The Sun.
London, England, 1830-08-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Perhaps it is satisfactory to have no great news
from France. We do not wish for striking events
or important changes. We hope matters are now
entered into train again, and are pursuing a tranquil
course. The impeachment of a corps of Ministers
for act, of high treason is, indeed, a mighty occur-
rence, but a perfectly natural consequence of their
atrocious conduct. M. Eusebe Salverte, a person of
eminence among the ranks of the Liberal Deputies,
opens the important proceeding, and thus states
briefly his proposition :—" The Chamber accuses of
high treason the Ministers who signed the report to
the King, and the ordinances of the- 26th of July.
1830." The motion is supported on all sides, and
carried by a majority, consisting of the whole House,
with the exception of three members. It is painful
to press a matter. that may terminate in the loss of
life. We have already spoken of the acts of the late
French Ministry as we thought they deserved, when
they took place. Justice, we presume will now
have its course, and we shall therefore be silent, far-
ther than describing its official process. Of one insi-
nuation of M. Salverte we should doubt the accu-
racy. "An inquiry," he says," will show to what
point is founded the opinion generally received, that
the Ministry, for the success of its criminal projects,
bad solicited the support of foreign Governments."
The Ministry, we should think, cannot have been
mad enough to do this. We should apprehend
that foreign Governments, in reply to such an
application, would have used their influence to keep '
the King of France within the pale of the Charter.
An inquiry will probably show what the truth is.
Our private letters are well worthy of perusal, par-
ticularly those signed " it." "N. and L. The
protest of the Peers, quoted in the letter signed
" it" was a natural consequence of the precipitate
degradation of 00 individuale. The King has gone
some way towards appeasing the rising discontent,
by promptly restoring two of the excluded members
of the Upper House—Marshal Soult and Admiral
.Duperre—to the rank from which they had been so
unceremoniously ejected. A further homage has
been paid to public opinion, by creating a rank for
the naval service analogous to the military rank of
Marshal. There are to be three Admirals of France,
whose dignity is exactly to correspond with that of
Mandrel. M. Duperre is, by another ordinance,
honoured with this distinguished promotion. The
letter signed " IL" contains a brief account, which
does not appear in the journals yet received, of the
proceedings to the Chamber of Deputies on War-
day, on the subject of the election-law. The in-
tended alterations will greatly simplify the present
process. It is proper to state, that the ultra papers,
the Gazelle de France and the Quotidienne, proceed
in their course of undisguised hostility to the new
system. .The proposition which they labour to
establish is, that the Government, having depart-
ed from the principle of legitimacy, cannot stop
where it is. The revolution, we are told, began
with cries of " Vive la Charte I" but a few days
after that charter was remodelled, and now another
charter appears to be wanted. In conclusion, it is
argued that the principle of the sovereignty of the
people being acknowledged, the Chamber of Depu-
tree is in the situation in which the Constituent As-
sembly stood at the commencement of the first re-
volution, arid will be hurried forward in the same
manner to a republic. There is, however, one ma-
terial point in which the parallel fails. The head of
the Government from which concessions were then
extorted was expected to be insincere, and gave
constant cause for jealousy : whereas, in the present
case, the head of the Government is the creature of
the revolution, and no reasonable being can suppose
that he would be favourable to plans for the subver-
sion of the constitution. It is said in the Mcssager
des Chambres that the King of Sardinia has allowed
all the French Journals to be introduced into Chain-
bery, on the principle that the people should know
every thing ;. end that he condemns the conduct of
Charles X. This is the right course for Kings to
take. The National reports—but we do not give
any credit to the statement,--that Charles X. having
written to William IV. fn the use of an English
frigate to convey him from Cherbourg to this
country, was answered by our Minister for Foreign
Affairs, that the relations of friendship subsisting
between England and France did not permit the re-
quest to be granted. The accounts from Spain,
which reach us through France, show that the
wretched Government of that kingdom are beginning
to he alarmed. Every friend of liberty and justice
must wish to see the worst fears of Ferdinand and
his partisans realized to the utmost.---Timer.
The election dinner of Mr. Brougham mid Lord
Morpeth, for the county of York, was celebrated in
that city on Friday lust, with a magnificence, or at
least an ardour mid sincerity, appropriate to the oc-
casion. We should have now let the business pars
with the united description ; but there is clearly
sal error or two in matter of fact and in reasoning,
which we are anxious to put right. Mr. .Broughum
charged his Majesty's present Ministers, and parti-
cularly the Duke of Wellington, with wishing well
to the Polignee Admioistration I And the chat go
was immediately nod very properly received with
expressions of dissent. The charge is not true;
It is unfounded. our Ministers might wish
well to the Polignac Administration, as our
laws wish well to thieves upon their trial—
" God seed you a good deliverance ;" but as to any
recommendation of the Polignac Ministry, or any
approval of its conduct after it was formed, wet know,
and rio does the intelligent part of the British public
know, that nothing could be farther from the minds
of our Ministers. They could not foresee the pre-
elite events that would result, and they had no right
to interfere with the King of France In the compo-
skim of a Ministry, but they did apprehend mis-
chievous consequences front the choice of such a
creature as Polignac; cud Polignac's consciousness
of their aversion to him, induced him on many petty
occasions to trent them with insolence after his
accession to power. Hut Mr. Brougham says,
that the proof of our government's nttechment to
the Polignue administration will be established,
if they suffer the Ex-King of France to bring
his baggage into &glued without being elite
Parted to search and seizure, or search rind rejec-
tion, Now what may be the intention of our go-
vernment upon this point, we know not; nor do we
even know whether the King of France is coming
to Ringland : but Mr. Brougham should think (if
but for a moment) on what he is saying. If the
Ex-King of Franca comes to England, he brings
nothing to our shores but what the people of France
have suffered him to take away with him, Why
are they to be the only generous peoplo upon earth,
and we the only muliguent petty cavillers `?Ile hitsnot withdrawn surreptitiously ; lie has been conducted
publicly and slowly by his subjects almost from the
centre of the kingdom to its western coast, and they
might have stripped him, if they had pleased, to his
shirt. But unquestionably with whatever they die-
miss the wretch, any civilized nation Upon earth
would receive him. We have no respect for hint,
no pity for him, but a great regard fur the dignity of
the Britieli character, es compared with that of
Prince. Charles X. has never injured those:
WhOrn lie has injured cruelly and basely, have yet
the magnanimity to dismiss him with some allow-
"( 44 perhaps, of nnexatnined money and goods ; what
righthavt we to step in between their bounty and
tea unit -
*spry o ever of it e— Thies.
At a public dinner given to Sir James Graham at
askedehaven Sir
J,l,2l,letxturdtry week, a gentleman having
ueni„us tevo7l. 11,111ente." en the great anti
;Hovered watt l Which has just taken place," hr
9 Whites l first read the Oirtrli!tre liaised by the King,
for crushing the Liberty of
liberty of Prance, I had cute whit It the
trembling anxiety to see whether that hirer
people wouhl rise up at once arm ,vt,mt,444,1
by
destroying that reckless tyroutthat hesitteVNro4ll4ll
by
that insane muss—(Cheers)—er wait the sitesil,%l7:).;
less certain progress of time for expelling- from th'sli%:'".
the serpent which they had nourishe4 only to icing
his suriety was speedily put au curl to by the inteit
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too which his spread joy throughout Ow hum, 4,„1