The Sun.
London, England, 1830-12-08 00:00:00

BATTLR OP MARIGNAIVO.

The Swiss determined to surprise the French,
to carry the artillery in the first attack, and turn
it on their enemies, an operation so successful
at Noma. Bourbon, however, was prepared
for them. The' artillery, consisting of seventy
pieces, were placed behind an entrenchment,
commanding the road ; the lansquencts were
stationed to guard it, while the cavalry, drawn
up behind, and on each side, waited to observe
the order of the Swiss, They came on in
silence, without drum or trumpet ; a cloud
of dust, raised by their speed, announcing, never-
theless, their approach. It was the middle of
September, several hours after noon. The Swiss
came in one compact column, rushing on the
artillery, and against the lansquenets, ilny.e rivals
in their mercenary profession of war, whom they
hated, and whom they swore that day to exter-
minate. At' first the lansquenets recoiled from
the furious charge of the Swiss ; some of the
cannon were already captured ; when the cavalry
and the black bands, the King himself among
them, extended in the form of wings, and took
the phalanx of the Swiss on either side in flank.
The lasquenete, thus supported, took courage.
The first charge of the Swiss, so universally vie.
torious, was here not decidedly successful ; and
having no longer the advantage of an impulse,
their pikes, became less formidable. Obliged to
face enemies that almost surrounded them, their
phalanx was split into numerous bodies, which
continued the combat, and only till sunset,
but even till the moonlight failed them.
Some of these bodies smotabed, however ;
one yielded to a charge led by the King
himself-,--the Swiss throwing down then
halberds, and crying ee France !" in token of
submission. Towards midnight, utter darkness
stopped the combat, and both parties, inter-
mingled, slept or kept watch in little bands
amongst their enemies. The King himself re-
posed on the stock of a cannon.
When day broke, both armies rallied ; the
Swiss to form their original phalanx ; the French
round their cannon, which welt, again plied with
true aim and fearful alacrity. The Swiss re-
newed the attack. The lausquenets still held
the entrenchment ; the rust of the army assailed
the enemy in flank. After some hours fighting,
the Swiss began to despair. They now conde-
scended to manceuvre, and despatched a consi-
derable body to turn. and attack the French
camp in rear; but it Was too late; the
divasion Was beaten back, and nought wits
left for the Swiss but to retreat. This they
did in good order and undaunted, though
pursued not only by the victorious French, but
by the Venetians, who arrived at the close of
the action, The Count tie Petigliane, the
Venetian General, desirous to share in the
combat, charged the retreating Swim, and
parished.—Dr. Lardner's Cabinet (yeiop,edia.

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6rii.).oloiilltntit; inyjisoimentltitdeincrimistal ,
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manner from his former prodostions, but one which it is
reported will girt thohitppiset opportunities for the display
of his peculiar vain. The work itt question is a pima.
.and though the pretended subject is the " Siamese ,Twins,"
.the actual purpose of the writer is to satirise many ertit..
.ing absurdities and 'hiss, nut only in mouton. irto43-
tiotis, Ace, but in men and women ilguring as thitriaositt
in the busy world. A satire in 'pros!, lose*, half its
strength; verse is the only medium to giv* it
to lire it on tits memory.

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VMPtIVIAL PAULIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, Dxc. 7.
NEGRO SLAVERY.

'Petitions were presented against Negro Slavery by Lord
'Gavial"; from Wadull, by Lord DA'CIIX ; and by Lout CAL-.
-manta, from Birmingham, Waheorth, and Camberwell.,
Petitions of a like nature were also presented by the,
Bishop of Latium.% Lord Ilex Ley' and Lord FR A Ntot.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE, in consequence of,
the illness of the Marquis of Anglesea, presented several'
petitions from Ireland; but the only two we could hear was
one from Dublin, praying for the assimilation of the Bank-
rupt Laws of Ireland with these of England, and the other
from the same place, praying for the better adtninistra-
tion of Parliamentary grants for charitable purposes.
He was sorry that the Marquis of Angleseiwas'so ill sib.,
be unable to present these petitions himself. But this he
would say for him that no person was more anxious to con-
ciliate all parties, which he knew would be for the interest
of Ireland.
On the motion of the Duke of RICHMOND, leave was
given to the Committee on the Poor Laws to report to the li
House, when they' thought fit, and the evidence taken
before them was ordered to he printed.
A MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS.

Sir A. GAANT and others•from the Commons brought
up the Consolidated Fund 811, whirl, on the motion of
Lord AUCLLAND was read a first time► and ordered to be
printed.
Mr. Justice Patterson and Me. Justice Alderson
were in attendance, and took down the Regency Bill to the
Nouse of Commons,
The House toijourneil at Six o'clock.

HOUSE OP COMMONS, DEC. 7..
Lord Althurp took the oaths and his seat for North-
amptonshire; Right Hon. Robert Grant, for Norwich;
William Ewart, Esq., for Liverpool; Francis Thornhill
Baring, Esq , for Portsmouth; Right lion. Charles
Poulett Thomson, for Dover.

Tke House was occupied this evening until Half.past
Five o'clock in ballotting for Committees to try the merits
of several Election Petitions. Soon after the gal'ery was
opened for the admission of strangers, the following names
were announced as members of the several Committees :

On the Hastings Petition—The Hon. Lloyd Kenyon,
the Earl of Uxhridire, Mr. Ralph Bernal, Sir J. W. Ber-
nal, Sir L. Kerrison, Lord Brabazon, Sir Cullen E.
Smith, Mr. C. B. Wall, Hun, F. Aldborough Prittie,
Non. Richard Fitzgibbon, Right Hon. T. P. Courten iy.
On the New Romney Petition—Mr. George Trail,
Mr. P. B. Thompson, Mr. Charles Russell, Mr. Murk
Millhank, Hon. W. Duncombe, Sir E. Scott, Hon. J.
H. Knox, Mr. E. Rogers, Mr. J. L. Lushington, Mr.
Marcus Beresford, Mr. Henry Maxwell.

On the Ilehester Petition—• Mr. E. Blount, Hon. C.
Pryse Campbell, Mr. IL L. Stevens, Mr. J. V. Shelley,
Lord D. C. Stuart, Mr. Posey, Mr. J. A. Smith, Sir
W. A. Ingilby, Mr. L. W. Buck, Mr. H. J. Adeane, Mr.
Thomas Green.

On the Cork Petition.—Mr. J. Intvley, Mr. S. White,
MG Spencer Perceval, Mr. C. !rhea, Lord Viscount
Afaitlantl, Mr. T. Chaplin, Lord Russell, .Tr. J. flay.
ward Hawkins, Mr. J. Caleraft, Hun. Win. Browne, Mr.
J. R. Lee Lee.

REGENCY BILL.
Mr. Justice Patteson and Mr. &mice Alderson brought
down the Regency Bill front the Lords, which, on the mo-
tion of Lord ALTIIOII,P, wa4 read a first time, AtICI ordered
to be read tt second time on Thursday %leXt.
RETRENCHMENT AND ECONOMY.

Lord ALTHORP gave notice that on Thursday next he
should move for a Select Committee to inquire into what
reduction could he made in the salaries of all officers holding
places under the Crown during 'plettsure, such offices being
filled by Members of either House of Parliament.—(Loud
tries of" hear," and cheering, from all parts of the /louse.)
After the cheering had somewhat subtitled, the Noble
Lard gave notice that on Frit'', next he should more fur
a vote of credit on account of the Civil List.--(Hear.)

Sir HENRY PARNELL asked whit was 'the inten-
tion of Government with respect to the Civil List ?
Lord ALTHORP, in reply to the question of his Right
Ilon. Friend opposite (Sir IL Parnell), would explain that
' bie Majesty's Govermueot had taken the whole subject of
the Civil List into deliberate consideration ; many of them
`disapproved of the mode in which it had been lathed,
usual to,present the Civil List to that House, They would
not, therefore, feel themselves jortified in again proposing
to a Committee. the papers which had been presented re—
" Wing the Civil List by their pretiecesiora knitter. They
should take some :time its' deliherating upon the.cimukes
which 'ought to be reads in the arrangements of the Civil
List, It was with that view that he proposed tee upply,
in the Committee on Friday evening, for a grant on ac•
count of the Civil List, until the Government should have
prepared the plans which they would ultimately bring for.
ward. He had not thought it necessary to snake that ex.
phinstion in giving notice of bis intended application to
the Cs'Anmittee; and he was sure the House would see the
necessity for slowing to Ministers the time which they
required. Should the House so consent to indulge them,
they would bring forward their proposition respecting the
Civil Liu at an early day. after the recess.—( Clear.)
Sir it. PEEL begged, to ask whether be had rightly un-
derstood the ruble Lorsito Bay that it was big intention to
move that the Order revecting the Select Committee on
the Civil List should be rescinded

Lord ALTIIORP Explained that the contrary was }lir
Intention.

Sir I. PEEL. -then remarked fag we understood him),
that then there could surely he no, ocealioo ti, apply far
rote of :credit. If a Select Committee should sit accord.
lag to the Order of the blouse, it of course would do the
business for which it bad been appointed, and would re.
caimmetui the grant of a sufficieot sum.—(llear, hear.)
Mr. J. WOOD said that he for one was exceedingly
obliged to the Noble Lord fur the announcement which he
bail made. He wag sure that it would he received with
unqualified satisfaction by the cnuntry.—(Clear.) Ile was
Much gretified to hear that the Ministers would submit
their plan respecting the Civil List to the Committee al.
ready appointed,—(Cheeis ) Nothing could be better
aculated to secure to them the support of the honest a nil
iodependent Members of that House, who, upon whatever
side they might choose to occupy teats, would never lie
iniluced to join in en opposition haviiig for its object merely
to drive round to this side those who MIW sit on that, in
order to Mere into their placits.—(Checrs.) He was our.
prised that the Right Hon. Baronet, who had so lately And
for seer long a time held a place of high confidence in the
councils of his Majesty, • should affix a groundless opposi.
lion to the Government, and throw vexatious impedimenta
in the wily of the public buiriuesa—(Cheere, acid cries of
" No, no froM Sir Robert Peel.) For his own part,
he (Mr. Wood) acknowledged, that from no other Mem-
ber of that House bad be experienced greater courtesy than
fmin the bight Hem baronet, but be Certainly diii believe
that the Right lion. Minuet was throw-ill; a vexatious
impediment in the way of the ;Ministers, (when he said,
that if the Select Committee should Meet, the considera-
tion of the Civil List ought to he klt with theni—(No,
130)...whireae, it seemed to him (Mr. Wood) but rem
equable, that the House should allow the Ministort time to
prepare their plena, and he believed that they more de..
*reread confidence When they required time to consider their
measure* before they offered than to Rouse.
Sir R. PEEL said, that he had never heard such n
speech at that just delivered, by the Him. Cattleman be-
hind him.-.(blear, hear.) Ile could. not acknowledge
that the Hon. Gentleman bed any right to read hint it
lecture for the opinion 'wliklt he hart taken occasion to
express. He denied that he reed veinimie impediment*
to the public business. The Noble Lord load called for
time to allow the Govettimeot ter co.:udder the List which
the/ should propose, and accordingly the Comieittee
which the house bad appointed was not to consider the
matter for which it had been appieted until Ministers
siould be prepared to make their proposition. limit the
Noble Lord had announced that kis arrengement* could
not be completed until After Christi, as. Now it did alo.
pear to hint tiro the Committee ought not to it without
considering the subject referred to them ; and surely there
ought tribe some distinct proceeding of the House before
it could be said that the Committee would not sit. The
Hon. Gentlemen hail said, that !itemise he: .(Sir It. Nel)
had opposed the Committee, lie ought not now to oppose
its being soperteded. But if such A postponement were
to take place, it ought to Lou the act of the Muse, and not
of individual Member*. Thu proposition of the !Veld,:
Lord amounted to this..-.that a OitUrtlittitd ordered by the
House should be adjourned sine iiie, Without the sanction
of the House. Now be asked if, in pointing out the irre.
gularity of-such a proceeding, he offered any unrereioneble
opposition to the 111141;44 Administration?
Lord ALTHORP explained his intention to Apply for-
mally to the Route foe leave to postpone the sitting of the
Committee. Yet be iMtnt Sly that he recolleeted well the
rase of the Superannuation Committee.' in the last session.
The Ministers, having themeelvesi applied-for that Com-
mittee, peetponed he sitting time six vitae after its sp.
pointinent.....(Hear.) Now he slid not thick that he
(Lord A.) was doing anything unprecedented or irregular
in obtaining the poirtpootoneut of the present Civil
CoMmittee. Gentietooo must he aware that it was not
the usage fur Comoutuisre tipbit immediately whets
pointed, but to postpone their sittings ateording to the
tonycnicou of the public. butisimi or evtoof the iatlividua'

lltembers themselves.-..-.(Near, hear.) When he had been
asked whether he should move to rescind tire Inter rot
a Select Committee, he thought he bad explained his inten-
tion to be net to take that course, but, on the sitting of
the Cotnmittee, to apply .Tor its pbstponement -until the
Ministers should have determined on the plait to be sub-
mitted to the House:—(trear.)
Mr. CHOKER thought the more regular course would
be to have the order rescinded.

Mr. COURTENAY considered that the whole question
turned on a question of form. fte suggested that the pa-
pers pttsented by the late Administration respecting the
Civil List should be withdrawn, and others substituted for
therm
After a few words from Mr. ettnxica and Mr. Coua.
TENAIr; the conversation dropped.

HUSH CHANCELLOR,
Mr, G., H. DAWSON said, that ho Wished to inquire
of the Noble Lord whether thtte was any truth in a re-
port, which had been very generally circulated, respecting
the Lord Chattedlor of Ireland ? He understood that the
personage at present filling that office Was ahatit to retire,
although he had no wish to do an oh his nwtt account.—
(Order.)—Now, if, as was reported, Sir Anthony Hart
should be obliged to retire, the country would be bur-
thened with at additional pension. The retired Man-
cellar would receive four thousand b.-year—an ex-
pence for which, so far as the Vresent Irish Chancellor
was concerned, there was no excuse for imposing.
In this country he knew that a little gentle violence
had been necessary for a time, and had ken at length
successful, to persuade a late Hon. Member to allow him-
self to be promoted to the Seals.—(Order.)—Now he
(Mr. Dawson) was satisfied that a little of the same kind
of force Would be sufficient to persuade Sir A. Hart to
retain the Seals, and save the country from the serious
expense which that Judges resignation would occasion.—
(Order, order.)
Lord ALTIIOItP, amidst loud cries of order, replied,

that tA yorefient he was unable to answer the question of
the Hon. Gentleman. He (Lord A,) had only heard the
report alluded to, and he had no knowledge whether or
not it had any Foundation.—(Order.)
CONSOLIDATED FUND.

The Order of the Day for the third reading of the Con
kolidated Fund Did war bat read.

The Bill accordingly was read a third time and passed.

VOTI?,S OF BURGESSES.

Mr. HODGSON having moved for a return to be
made by the town clerk of every city and borough in
England and Ireland returning Members to Parliament,
wherein, the right of election is solely or in part in the free
burgesses or freemen at large, of the number of persons
entitled to the freedom of such city or borough, who have
taken up the freedom within the last four years;
Mr. BANKES opposed the motion on the ground that
the expellee and inconvenience which would be incurred
by such a return was infinitely disproportioned to any ad-
vantage that could he derived from it.
An HoN. ME:slava, whose name we did not learn,
suggested that certain returns from the Stamp Office would
answer all the purposes of the returns applied for.
Mr. lIODGSON explained, that the it imps alluded to
would not answer such a purpose ; and that the expence
of obtaining the returns which he desired would not ex-
ceed the cost of one hundred letters and one hundred re-
plies t that being the number of the town clerks from
whom the information was to be obtained.

Mr. CROKER said that the motion WA4 attended with
a difficulty which could not I,e got mkt. No one in that
House, much less the Town Clerks of the several boroughs,
could undertake to say who had and who had not s right to
vote fir .Members of Parliament. The House would not
delegate to the persons mentioned in the Hon. Gentle-
man's motion, the exercise of its exclusive right.
After a short conversation, in which Sir C. WE..
TIMM., Mr. WAIUILIKTON, and other Hon. Members
took part,
Mr. HODGSON said that he would withdraw the
motion until Tuesday next, in order to insert the word
" reputed" befure the words " Right of Election."

RECENT PENSIONS.
Mr. TENNYSON inquired whether there was any
truth in the report that the late Administration had pro-
cured the addition of several names to the Pension List,
After the. head of that Ministry had virtually resigned ?
Mr. GOULBURN said, that he believed one pension
hid been appointed on the morning of the day on which
the late .Ministry resigned. lie had not heard of mote
than one such appointment.