The Sun.
London, England, 1816-05-09 00:00:00

FRANKFORT, M,17 1.

According to Letters from Constantinople,
lated March '26, it appears that the Foreign Mi.
Miters there, .had assertibled from the IStli to the
20th of that month, and had in consequence pre-
it elite(' a declaration to the Divan respecting Cite
touiatiisles, At the departure of the Courier no
'answer had been ret timed.

It is said, that inreediately after tile arrival of
the Pt ince Royal of 114varia, at Asehaffenhourg,
be assiuned the title of Govornor-General of Fran-
conia, and that he will take Upon hirnthe admmi-
"stration of that circle. It is ,intended by certain
arrangements to smite to the kingdom all that part
wlikh has .not hiiherto constituted a pall of it.
The object "of the nOsSiOn of the Bavarian
ter,
,Count tsf Rechborg, at Frankfurt it looked
upon as very iMportant. It will decide the teak
tnrial extent of the kingdom on the north-west
side, ewe re there are yet some points in litigation:
The Count of Pappenheini, who went to Berlin
On a mission fi otn the Court of Bavaria, relative
to •
the arrangements of the South of Germ:lily, hits
returned, it is said, with satisfactory intelligence.
The Courts of Berlin and Monich have agreed
hlld the latter is conteuted‘
ties eral journ4ls announce that the Groulpoke
of Banco Ic,ts strewn the greatest discontent at the.„,
pi witted t& him by the Nobility, and
that he has sent it back., .Alo that several Baden
Officers of superior rank,, who had signed the
Address, have been 'stripped cif their comniissionsi
and are forbidden. to wear their uniforms.

l'he city of Manheim and the Palatinate is de-
eitledly to remain united to the Grand airily of
Widen, anti the cession of those places to Bavaria
Of no longer,a quei,tion.

LYONS, MAY' I.—Vie day before yesterday,
the evening) the Duke d'Havre went to the grand
Theatre, 'where he was received with unanimous
cries Of Vive le Rol. The audience demanded the
Cantata, which was, executed immediately. At the
end of the Play the Pit demanded the Orifiamme.
• Gentlemecn," it was replied, " it is impossible
" to grant you what you ask, for the whole Band
4.' is at the Theatre des Celestines."—" That
*1 makes no difference, let them sing withont the,
• urchestra,"—" nut, Oentlemen, the Actors do
" not know the Oriliamme by heart."—" It do'nt
• matter, let them come, we will assist them."-
3n effect the actors appeared with their music
books in their hands, and sung with the aecom-
panimvnt of the Pit. The music of the orchestra
might have been more pleasing to the ear, but it
could not have been Wore Agreeable to the heart.
COPPNIIAGEN, APRIL, 30.—Such Daniel) officers
who had formerly received 'the Order of the Re-
-union of Holland have heen commanded no
longer to wear the decoration of that Order, as
it is about to be annulled. Those vitro bar the
Order of the Legion of Honour must change its
decorations according to the New Stratftes, anti
*wait Wuil his Majesty the King of France con-
• thorn in quality of Members of that Order.

BRUSSELS PAPERS,
[113CSIVIII) THIS MOIINING.:1

MAN' 3.—The Duke of Wellington
Is shortiy to visit the several Corps' of the Army
of occupation ; that is, the Russian, Prnssian,
Alvin ian, and Bavarian, which are canton:A in a
1, lit Champagne, in Lorraine, and Alsace.

The Duke of Wellington has deigned to accept
tile dedication of the tine pieptre of Mr. Leroy,
trprraenti►►g the Battle of Waterloo. When his
(~rice visited the Artist, be was accompanied by

alict I.lent.-1;MOINI
IletVey

His Eminence Cardinal Fontana has greatly
contributed to get these judicial tor►nB adaptud,'
and it is an esltenthil service which he 1,1(1 ren-
dered to humanity and to religion. It i-. Olirnieti
that as soon as the new Code is fiuislied, it %I 'd!
be sent to al) the Courts.

NEXT TUESDAY TILE LorOgY BEGINS, WHEN
EVERY TICKET DRAWN BE A PRIZE, AN L)
FIRST PRIZE MAY BE a 5,3001.

IHAILs•
,tnnivca---1 France, t Dui)tin, Waterford. Dvz-1 Ifarn-
bnrgh„ t Holland.

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Brussels Papers to the 6th, and P. 463 Pap( rs to
the 7th,, a►e the foreign arrivals since our laAt
publication. The 'Fortner contain an 'account of
the new panacea by which the inquisition is to be
rendered tolerable, if not eve►! delightful, to the
nations of Europe ! The latter are very nnii►►-
portant. 'rimy paint Paris, Lyons, and Prance
gettehily, as eniinently loyal and happy. The
Private Letter-writers dip their pencils in (Luker
-colours, and speak of nothing but treasons, stra-
tagem%, and spoils, just, we itragine, as truly as
they have done for the last six months. Some of
their reports are too absurd for credulity itself.--
One of them talks of putting NAPOLEON 11. on •
the throne* &c. as if there lirt; no Duke of
LINGTON cud Army of, Occupation in all France

Not only is.,Turkey very obstinate on tbe sub
ject of the lonian Is ; hut, we understand, the
differences between that Power and Itussia have'.
then to all but actual hustilit lei.

Yesterday acconnts reached town from Bengal
to the 24th of December last. When the last ad-
vices came away, it ►vas generally understood that
hostilities bad been renewed between the British
and Nepalese troops—an event which for sonic
time past has been deemed ittnyohlable. We
have seen various letters from India by the "Man-
tic, just at rived from thence, all of which concur
in stating, that the condact of the Nepalilese Co-
veroment had rendered it expedient for the Bri-
tish to augment their forces •to be prepared for
ttiar; but the dates of these coat►tnuuicatinns' do
not come down to co late, a period as that above
mentioned, and of course are silent as to the ae.
mak commencement of hostilities.

A subject involvi►►g some of the most important
political and.individual considerations in the law
of the land, was I4st night broached in the House
of Come►ons by Mr. BAOUGIJAIC After an inge-
nious speeeb, setting forth the imperfections of
the exiting law of libels, the Learned Member
asked for and obtained leave to bririg in a Bill,
the objects of which may be briefly summed up as
follows

First, To abolish the distinction between written antlnt-ert
libel, and oral or spolten slander; it being well tatnten that
at present. words wkich were out. actiotiuble whet) spot.icti,

Homi?, Mint!. 17.—roe reform in the
nals of the Inquisition and "the Holy OfPee
is critinning with activity, 'and will extend
to all the cotor ries evherg thiS institution
exists. In the briefs addrcss'ed ,by his Ho-
liness to the Congregation charged with the:
labour, bri". Holiness says, •‘ no not fOrget
that the, way to render religion Powerful its
all States is to sitew her divine, and bringing
to_ Mankind only :consolation and benefits ; the
precept of our Divine Master, ' Love each other,'
ought to be the law of the tiniverse."—All legal
proceedings in religious matters'shall be subjected
to the forms of proceeding iu civil and criminal
matters. Accusation, denunciation, - and inquisi.!
riot], in at titers of faith, Cannot serve to begin a
legal proceeding ; it cannot be founded 'except in
facts. Persons tinder a judicial sentence, the ac-.
complices of the accused persons declared infamous
by a Count of Justice, cannot be heard as witnesses.
All persons] of whatever theological communion
they may he, shall be admitted, if they are'called
its excolpl'ition of the accused. The relations and
servants are excluded frontbeing heard either for
or against the accused. The proceeding shall be
public, and no ivitnesa sbil ever be allowed to
adduce hearsay evidence.

acute Th

Upon the other points alluded to, we certainly
feel that there is room for some amendment of
the existing law, but also feel how dangerous the
task is, and how probable that the introduction
of improvement might open the door to greater
evils than those which were removed. Our view,
however, is somewhat diffetent from that corn.

. -
manly taken. Instead of thinking the Libeller too
much exposed to punishment, we consider him
as too much shielded from it. Defamation does its
work by-ambiguities---I>y the use of words not,
.actionable, though destructive of character, and
by various modes which the law does not reach.
The Libeller. is' not only protected by these ci:-
cumstances, but by the dilemma in which the
Libelled arc placed. If they imiiet, as was well
stated by Mr. Buoy onAm, they are represent-
ed as treading the truth, which cannot be
he4rd in indictments ; and the ivounrls under
which they smart are aggravute(l by the remedy.
If they pursue the other course and seek re-
'dress by Civil Action, they are almost -thrown
out of Court by the displeasure with which such
actions are entertained. A point of law is sure to
be fatal to tr. cause never favourably received ;
and the individual whose 'hopes are blasted
by the tongue of the slanderer more surely than
by the dagger of the assassin, has perhaps the.
consolation of being defeated on the construction
of a sentence, or ft best.have what is dearer than
lit 'itself, estimated try a jury (directed. as they
generally are to consider•the wordi as those of ir-
ritation, etc.), at the
.value of forty shillings or
forty pounds.

WAS stated by Mr.l3uousun*, wh ob-

served--

-whet; a man's character was attacked, he the pain asks
injury he (tottered ever so. great---he the person who made the
attack the most malicious of men, and his motives the most

litiquitouit wA ttruusaritit to. one he escaped wiiir
iroprr-
nitv. He should be asked, did the ktw .atford nii redress?

why did not the injured indiajdual come forwarq? He would
tell the 'Ouse what was. ,the: remedy offered in theory, and
what was its result in practice. The reasons why the
injured individual did not intim forwaid were these: There
were two ways pointed out for redres+—by action and by in-
diennent; Suppose the teniedy by action .was prekrred; the
accuser WaS, iinleed, defied to prove the truth ; but the in-
jured person went into Court' for a verdict, and, then, after
running the gauntlet of having all this exposed to the
impertinence or I ruriency of public ottitnadversion—after
submitting to a speee'll from the defendant's counsel ten times.
worse than the oliginal libel—after all the expense of a trial,
and the risk of being turned round on a point of law, he all,
peals to a Jury for damages to e“imate the value of his cha-
racter; and they Who know what Juries are, and the impres-
aloft likely to be made ou them by the speech of defendant's
counsel, will know that Must damages are likely to be eery
inadequa,te; not more, perhaps, than 'lO or 501"

Again, it is very ititly said by a Morning

Ptiper.
"Let the conduct of the Man who tuakes truth the mere
Cover of his malice be seen in its proper, colours; but, on thc
other hand, let the,Jory be enabled fa) distinguish between
the honest promulgator of a truth he may think iMportant,
and the itiventor,ofa calitmny who acids wilful falsehood to
malignity and baseness. We are reit aware that.private
feelings apt), sometimes be outraged by the ;unnecessary ex-
posure of domestic follies or frailties; and we' concur in ;411
tbe censure that tan be bestowed on such a practice : but let
it he considered, on the other hand, how, interlopey the
general interests of morality call for the public reprObation
of flagrant vices—how many hardened offenders there ate
who,
a Safe friute the Par, the Pulpit, and the Throne,
" Are touched and cured by ridictele alone,"
These are ETTA t ters which deserve the best atten-
,
tion of the Legislature, we are sure, be
much elticidared by the. ATTORNRY arid SOLICI
Ton CIENERALi when they come to state the ob-
jections which exist to any alteration in the law
as it now stands. Men more competent to
lighttm the public mind oft the subject are not to
be found, and if they think that the purposes of
justice are better consulted by the existing prac-
tice, than they would he by'the prOposed altera-
tions, they will support their opinions by reason-
ing not to be resisted.

The llePart upon the Bank ReAtrietion Bill was
received last night in rite Hon,e ot Commons.—
A elamse, moved by 7tlr. Ilotavritt, to allow the
Diseetors to pity in ens!), soonen than two
ye,trs, if they shall t hnik proper $o to ►Io, W tt3 au-
butived by a large al4jority.

c cognizance or nen-cognizance of the'defendinit,
wrier whose ostensible authority the libel issued, to be' put
itreVirdence on his trial. Lastly, To allow evidence of the
truth of nileged libel to be laid before the jtiry, with the view
of in:Aifyiog their decisio►i. The lion. bentleman alsontealti
to nntite a provision, that the defendant shOuld give notice to
tlio piOsecutor that, when put on trial; he intended to t►t'er
proof to establish his statements: \ •
Siteit is the substance of the alterations pro-
pOsed littooot.tam in his but in his
Speech he further animadverted on Ex Officio la-
formations, and 'sheaved a
_disposition to deprive
the Clo-..ernment of that power. The argument
for this part of the-question is that the privilege
may be abused, and is_ not wanted in peaceful
times ;—to which the answer• seeps: to be, that it
is trot ahased—that in troublesome times it is ne-
cessary for the public safety—awl that, if ever it
were abused, the remedy might be had upon the
specific ease.