The Sun.
London, England, 1817-09-26 00:00:00

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

Psurs. Sim-. 22 —The report that the change
of War. Mioister, which has jast taken place, was
to be followed by a similar change in the Depart-
ment of the Interior, act-pit:las more and more
consistency. It is even spoken of in the Ministe-
rial circle: as an event very near at hand. Accord-
ing to this plan of change, M. Caine will leave the
111inistry of the Interior, and kill be created a
Peer of Fraare. Count Moll, Minister of the
Ikhrinc, ...ill pass to the Interior, and Marshal
!Manumit, Doke of Ilagn•a, who is at this mo-
ment on a mission. at Lyons, will take the Ministry
of the Marine. Others however say, that Baron
de Barante, the arector,General o' Indirect Con-
trihistkni, will he t, .e Minister o the Marine.

'l'i) elections commenced on Saturday last, hnt
that day was solely occupied itt choosine:the liu-
raanx, and that choice soon proved that the Li-
berals are in force ; for all the persons•for Whom
they vote, as, L•afitte, Benj,uniu Delessert, Ma-
unel, Casimir Verlief-. Gilbert des Voisioc, &c.
were appointed to the fioreHnx. Yesterday still
:more decidedly showed that the majority was on
the side of the Liherals. On the very first ecru.
.tiny the name of M. Lafitre, the banker, was
announced ail') a great majority. There now
remain only seven representatives to be chosen,
and the candidates who lia,e the greatest number
of elianc s in their favour are—Casimir Perrier,
banker ; Manuel, advocate ; Benjamin Constant;
; Benjamin Delessert ; Gilbert cies Voisinsi
and Pasquier, the Minister of Justice. In this
nhc r there are only two Ministcrialists, namely,
Pascinier 'and Ilellart.
The Ministry, finding themselves -so weak, have
got the elections adjouroed until to-morrow, un-
der the pretext that this day must be employed iu
the scrutiny of seven of the sections which have
fallen some hours behind. Ido not expect that
the Ministers will succeed in making, during the
interval, any considerable addition to the number
of their friends. In the mean time they have in-
serted in the Journal des Debats, a sort of cry of
alarm, in which they call on the Royalists of every
description to come to their assistance. This
article commences thus :—" Pure Royalists—
Constitutional Royalists,—Royalists before or .af-
ter the Charter, assemble: it is your cause that
is about to he tried !"

M. Benjamin Constant has replied, in a pamph-
let, to the attacks made upon him by the Ministry
in the Journals. It was wrong in the Ministry to
attack him with personalities, instead of seeking
to combat his principles; for certainly the Pas-
quiets, M 0143, Davousts, and other of the Mini-
sters and first functionaries of the State, would
afford fair game were personAl attacks proper.
The letter Which I subjoin from Nimes will
prove to you how difficult it still is to enforce the
due administration of justice in that country.
Men most notoriously guilty are either acquitted
by the juries, as Boissin. the assassin of General
Legarde, or coodemned to slight-punishments, as
was lately the assassin of General Hamel., This
'but too wen proves that the un'ortirnate depart-
ments of the South are still a prey to the spirit of
party and vengeance.
Nismes, SePT. is certain that robbery
and murder is nit lot 444 committed in the nren
streets, but still we' stand upon a volcano, and
some event totally foreign to us may cause a new.
ixOlosion, more violent than that we have already
experienced. To the atrocities of a furious and
fanatical populace have succeeded the most de-
plorable'Of all iniquities,' that of the Tribunals.
We once holies' that ibis evil was perhaps pe-
culiar to our dePartuteut ; but we have acquired
the melancholy eertaiwy that the influence of
the persons who hold the Gard in oppression
is extended at pleasure beyond its ,limits.—
The Government, in order to withdraw great cri-
minals from that fatal and deplorable influence,
had transferred the trial of some offences to the
Assize Court of the Department of the Drome,'
and the following was the result of 'that proceed-
ing :—Two unfortunate women (Protestants),
were assassinated in their'lmouses at Nimes. Seve-
ral witnesses saw the crime committed, and re= •
c,ognised the perpetrators. The new Prefect, ,
d'Argout, whose conduct merits the high-
est praise, caused them to be arrested. anti
the u, itnesses, in spite of menaces and intrigues,
bail Ihe coinage to dec'are the truth. %Veil ! the
pi emrners tv re scandalously acquitted. One indeed
was detained on another ;charge 1 the other and

ibesviinestei fot defettie arrived 'here hi
a sort of trioretphal ttate, in carriages &ter).
rated with branches of trees. Ott the Other
hand, men condemn, d to death enjoy the pleasure
ivere..f reading in open day their sentences posted
"Rat the Corners of reets, without any one say-
cite a word to thrm : while a pet son named
(ai'ratestant) to whom the Royal clemency
was extended two months ago, is still, .1 know
not for what reason. in the.gKilies.
Tants-re, SEPT. 6.---Our Government litai offi-
eptliy announced that 30 corsairs, under the flag
i>f't;a-e Buenos-Ayi es iusurgentS, sailed from Aux
Cayes, in St, Domingo, about the end of July. It
Vetii'ved'iliat several of these vessels intend to
cruise on the ctasts of Europe. Mr. Allen. the
6.1. the United Sates, who resides here,
eontiVt'nwicated this intelligence to•the other
Consith. the price of colonial productions has
risen, and it Cs believed will be kept up by this

V4EivNi, SEW. 10.—Sir•Robert Gordon, First
Secre:ary of the tnglish Embassy, and Chargé
d'Affaires in the absente of Lord Stewart, hai re-
toroed to this cityiiroln Carlsbad. The Russian
Altbassador, Count Stackelberg,-kft Vienna to-
'lay for Pregue, to have ►iti interview with Count
Crpo d'lstria, who has left the Bohemian waters
(Carlsbad and Franzbrun), Count Capo d'lstria
is to return to Russia to meet the Emperor,
whom be is to accompany in hi 3 toot.

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