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THE SUN

DICEItE ALIDE.iT

LON1)0N ,
W.ED A- Es DA I, AUGUST. 23, 1820.

• The-attempt to overthrow the Government of
France, as stated in The Moniteur of the 20th
inst., an Extract from which we have inserted
this day, has been frustratiql for the present, but
We have little reliance on the security of that
Govertnnent ou the death or the KiNG.—The
truth' is, that Monarchy is assailed by ensnaring
doctrines and secret practices all over the Conti-
nent, and we fear, indeed expect, that the
euttnpli: of Spain and Naples will be followed in
evvry other State. Foreign Monarchs must not
now temporize with their subjects, and at one
moment promise them a Representative Legisla-
tive.BodY, and then recede, supposinq that the
daliger it over, and that things will go on in the
old Way.-,2-They do not calculate on the progress
of knowledge and the general sense of civil and po-
litical rights, which is its natural result. Still less
should one State attempt to interfere, in the con-
cerns of another. The spirit of liberty cannot
be curbed, and will never want ambitious and
disperate men, who will try all means to force it
into action. Our late wise and good KING, as
we, have before observed, said, in reflecting on
the French Revolution, he did not believe that
in -a hundred years hence there would be any
Monarch in Europe. The vicissitudes which
have since taken place, and the datt.4er, that now
threaten, seem to give a prophetic character to
this opinion of our late revered St,ereign. But
much, if not all, depends on the conduct of the
respective Gor'rnments, and if they are so absurd
.as to„believe, upon poetical authority, that

" There's such Divinity /huh iicti:;-c a King,
" 'flint Treason can bat peap In what it w'onid,”

they will find themselves lamentably mistaken.
We-stke that, under the mild and merciful juris-
prudence of this Country, Rebellion rears its
heal with the utmost boldness, and that the
Pr-ess every day overflows with Treason and
Blasphemy, threatening the existence of our Po..
laical 'Constitution in Church and State. The
People in all Countries are more enlightened
than they were at any former period. Their
-fights -must lie respected, and their burthens
miatte. mitigated, or they will be roused into
the Most dangerous excesses, which, in the event,
canlinly be' injurious to themselves, by converting
the-limited and just aorrei-nmQnt of an Heredi-
tarp Monarchy into "the ruinous, despotism,!of a
a:ob.—The following are the details given likthe
Mosittiur

PARIS, AUG. 20.77•F0r -serno,time. past Go-
"vOrnrilerit his been in possession of information
that rriachinations were employed to seduce tile
trooPp to revolt. They were .satisfied. that the
good spirit which animates the French s )Idiers
would baffle the projects formed by certain men
always ready to sacrifice their own honour and
the repose of their Country to theil.pride and cu-
pidity. The Government watched all their pro-
ceedings. .these madmen believed, that they
, were sufficiently powerful to overturn the Throne,
and*the protecting institutions that France owes

to her King. A certain number of officers and.:
• I
non-commissioned, officers of the corps in ga.rri-
ion -at Paris had, been seduced. There -$.1,,-nre.
•
some even of the 'Royal Guard who suffered
themselves to be drawn into the plot.
'• " Yesterday evening these officers agreed
among themselves to,tueet' at the barracks, to
assemble the soldiers, to march against the Pa-
lace of our Kings', and to proclaim as Sovereign
some MeMber of the Buonapartean family ; but

*liiitny of those whom they had attempted to se-
' duce by their perfidious proposals, did not hesi-
tate to repair immediately to their Chiefs, and
•
'• discover the plot which was ahout.to explode.—
GUverament could delay no longer, Thise who

had taken part in this c.riminal Cmpiracy,
arrested by the Gendarmerie. •
" It appears that one part of the plan 4.f. the
Conspirators was to s,ei.:ze on the Castle of Vin-
cennes. A fire that was.soon extinguished, broke
out there at three &clock
the afternoon. It
is reasonable to suppose that this was intended
to create disorder, and favour an attack.
" France has a right to expect that such an
attempt will be punished in a manner that shall
intimidate all thos'e`who, forgetting their duty
and their oaths,
.w.ould turn against social erl
those arms which have been confided to th, m
its defence. Nothing ought to be neglected Cult
may secure the authors and accomplices of a
conspiracy, which, directed againSt the Throne
and the Charter, attacked at the same time every
member of the state in his dearest 'sentiments
and best rights.
" The most elevated tribunal, that which the
Charter with'a salutary foresight..has charged to
repress attempts against_ the safety of. the'State,
will no doubt be called upon to sit in judgment
on the greatest crime that the law can have to
punish. ,
" Sheltered from all influence, above ail' si-
,nister: suggestions,- that august Tribunal, batter
than any other, will recognize innocence, and dis-
miss ill-founded suspicions, while it detects' the
guilty, whoever they may be.

" The city of 'Paris enjoy's, the most perfect
tranquillity. The citizens have learnt, in the
same moment, "the existence of the plot and the
arrest of its authors."

Yesterday afternoOn the French .Ambassador
receked a Messenger from Calais, who brought
a Telegraphic Dispatch 'frOm Paris, confirming
the above details, and stating that the healtbsof
the KING was better than it has been.