The Sun.
London, England, 1824-07-07 00:00:00

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SECRET ASSOCIATIONS.

PaveSra, Jurtz 23.—1 n consequence of the-resolutions re•
specting the Universities, taken by his Majesty the 31st of last
month, various circulars have been addressed to the Ministers
of Public Instructioti: and Police, and other regulations to the
officers of the Universities. In the. from the Minister of Po•
lice to the Government Commissioners, in the general Prussian
Universities, dated the 4th instant, there is the following view
of the Secret Associations

'"
It is known to you, Sir, that the laws enacted in 1819
against the Secret Associations in the Universities, and espe-
cially against (what is called) the Burchenschaft, have not
brought back the youth in.the Academies to due obedience.
These latter Societies have not only maintained but have
even constituted themselves in a more illegal and danger.
ous manner. Since the year 1821, Members of this perni-
cious Association have travelled through Germany and Switzer..
land far the purpose of strengthening and consolidating it, partly
in violation of their word of honour, partly under false names,
have held secret assemblies, even formed connections with fo-
reign rebels, a71:1 given to their own Associations a revoln-
timer, and treasonable diriCilan and, basis. .The traces
iif
these intrigues, which become more and more dangerous, coul'
not escape the Police or be overlooked by it.. By per.tevering
attention it has succeeded, by means of a thorough investiga-
tion carried on since December last year at Coepenicta and
Berlin, and since continued by a Criminal Court appointed by
the King, in fully discovering the dangerous, pernicious tenden-
cies and ramifications of this system of Secret Association ; and
the investigations made in other German States have led to
similar results. According to the documents of this investiga-
tion,
and the annexed confession of several hundred participa-
tors in these intrigues, the Secret Association in several German
Universities have received since 1821, the following organisa-
tion :

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Malabar children are generally a cheap
,corn-
modity at Anjingo. At-the end of the rainy sea.
son, when there was no particular scarcity in the
interior country, I purchased a boy and a Orl
about eight or nine years of age, as a present to
a lady in Bombay, for less money than a couple.
of pigs in England. I bought the young couple,
laid in two mouths provisions of rice and salt fish
for their voyage, and gave each of them four
changes of cotton garments, all for the suns of
twenty rupees, or fifty shillings. English hu-
manity must not psi a censure on this transaci.
tion : it was a happy purchase for the children ;
they were relieved from hungrir and nakedness,
ttind sent to an amiable mi.tress, who brought
t.l4m op tenderly, and, on leaving India, provid-
ed for their future comforts; whereas, had I
fused to buy them, they would assuredly hare
been sold to another, and probably have experi-
enced a miserable bondage with some Native
Portuguese Christian, %Thom we do not reckon
amongst the most merciful task-masters.
A circumstance of this kind happened to myself :
sitting one morning in my verandah, a young fish-
woman brought a barket of mullets for sale; while
the servant %las disposing of them, she asked me
to purchase a fine boy, two years of age, then is
her arms.. On my upbraiding her want of ma.
ternal affection, she replied, with a smile, that
she expected another in a few weeks, end as she
could not manage two, she made me the first
offer of her boy, whom she would part with for
a rupee. She came a few days afterwards with
a basket of fish, but had just sold her child to
SignotiManuel Rodrigues, the Portuguese
Lin-
guiste. who, though a man of property and a
Chriitian, had thought it necessary to lower the
priqe half a rupee. Thus did this young woman,
willout remorse, dispose of an only child, for
fieleenpence.—( Forbes' Oriental Memoirs.)

fur the
‘tli ltytehaershreldaid of
atit waseas a close Secret Society, not merely
University, but particularly for the
succeeding
e il
Revolutionary'g r elatioz"
SOcl in
civil life. It was closely connected
w ieties in France, Italy, and Switzer-
land, from which it proceeded ; its object was nothing less than
the overthrow of the. Political Constitution existing in Ger-
many, and among the means of attaining this object, were
the exciting of discontent, insurrection, and revolutions, as.
saesinations of the enemies of the Society, implicit obedience
to unknown superiors, the nullity of the oath taken to
the Governments, the admission of perjury towards them, the
use of arms, and the greatest possible diffusion of the prin-
ciples of the association. The members of the latter had rowed
fidelity and obedience to it and its objects with a corporal oath,
and had divided Germany, with reference to the society, into
ten circles, each of which had its chief; they held from time to
time secret meetings. In the Universities of Ilnlle, Leipzie,
Jena, Gottingen, ilrlingen, Wurtsburgh, Heidelburgh, Tu-
bingen and Freyburgh, there were separate divisions of mem-
bers of the society, who maintained a constant correspondence
with those who had already quitted the University. From
the strict secrecy observed in this society, and because the e
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members themselves were probably not all known to each Sli AISPEAnE has summed up all the 014
'4,acmpreesssisvor,avhratt)prcioattieldtobt7 ianpep,lii(t.idouteo,
it.
e ,m, motif
other, only something more than a hundred members of
this association could be discovered, partly in Universities, .
whoni.lil'hou invisible. spirit of wine, it. thou Inlet no
partly occupying already public situations, among
are fire directors of circles, who have been subjected to . f
our investigation partly here, and partly in other German
States. One of the chief objects of this society was espe-i name to be 'knowu by, let us call the Devi4o-
- Od. XI. calls •it
feeta i Di, at
the
osnh,aaptet dosfugeoha Itt
...
cially by the means of the General Burschenschatt (a body of
ill
students), •to spread the principles .of the society among .tha' , _ , .
.. .
titsiea vice which men are notPe
youth, gradually to gain them over to the. purposes of the so-• au reiy is, vi Den it gets into the head in the shape
‘r-v
eiNnetro
ciety, and thus to bring the Burechenschaft under itswadsireacc
tion, and to employ it as a means to promote its treasonabl 1.) ,• . •
I,
oe
f i madness,i
ntti n o,too
plane. This criminal direction of the Burschenchaft,
cording to the following gradations:—lmmediately under the I easily laughed out oT, but evliat mirth will not
ff
above-mentioned revolutionary society, were the secret union do, ft-sr may perhaps e ect. It is an obsems. s
of the Burschenchaft, consisting partly of the members of the floc) of the Cardinal du PERRON, that lints has
society, partly of other members of the Burscheneehaft, to the - i
which both the secret society and the participation of the otle tn same effect on ...Ives as voine has on the DIP.
mellitus* in it were unknown. The object of these scut ' man body. Lime makes the tree throw out its
unions were partly to keep up and direct a Burschenschtlete ;leaves and bl
and partly the developement. dissemination, and consolieae i osoms, and produce fruit before
non of the principles of the society. There were the the time, but it hastens its decay. Wine causes
preparatory school for the latter, who employed themselves joy
with the theory of those principles and effects which it wee theand merriment to the man who uses it, but
end or the society to compare and execute; anothee use of
them was,
acquaintedtha with i
that thesoc
them.iformedety
liew secretfuture unionsmembers,
corn-odshdbe there is no doubt that it accelerates his death.
RoussEA de's unfortunate marriage was a butt
came
for all the shafts of ridicule, which, however, he
!non meetings every year, and were divided for thatl,urpose
Into two branches—Halle, Jena, Leipeig, and Gottingen, for seemed rattier to court then shut,. His physi-
North Germany; Erlingen, Wartzburg, Tubingen. lleidel- ciao going to visit him at Ermenonville, tt short
herg, and Preyburgh, for South Germany. These two 14i•anches, time before his death, fouud him mounting hie
entirely coinciding in principles, held common meetilige ; the
general meetings were combined with what were celleit the ge- stair-case with great pain Bud (Hine ii It y , after
neral meeting*oi' the
young men. `having been in the cellar, and asked hint, why,
t'B In each of these Universities, the urschenschaft trig under •
m his infirm state he did not mugs his wife act
the secret direction of these unions. Of the Members if the Se- ;
cret Unions, which, letter were the unknown secret Cliteie of the i the part of butler ? 6 6 Que you lea veins," he an.
Burschenschaft, some were always in the direction, tit the other I swered. Oland elks va, elk y rests.
members of which the unions were unknown. The unions were
to the Burschenschaft in the same relation as the secret society A GOOD SUBSTITUTE Von CAPER SAUCE.—Cut
to the unions. The first outline of the objects, wit ch, with some pickled gherkins into small hits, rather less
i
especial reference to Germany, were theoretically rented in
the secret unions, and for the practice of which the ecret So- • '
ciety was formed, was this—Equality, Libert;Vnity, in than capers • put them into melted butter, with
a little vinegar. Pickled nasturtiums chopped
their indefinite, and therefore dangerous tendenel, developed will also be found an equally good substitute.
to the body of Students. It is proved eh et the Reading So- C.I L: TIO N TO SILVERSMITHS, \V .vreHm AKER*,
cieties did great mischief in thie -reiipect. In these circles
there were generally the individual members of the Society AND 0T u tit s.—For some time past a successful
anti of the Unions, and_ Verily also of the Burschenschaft, and frit ud u len t practice has been carried on by a
'in coiiihrarr-witlarhall number of members of the latter, young man, apparently between l 8 and t2O years
and hooks read ilia commented updn, which were cal.
culated to disseminate the principles of the Society, especially of age, about 5 feet 6 inches in height, slender
the notorious lectures of Loden upon Politics; and degrees made, of pale complexion, and bears the appear-
were observed among the Students, according to their profi-
once of a Jew. A few days past be, with a horse
ciency in these principles; thus, for instance; last year in the
first course of readings at Halle, the writings of Fins, Leiden,
John, &c. were read ; in the second, the Constitution of the amnedkecehaeisiti'd ws'ialivtevrdsionintha, atM Er.dNineoststisooiltv,s, aan 7.1 afterßteh -
q
Spanish Cortese and the commentaries on it. Thence it appears in airing
if he would purchase old siler, r, he thelt.
that the whole studious youth of Germany, with regard to politi-
cal sentiments, and attachments to their Prince, Country, and produced a quantity of old coin, observing, at
Constitution, and with regard to hatred to all existing insti- the
time,
that if they were not so severely rubbed,
tutions, and the evil illusion of being called upon to improve 11e, could get a large sum of motley for them at
slid overthrow them, was under the immediate influence of a ' British
e,
secret Revolutionary Society, which combined in itself the corn- the DDi tiSctlM ; that a friend of his had
plete existence of High Treason, and admitted the most violent undertaken the excavation of some earth, and at
means. This influence was the more secure, as this Secret
mentioned Revolutionary Hierarchy, but used to assemble some to discover a large quantity of such coin as ha
Society not only had members in all the degrees of the above-
a considerable distance had beet, so fortunate Sri
time before the general meetings, in order to prepare those lm. ,
then proi etl .
Resolutions which should be taken at these meetings, and
published by it as laws to all the several bodies of students. . broke out
This according to the documents, was the state of the Secret nigh', a little past teu o'clock, a fita
Associations irons the beginning of 1021 to the end of last year, tits r Mr. Mor-
extensive cotton manufactoi•y 0
and I will give you with pleasure any further information that in
ALARMING AND DESTRUCTIVE F/IVE.—Last
r‘ „,,eit.street-road,
may be particularly interesting to you." riott, in Compton-street, soffit
mmunicated to Mr.
one end of the
The rapidity "ith which the
Marriott's house.
"b•uhiiledhinigns at
to short
tl i e
: front one pile of build..
great_ alarm in the
minds of the inhabitants whose houses were MU,.
flames carries!
confusion that was caused by the
tiguous. The cont.
stoun.eilitsgoilislelk7evieb)tyincowminittioliti-oinnct;ti•itelbuatvvtilliooolwre
isitigdsd el: removala
it,il' edseototv' valuablei,ftxll):.ficstlle.tstareais;f:milla))rtivio:y'e'is'itit.lybic°arinresl
de. istearrit pot fi itneh e....
goods to places
ut happened neither Mr. Marriott nor
The fire is said
servants know. In consequence of the
ahgolipttliiilair!ileeeadpYrattrinii:o:loievertinfecy(o.tiii:lld'rritalirlist(tstrjteee).oesyirc
leaolltfit
INlVilatio,::llle\c:loottrlttkonTlifcrlai iiinderse t.t
and working
ie
n ikisia,
much anxiety was expressed for their safety ; but
machinery was
house
considerable injury. i n
0 beforep t
ne eight
Compton-street,
o'clock,
: o ea::
no lives were lost. The bask
ic'ining the premises of Mr. Marriott, sustained
by one o'clock in the morning. The loss to NV
Alai riott •, we are told, is insured.
'rise flames were subdued

THY RACMAINS OP LORD BYRON.—The remain!
of Lonn BYuow were removed on Monday from the brig
Florida, at anchor off the London Docks, to Great George.
street, Westminster. On transferring them to the coffin they
were found to retain exactly the same appearance as when they
were first embalmed. The winoval took place with the utmost
privacy, under the superintendence of Mr. Hohhouse, who
accompanied the barge that *carried the body from the ship to
the shore. The place of the funeral is not finally determined
upon ; but as the near relations and representatives of the de.
ceased have expressed an anxious desire that he should be in.
terred in the family vault at Ilucknell, in Nottinghamshire, it
is probable that their wishes will be complied with ; although
3I r. flobhouse, one of his executors, and his Lordship's private
friends, very naturally thought that Westminster Abbey should
receive the remains of Lord Byron. In case the body should
be removed into Nottinghamshire, we presume that the hearse
will be followed in tht usual . manner to the end of the *wets,
by those connected with the Byron family, as well as of °Elias
who may wish to pay a last tribute of respect to the memory
of their illustrious fWow.countryman.
SICYp/ PERSONS DROWNED.-,-LIVTIVO3L, JULY 4
A most melancholy occurrence took place here this day, at the
Prince's Dock. A boy was standing on a ship's stage, or gang-
way, attlinPting to get a bottle which had been thrown from
one of the vessels, anti thirty or forty individuals
the
were drawn
by curiosity to the same spot, when the stage gave way and
whole were plunged'into the Dock. The scene which followed
was most appalling, seven persons hare lost their lives
nut and the
Dock Police are full searching for %wales, askuown
bow irany hare suffered.