The Sun.
London, England, 1818-03-12 00:00:00

PRIVATE AND AUTHENTIC CORRESPONDENCE.

PARIS, MARCH 7.—The discussion on the Law
for Recruiting the Army is closed in the Chamber
of Peers, and to-day the Minister of War will de-
liver his speech. We understand that it is so
eloquent, and full of such sound logic and reason-
ing, that it is impossible for all, who are not
biassed by party, not to be of his opinion. The
Amendments wilt, I apprehend, be rejected by a
very small majority, hut the Law itself will ob-
tain greater favour. The general opinion is, that
it will pass : in fact it can scarcely be doubted.—
Thus the whole Session will only have produced
one important Law ; but one such is indeed
enough to make the session memorable.
The affair of Lyons continues to divide the
public attention with the acts of the Legislature,
and false rumours circulate with rapidity. A few
days since it was rumoured that Colonel Favier's
statement had so exasperated the population of
Lyons and its vicinity, as well as all the South,
that the whole mass had 'wiled to arms, and the
South was a prey to civil war. Now we know,
by our own Correspondents, that there is not a
word of truth in all this ; on the contrary, where-
ever Favier's pamphlet has penetrated the popula-
tion has burst forth in ejaculations.—Now, thank
God, my brother's, &c. honour will be re-
stored ; it will now be seen that it was the
guilty who sent the innocent to the scaffold !
Another report was, that M. de Lezay Marnesia,
the new Prefect of the Rhine, had come secretly
to Paris. He is at Lyons, where his justice and
firmness make him respected and esteemed by all.
There is now circulating at Paris a letter from
General Lamarck to General Canuel ; it is full of
logic and humour ; it proves, in the clearest man-
ner, Cannel to he an impostor. Pamphlets shower
on the subject. M. de Chabrol's proves publicly
what all his friends knew, that he is more fool
than knave ; his presumption and want of judg-•
ment is all that he is to lie accused of, and
in the affair of Lyons, he was butt the will-
ing dope of others, he saw not the Piot ; Ca-
mid fascinated him and made of him, with-
out his being aware of it, one of the principal
movers of this cloudy affair. The self-love or
shame of Chabrol is such, that lie dare not go back
to face the Public, and reside in his own Province ;
the moment approaches when all will be revealed.
Carmel has written a pamphlet, which proves
nothing. M. Grignon D'Auzouer has also printed '
an answer to Favier ; it is a long tirade against
the Ministry, Marshal Marmont, and his Aide-
de-Camp. He accuses the Ministers of their
silence; lie presses them to state all they know,
and punish the guilty; he ought rather to intreat
their silence ; vengeance will not fall on those
heads he invokes it upon ; but what truth were
we to expect front the pen of the Deputy who de-
livered a pompous eulagium of the parricide
Aurillon —M. de Sainville, late Commissary-Ge-
neral of Police at Lyons, is also going to write a
Pamphlet ; he can, if he pleases, tell strange
things—his Pamphlet will be a death-blow to
Cannel and Company. Cannel has written to the
King, begging to be before a Council of War and
tried; he knows he would be acquitted there,but the
tribunal of public opinion, founded on unequivocal
facts, condemns him. Why does Government
still keep silence ; it could with a single word tear
off the veil which conceals the real culprits—Does
it respect their protectors ? It deceives itself if it
fancies that it can bury in oblivion the horrible
details of the affair of Lyons on the Bth June.—
In a Representative Government they will and
must be known.

M. Laive has at length shewn that it is not the
King's intentions to impose more than one Bi-
shop for each department.—(What ore to be-
come of the rest already ❑ominated ?)—Yet the

opinion of the Deputies is still for rejecting the
ConcOrdat ; they. are indignant at the idea of re-
viving and putting in vigour the act of Leo X.,
an act of madness and servility, totally inad-
missible in the 19th century. It is true the Mi-
nister said that it was only brought forward to
give the King the right of nomination to all the
Bishoprics ; but if this only was intended, why
announce that the Concordat of Leo X. was to be
re-established.

I still persist in my opinion, notwithstanding
the labours of the Cotnmittec, that it will not be
discussed this Session. The Budget will occupy
a month, and the Deputies are so tired this
Session, that they will leave without asking per-
mission, as soon as ever the Budget is finished.
The discussion of the Concordat would be then
impossible.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM NEW YORK, FEB. G.

We have reason to believe, notwithstanding the
present posture of our affairs with Spain, that
our Government has no intention of occupying
Florida by force. It is probable, however, mili-
tary posts will be established in such parts
of the adjacent Spanish territory as will over-
awe the Indians, and prevent their disturbing in
future the tranquillity of our frontier set-
tlers. This Spain cannot take amiss. She is
bound by Treaty to preserve Peace between
the United States and tltelndians within her limits.
If she cannot, or will not do it, she has no right
to complain of our taking such steps as will ef-
fectually pacificate them, and secure us against
their predatory attacks.

After so signal a victory on the part of reason,
truth, and justice, against rancorous hostility and
persecution, as appeared in the triumphant Ma-
jority of 173 last night, in the House of Com-
mons, and after such an able defence on the part
of Government, particularly in the Speech of Mr.
CANNING—a Speech characterised by sound argu-
ment, as well as by wit, humour,. and the invin-
cible evidence of facts, it would ill become us to
take up the time of our Readers with any obser-
vations of our own. We are greatly in ar-
rears with many most valuable Correspondents
from whom we might expect more estimable
favours, if we could discharge the obligations
which we already owe. Besides, we pant for the
opportunity to render our Paper an amusing
miscellany, and to insert matters of general inte-
rest. But our long-winded Orators, with their
hackneyed complaints, their interested perver-
sions, and their hackneyed declamations, have not
only been a grievous weight upon us, but must
have disgusted the Public at large. Happily,
however, they have fully exposed themselves, and
if there is that fund of good sense in the people,
which we are warmly disposed to attribute to them,
they will hence learn whom to chose, or rather
whom to reject, for they certainly will not again
give their suffrages to those, who, right or wrong,
are determined to oppose Ministers, and who have
been labouring to bring punishment on them from
having preserved the Country from insurrection,
rebellion, and all its desolating horrors.