The Sun.
London, England, 1815-01-24 00:00:00

LOUIS THE SMTEENTLL

EXHUMATION OF THE NIARTYRED. LOUIS' XVI.
AND IllS catig..

In the night bet wan Friday and Saturday next
la Committee, at the head of which is the Chan-
ceilor ot. France, with the Ministers of the In-
terior o.cl th,; llousehould, will attend ztt the
burial-gronnd of the Magdalen, •to be present at,
all. to attest the removal of, the remains of the
imfortunate LOuis. XVI. The _Chancellor bad. al-

ready ascertained that the coffin containing the
hoayhad been deposited there in a grave 'ten feet
below the surface, filled up with sonic layers Of
lime, and afterwards with earth. -lt will be easy
to recognise the hotly, the Ecclesiastic who was
present at the burial having declared the King
wi)re a vest of silk, with a purse in the pocket

•
containing some piecvs of mono/.
There i < a lokg article in the Journal des Debars
• of the 19th, from the pen
.of M. Dc Chateau-
briand, .ou the subject of the proposed celebration
of the anniversary of the death of Louis XVI.
Atter a variety,of rcacetions tending to that
France, both from PrHciple and the example of
-oihernations, well as of its own in other tiMes;
is bound to inakcsOme expiation of that calamit-
ons event, he proceeds to describe the intended
"Cerriuouy, nearly in the following teems :
On the 21.,t of Jantriry, Monsieur, the Doke
irkngouleme, and the Didie,of Berry, will repair
to the Nlag.dalen ing-ground, iww bdonging
D.e.cloreanx. The ground has been Icgally
thcre is positive knowledge of the

spot Where 0101°4 of Oft tifig i : it s
believed that We shall be able like. Wis-e tb
the remtins' of •Abe. 'Queen. 'By an ititerOtilig
chance, tire SwisslYvlro were killed on the Milt of
August are buried at the feet of Louis XVL.The
grave in which the Monarch was thrown is ten
feet deep. The earth will not be removed till the
moment of 'exhumation. No part of this holy
act should be secret all France saw the King
die; all Fratice..should witness at the .same mo-
ment: the re!..aiyearanee of his mortal remnants.
Ah ! what will tint the spectators feel when the
earth shall be -reuved, and expose to view the
whitened bones of -Louis XVI:, , his mutilated
trunk, his.head displaced and lying at the othei'
extremity of his body,—a sign by which the de-
seenclant of so many Kings is to be recognised
"[be sacred relics of the King, as, well 'as
the ashes of the Queen, being found, the coin-
pail will proceed towards St. Denis. The‘mis-
iortunes of Louis.XVl. will constitute _ the sole
twignificence of this funeral pomp. It will
stop at the church of the Apostle of. France.
But in those _subterraneous akodes, where sleep
so nem,/ Kings and Prinees,--4n those gloomy
regions, where the ranks of the dead were so
close that them: was scarce spout to be found for
Henrietta ok.England,—there Louis XVI. will
now be found acme ! How is it that so many of
the dead have been carried away.? Why is" St.
Denis deserted.? Let us rather ask why its roof
was rebuilt ; why its altar is still standing ? Whose
baud was it than prepared these vaults and empty
tombs? The baud of that man who was- seat-
ed On the throne of the Bourbons. . Mark the
way+ of Providence ! He thought he was prepar-
ing sepulchres for his own race, and he was hut
building the tomb of Louis XVI. in one and the
same moment this _Lord of the Earth tails in the
midst of Iti's violence, Lours XVIII. reassumes'ilis
sceptre, and Louis i; restored to the burying-
place of his fathers !
As soon as the mortal remains of isouis XVI.
and :Maria Antoinette- shall be deposited at St;
Denis, will be laid the first stone of n fliontt-
mem, which i 5 to_ be erected in the Place
Louis XV: _

This monument will represent Louis XVI. in
front the earth tumaras
the act of springing
eternal abode. An angel supports and guides him,
and seems to repeat to him these inspired words
" Son of St. Louis, ascend to 'leaven." On one
side of the pedestal will appear a bust of the
.Queen in a medallion, having' fur its exerve
those words so worthy the .wife of Louis the
Sixteenth—" 1 bave known all, I• bave seen all,
and hare forgotten all." Our another front of
the pedestal will be seen a portrait is has-relief
of Madame tlizabeth. These words will be wri-
1,.11 round it.—" Do not undeceive theni ;"!--so- •
blitne words which she tittered on the 20th day of
June, when the assasnis threatened her life, mis-
taking her for the Queen. On the third side will be
engraved the testament of Louis XVI. where will
be read in the largest characters, that sentence.
breathing the spirit of the Gospel--." I pardon
my enemies with all my livatt." The fourth side
will bear the arms of France, with thiS inserip-
tion,—Louis XVIII. to Louis XVI. All French-
men, no doubt, will solicit the honour of uniting
to-the name of Louis XVIII, the name of France,
which can never be separated from its King.
This AOll not be the only monument conse-
crated to misfortune and repentance. A chapel
will be built .on the.ground Of the Magdalen bury-
ing-place.. -On the side of the street d'Anjou, it
will represent an ancient tomb. The entrance to•
it 'will be .placed in a new street about to be mode.
To cover the better thedifferent graves, the entire
edifice will•be. in the form of a Latin
by a dorm;, which shall sitter only a dial
religious light to penetrate throng!, it. In all
parts of the monument will be placed altars,' wit ere
each individual may go to mourn a mother,
brother, a sister, a wife, in short, all those faith.
fol victims- who for 20 -years have slept 'near their
master in this deserted ground ; there, too, par-
- ticular honours will be paid to the memory of M.
de Malesherbes. We shall be pardoned for asso-
' elating here the 'name of the subject with the re-
collection of the Sovereign. There is in death, in
misery,' and virtue, something which assimilates
all ranks.

The Kiug «•ill found a perpetual Mss in this
chapel : two priests.will -he charged 'With the care
of - the lantl►s and the altars. At St. Denis, 'an-
other institution more considerable will be founded in the name of Louis XVI., in favour of those
infirm bishops and priests, who, after a long
apostleship, have need of rest from their holy la-
hours. They will replace the religious order
which used tu.watch over the ashes of our kings.
These old me►+, front their age, their gravity, and
their services, will become the nat►n al 'guardians
of this asylum of the dead, whither they are
themselves so soon to descend. It is; further in-
tended to restore to this ancient abbey the tombs
which once decorated it, near which Suer caus-
ed our history to be written, as iu the presenee of
death and truth.

During the funeral solemnity, Madame Nvill re-
tire to Cloud. We have said that the Princes
will accompany the ashes of Louis XVI. to St.
Denis : the King alone will remain at Paris, to
confide his grief to his people, tomingle consola-
tion with our tears, and to sweeten tke bitterness
of our regret-1)y his venerable presence, •

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM' PARIS, JAN.I6, 1815.
. " The Commissioners appointed -by the British
Government, to- examine, ascertain, and bring
forward the claims of our merchants upon the
French Treasury, have met so many evasions and
deliberate obstructions in the prosectition of this
jot and essential object, that the Duke Of Welling-
ton has addressed a peremptory Nute to the French
Ministry, desiring that. since it is their evident.
detetinination to withhold the payment to which
so many British subjects ate entitled, and which
which was so. solemnly stipulated by the Treaty of
Paris, they will forthwith refund to Great Britain
the 'amount of her demand for the Maintenance of
French prisoners. -of Ivar,—the •excess c f ichich
above the -French 'demand upon us, is not less
than seven millions sterling."

SUN-OFFICE, lIALF-rAir ONE o'CLoclc.

We stop the Press to announce the receipt at

our Office of Vienna Papers to the 12th inst. and

it is important to know that, up to that, date, no-

thing Official, or otherwise, respecting the Con-

gress, had transpired through the medium of the

Public Press.

This is three days later than the news from the
Pa►;is
_Papers, and we can only account for the
absolute harrcnness.of the Cowl Gdzette; and Atts-

Irian Observer, by suppusifflig that until final ar-

i•aagetaents are to be communicated, they are re=

strieted to silence tyoa these diplomatic pro-

ceedings.

We have letters from Lisbon of the 31st ult.
and sire happy to say that Mr. CANNING had re-
covered from his attack of gout, and had been
introduced to the Regency, to deliver his creden-
tials. There is nothing else al, public interest in
our connnuuications.

We understand that the noted Baron D'lmnEnT,
accompanied by a King's Messenger, has been
safeiy landed in France. This is the second in-
stance of his being sent out of the Country ; the.
first occurred in ISO 7, when the preseut Earl of
LIVERPOOL was at the Head of the Hottie De-
partment. WAre convinced that, with the ex-
ception of Mr. Jolts JOSEPH DILLow, there is
not a person in the Kingdom to whom this Man
was at all known, who does not applaud and re-
joice at the order for his ('eparture.

We lament to learn tliht none of his three
Friends, viz. Mr. DILLON, the private friend, Mr.
BRotiGnAm, the legal friend, and. Chronicle, the
typo friend, took our hint to go with him for the
good of their Country, in tvhich case the old Epi-
gram on a Gentknum transported to Botany Ray
might have heen har.pily. revived

" Trne PatriOts for be it understood,
They left their Country for their Country's good."

A Morning Paper Which lip in our mind been
very intemperate in its phillippies about the
Treaty of Ghent, and the Naval disgrace and dis-
comfiture of Great Britain, rends a sort of recan-

tation this morning, in these words :

" Whilst we are speaking •f reverses sustained

by our naval farces, we must not omit to correct
a wilful misrepresentation which has been often
made of our sentiments on this subject.—
We have -said that the maritime reputation of
Great Britain hag been shaken,—that her arms
have been disgraced,—vot surel) with reference
to the indiVidual conduct of our seamen., who
in the most tinfortunate cases have displayed
an heroic bravery ; but because reputation is
not a matter of det
Aail; because foreign nations,
and particularly the Americans themselves, will
look only to the great result ; because, with a
nary beyond all comparison superior to our anta-
gonists, we have suffered them to carry off from
us the palm of triumph, not once or twice, 'but
almost without exception when we have met them
ship to ship, or squadron to squadron.'.'

We confess that we are not logicians enough to
be able to comprehend. these fine distinctions.
The angry. and fretful ebullition of hostility
against the Admiralty carried the Writer of these
tirades too far, •and the following paragraph from
one of his rows last week, will prove that there
was, at least, no " wilful misrepresentation " in
the. construction put upon his sentiments, though
it is not easy to penetrate the precise meaning of
such flighty stuff; :-

" Alt►s ! We have been compelled to witness
not only the frustration of ibis hope, hut the ele-
vation of our calumniators and assassins to the
height of insolent exultation, on the ruins of our
maritime greatness. The navy, of Britain is dis-
graced for ever : and, oh ! shame the fame of the

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ti'sz.so is eclipiati iy the vaunts of ne
vulgar Lrag,gart ItonGtits ! ! !"

. Our last page contains such a description of the
Catholick Seceders as the Dublin Post, the Organ
of the Mob or Insurrectionary Faction, chuses to
give of those who arc in. favour of the Veto, refer
Conciliation to Revolution, and Amelioration at
home to Emigration. -Lord FINGAL and die
higher class of the Roman Catholicks, -.rho have
some interest in, the settlement of.this great ques-
tion, appear to possess penetration enougi► to
avoid being made the dupes of those turbulent
agitators, who have nothing to gain or lose
any measure adopted cr rejected,, a►►d who would
rather.that distraction should continue than be
abated.

Our Readers will judge for themselves whether
the characters' mutually given of each other by
the " fretoists," and the " Unqualified Einanci
potion Carders, Shanavests," &c. are or are not
correct.

A final Meeting took place at Lord FINGAL'I
On the 17th, when Mr. SHIELS' and all the other
Petitio►►s were rejected on a report :ro►n the Com-
mittee, and the following Resoibition proposed by
Mr. O'CONNELL agreed to :

" That we do renew our earnest Petitions to the Legisla-
ture for the total and "unqualified repeal of the Penal sta-
tuVs which aggrieve and degrade the Catholics of Ireland."
A debate took place on this vote, and on a di-
vision npon the propriety of introducing the word
" Unqualified" in the Resolution, there appeared
For the ItesOlution 9
Against it
yes—Messrs. O'Connell, Segrave, O'Gorman, Mahon,
M'Manus, O'Brien, O'Hara, Blake, and Lyons.
Noes—Messrs. It. M'Donnell, Shiel, and Lube.

Lord FINGAL also disti.ented, but does not ap-
pear 1. have voted. The next day there was a.
Meeting at Capel-street Chapel, when a' Petition,
drawn' up by Mr. ENEAS BiIACDONNELL, of:Cork,
(one of the Agitators) was adopted, 'and an Ag-
gregate Meeting sity,moned for net Saturday. It
was.debated whether the honour of presenting this

hot Pet;tition should not be withdrawn from Lord
DotsiouGxmoßE and Mr. GRATTAN, and conferred:
upon the more worthy Duke of SUSSEX and
WHITBREAD ! !

By the Dutch Mail letters liave been received
from St. retersburgl► to the 28th ult. 'The Rus-
sian troops were not c-nperted home for some ti►ue.
The exchange on tile 27th was as low as 11.
7-16ths.

The Lys French man of war has returned to
L'Orient, from the 'West Indies,-with intelligence
that the valuable French Islands of Guarfalonpe and
Marti ague sere
_foripally delivered IT to the
French Authorities' ofi Thie'Lys
carried out the new French Governors.

kife are glad to find, by the communications
from- Cadiz, that the Spanish Government has ex.-
hibited'a more conciliatory and friendly dispo'sl.-
lion towards this country in commercial matters ,
than we had reason to expect froni. its #ecent
conduct. A British Commissary, we learn, had
arrived at Cadiz from England. From recemt,
representatinats, made to the Spanish Govera.=
mew-, a new decree was published, and sent to
the several. Customhouses throughout Spain,
charging the slum duties upoa' French manu-
factures as are now /aid upon BritiSh, and there-.
by placing both nations in this respect on an
equal footing. The Spanish Government have also
. called upon all the merchants who have hitherto
obtained the passing of French goods through.
the Custom-houses, on the paymtnt of duties ill ►
conformity to the Treaty of 1792; to • pay up the ,
deficiency thereon of 82 1,3 d per cent. which,
had not been demanded in the first instance,
through an oversight. The merchants were pre-',
paring to comply with this order. Trade war
much revived at Cadiz, and in other parts of
Spain. The holders of British goods; why by a
former decree of Government were ordere4
either to dispose of them, or export them by'
a certain date (we believe time first of January),
have, ()bolded a further indulgence, and are -
lowed two months longer for the disposal or ex
portation of their goods. Fresh accounts bad ar-
rived at Cadiz from New Spain to' the 2d Nov.,
Letters to,that date had been received from Vera
Cruz, which mention that more money was about
I to be shipped off to the mother' country. Every
thing was tranquil in New Spain. This late date
sets completely at rest the intelligence from NeW
Spain by the way of Carthagena, that the eolonisti
had declared their independence. . •
Recent letters from Calais mention that Lady
HarmutoN was in such had state of health, that
it was thought impossible for her to recover.
• Letters have been received from Genoa, date('
the Gth of this mouth the aroops expect orders
to proceed to Malta.
According to a letter from Dieppe, the es.ti'
mated value of the fishery off that port, doing
December last, was 337,000 fr. More than 100
vessels were engaged in it, navigated by 990
BEIGHTON, JAR. 22.-=The Royal dinner part
yesterday, included about two and thirty indict'.
duals of high rank, and was augmented to aboil
fifty at a later hour. Music, as usual, was the
leading feature of the amusements of the night, -1
Lords MELYILLE, I.I:ITHUIIST, LOWTI4, 011"
ME'LB'OURNE arrived at the Palace,
BREAD.--NO alteration in the price of ..., n I*--‘e, t
for the ensuing week.
COALS,—Within a short period, 600 sail of CO!:.
tiers have arrived in the River, well laden,
some of the paescnt vessels being Greenlanduiclar'o%
have great depth in their holds, and contain
cargoes; not more than the quantity of Mot
in four hundred of the vessels has yet hem 40°-'
ly disposed of,