The Sun.
London, England, 1822-01-28 00:00:00

JANUARY 28, 1822.

DIVIDENDS.

Feb. 23, D. Reid, Princes-street, Spitallields, silk-manufac-
turer-Jan. 29, A. Richardson, York-street, St. Marylebone,
and T. Welch, Cleveland-street, builders-Feb. 16, J. St.
Barbe, Austin-friars, ship-owner-Feb. 22, 'l'. Richardson,
Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, tanner-Feb. 19, S. Shingles,.
Basinghall-street, factor-Feb. 18, W. Hancock, burY
crSt. Ed-
nnins, Suffolk, cabiriet-maker-Feb: 19, M. Wotherspoon,
Liverpool, merchant-Feb. 16, J. Bell, R..€l. Beasley, and
W. Bell, Austin-fria-s, merchants-Feb. 26, J. Cummins,
Gloucester, mercer-. 4. 18, W. Worral, Liverp‘ol, mer-
chant-Feb. 9, A. Johnson, 'Palmer's Village, bricklayer-
Feb. 23, R. Miller, Old Fish-street,. bookseller-Feb. 19, Y.
Eybe and A. Schmaeck, Bury-court, St. Mary-axe, merchants
-Feb. 26 11r, Wilson, Crown-court, Broad-street, mer-
chant-Fel. 19, B. Fincharn,• sen., W.-Fincham, and B. Fin-
chain, iun. Epping, Essex, bankers-Feb. 16, T. Jent,
chinuman-Feb. 16, J. Plaskett, Docktad, Southwark
stave-merchant-Feb. 18, J. Etches, :Fury St. 'Edmund's, Suf-
folk, haberdasher-Feb. .18, J. 141iddleditch, Bury St. Ed-
miind's, Suffolk, •plumber-Feb. 19, 11. Phillips H. Phillips,
jun. and 'l'. Pole, .Birmingham, toy-makers-Feb. 22, J. An-
drews, sen. Birmingham, joiner. • • -
CERTIVCATES, FEB. 16.
1V: Pattenden, tiussex coach master -H.
Ricket, Shoredixh, grocer-J. Epps, .Holborn, ham merchant
-W. Percival, Liverpool, glass merchant-J. Shakespear, Fih
longley, IVarwickshire, Taper-J. Milligan, Liverpool, mer-
chant-C. Coupland. jun. R. Coupland, F. Coupland, and E.
Coupland, Leeds, spirit nierbhants-R. Jackson, Cannon-street,
merchant-4V. A. bailey,•Stowmarket, Suffolk, cabinet-maker
W. George, Haymarket, saddler--G. Richardson, Horneastle„
Lincolnshire, grocer-R. Clay, Stamford, Lincolnshire, scriv-
ener-J. Niblock; Bath, woollen-draper-4. Mins ' and J.
liinns,-jun. Looe,,Coniwall, Merchants-..-J..Calvert, Tavistock
Hotel, Covent-garden., Tnerchant., •:
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. - •

G. Healtlnnd" P. Oiler, Manchester, calico-printers—T.
Parker and ..C& Manchester, calico-printers—S. Mather. and
M. A. Nisbet, • Goswell-street, • school-mistresseS-4. Ritson
and J. Gibson, Liverpool, general merchants—J. Northover
and C. Milner, Greenwich, cattle-dealers—T. Richardson and
J. Wardle, Orarige7street, Leicester-square, carpenters,-J.
Croft and S.. Croft, 'Great Eccleston, Lancashire, butchers-•--D.
Keane and W. Barnett, Shrewsbury-, merchants-,W. G tson
and Co. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, merchants—J, Oldacres and
G. Withers, Leiceter, worsted-spinners—R. Pritchard and
T. Gladstones, Liverpool, bread-bakers—John Rowlinson and
John Huddleston, Warrington, Lancashire, attorneys-at-law—:.
J. Mickathwaite and Ti. Niickelthwaite, Sheffield, Yorkshire,
merchants—J. Monk and Co. Newburgh, Lineashire, coal-
merchnts—T. Sloan, Bath, and S. Clark, Plymouth, linen-
drapers—R. Palmer and W. Shepherd, Marlborough—J.
Neighbour and W. Watkins, Down-strect,
Shiffher and G. Blackburne, Mark-lane, wine-merchantS—G.
T. Ferret's and G. Latus, King-street, St. James's, feather
bed-manufacturers—P. Keller and T. Keating, Bristol—W. Z.
Holwell and J. Richards, Great Titchfield-street, St. Maryle-
bone, coach-painters—l. Fmnemore and F. Potts, Birming-
ham, tube-manufalturers—T. Moore and B. Moore, Notting-
ham, lace-makers,-T. Wilson and Co. Birmingham, button-
makers—T. Richardson and W. Brown, Old Bailey, hay-
salesmen.

PiticE•BEvENi3Ekc:

FOR TILE SUN.

MINISTERS AND FARMERS.
(LETTER, II.)

• Mit. Ecirron'--:,Since my last communicationi
the Agricultnral clamour has been louder; yet
I. question if it would have been so load; 114
OPPOSITION considered it possible to have assaillea
MINIsTEns in any other quarter. Now,'Sir, it
is curious to observe that Agricultural Distress
and Public Retrenchment has been cotemporary
and consentaneotis ;- nay, that as Retrenchment
has proceeded, Agricultural clathour has inOreas
ed; and prices diminished ; yet, with this tact
staring them in the 'face, our modern would-be
SoLoNs cry out for further economy. Is it not
worth. while then to pause a little before we in-
crease the dose of that which has produced-Mitch,
if not all the mischief ? is it not a fact, that
when prices were .the highest, then the expendi-
ture was greatest—Government themselves going
into the Corn Market to the amount of 14 or 15
millions annually ? Upon what principle then
can we b. oeve that a reduction of Five MIL-
LIONS ill Taxation and Expenditure (for that is
now the sum specified as a panacea) will Make
up to the Farmer for the loss of so rich a ctisto-
mer as the Public Service ? Some indeed cry out
against a reduced circulation—now I would ask
them to reflect for a moment what a powerful
effect Five Millions have upon the general cir-
culation of the Country, raised, as they mush be,
in various districts, and passing through 'many
hands before they reach the Treasury ; and to
compare that with the possible good to atipiridi-
vidual from the reduction of one penny in the shil-
ling uponhis Annual Taxes—forit will not amount
to more ! Sir, I cannot help believing that if
Government were annually to borrow Five Mil-
lions, and expend them upon public, useful,
works, it would do more real good to the Farmers
than the reduction of Ten Millions in the Public
Expenditure and Taxation,
It has for some time been difficult to reply
to the Opposition clamour—for such it evi:.
dently is, in a certain degree--owing to
the very vague and general terms in which that
clamour has been expressed—th-e petition from
Huntingdon, however, in your Paper of Thurs
day the 24th, speaks out boldly. It states; that
the 4c petitioners are in embarrassment"—bqt it
does not say how much of that arises from a
struggle to live at the same rate, and in the same
style, as when prices were higher. In old times
we had a few gentlemen fanners ;. hut during
the fever of high prices, all farmers becaine gen-
tlemen. Still it does not follow that the country
is ruined because our agricultural arrangements
Must return to what they were under fo`rnier
low prices. I wish the petitioners had stated
the number of acres held by each, arid the nna:--
bee of occupying farmers in each parish. It is a
curious and important fact, as I have heard on
good 'authority, that the small farmers, ditrinz
all this cry of distress, have paid their rents With
less difficulty, upon a fair view of the case, than
the large ones, who, by occupying‘vhOle'parishes.
as is the case in various instances, have•turned
nearly all the population into paupers. .
They say that.. they see "the hour approach
when rents must go unpaid."—And a timely. re-
duction of 'farms_ to the arrangements of 1792
(that favourite year) will be a check to Coat
evil ; " wheii taxes and tithes must be uncol-
lected"—but small farmers will have fewer As-
SeSSeil and 'direct taxes to pay, whilst their in-
creased expenditure; in the aggregate of
.excise-
able articles, will make up to the Treasury any
di Xerence that might otherwise take place in The
sum total : as for tithes, whether' they are taken
in kind or regulated by a moth's or market
prices, they cannot make any difference to, the
farmer, who, in either case, has only to pay one
tenth of the produce. It is needless to talk
here of the difference of rent of land, tithable or
tithe free ; or of the question of land'. first
brought to fertility at great expense. ~
They tell us that 44 relief to the poor will be
undistributed ;" but the throwing of one whole
parish farm into many farms will; of itself, re-
duce the number of the poor. Nay, had the
system of large holdings gone on for a_ few years
longer, the poor, in districts solely agricultnral,
would have died off, without leaving others to
fill up their places : and it is a most important
fact, Mr. Editor, that during, the ten years when
the country increased so much in population
(1800 to if the county of Rutland, a county
solely agricultural, only increased its population
to tile amount of ONE individual ! .

They tell Os, too, that the " labouring classes,
raging with hunger, will be induced to satisfy
that hunger by acts of violence" ! Indeed ! and
is that t.o. be the result of " peace and, a cheap
loaf," for.vbich, from the days of Fox down-
wards, there has been so much parliamentary ar-
gument, and so ' much popular clamour ? But
true ! I had forgot—though we have got Peace,
we have not yet got a cheap Loaf! Now,.Sir,
I should like to know how many meal-men and
millers signed the Huntingdon petition. Perhaps
titey could tell us how it happens that bread is at
this moment nearly as dear as when agricultural
'prices were at the highest !
Next cotnes the cry about Ca:sh-pkyments=
but I, overstep your limits—in my next .corn.
munication I trust, however, to, be able to.olfer
a plain and:practical, or .practicable remedy, for
that evil, provided all parties agree in the ex-
istence of the fact as stated.
' As .for the demand to reduce all other cltsses
of society to the farmers' level, it comes with a
very bad grace from those who had no objection to
make the most of those classes when prices were
higher; but I must pauSe.—Your's,
IGNOTLIS.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS, JAN. 24.—The Journal of the Upper
Rhine, under the head of Colmar, Jan. 24, con-
tains the following article :
"The Paris Papers mention that the Sieurs Tel-
lier and Wahlble, Adjutant Sub-officer and Ser-
jeant-Major of the' 29th regiment, who, after the
discovery of their plot, had fled to Porentruy,
have been delivered up by the Grand Bailli.
These two sub-officers had really been arrested
at Porentruy, but they were shortly after re-
rtored to liberty, having as, mod the names of
Castor and Pollux, between which and the
-names Tellier and Wahlble, the police of that
part of Switzerland discovered no resemblance.
We have received some information respecting
the articles found in the house of the Sieur
Jean, advocate of Belfort. These articles con-
sist of two tri-coloured flags, and the cravats
which were detached from them, 17 cockades
with silver edges, 600 woollen' cockades, a coun-
ter-epaulette of a chief of battalion, 400 balls,
and,about 1,200 cartridges. Some new sabres
were found in the streets of Belfort, which bad
been left there by the men who wished to elude
the investigations of the police on the failure of
the plot. The son of the Sieur Petit-Jean has
tied, and the number of persons now arrested
amounts to thirty-seven.
" In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies of
the 14th instant, M. d'Argenson applied for leave
of absence to examine the injury he had sustained
from a domiciliary visit made in consequence of
the discovery of the plot of Belfort. - We have
received some positive information on this sub-
ject, from which it appears that M. d'Argenson
will find no trace of violence in his house. A
visit really took place, but could it not have been
made to the residence of a man, whom M. d'Ar-
genson lodged in his house, and who had been
arrested at Belfort ? This man is the Sieur Pe-
gulu, who was accused before the Court of Peers
in 1820, and who had implicated in his escape the
officer of the post to whose care he was intrusted.
We know not what means of seduction were em-
ployed to corrupt this officer, even after the plot
had failed ; but we know very well, and it is a
fact of which nobody can be ignorant, that the
Magistrates were charged to collect proofs of the
crime, and that their first steps were naturally
directed towards the residence of the accused.
We are assured that after his flight from Belfort,
the Sieur Pegulu returned to, the chateau of M.
D'Argenson to secure his effects, which, at all
events, were not found there at the time of
the domiciliary visit. Those who are unfor-
tunate enough to lodge a conspirator in their
house must not be surprised at the legal mea-
sures of which their residence becomes the
object; and .M. d'Argenson may be assured that
in the present instance the Magistrates have only
performed their duty. Some time ago, a decree
of the Royal Court of Colmar might have con-
vinced M. d'Argenson of the same fact, in a
case in which the Sieur Pegulu was likewise
concerned. The latter had refused to shew his
passport, and the officer of gendarmerie having
t!.reatened to arrest him if he did not prove that
lie possessed the legal right to travel, M. d'Ar-
genson prosecuted the officer of gendarmerie, and
thereby constituted himself a civil party, by
reason of the injury he had sustained from the
loss of time occasioned by the explanations of
-the Sienr Pegulu, who was in his service and
pay. The Coart dismissed this singular demand,
and M. d'Argenson may now see that the man
for whom he said he was ready to answer at that
time, well deserved to be compelled to fulfil an
obligation which the law imposes on all subjects.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 23.
The debate was resumed on the law project
relative to the offences of the press.
M. de Bouville read a long speech in support
of the law project. The Journal des Debuts
being apprehensive that an analysis of M. de
Bouville's oration would weaken his arguments,
omits it altogether for the present, but promises
to give it at length in a supplement. .
M. Mechin addressed the Chamber. In the
midst of peace, he found France full of disquie-
tude. Though, from political storms, the coun-
try anticipates dangers, we have been for six
years under laws which have been incapable of
producing concord. The nation is tormented by
an internal disorder, the symptoms of which are
manifest. Is the cause internal also ? No : it
exists solely in the political faults of those who are
daily exciting the public solicitude; for the in-
stability of the agents of power renders daily
more remote the hope of adopting a steady
course. No system can be fixed, when it is in j
the hands of men of no settled political character;
who to-day abjure on the Ministerial bench the
principles which they defended as Deputies.—
(Murmurs in different senses.)—The Constitu-
tional law itself, given up to the interpretations
of diverging interests, is not secure against the
constantly rising pretensions of those who pos-
sess power. Tile Honourable Deputy then pro-
ceeded to trace the vicissitudes which the liberty
of the Press has undergone since the invention of,
printing. He reminded the Chamber that Henry
IV. owed his establishment on the French
throne to the Satire 11Ic'uzippee, and that it was
the subjugation of the Press wader his reign
which promoted the success of a society (the
suits) whose re-appearance at present constituted
the terror of all France, and which society had
whetted the poniard which put an end to the
existence.of that good King. One of the capital
crimes charged against a prodigious man, who
belongs now only to history, and who fell from
a throne erected by innumerable triumphs—one
of the capital crimes against him, in the act of
forfeiture, was his having subjected to the Cen-
sorship of the police the liberty of the press,
which had been established as a national right.
But the violation of a right so sacred, which had
precipitated the conqueror from the summit of the
Tarneian rock, now made the Ministry ascend
to the capitol. He concluded by moving for the
rejection of the project.
M. de Peyronnet (Keeper of the Seals) rose
next. He spoke at considerable length in vindi-
cation of that part of the project which relates

to attacks on religion. The protection afforded
was indispensable ; and if it was due to any
form of worship, it was stilt more so to the na-
• tional religion. The suppression of the word
constitutional, which was attached by the law of
the 17th of May to the words Royal Authority,
had been made the subject of remark, and de-
scribed as an infringement of the Charter. This
was as much a/mistake as the assertion that the
suppression was recent. The word had not been
suppressed by the Committee. It was not in the
original project.
Voice on the left.—We have made no such
reproach against the Committee.
M. de Peyronnet did not pOint out the mistake
for the purpose of avoiding the discussion of the
inconveniences which may belong to this omission,
if 'any such exist, but nothing can be more easy
than to justify it. Some deputies are of opinion
that since the Charter has been given, all powers
must proceed from it. That is certainly true ;
but the maxim is susceptible of some important
explanations. Powers preceded the Charter,
and it would be very extraordinary were the
Charter to prevent the passing of a law intended
to secure respect to the very authority by which
the Charter was given. He had heard disputes
respecting power de facto and its limits, respect-
ing power de jure and its limits, but he never
heard it denied that during the existence of the
power de Ado, that is to say, before the Charter
was granted to us, the power of the King did not
reside in the person of the King. That right then pre-
ceded the Charter, and was independent of it. What
has been the conseqeence of the silence of repressive
laws on this subject ? That serious attacks have
been directed against the Royal authority, with
reference to times anterior to the concession of
the Charter, and French juries have been found,
with pain it must he stated—(laughter and mur-
murs on the left)—French juries have been
found, who, adoptivg the strange and 'pernicious
sophism, by means of which it had been at-
tempted to establish a distinction between the
constitutional authority, properly so called, and
the authority which preceded the promulgation
of the Charter, have acquitted persons whose
criminal doctrines it would be impossible to re-
peat here.—(Another movement on the left.)
A voice on the left.—This, then, is the great
evil !

M. de Peyronnet proceeded to defend the ar-
ticle of the project for punishing libels on classes
of persons, which he considered as just as the
punishment of libels on individuals. With re-
gard to the question of confiscation, he argued
that no confiscation could take place when no-
thing was forfeited to the Exchequer. To sup-
press a Journal was the same thing as putting
down any establishment in a town which might
be injurious to the inhabitants; or as seizing
goods oh the frontiers which might introduce con-

tagion.—( Voices on the left, This is the argu-
ment of M. Chiflet's report over again.)
M. de Peyronnet.—The amendment of the
Committee which refers the offences of the Press

to the judgment of the Royal Court has been
made the subject of reproach against the Mi-
nisters of the King, and perhaps against the King
himself.—(Violent agitation on the left.)
M. de Girardin.—The King was never men-
tioned.—(Order, order.)
M. de Lameth.—We never speak of the King,
but Ministers wish to cover their responsibility
with the mantle of royal inviolability.
M. de Peyronnet.—On account of this article,
Ministers have been reproached with having con-
sented to the abolition of the Charter. If Mini-

sters did consent to this change of jurisdiction,
such an arrangement, far from being contrary to
the Charter, is conformable to the very letter of it.
The Charter maintained the institution of the Jury
such as it existed. Now, the Jury was then ex-
clusively employed for the suppression of crimes;
it had no jurisdiction over misdemeanour, still
less over offences of the press, which, like all
other offences, were subject merely to correctional
penalty.

Voice on the left.—lt is plain, then, that you
adhere to the amendments of the Committee.
M. de Peyronnet, in continuation, replied to
some points in the speeches of MM. Etienne, Se-
bastiani, and Royer Collard. The last speaker
had stated that democracy overflowed society
every where—that it existed amongst us. This
is true. He also stated that it was infused into
ail our institutions.

M. Royer Collard-7,N0; I said precisely the
contrary.

M. de Peyronnet.—l affirm that my memory
is habitually faithful--(Here he recapitulated M.
Royer Collard's arguments).—lt was not sur-
prising that things so true and well expressed
should be engraven on his memory. But as it
was true that aristocracy heti:almost disappeared,
and that democracy overflowed every thing,
would it be right to increase the influence of the
latter ? With respect to aristocracy, since it has
been acknowledged to be merely a fiction, it is
surely very inconsistent to pretend to dread its
encroachments. There is but one question before
the Chamber. Are attacks upon religion, upon
the'Royal authority, upon the Chambers, and
upon public functionaries, to remain unpunished ?
Were the Chambers to abandon the care of their
own dignity, they would be criminal towards

society, at the head of which they weal placed. He
must notice a phrase which had dropped from a pre-
ceding speaker (M. Payee de Vandceuvre.) That
speaker asserted, that to propose such laws was
to instigate the people to sedition and revolt.--
God forbid that these words should be regarded as
an instigation, which the speaker never intended.
God forbid also that we should do so much in-
justice to the French people as to think it neces-
sary to reply to such instigations. The French
people despise and reject them ; they wish only
for peace—the profound peace which their King
has given them. (" Bravo" on the right.)
Voice on the left—They wish for liberty!
M. de Marcellus—They wish for the Bourbons!
Other voices—Order ! order !
M. de Peyronnet repeated the words he had
just used. He then adverted to the declaration
of M. Etienne, that the present Ministers were
not formed to govern according to the laws.
The present Ministers, however, were subject to
the laws, and would always govern by the laws.

They would act with strict Impartiality, and that
moderation which the laws prescribe ; but they
would employ the force which the laws granted
them, and which bad citizens only could wish to
refuse them. The Minister descended from the
tribune amidst marks of apprbbation from the
right.

M. Devaux spoke against the project. lie
took for his text one of PascaPs.maxims ; namely,
that the liberty of man consists in thought. flu
regarded the suppression of the jury for offences
of the press as equivalent to the ancient parlia-
mentary jurisprudence, which condemned a man
without expressing the grounds of the condem-
nation. The whole law was, reducible to this—
that the journals of the Opposition might be sup-
pressed at pleasure, and that no journals should
be allowed except such as are written in the
manner the Ministers approve.

The debate was adjourned until to-morrow.
The speakers first inserted stand in the follow-
ing order :—MM. de Kergorlay, Foy, (le Mot-
bron, Bignon, Clauzel de Cousergues, and d'Ar-
genson. The last-mentioned Deputy was pre-
sent during this day's debate.

FRENCH FUNDS.
Jan. 23, Five per Cents.
Bank Stock 1540 f. c.

JAN. 25.—Private letters from Vienna, (le-
serving of credit, announce that those Albanian
tribes who have hitherto refused to make com-
mon cause with the Epirotes, have at length re-
solved on joiningg, the cause of the insurgents.—
The 'Chimariots among others have furnished
very considerable succours. All the fortified po-
sitions in Epirus and Arcarnania, which are still
occupied by the Turks, are now attacked by the
Greeks.

We learn from Smyrna, under date the 15th
of December, that tranquillity was partially re-
stored. In the night of -the 7th a fire broke out
in the Turkish quarter, which reduced about 20
houses to ashes. A Judicial Officer, of high rank,
has arrived from Constantinople, to make au in-
quiry into the events of November.