The Sun.
London, England, 1826-09-16 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Etoile, dated Thursday.)
PARIS, SEVr. 13.—The Augsburg gazette now pre-
tends that the demand of the restitution of the rortresties
in Asia, made by the Turkish Commissinurrs, will put an
end to the conferences at Akermann, the Emperor Ni-
cholas having declared, according to that Journal, that he
would not have that question treated of, and the Turkish
Commissioners insisting on this point.
We yesterday prtived that the Augsburg Gazette was ill-
informed in speaking of the difficulties which hindered the
opening of the Conferences at Akermann, and what it says
to-day contragAicts what it affirmed yesterday. We believe
we need 07.4 to wait a little to see the same happen with
respect to what it now tells about the fortresses in Asia.
Ttie Observer of Trieste states, on the credit of a letter
4:rom Corfu, that Lord Gordon had arrived at 'haute, from
Napoli di Romania, whither he had been to, carry money
sent by the Greek Committee at London. On his return
from Napoli, he and his secretary were plundered by the
Rumeliots, who took from him 10,000 Spanish piastres,
without his being able to obtain any redress 'from the
Greek Government. Ile loudly complains of the ingrati-
tude of this people, and has declared that he would not
serve them any more.

Letters nom Dieppe mention a shooting party at the
seat of the Countess de Caumont, at Derchigny, in which
the Duchess of Berry cut a conspicuous figure. Accord-
ing to these letters, the Princess killed game at The distance
of sixty yards. Tier Royal Highness also killed a fox.
SWITZERIJ,ND.—The Court of Appeal, in its •Sitting
of September 2, pronounced sentence in the famous cause
relative to the death of Mr. Keller. The sentence con-
tains:, among other things, the following :—The proceed-
ings*are declared closed and complete, because the prema-
ture publication of the documents has rendered it impos-
sible to complete it any further. Messrs. Pfyffer and Cor-
region' are acquitted of all the accusations. The same is
the case with all the persons criminated as their accom-
plices. John and Clara Wendel are condemned to pay all
the costs on account of their other crimes; the latter will
however, not be sentenced till the proceedings concerning
them shall be completed. Messrs. Amrhyn and Reichen-
bath shall be blamed for having transgressed the forma-
lities. The.tribunals shall express to Mr. Eseher its disap-
probation at the premature kmblication of the documents.
DAMOTADT, SEM. he Diet of the Grand Duchy
was opened yesterday in this city by the Grand Duke,
who made the following speech
Gentiamen-r4t is with great pleasure that I see the
faithful Estates of the Grand Duchy assembled for the
third time. The choice made of Deputies to the Second
Chamber allows me to hope that a good spirit will animate
that Chamber, and that we shall make some progress in
the road of confidence The Grand Duchy being a com-
ponent part of the German Confederation, I consider it as
one of my most sacred duties to take the most lively inte-
rest in every thing that concerns the consolidation of the
Confederation, and the tranquillity and safety of Germany.
I shall have a rommunication to make to you on the reso-
lution taken by the Federal Diet on this subject in 1821.
The internal adMinistration of the Grand Duchy since the
last Diet; has advanced in order and firmness ; the salutary
erects must be more and more felt every day. The
ministration of the finances has been able to reduce the in-
terest of the public debt.
This circumstance and the produce of the indirect taxes
have enabled us, notwithstanding the great deficiency in
the other branches of the revenue, to meet the expenses
that had been fixed, The Courts of Justice have deter-
mined most of the affairs in arrear, and this branch will
certainly become still more prompt in its action. A uni-
form legislation would greatly contribute to produce this
result; but there are numerous difficulties in this respect.
I shall cause you to be made acquainted with what has
already been done on this subject. 'she establishments of
publicinstruction are evidently advancing towards perfec-
tion. I shall always pay particular attention to these sub-.
jects, and I confidently expect that you will second me in
all the measures that I consider necessary, that we may
obtain a favourable result. Accidents and natural pheno-
mena in 1824 did great damage in Starkenburg and some
other provinces. The misfortunes of 1824 gave my faith-
ful people an opportunity to shovi,their beneficence in a
striking manner. My delegates have been able easily to
adopt measures which have nearly effaced all traces of
these disasters. I have taken care that the same should
be done in Upper Hesse. 1 shall make communications
to you whenever your co-operation shall be necessary to
me. Depend on my paternal kindness.
Moscow, AUG. 21.—The clay of the Coronation is not
yet fixed.
On the 18th, the anniversary of the establishment of the
regiment of the guard, which has obtained so much glory
undek this name, was celebrated at the village of Preo-
brashink, where it had been raised by Peter the First in
the Year 1693. General Islinew,..Commander of this faith-
ful regiment, bad quartered it on the preceding evening in
this village. The Emperor, accompanied by the Grand
Dukes and his Royal highness Prince Charles of Prussia,
and attended by a great number of Generals and Aide-de-
Camps, was received tat his arrival with all due military
honour, and with a huzz4 three times repeated. His Ma-
jesty harangued the regiment, said some flattering things,
and assured them of his continued good-will, &e. He then
proceeded along. the lines in front of the regiment, saluting
the soldiers in the most friendly manner, and embraced all
the sub-officers, according to ancient custom. After divine
service, and when the regiment andstandsrds had received
a blessing, the
Commander entertained the Emperor at a
splendid breakfast.
Tables had been prepared and abun-
dantly supplied with fish and various meats for the soldiers
after which they received permission to
spend the night in
song and dance. There was an illumination in the evening.
(From the co„stitatienuct, Sept. 13.)
ZANTE, Autl. 18.-IPrivate letter.)—On the tithing.
a vessel arrived from 11 arseilles, after a passage of ten days,
having on board
a.
M. Rabaul and other French Philhet.
day for Nimpli M.
from
Ivies, who set out on the same _
ade, p
Gor-
don, who arrived on the same day at 'b
set out next morning for that city.
Nau ,
Colonel Potts, a Greek, brought
up at Paris, has just
a corps
formed in concert with another Ceplialonian Chief,
of 500 Cepludoidotes and Zguttiotes. The soldiers
appoint-
ed their own officers. The regiment is to be called the
lonian Corps. These brave and tried soldiers are to march
immediately against Ibrahim.''
Ibrahim informed of the discord which prevailed among
the Gteek; at Nauplia, advanced on this city with his

Zbie *inn.

LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, SEPT 16, 1826,

The Paris Papers of Wednesday, and the Dade
of Thursday morning, reached us last. night : their
principal contents wilt be found in another column.

The _Voile throws discredit upon the statements of
the Augsburg Gazette, that the demand of the resti-
tution of the fortresses in Asia, made by the Turkish
Commissioners, will put an end to the conferences at
Akermanu.

It is stated from the Trieste Observer, on the au-
thority of a letter from Corfu, that Lord GORDON
had arrived at Zante from Napoli di Romania, whither
he had been to carry money sent by the Greek Coth-
mittee in London. On his return, be and his Secre-
tary were plundered by the Rumeliots, who took from
him 10,000 Spanish piastres, without his being able
to obtain any redress from the Greek Government.
It is added, that he complains loudly of the ingrati-
tude of this people, and has declared that he would
not serve them any more.
The whole of this story appears to us, to bear the
stamp of improbability upon it. If Colonel GORDON
had been to Napoli for the purpose of carrying money
to the Greek Government, it is not very likely that he
should have had 10,000 piastres with him on his return
nor does it appear probable, that'a man, who had so
zealously embarked in such a cause as that of Greece,
would abandon it because he had been pillaged, and
probably by a banditti over which the Authorities have
no controul.

The Constitutionuel gives a private letter from Zante
of August 18, which repeats the accounts of the defeat
of Is nAitim, anti takes a more cheering view of Greek
*Wain than those whidli we are accustomed to see.
FRENCH FUNDS.--PA IL IS, Stn. IL—Five per Cents. opened
at 96f. 60e. ; closed at 981. 55c. ; Three per Cents. opened at
66f. 15c, ; closed at 66f. 20c. ; lank Actions, 2012 f, SOc. ;
Naples Rentes, 751. 20c.; Ditto for Ducats, 72f. bk.—Ex-
change on London—One month 25E 50c. ; three months 25f. Sk.

We have received this forenoon the Allgenieine
Zeilung of the 9th instant, and Hamburgh Gazettes
of the Bth, They contain no political news ; but the
following extracts are interesting as relating to the
Fair at Frankfort, and the state of the Corn Market at
iiamburgl,

FRANKFORT, SEPT. 4.
Though the Chief wholesale business of our fair is done
in the end of the last and the beginning of the present
week, we cannot yet poSitively state the prices of the
prin-
cipal articles. According to the statements of the pur-
chasers, on which, however
entire reliance cannot be
placed, the following articleshave declined in price, com-
pared with the Easter fair, viz. silk manufactures about 15
En
per cent. ; cotton ditto, especially' glish, from 10 to 12
Per cent. ;, woollen manufactures, some 10 per cent.; and
, p
others, for instance, Merinos, 15 per cent, In many instances

If a disclosure which has been made by some of the
French Papers be true, and if it could be supposed
that instances of similar remissness on the part of
Governments having pecuniary transactions with the
house of ROTHSCHILD, frequently occur, the secret of
the enormous wealth of that house would be in some
degree explained. The circumstance to which we
allude, rests, however, on the authority of some of the
minor French Papers only, and probably will be proved
by Messrs. ROTHSCHILD to be altogether without
foundation. If so, the authors 'of the tale ought to be
prosecuted for. a Libel—but if, on the other hand, the
transactions be as stated, the actors will be condemned
at the bar of the tribunal of public opinion.
The story is this, according to the Aristarque.
The sum of money remitted by the Government
of Hayti, as the first instalment of the price to
be paid to France for the independence of that
Republic, amounted to five millions of francs—but it
consisted of a species of coin called quadruples, which
are of the value of two francs. By some singular re-
missness, however, these quadruples had not been
acknowledged, and the house of ROTHSCHILD treat-
ing them after the quotation at the Exchange, had
thus realized a profit of nearly 200,000 francs. The
Aristargue and Constitutionnel treat this circum-
stance as a heavy charge against tne French Govern-
ment, and express their surprise at no reply having
been given to it. The Etoile, however, treats the
affair in quite a different manner.. In the first place,
it calls it' a confused unintelligible accusation ; but,
admitting the facts as alleged to be true, the charge, if
any, would be with more propriety made against the
government of Hayti ; for, it asks, 4‘ who sent the
quadruples to the house of ROTHSCHILD ? who made
the conditions for their eichange and conversion into
francs ? It was not the French Government, neither
was it the Caissee rtes Consignations, whose only duty
it was to receive the money in francs, and who had
nothing whatever to do with the previous, part of the
business." There is certainly something very extraor-
dinary in this affair. That such a large sum of money
shouldbe received in an old coin not now current, and be
exchanged into francs without their value being pre-
viously ascertained
GovernmentLl the to whom they
were remitted, appears to us a deviation from the usual
course that can hardly be accounted for upon the mere
sipposition of what the Aristarque calls ?me singulier
distraction.

we inserted a letter re-
In our Paper of yesterday,
l„ntteiurgestting particulars o the
late Lord Gifford, which records some
i
of his early life, and bears the
stamp of authenticity. On some points, indeed, the
statements contained in it have been verified to us by
Information on which we can rely.
The sketch of the character of the same individual
which we inserted in our Paper of Thursday, is rwt,

as far as we know, absolutely avowed by Sir James
Yiecitintd'sh ; but the credit of it is fixed on that
writer, both by rumour, and by the internal evidence
which it affords. Though hastily coniposeti,—a fault
which a public Journalist must always he inclined to
treat with indulgence,—it exhibits a remarkable
purity and propriety of style; and the fondness with
which it dwells on the gentler and more amiable graCes
of its subject, is, from what we have heard; eminently
characteristic of the general temper and feeling df the
reputed author.
The composition alluded originally appeared
in the Morning Chronicle. Such an ottation to the
merits of Lord Gifford, from among the Journals of
Opposition, we hail with a cordial welcome ; and our
satisfaction is qualified only by the regret, that the
persecution with which the Whig Press assailed the
distinguished individual in question, during almost the
whole of his public career, should never have been
atoned for, except by this lingering, though beautiful
tribute to his memory.

The affection which seems to have subsisted be-
tween Sir James Mackintosh and Lord Gifford, an
affection cemented (as we believe) by a matri-
monial alliance, may probably have suggested to
the former the amiable task which he has thus
'performed ; but the feeling which has guided, has
not therefore warped, his pencil. The likeness
is not more pleasing than it is faithful. His testi-
mony in favour of the domekic virtues of his de-
parted friend, is beyond impeachment ; and the at-
testations he produces from the highest authorities, both
to the extent and precision of his legal acquire-

merits, and to the fairness of the means by which he
attained so exalted a rank in his profession, are such
as must for ever silence both cavil and calumny.
No proinotiOn was ever purer from the taint of

interest than that of Lord Gifford. It originated in
his unquestionable qualifications, and in the esteem
with which those qualifications were regarded ;—in
merit evinced, and merit appreciated,—the twin-stars
which ought ever to usher in the day of professional
glory. The high opinion of him professed by Sir
Vicary Gibbs, who knew him well,—the confirma-
tory praise of Lord Ellenborough, in whose Court he
practised—the general respect and attachment towards
him of his Brethren of the Bar, anti the clearly con-
spiring voice of public favour—these were his only
titles, as they were his undoubted passport, to royal
patronage.

It may afford a proof, both of the good sense and
the energy of this lamented person, that, conceiving
his school education to have been somewhat imper-
fect, and desirous, when he had once fixed his eyes
on the pursuit of a liberal profession, to repair the
deficiency, he was at the pains, while weak in health,
and immersed amidst the darkness of a special
pleader's office, to devote to the study of classical
literature, the leisure which he could with difficulty
snatch from days of black-letter, and nights of
sleeplessness. The severity, indeed, of the institution
to which in many respects he subjected his youth,
well deserved the high recompenses with which it was
crowned.

We have, however, heard it observed, and not always
in an uncandid spirit, that the qualifications of Lord
Gifford as a Judge were scarcely such as to fulfil the
promises of his commencement. Even conceding the
truth of this observation,—and, in a measure, that
concession must probably be made,—it will not be
found to derogate from the merit of him to whom it
relates. It must always be recollected that the judicial
life of Lord Gifford was particularly brief ;—that it was
an experiment,—and an experiment tried under many
disadvantages, and left, after all, incomplete. From
the junior ranks of the bar, and almost a novice even
there, he was suddenly raised, as by the effect of an
explosion, to the highest dignities of his order. Terns
non cursibus sed victoriis lmtratce, might almost be
the motto of his professional career. It would at any
rate have required very considerable nerve to sustain
the whirl, the stress, the amazement, of an elevation so
unexampled : but, in his instance, another difficulty
was superadded. On his appointment to the office of
Solicitor-General, lie was advised to transfer his practice
from the Courts of Common Law to those of Equity.
Incidental considerations recommended this step ; and,
by what appears to have been a clear infelicity olchoice,
it was adopted. In the common law his experience
had been very considerable,—short, indeed, but highly
condensed. In equity, though even
,to that branch of
juridical learning he had paid more attention than under
the circumstances could have been thought possible,
lie was comparatively in a strange land ; and the
wonderful proficiency which lie had already acquired,
both in the science and in the art of his profession, was
in a great measure thrown away. Thus was made a
fearful and surely a most undesirable accession to the
labours and hazards of the arduous enterprize in which
he had embarked.

AU this could not but press hard on a mind, in which
uncommon sensibility and a great degree of self-diffi-
dence were singularly blended with lofty aspirings, and
an innate and inextinguishable presentiment of emi-
nence.
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terially impaired that freedom of spirit—that elasticity,
if we may so speak, of mental movement—that con-
scious security,—which are essential to the develope-
ment of great powers. But, alive to this effect, it was
thought by careful observers, that Lord Gifford applied
himself to obviate and correct it with remarkable ludg.
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rnent. Patiently, and with his characteristic assiduity,
he inured his mind and formed his habits to the
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de-
mands and the difficulties of his situation ; and his
nature was rapidly recovering its tone, when it pleased
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those systenlatic deductions of reasoning which are
technically called judgments. With his increasing
confidence in himself, however,
his practice 'ft this re-
spect .1
altered ; and at some of his last •
Rolls, he delivered
_judrenr
~ sittings at the
s carefully and learnedly
argued. On the other and, in determining Scotch
appeals in the House of Lords, he was, from the first
day of his appointment as Deputy Speaker, in the
habit of expounding the 4
groun of his opinion with

the ease and freedom of one who felt his strength. With
the law of Scotland, in its broad outline, his acquaint-
ance was very considerable ; here, therefore, he stood
on a far higher level than most of those whom he ad-
dressed ; and from a lawyer of English education; an
accurate knowledge of the technicalities of Scottish
jurisprudence could not be required. Perhaps also it
was a circumstance which aided him in this department
of his duty, that his style of speaking, having been
formed in the school of Nisi-Prints practice, was rather
forensic than judicial, and had for that reason a sort of
fitness in the judicial proceedings of the House of
Lords, which always assume the shape of a Paths-
mentary debate.
It is a remarkable circumstance that, having been
elevated to the Peerage and to the Vice-speakership of
the House of Lords, for the express purpose of
dueing the immense accumulation of appeals from
Scotland, the life of Lord Gifford should have been
spared precisely till that purpose had been m sub-
stance accomplished, and accomplished with *-
success which cannot fail to establish his, credit
with posterity. It is in truth on this portion of his
conduct that his judicial reputation must now princi-
pally rest ; and to this his friends and admirers may
point as a conclusive proof of his uncommonmerit. It
is, indeed, an inadequate proof, after all. Had his
days been prolonged, there can be no rational doubt,
that he would have achieved a far higher wino°
both in station and in fame.—But his honours are
sufficient.—Those who were the most competent °
estimate him, have borne the highest tribute to his p
blie pretensions ; and those who are the worthiest°
weep over him, attest with one voice the purity, bier'
lessness, and amiableness of his private life.