The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-23 00:00:00

ADELPHI THEATRE.

Last night, one of those dramatic trifles which are de-
scribed by the generic diminution " burletta" was pro-
duced at this theatre, for the first time, and apparently
without any great promise of successful r,petition. It is
entitled The Divorce, and the structure of the plot would
seem to be of French origin. The scene is laid at Spa,
where Madame de Merville arrives at an hotel, and
presents herself us the divorced wife of Lord Clifford.
She is accompanied by De .IJerville, her second lord and
master, and after a good deal of sentiment, in which she
says that he was the only object of her earliest love, she
openly avows her t'ormer marriage was the result of con-
straint, and quite adverse to the feelings of her heart.
S. Ports Filter, a general
Meanwhile Lord Clifford comes to Spa, with Lis invalid
child, the fruit of this inauspicious union ; and here the
frequenterth
efiltperson he meets is
Hygeian springs, from Cheltenham to
Berage, and who can talk and think of nothing but water.
The lady, in the course of the incidents that fellow, dis-
covers how much she was mistaken in the character of
the man whom she has so deeply wronged, and her se-
cond husband, unable to endure the degraded association
with her, resolves to fly her presence for ever. The ca.
abandoned by both parties, each quitting her by a differ-
tastiophe exhibits her in the extreme of mental suffering,

eat route, yet each still piole,,bing to bp OY •IlVilelaked with
love 46 while he rides away." Such is the outline of the
fable, and it was evident to every person that the author
had in view all that masa of mawkish sentiment which
the German dramatist serves up in The Strangers only
to offend and nauseate every manly feeling. The several
performers exerted themselves throughout in a manner
that left nothing to be desired on their part. Mrs. YaTtst
who appeared for the first time this season, was very ca'
dially greeted by the audience.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)

(From the Nouvelliste of Saturday.)
Despatches received to-day from Nantes, by expret',
announce that tranquillity has been completely restored to
that town.
The naval force at the mouth of the Loire is about to
be strengthened by the addition of two vessels.
A telegraphic despatch was sent to Admiral Ducte9t de
Villeneuve, at Cherbourg, directing him to hasten bill pre
parations.
The Courrier du Nord, a Valenciennes paper, says that
the medical staff of the army of the North has just re:
ceived an additional reinforcement. A clerk in the 17°81-
office, at Valenciennes, has left that town for Beigiglt
in order to establish forthwith a line of despatches for ",-
service of the French army.
lthted to them the new short eregimentaof the army of thesabre.
distributed
ment of the line received theirs two days back. 7,,
Liberal, a Douai paper, states that the bargemen there I,llo'
been consulted as to the time it would take to transft,
North
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the park of artillery which has for some time been ".in
tioned on the Esplanade, down the Scarpe (a branch "
the Scheldt) to Antwerp.
(From the Messager des Chambres, dated Mand*P)
The French troops will enter Belgium next MOW,
and the Ministers and their friends anno°°e:
that it will be in spite of the Northern Power":l
not having consented to it. According to some .0"
will be actual war, for they say that it is an aggrele%
made in opposition to the protests of Prussia, Au9tr-'
and Russia. According to others it is a mere mysti"li,
tion, a silly demonstration made only to insure temperate.%
a majority to the Doctrinnaires and the Holy Alija°, c
We think we can answer f,r it, that if the troops e,°:,
Belgium on Monday, as is now decided, the Prussian 'I-0
bassador will demand his passports. We shall thus be.,:ri
the eve of great events, which may compromise e-
country in Europe.

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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1832.

Although the statement made by a Morning
Contemporary, of the nature of the reply brought
by 111.DuRNtroFF to the despatches of which he
Was the bearer from the Conference, is unfounded,
the King of PRUSSIA not having declared that
he will oppose coercive measures against Hol-
land, as stated by our Contemporary, we have
reason to believe that the reply is of too equivocal
a character to justify any further delay on the
part of our Cabinet ; and that, with or without
the consent of Prussia, measures will II? imme-
diately adopted against Holland. Yesterday
Prince TA LLEYRA ND had a long interview with
Earl GREY, and, after several conferences with
the different Ambassadors, he proceeded to the
Foreign-office, where he remained until three
O'clock this morning, arranging, as we under-
stand, with Lord PA LNIERSTON the plan of
operation rendered necessary by the conti-
nued obstinacy of the Dutch KING. The
proceedings will, in the first instance, be entirely
maritime, with a menace of relieving the Bel-
gians of a portion of their debt to Holland, if,
after a limited number of days, the King of
HOLLAND shall not have consented to negotiate
with the Belgians on the basis laid down by
the Conference; but it has been agreed, that if
this should fail, the French army shall com-
mence operations, first offering every reasonable
guarantee for their return after the object of
their entering into Belgium shall have been at-
tained.

The King of PRUSSIA, WO understand, has
endeavoured to obtain further time, and at the least
t° induce the British and French Governments
to proceed with mildness ; but we can state from
authority, that Marshal SouLT and the Duke of
BRoGLIE have declared that too much forbezu
ance has been already shown, and have given
instructions to Prince TALLEYRAND to press
°Pon our Cabinet the necessity of decision and
vigour. In consequence of these instructions
M. de TALLEYRAND has, we are assured
from a positive source, urged Earl GREY and
Lord PALMERSTON to instant and vigorous
action, as the surest means of averting a
European war. The Prince is right. Delay
only can bring the British and French Cabinets
into hostile collision with the Northern Powers.
If time be allowed for negociation, Russia and
Prussia will take the first opportunity of assist-
ing Holland ; but if coercive measures against
that Power be adopted at once, and vigorously
Maintained, the question will be settled before
Russia and Pnssia can find an excuse for inter-
fering in the dispute.
cults the position of the French
!Nlinistry is diffi-
, and there is no chance of their meeting the
Chambers with success, without a declaration in
favour of Belgium, our Cabinet must either act
cordially and earnestly with that of France, or
leave the French to do things in their own way—
a course which might not be very agreeable even
to our juste-milien, for if the French Govern-
ment were abandoned to its own resources, it
Would be forced to seek support in the
enthusiasm of the people for a war in which
the principles of liberty would prevail against the obstacles which the Conservatives of different
degrees have interposed.

The extracts extracts we have given from the French
Papers, dated Sunday and yesterday, received
this morning, have a more warlike appearance
than any intelligence we have recently received
from that quarter of Europe. Even the King
of HOLLAND'S speech ►is hardly so conclusive as

the many little circumstances we have gathered
from the NouvelliNte, independently of the posi•
tive declaration in the Message,. des Cha»zbres
that the French troops are to enter Belgium on
Monday next. At the same time, after what
we have witnessed for the last two years, we
shall not believe in a war taking place till hostili-
ties have actually commenced. If Louts-Put [-
LIPPE were governed by w hat it is evident to
every one but himself is his own interest and
that of France, it would not be long before the
King of HOLLAND was brought to reason.
The same Papers contain a report from M.
GUIZoT, the Minister of Public Instruction, to
the KING, recommending the establishment of a
kind of Journal of Education, for the use of the
primary schools. The KING has approved of the
establishment of the publication. It is to be called
" A General Manual of Primary Instruction,'
and is to comprehend, " Ist. All documents re-
lative to popular instruction in France ; 2d. Ac-
counts of everything relating to primary instruction
in the principal civilized states of the world ;
3d. An analysis of works relative to primary
instruction ; 4th. Counsels and directions fitted
to insure the progress of that species of instruc-
tion in all parts of the kingdom." M. GUIZOT
will find enough to do if he follows up his task,
for a more ignorant peasantry does not exist
south of the Oder than the greater part of that
of France. We accept his present effort as an
augury of good. Certainly the first thing to be
done is to make known to the teachers appointed
to the primary schools the best plans for them
to pursue in giving their instructions ; and if M.
Gutzon renders his country the essential service
of paving the way for that kno,dedge, the pos-
session of which only can assure to a nation
mional liberty, he will be entitled to its ever-
lasting gratitude, whatever may become of the
Ministry of which he forms a part.

The infatuation of the devoted Tories in
creases daily. What was before simple obsti
nacy, now amounts to absolute hallucination

Having already ensured the triumph of Reform,
by their rancorous, insulting, and protracted op-
position to it, they are now, by a similar course
of conduct, doing their best to promote the suc-
cess of the ballot. We hear of the deplorable
absurdities of these men in all quarters. North,
South, East, or West, no matter ; wherever a
shred of Tory influence remains, there that
influence is sure to be directed to corrupt,
unconstitutional ends. The latest Tory freak
we know of has been played off by that
illustrious statesman, the Marquis of BUTE.

The very name " BUTE" stinks in the nostrils
of every reader of English history ; it is but
another terns for corruption, despotism, and the
rankest bigotry; and the present representative of
the family seems resolved that it shall not dege-
nerate into wisdom or liberality in his person.
He is just now briskly at work in Glamorgan-
shire, endeavouring to reduce Cardiff once
again to the condition of a rotten borough. His
brother, Lord JAMES STUART, the present
deservedly popular Member, has, in consequence,
been compelled to resign ; and now every effort
is making in every hole and corner of the
borough, as also throughout the country, to
return such a Member or Members as may be
most remarkable for their subserviency to To-
ryism in general, and Buteism (which we take
to be Toryism in a high state of inflammation)

in particular. The Noble Marquis thinks, no
doubt, he will be successful in his intrigues,—
that he and his will be able to ride rough-
shod through Glamorganshire ; but he may rest
assured that he will be disappointed in his ex -
pectation ; or should he, by the exercise of Her-
culean energies of corruption, be enabled to bully
Cardiff into submission, he will, by the accom-
plishment of his wishes, be the means of raising
up a clamour for the ballot throughout South
Wales, which in the end will carry all before it.
As a friend to the ballot, commend us to a red-
hot Tory. He does the question more service
by his superior stupidity, helps it to more
arguments by his inveterate hostility, than the
best and ablest Liberal that ever yet penned a
line on the subject. The question, we foresee,
will be carried, and that at no distant date,
rather by the blunders of the Tories, than by
the energy or unanimity of the Liberals.

We are glad to learn, by the news from Con-
stantinople this morning, that the affairs of the
SULTAN are not in such a forlorn plight a,;
previous accounts had led us to expect. It now
appears that IBRAHIM PACHA has received a
check in his victorious career, and that the
cholera has attacked his army. In the mean
time the greatest exertions are made by the
SULTAN to reinforce his army. The report of
the naval victory obtained by the Egyptians turns
out to have been unfounded :

CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 25.—1 t now appears that
the military disasters of the Porte are by nu means so great
as they were at first believed to be. Ibrahim Pacha has not
crossed the Tourie mountains, an attempt that he made on
the fortress of Kumkale has been defeated by Mehemet]
Pacha of Aleppo, and the cholera rages to a fearful extent
in the Egyptian army. On t Iv.! other hand a numerous army,
chiefly indeed of irregular troops, is again assembling near
Konich, with considerable detachments of the Grand Vizier
Redschid Pacha (who has arrived here to day), from
Rumelia and Albania ; and Redschid himself is full of con-
fidence. The Sultan had a conference with the Grand Vizier
immediately after his arrival, which is said to have con-
firmed him still more in his resolution not to lay down his
arms till Mehemed Ali shall have been punished fur his
treachery.

The accounts of the loss of a batt!e at sea are now &-
dared from many quarters to be groundless. It would
redly he strange if a decisive naval action had taken
place, that nothing certain should be knon n of it for a
long time.

The march of troops, and the sending of convoys and
ammunition from the capital, continue with the same ac-
tivity, which is the more remarkable, as the discontent of
a great number of the inhabitants of the capital is mani-
fested by repeated acts of incendiarism, and the ravages
of the plague are still very great. Ore would almoAt
he tempted to believe, that it was the object of the Go-
vernment to send the troops away, in order to save them
from the dreadful malady. In general, the means of re-
moving them from the capital are facilitated as much as
possible.

MUNICH, OCT. 14.-The Greek deputation arrived
here yes.erday, and put up at the hotel appointed for the
Regency of Greece, opposite the Palace, where they are
to be considered as guests of the Bavarian Court.
During the last two or three days thousands of persons
coming from far and near have been pouring into the gates
of Munich to be present at the October fete, which was
deferred till to-day. No guests were more eagerly ex-
pected than the Greek Deputies, who are sent in the
naive of their nation to offer to their new Monarch, the

son of the King of Rival-la, the first homage of regene-
rated Greece. They arrived ye,trrday morning, awl a,l
eyes were fixed on them, when tee three old heroes in the
scarlet dress of the l'aHeal, and their high Albanian caps,
accompanied by their aides-de-camps, appeared to-day in
some of the Royal carriages at the place where the fete is
celebrated, and went into the box or gallery erected for
them, opposite to the Royal pavilion. All the surround-
ing galleries, as well as the whole eminence and extensive
field before it were covered with an innumerable multitude,
when a salute of artilery announced the arrival of the
King and the Royal family. The people welcomed with
joyful acclamations the Royal carriage, accompanied by
cavalry of the civic guard, in which two Kings
were seated. The formal reception of the Greek
deputies did not take place as had been intended, be
cause, in consequence of the lateness of their arrival at
Munich, they had not been able to go in form to wait on
their Majesties at Court. The festiv was attended
by greater multi•udes than on any former occasion, and
the showers of rain that occurred did not interrupt it.
Is the evening Chelard's opera, " Mache.h," was per-
formed in the Theatre, which was splendidly illuminated.
Here, too, his Maje-ty appeared, with the young King of
Greece, and was received pith acclamation'. Their Ma-
jesties were in their private box, and the Greek deputies
in the grand box of the Court. The Greeks could not
have seen their Prince for the first time, on any better day
than this, as they beheld him in the midst of his faithful
people.

AICNICH, OCT. 15.—The Greek deputies went to-day
to Court in great pomp They were presented to the
Royal Family, to whom one at them addressed a speech
in Greek, which was then real by the interpreter in a
German translation. The Minister of the Royal house-
hold made an answer in German, which was read by the
interpreter in Greek.

The Deputies w, re then conducted to another apart-
ment, where they had an audience of the King and
Queen, and then to the apartments of the King of Greece,
who received them standing on the steps of the throne, at-
tended by the Regency of Greece. The Deputation, bow-
ing three times, approached the steps of the throne. The
address of the Members in Greek, and the reply of a
Member of the Regency in German, were read by the in-
terpreter in translations as before. The Deputies were then
presented to King Odin by a Member of the Regency,
after which they took leave, retired to their hotel in the same
procession as they came. In the afternoon there was a
royal entertainment in the Hall of Hercule•, to which
the Regency of Greece, the Greek Deputation, and the
Ambassadors of England, Russia, and France, were in_
vited.—Allgemeine Zeitung, 16th and 17th Oct.
VIENNA, OCT. 7.—His Imperial Highness the Arch-
Duke Ramer, Viceroy of Italy, with his family, arrived
here yesterday.

A letter from Tarvis, of Oct. 1, mentions, that after a
very hot day and sultry evening, very unusual at this sea-
son in that country, the inhabitants had been roused from
their sleep by several shock of an earthquake, accom-
panied by a loud subterraneous noise. Several buildings
were much damaged.—Frankfort Papers, Oct. 17.

We direct attention to the suggestions con-
tained in the Letter of our intelligent Corres-
spondent Alpha, respecting the question of war
or peace. We rather suspect, however, that the re-
cent improvement in steam, and its extensive ap-
plication to naval operations, will in a great de-
gree supersede the plan of Lord MELVILLE, as
to armed troop-ships. The facility of transport
by steam is now so great, that it would be
much cheaper and safer to keep the troops
on land till their services were required, than
cooping them up at sea, especially in wintry
weather. As to the suggestion of employing
marines, we believe Government have acted in
that manner, during the summer, both on the
coast of Ireland and on that of Portugal, where
numbers of marines are embarked on board our
squadrons of observation. We heartily concur
with Alpha, that ii we must have war it ought
to be entered into with a spirit and promptitude
worthy of our national character. Half mea-
sures will never do.

We have been favoured with a copy of Mr.
GEO. SINCLAIR'S address to the electors of the
county of Caithness. It appears that there, as
well as nearer to us, the Conservatives have re-
course to the miserable arguments by which they
endeavour to persuade the people that those who
opposed all Reform are the best possible repre-
sentatives they can choose now that Reform has
been carried. The present pretended approba-
tion of Reform expressed by the conformists,
renders them as contemptible as their principles
must render them hateful in the minds of all
upright, straightforward men. The distinction
between this class of candidates and the true,

ancient advocates of Reform is well drawn by
Mr. SINCLAIR. " I would," he says, " describe
it to be a characteristic distinction between the
real friend and the reluctant convert ; that the
one would confer as much, and the other as little

as possible on the people at large." We doubt

aot that the electors of Caithness will know how
to estimate the difference between the one and

he other.
The following letter from Mr. PERCEVAL,

Chancellor of the Exchequer, written to Mr. SIN•

CLAIR, in 1812, apparently after some overtures
from the Minister to the latter for his support
in Parliament had been refused, contains a fine
specimen of the cant of the Tory party, con-
stantly putting forth its own prosperity as that
of the people. It contains all that was really
said against the Reform Bill ; and the answer to
it is the same as was returned to the Anti-Re-
formers in Parliament. " Corruption has every
where prevailed ; abuses have in all departments
of the state multiplied ; you have profited
by them, and we are miserable." We give the
letter as a curiosity; it is a relic of a mode of
thinking already ancient. In a few years more
it will not be understoood without a glossary of
the meaning of the words " liberty" and " pros-
perity," as here used

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" DEAR have had the honour of receiving your
letter of this day's date, for the whole of which, but more
particularly for the expressions and sentiments of kindness
towards myself, which it contains, I beg to return you my
best thanks. 4 Upon another point, I must say,
that the modesty with which you disclaim the merits your
father ascribes to you, is calculated to give me a firmer
reliance on your father's report, than I should perhaps
otherwise have been disposed to place upon his opinion,
on a subject where his partiality might so very naturally
mislead his judgment. I should not be acting with that
openness towards you, with which you have honoured me,
if I did not express my regret, (I have no right, and
have no idea of presuming to do mere) that you are likely
to exhibit another instance of a young, ardent, intelligent,
but inexperienced mind, which, caught by the plan-
sibilities of theory, will be led to countenance altera-
tions, whereof no human wisdom can forsee the
practical result, in a Constitution, which, whatever im-
perfections may belong to it, has been practically tile
cause and the instrument o f procuring to this country
a degree of liberty and prosperity never known to exist
in any country, or under any Government, upon earth.
You will, I am sure, permit me to observe, that our
Constitution has also this additional claim to our support
at the present time, because it has hitherto proved suffi-
cient to secure itself, and all that depends upon it, in
times when all other Constitutions have been crumbling
under the effect of these convulsions, which similar theories
have occasioned elsewhere. But 1 have no doubt before
you take a decisive step on this subject, you will first form
—perhaps have already formed—a dispassionate estimate
of the blessings which you put to hazard by any altera-
tion, compared with the improvements in prospect, with-
out forgetting the possibilities at least of mistake, and the
certainty of ruin to all we now enjoy, which, if your Re-
form should not answer, the result of your experiment
would produce. But I fear my pen is running
its due bounds. I am, Dear Sir, your's very truly,
SPENCER PERCEVAL
Downing-street, January 26, 1812. on beyond