The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-05 00:00:00

THE PRINCE OF MOSCOW:

The following is a copy of the speech intended to have bean
made by the Prince of Moscow, in the Chamber of Peers, on
Saturday, on taking the oaths :
"My Lords,—l should not be worthy of sitting in this
Chamber if the honour of belonging to it could make me forget
the sacred duties of filial piety, and desert the mission which
the last words of my father have imposed upon me.
" I declare, then, at this moment, so solemn and affecting
for me, that whatever may be the obstacles which my at-
tempts to obtain the revision of my father's trial have met
with till now, I do not abandon the hope of hearing some day,
in this assembly, the decree annulling the iniquitous sentence
passed on him.
" The precedents of a reversal of political trials are frequent
in history, and what process has ever presented greater grounds
for the verdict to be set aside ?
" But it is far from my intention to wish to fatigue, by my
incessant claims, this distinguished magistracy, to which I hence-
forth belong.

" I have faith in its justice and in the future. I shall know
how to wait, for the hour of reparation will come; and it is to
provoke it that the constant efforts of my whole life will be
directed. " The Prince of MOSCOW,
Paris, March 6, 1841. " Peer of France."
The copy of this speech, with letters addressed by the Prince
to General Excelmans, M. Dupin (Marshal Ney's Counsel),
and M. Odillon Barrot, and their replies, have been addressed
by the Prince to all the Paris Papers of Sunday. The follow-
ing is a translation of the Prince's letter to the three persons
we have mentioned :

" Nantes, Feb. 1, 1841.
" I have been promoted to the dignity of a Peer by a Royal
ordonnance of the 19th of November, 1831.
The Chamber of Deputies, at the sitting of the 13th, had
,:titt decided in favour of a motion for the purpo,e of provoking
the annulment of an iniquitous judgment, of which my father
had been victim:

The King, in deigning to elevate me to the Peerage, was
repairing as much as depended upon him the consequences of
a condemnation against which, when Duke of Orleans, he had
use!essly contended in Itii3 ; but his prerogative could not go
farther; for the reparation to be complete, the Ministry and the
s_' :amber must concur therein.

" Circumstances seemed favourable ; a petition was then
addressed to the King in Council by my family, in order that
o fresh trial of my father might take place.
" But the Ministry rejected our petition, owing to con-
slderations emanating from forms of right, and yet no political
prosecution ever presented more motives for revision.
" Nevertheless, though refusing to acknowledge the prin-
ciple; on which our petition was founded, the Ministry de-
clared, through the organ of the Keeper of the Seals, that
the convention of Paris protected Marshal Ney . . . that
Site Restoration, being chained down by a treaty, had violated
the respect due to sworn faith. . . . The Marshal could
not even be tried.' These are the precise words of the re-
t,ort of the Mini ter of Justice in reply to the petition of my
family.
" The Government then maintained that the material an-
hoLncnt of the sentence was superfluous ; that that mode of
proceeding was not customary according to our Legislature.
• There was,' said he, more inexpediency in creating in the
matter an inconvenient precedent, than utility in attacking a
i.OiLlemnat ion judged by opinion a long time ego.'
" The popular manifestations, the unequivocal marks of
s-,-roplthy bestowed on the memory and cause of Marshal Noy
hy the Chamber of Deputies, the feelarations of the Ministry,
ought to prove to my family that every attempt of a re-esta-
bli-liment was useless, and that there remained now nothing to
h..! done That was- the substance of the objections ;which
wor3 opposed to me.

" I did not think, however. that I had yet exhausted
every means of attaining more extended satisfaction. The
Earl of Strafford's ;on did not take his seat in the House of
Lords until after he had o:-tained the revocation of the judg-
ment which had unjustly condemned his father under the reign
° Charles I.

"Being less fortunate than he was in circumstances, and
the itate of our laws having aces served my ends, 1 could riot
f.ompletely succeed in the fulfilment of a religious duty which
I have prosecuted unceasingly, and by every means in my
power, since 1831.
" My efforts with the different Ministries who have succeeded
each otker during that space of time have always failed, be-
cause none of the Courts would entertain the complaint, arising
tither from the vacuum of our code as to matters for revision,
or also from the inexpediency, with respect to public tranquil-
lity, attending the calling to mind of certain reminiscem es
winch passions would not fail to avail themselves of. N hat
'hall I say ? It is thus that lam contending for the last ten
ea-s.
" It does nob enter my ideas to seek how far the obstacles
that were always oppose Ito me were grounded and of a serious
nature; I shall limit myself to remind you that I found them
iris3rmountable, and that my con•cientious and
persevering
attempts, which were encouraged and led on by the Duke of
Orleans, whose loyal sympathy arid generous support were
never wanting to me for an instant, were fruitless.
Yet, will not a day come ‘shen I must emerge from that
psli!ical fot Variance, to which_ the feeling of a thal duty has
condemned me for such a length. is about
" The inmortant debate which about to take place in the
Chamber of Peers does not remind me that I have als3 other
duties to fuhl.

" Undoubtedly the revolution of July has reconstituted the
Peerages. Circumstances, the laws of the epoch, have altered
tlr.l nature, and modified or renewed the composition. It is
true, also, that my reinstalment in the dignity of Peer five
days after the solemn manifestation of the Chamber of Depu-
ties, and which seemed to be the consecration thereof, has,
perhaps, contributed snore than any other circumstance of that
period to establish between the Peerage of 1615 and that of
1830_a clear line of demarcation.

" Yet, at the moment of deciding and entering the Cham-
ber, I experience an unusual uneasiness, which you may un-
derstand; for the more sympathy and consolation the country
.nas granted to any family under trying afflictions, the more
must I defer to public opinion. How inconsolable should Ibe
if my determination, which is inspired but from pure lore to
ni.Y ,ntrY, was to ha taken in a bad light, and to incur cen-
t' Au.re • 7.endsli 'B. e kind
1 enough, therefore, as I can reckon on your
tp , to
give me your opinion in this matter, which is of
uch moment to me.---1 am, &c.
(Signed) " PRINCE OF MOSCOW."

CHURCH-YARD OF CILLIE-CHRIST.—AR in-
closure is much wanted for the mi. ,tiary.any!beautiful bury.
ing-round of Cillie- -Iris% iof u
pari,
Rosa-shire-
CahUrch) was the
Thebchurch-yard of Cillic-ch,ht (Christ's
scene of a very sanguinary and cruel occurrence in the days
of feudal violence, which is thus described in '
Guide;"—" In the early part of the seventeenth
foray Anderson's
was
a:
ri .Icentury,ntothe
Angus, eldest son of Glengarry, had made
intercepted
by country; on his way home, he Ted
by a gallant little bind of Mackenzi4s, and slain, with
number of his followers. , &rnetirne thereafter a strongit
party of Glengarry's men were :cat, under the command
of Allan Macßaonuill of Lundy, to revenge his death.
Allan led them to the palish of Urray, in Ross-shit c, on a
Sunday morning, and surprised a numerous body of the
Mackenzie:, assembled at prayer, within the walls of Cillie_
christ, near Beauly, for so was their little chapel called.
Placing his followers so as to prevent all possibility of es-
cape, Allan gave orders to set the building on fire. The
miserable victims found aattempts to escape unavailing,
and were, with a single exception—man, woman, and
child—swallowed up by the devouring clement, or indis-
criminately mauacred by the swords of the relentless Mac-
donells, whilst a piper
of marched round the church, playing
an extemporary pleeemusic, which has ever since been
the pibroch of the Glengarry family. i,
—lnvernessCuorien