The Sun.
London, England, 1832-06-30 00:00:00

TELLER.

!Shell, R. L—Co. of Louth

SEIZURE IN PARIS.

PARIS, JUNE 24.—We have received from a corre-
spon-ient, in whom reliance may be placed, the following
details of an act of partiality and injustice recently per-
petrated by the police authorities of the French capital :
Many of the English patent and other medicines being in
vogue, not only among the Briti-h residents abroad, but
even among cur continental neighbours, particularly the
Parisians, and such compounds being prohinited in France,
it is customary, when it is wished to import au h articles,
to apply to the Director of the Customs for permission to
introduce them. Mr. Roberts, surgeon, and proprietor of
the London Dispensary, No. 23, Place Vendome, had fre-
quently male such applications, and invariably obtained
the authorization sought for, upon the payment of an ad
valorem duty of 20 per cent. One of these letters,
signed by the Director of the Customs, granting per-
mission to import, and setting forth that orders had been
given in consequence to the customs of Calais, where ti e
original invoice was to be produced. The extensive havoc
made by that. cholera in Paris and the departments of
France, whilst in England its progress wes comparatively
tardy, created an immense demand for drugs and com-
pound medicines imported from London; and whilst the
preparations of the French pharmaciens were neglected,
the London Dispensary was daily thronged with persons
seeking preservatives against tte dreadful scourge, or relief
for their relatives and friends, who were suffering under
its inflictions. The jealousy and spite excited among the
French pharmaciens, by the excessive run of the Dispen-
sary, was followed on their part by a denunciation to the
Prefect of Police of the illegal dispensation of compound
medicines, the illegality of their sale being grounded upon
the non-specification of their composition in Me French
Codex or Pharmacopxia. In consequence, notwito-
standing the express permission to import granted by the
Director-General of the Customs, who, in the admini-
nistrative hierarchy of France holds a rank inferior to
none but the Ministers themselves, a Commissaire of Po.
lice, accompanied by two pharmaciens, proceeded to the
London Di•pens,try, and in virtue of a warrant of the
Prefect of Police seized all the patent medicines found
there, the greater part of which had been introduced upon
the faith of the authorization. In consequence, the injus-
tice of such a proceeding is self-evident, and its partiality
will be equally apparent, when it is stated that the infor-
mers, instigators of the severe measure, who keep a small
stock of these same medicines for, sale, have not suffered
from seizure, but continue to dispense them without mo-
lestation. The inconvenience and heavy loss arising to
Mr. Roberts from such harsh dealing was the less merited,
as, at the revolution of 1830, the humanity exercised by
him towards the wounded citizens, to whom he not only
supplied medicines gratuitously, but even furnished bed-
ding, was so prominent that it attracted the attention of
the Government of the King of the French, who con-
fared on him the decoration of July, as is expressly men-
tioned in a history of the revolution published under their
sanction. We hope that this relation of facts will meet
the eye of the French Government, and have the effect of
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On Saturday a remarkably fine sturgeon was
caught in the Thames, weighing between two and three
cwt., which was immediately taken to the LORD MAYOR,
who sent it as a present to Earl GREY.
CHOLERA IN COLD BATH-FIELDS PRI-
soN. —A correspondent says that within these last few
days the cholera has raged with great violence in Col
I:33thAelds Prison amongst the prisoners. During the
last twelve days there have been upwards of 100 prisoners
attacked, and ten or eleven deaths. On Sunday night
five prisoners were attacked.
Sir JAMES MACDONALD, who has been ap-
pointed Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands,
in the room of Sir FREDERICK ADAM, will, it is ex-
p••cted, take his departure in about three weelo, to assume
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functions of his office.
WoonFoan remains as Governor ad interim, and will
continue to command the forces in the Islands after the
arrival of the Right Honourable Baronet, whose know-
ledge of military affairs must be necessarily limited,