The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-08 00:00:00

merits since given against several booksellers, and the processes
at present carrying on against several of them appear to im-
pose new trammels, and subject to new prejudices this impor-
tant -branch of, trade. The prescription implored for re-hn-
pressions of.old books is no longer recognized by the Tribunals,
and the manner in which some prOersses have been conducted,
adds still more to the uncertainty, and the embarra,senznt of
the booksellers' situation.

It is bad policy to check the booksellers' trade, and the pro-
pagation of the ideas that-theY.desire to - promulgate by
printing certain works. If all the booksellers' shops were to be
shut up, these ideas would not be less popular, nor less gene•
rally spread, the only result would be that France would be de-
prived of one means Of prosperity, and one source of wealth.
Far from seeking to paralyze this branch of commerce, it is
necessary to encourage it. Louis XIV. was of this opinion,
and though M. Delavaux appears to think differently, the au-
thority of Louis XIV. apyeered of more weight than his.
,The funds fell againlesterday, which can only be attribut-
able to a state stuneertainty and anxiety relative to Spain. A
•report was • spread that a courier had arrived from Madrid
charged avith important dispatches, and in fact, besides the or-
dinary courier, an extraordinary courier arrived yesterday, who
left Madrid on the 29th, but the news he brought can have no
influence whatever on the public funds. It-was summarily as
follows the difficulties which existed between the Coun-
cil of State and the Ministry relative to the Treaty of Alliance
with Portugal, were not yet got over; it is however believed
that they soon will be. The Fiscal (Paredes) has at length
' published his manifesto relative to the pnicess of the conspira-
tors of July 7. •it is supposed that it was drawn up by D.
Ro-
mero Alpuente.

Much is spoken about an explanation which has taken place
between Sir W. A'Court, the English Plenipotentiary, and
one of the Ministers, on. the subject of the British squadron.
which is to cruise at the Antilles. 'Phis explanation, though
begun with much animation, terminated very amicably.
There is also some mention of the new loan, .and the arrival
of M. linbbard had excited hopes of its being Soon concluded
on advantageous conditions. •
'All those, however, Who place their chance of fortune or of
ruin on the answer to the communication made to Spain by the
different Powers may yet wait some days. The couriers who
carried these, communications could not arrive at Madrid be-
fore January Ist, and the Cortes at present occupied with dis-
eussing.theeeasures they ought to take, renders it impossible
that their Resolutions should be known till the I•'th or 15th of,
this month.

The Ilioniteur publishes the following official intelligence

" By an Ordinance of,January 2, the Viscount Duboutbage,
Prefect of the Department of Drome, has been dismissed from
his office, and appointed Councillor of State for Extraordinary

Service.
"Another Ordinance of, the sane date'llas appointed—
" The Marquess de roresio, at present Prefect of the
Lastcrn Pyrenees, to .be Prefect, Of the lJeparunent of
nisterre.
".M. tie Cotton, Prefeet of ..Vaucluse, to be ~the Prefecture.
of the Drome.
" M. de Nugent, Prefect of .the Sarthe, to the Prefecture of
Lower Charente.
" The Viscotuteatissin de Nenneville, Prefect of the Loire,,
to the Prefecture of the Indre.et-Loire.
" The Comtude Waters, Prefect of the Indre-et-Loire, to;
the Prefecture of the Jura.
" M. Leguicr, Prefect of the Cote d'Or, to the Prefecture
of the Orne.
".The Marquess de lA Morelie, Prefect .or the Orne, to the
Prefecture of the Allier.
"The Baron du Cltulieu, Prefect of Fintsterre, to the Pre.
fecture of the Loire.
"The 'Marquess d'Arbaull Jonques, to the Prefecture of the
Cote d'Or.
" The Marquess de Villeneuve, furiously Prefect, to the Pre-
fecture of the Creuse.
" The. Baron de.MoutuneUx, formerly Prefecteto the Prefec-
ture of the A rdeche.
" 111. Andre tPArbelles, formerly Prefect to the Prefecture of
the Sarthe.
Leroymie Chavigny, Sub-Prefect of Saint Denis, to the
Prefecture of the Eastern Pyrenees.
" M. Jules de Calviere, Member of the ChaMber of Depu-
ties, to the 'Prefecture of Vaucluse.
" The Al arquesk tie Marniere &Lauer, formerly Prefect, to
the Prefecture of the Charente."
A ccordittl,*lT, therefore,.to this Ordinance, the underru et ttioned
Prefects are dismissed
Of Allier—The Baron tie Talleyrtmd, Councillor of State.
Ardecho—M. Pattke, Maitre des &peter.
Charent e—M.
Lower Charente—M. Pepin tie Belisle, Maitre. dei Rtquetes.
Creuse—M. tiarnier.
The Prefecture of Jura was vacant by the death of the Baron
de Larochette.