The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-27 00:00:00

[MORNING POST.]

An express brought us lust 'OO4 French Papers
to the 95th inst.- and the Eloile of Monday.—
Their contents are not devoid of interest. It
appears by an article from the Upper Elbe, that
our surmises with respect to the reported illness
of the Emperor Alexander were not erroneous,
and that it was at the moment wholly. political.
It is now admitted that important news from the
West of Europe, and nut indisposition, had
mtde him change his original intent and de.
tontine to return to his capital sooner than
be had proposed when he quitted it, which is
exactly what we pointed out at the time as
the real state of the case. It is added, however,
that late ad vices from the same quarter had been
conveyed directly to him without passing through
St. Petersburg!), and had occasioned him to re-
name his former intention and to pursue his
journey. This seems to have been the case ; for
Wired of coming back we find that he had pro.
ceeded from Tembow to Orenburg, " where he
bad arrived in good health." What was the na.
ture of the ndvices which had so influenced the
determination of the Autocrat is not mentioned ;
hut we now suspect, that instead of relating to
the non.evacuation of Moldavia, the first was
simple communication of the death of Louis
XVIII, The event had been anticipated
with so much dread by the Members of the Holy
Alliance as likely to be followed by attempts to
overthrow the established order of things in France
tint it is not surprising Alexander should have
thought it necessary to return when lie heard of its
having taken place. But when he 'afterwards
learned how the reign of Charles X. had begun,
awl that instead of meeting with any oppositiOn, it
had been signalized only by the union Of all parties
in one common feeling of loyalty and affection,
he of. course saw that the peace of Europe was
not in danger, and that he might safely prosecute
his tour through the distant provinces of his vast
eistiptre.—These papers contain intelligenceb from
fipain to the 14th inst. A. new Act of Amnesty
is said to have been discussed in the King's Coun.
cil; more comprehensive in its nature titan
that of the Ist of May, which was only a
crockery of the name it bore. If this he true, it
is the result of the late representations of the
French Government, and creates a hope that will.
don of Charles X. may produce in Spain a por-
tion at. least of , the benefits which it has already
conferred upon his own people and country.

ETHIL
Ip the remarks which we made, and must con-
tinue to make, on the soldiers not committed by
any kuown law of England for the riot and as-
sault at Chelsea, we must again disavow any wish
to 'aggravate the offence itself, or to subject the
offenders to an extraordinary severity of punish-
ment, if the military should suffer them to be
tried, anti a conviction take place. Our com-
plaint is at the violation of the Constitution, by
the operation of a standing army during .peace.—
ile riot and assault, it appears, were committed
50 rung ago as on Thursday,the 14th inst., during
which a Magistrate was insulted, threatened
with death, and put in danger, other peace-
ofil(*er* wounded, and it was for some time uncer-
tuin murder had not taken place. The of-
Afemlers were not brought up to the Police Office
'for commitment till Friday, the 22d instant, eight
days after the riot. Where were they, WO
Oil Outing that interval ? The civil power does
gppear to have had hold of them.—
Monstrous as the thing would once Nivel
seemed, the civil power dared not follow titer'''.
Murder might have been committed—it was uk.

, .
certain for several clays that mrtrder had not been
committed ; during those days, the laws of- the
country were in abeyance ; the Magistrates issued
no warrants, the peace-officers of• the country
dared take- no steps for the apprehension of the
offenders, because they were. soldiers. As soon
as 'the offence is committed, the offenders are
taken into their barracks: those who follow them
to prefer a complaint are. insulted. When the
offenders are at last brought forward for ex-
amination,-their officers bail them; and take them
back with them into the barracks. These are
the very practices of the Przetorian Guard at
Rome. Their castra stalivis, or barracks, were on
the confines of the city, by the road which led to the
Emperor's villa: there they lived in military
pomp and haughty subjection to each other; but
insulting, maltreating, and heating the wretched
citizens, whenever they pleased, and retiring into
their fastnesi for protection and security. We
entreat the classical reader to peruse the 16th
Satire of Juvenal—Quis nurperare queat felids,
prwmia, Galle, Militith ? *---tee 'will therein find
the very description of the Chelsea riot, and the
Knightsbridge Barracks..
' 4‘ Commode tractemus primum communia, quorum
" Haud minimum illud erit, ne to pulsarc togatus.
" Audeat : iron et si pulsetur, dissimulet, nee
" Audeat eXCUSSOOprortori ostendere dentcs,
" Et nigram in facie tumidis livoribus (Aim,
" Atque oculos medico nil promittente relictos.". t
—Bat to return to the laws of England. We-find
by sect. xvii. of the Military Law—that " if any
" officer or soldier shall .be accused of any cape-
" tal crime, or of any violence or offence, against
46 the person, estate, or property of any of the
" King's subjects, the commanding,officer shall
" use his utmost endeavour to deliver over such
" accused person to the civil magistrate, and
46 shall also he aiding to the officers of justice in
" seizing and apprehending .him,• in order to
" bring- him to plat," &c, We ask, therefore,
were these men delivered over to the civil magis-
trate by the commanding officer of the barracks?
Were they not, on the contrary, kept in the bar-
racks, and out of the reach of the civil magis-
trate, for eight days, during which period it was
uncertain whether they had not committed mur-
der, but very certain that they had committed
violence against the persons of several of his Ma-
jesty's subjects ?
"" NVho can recount the advantages that wait,
" Dear Gallus, on the military state ?
t " And first, of benefits which 'all may share :
" 'Tis somewhat that no citizen shall dare
" To strike you, or, though struck, return the blow :
" But wave the wrong ; nor to the Prtetor show
6' His teeth dash'd out, his face deform'd with gore,
" And eyes no skill can promise to restore !"
7.--r Giford's Translation.)

[NEW TIMES.]
Yesterday there was a variety of reports upon
the authority of the letters received from Paris
by the French Mail, which was the only arrival,
from the Continent. Rumours of a change of the
French Ministry were mentioned as prevailing
in Paris, and that the Duke Mathieu de Mont-
morency was likely to be appointed to a seat
in the Cabinet. Another report which more
immediately affected the money market was,
that instead of any alteration in the French sys.
tern of finance as existing at present, in order to
provide for the claims on behalf of the Emigre nts, a
Loan would be required, and which, it was
stated, might be obtained upon advantageous
terms. These reports were generally considered
to rest on feeble grounds ; but the price of
French Funds declined one half, per cent, and
the Scrip of the last Loan still more; Consols
were opened at 96ii closed at 95i 6 for the Ac-
count.—The accounts from New York produced
many sales in Mexican Bonds, which declined
from 62i to 61i. All Funded Securities were
slightly depressed, but no-111 teration of importance
took place beyond what we have. noticed.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
Letters were received yesterday from Odessa,
dated the Ist instant, which contain the import.
ant intelligence that a conspiracy, which threat-
ened to be extremely formidable, 'from the num-
ber of persons implicated in it, had been happily
detected at Constantinope. The object of the
conspirators, who, when they were plotting
against the security of the State, filled some of
the highest offices, civil and military, at the
Porte, was, nothing less than the dethrone-
tnent of the Sultan ; but what their ulterior
plans were is not stated. Though this news
will excite very little surprise in the pre-
sent critical circumstances of the Ottoman
Empire, it is so far highly interesting, as it
serves to chew the profound impression which the
successes of the Greeks have made on the minds
of their enemies. The last ad vices, which were
received ut Odessa from the Turkish capital, are
dated the 27th ult.; and they state, that the agi-
tation occasioned by the discovery of the conspi-
racy *had by no means subsided, which was ac-
counted for by the discontent apparent amongst
the Janissaries, who were, moreover, strongly sus-
pected of having favoured the views of the conspire-
turs. Most of the latter, however, have been seized,
and no doubt was entertained but their punishment
would correspond with the crime of which they
were accused. The Sultan is said to have dis,
played, in this perilous emergency, his usual
energy and presence of mind ; but this new in-
stance of his firmness is only a precarious gua-
rantee that it will not be soon exposed to a trial
perhaps more severe, particularly as the reverses
sustained by the Turkish arms were ►iot known
to the full extent at the date of our intelligence.
We must observe, however, that another respect-
able house in the City, has received letters from
Odessa of the same date as the foregoing, and
that they make no mention of the conspiracy.