The Sun.
London, England, 1830-08-20 00:00:00

sibly-NPi,-ttrolokrt to pieces, the walls ex:Plated, has been
entlreltAnnihilated by the fury of the people, who always
h.,Gerf the Gendarnies for their extreme insolence, and who
had been particularly provoked on the late occasion by
the savage manner in which they made war on them.
But this very people who wreaked their vengeance Po
signally on the barrack of the Gendarmes, did not hurt a
hair of their heads after the battle, but took great care of
their wounded, and treated them with extreme hindneris.
It seems th.,t some of the troops took part with the people
,hough one regiment returned the lire of the Garde
Royale when it was fired upon. They remained neutral.
and though their good wishes mu 4 have been with the
people, it is said thst they do not yet know very well what
ro make of the defeat of the regular troops by undisciplined
eitizemt, and that they are hardly reconciled to it. They
will never again venture to give themselves the same airs
As they did formerly. I shall write again soon, for I have
a great deal more to say even now. " Your's, ke."
—Morning Chronicle.
We are pleased to see the importance which the
people every where tetach to the ballot. In fact, in
the present state of this country, it may be said to
he of paramount importances. We have every re-
spect for Mr. 13roug1tam, but his argument against
rite ballot struck us as a complete paralogism, Mr.
Brougham wishes to see the people give an inde-
pendent vote ; and if the people were independent,
they misht to be sure vote independently. But they
•are not iiidependent, and therefore. cannot vote in-
dependently ; at least the great majority cannot SO
vote. Mr Brougham might wish every man to see
or to walk ; but a man without eyes and legs could
not the more on that account see and walk. He
wishes the effect without wishing the cause. The
question is, how shall men who are in dependent
circumstances be most effectually protected again-t
improper influence ? The arguments of Mr.
Broteilnim are not calculated to impose on any one
who does not clanost' to be imposed on ; but unfor-
tunately his name is laid hold of by those who wish
to perpetuate the system by which a confederate) of
the Aristocracy are enabled to plunder the rest of
the community. The people ' have ,seen what im-
mense benefit has resulted from the ballot in France.
The French electors were generally in much more
independent circumstances than the i?eiglisli electors.
In France, lite law of successioir hits everywhere in-
troduced a greater equality of property than in
Etigland, consequently greater independence ; Imo
there is not that dread of offending the great, or of
exclusion from fashionable or influential circles, which
works such disastious effects in England. Yet even
in France, without the ballot, the liberties of the
country could not have been preserved. The very
first measure of the Despot wits the annihilation of
the bubo!. The ballot is felt by the Aristocracy to
be their greatest enemy. But they cannot oppose
argument to its introduction: The dread of being
sneered at may have its affect for a time with the
cowardice of Parliament ; for few Members of
Parliament are proof against a sneer. But with the
people this manoeuvre will not succeed; and the
etsong conviction out of doors will soon make itself
felt withire—Morning Chronicle.
The municipal banquet given to General Lafayette
by the city of Paris was a peculiarly grand and in-
teresting spectacle. The scenic display we speak
not of ;—where great principles are celebrated
pageantry is worthless. '1 he political virtue of u
mars who has figured on the stuge of three revolu-
tions, without staining his fair fame with the crimes
of any of them, is deserving all that admit ation with
which it appears to have animated the susceptible
minds of his countrymen. Next to the interest it -
spired by such signal and exalted worth was the
circumstance of the banquet being honoured by the
presence of u number of those persons who haul re-
cently abed their blood in defence of the constitu-
tional rights of the people arid the liberties of their
country—man who aovaneed on the bayonets and
cannon of the infatuated Deepot, and drove him
and his cohorts from the capital, which reeked
with carnage of the thousands of has subjects that
fell the victims of his criminal ambition! These
men had not only fought the battle of France,
but they haul contended for the threatened free-
dom of all maekind in the Therniopylw' of the civi-
lized world. By the devoted courage of such men
the grand experiment of military and . priestly ty-
ranny failed, or it is impossible to say to what ex-
tent the argument of force might have been employed
in some other countries to destroy any degree of
freedom that was found inconvenient to their ata.
oitions rulers. It is therefore that all to whom the
principles of civil liberty, mid the virtues which
spring out of them, are dear, must venerate the
conduct of men who freely offered their lives as a
tansom for the millions of their fellowscreutures
whom a despotic Government had doomed to de-
grading noel perpetual bondage. Yet, among the
Men who were so profuse of their blood in the im-
mortal 'a three days," we hear of none who had
previously been 'loud and vehement teachers of revo•
lutionary doctrines. We recollect that, at the ban-
quet which was given to the patriotic Deputies at
Patios subsequently to the sudden dissolution of the
Chambers niter the memorable Addresi 'to the
King, not a single sentiment or expression was
uttered that was not in perfect accordance
with the principles of rational freedom re•
cognized by the Charter. The men %sit°
overthrew the throne of Chat les X. were
reedy to act us became men in the mortal struggle
between liberty and despotism when the necessity
arose; but they did not; like some of our violent de-
claimers in this country, contemplate such a neces-
sity until it arrived, They were content to be
hound by the obligations of the Charter, as long us
they enjoyed its privileges; but, us soon as the se-
erilegious hand of a perjured King robbed France
of her constitutional existence, they were resolved
to sacrifice their lives, or recover the rights which,
in the face of the assembled nation, had been de-
clined inviolable. The family of 13eutboe are fond
of appealing to the name of Henry IV. That
name will, no doubt, be frequently in the mouths of
those justly-banished Princes, whose perjured frauds
and broken faith form so degrading a contrast to his
tree arid ChiVidroll6 sense of honour. When Henry
wait advised to make prisoner the Duke of Savoy,
Who bud' incurred his displeasure by the artful
manoeuvres which he made use of to retain the
Murquisate of Saluces,but who had come to France,
relying on the Royal word, what wits his answer?
"God forbid I" replied the Monarch, "the ward of
a Xing ofFranceit inviolable i" and added, " I have
learned from my earliest infancy, from those who
first nourished me, Out to keep my faith is much
more beneficial than tatty thing which perfidy MS
promise." Ought the name of each a King to be
polluted by the lips of Charles X.? Henry held the
word of u King inviolable; but Charles, has degene-
rate descereinet, considered the oath of is , King a
fiction of Stale, dissoluble as Royal interest or ca-
price dictated. But Henry's conscience was not in
the keeping of Priests and Jesuits, and he could not
promise Irmself Paradise in the next world as the
reward of perfidy in this! The immediate and ex-
emplary puniehment which followed the Ex-King's
violation of ilia oath will boa -great mortal lesson to
those who, hieested with power that places them
above the reach of penal law, are apt to forget that
there exists it higher tribunal than that of man,WiliCll
sometimes, even in this world, visits exalted guilt
with the stroke of retributive justice. What 14 COP-
trust does the conduct of Lafayette present to that
of his late Sovereign—the hitter would rather " cry
havoc, and let slip the dogs of war" in the very
heart of his dominions, than give up a particle of
lila despotic doctrines—the former, though an avowed
Republican, hesitates not to sacrifice his own setni-
Meets oat tire altar of his country, and assists in the
establishmeet of a Constitutions) Monarchy -thus
effording an example of patriotic self-deniul that
rivals the noblest instances of uticient virtue.—
/Veining Ikrald.
The Ex-King of From, it appears, is to be per-
mitted to land, if be thinks fit—such rat least is said
tit have been the decision of the sort of Cabinet
courted which was held yesterday. The rest of the
Revd party have aheady landed at Cowes, and are
said to have Wen much delighted- with the scenery
Ramat and on shears Witilki their view. Part of the