The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-09 00:00:00

FRENCH MINISTRY.

(From the Constitutionnel.)
All we can at present say is, that the new
Ministry does not appear to us to be composed
of elements sufficiently coherent to ensure a long
existence. We fear that the cement is bad, and
that the whole will not hold well together. That
is, perhaps, a calculation of M. de Villele's ; but,
if so, it is false. Let the new Ministry stand or
fall, the political part of M. de Villele is finished,
The reappearance of that individual in power
would lead to great catastrophes ; but such a
misfortune will not happen. The mark of public
reprobation is set upon his forehead in characters
of fire ; brought before the tribunal of his coun-
try, he has been tried, condemned, and branded.

Other reasons lead us to believe that the new
Ministry will, with difficulty, support itself, at
least in all its branches. It is of no use to take
the Ministers one by one, weigh and measure
their capacities,. since we find no one of them,
whatever other merits he may have, capable of
putting himself at the head of affairs, of serving
as a guide in a Constitutional system, and ruling
all by his character and talents. The authority
of virtue, talent, and character, is requisite in
the Representative Government upon which we
are about to enter. It is that which governs in
the Tribune and the Council ; it is from that
that a Chatham rises in the midst of storms ;
that he casts far from him importunate ambition ;
that the waves of faction break at his feet ; that
he influences all by his eloquence and the ascen-
dancy of his patriotism ; and it is by that he
raises the prosperity of his country. We have
sought for such a man in the new Council, and
we have not found him.

To conclude, let Ministers: ha re-assured, it
is by their acts that they will be judged. We are
not the organs of an unjust and blind opposition,
but of an enlightened and wise opposition. Let
them repair the ills their predecessors have done
tts ; let them he faithful to their works ; let them
have courage enough to be -Frenchmen and citi-
2ens, and they need not fear public opinion.

(From the Journal des Debuts.)

We believe the Ministry resolved to proceed
in the paths of a constitutional and improving
-system. But let them take care, for opinion
does not understand the singular distinction be-
tween useful maxims, and the honourable men
T.vho have become illustrious in professing them,
and have been their faithful guardians ; the
country will require more, and power will find a
thousand unknown obstacles in its path. It is
not enough to take from an auxiliary army its
bayonets and flags ; flags do 11,,t alone to
victory. No doubt we think too well of the
chiefs of the different parties of our assemblies, to
believe that they look .to any thing else than acts ;
they will not think of men. But will not the
Ministry itself be hurt with the presence, and, so
to speak, even with the generous assistance, of
so much noble talent arid high renown ? , Will
it not be likely to suspect a secret enmity, even
when they•may come nobly forward to combat
with it in the same cause ? In polities we are
always ready to say, " Qui non est mectun est
contra me."

The deceased Ministry was in hostility with
all the intelligence of the country ; it was from
that that 'they died. The present will risk being
suspected by the same intelligence. Would it
then be stranger than the late one ? The first
inconvenienee of this situation would be to
trouble the Councils of Ministers by this Senti-
ment of a; false situation, and to lead them insen-
sibly astray, by an insefiSible. inclination from the
paths in which they-piopose to seek the easy secret
of ensuring the happiness. of the people and the
glory of the throne. To wish to be sage, and
the wise, exposes its to meet with error. M.
de Viltele came to the head of affairs. undeter-
mined to destroy the liberty of the press ; hut he
exasperated public opinion ; the journals said it,
and he declared that the Monarchy was lost if the
Censorship was not established.
In. th.e Government that We have, power is a
redoubt, upon which victorious opinion takes up
its position and spreads its flag. Then, who-
ever wishes to adopt them, offers hiinself, and
brings, as a reinforcement, its adhesion and num-
bers. If the new Administration ;has no flag,
who will offer himself? If it has one, where will
it be displayed ?
'Whatever happens, the present deserves to fix
attention : it will hereafter excite public joy.—
There is great news spread through Europe : it
is that France is not a docile flock, which suffers
itself to be driven by the staff of every shepherd—
it is that our institutions have, 'after a desperate
struggled triumphed--,-that we will preserve our
Charter-as our frontiers—that bad Ministers at
last fall, when we legally desire their fall—that
perverse Ministers are reduced to Hy to avoid
chastisement—that the most disastrous political
systems flourish and pass away with either, by
their triumph or their defeat shaking the throne
of our Kings; and that henceforth we, the faith-
ful defenders of the Monarchy, can say at last
that the revolution has terminated. We may
also—we who have called upon France to pre-
serve its devotion to an ancient and revered race,
and to place he.r confidence ik her laws—we may
430 now say, that we have not been deceived.
A new order of things is about to commence, for
all the 411 d systems are worg out. In this new
career, there is one first good, wl4.eli we shall en-
joy 4.eitletiut drlarvit will be the change 0f the
form of polemics. The Ministry has not yet any
defenders. It has assuredly, few enemies. The
struggle may begin ; for, on either side, guarded,
moderate, and urbane language will be employed.
to oppose what one despised,
To have obstinately
was a trial in which, in spite of one-self, the calm '
of common struggles was lost. The period of
this trial is passed.for ever.

LIVERPOOL = ! JAN' 7--There has been a
very animated demand for cotton to-day, and the sales
amount to about 4,000 bap, 2,000 of which, principally.
Alabarnas, have been taken by speculators at bid. to sid.
Per lb., and very full prices have been nhtain,d in the sales
of the day.
About eleven o'clock on the night of Toe day
" last, a decent-looking elderly man, dressed in a drab great
,coat, entered the shop of a milk-seller in Henry-street,
whose wife was sitting alone, and asked it her husband %vas
in. She said he was not, and asked if she could do any
thing for him. He replied that Ile must see her husband,
and wpuld wait for him,. He had tut been there
former,above
two minutes, when another man, dt.essed la's the
"nu in, when the man R'ho had first entered said, 4, We
don't believe you; piir husband is up stairs." lie then
took up a candle, and wot up stairs. The woman then
attempted to follow him ; byt the other, drawing a pistol
from his pocket, threatened her With lostant death if she
made any disturbance. He alien" forced her back on her
chair, and took from her poakat about 21. 10s. She re-
mained there for some time, afraid to make a noise, while
the man up stairs peeked up most of the ,igearing apparel in
the house, and.took from a drawer about 4/. .ts soon as
be came dour* si.ltrs the two threw her on the floor, tied
her hand and fD(4 to the table.legs, which they turned over
upon her, and in-that state left her, where she was shortly
afterwards found by a girl who came to the house, almost
in a state of exhaustion.--Manchester Guardian.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Gazette de France, dated Sunday. Jan. '7.)
PARIS, JAN. 6.—Their Excellencies the Chan-
cellor, the Ministers, the Grand Dignitaries, the
Papal Nuncio, the Marshals, the Ministers of State,
the Peers, the Ambassador of Naples, the Councillors
of State, the Prefects of the Seine and Police, and a
zreat number of Generals, had the honour to pay
their respects to the King.
Yesterday his Majesty received the new Ministers.
Count Peyronnet came at half-past ten o'clock to
deliver the seals ,into the King'S hands.
CONSTANTINOPIX, DEC. 1 l.—M. de Ribeaupierre,
whose embarkation on the Bth we have announced,
has not vet been able to sail, on account of the con-
trary winds. The Ambassadors of France and Eng-
land appear to have passed the Dardanelles without
obstacle, since no report to the contrary has yet been
recei vest.

ANOTHER LETTER OF THE 11TH.

M. de Ribeaupierre, who had embarked on the
Bth at Bujukdere, is still at that place, to which he
has returned to wait for a favourable wind. The
friends of the Greeks who are here, now affirm,
though with very little probability, that after the de-
cided rupture of the megociations, Capo d'lstria will
have a corps of European troops at his disposal,
completely to deliver Greece.

ANOTHER OP THE 11TH.

Before the Ambassadors embarked, the Sultan
caused a great Council to be convoked, at which
about three hundred Ulemas attended, and laid
before them, for consideration, the demand of pass-
ports made by the three Ambassadors, and the whole
course of the late negociations. The moderation of
the Porte before and after the battle of Nayarit) was
represented as a great concession, and the question
was then put, whether the Sultan ought to consent
to greater humiliations ? The Ulemas, who, till
that day, had recommended a conciliatory policy,
answered unanimously, that the Divan had already
gone too far. It was after this result was known
that the Ambassadors resolved to depart without
passports. The Porte, however, does not appear to
consider itself in an actual state of war, but its
armaments indicate an energetic plan of defence in
case of a new attack by the Allies. If the Rus-
sians should pass the Pruth, the Sultan would go to
A d rianople. ugsburgh Gazette.
BUCHAREST, DEC. 18.—M. de Ribeaupierre was
;till at Bujukdere, detained by contrary winds.

The Austrian Observer contains the following :
" Accounts from Constantinople of the 11th of
December, which we receive by express, inform us
that Count Guilleminot and Mr. Stratford Canning
embarked on the Bth; M. de Riheaupierre was still
at Btijnkdere, where the vessels destined to receive
him were anchored before his hotel, ready to sail for
Odessa with the first fair wind. The most complete
tranquillity still prevailed in the capital. The pre-
parations for defence were carried on by the Porte
with the greatest activity. We wait for the arrival
of the next ordinary mail, to give our readers cir-
cumstantial details of these events."
(From the Journal des Debats of Sunday.)

PARts, JAN. 6.---M. de Villele entered a public
life unresolved to destroy the Liberty of the Press ;
but he exasperated public opinion, the Journals
told him so; and he declared that the Monarchy was
lost without the Censorship. In our Government
the sovereign power is a redoubt on which victori-
ous public opinion takes up its position, and spreads
its colours. Then whoever wishes to adopt them,
presents himself, and gives as a reinforcement his
adherence and concurrence. If the new Adminis-
tration has no banner, who will present himself ?
kf it has one, where will it be ? We will not speak
of the Chamber of Peers. There all Ministerial
combinations find good-will; because, placed before
the Throne, they only place themselves in the
breach when great dangers to the Throne present
themselves. But the Cabinet should cast its eyes
on the Chamber of Deputies ; there the destiny of
the new Ministry will be determined. Are the three
Members who have been borrowed thence to take a
,:eat in the Council-fitted for that task ? Are they be-
yond comparison, its most important Statesmen—
its most admired Orators—those, in fact, whose
assistance will be moreover an ornament, and whose
aid will be an increase of strength ? There lies the
.whole question.
(From the Courier Francai.s.)

PARIS, JAN. 6.—According to the Royal Ordi-
nance, there is no longer a President of the Council.
N. de Chabrol has only been chlirged with the office
of countersigning his connection with the late Mi-
nistry. His want of speaking talents, and the timid
manner in which he governed the Colonies and direct-
ed the Navy, with the subaltern part he played, make
us believe that he will not have much influence in
the new Ministry. There will, however, necessarily
be a directing Minister, though it will only be ty
his works that he will be known. The subaltern
places in the Ministry are still to be filled. As long
as. France sees Franchet and Delavau preserve their
employments, it will still believe itself under that
system' which makes religion a means of espionage
and persecution. They are proper persons for Fer-
dinand's Government, and are the curse of a Con-
stitutional Government. The Jesuits—masters of
the police and of letters, tolerated officially by
the Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs, and favourably
regarded by MM. Chabrol and Martignac, who have
hitherto agreed very well with them—the Jesuits will
have lost nothing of their power to work mischief.
M. de Villele, in retreating, has left them the means
of triumphing.
The newMinisters,to whom the old have been sa-
crificed by beisig so much decried that they were no
longer of any use, will soon be harassed and paralysed
by an influence which has only retreated a moment
to act with greater effect. They may serve to avert
the storm; but when the danger is past they will be
dismissed, having only served as a stepping-stone to
a Jesuit Ministry. This faction has renounced none
of its hopes nor its projects; the net it had thrown
around France is not destroyed. The present
Ministry cannot be masters of the Administration, as
long as the Police and Ecclesiastical Affairs, and the
Pont-office, are in the hands of the Jesuits. If they
agree to this division of power, they will be sus-
pected of folly or connivance, and lose all popularity.
France awaits something better. It knows all sorts
of reform cannot be made in a day; but there are
some which cannot be deferred, without losing all
hope of melioration,
The repugnance of M. de Villele to allow himself
to be made a Peer is conceivable ; he has never been
a favourite with the Peers, who regard him as one of
the worst statesmen whom fortune ever elevated to
power. He enters too, with MM, de Corbiere and
de Peyronnet, and their like, made Peers by the
Congregation, which the new Ministry have always
promised to destroy. The new batch of Peers will
he an obstacle to the Ministry, while they were cre-
ated as assistants. It is not possible to treat the
Peers of M. de Villele as he thought himself stab°,
rised to treat the Peers of Louis the Eighteenth. It
would he 3 delusion not to suppose that the inunda-
tion of Peers, the invincible champions of Jesuitism,
will not alter our Constitutional Aristocracy ; and
why not have recourse to the laws to prevent so
serious a mischief ? Why expose ourselves to the
chance of seeing another 100 Peers created to ba-
lance the influence of the 76 lately created ? The
half of them, it is said, cannot make a majorat,
which is an essential condition of the Peerage. It
is an imposture of their parent to represent them as
the great owners of landed property! Several of
them will be soon obliged to ask for their pension of
10,000f.,which are allowed to support the dignityof
a Peer ? Is this a means of adding to the splendour
of the country, and of receiving votes in a Chamber,
the utiLty of which depends on its moral character?
(From the Quolidienne.)

PARTICULARS OF THE FALL OF M. VILLELE'S

MINISTRY.

THURSDAYA JAN. 3.—A few minutes before Mass
the interior of the Palace was observed to manifest
that vague sort of uneasiness which always precedes

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