The Sun.
London, England, 1830-03-12 00:00:00

ADDRESS OF THE CHAMBER OF PEERS.

Star,—Your faithful subjects, the Peers of France, have heard
with respect and gratitude the gracious Speech which has ema-
nated from the Throne.

'They are gratified to learn that concord is established between
your Majesty and your Allies, and which your Majesty believes
willconsolidate the peace of Europe.
. . . . .

The war in the Eist is happily at an end, the moderation of
the Victor has corresponded with the wishes of Europe, the
Ottoman Empire will be preserved, and the balance of power
remain unimpaired.
Greece will emerge from her ruins—thanks to the assisting
hand which you have outstretched to her. She will become inde-
pendent under the protection of the Powers who signed the
Treaty of the 6th of July. The Sceptre of the Prince who has
been called to the Throne will heal her dissension. Unity, in-
separable from monarchy, will give her strength.
The success of the negotiations which your Majesty has under-
taken in concert with your Allies, to effect a reconciliation be-
tween the Princes of the House of Braganza, would ensure the
repose of the Peninsula, put an end to divisions which are fatal to
the commerce of the Two Worlds, and what is no less desirable
would strengthen the principle of legitimate succession to thrones.

Enlightened dispenser of the treasures of France, and sparing
of the blood of her sons, your Majesty has hesitated to avenge
the insult which a Barbary Pnnce has dared to cast upon the
flag of your kingdom; feeling that impunity can no longer be
extended, you meditate to render profitable to the interests of
France and of Christianity the satisfaction which you will obtain.
Christian nations will applaud so generous a design, and we
await with confidence the communications which your Majesty
may think desirable to make on this important subject.
The diminution of the Revenue of 1829, although it has:sur-
passed the anticipations of those who prepared the budget, calls
for economy and new resources. They may result in a great
degree from the law relating to the payment of the National
Debt, and from the proposed plan of reimbursement which your
Majesty is pleased to announce. The time has arrived for alle.
viating the public burdens, by reconciling the triple interest of
the people, of capitalists and of the State, without detracting in
that respect from the rights of each, and the principles of justice
which have established the credit of France, and which have
raised it so high in modern times. By these measures, skilfully
combined, your Majesty will create the means of speedily meet-
ing, without additional sacrifices, the expenses which are required
for the prosperity of agriculture and of commerce ; for the public
works, the completion of our sea-ports, the repairs of the roads,
and the construction of canals. We shall give to all these objects
that serious attention which is imposed upon us, by that which
is our duty, the seconding of the s iews of your Majesty, and of
concurring in those great and useful operations.
We shall pay equal attention to the examination of the laws
relative to the judicial department to the public administrations,
and for bettering the condition of retired soldiers, which your
Majesty designs to lay before the Chambers. The measures
which your Majesty has in contemplation for the purpose of
soothing the decliding years of men who have passed their lives
in defending their King and Country, will excite the gratitude
of the army and of all citizens.
When your Majesty expresses the lively satisfaction you feel
at the generous interposition of the humane, in behalf of the in-
digent in all parts of the kingdom, and especially in your good
c.ty of Paris, during a long and severe winter, we are gratified
in being able to remind your Maje-ty of that which the poor will
never forget—that your Majesty and your august family were the
first to show a brilliant example in that great work of benevolence.
The first Vk ish of your Majesty's paternal heart is to contem-
plate France, in the peaceable enjoyment of her institutions,
happy and respected. Sire, she will be so. Of what avail would
malevolent institutions be against the express declaration of
your Majesty's will, to maintain and consolidate these institu-
tions 1) The monarchy is their basis ; the rights of your crown
will remain immoveable ; they are no less dear to the nation
than its liberties; placed under your protection, they strengthen
the ties which bind the people to your throne and dynasts'.
France is no less averse from anarchy than is her Ring from
despotism.
If guilty manoeuvres should raise obstacles against your go-
vernment, they would 'be speedily surmounted, not merely by
the Peers, who are the hereditary defenders of the Throne and
Charter, but by the simultaneous act of the two Chambers, and
by that of an immense majority of the nation. For it is the
wish and interest of all that the sacred rights of the Crown should
remain inviolate, and that, in unison with the public liberties,
they should be transmitted to the successors of your Majesty, and
to our latest posterity, who are the heirs of our confidence and of
our love.

--•--
" His Majesty's reply to the Marquis de Pastoret,
the Chancellor, by whom it was read at the head
of the deputation of the Chamber was to the follow-
ing effect :
" MONSIEUR,—The sentiments you express to me in
" the name of the Peers of France are so much the more
" agreeable, that they prove to me how much the Chamber
" has felt and understood the whole import of my speech
" at the opening of the Session.
" I count on you, Gentlemen, as you ought to count on
" my steady determination ; and as you give me the hope
" I desire not to doubt that the two Chambers will unite
" with me in assuring and consolidating the happiness of
" my people."
"The address which produced this rather dextrous

reply is not I think materially different from the ac-
count I gave of it in my letter of yesterday. The
Peers have certainly assumed a very beconimg and
dignified attitude, and it is curious to observe the
eagerness with which the partizans of the Ministry
as well as of the opposition concur in praising the
address, and in claiming the upper Chamber as sup-
porters of views diametrically opposed to each other.
If the truth were known, however, I believe it

would be found that Royalists as well as Liberals
are less than satisfied with the terms in which the
Peers have expressed themselves. It is not easy to
believe that the Ministry can be very well con-
tented with the answer to the concluding para-
graphs of the Speech, which exhibited the
country as under the influence of a spirit of
faction, and the Monarchy as prepared, for its
suppression, to recur to the exercise of extraor-
dinary power. Whatever was ambiguous in the
Speech, the Peers have admirably succeeded in ex-
plaining, so as to make it consistent with their own
high character. France (they say) wishes no more
for anarchy than the King does for despotism:—
The preservation of the rights of the Crown having
been alluded to in the Speech, the Peers reply that
these rights are not less dear to the people than
their own liberties. The Speech announced the
intention of surmounting obstacles which guilty
manoeuvres might raise against the Government,
without telling what obstacles were apprehended, or
pointing out the manner in which they were to be
surmounted. The Chamber of Peers recognizes
only one way of surmounting them, and one which

is in conformity with the Constitution and the
charter. They declare, that if such obstacles should
be raised, they would be speedily overcome, not
only by the Peers, the hereditary defenders of the
Throne, and the charter, but also by the simul-
taneous concurrence of the two Chambers, and of
an immense majority of the nation; g for it is the
wish and the interest of all that the rights of the
Crown shoUld remain inviolate, and be transmitted
to the latest posterity inseparably connected with
the public liberties.'
" In the Chamber of Deputies a Committee of
nine has been appointed to prepare the address, one
member having been chosen by each of the nine
bureaux or committees into which the Chamber was
divided by lot on the first day of the Session. The
new committee thus appointed consists of the Count
de Preissac, M. Keratry, M. Dupont, M. Gauthier,
M. Sebastiani, M. Lepelletier d'Aulnay, the Count
de Sades, and the elder Dupin. It is remarkable
that the Ministry have not been able to send a single
representative from any one of the nine bureaux to
assist in framing the Address. Looking at the con-
stitution of the committee it cannot be doubted that
its address will be what has long been predicted for
it, at once firm and respectful. An incident which
occurred on the retirement of M. Labbey de Pom-
pierres from the office of Provisional President,
which had devolved on him by seniority, shows how
anxious the opposition are to restrain their proceed-
ings within certain bounds of moderation. The old
gentleman ik Ultra Liberal in principle, and was
anxious it seems to signalize his farewell speech by a
declaration in very strong terms of his political prin-
ciples. The discourse prepared for this occasion he
had shewn in confidence to some of his friends in
the Chamber on the morning of Monday last, when
the ceremony of .installing M. Royer Collard, the
new President, ought in due course to have taken
place. As its terms were disapproved of by those
in the interest of the majority, M. Royer Collard
hastily left the Chamber, so as to secure the in-
terval of a day to prevail on M. de Pompierres to
modify the language he had employed. In this in-
terval a new address was prepared which was yester-
day delivered in the Chamber, and of which, as well
as of M. Collard's inaugural discourse, you will find
copies inclosed.—(They both appeared in The Sun
of yesterday.)
" The duties which the doyen, or, as we would
call him, the father of the Chamber, is called on to
perform, are rather of an interesting nature, but have
never been regarded with the same interest as on
the present occasion. M. Labbey de Pompieres
was born on the 3d of May, 1751, and entered the
artillery school of Bapaume in 1769. He was
obliged to retire from the Artillery, in which he
held the rank of Captain, in 1793, because he was
was thought to be too much of an aristocrat. He
then went into Picardy, where he was charged with
the adminstration of the department of the Aisne,
and was latterly elected a Deputy of the arrondisse-
ment of St. Quentin, which he has constantly re-
presented since the Restoration. Born in Franche
Comte, and naturalized in Picardy, M. Labbey de
Pompierres thus belongs, by a double title, to the
two provinces of France which have ever shown
most patriotism and constancy in their political
principles."

German Papers of the 6th inst. contain an
article, said to be from the Banks of the Neva,
which is,of rather an ominous character, with re-
spect to the motions of the Russian armies, and
the necessity of increasing the force of General
DIEBITSCH, in order to keep the Turks in awe.
We have not room for the article to-day.
VIENNA, MARCH 1031; Four per
Cents. 971 ; Bank Shares, 1,321 1,524.

It will be observed that Lord ABERDEEN
stated last night that negociations with the Em-
peror of BRAZIL, to which Great Britain,
France, and Austria are parties, are now pending
with reference to Portugal. The view in which
this question is regarded in France may be
judged of by the French Chamber of Peers
having, in their Address to the Throne, suppli-
cated the KING that, in the proceedings his MA-
JESTY may adopt for promoting a settlement of
Portuguese affairs, it may be his first care, that
the rights y'legitimacy may be upheld. Surely
Great Britain ought not to be backward in echo-
ing this sentiment, for if we have fought for
twenty years in support of the legitimacy of the
BOURBONS of France, upon what plea can we
refuse to respect the rights of DONNA MARIA,
whom, as Mr. PEEL said on Wednesday, " we
" have acknowledged to be the legitimate Queen
"of PORTUGAL ?" But legitimacy associated
with free Institutions does not, in all minds, find
,he same favour as the legitimacy of absolute
To be consistent, we ought at least to
be just.

power.

Mr. Alderman THOMPSON last night pre
sented the petition of the Licensed Victuallers
of London and its vicinity to the House of
Commons, and urged, with great truth, the in-
justice which would be inflicted on a highly re-
spectable body of men if the measures proposed
by the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER were
carried into effect. The Right Hon. Gentle-
man has, we now rather apprehend, taken up
his measures of relief at the wrong end ; for in-
stead of throwing open, as it is termed, the trade
in Beer, he should have reduced the duty
on Malt and Beer. An increased con-
sumption would then benefit the revenue with-
out injuring the property of those who have
embarked their all upon the faith of Acts
of Parliament ; whereas, the merely giving an
increased facility for the sale of dear beer
will not benefit the public, while it entails
certain ruin upon those who are now pay-
ing high rents for houses which they are hound by
existing leases to keep at the same high rents,
while the new men can sell the same article almost
or comparatively so at no rent at all ! Now
this injustice is so manifest, that we need only
draw the attention of the Government to it,
resting fully assured that in their wish to confer
a public benefit, they will not attempt to sacri-
fice the interests—we may say, the existence—
of thousands of highly respectable and meri-
torious individuals, whose property and whose
very conduct are especially under the jealous
controul of the Legislature.
That the matter ha's excited an interest as
fearful as it is important, may be seen by the
alacrity with which meetings have taken place
in various towns in defence of their rights—rights
which are dear to every Englishman—the full
protection and enjoyment of his property, for
whether that property be hereditary or secured
by Act of Parliament the right is still the
same. One of these meetings took pl ice
in the populous towns of Portsmouth
and Portsea, where resolutions and a petition
were adopted on the subject, for which we refer
to another part of our Paper. Indeed we
are convinced, from all - we hear and see

on this subject, that similar meetings will
take place in all the other large towns where
there is public spirit enough to assert inde-
pendent opinions upon a matter of vital interest
to a much abused portion of the community.
We are decided enemies to monopoly of
whatever kind, or under whatever name it pre-
sents itself ; but we are as decidedly of opinion
that whatever monopoly there may be in the
beer trade, and that there is some we do not
deny, has solely originated in the oppressive
taxes which press not singly but in a three and
four-fold degree upon the produce of Malt.
Let these be reduced, repealed, or modified,
and we have no doubt the public will get a good
article from the houses now in existence, with-
out the addition of any more. But unless
the taxes be altered, no other plan, however
plausible, will answer the purpose. Th.re is
but one road to the fountain of justice and that
is the right way. Let the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER have courage to take that road and
he will succeed :—any other path will lead him
into error.

With respect to the Brewers' monopoly we
shall make one remark, so far as they
are concerned, and which we do advisedly.
If the Government will but reduce the duty
one-half, the brewers will double that sum—
that is, for every halfpenny in the pot of beer
which the Government takes off, the Brewers
will take off one penny !

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