The Sun.
London, England, 1823-12-03 00:00:00

LITERARY NOTICE.

;WMIOIIIIIB Wane .TEUNE ORECQUE, Madame PAU-
LINE A. ALEXANDRE PANAM, centre S.A.S. le
Prince-regnant de SAXE-COBOURO.--One Vol. Bro.
The book to which we call the attention of
our Readers, is one that cannot be read without
interest by any feeling heart. It presents a most
melitucholy picture of Princely meanness and bar-
barity, and of female misery and sufferings. How
far the facts here stated may be true or false, we
have no means of determining ; but of this we are
certain, that had any such severe charges .been
brought forward against us, we could not have
tamely sat down without proving their fallacy to
the w orld, unless we had, been conscious that
such proof it was not in .our power to produce.
Though no Ultra-Legitimate, we still ever feel
.pained when we meet with any publication cal-
culated to render a Sovereign Prince either ridi-
culous, or despicable, or hateful. That some of
these feelings must be awakened in every well-
regulated mind, by the perusal of Madame
PANAM'S simple and unaffected, but truly dis-
•tressiug narrative, we cannot doubt for a moment.
The charges it exhibits against the Prince are,
!indeed, of a most serious nature. The mere act
,of seducing kyoung, unprotected, and weak
Male, may be' viewed with levity by many meet;
even the abandonment of the hapless creature,
ruined in reputation, limber prospects through life,
and in her health, may be, by some persons, con-
sidered only as a venial offence: but the manifest
attempts to destroy the life that has been ren-
dered miserable, no feeling being can ever con-
shier as a jpstiliable act. Yet is this one c.f the
charges brought forward by Madame PANAM.—
The hook bears evident marks of having been'
written by the wretched victim herself, and it
contains, moreover, letters, &c. which bear with
them marks of authenticity, and which, if not
authentic, might, we apprehend, be easily proved
to be false. it is often more dignified to treat
certain attacks with the contempt of conscious
innocence; but there are some of so serious a
complexion, more especially when daringly and
courageously made public, that they must be
considered as true, unless their fallacy be openly
and clearly established.
!' • It'e have already mentioned more than once this work,
und.er our customary Head of LITERAItY NOTICt, but as
we heartily agree with our respectable Correspondent A. P. as
to the atrocity of the treatment which the fair Author:Oft:red,
..and in a full conviction of the truth of her recital, inferring the
guilt, from the silence, of the party accused, we willingly give
increased publicity to so shameful a violation of common halm-
nity, where the most liberal protection might have been expected.
FOR, THE SUN.

Ma. Eorron,—lt appears by. the Letter from
Sir C. WOLSELEY, inserted in The Sun of last
night, that the worthy Baronet has declined " to
enter the lists with me," in all matters relat-
ing to Nleor.coN, and on which occasion he
quotes the late EMperor's words as appeared
in Ow publication of his renowned champion,
Mr. BARRY ; '46 Would you have me
sit down and reply to GOLDSMITH ?" &C. Sir
CHARLES methinks has acted very prudently in
declining the contest with me. The worthy Ba-
ronet is more au fall to the S'ecret History of the
Brummagem Parliament, than he is to that of the
late Brummagem EMPEROR. NAPOLEON ! From
the tenor of the worthy Baronet's letter, it would
appear that he thinks he has gained a victory
over me, when he states that the.person confined
near Marseilles was not M. ROCHELLE. It is
possible that others connected with the conspi-
racy of (low ROES had been sent to the State Pri-
SOD near Marseilles ; but I maintain that all who
were tried with GEORGES and MoaEAu, coat/
cat have 64 awaited their fate 'at Marseilles," as
they were all tried and condemned at Paris.
Some were executed, and others were sent to
different state prisons, as appears by the follow-
account from the Moniteur of the I() Prairial,
)804, viz.;---
BOUVET DE LOZIEIt, and ARINAND GAILLARD,
to the prison of Bouillon.
FREDERIC LA.IOLAIS,, to Bellegarde.
„Louts Itousimr.toN, to Lonnie.
FnattqcAssltocnELLE, to WIC (near Marseilles.)
C. F. DE Climax, to joux.
A. F. 11, POLIGNAC, and J. JULES POLIGNAC,
to Barn.
Consequently it was not possible that either of
them could have awaited the 44 fate due to as.
sassilis" at Marseilleslas their fates were already
decided at Paris. Nor did NAPOLEON visit Lyons
till fourteen months after the above prisoners
were sent to their dungeons. As to the 64 adden-
da" of the Baronet's letter, which he says I did
not reply to, till I can say to that charge is, that
I saw no addenda whatever to his letter I
I hove the honour to be, Sir, your's, &e.
2d Dec. 1823. LEWIS GOLDSMITH.

NOV. 'W.—Amongst causes which
chiefly contributed to the unfavourable.result of
our late fair, was the inexorable rigour with
which the restrictive and prohibitory system is
maintained on the Polish and Russian frontiers.
The accounts of the excessive severity with
which highly respected houses at Mitsu, War-
Saw, and several other commercial towns, were
suddenly surprised, and, according to communi-
cations, punished with the utmost rigour, was all
the communication we received from those
places at the late fair; a melancholy substitute
for the numerous purchasers, and extensive or-
ders that used to come from them. The mea-
sures abow, alluded to were carried so far, that
reverel l‘ouses disappeared and became bank-
rapt at owe ; and we even heard, in some in-
stances, of banishment to Siberia, and corporeal
punishment. it remains to be seen what the
Hew Finaecial Minister, Von Caldron, a highly
enlightened Statesman, will represent, as the re-
suit of this system, to his Majesty the Emperor,
who, with all those rigorous Ukases, undoubted-
ly contemplates the real welfare of his subjects.