The Sun.
London, England, 1833-02-08 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1833.

FRENCII PAPERS.

(From the Moniteur of Wednesday, Feb. 6.

The Journals have given details of the challenges which
have been interchanged between the writers attached to them,
and two meetings have actually taken place. The Magistrates
have taken measures to prevent further encounters. The
challengers on the one side were arrested on the 3d inst., and
orders have been issued to arrest those of the opposite opinion,
who may persist in this deplorable contest, in spite of the ge-
neral reprobation which was manifested in the result of the
first duel, which was universally regretted. The Government
need not enter into any explanation as to its interference i❑
these lamentable disputes. The public peace, personal liberty,
and the lives of citizens were threatened ; there were surely
snore than sufficient causes for the vigilance and activity of
the legal authorities. The law is bound to afford protection to
all, and in exercising it, the Government of France has but
fulfilled one of its most sacred duties. To disarm the hand
of violence, and give time to mistaken excitement to
become calm, is within the province of the Magis-
tracy. Hence the most exasperated now confess that
this, indeed, is the means of putting an end to public
provocations, and that arms are dropped before a pri-
son. * This is doing justice to a fact; why then incriminate
the intention, when the Government adopts the same measures
towards all, and for the sake of public tranquillity alone ? With
the Government this is not a political question, but one of
order, humanity, and individual liberty. The authorities,
upon this occasion, have not to inquire who is right or who
is wrong in the relations between man and man, for all are

wrong in regard to the laws, public order, and liberty, which
disavow such arms and such means. Excesses of the press,
whatever they may be, are in a well-regulated state amenable
to the tribunals alone, and certainly the Government has
never hesitated to call forth:against such offences the severity of
the laws. It does, too, full justice to all in not allowing a private
individual to take the law in his own hands. In this affair,
consequently, it makes no distinction of parties, of offences, pro-
vocations, or reprisals; it sees, and can only see an attack
upon public and private safety, which it repels from whatever
quarter it may proceed. Faithful to this course, the authorities
will not allow any opinion to avail itself against the public
peace, of an unfortunate collision, the individual effects of
which their vigilance endeavours at the same time to frustrate.
A demonstration, extremely favourable to the revolution and

the monarchy of July, will result from this experiment, namely,
the weakness of the Legitimist party, who have been suc-
cessively reduced from foreign to civil war, and from civil war
to duelling. Whether the appeal to the inhabitants of the
West or South, or an attempt, as in the present instance, to act
by their own authority, the country will profit by this two-fold
experiment; but the Government will not anew any party to
make an ill use of it.

(From the Quotidienne of Wednesday, Feb. 6.)
TOULON, JAN. 29.—The Marengo of the line, the Hermione
and Vietore frigats, were to be sent to the Morea to bring
back part of our troops. These vessels were preparing to
execute this commission when counter orders arrived. Hence
a thousand conjectures on the future destination of these
vessels. But we have now a further object for conjecture and
discussion.

Orders have since arrived immediately to fit out the Superb
of the line, and other vessels. Several ships are being examined
in order to ascertain in how many days they can be ready, and
others are expected from the ports on the ocean. In short every
thing is preparing here to assemble and equip a powerful naval
force. Besides this we have squadrons in the Levant, at
Ancona, and Algiers, which are all kept on the complete war
establishment, and which might easily and speedily join the
Toulon squadron. It is said that Rear-Admiral Latreyte will
hoist his flag on board the Superb.
PARIS, FED. s.—Last night a Council of Ministers was
held at the residence of the President. M. Montalivet passed
a great part of the night at the palace. It seems that Louis
Philip was rather indisposed. Marshal Clausel has been invited to
dinner at the Minister's of War. It is said that Louis Philip had
wished that all the great dignitaries should meet at this dinner,
but General Tiburie Sebastiani, it is said, has declared that he
would not attend. It is thought also that Marshal Gerard will
be ill.

(From the Messager des Chanthres of Wednesday.)
PARIS, FEB. s.—What we have predicted and announced
respecting a change in the Ministry is confirmed. A reconstruc-
tion of the Cabinet has been seriously talked of this morning.
It will Ise made in the spirit of the revolution of July. It
has been led to by debates which have arisen in the
Cabinet upon the finances, and still more by what has lately
passed in Paris, relative to political collisions and duels. Yes..
terday evening seven portefeuilles were disposed of ; the
eighth remained. The formation of the Cabinet was suspended,
because the person to be appointed for this one was not de-
termined on. It is thought something will be decided this
evening.

This evening, it is still affirmed, that there is in the Council
a great difference of opinion respecting the finances, and
that Marshal Soult, or M. Humann, must withdraw from the
Ministry.

(From the Constitutionnel.)

PARIS, FEB. s.—The Committee of the Chamber of De_
pubes, appointed to examine the budget of the Minister of War,
is said to persist in its economical views. If we are well in_
formed, the French army, according to the plan of the Com-
mittee, would be diminished above 150,000 men, by the sup-
pression of a battalion or a squadron in each regiment. How-
ever, as in the organization of the army in 1814, the skeletons
of the suppressed battalions would be retained. The admi-
nistration of the War Department would undergo many modi-
fications ; and the materiel of the army in particular has at-
tracted the attention of the Committee. The Minister, it is
said, will be asked to account for several innovations which
have been found useless or too expensive. Several contracts
may be annulled, by a formal refusals to grant the funds ne-
cessary to carry them into effect.

• National and Tribune; 4th inst.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.)