The Sun.
London, England, 1823-10-28 00:00:00

PROM THE DUTCH PAPERS.

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fi'nEakrcr °Pruitt Courifaveis IN FRANCE)
—A Gentleman embarking for Calais about a •
fortnight ago, purchased, merely for his "amuse-
ment on hoard the. packet, The Times news-
paper, aid not being aware that it was prohibited,
put it on landittg in his pocket. I need not state
that he was searched, that shameful and dis-
graceful practice being well known of searching
indiscriminately every person landing, male or
female, and that in the most indelicate manner.
On the newspaper being found, he was arrested,
and sent under an escort of soldiers to prison,
where he remained all night, and it was not till
after a mock trial (a pretence for . extorting
money), that••he was liberated upon payment of
125 francs. Scarcely a day passes that some new
expedient is not hit upon for easing the English
folks of their. cash. Among others recently
established, is that of indorsing Permits to errs-
bark. It has been notorious for years past that
the " gratis" is printed on the permits in large
letters, and printed hills, in both languages,
placed in the most conspicuous part of the Po-
lice'Office, stating that no money is to be paid for
them. You cannot procure one inflame half a
franc for each is laid down ; but will be told .to
cell again and again, until the vessel you in-
tended to go with has sailed. In addition to
this, an office has been lately erected on the
Quay, where these permits are to be indorsed by
the Commissary of Marine. A similar printed
form here stares you in the face, as at the Police
Office ; but if four sous is not slipped into the
clerk's hand, the same ceremony is gone through
to make you lose your passage. These four sous
will shortly be ten, as a person who stands high
in this office has been heard to say, that a large
handsome house which he is now building he in-
tends making the English pay for. This system of
plunder has been generally productive to all
classes employed in the public offices, if we may
judge- from the very different appearance which
/.hey make now to w hat they did at the commence-
ment of the Peace. Never was such a set of
half-starved raggamuflins seen as they were then.
Fuistoirg ragged regiment were gen t 'eine n
compared to them—how could it be otherwise,
the miserable pittance of a Custom House
Clerk, or any other public clerk in France, not
being aufficit...nt to support alone arty other than a
Frenchman ? but, now, I question whether the
company at Ataea.ox'a make a more splendid op-
pearance (as far us dress goes) than these wor-
thies,and their wives do at their grand one and
eight•penny balls,.—(Private Letter.)

ADVOCATES' LIBRARY, OCT. 22.--At aAleeting of the
Faculty of Advocates, held this day, the following resolutions,
moved by Mr. .10111.1 Ci-Enr, and seconded by ;slr.
Ton-OrsiAtan, were unanimously adopted.—" That the
Faculty, impressed with a deep sense of tho., great professional
eminence and high character of their lute trimented Dean, and
being desirous °login:rising, in some public manner, their re-
spect fur his memory, do resolve to offer to attend, in a body,
his funeral, if reeable to the wishes and lettings of the rela-
tions and friends of the deceased.---And the Faculty do audio-
rise 444 empower the Dean's UOtiliell, to convey this resolution
with as little delay as possible to his relations and friends; to
adopt suitable measures for communicating their wishes to the
Faculty; and to take any other steps that may be neeemtv on
the occasion.",—(Edinkire Okerver, 0;1.'23.) "

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FRANKFORT, OCT. 19.—Her Serene Highness the Dowager
Landgravine of Hesse Rothenburg (a Princess of Lichtenstein)
died here on the night of the 16th of an apoplectic stroke.
Baron StrogonofF is gone to Path.
Letters from Constantinople say, that the Government is
highly dissatisfied with the conduct of the Captain Pacha, and
the other Commanders employed against the Greeks, and that
the former is to, be called to give en account of his conduct on
his return. The Pacha of Scutari is also summoned to Con-
stantinople ; and if he does not come is likely to undergo the
fate of Chourschid Pasha. Omer Yrione's conduct is like.
wise greatly blamed.
The Papal Nuncio bad yesterday a long audience of the
King.
24.—Exchange on London, 49. 11.-
40. 10. Two Months, 40. o.—litanbutgh, 34. 15.10.—Tw0
Months, 114 i.