The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-19 00:00:00

mission of the Committee the founders of the Re-

volutionary Clubs were Princes and Councillors
of State. When the assumed rights of the power-
ful and the rich—of Kings and Nobles—were
menaced by the French Republic, the said Kings
and Nobles became conspirators, and formed secret
societies for destroying the domination of the
enemy, or in less ambiguous terms, for maintaining
or recovering, if lost, the ascendancy which they
claimed over the rest of the people. But as hun-
dreds of thousands of the people of Germany would
have hesitated to risk their lives and properties for
such an object, it became necessary to invest it with
the looser adjuncts of patriotism—with declarations
about " independence of our common country,"
" rights and liberties of the German people," and
an hundred other mock phrases intended to promote
the views of Sovereigns without the remotest regard
to the welfare of the community. But it appears
from the Report that the people had resolved not to
be so duped, and that although their rulers had
signified to them that the necessity of their associa-
ting ceased with cessation of all danger to the
rights of Kings, they could not be persuaded that
their liberties and the secure ascendancy of their
old oppressors were exactly identical. They had
discovered that the lesson taught them by despots
could be turned to an account not contemplated by
their teachers ; that the means by which a
people may successfully struggle against op-
pression from without, might be rendered equally
effective in checking administrative despotism.
Whatever dangers, therefore, threaten the petty So-
vereignties of Germany from Revolutionary So-
cieties, the Princes and their Ministers have them-
selves to thank for them. They were the founders

of the system ; they put weapons into the hands o
the oppressed, and now affect astonishment at see
ing them direct them against the oppressors.
We are not here either defending the views, nor
advocating the existence of the Secret Societies
which disturb the repose of the German Absolu-
tists. We are merely pointing out the real sources
to which their very being is attributable, in order to
guard our readers against the common fallacy
of assuming secresy to be an exclusive charac-
teristic of mob hostility to established institutions.
All authority resting on force is neither more nor
less than a conspiracy against the rights of the
many ; and all Governments when carefully analysed
will be found to be only secret societies influ-
enced by views often as dishonest, and always as
little known to the masses whose well-being they in-
volve, as those of the founders and directors of the
Society of " Young Germany, " Young Italy," or
any other treasonable Association on the Continent.
Besides, these Societies have the advantage of most
established Governments in one very important re-
spect. They are supported by the voluntary suff-
rage of each member individually—a support to
which no Sovereign in Germany dare to lay claim ;
and if they impiously arrogate to themselves a power
over the lives of their members, they only follow
the example set them by the petty despots who
denounce them. It is time that Princes should
learn that they ought to affect no surprise at the
imitation of their own cruel juggleries on the
part of men quite as clever and as cunning
as themselves. They will be n• longer allowed
a monopoly even of bloodshed ; and this fact
appears more than any other to distress the
German Diet. The murder of KOTZEBUE by a
political maniac is for the hundredth time invoked
to fill the German populace with horror ; but not
a word is uttered about the wholesale murders of
the patriot Poles by the genius of Despotism in
Germany and elsewhere, the CZAR ; of the mas-
sacre of Constitutionalists in Spain, first by the
Army of the Faith, and next by CARLOS and
his adherents ; or even of the judicial murders
committed in Germany since 1830. We ask the
reader's pardon. We have made a slight mistake
here. The murders in Poland are alluded to, and
in terms laudatory of the sanguinary atrocities of
the NERO of the North. The Committee has the
effrontery to cite in evidence of the treasonable
designs of the Germans, the fact, that they
openly expressed the deepest sympathy for the
brave but expatriated Poles, and that at public
meetings, their glorious but unavailing struggle
was lauded as worthy of the admiration of all
true patriots Yes, the ermined hypocrites who
affect to shudder at the assassination of KOTZE•
BUE, the hireling scribbler of despotism, gloat over
the massacres at Warsaw, and the HEROD-like
slaughters of the Polish infants whose bones yet
whiten the roads from Wilna to the wilds of
Siberia 1

One fact is fully established by this Report of
the German Diet. The old Governments can no
longer hope to maintain themselves on the princi-
ples hitherto recognised, even in Western Europe.
They must undergo an entirely new organiza-
tion, and relinquish many of their hitherto most
cherished prerogatives. We arc not so sanguine
as to hope that man will ever become a
perfect being, or that he will ever cease
to be the dupe of fraud in some shape or
other ; but we nevertheless feel pretty confident
that it will no: do to try to frighten him, after the
full development of his mental powers, with the
raw-head and bloody-bones legends which so awed
and terrified him in the nursery. No sophistry
will blind such a man to the fact, that the judicial
murder of one RIEGO is a million of times more
atrocious—more deserving of eternal reprobation—
in ore characteristic of a system at once bloodthirsty,
shameless, and detestable, than the maniacal
assassination of a legion of KOTZEBUES, prompted,
as that assassination really was, by mental aberration.

The Gazette des Tribu- naux has published one
of the most horrible accounts that we ever re-
member to have read, of the murder of a slave by
his master in the island of Guadaloupe, in the
month of May last. The unfortunate slave, a
young and powerful man, was reported to his master
to have said that a concubine whom he (the master)
kept was in league with SATAN. The master, AM E
NOEL, was seventy-two years of age, and his con-
cubine fifty, but as the slave had had ample proofs
before of their violent dispositions, he resolved,
though innocent of such a ridiculous imputation, to
escape to the woods. He was, however, taken and
brought back bound, after being nearly killed in an
attempt to escape. His punishment then corn-
menced, but the details are too revolting to be nar-
rated. Bound with cords, so that he could not
move a limb, stretched as on a rack, and fastened
to a torturing machine which prevented him
from sitting, standing, or lying down, he was
left in a loathsome, suffocating dungeon by his
master, with directions to. be constantly beaten
and tortured, and to have but a small quantity
of foul water allowed him once a day. On the
second day of his torture, his master accompanied
by his concubine visited him, and, in answer to his
cries for mercy and his vows of innocence, they
with their own hands flogged him into a state
of insensibility. Nature could not endure this
long. The miserable slave, after five days tor-
ture, was at last relieved by death, when the
inhuman wretch, the master, ordered the body to
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