The Sun.
London, England, 1830-09-25 00:00:00

A CONSTANT READER AND SURSCRTEER

• One of the chief topics of interest in the French
Papers of Wednesday, which arrived last eight, is
the funeral commemoration on the/Place de Grtive
the preceding day, of four subaltern,'offieers who
were executed on that place for a eottsPirary to
overthrow the • Government of the bourbons in
1822. A private letter,' which 'we pliblislied ore
Tim:lnlay, gave on account of this expiatory vete.
loony, and of the pieties by whom it was coo-
ducted. It w641.i appear from the ,Journals that its
announcement had ocea,,ioned more alarm than its
occurrence justified. The inhabitatits of the streets
in the neighbourhood of the place chesen for the
ceremony,• were apprehensive of u tumult from the
greatness of the crowd, tend political Persons at a
distance were not los apprelienhive of the: principles
likely to be inenleuted in the expietoty,harengstea or
party banners of the clubs convoked to celebrate she
virtues of " the martyrs of libertY." 'The journal
dee he4ots was the organ far expressing both kinds
of alarm—publishing two articles of its own, mid a
letter of the inhabitents to the 'Prefect, against the.
PrOpotted
,exhibition. Neither the remonstrance of
the; journalist, however, nor the, representation of
the inhabitants, prevented the meeting. of thee clubs—
the dittpley of bariners--the pomp.pf r 1
,scurvy pro-
eession,pt the delivery of a revolutionary burasigue,;
lint here the. miner ended, and, the alarinktB have
no doubt wondered at their own feats. The Jour-
nel which first sounded the tocsin tells us that there
were. not more than persons present, the
members of the clubs red the opectuturs included;
that this labourers die not leave .their, ,work,. and
that rlo who :NOV 04, procession pass did not
seem to know what was Its object, If this, there-
fore,
,coulrl be considered in any way as a general
Mulder of the republican party, in Piiria, their
numbers are ensily counted, and 'their influence as.
errtnined. :It Would probably be unwise, hoWever,
to indulge in diet hope. The ceremony was se.
foolish in its object, and had been so discouraged by
the most respectable port of the Press, that many
personewho entertain the political sentiments of the
elsibbists might not' choose- on this oecasion to ex.
pearl/ themselves to ridicule by ranging tliernseivel
under their banneri. The public knew bolting of
shears young rnen, but that they were guillotined
eight years ago, and that they met their death with
intrepidity. The erime with which they Were charged
was that of 'conspiring to assassinate the Lloyd
Fetidly, or to overturn-. the' 00Vernment ; and of
this'eritne they were either guilty' or not guilty, :If
the evidence was insufficient to establish their trea-
sonable purpose, end they were really innocent of
the imputed offence, then the Jury Was culpable for
giving a verdict against them, end 'the Judge for
passing sentence of death ; btu what in thin C 444
becornes of their patriotic merit, and how ate they
worthy to lee cleated with the Martyrs of liberty,
when's glorious fall illestristee the late 1,0;0110'10o 1)
If they did not conspire to •overthrow the th:nrhott
Government, dick have no claire to he coonsidered
ns patrioti—theY- werenot, 44 they have been called,
" the advanced guard" of the 'Parisian youth.
wise
at 146 t expelled them. If, on the' other hand, these
officers were condenmed to death on evidence sum-
dent tOshow that they really conspirc4l to overthrow
the Government;'Then,'again, as breskers of the law;
which the majority of Frenchmen observed fer eight
yeere since their death', they have no right to be as-
sociated with those who, in the lite' revolution, 'de-
feuded the laws and the Charter, against the Royal
conspirators of theTuiteries. If faction was either
addirtetf toreason or willing- to listen to nrgurnent,
such eansideratians as these might have induced the
elithbiits to 'abandon their expintoo Project.'-71411.
Xlsport of the proceeding* Of the Ahmed Dim!
nee *Asti by the light firailitf ref IlirMingharn ap-
-I:i'AKsin Another column, A useful conclusion may
tan drri*Vflt (lion the demonstration of public opinion
Hod!oistfo,) erne shush (KfAhli)tip rsull the country will
perhaps not again look forwarei tie ci felo.ty for
rtfresitrnnt,or insight into a h.' itig''t Spe'eeh.
§PPV:PIe.O4rs or the Government the 1),,h(",f
Virtoits,li,lihrt4gtort,lot,nd Sit It. I,,we'be'm „yr.
jtatiti,inin:ca
,the, great I.latitiftrettning
of Wellingi;on Moitil:-.net',',rtevt!'"t given
tzr thil
Duke
Peel Wes eignifleansly nu-itiviitt.(tslrbi''f'h Sir
ItA6rt
!illusion at the dinner was t'O, b„,
esral
to which ao one eteoleieensin'lw'relp'i-y;ilie
poi) wee plosive ouitlitpt.' 'hi Liverp6of it me,
luttciidly and tmfortitnete event prechnitd
intended public entertainments where it Was Wo.,
'
liablethat 'Breughson and 'Sir 'Jetties Otatuun