The Sun.
London, England, 1822-08-21 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS, AUG. 18.—The Constieut:onnel con-
tains a spirited letter from the Count de Santa
Rosa to the Minister of the Interior, dated Alen-
con, August 14, on the expression used by him
in the Chamber of Deputies, that the Piedmon-
tese refugees in France shewed themselves grate-
ful for " the protection of the French Govern-
ment and the _kindness of the King." After re-
v.apitulating the fact, the letter proceeds thus :
MY LORD—After haying been brought here by your
Orders, and having addressed to you fruitless protestations, I
Might have applied to the Chambers. I have not done so.—
Urged by my principles to remain perfectly a stranger to the
iitfilirs of every country but my own, I preferred waiting in
peace till the Government repaired its injustice, rather than
become the cause of a warm discussion in the bosom of the
Chamber. Men who, like me, feel the whole weight of their
misfortunes, and of those of the country, do not like to make
themselves talked of; but, my Lord, the words which you
have uttered, and which are spread throughout Europe,
force the to break my silence. Not to acknowledge bene-
fits, or to disavow a protector, is the part of a base man ;
bu: to suffer gratitude to be attributed to us, to be im-
posed upon us, when the feeling of injustice which op-
presses Us weighs on our hearts, is also a baseness. The
Italian Froscripts, my Lord, will never descend to it; they
• may be driven out, they may be imprisoned, they may be
overwhelmed with persecutions, hut they will never forget
what they owe to their own character, and to that dear and un-
fortunate country whose esteem is their first want. I own it
would have been sweet to me to have experienced the benevo-
lence of the French Government, to have lived under the pro-
tection of the author of the French Charter, by whom liberty
was given to France after 14 years of an opposite movement.—
Other Kings of France have protected Italians proscribed for
the same cause, and the last defenders of the liberty of Flo-
rence and Sienna found in France a second country under
Francis I. and Henry 11.

" Hear what has happened to me in France :—I entered it
with a Swiss passport and a borrowed name, in the false belief
that this precaution would secure me a peaceable abode at Paris.
I dwelt in that city and the country for four months. I was
quiet, and with an irreproachable conduct should I not have
been left so ? On the 23d of March last I was seized by the
agents of the King's authority in a public square at Paris and
taken to the Prefecture of Police, where I read on the warrant
for my apprehension these very words—' accused of seditious
intentions.' I demanded to be taken to the Prefect of Police,
I immediately told him my true name. After a long interro-
gatory, I was thrust into the prison of the Salle St. Martin, and
the proceedings in my affair began. It is evident that the Ma-
gistrates must have found in my papers, and in my conduct, a

complete want of proof of culpability in matter of politics,

since the proceeding against me was confined to the irregula-
rity of my passport. I expected to be tried and condemned on
this last point ; I knew my fault ; I was ready to undergo the
punishment of it. I had only committed a formal offence,
nothing was purer than my intentions, but I had still fallen
into a violation of the laws, which is never in my eyes entirely
to be justified. The French Magistracy thought that it was
not their duty to resort to a rigorous and literal application of
the law: they disdained to bind the lofty maxims of equity to
any considerations, and the tribunal of First Instance of Paris
deciared that there was no ground for the prosecution. The
public prosecutors opposed this decision. The Royal Court
pronounced a second judgment in my favour, and ordered my
--liberation in the accustomed form. I then requested of your
Excellency the power of enjoying French hospitality, that is
to say, to be allowd to live in France, under the protec-
tion of the laws of the kingdom. I thought that the Go-
vernment ought by this benefit to make up to me for all
that unjust alarms as to my political conduct in France had
made me suffer. This illusion, at which I have no need to blush,
soon vanished. lat first saw myself detained nine days in
prison, on the simple letter of the Prefect of Police to the
gaoler—an unjust violence offered to my person, as, according
to the Decree of the Royal Court, I could not legally be deprived
of my liberty, but by anew warrant (rnandat d'amener) issued
by the Magistrate. The answer of your Excellency arrived.
-1: was an order to the Prefect of Police, to get me taken to
Aleneon by the .Gend'armerie, to reside there under the sur-
veillance of the local authority.—lmmediately on my arrival
in the place of my banishment, I wrote to your Excellency,
4ltis no longer an asylum in France—it is passports for Eng-
land I request from the French Government.' 1 have re-
calved no answer, and you have, undoubtedly, my Lord, for-
gotten my letter and my protest, when you uttered in the Tri-
bune the words I have cited.

"These facts, which concern not me alone, and which are
• nearly. common to me with Messrs. Aluschietti and Calvetti,
my companions arrested and banished at the same time with
• .:no, arc. known to your Excellency, and can be proved, if
necessary, by authentic documents. 1 preserve the order of
the Royal Court of Paris as a precious monument of the pro-
tection which my innocence has found from a French tribunal.
" Now, my Lord, I ask whether we have been treated in

rance with justice or with injustice, with benevolence or ma-
levolence? whether we have been protected or oppressed?"
M. de Santa Rosa, after reiterating his demand for passports,
obs:rvas, that after all he has said, it may be judged whether
.-France is an asylum for misfortune.
Z.A.NTE:, JULY 'l6.—The successes which the

Greeks have obtained against an enemy so
superior in power and resources, prove the courage
-.vbich at present animates them. Their charac-
ters irpprove every day in this bloody and long
contest ; but their moral state and the political
spirit which reigns among them, are particularly
worthy of attention. By these alone can they

long sustain their military efforts, and render
their success both profitable and lasting.—The
intelligence frOm the different parts of the Con-
linent agrees in stating that the prayers which
_are now made by the Greeks, are for a counky
and laws•. In fact, a people wandering in the
irridst of their native land, without what is em-
phatically called a country, and continually, the

victims of the caprice of some stupid wretch,
must utter such prayers before any others. But
it is of more importance to remark, thous4h diffi-
cult of belief, that' the Government of Greece,
since it was first constituted, has been obeyed by
dill the provinces, and all the Chiefs. This spirit
of order was certainly not to be expected among
a people habituated for four centuries to all the
disorders of 'Oriental despotism.—The docility

among the people is in a great measure the work
of those men who composo the Government. It
is particularly due to their talents, their activity,

and to the general confidence they inspire. In
-spite of the difficulties which are the result of a
complete change—in spite of the iutrigues which
_a new Government must encounter, that of
-Greece proceeds every day with a firmer pace,
.and promises to lead to a speedy and great me-
lioration. From the acts of the Government,

we may learn better than from all which it tells
us, the spirit by which it; is directed ; we shall
therefore hasten to make them known to you .as
fast they appear.