The Sun.
London, England, 1824-08-26 00:00:00

and that the French Government is either parti-
cipant or cognisant of the meditated attempt, we
have as little hesitation in affirming our belief.
There has of late been a mysterious activity in the
French navy. The pending negociations for the
new Spanish loan, the known and avowed feelings
and wishes of the French Ministeral Papers, and
the projected Congress, seem obviously to point
at the saum conclusion, which will be prevented
only, if at all, by the failure of pecuniary ability
in Ferdinand and his Royal and Imperial friends.
We hope and trust at least that no Englishman
will be found to take any share in the raising of
a loan intended to be applied to the injury of the
commerce of his country, to the destruction of
the liberty and happiness of a vast continent, and
to the renewal of the atrocious cruelties and mas-
sacres perpetrated by the blood-thirsty Morillo
in his Venezuelan campaigns.

[MORNING} POST.]
It appears, from the trial of a Negro at St.
Catherine's, Jamaica, for killing a wretched fe-
male slave in attempting to perform a miraculous
cure, that Prince llohenlohe and Father
Carroll have some formidable rivals among

the lowest of the Blacks in the West In-
dies. We must say, however, that his sable
Highness of St. Catherine's was a much more
dextrous operator than the Wexford Priest, for he
absolutely persuaded the bystanders that he ex•
tracted dogs' teeth, pieces of glass bottle, and
coals of fire out of the poor patient's back, and
executed this slight of hand ingeniotnly, that
although he allowed his mouth to be previously
examined, the deception was not detected. Fa-
titer Carrot's tub-dancing was surely a clumsy
trick compared with the foregoing ; and, more-
Over, we think the negroes showed considerably
more sagacity than the Wexford peasants. The
former doubted a little, and examined a little,
before they believed; the latter did neither;
but very like a silly flock made a clear passage
for the Devil to escape through, after he was
ejected from possession of Miss Sinnot. The
comparison thus forced upon us is of course
highly creditable to the capacity for faith en-
joyed by the Irish Catholics; they are, in short,
thanks to the superstition which tramples them
to the earth, more credulous than the besotted
slave, who declared that the consequence of
false sweating would infallibly be a " swelled
body," with some other results appertaining to
this species of punishment, which would rather
shock the delicacy of our readers if re-
peated here. In ranking these remarks we
really have no intention of speaking irreverently
of the Roman Catholic religion, or hurting the
feelings of the many respectable persons who
profess to be its followers. We condemn' and
ridicule the abuses of which designing knaves
have always sought and two often succeeded to
make it the vehicle or the pretence. Can Catho-
lics themselves say there is not a strong analogy
between the Obeah and the floheulohe impos-
tures ; or will they now attach much value to
the extent or implicitness of credulity among u
set of ignorant savages.

[sm TIMES:]
Another publication-has just made its appear-
ance in Paris, which, as im historical monument,
must be regarded with great curiosity We speak
of The Memoirs of Fouche, a posthumous work of
that notorious character. Nine years ago, when
he was Minister of Police to Louis XVI 11., a
short sketch of his life appeared iu England,
which, so far as it went, delineated him much
more correctly than his own partial pen. It
spoke of his atrocities in 1793 and 1704. It cited
his own recorded statements of the Churches he
had plundered, and the massacres that he had
perpetrated. These things he of course throws
into shade. He declares that he was never a
Member of any of the Revolutionary Committees.
This is true as regards the Committees of Go-
vernment in Paris ; but at Lyon he presided for
many weeks in a Revolutionary Committee,which
day after day slaughtered 60, 80, 100,(20O indivi-
duals at a time. In short, Robespierre himself
was not a more sanguinary monster. But the ac.
lions. of Fouche are well known ; and if they
were not, we could not expect to find them faith.
fully related by himself. His opinions oo other
events and persons are more likely to he impar.
tial ; and they are abundantly curious. Ile is not
one of those who think that the Revolution was
inevitable. On the contrary he says that if Louis
X Vt. had had the firmness to dissolve the
National Assembly he might have sate on his
throne to this hour ; and he expressly declares
that the Bustile would not have been at-
tacked on the 14th of July, if the Gene-
rals had done their duty on the Nth.—After
the murder of the benevolent Louis, the Go.
vertiment was seized by the National Conven-
tion. Let us hear how Fouche describes this
power. "It was a sort of monstrous dictator.
ship," says he, " which grew out of the subver-
sion of all order, and presented alternately the
picture of Athenian anarchy and Turkish des-
potism." The memorable 18th of Brumaire
found Follette Minister bf Police to the Direc-
tory. It is curious to observe him (unconsciously
as it were) exposing his own perfidy on that
occasion. He knew all Buonaparte's intrigues
to get possession of the Consulship ; he
knew that the struggle was to take place that
morning at St. Cloud; but he was doubtful
of the event. He therefore took no step one
way or the other, but sat at Paris surrounded by
his Police agents, keeping his eye 011 both par-
ties, sending out spies every five minutes, and
receiving intelligence as frequently, until the
sword of Buonaparte had cut the Gordian knot.
Then he hastened to salute the victor, and was
rewarded by being continued in his post as
Minister of Police. It has often been observed
that Buoneparte, at the time of which we
are speaking, showed himself far inferior to
our Cromwell ; and Fouche's picture of the
scene, which is drawn with great liveliness,
fully confirms they remark. Cromwell's conduct
was cool, deliberate, and firm, and the act was
wholly his own. The part which l3uonaparte
had to play was chalked out for him by Sieyes,
Talleyrand, and others; and , he would have
failed in the performance if it had not been for the