The Sun.
London, England, 1830-08-05 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF Till PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We seize with 'avidity the circumstance of 51.
being transmitted to us " for the relief of the
lies of these wii, have fallen or suffered in the late
glorious struggle for liberty in Paris," of worn-
mending a general subscription for the same noble
purpose. We do not suppose that our gallant
neighbours are deficient in gratitude to their tithe-
tiers; but they will permit us to say, that the cause
is a common one; for if the liberty of the press,—if
the free election of representatives may be suppressed
in one country by royal ordinance, though we are far
from entertaining any apprehensions under the open-
hearted and gallant Prince who now rules England,
yet the precedent might be injurious at some future
period. Besides, our King loves his subjects, and
loves them better because they are free, and would
therefore wish that freedom which is the pride of
his own country to be diffused over the world :
be will himself sympathize with the suffering victims
in the cause of public rights. We • strongly recom-
mend a general and liberal subseription, and shall
ourselies not be backward in contributing our
humble aid. Public meetingi have also been re-
commended in this country, to testify the admiration
which the people of England feel at the conduct of
the citizens of Paris. The suggestion has our per-
fact approbation. And now we turn to the victims
of another cause—the Charles Capets, the Po-
lignses, and the rest of them. The first of
these wretched persons, the late King, is no
doubt on his way to England—perhaps' ere this,
arrived. Let the country receive him ; there is vice
and villainy enough in it already; monstrous as his
offences are, he cannot add much to the general
stock ; and we hope there is virtue also, and
integrity, and patriotism enough, to redeem
the bad, even when his• crimes, and absur-
dities, and follies are added to the stock. There is
not a parish workhouse in England, a penitentiary,
or a bridewell, that would not be disgraced by such
an inmate. Let him live upon his own resources,
whatever they may be : one shilling for support
farther titan to protect him against the cravings of
hunger will not be allowed him here, But -how
noble in the French people to dismiss the wretch,
even before the streets of Paris have ceased to reek
with the blood of the thousands. whom he and his
councili have murdered 1 Perhaps we would wish
the people to abstain from any mark of disgust at
the sight of him ; yet we are reminded of the Devil's
return from his more successful attempt to injure
our common parents :
" So having said, awhile he stood expecting
" Their universal shout, and high applause
"'Po fill his ear, when contrary he hears
" On all sides from innumerable tongues
" A dismal universal hiss, the sound
" Of public scorn."
As to the Ministers, they ought, if it were pos-
sible, to be excepted from the general rule, and to
be given up, if they escape hither, and are claimed
by the French Government ; for certainly greater
criminals never landed on the British coast. They
are responsible persons by the laws and constitution
of France ; and though Charles X. might view his
own rights with the prejudices and infatuation of
absolute Royalty, they 'were in no such situation.—
They were criminal for no other purpose than the:
of simply destroying their country in order to please
-a stupid and wicked master, whom they should
either have restrained or quitted. The ordinance of
the 25th of July bears on the face of it the impress
of their having counselled it to, and demanded it
of, the King: arid the innocent and unoffending
citizens of Paris, slaughtered by thousands in the
streets, are not to be the only people who are to reap
the fruits of such counsels and demands. We hope
to see the Francis Ministers brought to justice.—
Time%

We have never believed that any British States-
min was a party to the designs of Charles the
Tenth, or in any way countenanced him in the un-
dertaking. it 14 unfortunate that the idea should
.baye been entertained by the French, that they not
only were indebted to •the Duke of Wellington for
the Polignae Cabinet, but for the policy of that
Cabinet. While we admit this, we cannot help be-
having that very strong opinions must have been
expressed by men in power in this country against
the French institutions. The article in the Quarterly
Review, to which our Correspondent Public°la al-
luded yesterday, indicated all that has been at-
tempted by Charles the Tenth. That article is tie-
derstood to be the production of the well-known
Captain Basil Hall, who hadno doubt his own ends to
serve by writing it. Captain Hall is a tolerably good
weather-rage. His account of South America, full
Vas it as is o the benefits resulting from liberty and in-
dependence.. was calculated for one undo of things.
But Mr. Owning, the great patron of South Ameri-
Cllll independence, being no more, Captain Hall was
thrown on another tack, and he .produced a work on
North America, calculated to atone in a certain guar-
for the injury done by him in the South. Are we
to suppose that the Captain, when recommending a
crusade against the French institutions, was indif-
ferent to the opinions of great men at home, or Un-
acquainted with them ? A good deal or speculation
existed some few weeks ago, with respect to the de-
parture of Prince listerhazy from !melon, and Count
Appony front Paris, and the meeting of these great
men with Prince Metternich, at johennisherg.
'There are people who will have it that the o«li-
'lances which followed so soon the meeting in gees.
Cott were not altogether unconnected with it. Time
will, !wham throw some light on this.—Morning
Chronicle.

The tyrant of France has met with more mercy
from the enerous' nation he insulted than he de-
served to and. It was observed by a eentempowy
that the Charter secures impunity to the King; but
be who destroyes the Charter is not entitled to
rising any benefit under it. The impunity secured
by the Charter supposes the Charter to be respected,
'We know of no doctrine more dangerous to society
1;,„.7it to hold out to any set of men, no matter by
wiihe ri,lme they are known, that if they z,in only
And u set of Instriiments wicked enough and reck-
less enough to obey them in trampling on the laws
04,(1 bistitutions of their country, justice shall alone
Overtake the instruments, and leave the greatest
grimitial .untottehed, In every country, bold and
itodipta men May always he found in abunduece
by tyrant'; and Inc disposition to avail himself of
t% to ouch wililet be proiigionsly stimulated by the
knowledge that, happen when it will, his own life
will be este. There Ought to be no impunity for
him who regards. no law. However, this is more par.
ticularly the affair of the:Ftench nation, and they
Lave decided on forgiveness. May they never have
cause to repent their generosity We'suppose by
this time Charles and his retinue are in lingtoold.
A contemporary (the Globe), alluding to the
suggestion .which we threw out respecting a Public
Meeting, observes—
A meeting of this kind, it appears to us, would be
honourable to ourselves, gratifying' to the French, anti
useful to Europe, by showing the unity of spirit which
will exist in the most serious emergencies between the
people of the two great constitutional monarchies of
tirope. We do not put the expediency of such a meeting
we. rely on the ground of humanity—on the duty, regret as
ih of relieving extreme misery incurred in the voluntary
ante tlitintereited performence of the meet virtuous labour.
We uproot doubt that France, which is in the first place
the Orme, will discharge the stria debt to her wounded
volueteere, to the will we orphans of th"e
tot heir tlQefeticif4.n Mgt' freemsen through-
te so etvehevge their debt of grati-
t/441:2„s:bel„uury at'i:eiott of the sorrow which the blood
flier r.r.141:* beim occationed may remain, whit!'
moi„vn:, inin"tustatt P* itY ettl contributions of other
ie Lanttlion vforl)74.A 1
"141-4"441"- "g" t 4) be raised
„aid else knuntelinirtay aTtert NM pieced at the dis.
bet of the sotterete. tt ttabe more *fflPhi re-
'Want thetaselvee en, tits tor etile.:l,7;"'etrti thild the l'a*
and ample relief, since there 1.a.. tieeit ,"
of life, but a great destruction. of prop,ey;-,,,:te"1" ;et'
greater less by the dieteder snit loterropiton-oi
snereiel transactions.
ai It is unfortunate, it may be wild, ter s plut for canine'
re meeting here—that the elections have drawn Into ti;
country tet great * propertion of the 4144 menet all par..