The Sun.
London, England, 1826-01-26 00:00:00

JO V itiNl A lA.
DAMN:
Extracts from the Morning Papers, Jan. WSJ 1826.

[MORNING
,POST.]
We perceive that the. Liberal portion of the.
Press perseveres in this worthy efforts to prejtt4
dice the minds .the peoplefagainst Lord : char le,s
Somerset. This conduct, at a.moment ‘vhen the
Noble Lord is understood to be on his way to
England, in order that every charge against him
may Undergo a strict and impartial investigation,
illustrates in arcmarkable manner, that love of
jaallee, and that respect for its due administra-'
than; of which the Radical Faction make so per-
petual a boast. The secret motives of hostility,
if indeed they can be called secret—for the veil
hypocrisy is drawn overWM with a most care-
less hand—are unquestionably to be found in the
hereditary rank of the persecuted indiVidual. It
is .not as Governor at the Cape of ,Good Hope
that the supposed delinquencies of the Noble
Lord excite all this premature slew of indigna.
tion—for any plebeian Governor would have
been far otherwise treated ; it is for the higher
grime, the original and indelible sin of belonging
to the high Aristocracy of England, that it_ is
thus attempted, to hunt him down without
regard either to' the dictates of natural equity or
the necessary forms of established jurisprudence.
The Radical Pl4oolltos long been accumulating
the malignant venom of its, hatred to superior
rank, from the mere want of an object and an op.
portutmity for its vent. The reptile is replete .even
to bursting—and it bursts prematurely. If there
are any'ratiOnal grounds even for suspecting Lord
Chas. Somerset for malversation in his high office
let his conduct,, we say, undergo a rigorous and
soleMn investigation. Let him not, however, be'
borne down by vulgar clamour on the one hand ;
nor still less on the other let him be hedged
round by artificial sympathies, or fortified by our
antipathy to his persecutors. If 'the Radical
Presi is determined, merely because he is under
accusation, to condense and direct against him
the whole animosity it feels towards the
elevated order of society in, which ho was
born, let not the Public therefore be led
into the error of considering him as the
representative of that order. Let Justice have
its free and perfect course ; and, above all, let
it not be forgotten, that no order in the State has
a deeper interest in repressing the crimes of which
the Noble Lord is accused than the distinguished
one,to which he belong's. In the mean time, and
as so much has already been said upon the,sub-
ject, it may be permitted us to observe, that upon
the sheaving of his enemies even We shOuld feel
but little dread of time result of any examination
010) may take place. His accusers have been
themselves accused. Some of these self-accused
or convicted. The co-partners of his alleged
Offences—for the offences imputed to' him are not
IndiVidnal but conjoint and official—have not
hitherto, any more than the Noble Lord himself,
66n-either confessing or convicted offenders..-1
Thls'distinctiort is perhaits worth something.

[Tilt: TIMES.]
rho French papers some titne ago informed
ev, that M. de La Bourdounitye, the leader of the
Royalist Opposition in the Chamber of Deputies,
had had a conference with his ikfalesty Charles
X. They at the same, time either did not know,
or durst not reveal, the object Or result of the
meeting. We are enabled by one of our Palk
cerresponrlents to supply the deficiency, and to
give the most accredited account of this interview.
M. de La Bourdonnuye, who has found out that
every Ministry in France has been too moderate
for the last ten years, has taken a particular dis-
like to M. de Ville le, either because he imagines
that he is endangering the Monarchy by his
temporizing policy and excessive moderation, or
because ins does not see the superior merit
of the said M. do La Bourdormaye, and take
him us ilk colleague, or resign in his fa-
vour. His Majesty, who probably attaches more
importaece to the legislative influence of this
Ultra than he ought, wished to reconcile him to
his measures, or silence his opposition to his
Ministry. After attempting to do so in vain at
the interview above alluded to, the King got
patient at the resistance which he met with, and
concluded the conference übruptly, by saying
44 Well, Sir, you finally intend to vote with the
" Jacobins." ." Yes, Sire," replied M. de l,a
Bourdormaye, " I shall vote with the Jacobins,
66 just fi I voted with them formerly by your
" own order, when our object „was to turn out the
64 Ministry of Richelieu." This answer, which
claimed the King's authority for opposing his
will; silenced the argumeots, hut did not satisfy
the expectations of his Majesty. It is said
that, the Ministry are extremely embarrassed
in prepariog the speech for the King at the
opening of the Climbers. He is exceeding-
ly noxious to tell his people from the throne,
as he often tells his Courtiers in private, that
the liberty of the. press has been abused, and
that the £'our Royale has neglected its duty, in
not panithitig its licentiouiness. M. de Villele,
on the other hand, opposes any illusion to these
delicate topics, being aware that in this case the
King is inspired by his Confessor rather than his
Interest, au() that a declaration of war against the
Judges could only tend to the triumph bf the
Jesuitical party over both I he King, the tribunals,
and the ontiou. A short time will determine
whether Charles X. will show more docility to
the father Trifler, or the sagacious Minister of
the day. One of our correspondents adverts in
severe terms to the scandalous manner in which the
taws for abolishing the slave trade are evaded in
France. Baron de Steel, the author of every sensible
Letters on Ettglatel, having, among us, imbibed
a stronger abhorrence of this iufamous traffic than
is generally evinced by his countrymen, has
lately made die tour of the principal ports of
France, to collect evidence, and to ascertain
facts on this subject ; and ocular inspection has
satisfied him that the laws of the state, and sti.
potations of treaty are shamelessly and openly
violated without reproof or punishment, He saw
chains forging to shackle the captured negroes,
sad ships building in which to transport them,— I

M. de Steel even brought to Pads some of the
chains which he saw preparing for the coast of
Africa, and tried them on the royal hands of the
Dauphin. in the mean time Ministers connive
at proceedings which they ought to prevent or
punish.

- [NEW TIMES.]
It is asserted in the French Papers, that the
accounts froM the South of Russia are perfectly
satisfactory, and that the armies have taken the
oath to Nicholas, with enthusiasm. It may be
so; but we think the lapse of time has yet been
hardly sufficient to bring the news in detail. It
is certain that a spirit of German mysticism,
combined with a revolutionary mania, had
spread among some of the Russian Officers,
and that this was the chief cause of the insur-
rection at St. Petersburgh. Whether a similar
cause may be capable of producing a like effect,
at any other point of this vast empire, we think it
would be premature to decide. No less than forty
officers are under arrest in the Russian capital,
many of them of good families. Nicholas, it is
said, has promised life, but nothing beside life, to
Prince Troubetzkoy, one of the criminals : the
favour, however, was accompanied with a severe
remark—" lie shall live," said the Emperor,
44 since he is so fond of life." We observe in the
Moniteur an article fron► Vienna, endeavouring to
revive the old jealousy of England,nn the ground of
our alleged wish to exercise dominion over Greece.
It is really contemptible in any political writer
of any country, to pretend to give credit to
so silly a calumny. If our Government had
been ambitious of possessing Greece, we needed
but to have 'displayed our Hag on the shores of
that country. Nay, the Greeks themselves, would
have spared us that trouble. Is the writer of the
Vienna article ignorant that a formal document was
signed by the heads of the Greek people, earnestly
beseeching the English Government to take Greece
under its protection ? Or has he forgotten that our
army was actually in possession of another large
and valuable portion of the Turkish Empire,
which, after wresting it. from the French litnies,
we restored to its lawful Sovereign ? It may be
thought that we ought to treat with silent con-
tempt the idle ravings of this German writer;
but when they are copied into a paper like the
Monileur, we feel it right to express our indig.
nation, not only at the original charge, but at
the currency given to it by a Journal of such► ex-
tensive circulation.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGEIt.]
Intelligence was received yesterday from
Buenos Ayres, which is so far important, inas-
much as it seems to cut off the last hope of en
amicable adjustment of the differences subsisting
between that State and the Imperial Govern-
ment of Brazil. It reaches down to the 11th of
November; and, after mentioning the equipment
of several privateers, and the actual departure
of one, to cruize against the Brazilian flag, it an.
flounces the arrival of an. Officer, high on the
Staff
Sta of General Bolivar, and Charged with dis-
patches from that General, which, if the r.port
of their contents be correct, will soon bring
this portentous controversy to an end, one way
or the other. This Officer arrived on the 4th
of November, and on the following day the
Act, incorporating the Banda Oriental with the
United Provinces of La Plata, was proclaimed at
Buenos Ayres. From this circumstance alone,
it would not be difficult to divine the nature of
the dispatches addressed to the Government of.
the United Provinces : the penetration, however,
of the Reader, will not be put in requisition, as
our intelligence expressly states, that the act of
incorporation is in perfect unison with the wishes
expressed by the Liberator. This opinion is
borne out by another part of our intelligence, in
which it is said that the Colombian Officer, as
soon as he had delivered his pa pers at BnenosAyres
set off immediately for Rio Janeiro, with an
autograph dispatch for the Emperor from Boli.
var. As his arrival at Buenos Ayres was the
signal on the part of that Government for cutting
the Gordian knot on the subject of the Banda
Oriental, so his departure for the Impe.
rial Court wias followed by tide energetic melt.
sures that we have already pointed out. The let-
ter of marque, that sailed soon after, is chiefly
manned by seamen belonging, really or no.
minally, to the United States of North
America, and is supposed to be destined
for the Indian Seas, particularly Macao, with
which port the Brazilians, it is said, have este.
Wished a very lucrative intercourse. This vessel,
at setting out, did not hoist the Union fling, 'but
that of the Banda Oriental ; however, the priva.
teers that were preparing to sail, would hoist the
Union colours, and in this case hostilities between.
Brazil and Buenos Ayres would he inevitable. All
hopes, however, of a friendly accommodation
had not vanished, as some stress was laid on
the effects of Sir C. Stuart's expected arrival at
Buenos Ayres ; and we are pertsuaded ourselves,
that it will not be the fault of this distinguished
diplomatist, if these hopes are disappointed. But
the Buenos Ayres Government had left him very
little scope for the display of his talents ; for, by
its Act of incorporation, it bad taken the business
out of the hands of the negociator, and left the
Emperor only the alternative of concession or war.