The Sun. — London, England, 1820-03-01 00:00:00

FOREGONE CONCLUSIONS. The Edinburgh Review of October 1615, in eu logizing CARNOT, proffers a most portentous ob servation. After a faint disavowal of inferences which might very well have been made, of its desire of a new revolution in France, the Review proceeds thus :—" If the Crown, indeed, could be brought to the Duke of ORLZANS, without a struggle or an insurrection, we have no ltesita►ion in saying, that we think France would have a hetter chance for freedom, and for tranquillity, than tinder the present Monarch and his heirs ; and we should consider it as i very fotturvite aril happy event tar her and for the world, if either by the tiittiral coortze of mortality, or by any volonttry ittrange ntent in the flintily, that Prince should now be en &Wed to ascend the Throne, without competition or resistance from any quarter. Beyond this, however, our revolutionary spirit proceeds not:' Really, 1 cannot imagitte how much hillier the most liberal tevointionist would have it proceed. But 1 extrset the parigriph to shew how fixedly a thormigh revolutionary ICltlpet fastens on the `son of Pit (LIPPE Et 2 tLITE, and desires for him the reward mid the object of his father's crimes. That his elevation to the Il.rofie ‘vottill be sufficiently gritfitd to the Jacobins, none can question ; and the efttipction—a delicite term this, is it not - of the ofify descent of the lineal Bourbons is abort thinly frrtrie of filar gratiticAtion. It has not, to be sure, happened—as the liberal lteriewer ,ll e ,- g esYs it—" in the natural coarse of mortality ;". and I %conk! not for the world ascribe it to " any voluntary arrangement io the family." I raise, however, my voice against " any" revolutionary profits arising from the assassination of the Due de ilraat. It was effected by one rebel ; and, therefore, it ought not to bring advantage to the chid of another. Let the French Crown come tynn the head of the Doke D'OaLuaws, and one of the " at•rancternents — of the Rtvolutiott is here tas.'y accomplished. Ttte Edinburgh- Reviewer understand the term. I have often said, that Revolution was the crime of France. But eounter-revolution ltas not been snide, as it tni4ltt have been made, her punish ment. The onti,ion, or the forbearance, or the caution, or the ittability—l care not which you call it—has descended upon the BoulaisoNs then - selves in a bloody lesson. Eidd it liven only a warning, I should little have regarded the deep ness of its crimson. But it has conic tOG tardily for that purpose—it has tinchilded their liueal Crown. Stilt worse,—, has °petted the collateral succession into an " arrangement" revolutionary ettoug,ll to secure to ttte Revolution not only the impunity of crime hut die possession of reward. What measure, the European Alliance ntly adopt upon this " arrangement" are not yet pro tnnlgated. Yet awhile, not any teem to he acted upon, nor even stirred. If the lapse of a few years shalt be accelerated by the farther " family " arrangement" of removing, —another delicate term,—the King, and his Brother, and yet ittrviv ing Nephew, I (cost that the Powers which con quered the trangnillity of France win take to some little " arrangement" for thetwelves, and provide against any possible descent of the French Crown, which shall hold out a bribe to rebellion, and a profi.:able example to its inheritors. I can task myself to endure almost the worst of absurdities, and the most unjust of contradictions. A revolutionary soldier, who obtained his titles by keep►iiig his legitimate Sovereign out of France, msy cry about the bed of that Sovereign's Mur dered nephew; the executioners of that Sove reign's brother may be pardoned ; the deaths.men cf his cousin may receive equal immunity ; the eats; supporters of his Crown may be rewarded with confiscation. E can bear this, and more than this ; but cannot beer to see that Crown divcrging ',ctta the crooked line which was cut and dug for it by r•egiicidal hands. " Thank God," saii the Due D'ENGREEN, while preparing for his martyrdom—" thank " God, 1 ant not to fail by the hands of French " men !"—yet, were they not Frenchmen who assisted at that revoltitionary critne ?—" At 1" said the Colic de BERat, white ponring out his Wes blood—" alas ! why did 1. not all in battle 1" Music-ions aucl clevoted liounstows I—The one forgot that Frenchmen permitted his murder ; and the other, that he could not have fallen in bat the, hot by a French hand. MI Ettrope Was armed foe bins—France atone against him. Yes—each was !be hope of tie French Mo narchy ; anti en(qi fell by the French Rebellion. Neither br,s been, and neither will be, atone-11 Iteatu tell, became D'EntutsteN was not avenged.--Kiog of FRANCK, beware ;h&c impu nity strikes no rattier VI NDSI FREE AND INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF GREAT 8R1T.,41.V. GittaTLRMIIN—As the time is near at hand which is to renew the exercise of one of the greatest constitutional powers of the People, and you ate, of course, anxious to make such a choice of Representatives as shall secure to you the full and unrestrained possession of your rights and pri vileges, you will, I am sure, excuse my remind ing you of the sacred importance of your present powers, as they affect the dignity of the Throne, the welfate of the Elective Body, and the honour, safety, and financial prosperity of the Nation. Of your own interesta, as tha intermediate body by which a familiar intercourse is to be maintained between the Sovereign and his People, you are, of course, tire Lacs( judges, when fairly left to the exercise of your own reason, but you hardly reqoire to be told that the flatteries, and cajeleries, ,nd nicks of an Election are frequently played off with effect against the more sober dic tates of prndruce. This truth should make you very cautious in your selections, and render you doubly iealous of that great privilege, the honest and predstoial exercise of which will tend to your oe fl credit and comfort, and to the liberty of the generetiou which must succeed you. Ido not fear that any other sort of corruption than that of the mind wid be tiled, or if tried, be at t:olded with success, for few Electors are so in sensible of their h u mour as to be induced to bar ter their votes against the gold of a Candidate ; but whilst you resist this sort of temptation, which is as disgraceful to the offerer as to the matt to whom it is offered, take care that you are not frightened out of your honesty by the clamour of mobs, or cheated out of it by the specious professions of popular Candidates for your favours. In the approaching Election you will have to de-' cide upon the claim, of three parties—the Tories, tine Whigs, and the Reformers.—Now it is a sad thing that in a free Country, where every Mall Wight to have but one object in view, there should he more than one Party; but since the evil exists yo u will do well to adopt the course of those Can didates who, whatever may be their rallying trim, have sheven, or are likely to shew, their attachment to the Constitution in Church and State, as by law established, and their aveisiee to the demoralizing principles which had nearly overthrown your rights and liberties, and brought into derision the sacred ‘Vord of God, which is our best consola tion in this world, under the various ills by which we are visited, and our only hope of happiness hereafter. Of the Tories I shall only say, that if they have sonnet ones run into the extreme of party, that extreme has always been on the right ride of public feeling ; and that if they have, whilst ie power, introduced any restraint upon popular privileges, they did so upon the well fotteded conviction that such restraint was the surest and indeed the only way to prevent your total loss of liberty, from the levelling doe trines o: a turbulent and unreasonable multitude. They had the experience of the French Revolu tion, and existing facts full before them, and the character of the agitators who have been appre hended must have convinced you, that without such restraints you had nothing to look forward to but tine destruction of the property which your own industry, or the industry of your forefathers, has procured for you ; and the murder of every member of your families who would refuse to abjure his allegiance to his King, arid his hopes hi the mercy of his Creator. There was no choice between a temporary &Abridgment of popular rights, and a licensed encouragement of revolt and blas phemy. The result has shewn you, that this re straint has never been accompanied wi'h a single instance of ctuelty, a single abuse of the power which you, by your Representatives, reposed in the honour of the Ministry. It is hardly neces sary, perhaps, to remind you, that the principles of this Party, boldly persevered in against the cla mour of one Parry, and the pretended economy of another, brought you fairly and telly (111 ' 04 40 one of the most arduous contests in which your coun try was ever involved. You saw all Europe, with the exception of this Island, at the feet of a despotic Conqueror. The most sanguine man could hardly anticipate a successful issue, and yet, by adopting the plans of a bold and virtuous Miuister, a n d acting upon the constitutional firmness of that pions Monarch, for whom all Britain is now sin. cerely mourning, we are not only brought safely through a sea of troubles, but Europe has been forced to acknowledge the dignity of our virtue and the unshrinking temper of our courage. Both the Monarch and the Minister have paid the debt of nature, and neither saw the fruition of their virtue: but you justly admire that virtue and pay that tribute to the tomb,which was so strangely denied by many to their living hours, when the approbation of a people should have cheered the arduous task which they had undertaken. It is not exactly fair to advert to this subject so reproachfully, but it may serve to teach you the folly of listening at all times to the ebullition of popular feeling, which may be so much perverted by party machi nations as to deserve any thing but approbatioe. The principles of Wteetes PITT are before you in the conduct of the Tories. They want little comment, because you have tried them in times the most difficult and dreadful, and the trial has been attended with the preservatio e of your lives and properties against a foreign coalition, and an intestine faction of the Whigs. I Would speak as mildly as possible, hut MI we conceal front (Mr selves the conviction of their unsoundness ? If they had not temporized with this faction and basely sought to make them and their complaints the stepping stone to power, woeld they have dared to arm against God and Ili& Sovereign, and plunged their murderous heeds in the blood of their Countryme n I If the Whigs had marked wish the broadest expression of indignant patrio tism the conduct of the liefoi [nets, could they have risen to importance ? Would they not have been hoottd at and pet down by every man who has sense enough to know that his own security depends on the preservation of the laws, and that out beet liberty consists not so touch in what we We received this morning the Paris Papers of Sunday last.—The following are extracts : " PAIUS , FEBRUARY 27. [OFFICIAL.] " Yesterday, before mass, his Excellency the Engihh Ambassador delivered to the King, at a private audience, Letters from his Sovereign, notifying the Death of his Majesty George the Third, and that of his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, and also a Letter of Condolence on the death of his Royal Highness the Duke de Berri. " ROYAL ORDONNANCE. " Louis, &c. " The Baron Capelle, Councillor of State, is appointed Secretary-General of the llinistry of the Interior. " CHAMBER OF PEERS, FED. 26. " The discussion was opened on the projet for suspending for five years the freedom of the Jour nals. " The Report of the Committee having been unfavourable to the projer, the usage of the Chamber called first to the Tribune one of the defenders of the projet. " The Duke de Doudeauville, in voting for the adoption of the projet, demanded that Caricatures and Pamphlets under five sheets should be also subjected to the provisions of the projet. " The Count Germain thought that the remedy for the evil shoal i`be sought in a more severs law against the abuses of the Press ; be proposed, in the mean time, to grant a provisional suspension till the end of the present. Session. " The Duke de Broglie thought the evil arose less from the insufficiency of the law than negli gence in its execution, He was nevertheless fa vourable to a supplementary law, reinforcing the enactments of the present ; but lie thought all provisional measures useless and dangerous. " The Marquess de la Tour-du-Pin was in Is your of a Censorship, under tl►e authority of Mi nisters, but not to extend beyond the next Session. " The Duke de Levis was of a similar opinion. " The Count de Saint Roman, thought the proposed law i:1 calculated to meet the difficulty. " The Marquess de Clermont Tonnerre con tended, that the liberty of the Press in France had always produced melancholy consequences. lie was favourable to the principle of the proposed law. " The discussion was adjoarned till Alonday. 4 , CH AMBER OF DRPUTIEs. " The dembcrs only assembled in their Bit- reatix. " PARIS, Fen. 27.—The Duke Decazes took leave of the King on Saturday evening, arid set out yesterday morning for Libourne. " The King yesterday transacted business with the Duke de Richelieu and M. Sini4on, the Mini ster of the Interior. " The Diike of Wellington bits written lettets of Condolence to Monsieur end the Duke d'An gouleme, on the assassination of the Duke de Berri. " The pregnancy cif the Duchess de Berri wi•'l be declared almost immediately in an official manner. " The health of M. de Serre is so much In v ' proved, that it is sardle will very soon return to Paris. Fiver,B i gCE N Sharday. II • 73%;\ c`ll., MiItERRED STOCK. Of the 22d March, 1817, . . 97 f. 90 c. Yid Sept. 1819, N7 f. 90 c. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. Three Mouths 23 f. 90 c. " VIENNA, Fen 16 —lt is stated, in letterl from Constantinople of the 24;h of December , that the Schah of Persia bad put his eldest 5 0 under arrest for having, with a body of troops, at• tacked and defeated the Turks, near Bagdad. " laux , Fus. 14.—1 t is stated that Colonel uiroga, the Commander-in-Chief of the Instil- gents, had sent an Officer to General Freyre, bu t he assumed so high a tone, that it was imposs►ble to consent to his propositions. " Several minor affairs have taken place, to which men have been killed and wounded ou both sides ; they arc the prelude to a general a ction the result of which is uncertain, but which wil l doubtless be very sanguinary." Extract of a Letter from Trinidad, dated Rec. 19. BOLIVAR, with the who!e of t-he united tut cgs , were preparing to take up their line of march on th. coast, the only portion of Venezuela or New Gre' .cads that is yet in the possession of the Spaniards' Carracas de Leon will be occupied during thepre' sent month, and 111ouiLLo will be compelled c ° quit Valencia by the commencement of JanuarYl and become reduced to the fortifications of p„r►° Cavello, which, with a few vessels of war, will be obliged to surrender. The Proclamation which we stated yesterday would be announced in the course of the day, c ° announce the Dissolution of Parliament, appears in the Gazelle of last night, and is copied in ou t Paper this day. We expressed our hopes that a Parliament which had done so much for 01° country, in passing those laws which were easel" tially demanded for the preservation of the Coo stitution, would rather have had its existence pro' longed than be so soon extinguished. But ou r Rulers have thought otherwise, and, reposing ° 9 that judgment which has operated so beneficially in rescuing the Country from Rebellion an d Atheism, we doubt not that they have sufficien t reasons for submitting to the People the c hoico of their Representatives at this critical period' All now, as we have before observed, deperyi. on the People themselves. Let them reflect on the conduct of their late Representatives, god clime those who have ev►dently :hewn a E r " zeal of patriotism, as well as a steady attachment to the safety anti honour of the Crown, not those who merely aspired to power, and who were weak enough not to see any danger from Radi' cal turpitude and rebellious outrage, or ye" pretended to see none, in order to give a colour to their factious spleen and venal ambition. Such men, if public spirit the predominant feature in the National character , will be rejected with contempt, and none chosen but those who by their independence are place d above temptation, and whose integrity would ill' duce them to spurn it with indignation. We shall' for the present, suspend our remarks, referring the Letter from an intelligent Correspondent to our Paper of this day. TM= QUEEN.—We have inserted to-day a Letter from a respectable Correspondent, in reference t° the Consort of his MAJESTY, though we entireli differ with him in the view which he has taken of her situation anti pretensions, in order to manifest our impartiality, and to chew that we are open set conviction. We see that yesterday the same sub' ject was brought forward at the Southwark Meet' ing, where the loyal intention of that :Meeting ws a for the express purpose of proposing an Address of Condolence on the death of our late revetel Monarch, and of Congratulation to his MAJes“ on his accession to that Throae, to which he bad given new splendour by his wise anil dignifie d conduct in the exercise of a delegated Sovereignty . A Mr. Citt-ues, it appears, not satisfied with o' 3 loyal and simple object of the Meeting, endee voured to perplex the course of affairs, by requesting to know why the Queest shoul d not be blended with the Address to him Ml': JESTY, observing, that " till it was prov ed that she had disgraced the British Throne' he would maintain that her name ought t c : go in the Address jointly w ith th e KlNG''' The opinion of any individual, of much greater impoitance than this same Mr. GtLuEs, s houl d weigh little against the dignity of the Throv e ' the happiness of the Monarch, and the tranV il ' city of the State. It is notorious that very soc ere allegations have been bro u ght a ga inst the Roy ,, .:.'unsort ; end before ehe is admitted to " -highest female honours, of the Empire, her cc'll d in to it Cc rim thi oti ref oft shil It a that di ll Will hei of he r e , F the ri on C her ttl e to rri tab! ( heir Pats( Sir l etq Tien, Ti l 4.,,0 enjoy as in the restraint which prevents bad mere From robbing us of it ? Of the Reforming Candidates I shall say still less than of the Inigs. Have not their doctrines fanned rebellion into a flame, and swelled blas phemy into an overwhelming deluge ? Have not the Reformers inculcated that doctrine, whisk in ?wee tvg4t,the tissassinofa Botosort to'a?ineAt that God w a s b u t a name, ant instilled those principles, which in England have created bands of nightly murderers. Choose then, Electors, between the defenders of God's Word and your Constitution, and the advocates of Blasphemy' and Rebellion. G. M-. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Perforated Last Nig•ht. THEA !RR ROYAL, DRURY- LANE.—Guy Mannering Henry Bertram, Mr. Bratiam ; Lucy Bertram, Miss Carew ; Meg Merrilies, Mrs. Egerton. After which, The Quaher. 'THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GA HnEti.--The Antiquary ; Mr.Durnset; Miss Isabella Wardour,MissSteptiens. Aftei which, Too Late for Dinner. 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