The Sun.
London, England, 1818-11-05 00:00:00

PRIVATE AND AUTHENTIC CORRESPONDENCE.

PARIS, OCT. 31 —The Independants and the
Ultras may now shake hands, or rather sit down
and condole together; the signal defeat and litmt-
Nation of the former, in the triumph ot M
IRRNAUX over Minerva's Prime Minister, M. de
CONSTANT, has driven them to distraction. They
affect the most sovereign contempt for M. Tea-
NAUX. Who is M.TBRNAUX ? Can he write? Can
he speak in the House? In what can lie be com-
pared to M. tie CONSTANT ? To the latter ques-
tion we readily answer nothing ; he is neither a
Political Writer, at so much a sheet, nor • a
Gambler, nor a Debanch6e, and what is more, he
pays taxes to Government on his own property,
and nor on any lent to him by a would-be Politician
of a Banker, to enable him to offer himself as
Candidate in express violation of the Charter,
which exacts, that Deputies should have really
some stake in the Country for which they would
pretend to legislate.
The friends of M. de CONSTANT will perhaps
say, with a style of logic very usual with them,
why this very fact proves the superiority of M.
de CONSTANT'S philanthropy ; any man will de-
fend his own property, whereas there are but few
who have the courage, devotion, and generosity
to defend interests in which they have no share.
We regret that the improvident conduct of M. de
C., who receives eight guineas per sheet for what
he writes, prevents his being a legal Candidate—
we would wish to see him so ; nay more, we
would wish to see him in the Chamber of Depu-
ties. He is a man of splendid talents, and has a
varied, it not a profound knowledge ot politics,
and his presence in the Chamber could be ad-
vantageous to the cause of civil and religious
liberty but only to a certain extent, for we may
safely predict that M. de C., a writer in the Mi-
nerva, will be a very different man from M. de
C., Member of the Chamber. There may be a
sort ot profanation in comparing him to Mr. Fox—
but what Mr. F. was out of the Ministry and in
it, that will M. de C. be out of the Chamber and
in it.

At present M. de C. is at the head of the class
be belongs to; there is no one to dispute the
Throne wi►h him, hut it will not be so in the
Chamber ; his principle through life has been

aut Cesar ant ;tulles ; such would be fatal to him
in the Chamber ; the slightest interruption, the
slightest resistance would totally derange his
ideas ; evett'in Society be is foiled in discussion
by those greatly his inferiors, because he is not
ready at a reply; his ideas onts• flow at the rate
at which he cats write thew, end not with the
rapidity necessary for conversation ; we think
the Indepenthints very indiscreet in wishing his
Election. He now nobly opposes a barrier to
the abuses of arbitrary power ; he denounces the
aberrations of authority with effect, and his logic
and his eloquence have rendered a signal service,
not only in exposing such abuses, but in prevent-
ing their recurtence ; he is, therefore, now a saln-
taty cherk on the Ministry, but once in the
Chamber, would he continue to be so 2

In 1815, when the hopes of the Allies,
strengthened by the commands of Mad. de STAHL,
might have made him the champion of Legiti-
macy, did we not see him turn short round, and,
for the Office of Counsellor of State, enlist under
the banners of the Usurper ? What can we expect
•
front similar causes but similar effects ? Finve
eke Ministers no places to give ; Or would they
think M. de C. not worth buying ? All things,
therefore, considered, we think that M. de C. is
of more importance out of the Chamber than in it.
He has now the suffrages of the friends of Imola-
nity-; let him continue to unmask the BLossa-
vrt.Les, the --, the —, &c., those real ene-
mies of Gltvernment ; and above all, let him be
cautious of • identifying himself with those who
pretend to hoist the saute colours with himself ;
he possessei stiliral virtue, and his motives, at
least, are noble—they are but the dregs of society,
which seek its dissolution.

GALIGNANt'S Messenger of this morning con-
tains the account of a trial, which the Editor with
the grayest face in the world tells us, was a case
of dreadful atrocity, the assassination of a "gen-
tleman" going to visit his mistress. The Editor's
sympathy either arises from fellow feeling or an
ignorance of the French language, this gentleman
being no other than an old maid's favourite Tom
Cat. The translators now, as in the days of
Lswror, are sad dogs.

The Grand Jury called the attention of the
Court at the Old Bailey to the suppression, as
r►►uck as possible, of the opening of houses toe the
sale of newspapers and other publications on the
Lottl's Day ; also of liquor, victualling, and oys.
ter•slsops, and various others of en evil tendency,
ss hick alarmingly increase in the metropolis, to
the great scandal of the owners, and to the Hilly
of the morals of the people, bringing into al-
tooth total distegatd the Sabbath.