The Sun.
London, England, 1824-07-03 00:00:00

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The Frf;iich Papers otUrecirtegany, %thich ar-
rived last night, contalts..the corringinfi of the io-
'tereating debate op thel4penc-es of the Sploish
campaign, and the otptit'oillinary mismanagement
or the public &Huy 'which di,tiogeilsbed it.
'After all ,tholoYators : who had inscribed Their
'names tfllrpitak for or auainst the project of lasi
fur granting the supplementary, credits hat'.

fincsbed. M. de Martignac, the Iteporter of the
Commission, made his final summary, and ad-
mitted, in the most unqualified manner, that
there had been great extravagance and great
dishonesty in the expenditure of the public
treasures during the war. He concluded by
declaring, however, that Ministers, in the
liquidation of the accounts, would not pay
what was manifestly unjust—that incapacity
would be removed, and knavery punished.—
Before the Chamber came to a vote, M. de la
Bourdonnaye, the leader of the Ultra opposition,
asked M. de Villele a few questions, which led
to the following extraordinary admission on the
part of the latter—that he, namely M. de Vil-
lele, considered all the three Intendants em-
ployed sdccessively during the campaign, as po-
sitive knaves, or of suspicious honest), ; that the
first was guilty ; the second guilty, though in a
less degree ; and the third, not entirely free from
corrupt conduct. These three Intendants, ac-
cording to the, order in which M. de Villele
wished to apply his censure, are M. Sicard, M.
Regnault, and M. Joinville. The opposition
leader, while he admitted their common corrup-
tion, dissented from the justice of this graduation
of the scale, and declared his conviction, that if
the first was liable to remaches, the second
was more guilty, and the third a thousand
times more than the second. But another
question of M. de la Bourdonnaye led to a more
extraordinary avowal still on the part of the
Minister of Finance—namely, that this guilty
second Intendant, M. Regnault, is now the audi-
tor of his own dishonest accounts, and is actually
sitting at the head of a commission at Toulouse,
passing the very bills which attest his corrupt
conduct. This avowal, which was drawn reluc-
tantly from M. de Villele, and only after llamas,
the Minister of War, had been appealed to,
struck the Chamber with astonishment. It did not,
however, prevent the passing of the project of law,
hich was adopted by a majority of 234 to 69. We
have often had jobs at home, but we can scarcely
match the French Commissariat jobs in Spain.—
The great majority obtained by the Minister in
this case, evidently lent him their support on the
pledge that strict inquiries would be instituted
into malversations ; and from an opinion that,
although malversation had existed, the public
service should not be interrupted by refusing the
estimated credits.

[NEV TIMES.]

The Mot'le of the Ist instant-has come to hand.

It contains nothing at all explanatory of the late
rumours of a change of Ministry in France. There
is indeed an article which afflicts to contradict
the assertions of the Liberal Papers on this head;
but it seemed involved in that studious obscu-
rity which implies that there is something to
conceal. We do not understand, for instance,
whether the Etude means to deny that M. de
llamas has resigned the War Ministry, or whether
it be merely meant that his resignation is an in-
sulated fact not likely to be followed by others
of a similar complexion. The most important
fact noticed in this Paper is the division of
Monday, when there appeared in a House of
303 Members only sixty-nine votes against the
grant of the Supplementary Credits. This would
seem to afford an inference that M. de Villele is
as strong as ever, at least in aid Chamber of De-
puties ; but it must be remembered that the pre-
' sent question is only as to the propriety of cover-
ing with a credit the expenditure which has ac-
tually taken place. The case may be different
When an examination has been made into the de-
tail of charges. Even M. de Villele himself
seems to admit that there have been immense
peculations ; but he promises that they shall be
looked into, and punished. Among these poll-
tied storms the Funds seem to go down but very
slowly. They were on Wednesday 102 60, both
for money and account.