The Sun.
London, England, 1818-05-08 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

FRANKFORT, APRIL 27.—A very important
question was agitated in one of the last confiden-
tial si,tings of the Diet, relative to the military
organization. The question was to determine
what line of conduct was to be observed when one
of the States of the German Confederation, which
is at the same time an European power, shall be
implicated, in this latter quality, in war, in con-
sequence of vAich its German dom.nions shall
be attacked and occupied by its enemy. The
question is to know, whether in such a case the
G,rman Confederation shall be implicated in the
tear.

On the same occasion the Diet was also invited
to decide the question, whether in wars of one or
another• of the European Powers, who are mem-
bers of the Confederation (Austria, Prussia, the
Nethedands, or Denmark), the Confederation
can establish a system of neutrality, and support
the system of an armed neutrality ? Can the mere
passage of lot eign troops though the German ter-
ritory of the power wl►ich is at war be considered
as an act of hostility to the Confederation ?
All these questions, which are of tire highest
importance in regard to the future public law of
Europe, will be discussed by the Military Com-
mittee, and afterwards by the Diet. It is affirmed
that the Ministers have sent to their Courts fur
instructions on this subject.-
M. Kotzebue,. Counsellor of his Majesty the
Emperor of Russia, has arrived here with his wife :
he is going to Ems.
NAPLES, APRIL 9 —Our journals contain a
triple convention between our Government, his
Majesty the Kiug of France, his Majesty tl►e King
of Spain, and his Royal Highness •tie Prince
Regent of England, from which it results that
the privileges anti exemptions which the subjects
of these three Powers enjoyed, in the commerce
of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, are abolished.
His Majesty promises that, the subjects of these
three nations shall be treated on the same footing as
the most favoured nations; and that the exemp-
tions and privileges thus abolished shall not be
renewed in favotir of any state ; that they shall
enjoy an abatement of 10 per cent. on the amount
oldie duties payable after the tariff in force since
the Ist of January, 18)6, on the totality of the
mercfiandiSe or 'productions of the three Stares
which shall be imported into his Majesty's domi-
noos, besides other advantages tueutiouc►l in the
said convention.

BRUS,IELS, MAY 3 —lt. is affirmed that, as a
measure of economy, several. great works, which
were to he'executed this year, will
.be suspended.
The building of a new palace seems to be indefi-
nitely deferred.

In consequence of Dr. Bu a now and Mr.
THOMSON having relinquished the Editorship of
the London Medical Repository, several Medical
Gentlemen, at the last Meeting of the Medical
Society, expressed their determination to pa-
tronize the Monthly Gazette of Health, not only
because it contains more practical ii fo mat ion
than all the other Periodical Worry: on 'Medicine,
although published at the low price of One Shil-
ling, but because, in the first place, it is better
supported by contributions from the most emi-
nent Practitioners on the Continent ; secondly,
the account of new Medical Works is impartial;
and, thirdly, that the Editors, by exposing the
artifices or unworthy practices of medical men
and pretenders, evince a laudable desire to en-
hance the respectability of the profession, and
place the practice on scientific principles for the
benefit of mankind.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday last, which were
due this morning, have not arrived.

There is nothing but what might be expected
froth Opposition in their ordinary resistance to the
measures of Government, but when those mea-
sures relate to the protection of the Country itself,,
it might be supposed that tl►e Patty would not sub-
ject themselves to the disgrace of being suspected
of indifference to its essential interests. The
ALIEN ACT has been found highly beneficial in
keeping off Miscreants who are spread all over
Europe, and who endeavour to undermine autho-
rity wherever they are permitted to exercise their
machinations. Look at the Netherlands at this
moment ! Though the King was raised to his
I prone by the Allied Powers, yet a band of wicked
Scribblers find harbour in his Country, whence
they issue libels upon every Government in Europe.
Is it to be supposed that, if he had due power in
his own dominions, he would tolerate the existence
among his Subjects of persons who attempt to
bring ridicule and odium on those principles upon
which his authority depends ? If it were not for
the protection of the Am.tca Ace, vast numbers
of such wretches would soon over-r►n► Great Bri-
tain, and employ their baleful arts in attempting
to undermine the foutida►ions of loyalty and all
regular Government. Shall we then attend to the
senseless -clanioms of •the Opposition 13 rbblers,
and expose this great Country to the ensnaring
artifices of wicked Demagogues, the refuse of
every other ? Have we not miscreants enough at
home, who arc constantly labouring for the same
iniquitous purpose ? No—let Government, at all.
events; guard the Country from the intrusion of
Foreign Reformers;—there are, surely, a sufficient
number of domestic breed eager to throw the State
into contusion, and "Over whtlin with revolutionary
horrors the purest political system ever devised
by human-sagacity, and the unrivalled excellence
of which has been confirmed by long and happy
experience.

We intimated yesterday that a Gcneral Election
is nearer at hand than is generally supposed. We
have strong reasons for being ourselves of this
opinion. The Morning Chronicle seems_ to think
that the event will be hastened on account of Lord
CASTLEREAGH'S anxiety that it should take place
before he goes to the Congress of Sovereigns. We
expect the event upon very different and much more
substantial grounds. Vc, however, %visit .that
such a hustling scene may be over, and the n aim]
settled again into tranqu;llit y, before his Lordship
joins a Congress' of the utmost importance to
Europe, and in which, if wrong measures are
adopted, France may relapse into a revolutionary
chaos, and every other State be affected by the
shock.

Yesterday the PRINCE REGENT livid a Court,
and afterwards a Privy Council, at which the
Duke of lIICIIMoND (vas sworn in Governor of
Canada. A new State Seal :vas agreed upon for
Scotland.
" Prince LEoroLD came yesterday from Clare-
mont, to pay a visit of congratulation to the
Duchess of )(mix. Ile also visited the Que.EN,
the PaiNcit IteoENT, and the Duke and Ductless
of CUMBERLAND.
In- consequence 'of the misunderstanding be-
tween Count MONTHOLON anti Genet al GoUR-
GAUD, at St. Helena, the latter has returned to
Europe. He came passenger in the Conuicir East
Indianian. It is stated that BUONAPARTE peremp•
torily lot bad the decision of the quarrel hy duel.
Mr. BatcoLm, at whose house BUoNAPARTE re-
sick d when he first landed, has also returned to
England with his family.
There are various reports in circulation respect-
ing, a fracas at St. Helena. Mr. BALCOLM and
his family, with whom BUONAPARTE was so inti-
mate on his first landing, is certainly arrived -in
England ; and it is generally rumoured that he
was not allowed tri spend much time in packing
up. It is also assetted that a duel was actually
fought between Generals MONTHOLON and GuR-.
GAUD.