The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-16 00:00:00

the other side ready or willing to-join them, they re-
rired, and were nearly cut off at Surs€2."

The domestic news in the Paris papers is generally
utterly destitute of interest. The country is so quiet,
rid the Government at present interferes so little in
public affairs, that the Opposition journals cannot
dud out one grievance which would furnish arguments
against M. GuIZOT and his colleagues. The National,
it is true makes the attempt in reference to a detailed
account published in the Quotidienne, showing the
enormous losses sustained by the French fleets since
the death of Louis XVI., and thus upbraids Admiral
IIAcKAu for his silence :—" If we had at the head of
our naval department a man anxious for the honour
)f our flag, and the reputation of our sailors, we
should find him replying, by the official documents
which are in his possession, to statements which are
LA false as they are injurious to our national pride.
But what are we to expect from men who show so
much humility towards the English Cabinet, and
,a ho disavow every day some of our bravest cap-
tains ? "

As we published the article of the Quotidienne, it
is only fair to give the following reply to it from the
National, with this remark, that it is amusing to
find a French writer bringing a charge against the
English Government, of which no ruler ever was so
deservedly guilty as NAPOLEON :

" We can easily conceive that such false and incom-
plete calculations should find their way into the English
lournals, fur it is the custom of the English, more than
of any other nation, to conceal their losses, and exagge-
rate those of their enemies ; but we may express Our
iurprise at seeing Frenchmen thus depreciating the
services and glory of our defenders, and rendering them-
selves the echoes of English boastings. If it were true,
as stated, that during twenty-two years of war the
French navy, after experiencing so many disasters, had
caused to the English a loss of only seven ships of the
line, and fourteen frigates captured, it would really be the
Table of Europe. Happily, however, the tables which
have been published are incorrect, and were drawn
up in the culpable spirit of party. The English
whO were in face of our sailors in the days of
prairial year 2, in the combats of Alassio. Aboukir,
Algesiray, Trafalgar, and St. Domingo, know well how
vigorously victory was disputed, and how dearly they
purchased it. It will suffice, in order to show the omis-
sions of these tables, to cite the accounts given at the time
of the battle of Trafalgar. If in that battle the combined
fleets of France and Spain experienced a loss of twenty
ships of the line, sunk or captured, and of which four-
teen were French, the English on their side lost their
great Admiral Nelson, and had fourteen of their ships of
the line rendered incapable of service. We may judge
of the crippled state of the victorious fleet by a single
fact. On the day after the battle, the intrepid Cosmao
Kerjulien, captain of the Pluton, returned and recap-
tursd, almost on the field of battle, three vessels which
had been taken by the victors. This is not all. In the
account of the losses experienced by France eleven
ships of the line are given as wrecked, or burned by
accident. Now, it is notorious that England, compelled
to keep up fur twenty-two years of war large squadrons
.11 every part of the globe, and frequently in quarters
where there is no shelter, lost a very large number of
ships, of which there was no mention."

ilre subjoin some miscellaneous extracts from the
foreign papers. The Augsburg Gazette has the fol-
lowing from Constantinople, Nov. 22 :
" The English Ambassador has quitted the capital
,uddenly,. on board a vessel which was at his disposal.
It is not known what route be has taken. Some per-
ions think that he is only gone on a promenade; others
say that his departure is the result of a difference with
the Porte, relative to an insult to the British Consul at
Trebisonde."

A letter from Sigmaringen, sth instant, in the
Journal de Franefort, announces the marriage there
on that day of the Marquis JOACHIM NAPOLEON
PEPOLI, grandson of MURAT, with her Serene
Highness Princess FRIDADE HOHENZOLLERN SIGMA-
RING EN, youngest daughter of the reigning Prince.

A Vienna letter, of the sth states, that the late re-
duction of the duty on coffee in the Austrian States
has been so beneficial to the Treasury by the increase
of the consumption, that a further reduction is con-
templated. It is said also that the Austrian Govern-
ment intends to modify considerably its prohibitory
system.

The Messager states that the last accounts from
Algiers represent the state of the division of Algiers
and the south of Algeria to be perfectly satisfactory.
The tribes who have submitted are not only tranquil,
but bring their produce to the markets of the towns
occupied by the French, and appear disposed to apply
thenuelves zealously to the pursuits of industry. The
commerce of the coast is stated to be essablished on a
firm basis.

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