The Sun. — London, England, 1816-01-10 00:00:00

FROM A CiERMAN PAPER. FRANKPOZT, Dgc. 24 --Profe s sor Martin, of 31.1e;lelhert , „ ‘vho lately interested-himselt much in,. the popular wish there expressed for the esta blishimtt of )Ir constitution of States-General in the Granil Duchy of Baden, and thereby involved hiinielfin (WM:lo6es, has, it is understood, ie. 'eeheil his difinliSSiMi. The coining year wilt limn an epoch in the . annal 4 of Frankfort. A 1„., g 'scr im( lids now elarea since any Con giecss wait jpiA(l here, though in tamer ages this often loppened. The must ,oelobvated as seinhlici of this kiwi I.vere ; a meeting which Icing l'et held here ‘vittl l ;o6 Shires of his ;111;411orn itt the year 753: rt-J4etierrtl Assembly , o;.' the Empre ii) &71, under King Louis ; a Diet • .15f the Empire in 985, after the death of the Em pror Otto 11..; a Diet of the Inspire under Henry 11. in 1020, at which appeared 24 bishops ; a Die6of the Empire under Conrad al. Duke of Swabia, in 1142 ; a Diet of the Empire under • Otto IV. in 1208 ; an Assembly of the Empire muleryrederiek 11. 'in 1220; a' Diet of the Ent vire under the same ,Prince and his son henry in )2'25 i a Diet of the Empire under the Emperor Ratalolph in 1291 a similar one onclerlhe Ern- peror Louis the Raverian.in ; the like tinder the mime Prince in 1338; , and 4*0...in 1339, mt which were preKent,, besides the ginperor hitn fielf, 'King 141dw , irtl of En g Lind, Nit. g of Bohemia, and almost - all the piritnal and Temporal Princes . of Germany ' ; Diet nude). Wenceslaus' in 1381;,..8 iitnilar .one under the sante in 4:307, at which siveral Pectnrs, 32 Pr pees, 150 Counts, 1300 IW.ous . , and 3700 of , the Nobility were present ;. u D,iet in 1400, under at , Emperor Rupert : a Diet muter the Emperor . Sigisunind In 1417, and a 'similar one, under the !same, in 1420; a Diet of the Empire under Fre derick 111. in 1442; a similar meeting in 1569, twi l er th e ' Itiopecor . Maximilian. Besides this, there e been held numerous meetings and HI.. senildages of particular States :of , •the Empire at . Pc.mlifort at var h times. . . The eliattian Otsereet of th e' Igth, bag the following article " When tve endeavonred some. time ago to de nounce the. spirit and views of .some Gellthtll ' 301111xliit3, 'which have long appeared to 113 ill varioWs reipects, WC then concluded our ...reth.ctions on that subject, by declaring our pen , `utosion that iliese Gentlemen would not fail to ►►s with an,opportunity of recoiling to the balite 'topic. • '' Our expectution lilts not been frustrated ; fliffercut voice! in variant quarters. have beet* ,sitice raised eguinst us, thvugh vomewhat later 'than we presumed they tvould have het n ; they :have borroiVell 111 s . hapei, awl their reel , llnatiotts .bure ;o, , twared nutlet. the most ridiculous titlet in the: Ilremeri Gazette. •••* , :fl l ese gentlemen have not only, endeavoured tci defend themselves against our charges, but have ''retorted upon us, that Ciongh Well informed of the." , true situation Of France, we haVe deserthed it in Much too favourable eoloora ; while, on'tae.other st ill' the exaggerated tears of a visionary, 'we have endeavoured uselessly to excite alarm among our German countrytiten, • " This stone Bremen Gazette also tells us, that 'ottr !..diatribes" outraged public Opinion, by pl.t;:itig in a false lightr he nrasitres of the Allied Powers, such :as 'the ()eruption of funnier fort !tre,ses, &e. measures whirls wroth' not have been nu " P t hits illtertlid stet! of France present ed a sufficient guarantee for the engagenucuts it had couttacted. " In another peeper (the AllgentemeZeitung), are desiyed to remarh, that it is announced la the Itith Article of the principal Treaty with France, .that atter such violent shocks, that kingdom was still in a state'rif disturbance lrul fermentation. '" We leav kil o the impartial judgment (if the public to deeitte,,whether we, Merit these different accusations. We assuredly kno',v as well as our adversaries, that the internal state. of France 01 one that can be regarded without some alarm. ll %Ye, like other 'Journalists, have puh lished the facts relative to seditious discourse, to the sentences passed on insurgents, to laws against revolt, to imprisonments, the tragical .scenes . . at Nismes, the limning of tri-coloured flags, cockades, &a, But we have certainly - tiever/ thought proper to assert, as was done 'in the German Oserver*, and the 'lanais of Europe, that " that cockade alone wila . the emblem of the good enacts Which the revolt' , Ilan had produced, and its honourable ensign, 'ivhite 'be white cockade recalled only counter re- Volution," (apparently oh evil in the estimation of these gentlemen,) " the tithes, the feudal rights, 'the privileges of the nobility, awl the party of ,Cohlentz.' Neither slid we ever think of an *pouncing, as the rillgemeine Zeitung has done), the fall of Louis XVIII,.as inevitable as soon as ,the. Allies quitted France, or that ; it that Save ,reign could hope for stability,it:would only be ,by coufiroting the revolution with' its spirit and its good effects. . - • • 's We have always believediiesTn before being (lode acquainted with the Treaty of Paris of the •,20tli Nov.that after all that the Allied Powers had 1100 e - for the happiness of the world, their wish. awl 'the object of sill their efforts must be to maintain awl confirm the re-established order of,things in Fruuce, and to stifle byall practicable mcans,when ever it shonfdabew itself; .the' revolutionary sys tem which reared its l:ead in France to support the • This prer 'bens published at ,Ilarnburgh, and it is pro. lialAy 'he one of which Mr. Isuarday, the tipanish Agent sit 411411Murgli, obtained the iiipPtUlfilla) as Lately stated in a igtall Another day hai gone by, and we tire 4611 W.th mit an ivals from the Colitin'ent. Were; thislie ctilial• to tilt! FretsCh Papers we 'night begitt to that sonic political causes delayed their arrival ; but as the revirtlation is conntnio to the Dutch awl German Journals, eve most ascribe it altogether to the state of the weather. Though. the conc h of the Debates on 'the Amnesty Law is nOt likely to proluce any great novelty, we 'certainly look with increased' inte- . . rest to their result. We ire not certain that the anecdote of the King of FRAttca's colloquy with some of the Deputies Fetus no any bett er autism ity than a mere Parisian Party rumour, antlered car rent by private correspondence with one, of the London Newspapers. Siniudil it, however, be well•tonniled, it is very easy to perceive how widely ilittvrent the /TOW Freud) Constitution is from that of Great Britain, upon which it 'was . pretended to be itionviled. Our Parliamentary jettlowy of 11,:iyal interrerence, forbidding even 110 alltision to the Monarch's sentiments in time Beat of deinkte, is one of the not pro. • snitient lisini-nilslts- of ftee,!.:ln . of discussion its Insth p. 11,1 of the begislasin'e, and especiilly of inilependence the Commons' House of Parliament. "What then wortht We' think of a King .of this country pe`rsonallY canvassing the votes cif Members ; telling them that .such a Bill was Ms measure ; and sairping every principle which cOuld render them .respectu . Ile, or afford them weight as the popular organ anti counterpoise to Regal Ant horit y ? Would •we norat Onev.Onnosince, t har the three bratiches of our CoilitiltitiOtt, consisting. of King, Ltials,. and Commons, were 11 mere mockery and Yet this politically vicious proceeding. is:un hesitatingly ascribed to Louis XVIII.. by those who are in the habit of approving of all his ine.asures. Vor our [MIS, We could - conceive no statement better ealcuiateil . to Bring, not only the Royal, Power, but ,the efliciencyof the Chamber of Depot its into et'lll:Ompt. LontiXVITI. has responsible Ministers--,they are Answerable for the very {11)10Se reply, they pot into - his mouth on New Year's Day when the Deputies approached the. Throne with their address. ' 'this reply, his Majesty went a great tte4i, too far in identifying his personal sentiments with those of - his Advisers, in concert • with whom it is al.; ways prima fade pres u med that the Kipg Wets, anti therefore uuneeessaryfor him on tiny One oc- CBSioll to step Olkt of the general routine and course of business to impart more positive force tco their propositions.: For what is the natural i crib : scylenve or this protrusion of: Majesty?. ;That every future law that may be Witted t o th e ear liament will stand 'in need of the saute , improper agency. The responsibility of Ministers and the irresponsibility of the Crownthe two •bulwarks of a free, Constitution _ come thus to be destroy ed, and the whole fabrick must fall - to pieces ; and whether •a Republic or a Despotism •is recon 'structed out of the material's, is the only specu lation left for inquiry. having dilated so much on iv point Which np. pears to us to he of such vital importance to the Political Systetn . of France, we shall now dismiss any, farther . notice of . the Amnesty Law,- by quoting tt sensible remark from a Contemporary Journal, with one observation upon it —j , The Ninisters ('3uys the Ti m es) residing in the capital eatow bit be impr esq -it with the opinions which circulate there.: the De puties arriving from the tlep.,lrunu l Ls look 10 Ulif turully to the seutiments with which their neigh bours and associates in the country arc anilw.tt.d.' . 'rue question then' is between the lermeiving Ci)teries i Paris and the Populatinn of li'runce!...- May the Deputies be stiecestful ! ' We this day copy from a Morning Journal, an- , other remarkable paper on the question of the 'po lemcal controversy which has of late so mucli in.; terested 'the public mind. We have also, again co-' pied the introductory observations of that Journal, against which.we have only one objection, ---that they seem to be too personal, and are not applied, with the force of which they are suaceptible, to the whole mass and machinery of this; as it now appears. , : most diSingentious attempt at etir ring u►p a religious 'fend ;. Vilifying hl-tiedAs, tiiitrgli legitimate, Oovernments ; relaudlink (hi; flame of War in Europe. The letter of 31. Manor, the President of - 'the I:rote,l:lnt consistory at Paris—the zealous, 'Well instructed, and official Conservator of the Pro testant Rights in France, is certainly entitled' to peculiar weight. lie does not reside in the Boor. hot! Palace, nor does he deck his baioni with .the Order of the Holy Glaost, and cannot be MlS peeted of sycophancy like the Doke of WIILLING. ins ! 11ts testunony.is pure., for all his induce ments are on the other:4We. Why then was his important letter •withbeld front the -Public. It not only entirely .accp&s,„ but applauds the• klencli Government ; it tells the furious friends. of Protest.intisw in Britain,' that tbeir carries them beyond " the lien of true prndenee' ,did the spirit of tru e .y :" Oe4LCS tab ge . .; weralit y, of these persecutiuns, and 44!ribei' tAr partial' atrocities which leave taken place to local nod political causes': and witb.reg.ird to tltear rear. of, .titipendt tine 'to Protestant Clergymen, into - which sordid jeelitig the gravlituen of all these charges scented at last to be qonsolidated i l this honest Pact* tell his Brgthreit, that: it : was only their common share in the universal 1(4 QI all the public functionaries in France. After this, what shall yve say of the' over Otis exertions of many of our well-intentioned Countrymen, who ltnye been blinded into thls,lll- , sociation, and Misled into this outcry. We: mast pardon their error, and applaud their motives. But not so thoie who have so shamelessly injured what world have been a good cause, it honestly stateth Who have so far succeeded in bringing name of this country into disrepute, as an overhearing, meddling, and inipertinent interferer with concerns which do not belong to her, and are a much. beyond leer coutroul as they are oat of her sphere of jurisdictibn.' These persons are inexcusable. Now, however, that their trickery is exposed, we trust that we shall hear little - more of them. There' is not - a nation: in the world ,when© intriguing • and unfairness.•are . .so much despisca alt.! hated as in England ;—you have only to skew that men are Pt one ,th little arts, and: you rob them of their stings and ot. all power to ei. Vert the public understanding, or distill-1)11m pnb-,, lie tranquillity. This exposition is in the present' instance complete, and as, we have , laughed9it Ultra4loy i atisti in France (men more Royal than the , King), do not, let us have the laugh turned against us to:V/tra-Pratestunts in Britain, a party more Protestant than the I'rOti!st3nts of F r4 i ne In the cause of French Protestantim ! ! 4 . tier 1114m:1m with the Princess Vithiti:4 4 of WALEs,,. the Princesses. itiwzialtvrti anti) will return to Windsor on Friday next. On 'o4"le ionrttey the Royal .Party will stop at the Ear! of Horn ssis, iitnir Dorking, to partake of t*fre'4l'.. mews. • 'lnn PalNutss Stients.—tier Royal - Highness the Princesi Sthni IA has for some years p:ist been subject to violent spasms in the stotnach,• every two or three 'months, which causes a depression .01' spirits and. a retirement from public life, and even front .ft general association with her august and Royal relatives. 'She always dines by herself, at half- oy two o'clock ;:- her RX.erciir ..is __very gebtiel - her prlucipal assoeiation . with the Queen and her Royal Sisters is at the evening parties:;,, the Castle, for a short time. We are extremely •concerned - to - state', that her Royal - flightless has w it ty hat!, -a violent attack of :pasta, which has confined her to herbed, and very much reduced her, Sir Iletiry 11.alford.speeially'attenits l a ter Royal Iliglinebs, by cotnotaii . of her Majesty. Tlje Charleston Papers to the Ist ultimo rspeat, on the authority of a Nashville,paper of . the 7th November, that Fort - Jackson 144 been surprised by the Indians, and' scorn to regard the event as prolothitt. • Qvenac, Nov. 14. - , --Onr neighbours to the southward are again, it appears, involved in a war with the Creek Indians. This we sufpect to be the effect of American artifice, with a view of :reaping some profit ft out it quarrel with those poor wretches., now that they (the Americans) ure dis engaged from all other hostilities. A litiyal Spanish Orckr has gone oft to Vera Cruz, commanding that the militia corps beartny the deliominalsoit of " Patriots of FertlioartC!" shall have the same thanged into " Loyal No anil.that ate tettu Patriot shall bt: Aeogi ell all parts, MRENCEX PROTESTANTS. (ANOTHER SUPPRESSED LETTER•) The " Seireteries" will perhaps charge us with having obtained the 'following Letter " by inel" plicable means." We certainly shall not explaia ;to them how we obtained it. Their motives for L suppressing it is not at all inexplicable; nor will it, we think, excite any surprise in our,Rifder s, 1 '4 after the sp ec i men ‘vhich wchave already giverP t the candour of th es e i m portant gentlemen. We !lonot pretend to have received this Latter from the Author of it hi mse lf, b ut i t comes - in tsuch'a slope that we do not in th e sma llest degriie diittbt its authenticity.' We have it in the original French Before we . di sm i ss t hi s s u bj e c t , {re will just hint that We Ann n ierstane} that' the Secretaries tliro tt ' the most outr age o us vengeance on our ile,•otel beach, and x v i t h inju s tice quite consistent %vit t ' the candour hith er t o di s pl a y e d by them, Presum e to call us• a b e t tors o f persecut i on. Hir e s h a ll no t cna &seem! t o v i nc li c , Lte ' ourse l ves f rom so unionntit . 1 a charge ; ohr readers, as well as Out•ielves , be.atilc to discriminate between the 'defence ( I persecution, aml the exposilre of the .ilisingen k " Cita add interested machiliariott of some "I. 6(4 • liatiow class a its , opporrents-,' who inalte-a.Pu b7 .11c cause an, itpArtituent for the gratifuntiottotr er.' sun.tl canity.—(Timr.) • COPY OF d,LETTEiI,WItiTTEN• BY bk- MARoN, F REI! : DENT 01. TdE PROTi.SI ,TF PARIS, AN!) t 4; OF Ttly "7 - MITTEIV-Voil Tag AYFAIRS oF - THE FREN" rit°4 -TESTANTS. r. PARIS, Dte• GENTLitibIEN,—I lave ;mode it duty to oppose Wel PT position feuding to fofeign interf e r ence i n th e affairs of WI : treuch Proti.st;ints. I vannot, , therefore, see tvitb sati sfac ; tin what i Passev in E ng l an d on this suhjert,„ and I CAnsuinv concur in it. If the seal of y(Mr fraternal love ethie' affects cna,-st appears to me, nevertheless, to go beY° l24 l, ll . Jibe - Of true prudence, add even the spirit alio rity.,,,lt is nut thus that the latter virtue proclaims 4p . assistatic!, 4 especially when , it may hay , rejwi to drrta# that by such a conduct it. ruly comPromiso 'the reri tercet of the &rue whicls it witicrtaics to support .o!'d de : fend. lam far from admitting that there call be, 0 imagine, any thing hostile in the. conduct or in the ilr tensions of the French Government, with regti l d " this Protestants. The sufferings at I'iscoes are great, d" btl444 71 txu a t y t h b a r r y e ar co e duration. The French Government laments theto 0' 4) " . . - n l rib l Ute a d ad to l i:o a e l oli ca e t t " b e e s m , ahnotiwetroerp:r.:Znitilllicti; as you or I. The King has pronounced, in the most vocal manner, his displeasure, bis horror at the kiste o 'e ° ' llis wisises and his efforts to remedy the evil, to'Cult o the I L I. mentable exasperation of publi c f ee li ng are at t es t e d Royal Ordinance, by what the Duc d'Angonleine said f e tes Deputation of the Con-dstory, and by the flatt erin tion with which ono of the pastors of the Cevennl's CM' ' was' lately honoured, in receiving the decoratl° -- the Legion of Honour. I dv not know, Pentlettien, who could take It upon o'l kite your commiseration for the delay which the M inis" ! of the Reformed Religio n ex p er i ence i n the payment of ' heir atipmids. What we experience in this respect, ot4 tiriPatc with all ether public funistioniires. They 'lt ) ° it impute it, any more Than ourselOes, to any other c 0" ti's to the dopl u r a ble s it uat i on i nto w hi c h we have b een tbrow .- , We ought rather b to, bliss the Guv e in men t for nhAt done, than blame it fur what it has not done; and I ul .oi ii again solemnly' disav o w here, every' al,peal to foreign thiteration. I beseech .you, therefore, to write to rg e more is tlid Style in which you hare dune. I respect, I none the signatures of your letters I lender .joitice motives of ail I and I dare hope'that you Mil no. b , oo your pait with my frank disapprobation. None eau scriUe themselves with more fraternal regards,. Yours, 8:e. I,ord Met.v ti.t.E; it CI said, went La liript‘: Tl , .for the insrpose of presenting the P e tition ir I, g your of the (Hlirers.of the Navy, to-theTe lt4 ' IitiGEN,T, with hid OWII !Mild. • Ye.sterday the dividends d ue on th e - sth ior g' , t t cotrituenced. paying to . the publie at the 1 111 " LotITS according to report, con sld i e , l l° ; ,the success of the.Antuesty Law of such vit a l portance, that beheld himself a conversation "' it the Members of time,COmmiSsion, M. l'Attps3st:i was their 'spokesman. ' You are aware, I t the KiNG, • this, is my law, that I rely on support of the Chamber. Do you think it ‘ . 1,0 p assr.—.‘tie , cannot answer tor it, Site; ' Commission must act according to the coniej en- ~cm t . of the Members.'---' troubles of the tiO r s ' s etntintted. the .KING, require eancilitmtory nisto surer. The most popular of my ancestors tweiweti -from-similar prltteipl4,'- . -- , r I, ';' but Ea ` ay IV. Was victorioits.' Ills gal e ' 'obtained no concession whatever. Pram the Glasgow Cour 'e4 . .-- . ..Letter tiOM (31 ‘ 31. 4 gow Gentleman, at present in Marseilles, t betg ,, Deceutber 22 •,- 7 -" Von must not believe the 01: gerated accounts that ' appear LI in the_nglish t pet's, of disturbances in the South'of France• Lite cl passed through Nismes few days before the riots, and likewise a few days afterwattlg , s t -founds, upon both occasions, the town perf e t g l o i e , • quiet. Tbe only person hurt was General Leg s , oi This . part of klance is perfectly quiet, slid " no doubt will continue. The Goverinuen t , i o keeping up a very strict systcni of police, ! V , will be the means of keeping in order time posed." f e sv CORN RKCNANGE, JAN. 114 11 . 1111- t i t s arrivals this nioruing, principally with o° l 'llol sale of which was dull, at Monday's pried.'•, msll fine Wheat supported its price. Barley all" /00 was dull. In other hinds of 'Grain there 0 alterat ion. D e • The present System o f poaching; hay bc. c° .`" D i t irl Very torniiihiblc, that without most 00 114 01 ..execution of the offenders tmtkes r i„, x , DO s : o w svcitl have the euurege to pr ,tact Lis ut. fter . ' 'POW, late criminal eutaptise of nnotiaparte. We were eonvineeathat the tranquillity oUEurope was irtse paraLle from the consolidation of the oraer of things in France. founded on th e mainteoloce of the royal autholity ana the c ons titutional act awl if this opi 0 inti required: einifirwatioo, tra found it to Our . gre:tt satist'Aetiou the.ailittnee which the Monarchs solemnly r e newed 4,it :the same day that .the treaty with te rm - i ce-was con. eluded. To the principles di , riosed in 010 e-s olemn transactions' we shall in future 'inhere, and tirwly defend them apitrst every at tact; or the ill inttntioned., 1 . . MAILS. AcutivEl) , -1 Waterfora. Dur..—TFratier, 1 Lishon, Uol ruud, 2 ilatn'alugh, I (.I.)l.tenhaviih.. 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