The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-31 00:00:00

[Mal TlBil Pit ESS.]

The Paris Paliers of Tuesday, which arrived
tact night, do not contain any intelligence of
much interest. We are glad to observe, that the

continued exclusion of M. (le Chateoubriand from

office has the effect of turning the mientiOn of the
Paper immediately under his influence to sub-

jects in the highest degree entitled to public
--consideration. The Journal des Daats, accord-
ingly, has an ably written article on the Wl'.
mous system of secret police, which, on the
Continent, is every where substituted for the

Open and regular proceedings of the Govern-
mi.!nt. This " political inquisition," as it is very
properly sly led, id energetically condemned
as calculated only to renew the scandals and
mischiefs of the Roman Empire, dur'ing its
most degenerate ages. But the French Jour-

'Hist remarks that the evil does not rest here.
This police, hitherto the humblest and bnsest

slave.of power, now aspires to guide and 'direct
it : it has become the jlcobinism of despotism.—
The public authorities are reduced to the alter-
native either of trot existing at all; or of existing
by and throtigh its means. Its triumph is com-
plete. Under pretence of defending the Sceptre
and Tiara, it has seized them both, and wields
them for its own purposes alone. The arrest or
M. Cousin, by the Central Commission of Ma-
yence, was an instance of the monstrous jurisdic.
lion claimed by that body. More recently, a ..ott
of M. Duvergier de llauratme, a royalist de-
puty, of moderate principles, has been denounced
sias_ a secret agent of Ike Buottapartists, because he
was travelling in company with Count de Mural,
the French Secretary of Embassy at Rome.
The identity of the name with that of Napo-
iftoirs brother-in-la w,'lntd induced some ignorant
spy to giro information to the Central COMITIii.
*lion, that one of the emissaries of the political
clubs at Paris was employed in ferwardiug the
revolutionary intrigues of his party I If M; de
H. do Ihturunne had been u person of less conse-
quence, he would probably have been seized, and
consigned to some secret dungeon, in which the
best years of his life would have bestir wasted.
On Monday the Daupitio visited the Military
Prison of Montuii n. it was expected that
.his
Royal Highness' would bait,' examined all the
pots of the capital, but the influence of the Mi-!
uistry seems to have thwarted his intentions. From '
Spain we learn, by a proclamation of the Captain-
General of Valencia and Murcia, that ou the 9th
instant the Constitutionalists-, 9-00 in number,
landed in the 'vicinity of the Castle of Santa Pohl,
but were obliged hastily to re-embark. The
Captain-General considers that nothing less than
the special interference of Divine Providence could
save the two thrones from so foraillAle an inva-
sion! By whomsoever they may be equipped and
furnished, it appears that the Constitutionalists
yet hover round the coasts in numlii4s:sullicient
to ittfuse terror into the adherents of the abso-
lute system. What would be the state of things if
Ow country were quite cleared of the French
troops ?

Estontmao .rosin.],
French. Papers to the 29th inst. and the Rloila
of Wednesday reached us last night by Express.
'They have brought intelligence of a fresh defeat

suffered by Derwis6 Pacha, who having re. "1
ceived powerful reinforcements had once more re!
sumed the offensive, and attempted to penetrate
to the western coast of Greece, in order to raise
the siege of Lepanto, which was closely pressed,
and in danger Qf being forced to surrender. For
this purpose he assembled his best troops, and
began his march towards the middle of October;
but the result proved as disastrous to his army as
that of his former expeditions. Attacked in the
passes of Salona, he k said to have been com-
pletely overpowered. His artiller,-, together with
the large convoy of provisions which it was his ob-
ject to introduce into Lepanto,fell into the hands of
the conquerors, and his loss in killed alone amount-
ed to one thousand of his bravest soldiers. Obliged
to retrace his steps, and tq evacuate Bceotia and
Phocis, his retreat amidst mountains and through
narrow defiles was a new series of conflicts and
disasters, *hid) so entirely broke his strength,
that when he reached the open country, and a
submissive, if not a friendly population, he was
totally unable to turn round on his pursuers
to get rid of their molestations. The captured
artillery and the other spoils of the defeated
Ottomans had reached Missolonghi about the
end of November, and afforded convincing
evidence of the reality and magnitude of the new
victory gained by the Greeks. They had re.
sinned the siege of Lepanto, and had begun to
invest Patras more cloSely than before. From
the impulse given to their mind by the results of
this year's campaign by sea and land, there is no
doubt that they will not spend the winter in in-
action, and that before the spring returns they
will have become masters of the few places still
holden by Turks on the coasts of the Morea.
The intelligence from Madrid contained in these
Papers states that the King complained openly
of being surrounded by as 66 bad a set of Minis-
ters as in the time of the Constitutional adminis-
tration." Mr. Zea was daily losing ground in
his favour and fresh changes in the Cabinet were
confidently anticipated. It appears from a Pro.
clumation issued by the Governor-General of the
Kingdoms of Valencia and Murcia, that a small
band of Constitutionalists effected a landing on
the 9th instant. in the neighbourhood of Valencia,
but were afterwards compelled to re•embark by
the military.