The Sun.
London, England, 1818-05-04 00:00:00

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LA MINERVE, a weekly political Pamphlet,
edited by BENJAMIN DE CONSTANT, M. ETIENNE,
SAY, JOUY, &C. has thought proper to attack our
Parisian, Correspondent. M. ETIENNE is spokes-
man for the Company. We have just read the
last number, in which M. E. complains bitterly
that our Correspondent is better informed on po-
litical affairs than even the Editors of La Minerre.
" lie draws," says he, " from good sources, and
I shall take care to inform our Readers of all that
this Paper (in E .SVN> shall hereafter publish on
our affairs. It appears to receive important con-
fidence, &c." This notice, limn .the pen of an
enemy on the spot, whose profession is news-
hunting, justifies all we have formerly asserted
on the .subject, and we feel rthat M. ETIENNE
cannot do a more acceptable service to his
country than to translate our articles into the
Minerre. But 'will he do so ? No. His Country,
to M. ETIENNE, sinks in the consideration at
that of his Party, and we need not say th it they
are the apostles of LIBERTY, alias REVOLUTION.
But to M. E 's promise ; it does not appear from
the article before us that he will be able to keep
it, for he either knows little of English or he
‘wilfully mistranslates passages, t%hich amounts to
the same thing. We apprehend that the two
causes are combined, for he states that our Cor-
respondent says, that in the future Elections,
Prefects, Attoruies- General, Receivers• General,
&c. or persons who wish to have such places,
only, should he elected. English uthanity pre-
vents our using a very homely phrase to M-.
• ETIENNE, 'Alt we appeal to our Readers ‘..liether
such an assertion- be not false and unfounded io
every sense of tha word. There is this difference
between our Correspondent and M. EttaNtia, and
the writers of his class : the former compares

and Weighs every thing in its relations with the
happiness of France, and the'cOnsequent tran-
quillity of Europe ; the latter only Cutpate tbein
under the relations they bear to the iuterest or dis-
advantage of'the Jacobi hence flit=y arc
not likely to agreein man)? points. But, after
all, we must DIV quarrel with M. ETIENNE, whose
spite!) is principally excited by the fact that a
Foreigner knows the affairs of France better titan
the great Phalanx of the Editors of tire Minerve,
and he dismisses us to fall on The Times, whose.
Cortitspondents he attacks with the greatest viru-
lence. , The one, says he, is a Foreigner, who
coldly observes our debates ; the other unblush-
ingly outrages whatever is not aerial he is a
soi disant Frenchman, who denounces us to Eng-
land, ; but to make amends, he attributes to
him the article which first appeared in THE SUN,
and was written for it, concerning the violation
of the graves of those who fell at Agincourt.

. . .
A Flanders Jlnil arrived last. nig!-:t Papers
to Friday last. According to the following article
front Meiningen, the: betrothtnent of the Duke of
CLARENCE and the. Princess of SARA MISININGEN
has actually taken place :

ME:NINGEN, APRIL 19.—T0-day the final declaration Was
made at 'Court of the betrothing of our most Serene Princess
Adelaide to H. lt. H. the Duke of Clarence, brother to the
Prince Regent of England. Her highness will depart fur
London in the beginning of July."