The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-13 00:00:00

LOUIS PHILIPPE AND THE KING OF

NAPLES.

The Revue de Paris publishes the following
curious correspondence, extracts from which have
already appeared in our columns. The first is a
letter addressed to the present King of Naples by
Louis Philippe shortly after the revolution of July,
which occurred three months before the accession
of King Ferdinand 11. The second document is
the reply of the King of Naples.
Louis Philippe writes as follows :
"It is, perhaps, Providence which once more
smiles upon the family of St. Louis that has
called your Majesty to the throne of Naples at
a time when the storm of revolution has been
let loose over Europe. The broken health
of his Majesty Francis could not have
withstood the repeated shocks which suc-
ceed each other, and the end of which God
only knows; but I have long heard your Majesty
praised for energy and foresight, and I do not
doubt that you will happily weather the storm, for
your Majesty is under the necessity of resisting at
the same time the dangerous insinuations from
without which might urge you to an anti-national
policy fatii to your interests and to the interests of
the people you govern, and the internal pressure
which blind passions might exercise upon the free
action of your Government. lam acquainted with
all the insinuations and severe counsels with which
your Majesty is beset to compromise you into a
blind line of policy, but I am also sure that your
Majesty will display sufficient firmness and fore-
sight not to be led astray.
" We are in a period of transition, when often a
little must be relinquished so that all may not be
lost, and it would give me real joy to learn that
your Majesty has given up a system of compression
and of severity which caused many days of intense
agony to your late august father, and which often
banished the smile from the lips of the enlightened
King Ferdinand I. Let your Majesty imitate the
system in France ; you will be a gainer in every
respect ; for, by sacrificing a little authority, you
will insure peace to your kingdom and stability to
your house. The symptoms of agitation are so
strongly pronounced and numerous in Italy that an
outbreak may be expected sooner or later,
_ eb
ttacrcnoird
ingly as the stern measures of Prince M
may hasten or adjourn it. Your Majesty will be
d to
drawn into the current if you are not
bp p
areur in two
stem the tide, andyour house will be burst
either by the revolutionary stream or by the mea-
sures of repression the Vienna Cabinet may think fit

to adopt.
" Your Majesty may save everythie tng
he by
wishes
antici-
pating voluntarily and with
for, if
and wants of your people if the revolution
breaks out in Italy, Austria will try to act as abso-
lute mistress, and I shall be compelled to take steps
I should wish to avoid at any price ; and in this I
allow will
am sure England, if she does not anticipatem
not leave me alone, for neither of us
can e
Austria to extend her influence still more over the
Italian peninsula. I trust, my dear brother, cousin,
and dear nephew, that you will think over the
wishes I have the happiness to express to your
Majesty, and that you
LOUIS PA will trust to rayILIPPE experience.
" ."
To the above letter the King of Naples sent the
following reply "
To imitate France, :
if ever France can be imi-
tated, I should have to precipitatew
which
my myself into that
ich policy of Jecobinism for people has
proved feloniously guilty more than once against
the house of its Kings. Liberty
is
myself,false I taomtrhee.
house of Bourbon ; and, as regards
solved to avoid, at all price, the fate of Louis XVL
and of Charles X. My people obey force and bend
their necks, but
le woe's me should they ever raise
them under impulse of those dreams which
sound so fine in the sermons of philosophers, and
which are impossible in practice. With God's
I willblessing, give prosperity to my people, and a
Government as honest as they have a right to;
but I will be King,
" My people do not wanttothink ; I take
myself the care of their welfare and their dignity upon
I have inherited many old grudges, many mad
desires, arising from all the faults and weaknesses
of the past; I must set this to rights, and I can only
do so by drawing closer to Austria without subject-
ing myself to her will. We are not of this century.
The Bourbons are ancient, and if they were to try

(
ROAD; MONDAT.•
•
Mr. Saunders resumed his sittings at the Tem-
perance-hall in this village this afternoon. The public,:
interest in his proceedings, which from hie first day
has been waning, reached its lowest poit2t to-day,
there being only an audience of about a score persons.
The Wilts policeman stationed at Road exid two
members of the Somersetshire constabulary were in
attendance, but there were no chiefs, superinten-
dents, or inspectors of either force present. The
mysterious Mr. Pollaky was there, and took: no,t.es of
several parts of the proceedings.
Mr. Saunders commenced by reiterating a sta
ment he has frequently made before, that he vircuo
there as a private gentleman, but that he did happerv•
to be also a magistrate of the county of Wilts, and.
of course, if he were called to exercise his powero as
a magistrate, he was ready to do his duty. He
proceeded to state that the house at Road which .110
was now occupying was placed at the disposal 01
the Wilts constabulary by Mr. West at or about the
time the murder was first discovered, but that the•
offer had never been accepted. On its being made
known to Mr. Foley that he (Mr. Saunders) had
entered on possession of the premises, Mr. Foley
proposed to make a police station of the place at
the es
p
once, but he had declined to accede to
-ate that pro
stpo-
sition. Mr Saunders N% his inquiry.
he had taken previously
ht, and f.n some
detailing interviews he ha, in an-
instances obtained, with per3suogns high
thority, the Attorney-General, Clain
hies
(acting in the absence of Six
of the Metropolitan Police), the Lord C
Mr. Clive, of the Home-office, &c. In conseque_
a
of what transpired at these (interviews, he 01
dhanCeln.:toeur,
Saunders) attended the usual monthly sessions 8.
Bradford, and after the regular business was over,
a private council was held between four magistrates
at which no pledge of secrecy was imposed, Etna
therefore he felt at liberty to state what took place.
The magistrates present were the Rev. J. H. Brad-
ney, Mr. E. Edmonds, Rev. J. Wilkinson, and him-
self. He communicated certain things to those ma-
gistrates, and the result of that private council, as
he understood it, was that he was at liberty to take
Inspector Pitney, and any policeman of the Brad-
ford division he might think fit over to Road to
make investigation into the circumstances of the
murder. This course was subsequently acquiesced
in by Capt. Meredith, the chief constable. It ap-
peared, however, that he had misunderstood or mis-
construed the views of his brother magistrates. He
would, however, state that, not having the slightest
confidence in the proceedings hitherto conducted
by the Wiltshire constabulary, under the guidance
of Capt. Meredith, he had feltthat it would be folly
in him (Mr. Saunders) to undertake any inquiry
unless he was supported by some one in whom he
could place reliance. He accordingly secured the
assistance of Mr. Hughes, chief of the Bath police,
with a confidential man of his selection. This fact
was communicated to his brother magistrates, and
he considered that he was acting with their full
sanction and concurrence. By every word he had
said in that room and by every word he had writ-
ten he was prepared to abide as a man of probity
and a man of honour. It was extremely necessary
for him to take care in the statements he made, be-
cause he knew not how this matter would end. The
result of the meeting of the magistrates at Brad-
ford was a letter to the Times, stating that what
he had asserted was incorrect, or, in other words,
that he had assumed a sanction for his proceedings
by his brother magistrates which was never ac-
corded him. He would now ask them to say What
they did sanction him to do. If what he bad
done did not meet their approval, let them, as
men of honour and gentlemen, say what they did
sanction him to do. At any rate, he might say
that what he had done was done with their full
knowledge, if not concurrence, and he thought he
might say that no doubt could be entertained that
what he had done had been done with the full
knowledge of every person in authority in London.
His brother magistrates had, however, on Saturday
thought fit to withdraw that sanction or concur-
rence—or whatever else it might be—which he
understood they had given him. They saw hint
there that day therefore without the assistance of
a single member of the Wilts constabulary, with
the exception of the local policeman. He had,
however, the assistance of two of the Somersetshire
force, who were there under the full sanction of the
superintendent at Frome, and ready to act under
his (Mr. Saunders's) orders. After complaining
that Millard, an officer of the Wilts force, who bad
been sent to London on special service by him, had
been recalled, Mr. Saunders appealed to the re-
porters to set his conduct fairly before the public,
and then entered on a statement of what he had
done in the matter since Saturday. Among other
things he said that he had been to Bristol yester-
day, and had there been to several public institu-
tions. He had visited a gaol where he was locked
up—(laughter)—but was afterwards liberated. Mr.
Saunders then stated that he was prepared to re-
ceive any information from anybody who was de-
sirous of giving it; but no one volunteered. Ques-
tions had been asked as to who he was, and he
would therefore just give a short autobiography.
He was a native of the town of Bradford. He went
to school there in his early days, and then went to
Warminster, and thence to Westminster School.
From there he went to the University of Oxford,
and became a member of a certain college, on the
books of which his name still appeared. After
passing his examination he entered at Lincoln's-
inn, and in 1831 he was called to the bar. In 1833
the then Lord Chancellor put him in the commis-
sion of the peace, and from that time to the pre-
sent he had been a magistrate for the county
.of
Wilts. Whether he was engaged in a commercial
undertaking with the nobleman holding the highest
office under the Crown did not concern the public.
He was, however, known to the Directors of the
Bank of England, and had certain private accounts
with bankers at London, Bath, and Brighton. •
ho
did not feel it necessary to say more than that
ral
was an original member of the Royal Agricalus
Society, a member of the Royal Horticultural o
ciety, and that his name was Thos. Busk Saunders.
The inquiry was then adjourned till Wednesday.

BURNING OF THE SHIP
A telegram from Sydney, New
NewsSonooms ,
yesterday, to the
the Liverpool Exchangw.snall:aiEwßaaCllpAoNatTeain
effect that the ship Brit
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£Sy4,donoeoy, together with her
THE SORT OF TILING .
—Ca
Pnt'il:htT, Tom
maid Taylor,that, consideringin respond"
CIVIL SERVICE Cones
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Friday
yil Service," at the Civil Service
could hardly have expected that they
the picture which it was the fashion to draw of the civil
servants, the public
would turn out in their sombre uniforms and with such
serviceable rifles. They must rather have been led to ex-
pect that the body would make its appearance in tunics
trimmed with red tape and armed with the circumlocution
rifle, adapted for shooting round corners. (Cheers and
laughter.) Neither could it have been supposed that they
would have had for their commanding officers his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales and Lord Bury ; it must
have been anticipated that the command would be en-
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had been fortunate enough not to fulfil these predictions,
was even more remarkable when it was remembered that
most members of the corps
• d were civil service pre-
Adamites—dating from
a perioantecedent to the halcyon
time of civil service competitive
examinations. (Cheers.)
He did net knew many of the
rankan dfilein his own, or
indeed in any of the other companies who would be able,
on the spur of the moment, to give a summary of the
Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, to furnish details respecting the
parallax of a fixed star, to describe the internal anatomyof
the spider or to extemporise for threw quarters of an
hour on the leading points of Ottoman history from the
time of Mehemet to the massacre of the Janissaries.
(Cheering and groat laughter.) Let examiners, heads of
departments, and leading-article writers do their best, the
world would still continue to be made up of good, bad, and
indifferent. As civilians, and as volunteers, the members
of the Civil Service Corps might be ranked under either of
the two last heads, but they would yield to none in desire
to do their duty in both these capacities. (Cheers.)
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