The Sun.
London, England, 1832-11-06 00:00:00

WURTEMBURG, OCT. 27.

This Country is now important. Pozzo di
Borgo is here plotting. To understand its po-
sition one must enter a little into its history.
Twenty-six years ago, when the old German
empire was destroyed by Napoleon, Wurtemburg
was but an inconsiderable district ; but the Pro-
tector of the Confederation of the Rhine made
Kings out of some of the petty Sovereigns, while
he also, on account of their favouring his de-
signs, enlarged their dominions. Wurtemburg
has thereby remained a kingdom, and it now has
about as many subjects as London and its im-
mediate environs. Here is also a King Wil-
liam, or with more propriety Wilhelm, as in
German. He has his Court, his army, and di-
plomatists, with all the paraphernalia of Royalty.
Great Britain keeps her two diplomatists, who
have between this Court and that of Baden to
contrive employment or amusement in order to
kill time. A King 'cannot he without a fleet,
so there are two pleasure boats in the Lake of
Constance, at Frederick's haven, on the confines
of the kingdom. As his Majesty constitutes
the Bth power in the German Confederation, he
is obliged, as his contingent in tune of peace, to
maintain about 14,000 men under arms. The
revenues of the state amount to about 800,0001.,
of which one-half is expended in the support of
the army and of the Royal family, one of the
• most numerous in Europe, and which is con-
nected with most of the same rank in the north,
and especially with that of Russia.
This kingdom is constituted of a great portion
of the old German circle of Suabia ; the inhabi-
tants are therefore hest known as Suabians, and
are the most serious, honest, resolute, and labo-
rious Germans. For many centuries they have
had privileges and rights to which they adhered
with strong pertinacity ; and in order to satisfy
fully their desires, the present King, on ascend-
ing the throne about 15 years ago, gave a Con-
stitution. The love of liberty seems implanted
here and in Baden. It has produced much
more resistance to absolutism than in other dis
tricts. The country is hilly, and the inhabitants,
with care, can defend their homes and their free-
dom. In religion they are liberal ; two-thirds
are Protestants, and the remainder Catholics.
The following not unusual instance of liberality,
ought to put to shame Christian pastors in other.
and, as they pretend, -more enlightened coun-
tries. On the 27th of August last, in the parish
of Leinzell, in the district of Gmund, the Ca. •
tholic priest invited the Protestant clergyman to
attend the marriage of a Protestant miller, named
Kolb, to a Catholic maiden, called Maier. The
marriage was celebrated by the former, in his
church, upon which the Protestant clergyman,
M. Sulzer, ascended the pulpit, and delivered a
sermon. The priest said mass, and the Protes-
tant and Catholic friends of both sang hymns in
the choir, and from the altar the Protestant
clergyman blessed the new married pair. This
act, which the Suabians consider the most ac-
ceptable that can be offered to the Deity, is
called here a simultaneum. This too is Schiller's
country, and he loved freedom.
There is here no- state religion, and on that
score the people are satisfied ; but on the other
important points a strong spirit of opposition
pervades them. '1 he Diet has destroyed their
freedom, the Court lives by heavy taxation, and li
the King is unpopular The Chambers are to
meet on the:l-sth'of January next, but for what
purpose? for, they attempt to control the
expenditure of, the Government, which will pro-
duce the sanction of the'Diet, and demand, un-
der a threat of the country being • occupied
the troops of the Diet, the passing of the bud-
get fin. three years. This may produce a rebel-
lion.

The King, who is now in his 52d year, can
recollect well when his father assumed the Regal
dignity, yet he speaks with great decision of his.
Royalty and tights, and of the necessity of up-
holding them. Like most of the German Sove-
reigns, his personal character is reprobated, and
his life impaired by debauchery. Had he mar-
ried Stephanie, the step-daughter of Bonaparte, •
whose hand was offered to him, Wurtemburg
would have formed now a much larger kingdom ;
but he espoused the present Empress of Austria,
from whom, seven years afterwards, he was se-
parated, as the marriage was never completed.
He subsequently married the celebrated Duchess
of Oldenburg, arid after her death one of hi-
cousins. By those queens he has several daugh-
ters, and by the latter a puny wayward boy, who
refuses to learn because he is a Crown Prince.
Some personal disputes have disunited him and
his next brother, Paul, who resides in Paris.
The infirmities of the King are such, that his
life may nut be of long duration. He has, too,
an issue in one of his legs, the stoppage of
which will, as his subjects say, kill him. Yet
such are his habits, that he still pursues amours
with persons of a far inferior class ; as, for in-
stance, that with a harlot actress from Munich,
which has lasted four years. The mother of his
present Queen, now a pious widow, advanced
in years, and surrounded by divines, who offer
to insure her happiness in the next world, has
endeavoured to reform the King. Sermons and
pious exhortations, as well as occasional cur-
tain lectures, having been bestowed in vain, re-
course, as the good people say, was had to other
means. Either from shame, or from a love of
secrecy, the King goes sometimes alone quietly
at a late hour to visit his favourite. His habits
being known, it is said that his mother-in-law,
or perhaps some rival, caused a younger arm to
stop him late at night last winter, when a tough
sapling was so well applied, that, unable to
defend himself, the King was forced to cry out •
for help. The night guard came, but the agile
delinquent escaped through the hills that sur-
round the capital. The broken head and sore
bones of the sacred person gave, of course,
much concern to the state physician, and ol
merriment to all who heard the story.
The revolution in Paris of July, 1830, having
spread alarm among all the petty Sovereigns of
Germany, the Kings, Princes, and Nobles, of
all shapes and sizes, have begun to save money,
in order to have a little during their expected exile.
The buildings -in Stuttguard have bee» since
stopped, and it is even said that the amount of
money allowed 1) the Chambers for the troops
has not been totally expended, but deposited for
the uses of adversity in the aids!) and other
funds. The King of Bavaria has also shown
some similar providence on this point.
- The King of this district has also his cama--
rilla,- who guide him, and, oddly enough, one
of-the leaders is the Alinister of War, Baron
Hugel (Hill). The most ludicrous exhibitions
. are made of the young Prince. The physicians
lately recommended a trip for the benefit of the
child's health, while Royalty required that he
should be accompanied by a governor and suit-
able attendants, ,and received with due honours.
He went to Ulm, and un the route was forced
to receive homage, until, -wearied and disgusted,

he burst into tears, and cried out, " I am tired,
1 want to go to bed."
With such personages, with a full conviction
of their worthlessness, and with a thorough con-
tempt for the German Princes that of late have
shown such willingness to submit to the laws
imposed by the Diet, the Suabians, as well as
the other liberal divisions of Germany, despise
their Kings and Sovereigns, but they say " We
must wait, the cup is not yet full, it requires
but a French force in the south to make it
overflow ; not that we wish France our ruler,
but the march of her troops will give us the
much-wished for opportunity."
The will of the people is such that the libe-
rals have gained strength at most of the late
elections, where it required but the announce-
ment of a journal to oust a Minister, and to
have a person elected as member of the Lower
Chamber who is considered as having free
opinions.

Pozzo di Borgo, the celebrated Russian in-
triguer, arrived on Tuesday from Munich. The
object of his visit is of course of great interest
o the politicians, some of whom imagine that,
while he professes to form a coalition against
France, and is of course anxious to know what
ire the resources of the German Sovereigns, the
secret plan is to partition Germany among the
hree northern absolute Powers. Perhaps both
schemes are at this moment at work. This
liplomatist proceeds next to Carlsruhe, to make
inquiries into the state of Baden.
While every politiCal institution is here re-
garded as merely provisional, while the German
Confederation and Diet are said to be but tem-
porary arrangements, one may mention a curious
belief that is encouraged by a sort of Methodists
Pietists, consisting of about 200,000, ie this
kingdom and its vicinity. About the middle of
ast century an enthusiast named Baud wrote
in explication of the Apocalypse, in which he
prophesied the fall of the German empire in
'he beginning of this century. Among other
strange things, he said that on the 14th of Oc-
-oher this year the great beast was to arise out
)1 the earth, and that in 1836 Babylon is to be
lestroyed. Who the great beast is, or which'
he modern Babylon, I have not heard, but
public curiosity is here on the stretch.
There was some time ago a conspiracy disco-
vered among the non-commissioned officers,
'mving for object to oblige the King of this
.:ountry to adopt other measures. One of the
body escaped over the Rhine into France, while
• he others have been treated with lenity, to avoid
:flaking a sensation in Germany among the mili-
lary corps, which would ruin the props of abso-
utism. This fact deserves notice, as showing
he state of the soldiery.

The news has reached this of the King of
Bavaria having taken four battalions of his re-
itnents to make up the 3,600 men wanted in
Greece. The common people have refused to
.mter into the new service, as it were to show
heir want of confidence in the stability of Otho's
.eign. It is further reported that the King, on
finding no peasant would volunteer, has been
neatly annoyed by the number of officers who
lave appLed, and has asked, '' if they were dis-
contented." Officers sufficient for 10,000 men
,ave sought employment, but the majority have
met with a refusal. Promotion goes slowly
forward in the Bavarian army. There are some
ientenants in it of 30 years' service. The
fficers were therefore glad of an opportunity to
enter into a new corps.
The oppression of all public writers continues
.11 Wurtemburg as well as Bavaria. A young
Ilan of talents named, Seybold is in prison in
':;tuttgard, for having published two volumes of
otters from Paris, in which severe criticisms are
)assed on the members of the German Con-
Meration. Thus is the freedom of the press,
yen in books, controlled, and thus is Germany
,nslaved. Who can therefore wonder at the
,eneral discontent, which awaits but an oppor-
unity to explode in such .a.manner as will scatter
re present detestable rulers, as despicable
.wrecks, over the face of the earth?

Mr. JOHN PRIEST, of Wakefield, has now
;. his possession a cork pheasant shot by him, which
••easurrs a yard and four inches from the point of the bill
the tip of the tail.

The following announcement appears in a
nutty Paper :—" The order to discontinue the Chelten-
tm Salts advertisement did not reach our office until the
first page was worked off"

A DELICATE STOMACH.—A Philadelphia
Paper says, The lion lately immporte•l would eat nothing
,ut chickens during the voyage, and always turned up hi,
o.se at beef."

LONG ARMS.—One of the witnesses on the
•tial of the late Alayor of Bristol, in speaking of Sir
CHARLES WF.TUERELL, said he saw him the day of the
rmfosion, with his breeches about his heels and his hands
in his breeches pockets.

There are now growing an the grounds at
Greenfield Hall, the property of Ralph Richardson, Esq.
%vo cedar trees, of the immense height of 150 feet ; the
.irth of one 11 feet 7 inches, and its branches extend 5,
eet; the girth of the other is 8 feet 7 inches.— Chester
• hronicle.

The following singular announcement appears
n the last &disbars/ Journal:—"N“tice—The Com-
fr.ittee formed to make arrangements for the dinner given
o—, in 1821, are requested to meet and audit their
,ecounts, as the uniortunat,, landlord cannot give any
'anger credit." Eleven years is certainly pretty well.

We had accounts from Alexandria -yesterday
to the 29th September.. They state that the cotton crop
vould only be a middling one, and that it would be late.
The PA CHA had not made any contracts up to that date,
tn'l the price was 12 to 14 piastres. These advices con-
firm tl e intelligence that a political arrangement between
the PACUA and the SULTAN was on the tapis.

THE RATE-PAYING CLAUSE.--.-:-The opera-
:ion of this clause in the Reform Aet will. disfranchise up-
arils of 500 electors in the parish of Clifton. The re-
urn is as follows : Householders, 914 ; freeholders, 130;
1,044. Not paid rates, 452; returned in free-
list, ; not rated twelve months, &e., 70.
Qualified householders, 367 ; ditto freeholders, 130.
Total qualified, 497; di!qualifiii, 54.7 !—Bristol Mercury.

A large French smuggling toper, a day or
we, since, having appeared close off Worthir•g, Lieu-
tenant O'REILLY, Of the Coast Guard on that station,
oromptly went in pursuit of her in his galley ; he was
s, on after followed by ot er galleys of that service, and the
revenue cruiser Victoria also joined in the chase. The
l„gger escaped, but a large tub-boat, which w::s swateperr,
.vas seized by the cutter, and the Lancing and Wm thing
_alleys, between them, picked up 145 kegs of spirits.—
flompshire Telegraph.

A TRUE ANECDOTE.—Some years ago the
i• ,o f She'ford near Nottingham, were much talked of
.among their neighbours for wearing red velvet collars to
heir coats. Every one wondered whence this strange
fashion could have arisen ; at length the Vicar, a sagaciow
nd pious man, discovered it proceeded front a cause as
•iugular as lamentable. The dandy tailor, who gave the
fashions to the village, was also the sexton ; as Shelford
is the burial vaults of tl e Rills of CHESTERFIELD, from
the coffins of the noble sleepers mister tailor and sexton
cad catbuged real velvet tar the country round. The
Vicar wrote in terms of great honor and lamentation to
ire late Earl on the subject of this unhallowed da preda
ion. The witty Nobleman, however, lidtnini,tered bu•
ghostly comfort to the Vicar; his Lordship exhorted him
to moderate the excess of his sorrow, and to- join rather
with himself in admiring and commending the provident
ingenuity of the tailor, for bringing into light, and ern-
taloying useful:y, %% bat h:s ancestors anal himself 1144 eon_
signed to eternid darkness and decay. —Nottinyhum Wreath.

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* COURT CIRCULAR.

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Despatches from the Hague, for Viscount PALMERSTON,
were brought by a King's Messenger to the Foreign-office
yesterday afternoon. Soon after their arrival communi-
cations were despatched to the KING and all the Cabinet
Ministers in town. In the evening M. VAN DE WEYER,
the Belgi in Minister, visited Viscount PALMERSTON at
the Foreign-office.

ALTHORP arrived in town yesterday afternoon,
from Northampton. His Lordship had afterwards an in-
terview with Viscount GODERICH, at the Colonial-office.
The Postmaster-General transacted business yesterday
at the Foreign-office.
Viscount ALTHORP entertained a select party, including
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Sir JAMES GRAHAM, Mr. P.
THOMSON, Mr. GROTE, Mr. GLYN, Mr. A. ROBARTS,
and Mr. S. Rica, at dinner last evening, at his residence
in Downing-street.

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