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London, England, 1820-04-19 00:00:00

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PARIS, APRIL 16.—1 t is said that M. VILLBLLR
has been consulted on the new law of Elections.
I know no one more capable of framing one with
profound judgment. M. V. is a real Royalist :
his greatest mistor:une is, that he sniffers himself
to he deceived by appearances, and to associate
with :hose who arc only Royalists in name, i. e.
the Ultras ; for by their indiscrete Leal, and their
iidicolous pretensions, they disgrace the cause
they profess to serve—the happiness of trance is
not their wish, they only breathe vengeance and
tlory in the climes committed by their partizans.
7tr.Ler.t.a, on the contrary, is a philosopher,
that :0 perhaps he disdains the nem,: he really
‘eishes the happiness of his country, and is the
enemy of all initiguer and especially of all exag-
geration ; and no doubt his great talents would
have been employed lung ere this in the Ministry,
had he not the fatal weakness I have stated.
What the new law of Elections will Ise, we know
not ; the former was excellent, at least it svotild
have been so in England ; its only fault was, that
it lett open a door to intrigue. Its author,
M. Da CAW!, seems to have thought like SOLON,
who omitted to make a law against parricide, be-
cause he regarded the crime as impossible ; in like
manner M. Ds CAZII3, confiding in the so much
vaunted honneer Francuis, did not take the pre-
cautions necessary to prevent abuses and the eva-
sion of the law.

There seems to be a spirit abroad in mare king-
doms than one, not pet haps precisely to resist the
laws, but to evade them. Hence the Radical
Meetings in England, in which treason attempts
to put on the garb of legality ; and hence the
necessity in France of laws extremely severe to
tneet all possible cases, and of which the evil-
disposed complain so loudly. And why do they
complain ? Because they are the enemies of or-
der, and, like porpoises, only can spew :heir heads
in a storm.

The nov law on the liberty of the Press is
nearly rendered abortive, by the faculty it leaves of
publishing pamphlets. Had it submitted to the
Censure ail pamphlets tinder 10 sheets, it would
have done wisely ; as it is, political poison is dif-
fused with impunity throughout the social body.
Clue bookseller advertises, that he intends pub-
lishing 300 and odd pamphlets : he bas his news-
carriers and every thing ready, and means to pub-
lish one every evening. Is this,- I will ask, obe-
dience to the laws ? And can those who are lovers
of social order either tolerate or approve such
cunshict ? Certainly nor.

His MAJESTY Is better in health, and will
shortly be able to resume his drives.

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TUEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GA/IDE:.—The Antiquary: Jona-
than Oldbuck, Nlr. Liston • Miss Isabella Wardour, Miss
Stepheus. After which, Cure, Law, and Physic.

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THE SUN.

!MEM QUIS DICHRE rittsum AUDYAT ?

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1820.

We received this morning the Paris Papers of
Sunday last. The Chamber of Deputies pn Sa-
turday took another dose of Financial Accounts,
and again adjourned the Debate till Monday.
There is not a word of news in these Journals
from Spain. The following are Extracts :
" Pants, APRIL I6.—The King will receive
Ladies to-morrow. His Majesty transacted bu-
siness yesterday witb the Duke de Richelieu, and
M. Roy, the Minister of Finance. The King gave
a private audience to the Baron de Machau, Capi-
taine de Visisseau, on his return from a mission to
Senegal.

" It is believed that the Court will on the sth
June proceed to pais the summer at Saint Cloud
or Fontainebleau.

" Judicial prosecutions have been commenced
against the Editor of the Journal du Cher, and
those of several other ultra•libernl Journals pub-
lished in the Departments, who have inserted
the announcement of the subscription opened in
favour of those individuals who may be detained
by virtue of the law suspending individual liberty,
with the addition that subscriptions might be re•
ceived at their offices.

" The Lectures on Modern History, et the
e Duplenil, by M.Reoul Rochelle (one of

Cole

Ctilscri), hare been pror,8:0;1-a',1; 8u;I:en1led,
in consequence of the disorder caused by persons
going there and calling out a bay le censcur.

" It appears to be certain that Louvel will not
be again interrogated I►reviotss to his appearance
before the Chamber of Peers. The instruction
respecting him is terminated.

FIVE PER CENTS.

Saturday

.. 73 f. 80c.

DEPIIRRED SrocK.

Of the 22d March 1820. RB f. 25 c.

" VIRNNA, APRIL 5.-1( is snid that the de-
parture of the Emperor and Empress of Austria
for Bohemia is fixerl for the 22(1 May, and that
they will hsve an interview sit Prague with the
King of Prussia. The report that the two
Monarchs will proceed together to &jut Peters-
horgli, although in general circulation, wants

" BeaLIN, Aram 4.—lt is said that the ar-
rangernettt 4)f the Provincial States is tini,lied and
approved of, and that when it and tl.e ne►v Mu-
nicipal System ate carried into execution, the or-
ganization of the States-General will be com-
menced."

THE Qt:rArs.-7--The report of Ole speedy art ivEil
of THE QUSEN, which we mtntioned yesterday,
is, we find, still more strongly prevalent this
day, and is now combined with certain ru-
mours of consequent changes in Administration.
We are still incredulous as to the intention
of her MAJESTY to revisit this Count► y, au
are yet less inclined to give credit to any ru-
mours of Ministerial Changes. It is said that :he
QUEEN has appointed Mr. littovonAm her Attor-
ney-General, and has invested hint also wit b
some other authority, which she is understood
to have a right to delegate, but which has not
been sufficiently explained. In the certainty
of her' MAJESTY'S actual return, it is under
stood that some investigations will po•itive-
ly take place, which it was determined to avoid,
unless her own act and deed might render them
absolutely necessary on grounds of the utmost
importance.

The treatment which we understand that our
AMBASSADOR has received from the new Govern-
ment in Spain, has been of such a nature that we
should not be surprized to bear of his sudden re-
turn, even without the formality of taking leave
of the present Sovereign of that Country. •

Mr. HAMILTON, one of his MAJESTY'S Under
Secretaries of State for the Foreign Department,
left town on Saturday last for Bareges, as al-
leged on account of ill-health, but, as surmised,
on some Mission of importance, especially as the
place is so near to the frontiers of Spain; end as
no person, from abilities, experience, snd in-
tegrity, is more worthy of the confidence of Go•
vernment than this Gentleman.

We are reluctant to make any observations that
can have the slightest tendency to affect the case
of any of the Persons whose conduct at present is
under legal investigation, but it appears to be evi-
dent that there has been a chain of conspiracy
against the Government, emending through va-
rious parts of the country. Such facts have
transpired as seem fully to justify all that the late
Lotto MAYOR declared respecting an intention to
set fire totheMetropolis. The Public must recollect
the rancorous abuse and the low ribaldry with
which that worthy, active, and enlightened Ma-
gistrate was assailed on that account, and it is
not possible to say too much in praise of the arm-
ness, fortitude, and prudence which he manifested
on the occasion. Though attacked in so many
quarters by the malevolence of Party, nothing
could provoke him to make any revelations which
might put the Incendiaries on their guard. We
trust, therefore, that any of his deluded fellow-
citizens who have joined in the censure
which was so freely cast upon bin], will now
give credit to those intimations of impending
danger, by which that danger was happily
averted. For our part, we conceive that he is
entitled to the gratitude of the Country for
having by his activity discovered the danger, and
by his zeal, energy. and prudence averted it, and
preserved the Capital of the World from that de•
etructio❑ which would probably have spread
universal consternation over the Kingdom, and
brought on this happy Country ail the horrors
which attended that dreadful shock to the Govern-
ments of ali Statea, the French Revolution. France
has not recovered from the shock, and Spain seems
to be in imminent danger of speedily suffering un-
der the same horrors.

The existence of the best form of Government
that human wisdom ever devised, which may be
considered as the true character of the British
Constitution, is a matter o: too much importance
to the freest and happiest people on earth, to be
brought into hazard by any false lenity, which,
in fact. Ivoslld not only be iniuertce but ert;tl:v ru

the country. Thu c(cre, wi,fit:v?r
may appear to be attached to the character
of those who have been convisred of seditious
practices, no fest of p,irt y tnurtner• .►r parry via'
lence should prevent the infliction of exemplsl
punishment. The danger which we have escape't
by the vigilance of the Magistrates, the fide'
lity of the Military, and the timely enactment of
wise legislative measures, was of a very for'
midable nature. Yet, in spite of the salutsrf
Laws its question, certain incorrigible Demo'
gogues, some possessing rank and property thol
ought to have rendered them more cautious, hafe
attempted to disturb the Country, and have. beer
brought to legal conviction. A suitable degree
of punishment should, therefore', be inflict'
ed on them as an awful warning, and 014
higher their rank, and the more extol'
sive their property, they are the less entitled
to that lenity which might reasonably be swat'!'
ed to poor ignorant men, who have nothiog
to lose, and who might hope to rise to a► better
condition in a general scrsmble for spoil, amhilt
the loin of the Country.

The following is an Extract from the Liver'
pool Paper received this morning

" Downing-street, March 25.
" 5t11,-1 am directed by the Earl BaTitokof
to transmit to you a Copy of a Dispatch ‘shich brit
been this day remeived from Major-Gencral
LING respecting the appearance of a contagioo
disease at the Mauritius, and its existence Jib
board the merchant ship Bainlaidge, whid
brought that dispatch to this Country le
quest you will submit this matter to the initnedigill
consideration of his Niajes:y's Must fiunuratil°
Privy Council.
(Signed) HENRY GOULBUttS,

" The Clerk of the Council in Wnitins.

(COI'Y.) " LIVERPOuL,
"GOVEIINNIENT-tioUSH,MAORITIUS,
" Loau—l have written your Lordship very fully
this opportunity, the Bairitridge, which is proccednig
rectly to Liverpool, reporting for your Lordship's inforriiti‘l
the particulars of a disease which made its appearance
on the 19th last month, and has carried off a great noinb,f
of coloured population and some of the white inhabitants /f
I have now deemed it advisable Cu require of the Captain:
the Bainbridge to enter into bond not to have any ciunrool'':
cation with the shore after the arrival of the ship, fuvtl;of
than way be indispensably necessary to the delivery
a letter to the Collector of the Customs, which accoell
panics this (a. copy of which is herewith inclosed), “0";
the Collector shall have signified his assent, and
may probably occasion this letter reaching your Leirj‘
ship before any other dispatches transmitted by the lil;;
sent opportunity. Thu crew of the Bainbridge has soffoc'
very much, and three of Ler men have unfortunately did;
and though a voyage to Europe at this season of the year ar
pears to afford the best means of re-establishing the hcallf)
of the crew, and will, I trust, remove any apprehension all°
disorder being contagious, still I have thought it advisable Id
restrain the communication of the Bailiblidge with the shots'
(
until the proper Authorities shall have an opportunity
satisfying themselves that uu danger can he a;iprehetideil•
" RALPII DARLING, Majur•GeneFal.
" To.I be Earl Bathurst,"

MgETtNO OP PARLIAMENT.—It is UndCrate;1
that both /rouses of Parliament are expected
assemble on Friday next. Having met, the Co''',
mons will forthwith be
.sworn in, to the imnil.),o'
of forty at least, when the House will proceed fq
the election of a Speaker. Friday the Lords
also meet, and proceed to administer the oaths
usual at the commencement Of a New Parli,inrc"i,'
It is probable that on the following day (Sat"iti
day) ,the Royal Approbation will be annonn:',
to the Speaker of the Commons' House, ii
chosen, as customary, on the preceding d'°:
Nothing but routine business is expected ';1
Friday and Saturday. Butte Houses will,. in
probability, then adjourn from Saturday to Tde!;
clay, as 111onday is fixed for the celebrai int) of hi
MalasTY's Birth•day, the 23,1 of April,
George's day, happening to fall u;ion Sortd4i
next ; and on Isuesday, the 25th, his Ml.tesc
will proceed in state, to open the first Par 11•Inell
that has been convened in Iris reign.
Memni.a PservANED for OttarreY and ZUILAND S:11:1L,
John Balfour, Esq.
DUTY ON Hors.--An application by the .`...;0195ci,
Hop Planters has been lately sent to Governmell
respecting the Ditty on Hops, prayint.; for t+'' c%Ol
tension of the time of payment. The reply
r. LUSHINGToW is dated Treasury Chawbero
28th March, IS2O, stating, that the Duty %vole
th
he extended to the Ist Septener, provided tl,
Hops were lodged in pret»ises approved of by .",50
vernment, and under the joint lock of the
and of the Owners ; but where Government 11'r 'j
no security but the Poles on the Ground, one o'l,l
must be paid down, and the vo ers enter it'lli
secutiti4,s to pay one third on the lit of AOO5
and the remainder on the 20th September:
WesTstrterrart bt:ng
of Faster Term, the Loan CHANCS Fitleo'ol
at Lincoin's Inn Hall, at his usual time. Sh°r
alter, the VICE•CHANC,BLLOK and scVen Of to,
Judges, with the principal Counsel of the Clu'oit
eery and the Courts, waited on his, LordsVP-'
took breakfast. They then accompanied. ,c
Lordship in procession to opetz the Coorts
Westminster. The Chief Justices of the 11;:i'3r.,,ir
Bench and Common Pleas, with the Chief 13'soce
of the Exchequer, together with Mr. J.'"/ ;14
Ittcuaapsom, were not of the p cy, they
engaged ou the trials at the (lid tieiley.3itstiot
Courts broke up at art early hour.
firST sat early in the ntOrning itt the
Yestert-hy a French ccurier woieed at Ole
deuce of Comic CAKAMAN's, the French ,%+%
Affiires, Portbrod-place,
French Court.