The Sun.
London, England, 1810-10-04 00:00:00

SECOND EDI'T'ION.

COME OBSERVATIONS on the- FOURTH
REPORT- from the Committee on the Public Exiien.
diture ; being an Examination into the Conduei and Trails-
aclions of the Commissioners for Dutch Prizes.

By I. CLAYTON jENNYNS,
Barrister at Law.

Printed for Richardson, Cornhill, andißidgeway, Picca-
dilly.
•• We call upon every Member of the House of Commons
who has either by,hia vote coneurred, or by his silence ac.
qoiesced, in the keport of the Committee; we call. upon
every Men.ber of that. Cominittee, as he values justice, ho,
flour, or charaeter ; we call upon them agoegately and indi-
vidually. to perform an imperative duty to that public which
they represent, to read deliberately, impartially, and atter'.
tieely, these Observations."—Anti. Jacobin Review, January
1810.

is the plain and obvious demand of justice, that this
Trait should obtain an early and conspicuous place in our
pages. To our apprehension, after the most unbiassed and
deliberate perusal, the Dutch Commissioners are, in this
Tract. completely vindicated trom every accusation or even
suspicion that was raised against them."—British Critic,
Alar‘h, ate.

"Murat dined at Recamier's, the banker, and ap-
proved very much of the cookery ; he asked M.
Recamier if he could recommend him a good cool',
as his own was going away. M. Recdmier said that
it was eery apropos,. as the man wlto cooked 4110
dinner was nut his own cook, but a man out of place,
and an old Gordan Neu, meanings cook aho bad
lived with Noblemen. Murat requested Recainidr
would. have. the goodoe-s to send Jilin, The co-rk. •
was desired by M; Itecamier to watt upon Murat ;
au honour Which the cook wished to avoid. M. Re-
cathier wished to know his reasons, but the wan
was prudent and saidnothing. He was at last pre-
tailed upon to go to Murat.
." At their first meeting, Murat immediately re-
cognized his old employer, who had been the Prince
of Condr:t's cook at the time Mutat was there ; the
man knew him, which was the .reason why lie de-
clined wading upon him ; however, Murat, with a
great deal of 'effrontery, to;d him that he, should
speak to M. Recalnier further • about it. When
Murat saw Recdtnier, he told .him that the cook:
.whom he had sent' him was a ntativais Sze. ;
Rccamier knew there was some mystery in this at-
fair. He again questioned the cook, but to no pur.
pose. He then told him that Murat said -he had
heard many bad things about him, and further called
him 'A Imauvais sujetf the moment the cook
heard that, he disclosed the whole history of Murat,
not only to MI Recarnier, but to all his acquaintance.
This soon got to Murat's knowledge, who had him
taken up and exiled to the Isle de Rll6, together
with, his. daughter and three grand-children. This
was. done to prevent, his children mentioning
the cause of their father's exile !,
- When Murat was driven away from the Prince
of Conde's, he lived for a short dine in Paris, but
what means he had to support himself I have been
unable to learn. However„, a rclaton of his died
and lett him 6000 livres, .2401. sterling. This money
lie begged of his father to give to a college, which
was something like a convent,' in the neighbour-
hood where he. was bona.' The father complied
with his request, and'he was accordingly entered in,
the college early in 1786, where he let-ruined till the
Revolution. During the time be was there, be
made great prowess in Latin, mathematics, phi-
losophy, &c.
" When the college or convent was suppressed,
our hero enlisted in some of . the regiments in Pails
composed of cut-throats, drafted from every regiment
and front every quarter of France. He was parti-
cularly noticed by Santerre, and he was very active
in the massacres of September ; after the death of
the King,'he was ordered off with his revolutionary
cut-throats forth siege of Toulen.
".Wher passing through the different towns
where there were' popular. societies, the wretch re-
paired thither as a relation of the great Marat,whose
nephew he said he was;' he always Carried abodt
hiM a none of a ringer or a toe, which he displayed
as trophy or telick, and which he said was the joint
of an aristocrat !, . '
" At .Toulon he became acquainted with Buona-
parte, but the latter had such a bad reputation at
that place that even Murat was ashamed of him, and
would not
.keep his company. However, at Nice,
they afterwards met again, whets they improwed
their acquaintance. These two wretches caused se-
veral people to be shot in a fort, and they were stand-
ing by, ordering the soldiers to fire in a manner not
directly to kill their Vietim..l in order that they
might see the griMaces of Anstocratswhile dying.
"These cruelties, added tO divers robberies which
these men committed, caused the Proconsul Aubry,
who'arrived there afterivards, to have-,them arrested.
The Emperor Napoleon, as I have already observed,
obtained his liberation, and got to Paris soon atter in
the same way as Isloses did when he: conducted the
children of Israel out of the hoose of bondage,
and which journey was, I believe, performed—cm
footl ! •

" Nl'4,rat, . after a long imprisonment in a fort,
wit!, his friend Le Clercs afterwards his brother-in-
t.:l rd who was an accomplice in the 'murders and
i-es above mentioned,was discharged and came
to -Rids. •

After Buonaparte's elevation to the Command
in Chit of the Army of Italy, Mdrat obtained the
rank. of Colonel; was with hint in his Campaigns in
Italy ; , followed him .to Egypt ;• and on their return
Paris, „cent dibuted _to ove, turn_t he 'Di reanty ;
in return for which he ~ssas parried.to the youngest
sister of-Napoleon;- whom the virtuous and. magna-
nimbils,Morean had refused. .
Atot • -
" Whelnever a coMmissikt"ot blood is lo be exe,
cu' •d, Murat is charged with by his' worthy
134Ther Napeon, although he has proved 'himself a
coward to the whole army.- .
" When at Vienna, in -1805 he was represented,in the Moniteur, as, having made some bi-:Limit
charges with his cavalry. He was.contradided by
the late Marslud Lai,nes, who told Buonaparte (hat
if he did not contradict those siatements in the 61-•
hcial paper,- he..would.tpke the first opportunity of
giving Murat the lie; which he did, in a very public
manner. Murat. did not resent it, but informed
Buonaparte of LannesT behaviour. Buonaparte re-
monitra,ed With Lannes, who in his turf►. becutne
very violent; upon which he was ordeted off to
Paris," • •

[ To be covthrued..]

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SOLEM•Q'UIS DICER! VALSUM AUDEAT

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THURSDAY, 'OCTOI3Eit 4, 1810.

The Northumberland and Curgeoa captured, on
the 29th September, cloSe in with Usbant, the
French brig 'L'Aventurier, from the' Ides of France
and Bourbon ;. she' sailed ,from the former on the
Ist July, and , from the. latter on the 7th. Her
departure was preCipitated, in order
,to avoid falling
into the hands of the gnglish, an armament (con-
sisiing of 14 ships) having arrived, and MADE A DE;
SCENT ON BOURBON on the day she sailed.
The Ad,tniralty had previous information of the
Aventurier's, intention to' endeavour to return, to
France froM Bourbon.

The l'onnant..vhich sailed 'from Spithead on .the
15th September with the 50th regiment, landed
them at Lisbon on the 24th.

The Captain of the. Tonnant reporrs,, that • the
troops «•ere disembarked ip excellent health, hav—
ing recovered in iheir passage froth the fitigue of
their march, and having, out of 838 men, but five

bosp!tal cases.
He also reports, that the Fiorenzo.and Melpomene
which s3iled from -the Downs on the. 15th Septem-
ber, with the 71 at regiment, had arrived at Lisbon
on the 25th and had landed the troops on_the 20th.

Government have, received Dispatches, fr,i.m Sir
C. COTTON, under date 24th August, off Toulon,
which state that the Hon. Wm. HILL, his M+sty's
Mini Stet at Cagliari; had acquaint4l him that
LUCIRN BIJONAPARTE had escaped (with his family)
to that place, in an' American vessel, and :that.Mr.
HILL, concert' with Mr. ADAIR, had deemed it
best to send him. to Malta, . till the determination of
his Majesty's,Government . should be signified, and
that accordingly, he had been cooduoted thither in
the Pomone. ,

Sir CHARLES ,COTTON has had no communication

'with -Vice-Atitnirat MARTIN, at Sicily, since the
.13th July ; but Mr. ADAIR reports a ta6urable

stars: of :iffliir,s in that qu:irter down to the 28th
July, •wliieh augurs the probability of MURAT'S de-
clining the attack. FIFTY-SEVP:II GUY-BOATS AP-

PEAR TO HAVEBEENIDESTROyED AT ONE ?Eaton, and
the enemy being so much annoyed otherwise' by
our force ih -tha Faro di Messina, .as to oblige him
to abandon 'one of fiis positions un the coast of Ca-
labria. - • '

We mentioned same dayS ago a report that Lur
CIEN BUONAPARTE was about to emigrate to Aine-
.
rica,- and yesterday a letter was posted up at
LLOYD'S, stating, that in attempting to carry that
design into execution, he bad been taken by a Bri-
.tish cruizer. The. la:ter report appears, however,
not to have been corre&, for when LUCIEN
left Italy, he went -clheelly to Sardinia, and placed
himself under the prote&ion of the British Minis-

ter,' Mr. HILL. It was stated that he had been
forwarded, by that Gentleman to Gibraltar, but we
believe the taa is, that he has been sent to Malta,

until the determination of Government. shall, be,
known upon the subje&. It is generally suypoied
that LUCIEN has been induced to .take this step for
the purpose of insuring his own personal safety, and
that of his wife. It is perfeEtly well kno k,vn that LUCIEN'
has uniformlYand steadily rejetaed all BuoArAitTE'S.
offerg to become e Sovereign, or even to accept a title,
and therefore his name does not appezrin the French
Calendar as One of the Imperial family. BUONA

PARTE, Who hill had most convinCing reasons to be
satisfied of the superiority of LUCiEN'E genius, and
his firmness in a' moment of danger, has been very
anxious to draw him' into his system, and as he is
too irritable to brook contradiction, it is probable
that th: has thrown but some. threats,which LuCtiN,
15nowing his charader, didlnot think proper to de-
spise. BUONAPARTE was extreinely ,otleuded with
LUCIEN for his ',Marriage w ith his present wife, a
Madame Jaaberlon, the widow of an Exchange-,
broker.. The marriage took pilce just before
- .
BUON A PARTE -usurped the throne of France : as scion
, •
as the tyrant Ite-arel of it, he 'said to •Luctc&, In a
'violent rage, "Comment voris savez ce qui pa..se
maintenant et vous alley epousu uu Catio.". "Eh
bein," replied LuctErr, " elle est au moms ieune
et joiie." This sneer, which was directed against
JOSEPFIINE; 'who, was then high in favour, p. en-
raged BuotiAraitTE, that he.never saw Lucts: After-
wards. BUONAPAKTE has, however, repeatedly,
since • LUCIEN'S residence at Rome, pressed him to
be divorced from his Wife, in order that he might
contract a marriage more suitab;e to the Imperial
blood of the BUON,APARrES; but LUCIEN, Who
is very much attached to her, : has steadily. re:-
•fused to comply with this; request. It :s very
likely • that an apprehension that the Tyrant
would take more effedual means to remove he'r,
may have had a great- influence upon LUCIEN'S
mind, and as, Madame LUCIEN could not be With-
out fears of the same kind, it is.probable that het
influence was exercised to induce her Husband to
remove beyond the power of his Brother.—LuciEN.
.•
acquired immense wealth, while he was Ambassador
in Spain, and it is generally understood, that.wh'en.
he negoeiated the reace with Portugal, .he obtained
from the, Portuguese. Government a douceur of six
millions of livres, or about 280,0001. Sterling.

We trust that this man will be received .with
every poisible precaution, because vise are convinced
,from bis general"charaaer that .he is nbt -entitled to
any confidence.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM MALTA, DATED 25TH
- •

AUGUST, 1810.

• LUCIEN BUONAPAKTB and his family,' Madames
B. sevedchildre` n,. and a retinue, altbgetlier upwards
of 40 persons, were broug'tii her,o on the 23a inst.
by Capt. 13AantE, of the Poinone .frigat, Who found
on beard an American vessel, off, Cagliari, in
Sardinia, a few days back, where they
_,had been
eight or nine days endeavouring to be allowed to
laud, but which they were perempionly refused.-,
It seems tkey embarked at Cviia Vecchia, in the
Roman Scales, about three weeks ago.—He gives
out, that as he bad refused to divorce his wife; be-
come King of Rome, and marry his daughter (about
15 years old, and now here with the rest of the
Children) to FERDINAND VII. of Spain, he has been
exiled from the Continent of Europe, and that 'he

intended proceeding to America.
General amp Waited on' him yesterday fore-
noon, and informed him, that, as he wished to land,
he should be provided with accommodations in Fort
Ricasoli, where both himself and family would ,be
treated with-every attention, but that of course he
could not but be considered as a prisoner of war.—
lie is, we learn, to remain "bete until direiiions
from Government at Wale' shall be received about
•
him."

Dispatches have been received,from Lord. WEL-
LINGToN, which contradi&. the report of the bathe.
The dispatches were dated the e4th. His Lordship
was then on the north of the Mondego, waiting for
MASSENA, with his army in high health and spirits.
His Lordship, we understand, writes with great
confidence that the enemy will not be able to cow-
pc•i him to re-embark this seison.

This morning we received some German Papers,
but they are very barren of iniellizence. The Grand
Signior has, with the usual cereniunies, placed hini
self at the heat] of his troops, and his preSence has
excited the atemebt enthusiasm.

A Morning Paper , in general hostile to the pre-
sent Ministers, but particularly so upon the subjt
of the Wald-wren Expedition; has this day renewed
its attacks upon that subjec-A. Tuts attack-is foilnd-
ed upon an assertion most positively made, that the
number of French Troops collected to oppose the

invaders three weeks after their a'rrival in the Scheldt,
dd not exceed 16,000 mete , and that of these
the greater. part had never beard -a shot fired. -; We

. believe that this statement of the EneMy's force is
not quite correel ; but admitting it to be so, how
is it to be reconciled with the charges made by the
very same persons against Government for planning
•
an'Expedition, at once useless and impratlithble ? if

t be true that the Enemy's force was so small,
the chance of success on 'our part was so much
greater, and Government must be justified for mak-
ing an attempt where the probability of success was
.
so great. But perhaps it may be said, that the ob-

jea in view was- not of sufficient importance to jus-
tify the risque. that was incurred. Let us see what
the Paper in question•saya.,uperi - tins part of the
subject.
" Of all the military occurrences since the year
m 6; the expedition to the Scheldt is precisely
" lbw- which gave the greatest uneasiness to his (Buo-
'NAPA liTeS) ‘..‘friends; and,inspired his enemies with
" the greatest hopes. Notwithstanding the-greatest
" exertions, and stripping' Paris and the coast of
" every soldier that was there,-only eight provisions
" dead-brigades, each consisting, of three battalions
" el'anoiat'fi'Ve or six hundred men each, were c 01...
... •
." leCted on the 20th of August. The 6th demi.-
brigade didinot set.out from Boulogne until. -the
" icith of August,..f.these 'fifteen'or sixteen thou.:
" sand•men were of We conscription of 11)14 year,
" and never heard a shot fired."
We intreat our ReadersAo recall to their recollec-
tion, the. langitagc.l,used., and the a'ss'ertions made by
the opponents of Go‘;erntnent When the Waleheren
Expedition was under discussion. The, pul,lic were
told, that Ministers, in selecting the Scheldt ior.the
scene of opetations; betrayed the most gross igno-
,
rancei•--that• BUOIWARTE was delighted when
he found that the expedition was directed to that
. .
quarter,—that he could not avoid publicly express-
ing his exultation when he found that 'the Eng-
lish Governthent was so ill advised as .to attack.
him in his strongest ' point, •and to " take the
bull by the horns,"--in fine, that he 'was
apprized of the object-of the Expedition , three
months before it sailed, and was pre parird -accord-
ingly. It is impossible that the public can forget
with• what confidence, with what vehemence, those
assertions were made, and that every man who ven-
, tared 40 dipute theni was without hesitation pro-
nounced to be a corrupt pit tizan of Ministers; but
yet we now have a confession from the very same
quarter that " of all the Expeditions since 1'796; the
Expedition to the Scheldt is precisely the one
which .gave the great uneasiness 10 BUONAIARTE'S
friends ;" and 'so far from the design. being im-
' praCticable from the previou's 'preparations which
BUONAPARTE .had made, we are assured that
after the . arrival 'of the Expedition the
Scheldt, the enemy could only., collel sixteen
thousand 'men, who' had never seen a shot fire:!.''
—Here then we have a tardy' but ample re-
traelion of the greater part of the accusations
Which were 'preferred against his Majesty!s%
sters upon t his subjeB; for those who were once the
most violent opponents of the Expedition, now con-.
fess that the object for which it .was undertaken.was
most important, and the probability, of success so
,great, as.fidly to justify the attempt.

This Morning we recrived some accounts from
Lisbon by the Princesr?lotto. packet, but they
are ot :so old a date that they are not worth iuscrti
ing. •• •
Tuesday morning his MAJESTY and Princess( s
AUGUSTA and SOPHIA 'took their usual morning air;
log in Windsor Great 'Park: tilohtivelve eclOck, at.;
tended by Lady ELY, General'-•Ftrzao; and; Cot:
TAYLOR. The QUEEN and PrilicesS Etrimittill:
• to6k.an ,airing to Frogtuore Lodge and Gavdens.

The Prince of WALES arrived at. Windsor on
Tuesday; and paid na. visit to hev MAJESTY at Frog 4
more Lodge"; qfterwards visited!_P(incess AMELIA;
and in the evening returned to London.
Yesterday morning his M.i.rEs-iv and Princesq
SOPH LA, accompanied by Lords' WALSINGHANI and
R0m.13,, Hon. Mr. RIDER, General FITZROY, Colour'
TAYLOR, 'and Lady ELY, rode in the Great. Park

till •hall past twelve. _ .
Monday night Sir H. HALronD, Drs. DUNDAS
and 'BAILEY arrived at Augusta Lodge, Windsor,
where' they held -a consultarion- with Dr. PIPE,
stopped the night, and next inurning returned to
London. Princess AMELIA 'remains. much the
sain6 ' • :•- •

Tlie following we believe to be a corre& state
mei)t Of the amount of the French farce in Flush-
ing of the line, 1 frigafr, 1 corvette of :20
'guns, about: vo gun-brigs, a schooner or two, and
a few gon-boats, • • •
New York Papers to the.vd September have been
received in town. 'The follcilying. extracts Will be
found interesting : , . , • . . ,

EXTRACT OF A LBTTER FROM PORT-AU•PRINCE,

AU GU ST 7.

" Petion's party met with a great misfortune,
about ten days ago, that of General .La, Mar being
killed at the Mole by an 18 pound shot, after he
hadheld -that place-against Christophe under, a con-
tinua: born;--)ardwe.nt of. 1 8 tnontlis. He is replaces!,
however, by a General, in whom they place .great
cOnfidenc,f. His remains were brought bert; and
were to be buried with great. ceremony to-day.-7
Yesterday two brigs belonging to this side, sailed
to Aux Cayes for pbvvder. lu the'course of a month
the army will march. aglist Cape Francois, com-
tnanded by Genetal Riganil ; and I have no doubt
Of their taking it, as they can muster 9000 men more
than ChristoPhe,

WEST FLORIDA INDEPENDENT.

CARTAGR,, AUG. 3.—The •Natchez Mail last
night brings the joyful news that the inhabitants of
this desirable section of the .Continent, have nobly
resolved to shake off their European Allegiance, and
join the United States, or establish a free Govern-
ment. The Address, &c. will appear "nexit week.
The event is important to us; a free commerce to
the Mobire, &c. may be.expected. We wi,h them
all the success they merit." •