The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-18 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the Moniteur.)
" Several of the journals contain a notice of the
crime imputed to a foreign ecclesiastic; and they
give at the same time an account of the preparatory
measures which have been taken to bring it before
the courts of justice. The publicity given by them
to an act, which we were inclined to pass over in
silence from respect to the morals of the public, ap-
pears to us useful in various respects. It cannot be
considered on the part of those journals, as a party
proceeding, for they cannot doubt that the Govern-
ment and clergy of France feel more affliction and
indignation than any other persons at outrages of
this nature, which, unfortunately, are no more avoid-
able in such a class of society than in any other. It
is, then, easy to perceive in the very horror which
they feel at the crime in question, and in the indig-
nation which they display at the scandal occasioned
by a man covered with a venerable habit, the real
causes of the reserve which certain journals ought to
have imposed upon themselVes, and which they
ought always to preserve upon offences of the same
nature, from respect to their female, if not to their
male, readers.

Now that other journals have set us the exam-
ple, we cannot show too much haste in felicitating
ourselves, in the name of the respect and confidence
which we profess to entertain for the French Clergy,
that the accused is a foreigner. It is not that we
intend by so doing to render the ecclesiastics of his
country more responsible than our own for such a
crime. We cannot be guilty of the injustice of cast-
ing upon families or classes of men the crimes of in-
dividuals. Philosophy itself agrees with Christian
charity in this maxim, which ttas almost become
proverbial—that faults attach only to persons. We
do not believe that we have any occasion to avail
ourselves of it in this instance; but we cannot con-
ceal our satisfaction at seeing that this crime, if it be
made out, has not been committed by any of those
worthy members of the French Clergy, whom the
country is learning daily to venerate more and more
as it sees them attaching themselves more closely to
our institutions and manners.

" A rigid inquiry, demanded by every considera-
tion, has been set on foot. Let us thank the ma-
gistracy for the care which it bestows upon a case,
in which religion and the dignity of Government
are not less interested than the family in whose
grief society so largely participates. It is important
to every body that it should be generally known
that the law makes no distinction of persons; that
faults are aggravated in proportion to the respecta-
bility of the rank of those who commit them; and
that the clergy repels with as much horror from its
venerable ranks a man unworthy of them, as any
other class of society would reject from its bosom
a corrupt member, without protecting his faults or
partaking in his disgrace, under pretext of a mis-
taken community of interests. From time to time,
honourable corporations experience the sorrow of
seeing some unfortunate man tarnish their reputa-
tion. They are not on that account less honoured
by sociey—they even find in those fatal circum-
stances an opportunity of covering themselves with
new honour, by hastening to disavow all future
connection with an unworthy brother. The charity
of the French clergy forbids them to make that dis-
avowal in public ; but there is not a Christian
heart which has not already pronounced its ana-
thema in secret. Justice will do the rest.

(From the Moniteur of Wednesday, August 15.)
" PARIS, Aua. 14.—We have the following ac-
count from Port-au-Prince, dated June 3 :
" The President of Hayti has been seriously ill.
The report of his sickness had already spread through
all the departments of the Republic, and a general
uneasiness and alarm prevailed. His Excellency
was in danger for several days, being affected by a
pleurisy, which fortunately manifested itself by symp-
toms that were not equivocal; he had recourse, with-
out delay, to painful but efficacious remedies. After
15 days' acute suffering, the disorder ImAyielded, not
SO much to the effects of art as to the strength of
his constitution.'

(From the quotidienne of Wednesday.)

" The movement which has taken place at Lisbon
is marked by a particular character. It is not the
expression of the national opinion. The movement
is liberal. What has been its cause or pretext ? If
it be not the result of that agitation of men's minds
which produces, as we have observed, political re-
volutions, it may then be justly attributed to some
causes adroitly prepared—to some. secret influence
which wishes to make it appear, by this agitation of
the refuse of the people, that the opinion of the ca-
pital is not favourable to Don Miguel, and calls for
the return of Don Pedro. to Lisbon.

" We must compare this moyement with the
articles in The Times, on the necessity of the return
of Don Pedro to Portugal. This would not be the
first time that a factitious opinion has been advanced
by the. English diplomacy as an argument in favour
of a system.
•

" Be this as it may, the situation of Portugal re-
quires a prompt remedy. The anarchy of opinions
may be said to have found its *ay into the Govern-
ment. The arrival of Don Miguel at Lisbon will
repair many disorders. It will then be seen whe-
ther the new Government, environed by public opi-
nion, will be wanting in strength, and whether the
evils which afflict that unfortunate country will long
continue."

The Journal des Debals states, " that M. Benvet
has given to the French Government for the
revenue to be derived from the gambling-houses of
Paris for the next year, 6,055,100 'francs, or about
250,000/." tt adds, " that nothing can be more la-
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mentable than to have to state the-official existence
of these establishments, disavowed by religion, mo-
rality, and humanity; impugned every year in the
tribune, and yet sanctioned every year by a vote of
the legislature, as a palliation of still greater
disorders."

(From the Constitutionnel.)
PARIS, AUG. 14.--The Quotidienne continues its
attacks on Mr. Canning. It flattered itself yesterday
with the hope of seeing the irreconcileable enemies
of the Catholics of Ireland called to the head of .the
English Administration, a piece of conduct which
equally reveals its hatred of civil and religious liberty,
and its ignorance of the existing state of Great Bri-
tain. To-day it is extremely, disappointed, and
knows not what countenance to assume, on account
of the nomination of Lord Goderich to the post of
Prime Minister. It can only console itself by sup-
agnonoindgfaith,. It
sup-
posing that he is a weak man, incapable of support-1
theginigveson
butirldi
this
burden
uobifeet succeedinganewroa of it
pto Mr, Cs
by affecting to confound the Whigs and the Radicals.
Lord Lansdowne, Mr. Huskisson, and Lord Hol-
land, are in its eyes genuine jacobins of 1793, be-
cause they are Ministerial men in 1527. Must we
'again recall to the Quotidienne, that in England the
names of parties no longer represent any thing but old
ideas, which have disappeared before the common
sense of the age—that there is no longer in that
country, any more than elsewhere, but a very small
number of incorrigibles, who are lost in the mass of
men of sense—and that those who wish for a
.wise
and progressive reform, who march with the pre-
sent, not with the past age, have shaken off absurd
prejudices, and have bent all their wishes and all
their efforts, to the prosperity of the country ?
The Quotidienne could not even dissemble the
pleasure it felt at the death of Mr. Canning. It pre-
tends that it ought to rejoice at it because it afflicted
us. What can we answer to this whimsical species
of logic, except that we ought to grieve because it
rejoices ?

(From the ,Journal des Debuts.)

GENEVA, AUG. B.—Some disorders have broken
out in the company of artillery of our garrison. For
some days past the soldiers have complained of be-
img made to work at a garden in the Aitch. On
Monday, 25th of July, the ten men, who were com-
manded to execute that work, left the barracks at
an early hour, and failed to attend the morning mus-
ter; they came in again in the course of the day, and

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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 18, 1827.

The Duke 'of WELLINGTON has accepted
his MAJESTY'S most gracious offer of Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Army. This is as it
should be. The illustrious in arms should always
preside over brave men. The country—the
army, the best friends and real admirers of the
Noble Duke, • will hail his return to an office for
which he is so peculiarly and pre-eminently quali-
fied. If his Grace was at sea in politics, he will
now be perfectly at home in his proper element.
We congratulate his Grace and the Army upon
the event.

It will be observed by our Court Circular,
that ViSCOUIA GODERICPI kissed his MAJESTY'S
hand, at the Court at Windsor, yesterday, on his
appointment as First Lord of the Treasury;
that his Grace the Duke of PORTLAND was
declared Lord President of the Council; and that
Mr. HERRIES, having been sworn in a Member
of the Privy Council, " received from, his MA-
JESTY the Seals of the Office of Chancellor of
the Exchequer."
We have authority to state that the Court
Circular is misinformed with respect to the last
part of this statement. Mr. HERRIES was
sworn in a Privy Councillor, biit did not receive
the Seals of Office as Chancellor of the
Exchequer, nor will, until the result .of the coin:-
numication made to Mr. HusKissoN be known.
The absence of Mr. FIUSICISSON from Eng-
land prevented the final completion of the mi-
nisterial arrangements, but as there is now
every reason to believe that that Right lion.
Gentleman's health is sufficiently restored to en-
' able him to undertake the office of Secretary of
State for the Colonial Department, in which
case the Bight Honourable CHARLES GRANT
will succeed him as President of the Board of
Trade, it may be considered that the Ministry
is virtually settled, and in a manner which is
likely to advance the honour and interests of our
country.

When we reflect that little more than a fort-
night has elapsed since the hand of death
snatched from us that great man by whom the
Councils of this vast empire were directed, and
that in that short space arrangements haVe been
made for supplying the mighty void which his

decease had occasioned, we cannot but offer
our expression of admiration of the decision with
which his MAJESTY has acted on a subject of
such immense importance to himself and his
people. By his choice in the selection of
men who would persevere in the principles
which guided the policy of their distinguished
predecessor, his MAJESTY has also given an
additional proof of his judgment, and of his re-
gard for the interests of his subjects, and has
thus entitled himself to the everlasting gratitude
of the nation over whom Providence has placed
him. Long may his Majesty enjoy the highest
reward which a Monarch can receive in this
world—the respect and gratitude of his subjects.
Of the qualifications of Lord GODERICII as
the First Minister of this country we have be-
fore spoken, and we are satisfied that the antici-
pations we have indulged in, of his administration
of the affairs of Great Britain being sensible,
prosperous, and popular, will not be disappointed.
The talents and thorough knowledge of the dif-
ficult subject of Finance which Mr. HERRIES
possesses, are too well appreciated to require
from us any eulogium. It is sufficient to say
that when those talents, and that knowledge
of financc, will be practically called into action
in the wield best calculated for their display,
we may/ entertain a confident expectation that our
financial system will receive many and important
improvements under the direction of the Right
firmourable Gentleman.

Recurring to the solemn scene of Thursday
'last, we felt particularly gratified by the hand-
some manner in which their Royal Highnesses
the Dukes of CLARENCE and SUSSEX honoured
NIL CANNING'S funeral 1)y their pre-
sence. The funeral was intended to have
been , strictly private, but the Royal Dukes
set the observance of etiquette aside in

the spontaneous impulse of their feeling
hearts. This is the best homage which Royalty
can pay to genius and public virtue. It was
highly honourable to the memory of the

Illustrious Statesman, and must stimulate the
youth who experienced their Royal condescension
at the tomb—to emulate the career of his
lamented father. Such rewards of merit are the
true inducements to virtuous and heroic deeds.

We r6ceived last night the Paris Morning
Papers of Wednesday. The Gazette de France
was not published on the afternoon of that day,
on account of the observance of the Assumption
of the Blessed Virgin.
The Moniteur contains a long article justify-

ing the silence it has observed relative to the
atrocious crime of a Priest named CONTRA-
vAT9ro, on the ground of regard for public
morals ; and stating that a rigid inquiry into the
circumstances of the case is now about to be
instituted.

The Quotidienne has, as usual, an article de-
scribing the happy consequences which will
ensue from the intended return of Don MIGUEL
to Portugal.
Extracts of these Paper are given in another
column.

A new edition of Sir Walter Scott's " Life
of Napoleon," with numerous improvements, additions,
omissions, and corrections, is, we understand, printing in
Edinburgh, in six volumes Bvo.

CULINARY APHORISM.--The celebrated
French cook, Monsieur Ude, is said to have told Lord
Sefton, that water should never be employed by a good
cook. " When,' said the professor, "he has need of this
liquid, be should throw a piece of ice into the stew-pan."
HYDROPHOBIA.—There seems to be some
secret connexion between a humid atmosphere and this
tremendous malady ; for in the Arabian desert, where no
dew ever falls, dogs, notwithstanding the intolerable heat,
have never been known to grow mad.

Upwards of 2000 persons, beyond the rela-
tives and immediate friends of the late Mr. CANNING, ap-
plied for tickets, and permission to attend the funeral.
Not more than 400 of these applicants received tickets.

A Correspondent says, " The Very Reverend
Gentleman who chose to be not only select, but exclusive, in
his invitations to the funeral of a late Poet and Critic, was
the same person who so unceremoniously and ungraciously
ordered the gates of Westminster Abbey to be closed prema-
turely at Mr. CartNlxo's funeral, to the utter exclusion of
many of the friends of the Premier, who had absolutely re-
ceived cards of admission, as well as to the inconvenience and
injury of an immense, but very orderly, crowd of people, who
anxiously wished to witness the painful ceremony of paying
the last honours to the remains of a great man."—Morn-
ing Paper.

AWFUL INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH.—
Yesterday evening, the waterman who attends the hackney-
coach stand, in Pickett-street, adjoining St. Clement's
church, had but a few moments before assisted some per-
sons into the chariot, No. 22, when a brewer's dray pass-
ing at the instant, overturned the chariot, which appeared
to create some alarm in the mind of Pople the waterman,
lest the people inside should be injured, and he was going
forward to render assistance, when he fell to the ground,
apparently lifeless. An attempt was made to bleed the
man, but the blood had ceased to flow, and he . almost im-
mediately expire&
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anonymous correspondent (who, for aught we know, may
be a tobacconist or tobacco grower), after informing us
desires, " through the medium of our widely extended and
mothnever
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such
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devastation.,"
trot: 1 destruc-
tive
interesting Journal," to state what be believes to be " a
certain preventative and cure for them. It is theayes of
tobacco, spread plentifully in wardrobes, cupboard, muff_
boxes, and even in the mattrassee of beds. Severpounds
of it would cost little in comparison to a snuff. Even after
they lay their egg, and abound, from the worm to the fly,"
he adds, "it will kill them if laid loose in quantities : and ,
I am sure you will confer a lasting benefit on the public by
making this generally known." The experiment may
easily be made.—Literary Gazette.
TYPE CASTING.—A machine has been in-
vented and built by Mr. Peter Sturtevant and Mr. Edwin
Starr, the bead mechanics of tlae Boston Type and Stereo-
type Foundry, which is likely to be of very important
use in the art of type making. It is, says the Bos-
ton Daily Advertiser, a machine for casting the type by
merely turning a crank, thereby avoiding the laborious
and dilatory process of casting by hand. The opera-
tion by this machine may be performed by a boy or a per-
son entirely unskilled, with double the rapidity of the best
caster, and so much greater is the force by which the
metal is injected into the moulds than that exerted in cast-
ing in the usual method, that there is rarely if ever an im-
perfect face, in casting the most slender and difficult letter.
There is besides less waste of metal, than in the ordinary
mode of casting. The machine is not complex, and is
little likely, as far as we can judge from its constructio*, to
get out of order,..-iknerican Paper.

THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY).

CITY, TWBLVE 0' CZOOr.

The City article of a Morning Paper, on the
subject of the fall in' the Exchanges, has caused the
English Funds to wear a lowering appearance, and
Consols, which opened at 884 for money and
account, and S 9 for the next time, became affected,
and went back to BSi, and have fluctuated since at
884, sometime buyers, and the next moment sellers;
they are now the latter; in the mean time it is right
to observe that the Exchanges are still in favor of

this country, and the fall which has taken place for
some few posts has not exceeded an eighth per cent.
each day, and may be considered to arise from our
imports at this season of the year being always
larger than usual in certain articles for manufacturing
consumption, which may account for the present
decline. India Bonds arc 92 4, and Exchequer Bills
61 pm., which alone chews the abundance of money,
and the low rate of interest.

The Foreign Funds have been quite inactive all
the morning; Mexican are 681 The house in
question relative to which so much mention was
made yesterday, as connected with the Mexican Mi-
nister's financial report on the subject of the Loans
contracted, and the large balance owing to that Go-
vernment, has caused an intimation co be given,
that the same has been, since 1826, much reduced
by subsequent payments and disbursements ; so far
all is well, but the refutation of the unfavourable opi-
nion, which certainly existed, would have been more
complete if they had taken the trouble of stating
the amount to which the enormous balance had been
reduced, and what is now the actual remaining
balance due to the Mexican Government. Under
all the circumstances, it does certainly appear credit-
able to the latter, as a young State, and shews
the exertions they have made that the payment of
the dividends has been so regular, with this balance
lying over, with the drawback and the commission
and charges attached to it. Greek are 15/ ; Co-
lombian, 31 I. Some ideas begin to be entertained
that the packet from Buenos Ayres, so long over-
due, may have been met with by the Ranger, Capt.
Lord Thynne, on board of which M. Garcia em-
barked at Rio, to convey the terms upon which the
Emperor Don Pedro would conclude a peace with
that Republic, and in consequence had caused the
packet to return back and await the result of these
overtures.

Shares remain in the same state; the golden
prospects, however, of the Real del Monte Mines
seem on the wane, the price being new quoted at
20 discount to par.

Two o' CLoor.

At the Stock Exchange the dealers have contrived
to find a new cause for the heaviness of Consols.
There is bad news from Constantinople, and the
Turks now set at defiance the efforts of the European
Powers to restore peace between them and the
Greeks, and have taken possession of Wallachia and
Moldavia. Consols have been 88i it, but are now
88f, buyers.
THREE 0' CLOCK.
Consols for Account, 88i, buyers, are now
sellers.

FOUR o'CLOCK—CLOSING PRICES.
Consols 881 Danish Bonds 63
Do. for Ac. 881 Greek Do. 1825,
Brazilian Bonds Mexican Do. 1825 68/
Buenos Ayres Do. Peruvian Do. 26

Chilian Do.
Columbian, 1824,

Russian Do. 97
Spanish Do. 10

ADULTERY. AND MURDER.

A letter from Madrid, dated August 1, relates
the following extraordinary case of conjugal infide-
lity and vengeance :—Gabriel Loches, aged 19, a
resident of the town of Dievries, in the province of
Madrid, married Elenteria del Moral, a pretty young
girl of eighteen. For some time the young couple
lived in the most perfect harmony. Gabriel was
passionately attached to his wife, and she, to all
appearance, returned his tenderness. Gabriel being
employed on his father's farm, which was at some dis-
tance from Dievres, was obliged to absent himself
from home the greater part of the week, and only
returned on Saturday night to pass the Sunday with
his wife. On Saturday night, the young couple hav-
ing supped and gone to bed, Gabriel soon fell asleep.
Some time after, however, he awoke and asked his
wife if she had not heard some noise very close to
them. Elenteria replied that she had not. Gabriel
turned round in the bed, and putting his hand to-
wards his wife, felt the body of a man who lay
stretched beside her. Gabriel jumped from the bed at
the same time with the audacious intruder, who took ,
to flight. Gabriel pursued him, at the same time
crying out to the other inmates of the house for
help. Several persons came at his cries ; they could
not overtake the runaway, but they recognised
him to be Antonio I.oches, the cousin-german of
Gabriel. When the latter returned to his bed-
' room, his wife threw herself at his feet, • and im-
plored his pardon. He was either weak or gene-
rous enough to grant it to her. This forbearance on •
his part could not, however, prevent the scene
which had taken place becoming known in the
neighbourhood. Gabriel became the object of deri- •
sion and obloquy, and was pointed out as he passed
through the streets. Such was Gabriel's attach-
ment to his unworthy wife, that he bore patiently
his disgrace, and several months passed away in
seeming good intelligence between them. Elen-
teria, -little touched with her husband's in-
fatuated tenderness, - contim.ed her intercourse
it would appear, with Antonio, for on Sa-
turday, the 15th April, Gabriel, in returning to,
wards his house, perceived his wife and Antonio
conversing together in the yard in a manner that
left no doubt of their sentiments towards each other.
Gabriel pursued the ravisher of his peace, but could
not overtake him, and in the mean time his wife ran
into the house and fastened the door upon herself.
Gabriel returned to his father's, where he passed a
sleepless night, a prey to fury and jealousy. The
next morning he wandered about till the hour of
dinner, when he came back to his father's, but not .
finding the dinner ready, he quitted the house and
went to his own. On entering he fastened the door,
and then proceeded to cut his wife's throat. The
crime was no sooner committed than he rushed from
the house, the bloody knife in his hand, and his
clothes all stained with blood, and related what he
had done to all whom he met. He went to his fa-
ther's house, where he also stated what had taken
place. He then, after washing his hands, repaired to
the house of the Alcade, to whom he acknowledged
his crime, and surrendered himself. He was trans-
ferred to the prison of Alcala de Henares, where his
trial some time after took place. There being no
doubt of his guilt, from his own confession and other
circumstances, the Corregidor of Alcala de Henares
sentenced him to be hanged, after which his head was
tis be cut off, and affixed upon the wall opposite the
house where his wife resided, his body was to be di-
vided in quarters, which were to be eacubados;
he was moreover condemned to the costs of the
proceedings. The prisoner was then transferred to
Madrid, and the sentence submitted to the revision
of the tribunal of Alcades de Cases Conte. After a
very eloquent and touching defence of the prisoner
by a distinguished member of the Spanish bar (Don
Rufino Hernandez), the tribunal of Alcades gave
judgment on the 27th of May 1827, by which they
revoked the sentence of the inferior Court, and con-
demned Gabriel Loches to six years' hard labour in
the prison of Malaga, and the costs of the trial.—A
year of merida, or hard labour, at Malaga, consists
only of eight months.

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