The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-26 00:00:00

and even to admonish the Sacred Majesty of the Sove-
reign himself of any act of his which threatened the
well-being of his people ! This, indeed must appear
dreadful; but these wicked transgressors of legitimate
ordinances did not stop here. They had the audacity
to perform what they were pleased to call their duty ;
and although the KING, in his paternal love for the
most abandoned of his people only sentenced them to
incarceration for a year or two, confiscated their pro-
perty, and reduced them to the lowest depths of misery
and destitution, yet were they neither touched by the
royal clemency, nor awakened to a becoming sense of
their own guilt, and a righteous determination never
again to be guilty of such heinous crimes. On the
contrary, like the martyrs of old, their sufferings only

stirred up others to risk the same fate, rather than
allow the cause of such exalted self-devotion to depend
for existence on the breath of Kings. Among the

foremost in the ranks of the mal-contents, have beet► the
editors of the Nationnel, who having mistaken the coro-
nation of the CITIZEN KING for the triumph of libe-
ral principles, have exposed themselves to innumerable
prosecutions for the freedom of discussion, which they
have since allowed themselves. Two of the Editors of

that journal are at present the inmates of a dungeon ;
and yet the Paris papers of Saturday inform us that it

has again been seized for an article in which it has
been insinuated—yes insinuated ! mark—that no
small part of the 25 millions of francs claimed by
America, was in the hands of the Court I Could the
Author of Evil himself devise a falsehood more glaring
than this, or ono so destitute of all appearances of pro-
bability ? No, certainly. The Court has a horror of
laying its hands on money. The KING is a very
prodigal with regard to his purse, and his Ministers
are all known to be men of vast possessions and un-
bounded generosity, having the most sovereign con-
tempt for the emoluments of place, and the profits of
patronage. Impossible then that the Court should so
much as suffer a contact with the public money ; and
when we take into consideration the enormity of in-
sinuating such a thing—always keeping before our
eyes the sacredness and the immaculateness of all

Courts and Courtiers,—ancient and modern, foreign
and domestic—we are half inclined to forget, what
as Christians we owe to our neighbours, and to
petition the Sovereign of FRANCE to punish the
editors of the Nationnel not only in this world, but in
the next, if the Church has so far extended his jurisdic-
tion. As a King, Louis PHILIPPE is all-wise, po-
tent, and impeccable ; and as a Court, Versailles is
the Eden of Earth, protected by the flaming swords of

the National Guard. Nevertheless, we_ think the
KING might adopt a more prudent amusement than that

of hunting down the public journalists. The people
of France in general have not our reverence for the
sacredness of Courts ; and they may at last be induced
to believe that the Sovereign punishes, because he
feels the force of the attacks that are made upon
him,—and by punishments disproportioned to their ex-
tents, admits the justice of them. They have, fur-

,her, a respect for literary men—for men, some o

whom have given more proofs of a sincere devotion to
the liberties of France, than ever did the CITIZEN-

KING, and half his progenitors—and they may at last

take it into their heads that France could better afford
;o lose Lotus PHILIPPE, and the whole of the

Bourbons, than the last remnant of her liberties.

;his is possible, and we therefore recommend the KING
,o look to it.

We have received intelligence from Madrid to the
15th inst., but nothing of any importance has yet
taken place. A dissolution of the Chambers of
Procuradores is expected as soon as the necessary sup-
plies are voted.

Accounts from the Hague announce. the recovery o
,he Prince of ORANGE.

CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY).

The Lord Chancellor took appeals to-day, none of which con-
tained points interesting to the public.
In the course of the morning the Duke of Richmond and the
Duke of Argyle took the oaths as Peers of Parliament.