The Sun.
London, England, 1818-04-29 00:00:00

PRIVATE AND AUTHENTIC CORRESPONDENCE.

PARIS, Aram 24.—One of my friends has just shewn me a
letter front Lyons, which I should have wished to have sent
you eat ire, hut I could not get him to consent to part with
it, yet it made too strong an impression on my wind for me
not to be 41)19 to give you the substance of it very correctly.
That part of the country is plunged nnew into all the ter:
rors which precede violent commotions, nothiug is heard of
but sinister projects, conspiracies, and attempts against Go-
vernment, the people become uneasy anti irritated, and a
fictitious danger creates a real one. On ascending to the
source of these alarming threats, it is discovered, that they
proceed from the same faction who had the guilty joy of
forging the conspiracy, in all its parts, of the sth of June last.
The same tactics are employed. Happily, however, Lyons
has now a good Prefect and a good Military Commandant.
But will tbey be always able to defeat the dreadful tnachioa-
,tions of men and secret societies, soi disant Royalists ? They
have to combat M. F. and M. 1). and the crowd of " datoned
souls" of which these men are the ringleaders. F1,41* is
weak, silly, and deceitful, but too far engaged with the Party
to be able to retrace 'his steps ; too short-sighted to perceive
the precipice down which he is about to be hurled ; and too
cowardly to avow that he was wrong on the Sth June ; and
he therefore endeavours to create a conspiracy, to prove that
which be neither would nor could prevent. This man takes
advice of all .the worthless wretches who hare long beeu the
hatred and contempt of the Lyonese, because they had been
the guilty actors in all the scenes of disorder and anarchy.
D*** is far more formidable than F—, born for Revo-
lutions, an impostor and arrant. knave, active and enter-
prizing, capable of any thing to securethe success of his Party.
Inflexible in his designs, he pursues them with a persever-
ance proof against every thing; inaccessible to the charms
of money, disdaining favours, devoid of fear, he looks for
no other recompense than that of seeing his Faction triumph,
of which be is one of the chief supporters.—Such were the
destestable monsters who figured in the Convention, the
more dangerous, because they escaped every species of seduc-
tion, and that their only aim was to found their atrocious
system.

These are the principal persons that the Prefect and the
Military Commandant hare to dread. The Government can-
not be ignorant of it, for the well intentioned Lyoncse, to

Our knowledge, neglect no means of enlightening it. But
hitherto, I lament to say that it resembles those Gods of
gold, stone, and ivood, before whous victims were slaughtered
withant their hearing their Plaint.

This, Sir, is but an abridgment of the letter to my friend,
of the accuracy and truth of which the names of the Parties,
were I permitted to give them, would appear a sufficient gua-
rantee, and this sketch, short as it is, will prove to you how
far I was right, when I told you, that by its weakness and
tardiness, the Ministry hastened to its ruin. It may yet
awake from its slumber and act with effect, but the moments

are preciftus, acid accasio post calm eat.
The proxi ::ate publication of a Pamphlet is announced,
under the title.of " On the Necessity of the New Ordonnanee
of the sth September; for the Use of the Departments."—
A friend who has read part of the manuscript informs me,that

[t is remarbablestrung, and that it demonstrates, irrefragildy,
hat the fall of the INlinistry is inevitable, unless it removes

from their places those men who persist in governing without
it, and against it.' The Author endeavours to prove that Se-
cret Societies have greater influence than evbr ; th.At they are
in possession of almost all the threads of the Administration;
that the National Guard of the Departments, organized by
their Cures, is in their interests ; that they promise impunity
to all crir.Ol:,;,=, of whatever dye, who will wilted with them,
and ne cife3,' amcmgst others, the parricide ..-Ittyi't-071 and the

' ..issfusins i'i'holez. He affirms that they have succeeded by
their iiltrigues to inspire the witnesses with terror, who have
given their depositions in this affair, which is the reason that
the authors of this atrocious crime still breath. According to
hint, the Ultras of Lyons, Nismes, Marseilles, Toulouse, and
the other principal cities of the South, prepare, with the as-
sistance of the Jacobins, new disturbance's, of which the latter
are destined to he- ultimately the victims, To secure the
success of their abominable project, adds the author, they
employ, with the officers of Government, sometimes promises,
and sometimes threats, and by these means succeed in closing
their lips.
There appears much exaggeration in the pamphlet, but I
cannot refrain from noticing three facts which are known to
every one, and which support in a remarkable manner sever
ral of the asserti:gis of the author
I. Aurillon asserted in open Court on his trial, that he was
only persecuted in order to strike, in his person, Cannel,
Chabriol„ D4sute, and all the Royalists who fig,:red in the af-
fair of Lyons ; that their cause was his. It is a fact that the
mass of the Ultras at Nismes declared in his favour, and
powerfully, contributed to get him acquitted.
11. It is the common opinion at Lyons (and, we may add,
at Paris), amongst the Ultras, that M. Feraldes only suffered
the death he merited, as he Was a Buonapartist ; and there are

persons who do not blush to publicly express their hopes
that Bastide, Jausion, And Co. may escape; so that if the
executioner executed the law upon them, I should not be
surprised to see these " friends of the altar and the throne,"
place the names of the assassins in the Legend amongst the
Martyrs. •

111. There appeared a few days since, in a Paris raper, an
article, in which it was endeavoured to prove, that Bastide is
innocence itself, and I have acquired the certitude that this
eery article was inserted at the request of a man who belongs
to the foci ion of the Ultras.

This reminds us of what passed 4 Rome and at Constan•

tinople, during the reign of the Emperors, when the citizens
were divided into two factions, distinguished by the•names of
the Blurs and the Greens.

M. Sainerille, the Ex-Commissary of Police at Lyons, has
put his Work to press. The edition will he, I am told, of
6000 copies. Will he tell the whole truth? Will all he says
he true ? This is what time will reveal; but one thing is
certain, and that is, that his work will he read with such avi-
dity, that we should nut he surprised to learn, that the whole
of the 6000 copies are cold in as many days.

[We are obliied to defer the Sacond Letter till to-triorrowl

SHIP NEWS.

DEAL, APRIL 28.—Arrived, and sailed for the
River, the Paragon, MILLER, from Cincotta;
Contest, LANGDON, from ditto; General Wash-
ZHACOCK, from Virginia.—Came clown
from the River, and sailed, the Emerald, GARD-
NER, for. the South Seas ; Oporto, COVEY, for
Oporto ; and the Curlew sloop of war, for the
East Indies. . Also arrived ten sail of Spanish
transports, haviDg on board the Officers and.
crews of the Russian Squadron lately purchased
by the Spanish Government. They are on -their
return home.

PORTStIOLITII, APRIL 28.—Passed by for Lon-
don the Moffatt, LEE, from India i site landed
passengers

LIVERPOOL, APRIL 27.—The Hindostan, STEW
ART, from this port for,CAlcutta, was spoken with
on the 21st Jdn. in lat. 3. N.

COWES, APRIL 28.—Sailed (Ile Barossa trans-
port, with troops trorn Albany Barracks, for
Halifax.

HULL, APRIL 27.—1 t appears that the crew
of one of the vessels (the Providence), which
were lost on Fritiay morning, were saved, and the
Captain has arrived bete: the cargo is totally
lost, but a part of the wreck is saved. There is
a letter from the coast, which says that the
Unity, LocKwoop, at Ipswich, was lost about
six miles to the Southward of the Humber, on
Friday morning, and all bands were lost.