The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-25 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.
PARIS, OCT. 23.—The letter from Rome, pallsbed by
the Augsburg Gazette, merits some attention. It is evident
that the Prince of Capua is meant as the person whose sig-
nature is affixed to the proclamation in question.
Tour.oN, Our. 18.—Major-General de Rigny has
arrived here to-day, on his way to Africa. He will embark
this evening on board the C'erberus steam-boat for Algiers,
with his aide-de-camp and several other officers. He is
to command the cavalry in the expedition to Constantine.
Tlio regiments hitherto designated to make part of the
army in this expedition are the 2.8 d, 24th, 59th, and 65th
-Regiments of Infantry of the Line, and the 17th of Light
Wantrv, forming a total of 1,000 men. Including the
Aral) auxiliaries under the command of Voussief Bey, the
artillery, &c., the army will amount to an effective force of
12,000 men. Orders have just been received at the depot
of the artillery
in this port to deliver the necessary ammu-
nition. A transport is to sail very shortly with 150,000
cartridges, and other o:7tiolcs, for the army.—Journal du
Commerce, Oct. 23.
ENTERTAINMENT GIVEN' TO M. ODILLON
BARROT.
The Mayor of Coucy having refused to 'glace the town•
hall at the 'disposal of the electors, who had app.lied for it,
to feceive M. Odillon Barrot in a becoming manner, the
party Assembled at the house of one of the inhabitants.
After receiving the congratulations of the banquet, M.
Odillon Barrot delivered a remarkable speech, in which lie
expressed in eloquent and energetic terms his opinion on the
_present critical situation of France. After drawing a paral-
lel between liberty and despotism, and reprobating the indif-
ference of the people for public affairs, he entreated them to
emerge from that lethargy in which a Government, " un-
faithful to its origin," had plunged them, because it consi-
dered their terror an infallible guarantee of its own security.
The representati:re system, as at present understood, he said
wasa contemptible parody, a ntensonge. The Government
in his opinion, was every day proceeding in the way of re-
action, and could not advance rnucs further without danger
to its existence. Several attempts to ref race its steps had been
made in vain. The Ministry of Feb. 22 had perished, after
going through a legislative session, and in the full P=ossession of
the Parliamentary majority. The men who composed it had
shared in all the terrors that besieged the Govelnment
since 1830 ; they had joined in all the coups d'etat, and
voted in favour of all the illiberal and exorbitant measures
and laws of which Fieschi's crime had been made the occa-
sion or pretext. " But," said he, " they were men of the
revolution, and, in spite of their protests, they were sup-
posed to have a leaning towards the principles of that revo-
lution : they expiated the crime of their origin." M. Odil-
lon Barrot then showed their unpopular successors, follow-
ing in the footsteps of Polignac, and unavoidably hurrying
towards destruction. The foreign policy of the Govern-
ment, however, was fraught witstill greater danger to the
country. It had estranged all its natural and necessary al-
lies, to try and ingratiate itself with the absolute Powers, who
have never consented to sign anything but a truce with the
revolution. He represente it falling out in succession with
the United States of America, Constitutional Spain, Eng-
land, and Switzerland. In reference to the latter, " Be-
cause," said he, " our Ambassador has been caught in the act
of carrying on I know not what police intrigue, is it to be
supposed that the nation must rise, impose sacrifices upon
itself, interrupt all commercial relations, and take arms for
such a cause? It would be too absurd. But then why
bold out threats without the sanction of the people ? Is
it not enough to render us an object of odium without ex-
posing us to become one of contempt ?" The orator after-
wands expressed his conviction that—notwithstanding the
misde;lds of the rulers of France, the pevrinciplesHe next of the
revolution of July would, nevertheless, prail.
adverted i,9 the advantages of good municipal laws, of an '
independent jury, of a well-organised National Guard, ,
blamed the Government for presuming to tax the beet-root
sugar, and not reducing the tax on salt, &c.
The speech of M. Odillon Barrot was frequently inter-
rupted by the bravoes of the assembly. On his health
having been proposed, he again rose to thank his guests,
and concluded in the following terms :—" Henceforward all
aristocracy is impossible ; the efforts of Napoleon, sur-
rounded by all the prestiges of glory, proved vain to esta-
blish it. Every Government who attempts to imitate him
will be destroyed like his." M. Odillon then branded cor-
ruption and apostacy in most energetic terms, and hoped that
ere long probity and disinterestedness would again be ho-
noured in the country.
A ball was then given to M. Odillon Barrot, at which
his lolly attended. Nineteen mayors, a number of other
municipal officers, five notaries, manufacture's, merchants,
and proprietors, joined in this ovation to the Hon.. ,Deputy
of the Aisne.
The Ministers are all busily at work in their respective
departments, to prove that they are individually alive. M.
Persil has pardon 62 prisoners, and removed two of the Mi-
nisters of Chules X. to a house of recovory ; he has, in ad-
dition, addressed a circular letter to the bishops, in which
he speaks of tli• support the Government intends giving
to religion and its ministers, and thunders against the su-
perstitious frauds wisich revive all the calumnies of the
Voltairian school against holy relics, now publicly sold as
old cast-off objects. The Minister of Marine has, on his
part, undertaken to execute the treaty of the Quadruple
Alliance, according to the construction put on it by M.
Mole, by sending a frigate, two corvettes, and three brigs
to Barcelona, Cadiz, and Lisbon, to protect the property
and persons of our fellow citizens. M. Martin du Nord
does not well know what to be at. Being a mere lawyer,
he is totally unacquainted with commercial affairs ; but, as
he dreamt of cholera during his late illness, it is not un-
likely he will come out with some sanatory treaty with
the Italian States, to free us from the tyranny of inten-
dances. M. Duchatel is preparing a Bill on the beet-
root sugar less tyrannical than that of M. d'Argout, which
is no difficult matter. AI. Guizot is busy writing circular
laters and delivering pedantic harangues. He has besides
frequent interviews with the Minister of War, with whom
be is no doubt concerting a plan for saving the monarchy,
with detached forts and dungeons, more efficacious, in his
opinion, than the institutions promised by the charter. M.
Mole is altogether taken up with the Swiss affair.
Diplomacy continues to hold its congress at the Tuille-
ries. The soir.-e of Monday, however, was rather stormy.
Hyperborean notes had agitated the master of the Tuileries,
and his anxiety had gained the whole family, when, towards
one o'clock in the morning, a sudden alarm spread confusion
in the whole Palace. Persons were seen running with
lighted flambeaux from one apartment into the other. Tho
Royal C,:mily gathered round the King ; the galleries were
crowded with servants of the household, some with lights in
their hands, others with arms, searching every corner of the
place. The officer on duty was awoke out of his sleep, and
he immediately ran up stairs with his soldiers, leaving the
guard-house under the protection of the National Militia.
General Athalin coromanded the manoeuvres, and had con-
vinced himself that nothing justified the alarm, when M. de
Gasparin arrived in all haste to denounce to the Governor a
complot monstre, as hideous as that of the 28th of July last,
which had caused the review to be suppressed.
According to the on dits of the Place de la Concorde, the
day on which the obelisk was to be mounted on its pedestal,
several thousand conspirators were to assemble there, and
march in close columns towards the point from which the
king and Royal Family were to view the operatiOn. M.
Athalin, on the other hand, had been informed that the
avengers of Alibaud were to dress themselves with blouses,
similar to those worn by the artists now employed in gilding
and painting the Tuileries, in order to execute their frightful
projects. From that moment it was determined that the
programmes for the erection of the monolithic should be
altered. The operation, it is said, will take place at sun •
rise, and will, of course, be attended with as few specta-
tors as the inauguration of the triumphal arch. The King
is to take his station at the gate of the Tuileries, and the
seven Ministers will go in person to salute the Egyptian
monument, erected on the spot where once stood the scaf-
fold of the Martyr-Ring. Measures of precaution con-
tinue to be taken in the Tuileries, and in. all the streets
and avenues leading to the Palace.—Le Sieele.
On the 21st a family meeting (caused de fandlle) took
place under the presidency of M. Aerat de Magnitot, the
', fitser.de pair of the second arrondissement, for the purpose
of deliberating on the steps necessary to protect the lute-
is,rest of _.Wilfrid de Beriot, the infant son of M. de Beriot
--' . nd, Madame Malibran, who has left, it is said, a fortune
:1;.:* . upwards of 600,000 f. (24,0000. Among the persons
-."-T. :"'j rAent at this mused de famille, were MM. Rossini,
kTh Ad
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SPAIN.
Wts, have received a French paper by the express this
hymning, which contains a letter from Madrid of the 16th
inst., one day later than the previous accounts. It is as
folk. ws :
" Namur), OCT. 16.—1 have now the pleasure to give
you gcod news. The journals of yesterday, which you
must have received, has given the new success obtained by
our brave General Alaix over the rebel Gomez. This vic-
tory, as we may call it, has raised the spirits of the Andalu-
sians. General Espinosa, at the head of a fine column, has
entered Cordova. That town has not suffered so much as
was stated ; b-ut they certainly have taken a considerable
sum of money end provisions. They did not, however, pil-
la,Ye or set fire to the houses ; in respect to the 800 horses
that they carried off, they have been re-taken at a distance
from tie town. At Cuenca they arc selling all the precious
articles Cvlanging to the Churches. In the treasury of the
Cathedral. there were found 260,000 reals in specie, There
was also found in the Seminary of Pt. Julien 94,000 rials.
It is to be ho sped that the example or Cuenca will take place
throughout t, 'le kingdom."
Although th 9 above letter is a dti7 ater from Madrid, it

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