The Sun. — London, England, 1816-05-09 00:00:00

bucErvEn THIS MOnICING.I PARTS, IVAr S.—One,of those happy speeches, ?veompaniOd at the same time yvith that goodness and delicacy which so touch distinF'uish the an swers of his Majesty, is related of him upon the following occasion :—On the 3d inst. the Chief President, Ainnsieur Desezr, at presenting to his Alajeaty the homage of the Coact' of Cassation, telt a moment's hesitat!on, occasioned by • the onot ion which he experienced.---'' Mr, President," 'said the King to him, s' 1 ant not astonished that "s your ionve affect you on such an occa sion as this: tinder other circumstances, very unhappy and very afflicting, you did not " tremble," At earthqtialir iva . .irfelt in Norway; it %l as aC 4 COnipanivil with a greAt noise in the air. The fluarlem Gazette publishes the following !-- There has been a rumour' for some days past that the Russian corps under the command of Count Woronzow was to evacuate the towns of *Mauhenge, order to .proceed to the tlp t ,El . lthine. Roiertion is totally de void of foundation. FRANKFORT, M,17 1. According to Letters from Constantinople, lated March '26, it appears that the Foreign Mi. Miters there, .had assertibled from the IStli to the 20th of that month, and had in consequence pre it elite(' a declaration to the Divan respecting Cite touiatiisles, At the departure of the Courier no 'answer had been ret timed. It is said, that inreediately after tile arrival of the Pt ince Royal of 114varia, at Asehaffenhourg, be assiuned the title of Govornor-General of Fran conia, and that he will take Upon hirnthe admmi "stration of that circle. It is ,intended by certain arrangements to smite to the kingdom all that part wlikh has .not hiiherto constituted a pall of it. The object "of the nOsSiOn of the Bavarian ter, ,Count tsf Rechborg, at Frankfurt it looked upon as very iMportant. It will decide the teak tnrial extent of the kingdom on the north-west side, ewe re there are yet some points in litigation: The Count of Pappenheini, who went to Berlin On a mission fi otn the Court of Bavaria, relative to • the arrangements of the South of Germ:lily, hits returned, it is said, with satisfactory intelligence. The Courts of Berlin and Monich have agreed hlld the latter is conteuted ‘ ties eral journ4ls announce that the Groulpoke of Banco Ic,ts strewn the greatest discontent at the.„, pi witted t& him by the Nobility, and that he has sent it back., .Alo that several Baden Officers of superior rank, , who had signed the Address, have been 'stripped cif their comniissions i and are forbidden. to wear their uniforms. l'he city of Manheim and the Palatinate is de eitledly to remain united to the Grand airily of Widen, anti the cession of those places to Bavaria Of no longer,a quei,tion. LYONS, MAY' I.—Vie day before yesterday, the evening ) the Duke d'Havre went to the grand Theatre, 'where he was received with unanimous cries Of Vive le Rol. The audience demanded the Cantata, which was, executed immediately. At the end of the Play the Pit demanded the Orifiamme. • Gentlemecn," it was replied, " it is impossible " to grant you what you ask, for the whole Band 4. ' is at the Theatre des Celestines."—" That * 1 makes no difference, let them sing withont the, • urchestra,"—" nut, Oentlemen, the Actors do " not know the Oriliamme by heart."—" It do'nt • matter, let them come, we will assist them."- 3n effect the actors appeared with their music books in their hands, and sung with the aecom panimvnt of the Pit. The music of the orchestra might have been more pleasing to the ear, but it could not have been Wore Agreeable to the heart. COPPNIIAGEN, APRIL, 30.—Such Daniel) officers who had formerly received 'the Order of the Re -union of Holland have heen commanded no longer to wear the decoration of that Order, as it is about to be annulled. Those vitro bar the Order of the Legion of Honour must change its decorations according to the New Stratftes, anti *wait Wuil his Majesty the King of France con • thorn in quality of Members of that Order. BRUSSELS PAPERS, [113CSIVIII) THIS MOIINING.:1 MAN' 3.—The Duke of Wellington Is shortiy to visit the several Corps' of the Army of occupation ; that is, the Russian, Prnssian, Alvin ian, and Bavarian, which are canton:A in a 1 , lit Champagne, in Lorraine, and Alsace. The Duke of Wellington has deigned to accept tile dedication of the tine pieptre of Mr. Leroy, trprraenti►►g the Battle of Waterloo. When his (~rice visited the Artist, be was accompanied by alict I.lent.-1;MOINI IletVey His Eminence Cardinal Fontana has greatly contributed to get these judicial tor►nB adaptud,' and it is an esltenthil service which he 1,1(1 ren dered to humanity and to religion. It i-. Olirnieti that as soon as the new Code is fiuislied, it %I 'd! be sent to al) the Courts. NEXT TUESDAY TILE LorOgY BEGINS, WHEN EVERY TICKET DRAWN BE A PRIZE, AN L) FIRST PRIZE MAY BE a 5,3001. IHAILs• ,tnnivca---1 France, t Dui)tin, Waterford. Dvz-1 Ifarn bnrgh„ t Holland. PRICE 0; TUJi DAY AT T Battle Stock, 3 pet Cent. Red. 6O ai per ten Omit. 62if •I per Ceittg. 751 prr cm. N. Ann. 9211 !Link L.. 1011. 151 F STOCKS India Si i)ctt, 110iith, 31. pr. lON, ta . ctis . gis„ pr. (Mullin/I , ', IRI Ditto for ray -meat. ,Com, for May, 'Nal HIGH %T TER LONDON MU rKiE TO-N1()R RAW. hiorilitig t 3aminutes aft:kw 12..1 Evi.oirl4, 20 mitintel after I. THE ,BN. 11114 E:: ; ~t, N. • I, LONDON, TlitlßSl>..ll", 11141' 181 Li. Brussels Papers to the 6th, and P. 463 Pap( rs to the 7th,, a►e the foreign arrivals since our laAt publication. The 'Fortner contain an 'account of the new panacea by which the inquisition is to be rendered tolerable, if not eve►! delightful, to the nations of Europe ! The latter are very nnii►►- portant. 'rimy paint Paris, Lyons, and Prance gettehily, as eniinently loyal and happy. The Private Letter -writers dip their pencils in (Luker -colours, and speak of nothing but treasons, stra tagem%, and spoils, just, we itragine, as truly as they have done for the last six months. Some of their reports are too absurd for credulity itself.-- One of them talks of putting NAPOLEON 11. on • the throne * &c. as if there lirt; no Duke of LINGTON cud Army of, Occupation in all France Not only is . ,Turkey very obstinate on tbe sub ject of the lonian Is ; hut, we underst an d, th e differences between that Power and Itussia have'. then to all but actual hustilit lei. Yesterday acconnts reached town from Bengal to the 24th of December last. When the last ad vices came away, it ►vas generally understood that hostilities bad been renewed between the British and Nepalese troops—an event which for sonic time past has been deemed ittnyohlable. We have seen various letters from India by the "Man tic, just at rived from thence, all of which concur in stating, that the condact of the Nepalilese Co veroment had rendered it expedient for the Bri tish to augment their forces • to be prepared for ttiar; but the dates of these coat►tnuuicatinns' do not come down to co late, a period as that above mentioned, and of course are silent as to the ae. mak commencement of hostilities. A subject involvi► ► g some of the most important political and.individual considerations in the law of the land, was I4st night broached in the House of Come►ons by Mr. BAOUGIJAIC After an inge nious speeeb, setting forth the imperfection s of the exiting law of libels, the Learned Member asked for and obtained leave to bririg in a Bill, the objects of which may be briefly summed up as follows First, To abolish the distinction between written antlnt-ert libel, and oral or spolten slander; it being well tatnten that at present. words wkich were out. actiotiuble whet) spot.icti, Homi?, Mint!. 17.—roe reform in the nals of the Inquisition and "the Holy OfPee is critinning with activity, 'and will extend to all the cotor ries evherg thiS institution exists. In the briefs addrcss'ed ,by his Ho liness to the Congregation charged with the: labour, bri" . Holiness says, •‘ no not fOrget that the , way to render religion Powerful its all States is to sitew her divine, and bringing to_ Mankind only :consolation and benefits ; the precept of our Divine Master, ' Love each other,' ought to be the law of the tiniverse."—All legal proceedings in religious matters'shall be subjected to the forms of proceeding iu civil and criminal matters. Accusation, denunciation, - and inquisi. ! riot], in at titers of faith, Cannot serve to begin a legal proceeding ; it cannot be founded 'except in facts. Persons tinder a judicial sentence, the ac- . complices of the accused persons declared infamous by a Count of Justice, cannot be heard as witnesses. All persons ] of whatever theological communion they may he, shall be admitted, if they are'called its excolpl'ition of the accused. The relations and servants are excluded frontbeing heard either for or against the accused. The proceeding shall be public, and no ivitnesa sbil ever be allowed to adduce hearsay evidence. acute Th Upon the other points alluded to, we certainly feel that there is room for some amendment of the existing law, but also feel how dangerous the task is, and how probable that the introduction of improvement might open the door to greater evils than those which were removed. Our view, however, is somewhat diffetent from that corn. . - manly taken. Instead of thinking the Libeller too much exposed to punishment, we consider him as too much shielded from it. Defamation does its work by - ambiguities---I>y the use of words not, .actionable, though destructive of character, and by various modes which the law does not reach. The Libeller. is' not only protected by these ci:- cumstances, but by the dilemma in which the Libelled arc placed. If they imiiet, as was well stated by Mr. Buoy onAm, they are represent ed as treading the truth, which cannot be he4rd in indictments ; and the ivounrls under which they smart are aggravute(l by the remedy. If they pursue the other course and seek re 'dress by Civil Action, they are almost -thrown out of Court by the displeasure with which such actions are entertained. A point of law is sure to be fatal to tr. cause never favourably received ; and the individual whose 'hopes are blasted by the tongue of the slanderer more surely than by the dagger of the assassin, has perhaps the. consolation of being defeated on the construction of a sentence, or ft best . have what is dearer than lit 'itself, estimated try a jury (directed. as they generally are to consider•the wordi as those of ir ritation, etc.), at the .value of forty shillings or forty pounds. WAS stated by Mr.l3uousun*, wh ob- served-- -whe t ; a man's character was attacked, he the pain asks injury he (tottered ever so. great---he the person who made the attack the most malicious of men, and his motives the most litiquitouit wA ttruusaritit to. one he escaped wiiir iroprr nitv. He should be asked, did the ktw . atford nii redress? why did not the injured indiajdual come forwarq? He would tell the 'Ouse what was. ,the: remedy offered in theory, and what was its result in practice. The reasons why the injured individual did not intim forwaid were these: There were two ways pointed out for redres+—by action and by in diennent; Suppose the teniedy by action .was prekrred; the accuser WaS, iinleed, defied to prove the truth ; but the in jured person went into Court' for a verdict, and, then, after running the gauntlet of having all this exposed to the impertinence or I ruriency of public ottitnadversion—after submitting to a speee'll from the defendant's counsel ten times . worse than the oliginal libel —after all the expense of a trial, and the risk of being turned round on a point of law, he all , peals to a Jury for damages to e“imate the value of his cha racter; and they Who know what Juries are, and the impres aloft likely to be made ou them by the speech of defendant's counsel, will know that Must damages are lik e ly t o b e eery inadequa,te; not more, perhaps, than 'lO or 501" Again, it is very ititly said by a Morning Ptiper. "Let the conduct of the Man who tuakes truth the mere Cover of his malice be seen in its proper, colours; but, on thc other hand, let the,Jory be enabled fa) distinguish between the honest promulgator of a truth he may think iMportant, and the itiventor,ofa calitmny who acids wilful falsehood to malignity and baseness. We are reit aware that.private feelings apt) , sometimes be outraged by the ; unnecessary ex posure of domestic follies or frailties; and we' concur in ;411 tbe censure that tan be bestowed on such a practice : but let it he considered, on the other hand, how, interlopey the general interests of morality call for the public reprObation of flagrant vices—how many hardened offenders there ate who, a Safe friute the Par, the Pulpit, and the Throne, " Are touched and cured by ridictele alone," These are ETTA t ters which deserve the best atten , tion of the Legi s l ature , we are sure, b e much elticidared by the. ATTORNRY arid SOLICI Ton CIENERAL i when they come to state the ob jections which exist to any alteration in the law as it now stands. Men more competent to lighttm the public mind oft the subject are not to be found, and if they think that the purposes of justice are better consulted by the existing prac tice, than they would he by'the prOposed altera tions, they will support their opinions by reason ing not to be resisted. The llePart upon the Bank ReAtrietion Bill was received last night in rite Hon , e ot Commons.— A elamse, moved by 7tlr. Ilotavritt, to allow the Diseetors to pity in ens!), soonen than two ye,trs, if they shall t hnik proper $o to ►Io, W tt3 au butived by a large al4jority. c cognizance or nen-cognizance of the'defendinit, wrier whose ostensible authority the libel issued, to be' put itreVirdence on his trial. Lastly, To allow evidence of the truth of nileged libel to be laid before the jtiry, with the view of in:Aifyiog their decisio►i. The lion. bentleman alsontealti to nntite a provision, that the defendant shOuld give notice to tlio piOsecutor that, when put on trial; he intended to t►t'er proof to establish his statements: \ • Siteit is the substance of the alterations pro pOsed littooot.tam in his but in his Speech he further animadverted on Ex Officio la formations, and 'sheaved a _disposition to deprive the Clo-..ernment of that power. The argument for this part of the-question is that the privilege may be abused, and is_ not wanted in peaceful times ;—to which the answer• seeps: to be, that it is trot ahased—that in troublesome times it is ne cessary for the public safety—awl that, if ever it were abused, the remedy might be had upon the specific ease. The Cotfapatirsilhip laaes Sibhald was to lail from Calcutta to Amboyna about the 19tb or 15th , of January. The Northumberland was expected to leave Calcutta the 20th of December for Mi dras, from whence she was to proceed to 13encoo• len. The Huddart and Eldon were also destined for Madras and Bencoulen. The Zenokia, vate l ship,is arrived from Calcutta, which she left the.latter end of December. PORTSMOUTH, M*s B.—Arrived the Sophia, FiumßLE, from St. Domingo, in 37 days ; left the Princess, of London, and Miverva and Fitis7 sar, of Liverpool ; spoke, sth April, the Wood. man, of N ► ew Brunswick, fur Quebec, all well. — The Shark, of Landon, was burnt at St. Do mingo, irrevious to the sailing of the Sophia.-- Arrived the Orpheus, F'INDI.aY ; Elizabeth, Om. LE R ; ar►el Ammer Dutch frigate, from the Downs. FAt,moirrn, MAy his Majesty's schooner Whiting and his Majesty's brig Jasper on a cruise ; Prince Ernest pacKet, with maj it for Lisbon ; and Nocton pat ket, with mails for Jamaica; Ocean- transport (670), MANGAREIp for America ; Spanish. ship Akio'', VANDutio, for Rivadeo ; American brig Spartan, J EFF frf ; Danish ship Martha Andrew, tisaLsoti ; Rover, HA R VEY ; Elizabeth, ELLIS, for Liverpool; Horatio, RICHA RDS , f or Padstow.—Wind NAV. • DEAL, MAY B.—A rr i ve d, an d sa il e d tar t h e Ri- rer,, the Royal Ch a rl otte , T HORP, f rom JaMitiCß. Remain i n th e D owns hi s M a j esty ' s ship °any mede ; Lushington, D oa m sa , f or t he East Indies ; Daedalus, LEEK-, for Gibraltar; Azores , 11114, for Newfoundland —pia back. Caine down front the River the Lord Castlereagh , LA ING , for BO rabii y...•••WijUi S. W. tbC I'LYM- ..OUTH, JAY 7.--I'assed n i Channe , Matilda, CANNING, from Lisbon to LOlltioll. On the 27th ult, intelligence was rEekiVid at Marseilles from Tunis, that t h ere tvere sev en Bri tish ships of the rue, several frigates antrt" li vessels, at anchor in the. Bay et .Tunis, on the 17th of the same month. The Naval Establishment at Gibraltar is to he abolished, and Malta will he-the depot for 'stores, ! Fe g , for the fleet that will be stationed in the Me diteranean. On Tuesday arrived off 13erwick harbour, the: Florida 'frigate, Captain CHARLIig S. HAWTAYNE, which, if - appointed to the superintendence of all the revenue vessels of war employed On the northern coasts, which, by a hate regUlation, put under the Board of Admiralty. The Florida is one of the ships taken from the Americans in the late contest; it is a singularly well built and unique vessel, and sails reinisi.kablv fast. This is 'her first cruise against the smuggiers. The telegraphic fr ames at t h e top o f t h e Admi ratty are to be removed, and the improved semis.' pliore, consisting of a hollow mast, from whence two arms project in various directions, will iv . erected its-their stead. The utility of this inven tion is "Co be tried, as has been announced in thq Sure, by way of experiment, in a few days, frorn it i tid i will l n it (See t:t i exceed s "1 nine the severalluler : f t e s e l a r e l l e ' ) t i ed ) s : s 7 Private letters continue to speak of plots, of arr esta, and of the incessant activity of the disaf fected in Paris. To prevent imposition on the Public, we think it proper to inform our Readers, that cheilin4 Dollar Tokens, which now circulate for five shil lings and sixpence, will be continued to be cur. rent fur that sum until the Ist of November, and the Bank are now actually giving,value for thew at that rate. •, A North American ship (says a Morning ;Pa per) has arrived at Buenog Ayres with, 25,000 Mexico coined dollars on board, for the purpose of purchasing hides. By the connection now ex. isting,between the United States and New Spain, the folluer are enabled to carry on the East India irade, granted. to them by the late Treaty, with the greatest advantage, as well as every where else when a glut of goods renders specie an ob ject. Don MARTIN T9MsoN has been sent as De ptity from Buenos Ayrei to the Government of ilia United States. Yesteultry, at half -pact four o'clock, the She..' riffs of London and Middlesex arrived at the Qiiceit'S Palace, and were introduced into the pre sence of the Quaex, to know when she would be pleased to receive the Addreiss of Congratula tion of the COrporation 1i the City of London • uphn the marriage of the Princess CHARLOTTR with the Prince :of 141(E , -C9I3URG, when her Ma.. jesty appointed next Monday at.s o'clock, The amiable manners and frank disposition of the Prince of COBURG, We may say, are welt known, for' none approach him who do not go away zealous to communicate the esteetn with which he inspires them. 1.1i4 attainmt-nts its - sciencie and the arts have also been mentioned, • anti his reputation as a soldier. Young as be is, lie was in the battle of Austerlitz, in that of Eylau, in the great victory at Leipsic, and in se.; , ' veral of the subsequeut actions, which brought the Russian army into Paris, in 1814. After this, it will be read with pleasure, that the only re quest his Highness has made, since his connection with England, was that he might have rank in our army. DUKE OF CUMBERLAND'S BANQURT.,--The Doke. and Duchess of CUMBERLAND have completed. the necessary arrangements (or the purpose of making their appearanceln the fashionable world. - On Monday evening their Royal Highnesses, gave a grand entertainment to a party ot: thirty persons. The Marquis and MarchioneS aSTAF'• Forto,tord and Letdy GRANVILLE, 11 41•04 0 JADo8r t • and other foreigners of distinction were present.' On Sunday next their Highnesses dine at Cleve land House. About eighteen sail of freighted vessels and transports arrived at Dover from Gilais ou Tues day tilti`ntoou, with the n hole of the Ist 1 eginteot of dragoon g04r41. Sir GirArrAm Moor.r. is frppointe,i nue of the Lohis 'of tire Artlrrir.ilty, in the raDfri of Lord PAULLTr, Witti ill j. ~