Marseilles. He
was arrested at Aix, which was his Senaiorerie."
It is said that the Ex-Empress is implicated in
Fouche's tall, as that Lady bad been on a visa to the
disgraced Minister at. Ai x, 1-1:s appointment to the
government of Rome was a farce; as, according to an
Imperial Decree ot J uly last, the Governors of Rome
and Florence were to be Princes of the Blood.

The Boulogne flotilla appear to be once more in
partial motion. The following is an extraEt of a
letter upon this subject received by yesterday's post ,
DOVER, Surr„a.—" Twenty sail of NAPOLEON'S
grand fleet have made their esear out of Botatogne
harbotir, and the remainder are equipped and quite
ready for sea. I stated to you on Sunday that a
great- firing had been !lewd on the opposite coast,
it proceeLied•troin oar ships who were trying to in-
tercept them,', but by. keeping so close in with the.
shore, and being rotated by the range of batteries
on the bills, only `one was destroyed by the Pt4argus
sloop of. war.
" The orders which our,s‘hips have,received not
to leave their station, unless, by a special order from
Captain DIGIIY, of the Theban appointed Commo-
dore, makes it evident that th:flotilla is expeded to
slip out should an opportunity suit.
" The following sloops of war are lying off Bou-
logne, watch.ng the enemy's motions :-I'heban,
Rolla,' Fly, Podargus, Cordelia „ Castilian, Rinaldo,
a Ui1414011 10

The following words were omitted in the Spanish
Document for convoking the Cortes, which we in-
serted yesterday. The sentence to which we allude
should have stood as follows :
" Afer the meeting of the Cortes, and until they
shall appoint, name, and install a new Government,
or co,dirm that' which is now estalilished to govern the
nation in future, the Regency shall continue in the
exercise of the executive power in the fulness that
belongs to my Sovereign authority.".
We mentioned yesterday the death of Mr. PAYNE,
in consequence of the duel which took place the
preceding day between hint and Captain CLARKE.—
The tollow,ing particulars are given respecting the
occasion of this melancholy event :—Mr. PAYNE
was the younger son of the late RENa PAYNE, Esq.
and he left him his fortune, to the amount of 14,0001.
a year. In that settlement, by t bich the 'whole
goes now to the.eldest son of GEORGE PAYNE, ex-
cept 500 k. a- year to his Widow, and 10,01)01. to. his
younger children. Mr. PAYNE has lett four Oil-.
dren by his amiable wife, who was A Miss GRAY.
The cause of the fatal duel is truly melancholy .=
The challenge took plac4, indeed, ten days ago, at
Scarborough, but the quarrel was of a more 'distant
date. The orphan daughter ,of the late Dr. CLARKE,
Of Newcastle, was- the friend of Mrs. PAYNE, and a
visitor in the family. An unfortunate attachment
took place between Mt. PAYNE and Miss CLARKE,
and transpired. which 'the irritated feelings of the
brother forced him fo resent. Every , means were
tried.by Mr. JOHN PAYNE,' the elder,
,brother of the
.deceased, to avert tile catastrophe, but in vain. Al r.
GEORGE PAYNE Was most exemplsry in all-his con-
dna through life, except in this fatal attachment.
He was a most liberal and a most amiable man. He
had whispered to his second, Mr. ABBOTT, that lie
shouki not \swum Mr. CLARKE s fire but the first
shot was tuOrtal.
The Privy Council sat at the Council .otfice,
Whitehall, on Thursday, from twelve o'clock till
past six, upon the examination of three sailors be-
longing to the Cumberland East Indiaman, who are
charged, with the wilful murder, of a Chinaman at
Canton.—We understand a Chinaman was killed in
an affray at Canton,, riginating in a dispute respect-
ing the goodness of some dollars ; and the Captain
of the Cumberland was obliged to enter into dbond
before he was allowed to sail from Canton, that the
business should be investigated on his return to Eng-
land, and the perpetrators punished if chscovered.—
On the artivarof the Cumberland at Sheerness, the
Captain ordered the prisoners into irons, and put
them on board the Admiral's flag-ship, where they
rerhained till lag Sunday, when t he'Captain, having
'represented the case to the Privy Council, Rivet;
and Adkins, two 'Bow-street Otficeis, were dis-
patched to bring them to London. The Council on
Thursday was very, fully attended ; among those
present were Earl Camden (ihe Lord Presidetn),,the
'Chanceßor of the Exchequer, the Lord Chief Baron
Macdonald, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Yorke' &c. &c. The
witnesses examine 3 were, the Chief Mate, 'the Cap-
.tain'sSteward, the Captain's Cook, and the Butcher;
the latter was brought before the Council' front
Tothill-fields Bridewell, he having 'been commhted
there in consequence of his having, in a private in-
vestigation, refused to give evidence. Qtt Thursday
he apologized to the Council, attributing his 'con-
duct to excess of liquor. The prisoners were com-
mitted to the House of Correctu-n fOr further exa-
mination.
_ Lord Mt NTO continued at Madras at the date of
the latest accounts from that Presidency, w hich reach
to the beginuing_of April: The Modestelad been
dispatched to Calcutta tor 'General HEWITT, who,
it IA as undetstood, was to take the command of the
Maras army, until the arcival .ot SirSAmutiL AUCH•
MUTY front England. Lord M NTO was expected to
return 10 Bengal immediately on General HEAVITT'S
taking the CiOnimaud at Fort St. George, an event
which was likely to bappen in a few days:.

CIARACCAS.

VENEZUELA, !UNE 29.
LECAT. CONDUCT OF VENEZUELA WITH. RESPECT

TO THE REGENCY OF sPAIN:
There always enxists among the wicked an endea-
vour to destroy the laws, Which reeders it necessary
o explain 'them teethe terwary, to reclaim the de-
tided, and to infortn the ignorant, in order that
malignity may not obtain -a triumph. Attempts are
incessantly making ao induce us to acknowledge the
intruding Goverument of the Regency, and theieby
violate the oa,b-w hien. we took,' and the obedience
we owe to our lost D. Fereinend the Seventh, and
the fundamental laws of the Crown e' In the king-
dOms of Spain, from time immemorial, there has
existed a venerable law, .which regulates and ordains
the mode of supplying the monarchy when the King
is not in a condition to exercise the royal lug crions.
It is contained in the Partidas of that wise King,
Aiphonso but it was not first established in his
glorious reign, for there had previously existed,
from a period very remote, the obligation at such a
conjuncture upon the Nobles of the kingdom, the
Prelates, men of properly, and othet gold, men at
the heads of towns and cities, to assemble in a
Cortes,
,and to eled aCouncil of Regency; whiCh
should. administer the internal affairs 'of the•,king-
dom We are eatillid to the sarrie law, and toe
puuishment which it it7iids ought to fall upon thoie
who would break it. Those ate by law, ueuounced
traitors who refuse to assemble at the general Con-
gress of the Cortes, to appoint a successor td the
Royal Authority. Now, if this neglect of attending
the Cortes on such an occasion is declared ireason,
what shall-we say 'of those who thus, disreearding
a solemn law, arrogate to themselves the Artie of a
Regency, exercise the funceions' of Majesty, and
unjustly investing themselves with the authority
belonging to the Monarch, exact from tai that
.ho-
mage which is due to the Royal Petson of Ferdi-
nand VII. alone I
The 3d. Law, Tt. lb, Partidas ii. and the'36th
Law, Tit. 34, Partidas vii. which have been hitherto
considered fundamental laws of the Monarchy of
Spain, are those of which Venezuela Claims the
benefit, as.an integral part of that Monarchy. li
is upon that authority that this Supreme Junta have
resulved to ,establish. a new Provisional Tribunal' for
the PubLie.security. The motives of our condutt
and our proceedingS have long be.en known toe aids
the various Corms of Goverment which secceeded
each other in Spin, without the direct or int-
'plied assent of the Americans. These lawi in-
contestibly prove that those who would establish
a Regency without the meeting and approbatioft
of the Cortes, 'are traitors to the King and to
their country. It is evident that the authority
which we have refused to acknowledge, besides
being established contrary to an 'express' clecla
ration of the law, had against it, the presumption
of its vicious Origin, namely, the Central' Junta,
which was itselt tllegat and monstrous, as well
as pernicious, and detested by the nation. The in-
terests of the King and of the kingdom arc those
which ought to be guarded inviolably, but.when the
different accounts which hate been given of the dsl-
(event representative bodies who have assumed the
sovereignty in Spain are considered, every one may
judge whether, since America has been declared an
integral part of the Spanish 'nation*, she is not Ca-
inibte to watch her interests, and those of the King,
without exposing both to an authority in itself ille-
gal, and which is exposed to the power or the per-
nicious influence of France ? It appears, then, that
thoie who'submit to the Regency formed contrary
to express law, if they cannot tie called traitors, must
lie under the suspicion of not having attended to
the true interests of the King, and the general good
of the elation, which they could not have done, ex-
cepting as has been done in Venezuela, by a new
retires. of all the Provinces. Can it
.be pos-
sible that we, who, have decidedly supported the
established Constitutional Laws, can be called less
faithful than those who have direeilyadted in oppo-
sition to them ? Can any one relieve us frdm the
oattr which we have taken to the Spanish Constitu-
tion, against which the establiShnient of the Re-
gency which we have disowned (tiredly militates ?
If Coro has
.sufficient authority to relieve us from
our oath; let it be manifested with the same publi-
city which distinguiehed ourproceediegs, and then
our designs may be lawfully opposed.

THE THEATRE.-.--The popular Opera of Inkle and
Yarico ‘A as last night represented at the Haymarket
Theatre, for the benefit of Mrs. GIBBS. Islr. C.
KEMBLE' performed the part of Inkle, for the first
time, and it is barely 'justice to him to say tbat he
,is the best representative ,of it that has yet appear-
ed. He was much applauded. A Lady, who, we
understand, is a Mrs. LOWE, made her first appear-
mice in the part of Nurcisti. Her powers; were'
obviously restrained by •the diffidence natural to a
young and ingenuous mind, in so novel a situation ;
but she, notwithstanding, -displayed evident marks
of good sense and feeling, with that charm of sim-
plicity which has too long been. a stranger to the
stage. There was a peculiar, yet,unatiected distinct-
ness in her aiticulation. Her person is pleasing,'
and her features interesting. She possesses a good
voice, and her singing as recommended by the
simplicity which appeared in her acting:. She was
very well received. INcLenosi, who had just arriv-,
',ed from Ireland, came for Ward with friendly zeal on
the.occasion, and exerted his vocal powers with great
success. The house war very well at tended.•
SAMPFORD GHOST.—The Taunton Courier, re-
ceived yesterday, contains the following notice
" The exposure of the proceedings at Sampford
would have been presented in the present' Numbe',
had we not received a letter from a very respectable
friend at 'Morton, entreating us to postpone one
week longer, our 'promised remarks, as he Will
then have, as he states, the most indisputable evi-
ciel,ce ,of the very gross deception that has been
practised.' We realty' want no more evidence ; the
imposture is as clear as the sun at noon ; and the
only extraordinary circumstance conneaed :with the
atrait is, that so many have been puzzled on the
occasion. In conformity, lowever,.to the wishes
of our ~correspondent, the subjea shall stand over
until next week, and we hOpe then so effectually to
lay the Ghost, that our
,readers, may be no further
troubled with its intrusion,