The Sun.
London, England, 1832-07-26 00:00:00

BRUSSELS PAPERS.

13EEDA, Jurx 20.—We learn from the Citadel of
Antwerp, that a drawing of lots has lately taken place
there among the men who have had no furlough since
October, 1830, to go and see their families. These men
are now to have furloughs in turn, according to the num-
bers they have drawn. Every fortnight three men from
emit company will have a furlough.
Our fleet in the Scheldt has made some movements, and
taken new stations; it is now distributed as follows :
Before Antwerp, 12 gun-boats ; between Pyp-Tabak
and Kruisfort, 1 corvette, and 1 gun- boat ; off the Parel
Fort, 1 frigate, and 2 gun-boats ;at Lillo, 1 bomb-ship
(a corvette), 1 steam-boat, 1 frigate, 1 corvette, and 7
gun-boats; at Duels, 1 steam-boat, 1 ship of the line,
2 gun-boats ;at Fort Bath, 2 gun-boats. In all, 8 men
of war, and 26 gun-hoats. According to the same ac-
counts, great activity was observed in the citadel ; almost
all the buildings were made bomb-proof. Fresh troops,
fuel, provisions, ammunition, &c. arrived daily.
Among the Belgian troops, particularly the first divi-
sion, under General Duvivier, there appear to he some
movements which indicate a nearer approach to our
frontiers; we have here accounts that in places nearest to
our frontiers, such as Murle, Hoogstratem, &c., orders
have been given to prepare to receive a very considerable
number of troops for these places. Whatever plans the
Ligiena may have, all necessary measures and precautions
are taken en our side'against any possible attack.
MIDDLEBURG, JULY 20.—Fort de Nolte, just out of
Flushing, which in
is Napoleon's time was called Fort Man-
tebello,now furnished with the heaviest artillery, and
is in a most formidable state of defence, and additional
works continue to be raised to strengthen it still more.
In the 4th and sth districts of Zealand our troops enjoy
excellent health ; we hear of hardly any sickness, because
the greatest care is taken for the comforts of the soldiers.
The troops encamped in North Brabant are likewise quite
healthy.
MUNICH, JULY 16.—We hear that the protocol of the
_London Conference respecting Greece has been received
here- 25,000 men, half English, half Prussian troops, to
which 3,000 Bavarians may be added, are to he placed at
the disposal of the Greek Government. Count Arm in-
ePerg is again spoken of as the only Statesman to whom
the management of the Greek Government can for the
present be confided to the satisfaction of the Conference.
Colonel Heidegger, Counsellors Abel and Maucer, are
spoken of as the probable attendants of Prince Otho when
be goes to Greece.
BRUSSELS, JULY 21.—The King arrived at the Palace
of Lacken last night at eleven o'clock, returning from his
visit to La Campini to inspect the troops.
At eleven o'clock this morning his Majesty, attended
by the officers of his household and of the general staff, as
well as by the civil authorities, left the Palace to attend
the re Lteum. All the troops of the garrison, and of the
environs, consisting of three battalions of the Civil Guard
of Antwerp, four battalions of the 3d Regiment of the
Line, the four brigades of Artillery, two squadrons of the
Royal Guides, are under arms. The seven battalions of
infantry line the streets from the palace of the King to the
church of St. Gudule. After the Te Deum, his Ma-
jesty will inspect the troops. At half-past two o'clock all
the officers of the garrison will be presented to his Ma-
jesty by the General at the head of the staff and the Mi-
nister of War. The French and English legations, the
Presidents of the superior courts of justice, and several of
the civil and military authorities will have the honour of
dining with hit Majesty. The King will visit the theatre
this evening.
]About forty caissoons, which lately arrived at Brussels,
eft this city the day before yesterday loaded with ammu-
nition, and took the road to Louvain.
A fourth regiment of Chasseurs is going to be formed
to make part of the army of reserve. A third squadron
0f Royal Guides is also forming.
A letter from Tournay of the 18th of July " says—
Yesterday evening 1,000 bombs, taken from the maga-
zines of our citadel, were embarked for Antwerp, and
800 muskets sent to Ypres."
M. Raiken, the Minister of Justice, has returned to
Brussels. Baron de Loe, who was said to have departed
for Vienna, was still at Brussels yesterday evening. He
is indeed, on the point of leaving this city, but is only
going to the environs of Liege.
NAMUR, JULY 20.—We learn from good authority
that King Leopold will shortly come to Namur, and will
also visit Liege.

The Civic:'Guard at Namur has been for some days at
Meersen, near Maestricht. The skeletons of six compa-
nies of the reserve batallion of the 7th regiment arrived
here yesterday. Their organization is completed, and
everything necessary for the equipment of the batallion is
already prepared.
WARSAW, JULY 9.—General Kossezki, President of
the Department of Justice, has issued a circnlar to the ad-
vocates in the tribunals in the kingdom of Poland, to the
following effect :—" The criminal courts, as they are prin-
cipally connected with humanity, order, and security in
the kingdom, have always been special objects of his Ma-
jesty's attention. The keepers of the prisoners are bound
to deliver accurate reports of the prisoners in confinement,
hut not yet tried. These reports are examined by his
Majesty himself, and whenever there appears any re-
Markable delay in the judicial proceedings, the Govern-
Ment Commission of Justice is called upon to account for
it. The Commission, on investigating the causes of
these delays, has found that they are chiefly to be ascribed
to the counsel, because they have not prepared
the defence in time, and are so negligent in this duty,
that the ttihuoals are obliged to compel them to per-
form by fine or even by personal constraint. It would
be useless to show, in detail, how, on the one hand, the
task of defending the accused is the noblest part of the
vocation of the advocates, and how, on the other hand,
the neglect of this duty casts reproach on their
honourable profession. But the Commission of Justice
tuust remind the advocates that the neglect of this
duty in criminal matters defeats the intention of the
Punishment, and is a violation of humanity; for if the
accused is guilty, and punishment does not quickly f°
f?tyr the object of the punishment, which is to deter others
I.°l'n crime is defeated ; because, if remembrance of thei
erinie is lost before the punishment overtakes the criminal,
the impression on the
pnblic, which the law proposes t
produce by the punishment of the criminal, is either
innoc
Hentlost or greatly weakened. But if the accused is
tunate
or and only malevolence or a concurrence of unfor-
of • circumstances has thrown on him the appearance
guilt and deprived him of his liberty, what injustice
Is done himhis release ,rot by every person who causes a delay in
his in enoc!nee? confinement—the public declaration of
the The unnecessary expenses incurred by
public " revenue from the crowding of the pri-
r—the pernicous influence which a prolonged con-
14045:ment has on the morals and health of the accused—the
, which the country, already too thinly peopled, sustains
by making so many hands idle—all these are fatal conse-
(penees of the delays in criminal trials which have at-
tracted the attention of the Government in the highest
degree. To remedy this evil, therefore, the Commission
of Justice feels it to be its duty to call on the advocates of
every
class, in the name of the laws of order, of general
security, and humanity, to prepare and to present to the
tribunals, in due time, their pleas in criminal causes. The
Commission expects from the good feelings of the profes-
sion, that this call will rouse them to a conviction of the
absolute necessity of expedition in drawing their pleas;
but should even this appeal be vain, the Commission is ob-
liged to declare, that independently of the penalties which
are fixed by the tribunals for the non-vresentation of the
pleas, the Commission of Justice has resolved that every
advocate failing in this respect, shall, after having been in
vain summoned three times, be punished by three months'
uapension from his office ; and after four times being

LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING. JULY 26, 1832.

We are not of the number of those who
despair of the freedom of Germany. Still less
do we look at the Frankfort edict as a measure
to be deplored. On the contrary, we rejoice
that the despots who have long silently meditated
the overthrow of all free institutions throughout
Europe, have at length spoken out. By so doing,
they have thrown the onus of responsibility
on themselves, and made the resistance of Ger-
many a matter of imperious, sacred duty. Not
the greatest stickler for the " right divine of
Kings," can now find fault with the people
for taking up the cudgels. They do so
only in self- defence,—only to preserve to
themselves and their descendants, those or-
dinary rights to which they are entitled by those li
very laws which secure their tyrants in the sove-
reignty. The Germans do not provoke, they
only repel, aggression ; they do not strike, they
only content themselves with warding off the
first blow, and, in a cause so just and holy,
shame on the dastard who hangs back, or doubts,
even an instant, the ultimate issue of the strug-
gle ! The Frankfort edict is a chink through
which the golden light of freedom struggles in
upon all Germany. It is as auspicious an event
for the interests of humanity as the Duke of
WELLINGTON'S uncompromising declaration
against Reform. The latter roused the dormant
spirit of England; the former will have the same
decided effect on the continent. The Duke
might have come to terms with the people ; the
German despots might have done the same, and
so a sort of hollow armistice might have been
struck up for a season between the two parties,
by which neither would have benefited, and both
would have been dissatisfied; but his Grace pre-
ferred relying on the boroughmonger, and his
brother despots, on the bayonet ; and it needs
no wondrous sagacity to predict that what
the Duke now is, the German tyrants will, ere
long, become. These are not times for kings to
play tricks in. The days of regal divinity are
over. FLETCHER'S fine lines
" There's not the least limb growing to a king
But carries thunder in it,"
are unintelligible in the present age, whatever
they may have been in that of ELIZABETH or
I JAMES the FIRST.

In what an inconceivably humiliating position
does this German edict place France ! What,
France, the centre of European civilization,—
the most chivalrous of nations—the mother of
freedom—the sworn bride of revolution—what,
this France bound hand and foot, and un-
able to stir one single step to avenge a
blow aimed expressly at herself; nay, what is
far worse, compelled, actually compelled, to sit
still and smile, even with the recollections of
Austerlitz and Jena in her mind, while those
very despots whom she has twice seen at her
feet, twice spurned, kneeling and cringing, from
her presence, despise her fears, deride her
threats, twitch her by the nose, and shake their
fists in her face ! , Yes, incredible as is the fact,
France is at length reduced to this degrading

position. She is now in the predicament of
Captain BLUFFE, when that magnificent bully
found Mr. SHARPER'S thumb and finger in a
course of application to his proboscis. The stock-
jobbers of the Bourse, the usurer of the Tuilleries,
and the breeches-pocket system of the juste
milieu, have united, sealed her ruin. Austria
and Prussia scarcely even affect to conceal that
their edict is aimed at France. They unblush-
ingly declare that it is an attack on the revolu-
tionary mania of Europe, for which, of course,
France is, more than any other country, respon-
sible. Yet she pockets the affront and says
nothing. What she will do, when the Prussian
and Austrian armies press hard on her Rhenish
frontiers, while Russia hovers in the distance,
ready on the first opportunity to push forward
—what France will do when thus menaced, we
of course cannot pretend to say ; but, judging
horn the past, and bearing in mind the fat jobber
that sits upon her throne, and calls himself a hero
—the hero of Jemappe, we believe—we should not
suppose she would do much more than grumble.
Verily, King LOUIS PHILIPPE has much to
answer for, and LAFAYETTE still more, in
having stuck such a puppet on the throne.
Meantime, it glads us to find, the people of
Germany are not inactive. They are awake to
the crisis that awaits them—aware that life or
death hangs on the issue, and that they must

themselves work out their deliverance. But
what a queer figure in the business does the
King of HANOVER Cut ! What a Janus face
is his ! The one side all smiles, the other all
frowns. With the right hand giving freedom to
England, with the left signing the death warrant of
Hanover. In the one capacity setting himself
at the head of the Liberals and Reformers; in the
other, following slavishly in the train of the
Holy Alliance. As King of England rendering
himself deservedly popular among his people ; as
King of Hanover, the object of pity and distrust.
As King of England dissolving his Parliament
because it was too Ultra ; as King of Hanover,
remonstrating with it because it was too liberal.
Really, one would be apt to suppose, on wit-
nessing such singular inconsistency, that there
were no " invariable principles" of right ; that
common honesty was a mere conventional phrase,
varying according to the varying habits of na-
tions ; that what was virtue in England was
vice in Hanover ; that, in short, integrity was a
sort of cant term, to be boasted of here, and
repudiated there, and to be tolerated only so long
as it is in fashion.

But the German edict has yet to work greater
miracles than giving two faces, and two sets of
principles to an English monarch. It has to re-
verse the order of nature. and what Philosopher
SQUARE calls " the fitness of things ;" to wash
the blackamoor white,—to change FRAN-
CIS of Austria, FREDERICK of Prussia, and
even NICHOLAS of Russia, into Reformers and
Constitution-mongers. Before the year is
many months older, a blow—not a mere physi-
cal but a moral one—will, we suspect, have
been struck at the vitals of Absolutism throughout
Europe, that will work an extraordinary change
in the tastes and prejudices of the Legitimates.

Little business of public interest was transacted
in the House of Commons last night. In
reply to some remarks by Sir E. SUGDEN,
Lord ALIHORP said that measures were in
progress for abolishing the sinecure offices in
Chancery ; but 'till they were complete, they
must be filled up as usual. The ATTORNEY-
GENERAL afterwards satisfactorily vindicated
Lord BROUGHAM'S appointment of his brother
to one of the vacant offices in Chancery.
The Customs Duties Bill was afterwards
pushed forward a stage. Several amendments,
by way of reduction,
were proposed, but re-
jected by the Government on the ground that
the state of the revenue would not at present ad-
mit of any modification in the duties. Mr.
POULETT THOMsON admitted that a reduction
of duty was very desirable on many articles, and
that it was the intention of Ministers to effect it
next Session, as far as possible.
To-morrow night the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER will bring forward his budget, or
rather recapitulate the expenses of the last year,
with the prospective charges of the ensuing. As
to remission of taxation, Lord ALTHORP, like
many other honest men, has the inclination, but
not the means. His poverty, and not his will,
consents to tax the patience of JOHN BULL for
a little while longer, that is, till a reformed
Parliament becomes steward of the public purse.

We have, as yet, no direct news from Don
PEDRO'S expedition, in consequence of the pre-
vailing easterly winds ; but letters from Bayonne
state, that several ships of Don PED no's
squadron landed from two to three thousand men
near Cape Mondego with a view of capturing
Coimbra. This was stated a few days ago, but
we must wait for more authentic intelligence.
Perhaps to-morrow, or Saturday, may bring ad-
vices direct from Lisbon and Oporto. Had
any event of moment taken place, we should,
doubtless, have heard of it from friend or foe.

Commercial letters received at Paris state,
that serious disturbances have taken place at
Manheim and Fribourg, and that there is great
ferment in Rhenish Bavaria, where political asso-
ciations are daily organizing themselves.

A case at the Lincoln Assizes affords another
proof of the legiblative wisdom of Lord WYN-
FORD. A person of the name of HARRISON,
charged with stealing a lamb, and of whose guilt
there could be no doubt, was acquitted by the
Jury, evidently on the ground that the punish-
ment exceeded the offence. This was the wa)
in which numerous forgers formerly escaped pun-
ishment ; and Juries, till the law is altered,
will adopt the same mode of evading its
severity in this instance. Wherever t he
severity of the law is so utterly disproportioned
to the offence, jurymen, from a feeling of huma-
nity, forget their oaths " to return a verdict ac-
cording to the evidence," and prefer mercy to
sacrifice. The only evil, however, that arises
from this new law is, the acquittal of persons
who, though not deserving banishment for life,
certainly ought to be subjected to some punish-

ment. The Crown has the power to mitigate it,
and we have no doubt this will be the course re-
commended by the Government till the obnoxi•
ous clause is repealed.

Mr. C. Ross moved on Tuesday night for a
new writ for Aylesbury, in the room of Lord
NUGENT, who, the Hon. Member under-
stood, had accepted an appointment in
_ _ _

the Colonies. Mr. Ross's motives for this
act of officiousness are obvious. He knows that

the BUCKINGHAM interest is all-powerful in
Aylesbury, and that were a new election to be
hurried on, before the borough were thrown open
by the Reform Bill, , a rank Ultra would be re-

turned, and thus one more vote secured to the
Opposition. In his zeal to secure this vote Mr.
Ross waits for no official communication from
Government of Lord NuGENT's acceptance
of office ; this he conceives perfectly su-
perfluous,—a courtesy not to be dreamed
of, when it militates against the inte-
rests of the Opposition.

There is a fatality attending the fortune of
some men which is quite in keeping with the
Turkish doctrine of predestination. King LEO-
POLD and the Prince of ORANGE have evidently
been born under stars whose malignant influence
mutually affect each other, without either reaping
benefit from the misfortune of his rival. The
latter has been robbed by the former, first, of his
intended consort, and then of a part of his
Kingdom. The first was soon lost ; and the
acceptance of the second has caused nearly as
much annoyance to LEOPOLD as the loss of it to
the Prince.

We have heard from medical men, who had
the charge of the cholera patients at Sunderland
and Newcastle, as well as from some who have
witnessed numerous cases in London, that in
every case into which a full inquiry was in•
stituted, a bowel complaint for two or three
days had always preceded the spasmodic affec-

tion. If this is the fact, and we see little
reason to doubt it, persons have themselves
only to blame if they neglect the warning, and
take no remedies for a curable disease, which
so often brings on a fatal one.

COURT OF CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)

The LORD CHANCELLOR. proceeded immediately at the
sitting of the Court upon his bankrupt paper.

ROLL'S COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

Further directions and costs, of no general public in-
terest, occupied the MASTER of the ROLLS the whole morn-
ing.—lt is generally understood that his Honour rises for
the long vacation on Tuesday next.

VICE-CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.,

This being the Fifth Seal, the Court took motions to-day,

RIGHTS OF THE GENTLEMEN BEHIND THE BAR.

Mr. KNIGHT, after having shown cause against dissolv-
ing an injunction, and made another motion, proceeded to
move Casmajor v. Strode, when
Mr. BEADLES objected to the course pursued by the
Learned Gentleman. He had already made two motions,
and if the Court allowed him to proceed with a third it
would be materially detrimental to the gentlemen behind
the bar.

Mr. KNIGHT contended that he had an absolute right
to proceed with the motion he was about opening.
Mr. BEADIES observed, if he did it would be the indul-
gence of the gentlemen behind the bar.
Mr. KNIGHT did not consider it any indulgence, but
the exercise of an actual right.
Mr. BERMES said the Learned Gentleman having al-
ready made two motions, could not according to the re-
gulations at the bar, proceed with a third without the
Permission of the Court. The present motion was op-
posed by Mr. Lovatt.
The VICE-CHANCELLort, smiling, said he did not think
the opposition of Mr. Lovatt, from his appearance, would
materially lengthen the motion.
Mr. KNIGHT considered it as a matter of right that he
should make the motion. He knew perfectly well be
should often he prevented by gentlemen behind the bar
from making motions if it were in their power to do so.
There could be no opposition to the present motion unless
the order could be discharged.
Mr. PErys thought this order ought to be discharged,
and should certainly press the Court to do so. The mo-
tion was then proceeded with, but on some point of infor-
mality was ordered to stand over till to-morrow.