The Sun.
London, England, 1831-09-17 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.—Srrr.
M. Martin brought up the report of the Com-
mittee of Petitions on one from M. de Payer), pray.
ilig that the remains of Napoleon enieht be claimed
he the nation, and placed under the Column of the
Place Vendome. The Committee gladly rendered
homageti, e
Chamber t othe
thatglorythe K
of Napoleon,
g
so in ordering the statue of the late Emperor to be
replaced on the column; but considered. that the
himse himself had alr dose
and reminded
irrerests of public peace and tranquillity requited
that this petition should be disposed of in a similar
manner to that presented for the same purpose last
session; and therefore proposed that the Cha'nber
should pass to the order of the day.
M. de Las Cases was called to the tribune, on
which his son stated to the Chamber that the Hon.
Member was prevented from attending by ill-health,
and requested permission to read his opinion, which
ss as instantly and unanimously granted. The die-
esurse read by M. de Las Cases expressed the fer-
vent desire to render to the memory of the hero
who had raised the glory of France to the skies, a
signal and unequivocal homage. Napoleon has been
accused (continued M. de Las Cases) of having de-
stroyed the liberties of France—their preservation
was his dearest wish. A fellow-exile in St. Helena
repeats the assurance, which he received from the
hero's own lips. - The Hon. Member then alluded
to the populari,y of k\apo!e nu its France, which he
stated would he still more fervent in pos' erity ;
and, after expressing lie intention of calling at some
future time fur a repeal of the law denouncing the
penalty of death eganst any member of the Bones
parte family who should retern to France, con-
cluded by opposing the proposition of the Com-
mittee, and c..lling on the Chamber to refer the pe-
tition to the Council of Ministers.
Messrs. Leveque, de Pouilly, and Leyvraud, sup-
oorted the proposition -of 'the Committee; and M.
C tulmann that of M. de Las Cases.
General Lamarque said, that the prayer of the
petitioner was that of the immense majority of
France. That Napoleon was the friend of civiliza-
tion is evident horn the works he commended, the
reads, the monuments, the canals which bear in,..
mortal testimony to his anxiety for the prosperity of
his subjects. Napoleon, instead of the destroyer,
was the saviour of the liberties of France. Had the
troops of the Directory been conquered, France
a ould have sunk beneath the iron yoke of a despot
and it was the recollection of the victories of Na-
poleon, the wholesome fear inspired by the fields of
Austerlitz and Marengo, which engendered the for-
bearance of Prussia and Austria, and originwed the
constitutional character of Louis XVIII. The
thirst for universal conquest has also been attributed
to Napoleon. The present state of Europe, one me-
rnent's glance at the consternation of England at the
entrance of the French troops into Belgium, will
prove that Great Britain would never have consented
to a permanent peace with him, who, by his for-
t tications and arsenals, had rendered Antwerp the
Coathatn of the Scheldt. The late dynasty pro-
scribed the image of Napoleon, but the Government
sprung from the revolution of July has a nobler feeling_
Founded on the people's love (continued the Hors,
Deputy), it fears the shock of no external attacks;
and with equal tranquillity can well afford to allow
the son of Napoleon to offer the tribute of his tears
on the tomb of his father, and the descendant of
the exile of Holy-rood to wander through the forests
in which his grandfather enjoyed the pleasures of the
chase. Nothing, therefore, cart oppose, with any
show of reason, the prayer of the petition, and
France owes it to herself to call on England to give
up the possession of those relics, which can only
recall the remembrance of a violation of the most
sacred rights of hospitality, and the eternal disgrace
of the British Governmenr,—(This discourse
elicited much approbation.)
Messrs. Comte and ale Lameth then supported
the proposition of the Committee, and Messrs. Bri-
queville, Larabit, and Fiot, supported the reference
of the petition to the Council of Ministers.
General Bertrand argued that the national honour
required that the prayer of the petition sbould be
granted. Under the late dynasty, M. de Villrle, ors
a similar application being made to him, replied,
" When the Government canton allow the remains-
of Manuel to be carried through the streets of Paris,
without apprehending a popular commotion, how
can it be expected that the removal of those of
Napoleon can be sanctioned ?" But circumstances
are now altered, and while by referring the petition,
to the Council of Ministers, the Chamber satisfies
those who wish the maintenance of the nationall
glory, it at the same time leaves the question of ex-
pediency to the decision of Government.
The petition was then referred to the Council of
Ministers by an immense majority, not above twenty
tnernbers having risen in favour of the proposition oC
'he Committee,

•
(From the Ce.orrier Francais.)
The petition for the removal of the remains of
Napoleon to the Place Vendome excited a great sen-
sation in the Chamber. There are two manners of
contemplating the character of Napoleon, the greatest;
in modern times. By the vigour of his administra-
tion he destroyed anarchy; he raised the monumene
of the civil code, so beautiful from its simplicity;
he carried the glory of the French name to the hem,-
nig sands of the Tagus and the Nile, to the Innen
banks of the Niemen 1, he was the most extreordi-
nary man of his age, and the most popular Monarch
who ever reigned in France, not even excepting
Henry IV. A for there is not throughout the country
a cottage, a workshop, a corner of land, in which his
name is not known, repeated, said glorified. It must
be added, that he had a sites re aff,,ction for Fiance,.
arid preferred abdicating to ceiling an inch of our
ancient territory. He carried his truly French heart:
to a grear height. His prodigious reverses socceetP-
ing his brilliant success--his exile tin an ocean rock
—the tortures which his gaolers indicted on hires-..
,he fidelity_of his friends—the resignation and dig-
nity of his last tnomenrs, have deeply offected ti•.ose
imagieations which delight neither in perpetual pros-
perity nor perpetual failure, but are nourished rUnly by
he grandeur utid eclat of contrast. This is Ode br.ght
side of the picture; but it must also be admitted'
that the insatiable ambition of Napoleon was ecprul'ky
indomitable and boundless. Ile stifle,' liberty in the
embrace of glory ; he decreed the barbarities of the
penal code; he enslaved the press, enchained the
independence of the legislative body and the senate,
supported the system of a monopoly in education,
decimated the population by the systematic strokes
of the conscription, and drew on France the shame
arid scourge of a foreign invasion, which swallowed
up our blood, our treasures, and our preponderance.
This is the dark side. Actuated by these oppoaite
views, the Deputies regarded the proposition with
different feelings. A very few saw in Napoleon only
the despot, the destroyer of public liberty, the ra-
vager of other nations, and the scourge of his osNR—
The great majority, on the contrary, contemplated,
nim only as the great Captain, the man of gellitlia
die hew of the age—in fact, Napoleon. The re.
mains of the old constituent assembly, Messrs.
Baudet-Lafarge, Lafayette, de Grammont, and de
Latrieth, never liked 'Napoleon, and therefore voted
against the proposition; Generals Lamarque ar d
Simmer, on the contrary, with all the warlike cote
.art
of the Chamber, raised a hymn of glory to the me
.nes
of their hero: while Bertrand, the faithful com-
panion of his exile and Riitfortunes, proclaim, d his
praises with it noble and touching simplicity. It is,
however, very doubtful whether Govethment wit/ be
.shle to induce England to allow the eximmati*s , of
Napoleon. It is a funereal trophy for Great : Bri-
tain. Many, nay almost all rhe Deputies. wouldop. puts
mthaedreertauprild' ofNapoleon where he alive. We have
strides in the career of liberty, and have
found ample consolation for the illusi'ans of dory .
It is no longer on Kings (men, iu get,tral, of more
or less vulgar mind) that pinions ;IN tfttir
(1'7:19 j it is on principles—on ifiintuti
ans. '737., z
what is a shade ? what datiest can atiir; from ,shvs
long since cold ? The anients, aftet
,ißhea their most illustrious citizen?, extingu4,nll,4ll eti,

cf hatred oo thelc tomb, and, amid triumphal hyroi:;
brought back their glorious ashes to their native E.oi!
!From Galignani's Messenger.)

The Moniteur contains art article explanatory of
the line of conduct pursued by Government wit',
respect to Belgium. It declares that the only ob-
je ct in sending the troops to that country was to
fulfil the generous engagements into which Frarce
in common_ with other Powers, had entered, to gua-
rantee the national neutrality and independence.
The success of the proceeding depended on its ra-
pidity, awl all Europe has done justice to the good
faith of France in the transaction. The indepen-
dence of Belgium having been a second time saved
by France, it became necessary to guarantee it, for
which purpose the great Powers applied themselv, s
to the establishment of an armistice, which would
give the two countries time to settle their diffe-
rences. A part of the French troops remained
to protect those precautions, which there is every rea-
son to hope will be attended with success. After this
second result had been obtained, France had only to
keep herselfprepared to check any further attempts
of a similar nature, although the state of the nego-
ciation renders their recurrence improbable. For
this purpose the French standards, although floating
within the frontiers of France, will be so near that
Holland cannot lose sight of them, and on the
slightest aggression of the enemies of Belgium, the
French army will re-enter the territory. The con-
tinuance of the French troops in Belgium bad no
connection with the question relative to the demo•
lition of the frontier fortresses; on that point France
requires no guarantee, because, aware of her 0%%n
strength and dignity, she is under no apprehension,
of any engagement made with her not being fulls
and honourably carried into effect. If, then, after
observing that all that has passed serves to confirm
and strengthen the good understanding existing
between the various Governments, as it is evident
when public affairs are not viewed through the de-
ceptive prism of those Journals which, both in
France and elsewhere, throw a false light on every
question, concludes by declaring that all the objects
contemplated by the expedition had been attained ;
the prolonged stay of the troops in Belgium at once
strengthened the bonds of union between tha•
country and France, and proved in the most signal
manner the confidence of all the Cabincs in the
good faith of Franc•., while their recall before
expiration of the armistice affords additional proof
of the reality of that good faith, and removes ever
pretence for attempting to disturb the peace anti
harmony of the great European States.
The following are the names of the Generals am
other auperier officers named by the King, upot
the recommendation of the Minister of War, to pro-
ceed to Belg'in, to act in the organization of an
Belgian army ; they will be in the pay of the Bel-
elan Government, but will continue to wear thr
French uniform and cockade, and retain their rant,

in their own army : Lieut.-Generals Count Grundle.
and Baron BiHard, for the infantry; Lieut.-General
Baron Picquet, for the cavalry ; Lieut.-Genera
Desprez, for the Staff; Lieut.-General Baron Esttin
for the artillery ; Major-General the Chevalici
Nempde, for the engin•Tts; Colonels Dillon an(!
Chatry Lefoni ; Lieut.-Colonels Devaux, Saint
Paer, and Schwenbourg ; and the Chefs de Batfail-
lon and d'E,.catiron de Luchapt, d'Ast, de l'Es-
parada, Noel, Bisiaux, and many others, are placed
under the orders of the above-mentioned General
Officers. _ _ _

IThe Augsburg Gazette gives the following ex-
tract ol a letter from Dresden, dated the 2d inst.:
" The ',4tates have closed their session. Yesterday
a committee was appointed to make some slight al-
terations in the electoral law. The new Constite.
tion is in active progress. It will be confirmed b)
the King on the :14b, and this great event will he
celebrated by a general illumination, and other pdh-
lie rejoicings. The Government is striking a medal
to perpetuate the day."
A letter from Frankfort cf the 9th inst. says—
" We have received positive information that the
Elector of Ilesse has at length yielded to the pres-
sing entreaties of his subjects, and promised to r.-
turn to his residence at Cassel. It is generally be-
lieved that this reluctant assent is the result of alarm,
lest a Regency should be proclaimed according te
the right granted by the new Constitution, and
which would in effect amount to a deposition. It is
of course needless to say that the Countess of
Reichenbach.Lessonitz will not accompany the
Elector." Le Messager des Chambres remarks that
the Chamber of Peers, by its negli2ence of its legi,-
14t:ve duties, on the eve of so important a discus-
sion as that about to commence, is doing itself an
incalculable Nifty. Scarcely seventy of the whole
Dumber of Members are exact in their attendance.
A private letter from Vienna, dated the 3d inst.,
confirms accounts we had previously received, of the
almost entire cessation of the disturbances in Hun-
gary. It adds, that no adequate idea can be formed
of the cruelties committed by the peasantry on
the Nobles. The idea had been generally enter-
tained, that the rivers and fountains had been
poisoned by the Government and the Nobles, in
order to get rid of the superabundant population ;
which was strongly confirmed by the fact of a botth-
of el:forlorn having been found in most of the
houses which the insurgents searched. This liquid,
which bad been pro...ided as a security against infec-
tion, WIL3, from its powerful odour and pungent taste,
taken by the ignorant peasantry for the poison it:-
tended for them, and in many cases, after all the
members of a noble family had been massacred, the
servants were put to the torture, to make them as-
sert cot oath that they had been employed by their
masters to poison the waters. In some districts the
nobles arc totally annihilated :- neither old men,
women, or children have been spared. A magistrate
was compelled to dig his own grave, in which he was
to have been buried alive, but was saved by the op-
portune arrival of a detatchment of soldiers. The
Countess de Szapary was assassinated in the most
horrible manner, and the savages actually embowelled
alive a young l:tdy not more than fifteen years of
age. Even foreigners on a visit to the chateaux did
not escape the general doom. When the insurgents
succeeded in compelling a detachment of soldiers to
lay do stn their arms, they spared the privates, as be-
longing to their own class, but massacred the officers
without toerey.

(From the: Messager des Chambres, of Thermlay.)
PARIS, SEPT. 14.—The reported retreat of a di-
vision of the Russian troops to the Austrian terri-
tory begins to be explained, although it is not con-
firmed in a satisfactory manner. The Cracow Courier
speaks of a sortie of the garrison of Zamosc, which
was executed with great vigour against the corps of
the besiegers, commanded by Gen. Kaisaroff, who
is said to have lost all his artillery, and was forced
to take refuge in Gallicia with the remains of his
troops. Thus the first reports attributed to the
corps of Rudiger an event which occurred to that
Kaisaroff. The Cracow Paper again speaks of a
letter from Lemberg, which a second time announces
the disarming of the Russians upon the Austrian
territory.
We learn through the same channel of Lemberg,
that the Russians are in great alarm lest the Polish
army should pass the right bank of the Vistula, by
the bridge of Praga, to crush the corps of General
Rosen. This General attempted, on the 2lst of
August, to burn the bridge of Praga, and to attack
the intrenchments of that faubourg, but he failed in
doing so, and was repulsed as far as Milosna. Not
believing himself in sufficient force, should the Po-
lish army attempt a sortie, Rosen sent to Marshal
Paskewitsch for reinforcements. The latter was
forced to suspend his operations against Warsaw,
and to throw a bridge over the Vistula at three or
four leagues above that town, in order for the pas-
sage of a division which was to join the troops of
Rosen.
This check experienced by Marshal Pa,.kovitsch
explains his inactivity for the space of ueaily
days. It is added, i
hat the corps of Rosen, n spite
of the reinforcement which he received, is not suf-
ficiently strong to resist a sortie, which the Poles
might effect with 30,000 or 40,000 men upon the
fight batik, without however forcing the latter to

leave Warsaw at the mercy of Paskewitsrli
camped upon the left bank.
The Rns,ian Cabinet appears to imagine that it
is the intention of the Polish army, should it be no
longer able to sustain itself in the capital, to force
a passage in Volhynia, by the route of Lublin and
Zamosc, hoping afterwards to reach Moldavia, if it
cannot maintain its position in Volhynia. With
this apprehension, the Government is assembling a
new carps d'arinee at Dubuc) (Volhynia), under the
orders of Field-Marshal Sacken.

It is certain, that in spite of the accounts which

have emanated from the Russian head-quarters,
Warsaw is well provisioned, and is provided with
munitions of war; that the army is in the best con-
dition, and that the ardour of the soldiers has in-
creased rather than diminished.
The bridge of S!yuo, which the Russians de-
stroyed in their retreat, is situated upon the extremity
of Prussian Poland. It is not thought that tl:e
Poles have reached so far, nor that the movement of
the Russians is a positively retrograde one, but it
was believed at Thorn, according to the last ac-
counts from that place, that the troops of General
Brenta bad suffi!red a check in attempting to pass
the Vistula, in order to unite with the Marshal on
the right bank.
We believe that the Government of Paris has not
received any direct ne,s from the theatre of war,
and though the information we possess is certainly
not precise, it is satisfactory, as it proves that the
Poles are in a condition to prolong the struggle, at
least till the winter.
(From the Moniteur of Wednesday.)

For some days past passions and calculations have
been seeking new chances of trouble in the Belgic
question. There are persons who already flatter
themselves that in the importance of the interests
which attach to this question, they will find subjects
of We hasten to dissipate their regrets,

or rather their hopes. The affairs are as they were;
the deeds correspond We h their words ; France 4e-
dared nothing that she does not execute; she does
nothing that she did not announce.
The mission which France imposed on herself in
Belgium, in the te.me of the Powers in accord with
her, for causing the neutrality and independence of
that kingdom to be respected, had no other object
than the fulfilling on her part, and for the common
object, those general engagements. Her vicinity,
the disposable state of her forces, her sympathies,
'lie appeal from King Leopold to Louis-Philippe,—
finally, a conscientious sense of her intentions—
were all circumstances which called upon her to act
immediately, and without hesitation, because in
what was done there was no afterthought. 'I he
success of the measure depended upon its rapidity
Accordingly, being recognized as a frank and honest
transaction, homage WAS paid to it every where—in
France, in Belgium, throughout Europe. The Dutch
tell back on their territory, and Belgic independence
was a second time saved by our Government.
This first result obtained, it was necessary to se-
cute it, and to this object the Powers applied them-
-elves in establishing between Holland and Belgium
in armistice, which gives the two countries time to
settle definitively the differences that have arisen be-
•we,en them, The prolonging of the stay of a part
,f the French troops protected those precautions
from which we are entitled to hope for success.

After this second result, it only remains for Franc:-
to be Fepared to prevent attempts such as those
,vhich she has already repressed, and the repetition
of which the negociations opened under the auspices
of Europe do not permit us to foresee. Our stan-
dards, waving within our frontiers, will still be near
enough for Holland not to lose sight of them, and
for making any aggression if the Dutch replace the
Belgic territory under their protection. The French
army will return on the first hostilities of the ene-
mies of Belgium.
France will not compromise the honour of this
mission. She will not tarnish her benefit. It ha;
been wished to represent her interest in securing
the demolition of the fortresses, as the cause of the
prolonged and obligatory stay of her troops. France
does not need, on this subject, to take securities
against any one. She knows that none can, and
none wish to break promises made to her. She

Joes not distrust others, because she does not dis-

trust herself. The fortresses in question will he de-
molished, as the speech from the throne has pro-
mised, and as King Leopold has declared. This
question did not enter into the object of our expe-
It was a point settled before we entered
Belgium. It will ben thing done after our departure.
Far from seeking in what has passed an el e-
men r of misunderstanding,—any symptom of want
of confidence among the Governments united by an
equal interest, there ought to be discovered therein
the confirmation of the words which France pro-
nounced at firs►, when she declared that this expe-
dition would be a new guaranty, an immense gun•
ranty of peace. This is seen, when public affairs
Ire-not viewed through the deceiving prism of some
Journals, which, either among ourselves or else-
where, cast a false light on all questions. Accus-
tomed as we are to that prism in France, we may
be allowed not to manifest great sensibility with re-
gard to foreign Journals; for every thing well
ecn-
sidcred, if we were, on the one part or the other,
to be disquieted by the language of Gazettes, as-
suredly France would have less umbrage to take
than site gives. Happily, the Cabinets are not dis-
posed to study respectively their policy in those
fleeting Journals. Their combinations are more
e!evated—their relations more frank.

In fine, the result of the French expedition has
been all that the King and country ought to have ex-
pected from it. The independence of Belgium has
been re-established—a necessary armistice has been
concluded—favourable negociations are opened, and
France is in a situnion always closely to watch
over the maintenance of these results. The pro-
longed stay of our soldiers, in contributing to draw
closer the ties which unite the French and the Bel-
gians, has proved in the most striking manner the
confidence of all the Cabinets in the good faith of
Prance ; and that good faith will be still farther ma-
nifested by the return of the troops befwe the ex-
piration of the armistice, so as to deprive of all
pretext those passions which would found on pre-
sumed complicAtions the hope cf troubling the ge-
neral peace of Europe.

THE LATE MURDER NEAR ROCHESTER.—
The following particulars respecting this atrocious crime
have been collected by a professional gentleman, who had
occasion to visit Rochester and Chatham last week, and
who happened to know TAYLOR, the father of the cruelly
assassinated boy, some years ago, when he kept a re-
spectede chandler's shop, before be sank into his present
state of poverty. The lad himself was of superior address,
and remarkably mild and pleasing in his manners, much
liked by all who knew him. His suurderers, the BELLS,
on the other hand, were notorious bad characters, and had
been turned out flow the school of a clergyman for their
incorrigibly vile conduct. Mrs. BELL inflicted a most un-
merciful castigation on her younger son for bettaying the
guilt of his eldest brother, as soon he came within her
teach. Finding himself now safe from the punishment of
the lad s, this youthful assassin has since disclosed the most
revolting features of the whole transaction, which is not
generally known, though forming the blackest pat of the
whole, and constituting the younger Bum. the greatest
cffender of the two, though he saved himself by turning
King's evidence against his own brother, and receives a
premium for his crimes by exhibiting himself at fairs, the
demoralizing effects of which course is too obvious to re-
quire any comment. He admits now, that the day after
the robbery and attack on young TAYLOR, both be and
his brother returned to that part of the wood where they
had on the preceding day left their victim for dead, as
they supposed ; but that, to their great astonishment, they
(*flood Lim still alive anti breathing, though unable to arti-
culate, or to crawl away. 11e gave them, however, a
ghastly 10,,k of recognition ; on which the young BELL
observed to his brother, Why, he lives : leius give
it to him ; let us finish him." But the elder brother be-
held young TAYL,R. with compunction anti remorse,
tiering, at the dreadful spectacle before him, and,' ete!'
pent-
in the foul deed, be replied—' No ; he cannot lastlocr g ;
it 'will soon be over with him !" and they both went away,u
leaving the mangled and bleeding sufferer to expire in slow;
and protracted agony.