The Sun.
London, England, 1822-11-18 00:00:00

SECOND DAY.

At one o'clock, M. B. CONSTANT began his
defence. 'The Court was even more crowded
than yesterday. [His .first speech, and his reply
to the observations of the Avocet du Roi com-
pletely fill the French 'Journals: We can only
give a mere outline.]
" The first thing of which I am -reproaChed by the Avocat
du Roi is not having brought the matter to trial, in place of
-writing what he calls a defamatory libel. But it was necessary
both for the deputies inculpated and for public tranquility, that
the imputations of M. Mangin-should be promptly disproved.
After the motion in the Chamber of Deputies, on August sth,
for calling him to the bar had been , rejected, in discussing
which his most eloquent advocates admitted that he had erred, it
was to be expected that he would refrain in his 'subsequent dis-
courses from loading with injuries the Deputies he had incul-
pated in the act of accusation. But he acted quite differently,
and called certain Deputies cowards, and perfidious, and stated
that one of them had been expressly to Saumur to seduce one of
the accused, and that another had paid the conspirators with the,
treasures of the Usurper.
" The first intention certainly was to bring M. 111angin
• to trial, but it was stoxped'at the commencement. While a
J)epuv may, by a simple citation, and without previous'

formalities, be summoned before/ the correctional police, no
administrative or judiciary agent can be attacked without
certain sanctions long and difficult to obtain ; and particularly
when the person is a Preeztreur General the thing is quite im-
possible. By the code which regulates these matters the com-
plaint is sent before the Procureur-General himself. Com-
plaints were addressed to the Keeper of the Seals, and were
rejected. The accusations, however, grew with each day. It
was necessary to reply to them. Several Deputies prepared
letters as strong or stronger than mine, and in every thing
which I have written I can fearlessly say I was the interpreter
of their sentiments. The common course of proceeding was
too slaw for the interest of France. li. Mangin had represent-
ed us as forming .a centre, and it was of immediate necessity
to,undeceive those who were deceived.

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" The Avocat has recognised the principle, that if my accu-
sations against M. Mangm are well-founded, the culpability
which he attributes to my 'letter will be much diminished. But
if you place my defence by the side of the accusation, you will
find that theformer is moderate compared with the latter.
M. -B.'Constant then entered into along explanation of his
conduct—of his visit to Saumur, and other particulars, tending
to shew the injustice of - the inculpations of M. Mangin, who
ought, fiad he any proofs, to hare brought M. Constant-to trial,
as a conspirator. He concluded thus :
" You, Gentlemen, will not give France the terriblcconvic-
don, that every species of violence is allowed to one party, and
prohibited tnthe other. I have been gratuitously attacked—l
have defended myself with frankness and vigour—rhave re-
plied with moderation, but not without indignation. Every
thing which is honourable in France will approve my conduct
—every thing generoui in the heart of man will grant me its
applause and its sympathy—and, under these impressions, I
:look forward with confidence to the judgment you are to give."
After the reply of M. Billot, Avocat du Roi, and the observa-
tions of M. Mollot, Counsel for M. B. Constant, the latter
again:addressed the Court; persisting that he: was obliged to
defend himself in the manner he did, unless he wished to be
consideied as a coward and an assassin.—" No danger," he said,
" would have made me hold a different line of conduct. I
would rather live at the bottom of a dungeon than walk at li-
berty in France, stained with the blood of the unhappy Caffi ;
and however severe may be the punishment inflicted on .ine, I
shOuld say it is better than to hear children uttering around
me—' Behold the murderer of our fathers, the assassin °four,
families replied, because 1 was accused, and you have
now to decide if you will condemn me because I would not pass
for a traitor—for the last and most contemptible of men.'
The Tribunal postponed giving judgment till Tuesday.

AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, Nov. 9.—(Extract of a
private letter.)--" A. letter from Venice an-
nounces the surrender of Napoli di Romani,
which the Captain Paella had in vain endeavour-
ed to ,relieve, the Greeks having made them-
selves masters of all the provisions which he had
put on shore. According to the capitulation
concluded with Colocotroni, the Turkish gar-
rison, who are no longer to serve against the
Greeks, are to be sent into Asia. Merchants at
Trieste have received intelligence from the
Morea, that Chourschid Pacha coMplains loud-
ly of being abandoned by his Government, for
he has not been reinforced by one of the nu-
merous troops he was promised by the Divan.—
Jle has lost all hope of acting on the offensive,
and it is said he has proposed under his signa-
ture, to the Greek Chiefs, a suspension of arms
till next Spring."
VIENNA, Nov. 3.—A Courier dispatched by
the Austrian General who commands in the Ban-
net of Temeswar, has brought to the Office of
Foreign Affairs, dispatches relative to recent
events said to have occurred at Constantinople.

It is affirmed that Prince Metternich has likewise
received from Corfu accounts of the late succes-
ses obtained by the Greeks over Chourschid
Paella.

It is generally reported here that the Aulic.
Counsellor Geutz is engaged in drawing up a
Declaration of the Allied Powers relative to
Spain, which will be shortly made public.
FRANKFORT, Nor. B.—The Prince Royal of
Sweden, on his retur❑ from his journey to Italy,
has arrived at. Eichstadt, to see his hride.before
he returns to Sweden.

The Universal Gazelle of Augsburgh contains
a letter from Paris, dated 25th October,,in which
there is a long detail ,of the points with which
the Congress will be engaged, and the declara-
tions which will be the result. The first five
points analyse the grand democratic European
conspiracy. The 6th, and last, relates to the
measures to be adopted by the Holy Alliance
against this immense conspiracy, and to place the
States of Europe on a firm and desirable basis.

SEIVILIN, OCT. 28.—Letters have been received
at Belgrade, which have come in nine days from
the environs of Larissa.—They state that Chours-
chid Paella had given his Beys and the other Officers
under his command, orders to negociate an armis-
tice with the Greek commanders in Thessaly and
Epirus. Before this s'tep was taken, mews had
been received at Larissa, that the Turks had
'sustained a fresh defeat in Epirus.

FRANKFORT, Nov. 10.—The Elberfield Jour-
nal contains an article dated Solingen, Oct. 30,
which says—" The niysterious veil which co-
vered the terrible history of the blades of poin-
ards seized at Sierck by the Custom-house offi-
cers, which some Paris. Journals have represented
as so alarming, in order to place a very simple fact
in which there is nothing to excite uneasiness, in
a false and odious light. If the French Police
desires' to know how these blades, which the
Douaniers at Sierck have called blades of poniards,
came to that town, and for whom they were in-
tended, it needs only to apply to Messrs. E. G.
Knecht and Son, at Solingen, where it may easily
learn all the circumstances of the affair.

BaussELs,Nov.l4.—An extraordinary number
of commercial couriers pass through this city be-
tween Paris and Amsterdam. Twelve from Paris,
and five from Amsterdam, have passed within
these 24 hours.

NAPLES, OCT. s.—Thanksgivings were begun
to be offered up to-day in the Cathedral Church
of St. Januarius, for the preservation of this City
from the effects of one of the most dreadful erup-
tions of Mount Vesuvius now recollected.—
Divine service will be continued three days, and
the concourse of worshippers is immense. This
morning the columns of liquid fire, stones, and
ashes, which had issued from the volcano for
several days, began to abate ; and every thing in-
dicates the discontinuance of this terrible.phe-
nomenon.