The Sun.
London, England, 1818-07-18 00:00:00

CHARACTER OF. MR. PONSONRY.

Mr; PONsoNßy's eloquence participated of .his,
character. His address was neat, gentle, and,
elegant. His language and manners, courtly anti
polished. He never WAS asiidonus to cultivate the
goon-will or ap.plame of the mnitittide, and t gere-
fore never spoke,,'while in Eirgland,.f!ooi a love
Of popularity., His
.good taste preCluded
; his oratory, accordingly, partook rather
•ot the simple than :be finWery ; and 01)000 he
avoided a figurative diction, .he yet .arrived at his
otriect by, a circuitous, rather thin a (IA cc', course..
Neatness and simplicily constitute the great
features of his Parliamentary Speeenel ;.'his
Plage: was •plain koid perspicuous ; and he avoided
Ihose rhetorical flourishes which [Hake no lasting
inipressiolf. Lk was thus accounted rather solid
than brilliant. Gifted with a strong under, Land-
ing, he commanded respect for all lie twered ; his
attack seas masterly. ;trid scientific, rather than
bold and daring ;Thot lie chiefly excelled in a re-
ply, on Which oecasion an extensive and retentive
memory proved of eminent service.. 'He fored to
speak last, an on that occasion constantly and,
invariably exhibited his power and•his art, in suc-
cessfully refuting and exposing the arguments of
his. adversaries. He never took notes, anti yet
never missed any opening in tite.argumenis of an
opponent ; whatever was false he' exposed—what-
ever futile, be ridiculed ; and if he did not always
obtain victory, he generally deserved it. Long
practice bad given hint a certain tact, or high de-
gree pf technical knowledge, never to be attain-
ed without it ; and his great experience proved
serviceable to his party during many a warm de-
bate. It has, been alreadv..ltinted..that on one
memorable occasion he provided a brid.;e for a
retreating enemy, but it ought not tube omitied
that he also trequ,.tuly pointed tint a secure asy-
lum for his friends, by hovering on 'he ranks of
an adverse army, and covering the retreat of his
own, when he found it engaged too far fur thei
common safety. -

THE ADOPTED CHILD, &c.

COURDOF CHANCERY, JULY 17.

GER V. PRITCHARD AND ANDERSON.

Sir. S. RomILLY in this case prayed his Lord
ship to issoe at, itjuitc ion. rtstrain the de_
Pendants from publishing a IVotli called The
Adopted Child, which contained letters written by
the plaintiff -to the defendant in• the course of
their correspondence. The facts are shortly
these.. The Rev. Win. Gee, in consequence of
having no children, adopted the defendan.t, Prit-
chard. as his son ; lie was hrought• up in the ta-
Ludy, and at the death of. Mr. Gee,. the defendant
'Pritchard, became entitled, by My. Gee's will-, to
share with the present plaintiff, Mr. Gee's relict,
in his property. The defendant was put to school
by Mr:Gee, and while pursuing his iiudies the
plaintiff wrote .various letters to him. respecting
his moral and religious
,conduct. The defendant
having made an applica ion o the plaintiff, which
met with a negative answer, he threatened to
expose the correspondence that had taken place
between them, which Sir S. Romilly said would
Only have the effect of lacerating the feelings of
the plaintiff. It was adduced, in support of the
allegation, that the defendant intended to publish
the letters in question, and that in the month of
May last the defendant had written a letti4 to the
plaintitf;to. that-effect. An advertisement had
also appeared in the newspapers, ot. the 14th of
July, to the following etfic! :—" in the press,
and speedilf will he publisi eil, The Adopted
Child ; or, The liistory of a Clergyman fpr
Twenty ,Years.', ley the ---'Pritchard,''
Printet!, &c. by the other detetniatt Anderson.—
Sir SAMUEL, after stating the above facts, sub-
mired -that the Injunction ought to issue.
The LORD Cri;:ccal.t.on inquired if there was
any instance pt such an application as the present
being granted by the Court.
Sir SAMUEL R.MILLY said there was—the case
of Lord Cheoerfi,ld's Letters to his Son.

The Lottn, CHANCELLOR. saitl, must unques-
tionably the Court would grdut•an luilinction-
a case where the letters,wlitteri by one person to
another had got into the hands of a third pet sun;
but, said his Loulship, is there any, instance in
whirl, the Court has granted an Injunction yvhere
the Letters were in the hands of the patty to
whom they were addressed?'
Sir SAMUEL Romit.LY said there was, and in-
stanced the ease ot Lord Chesteifieid, in whirls
Ws. Stannard.had'been restrained from pablish-
ing the letters respecting- the natural son of his
.Lordship.
The LORD CHANCELLOR saik that was the
question he wished to have answered, and directed
the Injunction to issue.; at the same time direct-
ing notice,to be imtuediately served or". the .re.
mective parties..

The OR !GI NT and PROGRESS of the FRENCH
' REVOLUTION, front 1788 to 1816.

[l' ..-.1 RT V 1

Kleher, deserted in Egypt, was assassinated. Sir
James Pultney went there from Ferrol in Spain,
with 12,000 men, but he was afterwards super-
ceeded by Sir Ralph Abercrombie, who landed on
the 7th March, fought the French on the 13th,
-and beat theist on the 21st, with the loss of 4000
men, and about 1500 of our own. In the next
year, 1801, the union of Ireland commenced.
Admirals Parker and Nelson defeated the Danes
off Copenhagen, and Malta surrendered to us.
Peace was agreed on between Austria and France,
and Naples and France, and on the 2211 August
Egypt was compered by the British, after Spain
and Portugal had agreed to a peace. On the 2241
March, 1802, peace was settled at Amiens, be-
tween England and France. The French Revo-
lution was apparently dosed, and Christianity re-
stored ; but Buonaparte having violated the
treaty, and having trespassed on Helvetia, war
was in 1803 necessarily renewed against . France,
and also by Austria arid Russia. In 1805. was
fought the battle of Austerlitz, and on the 21st
October, Nelson took and destroyed the com-
bined fleet of France and Spain off Cape Trafal-
gar. He was killed there, and his body brought
home ; and in 1806 it was interred in St. Paul's
Church. On the 9th January the battle of Jena
was fought, and on the 26th December, another
iu POland with the Russians. In June, 1807, the
battle of Tilsit was fought, which on the 3d
July brought on a Treaty there. In September,
Lord Gambier besieged Copenhagen, took 18
ships, and brought them here. In December, the
Queen of Portugal and her Court quitted Lisbon
and sailed for the Brazils. In 1808 Buonaparte,
having intrigued with certain Ministers of the
Spanish Government, against the King and his
Throne, went to Bayonne, and sent a guard of
honour to him, which conducted hint to that city,
where he abdicated his kingdom in favour of his
son, from whose head Buonaparte took the crown,
and put it on the head of his brother Joseph,
sending him and his son into the south of France.
This provoked Spain, and having implored our
assistance, she rose in favour of Ferdinand VII.,
made peace with us, took the French ships at
Cadiz, and opened her ports. In September the
battle of Vimiera, in Portugal, was fought, under
Sir Hew Dalrymple, Sir Harry Burrard, and Sir
Arthur Wellesley, who took Jonot and all his
army, which they sent into France. The next
battle was at Coruntia, under Sir John Moore,
who was killed, and in 1809 another at Oporto,
and on the 27th and 28th July; another at Tala-
vera. Then we took the Isle of Walcheren off
the Dutch coast ; and in 1810 the Battle of Bit-
saco was fought ; and in 1811 another at Bar ossa,
when the French under Massena retreated from
Celerico ; then the battle of Almeida, Albufera,
end on the 25th September of Cuidad Rodrigo,
and in October of Caceres, after which Cuidad
Rodrigo was taken. On the 7th April 1812, the
battle of Badajos ; and in June, of Almarez ; and
the 22d July, of Salamanca ; and in August, of
Madrid, under Lord Wellington, who in Sep-
tember beseiged Burgos, which he afterwards
quitted.

In the North Buonaparte crossed the Dwina,
and invaded Russia. To save that Empire, Mos-
cow, its ancient city, was burnt by its inhabit-
alias, and the Russians rose en masse. Joined
with Austria and Prussia, they defeated and re-
pressed the whole French army of enormous nuin-
hers, in killed, wounded, taken, and perished ; and
Buonaparte run away at full speed. Between
October 1812 and March 1813, Russia and Prus-
sia having formed a treaty, drove the French from
that part of the North, and followed them in their
retreat into the heart of Germany, where an ar-
mistice took place till the 20th July, when the
battle of Vittoria in Spain was fought, 151 pieces
of cannon taken, 415 baggage waggons, and all
the enemy's treasure, while the Allies in the North
beat Buonaparte, Ney, Saint Cyr, Oudinot,
Macdonald, Vandamme, &c. On the 26th Sep-
tember Lord Wellington took Pampeluna and St.
Sebastian, and in October he crossed the Bidassa
into France, and heat the French op their own
ground, in the south of their country. To the
north of it on the 18th, Bavaria joined Austria,
and Buonaparte was driven front Leipzig and
Dresden to Erfurt, all his army routed, and his
brother Jerome forced out of Saxony. On the
21st November the Dutch rose in Holland, and
drove the French out of it. The Stadtholder and
the old Government were restored, and in the
Smith Wellington crossed the Atlour, and took
Bourdeaux ; in the North the Austrians entered
Frankfort, and in concert with Russia published
a mild Proclamation for a general fast. Itv De-
cember Dautzig and Cuxhaven fell, and on the

THE SUN.

ISOLEM QUIS DICEKE FALSUISI AUDEAT

LONDON,
SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1818.

The Journal de Paris, received this morning, in
a Note to the London News, respecting the inten-
tion on the part of the Americans of taking pos-
session of Pensacola, says—" We have received
intelligence, by the way of New York, of the
taking of Pensacola by General JACKSON, and
also of the occupation of the whole of the
Floridas."

We received this morning the Paris Papers of
Wednesday last. The following are ex:nets :
" PARIS, JULY 15.—Yesterday morning the
King gave an audience of leave to the Duke of
Wellington, who is about to set out for CAmbray.
His Grace had also the honour of being after-
wards presented to their Royal Highnesses Ma-
dan►e, Monsieur, ann the Duke d'Angouleme.

Great preparations are making at the Cha-
teau of Rambouillet for the reception, on the
27th instant, of the King and all the Court.
" By order of the King, the remains of the
late General Kleber are to be transferred to the
Chateau of If, at Strasburg, his native city, with
all the honours due to his merits and services.
" MINISTRY OF THE MARINE AND COLONIES.

" The bkig l'Argus, commanded by M. de
Melay, Captain of frigate, set sail the Bth inst.
from L'Orieut for Senegal.

." It was preceded in the voyage to that Colony
by the goelette Iris, dispatched from Rochefort
the 29th April last, and the Avitio le Moucheron,
sent from Toulon the 10th ult.

" The Commanders of these vessels, which are
to be stationed at Senegal, have orders to visit
French ships, and to .seize those which shall be
found to be employed in the traffic known by the
name of the Slave Trade, and which is formally
prohibited by the Law of the kith April, 1818,
as well as by the Ordonnances of his Majesty,
dated the Bth January, 1817, and the 24th June
• last.

" Letters from Dresden announce the death of
General Zeschwitz, a distinguished officer, Com-
mander•in-Chief of the Saxon cavalry.

FIVE PER CENTS.

Tuesday , . ...

77 f. 90 c.

DEFERRED STOCK
of the •22d March, 1817, ... 88 f. 5 c.
22(1 Sept. 1817, B6 f.
(."?2al March, 1818, B4 f. —C.

‘r 1,716NNA, JULY 3.—The Chevalier Navarro
('Andrade, the Portuguese Minister to our Court,
set out the day before yesterday for Carlsbad,

" JULY 4.—The Prince de Metternich sets out
in the course of next week for Carlsbad, accom-
panied by the Councillor, the Count de Mercy ;
he will probably not return to Vienna before the
meeting of Sovereigns at Aix-la-Chapelle.
" TrtENT, JUNE 26.—The Duchess of Parma
arrived here yesterday evening ‘vith a numerous
suite, of which the Count de Ncipperg forms part.
The Princess continued her route this morning
for Vienna.

" FRANKFORT, JULY 7.—lt is understood that
the ALT editary Prince of Hesse Homburg will be

Rpoinled Governor of Mayence, and that he wilt
les* in that city, which is to be a fortress of the
Confederation.

COBLENTZ, JULY 5.---After the conferences
at Aix-la-Chapelle, the King of Prussia prtiposes
to make a tour in the Grand Duchy of the Rhine.
" A part of the troops forming the Prussian
corps in France will, it is said, remain in the
Grand Duchy after the evacuation of the French
provinces now occupied.
" AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, JULY B.—The. residences
of the Sovereigns during their sray here are final-
ly arranged, but it is thought they will not re-
main so long as was expected."

NVe are really astonished at, the manner in
which The New Times perseveres in treating the

subject of the recent Conspiracy in Paris, though,
,with the cautions, policy of the French Papers., it
does not attempt to deny its existence. The Edi-
tor says that " there are in Paris some wretched
vagabonds, a disgrace to the name of Englishmen,
who have sold themselves either to the-Freneh
Police, or to the Jacobins, for the
.purpose of.
;promoting that 'Reuolution which both ,I these
:Factions have in view'." On the 'other hand; we
!have heard that sonie English Editors have sold
.themselves .to the Ultras, • riot for the. purpose,
,intleed", ,of renewing the ,horrors of the. Re-
volirtion, but with the visionary folly 'of re-
storing the ancient order of things in 'France.
The vague and uncertain charge of The New
Times slims that it speaks upon conjecture
rather than knowledge. The New Times
says also, " the contemptible wretches who
send over their letters to our mistaken Editors,
.are certainly not the original authors of the wick-
ed attempt to blast the French Nobility in the
eyes of Europe." In justice to our own Corre-
spondents, we can venture to affirm, that they are
not " wretched vagabonds" and '' contemptible
wretches," but men of learning and talents, and
at least full as respectable, if not more so, as any
of the Correspondents of The New Times, or of
any other English Journal. Far from having any
revolutionary projects in view, our Correspond-
ents are anxious to preserve
.the present order
of things in France, to support the Monarch, and to
repel the efforts of faction. These purposes, and
these only, our Correspondents have had in view,
and we are surprized that an Editor of such ta-
lents, such knowledge, and of so liberal a charac-
ter, should have
.thrown out
,such loose arid un-
founded aspersions. 'TO et 4, the matter short.
. ~
Can The New Times . deny that there has been a
Conspiracy in Paris, tliat it has been detected and
frustrated, and that some of the accomplices have
fled, and others Hie itiplisonl—The names of seve-
ral of the Conspirators have been mentioned in
those English Journals whOse communications
must have been derived from, different sources,
but they all agree as to the actual existence of that
Conspiracy, which The New nines, ‘cith all its ran-
dom aspersions, has not ventured to deny. To return
to our own Correspondents. They are Persons who
are far above the attacks of The New Times: They
are men of respectable rank in Society, and do not
write from interested motives, for they receive
nothing from us, but from a sincere attachment
to the King of FRANCE, and the present order of
things in that Country, which they wish to secure
against the dangerous attempts of men, who are
actuated by old prejudices in favour of a system of
GOvernment which the Revolution totally de,
stroyed, and which 'never can be revived.
,The
very attempt to revive that system can only tend
to produce anarchy in France, and consternation
and commotion all over Europe. We differ
indeed in one respect with our Correspondents,
who conceive that the presence of the Allied
Troops in France is the only obstacle to the tran-
quillity of its people, and the security of its Go-
vernment. We, on the contrary, still conceive,
that the continuance of those troops in the French
territories, is not only necessary for the peace and
security of .France itself, but for the welfare, the
independence, and the security of all other
Countries.

THE QUEEN.—The report of the QUEEN yes-
terday was," Her MAJESTY has had a goud night,
and is much the same to-day." The Duke and
Duchess of Yoßx left town yesterday morning, to
pay their respects to the QUE2N at Kew.
DUKE AND DUCHESS OF Cumnr.ruaNn.—Yes-
terday morning, a little before eleven o'clock, the
Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND left St. James's
Palace for,Germany, accompanied by the Princess
of SoLms. They were attended by Airs. Captain
JONES, on the Duchess ; Captain JONES and Major
POTEN, on the Duke ; and Miss COOPER, the Eng-
lish Governess to the Princess of Sotto,. The
Royal Party were to proceed yesterday to Dover,
where the Royal yacht is to convey them to Ca-
lais. Their Royal Highnesses proceed to the
Gellll4ll Spa, where a house has been prepared for
their reception. Their Royal Highnesses remain
there some time, and then proceed on a short tour.
The Duke and Duchess have behaved in the most
liberal and handsome manner towards their do-
mestics. They have taken all with them who
Were agreeable to accompany them, and they have
not distharged any.