The Sun.
London, England, 1832-11-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PARISIAN JOURNALS.

Le Journal des Debats reiterates its arguments to
prove that; in practice, the Duchess of Berry cannot he

tried as an ordinary prisoner, unless a Jury can be found
superior to human nature, or so destitute of memory as to
forget what she was three years since—how different from
an ordinary individual by her rank, her situation, and her
future prospects.
La France Nouvelle replies particularly to the Cour-
rier de ['Europe, and argues that the law of the 10:11
of April, and the debate upon it, applied only to the
case of the members of the exiled family simply appearing
on the French territory, when all that could he done
would be to reconduct them across the frontiers; but if,
in addition to the violation of that law, they also commit
the further crimes of exciting civil war, &c., then the
case is altered, and that law is no longer applicable. The
Duchess of Berry has, it continues, made war against the
Government, and been defeated ; she is a prisoner of war,
and it is for the Government, with the assistance of the
Chambers to decide what the political consequences of that
situation are to be.

Le Messager des Chambres maintains that the arrest
of the Duchess has not settled the question of La Vendee,
since it is only an isolated fact, and the principal parti-
sans of Henry V., who have not sanctioned what they
have termed the rash attempts of the Duchess, are as
numerous and active as ever. To be convinced of this
it is only, it says, necessary to mix in the salons of the
Faubourg St. Germain.
Le National takes hold of the expression in the Moni.
teur relative to the Royal authority being " responsible
for its inflexibility or clemency," in the case of the
Duchess of Berry, as an admission of the responsibility of
the Crown, and urges, that by the same rule it must be
considered responsible for the refusal to sanction a penal
claim in the law of the 10th April, and for the nomina-
tion of Ministers whose unpopularity is so decided, that
the nation at once rejects them without even waiting for
their actions.

Le Courrier Francais, in alluding to the reported
escape of the Prince de Polignac, alter remarking that
the despatches referred to by the Nouvelliste, may be
anterior to the event, says--.. This news produced very
little sensation, because it is now difficult to understand
why M. de Polignac and his three colleagues remain at
Ham. If it be for having violated the Charter, this
crime has since been repeated so solemnly, and with such
complete impunity, that we cannot see why the national
justice should weigh with two measures; why the etat de
siege of 1830, should be judged with more severity than
the etat de siege of 1832. Example is the great object of
chastisement ; but in this case the example has been quite
useless, since it has not prevented the Ministers of 1832,
from renewing the crime of their predecesQors. Besides, it
is absurd to punish men who have only pushed the prin-
ciples of the restoration to their extreme consequence,when
those principles are again held up to honour by the
Government, and professed by it with an effrontery far
less tolerable than that which was complained of before
the 30th July. Now that it is proclaimed by the lifoni-
teur that the members of families which reign or have
reigned are above the laws, it is quite intelligible that a
family which wishes to continue to reign, should think
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itself above the Constitution, and should find Ministers to
legalise its pretension. Thus the continuance of the de-
tention of the four Ministers who signed the Ordonnances
of the 25th July, has long been an anomaly, the Govern-
merit of Louis Philip owes them a full and complete am-
nesty, and the escape of M. de Polignac would have been
considered as an advance towards that measure. This
sentiment is so general, that we may be certain, that if the
report had been confirmed, the Ministry would have been
much lass embarrassed by its defeat at Ham, than by its
victory at Nantes."

Le Journal du Commerce says, that the Opposition
do not comphin of the Ministry for going to war, but for
doing it in a blind and improvident manner, fur having
all along maintained that any collision between the con-
tending Powers would bring about a general war, and now
producing that collision, and, at the same time, pretend-
ing that the general peace will not be disturbed. It urges
that the taking of the citadel of Antwerp will not prevent
the Dutch from annoying the Belgian commerce in every
way, as soon as the French troops are withdrawn, and that
the main question will be as far from being settled as ever.
The Conference, it contends, ought to have firmly en-
forced the whole treaty on the King of Holland, as soon
as it became evident that milder means were ineffectual.
(From the Nouvelliste, tilted Wednesday, received this
morning.)

General Pelet has been appointed to the command of a
division of infantry, consisting of grenadiers and volti-
geurii, forming ou the Meuse, under the name of a reserve
division.

A letter, dated Cherburg, Nov. 10, says, " The fri-
gate Syrene, which has been under orders for some days,
to join Rear-Admiral Villeneuve's squadron, and which
bad weather has impeded the equipment of, set sail yes-
t-..rday afternoon, at two o'clock, for Spithead."

The census of the moveable Nitional Guard in the de-
pirtment of the Rhone, has just been completed. The
g,-neral total, according to the documents transmitted to
the Minister at the end of last month, was 25,563 citizens.

It is said that M. de Peyronnet has written to the Pre.
sident of the Council to obtain permission to repair to
Blaye should the Duchess of Berry be pleased to except of
his services in quality of counsel.
Colonel Chousserie of the gendarmerie has been ap-
pointed Commander-in-chief of the fortress of Blaye dur-
ing the Duchess of Berry's stay there.
FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, Nov. 12.-Five per Cents. 96f. 96f.
sc. 961.95 f. 95c. 96f. 96f. sc. 96E 95f. 95c. Loan of 1832, 96f.
25c. Three per Cents., 67f. 50c. 55c. 45c. 40c. 50c. National
Loan, 9tif. 25c. Bank Actions, 1,660 f. 1,657 f. 50c. Rente de Na-
ples, 81f. 15c. 81f. 81f. 20c. 15c. 811: 20c. Roman Five per Cents.,
SI. Rente d'Espagne' 13}4 % 14 13% 34, . Ditto, Three per
Cents., 29%. Royal Spanish Loan, 78% Rente Perpe.
tuelle d'Espagne, 56% % % %. Belgian Loan, 74%. Hay.
tian Loan, 200 E-Exchange on London, one month, paper, 25f.
The.; money, 25f. 75c ; three months, paper, 25f. 65c. ; money,
251. 6L'c.- fours Authentique.
FRENCII FUNDS.-PARIS, Nov. 13.-Five per Cents. 96f. sc.
96f. 95f. 95c. 96f. 95f. 96f. 96f. 95c. 96f. Loan of 1832, 96f. '2oc.
Four per Cents., 801 '2sc. Three per Cents. 67f. 40c. 45c. 40c.
45c. Bank Actions, 1,657 f. 50c. 1,660 f. Rente de Naples, 81f. 10c.
15c. 20c. 25c. 20c. Roman Five per Cents., 81%. Rente
d'Espagne, Five per Cent., 13 % % % 44. Rente d'Espagne
Thee per Cent., 29%. Royal Spanish Loan, 79. Rente Perpe-
tuelle d'Espagne, 56%. Belgic Loan, 74% 14. Haytian Loan,
200.-Exchange on London, one month, paper, 25f. 75c ; money,
25c. 75c. ; three months, paper, 2.5 f. 65c. ; money, 25f. 60c.-
Cours Authentiquc.

SOUTH AMERICA.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER. FROM BUENOS AYRES, DATED

AUGUST 17.

(Received per ship, via Liverpool.)
Here matters are in statu quo, but in Monte Video, as you
will have learnt on the arrival of the Tyrian, they have had
a revolution. We bad hoped that Gen. Lavalleja would not
hive joined the party opposed to the Governor (General
Fructuoso Riveira) ; the subsequent events, however, have
tended to shake the confidence placed in Lavalleja's pru-
dence, and a protracted civil war seems to be the propahle
result of this impolitic revolution.
You must know that not since, but previous to the in-
dependence of the Banda Oriental, two strong political
parties existed, General Riveira being the leader of the
one, and General Lavalleja of the other. The former
was supposed to possess the influence of the country
people, and the latter of those in town. The fa-
cilities of depriving Monte Video of provisions was
thought a sufficient safeguard against any movement
in the town, and, up to a late period, proved so; but the
Governor having enacted some laws against " intrusos"
(country people who settle on unoccupied lands, and from
custom claim a right to possession), weakened much his
party, and this induced the party in town to try their
luck. My opinion is, that Riveira will ultimately re-
establish his power, though not before the destruction of
much property.
Postscript of the 18th of August.—On the 9th inst. a
counter-revolution took place in Monte Video, the black
troops declaring in favour of Riveira. At first such was
the alarm in that city that the Judge of Police was in-
duced to call on the English and American Consuls to re-
quest assistance from their national vessels of war to pro•
tect the town from pillage. Immediately his Majesty's
brig Beagle, and the United States schooner Enterprise,
landed each fifty men, taking possession of the Custom-
house, and so on. The alarm soon ceased, as the majo-
rity declared for Riveira. Tranquillity was re-established,
and the foreign forces returned to their respective ships.
I am sorry to add, that I do not consider the contest at an
end, although the loss of the city to Lavelleja admits of
the probability that he will ultimately have to succumb.
We are not at all aware of the forces of the contending
parties, although all agree that Riveira is the strongest.
He has been joined by General Lavalle, Olivaria, and the
other unitarian efficeis who emigrated to the Banda Ori-
ental in 1829.

LAUGHABLE OCCURRENCE.--One day
during the last week as Mr. LYNCIT, the celebrated Irish
" Committee" man, was spouting away at a tremendous
rate from the window of the Nag's Head in the Waters,
he was surprised, in the midst of one of his tirades, to
find more than one-half of his auditors suddenly fall
down to the ground. He starred, but still the people Ity
on the ground, and what the d-1 was the matter he
could not, with all his sagacity, comprehend. At last it
was discovered that some philosophical wag bad charged
an individual in the outside with electric matter, and the
cro.s d being extremely dense, it communicated through
the whole, and produced the ludicrous effect described.--
Macclesfield Herald,

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