The Sun.
London, England, 1823-10-30 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

The following letter is said to have been sent
from Cadiz to a certain Foreign Secretary by one
of his secret agents, who received it from a valet-
de-chambre, who found it in the pockets of his
Catholic Majesty :
" TO MY BROTHER THE KING OF SPAIN.
" I have received your letter, my Brother, or rather my
Cousin, for we are so related. Thank God, you will soon be
out of the hands of your rebel subjects, and at this I rejoice
much with yeti, both as a parent, neighbour, and friend, being
entirely of your opinion as to our legitimate and sacred power.
\%r reign by the authority of God, who has given us sub-
jects, and we are responsible to nobody but God for our
actions, and to the priests, as you and I agree. From this it
is an indubitable consequence that we ought never to receive
the law from our subjects, never to treat with them, or at least
never regard ourselves, as engaged by any such treaties, they
being all null and void by divine right. It is the last degree of
humiliation in persons of our rank to make promiies to our sub-
jects and to keep them, as our ancestor of gloriois memory,
Louis XIV. very properly said, and he knew his business as a
King. Under his sceptre the French never murmured, what-
ever taxes might be imposed on them. To whatever state of
misery they were reduced, not one of them in his life dared to
breathe a word. He took their last sou to build his palaces.
make war, and pay his mistresses ; that was actually to reign.
Charles 11. of England did nearly the same. Restored to his
throne like ourselves, after twenty years exile and the death of
his father, he declared loudly that he liked better to submit to
a foreign King, the enemy of his country, than to treat with his
people, or consult them on the affairs of the State--sentiments
worthy of his rank, and his blood, and of his name. I who
write this to you my cousin, might be the greatest King in all
Europe, if I had only chosen to act in accord with my subjects.
Nothing was more easy ; but Heaven preserve me from such
baseness. I obey Congresses, Princes, Cabinets, and very
often receive very embarrassing orders, that are always very in-
totem, which I obey, however ; but what my people desire,
and what. I have promised them, I never do ; I have so much
pride of heart, and so much of the dignity of my race. Let us
my cousin, preserve this noble pride with regard to our sub-
jects ; cherish our ancient prerogatives, and govern according
to the manner of our predecessors, never listening to any body
but to our valets, our mistresses, our favourites, and our
priests. This is for the honour of the Crown. Whatever may
happen, perish, say I, all the people, rather than divine right.
" On this subject, my Cousin, I agree entirely with all your
sentiments ; and pray to God to maintain you in them. But I
cannot approve of your repugnance for that species of govern-
ment, which is called representative, but which I call recrea-
tive ! there being nothing in the world that I know of, more
amusing for a King, without mentioning its usefulness, which
is not trifling. I love absolute power, but thia—for my interest
—this is a great deal better. There is no comparison between
them ; and I very much prefer the recreative system. The
representative suits me remarkably well, provided I appoint
the Deputies, which, very fortunately, I do in this country'.
Representation, my Cousin, is an El-Dorado for us ; money
er
is
shoe erect upon us. Ask my Nephew, .Angouleme ; we nev
count here but by millions, or rather, we never count at all,
since we have got Deputies for ourselves ; a majority in ad-
vance, which costs but little. lam sure its oes not cost me so
much in a year, for the whole majority, aMadame du Cayla
costs me in a month ; and by means of this I have as much
gold as I please—money without measure or strait ; and the
we please—that is to say, what our courtiers please.
Divine right is not in the least injured. We still do just what
departed Brother
" Your Cortes have disgusted you with deliberative assem-
blies, but one example proves nothing. My
also did not agree with them, but this did not prevent me
again having recourse to them, and I find myself well off by so
doing. Will you be a poor unhappy wretch like him, who,
because lie wanted fifty millions—what misery!--fifty thousand
millions would be no greater embarrassment to me than a pinch
of snuff! I wa.-. of the same opinion as you are of before I visit-
ed England. 1. did not at all like the representative system ; but
there I learned what it really is. It' the Grand Turk had the
least notion of it he would seek no further, and would make
I.his Divan into two Chambers. Try it, my Cousin, and tell me
your opinion. You will soon see that your colonies, your gal.
icons, your Peru, are poor things compared with this inven.
tion, or with a budget discussed and voted by your own Depu-
ties. You must not allow yourself to be frightened at such
words as liberty, publicity, deputation, representation, &c. ;
these are all for our benefit ; their, advantage to us is immense,
and the danger nothing, whatever may be said to the contrary.
A comparison will make this quite clear to you. The forcing
pump, or better still, a Papin's digester, which supplies
you every minute with a rich soup, if you know bow
manage it, but which bursts and does mischief if you are
ignoranti int, of it, is a complete type of the representativt more stem.
It is only necessary to heat it to a certain po neithernor less, which is very easy. This is our Minister's duty, and
the soup or the produce is a thousand millions. After this,
tell me of your absolute power which produced my late bro-
ther. How mach ? three or four hundred millions a year, with
great trouble. Now each budget is a thousand millions, and
no trouble about the matter. What think you of this, my
Cousin ? Come, come, give up your antipathies, and make a
family dish with us, is nothing like it. We will help each
other to prevent accidents.
" If you had had this repretentative slow pace at the time of
the revolution of the Isle of bean, you would not have wanted
money to pad your troops, who would not then have aided the
revolutionists. I too should not have had to send assistance to
you, not to expend a hundred millions to extricate you from
this embarrassment; not that I reproach you, my Cousin, with
this trifle; among friends every thing is in common. The money
and the blood of my people belong to you as mach as to me : do
not spare them in time of need—l„ can supply you wits ten
times as much if necessary' without inconveniencing myself
in the least, and without it costing you a single farthing. I
shall not require you to reimburse me as I was made to reim-
burse my friends—this was asort of villainy on the part of my
Allies. On the contrary, when I restore you, I shall give you
money as well as your subjects, as much as you please—l give
money to all the world, and pay for every tiling. I paid for
my restoration, and I will pay for your's, because I have plenty
of money, and a great deal of complaisance, also, for those
foreign Sovereigns who keep me from receiving laws from my
people. I pay them when they come here, and I pay you
when
_I come to you—occupied or occupying, I pay fur the
occupation. I paid &Chen and Platoff—l pay '1)1 milk and
Ballasteres. I pay Cabinets and Powers. I pay Cortes and
Regency, I pay the Swiss. After paying all these people, I
have still enough to keep not only my ;Nerd, a house, which, is
here, and which is very well and very different from that of my
prdecessor ; but also mistresses, who naturally cast me some-
thing. The Budget answer* for all, and this is that repteien-
tation of which in your country you are so much afraid ; this is
silliness and prejudice, my Cousin, there is nothing in the
world so good. •
"'l'o put up this machine in your country, and put it in mo-
tion, without danger to your Royal person, I will send you, if
you please, M. de an admirable man, or some other of
our friends, with a dozen
*prefects. Trtiat to them, in a very
short time they will organise you two Chanibers and a Minis-
try, behind which you may sleep in safety, while they are
making money for you. You will have from the high
sphere were we are placed, as Foy says, their debates for
pastime, and they are the most amusing things imaginable, a
true squabble of dogs and cats, which -fight in the streets
for it bone. When their noise becomes inconvenient, you
withel I
eunui
withat the
throw on them a few pails of water, this is as soon us the Bud-
,o
ienesd
odtt.oh
they
yanw
iu trouble
ee
get is voted. .
Give them, my Cousin, give theni a Constitutional Char.'
ter, and every thing derived from it—Right of Eleceiaa_jasy
vri b.
INenr
otiylbcioaefisti.tlah:e
dPmr
Withoutt; h ge :dal nist
yourself idiom the result. Above all„ do not fail to make som
long
e
New
lahhlelo u°81:11:
fur-
nish you with another species of amusement which will preserve
Thhilleries. When yOu have entered into a treaty
taeralc,' and MOM to all these Revolutionists
to forget the
past, hang up* five or. six immediately after the amnesty, and
make the others Dukes and Lords, particularly if there are
amongst them any who have been porters stable a
or abl
veicates, authors, or philosophers in love
with .°Y' ad.
them with honours, cover them with ancient an load
parchMents, and then look at them : det. titles d new
y you to suffer any
'chagrin. while, you see such.persons among your Gusmans,
and your Sanchez,' their equip
ages emblazoned with heraldry,
-and their escutcheons covered will[
after piece of a revolution, a farce therarterings. This is Use
never wearies, and which
will become a perpetual Carnaval for
have m u
any other . unto
to
tell
you, which I
,for the present, praying to God, postpone
you unto his holy keeeping, my cousin, that he will take
(Signed
De VILLELE."—() " LOUIS.
ling Chronic*.)

The former, it is said, is the son of Mr. Alderman Thurtell, of
Norwich, and the other lately kept the Army and Navy Coffee-
house,taken place in consequence of the report of a pistol being
heard, which was immediately followed by the groans of a per-
son apparently in great pain; and on the following morning a
quantity of blood was discovered on the spot, and also a Pistol,
with the muzzle choked up with the brains of a human being ; a
handkerchief and a knife were found at a short distance, and a
gap had been forcibly made in the hedge through which it ap-
pearedbeen the body had been dragged, as blood and brains were
found on part of the bushes. A strict search was made for the.
on
body, but without effect, and the place where it is secreted
itnra different
nsn litted dirtctions
to Bow-street
still remains undiscovered, although 30 persons are employed
-sn:Takeeitil, gansedarcßhuthfovren was i•
to
make inquiries, when he succeeded in gaining such information
as induced him to apprehend the two prisoners, which he did
yesterday morning at their lodgings, in King-street, Golden-
square ; a coat, much stained with blood, was found in their
possession, and also a pistol, which is supposed to be the fellow
Indforivmaatctihongaw as
ito the one found in the fields. Ruthven immediately set
I with them in a chaise to Watford, where they will undergooff an
examination by the Magistrates on the spot.
Mawsiox-Housz.—Yesterday a gentleman named Brooks,
summoned the proprietor and porter of an Inn, for an over.,
charge made on the carriage of a parcel sent from Peckenhante
Norfolk, the charge entered in the office books being 3s. ad,'
and that marked in the ticket delivered by the porter to Mr.
Brooks ss, including 10d. porterage. The clerk who attended
for the proprietor stated in his.defence, that a ticket had been
given to the porter with the correct charge, but that he had.
lost It. The porter admitted this, and said that lie made oet 3
new ticket, guessing the charge as nearly as possible.—The
bow) M axon thought it a gross imposition on the pub.
lie, and fined both the proprietor and porter in the penalty of
40s. each, for the Act positively directed that a ticket.
written by the book-keeper of the office shottld be delivered
with the parcels, and in case the porter delivered a parcel withdd
out such a ticket, he wasliable to the above fine. lie regrette'
not having the rates of carriage from the County of Norfolk,
for which great blame was attached to the Clerk of the Pence•
who was bound by an Act of Parliament to forward a return ti)
the Lord Mayor of such rates, when fixed by the Quarter
Sessions. The subject merited the attention of Members of
Parliament, and more particularly of the Member for the
' County of Norfolk, and he hoped the matter would be made •
public, as it was of general interest.
IIARLTIOROUGII-STREET.—A case which brought the Vit-
ersnt Act again into operation, was yesterday heard before 'Aire
DYER, the Magistrate at this office. A man named Jilfnet
Turton was committed to hard labour in the House of Correcd
tion for two months, who was proved, upon the clearest evid
dente, to have exposed his person to the female children be-
longing to the school of St. James's Work-house, Turton himself
being a pauper in the establishment. In pronouncing judgment
on him, ;Mr. Dime. remarked, that from the many instances of
this unmanly and un-English practice that bad lately come be-
fore him, •he feared a change was taking place in the nation
character and manners. The crime was a misdemeanour at
common law, for which he could send him to trial at the yes'
sions ; but he had another power vested in him by the NO°
Vagrant Act, and notwithstanding all that had of late been
said on the subject of that Act, he should not be deterred front
fearlessly doing his duty under it ; and therefore committed
him to hard labour for two months in the House of Correct,io.n._
MARYLEBONE AND WOUSIIIP-STREET Orvicvs.---ra7s
distress of Mary Twyrross, as lately exhibited at the farrlce_
Office, and that of Mrs. Simmons, at the latter, have,_sint-6
the publication of the reports respecting them, been abuntlan
of
I relieved by charitable contributions from varimis Ladies
odts
Gentlemen ; and both have thus been placed in a 541°
comfort.
woman, was charged with stealing a trunk, containing wearing_
.F_
apparel, the property of Miss A. Johnson, a dress-maker
go'
Cheltea.—Remanded.
QuEEN•SQuanE.—Yesterrlay Maria Tantrum, n eldearliy.

t_ltePlar:loCifGt.Nhrliro.—useAowf iCtolenstsmboneis',l4soemxearnine(n'dlb:tr
pointedly remarked upon Iris ill looks. Mr. 11.'3%9
afterwards Lord HOLLAND, whose gloomy C°olv
tenance strongly marked his character, observe"
that " it was ungenerous, unjust, and LI omanlyt
to
censure a roan for that signature which Gail 1
impressed on his countenance," &c. Mr. PITT rope
hastily and said, " I agree from my heart witii
the observation of my fellow member ; it is far
cible, it is judicious and true. But there Ilia
some (looking full at Fox), upon whose face Or
hand of Heaven has so stamped the mark
wickedness, that it were impiety not to giv'
credit.

COAL-MARKET, OCT. 29.
Ships at Market. Ships sold
Newcastle - - 2 -10 s Oil to 0,0,1
2 Sunderland - I - 46.

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Foreign Gold, in Bars .................... 3 17
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BIRTHS.
At Edinburgh, on the 24th inst., the lady of John'
tulrocate, of son. etoel
buOrgnh,F3rildtasy. btrh.eß2r4etwhsitners,t.faat
dNaou.glhOte,
rC. oatcs-cr-

MARRIED. Niffo ' r-14"
,de
On the 18th inst., at St. Luke's, Chesea,
Esq., of Slosne-street, to Miss Cook, of Itobett rect_d/

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MED. 11 ;
On Tuesday last, at his seat, Stoneleigh Abbc/' eelli;
shire, of apoplexy, James Henry Leigh, 1t2541,1 tiii:,,n''
On Sunday, . the 26th inst., at High lice of 1.0" Vii:
Chester, aged 8 years, John Co-nwall, third VII li P'.
Legh, Esq., of High Leg_. h
On the 28th inst., at Kennington, agea 4,l'•sOir, i
wife of Mr. James Davies, jun., of Gracectri'tl;erk„,oe4
On the 29th of September, at Berne, in .11010'.. r,,
' Rosalha, the younger daughter of Williani ./4
Lee, Kent. r IA" '
At J. Willasey's, Esq., Allerton-hall, Oar of 1V ki';
the 26th ult., aged 21, Sarah Anne, daughte rhot l' ),
Esq., of Kingston, in the island of Jornaitl* lion"' r
At his house at 'Stoke, near Guildford, on Ai ills *o;fre
inst., John Creuzi!, Esq., in the 87th year.° 010: ~
On the Esq.,2, at Netherclay-ouse, neilronsr-
Vanzandt, son of the late Jacobus
Ncw York.

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