The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-27 00:00:00

FRANCE.

General de Saint Priest has addressed the following
letter to the Legitimatist journals, explaining the late
Legitimatist manifesto:—

"It is easy by the assistances of ban irded suppositions
to pervert facts, and to draw from them inductions
alike false and exaggerated. That is what has now taken
place. Allow roe to re-rstahlish the truth. What, in
fact, has taken .place? A circular was addressed to two
or three electoral correspondents in each department;
it bears the signature of a man who, since 1845, has been
charged with this correspondence, and who has no other
functions than those of secretary of this electoral coin-
mittee; it points out the names of five persons who, from
different claims and under different regimes, have fur
many years past been honoured with a confidence
which they have always considered compatible with
their duties as citizens. The object of this circular is
the condemnation of a doctrine erroneous in a monar-
chical point of view. One of the copies fell, either by
chance or otherwise, into strange hands, and acquired
a publicity for which the document was never intended.
It has been laid hold of to disguise intentions ; to
carry up to a high quarter a responsibility which my
honour forbids me to decline, convinced, as I am, that
it is only the exercise of a legitimate right to write to
correspondents who share in your opinions, and cer-
tain that it would be vain to attempt to find in my acts
or in my private life absolutist doctrines opposed to
the present period. I protest against this abuse. Only
one question of doctrine is treated of in the circular—
that of an appeal to the people; and it is condemded as
incompatible with the principle of hereditary monarchy.
The direction of general policy is there also spoken of;
but who is there that can understand from that any-
thin,' more than the' direction of the ideas -of a party
which will not separate its principle from the national
liberties, so loudly proclaimed even by the representa-
tive of that principle? And how can it be supposed
that the men whose directions and correspondences
have for so long a time only had for object the exercise
of the rights which existing institutions have conferred
on them, would suddenly change their convictions and
their language, when the matured wisdom of that
Prince, in spite of the absolutist impulses of a part of
Europa, has traced these noble words, the dictates of
his heart, May the spectacle of so many calamities,
and the fear of evils which threaten the future, not
lead allay minds far from these great principles
of justice and of public liberties, which at this
time more than ever the friends of the people and of
kings should defend and maintain.' I must confine
myself, sir, to this simple statement, in avoiding all
that might be irritating; but I think I have in my turn
the right to demand that a meaning shall not be sought
for in this letter which is not put there. Thirty years
since, in 1821, the illustrious Royer-Collard said that
words were tortured to mike them say other than the
Muth; it appears that the st cret has not been forgotten

GERMAN Y.
A telegraphic dispatch from Frankfort of the 24th
inst., in the Kobier Zeitung, states that the Council of
Garman Governments, sitting in that city under the
auspices of Austria, has declared that the refusal of
the Hessian Diet to grant the supplies is illegal and
opposed to the interests of the Confederation ; that
the Hessian Government shall endeavour to restore a
state of legality and order, and that corresponding
measures will be taken by the Council.
From Munich we learn of the 20th inst. that the
Bavarian army, now concentrated on the banks of the
Maine and on the frontiers of Hessen, is being rein-
forced to a considerable extent. We ought also to
mention a rumour of a small Hanoverian army which
is said to be approaching the frontiers of Hessen. The
Prussian Government, too, are preparing to concen-
trate a corps of observation in Westphalia, near
Paderborn.

The Common Council of Hanau have addressed.
the following petition and remonstrance to the
Elector :

" May it please your Royal Highness!—Your Royal
Highness's decree of the 17th inst., which transfers
the seat of your Government to Wilhelmsbad,uccuses the
Courts of Justice and the functionaries of our country of
an undutiful conduct, while it expressos a hope that
your subjects will-support you in your endeavours
to restore the Constitution of the country. Royal
Highness! the undersigned members of the Common
Council of Hanau, when they consider the facts and
events of these latter days, cannot but presume that you
are falsely informed as to the general sentiments of the
country; and we therefore think it our duty to give evi-
d.-nce of the state of public opinion respecting the late
measures of your Government. Royal Highness! public
opinion declares your Ministers to be your worst ene-
mies. They are considered as men who end' avour to
subvet t not only the Hessian constitution, but also your
own high Electoral House, and who are so many serpents
in your bosom. Condemned by public opinion, and al-
most crushed by public contempt, these men are aware
that they are indeed fugitives and vagabonds on the face
of the earth. But still they persist ; still they continue
in their desperate career, and close their ears to the
voice of justice and common sense. Such a con-
dition of affairs is unheard of in the annals of
German history. The people of Hessen is not on.your
Royal Highness's side. Your Government stands un-
supported and isolated. Your courts and functionaries
are not undutiful—they know their duty. The legal and
dignified attitude of the people will intimate to you who
the men are who have trampled on law and justice, and
who have violated the constitution of the country.
" Royal Highness! we pray you to make your peace
with the country, and to put a term to a state of things
which must necessarily end unfavourably to you. Con-
sider that a Constitutional Government is impossible for
Ministers of that class, and that with your Ministers
you have no choice but to overthrow the constitu:ion,
and to introduce a despotic Government. Listen to our
most humble prayer ! remove the seat of your Govern-
ment back to the capital of the country, discharge your
traitorous Ministers, and fulfil your promise of the 11th
oellVele oarcfb3ou
~lrB4, by selecting men who have the confi-
dL subjects."
"Banat!, Sept. 21."