The Sun.
London, England, 1816-11-08 00:00:00

E LATn KING Or WIRTENITERG.

Fatintien. I. iiho lied' as we have
t N
already stated„ the Lit)th,oll. was-barn ov. f
1754.. He suCceretlyl his brother aia Dukeof Wirr
temberg. on
..the 23d df Decetnber, 1707, funk
soup, after entitle his peace with the ;Frenel,
Republic., It is retnarliablu. that both the
comnietteem€nt and the close of his reign have
been-rNtinguished by differences bet Weett bins
and his -States, who complain,of the lift Inge- •
meat of their pHeileges. Its coosequenee of the
Peace of Loneville, 11e 1803, raised to the -
dignity of Elector; and nit the Peace.ofPfeiburg,
Iris States, which were then aggranditt.d, were
converted into a Monarchy.. lie was proclaimed
King on the Ist of Jail. 1806, and since that
period a Colossal Crown has been placed on the
top of his palace at Stottgard.
This new.dignity was, hoWever, clearly pur-
chased by the enormous ContingentS, of men he
was compelled to furnish for the ruitiOns eipedir
thois• of Buonaparte. lle WAS also obliged to
give his daughter'..Catharioe in marriage to Jerome
litionaparte, and to marry his eldest son to the
Princess Charlotte of Bavaria.; but they never
co-habited . together, and the marriage was disr
solved as soon as .the author of that forced union
was precipitated from-his throne.
The sister of the liiw,it .of Wirtemberg was
married to Paul 1.. and is now Empress Dowager
of Itnssia; still enjoying all the sot”ideration
which her virtto,-srnerit. On the 26th of. October,
three dayi heft' e. his death, her brother celebrated
the Inn it. day of, this Princess at Slot tgard.
Vrederick-Williain .Inol expericoced. many re-
verses of fortune. Daring the French. Revolution,
whet, the Republican attny.advanced ott the Da-
nube; he was obliged to Ely, and abandim hi> capi-
tal to foreign troops. alterwiods chewed hint-
self one of the most zealous of the Sovereigns
of the
.Rhenish Cooledcracy, and rigorously exe-
cuted Buonaparte's Conscription Laws in iris
States.

The sit brothers of Fredpridi-William entered
inr the most Emil into foreign service. Put: of
them has ;a chief contmand in the Austrian army ;
another commanded a Prussian corps at the battle
of Jena.

Tun APPitoAcniNG souut ECLIPSE

The. Eclipse of:the Suit, on Tuesday morning,
the 19th inst. will be the greatest which has hap.
petted in this"conntry tot 52 yeao• At York, 10
digits, or tett parts out of t welse of the Soo, will
he eclipsed : at Scarborough and Whitby, the
bte somewhat greater ; and in a part
.01 the 13a1tie, and countries to ilte,N. E. of us,
the Eclipse .will be centred utud to:al. To the
South and West it will be 'less than with us.
London, :nine digits and 2-sths will be eclipsed,.
The tioratiOn, &c., the at Volk, ac-
cording to true time, ,(by which cur ciocks are
regulated) will be as below.
Sun rite,
.23 m. before S o'clock.
I3egiitoittg,t4 the Eclipse, t 3 o'clock.
I.4realest obaduration, 3 tn. past 9.
End, 13 itt..paq 10..
The.Mooll, make s the first impression on the.
tight of the Sutt's tippet hub
Those ssito their clocks ro apparent time
must observe, that the Sun being 14 m. ttfure
true time, the 11,th:rent:Observations by their cluclA
u ilk ticppen later that, oliove statkli.