The Sun.
London, England, 1832-09-06 00:00:00

addles:Ned such a note to the Conference a. that
alluded to ; but we arc able to state, on the most
positive authority, that there is not the slightest
truth in the assertion of his having been badly
seconded by Lord PALMERSTON. Whatever
the general conduct of Lord PALMERSTON may
have been as regards the Belgic question—and
we are free to confess that we have frequently
felt that the Noble Lord was carrying his cour-
tesy to the Holy Alliance deputies too far—we
are bound to say, that latterly Lord PALMER-
STON has been a strenuous advocate for the just
claims of the Belgians, and that the Belgian
Minister has been recently heard to declare, that
he had every reason to be satisfied with the inte-
grity and firmness of the Noblo Secretary for
Foreign Affairs (que sa droiture et sa fern/ell!
en fizreur des Beiges meritoient deseloges).
With respect to the present state of the Belgian
question, we may observe, that all parties seem
disposed to come to a settlement, and that the
Conference hare adopted a new mode of treating
it, which they expect will be approved of both
by the Belgians and the Dutch.

We understand that the Bank Question,
although apparently dropped for the present,
continues to be the subject of frequent discussion
among those Members of the Government who
understand it best, and that the representations
made to Earl GREY by Mr. ATTWOOD, of
Birmingham, are likely to produce a strong
effect. Mr. ATTWOOD has communicated his
views verbally, as well as by letter, to the Pre-
mier ; and we have reason to believe that the
Noble Lord has signified, in an indirect way,
his concurrence in many of them, at the same
time, however, leaving it to be inferred, that
there was some difference of opinion between
him and the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the
subject. As soon as Ministers reassemble in
town, it is probable that the attention of the
Cabinet will be more particularly directed, than
• it hitherto appears to have been, to the state of
the currency and the Bank affairs.

At a meeting of the National Political Union
held yesterday, Mr. 'WAKEFIELD observed that
Mr. SPALDING had assured him " that his
father-in-law, the LORD CHANCELLOR, had
changed his opinion respecting the ballot, no
longer considering that it would make the
whole of a man's life a lie,' as he had formerly
asserted. It was a conversation with the late
Mr. JEREMY BENTHAM that had changed his
Lordship." This, if it be true; which we have
no reason to doubt, seeing that it is put forth
on respectable authority, is a piece of intelli-
gence not less important than gratifying. JE-
REMY BENTHAM has made many converts, but
never so illustrious a one as the present LORD
CHANCELLOR of England.

The Memoirs of Louis XVIIL lately pub-
lished in Paris, though possessing little literary
merit, give considerable insight into the state
of the French Court and Government under
the old Bourbon dynasty.
The character of the dethroned tyrant
CHARLES X. is thus given by his brother,
when speaking of his approaching marriage,—
" As for D'ARTOIS (CHARLES X.), whose
" marriage was now about to take place, he had
" n 0 occasion to make any affected concealment
" of his learning, for he hardly possessed the
" very first rudiments of information of any
" kind, literary or scientific, ancient or modern"
4emoires de Louis XVIII. Chap. 10.),
and yet the best interests of society, the happi-
ness of millions, were at one time committed to
the caprice of this individual !
The wisdom of Louis XVIII. himself, is dis-
played in a light but little more favourable in
these Memoirs. There is some boasting, it is
true, of his learning, but we find few indications
of it, excepting that he appears to have read
RORACE, and all the scandalous chronicles of
his time. His notions of the art of government
appear, like those of the rest of his family, to have
been chiefly imbibed from his nurse, and it is
not difficult to guess what notions of govern-
ment a Bourbon nurse was likely to instil into
the mind of a Bourbon Prince.
The following is the account given of Louis
XVIII. when Count de PROVENCE, going in
public procession to the Parliament. " I pro-
ceeded as slowly as possible through the streets;
" I bowed to the right and to the left with th e
" most gracious smile ; and it was not without
" satisfaction that I heard the compliments paid
" to my person and my countenance, for I must
" say they were not spared."
In another part of the work is a history of
LOUIS XVI. taking lessons in dancing long
after his marriage, and of an almost incredible
scene between him and his brother, CHARLES
X. The latter, who was greatly amused at the
awkwardness of the KING, expressed his feelings
in a very offensive way, which brought down
upon him the sovereign displeasure of his bro-
ther, after the school-boy fashion, when a scene
succeeded to which the pen of FIELDING could
alone do justice.
The unfortunate Louis XVI., however, ap-
pears from these Memoirs to have been the only
individual of the family who ever gave his mind
to any rational study. He devoted much time
toi mechanical pursuits, an occupation that was
ooked upon by his family as a disgrace ; they,
however, appear to have endeavoured in vain to
prevent his indulging in it.
Of such matters, of fatiguing accounts of the
ceremonials of the bigotted Court of France,
and of some obscene anecdotes, these Memoirs
are chiefly made up ; and persons unacquainted
with Courts will have some difficulty in believing
that even on the brink of the Revolution, those
most interested in its events could have occu-
pied themselves with matters so trifling and
contemptible.

The following are extracts from Dutch Pa-
pers received this morning:—
AMSTERDAM, Scer. 4.--His Excellency Baron de
Binder, 111inh,ter of Austria at the Court of the Nether-
lands, arrived here to-day.
Boxs-Le-Dvc, SEPT. 2,-- The thy before yesterday
sri order of the day was publi-led in the came at Ciers-
, tile, announcing that the troops there (the 3d division)
Were to leave it on the Sth inst. Nothing seems to have