The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-22 00:00:00

sPORTINU INTELLIGENCE.

TATTRGALL'S.
More business was alone yeste.rday than for some day's
past, several sporting bets having been made on a few of
tie principal Derby horses. Brunswicktr was backed at
10 to 1 for 440/. by those whose judgment may be relit('
on. He is now very little behind the favourite, who,
with his companion Cetus, decline daily. The Cressida
and Mouse colts were ba"..-I:ed freely, and are not yet as
bigh as they will be. Ztichwili is also in force, he is
the property of Mr. Rannsbottosi, )rho purchased him
from Lord Lowther at a small figure, scare say 60/. ; his
-t.eliog price would now, perhaps, be 10001. The betting,
:A.t the close, averaged thus:—

DERBY.
.S to 1 oast Sir Mark Wood's The Mummer
to 1 opt Mr. Petre's Brunswicker
to 1 agst Mr. Clancy's Cressida colt
13 to 1 agst Sir M. Wood's Cetus
i I. to I nest Lord Cavenzlish's Mouse colt
ii 7 to 1 ugst Lord Exeter's Mahmoud
Li S to 1 aset Mr. Ramshottom's Zucharelli
r2O to 1 agst ,rd Sefton's Sal colt
120 to I agst Lori Cleveland's Wat Tyler
25 to I agst Lord Tavi,gtock's Custard colt
25 to 1 aget Lord Sligo's Brine
15 to 1 eg't Lord Egremont's Brother to Grampus
„25 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's Captain Arthur
st, to 1 apt Lord Sefton's Mouche (taken)
40 to 1 aget Mr. Petre's The Major (taken)
to t sgst Mr. Houldsworth's Brother to Lancastrian
2000 to 1006 Cressida apt Zucharelli (taken)
Trresity bonier io,;re backed in one bet, at 2500 to 100 each,

OAKS.
6 to 1 apt Lord gwa;ton's Mouelie
9 to 1 agst Lord 9.l.:o4.berry's Sister to Emma
9 to 1 agst Mr, StonttLew,i;'s Leeway filly
J 3 to. 1 agst Lord Jersey's filapw. 1.

nig MAJESTY, it is expected., 11,61 d a
Court on Ifaurglay next at his Palace at Windaor, fur Xike
purpose of ret4ving the report of the conviets capitally
convicted at Just Hall, in the Old Bailey.

The Duchess .d CLARENCE canto to town
vesterilay morning from ii,r; residence in Bushy Park.—
The Countess ItuNsTrit visttea her Royal Hight:ell at her
te.idetica in the King's Palace, St. „Yikmes's.. Her Royal
Highness returned to Liaasby in the aftertm.-kn.
The Duke of WELUNGTON. came iv,:
,town
yesterday morning' from his residence at Strathfielilsayt,
Llants. The Earl of AlszavErti and ifc. Secretary P.ert
had interviews with his Grace at the Treakury.
THE BOOK OF THE BOUDOIR.—Among
the extremely varied and am4usiar, topics treated
,of fray
Lady MoitcAx, in her new work, will Ls found : Fetes,,
Partie., and Soir&s—Human Machinery—Ariatocracy—
llttman Parrots—Woman's Love—Law;—The Ca 9 of
Liberty—Wive4 of Foola—Fetuale P rseverance—Ar4
and Artists—Viragos—Solemn Ilbuitheads—:.Vice-regal;
Progresses—Religious Austerity—Ohl- FashionA Friends
—Legislature—Literature—Mathematied Ladiet,”.lll-
liteurres— rower of Babel— Foreign Visitors--Education
—Spirit of the Age—Wonderful Children and Good
111otliers—Love in Idleness. Also most interesting par-
ticulars of Lords ERSKINE and CA STLEREACIII—HOTINN
Tow, E..--.IIIC !IA D KIRWAN, Esti. r• OWEN of La-
mak—The Princess BORG:II:SE—The Countess d'ALBANy
lIELEN Banta WILLIAms, &c., &c,

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LONDON,
iTUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 1829.

The following are extracts from Germar

Papers :

MARSIILLZI, DIC. 2.

We have good reason to believe that all that has been
said of the ambitious projects of Mehemet Ali Pacha, of
Egypt, is founded on mere fiction. A pers,,n who has
lately arrived here from Alexandria, and whose situation
afforded him the means of making himself acquainted with
the real sentiments of that extraordinary man, asserts that
be is very far from desiring to dissolve the ties which unite
him with the Porte. He is too well acquainted with the
policy of Europe not to he aware what interest it takes in
the preservatiOn of the Ottoman empire ; hence he infers
that any attempt to make himself independent, though
crowned with success for the moment, would, in the end,
only hazard his own existence. At this moment English
influence preponderates in the Divan at Cairo; but if the
interests of France were in more able hands than thus.: of
M. Drovetti, we might be tt_•e more confident that Mehe.
met would again be disposed to favour us, as be has a per-
sonal regard for the French, and most of the foreigners in
his service are of that nation.

MUNICH, DEC. 11.

Accounts from Greece inform us, that at the same time
with Colonel Iliedegger and Captain Sclinitzlein, the
Bavarian physician, Dr. Zuecarini, quitted the Greek
service. Having been sect by favour of his Majesty to the
Morea in 1828, to prosecute his studies in the service of
suffering humanity, he has succeeded, by the organization
of the hospital, &c. in rendering great services to the medi-
cal system of the infant State, which testified its grateful
appreciation of his services by appointing him chief physi-
cian to the regular troops. In this capacity he had last
summer the good fortune to cure most of the members of
the scientific expedition from France, at the head of which
is Colonel Baydeft Venaint, who were all dangerously ill
of the prevalent bilious and nervous fevers. The departure
of the last of his countrymen, and still snore the conviction
that as the internal affairs of the country are brought into
petit, e.reien aid was no longer necessary, induced
him, in August last, also to quit. st Greek service, and in
prosecution of his medical service, to engage for a time In
the same quality of physician to the staff on board. the
Russian fleet. His friends expect him home next summer.

Batumi, DEC. 10.
Lieutenant-General Von Muffling is appointed Com-
manding-General in Westphalia. But before he enters on
this office, he will for a time continue his functions as
chief of the general staff of the army, and also accompany
his Royal Highness Prince Albert on a journey to St.
Petersburgh. It is reported that the Crown Princess will
also visit Russia next spring, in consequence of the affec-
tionate invitation of her Majesty the Empress, when she
was here last summer. Some reports of changes in our
foreign legations appear not to be unfounded,
VIENNA, Dec. 10.—Metalliques, 102 i; Four per
Cent. ditto, 911 ; Bank Shares, 1,238.

The Liberty of the Press in Great Britain,
►notwithstanding the anomalies of the Law of
Libel, has secured itself so firm a support in
the public opinion, from which alone the Go-
vernment derives its tenure and holds its exist-
ence, that any attempt on the part either of the
Legislature, or the Executive, to shake or injure
it would be both futile in itself and dangerous to
the assailant. The freedom of circulating their
opinions is valued too highly by all sensible
Englishmen to allow them to entertain for a mo-
ment the apprehension that the English Govern-
ment, present or future, would ever have teme-
rity enough to endeavor to encroach upon the
right which may in truth be called the great
charter of civilized society.

Enjoying, as we do, so large a share of free-
dom, it is our bounden duty to assist other
nations less fortunate than ourselves, in the
maintenance of those liberties upon which their
happiness, like our own, mainly depends. We
are therefore desirous of holding up to indigna-
tion and scorn the insidious and tyrannical at-
tenipt .4.6 the King of the NETHERLANDS to
stifle the exp..e.:,skn of the sentiments of his
subjects on the laws by which Om are governed,
and the manner in which those laws are executed.
His Dutch MAJESTY is afraid of the truth''
being heard, and he therefore has proposed to
his Chambers a Project, authorising tbg jar
prisonment of all those who shall attack the
dignity of the Royal Family, who shall manifest
hostile sentiments towards the KING, or con-
getupt of the Ordinances emanating from him ;
41 o§l 1 be zNilty of attacks upon the obligatory
force a g.xistipg hvis, pt exciting disobedience
thereto, shall sOvf clisunio.n
,0r
suspicion ; and finally, wlio shall attack or in-
sult the Government, or one rge iia brnnches, or
~-,.:firage its acts, or calumniate its intentions, or

endeavaw 1/.7 sap its authority.
It is plain, that ;7 14;;*.s Project were to pas
into A law, no person in the til,etk4,.!:ds could
safo.ly .spestic write any ,thing concerning (thc:
KJN,G, his Government, or the Laws, unless it
Fere 4.0 applaud and magnify *eia. A list of
coneructive offences is created, and inen:raq
found guilty and condemned, according t9,thg
goud will and pleasure of the Judges, for any
mention of the political state of the country
Whidi may be pronounced to be wiusult.

to the powers that be, or a calunznia
lion of their intentions. If any per Son therefore
should intimate a doubt whether this very law
was projected with the intention of liberating

the Press, because it ui words annihilated it, he
may be convicted of a calumny on the intentions
of the Government and imprisoned for three
years. There is a proverb, that " Hell is paved
with good intentions." However excellent, pl-
- and pure, may be the intentions of the
King of the NETHERLANDS, according to his
own account, in this proceeding, we, in Eng-
land, who do not profess to judge of motives
otherwise than by.acts, must regard the new law
as one of the most execrable abortions with
which continental despotism has ever attempted
to disgust mankind.

But, it may be said, people will not be imprisoned
arbitrarily—they will have their trial. What
kind of trial? Why, by the Judges, the KING'S
servants and organs; for, unhappily, in the Ne-
therl‘nrir. Trial by Jury does not exist. If it
did, this law would be a dead letter, as:the KING
well knows; for where the people have the admi-
nistration of justice in their own hands, they
wear an armour of mail which the weapons of
tyranny have not the power to penetrate.

Th' preamble to the Project, so far as it
speaks of the KING'S anxiety for liberty of COn..
science, and so on, is mere hypocrisy. If he
feels any such anxiety, why has he interfered with
the rights of the Catholic Church in Belgium,
in a manner which has roused the resentment of
the Catholics to a man, and has caused their
union with the reformers to oppose the measures
ofan unjust Government ? Again, what means
the assertion, that the responsibility of Ministers
is inconsistent with " the preservation of our
political institution," and that the circumstances
of the Netherlands do not resemble those of
other countries, where such resposibility exists
without inconvenience ? Experience in all coun-
tries has shown that Ministers, like other men,
will not act honestly unless they are accountable
for their actions; and if, in addition to the maxim
" the King can do no wrong," it is established
that " the Ministers can do no wrong," it can-
not be wondered that they are labouring to
destroy the Press, or any other institution that
can guard the people from oppression.
It is impossible to suppose that this law will
pass the States-General, who are asked in De-
cember to shackle the liberty they proclaimed in
May, when they repealed the obnoxious statute

under which two of the best men in Europe are

now suffering in the prison of the Petits-Carmes.
We know enough of the state of feeling in the

Netherlands to predict that if it is persisted in,
the country will be driven to a degree of excite-
ment, of which a Revolution would be the

almost certain result. The Belgians have pecu-
liar causes of dissatisfaction, but this blo,v is

dealt equally against Holland and Belgium, and
will be equally resented by both. Our hope is
that it will likewise be resented by Great Bri-
tain, by France, and the other nations of the
earth, who know that the best preservative of
peace and freedom in the civilized world, is the
sense exnressed by surrounding countries of
outrages committed upon the rights of the mem-
bers of any one national society. Such an out-
rage has been attempted in the Netherlands—
but if the voice of honest and independent men,
within and without that kingdom, be raised
strongly against it—the arm of oppression will
fall powerless by its side, and the oppressor retire
overwhelmed with confusion and dismay.