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London, England, 1826-03-29 00:00:00

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• {Nio:W TIMES/
The Sudden Death of the Duke of Mathieu
De Montmorency has produced a striking sen=
satlon in Paris, where that distioguished Noble-
Mill was looked on with universal respect, eves*
by those to whom his political opleions were ex-
tretnely obnoxious. lie is best known this
country, by the circumstance of his having been
Minister of Foreign A !lairs, and Ambassador of
France to the Congress of Verona, and having
resigned his seat in the Cabinet on account of M.
De .Villele's opposition to the Spanish war; but
his earlier history, which is well known in France,
rendered him there a personage of peculiar note
and interest. He is frequently spoken of as the
primmer Baron (Archer; but that distinction pro-
PtriY belonged to his cousin the Duke De Mont•
morency, the head of. that very ancient and illus-
trious family, who derived their name from the
estate of Montmorency, near Paris, the first that
is known to have borne the title of a Barony in
France. Mathieu is an early Christian name in
that family, having been borne in the 12th cen-
tury, by Montmorency, the Grand Constable of
France, who married a daughter of Henry 1. of
England. From that time to the present, the
Montmorencys have filled some of the: highest
stations in the French Monarchy, and their name
is attached to so many glorious recollections, that
it carries with it a sort of . magic charm to the
ears of Frenchmen. These circumstances gave a
wonderful eelai to the conduct of the Vicomte
Mathieu de. Montmorency, in the beginning of
the Revolution ; for, being a young man, tired
with the grand ideas of liberty then prevalent,
he was the licit to deposit, on tile,• table of the
Constituent. Assembly, his titles of Nobility, as
a sacrifice to the new and fascieating doctrine of
equality. No OOP, from that hour to this, ever
doubted the perfect purity of his motives—but,
U 145 t lie l% as soot' undeceived as to the tendency
of his aCtioll4. lie found that they had aided the
triumph of a ferocious and setigninary faction—
thet they had,helped to overturn a throne whiCh
tae respected, and alters which. ho adored ; that
they had clothed his country in meriting, and
deluged it with blood ; and that, after all, the
very name which he bore was a crime, and the
faith that he professed was an object of hatred
and persecution, He became a voluntary exile,
and in Switierlmitl found a shelter, by the.
kindness of Natiallikl ste Stael. Tormented
however, with that home-sickness, which
so natural to all who love their country, he
returned to France in 17VS, only to be thrown
into prison, front which, however, he was, after
some lime, released, The scenes which he had
thus witnessed, were of a nature to Make hint
seek consolation in the sentiments of religion ;
and he maY, perhaps, his pardoned, it. lie even
carried those lienlintetlis an excess. For many
years he devoted himself to nrithing but svorks of
charity, but even these could not exeinpt hint
from the lynx-eyed suspirions of tyranny. Ile
was banisl;ed by Linonapart e in 181.1., and thought
he obtained his recall, was always kept under
the surveillance of Police. At length the li:lppy
era of 1814 arrived, the tyrant. was overthrown,
and the Vicomte de Montmorency was the first to
hasten to Nancy, to join Moesieer, now Charles
X., whom he accompanied to' Paris as his Aid-de.
Itittitt, and received a distinction still more flatter.
ing, the a ppnintmen t orChcvalier d illoeneur, to the
illustrious daughter of Louis In pursuance
of this duty he attendee{ the Prittcyss to lioutdeaux,
anti after seeing her safe to London, joined Louis
at. Ghent. ll<y the; battle of Waterloo,
he was once more restored to his country ; and
we can, of: our own knowledge, testify the deep
sense' which he entertained of the services of
411 gland to 1111, common cause of Europe, and
his earnest desire 3 to cultivate seetiteents of
Mutual esteem between two nations, made, as he
said, to appreciate each other's good qualities.—
If he afterwards appeared at Venom, iu some-
thing Wt.(' opposition to the views of Eegland with
p
teid to the .Spanish war, it WIIS not from any
sAinieutioe of respect for the .Finglish character ;
lit (Urns views perfectly. CO,olol4ible (as he
tlipuglit) wish the interests of both nations. His
conduct, however, on that occasion, wits uni-
versally utimitted to be' frank and honourable,
and I.oeis X Vil t., though Ito
.found hitn,
self obliged to accept M. De Montmorency's
resignation, testified his opieido of his services
by raising him to a Dukedorno-..The !Juke Ma.
Wen:remained ever afterwards. out of office, but
enjoyed ihi untionnded personal confidence of
the Royal Family, by whom the extrt me. fervour
or his religious sentiments was not regarded us
flay defect its his character. On the contrary,; it
seems to have determined the choice of him to
NUperintend the studies of the young Puke tic
Bordeaux ; at least, it is certain, that the party
of the Clergy. hailed that choice with great de-
light. The Duke too was recently chosen a
Member, of the French Academy ; but even at
the reading of his lnaugural speech, he appeared
to he suffering ander a serious illness, which ra-
pidly grew worse,' so that, about a fortnight
ago, he was considered to -he in imminent danger.
110±-seented shortly afterwards to recover a little,
but it was a: mere lightning before death. Think•
ing himself better, he went out to several
Churches to oiler up thanksgivings to the Author
Goodneks. At length, he etude to the
Cintrelt of St..Thetnaa Aquinas; but he had
scarcely keelt dawn,-When he was struck with i
silthien and fatal shock, and fell dead on the
pa 'Verney t.

rTlit; :rturs.j
'ow Park mpers of 'Sunday arrived last night.
it appears that a Wolin'discussion on the slave'
trade" took pittre on the preceding day itr the
ohotimir of Deputies. yko debate arose on
peicilons from the merrhoots 0f Havre anti Paris,
praying that. more -severe and 'niore efficacintis
litta'ruitOtt he'adopted againq this odious traffic.
The pvtitioners Hoert that the slave.trada is car-
ried uttd"r the French flag with increasing
neavity,;' that the operation of the existing lows
only adds to its barbarity, as three or four hun-

tired negroea are , now crammed into a , space
which would fornierly have been allotted' to oily
one fourth of that number. Hence the deaths
are frightfully nun-merciesm and the petitioners cal-
ciliate that the sfave-ships throw annually over-
board at least 3,000 of the unfortunate victims of
this horrible traffic. In the report of the com-
mittee on this' petition, a hope is expressed that
the facts are exaggerated, and the measures
taken by the GoVernMent to repress-the slave-
trade are enumerated: It la,however, acknow-
ledged that the existence of such a traffic is a
disgrace to a civilized nation, but it is alleged that
making the slave,trado piracy would not be an
effectual prevention, because the rigour of penal
laws often causes impunity. This argument seems
to imply that the moral guilt of the slave trade is
not so strongly felt in France as in other court-
tries, where no difficulty has been found in the
application of the law of piracy. The Committee
proposed that the petition should be referred to.
the President of the Council. The object of the
petition was lost sight of in the debate, in conse-
quence of some observations made by General
Sebastiani, who said that a 'white slave trade was
going on us well as a black—that the French
Ministers hail allowed Turkish agents to recruit
, openly for the Pacha of Egypt. M. de .Villele,
lin vindication of the Government, referred to the
precautions against the slave trade enumerated in
the report of the Committee, and observed,
that the Ministers had pushed these pre-
cautions as far as was compatible with the free-
dom of trade. In all the Colonies measures
were adopted for seizing slave ships, and those
measures were even extended to ships trading to
foreign colonies ; for a prosecution i, now pend-
leg in the Court of Cessation, agaiost the owners
of a ship for carrying on the slave-trade-with a'
colony not belonging to France. After this des
fence hey adverted to the charge respecting the
Greeks, iu contradiction of which he read ex-
tracts from a 'dispatch of Rear-Admiral Itegny,
Commanding the French squadron in the Levant.
The Rear-Admiral stated that among the traits-
ports which accompanied the Turkish fleet
wlsich arrived on the 3d of November off
Cape Malapan, Were were 3 Tuscan, 8 Aus-
trian, 7 English, 3 Sardinian, t Spanish, 1
American, but not One French. In answer to
the. charge of the treasure of the Egyptian fleet
having been conveyed on heard of a French ship
of war, M. de Villele said, that time officers who
lent'themselvea to that transaction, hail been dis-
missed ; and that for permitting it, the com.
mender .of the station had been recalled, and
Admiral de Regny appointed in his stead. With
regard to certain vessels .building in ports of
the Mediterranean,. the Minister observed, that
the Government could not refuse an accom-
modation of that kind to Powers with whom
the country was at peace. A few years ago,
the Des? of Algiers had built two frigates in
French posts. The l'acha of Egypt had also
been nilowed to build a frigate and a corvette,
but he had not been permitted .to arm them.
It was admitted to be'pOssible that there might
he agent* in France, who recruited for the Paella
of Egypt ; but the . Minister maintained that.
there was no violation of neutrality OH the part of
the Qovernment. Respect for the maititehunce
of neutrality, he said, was carried so far, as al.
most 7.t0 endanger French commerce, oo which
the Greeks commit piratical depredations. In
the midst of this debate, an orator, of the name
of Dutton, ventured to assert that England still
carries on the slave trade. This striking in-
stance of disregard to truth seems to have re-
ceivsd no contradiction, and to have excited no
surprise °.
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MORNING POST.)

It is as we expected.—As the time draws near
for the arrival in England of Lord. Charles So.
merset, those who have been for many months
incessantly engaged in the task of blackening his
character and striving to the utmost of their fee-
ble influence to deprive him of the chances of a
fair and impartial investigation of the complaints
preferred against him, begin to recede from the
ground they had taken in all the premature
confidence of triumph, and to betray, what we
all along suspected, that their spirit is as tias.
tautly as their disposition has been long she wn
to be malevolent, and their principles afro-
clout. We are now told, that in the forthcoming
charges against the Noble Lord, a good deal
is likely to depend on the evidence of a single
Gentleman, and on the weight and efficacy at-
tached to it by those who sit in judgment upon
his Loml,hip. And is it indeed come to this ?
Ms the mountain been in labour so long, and is
this at last the ridiculous mouse it produces ?

if we had believed the cowardly back
biters, who for months, we believe we might say
for years, have been employed in calumniating
the Noble Lord, we should have thought that
the only difficulty was to spare a fleet of whips
out of our whole warlike and commercial ma.
rine, of sufficient number and magnitude, to
convey the host of witnesses ready and eager
to attest the enormous delinquencies of his
Lordship. And this at last to be reduced
to a single person. It is not a retreat
this—it is a precipitate and disorderly flight ;it
oppresses the whole cause of the accusations
against Lord Charles, under such a load at once
of obloquy and ridicule, that even if his Lord-
ship had really heeu a very \Torres, we should
question if the eloquence Of any modern Cicero
could prove adequate to its redemptasion. It is an
excellent thing, after all-rilowittg, every other
featly excelknt thing flows—from the abundant
kindness of nature towards the human race, that
the men whose taste and disposition impel thorn
to take under their nursing care the worst of
causes, should be impelled, almost invariably,
15140 to stifle them by excessive fondness. Not
only, however, are we given now to understand
that this person is to be the main prop of
the accusations against Lord Charles So-
merset ; but we learn, alas ! from the same
uutbority, that the credibility of the witness
himself requires propping.. We should imagine
the frimals of that gentleman must tremble for
him, when they find what sort of advocates are
pushing themselves forward in his defence. We
have seen how little assurance their boldest ate,.