The Sun.
London, England, 1828-08-28 00:00:00

wholly changed the dispo;,itious of the Powers
of Europe towards that kingdom. The King
of Great Britain sent Lord Carteret, his Am-
bassador, to Sweden, to conclude a treaty and
an alliance with that Crown ; by which it Was
agreed, that Bremen and Veraun should remain
with the King of Great Britain for a million of
crowns ; and in case the war with Russia conti-
nued, Great Britain should oay Sweden 300,000
crowns a year, and att with her forces against
the Czar. A short time after this, the Swedes
made peace with the King of Prussia, on terns
somewhat similar, for ceding to his Majesty
Stettin and its districts.; and at the same time
the King of Poland had 'concluded a treaty
with the Emperor and his Britannic Ma-
jesty," This interference only served to de,
ceive the poor Swedes to their ruin. The Czar
ordered the British and Hanoverian Ministers to
quit Petersburgh, and caused all the English
Merchants in his dominions to be put under
arrest, threatening to confiscate all their effects,
which amounted to above fifty millions of rubles.
He raised his terms with Sweden, and " now in-
sisted on keeping all Carelia and Kecksholm
over and above what he formerly demanded of
Sweden." In spite of the English fleet under
Admiral Norris, he ravaged Sweden from Lap-
land to Scania, destroying eight towns, eleven
palaces, one hundred and thirty Noblemen and
Gentlemen's houses, 1,361 villages, and carried
off inhabitants in transports from Sweden to
Finland, to the amount of 60,000 and upwards.
The Czar even went so far as a threat to make a
descent on England in favour of the Pretender.
So that at this period we see Peter carrying his
object, in spite of the support afforded by Eng-
land in money and a fleet, and the favour of the
Kings of Prussia, and Denmark, and Poland.
The force of Russia was then much more at her
command than it is now, when it is spread over
a fifth part of the globe. Her real strength still
consists in her Muscovite and Baltic provinces.
Were she now to insult us as Peter did, we have
no doubt that our Government would have more
means of resenting the affront at its disposal.
We allude to these particulars, merely to mitigate
this very unnecessary alarm which pains are taken
to instil into us on account of Russia. We may-
be sum that if there were any real apprehensions
from Russia, the means to check her would not
long be awanting.—.lbid.
Letters from Rio Janeiro of the 29th June
confirm the intelligence which we communicated
sonic time ago respecting the intention of Don
Pedro to send the young Princess Donna Maria
da Gloria to Vienna. A ship of war, the Don
Pedro 1., has been equipped for her conveyance,
and her departure fixed for the 6th July. It is
;tot known whether the Don Pedro will land
the future Queen of Portugal at Madeira, Genoa,
or Leghorn ; but she is now on her way, and
should she by chance touch at Madeira, her
arrival, which must take place much about the
same time as that of the Brazilian frigate which
sailed from this country a few days ago, may
give a turn to the fortunes of Don Miguel which
he little expects. The fact of its being the de-
termination of the Emperor of 3,3razil to send
Donna Maria da Gloria to Vienna instead of
Lisbon, which was originally hiS intention, as
well as that of a projected marriage between her
and young Napoleon, our readers will recollect
that we were the first to communicate. None of
our Evening or Morning cotemporaries then
noticed the matter ; but in the Courier of yester-
day the fact is not only stated, but due credit
taken for it as having been communicated on the
4th instant !—" This is too bad !”—Morning
Advertiser.

The close of the Parliamentary Session in
France has naturally enough turned public at-
tention there to the caanduct of th 6 Assembly
whose labours have thus been suspended. There
was never before even during the revolution, or
in the progressive changes of action and eircutn-
qance which preceded that extraordinary event,
exhibited a more striking development of 4i-
dons, which, spreading rapidly and almost uni-
':ersally throughout the nation, had profoundly
rooted themselves in the soil of France, than on
occasion of the general election of 1827, and
the return of the present Chamber of Deputies.
That M. de Villele had a decided foreboding of
the result to which men's political views were
tending, though (happily for the people) he
much underrated the activity with which the en-
gines of public virtue were undermining the
dark edifice in which he dwelt, is well known,
from the reason assigned by him for refusing to
postpone the dissolution of the former Chamber.
M. de Villele saw, that as men had begun to
weigh. forms and practices in the scale of prin-
kAples, and as, by a law of M. de Chateau-
briand, s introduction, the Chamber must have
been sent to a new election before the end of
.mother year or two, it would be necessary for hint
to gain further tune towards carrying the scheme
of despotism to such maturity as would en-
;ible it thenceforward to stand without assistance
from even the outward show of a constitution.
But a single Session would still have left the
purpose incomplete, and the increasing exas-
peration of the country, provoked more and
inure by the daily frauds or violences indisr.en-
.iable to the only system of government which
M. de Villele cared or knew how to administer,
would, when a dissolution could no longer be
avoided, have burst his raw barriers and over-
whelmed him. By the end of 1828, thought
the fallen President, the " public hatred will
have outstripped my gradual encroachments on
the charter; opinion will then be far better or-
ganized against me, and I shall not
.oe advanced
in an equal proportion ; I will therefore brave the
tempest mow, with even a majerity of a dozen
deputies, no matter how secured. I can then em-
ploy, during seven whole years, the new legis-
lature as an instrument for overthrowing
what remains of liberty ; and, after the year
1834, a fig for the farce of a Chamber." This
reasoning was correct, had the assumption
been so which led the Minister to fancy himself a
match for the electors of 1827. But the pro-
fligacy of his Government had surrounded him
with dangers Snore rapidly than with means of
preservation. The scattered forces of the Con-
stitution rallied in the last ditch, and by an effort
little short of convulsion, saved a noble corrunom-
wealth from ruin. M. Dupin,. a gentleman well
known in England, and familiar with the media.
nisni, at least, of her power, has addressed a let-
ter to his constituents, the object of which is no
doubt creditable, as its consequences may be use-
ful. lii this little production of 34 pages, which
he terms an " Account Draw Sesstony 1828,"
M. Dupin adverts to the improved composition
of the Chamber, enumerates the measures which
it has accomplished fbr the country', fairly ac-
knowledging those which are yet from want of
time left imperfect, and concludes by encourag-
ing the youth of France to persevere in its calm,
but resolute, devotion to the cause of liberty.