The Sun.
London, England, 1823-04-03 00:00:00

THE fRENafFRESS.

IT there be any ,persons in this country who
have encouraged the idea of the existence of such
a thing as Liberty of the Press in France, the
illoniteur of Sunday last will surely convince them
of their error. That paper contains the Requisi-
tory against the Courier Francais and the Pilote,
presented by Bellart, the Procureur-General, to
the First President of the Royal Court of Paris.
Our Readers may -recollect, that about a yeasr
ago some very severe laws respecting the pros
were passed by the Chambers. Among them
was that called the law of the 17th of March,
which authorizes the suspension of a journal
" when its spirit, resulting from a succession of
articles, may be of a nature to affect the public
peace." For this offence, if so it may be called,
a journal is liable to be suspended a first and a
second time, and on the third occasion to he
difinitively suppressed. The Requisitory com-
menced whitlow affected and hypocritical praises
•of opposition, and the liberty of the press. The
liberty of the press this French attorney allows
to be entitled to the protection of the laws, 44 so
long as it confines itself within the boundaries of
sound policy and wisdom;" but what those
boundaries are, he and his friends of the Royal
Court, it seems, are to determine. After calling
for the application of this infamous law of the
17th of March, against the Courier Francais and
the Pilote, the Requisitory states the different
ways in which the public peace has been impugned
by these journals, which are the, following :-
1. By sowing hatred and discord among citizens.
'2. By approving of all 'disorders, both foreign
and domestic, which are described as acts of
lawful liberty. 3. By exciting interest fa. the
promoters of disorder, and even conspirators.
4. By censuring the measures of political autho-
rities, describing them as tyrannical, &c. Under
each of these heads references are made to
the two papers, and numerous passages quoted
from them, commencing soon after the pass-
ing of the law. When articles may be thus
arbitrarily selected, the , ultra lawyers cannot
find it difficult to give to them any colour or
spirit they please ; but it is curious that the
gieater part of the pa-sages quoted are extracted
from answers to the Quotidienne and other Ultra
Journals. Many of the quotations relate to the
war against Spain, and every strong expression
of opinion, or decided deprecation of the policy
of the Ultra faction which originates it, is termed
libellous. Of the passages referred to, some of
them are prosecuted because, in speaking of the
Spanish Insurgents, the journalists have called
them rebels: others, for attributing, the war to
64 Emigrants and the Fanfarons of Royalty."—
The war, too, is called the war of aristocracy,
and it is said that the Universities have submitted
to priestly influence. Speaking of the Spanish
revolution, these journals have coupled it irith
the words 44 Spanish Liberty," and called Gen.
Quesada a foreign malcontent, in arms against
his country, &c. In this way five pages of the
Monileur, very closely printed, are filled up,and
the Requisitory thus concludes :—" This corrup-
tion of public morals, this league of journalists
with the enemies of France and of Europe, these
truly impious methods of.discouragiug, troubling,
and alarming their fellow-citizens, for the ad-
vantage of a foreign nation, or rather for that of
some ambitious demagogues, cannot be allowed
to escape repression. This being considered, the
King's Procureur-General requests that the Pre-
sident will be pleased to bring the responsible
authors of the journals, entitled the Courier
Francais and the Pilote, before the Court, in
solemn audience, at the earliest day and hour
which the President (considering the urgency of
stopping the publication of such doctrines) can
conveniently appoint ; and that he will also be
pleased to declare, that inasmuch as the spirit of
the said journals, resulting from the series of
articles pointed out, is of a tendency to-violate
the public peace, the two journals aforesaid shall
be and remain suspended during one month ;
that they shall be condemned to pay the ex.
penees, &c. &c.—M. Sequier, the first President
of the Court, has ordered the parties to be cited
for the Bth of April.--(Times.)

NUREMBuRO, MARCH 9.s.—Extract from a
Private Letter.—" According to our advic,os from
Vienna, the Austrian Ambassadarat Petersburg!)
had received from his Government instructions
to support the negotiations commenced by the
British Minister, Sir Charles Bogot, with the
Russian-Cabinet, and which have for their object
the maintenance of peace in the South of Europe.
It is nevertheless added, that the Court of Vienna
has declared, that in the case of RusSia not ad-
hering to the political system of England, Austria
cannot dispense with the fulfilment of the obliga-
tions imposed on her by her alliance with the
Cabinet of Petersburg!), as welt as by the par-
ticular conventions concluded between the great
Powers at the Congress of Verona. It is still
asserted thgt the Emperor of Russia wishes that
the same course should be pursued with respect
to Spain as was adopted towards Naples and
Piedmont in 1821, which makes it be presumed
that Sir C. !Ingot will fail in his efforts to change
the system of the Cabinet of Petersburg')."

REMOVAL or ParsoatEns;—This dsy the prisoners who
stand committed on charges of felony,, were removed from the
several gaols in London and Middlesex to Newgate, prepari-
tory to taking their trials at the ensuing Sessions at Justice
Hall in the Old Bailey, which commence on Wednesday next.
The Sessions of the Peacc for Westminster begin at Guild.
111111, Westminster, on Monday next ; and the Sessions for
Middlesex begin at the Sessions house, Clerken well-green, on .1
Tuesday next.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS,
An ACCOUNT of th6.Quantity of (;OLD imported into His
Majesty's Mint, and Gold Monies Coined, from the Ist Ja-
.nuary 1822 to Ist January 1823.

I Gold Imported into the Mint. I Gold Monies Coined.
Year. I Weight. I Value. : Value. .

ibs. oz. di. gr X. $, d £. s. 'd.
1822 94,734 02 22 4,•128,44614 3 Z,356,787 12 6

JAS. W. MORRISON, Dep.-Master and Wr.
J NO. BARTON, Comptr.
Mint Office, 2!d February 1823.

An ESTIMATE of the Sum which may be wanted in the
Year 1023, for paying the Salaries of the Commissioners of
• the Insolvent Debtors' Court, of their Clerks, and the con.
tingent Expences of their Office, tbr One Year.
Nine Thousand and Forty Pounds.
S. R. LUSHINGTON.
Whitehall Treasury Chambers, 26th Feb. 1823.

PARTICULARS OF TIIE FOREGOING ESTIMATE.
Commissioners' Salaries £6,000
The Chief Clerk -
- 600
The Provisional Assieees
-din lOO
er

Twelve Clerks and Officers -
. - 1,8110
Taxes and, Rates of Office in Lincoln's•lnn-Fields - 120
Coals and Candles for the Office - - - 120
Do. do. for the Court at Guildhall, Westmin.
stet', the Old Bailey, and the Exchequer, and for com-
pensation to the Court Cleaners and Officers, and for
attendance at the two last-mentioned places, during,
say MO days of sitting there - - . - 70
Printer • - - - ' .. - - - 250
Sundry Petty Expences - - .. - 300
Exchequer and Treasury Fees . - . - 400
To make good the deficiency of the Charge for the Year
1821 - - ' - - - - 400

£9,041

An ESTIMATE of the Sum which may be wanted in the
Year 1823 to pay the Salaries or Allowances granted to cer-
tain Professors in,the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge,
for reading Courses of Lectures, for one Year.
Professor on Mineralogy, at Oxford - . £lOB 0 0
Do. on Geology, at ditto - - - 100 o 0
Do. on Experimental Philosophy, at ditto 100 0 0
Do. on Chemistry, at ditto - - 100 0 0

Do. on Ditto, at -Cambridge r - 100 0 0
Do. on Anatomy and Philosophy, at ditto 100 0 0
Do. on Mineralogy, at ditto - 100 0 0
Do. on the Laws of England at ditto . - 100 0 0
Do. on Arabic and Hebrew, at ditto - 100 0 0
Jacksonian Professor, at ditto - - 100 0 0

£lOOO 0 0
To ptty the Fees and Charges on the Receipt thereof •58 5 0

XlO5B 5 4)
One Thousand and Fifty-eight Pounds Five Shillings.

An ESTIMATE of the Sum Which niay be wanted to defray
the Expellees of the Houses of Lords and Commons, for the
year 1823.
Fifteen Thousand Four Hundred and Forty-six Pounds.

An ESTIMATE of the Sum that may be wanted to defray
the Salaries and Allowances to the Officers of the Mouses of
Lords and Commons, for the year 1323.
• Twenty-three Thousand Two Hundred and Thirty-seven -
• Pounds.

An ESTIMATE of the Sum that may be wanted, in the pre.
sent Year, to defray the Extraordinary Experce in the De.
pattment of the Lord Chambetlain of his Majesty's House-
hold, for Fittings and Furniture to the Two Houses of Par-
liament._
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