The Sun.
London, England, 1825-02-23 00:00:00

FRENCH LAW OF SACRILEGE.

The following being official and certain de-
serves peculiar notice; It is an extract of the
Law of Sacrilege, adopted in the French Chamber
of Peers on Saturday last :

" Article 4.—The profanation of the sacred vessels shall be
punished with death, if it haa_been accompanied by the two
following circumstances :
" lst.—lf the sacred vessels contained, at the moment of the
crime, the consecrated elements.

" 2d.—lf the profanation is committed publicly—when it is
committed in a public place, and in presence of several persons.
" Art. s.—The profanation of the sacred vessels shall be pu-
nished by perpetual hard labour, when not accompanied by one
of the two circumstances stated in the preceding article.
" Art. 6.—The profanation of the consecrated elements,
committed publicly, shall be punished with death. The execu-
tion shall be preceded by the amende honorable of the condemned
person, before the principal church of the place where the crime
shall have been committed, or of the place where the Court of
Assize sits."

The amendment proposed by the Count de Bastard, and se-
conded by the Viscount de Chateaubriand, and which was re-
jected by a majority of 108 voices against 104, was as follows :
The profanation of the sacred vessels is punished by hard
labour for a limited time.

" The profanation of the sacred elements is punished by hard
labour for life."

The entire law was adopted by the Chamber, by a majority
of 127 to- 92.

FRENCH PAPERS.

( From the Etoile, dated Monday.)

ODESSA, JAN. 28.
It is well known that the Divan answered M. Minziacky in
a very unsatisfactory manner, relative to the navigation of the
Black Sea, and the administration of the two Principalities of
Moldavia and Wallachia : but the cause of this new arrogance
was by no means suspected. It is nothing else than the inun-
dation of St. Petersburgh. The Turks are persuaded that the
Russian Empire must be reduced to a state of total debility by
that event.

TRIESTE, FEB. 6.
Letters from Corfu of the 19th January give ample details
of tile siege and maritime blackade of Patras, which have not
been raised, as was reported ; but what is remarkable is, that
these letters make no mention whatever of the landing, which,
according to the Austrian Observer, the Egyptians had made
at Caron or Modon.
It is certain that the party of the rebels is entirely subdued
or dispersed. The papers of Colocotroni have been delivered
to the Government. The Russian influence is a mere cipher
since the departure of Varvaki.
The Lord High Commissioner, Sir F. Adam, returned on the
19th of January to Corfu, from a voyage which he had made
to the More.--(Augsburg Gazette.)
PARIS, FE8.20.
Letters from Madrid of the 11th inst. announce some amelio-
ration in the health of the King of Spain. Ills Majesty had
slept well the two preceding nights, and was much more easy.
Prince Metternich is to leave Vienna on the 24th, to come to
Paris.

Great surprise is felt at Jassy that the Russian Consul does
not arrive. There ig no indication of his return to the House of
tnc Consulate, which is in great want of repair. It is thought
that Pisani will not come to Jassy, but his successor is not
mentioned. _ _

The communications with Bessarabia become more and more
difficult. The plague has manifested itself at Ismail, and, be-
sides the Lazaretto at Scotero, a second has been established,
half way to Odessa.
No extraordinary movements have been remarked for some
time past among the Russian troops between the Pruth and the
Dniester. •

The plague has ceased at Bucharest.
( From the Constitutionnel. )
A letter from Copenhagen, dated the 6th of February, states,
that Sweden had determined to follow the example of England,
and recoomize the independence of the South American States ;
and that Al. de lianswalf, who left Stockhohn for. Colombia
four months ago, would be directed to negociate treaties with
these Republics.

HYDERABAD PAPERS.

(No. Ilr.)

FOR TIIE SUN.
" Will the Etoile tell us by what numerical European force
" we govern these one hundred and twenty millions of men ?
" And if our physical force, compared to this immense mass
" of population scattered over an almost incomprehensible sur-
" face of territory, be hut as a drop in the bucket,' by what
" other principle can we govern them, but by that respect and
" love which we generally inspire ? If we tyriinnized, and were
" consequently hated in India, our own subjects—to say
" nothing of the hostile and jealous States by which the three
" Presidencies are surrounded—would almost blow us off with
" the blast of their breath : whereas, on the contrary—no mat-
" ter whether the natives dispute with each other or with Euro-
" peons—they still flock to our Courts for the administration of
" justice. —( Times, Feb. 18.)

Ma. ED)Tort—lt has been clparly shewn in
my former letters that the establishment of Houses of Agency,
or Banks, or the admission of Europeans in any shape, is im-
politic and dangerous. Why the British Minister, Mr. Fills-
SELL, should have approved or recommended such a novel
measure, he is best able to answer. I am fain to confess,
nothing in his letter to the Court of Directors tends to satisfy
my mind on the subject. The elevated rank he stood in, and
the responsible situation he filled, would instanter remove any
ideas of his being particularly friendly to, or in any way con
nected with, Messrs. PALMER'S Bank. I can only account for
this political aberration, in supposing that Mr. RUSSELL con-
ceived there was nothing irregular in the introduction of Mr.
SoTHEBY into the firm, and nothing in contradiction to the
express orders of Government on this particular point.
Mr. RUSSELL WaS probably not aware, that no Officer,'
Civil or Military, can enter into the service of a Native; and
that should he obtain permission to that effect, it must depend
on the Home Administration to confirm it. It is not perhaps
known to Mr. RUSSELL, or to those generally conversant in
India aftiiirs, that no Officer of the King's or Company's ser-
vice can, pending the acceptation of his resignation, remain in
India : he is supposed to proceed to the Cape of Good Hope,
and there to await the acknowledgment of his permission from
home ; and return again to India to fill the station in society
for which he had asked leave. Strange as it may appear, this
necessary law is constantly evaded, and three or four whom I
could notice by name have embraced different occupations,
without going through the required forms; and as a return for
Home Administration
are
the indulgence shewn them, have become red-hot Oriental
u : it is no fault
Reformers. If the Eastern Government allow their regulations
to be daily violated (not in this instance alone, but in many
ofmine,
o nerii
idwoithfr
I haveenn e
given
iecrhteltdctoonultdvlepn ando
my
consequences,in taoru etd),a andi
thei which of late have had a
opinions,tltiplying
and spoke, I believe, my
honest sentiments. I shall shortly have occasion to do so in
another shape, when some little incidents belonging to another.
Native Court will excite some surprise.
However, to our point, and the truth of the matter is, there
is so much connected with the Hyderabad transactions, Mr.
RUSSELL, Messrs. PALMER, Mr. SOT:IEBY, Sir W. I,-
nom), and others, that I really am afraid I must write a Book
on the subject.
0 ! that mine enemy would write a 800k—I am an enemy
to no man, but will, as a public character, as an old OffiCer,
and the father of a family, speak that which my children shall
not be ashamed to acknowledge hereafter as the act and senti-
ments of their parent.
I cannot for a moment conceive how it was possible for a man
of Mr. RUSSELL s experience, knowledge of the rules of the
service, and the heavy charge attached to his official situation, to
allow his political assistant, Mr So TnEriT, to become a partner,
dormant or active, in the Firm of PALMER. A man clothed
with the official power of an assistant, was certainly a most
unfit person to be engaged, or participating in the pecuniary
transactions of a debased Court, with a Firm of Agents, among
whom he stood the acknowledged partner; how, I would
to ask, could Mr. SOTHEBY act conscientiously in the dis-
charge of his high and important duties towards the
Nizam, and with fidelity to his Partners ? The natural
inference is, that as human nature goes, he would (or any other
man) espouse the interest of those with whom he was identi-
fied, then what becomes of the independence and the vigilance
of the British Officer at the Court of his Highness the Nizam
Why, he is concerned in the acts of the House, must in 411
questions of pecuniary transactions be their friend, and look on

with apathy at the fate of the Prince and his Court, with the
same indifference he must view the proceedings of the British,

whose Officer he is, and whose first and only duty is to support
their character, and cherish their honour. Is it possible, of
will any one have the temerity to tell me, that in the mixed
character of Agent and Political Assistant he could act inde-i
pendently, or render due service to the State by which he was
'employed. It follows, as a matter of course, hat in all affairs
where the interests of the house were concerned, there must be a
leaning ; and in looking at the money lent, 60 lakhs of rupees,
which, including many lent to the Nobles and others of the
Court, are little short of a milion sterling, the very name of
such an official character, to say nothing of assistance and influ-
ence, was of the first moment, and consequently prized accord-
ingly by the house : it is inexplicable how Mr. RUSSELL could
have permitted such a procedure. Had 1 been Resident,on the bare
suggestion of a wish of the kind, I would instantly have taken
effectual steps to stop all proceedings of the kind. Mr. RussE I.L'3
high character leaves it to be inferred that it was an error in
judgment, a kindness toward the house, and a wish to serve
the brother of the SoritEnv, who so gloriously fell at Sita
Buldu, while seconding by his counsel and personal courage,
the magnanimous conduct of one of the first men in India, my'
friend RICHARD JENxixs at Nagpore.
I promised to take a peep at the speeches at the India House.,
but really Mr. HUME, and Mr. D. EINNAIRD, said so fluky
and that little so little to the purpose, on either of the ques,
tions, that I am fain to trust to memory, for I have seen none
of the papers. Before proceeding further in my objection to
the establishment of Banking-houses, or the introduction of
Europeans, except those in the service of the Government,
must distinctly and unequivocally disclaim any hostility of
prejudice towards any one of the parties mentioned, or to be
mentioned in these Essays ; indeed with the exception of one
Gentleman, they are to me perfect strangers, and I have not
directly or indirectly had any intercourse, or held communica-
tion with them.

With regard to the introduction of Mr. S (IT nlt into the firnt
of PALMER and Co. no further comment is required ; happily it
can form no precedent. After the animadversions passed by
the Government, it is not likely that any other servants of the'
State, will ever think of uniting the two characters of a Com-
pany's officer and that of an agent in a trading concern. It is.
in this light that the objections most forcibly appear, and doubt,
less it will strike every reflecting mind, that " we cannot serve'
two masters ;" and in the very opposite situations a person thus.
circumstanced must be placed in, it is clear that the duties of
each office would constantly clash, to the certain disadvant'a'ge
of one or other. Which would be most neglected (considering
the frailties of our nature), it does not require the wisdom of 3
Solomon to discover; indeed we need not heavily tax our pene-
tration in finding out, that on the event of any collision taking'
place, or the interests of the British Government, and the in-
terests of the Banking-house being at issue, to which side 0"
partner would lean. To act consistently in such a case is im-
possible—it is absurd to question it for a moment—and that it
is a case that would indisputably occur is certain ; in fact, it
has already taken place. To prevent the recurrence of what
would very speedily become a growing evil, I offer these few
remarks, personally they apply in no wise or shape to any

Were the precedence once tolerated by any favouritism of
weakness on the part of the Supreme Government, in India
there would soon be an end to the excellent system hitherto
pursued in our relations with native courts—than which no..
thing can be more perfect or just ; in admitting this we must
always bear in mind, the heterogeneous masses that we have:
to deal with—the. moral state of the people and the political
state of the country ; which demand a certain line of conduct
on our part, and which conduct has been confirmed by the success
hitherto attendant on our intercourse with these countries ; but
to depirt from it, in the smallest iota, would be to produce con;
fusion and mischief ; the end of which no one can foresee. II
things at any time go on wrong, let the reformation, or remedy
be applied by the Government and Legislature of Great Britain;
the proper and constituted authorities; but I protest most
solemnly against . the task being allotted to political or money
speculators, who most assuredly in this, as in every other inno-
vation, or interference, have only their own ends to serve.
I have in a preceding passage stated that it would " become:
a growing etil" and such I certainly think it would be.
At the Native Courts, there would not be in a short time .0-
single British Officer, possessing either influence or abilities,
but would he infected with the mania of becoming a " man of
business;" exclusive of the public duties he had to perform,
the temptations would be too great to withstand, what then be-
comes of the interest of his Government, the official integrity or
his character, that independence of spirit and action, insepe-
rably blended with a due and honest discharge of his pub
'3',
duties ? they must all vanish and merge into the interest '—
new occupation.
_

Certain I am, that a few years would accomplish what I 11°I.
state. Houses of business would increase ; British capital and
British enterprise would find these rich countries a fine field'
for their speculation ; but to what purpose either or both would
be directed in the course of time is to me very clear ; can it for
a moment be doubted, that in the unsettled state of these coun—
tries under the rule of an ambitious, intriguing, and necessimti.
Prince, with a military nobility always faithless to Their Sove-
reign, needy and covetous, ever restless, and wishing for change, a
population of warlike and turbulent habits, and, at the same time,
the neighbouring States waiting for an opportunity to overrun !
the country. I ask, if in such a posture of affairs, is it either
wise or humane, on our part,_ to admit adventurers, under
whatever designation they may appear into those kingdoms ?--
Really, to hear some well meaning gentlemen talk, one would be'
led to suppose that the kingdom of Hyderabad was Kent, and
Bengal the county of Middlesex, whence a constable might be
sent to take up an offender, and that of any public measure,
was requisite in other countries, a Bill might be brought in to
amend the Act of the last reign—that the Souboh of Bengal,
and Nizam of Hyderabad were wise and good men, and on the
same friendly terms as the Lords-Lieutenants of the Counties
just mentioned—that Ru wa ECT Six a, at Lahore, was a peace-
able and well-disposed man ; and might, like the Lord Lieu"
tenant of the distant County of York, in misbehaving, get hi's
quietus, by a rap over the knuckles, from the Lords of elc.
Privy Council—but to stop metaphor and to speak in homely
terms. . _

" 'What must be sauce for the goose must be sauce for the
gander:" in other words, what has done for the Nawaub of tho.
Carnatic (who by the bye was clearly fleeced of every pqgndl
he had, and would now be a beggar, but for the necessary an
beneficent interference of the British) must do for the.Nizael
of Hyderabad, a brother Mahommedan : that what answers
for the Mahratta Chief SINDIAff, must answer for .11 0 I,lcAn'
nothing of the kind.—The countries and governments, are
totally dissimilar ; and nothing but the most inflex.ibl,
integrity, and vigilant conduct, on the part of able ana
tried Public Officers of the Government, blended with la'
mane and liberal conduct on the part of the executil
itself, can for, a day maintain our present equitable,-
happy rule—nothing, nothing,,must be left to the interfereo
of foreigners, and adventurers; if there is, we shall repent
and
when too late, but it is the poor,Natives who will in tears Wl'''
sighs have unceasing cause to deplore the vacillations of our
Rulers and our abandonment of those principles, which 'ha'?
for a century supported us in our oriental possessions.
In my next I will go more into detail, but first, I wish to Pei.'
the Public in possession of the general features of it 4 mac P
talked of, and little understood" Hyderabad Proviaction."

" London, Feb.l9.

" I am, Sir,
" Your obedient,
" SUADOR." B

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

Mr. Nicuor.s's Collection of " The Pro-
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