The Sun.
London, England, 1833-02-28 00:00:00

SECRET MARRIAGE AND PREGNANCY OF

THE DUCHESS OF BERRY.

(From the Moniteur of Tuesday.)
PARIS, FEB. 25.—0 n hriday, the 22d February, at halfpast
five, Madame the Duchess of Berry delivered to the General
Bugeaud, Governor of the Citadel of Blaye, the following de-
claration
" Pressed by circumstances, and by the measures ordained by
the Government, although I had the most urgent motives for
keeping my marriage secre,, I have felt it a duty to myself, as
well as to my children to declare that I was secretly married
during my stay in Italy.
(Signed)
" Citadel of Blaye, Feb. 22, 1833."
This declaration, transmitted by General Bugeaud to the
President of the Council, the Minister of War, was immediately
deposited in the depot of the archives of the Chancellerie of
France.

" MARIA CAROLINE.

(From the Quolidienne, Tuesday, Feb. 26.)
PARIS, Fan. 25.—The Ambassadors of Austria and Prussia
went yesterday morning to the hotel of the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, where they had a conference with the Duc de Broglie,
in which numerous difficulties appeared to have arisen on the
Dutch and Belgian question. It seems that it now begins to be

felt that the taking of the citadel of Antwerp has affected
nothing, and that it is necessary to begin all over again.
The departure of M. Baudrand, for London, is announced.
It is affirmed that his departure was decided on yesterday even.
ing, after a discussion, in the presence of Louis Philip, at which
the Duc de Broglie and Count Roy attended.
It is reported that General Bugeaud is to be recalled from
Blaye. General Gourgaud set out for that place yesterday. It
is probable he may take the command of the citadel.
The Minister of War is again confined to his hotel. He had
yesterday a conference with Marshal Clauzel, which is supposed
to have related to the colony of Algiers.

(From the Journal du Commerce of Tuesday.)
PARIS, FEB. 25.—We published this morning a letter from
M. de Bourmont to the Legitimatist Committee, which was
seized in a late search made in La Vendee. It seems that this
is not the only fact that contributes to ruin the situation of
the party. Despatches have been received to-day from Blaye,
which are said to be very interesting, and to which the Go.
vernment will immediately give the greatest publicity, for we
are assured that they will appear to-morrow in the Moniteur,
and that public curiosity, which has been for some time at-
tracted to the mysteries of the Castle of Blaye, will have occa-
sion for ample gratification. This intelligence has no connec.
tion with the reports of the escape of the Duchess of Berry.

(From the Journal des Debats.)
PARIS, FEB. 25.-His Royal Highness the Duke of
Orleans arrived at Paris yesterday evening, at seven o'clock,
after which he honoured with his presence the evening party
of Count Flahaut.
On Wednesday the 27th, the proceedings against the
Viscount de Chateaubriand will be brought before the Court
of Assizes. No body can be more affected than we are at
seeing the greatest writer of our age brought before the
court. Let us hope, however, that the misfortune will go
no farther. No, he will not be deprived of his liberty, who on
the 7th of August, 1830, while he sacrificed to sentiments which
have filled his life, the tranquillity, the happiness of his last
years, pronounced in the Chamber of Peers such a fine eulogium
on the conquerors of Italy.
If it be true that M. de Chateaubriand has gone a step beyond
the limits fixed by the law to the liberty of the press, the Jury,
in its salutary omnipotence, would doubtless not pronounce a
verdict against one of the men who are the glory of the coun-
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and courageous efforts of the illustrious accused that France is
indebted for the liberty of the press, which is the sole guarantee
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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, 1833.

The breathless haste with which Ministers press
forward the Bill for suspending the Constitution in
Ireland—nay not only suspending, but absolutely
setting its sacred principles at haughty,contemptuous
defiance—is a sign of the times which we cannot bring
ourselves to think of without emotion. It smacks of a
junction between two powerful parties—the Whigs
and the Tories, for the oppression of a third—the
people. It has a despotic, CASTLEREAGH taint
upon it. It is like the spot of blood on Lady
Macbeth's hand, which no water can wipe away.
And who are they that thus propose to suspend
the Constitution? Why, the very men who but last
year made such Herculean efforts to restore it ! And
to whom do they propose the Bill for such suspen-
sion ? Why, to that very House of Commons, which
now for the first time in the annals of English Go-
vernment sits under the shadow of that very Con-
stitution which it is proposed partially to suspend !
There is a certain something in this calculated to 11l
even the most sanguine of men with apprehension—
calculated to inspire distrust, jealousy, alarm,—cal-
culated, above all, to bring home to every mind, the
ungracious truth that political suspicion is the best
part of political wisdom—the very breath of its life,
without which it cannotexist.

On moving the first reading of this obnoxious
Bill lo,t night in the House of Commons, Lord
ALTHORP entered at considerable length into all the
details of the why and the wherefore he demanded
it. These details look awful on paper. They are, in
fact, an exaggerated Old Bailey Calendar. But to
what, after all, do they amount ? Wby, to this, and

no more than this, that Ireland is in its usual state of
disturbance ; that in some one or two particular
districts crime prevails to a more than ordinary
extent ; and that the system of intimidation is
carried to a dangerous excess. And this system
of intimidation—on which both Lord ALTHORP
and Mr. STANLEY lay the greatest stress—Ministers
propose to remove by the establishment of martial
law! Now, to us it is as clear as the sun at noon-
day, that such a remedy can be but of tempo-
rary duration, and that when it ceases, it will leave
matters twice as bad as it found them. Terrorism
never did yet, and never will, answer its pur-
pose. It carries within its breast the seeds of it,
own destruction. Establish martial law. E,ta-
blish it—promptly—fully—unequivocally. But bear
this in mind, that the instant you lighten the
pressure, the victim on whom you have trod will
spring up with redoubled energy. The establish-
ment of martial law, of necessity, implies its re-
establishment. It is the monster which begets
monsters. It is sowing the wind to reap the whirl-
wind. It is scattering the dragon s teeth, which in
a night shall spring up armed rnen.

Leland, say Ministers, is disturbed—agitated—
convulsed. We grant it. But who assisted in
making her so? Who convulsed her to her heart's
core by promising the " extinction of tithes ?" Mr.
STANLEY ! Who galvanized her every limb, by
officially recommending her to " Agitate, agitate,
agitate ?" The Marquis of ANGLEsEA ! Yet for
taking these two Statesmen at their wurds—for be-
lieving that they were speaking plain prose, when
they were merely indulging in poetic trope and
metaphor, In-land is now to be placed without the
pale of the Constitution I Yes, she is to be racked
for her agitation, by the very man who first advised
her to " agitate!!"
Mr. STANLEY'S defence of this Bill was unworthy
of him. It was a bellow piece of jesuitism—an apo-
logy for the abseace of argument—a heartless sample
of special pleading, though it displayed in passages
an eloquence that would have done honour to a better
cause. He defended martial law by a quibble. He
justified the suspension of the Constitution from the
fact of Its atrocity. He hugged it to his heart,
because it was unparalleled. He held it immaculate,
because it could never be made a prece-
dent. It was his idol, because it was a
Moloch. Yes, hear it, people of England, a Cabinet
Minister, in a Reformed House of Commons, has
actually the assurance to come publicly forward and
tell you to your face, that this Bill is the object of
his fond, fixed idolatry (by which he and his col-
leagues will be content to stand or fall), because,
like the car of Juggernaut, it grinds the Con-
stitution to atoms beneath its wheels!

Oh, Mr. STANLEY, Mr. STANLEt ! your good
genius deserted you; your evil star vas in the as-
cendant ; you were inspired by the genius of hallu-
cination, when you made this revolting declaration !
It never will—it never must—it never shall be for-
got ten ! . It shall cling to the memory of England
like a burr.

Once again we implore Ministers to bear in mind
the spirit of the adage " Let him that thinketh he
standeth take heed lest he fall." We implore them
to soften the temper of this dreadful Bill—to bring
it within the pale of the Constitution. The mean
path is the only path of safety. Danger lies in ex-
tremes. Let them not permit coercion to advance
at a giant's pace, and conciliation to limp, like a
crippled dwarf; behind it. Let both, in the language
of the turf, start fair.
If Ministers have really the interests of the
country as much at heart as they have on their lip,
they will, without a moment's delay, modify (and be
glad of the opportunity to do so) this hateful mea-
, sure ; for if they do not, they will forfeit character,
per Laps office, and then once again will the country be
trodden down under the hoof of an ultra Administra-
tion, who will work that very Bill which no other
Government would have the assurance to propose,
far less hope to carry.
England and Scotland ! look well to yourselves,
or—it will be your turn next.

We refer our readers to the speech o Mr. GRoTE,
last night, in explanation of his reason for opposing
the Irish Coercion Bill. It was manly, temperate,
and convincing. Mr. TENNYSON'S amendment, also,
was one that does credit to his sagacity, a remark
which we may extend to Mr. ATTwoov's admirable
speech. This debate, we foresee, will take, at least,
a week, before it is brought to a conclusion.

It will be seen by the intelligence from Paris
that the rumour spread a few days back of the
Duchess of BERRY being in a situation rather awk-
ward for an unmarried lady, is confirmed beyond the
possibility of doubt. The heroine of the Carlists,
the goddess of their idolatry, in a situation which
in this country would entitle the parish officers to
take her before a Magistrate for an order of affilia-
tion 1 1 " Oh, what a falling off is there !"

The story she tells of a secret marriage must of
course go for nothing. It would have been ridicu-
lous, indeed, to have expected the Duchess to de-
clare outright that she was enceinte and not mar-
ried. The declaration of the truth was impossible,
and it would have been hard if a woman who has
shown herself so clever could not have advanced the
only and obvious assertion, which could enable her
partisans any longer to declare themselves such with-
out being universally laughed at. All the Princess has
now to do is to stick to her story, but not to attempt
the fabrication of proofs. They would certainly be ex-
posed in all their falsehood, whereas, if she simply
persists in her first assertion,she will no doubt find aim_
pletons to believe her, although the facts of its be-
ing nine or ten months since she left Italy, of there
being no hint of who this husband is, whilst
the declaration of his name would save her
from suspicion without injury to him, are
sufficient to satisfy us that the story is merely a
gentle way of declaring that this illustrious Scion of
the House of Bourbon is in an " unfortunate situa-
tion," in consequence of intercourse with DEUTZ,
the Jew who betrayed her, or some other person, of
whom he was jealous. For the benefit of those cu-
rious in such matters we may mention that the Du-
chess is, or was, not many years ago, an exceedingly
plain looking little woman.