The Sun.
London, England, 1831-10-20 00:00:00

PAISLEY, OCT. 17.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—One of the largest meetings that was ever as-
sembled in this part of the-country was held here this day,
at which resolutions were agreed. to, conceived in the
strongest terms, expressive of cosfideace, in the King and
his Ministers, and the unaltered :determination of the
country to have Reform. That venerable Reformer, Sir
John Maxwell, who bad rode from his seat at Tolloe, at
the head of above 2,00 of his tenantry and other yeomanry,
presided as Chairman, surrounded on the hustiNes by all
the staunch Reformers of RenfreWshire. The speeches
were all eloquent and of the most energetic desCsiption,
while the conduct of the Right Revetend Bench of Bishops
was commented on in no measured terms. The field in
which the meeting was held is remarkable for having been
the scene of a similar great meeting in the same cause
forty years ago, in the days of Muir and Palmer, when to
be a Reformer was to incur the penalties of persecution,
banishment, and death. It is situated on an eminence.
commanding a fine view of the town. Nothing could be
more impressive than the sight of the vast assemblage,
with the immense number of banners flaunting in the
breeze. It nined during a considerable part of the pro-
ceedings, but not a man flinched from Lis post, nor would
they, I am persuaded, though it had fallen in torrents.
If the Anti-Reformers regard not the voice of the people,
expressed in the manner as was done at the meeting to-
day, truly their infatuation has arrived at the highest
pitch, and their destruction is nigh at hand. The idea
that the reasonable wishes of a whole people are to be set
at nought by an oligarchical faction, such as the 199
Tory Peers, is so excessively absurd, that one wonders, in
fact, at the patience of the country in submitting for one
moment at such thraldom. The declarations of his Ma-
jesty, and of Earl Grey and Lords Brougham and Althorp,
have inspired all the Reformers here with confidence;
their sound constitutional advice will be obeyed in the
spirit and to the very letter. The days of radical riot and
radical delusion have gone by in the west of Scotland. I
have nearly forgot to tell you that Mr. APKerrel, a rich
Indian Nabob, came forw..rd at the meeting, and declared
himself a candidate for the honour of representing Paisley
in Parliament. Every body conceived he was a Tory, a
di-ciple of the " Melville school of politics;" but whether
sincerely or not, he avowed himself a " thorough Re.
former." A noted politician of Paisley, the only indivi-
dual of the Quaker persuas4in in the town, the violence of
whose political creed does not well accord with the humi-
lity and gentleness of his religious one, came forward and
gave Mr. M'Kerrel some rather unfeeling hits as to the
nature of the East India Company's monopoly, under
which the gentleman had contrived to realize so hand-
some a fortune, &c., which the Nabob must not have re-
lished so well. Ile, I think, has little chance for the suf-
frattee of the future electors of Paisley; but Sir John Max-
well, or whoever else means to take the field against him,
should lose no time.

I remain, Sir, your most obedient servant,
A PAISLEY REFORMER.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Gazette de France of Oct. 18.)
" PARIS, Our. 17.—The number of the Gazette of
the 17th of October has been seized to-day at the post-
office, at the instance of the Attorney-General.
" The Monarchy, alarmed at the impression produced
by the discussion which we have opened on the question of
the universal vote, has ordered its writers to attack us
The Ministry has adopted a singular mode of discussion.
Its Journals attack us; we answer, and instead of causing
us to be refuted, a❑ older is issued to to seize our Paper.
" Yesterday an individual, who front his appearance and
language might be taken for an :Tent of the police, came
to the director of the Gazette de France, and proposed to
him, without any circumlocution, 70,000 men to re-esta-
blish Henry V. on the throne of France.
" The answer given to this stranger was, that the Ga-
zette de France repudiated such means ; that, subject to
the existing power as a condition of order, it asked not for
brutal force, nor for civil or foreign war in support of its
doctrines ; that if such changes were to take place, it
must be in a national and Par liamentary manner, by the
concurrence and the wishes of all; that it was only in this
manner it could be accomplished without injuring the in-
terests of the nation.

" The individual, surprised and confused beyond mea-
sure, retired. The day after this event the Gazette was
seized. Having thus avoided the snares of the state police,
the director of the Gazette has fallen into the hands of the
judicial police.
" La France Nouvelle • Ivo, that the report of the de-
parture of Marshal Gerard for the army, in consequence
of news from Brussels, is unfounded, the Marshal havitvz
been present at the King's evening party, and being stilt
at Paris to-day.
" A letter from Brussels says, Our territorial arrange-
rnents are completed. The negotiations respecting the
debt continue. Ido not think that hostilities will be re-
newed t.n tie 25th. 31. de Talleyrand has very positively
and repeatedly proposed to the Conference to partition Bel-
gium between France, Holland, and Prussia; but Eng-
land has always decidedly opposed this plan ; it will never
consent that the line of fortresses should be delivered into
your hands.'
" A commissary of police has been to our office to
seize our numbers of Sunday the 16th, and Monday the
17th. The Gazette is accused of having attacked the
rights which the King possessed by the desire of the
people. M. de Genoude will probably be summoned to-
morrow before the Jupe d'lnstruction.-From the Jour-
nal du Commerce of Monday, Oct. 17.
" ROME, OCT. 3.-This morning the Pope gave the red
aap to two Cardinals whom he created the consistory of
30th September-viz., Sala and Lambruachini. The
French party of Louis Philip has two enemies more in the
vacred college. Cardinal Sala likes only the Romans : he
is on intimate terms with no foreigners, except M. Blacas.
Cardinal Lambruschini announces, since his return from
Paris, that Henry V. will be soon replaced on the throve
of France,-an opinion which has already gained ground
among his colleagues."
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