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fritniiiv to British interests as to make us sup pose horn office the ;freer ot •ntrigue I'., why =re not these FIN ftle Slirry nu,: (Ike, fly the Frenrli ti friendly Biiiich interest as hetore But there great cubliri. , s say. the present Measikrec lertri to .I.wohittisni 13,,ty let ine ask, is it nut considered as rank Jacohinism for one govern• men( 10 interfere in the domestic coneeroi of all. OVVI ? and who eso dOhbt the tripotage of the All.cs at Aix-la-Chapelle, respecting the internal efFai s of France ? how often was nn: Bunnaparte a h,,sed, nod very justly too, for intertering in the domestie concerns of other countries ? Let it be re collected that all Europe armed itself against France for her celebrated Decree of November, 1792 But can tliere be a stronger pwot of jacobinism than the abuse of the press. poured out in la vishly upon those GoVerinnents with whom %ve nue at peace, for the purpose of exciting disaf fection in the people , of France aeainit their le gitimate Sovereign. Yet we find Lotolon Pa• pers, knoksri to he connected with Government, that posh their abuse to the very utmost, and, mil‘ or Atille the CkiWtt of the f u rious Ultras. g o ‘o very fir is to preach np civil war ; thoot4h, On the sl.oitest intirnalon front a lerk soy of on,- Ministers, they woold lower 'heir toot-, aod Cer“e at once the venal virulence rtt thie,l lOVeCriireS. Blloiliparte was much blamed, and. jusly so. for causing by force an article ags:ll ,, its to he inserted in the I-btu:burgh rorrcs pondenten, during the peace of Amiens. lie has been nkevvvic Cetl.oir4,ll for ki!lovring, me to esta.. 1111-11 The Argus Nrwip,iper a! Paris, as one re- Veting o i ,tir Government at the time.—LNn ar , i, 1e I ever wr o te while i hail the management of that Paper, the first forty-nine Numbers being all that 1 had ever and concern with, was half so 'trout against our Government as what we read in some of our daily and weekly publications ]- 3F however, Bonin:Tarte was so much to blame ist allowing sin English Paper to be edited in Paris, ediy does out Gwernment tio , r allow French and Spaniards in this capital to attack their own Go vernments, in publications of evet v kind I%—io say nothing svf our own Journalists, tvtinse railings at all partie, exceed all tit - e hounds of moderation; and wilat aPer 411 makes their plea quite ridicu lous, confet»ptible, and inconsistent, is, that they abuse the French Government, which they ac- I( , ("Vird;.', , a legitimate one, and hold op that of black negro rebel. ('htistophe, and a Bernadotte, a, ;he. .Foul t also that of a Bolivar, and other Spa nish Insurgent Chi-ts, were they not paid o ivtite o:het-wise ? And here I most observe, en peasant. that it very ill becomes an English Journalist to encourage the revival of Feudal su,, and to urge ou the Ulnas, by their declamations, to act over attain the murderous scenes of St. Rat tholomew's Day. Indeed it is difficult to s.iy whether the Op-position or Ministerial Papers injure most our Government in the opinion of foreigners. The firsi tr a duce i t a s a to ,,st weak and wretched one, devoid of all honour, good faith, and capacity ; the latter, while on the contrary they pursue with undeviating praise all its measures and are always most hoist) in their encomiums out that which public censure is most likely to fix upon, defend at the same time nll despotic Governments, en courage the revival of' the gothic and barbarous feudal rights—and th , l3. avowing themselves the wrizatis of the Ultras, stimulate them in their )Wad and murderous ravings Tolreturn to the subject of jacohin principles and their dangerous tendency: I repeat it, we should he blarnele,s ourselves on that score, on which we yew ore to blame others. Now I must ask what is jaeobinism ? It it cons;sts in the act of appropriating to one's self what belongs to an other, then I maintain that the Sovereigns of Eli rope are the very rankest jacobins in existence,— jacohini , m, indeed, seems only to have bartered its rags and bonnet rouge for the sparkling crown and the regal purple. What right had the Emperor Alexander to Fin land ? What claim has Portugal to Monte Video? What Prussia to Hanover and Swedish I'ointra ttia Ask the Poles, the Genoese, the Venetians, Itigusians, Norwegians, &c. who, in the sense mentirmerf, ore the jacobins of the day ? his truth may sound harsh in royal ears ; but they most even put lip with it, and with much more of the saute kind, ere I have fairly concluded the subject with them. IVe made the French give up the four horses which they bad taken R! Ve nice, whilst the Emperor of Austria took the city Let us then hear no more of Jaeobinism, when the only goestion is that of maintaining the peace of a countly by securing to its inhabitants their actual rights, as acknowledged by all the Powers in Europe ; of preventing the predatory and san guitiary designs of a furious and disappointed p,rty rroni being realized ; and old gothic bar bar sin, .with all its unjustly claimed feudal pre rogative- and odious distinction, from being re- stored. To conclude. France has an indisputable right to consult, in the laws she makes, ber best satety and weltare. It belongs not to others to interfere , ri ills her in her own concerns, or to dictate f4r her iv hat line of conduct she is to pursue. The Allies themselves have guaranteed her Charter ; and Britain, more than any other nation, is pledged to preserve it for her ;—Britain, the na tion of all others the tnost detested by the Ultras, who, persi , t in laying their revolution to ber account. It were, besides, for the pat tieular in terest of Btitain to have Representative Govern ments established all over the Continent. His tory spews how ruinous to our niterest anti M ilne, ce abroad must prove the family alliances of despotic Sovereigns ; who, in all their quarrels wilt us, never tail to draw in those united to the in by the ties of kindred and family com pact, and to torn all the strength of their respec tive states and kintzdoms against 113 on every emergency. Hence arose the decided and well gt outwit' , aversion of Mirabeau to the renewal of the I:, Indy Compact, when Spain was on the eve of a ‘v , r with Engidutl, in 1790, respecting NOOtk _ . . The scit•uce of Government, as it is called, is row miiversnily known to almost every one. It G.vviotmuts shew incapacity, as they have lately duo , they will he laughtd out, or bowed out of then seats. 'I hey are indeed rather expensive vosumodi. its . 5 and it is therefore expected they sLoultl perform their duty accordingly. The civi- • lized world has been at war for these twenty-five years past. Those who commenced it, for Pio: ropose of preventing France having a free Con-' stir ntion, have been foiled, for France has ob tained that which she svg s desirous of at the com mencement of the R e volution, anti instead of ex erminating Jacobinism, most of the Continen at Sovereigns are themselves become Jacobins. But it is to be hoped that those who opposed F rance at that period,tv ill not, either directly or indirectly, interfere in her internal concerns, which may lead to conetittences which the so-called Alli-d Go vernments are not able to li.resee. re.aee and se curity is all that the people of Europe rt quire, and woe to those who disturb it. The following lines, although coming from an enemy to man and to liberty, are so very just, that I hope they may produce a good eflcct on the minds of those who are endeavouring to disturb the nanunillity of Europe.:-- " As to the Liberty of the Press, is a country at liberty to speak of a nati , n, friendly, and newly reconciled, in a manner which they thirst net speak of a Government against whom they were prosecuting a 'deadly war? Is not one nation re sp,usiloh• to another nation for all the' acts, and all the con duct of it, citizens ? do not Acts of Parliament even prohibit allied vi..verninents, or their Ambassadors, from being in sulted?" —(iluititeur, ;lug. 9, 1802.) V. 10,e, Tohl, 121. I2s. 34.—Anti t third for a debt of 0 Cd. fur cotton hinds. Costs, 91. 3.r. 3d., Prison Fees, 155.; Total, 141. 9d. The Report observes, " These iustancet will suffice as a specimen of a multitude which could he addtteed. The circumstances of these womdn, which point them out as of the industrious class; the articles for which they became indebted, obviously ab•olute necessa ries; and the trifling amount of Weir respective failures to wards their Creditors; must indicate how nnequitably so dreadful a severity attached upon them.—There are many local jurisdictions for the decision of small dehts; several of them, no doubt, may work well. The plans have been good in theory; some have been useful as long as the disinterested zeal of the promoters continued to control the proceedings' but their powers have been perverted when those persons no longer existed to regulate the application. Others, there is reason to fear, may have from the outset been projects of interested men, to secure to themselves a lucrative practice; and it is needless to say what would soon be the operation of a jurisdiction framed in that view. Perhaps it might not be impracticable, by a selection of the best provisions of some of those Local Acts, with proper guards against abuse, to frame a general and useful system fur the buntdiate determination of such minor claims." The great respect which is justly entertained for the opinions of the late Lord ELLesaortouon induces me to notice, that upon the introduction of a local Rill for recovering small debts, his Lordship observed, in the House. of Peers, that " considerable mischief resulted from the number " of Bills passed for erecting Coarts for the Re " coeery of small Debts, where, iiostead of cheap " justice, cheap injustice was dispeused. It would "be infinitely. preferable to legislate in this " respect upon some general principle which " should apply to the whole kingdom." Some such general measure is cleat ly desirable, and would be productive of. the must salutary effects. Vexatious proceedings for minor debts, in the Superior Courts, would no longer harass the parties with excessive costs. nor %rould those Courts be interrupted, or crowded, as heretofore, with numberless insignifi-ant causes; and wIll•st the Judges and Counsel, with the public in ge neral, shall approve of this reform in the admini stration of justice, it will only be Objected to by low It etainers of the legal Profession, who profit by injurious litigation, and who are too few and contemptible to have a voice in any question of public mud general interest. Tvrarle. W. R. M--N. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed on Saturdnq Ni;Vit. THEATRE Roynt., DatrnY-LaNg.—(rst time), Hononr r Prin cipal Characters by Mr. H. Kent!)le and Mts. W. West. Atter ‘‘ltich (Mb time), Abudah. Torwrar. 11trv,sL. COVENT-GARDEN.—(Ist time), The Heart of Mid-Lothian: George Robertson, Mr.Macready. NlFldge Wildfire, Nits. C. Kemblc. Atter which, The Deaf Lover. To connESPCINDENTs. BRITANNICLIS A Letter PEEP INTo Firruitiry—and ArroßNArtts, To. morrow. PRICE err :-.I.trCKS TUTS rmv AT rWELV V o CLOCK. _ _ .... , ..... .. 3 pet Cent.. Bed, 74 i 74 Rant, 1,,,na Ann, 18 I+i-l1 19 3 per Cent. Cons. 'Nail India Stock ... 221 3 1 . per Pen t MI India Bonds, :Iti 384. pr. 4 per Cents .... ...901 Exch. Bills. 2d......35. ss. pr. 6 per Ct. N. Ann 1051 10411 I Cons. for May.........720i MAILS. Allures!li-2 Dublin, 2 Waterford, 1 Flanders, 1 Fißtice, 1 Lisbon. DIPE-1 Waterford. I Guernsey and Jeisci, 1 1 Sweden, 1 iLiniburgh, I lioliand. HIGH WA'T'ER AT LON ituN BRIDGE TO. Roar,(?. Morning, 4-i minutes after 10.—Ereaing, I 1 annittes zifl , l' I I. FOR THE SUN. RECOVERY OF SMALL DEBTS. MR. Eorroa—Folly admitting the necessity which you sate for establishing some new and distinct jurisdiction for the more sperdy Recovery of Smull Debts, I crave pertui•sion, as a practical Lawyer, to offer a few suggestions and remarks in support of my opinions on the subject. It has often occurred to me, that the grievous charges attendant on Late proceedings tall much too heavily on Suitors arid Defendants in actions for the recovery of small Sums, and I have long felt a'conviction, that it would be consistent with justice and economy to establish provisions for aiding ,the Plaintiff anti relieving the Defendant against the borthen of costs, which, for minor claims, always exceed the amount sued tor, if the proceedings are conducted in any of his Ma jesty's Courts at Westminster It has too often occurred, that when Attornies have been resorted to for the recovery of Debts, however small, they have encouraged suits in the Superior Conris, and the parties to those suits have,been subjected to legal charges and demands beyond any expect a ' tion which they had tonne(' %viten the suits were commenced. The impressioe of my mind is, that some general Legislative me;isioe should be esta blished tart, o 4 hoot the kingdoms for the speedy Recovery of Small Debts at a trifling expense. The present practice of arrest on Mesne Process being limited to Debts for 151. and toowards, or 10/ on notes and bills, I would submit that ail minor claims should be referred to a specific tri bunal for sionmary decision, and that the Credi tor should be restrained front pr,ceeding in any other mode for the recovery of such minor claims ; for if the electron be left to the Creditor, he will too frequently be induced to pursue that course which is most expensive, and whereby the defen dant may be hurthen with costs ; and the inabi lity of the Defendant to pay them will compel sob miision to imprisonment, which is okays inju rious to both Creditor and Debtor. The various Courts of Reepo sts locally establish ed for the recov , ty sit small debts, the County Courts for the like purpose, and the fit isdiction of the Marshalsea Court or King's Pal.ace, have not produced the beneficial effects which their ori ginal intention aimed at. The powers have been eithei abused or unequal to their object ; and it cannot be hoped that good results trill always arise where'it is possible that aboses 11l 4 prevail. And when it is considered that 30 or 401. may at tend the progress of a snit for recovering 405., it is t• vidently desit able that some legislative pro vision !boob! guard against the possibility of such a grievance. The Courts of Requests, or Cowts of Con science (as they are called), give a Creditor the power of imprisonment over his Debtor for as many dayi as the latter owes shillings, its cases to the amount of 51. ; so that if a Debter is taken in execution for that sum, he is detained 100 days, at the expiration of which, he cannot avail himself of the insolvent Act, because mot confined upon one suit a sufficient period to take the be nefit of that Statute. He is moreover liable to be taken in execution by another Creditor for a similar sum, and to remain another 100 days. And if be has several other Creditors for small slims who pursue the like course, and Charge him successively and alternately in execution for each debt, he may be many months in prison without hopes of relief till he has meted out the number of days, according to the amount of the several and respective debts. Such a case occurred re cently at Croydon, and my visit to the Debtor confined there, enabled rue to obtain .personally from him the facts on which these Otisei vistionS are founded. The proceedings in the Marshalsea Court uni formly produce at' expellee equal to and often ex ceeding the amount of the debt sued for, if miller 15/. ; and although it may be a public conve nience to have access to such a Court in the va cation, when the other Courts are shut, that af fords no argument for a! Inching costs wholly disproportionate to the amount of debts stied for : a more limited jurisdiction therefore seems desirable. It is in evidence, that in cases of Debt sued for in ditfetent Courts, having general and separate jurisdictions, the Costs frequently excee:l the amount of such Debt. The following cases are selected front that most important document, the Lords' Committees' Report on Imprisonment for Cinil Debt Debt, 231.; Costs, 291.—Debt, 29/4 Costs, 471. Bs. These two cases are given with reference to the Superior Courts. — The following apply to minor cases:—Debt, la; Costs, 15/. ss.—Debt, 131.; Costs, 161. The following are also in direct evidence of the necessity of some effectual cliange iu the system of suing for small debts:--A widow, 65 years of age, owed 7s. for linen goods, and was imprisoned. The Costs were 9!. tss. llrl., atilt Prison Fees, 1/. 155.; Total, 11/.175. I ld.—Another widow, aged 56, was imprisoned for a debt of 7e. 4d. fur flour. Costs, 01.135. lid., rczs,„, TI-1E SUN. - --- lOLEM QLYIs PICERE FALit , M AUDEAT ? LONDON , MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1819. We receive►l yesterday the Paris Papers of Thursday last. Those of Friday, which were due this morning, have not arrived. Iu the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday, the discussion was opened on the Projet respect ing the Offences of the Press. M. 'AISNE? DE VILLEVESQUR, who was the first speaker inscribed to speak against the Projet, did not oppose the principle of it, but objected r.. the vague definitions given of the different species of offences described in several of the articles, and particularly to the discretionary jurisdiction given to the Correctional Police. 14ie proposed, there fore, a variety of amendments. M. CHABRON DE SOLILHAC supported the Projet, as tending to re press the, licentiousness of the press, whilst it afforded s►►fficient freedom of discusSion ; but he re gretted that there should be no article consecrated to religion, particularly in a document commenciug with Louis by time Grace, of God, and proposed an amendment with reference to this point to punish any attack upon the religion of the State, or upon any other mode of worship. M. BrtNi.onts CONSTANT observed, that this w►as at least the twentieth projet with regard to the liberty of the press, which had been discussed within 30 years. He proceeded, thoupb inscribed to speak against the Projet, to express his approbation of its principle ; but he objected to the wording of a number of the articles,and his speech, which was of great length, consisted entirely of an examination of the Projet, article by article, in many of which he suggested amendtmnts,upu the adoption or relection of which it depended whe ther he should ultimately support or oppose, the Projet. •I‘l. JACQUINOT BE PpbaireorN Also fing • Bested a number of amendments, ‘Nhich, in order that they might be hilly understood, he bad caused to be printed and distributed to the Mem bers., and he merely ;Ascended the Tribune to refer to his primed Stgoll'lLlt. M. 13ENJAMIN CONSTA had not hit upon the expemen, having his amendments ready printed, and the PRESIDENT observed upon the necessity of ha" ing them printed, and of time being given for their tonsideration. The list of speakers inscribed being exhausted, several Niembers called for the closing of the discussion ; but it appearing thBt two speakers were inscribed, %silo, from being st" sent, had not had their turn in the Tribune, was at length agreed to adjourn the discussion OIL Thursday. would appear that there is veil little desire or inclination in the Cham ber -to (65' cuss this l'rojet, there being fewer speakers scribed to speak upon it than upon almost s°l, other question that has been made a subject or• deliberation. • The Journal du Commerce of Thur sda y has the following paragraph ;—" A private lettr frogs Bordeaux announces the arrest of two or thre6 individuals. It is said that these persons al : charged with private enlistments, and diitributiOs, pretended brevets, bearing the date of 1815." 'The RusSian Students in the German Uoi4ers.7 ties are stated to have all received ord ers to,: "I I II them, and pi oceed to finish their studies eithci France, the Netherland , , or Switzerland. FIVR PER CENTS. Wednesday f. 2y c. DEFERRED STOCK. Of the 42(1 March, 1817, B4 r. s 5 c• 3. ? (1 Sept. 1817, 22.1 March, 1818; BO f. 95 c. 22d Sept. 1818, 22d March, 1819, 77 1 .. ...... 6. , . EXCHANGE ON LONDoN• One Month • 3f.65 C. Three out h 5......•23 1 . 4;4e. 05TCND, APRIL 17.—Yie Packet TI OW 1116 Con te )ads conveys to -England livoNArtorss ftvrrs lessor, Physician, and Look, just a rrived Rome. About 7' P. M., yestetdny, we had a 5" : 11, den squall of wind trout the West, attenied thunder and lightning. Tiilg . We have this day taken an article from 511ani" in orde r to a n' - a t ß h n e rr i t u s: p i a N t r als r i 7 i ß e t o fb)y which our Jo urnal is .e terdAy, to Abu se °: mated, We arc as much adverse other Governments as the Conductor o f tli fi- P4Prr can be, nor are we at all offen ° ded at censure which he passes on us in a nother part his Paper, for our remat ks on the danger I": %soul,' probably attend an unroof Willed Freed"n7 hi'" of the Press in France. We ogree also, in condemning the indecency 8 3 Well 83 ill' also, justice with which the London J o urnals in ge"e° rat attack the Governments of other countries.--' But France stands in a peculiar situation. was the immediate source of those princi'lci: which have shaken every mdod i e fabr i c on ea r " -P and she retains her bosom no sto/11):: Lion of the same destructive ;natter. if principles have not only overtanetl of thwnrs, and weakened the foundati"°. ,10 all, rn but have actually unsettled tb e of the lower models of peo !,le e Country. We have, therefore, a righ p P nrit , o 4 has every o:her Country, to t0...k disgust on every change of Government lest it should be actuated by the cool kig' 5 : 1 1 ( 0)10 structive spirit of JacogiNism. we hare Sa.L much self-defence, but We are ‘ oll loa to I ",iit the Editor of THE 13111T1H MONIP'II it'll r ; to for good intentions both to this C o ntorY b 4 France, and We are also willin tx to d efer t t i:irsr a knowledge and experience in Fre"rb con' and as to the several Parties tending for pre-eminence in that Cnnn 1' 11d 004 thereby disturbing tile mind of a .vise Bbr r Kin';, who has been enlightene d, not 'currtolog the lessons which he learnediW the Sc 11( V t ott% Adversity, and who, we doubt ”or, has re of more sincerely at heart (lon the . 07e1i5 France and the tranquillity of Europe. It i 4 ---w ...-- ~, 0/a• TuR DtP - tR ' recoveriii, A " Y°llN--The D"ke - r t. ° Royal Ili-ofei y fast nom his late ticci'llilisines; 113)111(1 ‘ 3( ': ;1. 1 1 : 11: n s To lo) R ifsnS'ai CAST LE, i:eI r l i.l'a t i lt i; i l L 3. 1 11 7 %: :— 51 1 1: : :: °113.1":411?:()31:1::4C- :ere : he ,i , '''"" is enAlett to alien(' I° sa!) 1114 Duke of York conti.ues to recover, farooial); e 'b"esi• tto ,-..0F,G01t• ~ p. NIACu-- 55 tbe Doke WINDsoR cAsTLE, Aeillul6.--His Royal fiig"e- 0,,,4 .' of I.elis• hal rr.sted comfortably chitin; the rilglit' or is better thi• 111°1.111,1g. ......--...0.1.;...-- - The l'iumcs REGF.NT is "elx);t:cl:lCetl°ltt:G'reitkturls trom lit ighton about the middle of next " e i e i i . bf The PRINK'S 11FGRNT'S •ACI4t, Collittlan(lV- ,ti the Flon. CtIARLEs I'AGrT,) we turtle, ' b*efs be ready for the reception of his RoVti l 1.1"-)1 if ' about the'llii,ldle of neXt mriotti. It is Cottfideleg ly expected that the itt,:G6NT will honour C''tc,,,' with a visit this seas,ol, it beiTn: the It":lSglii tern of tbe 'Yacht Cloh. of w i'rb his Rol , "."' ness is patron. —(flompsl ire l'elegraph.) Out Satorihy Ci,sint t'ALMe.L.LA, the - ° ir F' ell: ti'lese Acohass;idor. set 0:1t front bii residepet" e South Andley street 'for Paris. It ig ' 1111)(7 :0 # hat his Excc-lieliev i. , , goina ih;ther on flo ffit 4 W' . O litical business, sg it iS I eported that tbe •-•- „pe s ,feign of PORTUGAL. is about tu re turn to Eitlr- t ' u 111