The Sun.
London, England, 1824-09-07 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Journal ties Debate of Saturday.)

MADRID, AUG. 24.—The King has had an at.
tack of the gout. On the 19th he signed the fol.
lowing Ordinance :--
'• Art. 1. All military men, whether on full or half pay
from a Sub-Lieutenant to a Captain-General, shall be subject

eti to purification.
"2. In the bopreme Council of War, a Committee, con-
sisting of five members already purified, three of them military
lien, one a civilian, and one lawyer, shall occupy them-
selves with ►he purification of officers from the rank of a Co,
lona to that of Captain. General.
" 3. As to the military men between the rank of Colonel
.and Serb-Lieutenant, the Juntas to be established in the pro.
rims shall attend to their purification. These Juntas are to
be composed of the Captains-General of the Provinces, and
Are Ambers already purified, proposed by them to the Su.
prevue Council of War, which shall immediately attend to the
purification of persons who are thought tit to be employed in
these Jamas.

" 4. The Councillors and others attached to the. Council,
and those who exercise the functions of Civilians with the
army, shall also purify themselves before these Juntas.

" 6. Those shall be excepted from purification, who, at the
time of the entry of the auxiliary troops into Spain, were serif-,
ing in Royalist corps, provided that they did not afterwards
serve the Constitutionalists; those who have been employed in
any service, .having for its object to defend the rights of the
throne, and those who have been constantly hear my person,
or near other members of the Royal Family.
" d. For the purification of military men, the same form of
proceedings shall be observed as for the purification of civilians,
in making secret inttoiries concerning them.
' " 7. For the greater facility in executing the foregoing article,
the candidates 'shall give correct answers to the following (pies:
tions Their employment on January Ist, liV2O ; 2. Where
were they at that period, and to what corps did they belong?
3. The day and the, place where they swore to the Constitu-
den, and by whose orders ? .. What rank, or commands, or
commissions,..they have received up to Dec. 31, 11123, the time
.they served,in every employment, .where they lived daring the
three years, how long in each place ? t. If they have been
members of any Secret Society? G. If they have belonged to.
the national volunteers, been journalists, or orators deny pa-
triotic Society? If they have made war against the Royalist
troops, in-.what corps,.and in what provinces ? 7. If they have
been members of any Council of War for trying Royalists, in
what place, and otrwhat trial have they been rapporteurs, the
condemnations which were the consequence, and who were the
Members of the Council? if. The epoch when they returned
under the legitimate Government, and in what manner ?
" B. These memorials shall be addressed through the Cap-
tains-General of the Provinces, when the pin ties arc to be Puri.
Lied before the Supreme Council of War ; they shall also be
acne to the said Captains-General when their purificalon is to.
be made by the Juntas of the ProvinceFi; this is to be done
in order that the identity of the persons may be properly
authenticated.

" 9. Whoever omits or disfigure cone of the cirmmgtances
in Art. 7, shall be imintryialde by thiN single fact, italepdndent
of being prosecuted fur the same, according to the weight of
the offence created by so culpable a falsity.
" 10. The, inquiries shall be in the order of the above mo.
mortals.

" 11,"If • any ono rc.fused to give information, or shall delay
it 'beyond the time ,judged necessary. underwlintever pretence
ede tonuve, tic may .neprosecutea, tt it is thought lit.
• " 12... The following are the conditions necesdary for purifica-
tion :—Attachment to my royul person, to my rights and my
government, the political conduct of the person and the coma-
deration he enjoyA with the public. Conditions of impurifica-
tion are—devotedness to the Constitutional thro2rninent, and a
gerteratopinion of the bad principled of the party.
•Lieram the Etude of Sunday.l
PARIS, 'SEPT. 4.—The King heard MISS
iii his -aparttnent.—llis Maje:ity received, in
:private audience, his Serene Highness the
Duke of Brunswick, -111. the Count Just
tie .Noai les, M. the Viscount Blin do Boor.
bon (Prefect of the Department of the Oise),
Deputy, and M. de .Freslon, Prefect of the De.
,partntent of the Mayenne.—His Excellency the
Count de Villele, President of the Council of
Ministers, transacted huffiness with the King.—
Their Royal Highnesses Monsieur and !ill' Duke
d'Angouleme 'partook of the diversion of iinotiog
in the Park of Versailles.

.'Vho solemn distribution of arms d'honneur
on the part of the King, among various Yen-
deans, on the classic soil of fidelity, has rendered
memorable the day of the 25th ult. and is very
flattering to those who obtained these rewards,
and to the Communes to which thPy heldlig•—
A waitiug the arrival of 'some details of this core- '
many, we shall relate 'the following fact, which
bas been transmitted to us by a Vendeaa
44- peasant, formerly a soldier under Charette, and, like him,
faithful to his God and King, had just received the noble re-
Ward of his services, which-way a musket, on which was en-
graved, after his name, the testimony of his Sovereign's satis.
faction. An individual, whom we do not know, thinking that
a poor Vendean would, like another, barter honour for money,
Leaked him to sell his musket. " You should not have it," re.
plied the peasant, " even were you to offer me a hundred

The Viscount de Chateaubriand arrived yes-
terday.in Paris, from Neufchatel, in Switzerland,
where he has been spetnting some days.
The Ilamburgh Gazelle last month announced
that the two sons Of Marshal Ney had arrived in
Sweden, to solicit entrance into the service of
that state. The same 'Journal, in its last num-
4er, says that two youths, one of whom calls
himself the Ptioce de te. Moskwa, and the other
the Duke of Elehingen, caused themselves to be
introduced to the King, Charles-John, when he
Was in Seaton, and that they pre now traversing
the different provinces of S;weclen, but it is not
known whether their intention is to solicit com-
missions in the army.

( From Calignani's Messenger. )
Pants,,Sttrr. 4.—A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at
the house of the Count do Villele.
The Marquis de Mornay died a few days ago at the chateau
;of Vont Chevreuil, in the 95th year of his ago.
The frigate La Circe and the corvette La Moselle sailed from
lin:at on the 21st ult., the former for Cadiz, and the latter for
Valparaiso, .The corvette La Seine arrived at Brest on the
25th ult. from Cronstadt and L'Orient. The brig Le Loiret
and the corvette La Victorieuse sailed from Toulon on the 31st
ult. for the !levant. The schooner La Toulonnaise, which re-
cently arrived at Rochefort from Senegal, set sail again on the
25th ult. for the coast ofSt. Sebastian and the Port du Passage,
to be employed in theianitary police service.
A letter from limit says*" "We expect on the 15th of Sep-
tember Vice-Admiral 'Duperre's 'division, which, after some
evolutions, will come to our port ti, dismantle. The frigate
La Circe has been sent off' with orders tin the Admiral riot to
proceed to Toulon."