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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 95, MI.

At • late hour last night we received the Paris
Papers of Sunday last. Their domestic intelligence
is of little interet.t. The accounts from Madrid,
which are to the gth instant, represent that city in
• state of great confusion, produced by the gene-
ral election then in progress. It rivals the prover.
bial turbulence of i Westminster election. The
town was placarded, and the parishes were all iu
uproar. There is no notice in these Papers of the
report that the King of ENGLAND means to visit
Paris on his return from Hanover. The following
are extracts :
PARIS, OCTOBER 2t.

The King transacted business yesterday with the
Duke de Richelieu, and afterwards drove to Shut
Cloud.

At five o'clock yesterday morning his Excellency
the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris ceased to exist.
The body will lie in state for nine cloys.
The Five per Cent. Consols are 89 fr. 60 cents.
—Bank Actions, 1,590 fr.

VIENNA. OCTOBER 9.
It is asserted that it is in pursuance of formal
demands addressed Ly the Reis-Effendi to our

Internuucio at Coninantinople, and transmitted by
the latter to our Court, that various measures iu
favour of the Turk. have been adopted. These
measures are not confined to the prohibition of the

exportation of arms, warlike stores, horses, &c. to
those Turkish provinces where the Greeks are in
arms ; but they extend also to all persons, of any
nation whatever, who entertain a design of passing
through the Austrian dominions to Greece.
It is supposed that those persons intend to enter
into the ranks of the Hellenists, and fight against
their oppressors. Even travellers, who are strangers
to the affair, are included in the measure, and
permission will not be granted to embark far those
countries where Greek corps are to be found.
Persons who wish to go to Moldavia, Wallachia, or
Sepia, are treated in the same manner ; they are
loM allowed to pass the frontier. The same vigil-
once is also extended to the Austrian provinces in
Italy. It is said that many travellers who had arrived
at Trieste and Fiume have been obliged to return,
though they were furnished with regular passports.
The saute system has been adopted in some other
of the Italian States, as also in the Roman doini-
nions and the kingdom of Naples. Private letters
from Leghorn announce, in effect, that permission
will not be given to persons to embark who design
to go to the Mores, to Etulia, or the islands in the
Archipelago.
Several young foreigners are now here who were
anxious to proceed to Greece by the route of
Trieste, but they have not been able to procure pass-
ports, noo Isom they money enough to carry them
home. Some foreign officers who were endeavour-
ing to raise recruits for Greece, have been conveyed
to the frontiers.
Notwithstanding the hatti-scheriff of the Grand
Signior prohibiting the Turks from committing
any species of violence, they continue to carry off
every thing they can lay hold of. They pillaged
the country-house of • Moldavian boyard very re•
cently, and having forced open the doors of a
church, took away all the property which had been
placed there in, the boyard for security. It is
said they olair;ittacked some convents, and that
they murdera the old people and carried off the
young.
oDESsA. sitt7sllasa 24.
Letters from St. Petersburgh repeat the rumour
which has been in circulation in that capital, that
our Cabinet has declined the proposition of Austria
and England relative to a Congress far the purpose
of deliberating on the affairs of Turkey.
Private accounts from Hanover, given in another
part of our Paper, state, that the KING remained
confined to his apartment up to the 17th inclusive.
but that the 'attack of gout under which he labour-
ed was a slightone, and his MAJUTT expected to
be able to set out on this day on his return to
England.
Sir ROSIMI WILSoIt has communicated to thg
Electors of fittlthwark copies of letters which
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have recently.hm" between the gallant Knight
and Lord SIIIIIOUTII relative to certain charge,
which Sir Rouser W mon understands have beet
urged against him. These, with a memoranda ruff
• conversation between Sir RoasaT WILSON and
Sir R. Blanks upon the subject of one of them,
will be found in another part of our Paper.
We entreat the particular attention of our readers
to these letters. They will be found to mark in an
emphatic manner the temper and spirit that have
been at work in conducting the inquisitorial pro-
ceedings against Sir RollilitT WILSON. This dim-
tingoished General has been punished in a
manuer the most galling to his feelings and the
most hurtful to his interests, as it was further
intended to be most ignominious iu the sight of his

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tomtit/ eta 'ofEurope; yet to the pheiteat hone
not only has no accuser appeared to charge him
with any offence, not only has Do crime bees publicly
imputed to him, or privately iatieuried, but evert
when pursuing the light which common fame has
raised, he endeavours to discover saw substantive

charge with which he may he abt•i;grapple for
the vindication of hit honour, his ardour is checked
by • cold reference to official forms, and is finally

repelled by an absolute refusal to secede to his re-
quest. Sir R. WILSON'S first letter to Lord SID-
MOUTH refers to a statement which recently ap-
peared in the newspapers, in which Sir R. Btants
is represented to have aaaaa ted, at a meeting of the
Magistrates for the Kensington division of the
county of Middlesex, that information hid beets
given to him at Bow-street, upon oath, that a
meeting had been held at the house of Mr. YOUDB,
in Hammersmith, at which the plan of interruption
to the Qussa's fune►al was concerted, and tbut
Sir R. WILSON had attended the meeting. Sir
ROBERT WILSON imagines, what is believed by
most people, that he has been deprived of his rook
in the army solely on account of some false charges

preferred against him by malicious persons, who
have accused him of planning and executing the
scheme fur the interruption of the Qu Mei funeral
procession. Such charges were for many reasons too
likely to receive ready belief from his personal
enemies in the Cabinet, but if he could by any
means bring the subject into a Court of Justice,
he could then easily shew that the allegations
were founded in the grossest untruth. Fur this
purpose he requested that Lord SI DMOUTH
would cause a copy of such information to be deli-
vered to him, that he might make it the ground of
legal proceedings against the perjured informant.
But why should Lord SIDMOUTH extend any in-
dulgence to Sir ROBERT W I LSON ? The request
was refused, because forsooth Lord SI DMOUTII was
not " the proper channel through which an appli-
cation fur the production of the information should
be made." Lord SIDMOUTH does not condescend
to say whether he had ever heard of the statement
noticed in Sir ROBERT Witson's letter, nor does
he deviate so far from the precision of official dig-
nity as to avow or disclaim a knowledge of the infor-
mation which was said in the report of the Clerk to
the Magistrates of the Kensington division to have
been taken on oath at Bow-street ; but his Lord-
ship's hint about " the proper channel" for ob-
taining the paper led Sir R. WiLson to communi.

cote personally with Sir R. BIRMIE, and from this
Magistrate he learned, 4, that no information in
writing had been taken—that the information was
a verbal one, founded upon a report at the Free-
masons' Tavern, of a meeting having been held at
Hammersmith, at which an officer had been pre•
sent;" but that upon examination the Magistrates
were satisfied that Sit 4oltintx Wkuuti bad never
been at the meeting.“ 4 • • •
It is impossible not to admire the progress of this
precious information, given by some person upon
oath, before the Chief Magistrate of t.b Police of
the metropolis. There are fellows tuirii had in
London, as in any other great tosWObitill swear
any thing ; but we did not think that there was a
Magistrate to be found in any of our police offices
who would listen to evidence of such a character as
is here exhibited; still less was it to be imagined
that the deficiency with respect to any given pur-
pose left in the information by the compunctions
visiting. of the informer's conscience, and the re.
lased credulity of the Magistrate, could be filled
op by the imagination or presumptions of other
persons higher in authojts. tfurssoMl, to be at-
tained was, that Sir ROLM *ll4/1110.1/01 present
at some meeting held" some where; for the purpose
of arranging the impedimenta which were opposed
by the untaught energy of the people to the pre.
scribed route of the Queates fuuerul processioo.
What is sworn ? That at the Freemasons' Tavern

the informant heard it reported (not saying by
wbom, or on what occasion), that a meeting had
been held at Hammersmith (not saying for what
purpose), at which an Officer bad beep present.
This double-distilled hearsay is received upon oath
by Sir R. BIRNII4 but not is writing, and is ono-
muuicated to the litwa's Government as infor-
mation sufficient to justify a measure of State
policy, and to be preserved among the archives of
the Empire. It arrives iu the Cabinet, cud in-
stantly whatever was doubtful is made clear, what-
ever was incomplete is made perfect ; nothing could
he more manifest than that the impedimenta were
the result of military experience, and of previous
arrangement. A meeting was actually held at
YOUDIOI, in Hammersmith, and who could doubt
that there the plan of tLe ensuing day's operations
was devised ? An Officer too was present, and with-
out caring whether he was distinguished by a painted
staff or a sword, who could hesitate that this Officer
must be Sir Romer Witsom ? This was the
point to be established, and Sir ROBERT WlLsom
being that clearly shewu to be guilty, punishment
ought to follow as a matter of course. He was,
therefore, deprived of the fruits of a thousand herd-
fought battles, and it was subsequeutly left to Sir
It. Manta to ascertain what portion of justice
might chance to be found in the proceeding. The
inquiry was pursued, when, alas I Sir It. EMIR
and his brother filagistratm were all clearly satis-
fied that no such meeting Maws supposed was held
at Mr. Youwes—that' the *feting was for par-
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poses Wally different—loci " that Sir itodervi
WILSON had never been in the house."
hi the correspondence our readers will And a
a second letter from Sir ROBERT WILSON to Lord
SI DNOUTH, in which be refers to another charge
against him, in reference to his conduct at the
QUREN'S funeral, and regain) Lord SIDSIOI3TiI to
direct a copy of the deposttcon to be delivered to
him, for the purpose of.frreeeeding by low against
the informant for perjp.ry. Lord Sinnou'rn,
however, says, that 44 rshould not think him.
self justified in acceding to his request. The
I public, we are persuaded, will agree with •us in
thinking that Lord SION OUTH is scarcely justified
is withholding front Sir ROBERT WILSON the only
means he can employ of relieving his character from
the charges that have been cast upon it. The
Ministers act towards Sir ROBERT WILSON not
only cruelly but unjustly. Their adherents argue
for them that no legal way was open to them of
bringing Sir keiW I LSO li to trial for his supposed
offence, and tAit consequently they were under the
necessity of proceeding against hint by an arbitrary
exercise of the royal prerogative. But now, whets
Sir ROBERT WILSON demands an opportunity of
meeting whatever charges may have been urged
sguin.t him, they not only do not, for the vindica-
tion of their own proceedings, seize the moms that
are in their power of bringing the affair before
the public, but they coldly repress his exertions,
and endeavour to prevent him from enjoying the
benefit of a public investigation of his conduct.
We do not mean to deny that the KING
possesses,

as of his royal prerogative, the dissolute right of
removing from his rank in the urtny any officer
whatsoever; but the voice of prerogative, in the
present advanced state of political science, grates
harshly upon the ears of Englishmen, and no wise
Miuister would ever have recourse to it without
hastening to convince the nstiou that he was. fully
justified by circumstances in recurring to an extra.
ordinary means of obtaining some object of genera;
expediency. Au opportunity is now presented to
the Ministers of shewing that Sir Roamer WIL.
son deserved to be removed from his rank in the
army without the intervention of any inquiry into
his conduct. This opportunity they publicly de-
cline, and it will rest with the public to appreciate
their unwillingness to justify a proceeding which is
opposed essentially to those °Triunity principles of
justice which have been sanctioned by our usages
as they ■re consecrated by the principles of our
Collet it utter.