The Sun.
London, England, 1821-12-19 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

[Further Extracts from the French Papers of
Sunday.]
PARIS, DF.c. 16.
ROYAL ORDINANCE.

" Louis, &c.—On the report of our Minister
Secretary of State for the Home Department,
" Wishing to recompense the zeal which Dr.
Bally has manifested at Barcelona, in devoting
himself to the study and treatment of the conta-
g.ou which spreads its ravages there, we have or-
dered and do order as fbllows:— _ _ _

- "Art. I.—The Sieur Bally, Doctor of Medi-
cine and Member of the Royal Academy of Me-
dicine, is appointed Knight of the Royal Order of
the Legion of Honour.
" ?.--Our Minister Secretary of State for the
,lloute Department, and the Grand Chancellor of
the Legion of Honour, are charged with the exe-
.ctition of the present ordinance.
(Signed) " LOUIS.
(Counter-signed) " SIM4ON."
• " Given at the Tuileries, Dec. 5."

Daring; thirty years past we have been so re-.
peatedly conducted from inconsistency to incon-
sistency, and from contradiction to contradic-
tiorohat the absurd has alm'ost constantly pre-
dominated. It may be said, that we have so
adopted the habit of . false positions, that a posi-
tion which is just and natural seems to us some-
thing new, bold, and somewhat embarrassing. A
vague and transitory state, protracting itself un-
der various modifications, had become in our eyes
a ,positive and stable condition. Repeated ex-
ecptions had assumed the place of the rule.
We have seen the Ministry perilously placed
between two oppositions,whose perpetual shock,
whose continued collision, could not fail to shake
and injure the administrative machine, which •
had so much need of a solid support in the legis-
lative power.
Was it not most deplorable to see the zealous
friends, the most ardent defenders, and the most
experienced servants of the King and his cause,
placed in the absurd position of opponents to
Majesty's Ministers, who were thus, by an error
in which a false self-love made them persevere,
deprived of that natural and powerful assistance
of an imposing majority, composed of homoge-
neous elements, and representing in the Chamber
of Deputies the grand and intimate alliance of the
nation with the King, of the interests of the peo-
ple with the rights of the Crown ?
Deprived of these noble auxiliaries; the Minis-
ters, to whom a majority was a thing to be gained
at all hazards, sought to obtain it by the most
wretched combinations, formed, modified, and de-
stroyed in one day ; and by unstable alliances,
founded upon no just and reciprocal interest.
The Ministers were condemned to manoeuvre
painfully between two oppositions,when they could
by a single movement have enlarged their ground,
and strengthened themselves with an immense
force, which, however they rather chose to fear.
brave, flatter, or combat, according to circum-
stances.

Those who had this force at their command
did ❑ot set too high a price on their alliance.
They merely required that, the Ministers of the
Monarch should march at their head in a monar-
chical direction—that the Royalists should no
longer be regarded and treated as the enemies
of Royalty ; and, in fine, that it should be ac-
knowledged that neither the principles nor the
men that overturned the Throne could be capable
of consolidating it. These conditions were so rea-
sonable, that it is astonishing they were not
accepted.
The choice which his Majesty has made of the
personages composing the new Ministry, is a cer-
tain guarantee that there will henceforth be a
perfect analogy and consequence between the re.
gulating principles of a legitimate Monarchy and
the acts of the Government and the Administra-
tion. Royalists all equally devoted to legiti-
macy, and ready to combat its enemies, the
slight shades of opinion, which distinguish with-
out dividing them, are lost and confounded in
the union of all sentiments and all wishes.—
(Drapeau Blanc.)
Before Mass, the Bureau of the Chamber of
Peers, conducted by the Chancellor, had the ho-
nour to present to the King the law project rela-
tive to the sanitary system adopted by the Cham-
ber in the Sitting of Friday.
At one o'clock, the new Ministers, with the
exception of the Marquis de Clermont-Tonnere,
presented by the Marquis of Lauriston, Minister
of the Royal Household, had the honour of tak-
ing the oaths before the King. Count de Serre,
the late Keeper, brought the Seals to his Majesty,
who delivered them to M. Peyronnet.

Extract of a Letter written by M. Pariset to Dr. Robert, Phy.
s!cian of the Lazaretto of Marseilles, dated Nlontelegre,

Nov. 27 :

A Spanish physician, said to us—' To deny
the contagion is to deny GOD ;' and he was right.
It is, in flict, to deny the light—to deny evidence
as striking as day. We should be culpable to
leave the field free for errors so pernicious; and I
cannot conceive a more painful situation than that
in which the physicians of Barcelona are placed
who have taken -- and consorts for their guide
and authority. Their own act confounds them ;
the cry of so many victims overwhelms them ;
they are ashamed to live on the grave into which
they have precipitated so many unfortunate
beings. A moment of sincerity, a slight sacrifice
of self-love, a shade of distrust in themselves,
would have spared Catalonia from a load of evils,
and themselves from endless opprobrium and re-
gret ! They hope to escape from opinion, but
'opinion overtakes and judges them, and even the
vulgar, who had exalted them, now condemn
them."

M. de Berenger hat; abandoned the intention
of appealing against his sentence, and surren.
dered himself a prisoner, itt execution of the-de
.cree of the Court. •

FRANKFORT, DEC. 10.—The Court of Vienna
continues to maintain silence on the contents of
the despatches lately received from Constanti-
nople and Petersburgh. The friends of peace
augur nothing favourable from this reserve of the
Austrian Government.

The different versions which have been pub-

lished on the causes wl►ich have led to the dis-
missal of the Rvis Effendi are not correct. On

better authority it is now pretended, that that
Minister had incurred the displeasure of the
Grand Seiguor, for having shown too great a
partiality fur Russia, in supporting the demands
made by that Power to the Divan respecting
the interests of the Greeks.

A courier from Vienna, with important dis-
patches for the English Government, passed to-
day through Rastadt, proceeding by the way of
France. During this season, all the couriers
from Vienna to London, and vice versa, take
the route of France, Swabia, and Bavaria.

A person of distinction in this city has re-
ceived a letter of recent date from Constantinople,
which confirms the report that Lord Strangford
has no longer the same influence with the Divan,
and that he has now very seldom conferences
with the Grand Vizir.

From Petersburgh we learn that Baron De-
bitch, Adjutant-General to the Emperor, and
Chief of the stair of the First Army, ar-
rived on the 28th of October at Tschernigow,
where he reviewed the troops. He then pro-
ceeded by the route of Kiew to his ulterior des-
tination.

Considerable purchases are now making in the
North, of wood for ship-building, o❑ account of
the French navy.
• FROM PRUSSIA, Nov. 20.—The solemn pro-
mise of the Monarch to give the country a suit-'
able Constitution makes the nation easy, and is
the surest pledge which does not suffer any
offensive doubts to be entertained. Such doubts
are in fact not entertained by any impartial per-
son, as the King has, on several occasions,spoken
decidedly for the realising of his promise of a
Constitution. Many circumstances prove that
every doubt of the intention of the Government
to fulfil the promises made is rash and offensive ;
and that every attempt to precipitate or violently
to accomplish a work which must necessarily
proceed slowly and deliberately, is blameable
and criminal. This is still clearer, from the no-
torious fact that, for some weeks past, a Commit-
tee has been sitting in the capital, of which the
Prince Royal is President, to discuss and delibe-
rate on tie Constitution of the Prussian Monarchy.
Among the members are the Ministers Prince
'Wittgenstein, V. Voss, Schuckmann, Counsellor
Albrecht, Privy Counsellor Ancillon, and oilier
tried Statesmen. This Committee sits daily.—
Though it follows of course that nothing can
transpire of the material results of the delibera-
tions, which cannot have effect till they are sanc-
tioned in the sequel, yet well-informed persons

do not doubt, that in essential points the dearest
interests of the country are treated with great
liberality ; and that, as a guarantee of the dig,

nity and duration of the constitutional relations,
the tried institution of two Chambers—that is, a
Chamber of Peers as well as of Deputies, will he
adopted. The nation, as we have said, has in
every respect filial confidence in the King, and
the Monarch will answer it like a father.

FOR THE SUN.

NEWSPAPER SQUABBLES,

Ma. EDITOR—I am an old --frequenter of
Coffee Houses, and patiently stay till I can take
a peep at all the Morning Papers in turn; but it
is my ill-fortune, when, after having coaxed the
waiter to give me a preference, and I expect to
find some good information, or sound reasoning,
respecting foreign affairs, or the state of the Na-
tion, to meet day after day, column after column,
filled with pro and cbn about Sir ROBERT WIL-
SON. Pray, Sir, what benefit can the world at
large derive from this miserable wrangling about
a man whose case will soon besubmitted to Par-
liament, when the truth must appear? If the ad-
vocates for Sir ROBERT are really his friends, they
are very injurious ones,for they bring suspicion upon
his cause, and seem to spew that they think it good
policy to pack the public, before the trial comes
on. A conductor of a newspaper must have very
little taste and judgment, and be wholly igno-
rant of the public mind and feelings, if h: sup-
poses that his Readers can be gratified by such
dull and hacknied stuff about an individual, who
could not raise himself, and can only be lifted
into notice by the spirit of Party. Is not the
lamentable situation of Ireland a topic of im-
portant national interest, that should attract the
attention and call for the observations of a wise
Journalist ? Are not the glorious struggles
of the Greeks, and, as all wise and good
men must hope, the speedy downfal of the
ferocious and impious Turks, subjects of universal
solicitude ? Away then with the attacks of The
Old Times upon The New, The New upon
The Old, The Morning Chronicle upon The
Courier, and the retaliations of the latter !
Let the several Editors feel the dignity of
their station in society, as lights of general
information in politics, science, taste, rational
amusement, and sound morality, and then they
will deserve the esteem and gratitude of those
Readers, who must now view them only with
pity or contempt, for debasing that great instru-
ment of Knowledge, Liberty, and Virtue—the
inestimable privilege of a PUBLIC PRESS.
Athermarle-Street, Dec. It. PUBLICS.

FOR THE SUN.

FALLING CIIININIES.

MR. EDITOR,-So many accidents have hap-1
petted lately, from the recent gales, by the fall-
ing of Chimney stacks, that some measure seems
necessary to guard against the recurrence of si-
milar disasters. A simple and easy mode of
doing this is, merely to reduce all Chimnies to a
height of not more than two feel above the roof.
Some Chimnies, I am aware, will not draw well
after this reduction ; but where that is the case, tin
or copper funnels, with swinging bell-caps, may he
fitted to a proper height, and retained in an up-
right position by means of iron rod frames.—The
ingenuity of
.our artisans will soon render such
things ornamental, whilst a free passage will be
left for the wind, except in very heavy gales ;
but, even then, should the whole machinery be
blown down, the danger will be but trifling,
and the expence not of very great import-.
ance.—Your's, I. G. N.

FOR THE SUN.

PROTESTANT GENEROSITY.

EDITOR-When General (l ILLY was
obliged to quit Nismes, in the time of the per-
secution of the Protestants in 1 SIS, he thought
either of passing into a foreign country, or of
joining the army of the Loire, and it was long
supposed that he had actually escaped. But it
was impossible to gain any point or find any se-
curity ; his only hope was in concealment. The
attempt was desperate; a friend found him an
asylum in the cottage of a peasant, but that pea-
sant was a Protestant, and the General a Ca-
tholic. The step, said his friend, merits consi-
deration. The General did not hesitate; the Pro-
testant was poor, and his own life might be sold
at a great price ; but he confided in his honour.
lie entered the cottage of a peasant of the Can-
ton of Anduze. The name of PERRIER deserves
to be recorded ; he lives by his daily labour,
but he has displayed virtues which would adorn
a throne. The fugitive was welcomed ; his name
was not asked ; it was a tin* of proscription :
his hest would know nothing of him ; it'-was
enough that he was unfortunate and in danger.
lie was disguised, and he passed for ti►e cousin
of PERRI ER. The General is naturally amiable,
and he made himself agreeable ; sat by the fire,
ate potatoes, and contented himself with misera-
ble fare. For several months he continued in

this retreat, though subject to frequent alarms
and imminent perils. Often he heard the visi-
tors of his host boast of having concealed Gene-
ral G ILLY, or of being acquainted with the place
of his concealment. Patroles were continually
searching for arms in the houses of the Protes-
_tants ; and frequently in the night the General
was obliged to leave his mattrass, and half naked
hide himself in the fields. PERRICII, to shelter
him from from these dangers and inconveniences,
made an underground passage, by which his guest
might pass into an out-house constructed on the
premises. The wife of PERRIER could not en-
dure that one who had seen better days should
live, as her family, on vegetables and bread, and
she occasionally bought meat to regale the me-
lancholy stranger. These purchases were so un-
usual that they excited attention ; in a time of
terror, danger is every where ;wit was suspected
that PERRIER had some one concealed, and nightly
visits were more frequent. In this state of agony
he sometimes complained of the hardness of his
lot. PERRIER one day returned from market in a
meditative mood ; and after some inquiries from
his anxious guest, he replied—" Why do you
complain, you are fortunate, compared with the
poor wretches whose heads were cried in. the
market; Bruguier, the Pastor, at 2,400 francs ;
Bresse, the Mayor, at 2,400; and General Gilly
at 10,000 !"—" Is it possible ?"—" Aye, it is
certain."—Gi LLY concealed his emotion ; a mo-
mentary suspicion passed across his mind ; he
appeared to reflect. " Perrier," said he, "I am
weary of life ; you are poor and want money ; I
know Gilly, and the place of his concealment, let
us denounce him ; I shall no doubt obtain my
liberty, and you shall have the 10,000 francs."
The old man stood speechless, and as if petrified.
His son a gigantic peasant 27 years of age, who

had served in the army, rose from his chair, in
which he had listened to the conversation, and in
a tone not to be described, said, " Sir, hitherto'
we thought you unfortunate but honest ; we have
respected your sorrow, and kept your secret ;
bet since you are one of those wretched beings
who would inform against a fellow creature, and
procure his death to save yourself, there is the
door, and if you do not retire I will throw you
out of the window."—GmLY hesitated; the Pea-
sant insisted ; the General wished to explain,
but he was seized by the collar. " Suppose I
should be General G ILLY," said the fugitive : the
soldier paused—" And it is even so," he continued,
denounce me, and the 10,090 francs are yours."
The soldier threw himself on his neck ; the fa-
mily were dissolved in tears ; they kissed his
hands, his clothes; protested they would never
let him leave them, and that they would rather
die than he should be arrested. In their kind-
ness he was more secure than ever ; but their
cottage was more suspected, and he was at
length ollligt.d to seek another asylum. The
family refused indemnity for the expence he had
occasioned them, and it N‘as not till long after
that he prevailed upon them to accept an ac-
knowledgment for the hospitality he had ex-
perienced.
I could not resist communicating to you this
trait of generosity, not to be surpassed by any
incident in ancient or modern history. It is ex-
tracted from a recent workof MARK Wuks, who
enters into a most interesting and accurate detail
of the enormities perpetrated by the Catholics
against the Protestants, which make us shudder
at the horrors of intolerant bigotry ; but from
which we feel no little relief in the magnanimity
of this Protestant family, who could thus di-play
the triumph of their liberal principles over all
the temptations of wealth, and the terrors of
death itself. J.

ROBBERY EXTRAORDINARY.—JOHN FISH,
cow-keeper, residing in Thornton-place, Quebec-
street, New-road, applied a few days ago at the
Police-office, Ilatton-garden, for a search war-
rant, under the following circumstances
stated that he had been robbed of 601. in bank-
notes, which were deposited in a salt cellar in
the cupboard, together with forty shillings in sil-
ver, but that the latter was left, and he suspected
they must have been taken by some lodgers.
The warrant was granted, and two officers dis-
patched to put it in execution ; but previous to
making the search, they went to see where the
money and notes were deposited, when it struck
them that it was strange the money should be
left, and after tearing down some of the wainscot,
and stripping up some of the flooring, at the ex-
treme end of the room in a mouse's nest, they
found one 101. note much eaten, and the rest
reduced to fragments to line the nest, so that
neither name, date, nor number could be traced,

At the moment when► so great a change has
been effected in the Administration of Franco,

it is far from being uninteresting, and it may be
useful, to endeavour to form some estimate of the
consequences of the Revolution to her internal
condition, to her sense and perception of true
freedom, and her present capability for its enjoy-
ment, and to her political influence in the great
commonwealth of Europe.
With regard to the domestic prosperity of the
Kingdom, the King's Speech on opening the
present Session of the Chambers remarked, CC If
we take a view of our domestic state, what mo-
tives have we not to bless Providence ? The sensible
progress of manufactures, agriculture, and the
arts, attests that of commerce."—" The prospe-
rity of the finances, the intelligible exposition of
the public accounts, and fidelity to engagements,
have consolidated public credit, and increased
the resources of the State."—" Our auspicious
situation, and the return of external and internal
tranquillity, have already admitted of a diminu-
tion► in one of the most burthensome of the
taxes—that which attacks reproduction in its
source, by over-charging landed property. Next
year, those so assessed will wholly enjoy this
reduction. The laws are respected, and the de-,
positaries of my power become every day more
and more imbued with their spirit. Order and
discipline reign in the army. Every where pas-
sions, are subsiding, and suspicions wearing

away."

A more glowing picture of progressive public
prosperity has scarcely ever been presented than
this. An increasing revenue, with diminishing
taxes,—a flourishing agriculture, growing manu-
factures, enlarged commerce,—respect for the
laws, and their due administration,—external
and internal peace,—what more could be want-
ing to place France on an enviable eminence
amid the depression and difficulties which con-
fine the energies and embarrass the interests of
surrounding nations ?

The Address of the KING was delivered to the
Chambers on the sth of November. So soon
afterwards, however, as the 26th of the same
month, the Chamber- of Deputies voted an Ad-
dress to the KING, in which tile Chamber, after
expressing its participation in the joy of his
MAJESTY at the general prosperity of the King-
dom, places " at the foot of the Throne the re-
spectful complaints of the agricultural interest,
that fruitful nurse of France," and their " con-
tinually increasing distress, in the departments of
the east, west, and south." And, to this repre-
sentation, the KING replied, in words the most
remarkable and important ever perhaps employed
in one of these Royal documents,—" I know the
difficulties which attend the sale of corn. No
LAW CAN PREVENT THE INCONVENIENCE WHICH

ARISES FROM A REDUNDANT HARVEST. The
whole of Europe eaperienc!s it at this moment."
We entreat the particular attention of our
Readers to this extraordinary and authoritative
assumption and declaration of the French Go-
vernment. We entreat attention to it, in con-
nection with a declaration, somewhat similar,
made by Lord LIVERPOOL in the last Session of
the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and
Ireland, when he attributed the public distress
under which this country was then suffering, to
" excessive production ;"—and in connection
with the sentiment of our Agricultural Com-
mittee, when it announced to our depressed
agriculturists, that there was little or no prospect
of relief for them but by the diminution of the
growth and supply of agricultural products..
According to this novel doctrine (a doctrine of
despair which has arisen lately from the fallacious
speculations of the prevailing Political Econo-
mists), the agriculture of France, that "fruitful
nurse" of her prosperity, is already involved in

the distress oft poverty, and is about to replunge
iutopoverty the nation at large, merely because her
rich and nutritious fruits are produced for her chil-
dren in abundance, or because the blessing of plenty
is, in the fashionable phrase, a redundant curse !
According to this doctrine, the " sensible progress
of agriculture, " which furnished one of the many
motives to bless Providence," so gratefully and
joyfully dilated upon. by the benevolent Louis,
was a progress toward calamity ,—toward a point
at which the fertility of the soil becomes a mis-
fortune, and at which the toil of the husbandman
is cheated of its reward, in consequence of the
very abundance to which the smiles of Heaven
upon his industry and skill have given birth.

New Brunswick Papers have arrived this
morning to the 1-Ith November ; they do not
contain any news of importance.
Halifax Papers have also arrived to the 25th
November.

QuEacc, Nov. s.—Arrived the brig Harriet
from Jamaica, with nix.; was boarded by o
schooners under Spanish colours off Cape An-
tonio, which kept possession of the brig five
hours, plundered her of every article of clothing
materials, 6,000 dollars, and used the Captain
and passengers extremely ill.

The Quebec Gazette of Nov. 5, contains the
Proclamation of the Governor in Chief for tit!
meeting of the Parliament of Lower Canada at
Quebec, for the dispatch of business, on the 18th
day of December.

[Extract of a Letter front St. Louis, Nov. 1.1
" General ATKINSON and Major O'Fur.r.os
(Indian agents), arrived in this place on Sunday
last from Council Buffs ; the latter gentlemaa
brought down with him a deputation, consisting
of Chiefs and head men of seven bands of the
Missouri Indians, in all sixteen men; their des-
tination is Washington city. 'Ye learn that the
various tribes of Indians inhabiting the country
in the Missouri, as high up as the great bend,
whence our trade has been carried by the enter-
prise of the Fur Companies, remain friendly to-
wards the whites. The Aracaras, some two
hundred miles above, still evince a disposition
to be troublesome, which nothing but the
shew of an armed force will quiet. Some hosti-
lity occurred last summer between the Omaha na-
tion and the tribes of the Sioux : it appears that
whilst each party was traversing the plains in
pursuit of buffalos, they pitched their camps near
each other, and, •as a good understanding did
not exist between them, a battle ensued, and the
Omahas were driven off the field, with the loss
of thirteen warriors; the Sioux lost six or eight
men. It is believed that all the disquiet, as well
as the frequent petty warfare made by one tribe
towards another among the remote Indians, will
be silenced by the shew of an armed force on the
parts of the Missouri they inhabit ; and it will
open to our trade a road to the richest fur trade
in the world. Views to this effect are contem-
plated by Government, and will no doubt be
speedily accomplished. Ample means are in the
hands of the military at the Council Buffs for the
fulfilment of this grand object."

Mt DUKE or YORK.—Yesterday about three
o'clock, the Princess SOPHIA arrived at York
House from Kensington, on a visit to the Duke
of YORK. The Royal Duke soon after returned
home from a ride and met his Royal Sister.—
The Duke and the Princess rode out together in
a carriage in St. James's Park. The Princess
afterwards returned to Kensington, and the Duke
of Yon:: proceeded to the Commander-in-Chief's
Office, in the Horse Guards, where his Royal
Highness held a Levee, which was attended by
about forty Military Officers, principally those
upon idf-pay, who, it was understood, were
anxious to get employed in the three Veteran
Battalions, amounting to 3000 men, but it is un-
derstood there are no Officers necessary now,
there being more than are wanted of those of the
half-pay who were called into service in the Ve-
teran Battalion near two years since. The Levee
continued till about a quarter before 6 o'clock.
• It is confidently stated that Lord MELVILLE
has expressed a determination not to vacate the
Admiralty : that Lord LONDONDERRY is to be
called to the House of Lords: and that M.
PEEL expects to have the lead in the House of
Commons. Ministers think that the talents of
this Gentleman will enlble them to dispense with
the services of Mr. CANNING ; and there is no
reason for supposing that a lower estimate of these
talents is formed by the expectant leader
se l f.—(Morning Chronicle.)
As the Case of The KING against CHITTY,
Mayor of Petersfield, involves a great Constitu-
tional Question, it is to be tried at the next
Spring Assizes for Hampshire.
The Right Hon. Lord DACRE has given notice
to all his tenants, that he has put off his audit-day
till the first of February, and at that time he
shall reduce his rents 20 per cent. This is truly
characteristic of his Lordship's goodness, and one
more among the many instances of his Lordship's
great consideration for his tenants' welfare ; as
already his Lordship's farms are let at,a much
lower rent than any in the county in general.•'--
Although many of the proprietors of land have
lowered their rents 20 per cent. and his Lordship
during the whole time of the high price of corp,
never raised his ow ter,ants one farthing.