The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-17 00:00:00

with permission, to state it, but he only wished to
give the other side notice that, at the conclusion of
Mr. Pepys's speech, he intended to take the objec-

Mr. PEPYS declined to go on any further at pre-
sent, and the further healing of the case was post-
poned until to-morrow (this day.) . .
It is very probable that the case will occupy► se-
veral days, unless the Solicitor-General's objection
should be held to be valid.

NAPOLEON'S PRESENTIMENT RE-
SPF.CIING RUSSIAN AMBITION.

After the capitulation of Ulm, Oct. 1805, the
seventeen Austrian Generals, with Mack at their
head, were presented to the Emperor. It was
a painful sight. They bowed respectfully, and
preserved a solemn silence. Napoleon addressed

them, saying—
" Gentlemen,—l feel for brave men like
yourselves, who have become the victims of the
stupidity of a Cabinet which indulged insane
projects, and which feared not to compromise
the dignity of the Austrian nation by bartering
the services of its Generals. Examine the con-
duct of those who have thus committed you.
What greater iniquity call there be than thus to
fall upon me without a declaration of war, and to
seize me at the throat ? Is not this injuring
the people, to expose them in this manner to a
foreign invasion ? Is not this betraying all
Europe, by mixing up Asiatic hordes with its
affairs ? It would have been good policy for the
Aulic Council, instead of attacking me, to seek
my alliance, and to drive the Russians back into
the, North. This alliance of your Cabinet will,
to all eternity, form a monstrous blot in history.
This is an alliance between the dogs, shepherds,
and wolves, against the sheep. Such an idea
could not have proceeded from the head of a
statesman. It is a fortunate circumstance for
yourselves, too, that I have not succumbed
during the unjust struggle that has been called
forth, otherwise the Cabinet of Vienna would
soon have found out its error, and perhaps it
will pay dearly for it some day or other."—Vol.
vii. p. 37.
Napoleon wanted to dictate his conditions be-
fort. the issue of a battle (that of Austerlitz, 2d
December, 1505), the success of which could
still appear to be doubtful to the young Emperor
of Russia; and these conditions were already
the same as those which he could impose when
victory had crowned our eagles. By proposing
what he well knew could not be consented to
without dishonour, he gave himself the air of a
pacificator, and secured to himself the pleasure
of a war. The Duke of Rovigo proves wide-
signedly what I have advanced, by relating the
following words of the Emperor Alexander :
" It would be requisite that the preceding pro-
positions were in conformity with the sentiments
which have dictated the steps which your master
made with me. This step does the greatest
honour to his moderation. But is this to be
called a desire of peace, to propose conditions
that are of so disastrous a nature to a State as
those offered to the King of the Romans ?"4'
(the name by which Alexander designated
Francis II.)
At this epocha (November and December,
1805), Prussia wished to occupy Hamburg.
'lbis measure was strongly debated in the
Cabinet of Berlin. But Russia, though very
desirous of aggrandising herself, would not con-
sent to the aggrandisement of other Powers, and
therefore opposed it. The business, conse-
quently, proceeded no further ; and perhaps this
very circumstance contributed most powerfully to
`,he neutrality of Prussia.f —P. 61.

* Russia seems to have dictated conditions equally dis-
astrous to INfahtnoud at Adrianople. She therefore can-
not be desirous of peace with Turkey, but must seek her
extinction.—Page 53.
t Russia seems to have remained faithful to this part of
her political catechism. She neither wants England,
France, nor Austria, to seize any part of the spoils of the
Ottoman Empite, whilst she herself grasps as much as
possible both in Europe and Asia, and secures 'to herself
the quasi exclusive; navigation of the Bosphorus and
Black Sea, all under the pretence of securing herself
against the recurrence of former injuries her subjects pre-
t,,nd to have received from the Turks. According to the
late Marshal Prince d' Ligne, it was the maxim of Cathe-
rine H., Quand it s' alit de coups, it rant mieur
d'en dormer que den reeet'oir." (When hard knocks are
about to he dealt out right and left, it is better to give
than to receive.) It stems that the present Emperor, her
Majesty's grandson, is of the same opinion ; but that pas-
sive obedience has become the watch-word of the Cabinet
of St. James's.—Bourienne's Memoirs. •

ROSES AND ONIONS.—A German gardener
declares that he has found by experience that an onion of
the largest kind, planted near a rose-bush, gives a more
agreeable and exquisite perfume to the roses.
COAL versus COKE !—" I will sink to h—ii,
but I will have coal," said a disappointed mining specula-
tor, not a thousand miles from Sunderland, to one of his
workmen, as be 'stood upon time bri.ik of the barren excava-
tion! " Sir," observed the humble and canting operative,
in reply, with a. visage of most portentious solemnity, and
drawn out- of that ludicrous longitudinal expression of pu-
ritanism, so characteristic of the saints of the present day,
" if von sink that fir, you will find nothing but cinders!'
—lsurhant Chronicle.

An act of suicide, of the most melancholy '
and afflicting description, took place yesterday, at a house
in Wilson-place, Gray's-ion-road, the principal cause of
which, at present apparent, was disappointed affection and
blighted hopes after the appointment of a wedding-day.
The unfortunate victim was named JANE BRYAN, about
20 years of age, respectably connected. For some time
past she had lived as nursery-maid in the family of a pru-
fessit,nal gentlemen residing in Guildford-street, rear the
Foundling, where she was occasionally visited by a young
man, to whom, as she inform«l her fellow-servants, she
should soon be married. Suddenly, however, a great
change was visible in her behaviour, and her spirits,
which were buoyant and lively, became•depressed. Some
days before she felt her place, she told a female friend that
she had been informed that - kept company with
another young woman, and that they bad been asked in
church at St. Pancras This distressing information, it
appears, induced her, in a moment of phrenzy, to swallow
a quantity of oxalic acid, which she had obtained, and
which terminated I:er existence. After taking the poison
she complained of being ill, and the symptoms becoming
very alarming, Mr. Hoetuas, a medical gentleman resid-
ing on the spot, was sent for. To him she partly acknow-
ledged what she bad done; and the stomach pump and
other remedies were imn:ediately, but ineffectually, applied.
We extract the following extraordinary story
from ti e Austrian Observer :—" There is residing at
Nuremberg a young man, named Casea.r. HausEa, and
his strange and peculiar destiny has rendered his name
celebrated throughout Germany. Persecuted horn his
most tender infancy by an unknown enemy, and plunged
by him into the greatest miset y, without parents, without
family, he was fortunate enough to excite the solicitude of
the town of Nuremberg, where he waa lit ought up free of
expense, and found the Ricans of obtaining an honourable
rank in society. lie began to believe that his misfor-
tunes were at an end ; but the unknown hand which had
put sued him from his infancy again sought after its victim.
On Vat 17th of October last he was surprised by the ad-
pearanee -of an individual, disguised by a black mask, who
knocked him down, struck hint several blows on the head,
and left him insensible on the flour. He remained in that
state all night, and it was with difficulty he was brought
to his senses. He was attacked with a violent fever, and
in an agonize,' manner cried out continually, Take away
the black man, lie seeks my life!' It was feared for some
time that his wounds would be fatal, but he is now getting
better, laid it is hoped that his life will be saved. The
plice of Nuremberg have made every effort to discover
the mysterious individual, but hitherts without success."
.....jfesoager des (Thembres.