The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-04 00:00:00

Governnieut on the brink of theesrecipice at which it
has placed itself, and since Ministers Lave so violently
attacked the Constitution, let us resiNr it all. the respect
which is due to it.—(Loud applause.)
The Minister of Justice justified the declaration of marti :1
law in La Vendee as rendered necessary by the regular or.
ganization of armed bands, which did not exist when
severe measures were refused by the Government. Al.
Barrot's plan of educating the inhabitants of those countries
would lie excellent for the future, but it would hardly
have been advisable to be satisfied with sending to H
Chouan chief a polite request to go to school and learn to
read.--(Laughter.) The Hon. Minister repeated that the
same parties who cho-e to condemn the declaration or
martial law in Paris approved of it in La Vendee, and
particularly that the very journals which on the 34 and
4th of June were full of the regulations to he observed in
eases of martial law, and loudly proclaimed both the lega-
lity and expediency of the measure as rigged to LaVendee.
on the 7th of June, only three days afterwards, were as
strenuously employed in proving its illegality.—(Renewed
laughter.)
M. de Corcelles—Speak to the Chamber; we are not
sitting here to pass judgment' on the journals.
The President—l cannot and I will not allow these
interruptions.
The Minister of Justice continued by painting the situa-
tion of Paris on the sth and 6th of June, and the proofs
furnished by the collection of arms end ammunition di..
covered at different places, of the existence of a plot to
,verthrow the Government, anti argued that it wes not
enly necessary to repress rebellion by declaring martial
saw on the 6th, but to prevent its recurrence by con-
-inning it afterwards. I do net wish (continued M.
Bathe) to recriminate on our adversaries, but I winks
ask if, on the review that followed the events of June, the
Ministry on one h !nil bad presented itself to the National
nuarels with the ordinance of m trtial law, and on the
eller a deputy had appeared with the Compte rendoe pub.
gibbed a few days before, which would have been the most
Favourably received?—(Violent agitation.) To protest
against the rebellion on the one hand, and make it up by
accusing the Ministry on the other, is a weakness or an
rror ; it is approving the repression of disorders, yet
blaming the band which operated it. If on the 6th of
:lone the rem] or the white flag bad been triumphant, I
tell know the dangers in which the Ministers would have
been placed ; but I thank Heaven that, amid all the ac-
casationa which have been raised against the majority
and the Royal prerogative, it cannot at least be said that
the Government has been perjured.—(Vociferous applause
from the ceterets)
M. Odillon Barrot, with considerable warmth, said that
he perfectly understood that he was the deputy alluded to
by the Hon. Minister as likely to have met with an tin-
e:vomit& reception from the National Guards. Ile did
not know how far it was Parliamentary to bring the
National Guards in as a party to debates in that Chamber
—( Violent interruption)—but he would declare that he
was not afraid of presenting himself before any body of
:es fellow-citizens whatever, as he had the consciousnesa
having done his duty by defending -the rights of his
country, both out of the Chamber, in the tribune, and in
the Compte rendu, an act the legality of which could not
he contested.—(Renewed and long-continued interruption:
the President with great difficulty succeeded in restoring
comparative silence.) Recurring to the question of martial
law, he maintained that the measure had been repelled in
t' e Council of Ministers on the morning of the 6th of
Jsne, and was net adopted until the evening of that
f,3y, when the firing had ceased and the rebellion was
wholly at an end, and thence argued that the real
!native of it could only have been the desire of vengeance,
old the hope of being able to crush without difficulty
•lrese fallen enemies whose fate would be delayed and
perhaps mitigated if left to the ordinary tribunals. It
-tteh were the motive, and he could imagine no other, then,
fslittirvg the strict legality of the measure out of the ques.
thin, the adoption of it for such an object was an attack
mei the charter calling for signal reparation. In conclu-
sion, he alluded to the visit of the Deputies to the King,
,ted said that lie a'so had gone to his Majesty; this was at a
I ,ter period, indeed, but not too late, for a real, a serious
ilanger, far greater than any to which the King was ex-
, posed from the insurrection, then existed—the danger of
re-action. " It is not," said he, " in moments of tern.
retillity that Constitutions ate violated ; Government, when
cog), do not venture to attack them. We foresaw this
danger, and we wished to induce the Government to pre-
serve that moral force which an adherence to the Constitu-
tion would have given it. Unfortunately we did not sue-
eed ; bnt it is to be hoped that what could not be obtain-d
lry the force of reason, will be so by the strong reproliaa
eon of the Chamber."—(Great confusion prevailed during
this discourse, which was received with loud applause from
the'extremities, and equally loud disapprobation from the
centres.)
The Minister of the Marine asserted Abet the declaration
of martial law was determined on in the morning, not the
evening, of the 6th of June, and that the Council was una-
nimous on the point.
M. Odillon Barrot—The Minister of the Marine gives
me the lie (me donne ice dement). I accept it ; I will
net carry the discussion further.
Araeo (from his place)—l declare that the assertion
of Al. Odillon Barret is strictly correct.
The greatest tumult prevailed ; at length the President
succeeded in putting the question as to closing the discus-
sion, which was carried in the affirmative. He then re-
read the amendment of M. Merilhou, and put it to the
vote. All the centres and part of the droite rose in op.
position to it; the extreme gauche and the remainder of
the droile in its favour. It was, therefore, rejected by a
considerable majori y. A few voices called for a ballot,
but the demand was not persisted in, and the President
declared the amendment lost.
The Sitting was then adjourned amidst great agitation.