The Sun.
London, England, 1823-12-17 00:00:00

PARIS PAPERS.

(From the Moniteur of Sunday, Dec. 14.)

NOTHING OFFICIAL—NON-OFFICIAL PART.
conformity with the law of the 10th of
-March, 1816, the soldiers whose time of service
is completed, being to be discharged in time
of peace on the 31st Decemlser in each year, the
subalterns and privates of the class of 1817, as
well as the others whose time of active service
expires on the 31st of Dec. 1823, are to be dish
charged from the corps of the army both RjAdme
and abroad., The Minister of has given
'rders to commence this opsaiwn on the c2oth, SO
That it will end on tioti.:rist.
The Acatoisri'grthe Fine Arts of the Insti-
tute of , in its ~sitting mime, ll4 nattog to-day, has elected
Rossini, the Inusiciart, and Thorwaldsen, the
statuary, Foreign Corresponding Members.
(The Moniteui- is almost entirely occupied
with articles relative to the f)tes given by the
City of Paris, with regulations of the police to
prevent confusion, and lastly, with the conclusion
of the trial of Lecouffe and his mother, who are
ondemned to death.)
(Prone the Ei'ile (j* Sunday.)
MADRID, DEE. 7.7—The following Order by
the Ministtr'of Finance, dated the 17th of No-
vember last, has just been published by the
Journals of this capital
" I have laid before the King the dispatch of The Governor
of San Lacer do Barrameda, in which it is set forth that the
Vice-Consuls and Agents of the Allied Powers have remon,
strata, against the tax of 20 teals per ton; assessed by the pre-
ceding Government upon foreign ships, and who demand that
this tonnage duty may be' reduced'to areal, as it was before
the 7th of March, 1820.. fl is' Majesty (informed that the order
•of the 18th of May, VIM, which ordains the payment of the
'said duty of 20 reals, has been modified by that of the 10th of
May, 1817, following the advice of the Director-General
of the Revenue), has decided that French ships which arrive
in the ports of Spain shall only pay the same tonnage duties
which Spanish ships pay in the ports of France conformably
to the enactments of the said Royal Order of the 10th of
May, 1817."
FRANKFORT, DEC. the 23d Sitting of
the Germanic Diet held here on the 27th
M. the Baron tie Munch-Bellingliauseti, Minister
of Austria, President of the Assembly, commu-
nicated to the Diet that M. the Baron do Wan-,
genheim, the Minister of Wortemburgh, has not i-
.-fted to him his recall. The King of Wurtem-
burgh appears decided not to nominate any Mi-
nister to the Germanic Diet until the diplomatic
relations with the other Courts of Germany
be reestablished on their ancient footing, anyv
their Ministers reside at Stntgttrd.
[Prom the ,'toile of Monday, Dec. 15.] •• •
PARTS, DEC. 14.—M, de Saldnilha, C-nnnt
of
Porto Santo, Ambassador of Portugal Spain, is
appointed Minister of the Marine ,fend Colonies
by his Most Faithful Majesty. ..
Marshal Nloncey arrived at teerpignitti tin the
:sth, at six in the evening ;,*hP "entered by the
.gate of Notre Dame. troops which arrived
on the 6th entered by tl'le gate of Spin, unttPas-
sad under the triumpHal arch.
Count GuillemityM "rived at BaYen'w on the
7th, ;And set oukflur 'Paris on the Bth in tl,e even-

•ing.
it may bp /remembered that .a sedition 'broke
nut some time ago among some pupils of the
Marinf.4' at Angouleme. His Royal Highness
at that plate on the 28th Nov. Ile sent for
tle6 and calling out the most riotouqproba-
/bly the one who had been pointed out as such),
instead of assuming a tone of severity, he took
him by the hand, and spoke to him with Solnuch
mildness and. kindness, that the youth burst lute
tears,- fell at his feet, overcome with grief and
repentance.
Several Spaniards have written to time Memo-
rig/ nordclais, requesting it to state, 1. That
Don Victor San has not been exiled, being re•
placed ht the office of President of the Council
at his own request. 1. That asThOhad no Bisho.
pric, hut was Canon of Toledo, he could not .he
exiled to his Bishopric of Tortosu. 3. That the
King is too just to punish an Ecclesiastic distin-
guished for his loyalty and great know ledge.

(From'the Consiitritionnel.)

. Nlll3, DEG.I4.--eSpain contains a quarrelling family, and
every thing there must be re-organized. The execution of the
fetes has never been in that country either rapid or comPlete.--
The Government may decree, indeed, whet it pleases, hut who
is there to execute it in that uncivilized country ? Who can
furnish money, the sinews of peace as well as war ? Who
will pay to the Spanish Treasury, the sum of 100 millions for
neveral yeara ? Ircannot do without 200 millions a year. The
debt alone absorbs 00 millions. The time of a restoration is
the moment of greatest want, it is the otaiimttm of expendi-
tura, and Spain is at the' minimum of its resources. The Ile-
gincy had no other resources titan the Custom-house duties
levied at Madrid, 'and it lived like Cardinal Lomenie, in
MIA, who could only command the oar(); of Paris. 'The
present Government will beta long time before it acquires
-a "regular and certain 'revenue.; it will be quite useless to
reckon on arrears of taxes--.what is consumed can ro 'longer,
be enjoyed. It is es, rdent, therefore, first, that Spain cannot
maintain Us political existence, but by a constant series of
loans destined succesaively one to pay off the other, and each
lending to lower the value of all; second, that the resources
to be found in the ;sale of the land of superfluous convents, are"
purely chimerietd, Who will bey them? The Nobles? They
peesese land, and have no money; they have suffered by the
revolution, and are strangers-to this species of acquisition.
-The people? They have just been contending against these
Balm The middle clam ? 'They have just been beaten for
having caused them to he put up to sale. Foreign speculators ?
How many of thent will hazard their property amp their persons
in such an uncivilized country. Besides, it not this lend under
the management of propri7tors who have just given a proof of
their dominion over a population who arc to be the bidder,' for
this property t Spain le placed in the midst of itepeeleibililics.
This country, as well as Portugal, is destined to read the
world a great moral lealon, as to the fate of those stations reho
do not keep pace with the civilization of their times. Portugal
has made a loan, on which it at present lives but it will loon
be exhausted, anti we shall soon hear of another loan. Loan
will thus follow loan, n the credit, resources, and means of
the GoWernment of Portugal are entirely imitate tea. This, and
nothing bet this, will be the fate of both .Countriee till they are.
civilised, like rrance and like Eng:4ad.
ibunv.t.nroc, Dr.c. B.—(Extract of a private Letter.)—
Tbe Commis...ion of Inquiry at Mayence has received 3 new

office. It is ordered to collect information relative to every
kind of newspaper and periodical work published in the whole
extent of the German Confederation, and to make on this matter
a report as soon as possible to the German Diet.

(From Pis Courier Francais.) r•
Sate It NA, OCT. 20.—We hear from Atb9l.l-,
now defended by 2,000 Greeks. Apotti gates ~6.at that city is
have been walled
up except that which is cles,ll, die citadel ;
new batteries have
been erected, and
glikiiireeks are full of confidence, We barn
from th.o„Adrea that Constantine Botzaris, the brother .of
?krLAB who was killed, has attacked the 16,000 Turks who had
advanced to Alissolonghi. Before commencing he was joined
by Cariaskiski, from Romelia, who commanded a corps of '
eight hundred Suliots. This second battle was not fol-
lowed by any definitive results, but it proves that the
Greeks do not limit themselves to acting on the defensive be-
hind the walls of Alissolonghi, but go forth with ardour to
seek the enemy. The island of Egina is defended by two
Greek vessels, both of which are commanded by women..*
According to the latest letters from Ipsara the Greek corn.
bined fleet entered that harbour to procure water, and is to go •
agnin to sea. The Greeks say they only lost two fire ships
near Itiotint Athos, and they blew up before reaching the
Turkish vessels.
PARIS, DEC. 14.—The Oracle de Braxelles contradicts, on
the faith of the Gazette &Amsterdam, the details it recently
published, of a sentinel having killed an inhabitant by stab-
bing bitiiwitlyn bayonet on Dec. 2, and of the people having
killed the sentinel. The following is the contradiction of the
Dutch Journalist :—" It is,Pleaant to us to deny the truth
of this news, which is plainly invented, and to be able to
assert that nothing of the kind passed at Amsterdam." It
appears to us, however, that the very circumstantial details
given on this subject by all the journals of Belgium on so
serious an occurrence, deserve to be denied and refuted in a
more explicit manner.

ILLNESS OF VICTOR EMANUEL ELKIY4O OF
SARDINIA.

[From the Piedmontese Gazetk of the ,4th inst.]
TITHIN, DEC. 4.—Though the health 9,f4 his Majesty, King
Victor Emanuel, has been for some tini,P4 variable, there was no
symptom of any serious illness, until pine 2d of this month, when
his Majesty was suddenly attacker', by a violent fever, accom-
panied with great didiculty of).)reathing : all that art could ad-
minister was immediately avpplied : but his Majesty not feeling
any sensible relief, expre..sed a desire to take the sacrament, which
was administered to/vnira with the accustomed solemnity by the
Archbishop. About one o'clock in the afternoon, the disorder
having increasAd, the pious Prince desired to receive, the same
evening ii,s,,six o'clock, the viaticum, and two hours after, ex-
treme tiEnction.

TJ4 fever continued to increase till two o'clock after mid.
might, and then abated, giving some hopes of a favourable
crisis. At four his Majesty was able to take some refreshment,
and likewise to enjoy some repose at intervals. Yesterday
morning her Majesty and the Duchess of Chablais went to.
the Royal Palace of Moncalieri, and passed the greater part Of
the day with the august patient, whom they left in rather less
danger.

The siteceding night did not, however, entirely fulfill the
favourable hopes that were conceived in thel evening; the re-
spiration was more difficult, but this morning means have been
adopted, with some success, to relieve it ; the fever also rather
abated about six this morning.
To-day at noon her Majesty and the Duchess of Chablais
returned to Moncalieri. Prayers for three days were begun
yesterday in the chapel of St. Sindone, anti.to-day, by order of
the Magistrates in the church of Corpus Christi; and the
Archbishop has ordered other public prayers for the preserva-
tion of the valuable life of his Majesty.
We shall publish a daily supplement to our Gazette, con-
taining the latest accounts of his Majesty's health,-so long as
his lamentable illness continues.