The Sun.
London, England, 1824-09-27 00:00:00

.THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, Sept. 27.

[THE TIMES.]
The Eloile, having worn out the stock of bright
sayings and Royal excellencies which it had pro.
vided for the service of a new Sovereign, employs
its retrospective faculty, and sings of a grand
danger with which the French nation was threat-
ened for some time previous to the demise of
Louis XVIII. Shadowy and mysterious are the
indications given as to the authors and instru-
MCII/S of this intended calamity. The Etoile de- ,
scends to no particulars—time, place, and per.
son being in the nature of edged tools with a
certain class of historians. We have it, however,
darkly hinted, that the death of the late King
Louis, was prefixed as the signal for some extra-
ordinary change in the French Government, or at
all events in the person of its ruler. It is said, that
there were conspirators, and that their audacity
was much increased (as well itmigh t) by the support
they met with from the very functionaries of the
Government, whose duty it had been to expose
them—that they made 44 no secret" of the suc.
cessor whom they had pitched upon Louis XVIII.
and who was not the son of the former usurper,
but " the illegitimate child ora Sovereign of the
second rank," and a Calvanist into the bargain!
Really, for people who are represented as rather
glorying in their frankness, we have not found
a secret published with less approach to indis-
cretion ; for %s ho the Calvinist, the bastard, or
the second-rate Sovereign may be, on whose
behalf such mighty things were to have been
perpetrated by conspirators, partly consisting of
" men in office," we are not much better qualified
to guess than if the secret had never been disclosed
to us. It is further affirmed, that insidious writ-
ings, circulated by others of the public function-
aries, disposed the minds of the people to violate
the ancient laws of the monarchy : the course pur-
sued in England towards James ll.—the bills of
imitation and exclusion, and so forth, were ban-
died about, we are assured, so freely, that every
French shoehlack was familiar with them. The
main point, nevertheless, in which the parallel
failed between the Duke of York and the Comte
d'Artois, does not happen to he touched upon by
this loyal article-writer in the Eloile—namely,
that the former Prince was a Papist among a
Protestant nation, the latter among those who, if
not Papists, are at least as much Papists as they
are any thing else. 44 But was the conspiracy
accomplished ?'' (asks this inquisitive writer) ;
that is to say, was the direct succession to the
Crown of France set aside ? and did the illegiti-

mate Calvinist—that interesting unknown--as-
cend the chair of St. Louis ? The answer, in-
deed, is full of caution, for lie tells us, 44 that of
this there is still much reason to doubt"--to

doubt the fact.ofthe Comte d'Artois havin,; been

ousted from hi inheritance ; and therefore to
hope that ho may, one day or the other, and©r
the order of Charles X., be acknowledged King
of France—a doubt and a hope, which must needs
be consolatory to the house of Bourbon ! The
gist of the whole story we take to be this—that
the Es toile is desirous to show how naturally all
Frenchmen, but those of its own precise party,
have been disposed, Aviiether in or out of office,
to conspire against the Bourbon Government.—
We wonder where were the scissors of the Cen-
sors when so wretched a humbug was presented
to them.

rhloll NI SIG POST.]
We received last night Brussels Papers to the
12tith instant, They contain proofs that the
King of the Netherlands has adopted those wise
and liberal principles of trade on which our Go-
vernment has for seine time acted, and of the
salutary operation of which it has given a clear
and convincing instance to the world. Already
had some of the duties on the importation of
goods been abolished in the Flemish harbours ;
this is now extended to the Dutch, and the
duty levied on the arrival of ships at Amster-
-dam, for the benefit of the School of Naviga-
tion, is to cease on the Ist January, 18'25.—
It is also known that a commercial treaty is
in progress between the Netherlands and France,
and it had been antainneed that M. Vanderfosse,
'Governor of the Province of Ilainanit, had re-
paired to Paris for the purpose of bringing the
negotiation to a close. This is not exactly the
case, though the result is likely to prove the same.
The person by whom the treaty is at this moment
begociating Ovid that such a treaty is preparing
is the important point) is Baron Vagel, the
Ditch Ambassador at the French Court. Mr.
'Vanderfosse has only been sent to assist him with
his experience in commercial and local mutters,
as he possesses a perfect knowledge of the
two southern frontier provinces, having in former
times governed the one, and now governing
the other, and is besides well acquainted with
the interests of all parts of the kingdom. It was
not expected that the conferences would last
long, as it was thought that France would be
edger to obtain the advantages of a free trade in
a quarter where hers had been deeply injured by
the retaliatory measures which her own prohibi-
tions had unintentionally been the means of creat-
ing. It appears that mercantile transactions are
increasing io briskness and magnitude on the Con.
tikent, Letters from Frankfort on the Maine
state that silks, wool, and leather have been in
demand at high prices, and that wool has been
sold at an advance of 15 to 20 per ceitt.

[NEW T,MEs•I
There were no Foreign arrivals on Saturday
or any, political interest, and consequently there
was no alteration in the prices of funded pro-
perty. Consols closed at 951 for the Account,
at which they had been during the day• Daily
arrivals are expected most anxiously from South
America. According to the lust authentic ac-
counts from Lima, events may be reasonably ex-
pected to occur within a few days of much im-
portance to the future Government of that part
of the Continent ; and these, however they turn,
must materially influence the prices of the Sect].
ties upon which money has been obtained in this
country. Unfavourable accounts from Peru would