The Sun.
London, England, 1820-10-31 00:00:00

WEEKLY RETROSPECT.

As the columns of THE Sus have hitherto been
unstained by prejudications of the unhappy Na-
tional Cause under process, we shall still abstain,
even in its advanced state, from hazarding
; yet we cannot be silentas to passing facts,
or to the loudly promulged assertions of sinister
partii,ans. If we, therefore, look at the events
of the past week, perhaps one of the most extra-
ordinary is that unbounded and transcendant
praise, we had almost said fiatterN, offered up
by her MAJs'r v's Solicitor-General to the ta-
lents and exertions of his Learned Friend. We
cannot suspect his sincerity ; yet in that point we
do suspect that the intelligent part of the Public
duubt his judgment. It is true alsO that the
Ocuzisr has had every advantage, both as to
Counsel and Witnesses, that she could wish for—
Law, Equity, Court Practice, Parliamentary Pri-
vilege, and almost uncontrolled license, have
been permitted to act in her favour, and, to
wind up, not only have the practice of the pro-
secuting Law Officers been lenient and tender in
the extreme, the judgments of the first Law 0111-
cer of the State most impartial, and the conduct
of the Prime Minister most liberal, but she has
had the further advantages of a closing
,speech
from her Solicitor-General (his Majesty's Attor-
DeV-General's excepted) the most argumentative,
and another from her Learned Civilian the most
persuasive that have, perhaps, ever graced British
Forensic Oratory !
But with all their legal knowledge, with all
their skill, and with all the freedom from those
trammels which have unavoidably checked and
impeded the flow of oratory on the opposite side,
even her Counsel, to_ say nothin4 of her witnesses,
have injured her cause. To those Counsel we give
every credit for talents, for honour, and for• sin-
cerity, yet there are one or two points that de-
serve notice. The first closing speech starts with
a sophism; -for it takes up that part of the pre-
amble respecting the chivalric order., as a charge
per se, and 'defends -it upon that principle, when
in fact it is really adduced as a collateral illus-
tration of the general charge, and as so Jar cri-
minal. Of what consequence is it to the present
;case, that xEN who were warriors and subjects,
have instituted orders for their brethren in arms?
The present case is of a female of the highest
rank, all but .a Queen, making her Lacquey, in
z.ecula seculorum, the Grand Master of an Order
vf Knighthood or. which she constituted herself
the Patron Saint! A DEFENCE which starts with
a point so nnteni.ble must indubitably manifest a
consciousness of weakness in all its parts. Nor
is the concluding address in that speech less ex-
traordinary, when the Peers are called on to say
Neither do I condemn thee—Go, and sin no
more! !"

The Civil ground too., as taken, contains some
_cxtraordinary admissions of the same kind ;,but
the .general arguments in regard to the Tent
scenes are the most curious. The fact of BEtt-
-G-Imr having been a sleeping partner in that
Tent, if not in the ifouse, is said to be 'admitted ;
then it 'is spoken of as only founded in possibi-
lity ear belief; then it is stated to have beeß no
mystery—but, why then was it denied at all,
and why were tWo Naval witnesseg brought to
;disprove it -? We may here ask, were Her MA.•
J EST Y'S Counsel fully in the secret?

13/11 to leave matters in doors, for those with-
out, we see that even the venal and turbulent
'part of tile Press has -ceased to load Her MA-
JESTY with assertions of Innocence—one Even-
ing Paper, indeed, admits the moral, but denies
the legal guilt—hut that Press has fully made
itself amends by vituperation against every thing
great or good in the Country. Fearing to attack
the KING or BRITAIN, they have carried on a
petty warfare against the King Hanover ; and
they have assailed the Peers and Bishops, &c. in
gener.?l, and in detail, as if no act of Scandalum
.11.1agnatum were in existence.
Nor have Foreign Courts, nor our own Fo-
reign Diplomatists, escaped_ The. Court of VI-
ENNA, in particular, has been loaded with oppro-
brium for its sense of decorum ; and it is not the
least remarkable part of the charge that the por-
tion of the Press which formerly asserted that
Britain had lost all her influence in the Conti-
mntal Courts, for which, too, Lord CASTLE-
REAGH was loudly blamed, is now as loud hi at-
tributing the neglect which her MAJESTY met
with to British influence. At Vienna, in parti-
cular, they tell us that " the brother of Lord
CASTLEREAGH. one of the prosecutors," resides ;
calling that gallant and intelligent Nobleman
" the Foster-father of Mujocci, the principal
dealer in perjury," and boldly asserting that
" this was the reason which prevented her MA-
..i.r.sry's reception" at that Court !
But the virulence of such attacks must act as
their antidote; and Lord STEWART may well
cowider such censure, and from such a quarter,
as commensurate with the highest praise.—ln
short, it is on a par with an attack in the House,
upon one of the Bm.oon ROYAL, of which the
Vironick said that, " in justice to the Counsel,
they must suppose the act to be most atrocious!"
to which we shall only reply that, in justice to
the Btoon RovAr., we must suppose the Coun-
sel to have been in this case, as in many others,
both deceived and misinformed ?

Yesterday, according to annual custom, the
Right lion. the LORD MAYOR, the LORD MAYOR
elect, the Sheriffs, the Chamberlain, Recorder,
and several Aldermen, with their usual caval-
cade, proceeded from Guildhall to the house of
the LORD CHANCELLOR, to receive his MAJES-
T r'4 approbation of the choice made by the Ci-
tizens of London of LORD MAYOR for the ensuing

ivear. The Sheriffs, with the City Remernbran-
.
cer, afterwards proceeded in their state carriages
• round the west end of the town, to invite the
Ambassadors, Cabinet Ministers, Officers of
State, the Judges, and other persons of diAtinc-
(ion, to the grand entertainment on Lord
Mayor's Day.

We received this morning the Paris Papers of
Friday and Saturday last.--The following are

extracts :

PARIS, Om 28.

PROCLAMATION OF WI& KING.
" Louis, by the Grace oif God, King of France

'and Navarre.

1' To all to whom these presents marcoms greeting:
" Frenchmen,—At the moment when the law which gua-
rantees to your suffrages an entire independence, and which
secures to your interests a justsr representltion, is about to
be carried into effect, for the fist thus, lam desirOus that
you should hear my 'voice. • •

" The circumstances are serious.
" Look at home, lOok around yog., every thing speaks to
you of your dangers, your wants, and your duties.
" You have acquired a firm and legitimate liberty—it is
foe:aided upon laws emanating from: my love for my People,
and frog► my experience of the times in which vre live.—With
these laws it depends upon yourselves to ensure the
tranquillity. the glory, arid the happiness of 'our common
Country; you have the will, know how to manifest
it by your choice. Liberty is only preserved by wis-
don► and fidelity, Erase from the noble functions of De-
puties the authors of disturbances, the artisans of discord,
the propagators of unjust distrust against my Government,
my family, and myself ; and if ttsey ask you, why you repulse
them, strew them France, so overwhelmed five years ago, so
miraculously restored since, approaching at length the mo-
ment of receiving the price of so many sacrifices, of ►seeing
her imposts diminished, and all the public charges alleviated :
tell them, that it is not when every thing flourishes, when every
thing prospers; when every thing increases in your country,
that you will put to the hazard of their ridiculous reveries, or
deliver up to their perverse designs, your arts, your indus-
try, the harvest of your fields, the lives of your children,
the peace of your families, that felicity, in fine, which is en-
vied by all the people of the earth.
" From all quarters a crowd of citizens offer themselves to
your suffrages, sincere and zealous friends of the Charter,
equally devoted to the Throne and to the Country, squall y
entmies of' despotism and of anarchy. ' Chose front amongst
them your Deputies, to consolidate with Ws that order with-
out which no country can exist, and I will consolidate with
then► those liberties which have always bad for their asylum
the Throne of my Ancestors, and which I hah twice restore
ed to you.

" The world expects from you superior lessons, and you
owe them to it so much the more, as you have rendered them
necessary. In, offering to "nations the spectacle of that
li-
berty in which they take so high an interest, you have given
to them the right of demanding from you an account of those
snares into which they may be drawn; teach them, there-
fore, to avoid the thorns with which your path has been strew-
ed,and shrew them that it is not upon ruins and wrecks,but upon
justice and respect for the laws, that free institutions are
founded and consolidated.

It is thus, that marching at the head of civilizations
France., in the midst of the agitations which surround her,
may remain calmand confident; united with her King, her pros-
perity is beyond attack; the spirit of faction can alone compro-
mise it ; but if it ventures to manifest itself, it will be repressed
within the walls of the Chambers by the patriotism of Peers
and Deputies, and out of the Chambers by the vigilance of
Magistrates, the firmness of all those who are armed to pro-
ttecert mined
andniti:,iiiirs.tain the public peace, and, above all, by my de-

" Freochmen ! you have recently given me testimonies of
your liable and generous sentiments—von have participated
in the consolations which Providence has Wit to me and to
my family ; let this pledge of perpetuity, which Heaven gives
t" France, be also the happy pledge of the union of all men
Who arc sincerely attached to the institutions which I hare
given You, and with thefts to the order, the peace, and the
happiness of the Country.
" Given at the Chateau of the Thuilleries, the 45th of Oc-
tober, in the Year of .Grace, 1820, and of our reign
the vim,

(Signed)

" LOUIS.

By the King
it The President of the Council of NfitsiAters.
(Signed) " RICHgLIEU."
"The King yesterday transacted business with the Count

Simeon, Minister of the Interior, and with the Duke de
Richelieu.

" Private Letters from Madrid state, that the King of
Spain, by the advice of his Privy Council, has 'closed his
sanction to the Decree of the. Cortes for the Suppression of
Monastic Order,.

FIVE Pali CENTS.

Thursday 75 1. 10 c.
Friday "S 1. v.

_ DEFERRED STOCK
Thursday. Friday.
Of the itta Sept. 1640....93 E. c„„,92 f. 75 c.
" MAtinio, OCT. IG.—The sill for abolishing Political So-
cieties was agreed to yesterday by the Curtes, JOfl to 43.
" NAPLes, Ocr. 10.—General Pep 4, it is said, was again
forced to evacuate Palermo on the evening of the ith, after a
sanguinary contest in the interior of the City, but this state-
merit wants confirmation. Another account is, that General
Pipe entered Palermo by virtue of a capitulation on the 6th.
" LISBON. OCT. I English ship of war entered this
port yesterday with Marshal Beresford on board, butiwbo
was not allowed to land."

The following is an extract of a letter, receiv-
ed this morning at Lloyd's, dated Falmouth,
October 28 :

" Arrived the Lady Arabella packet fp
Lisbon, in 10 days :—Field Marshal Lord
FORD came passenger in her, not having beck
allowed to land by the Provisional Government)
on his arrival in the Tagus, on board the Vengettt
man of war, from Rio Janeiro. They, however,
got possession of the money which Lord BERES-
FORD brought with him in the Vengeur, and ano-
ther vessel which arrived after her, for the pay-
ment of the troops. When the Vengeur made
her appearance, the feelings of the Military and
Civilians became a little roused, and it is supposed
that had his Lordship persisted in landing, very
serious consequences would have followed, as he
has a strong party in his favour, especially among
the former. The Vengeur sailed the same day the
packet did, conjectured for the Mediterranean."

It is most anxiously to be wished that the
farce of ADDRESSING HER MAJESTY were at an
end, not that we regret the relaxation which the
industrious classes of the community have enjoy-
ed on the several occasions, though it would
have been much better for them to have pursued
their respective vocations, or that we condemn
the Ladies, who naturally wished for finery and
a frolic, as there is happily no likelihood of any
future opportunity of a similar nature. The great
evil relates to the ANSWERS of which TIIE QUEEN
is rendered the vehicle, and which abound with
republican principles, and are obviously intended
to bring MONARCHY Itself into hatred and con-
tempt. TIER MAJESTY is unfortunately in very
bad hands, and cannot herself be awa asof the
mischievous doctrines which she is thus e the
instrument of circulating through the Comintry,
doctrines which, if they were at length to be-
come prevalent, would involve her own ruin. In
fact, as well as being in general Anti-lVlonar.
chical, these Answers are all covert attacks upon
His MAJESTY, and in some instances have hardly
any covering at all. The People at large must
be disgusted with these senseless processions,
which involve such pernicious consequences, and
even TIIE QUEEN herself must be tired and sick
of what cannot be considered as any honour to
her, inasmuch as these professed tributes of con-
fidence in her innocence are offered while her
character is loaded with charges most dishonour..
able to her sex as well as to her rank, and ought
only to be presented when she has passed through
the ordeal which she so resolutely demanded,
and is acquitted to the full satisfaction of man-
kind.

BAnoN OMPTEDA.—We have taken into THE
SUN the Letters of this Nobleman, which have
appeared this day in the suspicious channels of
The Morning chronicle and The Times. G rant-
ing that they are genuine, which indeed there is
no other reason to doubt, except that they come
through those channels, there is nothing in them
that is discreditable to the writer ; but, on the
contrary, they are proofs that he discharged‘hip
duty to his Sovereign. The Consort of that So;,'
vereign is charged with the most atrocious and.
shameless guilt, and those charges were so widefi
spread, and so confidently urged, that it was the
duty of all who possessed high situations
to endeavour to ascertain the truth, and if they
had omitted to do so, they would have been totally
unworthy- of the employments which they might
hold. Truth is rarely to be discovered without
a secret and sedulous scrutiny ; and all that Ba-
ron OMPTEDA'S letters shew is, that he did not
neglect an inquiry that so importantly concerned
the honour of his Sovereign, and that he sought
intelligence of those best qualified to afford in.
formation. It accords, however, with the just
and liberal character of the two Public Prints in
question to revile the memory of the deceased
Nobleman, and not only to cast opprobrium
upon him, but upon Count MUNSTER, who is
here in the character of Hanoverian Minister, and
who was still more interested in maintaining the
honour of his Sovereign.

Prince GUSTAVUS, son of the Ex-king of SWE-
DEN, embarked at Dover on Friday i❑ one of the
packet-boats for Calais.
The price of Porter was yesterday reduced
one halfpenny per quart.
Posting in some northern counties is reduced to
is. per mile,