The Sun.
London, England, 1817-04-07 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

CR It cal VIA) LAST NIGHT.]
PARTS, APRIL 3.—The King heard mass and
received the communion 0u the 2d, in ilk apart•
mews, and presided
,at a ()lids Aliaster3,
which Sat for three Loma tl►e swine
Palace of the Luxe►t►hourg ►ras lighted with gas a
few *nights since. As the experiment, succeeded,
.and a Commissiou App►►inted to investigate the
merits of this new mode of light, ins;, has pro.
flounced in favour of its salubrity, it iy to :4o
adopted throughout Paris. •
On Tuesday next, the second Council of War
will be occupied with tl►e process of Gen. Grouchy.
Lieutenant-Genera! Charbonnel is named Presi•
dent ; M. Viotti the Reporter.
The tribunal ot• Correetional Pollee, at Ver-
sailles, has sentenced the widow Gnillenain, aged
Potty-five years, convicted .of seditious expres-
sions, to a year's imprisonment, and one liondreJ
francs expellees.
During' the last three months of 1816, there
died in the department of the Deux Sevres, two
witloWs, each aged more than 100 years.
The number of patients received into the hospi.
tals of Paris, from the Ist of January to the 31st
of December, 1816,18 cakulated to be 14,503.
The Moniteur denies the truth of the report
that the Bing intends to.spend the stunt-tier at •
Versailles.' The palace; it asserts, is in such► %y' Emt
of repair that it is uninhabitable.

it i►► thought that the number, of electors in
Paris will be 10,000. There are about 13,000
who pay 300 francs of taken, the qualification of
an elector; but 3,000 mot be deducted for Chose
who have not attained 30 years of age.
VIENNA, MARCH 22.—We learn from Norway
that a considerable party there do not disgitise
attachment to their ancient government.

FLANDERS MAIL.

Inr.ceivact LAST` NIGHT•]

11:1V;,t7t4,- MARCII port has been
spread, that the Pri,sce...ol.Bro4lio, Bi`shup of
Ghent, luol fled to France, his native country.--
country house not far-from I he frontier of France,
but situated in his own diocese, where it is gene.
rally supposed he will await the event of the tucti.
sures ordered i'.gainst him.
BRUSSRLS, APnIL I.—flithseirs have been sent
to different parts of Flanders, to put in4xectition
the Mandate d'Arnener (order to bring by force)
against the Bishop of Ghent. It is generally
.thought that this Prelate is 'resolved not to appear
before the Chamber of ACcusation of the High
Court of Justice.

liaosset.s, Anti morning the Tribu-
nal of the First I irs rie Ye' was Occupied with the
affairs of M. Sansset, 7.faterfl;olonel in the ler-
vice of France, accused at being the Editor or
diatributor of a Pamphlet, called " Louis XVIII.
the Assassin of his brother Louis XVI," 'ibis
action WAS brought at the instance of the Ambas-
sador of France to his Majesty'. •
M. Valeriola, sabAitnte of the King's A ttor-
ney• General, molted that the accused should be
condemned .to an imprismintent for a term not less.
than six days, nor inure than six months, and to
a fine of 500110 i as well as the confiscation of
the Pamphlets which were seized in the house of
a Notary in this city.
Boyers; for the defendant, stated, that his
client, to oblige art 01(1 friend, had caused a bale,
the contents of ,which were unknown to hiin, to he
taken tram a ba.oksellei's in a coach to the home
of a notary, where he employed his client, not
having room for this hale iu his own opartment.
Thar he could net, therefore, be considered us.
either the Eslitor or disiributorOf the book ; that
the r prosecat qr. produced no witness to ileposo,,that
he had received from his client one or tußre ehpies
of the book seized '; that trot a sing!e copy havi:l;
been taken (ruin the bale, which hail remained
closed, it was impossible there could be anyiltii-
lications orirdistfiblitions ; -that his -client, as
man of honour, could tint, without forteithioili
title to esteem, betray the ft lend who had re-
Attested. him to have the bale removed. 4ciitence
will' be passed on Thursday.
Bituss Et.s, MARCH 31.—A dreadful crime, which
iecals the ages of ignorance and superstition, has
spread consternation among, the inhabitants of
the Communeof liaygerm, in the province oh East
Flanders. in the of the 17th of this month,
the patrole, alarmed by the cries of the wife of
Jean Baptiste de hastened to the house of
the latter, and fium4,,,him busy in making a fire of
the bed of the Itoialie Gendert, a little girl tea
years aid, whom he just murdered with a bay tot k,
and whom he hail the cruelty at that moment to
roast on the fire. The ctiminal, who seemed to
be riving, was soon Seized and arrested, dnd, eon-
fusing his crime, declared that he had committed
it because his victim Was a sorceress, end that if
be could hare laid hold of his wife and his sister,
they should have shared Mite same fate.