The Sun.
London, England, 1817-09-27 00:00:00

true :

" For Forms of Government, let• Fools contest,
" Vt'hate'er is best arbninislered is best."
Chance and necessity, force or suffering, have at
all times, hitherto, 'had more influence on civil
i►astitutions, than cool reflection, or meditative

wisdom. •
Of the paternal form of Monarchy, in the rule
of States, the vice among simple people, and of
ruder tunes, has been too, often a despotism of ca-
' vicious and absolute power: Christianity, and
the increase-of knowledge, with the study of the
classical institutions and free opinions of Greece
and of Rome, have long opposed effectual barriers
to this encroachment in th,e person of the Mo-
narch ; and the danger of this propensity has been
felt or feared in the Ministers of his power.
In the comparison of the institutions. of nations,
time hapny curiosity (" curiosa felicitas") of the
British Constitution has been the result, as it now
stands, of time, circumstance and accidents, much
wore than of theory or abstraction. The contest
with the intolerance, civil tyranny, and mental
oppt -es,ions of the Itornish Church, and Papal
Poyeer, opened the way to much of our present
condition.
With the politic necessity of Civil Rule, is
happily blended the moral and reasonable principle
of Law—the rule alike of government and of
obedience ; of the mr-March and the subject ; the
restraint of the executive, and the guide of the
legislative and judicial functions.
,r The S,,vereignty of the People"—if it mean
the Supremacy of the Laws, which have been made
-and agreed to by the best wisdom of the Monarch
rind the People, through the
,Iree deliberations
and public voice of their chosen refirescntatives, is
o correct expression ; if it be token to mean the
ex,,•cutive, administrative, legislative, or judicial
exercise of power, by the people, or the populace, it
is otter nonsense, or culpable treason to society—
the thing is quite impossible, consistently with any
permanence, security, peace, or ease in the social
state.

'Manners, and habits, the customs of society,
or the religions belief or persuasions of men, have
oo necessary connexion with the form, or the ad-
ministration of the civil politic Government ; hot
PS these have grown up commonly together, and
' have had influences mutually in raising and sup-
porting each other, the alliance between Church
and State, between religious epinion and politic
establishment, has ever, since the Christian era,
and ifs conflicts, with opposing dogmas, or its
own differing sects, been inevitable ; the influence
nod jealousy of a majority of either of the two
great modern differences of doctrine, the Catholic
ansi the Protestant, have been exercised witl.t more
or less of intolerance and disqualification by both:
with advantage, religious or political, to neither.
Without perNecution, which has been mutual, the
Catholic could have softened the differences of the
15th Century, or himself would long since have
outgrown many of his errors and superstitions ;
withont the obstinacy and exaggeration,• which
contention provokes,. the Protestant might have
withdrawn some of his devotion from St. Atha-
nasitis, and the Unitari,.:l and Trinitarian would
have beea sheep of the same shepherd, }tunable
a,torers of an ihs.crutable Providence, the creator,
preserver, or redeemer of them all.
The rule of a Monarch, lbnited by'the Laws ;
assisted by responsible Ministers, chosen from
among the hereditary advisers, and elected repre-
sentatives of the people ;—the Legislative Power,
di.,ninet from, and independent of the Executive.
and only perfect in their union and common con-
sent, wi;di the Judicial Power *rind Magisterial
FtinCliMlS
~free, and high charactered, seem to
form the cr,nsfitotion of a great State, best suited
to the rational liberty and the general protection
of all, in internal administration and economy,
and to the -most prudent and politic influences on
the external relations of Empire.
This is the Constitution, the admiration, aim
or envy of the whole globe, the possession of
privilege ; the advantage and the pride of Britain,
-v.- hose every care should he to preserve this birth-
rieht, acquired by our fathers, from the premature
dec:ty of corruption, or the perishing influence of
partial interests and general apathy, or unconcern.
The Constitution, Laws, and Navy of Gieat
Bii-
laiti ale the three great bulwarks of her islands,
end great colonies ; and all require a vigilant and
honest cantion to preserve them from " dry-rot"
in their limbers, or a wrong course of steerage in
their executive conduct and legislative enact ions.
OMICRQ.N.

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FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, SEPT.
ELECTORAL COLLEGE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF

TILE SEINE.

RESULT OF T'HE FIRST SORUTINY FOR THE NONI-
‘ NATION 'OF DEPUTIES.
Lange banker, baying a number of votes
ftrnountiug to upWards of a fourth plus one of the
whole number of the Members of the College, and
to half plus one of the number of Electors who
actually voted, has in consequence been proclaimed
a Deputy to the Chamber. The persons who
alter M. Lafitte obtained the greatest number of
votes, without, however; having file requisite
majority, are as follow :
M.M. Alert (Chevalier), Under Secretary of State in
the Ministry of War
Bartheltmy, Banker, President of, the Chamber of
Commerce .
licliart, Councillor of Stale, Procureur-General to the
Cour Royale
nounet, Batomner of the Order of Advocates
Breton, Notary Royal, Member of the Council General
of the Department .. 1347
Comet de la Bonnadiere, Matter of Requests, Mayor of

the I It h Arrondissement
Chaptal, sen.
Constant de Rebecue (Benjamin), Proprietor .. 2346
Dau re
Defragnier, Colonel of the 6th Legion of the National
Guards 738
Delahaye, Advocate . .
Delaitre (Remond), Member of the Council General of
the Dt.partmcnt lB5O
Delessett (Benjamin), I.3awlier
Dubois (Count)
Dumas (Count Mathieu)
Gilbert de Voisins, Proprietor ... 2304
Goupy, stn. ... 1998
Uotteau Ilorigny, Advocate, Mayor of the sth Arron-
dissement .
Labbe. (Francois), formerly a Merchant • 542
Lafa)ette
',ante, Notary Royal, Chief of the Bth Legion of the Na-
tional Guards • 866
Lebrun, Mayor of the 4th Arrondissement
Le Prieur.
.de Blainvilliers, Banker, Mayor of the Bth
Arrondissement
Manuel, Advocate 2774.
011ivier, Director of the Bank, Member of the Council
General of the Departinent ll9l
Pardessus, Professor of the School of Law lO7B
Pasquier, Minister of Justice, Keeper of the Seals 2065
Perier (Casimer), Banker .. 2819
Quatrentere de Quincy, Member of the Institute 979
Rendu, King's Procureur-Genes al to the Court of Ac-
counts
Rodier, Sub-Governor of the Bank of France 829
Roy, Advocate
Ternbaux, Merchant 3413
Thiars (the Count de) 1275
Trippier„ldvocate
Try, President of the Tribunal de Premi4re Instance 1836
Vaiton, formerly an attorney lO5
Published by the Undersigned President of the Electoral
College of the Department of the Seine.
Paris, Sept. 2.2, 1817. (Signed) BELLART.
The operations of the scrutiny having been prolonged
into the day of the 22d, the Sections are to assemble again
to-inot row, the 23d. The Electors who have not voted in
their respective sections, will doubtless regard it as a sacred
duty to attend. The President and Vice-Presidents of the
Coiiege earnestly request them to do so.
Signed by the President and Vice-Presidents of the
Electoral College of the Department of the Seine.
Paris;Sept. 22, 1817.
Reforms are talked of in the Bureaux of the
Ministt y of Finance.
Pt ince Patti of Wurtemberg has arrived at Paris.
His Royal Highness resides at the lintel of Mar-
shal Davoust, which lie has hired for three years.
The Princess of Wurtemberg, his Consort, and
his children arrived here three weeks since.
M. De Serre, President of the Chamber of De-
puties, has been re-elected at Colmar Deputy
for the Departwent du Haut Rhin.
M. De Magneval, Ex-Member of the Chamber
of Deputies, has been re-elected at Lyons Deputy
for the Department du Rhone.
The individuals condemned relative to the as-
sassination of M. Fualdi.'s have appealed in cas-
,
sation.

They write from Switzerland, that inundations
continue to devastate the vallies and the fields.

The following is an extract of a private letter
from Petersburgh
" The Court of Rio Janeiro attributes the de-
claration of the Allied Powers in favour of Spain,
in part, to the friendship of the Emperor of Russia
for Spain ; a still greater sensation has been caused
by Austria signing the declaration, not hstand-
Mg her new family connections with the Court of
Portugal. The Rnssian Minister at. Rio Janeiro
having been treated with little respect by the
Court, bas requested his recall, and renounced all
exercise of his diplomatic functions, It is sup-
posed, however, the Court of „Brazil will arrange
the subsisting differences.
" It is understood that our Court will address
an invitation to all the courts of Europe, to pro-
hibit the equipment of vessels of weir, and the ex-
port of arms for the insurgents of South America,
and to declare pirates all their privateers which
shall appear in the European seas. The interven-
tion of our Court with that of Vienna has ob-
tained in Austria the 'prohibition of the export of
every species of ammunition to South America.
for the use of the insurgents. The steps taken
with the same view at London have not yet been
successful.

" The Court of Russia is also occupied with a
project for engaging all the European Powers to
conclude a Treaty in order to take common and
rigorous ':neasures against pirates whcrey►er they
may carry their hostility into effect. These pi-
rates are divided into five classes, viz. Ist. The
privateers of the Insurgents of South America.-
2d. Italian and Turkish privateers.-3d. liarbruy ;
and a hussian squadron to proceed to Tunis to
obtain satisfaction for an inSulc to the Russian
Pirates in the Indian and Chinese
seas.-sth. Arabian pirates in the Persian Gulph."
News front Berlin mention a fray, attended_ with
bloodshed, which took place the 7th of this month
between some men of the Landwehr, troops of the
line, and Burgesses of the city many,of them
have been very severely wounded.

FER CENTS.

Monday,

INEPRtiCK, SEPT. 1 I.—The Count de Sauran,
now in Itaty, is said, under the late Treaty,
surrender the Principality of Lucca to the Queen
of Etruria.

PETERSBCRGII, AUG. 29.—Since the greatest
part of Poland has formed a distinct kingdom
under the rule of the Emperor, we cannot over-
look the favourable changes %which has been ope-
rated in that State.—There have been' established
not only schools- for SCieIICCS, but also a great

number of elcinentary ones and seminaries, which
are already on a vet y good footing. The method
of Pcstalozzi is followed in some parts of Poland ;
but that of Lancaster seems better suited to the
country, and the Emperor has already sent for,
in order to establish him at Warsaw, one of the
young Russians who have been studying this
method in England at the ekpvice of the Govern-
ment.
. .

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