The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-04 00:00:00

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FRENCH FuNns.—Rentes, Five•per Cents. 103 f, 65c. ;
Three per Cents. 72f. 85c. ; Bank Actions, 2,010 f.
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FOREIGW •FuNns.—Rentes 'Nap. Cert. Fal. 78f. 65c.;
Royal Spanish Loan, 63i 64i ; Spanish Interminable An-
nuities, 47f. ; Haitian Loan, 680 f.

We received this morning Frankfort Papers,
and the Allgemeine Zeitung of the 28th ult.
they contain nothing of political importance here,
but perhaps the article relative to the. Swiss, may
by,lidteresting to those who watch the delibera-
tions of the Diet :

RkTISBOX, JULY 23•

The Gazette of this city contains a very long account of
the interment of the late Prince of Tour and Taxis at Ne-
res ; his loss is not only deplored by his family and his
subjects, but will he particularly felt by the city of Ratis-
bon, where his Palace was the resort of all persons dis-
tinguished by their rank or their merit, and where he con-
stantly distributed large sums among the poor, besides
being a :nowt liberal and zealous promoter of all useful and
charitable institutions. His Serene Highness was married
(before he was 20 years of age) on the 20th May, 1789,
to the Princess Theresa Matilda Mecklenburg Strelitz,
sister of the late accomplished Queen, Louisa, of Prussia,
who survives him. He had four daughters and three sons.,
of whom only two daughters and one son are living. These
are his Highness Prince Maximilian Charles, his successor;
the Princess Esterhazy, and her Royal Highness the
Duchess Sophia of Wurtemburg.
FRANKFORT, JULY 27.

Her Highness the Princesi of Esterhazy: (Princess of
Tour and Taxis) has passed through this city coming from
London.

SWITZERLANp, JULY 24.

in the Sittings of the 17th and 19th, the Diet was en-
engaged in discussing the question relative to the unfortu-
nate claSs of persons called the Heimathlosen,* but with-
out advancing the matter a single step. The question con-
cerns a number (not accurately blown) of families and in-
dividuals who, born in Switzerland, and belonging to it by
descent and residence, are tint recognized in any canton or
parish, and cannot settle any where, because they are every
where refused admission; and who though with the best will
and ability, honestly to gain a livelihood, are pre-vented
-from so doing, us well as from educating their children,
and are compelled to lead a vagabond life, the con-
sequence of ivllioli is the increase of beggars and thieve?.
__The Concordat of the year 1819 was 'to put an end
to thiS state of
things ; but it remains a dead letter,
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because no one sees to its execution, or is commissioned to
do io. Every Canton sends themfrom its own territory to
its neighbours, and then the evil increases and becomes
worse every year, while the 'physicians hold annual con-
sultations, and cannot agree upon' the remedies. It was
proposed two years ago to make an accurate list of all these
persons, and divide them among the Cantons ; but before
this can be done it would be necessary to stop the sources of
the evil. Independent of less important causes, there are two
grand sources of the evil. First, foreign military service ; se-
condly, marriages contracted in foreign countries, contrary
to the civil code, and without licence. The Deputies of Zurich,
Berne, Glarus, Vaud, and Argovia, spoke with particu-
lar energy against the increasing military capitulations,
and the dangers proceeding from them. These do not
occur in the Dutch Regiments, into which no foreigners
are admitted, but in a high degree in .the French, and,
above all, in the Neapolitan service.' Several Cantons have
concluded military capitulations so disproportioned to their
population, that they are obliged to enlist for the greater
part foreigners. The latter are liable to the conscription
in their own country, and if they enlist in the Swiss service
they lose their settlement in their own country, and when
they return from their military service, not being acknow-
ledged in their native country, they must remain in
Switzerland. Nor is it in Switzerland alone, but
also in the places where the regiments are sta-
tioned the strangers are enlisted for them, of whom the
Cantons do not receive any inforrnationo and the false
names, forged certificates of baptism, &c., used when
they enlist, complete the evil. The danger is raised
to the highest degree by the scandalous fact, that
private persons (Colonel Salir Soglio, of the Gri-
sons), the governments of whose Cantons have re-.
peatedly refused the, proposals made by the Neapolitan
Minister, for the military capitulation, have been suffered
to contract with Naples in their own names, and after
being prohibited from enlisting men in their own Cantons,
establish depots for recruits elsewhere without opposition.
All these arguments have for the most part remained wholly
unanswered by the Deputies of those Cantons which are fa-
vourable to foreign military service, and defend the use and
abuse of it ; but the Deputy of Berne declared, that his
Canton did not suffer any foreigners to be enlisted in the
regiments which are raised for foreign service.
* Literally the Homeless, i. e. individuals who have no
legal settlement in any canton.

Private letters from Greece state, that in the
absence of the President Count CAPO D'IsTRIA,
the Provisionary Government has named M.
RAMIE RE President of the Senate. This Com-
mission has also decreed its thanks to his Majesty
the King of BAVARIA, to the President of the
United States, and M. EYNA RD. The modi-
fications Made to the Constitution of Epidaure
have further objects, the guarantee of the rights
of the Civil Laws, and a great extension of the
power of the ExecutiVe, and the abolition of
titles and distinctions with the institution of
Tribunals.

By his Majesty's ship L'Eclair, arrived at
Rio de Janeiro from Callao, we have the intel-
ligence that on the 19th March the Colombian
troops, to the number of 2,500, left that port in
several transports for Guayaquil, escorted 'by the
the Peruvian frigates Monteagudo and Libertad.
His Majesty's ship Volage, Captain Boucnnn,
remains in the Bay. The Blanche was at
Callao, and was to sail for Valparaiso and Eng-
land in a few days. The letters by the L'Eclair
are up to the Ist of April, at which time it was
considered that the power of BoLivAR in Peru
to sustain the Bolivian Constitution, was entirely
at an end. The new Congress was to meet
early in May.

We request the reader's attention to the con-
fession of Slade the murderer, which we have
copied from a Provincial Journal into our Paper
of to-day. If properly authenticated in the first
place, and .held worthy of credit in the second, it
decidedly proves that he has been convicted on
erroneous grounds. The three points which
Hseemed to weigh most with the Jury who found
him Guilty, were the facts of the bill-hook
being traced to his possession (or that of his
family with wlibm he usually resided) of his
shoes corresponding with the marks found in the
garden, and beside the stile
,a day or- two
after the murder, and the extraordinary con-
fession of Heddings. To controvert the
first point, Slade unhesitatingly asserts that
the murder was perpetrated with a sword ; the
circumstantial evidence of the second is dis-
proved by the fact, that he " pulled off' his shoes
when he first went into the garden ;" while the
third is equally neutralized by his own unequi-
vocal denial. But, perhaps, the cautious reader
may inquire what degree of reliance is to be
placed upon Sldde's reported confession ? Let
common sense decide the question. Hed-
dings, it is well known; expected to insure
a pardon by his story of the murderer's
acknowledgment ; while the murderer's own
story tells against himself. The one gains all,
the other loses all, by his account ; both are
equally abandoned, but surely he is most
worthy of credit who has made a disinterested,
and gratuitous confession of his own guilt. With
respect to his • inability to account for himself,'
this ought only to weigh when added to a
heavier and more convincing mass of circum-
stantial evidence. He might probably have been
intoxicated at the time in question, and passed
the night in a field, a ditch, or even by the
road-side ; but does it therefore follow that he
must, of necessity, have been guilty ? It may
heighten probability ; but, when life is at stake,
, should never amount to conviction.

The whole case, we think, resolves itself to
this; if Slade be hanged, the justice of his
punishment must almost entirely depend on his
own confession ; and. yet that confession has
been made Vier a conviction, whose fallacy it
in part confirms. He has, therefore, been first
condemned, and afterwards found guilty.

It is reported at Lloyd's that the Potosi (Colombian) of
750 tons, from Talcahuanac to Monte Video, was
burnt on the 6th May, in lat. 44. S. ; that the crew took
to their boats, one of which arrived at Monte Video on the
19th of May ; the other, containing the chief mate and seven
men, had not since been heard of. It is stated that a man,
one of the crew, has arrived with this intelligence, without,
however, any documents but the address of the owner.
He adds, when he left, the master and supercargo were in
good health. The Potosi was fortnerly in the Government
service, and was called the Abundance store ship. - •