The Sun. — London, England, 1817-09-27 00:00:00

:=r ~ -_ ~. ON POLITIC:AL CONSTITUTIONS.. Even Boussv.A . u., that champion of natural li berty And equality, admits the '' legitimacy" of more than one torm of Government ; excludes 'only the despotic, arid proves, that the Monarchic Constitution, tempered by the security of na, tional laws, 'consented Co by all the people,. through their representatives, is not only a legi timate form, but the test of them all. His clo- Aptent and youthful eulogist, Madame de SraEt., more - than 35 years ago, in the very foen of the risiqg revolutions of France, displays, and a;rees in this sentiment, which was also that of MON HSO.LIIEU, nor did VOLTAIIIE " dream" of any of 11,r. The history and experience of more than 4000 years, and of all the great Countries of the Old and New World, With few, though splendid ex ceptions, spew the prevalence. of the supreme Goyerothent ut one ; the mortal and hotnhle itni tatio, O f t h e Divine Rule, in the sympathy of paternal coot roul and protection. It is, without doubt, the purest form in concep. thin, and the simplest. in practice. The errors, or oppression of one, can ,never multiply, or ex tend. so far, as those of - 'many, with an equal power. The human faculty has never, at one spring, passed from the savage and uncultivated to the civil and politic conditions. All our advances have been made by the progressions of a gradual im provement, or of a slow reform, or the violent and protracted contentions of revolutionary phrenzy, in modes of relrgion, or forms of government. AVtidt the Poet so well says, will always be true : " For Forms of Government, let• Fools contest, " Vt'hate'er is best arbninislered is best." Chance and necessity, force or suffering, have at all times, hitherto, 'had more influence on civil i►astitutions, than cool reflection, or meditative wisdom. • Of the paternal form of Monarchy, in the rule of States, the vice among simple people, and of ruder tunes, has been too, often a despotism of ca ' vicious and absolute power: Christianity, and the increase - of knowledge, with the study of the classical institutions and free opinions of Greece and of Rome, have long opposed effectual barriers to this encroachment in th,e person of the Mo narch ; and the danger of this propensity has been felt or feared in the Ministers of his power. In the comparison of the institutions. of nations, time hapny curiosity (" curiosa felicitas") of the British Constitution has been the result, as it now stands, of time, circumstance and accidents, much wore than of theory or abstraction. The contest with the intolerance, civil tyranny, and mental oppt -es , ions of the Itornish Church, and Papal Poyeer, opened the way to much of our present condition. With the politic necessity of Civil Rule, is happily blended the moral and reasonable principle of Law—the rule alike of government a nd o f obedience ; of the mr - March and the subject ; the restraint of the executive, and the guide of the legislative and judicial functions. , r The S,,vereignty of the People"—if it mean the Supremacy of the Laws, which have been made -and agreed to by the best wisdom of the Monarch rind the People, through the ,Iree deliberations and public voice of their chosen refirescntatives, is o correct expression ; if it be token to mean the ex , ,•cutive, administrative, legislative, or judicial exercise of power, by the people, or the populace, it is otter nonsense, or culpable treason to society— the thing is quite impossible, consistently with any permanence, security, peace, or ease in the social state. 'Manners, and habits, the customs of society, or the religions belief or persuasions of men, have oo necessary connexion with the form, or the ad ministration of the civil politic Government ; hot PS these have grown up commonly together, and ' have had influences mutually in raising and sup porting each other, the alliance between Church and State, between religious epinion and politic establishment, has ever, since the Christian era, and ifs conflicts, with opposing dogmas, or its own differing sects, been inevitable ; the influence nod jealousy of a majority of either of the two great modern differences of doctrine, the Catholic ansi the Protestant, have been exercised witl.t more or less of intolerance and disqualification by both: with advantage, religious or political, to neither. Without perNecution, which has been mutual, the Catholic could have softened the differences of the 15th Century, or himself would long since have outgrown many of his errors and superstitions ; withont the obstinacy and exaggeration,• which contention provokes,. the Protestant might have withdrawn some of his devotion from St. Atha nasitis, and the Unitari , .:l and Trinitarian would have beea sheep of the same shepherd, }tunable a,torers of an ihs.crutable Providence, the creator, preserver, or redeemer of them all. The rule of a Monarch, lbnited by'the Laws ; assisted by responsible Ministers, chosen from among the hereditary advisers, and elected repre sentatives of the people ;—the Legislative Power, di.,ninet from, and independent of the Executive. and only perfect in their union and common con sent, wi;di the Judicial Power *rind Magisterial FtinCliMlS ~ free, and high charactered, seem to form the cr, n sfitotion of a great St ate , b es t su i te d to t h e ra ti ona l liberty and the general protection of all, in internal a dministration and economy, and to the -most prudent and politic influences on the external relations of Empire. This is the Constitution, the admiration, aim or envy of the whole globe, the possession of privilege ; the advantage and the pride of Brit a i n , - v. - hose every care should he to preserve this birth rieht, acquired by our fathers, from the premature dec:ty of corruption, or the perishing influence of partial interests and general apathy, or unconcern. The Constitution, Laws, and Navy of Gieat Bii laiti ale the three great bulwarks o f her islands, end great colonies ; and all require a vigilant and honest cantion to preserve them from " dry-rot" in their limbers, or a wrong course of steerage in their executive conduct and legislative enact ions. OMICRQ.N. '2134 scL,t. 18 17. FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, SEPT. ELECTORAL COLLEGE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TILE SEINE. RESULT OF T'HE FIRST SORUTINY FOR THE NONI ‘ NATION 'OF DEPUTIES. Lange banker, baying a number of votes ftrnountiug to upWards of a fourth plus one of the whole number of the Members of the College, and to half plus one of the number of Electors who actually voted, has in consequence been proclaimed a Deputy to the Chamber. The persons who alter M. Lafitte obtained the greatest number of votes, without, however ; having file requisite majority, are as follow : M.M. Alert (Chevalier), Under Secretary of State in the Ministry of War Bartheltmy, Banker, President of, the Chamber of Commerce . licliart, Councillor of Stale, Procureur-General to the Cour Royale nounet, Batomner of the Order of Advocates Breton, Notary Royal, Member of the Council General of the Department .. 1347 Comet de la Bonnadiere, Matter of Requests, Mayor of the I It h Arrondissement Chaptal, sen. Constant de Rebecue (Benjamin), Proprietor .. 2346 Dau re Defragnier, Colonel of the 6th Legion of the National Guards 738 Delahaye, Advocate . . Delaitre (Remond), Member of the Council General of the Dt.partmcnt lB5O Delessett (Benjamin), I.3awlier Dubois (Count) Dumas (Count Mathieu) Gilbert de Voisins, Proprietor ... 2304 Goupy, stn. ... 1998 Uotteau Ilorigny, Advocate, Mayor of the sth Arron dissement . Labbe . (Francois), formerly a Merchant • 542 Lafa)ette ',ante, Notary Royal, Chief of the Bth Legion of the Na tional Guards • 866 Lebrun, Mayor of the 4th Arrondissement Le Prieur. .de Blainvilliers, Banker, Mayor of the Bth Arrondissement Manuel, Advocate 277 4. 011ivier, Director of the Bank, Member of the Council General of the Departinent ll9l Pardessus, Professor of the School of Law lO7B Pasquier, Minister of Justice, Keeper of the Seals 2065 Perier (Casimer), Banker .. 2819 Quatrentere de Quincy, Member of the Institute 979 Rendu, King's Procureur-Genes al to the Court of Ac counts Rodier, Sub-Governor of the Bank of France 829 Roy, Advocate Ternbaux, Merchant 3413 Thiars (the Count de) 1275 Trippier„ldvocate Try, President of the Tribunal de Premi4re Instance 1836 Vaiton, formerly an attorney lO5 Published by the Undersigned President of the Electoral College of the Department of the Seine. Paris, Sept. 2.2, 1817. (Signed) BELLART. The operations of the scrutiny having been prolonged into the day of the 22d, the Sections are to assemble again to-inot row, the 23d. The Electors who have not voted in their respective sections, will doubtless regard it as a sacred duty to attend. The President and Vice-Presidents of the Coiiege earnestly request them to do so. Signed by the President and Vice-Presidents of the Electoral College of the Department of the Seine. Paris;Sept. 22, 1817. Reforms are talked of in the Bureaux of the Ministt y of Finance. Pt ince Patti of Wurtemberg has arrived at Paris. His Royal Highness resides at the lintel of Mar shal Davoust, which lie has hired for three years. The Princess of Wurtemberg, his Consort, and his children arrived here three weeks since. M. De Serre, President of the Chamber of De puties, has been re-elected at Colmar Deputy for the Departwent du Haut Rhin. M. De Magneval, Ex-Member of the Chamber of Deputies, has been re-elected at Lyons Deputy for the Department du Rhone. The individuals condemned relative to the as sassination of M. Fualdi.'s have appealed in cas , sation. They write from Switzerland, that inundations continue to devastate the vallies and the fields. The following is an extract of a private letter from Petersburgh " The Court of Rio Janeiro attributes the de claration of the Allied Powers in favour of Spain, in part, to the friendship of the Emperor of Russia for Spain ; a still greater sensation has been caused by Austria signing the declaration, not hstand- Mg her new family connections with the Court of Portugal. The Rnssian Minister at . Rio Janeiro having been treated with little respect by the Court, bas requested his recall, and renounced all exercise of his diplomatic functions, It is sup posed, however, the Court of „Brazil will arrange the subsisting differences. " It is understood that our Court will address an invitation to all the courts of Europe, to pro hibit the equipment of vessels of weir, and the ex port of arms for the insurgents of South America, and to declare pirates all their privateers which shall appear in the European seas. The interven tion of our Court with that of Vienna has ob tained in Austria the 'prohibition of the export of every species of ammunition to South America. for the use of the insurgents. The steps taken with the same view at London have not yet been successful. " The Court of Russia is also occupied with a project for engaging all the European Powers to conclude a Treaty in order to take common and rigorous ':neasures against pirates whcrey►er they may carry their hostility into effect. These pi rates are divided into five classes, viz. Ist. The privateers of the Insurgents of South America.- 2d. Italian and Turkish privateers.-3d. liarbruy ; and a hussian squadron to proceed to Tunis to obtain satisfaction for an inSulc to the Russian Pirates in the Indian and Chinese seas.-sth. Arabian pirates in the Persian Gulph." News front Berlin mention a fray, attended_ with bloodshed, which took place the 7th of this month between some men of the Landwehr, troops of the line, and Burgesses of the city many,of them have been very severely wounded. FER CENTS. Monday, INEPRtiCK, SEPT. 1 I.—The Count de Sauran, now in Itaty, is said, under the late Treaty, surrender the Principality of Lucca to the Queen of Etruria. PETERSBCRGII, AUG. 29.—Since the greatest part of Poland has formed a distinct kingdom under the rule of the Emperor, we cannot over look the favourable changes %which has been ope rated in that State.—There have been' established not only schools - for SCieIICCS, but also a great number of elcinentary ones and seminaries, which are already on a vet y good footing. The method of Pcstalozzi is followed in some parts of Poland ; but that of Lancaster seems better suited to the country, and the Emperor has already sent for, in order to establish him at Warsaw, one of the young Russians who have been studying this method in England at the ekpvice of the Govern ment. . . For PROVINCIAL JOURNALS, see our Last Page. THEATRIr.;AL 11. - EGISTER. Performed Last Night. THEATRE RGYAL, CoVENT-GARDEN.—AS You T.ibe It : Jaques, Mr. Young- ; Rosalind, Miss Brunton. After which, The Russian Festival. To which was added, The Libertine. New THEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-IlallsE.—First Per formance—The Padlock. After which, Wanted a Go verness : Principal Characters by Mr. Bartley and Miss Kelly. Second Performance—The Purse. After which, The Woodman's Hut : Ferdinatel, Mr. T. Short; Amelia, Miss Kelly. MAILS. ARRIVED-1 Dublin, 2 Waterford. .DUE -1 Malta, 1 Lisbon, 1 Hamburgh. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE o'cLocK. Bank Stock, - • stint Bank L. Ann... shut 3 per Cent. Red. stint Imperial 3 per Cent. Ant). 80 3 per Cent. Cons. .81 A S 0 Si India Stock, . ....... 5.'39 4 per Cents. shut Cons. for October,....B l Mi 5 per Cent. Navy Ann. 10tiii HIGH WATER Al' LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW, Nlurning, 45 minutes after 3. I Evening, 10 minutes after 4. THE SUN. SULENI QUIS DICEICE FALSUNI AUDCAT ? LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1817. We received last night the Paris Papers of Tues day last. :►Those of .Wednesday, which were due this morning, have not come to hand. It will be seen from our extracts in another column, that M. LAFITTE, the banker, is the only Candidate at Paris, who, having the majority required by the French Election Laws, has been declared to be elected a Deputy. There were therefore seven more still to elect. The Sectional Assemblies were to meet again on Tuesday for the purposes of another scrutiny, the result, not having re-; ceived IVednesday's Journals, we do not know. The following are the names of the seven can didates who, on the first scrutiny, were found next to M. LAFITTE to have the highest num bers :--- M.M. lienjamin Deiesseit, banker - - - - 3,044 Casimir Perrier, banker - - 2,319 Manuel, advocate - - - - - - 2,771 Bellart, Councillor of State, Procureur-General to the Cour Royale, President of the Electm eel College of the Seine - - - - 5;43 Carnet de la Bonnardiere, Master of Requests, 111a7or of the nth Arrondissement - - 2,453 Roy, advocate _ . - 2,380 Benjamin Constant de Rebecque - - - 2,346 Some guess ►nay - be formed from this list with regard to the ultimate result of the election, though it is of course impossible to anticipate with any certainty who may be finally chosen. LA FAYETTE, who is the third with respect to number of votes after BENJAMIN CONSTANT, appeari to have no chance, and the success of the latter appears doubtful. BELLART will of course be elected, but his being so low on the list slims the little influence possessed by the Government. The high numbers of the Bankers are not . very difficult to account for, independent of any political feel ing. The result, however, so far as it is known, shews time existence of a strong spirit of opposi tion to the Government. Au article in one of the Journals, purporting to Ise an Extract of a private Letter from St. Peters burgh, contains some curious statements. It is said that the Russian Government is about to address an invitation to all the Courts of Europe, requesting them to prohibit the equipment of vessels of War, and the exportation of arms for the use of the Insurgents of South America, and that a prohibition of this nature has been al ready obtained from Austria. It is also reported that the Russian Court is occupied with a project for inducing all the European Powers to conclude a Treaty,, with the view of taking rigorous mea sures against Pirates in all quarters ; classing amongst them, in the first place, the privaXders of the South American Insurgents. A serious tumult is stated to have taken place at Berlin on the 7th instant, between the men of the Landwehr, the troops of the line, and the Bourgeois of the city, in which several persons were severely wounded, bat no particulars are given. The circumstance is also mentioned in the same general way in the German Papers which came to hand last night. FRENCH FIVE PER CENTS. Monday, - 65 1. 75 c. This morning we received Philadelphia Papers of one day later than the last arrival. The Philadelphia Journal, of Aug. 15, contains the following extract of a letter front an Officer in the Patriotic Army, dated Fernandina, AtiV il S:— " A detachment of forty Indians has Id e is appearance at St. ..John's. Rumour says, ib part of the inhabitants applied for aid to the 6° ' veinor of St. Augustine, and the other part our General. However, a detachment of o lir Army is on their march to that place, to rer e them. We have had t‘vo alarms lately from (1) Indians ; I fired on ev'erai last night *bile ° duty.—We are very. sickly among our Offic e° and men." • The German Papers received last night co ntD:' the following ►etter from America respecting gration,•detailing circumstances which it is higo important should be generally known : " BosroN, JvLy 4, 1811' " The rage of emigration from Europe to this coif try prevails to such a degree, that every ship which arre is crowded with emigrants, who, on their arrival, are 1 011 starved. Among those last arrived, the most are Swi , Wurtembergers, and Palatines. Last week there arrited be four ships from Holland, with 3,250 Sitiss on board, from O f cantons of Basle and Zurich, who were in the most wretch' 3 condition. In New York there are aboVe 16,008 of still emigrants, emigrants, Irish, Scotch, and Germans, in a more lamentaW condition than that of the Lazaroni at Naples. Great soli;' cellars are opened, in order at least to protect these Po' ; wretches against famine. In concert with many o f 00 most respectable men in this city, .I request you, Ger tlemen, to make known in one of the Vienna Journals tl true situation of these deluded emigrants, as it appears tha t the most erroneous ideas prevail in Europe respecting the state of, things in America. The whole American coast, frog' the river St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Mississippi, 0 very populous, and the 'country well peopled and cultivated to the extent of from 300 to 2,000 miles from the sea coast:" What is called Emigrant's Land lies,at the distance of 3,00° English miles from any of the Atlantic provinces, and 0 6 journey thither must be made .on foot. America has' no neca of artisans and mechanics, for all manufactured goods are in:" ported cheaper than they can be manufactured in the countrl. The warehouses in the American cities are filled with English goods, which are sold at any price.. Provisions are four tinici as dear in America as in Germany: I pay 13 dollars per weir for my table. To all this must be added, that during the gorous winter season, which bits here in general (ruin seven to eight months, there is no employment whatever fur the labouring poor."—(4u.strian Observer to Scpt. 14.) INSURGENT PRIVATEERS. The Consequentia Insurgent Privateer, of fort/ guns and two hundred men, sailed from 13ieno5 Ayres the 28th June on a cruise ; an:l the nye Ameiro, also an Insurgent Privateer, sailed iron} thence on the 3d July on a cruise.. It was not to be expected that so active a Far' , titan of Opposition as The British Press would suffer us to remain unanswered, and accOrdingli it has favoured us with a few comments, this day, on the subject of the recent Newcastle Meeting, professed to be held in honour of Mr. Fox. Oa answer shall be short, for we have the satisfaction to find that the intemperate harangues, uttered oe that occasion; have excited disgust throughout the County. With the exception of a few respect , able, but misguided individuals, the body of the Visitors, according to the Newspaper state ment, amounted merely to about- an hundred Persons, and none of them are considered as Wise acres. The County is loyal, and will not suffer itself to be identified with a few ambitious or dis appointed partizans. But to The British Press.; It tells us, what we did not know before, that we were wrong in supposing that none of the Papers which generally support Government, except Tug SUN, expressed any sentiment on the occasion, and it informs us that The Courier did. Ess we only see the Morning Papers, we know nothing of the general contents of The Courier, except front the kind hostilities which . The Morning Chronicle every day directs against it, no doubt greatly ° the amusement of its Readers.=-The Press proceeds to say " Tna SUN . takes credit to itself and its Colleague, for (not) suffering certain strong pas sages in Mr. LAMBTON'S speech to pass unnoticed." . THE SUN certainly took credit to itself for notic ing one of the most inflammatory speeches ever uttered by a person in that Gentleman's rank irk society, at a Meeting intended to do honour to the dead, but it took no credit for anybody else, and we arc wholly at a loss to know what The Press means by our " Collecigne." If it means to say, that THE SUN has any connection with The Courier, it is entirely mistaken. From what we know of one of the new Editors of that Paper, we'respect his talents and his private character; and from what we hear of the other, whom we d o not know, we have every reason to believe that he is entitled to the same sentiment,' on the same grounds ; but THE SUN is independ• ent in its feelings, its principles, and its connec. tions, and will still, as it has done from its origin, make the System of the late Illustrious WILLIA/12 PITT its Leading Star through all the political storms with which PARTY, FACTION, and SEDI TIOUS INNOVATION, may attempt, to excite discon tent in the People, and to subvert the Govern. went of the Country. Mr. ADDINGTON, who bad ',men indisposed in he Country, re, u rt►ed his post ott Monday last ibtt the Iloine Department.