The Sun. — London, England, 1815-11-25 00:00:00

I r 111E' SPtLLS OF PRANCt, into such strange mysteries ?"—StimisPEAuE, sc If it passible, that the Siiells of France shonld jitgrle men We might have thought not ; but FraneeYs6ems . t ° have lost none of her paltering power` : neither time nor misfortune have impaired her faculty of tleception 110 W long has the King of FRANCE been now teseated on his 1 hrone ? Four Rionths.—How ma ny of his rebel subjects have been brought to Punishment ? ONE.—And that one neither the strongest nor the guiltiest. It might have been thought sufficient, that the grand c riminal was liberated from all allegiance, and ab solved from► all liability. But it is rather t " much that this monstrous anomaly should be extended to his subalterns ; this subversion of all national, and of all particular law ; this noxious privilege, this perilous impunity, which appear designed for the safeguard of treachery, and the abandonment of honour. Justice raised her hand ; and rested after the first blow• Never ought she to have commenced The work, or never to leave it unaccompliOled.— Row must that vigour be derided, which evapo rates in ordonnances, and harangues, and accusa tions; which ponders " about it and about it" through four months, bringing the criminal to trial, then bringing him before the wrong Tiibu tial, and in every failure giving new courage to its enemies ! Yet, why trouble we ourselves upon the fears, the follies; or the imbecilities of France ! Not for her welfare, but for the peace of Europe. - If the Jacobins suffered their vigour to evaporate in a violet or a pink, iou tri-coloured watch-ribbaud, t'r a wet wafer, we might be equally careless of them also, We dread them only when their re sentment breaks out in recollections of military glory, and mingles with professions of obedient Ityalty. This is an evil, which King Louis may be as 'unwilling. as unable to correct. We must correct it for !dip. When France becomes unanimous, it our business to watch her unanimity. But whenc e is .the strange inconsistency, th a t be BOURBONS cherish, and compliment, 3" "" iole that military pride, which, by its success, pro -I"ge- their exclusion ; which submitted to their , -'restoritiou only in its defeat ; and which halloo4 rn t i • neir ear its ansi-regal victories, its republican Itiln4 Phs, and its imperial spoliations. • V A • ''"TY is the pervading 'a n d of principle of France, -Writes all . uer children, Boonapartists ant i B our - . 0 . ' v Aury is her prev a ili ng p ass i on , w hi c h cue tt t "lion Europe the calamities of twenty- Jea ra b war, and 'hook to their seats Th rones , . 4stali shtnents, and Morals; which brought upon ri ko , , t e toe peril of retribution, and which 'con lino • es la her abasement the danger of her ascen- 41 'd vve accord w ith t hi s van i ty ! And wr. , It°')the, and Console, and flatter it, a n d allmoSst 4P°l° g i " fOr the wound which we have inflicted Ton i t Ifistory is consu l te d i n vain, and antiquity .3earched for novelties Of such capricious mis 'ellier'''A romance, perhaps, or a melo-drame, %ay supply us with precedents ; but we do not mid: to the sob r i et i es of life for . striking incident . 7 1 " st age-effect. It • l oo k e d very h andsome, cer ,l"Y) t° m ake our enemy a p resent o f an bun heedrtil"sand prisoner s , f o r t h e p l e a sure o f the i r l in g r etake n next summer by our Ally ; and it wit( h ave an equally pretty appearance, now, to evacuate Franc e to the re-expulsion of her legiti -I,:te Sovereign and the re-spoliation of Europe. experiment will b e t o l era bl y amusing, while }s'iastsfor the Allies to withdraw the props from ,odder the'bnilding, one by one, it will skew them I °og the BouaßONs can continue their Castle ` ll the Ai r . tit ' When we assume the splendid virtue of alctgnanitnitv," and expect its praise, let it be 4t the cost of ourselves alone when we pardon :Juri es, let us have the previous consent of the • 'th e we have wrested the torch from 41e incendiary, let us not restore it into, his hand ; le ast l et us extinguish it before the fatal re st, . r atl on ! v.4llill's is neither elegant nor exalted : it sup , ('ac not any materials for the poet or the painter, the it may compensate so uncourtly a defect by etbtthible merits of wisdom and of justice. an 'lrope leaves some twenty millions of vain and 1):'Y Frenchmen, smarting with defeat, and e_ening with vengeance, under the controul of h " d red and fifty thousand foreign Victors h d site ; their tApects them to keep the King's peace and Af t , / _ e n wn pro m i ses !—Nearly one hundred and 34 pitched ptives to one conqueror ! Really the t har s ome len g th s b eyond the honest ,11- 411, g th em. Who t oo k only ten prisoners by surround ' /alto We laugh, n e say this seriously.—Our 1 ' !zd seritius indignation. Let any man look at the proceedings of NEy's two trials, and decide, Whether the Royal Councils have will without power, or power without will. We care not which—it matters not which —no, not a shred of NAroLnoti's old purple. Did ,not the peace of Europe require the punisbnient of French Treason—be the Traitors one, one hitn dyed, or one hundred thousand—we should trouble ourselves, how little ! whether the King consigned them to the scaffold, or received them into his bosom. But, even in the conduct of NEY'S trial, for crimes committed publicly, unblushingly, and avowedly, mark we the hesitation of the Tri bunals, and the character of the Judges ! Already he has escaped one JurisdiCtion, by the privilege of his Peerage..—His Peerage !—The Peerage of NEY !---A Peerage created by the Usurper, and confirmed by the rightful Sovereign !A Peerage into which Treason intruded him, and by which, Treason now entitles him to be tried fin. Treason ! Thus, his crime is his privilege ; and, by a reci procal reaction, his privilege is his crime. If an added proof were requisite, this sheers the folly and the weakness of the French Govern ment. Instead of sweeping away every institu tion of NAPOLEON as originally invalid, they have plunged themselves into the absurdity of trying NEI' as a Peer of France for the 'treasonable act of supporting that Government which created his Peerage. Again we say, this must be remedied. If Ilse knot cannot be unravelled, it must be cut asun der. The axe of French Justice may be too blunt. Is it ?—Then we must try the sword of Eul•opean Power. • Look now at the French Tribunals, even un der the very eye of our victorious Arniies NEY stood forward as a criminal, his Ad vocate, his Accusers, his Judges, all vied with each other in vaunting forth his military glory, and identifying his piratical exploits under NA POLEON with, the honour of France. Piratical!—Even so ; digest the epithet as you ma y. If NAPOLEON was a Usurper, his acquisi tions coulf! not have been lawful ;—if NAPOLEON was a regular Sovereign, why warred we against his Sovereignty But to return to his sub-agent, Nay :—This man's Advocate praises the Usurper's Marshals as L'inen '' whose names are dear to their country, and belong already to posterity." In our plain Eng lish, " belonging to posterity " sometimes means, possessing a page in the Newgate Calendar. The Reporter styles Na' "one of his C try's most glorious Defenders ;" and thus vindi cates the Usurper under whom she was " defend ed." More :—he applies to NEY the ancient pri vileges of the Royalist French Marshals, of To 7 RENNE,'Of TALLARD, and of VILLEROY, in those honourable times when French Marshals were ,GENTLEMEN. . Oh, SHAKSPEIRE, live for ever !—Thy pro phetic pen has well described these lording up starts, bandying their civilities between the dock and the bench ; and well it forewarns us of the issue— When these mutualities so marshal the way, hard at hand comes the master and main exercise." If this were an insult to the King alone, we might:leare the King to resent it, but the insult is to Europe, to her combined and victorious Ar mies, who occupy the place where the insult was uttered. The danger also 'is to Europe. We may love Legitimacy well ; but we need not hold it quite so precious as to cherish for its sake the mischiefs of Usurpation. The 'Legitimacy which returns af ter twenty-three years of expulsion, must destroy every trace'of the intermediate Rebellion ; until that salutary purgation shall be accomplished, it is not legitimate. France and Europe seem hastening on ward, with most concurrent union, to the third Punic War.— Vol' the sake of human life, and as even such a Victory as WaTERLoo is at best but a sorrowful matter, it would have been better, perhaps, to do at first what must he,done at last—and TUMBLE PARIS INTO HER. CATACOMBS : " if it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twerc well " It were done quickly." WfxDsoß, Nov. 23.—The QUEEN is recovered from her cold, and took another airing in a coach and four, accompanied by Princess ELIZABETH and a Lady in waiting, to Englefield Green,. &c. yes terday, and rode out again to-day. Bullion has fallen again to 41;35. an ounce, for Portugal gold in coin and foreign gold 'in bars ; silver, in .new dollars, is now ss. 4d. an ounce. Captain HENDERSON, late Assistant Quarter- Master-General, .had some months ago a very providential escape at sea. The ship Sitwarrow, of . Liverpool, in which he was a passenger, hay ing f a ll en i n w i t h severa l i s l an d s o f i ce during the most tempestuous weath e r, oil the bank s o f New foundland, amongst which she was driven abotft for several days, until literally beaten to 'pieces. by it. Captain H. with . the passengers and crew of the ship, had just time to escape from her iu the boats, when she foundered. To /ran Es.lj'art or:rug SUN. have the honour of being one of the Guildhall Sweepers ; and while. dusting . out the Court yesterday, J . heard an odd noise ,the Jury-box. It startled me a little, to be sure; especially as no living soul was in the'hall but myself took courage, and inquired ‘rhat was wanted.—Co me hither, good Sweeper, ex claimed the voice ; Are von related to Counsellor Broom No, Sir, said I--. 1. was put into office by Alderman Birch. Well then, it replied, write down what I say, and take it to THE SU ti.-"-S0 I did, Sir, as well as I could ; and this is what the Jury-box said. I dare say you will be as nnicb . astonished as was your humble servant, BARTHOLOMEW BESOM. Old England's Jury-box am And time and tempest I defy : Then keep me, since so long I've stood, From rotten wainscoting of Wood! As Liberty's best guard revere me, And let no clumsy Cartwright near the Let things go on in their right channel, And save me from a WOODEN PANN E L ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES. ARRIVALS. Sir Thomas Dyke, Bart. at Holmes% Hotel, from Lulling stun Castle; Hon. General Mathew, brother_to the Earl of Llandaff, at Warren's Hotel, from Paris; Mr. Money and Fa mily, of Bombay, at Fladong's Hotel, from the Cape of Good Hope, in his Majesty's ship Contapr. DEPARTURES. 'Flnvh Stewart, Esq. to Sir John Stewart's seat, 13allyzawly, Ireland ; the Hon Capt. de Rors, from Reddish's Hotel; fox' Paris ; Edward Protheroe, Esq. M.P. from ditto, to Brighton ; His Royal Highness the Duke a Gloucester, from Park lane to Chesterford iu Essex - ; Sir Henry Crewe Bart. from Berkeley-square to Calk Abb ey , Derbyshire. , UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, Nov. 20.—Th e following subjects are Proposed for the Chancellor's Prizes for the ensn inz year, viz. For Latin Verses—Tlrntdre. For an English Essay-4 Comparative Estimate of Seutp. lure and Painting. For a Latin Essay—ln Hivtoria scribenda quenam sit pea. eipua inter dluctores yetcres et 'moos diferentia The first of these subjects is int.:nded for those Gentlemen of the University who have not ex ceeded four years from the time of their matrien latio6 ; and, the other two for such as have ex ceeded four, but not completed seven years. Sir Boger Newdigate's Prize, for the best comnositlon in English Verse, not containing more than -50 lines, by • any Under•Gradnate who has not exceeded four years from the time of his matriculation—The horses ofy• sippus. On Tuesday, Mr. Nicholas Lee Torre, Student in Law, was admitted Fellow of New College. PEDESTRIANISM. Mr. STOKES, at Bristol, continues to walk fifty miles a-day to the -great benefit of the adjoining, tavern, an:l the delight of beholders: EATON, a Blackheath, was-sore-footed yesterday, but still appears confident that lie shall be able to defy sleep for a few hundred hours longer t 'FUME , who lately failed at Rochester, is to start-with his son a sort of ride and tie mantels, near the Roebuck Ion; at Maidstone, to go 1200 miles in 20 days. All these wonders are to be done, if possible, in the year eighteen hawked and fit'teen !I ! EXCELLENT AND EVEN MATCH !—A curious wa ger was decided on Saturday the llth inst. on the road leading from Holbeach to Spalding. A' man of the name of WALTON, an inhabitant of Weston, andertook for a bct of I/. to run or walk 17 miles _in two hours and a half, and also for a farther bet of It. to make it up 18 miles in the time. He started at the 104th mile-Stone, in the parish of Weston, precisely at half -past fig-ht o'clock in the morning, and a boy was placed at th e 103 d mile-stone, in the same parish, with'nine cards in his hand, vc.ll;eli WALTON was to fetch singly and deliver to a man stationed at the place of starting. The first card was delivered in 13 minutes, the second at the end of 1., * minutes more, the third in 16, the fourth in 17, making eight miles in one hour and one minute. Bets then were in favour of the performance. The journey for the fifth card took 17 minutes, the sixth 18 minutes (betting even), the seventh 20 minutes (bets two to cure against him for the 18 mile's), the eighth took up 20 minutes, and the single mile, to fetch the ninth card, 111 minutes, Which completed the time given within 21 mi nutes, and the poor fellow gave up the contest, winning one pound Ha d losing the other, and hav ing all his labour for his pains, as well as a good sweat, nal a lecture from his fair rib, for having made such a match to the injury of his health and constitution. DRURY-4ANE THEATRE. -The new Comedy of 117tere to find a Friend was attended last flight by almost as numerous an audience as on its first appearance, and was fully confirmed in public fa vour. It• is, indeed, a ♦ery agreeable and affecting dramatic. .melane of melancholy and mirth, and receiving all possible justice from the Performers, among whom we yesterday forgot to notice the merit of OkBERR Y. The piece was judiciously retrenched in several of the scenes. The Blundering Chroniclein Plays—in Poli tics. It praises MU NDEN for his " touching' pa thOs" in the new Comedy last night ; in which MU‘NDEN does not play, though DowToN. does. JolvEs, of Covent-Garden Theatre, has been for some time seriously indisposed, but is now reco yeriug, though slowly. • Coors•,, of Drury-Lane Theatre, is gone to per form at Bath. ASUE renews his Concerts, it seems, at Bath in the ensuing season. , H e and his musical fa tuity have beets very successful in Ireland. It is hinted that the Office of City Poet Laureate is about to be re-established. The Common Clerk and the Crier to-boot, have &Claret( that they are not competent to furnish the puffs for the new Magistracy in the Morning Papers. We have a long one to-day about an inspection of the Watch houses. The " British Nobleman's" colt Letter-Writer (lid not ran at the late races at Nenilly. - lhas been lame, ever since the Battle of Waterloo! NAVAL NEWS. H A FM' I Cli NOv. 24.: —Arrived the Prince Orange packet, Captain BRIDGE, with a mail and Passengers, from Holland.—Wincl N. E. DEAL, Nov. 24.—Passed at the back of the Goodwin Sand a Dutch man of- var, name un known, and proceeded down the Channel. Came down from the River the Britannia, BROWN, for Grenada ; William, LANDELL, for Tobago, and several other ships, names not yet known.— , . Wind E. FALMOUTH; Nov. the Fox packet, Captain '!'ILLY, With mails for the West India Islands, and the Nocton packet, with a wail for the Brazils.—Wind E. POIiTTOUTII, Nov. 24.—Arrived the Barossa transport, and the West Indian, from the Downs. Sailed the Friends, with naval stores, for Ber muda.—Wind N. -YARMOUTH . , Nov. 24.—The following' ships have sailed for the ports up the Mediterranean with red herrings :—Lion, Flex ; Rover, Shar man ; Dart, Jex ; Morgan Rattier, Clench ; Fly ing Fish, Bales; and Friends, Wilcocks. Yesterday.a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, .when the undermentioned Cap tains were sworn into the conunand Of their re spective ships,. viz. : Regent, Captain P. Ripley, ElphinstOne, Captain T. Ha• eiside, for Madras and China; Lord Lyndoc, Capt. J. Crichton, fur St. Helena and China; Marchioness of Exeter, Captain. T: Gilpin, for China direct. THE FINB ARTS. ROME ; OCT. 24.—The official annunciation of the return of all our treasures of art from France excites here the greatest enthusiasm. People do not cease to praise the justice of those Powers who 'contribute towards it, as well as the generosity of Lord Castlereagh, who placed 100,000 francs at the disposal of Canova, to facilitate the packing up and coo veyance of thew precious articles.-Abbe' Ca nova, a brother of the celebrated sculptor, and Abbe Marini, received front the French library the MSSe. medals, and stones, taken from Rome. The French. Museum, besides what it formerly possessed, has, besides, a valuable addition to the works of art, bought of Prince Camillo Borg - hese. In order to make the Museum at Paris the sole point of union of the finest monuments of antiquity,' Napoleon forced his brother-in-law to sell his collection to hiin, and an Imperial Decree of April 27, 1807, fixed the conditions. ,This Decree was preceded by strict examinations on the part. of the French Government, and CoMmisSioners, at the head of whom was Denon, who was sent to Rome to make an exact inventory of ail the articles, and fix their• price. Connoisseurs at Rome, among whom was Canova,. declared the- BorgiteseCollection to he invaluable; however,. he gave it an approximate value far above the twelve millions, at which Napoleon set the price. According to the Ikeree of April 27, 1807, the twelve millions ►were paid to Prince Borghese 1. In three millions of francs in money-2. In six millions of inscriptions in the Grand Liv . re —3. By _giving him an Abbey called Luce dis, iu PiechnOnt (a national domain). This .year, however, the CoUrt of Accounts at Turin sequestrated the income of the Abbey, and _sent Commissioners to take possession of the es tare. Prince Borghese makes a reclamation against thils step of the Sardinian Government. Be sides the right, which seems to be on his side, his conduct as Governor-General of Piedmont speaks in his favour, .he never having committed those arbitrary proceedings which rendered the tools of Napoleon so odious in many places. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Nor. 24. ill THE ►MATTER-OF THE EMU, OF IVARWICK v. THE EARL OF UPPER OSSORY. ' Judgment was this day given by the Loan CHANCELLOR in this case—that the Etarls of Upper, Ossory and GalloWay were the trustees to grant leases of the mines in question, not indefinitely, but for twenty-one years. These powers ought not to : be exceeded, and an order was made ac cordingly. • The other business before the Court was un i!nportant, Detachments of the 21st, 71st,19th, and 91it regiments from the barracks of Glasgow, Stir- • ling, and Perth, arrived in Edinburgh, and were to embark at Leith, to join their respective corps on the Continent. • A detachment of about 100 men of the 15th Light Dragoons, who embarked at Dovzr ont Tuesday for Ostend, have been disembarked, and marched for Canterbury. The Students of the Royal Academy have sent in • their . several Works as Candidates for the Medals annually distributed. The subject for Hitorieal Painting this year is " A lec k ; ,' Mar- Pa'sd, and has ;" for the Model, " Eve implor ing...the forgiveness of Adam '." for the Architec tural'Design, " A Royal Palace." Far the best production in each of the above lines of art, the successful Artist will receive the gold medal and fifty vuineas. Silver medals will also be given for drawings •made in the Academy. A male child, apparently about six weeks old, was discovered at the door of Mr. ROBERT .13A x - TER, in Queen-square, Bloomsbury, on Monday evening ; it was wrapped up in a blanket, and a dark-coloured silk pillow laid. under it ; it was .nearly dead from the effects of the cold, when dis covered, but is now 'veil, and in Gray's-inn-lane. workhouse. • DOG STEALING.—On Saturday last, Gofton, of Eighton Batiks, pitman, was convicte4 beforek the Magistrates at Gateshead, Newcastle upon-Tyne,. i n t h e m i t i gate d penalty of f . ?,01. under the Act of 10 Geo. 111. cap. 18. for stealing a dog. i;elonging to Mr. WILLIS, which it appeared Cot ton had also killed and cut off . his head, for no apparent cause or object, except for the brass col lar, which was found in his house,