The Sun.
London, England, 1810-04-09 00:00:00

were vcry great rejoicing, ever the city. This
. Gent;cmar.. saw the Archdudhesc., and ;*tates VIA she
is very far from hanthome, but is a good hgure.—
This afternoon at two o'clock, the drums -heat to
arms, in consecinenCe of an express, arriving from
Canterbury, de,iring the- Royal BUCks and Perth Mi-
litias to march to Canterbury imme:liately, the for•
mer went off at 3 and the latter at 4 P. M. in good

spirits."
Several regiments arrived ins town list night and
this morning from different parts of the country.

Extract of a letter from Captain, PA TSON's of the
ship Henry- 111vxis, dated Montserrat,- 26111 Fe-
bruary,. to AJessrs. WILLIAIns and Wrr.so-j at
Liverp.;bl:—ff The Eleancr, from London, arrived
ISlOuernlmr the 25 t I), and brought the unpleasant in-
telligence, that the greater part of the Cork fleet
had been destroyed by the.enemy."

Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, Princesses Av-
.
GpSTA SOPHIA, accompanied by Lady TnyNNE,
General CARTWRIGHT, and Major PRICE, rode to
Sr- GeOrge's Chapel, and heard a Sermon preached
by the Rev. Mr. LONG.
Yesterday his Royal Highne:;s Ole Prince of
Wp.t.4s attended Divine Service at 04:Chapel of the
Foundling Hospital, accompanied by` ords DUNDAS
and ERSKINE. His Royal Highness haVing been
eleQed President of this excellent In'ititutio-i, in the
room of the late Dalt* of PORTLAND;,*as received
by the Governors with every mark of respell. The
children wore new cloaths on the occasion; and his
Royal Higfinessi. with his usual benevolence, gave
the unfortunate Foundlings a purse of iOO guineas.
A most impressive charity Sermon was preached
on the occasion, by the Bishop of CHESTER, and
the congregation was numerons and distinguished..
A liberal colledition was made at the doors. A
great number of persons of the first rank and fakbion
were present.

An, American Gentleman, who is-largely interest-
ed
in'the late seizures'at St. Sebastian, of the ships
belonging to the United States, haS received a letter 1
from one of his supercargoes, dated from Paris the ,1
26th Olt. This conimunic,Aion COtitains, a Ist of
iabOut thirty-five vessels `placed under confiscation in
that fort, for the releasel of whiCh ineffe.ttual
cations were making at the Court of France. Most
of the ships hadbeen carried into Bayonne, where
the merchandise had been unloaded, and thrown in-
discriminately into public warehouses, without •att
attention to the marks or distinetiona, or even tn
the ships to which it appertained.
The fineness of ,the day yesterday attraaed !vast E
crowds of persons of all ranks and deScriptions to
Hvds-park about three o'clock. It might be called
the first day of spring, as. the fashionables had throWn
off a part of their winter at tire,.and assumed all the -
variety of tints in the-rainbow, either in silks or
muslins. We noticed nothing particularly: Worthy
of observation in the cosume ; .I,lac was one of the
prevailing colonrs it was lit the form of pelisses,
:spencers, and bopnets.
In consequence of a requisition, the High Bailiff

i of Westrniostvr. has. appointed a Meeting of the
liEietiOrs t 6 take place on Tuesday se'ittligtit, in order
r,to consider what is expedient to be done, in coo-
! segunce of being deprived of one of their Represen-
!
tatives.

. -
An 61d Officer of very WO rank, who has I?eett.,
dead, many years, recornwiended that when any
island or place was captured in the \Vest Indies, all
the fortifications should be blown up from
,their
foundations, and masonry put in hogs and thrown.
overboard in very deep (sixty or seventy homs)

water; because it) a hot climate .►C would

a work of great time, .Vast labour,. and much ex 7,
peke, to hew stone for se-building fortifications,
and if the masf.nry was not taken away, the old
materials might serve again. Had this plan been
E. adopted doting-the war of the French livvoltition, at
Marti niq9e,Guadaloupe, &c. those-islands would have
long since been in Out posses-inn. It is not probable
we shall retain those ishinds afa peace, and if peace
should he made, it is not likely, from the.present
state of Europe, the peace can last many nionthq.
The French West Indies will be at our mercy if all
the fort iticalipos are now destroyed, and which can-
not be done at a cessation of hostilities, previous to:
the ratification of -peace...,
Mr. BANNkSTER had another numerous audience

1 . ,
:
at the re-opening of, his Budget, on Satnrday last,
I at. Freemasons' Tayern, His Ways and lileans are
l'of s'o.pleasant a nature, that it is probable he will
I do much more than raise tlie Supplies for the cur-
-1 rent year.

The committee of Trustees, Renters, &c. of. the
late Drury7lane Thk'atre, at their last meeting, it
Seems, came'tO a rcsolution,-inporting, that unless
SFILMIDANT sljnuld, on Saturday nem, bring for
ward a substantial aproposation for re-building that
Tileatre, to calla genera!' meeting of all persons in-
terested in' the property,' and it)roceed.. to some de-
cisive measures. , "

• Accounts..fl'om Poi t-au47ritriee, in Hayti, 'state,
that-on Frioiaythe 2,f4(1 bebetriher, a barge arrived
there with ten. Ent;lish •ieanken, •-'Who had escipeci
from Geniiv-es. They rt.poited that they-were part
ct a 'crew of twenty-tve, belOnging to n'brig which
sailed from London :with 'a cargo of arms 'and am-
munition for Cadiz ; bet, instead- of proceeding to
her destination, Ate shaped- a 'course, for 'Cape
grancois.; at: which pot;. she was consigned to M'.
01111ISTOPHE, as being athially his, property. With
thiarig were- also put into lois hands the arms Ind
ainunktion., Soon after. the brig was dispatched to
Gonaives, where she hoi,ted the flag of gkiRIS-
-I'OI,HE. Theciay on:which this change of Colours
happened, 'the English sailors expressed their dis-
.

s.,tisfaaion at thc occurrence, and represented to
CH RISTOPFT E., that by serving. in .his marine they
wtjtild violate the lawA of their country, and .sub
J-
.;ii e thems,.-Ives punishment. 'rnis remonstrance
being ineifeCtual, the -men preferred risking- their
lives to a iolation. their allegiance, and car•
rind off a barge,,. in- which they arriied at Port-au-
Prince

S. Laws, P. Prowl, and S, Nicholes, capitally
conviae4 at the Lite
,Igaidstoite Assizes,: were on
Thursday ex,:ciited o.4':"Penenden Heath, arniclg.t a
vast assemblage of 'spettatorS. Nietoles was. only
19 years old. •

EDITIO
rc N.

77.7 4i,
S'Ufit, OFFICE,-
HALF'-PAST TLIREE O'CLOCK.

We strip the Press to announce; with extreme-
sorrow, that in consequence of the attack made by
the mob upon Tower Hill, and in the vicinity, on
the Military, with mud; stones, &c. &c. the latter
was provoked to Are, and many persons have in con-
sequence fallen victims on this melancholy occa-
Sion.

The rumours .are so various respecting this un-
happy affair, that it is impossible to collect any au-
thentic particulars at this moment, but all accounts
concur in Stating the violence of the mob, and. the
forbearance of the military, till matters began to as.!
sume the aspe4 of a very formidable riotous spirit.

Yesterday we received Paris Papers tothe Ist inst.
but they are exclusively filled with accounts of fetes,
and ceremonies connected with tllo Imperial nup-
tials. NAPOLEON;''and MARIA LOUISA, left Pont-
peigne on the 30th to proceed to St. Cloud, where
their union, by a civil ceremony (which alone con..
stiiutes legal marriage in France},. would be \accotn.:
pushed. This ceremony was to be performed on
the Ist instant, the day on which, as we have al.!
ready stated, a firing.was heard along. the wilt* of
the French coast. •

" PA LS, MAngn 3:l.—Their Imperial Majesties
did not set Out from Compeigne until eleven o'clock
yesterday. The Prefeas of the Departments of the
Oise, the Seine and ase, and the Seine, repair-
ed, each attended by a splendid, retinue, to the
verge • of ti,eir respgalye Departments, to receive
Majesties:alt it The whole of- the road from Comt
peigne. to St. (loud was crowded, with-speaators.
Tritimpluil arches were ere Lied in a_great number
of villages. Their Majesties passed near St.' penis,
at Ave o block yesterday afternoon, on their way to
St. Cloud, 'with the greatest rapidity.: The con,
course of spedators to Compeigne, to witness the,.
reception of,the empress, was prodigious.', Not
only the inns, but the warehouses-and darns, were
filled With lodgers. The town of Compeigne was
illominated in the most brilliant. style.".
A Program "a the arrangements for the marriage
has beep, published by the Grand Master of the Cc-,
remonies -of the French Court. It describes very
minutely all the movements. of the processions, and
every.aa to be pet fOrmed by the IMperial Pair and
their at tendalits. to. notice far more inte-;
resting concerns at -home; we have. not room,for
the whole of this lung detail of foreign foppery and
ostentation.;" but ire e4tra6t the folloWing passages,
which' refer to the principal pai ts. of the marriage
ceremony '
‘.` At the bottom of the Gallery will be placed,
on an estrade, two arm chairs, surmounted with
a- canopy; th.it on he right being for the Empe-
ror, and the whet: onThe left for the Einpress. At
the foot of the estrade, and to one side Q.lit, will
• be a table covered with -rich tapestry,and with an
ink-stand and the rtgiste.rs of the CIO State placed
thereon.
,
. .

" ''he Emperor being seated, the Grard Master
of the Ceremonies will ta.kehis Maje,;y's orders,.
and, proceed to request his liighneSs the, Prince.
Arch---Chancellor of the. Empire to go up to the
Emperor's chair. One.Of the ;Masters 'of the Cere-
monies will at saute time give notice to the ae.-
c-etary of State for the Imperial Family, who will
approach his Highness the 'Prince Arch-Chancellor,.
and make his obeisance to then Majesties.
- " His Highness- the •Prince Arch-Chancellor',
having bowed to their Majesties, will sty 'ln the
name. of the Emperor' (at these words heir Majes-
ties will stand up)---.-Sire, does your Imperial and,
Royal Majesty declare, that you take in marriage
her Imperial and loyal Highness, Maria Louisa;
Archduchess of Austria, here present F—The Em-
peror will answer —;-"II declare that I tale in mar-
riage her Imperial and Royal Highness Maria,
Louisa, Archduchess of Aust' ia, here preSent.'

He will then put the question to her Itp. *jai.
and Royal Highness. of Austria in 'these terms
• Does her Imperial and Royal Highness -Maria
Louisa, Archduchess of Austria, declare that spe
takes in'marriage his Majesty the Empror and King
Napoleon, here present
Her Imperial and Royal FAighnesswill answer
• I declare that I take in marriage his Majesty the
Zmwor and King Naktoleun,,here present.'
" The prince ,Arch-Chancellor will then pro-
nounce he .marriage in these terms.:—'
name of the Einperor atid'the -declare that
his Imperial and Royal 'lajt-sty Napoleon, Emperor
of the French, and King of Italy, and, her Irolerial
and Royal Highness the Archduches Maria Louisa,
tpe‘united in marriage:
cf Then. thei Mailers and A;sistants of the cere-
monie4 will carry the table, which are the regis-
ters of the Civil state, up to the chairs of the Em-
peror and Empress, auJ return to their places,—
The signing of 'the Act of A,orriage will then wise
pla-ce. • . - '

The Cadiz Papers of the 22d state, from autho7
rity, that a corrs. of .90 French, ' ho were posted
in the Sierra Ronda, was driven troth thence by
the reiterated attacks of the peasantry, and wasulti-
mately destroyed to a nian at Oliveira. A partizan
in Navarre, who is kupwn by the name of the
STUDENT, also succeeded in giving a total defeat to
a body of ion 9 French that were sent against !kn.
Exclusive of the killed and wounded. of the enemy,
three Captains and • 14.0 men were made prisoners.
The enemy fell into an ambush, and were complete-
ly surprised. Very few of them were able to return
toPampeluna.. •

A ludicrous circumstance occurred a few evenings
since in Oxford-htr(.et. Ai chimney-sweeper's boy
got,into a butter basket, at a .cheesemonger's door,
and fell asleep; oneof his companions in a joke
shut ddwn the lid and fastened .it. Two thieves
passing along shortly after, and conceiving the basket
to be filled w ith butter or eggs, carried it away to a
Public-tiCtise in the neighbourhood, .to
.divide the
when In instead of a rich booty, .Out sprang
the"young knight of the brnsh. The rogues, as may -
be imagined, made a precipitate retreat on his un-
expetted appearance.