The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-09 00:00:00

HAMBURG, OCT. 2.

Charles X. and his family are still at Rainville's,
in Altoria, and the report that he will protract his
s►ay in the vicinity of Hamburg seems to gain
ground. Several houses have been pointed out as
likely to be honoured with his residence, but it does
not yet appear that he has fixed on any. His suite
is large, consisting of from 40 to 50 individuals, and
among the chateaux of our burghers it is not easy
to find one large enough for so numerous a party,
though many of them are fitted up with great mag-
nificence.
The birthday of the young Duke de Bordeaux,
alias the Duke de Chambord, was celebrteed in a
quiet family way on Saturday. The young Prince
has been to visit all the remarkable places in and
near the city. He was on 'Change the other day
at the busiest period of the day. On the whole, the
ex• Royal Family have ceased to excite much curio-
sity, and are scat cely spoken,of.
The new regulation of sending the mails twice a
week by steam works delightfully at present, but
many seem to doubt whether the steamers will ever
be able to reach even the mouth of the river during
the winter months, owing to the quantity of ice then
floating there. The entrance to the Eibe is at all
times dangerous to mariners not well acquainted with
the navigation. However, time will show ; and
should the steamers not be able to reach Cuxhaven
during the winter months, they will not be worse off
than the packets that used till lately to sail fromHar-
wich, and which frequently were unable to land the
mails for five or six weeks consecutively. Indeed,
dining the winter the correspondence bet weep Ham-
burg and London is almost entirely carried on
over Holland.
While I am upon this subject, I must beg leave
to call your attention to an oversight on the part of
the English Government, of which I am sorry to see
that the Hamburg Senate are most unhandsomely
disposed to take advantage. When the packet
establishment was at Harwich, the packets used to
land the mai!s at Cuxhaven, where they were de•
livered over to the English agent, and by him handed
over to the Hamburg agent. They were sent then,
at the expense of the Hamburg Senate, to Ham-
letter-carriers. For bringing the letters.fr;im
yen to Hamburg, the post-office charged 6d. on each
letter, and an additional penny for delivering it in the
city. But surely, now that the English Govern-
ment have taken it upon themselves to deliver
the mails at Hamburg, the 6d. postage upon
each letter, if levied at all, ought to be handed over
to the English Post-office, as a part remuneration to
the English Government for the increased expense of
forwarding the mails by steam. At all events, the
Hamburg Government cannot have the shadow of a

pretence-for continuing, us they do, to levy this fax

The fairest way would be fur the English Post-
office to send a confidential agent over to Hamburg,
and take the delivery of the letters into their own
hands The sixpences on the letters would pay the
whole expense of the establishment, and might be

attended with considerable economy, as tLe resident
postmaster might act at the same time as consul,
receiving and forwarding couriers, &c., and thus
saving the country the whole expense of a consular
establishment. The authorities here would probably
remonstrate, and try hard to keep their sixpences;
but if the Duke of Rchwond were to set earnestly
about the business, the thing might soon be settled.
S s eden, Denmark, Prussia, Hanover, Mecklenburg,
arid even Brunswick have their own post-offices in
I lamburg ; to refuse a similar concession to England
would therefore be a marked insult to a power to
which Hamburg owe ,3 its political existence—indeed
so gross an insult, that I cannot for a moment con-
template the possibility of it. Of course there would
be a great deal of negotiating arid wheedling on the
subject, but, as justice would be so evidently on the
side of England, I don't think that any serious oppo-
sition would be made if it was once seen that the
English Government were in earnest.
In Berlin, the disgrace of Raunser, the historian
of tire Hohenstaufen, excites much interest at the

present moment. He was a member of the corn

tnittee of literary censors, but the situation is sup-
posed to have been, in his instance, almost a sine-
cure, as he was seldom called upon to act as censor.
He could not, however, endure to remain long a
spectator of the abominable conduct of his more ac-
tive colleagues, and resolved to deliver himself from

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that share of responsibility which was thrown upon
him by his nominal connection with the odious tri-
bunal of literary inquisition. He accordingly sent in
his resignation, I think somewhere about the early
part of the present year. His letter of resignation
to the Minister was couched in moderate language,
so that though it expressed his individual disappro-
bation of the conduct of his brothar censors, there
was nothing in it that could give offence to the Prus-
sian Government. Shortly afterwards, however, his
letter appeared in a newspaper, but even this cir-
cumstance did not altogether ruin him at Court, as
there was every reason to believe that the publics-

Lion of the letter was not occasioned by him, but by
a breach of confidence on the part of a clerk in one
of the Government offices. But now came the rub.
Poland has been the general subject of conversation
in Germany for the last two years, and Prussia has
reaso❑ to be ashamed of every part of her conduct
as connected with unhappy Poland. Raumer, as
the first living historian of Germany, vas called
upon by the Prus-ian Government to draw up, in
a popular form, a sketch of the modern history
of Poland, for insertion in one of the annuals. As
Runner still held some office under the GJvernment,

it was thought unnecessary to point out the spirit in
which the sketch in question was to be written;
and he, poor simple soul, took it into his head that
he was called upon to furnish a " plain unvarnished
' tale," just as if he had been writing for a public of
A. D. 2832. His official situation had .given him
access to many important state papers connected
with the abominable partitions of Poland; and these
he unhc..sitatingly made use of, displaying the con-
duct of the three partitioning Powers, but more par-
ticularly that of Russia, in all their native hideous-
ness. When the annual was submitted to the
censor, Raumer's article was shuck out, and he
hirriseif has now become the object of undi-guised
animosity, He was called upon to refund the money
whic)) had bet n paid him in advance for writiLg the
article, bat this he refuses to do. So the matter

stands at present. A most abusive article against
him, bearing the stamp of a semi-official communi-
cation, has been inserted in the Allgemeine Zeitung;
and I shall be curious to see whether, and in what
manner, he will reply.
A steam-boat from St. Petersburgh reached Lu-
beck yesterday. Mr. Bligh, the new English Am-
bassador, had arrived at the Russian capital. The
Emperor was gone on a journey to Srnolensko.