The Sun.
London, England, 1816-12-27 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPIVIS.

[FURTH KR itXTRACTS.3

PARTSS Dec.23.—We fire assured that M. Bion•
s►et de rangier, one of the old companions of Ge-
neral Georges, and who WAS condemned to death
withltim, is recalled from the isle of Bourbon,
where he has been Governor, and that his Ma-
jesty has eonferi.ed on him the title of Count.
The Austridn troops were to evacuate the "king-
dom of Naples last month.

it is rsported in Catalonia, that his Catholic
Majesty• intends to call a meeting of the Mem-
bers of the Cortes at Madrid. 'Die confirmation
of this news seems to be anxiously desired.

According to letters from Constantinople, dated
the th of November, the great beats have pro-
[Nerd the most fatal effects. Notwiths•anding
tha efforts of Government to terminate the evils
thence resulting, the people of Constantinople
werestill obliged to drink stagnaot and corrupted
water, which caused many maladies, and forced a
peat number of strangers to remain in the coun-
try. The Reis-Effendi, himself had not yet re-
turned to Constantinople.
DAVOIISt, who had resided for the last
year .on his eirate of SavignY, has 'returned to
Paris, where he occupies Eti3 hotel, rue St. Do-

minique.
A Nttt•emberg journal announces, that the King
of Prussia has made a grant of four millions of
rix. dollars (sixteen millions of francs) to those
proprietors of Sast and West Prussia who were
ruined by the late wars.
From Petershurgh we learn, that 840 sail of
vessels have this year entered the port of Cronstadt,
h e number is not very great ; hot it will be re-
collected that the importation of many articles of
English manufacture is prohibited in Russia. The
exportation of the native products of Russia has
been very considerable, and will be yet greater

during the ensuing year.
Grner4l riffreau, who was for snme years French
Ambassador to the United States, died lately at
Lis estate of Couches, in Normandy. M. atratt
tie Conlon, cx.senator, and who filled many offices
(hiring the revolution, also died lately, at the age
of 72.

AnuLTetesrlotst Ott W1Ne....-The Police Court
of Paris lately ordered the seizure and conrisca-
tion of kix casks, four of which were filled with
water, and two with water colon' ed ted, found in
the cellars of a wine.met chant of the name of Be-
rard : the casks were ordered to he emptied on
the pavement, and Berard also condenmed to pay
a fine of 10fr. and ;all expellees.
A horrible assassination, accompanied with
robbery, was committed on the night of the fith
inst. in the vicinity of Rochelle, on the Skim
IL)Hanger, his son, daughter, and a maid servant.
On the kith three men were arrested at Rochelle
on suspicion of being the assassins,
?sets, Dc.c. 22.—The King having taken into
consideration the proposition for an early promo-
tion in the Order of the Legion of Honour, has
determined that it shall not take place on the Ist
of .13nlAry. [lit Majesty has not made known
the period to which he intends to postpone the
promotion.

INIADato, Dr.c. 9.—lt is reported that there is
to be it reform io the Monastic Orders, which will
'reduce them CO four Chief Orders. The negocia.
tiuut with his Holiness on this subject are be-
lieved to be sufficiently advanced to enable the
eh Inge tko be effected before the end of the year.'
t itt also in agitation to make it reform in the
Clergy, and it i 4 even said that a plan to this
eSeet has been adopted by his Majesty. Accord-
iog to a work upon the property of the Clergy
an l Monks nE psiit, which was published by a
Deputy of the Cortex, their revenues amount to
Ho leFK than 51 Millions of piasters (10,625,000/,
stet bag.)

FRENCH HOUSEBREAKERS.

TliF,ltt SENTENCE.

Pititts, DEC. 22.—The Court of Assizes, this
illy, after four hours' deliberation, pronounced
judgment on the affair relative_ to N great number
itt robbers. Sixteen of the accw,cd, viz. eleven
men and five women, figured in them. Some as
authors of midnight depredation, committed for
the most part by scaling ;- others as receivers of
the stolen goods. One of the prisoners,' nanied
Gollthier, was aged only fifteen years six, tumults
the rest tr:td hardly passed thirty years.
!must all of them manifested at the trial a sur-
prising efirontery, One of them, named Jardi-
nand, the elder, who had assumed as his nom de
guerre the nick-name of Pied-de-Ccieri, said,
" How ! Mr. President, do yon desire me to avow
myself guilty, to destroy my mistress? Promise
the that she shall he sate, and 1 will acknowledge
every thing." Another, mimed Ourgy, pleaded
his own cause : he dissembled nothing, and sought
only to ks Get his Judges by stating the tnisfor-
tunes, true or false, which, according to hirn, left
Min no alternative, Shice the age of 13 years, but
to become a robbei*.
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One.ot the complaints
band,
Jardinaud, the
eider, the Chief 61 thii:band, was, that he bad