The Sun.
London, England, 1816-01-10 00:00:00

FROM A CiERMAN PAPER.

FRANKPOZT, Dgc. 24 --Professor Martin, of
31.1e;lelhert,„ ‘vho lately interested-himselt much
in,. the popular wish there expressed for the esta-
blishimtt of )Ir constitution of States-General in
the Granil Duchy of Baden, and thereby involved
hiinielfin (WM:lo6es, has, it is understood, ie.
'eeheil his difinliSSiMi. The coining year wilt
limn an epoch in the. annal 4 of Frankfort. A
1„.,g 'scrim( lids now elarea since any Con-
giecss wait jpiA(l here, though in tamer ages
this often loppened. The must ,oelobvated as-
seinhlici of this kiwi I.vere ; a meeting which

Icing l'et held here ‘vittll;o6 Shires of his
;111;411orn itt the year 753: rt-J4etierrtl Assembly

,o;.' the Empre ii) &71, under King Louis ; a Diet
• .15f the Empire in 985, after the death of the Em-
pror Otto 11..; a Diet of the Inspire under
Henry 11. in 1020, at which appeared 24 bishops ;
a Die6of the Empire under Conrad al. Duke
of Swabia, in 1142 ; a Diet of the Empire under
• Otto IV. in 1208 ; an Assembly of the Empire
muleryrederiek 11. 'in 1220; a' Diet of the Ent-
vire under the same ,Prince and his son henry in

)2'25 i a Diet of the Empire under the Emperor
Ratalolph in 1291 a similar one onclerlhe Ern-

peror Louis the Raverian.in ; the like tinder
the mime Prince in 1338;, and 4*0...in 1339, mt
which were preKent,, besides the ginperor
hitn-
fielf, 'King 141dw,irtl of Eng Lind, Nit.g
of Bohemia, and almost- all the piritnal and

Temporal Princes .of Germany'; Diet nude).
Wenceslaus' in 1381;,..8 iitnilar .one under the
sante in 4:307, at which siveral Pectnrs, 32
Pr pees, 150 Counts, 1300 IW.ous., and 3700 of
, the Nobility were present ;. u D,iet in 1400, under
at, Emperor Rupert : a Diet muter the Emperor
. Sigisunind In 1417, and a 'similar one, under the
!same, in 1420; a Diet of the Empire under Fre-
derick 111. in 1442; a similar meeting in 1569,
twiler the' Itiopecor. Maximilian. Besides this,
there e been held numerous meetings and HI..
senildages of particular States :of,•the Empire at
.Pc.mlifort at varh times.

. .
The eliattian Otsereet of the' Igth, bag the
following article
" When tve endeavonred some. time ago to de-
nounce the. spirit and views of .some Gellthtll
' 301111xliit3, 'which have long appeared
to 113 ill varioWs reipects, WC then concluded our
...reth.ctions on that subject, by declaring our pen,
`utosion that iliese Gentlemen would not fail to
►►s with an,opportunity of recoiling to the
balite 'topic.

• '' Our expectution lilts not been frustrated ;
fliffercut voice! in variant quarters. have beet*
,sitice raised eguinst us, thvugh vomewhat later
'than we presumed they tvould have het n ; they
:have borroiVell 111 s.hapei, awl their reel,llnatiotts
.bure ;o,,twared nutlet. the most ridiculous titlet in
the: Ilremeri Gazette.

•••*,:fllese gentlemen have not only, endeavoured
tci defend themselves against our charges, but have
''retorted upon us, that Ciongh Well informed of the.",
true situation Of France, we haVe deserthed it in
Much too favourable eoloora ; while, on'tae.other
st ill' the exaggerated tears of a visionary,
'we have endeavoured uselessly to excite alarm
among our German countrytiten,
• " This stone Bremen Gazette also tells us, that
'ottr !..diatribes" outraged public Opinion, by
pl.t;:itig in a false lightr he nrasitres of the Allied
Powers, such :as 'the ()eruption of funnier fort-
!tre,ses, &e. measures whirls wroth' not have been
nu "Pt hits illtertlid stet! of France present-
ed a sufficient guarantee for the engagenucuts it
had couttacted.
" In another peeper (the AllgentemeZeitung),
are desiyed to remarh, that it is announced la the
Itith Article of the principal Treaty with France,
.that atter such violent shocks, that kingdom was
still in a state'rif disturbance lrul fermentation.
'" We leav kilo the impartial judgment (if the
public to deeitte,,whether we, Merit these different
accusations. We assuredly kno',v as well as
our adversaries, that the internal state. of France
01 one that can be regarded without some
alarm.ll %Ye, like other 'Journalists, have puh-
lished the facts relative to seditious discourse,
to the sentences passed on insurgents, to laws
against revolt, to imprisonments, the tragical
.scenes.. at Nismes, the limning of tri-coloured
flags, cockades, &a, But we have certainly
-tiever/ thought proper to assert, as was done
'in the German Oserver*, and the 'lanais
of Europe, that " that cockade alone wila.
the emblem of the good enacts Which the revolt',
Ilan had produced, and its honourable ensign,
'ivhite 'be white cockade recalled only counter re-
Volution," (apparently oh evil in the estimation
of these gentlemen,) " the tithes, the feudal rights,
'the privileges of the nobility, awl the party of
,Cohlentz.' Neither slid we ever think of an-
*pouncing, as the rillgemeine Zeitung has done),
the fall of Louis XVIII,.as inevitable as soon as
,the. Allies quitted France, or that; it that Save-
,reign could hope for stability,it:would only be
,by coufiroting the revolution with' its spirit and
its good effects. . - •
• 's We have always believediiesTn before being
(lode acquainted with the Treaty of Paris of the
•,20tli Nov.that after all that the Allied Powers had
1100 e -for the happiness of the world, their wish. awl
'the object of sill their efforts must be to maintain
awl confirm the re-established order of,things in
Fruuce, and to stifle byall practicable mcans,when-
ever it shonfdabew itself; .the' revolutionary sys-
tem which reared its l:ead in France to support the

• This prer 'bens published at ,Ilarnburgh, and it is pro.
lialAy 'he one of which Mr. Isuarday, the tipanish Agent sit
411411Murgli, obtained the iiipPtUlfilla) as Lately stated in a
igtall

Another day hai gone by, and we tire 4611 W.th-
mit an ivals from the Colitin'ent. Were; thislie-
ctilial• to tilt! FretsCh Papers we 'night begitt to
that sonic political causes delayed their
arrival ; but as the revirtlation is conntnio to the
Dutch awl German Journals, eve most ascribe it
altogether to the state of the weather.

Though. the conch of the Debates on 'the
Amnesty Law is nOt likely to proluce any great
novelty, we 'certainly look with increased' inte-..
rest to their result. We ire not certain that the
anecdote of the King of FRAttca's colloquy with
some of the Deputies Fetus no any better autism ity
than a mere Parisian Party rumour, antlered car-
rent by private correspondence with one, of the
London Newspapers. Siniudil it, however, be
well•tonniled, it is very easy to perceive how
widely ilittvrent the /TOW Freud) Constitution is
from that of Great Britain, upon which it 'was.
pretended to be itionviled. Our Parliamentary
jettlowy of 11,:iyal interrerence, forbidding even
110 alltision to the Monarch's sentiments in
time Beat of deinkte, is one of the not pro. •
snitient lisini-nilslts- of ftee,!.:ln .of discussion
its Insth p. 11,1 of the begislasin'e, and especiilly
of inilependence the Commons' House of
Parliament. "What then wortht We' think of
a King
.of this country pe`rsonallY canvassing
the votes cif Members ; telling them that .such
a Bill was Ms measure ; and sairping every
principle which cOuld render them .respectu-
.
Ile, or afford them weight as the popular organ
anti counterpoise to Regal Ant horit y ? Would •we
norat Onev.Onnosince, t har the three bratiches of
our CoilitiltitiOtt, consisting. of King, Ltials,. and
Commons, were 11 mere mockery and
Yet this politically vicious proceeding. is:un-
hesitatingly ascribed to Louis XVIII.. by those
who are in the habit of approving of all his
ine.asures.

Vor our [MIS, We could- conceive
no statement better ealcuiateil. to Bring, not
only the Royal, Power, but ,the efliciencyof the
Chamber of Depot its into et'lll:Ompt. LontiXVITI.
has responsible Ministers--,they are Answerable
for the very {11)10Se reply, they pot into- his
mouth on New Year's Day when the Deputies
approached the. Throne with their address. '
'this reply, his Majesty went a great tte4i, too far
in identifying his personal sentiments with those
of - his Advisers, in concert • with whom it is al.;
ways prima fade presumed that the Kipg Wets,
anti therefore uuneeessaryfor him on tiny One oc-
CBSioll to step Olkt of the general routine and
course of business to impart more positive force tco
their propositions.: For what is the naturali crib:
scylenve or this protrusion of: Majesty?. ;That
every future law that may be Witted to the ear-
liament will stand 'in need of the saute, improper
agency. The responsibility of Ministers and the
irresponsibility of the Crownthe two •bulwarks
of a free, Constitution _come thus to be destroy-
ed, and the whole fabrick must fall-to pieces ; and
whether •a Republic or a Despotism •is recon-
'structed out of the material's, is the only specu-
lation left for inquiry.

having dilated so much on iv point Which np.
pears to us to he of such vital importance to the
Political Systetn. of France, we shall now
dismiss any, farther . notice of. the Amnesty
Law,- by quoting tt sensible remark from a
Contemporary Journal, with one observation
upon it—j, The Ninisters ('3uys the Times)
residing in the capital eatow bit be impresq-it
with the opinions which circulate there.: the De-
puties arriving from the tlep.,lrunulLs look 10 Ulif

turully to the seutiments with which their neigh-
bours and associates in the country arc anilw.tt.d.'

. 'rue question then' is between the lermeiving
Ci)teries i Paris and the Populatinn of li'runce!...-
May the Deputies be stiecestful !

'

We this day copy from a Morning Journal, an-,
other remarkable paper on the question of the 'po-
lemcal controversy which has of late so mucli in.;
terested 'the public mind. We have also, again co-'
pied the introductory observations of that Journal,
against which.we have only one objection,---that
they seem to be too personal, and are not applied,
with the force of which they are suaceptible,
to the whole mass and machinery of this; as it
now appears. ,:most diSingentious attempt at etir-
ring u►p a religious 'fend ;. Vilifying hl-tiedAs,
tiiitrgli legitimate, Oovernments ; relaudlink
(hi; flame of War in Europe.

The letter of 31. Manor, the President of- 'the
I:rote,l:lnt consistory at Paris—the zealous, 'Well-
instructed, and official Conservator of the Pro-
testant Rights in France, is certainly entitled' to
peculiar weight. lie does not reside in the Boor.
hot! Palace, nor does he deck his baioni with
.the Order of the Holy Glaost, and cannot be MlS-
peeted of sycophancy like the Doke of WIILLING.
ins ! 11ts testunony.is pure., for all his induce-
ments are on the other:4We. Why then was his
important letter •withbeld front the -Public. It
not only entirely
.accp&s,„ but applauds the•
klencli Government ; it tells the furious friends.
of Protest.intisw in Britain,' that tbeir
carries them beyond " the lien of true prndenee'
,did the spirit of true .y :" Oe4LCS tab ge..;
weralit y, of these persecutiuns, and 44!ribei' tAr
partial' atrocities which leave taken place to local
nod political causes': and witb.reg.ird to tltear-
rear. of, .titipendt tine 'to Protestant Clergymen,
into -which sordid jeelitig the gravlituen of all
these charges scented at last to be qonsolidatedil
this honest Pact* tell his Brgthreit, that: it: was
only their common share in the universal 1(4 QI
all the public functionaries in France.
After this, what shall yve say of the' over
Otis exertions of many of our well-intentioned
Countrymen, who ltnye been blinded into thls,lll-,
sociation, and Misled into this outcry. We: mast
pardon their error, and applaud their motives.
But not so thoie who have so shamelessly injured
what world have been a good cause, it honestly
stateth Who have so far succeeded in bringing
name of this country into disrepute, as an
overhearing, meddling, and inipertinent interferer
with concerns which do not belong to her, and
are a much. beyond leer coutroul as they are oat
of her sphere of jurisdictibn.' These persons are
inexcusable.

Now, however, that their trickery is exposed,
we trust that we shall hear little -more of
them. There' is not- a nation: in the world
,when© intriguing • and unfairness.•are ..so much
despisca alt.! hated as in England ;—you have only
to skew that men are Pt one
,th little arts, and: you
rob them of their stings and ot. all power to ei.
Vert the public understanding, or distill-1)11m pnb-,,
lie tranquillity. This exposition is in the present'
instance complete, and as, we have, laughed9it
Ultra4loyi atisti in France (men more Royal than
the , King), do not, let us have the laugh turned
against us to:V/tra-Pratestunts in Britain, a party
more Protestant than the I'rOti!st3nts of Fr4ine
In the cause of French Protestantim ! !

4 .
tier 1114m:1m with the Princess Vithiti:4 4
of WALEs,,. the Princesses. itiwzialtvrti anti)
will return to Windsor on Friday next. On 'o4"le
ionrttey the Royal .Party will stop at the Ear!
of Horn ssis, iitnir Dorking, to partake of t*fre'4l'..
mews.

• 'lnn PalNutss Stients.—tier Royal - Highness
the Princesi Sthni IA has for some years p:ist been
subject to violent spasms in the stotnach,• every
two or three 'months, which causes a depression
.01' spirits and. a retirement from public life, and
even front
.ft general association with her august
and Royal relatives. 'She always dines by herself,
at half- oy two o'clock ;:- her RX.erciir ..is __very
gebtiel-her prlucipal assoeiation. with the Queen
and her Royal Sisters is at the evening parties:;,,
the Castle, for a short time. We are extremely
•concerned-to -state', that her Royal -flightless has
witty hat!, -a violent attack of :pasta, which has
confined her to herbed, and very much reduced
her, Sir Iletiry 11.alford.speeially'attenits later Royal
Iliglinebs, by cotnotaii.of her Majesty.
Tlje Charleston Papers to the Ist ultimo rspeat,
on the authority of a Nashville,paper of . the 7th
November, that Fort -Jackson 144 been surprised
by the Indians, and' scorn to regard the event
as
prolothitt. •

Qvenac, Nov. 14. -,--Onr neighbours to the
southward are again, it appears, involved in a
war with the Creek Indians. This we sufpect to
be the effect of American artifice, with a view of
:reaping some profit ft out it quarrel with those poor
wretches., now that they (the Americans) ure dis-
engaged from all other hostilities.

A litiyal Spanish Orckr has gone oft to Vera
Cruz, commanding that the militia corps beartny
the deliominalsoit of " Patriots of FertlioartC!"
shall have the same thanged into " Loyal No
anil.that ate tettu Patriot shall bt: Aeogi
ell all parts,

MRENCEX PROTESTANTS.

(ANOTHER SUPPRESSED LETTER•)

The " Seireteries" will perhaps charge us with
having obtained the 'following Letter " by inel"
plicable means." We certainly shall not explaia
;to them how we obtained it. Their motives for
L suppressing it is not at all inexplicable; nor will
it, we think, excite any surprise in our,Rifders,
1 '4
after the specimen ‘vhich wchave already giverPt
the candour of these important gentlemen. We
!lonot pretend to have received this Latter from the
Author of it himself, but it comes -in tsuch'a slope
that we do not in the smallest degriie diittbt its
authenticity.' We have it in the original
French
Before we
.dismiss this subject, {re will just hint
that We Annnierstane} that' the Secretaries tlirott'
the most outrageous vengeance
on our ile,•otel
beach, and xvith injustice quite consistent %vitt'
the candour hitherto displayed by them, Presume
to call us• abettors of persecution. Hire shall not cna-
&seem! to vinclic,Lte 'ourselves from so unionntit
.1
a charge ; ohr readers, as well as Out•ielves,
be.atilc to discriminate between the 'defence (I
persecution, aml the exposilre of the .ilisingenk"
Cita add interested machiliariott of some "I. 6(4 •
liatiow class a its, opporrents-,' who inalte-a.Pub7
.11c cause an, itpArtituent for the gratifuntiottotrer.'
sun.tl canity.—(Timr.) •
COPY OF d,LETTEiI,WItiTTEN• BY bk- MARoN, FREI!:
DENT 01. TdE PROTi.SI ,TF
PARIS, AN!) t 4; OF Ttly "7-
MITTEIV-Voil Tag AYFAIRS oF-THE FREN" rit°4
-TESTANTS.

r. PARIS, Dte•
GENTLitibIEN,—I lave ;mode it duty to oppose Wel PT
position feuding to fofeign interference in the affairs of WI
:treuch Proti.st;ints. I vannot,,therefore, see tvitb satisfac;
tin whatiPassev in England on this suhjert,„ and I CAnsuinv-
concur in it. If the seal of y(Mr fraternal love ethie'
affects cna,-st appears to me, nevertheless, to go beY°l24l,ll .
Jibe -Of true prudence, add even the spirit alio
rity.,,,lt is nut thus that the latter virtue proclaims 4p
.
assistatic!,4 especially when, it may hay, rejwi to drrta#
that by such a conduct it. ruly comPromiso 'the reri
tercet of the &rue whicls it witicrtaics to support .o!'d de:
fend. lam far from admitting that there call be, 0
imagine, any thing hostile in the. conduct or in the ilr
tensions of the French Government, with regtild " this
Protestants. The sufferings at I'iscoes are great, d"btl444
71txuatythbarryearcoe
duration. The French Government laments theto 0' 4)"..-
nlriblUteadadto li:oaelolicaett"beesm, ahnotiwetroerp:r.:Znitilllicti;
as you or I. The King has pronounced, in the most
vocal manner, his displeasure, bis horror at the kiste o'e°'
llis wisises and his efforts to remedy the evil, to'Culto the ILI.
mentable exasperation of public feeling are attested
Royal Ordinance, by what the Duc d'Angonleine said fetes
Deputation of the Con-dstory, and by the flatt erin
tion with which ono of the pastors of the Cevennl's CM' '
was' lately honoured, in receiving the decoratl° --
the Legion of Honour.

I dv not know, Pentlettien, who could take It upon o'l
kite your commiseration for the delay which the Minis"!
of the Reformed Religion experience in the payment of 'heir
atipmids. What we experience in this respect, ot4
tiriPatc with all ether public funistioniires. They 'lt) °it
impute it, any more Than ourselOes, to any other c 0" ti's
to the doplurable situation into which we have been tbrow.-,
We ought rather bto, bliss the Guveinment for nhAt
done, than blame it fur what it has not done; and I ul.oiii
again solemnly' disavow here, every' al,peal to foreign
thiteration. I beseech .you, therefore, to write to rge
more is tlid Style in which you hare dune. I respect, I
none the signatures of your letters I lender .joitice
motives of ail I and I dare hope'that you Mil no. b,
oo your pait with my frank disapprobation. None eau
scriUe themselves with more fraternal regards,.

Yours, 8:e.

I,ord Met.v ti.t.E; it CI said, went La liript‘:Tl,
.for the insrpose of presenting the Petition ir I,g
your of the (Hlirers.of the Navy, to-theTelt4'
IitiGEN,T, with hid OWII !Mild. •
Ye.sterday the dividends due on the- sth iorg',tt
cotrituenced. paying to. the publie at the 1111"
LotITS according to report, consldie,ll°
;,the success of the.Antuesty Law of such vital
portance, that beheld himself a conversation "' it
the Members of time,COmmiSsion, M. l'Attps3st:i
was their 'spokesman. ' You are aware, It
the KiNG, • this, is my law, that I rely on
support of the Chamber. Do you think it ‘.1,0
p
assr.—.‘tie ,
cannot answer tor it, Site; '
Commission must act according to the coniejen- ~cm
t.
of the Members.'---' troubles of the tiOrs's
etntintted. the .KING, require eancilitmtory nisto
surer. The most popular of my ancestors
tweiweti -from-similar prltteipl4,'-.--,r I,';'
but Ea` ay IV. Was victorioits.' Ills gale'
'obtained no concession whatever.
Pram the Glasgow Cour 'e4..--...Letter tiOM (31‘31.4
gow Gentleman, at present in Marseilles, tbetg,,
Deceutber 22 •,-7-" Von must not believe the 01:
gerated accounts that'
appear LI in the_nglish t
pet's, of disturbances in the South'of France• Lite
cl
passed through Nismes few days before theriots, and likewise a few days afterwattlg, st
-founds, upon both occasions, the town perfetgloie,
• quiet. Tbe only person hurt was General Legs, oi
This. part of klance is perfectly quiet, slid "
no doubt will continue. The Goverinuent,io
keeping up a very strict systcni of police, !V,
will be the means of keeping in order time
posed." fesv
CORN RKCNANGE, JAN. 11411.1111- tits
arrivals this nioruing, principally with o°l'llol
sale of which was dull, at Monday's pried.'•, msll
fine Wheat supported its price. Barley all" /00
was dull. In other hinds of 'Grain there 0
alterat ion. De
• The present System of poaching; hay bc.c°.`"Ditirl
Very torniiihiblc, that without most 0011401
..execution of the offenders tmtkes ri„,x, DO s:ow
svcitl have the euurege to pr ,tact Lis ut. fter.'
'POW,