The Sun.
London, England, 1825-11-23 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Rtoile, dated Monday.)
PARI,, Nov. 20.-In an extraordinary Sitting
of Not. 7, which lasted three hours, the Great
-Council of the Canton of Lucerne unanimously
approved of all the measures taken by the Daily
Council with respect to the two Counsellors who
are accused as the instigators of the murder of
the late Avoyer Mr. Keller. It has ordered that
they shall be put on their trials, and the prelimi-
nary proceedings be conducted before the Cen-
-tral Committee of Inquiry. The right of judging
.belongs to the tri,hanals of Lucerne. According
to the principles of the concordat of It itschentoh-
wed, ho relation within the degree fixed by the
law either of the family of Keller, or of the two
persons accused, attended the Sitting of the
Daily Council on the sth, or of the Great Coon-
<ol on the 7th.

The Nuremburg Correspondent of the 14th has
the following article :
" The- most recent news from Constantinople
fully confirms the report that the Porte, without
Ivaiting for the final decision of the European
powers on the affairs of Greece, is determined to
continue the war with the greatest energy. What-
ever may be at the bottom the real designs of the
Divan with respect to Mahomet Ali of Egypt, it
is at ienst certain that it views him with extraor-
dinary regard, in order to induce him to employ
all his forces to subdue the Greeks.

" A special agent has very lately been sent to
the Viceroy, to confirm him in the government of
all the parts of Greece conquered by his troops.
At the same time the Porte names Ibrahim
Pach, his son, for his successer. It is also af-
firmed that the Porte has expressed a wish that
the Viceroy may employ the forces which he
bas still in Egypt, and can spare, against the
principal Islands of the Archipelago, which, with
the exception of Hydra, Spezzia, and Samos,
mould not make, it is thought, any serious oppo-
bition."

TRIAL OF TILE FRENCH JOURNAL,
TILE CONSTITUTIONNEI..
GOOD. ROYALE .AT FARIS.—SOLEMN SITTING, NOV. 19.
A great number of persons crowded round the
Court in the early part of the morning. At noon the Court
took its place. Baron .t.egtticr, the first President, was at its
head, and he was accompanied by MM. Amy and Dupaty,
other Presidents. When the Court was opened, the public
were allowed to enter, and filled the hall. There were nearly a
hundred Advocates present, and with them several Judges of
the other Chambers of the Cour Royale, M. de Broe, the Ad-
vocate-General, opened the case for the prosecution, and spoke
to the following effect :
Gentlemen (addressing the Judges)—The law which con-
fides to you the police of the Journals, orders pleadings; I
must therefore address you. In other affairs of this nature,
the defenders have communicated to the their difficulties in
acting on this. How, they said, can we discuss a succession
of articles? A number of propositions, so many details, and
say all that may be said ? In fact, after dilating on some part
of a subject, the Advocate-General and the defenders have both
,been obliged to refer the whole to the examination of the
Judges, and to give to them the ground which was not proper
for a pleading. The force of things makes this trial belong to
those which arc carried on by writing, and the accused Jour-
nalists themselves caused the pieces to be printed and sub-
mitted to the Judges, whose experience thus chews the in-
sufficiency-of pleading. I shall restrain my task within clue
To re-establish things in their proper light, will be
my first care. Pt is incontestible that in our political con-
stitution there is a right to discuss political and religious
matters. ' In admitting the liberty of worship, the charter
..has constituted • this right. But the respect due to religion
is also as hicontrOvertible.- The man who is so unfortunate
as not to find this sentiment in his heart, will find it is
the law. In opposing and defending different religious
opinions, and though zeal shall criticise opposing dogmas,
there is in that nothing illegal ; but when by a constant and
systematic degradation of religion, by insults, injuries, and
scorn, when, by lies, it is endeavoured to throw contempt on
religion, this is a violation of the law. Controversy is permit.
ted—not outrage. When the discussions were going on on the
law relative to the press, much was said about preserving to
those religions, not the religion of the State, an equality of pro-
- tection ; but was it ever Said, that the religion of the State was
to be put out of the protection of the law ?—Certainly not !
Yet, so certain persons wish to interpret the law. But I ask
you only one thing, the equal protection promised by the law
to all-by the Charter. But why do 1 speak of the religion of
the State ? Are they reformers of whom I speak ? Do yox
not see the gUlph to which they would urge us ; and that the
_bloody banner, of revolt and impiety is yet displayed ? You
have not theological questions to decide, Gentlemen ; it is not
a dispute, as has been said, between Protestantism and Catho-
licism, all which is honourable of different religions ; to de-
plore with us the daily attacks of these new doctors, of these
. preachers with no mission, who only wish to destroy, and for
whom Prottantism is only a pretext.
The Protestanti themselves have said to these men, who are
you who take our name—you do not'belong to Us ? You out-
rage us—you 'have no gratitude. When we enjoy peace and
equal protection, why do you describe us as persecuted ? Who
hits told you of our proselytism, which we disdain ? You are
our commotr enemy. The wicked gentlemen are skilful to
profit by every thing. The Ministers of religion are men,
and' are guilty of the faults of men. What is it to the ad-
versaries of religion, all the good these ministers do from the
crowded city to the remote village ? What is it to them that
these Ministers meet at every step difficulties that are the de-
plorable fruits of a long revolution ? All this is concealed, or
if one-day an' .eulogium is passed, the next the consealed sense
it interpreted to the reader. But is there any imprudence
committed, an impropriety, an excess of zeal, it is instantly
told, exaggerated, perverted, with all the pomp possible. The
most indifferent actions are misinterpreted, the facts are
-mis-stated or invented ; and if by chance any person has de-
gridtled the sacerdotal character, an endeavour is made to
wound, through him, die whole !lierarchy. To employ these
means to degrade religion, to hold the Clergy in a state of per-
petual accusation is not to sustain a theological argument but
to violate the law ; without doubt they may censure the acts,
-ear-stems, and doctrines which seem to oppose the liberties of
the Galician Church, if such a censure is founded; if the
l'ishfieMinister saw good faith and attachment to religion,
.14trfrom represssing such efforts, he uould be ready to applaud
• thew, as he would himself be the first to act if lie saw an occa-
aion within-that sphere in which our new laws have confined the
Judicial 'authority. But under the words jesuitism, viltramon-
tastion, they attack, they tear religion. Every Priest is a
-Jesuit, every pious man a member of the congregation; by the
,aid of-these epithets they endeavour to render odious every
thing connected with religion, and this is not to sustain a
. theological thesis, but to violate the law. We, Gentlemen,
lia#e learnt too well the mischievous influence of names turned
frOtti their proper signification. At a period still too recent,
. What mischief has not been effected with words ? There was
°naps particularrepeated every clay in the journals or pamphlets,
and made assort of monster, to which the people soon lent
realty figg their imaginations, anal afterward we.saw the effects.
In the origin, however, this class, then named aristocrat:, was
-the object, and perhaps the cause of some abuses; but when
'the phantom was invented, what did they who made it do ?
Could they stop the -people they had corrupted ? Could they
confer on those whcan.passion, interest, and ignorance led to
confound a part with the whole, the power to distinguish ? No,
Gentlemen, the torrent rolled on as it had been launched.—
'The evil was consummated; error became crime, and destiny
was fulfilled. Now, it is behind words, or if you please, be-
hind-the abuse, that the assailant takes his stand to attack his
system.
Such is the truth f and every impartial person would acknow-
ledge kir such, after examining the real intention of the series
ofrirtieles complained of in the Constitutionnel; 'though, at the
:same time, it will be readily understood that this very truth
will be the thing, that they will feel most anxious to deny, for
• that is their only mode of defence; and it will be between the
isystOnstlet who- ,liffirrit eh& deny, that you, Gentlemen. Mint
judke: Theindietments are before-you, and you have the pas.
sages sforil for word, so that you have nothing to.do but to read
and' to 'pronounce. 'On examination you will find, that
• such'phruses,- as haVe- been considered as a fair attack on
, -the part Of the . Paper have not been submitted to your
'.consideration, but have been struck out.; in pursuance of-
atickpian, where any attack against religion has been -made,

every thing extraneous to that subject has been omitted ; and
to prevent any possibility of a mistake, the first and last words
of the culpatory passages have been set out since the 20th of last
August, and the paper in which this statement has been made
we have had prirned,ln order that copies may be laid before you
aed the Advocates. The inculpated articles amount in all to 34.
They commence on the 2d May, and finish on the 25th July.—
With this specimen the Public. Minister contented himself, as
in former indictments it had been urged that too many articles
had been set forth, lid too long a space of time embraced. (in
the 21 of i 1 my the Collnitutionncl published a long article on
a little book entitled "Examen de Conscience ;" it announced
, it as containing a most complete exposure of the most mon-
strous combinations of debauchery, as a treatise of corruption
at the same time stating that it was drawn up by a Priest, ho-
llowed with the approbation of two Vicars-General, and dis-
tributed by the Missionaries, and finishing with an appeal
to the Minister, and to fathers of families against this book,
which, according to the article, was calculated to insinuate
the poison of corruption into every seminary. What could
possibly be the purport of such an article as this, but to
heap odium on the Vicars and Priests, who were encourag- 1
ing the circulation of an obscene volume among youths i
whose tender age rendered them open to such attractions ?
In establishing this prosecution, we have not proposed to
ourselves to enter into a refutation of all the calumnies put forth
by the Constitationne/ ; that were too tedious a task ! All
that we have to do is to ineptire into the feeling
.which could
have produced such articles, and the best means we have
of arriving at that information are by examining the articles
themselves. There are, however, Gentlemen, some points on
which it will be necessary to offer you some positive testimony,
such as the material facts of the.charge, and on this head no
Bette, evidence can be produced than the book itself. We have
requested a copy front the Minister of the Ecclesiastical Affairs,
and he has furnished us with one. Of its merits you will be
able to judge, when we shall have joined it to our other docu-
ments: It is an aggravating circumstance against the Consti-
tritionnel that the volume actually contains an approbation for
printing as long back as the 4th January. 1804, so that at the
time when this virulent attack was made upon it, it had been in
circulation for 21 years, without ever betbre having had its piety
or morality called in question ; but the Constitutionnel was
careful not to give any hint of this circumstance. Front what
it put forth, one ssould suppose that the volume had but just
been published ; for the outcry which they wished to
raise was against the Priests of 182.5, and not those of
1804. On this point it is impossible to equivocate ;
dates are fixed things ; the Vicar-General Choleton,
who gave the first approbation in PlO4, has been dead
since the year 1807 ; and M. Courbon, the other Vicar-General,
who renewed the approbation in 1818, has been dead these two
years. Such is the history of the book which the Constitutionnel
has untombed. Nor can it be pretended that they were ignorant
of these dates, for they themselves are the persons who talk of
the approbation of the two 'Vicars-General. With respect to
the charge of tile volume being generally spread throughout
the seminaries of France, even that is not true ; it was ori-
ginally confined to the diocese of Lyons, and although it has
since extended its circulation, it has always been confined to the
country. -Every word that the Constilutionna publishes gives
token of the desire that pervades it to write down the Clergy,
on the score of immorality. An accusation, which by two
verdicts has been declared to be a calumny, was published
against a clergyman of Rotten, who has no-fault but zeal.—
Bow often has it not happened, that when an enemy
of the Government has been accused of any crime, great or
small, certain journals have been the first to warn us to be care-
, ful how we excite the public feeling, or attack the life and
honour of a citizen; but when the person accused happens to
be a priest, these very journals are the first to throw aside all
such recollections. Of what value are 55 years of irreproach-
able virtue ; or '25 years of conscientious piety ?—What avail
his benevolence, his evengelical simplicity ? They are nothing
when the accused is a priest : the Constitutionnel can no longer
check itself—that one word is sufficient, and every party feeling
is called into action to give vigour to the calumny against the
pious Curate of Carville.
The length of the speech of the Advocate-General prevents
us giving the whole of it to-day, but we shall not fail to con-
tinue it daily.—(Constitutionnel.)

ROYAL STANNARY AND BRITISH MINING

ASSOCIATION.

Yesterday a Meeting of several of the Pro-
prietors of this Association was held at the City of London
Tavern, for the purpose described in the following advertise- •
ment, by which it was convened :—lt was addressed to " all
subscriber to the above-named Company who may be really de-
sirous of inquiring into its formation and the state Of its
affairs, and of organizing measures to enforce either perform-
ance on the part of the projectors of the prospectus issttedi by
them to the public, or in default to demand restitution of the
deposit money obtained on the faith thereof. The object or the
meeting being thus clearly defined, those Gentlemen wim, at
the partial meeting of the 10th instant, at the Freemasons' Ta-
vern, sanctioned the conduct of the projectors and self-elected
directors in withholding 4,000 of the original shares, upon which
no deposit has yet been paid, in purchasing 1,000 shares with ;
the Company's money, and in giving 2,500/. to one of their
own number,. as projector of the Company, will of course bear
in mind that they need not now attend."
Mr. HENRY 131.atN was calletrto the Chair, and Mr.
Rom.: nTsow then claimed the attention of the meeting in
the first place to an explanation personally affecting himself,
and read the following extract. from an advertisement which
had been published in the newspapers of that day, by the So-
licitors of the Directors. The part to which he alluded was as
follows :

The motives which influence some of the few Gentlemen
who so strenuously oppose the Directors may be estimated by
the fact, that one of them, who signed the requisition for
the meeting of the proprietors on the 10th instant, and who
was most ardent in his opposition to the Directors, has since
that Meeting offered to withdraw all further opposition, if thee
will purchase 100 .of his shares, at 4/. each, they being worth
in the market only 11. each, or in other words, if they will
buy his favour at the price of 3001. to be paid out of the Com-
pany's funds.
The Directors rejected the offer with the contempt it merited,
and leave this fact, with a copy of the letter on the part of the
individual alluded to, to the consideration of the shareholders,
convinced that they will justly appreciate the merits of an op-
position flowing from such a source.
COPY of the LETTER.
To the, Directors of the Royal Stannary Company.
Freeman's-court, Cornhill, Nov. 11, 1825.
Gentlemen—We have this morning been waited upon by a
friend of Mr. Robertson, who has requested us to communicate
to you, that he (Mr. Robertson) will forego all further proceed-
ings against the Company, provided you will purchase 100 of
his shares at 4/. each, and that in the event of your doing so he
will pay the call upon the remaining 100 shares held by him.—
Requesting the favour of an answer,
We remain, &c., W. BEET RA M and SON.
By order of the Board, L. GoDDARD, Jun. Sec.
7, Angel-court, Nov. 18, 1825.
Seeing Mr. Beecham, jun., in the room, he now called upon
him to state on what authority his firm had ventured to state
that he (Mr. Robertson) was ready to act in the manner set
forth in the advertisement. The imputation upon him, he now
publicly declared, was false and groundless.—(Hear, hear !)
Mr. BEETIIAM, jun., said, that the information, however
unauthorised it might have been by Mr. Robertson, was cer-
tainly in substance commuicated to the firm by a party, and
they in consequence
.felt it to be their duty to transmit it to the
directors. He begged to be understood as not attending here
professionally, but merely as an individual spectator.
Mr. ROBERTSON explained, that after the meeting at Free-
masons' Hall, Mr. Wilkes asked him if be had any personal
hostility to any of the directors—he replied certainly not : then,
said Mr. Wilkes, all you want is to get back your money ; he an-
swered that he 114 d no other object. The offer, in fact, instead
of originating with him (Mr. Robertson), was, in point of fact,
made to him. Several gentlemen complained that a profes-
sional firm should publish information so conveyed to them,
without first ascertaining its truth from the party most im-
plicated.

Mr. lirETHAtn, jun., said, that the information was given
to them by Mr. Wilkes, and all they did was to transmit it to
the Directors, for whom they were acting.
Mr. ROBERTSON said that he had obtained his object, in
chewing the meeting where the misinformation rested. It was
absolutely untrue so far as it regarded himself, and he left
Mr. Wilkes and Messrs. Beetham to settle the matter as they
pleased. He would now go to the public business for which
they had 'assembled. He hoped there were no subscribers
present who were not ready to go all proper lengths to re-
cover their money back from the directors who had so mis-
managed their affairs. Ile contended that these directors
had forfeited all claim on their confidence, and that as they
had deceived them (Ow subscribers) in matters which they
did know, it was fair to infer that they had equally deceived
them in matters which they did not.—(Hear!)—He then re-
ferred to the prospectus of the company, from which it
appeared that tile original intention was to have 10,000
shares at 501. each for their capital ; but it was afterwards
arranged that only 6,000 of these should be sent into the
market, the others to be reserved by the directors for con-
ciliating persons locally interested in the concerns in Devon-
shire and Cornwall, and other purposes; 1.500 were to be
for the local persons so circumstaneed; and 500 for ill rilien-
rick, according to some plan which had been devised. The
reservation of the 1,500 was quite ridiculous, for if the con-
xerns were as valuable as the directors bad represented them,

those locally interested would be glad to become purchasers in
the market. (1-Tear !)—The utmost delusion had been practised
respecting the mines in question, and indeed the parties must
have been hard driven when they resorted to so ridiculous a
puff as that a silver cup, weighing 102 ounces, had been made
from the silver found in one of the mines 300 years ago.—(A
laugh.)—lt would hate been much better to have shown the
subscribers that they could get good copper out of them to pay
a reasonable dividend.—' Hear !)—Notwithstanding, however,
all the arts used to puff up the scheme, the very day after the'
prospectus was issued, which gave so famous a description of
the affitirs of the association, the shares fell to a discount
of 00 per cent.—(Bear !)—lt was time, under these discou-
raging circumstances, to abandon a concern which it was
clear could not thrive under so ninth mismanagement, and
to get back the deposits which had been paid by the sub-
scribers.—(hear Ilenrick had been called upon to pay
up his deposits on the 500 shares allotted to him, but he had
turned round upon the directors, and refused to-comply with
their requisition, until they had paid up their own deposits on
the remainder of the 4,000 reserved shares. The• fact was,
that the directors had been speculating on the money paid by
the several subscribers, and had not paid any advance upon the
shares which they had assumed for themselves. He had just
seen the opinions of the Attorney and Solicitor-General, which
would satisfy the meeting that they could hold their directors
legally responsible for the money already paid into their hands.
They had clearly no right as directors to pay over 2,.r.001. to one
of their own number as projector of the company, which they
had done; neither had they to lay out 4,7001. in purchasing up•.
wards of 1,000 shares in the market at a discount, under the
alleged pretence of keeping up the price, and serving the
concern. . . .

Mr. KNIGHT, the solicitor, then read the opinions of the
Attorney anti, Solicitor-General, as well as the case on which
they were founded : they were as follows :
" Some time in the spring of the present year an association
was stated to have been formed for the purpose of purchasing
and working certain mines in Cornwall and Devon, to be
called the " Royal Stannary and British Mining Association,"
the capital to be 500,0001. in 10,000 shares of 50/. each. 'Die
directors were self-elected, and consequently had the exclusive
distribution of the shares. By the accompanying prospectus,
as also by advertisements in the The Thnes and other daily
papers, applications for shares were to be made to the bankers
or the solicitors of the association. In consequence of such
advertisements, not less than 26,009 shares were applied for ;
the directors, however, either with a view to their own personal
advantage, or for reasons which they do not think proper to
make known, kept hack 4,000 shares, issuing to the public
only 6,000, upon which a deposit has been paid of 51. per share.
By this course of proceeding only 30,000/. has been paid, in-
stead of 50,000/., the amount of the deposits upon 10,000
shales, the number originally contemplated. In this situation
the directors have expended nearly the whole of the 30,0001. in
the purchase of mines, and by other large payment; and not-
withstanding the whole of the 500,0001. named in the pro-
spectus has not yet been subscribed for, or any deed of associa-
tion executed or even prepared, the directors have made a fur-
ther call of 21. per share, not upon the ten thousand shares, as
originally announced by the prospectus, but upon those only
held by the public, ..nd on which the deposit of Si. per share
has teen made. This circumstance, with many others, un-
necessary to mention, have led the shareholders to call for the
accounts of the company, and from which, when produced ISy
the directors, it appears that they, in addition to the first pur-
chas of the mines, and other incidental -expences, have paid a
sum of 2,500/. to some person as the projector of the essocia-
tion ; and not satisfied with having kept back four thotisand
shares, the directors went into the market, and actually pur-
chased one thousand shares at a small discount, for the cost of
which shares they take credit as a payment made on account
of the association of no less a sum than 4,1001. The present
shareholders, therefore, who hare paid their deposits upon the
faith of the company having ten thousand shares of 50/. each,
as stated in the prospectus, will have their risk increased just
double the amount they contemplated, and that at the arbi-
trary discretion of a few individuals who have elected them-
selves the directors of the association, and who never called a
meeting to authorize any one of their acts. Oa the part of
those who have paid the deposit of 51. per share upon the faith
of the original prospectus, it is contended that the directors
have no power to alter the terms of the said prospectus,. or to
make any payments (except those necessary for the establish-
ment of the association), until the whole amount of the capital
of 500,000/. named in the prospectus has been subscribed for,
and the deposits paid upon the ten thousand shares—much less
had they authority to make so large a payment as 2,5001. to
the projector of an association not even now formed ; and
4,700/. for the purchase of one. thousand shares, which having
been done previous to the repeal of the Act, commonly called
the Bubble Act, was altogether illegal. Under these circum-
stances your opinion is requested.
" lst—Whether the subscribers, who have paid their deposit
of 51. upon their respective shares in conformity to the terms of
th original prospectus, can be held liable for the payment of a
further sum of 21. per share, until-the whole of the capital of
500,000/. has been subscribed for, and the deposits of 5/. per
share paid upon the 10,000 shares originally stipulated for.
" 2dly—Whether the Directors were authorised to make any
payments for the purchase of mines, or the 2,500/. to the alleged
projector, and 4,7001. for the purchase of the 1,000 shares, until
the whole capital had been subscribed for, and the deed regu-
lating the Association, according to the terms of the prospectus,
had been executed.

" 3clly—Whether, as only 13,000 shares have been paid upon,
instead of 10,000, the number originally named in the pros-
pectus, and 1.001) of these shares since purchased by the di-
rectors, thereby increasing the risk of the present shareholders
to double what was contemplated by the prospectus, such share-
holders can withdraw themselves from the concern altogether,
and maintain an action against the Directors (or such of them
in whose names the deposit of 6/. per share have been received)
to recover back such deposit, as for money had and received ;
and whether the purchaser of an original subscriber's interest
stands in any different or worse situation titan the original sub-
scriber himself.

" Lastly.—And, failing such right of action, can the
subscribers compel the projectors or directors to refund the
monies so expended, and pay up the deposits on the 4,000
issued shares, so as to go on with the Association on its origi-
nal basis ?"

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