The Sun.
London, England, 1826-07-10 00:00:00

[TUE WEPIVESENTATIVE.]

The debate in the Chamber of Peers on Tuesday last
turned on the Budget, but, in the usual manner of our
neighbours, was made to embrace every object connected
with the of the country. Count de Kergorlay
attacked the financial system of M. Do Villele. Among
other. observations he.remarked, that every one knew that
the spirit of enterprise, and an inclination to favour the
adVance of the new Republics, had drawn the English
nation into exaggerated speculations, which have pro-
duced a financial crisis : but, by its very nature, this crisis
had nothing in it applicable to France, which would
scarcely have felt the re-action, if in its own finances
the Administration had not deviated from the path in
such a way. as lo arrest the course of our prosperity. All
this is derived from one source—from the unhappy sup-
position that a vigilant Administration ought to profit
by the fever of a rise in the Funds. Experience has
proved how much such a principle wanted prudence.
Because a little stock-jobbing is in some sort inseparable
from
credit,
it was imagined that it would be
served by inviting jobbing. This was calling for a re,
action, for the bow, too much bent, always loosens itself
most violently. These observations drew forth a few words
in reply from M. de Villele, who strictly maintained
the propriety of his meitaures; hut the moat interesting
part of the debate did not, as would have been the case in
England, turn upon the finances, hut on the Greek war.
The Duke de Chbisetil concluded his speech by Saying,
that a general anathema was directed against the oppressors,
against ehe'eneinieS, of the Greeks—against all those who
lend to barbarians the succour of their arms or their talents
—.against all those, who do not know either to appreciate
worth or succour misfortune. Thanks to the example of
Franee,gifts,'prayers, offivings, flOw from all quarters into
the East„ A. new crusade--a crusade of benefits and
generosity, is estahli,,hing itself in Europe. Next to the
honour of being a Pcer of France,. the Duke said that no-
thing appeared to him More gloriona than to be a Member
of the Greek coininittee, in which so many of his noble
colleagues sate. if Greece were to fall, their names would
at liaat be connected with, thoSe of her courageous de-
fenders, and attest their devotion to the sacred cause of
religion and humanity. M. de Viliele rather indignantly
repelled the attack thus insinuated against his Ministry,
and read the following curious letter, written by Contre-
Amiral Rigny, who commands the French fleet in the
Levant . _ _

" MYRNA, Aran. 29, 1826.

" Being the Commander of his Majesty's squadron in the Levant
at the time alluded to in a sitting of the Chamber of Peers,' I
think it my duty to declare the following facts
4i 1. The Mitdeter of Marine sent, to me, to Smyrna, the Or-
dinance of 18th January, 1 b 8, arierainpartied by a letter from the
Minister of Foreign Militia, who, justly struck with the restric-
tions Which the terms of this ()refinance might impose on our
navigation, stoked for some explanations which might guide the
Consuls in the Levant in the application of it, and the exceptions
of which it was susceptible.
ar t. This Ordinance had been issued ie consequence of reports
which had reiiihed the 111init;tor of theltiehle, respecting the eon..
veyaneo to I?,gypt on board a Prench freighted by two mer-
chants of -Smyrna, of several Greeks whet had iseaped the otasbacre
of Chios, and fillen'into siavery. ordinance having given
ruse to as strict investigation into the facts•on which it was loon&
ed, it was proved to the 'general satisfaction that the sl aves rtese-
ported to have' been conveyed ,to Il,gypt to be seld were thio
redeetrwi 4 _flit, roverice of these same merchants, who voluntarily
wont to join'their bunnies tat Alexandria.
" 11; t,lii4C the publieation of thia Ordininnee, there has not
ranee been an occasion to apply it.
as 4. Tlia White Slave Trade, as it is called, is aot carried on

here to my knowledge under any flag. As it is my duty to
observe and to know what-is done under the French flag,, I declare
that there is not a single Captain who would not reject such a
traffic with horror.
" "5. In so unnatural a %vat., in which each hireling by turns
revenges sanguinary actions by cold-blooded reprisals, victims fall
On all sides. Who then takes care of them? Those very Franks
who are accused ; those very flags which, by the most calumnious
exaggerations, are placed below African Slave Traders.
" 6. There is not a single European house at Smyrna, which,
after the disaster of Chios, did not redeem some victim. Is it
Wished that people should believe the French alone bad not con-
tributed ? The public voice may answer.
" '7. The French merchantmen are the first which declined
riot the conveyance of Slaves, but of articles which neutrality
itself did not ibrbid ; and in this they did not obey the law, which
was silent, but humanity, which spoke. It is notorious how the
Greek pirates have rewarded them for it.
" S. The cannon before which the Suliotes fell so gloriously.
at Alissolonglii were not French cannon. The officers who di-
rected the siege were not Frenchmen, but Piedmontese and Nea-
politans; one Frenchman only, Colonel Serve; is in Ibrahim's
army. Whatever may be the reason of his keeping from active
operations, it is certain that, during the last campaign, he was
always in the rear, and near Merlon.
" 9. As for the King's ships, the officers who have served in
them under difficult circumstances, they have followed the in-
structions and orders they received. Whatever may be the fate
of these unhappy countries, those orders and instructions, and the
execution of them, have been such, that the French flag may al-
ways show itself there in all the lustre and purity of its colour.
" When in the agitation of political passions, anonymous ca-
lumnies find their way into the Journals, they may be despised.
But when powerful and generous voices, addressing august assem-
blies, utter fears and inculpatory doubts, they must be answered
by showing the facto; 1 am the witness and the guarantee of
those which I have adduced.
" The Rear-Admiral commanding the Levant Division.
(Signed) " H. DE RIGNY."
It was complained, by some of the Peers, that this
document had not been before published; but M. de
Villele rather haughtily declared that he would not come
down to defend himself, day after day, in an arena to
' which he was called by his enemies. But it is quite evi-
dent that the stories which have been ,so industriously
' spread over Europe, of French interference against the
Greeks, have no foundation. Indeed almost all the tales
circulated of the Greek Cominittees, a seat among whom
according to the Duke of Choiseul, is an object of such
I ambition, are most completely divested of truth. The
French budget was finally carried in the Peers by a ma-
jority of 111 to 5.