The Sun.
London, England, 1818-03-02 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

iday the Sessions ended, -when sentence 2F
death was passed on Robert Clayton, for stealing
goods in a- dwelling-hotise ; Chas. Barkley Prin;;la
for a like offence ; Robert ,Bishop, for housebreak-
ing ; Michael Keere, for burglary ; Wm. Dickens.
for a similar offence ;, James Ram, for stealing
in a dwelling-house; John Ward and flartiet
Skelton, for forzery; George Alathews and 'rhos.
Cope,for stealing in a dwelling-house ; 'John
Dogherty, for burgllary ; Morris Ready and. James
Gossip, for stealing goods in' a divellinvbouk ;.
and John Matthews, for sheep•stealing.
Seven were ordered to be tiansprirted for life ;
thirty-five for seven years. Seveo 'Were Ordered
to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for
London ; thirtyafourin the [louse of Correction
'at 'Clerkenwell.;. and seven in Netegate, for Va-
rious periods. Two to be pub!iely and four 'pri-
vately whipped.' Three were fined Is. each, and
discharged ; twelve judguirelits were respite(' ;
and eleven were discharged ,by proclamation.
Sessions adjourned to the Ist April next.

On Saturday, at twelve, o'clock, several men
qnil boys were publicly and privately wbipped,
is Usual at the conclusion of the Sessions: Two
underwent the punishment of four dOzen-li.shea
publicly, and ,lour the same number privately,
when one MIS ordered to be discharged,• and the
rent to be confined in Newgate fur a limited time.

Pill VATI4; CORRESL'ONDENCE.

AUTHENTIC LETTER, FROM PARIS, FEB. 25.

T!ie French Revolution is ended, but the hatred
and the vengeance which created it Have not yet

ceased, nor will they cease during the present ge-
neration. The conduct of a party which will not
idelntify itself with the nation is the. cause of it.
. 'Loots XVI. chose his Ministers ill; their vat ions
exce,s,a (nine,' the State. The Nobles and the
tleigy, who had always been exempt from taxes,
positively refused to
.contribute to the wants of.
the nation ; they were drones in the hive, they,
ate all the honey, but never made any. What
should we think in England.; f the patent of No-
bility exempted the party from paynnz any taxes
whatever ? No one cay doubt that in this enlight-
ened age the English would rise en masse to re-
farm such abuse ; such, and such only, was the 0-
ject of the French in 1789 ; the resistance of the
privileged classes, who were determined to receive
all and pay nothing, brought on fresh objects of
debate, till at length the necessity of resisting op-
pression called into action the very dregs of so-
ciety, and the Revolution burst forth like a tor-
rent with all its horrors..... Those who then
sought their safety in flight, are now, by-.the
faits oh England, enabled to return, and again
press 'heir ridiculous pretensions of exclusive
You will say, the KING has- given a
Charter ; yes, hut they despise it : have we not
seen the Nobles make efforts in every part of
France to violate the Charter, in seeking, by
thicals, and even worse means, to regain pos-
session of what was sold as national property, 1
and consecrated as such Ly:the Charter they invoke.
Have we not seen the l'..iests, tinder the sanction]
of the hi,hest orders in the Church, preach the
duty of p tying Tittles, and call down eternal
damnation on all who refused ; and demand the
restitution of Church property at the hands of the
dying, and invokir,g the ven4eatice of Heaven in
case of 'refusal. In vain Etas, the civil authority
interfered, the Chime!' protected the delinquent,
and lie escaped punishment—e g. the Abbe KIN-
30N, condemned by the law to tine and imprison-
ment, what has he paid, what has lie suffered ?
The Church protects him, and lie laughs at the
sentence of the tribnnals, which they dare not
execute upon him !!—These, Sir; are the friends
of the Altar and the Throne, whom we are called
to admire—men who scruple not to trample the
laws under their feet, who fancy that a nation of
twenty-eight millions is made to livk the dust
from their sl:oes, and labour for their pleasure.
I hesitate not to predict, that every attempt to
estal.lish such a system will not only be defeated,
but' risk a new revolution. France copi-s Eng-
land ; site is resolved to have an equality in the eye
of the law.
A 6 to your opinion of the Fiend! Ministers, it
certainly differs from mine, but truth being our
mutual object, we will candidly seek it, saying
with Virgil,.
'fros Tyriusque utihi nullo discrimioe agetur.
kooky tilt Miaisters from their actions and
their ptivate character in society, and front these
judge. Their situation is a mo,t trying one;
t .ey have to resist the extravagant pretensiohs of
two parties, both powerful. The ULTRAS by a
3,oction near the throne ; the Jacobins, Repub-
lican,, and littonapartisis, by au immense phy-
sical force, in the body of the nation. On
this ground their conduct, prudence, and abi-
lity demand admiration ; in their anxiety and
torment they perhaps do not listen enough to the
real voice of the nation, but at any rate they are
not indifferent to it.
The Ministers are not Jacobins or.Buonapartists.
For a ma t to.have passed his life in France, dur-
ing the Revolution, and in the midst of politiCal
tioubles and usurpation, and accepted offices to
serve his country, this does not stamp hint either
Buonripayrist or Jacobin ; if it do, there are none
other in France, and to exterminate them, 28
of men must be annihilated. 1 am not

arnalinted with the political lives of all the M

niters, but I know the major part have not to
blush for the past. The character of Buonapart-
ism is to cherish the foolish hope of restoring to
the throne BUONAPARTE and his dynasty ; the cha-
racter of Jacobinis►u is to wish a liberty and qua-
ky inc•ornpatible %vith social order, and subver-
sive of all Monarchical Governments Now le:
the enemies of the Ministry point out one act
which marks such a tendency.

I have said the French Ministry is prudent. I
appeal to i►s acts. Let us luok back to the Cham-
ber of 1816, and see how it proceeded to secure
the success of its measures. In a few weeks it

re-orgaidzed all the departments of Government ;
the g Oti and the bad citizen, the able and the ig-
noraio, Buonapartists, Jacobins, arid Royalists,
had all been proscribed pell-mell. The vilest of

the vile had been able, by ar.y, the most unfound

-cd and most improbable accusations, to get per-
tons of worth turned out, .aiid themselves put-in
their places. All the prisons were filled; and to
cite but -one out of S 6 Departments, that of Deux
Sevres, M. DB CURZAY, the Prefect, dismissed 70
Ikltivors at one dash of the pen, for " having fa-
voored the invasion of the Usurper," who had

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landed upwards of 600 miles from the Department.
tic dismissed the Common Council of Niort, the
chief town ; he dissolved the General Council of

the Department, and the Councils of the Arron-
dissements ; he changed the whole Council of the
Prefecture, even though there were in it sworn
enemies to BUONAPARTE, who had thrown up their
places rattier than serve him ; he dismissed the

Covernors and Committee of the Hospital of
Ninrr; who had, in difficult times, assisted the
establishment from their own purses. The Re-

ceiver-Geoeral, the Collectors of Taxes, Excise
Offirers, and Judges of Tribunals, were all dis-

missed to make room for his pure friends. The

Nation,d Guard, that had she.tvn its devotion to
the KING,. was dissolved, and Officers chosen from

the inosc infamous characters. In his epurations
lie changed every thing, even to the retail dealers

in tobacca anal snuff; lie changed them all as

traitors, not to the King, but to Ultra• Royalism.
This, Sir, is a fai►iif:il and an atiiiimic picture
of W hat passed in one Department ; similar con-
duct., not indeed to such au excess, was pursued

We received last night the Paris Pak-21 of
Thursday last. Those of Friday, which were due
this morning, have not come to hand.
They are entirely silent respecting the Duke of
WELLiNGTON. The arrest is nrentioned of M. de
CRUYKENBOiffiG, a Belgian officer, who was after-
wards allowed to return to his hotel, in the custody
of two Gendarmes, to arrange his affairs, and who
was to be immediately conveyed to Belgium.
The nature of the charge against him is not
stated.

Algiers is reported to be in a stare of civil war,
he Turkish Militia having laid siege to the Dey

his fortress.

These Journals insert the Proclamation of the
new King of SWEDEN, on his accession to the

Throne.

It is now said that the meeting of the Allied
Sovereigns will not take place till August, and
that on returning from it, the Emperor of RUSSIA
will pass some time at Vienna.