The Sun.
London, England, 1817-09-13 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

P,sats, SEPT. 8.--,The Count de Ruppin (Xing
of Prussia), accompanied by the Duke of IVel-
li,ngton and Marshal the -Doke de-Regglo, arrived
at Al6zieres on the 4th hist, at half-past seven in
the mornink. They set out at eight for Maubeuge
mid Valenciennes.
The sth, at four in the afternoon, the Duke of
'ellington arrived at Valenciennes. The Count
It„ppin arrived three hours afterwards. The
otxt day 20,000 men, consisting of the English
troops, nanoverians, S.tc. were reviewed in the
presence of the august traveller. The Marquis de
Commandant of the lath Division, and
the Prefect of the Department du Nord, proceed-
ed to Valenciennes at the moment of the arrival
of the Count de Ruppin.
It has been remarked that all the Presidents of
Electoral Colleges appointed this year are up-
wards of 40 years of age, and unite hi themselves
the other conditions of eligibility. Several of the
Presidents appointed by the Ordonnance of the
stlt Sept. 1816, were not eligible.
The Count de Fernand Nunes, the Spanish
Aiiihassai:or, has had the honour of presenting
to his Mijesty, and also to the Princes and Pd..).
cesses of the Royal Family, the Duke de San Car-
los, his Catholic Majesty's Minister Plvnipoten-
fiery to the Court of Loudon.
They write troll! Bourgoyne, that the. heat for
some tlas past has coloured the grapes with in-
cvedible rapidity and that if the tine weather

Continues during a part of this month, the vintagc
will be in quantity and. quality superior to What
could have been hoped.
The military route for the Russian troops sta.
Honed 1i France has been newly arranged, by
Lowet Lusatia anti Lo‘Ver Silesia, and on to
Poland:

't It e second division of tbe English troops sta-
tioned in France, coming from the Camp WEl-
faut, near 3t. Omer, to'be reviewed at Derain,
encamped on the 2d and 3d instant, at Auberchi-
court. It consists of the 3d, 4th, 6111, 29thj 39th,
52d, 71st, anti 79i11 regiments of infantry, a bat-
talion of carabineers and artillery.
The Prince de Talleyrand is at Montpellier,
where he arrived the 31st ult.

They. write from the Hague, that negociatlons
were commenced several days since, between the
Plenipotentiaries of the King of the Netherlands
and those of the United States olAmalca, for
the renewal of •a Treaty of Commerce.
Madame Mainville Fodor is at Paris. It was
wished far her to accept propositions to appear
at the Theatre Lanett. Family considerations, it
is said, prevented this, and she goes to the South
of France till the season commences in London.

FIVE PER CENTS.

Monday,
Ditto. IX. dir.

..sat. 65c.
, . 66 f. 35 c.

13.ant.m, AUG. 30.—The 25th, in the after-
noon, the christening took place of the new-horn
Prince, son of the Priam and Princess William
of Prussia. He Wit% baptised by the names of
Frederick William Waldemar. Among the spon-
sors by proxy were the Princes* Charlotte of
England, Prince Leopold, her Consort, and the
Duchess of York.

BRIiSLAW, AUG. 28.—Order and tranquillity
have been completely restored here.
. HAGUE, Sem 3.—The Plenipotentiaries ap-
pointed by the King of the Netherlands to nego-
ciate a Treaty of Commerce with the Plenipoten-
tiaries of the United States ot. America, are M. J.
GOLBERG, Chevalier of the Order of the Belgic
Lion, Councillor of State, .and Director General
of the Department of Commerce and the Colonies,
and M. J. C: "Vander Kemp, Chetalier of the
Order of the Belgic Lion, Advocate General and
Member of the Council of Commerce and the
Colonies.

MADRID, Ave. 25 —A circular has been Issued
by the Ministry of Finance, requiring prompt
payment of two thirds of the genetal contribu-
tion (under the new plan of finance) ou the Ist of
September neat.

EFUM THE GERMAN PAPERS.

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S CAUSE:

GHENT, SEPT. 7.—The action brought by his
Grace the Dnite of WELLINGTON against M. DE
Busscnza was decided yesterday, and we an-
nounce with a sort of pride that the sentence,
though foreseen by all insensible minds, has jus-
tifted ail hopes, and given general satisfaction.—
This action, in which we take pleasnre believ.

ing that the Noble Lord (who is placed so high in
the scale of human greatness) has not consented
but in eonsequeAce of inconsiderate suggestions,
bias appeared trifling, and unworthy of the colos-
sal part which his Grace plays on the great theatre
of the win ld. For the rest, osir readers will better
appreciate the merit of the cause by the terms of the
itenterice; mean time, till we can give the sen-
tence itself, we will venture to give them front
memory, if not the letter, at least the spirit of it.
The article in question does not impute to the
Dike of Wellington any act which could expose
him to a criminal or correctional action (pour
suites erinsinelles ou correctionelles), to the contempt
or the haired of the public.
It is oat said that his Grace knew that Debru

had prevatics'el in hi, functions as Governor of
llartinique supposing that his Grace desired, and
evun rn nifested ►his ties re, to see the said Debru
continued ►n his functions, such a desire would
necessarily have been only the result of powerful
recommend?tions, according to which the Go-
vernor bad been rep!csented to the Noble• Lord
under culours very different from the article in
.•

quest ion.
11 his Grace has manifested such a desire be-
cause Debru administered the colony in favour of
a foreign Government, neither does this supposi-
tion attack the honour of the Noble Lout, because
one may very well administer a colony in favour
of foreigners, without its following froni this,
that one administers it ill in respect to the interest
of the mother country; that this is th-e more
true, as it is of iniportance to every Government
to invite foreigners to its colonies, in order to fa-
vour commerce, &c.
The high deeds, the eminent (polities, and the
glory of the Noble Duke, place him above the
reach of all suspicion of an action unworthy of
him ; his splendid reputatitm places him above an
ambiguous and equivocal allegations, &e. In
consequence, the Court has declared his Grace
the Duke of Wellington's complaint unfounded

(non recevable), and has condemned him in the
costs. As• for M. tie Busacher, Ms: Amami of
damages has been rejected, on the 'ground that
the action brought against him cannot be "consi-

tiered as calumniatory, because the, plaintiff has
submitted to the decision o►f a Court of Justice

the meaning of au article inserted in a public
Journal.

[From the Ghent Journal of Satttrtiß7,

CAWS UP 1115 GRACE THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON

AGAI43T M. flit BUSSCHER.
There appears at Brussels an English Journal,
called The Philanthropist, whose principles we
(the Ghent Journal) have frequently combated,
when it defended with all its might interests which
may be those of the British Alinistry, but are not
those of the Belgians. The Philanthropist, and his
bretbern beyond sea, The Times, The Star, and
The Courier, have done tbemsekes the pleasure of
replying to Ds sometimes by arguments„ and some-
times by abuse' however, The Philanthropist has
nobly shown, we had almost said betrayed, its
origin, from a pure, genuine, Illnglish race, by
the most elevated sentiments, by independence of
opinion, and by love of
.libetty of all kinds, and
particularly, the most precious of all, the liberty
of press ; and thus we have gladly done jus-
tice to the noble character it displayed.
Thus in its last number, which 1 regret not
having seen before, there i 4 the following article,

which is the more 'remarkable at such a moment
e. before the cause was tried), as it looks like
a benevolent and officious, I would gladly say,
official insertion. It is more than evident that
it da n not have been inserted but with the most
noble intentions, And, doubtless, with a iri`t..w of
preventing, as hr as that is in the power of him
who has furnished the article, the influence of a
great and illustrious name from weighing down
one of the scales of the balance of Themis

" Some Journals of this country," says I:he
Philanthropist, " affirm that his Grace the Duke
of Wellington attaches great ipportance to the
action brotight against the Editor of one of the
Papers of Ohent. We can hardly *believe this
assertion to be exact; since we have in our hands
a letter written by the noble Duke, in answer to
a question put to his Grace tending to obtain his
permission for the publication of a letter written
to him by M. Constantine, of Dinant, which is
relative to the spoliation of the museum of Paris.
In his Grace's letters he discloses the absolute in-
difference which he has long since felt to all that
may be said or oritten of him, and he grants the
permission requested."
This is a trait of no ordinary mind, and one.
feels merely in quoting it that satisfaction which
is the enjoyment of a well-disposed mind. The
Philanthropist continues--
" In this, letter M. Constantine gives to the
Duke the eulogiums which he well merits as the
General of an army, but the author wholly blames
his conduct respecting the spoliation of the Mu-
scum, and this by arguments which indicate a vi-
gorous and cultivated mind. Our readers will see
by our advertisements that Al. Constantine's let-
ter is its the press in both language's, French and
English."

The manner in which the authors of the article
express themselves does honour this time to their
head and their heart. The letter is in tact adver-
tised, and the moment it comes here I shall hasten
to give an account of it.

OFPENBACH, SEPT. 2.—The New Rhenish Mer-
cury published, under the .date of the 2d, in a
supplement, the following official article
" NQare authorized to publish what follows on the arrest
of Colonel Massenbach:—Colonel Massenbach, who was still
in the military service of Prussia, has rendered himself guilty
of a crime against the military service, has infringed a law in
force, twid which he had himself formerly proposed. namely,
that no officer of the General Statfmay render public the pa-
pers relative to the defence of the country, which have been
intrusted to him upon oath, he boa printed OM published se-
veral papers of importance to Prussia. Zr, ts3l he implored
of his own accord the King's portion, for having published
these papers, without permission, and solemnly promised to
abstain from publishing any thing of the hind.
" On the sth of January tact Ire solicited his formal dis-
charge from the military service of Prussia. In coosevence
his Highness the Chancellor of State, Prince Hardenberg,
wrote to him on the 10th of February, that the King was not
disincliaert te7 grant hits, the discharge which he asked; but
that it was required, as an empress condition, that ha should
repair to Berlin, to deliver up all the papers relative to the
service, and every thing which he lrzd in his hands of con-
sequence of his ancient relations irt the service of the General
Stall.

Colonel MassenLach has not only nkrt obeyed this order
of the King, but he has Ftince advertised the publication of
fresh papers of the same kind as those which he had already
published, and which are a strange mixture of truths and er-
rors ; arid Ire has besides presumed to offer these papers to
the Prussian Government for a Certain sum, and on this con-
dition not to publish them. In consequence he has been ar-
rested at Frankfort, after an application to the Senate, as be-
ing really an officer in the service of Prussia, and conveyed to
Berlin, to account for the conduct above described before a
Special Comtuissicm formed for this purpose."—(Brussels Pa-
pers, Sept. 9.)

l3iu SEPT. B,—Yesterday their Maj,•-
ties the King and Queen, accompanied by his Ma-
jesty the King of Prussia, travelling under the
name of Count de Ruppin (who arrived at the
Palace of Lacken the preceding evening), went to
the Theatre, where their Royal Highnesses the
Prince and Princesses of Orange, Prince Frede-
rick of the Netherlands, and the Prince Royal of
Prussia, successively arrived. All these illustri-
ous personages were received with lively expres-
sions of joy. The King of Prussia set off this
morning at eleven o'clock for Aix-la-Chapelle,
taking the way to Namur. It is thought his Ma-
jesty will visit the celebrated fields where the
Allied warriors cemented with their brood the in-
dependence of our country, on the 18th of
Jone, 1815.
We learn from Amsterdam, that since the 26th
of August, there have entered that port 140 ves-
sels laden with wheat and rye from the. North,
particularly Russian and Prussia. In these ar-
rivals are not included the vessels laden with buck
wheat, barley, oats, beans, and pease.

THEATRICAL REGISTER. '
Performed Last Nib ht.
THEATTMROYAL. COVENT-GARVE3.—The Belle's- Stratagem
.Doricoult, Mr. C. Ketritrle ; Letitia Hardy, Miss Brunton.
After which, The Libertine.
THEATaI; ROYAL) HAYMAKKET.,--.The Castle of Andalusia
Dun Fernando, Mr. Duruset ; Lorenza, Miss Matthew,.
After which, The Actor of All Wolk. To which was
added, Exit By Mistake.
New THEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPER.V.HOITSE.—The De-
vil's Bridge . Count llclinu, Mr. Horn ; Countess Ho-sal--
Tina, Miss M. Buggins. After which, Disguises.