The Sun.
London, England, 1816-11-25 00:00:00

FiIENCII \ANlsTtilr Or 1461,M1.

[The foliowirik itarrative discloses an 'abuse 'nf
power as 'Unjustifiable as almost tiny that ,necur-
red in the worst tifues'of the Ilevaintion. It may
not be true ; but it is an open public charge, and
requires a public refutation] :

ADDRESS TO 'MESSRS. THE MEMBERS Or THE CHAM-
BER OF mks, AND (V THE CHAMBE,R OF

ORPUTIES.

(iiNTlLEMEN.—Convinced that faithful sub-
jects can never solicit in vain your sympathy. and
your justice, I dare to claim them now against
two arbitrary acts, emanating from the Minister
of Police. The following are the facts iu all
their truth
My father, formerly an advocate in the
uncut of Rouen ; my father, who during the whole
coarse of the Revolution exercised in Northantly,
in concert With the Marquis Da liksville, the
functions of agent of the King; my fattier,
against whom 123 orders of arrest have been sne-
cessively issued ; my father, whnse head was pro-
scribed and set a reward' upon during 12 years ;
whose courageous wife was .seven times thrown
into dungeons, particularly for having attempted
to save the lifc•of the Queen, when. a prisoner
in the Coneiergerie ; my father, who, in 1814,
received from the King, as a recompense fortUng
service, the honourable' mission in Nortmouly ut
Commissary- ot his. Majesty to ptiblish his au-
thority in that province; my tattier, who was
arrested during the interregnum, and who, dar-
ing the same period, had the good fortune to pro-
cute Buonaparte's phis) of campaignY which he
hastened to send to the King ; my father, who
twilled one of the faithful snbjeets' who rejoined
the Royal Family at (Them, whither I accom-
panied him; my father, in it word', whose feeble
talents have since been devoted to the editing of
a journal (Le Fidele Anti du ltoi) in which he gave
new proofs of his zeal and courage, was arrested
'With the greatest 'publicity, together with my
eldest brother, ou the 30th of October, on sus-
picion of having printed various Writings against
the Minister of Police.-

You will hardly believe, .Gentlemen, tlutt a
man who braved all dangers to serve his Prince
would not have had the courage to aitack that
Minister openly and face to face, had the interest
of the throne made hint consider it Ids fluty; tor,
at the most, a Minister whtim the charter dccliii es
responsible is only a twin' whom every one has a
right to censure, and even to accuse. Bot you
will be still more convinced of the innocence of
my father when you know, that two searches
made at his residence in his absence., and of which
one lasted from seven in the twining till seven at
night, produced 'mating which couldjustify the
suspicions of which he was the object..
e was, hoWever, shot up in the most rigorous
Keret confinement in the prisons of the Prefec-
ture of Police until the 9th instant, and was front
thence transferred to that of la Force, where it
has not yet bi.en possible for us to penetrate;
One easily coocelves the necessity at secrecy
until the per Son charged has been interrogated:
but that form once gone through ~ and it might to
be so, according to hew, within 2.1 hours titter the
arrest, secrecy is nothing else but ti. Species of
torture, which can have no other object but tie
extort from the unfortunate person tinder prosecu-
tion confessions which may be wanted iworder
to exercise upon him the greatest st yeti, les.
What ought 'the Minister to lave done ?:lie
ought, immediately after the interrOgatory, either
to have set my father at liberty, or sent him be-
fore a tribunal. But to detain him 'in secrecy
doting 11 days, nutter pretence of spending that
time in drawing up a criminal _n_ f
uraiation ugAilist
him,--the more useless, because the Ma:,:istrates,
justly prejudiced against the worse Than severe
forms of the Police, never pay attention to it—
is to retard the triumph of his innocence, and to
trample under toot sill thclaws which protect per-
sonal liberty,
It %Val, then, by nothing but a refinement in
tyranny that my lather has been treated in so cruel
a manner, and you will be the more revolted at it,
Gentlemen, if you deign to consider that the mat-
ter in question was a mere charge of libel name-
ly, an offence which, supposing it proved, never
subjects the person 'gttilty to the loss of his liberty,
until after judgment.'
Hence, Gentlemen, you cannot fail to find in
the conduct of the Minister a double crime against
personal liberty, consisting both in the arrest and
in the barbarity with which he has reftised to the
two victims for the last fortnight every kind of
communication with their fainilies.

What shall this Minister dare to outrage, to
persecute with impunity, in the name of the King,
the Men who have most distinguitihed themselves
by the steadiness of their opinions and their cou-
rage? What I the salutary cense of legitimacy
triumphs t and 'shall those who for seven-aml-
twenty years have incessantly combated "against
its guilty enemies be overwhelmed with °mars,
with persecutions,- as' they were under the domina-
tion of Robespierre, the Directory, or the Usur-
per What Shall vice etc' tinily oppress virtue ?
No, Gentlemen, you will not suffer it 1, you who
are the defenders of the throne—the guardions of
-the chatter , you who are invested with the right,
of accusing tyrannical Ministers.
therefore denounce to you Count De Gazes,
Minister of l'olice, as at once guilty pf a crime
against personal liherty iu the instance of my fa-
ther and brother, and for having violated toy-per-
, sopa' property by suppressing, six days after their
arrest, the journal La fidele nmi do Roi, which
does not belong to my father, but to me alone;
for even supposing my father alid brother guilty,
that would certainly be no reason for attaching my
rights and tearing from me my means or existeuce,
eipecially when it is certain that the offence of
which the Minister complains originates in a par-
tielikr writing, and that nothing was. printed in
the Jourollw'hith had not been previously sub-
i tted to the .Censor.

I know.th,it dui ing the whole course of the Re-
volution the divers 'Ministers of Police have taken
upoo themselves; to suppress Journalb which
pleased them ; but that prerogative having I.Lver
been sanctioned by any law, can no. longer
exica under the teign, of the charter.---A
Jouraal is a property quite as sacred as any
other, and the person to %Iboin it belongs, who

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has 'sunk apart Of his estisblislring h,
Ought not to be stripped of it at the 'pleasure of a
Ministar. Every thing has been tried in the
shape of wickedness, machiavelism, and terror :
there remain now no other means .for saving
France but morality and justice, 'Or France is
lost.
Perhaps it may be said, &tube responsibility
of Ministers is still only laid ,down in principle,
and not regulated by any law ; hut on the one
hand the Chatter declares, in the most formal.
manner, that all properties are inviolable ; and on
the other, the offence against which my father and
brother have to complain is *provided against by
the 114th art. of the Penal Code, as follows :
" When a public functionary, an agent or ad-
ministrator appointed by government, either does
(11 orders any arhitral act, attacking personal li-
berty or the civil riNhts of one or more of the
citizens, he shall be condemned to the punishment
of civil degradation."
1 repose therefore, Gentletnen, witkentire con-
Hence on your justice, and I doubt not you will feel-
anxious to rescue my unfortunate father and his
son from persecutions ,which should be reserved
for the factions and traitors alone ; as also to
restore me -to the Possession of the property of
which 1 hare been illegally stripped.
ANTOINETTE ROMT,
Propriety esit of the Fickle Ami du lloi, cututtleoted at GbetTh
Yates, Nor. 15, 1816.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT' OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 23.

JGDCMN' Fs.

Ireland IVard Pitts was brought up to receive
the judgment of the Court on an indictment charg-
ing hint with having exposed for sale, and having
actually sold stniff-boxes Of an obscene descrip-
tion. The prosecution was carried on by the So-
ciety. for the Suppression of Vice. and the fart
havitig 'leen proved, he was found Guilty. The
defendant pot in an affidavit, which was confirmed
by another front Mr. Kilpatrick, a surgeon, stat-
ing, that he is much afflicted with a liver complaint
and an affection on the lungs, and that imprison-
ment would be dangerous to his health. With
respect to the defendant's affidavit, it admitted the
offence to be lira dangerous tendency- to the Tno-
rals of the rising generation, and lamented that he
should have fallen into the commission of it ;
stated that be had, by adtice of Mr. Pritchard,
solicitor to the Society, written a letter imploring
their mercy, and pleoging himself to give soy se-
curity for his future good conduct.
The affidavits of Mr. F. Barron, Mr. R. Tho-
mas, and Mr. S. Leigh, of the Strand, were pot
in and read. They described the defeutlent to by
3. good moral Man, hiving known him for the last
five years as a tobacconist, living near them, at
No. 485, Strand.
The ATTMINEY-GewritAl. hoped the Court
would not fail to real the defendant a lesson,
which should operate on him ns his future con-
duct, and prevent a repetition of such disgraceful
practices, which went to sap the very foutulatbo
0( morals inroe►ety.
The Court, in prising sentence, observed, that
in consideration of the defendant's hod state of
health, and hoping that circumstances might !rive
led him to reflect on his error, and to induce an.
amendment in his future conduct, they would ditty
order him to. pay a fine to the King of 501. anti
to. give security for three years fur his biome gonti
v ittur, which the defendant haring complied
with was •discharged.
Eusden, a copper-smith, at Deptford,
was brought up to receive judgment, having been
convicted at the Maidstone Assizes, at having
upwards of one hundred and a half weight of na-
val and ordnance stores in his possession. Aya.
riety of aflichVits were received in mitigation of
p„„joirocot, and in support of character. In re•
specs to the former, it was alleged that the arti-
cles so found were some of, the component parts
ref ,old ships which lie bad publicly parellased.—
The Court sentenced him to pay a fine to the
King of 2001., and to be imprisoned in Maid-
stone Caul for the space of sir months. .

John Derby was also brought up for a similar
offence, of which he was convicted at the Wio.
chester Assizes. The defendant was is brazier Mid
Human, at Gosport, but the youttitv found. in his
possession did not amount to more than 12 pounds
in weight. lie also produced an immense num,
her of affidavits to character,—The Court sen-
tenced him to pay a. fine Of 501., and In be im-
prisoned four months in Winchester Gaol.:
• John Hong, convicted of having obstructed a
press-gang at Bristol, was ordered to be itupe6'
sorted nitmmontits in the G4Ol of that city
01) the motion at Mr. Seijeant LENS, a Rule
was granted, : calling
,upon Mr..Edwardl.,orkyer
to 'alien, cause. why lie,claimed and took upon,
himself the office of Capital Burgess of the 13u-
rough of Plymouth.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Nor. 22.

V. DAVIS.

The opposition in this case wavrather a curi-
ous one. The-original Cirth4V against the insol-
vent, who was a' Mitt farmer; was, for ha•
of 121. lOs. for a tythe claim. For this
trifling balance the opposing creditor, who styled
himself a Commissioner for Roads, &c. though he
had no commission under any of the putsii.or,
local Acts of Parliament, in conjunction.. with'
another, sneathe•insolvent in the Court 'of
cherier, and accumulated a bill of costs against
him to the*ttninunt of 500!. for the on debt
of 121. lOs. They then put wider setinestration
&property ofthe insolvent's Worth .101.,a:
The insolvent was instantly diseharge&