The Sun.
London, England, 1817-03-29 00:00:00

AND rLANDERS

.;;Fithmittora, Prtatteft 16.—in the 18th Sitting
of the Diet, on the 13th; the following objects
were brought forward. The Constitution pre.
scored ^to the Diet by tite Grtind Duke of Weimar
was unanimously received by the Diet under itv"
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giutr+triter.

Onint Lapel delivereo a lett et from ..tjmi,le.c for
.of liesec, ,its which he protests against the deci-
sion made by the Dict in the affair of„the Barloff
Hoffmann, slid contests the competency of the
Diet to judge in this affair.

This declaration caused a great sensation, and
vccasioned tin extraordinaiy meeting of the State
Diet to-doy (Sunday)...

••• SWITZ6III.AtaS,MARCII Thionapartists
'bartithed front rratice, -says i'S%viis Paper; are
founding in.A.titerica a city called 'PriisetibOpolis,
which is expected to beeotne soon..very considers-
tie and populous, The English Proscribopolis
also in New Holland, alias 13ot .oi'y Bay, is, ac-
corditig.to the latest accontitsc ift a flourishing
'condition. It is said that in the course of last
-year'alrove IWO new colonists received there the
rights of citizens.

Amu M.—Counsellor Boeck.
in *n, at Catisruhe, has observed within these
for
,days that there: ars again. forty spots on the
.iaitis's disk.

• in the great storm on the Qd of this month,
there fell near this city ia great ball of fire, 'with
a lurid noise, and leaving behind a sulphurous

S'llieli.

CAssat,,Mitacti 15.—The Elector has publish-
ed s family Law, iu which it is fixed, that all the
Electoral 1-16sian Piovinces form for:ever all iii-
ile'vis'table unalterable whole. The form of Go-
vernment remains as hitherto Monarchical, with,

a reptesentatire Constitution.
STOCKHOLM, MARCH lE—The estate of Ma-
vieberg, near Stockholm, and the Military ACA•
ticmy at Callsberg-, has been purchased by the
Crown for a cannon foitndety, where, at the
same time, an institution will be formed for the
education of young artilleryofficerg, and for ex-
periments in gunnery, at 'tht head of which is
Ceneral Von Cordell, a PrUSSiall by birth.
The day before yesterday Mr. Ward was pre-
srnted to Count Engelstrom, our Minister for
Voreign Affairs, as Hi itish Charge,d'Affaires, till
the arrival of the new Ambassador, Lord Strang.
ford,

BentrN, "Mitacn 15,—Ibe installation of the
item Council of State has been deferred for a fete
days, because Several members ,who have been
invited' are at a diStance, and will not. he able to
ortive here earlier. The first,sitting will certainly
be on the 31st instant, unless some unexpected!
obstacle should happen. - •
Ilam.sottcst, MAttcH 18.•!-T.After an unparalleled
series of rainy -weather in this neighbottrlrood; as
well as in other parts, we have bad at length, hit.
smite days past, fine Spring -weather. The navi-
gation has, been interrupted only for a few days
through the winter. The day .b.:fore yesterday
tlteGreinland IViralees put to sea.
,Very melancholy 'accounts have been received
front Switzerland, of damage .(lOIIe by the ava-
lanches in various parts oftbe mountains.
'Exchange 0n.L0nd0n,357 5.
GHENT, MA RC it 20.—We learn from Com-tray
that all the Judges the Trilstmal of CoMmerce,
of that town, refused to take the oath preieribed
by his Majesty's Decree, as being contrary to the
catholic Religion.,
Buy ssEL3, M s [ICU `3l: The Princesses DoWager
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of
Otarg.fe and BrunsWiek have arrived in" thiS
..,,,.„
city from the Hague, to be ntesosut at the .baptism
of the young Pt ince, which is' fixed; as we 'salt),
for ThurSdity the 27th instant.
The pleadings in the cauSe.Of M. de. Foe're,
continued yesterday from five tonine, P. ar. before
the Special lixtraorditrary.Court r The Advocate,
General, Mr. StOop, in his reply, enforced-ibtr
.arguments on tv web the accusation was gronndledh-
M• cie Poem made a long Speech in his Own de.
fence.. Atter this Mr. lleyens, his Counsel, gave 'a
grand outline of the points most worthy of the at-
tentic.in of the COOrt,and sheaved that Mr. De Focre
was griituitotisly accused of seditious intentioni,
since the testimony of five of the first citizens of
Bruges, al well as numerous, passages from
,the
Spcciditor, testified), that though be had Used his
legal liberty to
,censure boldly certain acts of the

Governme►tt, bad he consvantly enforced t!►e neces.
city of submitting to the ebtablished order of
' (16146, and cat maintaining the p►tbiic tranquillity,
This morning the Court,- after a long deliber►►tion,
passers rt sentence in this celebrated cause, by
which the Court declares itself- competent; and

seeing that the passages in the Belgic Speciator,
quoted by the accusers, contain expressions
iqurions to the King, cioturat y to th► re-
spect due to the Constitution, and tending to

THE SUN.

enuol 4171 i lilet:lLE P.U.NtIV

LONDON,
SJITURDAY, ALH2CII 29, 1917.

. .
The Paris Papers of the 26t11 arrived this morn-
iitg 'The °Chambers will it is thought rise on
I'hnrs(l3y.

The Spanish Ambassador in the Low. Coun-
tries has institute►f tin action against the Editors,
of the rrai Libe►al, late the Nain 'Thane.
Freitelaunds, 601.•

Another debate took place in the !louse of
Commons last night ou the question of the
Amendments made
_by.thelaords to the Sedition*
Meeting Preventio-n Bill, in the course of which,
as usual, Mr. BaouonAm received some neat and
salutary castigation from Mr. CANNING, auuidst
alp gencriA Cheering of the Houie. The whole of
the Aniendments, it will he seen, were agreed to
by immense majorities, the decided sense of
was, that the measure in question was called by
the pressing .and.pectiliar exigeocies of the times,
and was necessary fur the welfare of_ the State,
And general happiness of the people.