The Sun. — London, England, 1816-04-25 00:00:00

TRENCH PAPERS,. (REtEIVED THIS MORNING.) rUtV4, APRIL 22.—Workmen have been em ployed for some days in constructing the found►i tion of the mon►►ment which is to he erected to the n►emory of Louis XVI. on the Place dt Vi et oires Registers have been opened for some, days at Nantes, in oilier to give an opportunity to all classes, by putting tlieir signature, to express the Mirror they feel At the events of the list of Sa nitary, and their respect for Louis the Martyr.— The fiat and second-companies of the Ist hatta , lion of the National Guard were there yesterday. • Pwreasuutton, MAttott 27.—The Prince and Princess Royal of orange will leave this capital op the Ist of June for Berlin ; from whence they continue their route by Frankfort to the Low Countries. , FIIANKPORT, Aram 17.--Count Cottorp has 144 t Angsburg for Leipsic. RomE, APRIL {O.—Otir ; a.,a.rs with France are concluded. IVe are assured, Ihat if any Religions Orders are established in that kingdom it is %shit essential modifications on several points, and such as must prevent every one (rain doubting their utility. BASE}?, APRTL 10.—On the evening of the sth R horrible design was discovered of setting fire to the hospital of this town. Matches and other combustibles were already disposed for the execu tion of this horrible attempt. FLANDERS MAIL (RECEIVPM THIS MORNING.) BRUSBILII, APRIL 20.—The Duke of Welling ton arrived yesterday in this city, coming from liiy head-quarters at Cambray: The Noble Lord put up at the Hotel de Belle Vue, and depArted tgaio at seven o'clock in the evening to proceed to the Hague. His Lank!tip's carriage, drawn 11‘, , six horses, was follc►ued by only one coach and four, travelling with the greatest !paste. They write from MuMansell as follows : " Our police has received great reinforcements ; this measure has appeared necessary to prevent troubles. We are afters witnesses of disagreeable events, but they are attended with no cottseouences. The armed force begins by inflicting the bastenado on the seditious, who are then delivered up to the civil authorities. The Austrian garrison occupies the buildings of an abandoned manufactory." BaussrLs, Aram 21,—The Duke of Welling ton, after a very short stay at the Hague, will embark in gone port of Holland to go to Eng land. It is affirmed that he will return to France immediately after the marriage.of the Princess Charlotte. All the Officers of the Staff who ac companied his Grace to Cambray have remained there. WHICH, APRIL 6.—flavarian Commissioners are gone to Salzburg, to deliver up that city as well as the Innviertel, to Austria. The Prince Royal of BAvaria, who had fixed his residence at Sahzburg, will now reside at Aschaffenburg, to which place his effects have just been removed. MtLAN, APRIL 7.—They say that it is decided that there shall be et Venice and in the porta of ' Dalmatia a squadron of 10 frigates, 20 brigs, and 50 gun-boats ; the crews will be composed of ll- lyrians, Dalmatians, anti Ragusens : they are io trepid seamen, and may become very skilful when schools are established among them to teach the the , ,ry of navigation. FRANKFORT, Aram 17.—According to the ar rangement concluded between Austria and Ba varia, the Court of Munich is to take possession, on the Ist of May next t of that part of the left bank of the Rhine which belongs to Austria, and the Bavarian troops arc to take the place of the Austrian garrison in the fortress or Landau. Rhenish Mercury : his Majesty has Also acquainted me that - his Ministry are at present busy upon Law with regard to the Freedom of tl►e Press, which at, for the future, reconcile the jarring claims of' ptiblic opinion, and the. welfare of the State ; and, while he expresses his disapprobation of the licence which has been hitherto exercised, he has made it my otpress ditty, in the mean time especially, to keep in check the .newspapers and journals. 1 have therefore to request, that the Censors in your respective districts will double their vigilance over all gazettes and political jour nals which appear tl►ere, so that no passaggl may appear in which injurions atta'•ks are math: on any foreign . Government, or incoMpeten: criti cisms on the transactions of our own, Or upon circumstances of our Own political economy, or our external relations." Frans, 1 Flanders, 1 Guernsey and Jersey, 1 Dublin, 2 Waterford. Du —1 Lisbon, I flulland, 1 Gottenlwrgh, Sr.l l ‘l.4ith.—nolitlay at the ISimh, Exchequer, East India and South Sea Houses. Hir;!! wATER Al' LONDON BRIDGE 'l'o-MOTIROW. Morning, 43 minutes after 1. I Evening', 3 rninntei after Q.. HAMBMIGHPAPERS. STOCICITOLU, APRIL. 8 —The last half of the dotations which were granted to the Officers who served in the Swedish army under the orders of the Crown Prince, in the Swedish campaigns of 181:3 and 1814 has been now paid out to them. _Lich Major receives 2000 rix-dollars bane(); the Lieutenant-Colonel, 6000 ; the Adjutant (l6neral, 10,000 ; the Major-General, 12,000 ; the LiNtenant-Generali, 20,000 ; and the Field- Marshals and Generals in Chief 60,000. 10ita RHINE, APRIL 14.—The - following was the Low which Counsellor Sack, COO Presi dolt of the Prussian Provinces on the Rhine, wrote to the Superior Officers of his Government, on the occasion of the suppression of the Rhenish jilercury. It is of some interest, as disclosing the r i e .ws of the Prussian Government rehttive to the ot the Press :—" His Moje!ty the King by his Cabinet Order of the 3d of January, tc, prohibit the coutiiiiiaact of the The Paris Papers of Monday arrivv4 this tnorn lug, but as the trial in which the British Public are so much interested, only tonic place on that day, the report could not he published until the fol lowing. These Journals contain no news. From Brussels Papers it appears that the Doke tit IVP,L.LI NGTWNT haft passed timengh that city, and may be immediately expected in England. , We All4ll rejoice to see the marriage ceremony of oar Princess graced by the presence of the first of Heroes. There is also home German intelligence, but it is of inferior importance. Not having it in our power to forget that Sir H. WiLsots and his Companions are onr Gaon-' tryoten, it is with great paid that we advert to the eircumrtanees in which they have placed themselves. We wish that our public ditty did not impose upon us the task of mingling in the controver3y into which nu► brother Journalists have entered on the lUbject, and could ha , c been well contented to have incurred the ceuisure of say ing nothing rather than of declaring the unfavour able opinion we entertain of the conthmt of these pule*. But there, are such a , ,sumptions made, doctrines subversive of every just principle are so boldly advanced, and misrepreseotations and dan gerous sophisms are so industriously propagated, that our disgust gets the better of our disinclina tion to the topic, and we are almost forced to break silence. Heavy complaints are urged against the mode of administering the French laws by previous In terrogatory, tending to the inculpation of the ac cused out of their awn, mounts. It is certainly different from therrractice at this Country, and in our judgment no improvement upon it ; but, whether riglst or wrong, it has little to do with the question at issue, which resolves itself in to this simple liroposition---t bat offenders in any foreign country have no just ground of grievance if they are tried aecording to the law of that country whatever the code may he, and however dissimilar to (heir own.. It an English man were to visit Turkey, and expose bialself to the Vengeance of the Grand Seignior, by looking into his Haram, it would he but a miserable de fence ag ainst the application of the'botv-string, were he to assert, that it was most despotic strangle him for peeping at a fair Circassian. The laws of England truly would not sanction the punishment, but the customs of Turkey would, and the nufortunate wretch die justly, though he " Quoted Paffe . afloat' and Grottos, And froin Vattel proved very well, Such a deed would be quite ittivciouc"' Assuming, therefore, that a man is hound to sub mit to the law (Attie land wherein he transgresses (as Frenchman would he hanged for forgery or horse-stealing in England, which be would not be in France), the case of Sir R. Wit.soN and his associates is entirely divested of all the cha racter of orpressi veness which has been attempted to be fixed upon their Prosecntors. It stands up on its own merits and demerits, and so viewed, what does it exhibit ? an outrageous conspiracy, full of intrigue and falsehood ; individual opinions set up-on public matte's, in contradiction to the declared inter;retation of the Governments con cerned ; and combined action giving effect to the opiuiJus, in direct opposition to the will of nil legal anthority. Persom may talk of the right of Speech as they please, but when they are found illustrating the dogmas they spread by plots d contrivances, forging false news to prevent the restoration of tranquility, and assisting convicted Traitors to escape from justice, is it surprizing that those affected by these machinations, should 'consider them as dangerous criminals, and endea , your to convict and punish aem. On reading the Examinations of Sir.R• WILSON and his letter to burl GREY, one cannot help being struck with the great dissonance of tone. In the former he is all the bold, manly, straight forward Briton—scorning dissimulation; indignant at the idea of uttering an untruth, and, in a word, the sol di►'r and man of honour. tlrhat is he in the latter ? The conspirator, trembling with apprehension at every random expression that seems to touch at his mystery, ready with the subterfuge: to avo►d suspicion, and with the falsehood to serve the purpose in hand. To speak plainly, lie succeeds tss he--fir C. STUART is deceived by an untruth to grant passports—the most running untruth is coined on the moment to divert the dreaded dis c►►very of the tailor—every bat rier and examina tion is surmounted by the deliberate utterance of prepared falsehood, and yet those who resort to them are— " All, all honourable men"— presuming to assert that they speak the senti ments of the British people, to -adopt the high tone of insulted integrity rind virtue, to claim the privileges of innocence and nnstained reputation ! But is this the worst of their course ? Would to Heaven it were, and that we could say for them,. "urged by butnanity they engaged.in a mad attempt, and stopped so far short of atrocious guilt, as to be only morally culpable in having accomplished their object by the sacrifice of truth." It is in vain we hope to do this. We see the most sacred principles trampled. upon, the most imperative (1,041 despised. Look at the cold-hearted treat ment of .the Aid-du-camp, who truly declared that hik existence was at strike and in their hands. • A noble and ingenuous British Officer was sacrificed, with scarcely a qualm of conscience,• to the es cape of a French traitor. A man, with all the claims of reposed confidence and of country, was yielded up to destruction for a man recommended to consideration by nothing bat his crimes and their just sentence.. Nor did these newfangled philanthropists stop here.- As if to afford a further proof, that- things begun in ill make good - themselves ift ill, we see: them at Corn , peigne arming themselves, to add, if neces sary, murder to complete the catalogue of their misdeeds, and in the cause of a convict have upon their heads the blood of any.who, in the discharge of their duty, might impede the purpose of conspiracy. " This is a sorry sight.". Our hearts revolt at the picture of Britons so em ployed—so deeply involved in all the horrid con sequences of guilt. When a Government, in times of financial dif ficulty, is trot only evidently disposed to consider what retrenchments in the expenditure oh the country can properly be made, but is actively em ployed in carrying them into effect, we think it but fair and just that they should be left to pursue their own course, without any direct interference on the part of either branch of the Legislature. That economy is at all times right, and under present circumstances necessary, we most readily admit ; but we deprecate the extravagant lengths to which some persons, instigated by tarty mu- Lives, and desirous of keeping up a clamour for which there is no foundation, would wish to ex tend it. Those who, from the most honourable motives, would carry the prnning knife into all departments, and especially into our Military Establishments, with so rigorous and unsparing a hand, seem to act under an impression that the Peacel acquired by the energies of the country, the valotir of our arms, and the wisdom of our councils, was to last for ever,—totally forgetful of the extraordinary vicissitudes ire human affairs, as tecorded in the eventful page of history. Of the durability of the present Peace we see no reason to entertain any doubt ; but we have not / • forgot that in the year 1792 the prospects were at least as flattering, which induced the great Mi ni'Ster of that day to reduce our Establishments to so low an ebb ; end that in six months we were forced into a war with that very Power, whose internal state of disunion and distraction seemed to guarantee the security of her neigh bours against any molestation or aggression on her part. lino, not only our military operations were conseqtiently crippled for the first two or three years of that war, but an increase of ex pellee was in the end entailed upon the country, iu re-forming and replacing our Military and Naval Establishments. That reduction, therefore, how ever wisely conceived, proved injurios Doak I ways ; and that precedent should surely aki present to us a lesson of caution. _ Most deliberately we give it as our °pimp' that reduction in what may properly be celled tl diSposable force of the country has, been cart+ as,far as is consistent with freedom, and en with safety, and as the elevated position that v hold in the scale' of Nations will admit of., we would maintain that greatn ess which we hit acquired, and preserve that influence over r l reign Councils, which has produced such bent cial results, and on which the future tranquilli of Europe, and of course of Great 'Britain, ! essentially depends, we must st ill keep up, ) certain degree, that imposing aspect, to be ti rived from strength alone, which is calculate command it. In this view, we doubt Olga, this important subject has received all the t l O l sion that it would bear, and to which We In' perhaps revert. At present we shall coriOnenl observations to the state of our domestic fore namely, the Militia, Local MAitia, and Yeotasn Establishments. With respect to the first of these , we °di stand, from good authority, that it, does n °/ present consist of more than 20,000 men, of that recourse will probably be had to a helin t b ciilici o : ls y fore the end of the year to comp lete it to establishment. We sincerely hope that t his ett so taken, w hen t s avoided expense i and inconveniencetinle f . tear, ‘v iilb . c t a i country will be comparatively inconsiderablit Add to this, that as we learn that a Bill is be brought in to suspend the ballot for them t ef i ri a )yr , eg t e Milil l i e t t t va; r ti r it t y i b in t e h r e s o c o f t t i l r i s e c t b o l t. . ant ofhe o present ilril sire he reduced, the greater part of present men having nearly reached their 0 0 period of four years. We have also heard 101!.1 is not in contemplation to incur the exPO. calling out the Militia for training this yelif!/' which a considerable saving would be Metle.;: When we speak of the Local M ilitia Bii# o.i! ment, we seize the occasion of pronounciaxtl , admirable Institution, for wh ich the Coontl H indebted to Lord CASTLEREAG, as one whic h . alone rendered Great Britain absolutely I° rable. With this feeling, we should haven! regretted that the spirit of economy had beett! plied to this force, for the present at least,.!!! its principle had been judiciously preserved tpwaceirn.rbei entitled : t i h mt l e eady o nflitonctetaris; l br a e n n di:haalarserogoet e f t 10: Ou e r ti11..01 e hal/ 1 7 vantage which this description of forc he ian ca ter ll l i t ! tranq►►illity, t i f t a a i t s a m a f l t i l o y c r h t i t a n h s i e e t I P f e f t o e L s r e o r t r v i d i a e L l t p : e p f ::: ►n out internal disturbance, either in their 011161 an adjoining one, without even waiting for 1%3 o . r , With ebe front the Executive Government. tin this is not the case. be i t i n s:v a i t n le g i ' n o t f he ne y ar e l o y n o ia n n e ry half the expellee the annual allowances from 4C:vtoall 2 ) p b e Y r re n" lal'i" tVe see - no reason whatever why this ilitgrjt a s a ilisc shotildmperate in the smallest deg ree r agem e nt to that invaluabl e p art of our (Inine 1311' ' strength, which we should exc eedingly AS Lord PALMRASToN, when introducing his b ti e tn e a n t l e i s e , d ii: ) f o o t rm fo e r d tr tt a r i e ni t n i g ou t s h e is tha y t ee t t h , ey s :::: required number of days for the ir assembling° a view to exemptions, is to be red uced from l"" to five. For this alteration, we umlerstOoll 4 INGTON to have given nofice, that lie 4 bring in a Bill ; who on the same occasioll stowed on those highly estimabl e Corps the W Ann deserved panegyric— " T anc hat there had not been one singl e inste iln c ' t t estalilishateut of their having failed to chew oily in obeying the call of the MagiStraiS in no' Pa" kingdom; of not one, in which they had Oa Ven call ! I successful in quelling any commoti on which the called upon to suppress; not one , in which they 113 J, i f bluoti execution of their duty, shed a drop of the y Countrymen." We have thus shewn, that in ' a ll the br3'lt of our domestic Military Establishment, at ► siderable diminution of espcnce eithe r "9 ), or is on the point of being made, unsolicited Cr ong in or out of Parliament. We hope ere re sume this subject on more general groan"' t y fi e l s e te a rd e a c y nunt of this day - 4.....:—.....,....- - 1 3 04 s_tiltes, that the Earl of Lorancont, 'is latlet.l, E'. The complaint which his con fi ned bis,lL,'` ship was a severe rheuntatiC affection in Oct.!: horseback. Lord t ! —ASTLERRAGH came to town yester( from ' his seat in Kent. from Coom I the retsce REURN't -rade OU tit_!rincess CHARLOTTE Of WALEs W ill C 4 to IVarwick House hext lionday. The 01 remains fixed for Thursday. . , ,I? t -1-430 y ELLENBOHoUGII, who has ueen soro-0 ill the most RIM Wing state. much better tt3 to reVive at: I,u acs 0% a l. 4 0d friends. , The Theatres thr ou g hout the , A(01139 (1‘ c Iti pious Wilt be sh ut for Wine WeCIC) Q' t a Li the death vi the iimpreil. THE SUN. 401,EN1 Ir leha 1 , 140 , %1 AMIKAT? LONDON, THURSDAY „4PRIL 25, 1816.