The Sun.
London, England, 1824-06-12 00:00:00

[MORNING 11FRALD.].

Wednesday;s Paris Papers arrived last night.
The project for rendering the duration of the
Chamber septennial has passed the Chamber of
Deputies. The Journals continue to observe
variously upon the disgrace (for such it is) of M.
de Chateaubriand. His dismissal was so abrupt
and unceremonious, that it affords one more in-
stance of the facility with which the great can
sing aside, when they no longer want, or take
displeasure at their most devoted satellites. The
Journal des Debuts, the ablest by far of the French
Tlinisterial Journals, has declared war against
khe Ministers, in defence of the Viscount, who
-was first a contributor to it, and next a patron.
lie may now, and most probably will, return to
his first vocation. It appears by some articles of
German intelligence, that there was not yet an
effective preparation at Constantinople for auy
expedition against the Greeks. The honest
Germans have, it appears, been thrown into
alarm for their wool trade with England, by a
letter written to Leipsic, by a German residing
in London, stating that the King, Minister, and
the Parliament had encouraged and aided asso-
ciate capitalists to lay out large sums in sending
out flocks of sheep to New South Wales and
Van Diemen's Land—such was the extent of this
speculation that it would cause a growth of wool
sufficient to dispense with that of the Continent
of Europe.

EMORNING POST.]
French Papers to the 10th inst. reached us
last night by Express. They have brought the
termination and the result of the debate on the
Project of Law for rendering the Chamber of
Deputies Septennial. That Project has been
adopted by a very large majority, the numbers
being-292 against 87. Various amendments, si-
milar in their nature, though proposed by the Ul-
tras and Liberals, had been previously rejected,
and the generality of the Deputies were too well
disposed to augment their own powers and extend
their political existence, to make it necessary
for the Ministers to use any very extraordinary
exertions to secure the adoption of an enactment
which annihilates one of the principal dispositions
of the Charter. The only other topic mention-
ed in these Papers, is the " disgrace of M. de
Chateaubriand." The Journal des Debuts has
suddenly espoused his part with even more vio-
lence than the Quotidienne, and in a style which
makes us suspect that the Ex-Minister may have
taken the Editor's pen himself. There is more
than argument, there is personal feeling, if not
rage, throughout the whole of the article, an idea
of which may be formed from the moderation of
the first sentence :—" The more the Ordonnance
which dismissed M. de Chateaubriand is consi-
dered, the more is astonishment created at the in-
conceivable vanity of those who caused that Or-
donnance to be issued, or at their profound igno-
rance of the state of public opinion." In another
passage the article asserts : " that all the political
opinions of the country raised their voices in favour
of a Minister, disgraced in a manner so little
French and so savage, not to give it another name.
Now it happens that in order to prove the services
which M. de Chateaubriand has rendered France,
this injudicious advocate (injudicious, probably,
because interested) quotes the very acts of ag-
gression and injustice which have dishonoured
the character of that country l The Spanish war,
that monstrous iniquity, prepared by dark and
criminal intrigueL, and carried on at last with un-
principled and unrelenting audacity, is made his
claim to gratitude and to respect ! " That act
of force and of good faith," as it was impiously
called, was principally due to the fixed deter-
minatio of the Minister for Foreign Affairs"
(M. de Chateaubriand). Had the bitterest
enemy of this individual wished to devote him to
the contempt and execration of posterity, he
could not have done it more effectually than by
pointing him out as the real author of the Spanish
war.

[MORNING ORION/OLE.]
The Adjourned Debate on the case of the late
Mr. Smith was opened last night by a powerful
speech from Dr. Lushington, who took the high-
est ground in the vindication of the deceased.—
In his outset he stated—" I mean not to limit
myself to the more.shewing whether the proceed-
ings adopted against Mr. Smith were legal or not
go more directly to the great issue—l claim
for, that much injured man his innocence, both
legal and moral. . . . In my view of the
case., it is not a question whether the conceal-
ment ()fan intended revolt was or was not high
treason at Demerara. I am ready to concede,
that if it can he shewn that iNir.Smith was a party
guilty concealmentof
to any an intended revolt,
that he deserved to be duly arraigned for the
crime, and if duly convicted to suffer." In aj
masterly manlier he analysed the evidence of the

Negroes, by which the concealment was at-
tempted to be proved, and shewed that it was
not only utterly improbable in itself, but that
all the witnesses contradicted each other. Even
those who opposed the motion did not dare to
vindicate the sentence. The Attorney-General
said—" Looking at the evidence through the
medium of the trial that had been published, he
might not perhaps pronounce the same opinion
on Mr. Smith's case that the Court of Demerara
had done." The man must be strangely consti-
tuted indeed who would pronounce the same
opinion. In fact Ministers have, on further
consideration, found it necessary to take
quite a different course from that adopted on
the former night. Mr. Canning found, no
doubt, that the feelings of Members generally
would not allow them to go all the length which
Mr. Wilmot Horton demanded, and so he at-
tempted a compromise by moving the previous
question. After all 146 voted against him, leav-
ing him only a majority of 47.—We leave the
Colonists of Demerara and the Court Martial to
the undisturbed enjoyment of the triumph of
such an acquittal. Mr. Brougham's reply was
peculiarly eloquent and impressive.

[NEAT TIMES.]
The renewed debate on the case of the unfor-
tunate Mr. Smith of Demerara gave occasion last
night to several eloquent and powerful speeches.
The discussio❑ was opened by Dr. Lnshington
with a review of the evidence, which the Learned
Gentleman analysed with great skill. He con-
tended that it clearly proved Mr. Smith to have
had no idea of an intended revolt, and conse-
quently to have been guilty of no misprision
of treason. He sheaved that the unfortunate
Missionary was not the cause of the disturb.
ance which took place among the Negroes, but
that the real causes were these—the exacting
from them excessive labour—the subjecting them
to severe punishments—the restraining them from
Religions Worship—and the withholding from
them a knowledge of his Majesty's benevolent
instructions for their good. Dr. Lushington fully
admitted the respectability of Mr. gray's cha-
racter as a Civil Judge, but exposed with great
force the impropriety of that Gentleman's con-
duct as a Member of the Court Martial ; and he
concluded with a spirited peroration claiming for
all classes of his Majesty's subjects in Demerara
the protection of English justice. Mr. Tindal, o❑
-the other hand, delivered an able argument on
the Dutch Law, by which he stated misprison to
be equal to treason, and observed that under that
law the planters would have been Mr.
Smith's Judges ; from which considerations
he inferred that the trying of the pri-
soner by Martial Law was favourable, and not
prejudicial to him. Mr. J. Williams maintained
that Martial Law was in truth no law at all, and
depiecated the sanction of the House being given
to an act of gross injustice, under colour of what-
ever law it might have been perpetrated. The
Attorney-General said, he himself might not
have come to the same conclusion as the Members
of the Court Martial, but there was no ground to
think their judgment malicious or corrupt ; and
without some such motive they would not de-
serve the strong censure conveyed in the motion
of Mr. Brougham. Mr. Wilberforce, in a speech
replete with those sentiments of humanity and
justice which have marked his long Parliamen-
tary career, defended the character of Mr. Smith,
whom he said he must ever regard as a Martyr
to the faithful discharge of his duties as a Chris-
tian teacher. Mr. Canning professed not to be
sufficiently versed in the Dutch Colonial law
to know how far it might justify the sentence
passed on Mr. Smith., but thought the conduct of
that individual, if not highly criminal, yet
certainly blameable, in ❑ot revealing to the
Local Authorities all he knew of the inten-
tions of the slaves. He disclaimed on the
part of Government all indifference towards the
interests of religion, and gave full credit to Mr.
Brougham for the manner in which he had
brought the subject before the House ; but
thought the censure which was called for by Mr.
Brougham's motion not justified by the circum-
stances of the case. The Right Hon. Gentlema❑
was followed by Mr. Denman. Mr. Brougham
then replied, and the House divided, when there
appeared—For the motion 147—Against it 193
Majority against the motion 46.

[TILE TIMES. i

The- Journal des I).,bats of Wednesday con-
tains another article, and an angry one, upon the
dismissal of M. de Chateaubriand. M. de Villele
is threatened with a powerfeul re-action, arising
from the influence and reputation of the ex-
Minister. The Quotidienne has suspended its la-
mentations. The Constitutionnel diverts- itself
at the expence of both parties ; not " seeing
" very clearly what liberty can lose by the (Hs-
" grace of Chateaubriand, or what she can t,ain
"by the continuance of his rival in office. The
bill for extending the duration of the Chamber of
Deputies to seven years instead of five, and re-
newing it integrally instead of by fifths, has
passed' that Chamber by a majority of 292 to 87
votes. As the Peers have already given it their
assent, it only now awaits the Royal sanc-
tion to become a law. This measure is stated
in the Journal des Debats to be the concoction
of M. de Chateaubriand, the Ex-Minister of
Foreign Affairs, who intended to have defended it
from the Tribune, on the day previous to his
dismissal, and to ha've proposed some amend-
ments which would have rendered it less objec-,
tionable. His colleague, Corbiere, who had,
peihaps, in his pocket at the time the Royal
Ordinance for his disgrace, could not subject
either the Ministry or their victim to the humi-
liation of his performing this last service.

A report has been furnished to the House of
Commons of the several persons, by name, who
have made returns of the sales of British corn in
London, Liverpool, and Boston, to the corn in-
spectors of those places,: as also a copy of certain
correspondence between the Inspector of Liver-
pool and the Receiver of the Corn-returns. we
do not see that much light will he thrown upon
the proceedings of the corn-markets by these
documen tc.—(

In consequence of a cold caught at Epsom
races, Mrs. MERCANDOTTI BALL has been dan-
gerously indisposed with inflammatory sore throat;
but, we understand, that she is now considered,
by her medical attendants, out of danger.
(Morning Paper.)
The late Mr. OxnEaRY was taken ill early on
Monday morning last, while in bed, and the symptoms of a fatal
termination were gradually developed from that time till the
hour of his dissolution, about a quarter past one on Wednesday
morning. The cause of his death was a disposition to inflam-
mation in the whole system, which state of excitement occa-
sioned a determination of the blood to the head, and baffled
every effort of his medical attendants.
The printing of the MILTON MS. lately found
in the State
Paper Office, will shortly be com-
menced at the
University PreSs, under the sanc-
tion of his IVl'AstzsTy. The MS consists of above
700 p
aage ;
translation,an
and as
it will be of considerable the work will be published
with
magnitude.—(Cambridge Chronicle.)

Yesterday morning, about 11 o'clock, as a
poor woman was crossing the London-road, St.
George's-fields, she was ](Hocked down by one of
the Mitcham stages which passed over her legs,
and greatly
injured them. •
She was taken to Mr.
Smith's, a surgeon, opposite to where the accident
took place. She had only arrived from Manches-
ter the previous 'night, never before having been
in London.