The Sun.
London, England, 1818-09-08 00:00:00

TABLE.

Population.
Austria , t 9,482,287
Prussia
Bavaria 3,560.000

Saxony
Hanover
Wirtemberg .. :.. 1,395.062
Baden ' 1,000,000
Electorate of Hesse
Grand Duchy of Hesse 618,501) '
Holsters'
• Luxemburg —2 i 4,0511
.
Brunsvvick
Mecklenburg-Schv..erin
Nassau ... .
Saxe-Weimar ..... 2O I,oop

-- Got ha
---- Coburg
- Meininv,en
- Heildbnrzhausen 29,706
Mecklenburgh Sttelitz
Oldenburgh 217,7610
A nhalt Dessau 52,917
Bernburg
- Coethen
Schwarzburg-Sanderbauzen
- Rudolstadt 53,937
Hohenzollern-Flechingen
Lichtenstein .5,546
Hohenzollern-Siginaringen
Waldeck
Reuss, elder branch

younger ditto
Scliaumtiurg•Lippe
Lippe Detainld

62,,205
24,000
69,062

Hesse Homburg
Lubeck
Bremen
Hourburgh

20,000
40,b50
48,500
1,29,800

Total.

80,094,050

VIENNA, AUG: 24.—The Journal de Frankfort
of the 14th inst. contains, under the head at Brus-
sels, a well-merited reproof of the tale of an at-
tempt to assassinate the Duke of Reichstadt,
published in one of those Netherland Papers
which, ever since their commeocentent, seem to
have made it their business to treat their Readers
with falsehoods of every kind. The above-men-
tioned Journal concludes its article with the fol•
lowing words :

"'These arc the observations to which we hire been led by
reading the above piece of intelligence, and we doubt not hut
that. the 4hatriatt Obsei ver *ill contradict it wore positively
and irrefragibly."

We willingly answer to this invitation, for the
Vrai Liberal and Co. would doubtless build 'your
our silence the assertion that there must, how-
ever, be some truth in the story which they have
invented of the baffled attempt at an assassinti-
tion We therefore declare the whole story, from
the beginning to the• end, with all the principal
and accessary circumstances related with it, to be
an impudent 'lie, forged for the furtherance of the
views of ti patty.
The story is, besides, so shallow and so
vented, that we should scarcely have thought it
wottliv,of helm contrad.cred, had we not been
expressly called upon by,sevcral widely circulated
Journals.

VIENNA, AUG. 24 Excellency Don Pedro
CeVa Ambassador irony his Majesty the Kiitg
ot Spain to this Court, has officially protested
against the occupation of Pensacola by the Arne-
TiennS, in a nitmotial delivered, by order of his
Court, to the Privy Chancery of State. It is
supposed that all the Spaniih Ambassadors- have
orders to proceed in a similar manner at all the
Courts to which they are accredited.

.
The Princess Dowager of Aletternich, imme-
diately after the. death of her consort, went to
);Aden to the Princess her daughter-in-lAw, snit
will go thence toSdlsholg to see her Royal High•
nests the Duchess of Wirtewbets, her daughter.

LONDON JOURNALS.

We proceed, in conformity to our plan, to take,
daily, Extracts from the London Pap..ls. They nr,

quite barren this day in point of original
The following are the chief contents, eY•
• cept wln are common to them all, and are among
our miscellaneous articles.

[Morning Herald, Sept. B.]
THE QUEEN.

The Pnrstcr. REGENT remained with her MAJESTY and the
PaiNcESSES till after eleven o'clock, on Sunday night, and
then returned to Hampton Court. do other member of the
):oval Family visited her-Majesty on Sunday. the Physicins
having advised that she should be kept as still and composed
as possible. In the course of the evening, Sir Francis Mil-
roan returned from London, and both he and Sir Henry Mil-
ford have remained in close attendance ever since, so much
so, that during the night they only took a few hours' rest al-
ternately.

About eleven o'clock, yesterday, the Duke of York arrived
from Oatlauds. Ilk Itoval *Highness would not permit his
carriage to be driven up to the hall-door, but alighted in the
road, by the garden wall, and walked thence over the yard of
the offices to the hack door of the house.

The detachment of Guards on duty were also turned out,
CI the front court, to receive his Royal Highness, lint the
moment he perceived them, he waved his hand to them to
retire, and they did so instantly, without presenting arms,
The Prince Regent was expected from the Stud•house in

the evening.
The_ opetation which her Majesty nnderwent, on Satur-
day night, appears to have given her considerable relief; at
least, it is certain, that, at present, she is in a great measure
flee from those severe pains and spasms of the rioceva, which,
on Saturday, seemed to threaten her speedy dissolution. Iler
Majesty, however, notwithstanding this temporary cessation
of pain, is in a state of extreme debility; linable to hc:u• the
slightest motion, to lie down in her bed, or even to move
from her chair at all. Neither has it been judged advisable
for her chair to be is. hecied into the adjoining room, where
the Princesses have been in the habit of personally waiting
ot. their suffering parent, during her little repast, with the
most affectionate anxiety; and now her Majesty takes her
repast in her lied-chamber. Tice Majesty, indeed, has lately
received very little food, and that of the lightest kind ; the
wing of a roasted partridge, or some such trine, constituting
her dinner.

CURIOUS DOCUMENTS.

[EXCISE.]

It appears that the definition of this word, as
given by Dr. JOHNSON in the first edition of Isis
inestimable Dictionary, gave olTenee to Govern-
ment, and it was intended to submit his work to
the criticism of Law. The following is the case
and the opinion :

[The Times, ditto.]
CASE.

Samuel Johnson has lately publ:shed a book, entitled
" Dictionary of the Eng-li:h Lan make, io which the words
are deduced front their oritzinals, and illustrated in their
diiierent significAtions by examples from the best writers.
To which are pt efixed, a History of the Language, and an

English Grammar."
Under the title " EXCISE" are the following words 1—

Exct .n. s. (arciis, Dutch ; excisant, Latin), a hateful
tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged, not by the
common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to
whom " E.rtise." is paid.

The people should pay a rateable tax for their sheCp, and
an excise for every thing which they should eat.—HAYwAlw.
" Ambitious now to tal excise
" Of a more fragrant paradise.”—CLEATELAND.