The Sun.
London, England, 1825-11-04 00:00:00

[MORNING POST.]

The French Papers which have reached us
since our last contain but little in the shape of
news, and nothing whatever from Greece. The
only article of interest, is one which will remove
the doubts and fears entertained in Germany lest
the new King of Bavaria should be disposed to
follow the constitutional course so frankly adopt-
ed and so firmly pursued by his father. For in-
stead of wishing to put down the established
constitution, he has now sworn to maintain it.
This important ceremony lately took place in the
Royal Palace at Munich, in presence of all the
nobility of the Court and the great officers and as-
sembled bodies of the State. Count Reigersberg,
as the oldest Minister, addressed the new Mo-
narch, and called upon him to take the oath pre-
scribed by the firstarticle of the Constitution. The
Minister of Justice then read the oath itself :-
66 I swear to reign according to the Constitution
and the laws of the kingdom, so help me God
and his Holy Gospel !" The King placing three
fingers of his right. hand on his left side, repeated
the formula, and aware probably of the appre.
hensions which had been entertained, added the
following spontaneous and satisfactory assurances.
" Before taking this oath, I considered myself
equally bound by that which I took, when the
Constitution was originally introduced. lam
most firmly determined to fulfil the obligations
imposed upon me by the oath which I have
pronounced as King, in the place of my august
father, whose memory shall be eternally dear to
me, and I trust in the grace of God that he will
give me the necessary strength to discharge those
obligations. ft is difficult to reign after such a
King as he whom death has removed from us, and
it is impossible to equal him." These assurai ces
on the part of the new Monarch, and the manner
in which they were made, created perfect confi-
dence in his sincerity, and general satisfaction
amongst the whole nation. The Journal des D.
bats contains an article in favour of Constitutions,
evidently from the pen of Viscount Chateau.
briand, for it blends rich eloquence with sound
argument. In this article he makes use of the
following just and striking historical comparison
to illustrate the weakness of absolute, and
the strength of Constitutional Monarchies :
" In 1701, Louis XIV., the powerful, the glori-
ous Louis XIV., placed his grandson on the throne
of Spain, and was obliged to supply him with
soldiers, generals and ministers ; for Philippe
V. had found nothing. Charles V. had over-
turned all national institutions on his side of
the Pyrenees, and Philippe 11. had annihilated
even their ruins. The Monarchy, then become
absolute, proceeded in the same course with the
new Dynasty, and sunk with it deeper and deeper
into the abyss. Enriched with all the trea-
sures of Mexico and of Peru, and possessed of
valuable dependencies in the Indian Ocean and,
the Atlantic, Spain fell into a state of poverty
and of langour almost without example. Those
transmarine provinces which ought to have con-
stituted her strength became a burthen to her
weakness ;. and after enjoying a moment's glory
during her struggle with the conqueror of Eu-
rope, as the last flash of departing existence, she
seems now ready to expire, dismantled of those
magnificent colonies which are forming them-
selves into independent States. About the
same period that a Son of France went to,
reign at Madrid, a little Elector of Hanover was
called to the English Throne. He arrived in
London without any external aid or force, and
suddenly became a powerful Monarch. His suc-
cessors fought triumphantly against the French
flag ; and though England lost important Colo-
nies, instead of being enfeebled by their se-
paration, she contended breast to breast for
twenty years against the French Revolution,
enlisted all Europe unde'r her banners, and
after conquering the man who had enslaved dile
whole Continent, was entrusted with his guar-
dianship on a distant rock. Is England exhaust-
ed by her gigantic efforts? No? more flourish-
ing than ever, she grows young as society is
doing, takes the new course laid open to man-
kind, and places herself at the head of the new
nations called up by Providence on the theatre
of the world. What produced this difference in
the destinies of two great kingdoms, at the time
and since they changed their dynasties ? Simply
this:—Philippe V. found Despotism in Spain,
and George I. Liberty in England. The former
reigned absolute ; the latter became the chic f of
a representative monarchy."

SWINDLING.—The public are cautioned against
a man of the name of Patrick Owen, ,of respect-
able appearance, about 40 years of age, swarthy
complexion, five feet six or seven inches high,
who has for some time past been engaged in de.
frauding tradesmen, landlords, Esc. About five
weeks ago he took a house in Globe-place, Beth-
nal-green, where he has carried on his nefarious
practices amongst the.butchers, bakers, publicans,
ticc., and from which place he decamped about
three o'clock in the morning of last Monday week.
In the course of four weeks he has obtained
goods of the different tradesmen in the neigh-
bourhood to a very considerable amount ; the loss
of which is most severely felt by them, they be-
ing persons in a small way of business, and the
most of them having large families to support.
The said Patrick O.►en is in the habit of giving
a reference to a most respectable banking-house,
in Gracechurch-street, where it appears he was
employed about three years ago, since which
time he has figured away near the Elephant and
Castle as a baker ; near the White Hart, Ken-
nington, as Sir John Owen ; in Ironmonger-row,
as a general dealer ; and in Half Nichol-street,
Shoreditch, as a grocer ; and his residence at
each of those iilaces will be long remembered
ti~ith regret by the neighbouring tradesmen, &c.