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

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE-

PARIS, Nov. 15.—Wednesday the King at-.
-=tended a solemn Requiem, in his apartments, in,
commemoration of the anniversary of the decease,
of the late Queen, his Majesty's Consort.—The
.King does not go out.
Yesterday an Extraordinary Courier was re-,
ceived at the Foreign Office from Vienna. ,
The Academy of Sciences, at its Meeting on'
, Monday last,nominated M. Berzelius an Honorary'
Member of the Academy, in place of the cele-
brated Dr. Herschel. M. Berzelius, Secretary
to the Academy of Sciences at Stockholm, is the;
author of a great Dumber of works on Chemistry,,
- and several discoveries in -that-science.—(Jour
• nal des 'Mats.)
Midnight.—The following news has this instant.
arrived :—" At half past six in the evening, the
result of the votes at the College of arrondisse,
snent of Meux was--169 in favour of iGeneral
Lafayette, and 135 in favour of M. Menager.
M.
Lafayette has been in consequence proclaimed,
Deputy."
The Qztotidienne notices the visit of the War
Minister to the Duke of Angouleme, and say's
that he had a .long conference with his Royal
Highness.
The Moniteur has published a Royal Ordi-
nance, dated the 6th, which directs that the high
Pay in advance for corporals of infantry, fixed
by the tariff annexed to the ordinance-of the 9th
of June, 1821, shall be granted to soldiers of
every, kind, on renewing their engagements.
On Wednesday there was .a Council of French
Ministers, at which the King presided. After
the Council, the War Minister visited the Duke
d'Angouleme, and continued, according to the
Journal de Paris, more than an hour with him.
A report had prevailed in Paris that the Duke
had set out for Bayonne to join the. Army of
Observation, but it is contradicted by the Quoti-
dienne.
On the subject of the Regency Loan the Con-
stitutionnel states, that-M. Rougemont, of Paris,
has addressed a letter to the Spanish Ambas-
sador, declaring that, though he has been corn-
, missioned to act in its behalf by M. Ouvrard, he
' knows him alone, and that he has no communica-
tion either with the Regency or any other autho-
rity. The renter at Paris had declined about
÷ per cent. on Thursday, having left off at 88f.
:.20c. The fall is ascribed to some failures which
had arisen out of the recent fluctuations.
Many difficulties have been created to take
_ away from the Constitutionalists the advantage
which they havealways obtained in the Elections
in La Vendee, even in the Grand College. At
the moment when the last lists were to be published,
the number of the 'Electors, who amounted at the
' last election to 900, was reduced %to 500. It is
Useless 'to add what opinion is professed by the
400 Electors forgotten or cut off; but it remains
to he ascertained if it is' the way in which-it is to
. be proved that the Electoral Colleges express ac-
curately the opinion of the departments.—(Le
Constitutionn el.)

PARIS, Nov. 14.,•
TRIBIJNAL OF CORRECTIONAL POLICE.
TRIAL OF 111. B. CONSTANT,

Y OR TITS LE T T ER I'o TEE PROCURETIR-GENTERAL, MANGIN.
On this cause being called on towards noon,
- on expression of interest and satisfaction was dis-
. played by the audience. •
M. B. Constant appeared in person, and read the conclusions
which he wished the Court to adopt, and the object of which
was, that in consequence of his character of Depyty, and the
writing complained of growing out of what he had done in that
• character, the Court shoulddeclare itself incompetent. Heathen
supported his conclusions in along speech, of which the fol-
lowing is-an abridgment :
If I consulted only my personal interest, I should most
readily renounce all my efforts to escape your jurisdiction. I
was •an accuser before being accused, and I only appear here
from an obscurity in the law, which has, as far as I am con-
, cernecl, the effect of denying me justice ; and France will learn
from my presence here that a citizen—a Deputy—that several
Deputies—are not under the protection of the law-when de-
famed, but fall tinder its sword when they defend themselves
. from defamation.
" The important question •is, can a Deputy, "during the in-
-. terval of the Sessions, be brought before a tribunal for opinions
delivered by him from the Tribune? lam not the first De-
puty who has been denounced, nor the first who has been in-
. Jared ; but lam the first-who has been brought to this bar for
not having been insensible to infamous denunciations repeated,
..and spread thro' the whole of France; and which are only eaten-
. lated to make rn ebe regarded as the cowardly and perfidious in sti -
gatorof plots,as the infamous prosecutor of crimes,of which I saw
without pity, thennhapPy instruments- perish on the scaffold.
There is no precedent, therefore, to guide you ; and in repuls
ing an usurpation of power, you will merit public gratitude, and
render a service to the 3lonarchy henceforward inseparable
from the representative system. •
" I must chew you, that the inculpations which gave occa-
sion to the answer complained of,' were the direct result of
opinions delivered by me in the Tribune. Do not be astonish-
ed at the novelty of the subject. The recent establishment of
the Constitutional Government—the little experience we have
of the rights it. confers, and the duties it imposes, may give
im-
portance to assertions which there is no tine to examine. But
my demonstration shall be certain, and leave you no doubt of
. your incompetence:"
The eloquent Deputy then pointed out several passages in
the speech of. the Procureur-General, Mangin, which referred
to what he had said as a deputy ; and concluded, that what he
had written in reply to inculpations of this speech was not with-
", in the competence.of the tribunal. II concluded thus:—
. "I am not afflicted for myself; my life replies to the invec-
- ;fives of my enemies: 'As a man, nobody can reproach me ; as
an author, I have defended what I thought valuable, and have
contributed to save two heads from the block ; -as a legislator, I
have always voted according •to my- conscience. But lam
. afflicted for France—for that beautiful France which is degrade
ed za the eyes of foreigners by the degradation of the individuals
chosen as the organs of the public sentiments."'
After hearing the Avocat du Roi, the Court decided that it
was competent, and ordered the trial to proceed.
At five o'clock. the Court adjourned farther proceedings till
next day, when M. Constant is to defend -himself. He was ac-
companied to the 'coach by a great crowd of persons.