The Sun.
London, England, 1820-11-23 00:00:00

HORRID MURDER.

GENEVA, No v. 4.—A double assassination, the
details of which seem to furnish the counterpart
to that of the unfortunate Fualdes, was com-
mitted on the Ist instant, in the suburbs of this
city, on the person of M. Corboz and his servant.
Those two victims were found horribly mutilated
in the house which they occupied at Plain
Palais. It would appear that a long and hard
struggle had precedA the perpetration of the
crime ; but the murderers have not left behind them
the least trace that can lead to discovery. It hap-
pened, however, that the same night the murder
was committed, tWo young men, who were re-
turning from shooting, alarmed a man who was
carrying a porter's hod, and as he saw them, he
threw the contents into a ditch. A little farther
off they met another man- similarly burdened.
On the following day they learned that five
men had crossed the lake, carrying With them a
quantity of effects;' and leaving behind a trunk
at a public-house. The police immediately
searched the ditch and found s,,,,veral 'things be-
longing to AL Corboz, and among them some
bloody. linen. The trunk, also, was filled with
things stolen after the murder. Some days after-
wards, a well-dressed man, who was travelling
with a dealer in Wipe, ordered , the coachman
who drove them to call for' the trunk at the hmise
wheie it had been left: The wine-mT,hant,
who had prei,iously noticed that the hands
and face of the prisoner were much scratched,
now suspected him of being` one of the murderers,
and Lad him arrested. This was not done with-
out great difficulty. The assassin, who is named
Machon, is a powerful man, and it was not un-
til after a long personal conflict between hint
and a French gendarme 'that he was' secured,
and lodged in prison at Gex. Since that time,
Madam 8., who belongs .to a family-of ra,dc in
the neighbourhood, has been arrested as an ac-
complice, and she has promised to reveal ev.ry
thing upon condition of her life being sparel. A
professor of Italian, who is also suspected, I:as
lied. Six men and two women, besides Machon
and Madam B. have been arrested. Machon is the
captain of a banditti called " the Black Band."
Thegendarme who secured him was carried in
triumph upon the shoulders of the populace to
the town-hall at Geneva, where he was publicly
thanked by the magistrates, and rewarded with
50 Napoleons (111. 13s. 4d.)

CONCEALED Ronnta-v.—lt will be recollected
that information was some time since received
at Marlborough-street, of a, robbery in the hoiAse
of Lord William Fitzroy, when his Lordship's
dressing-case, containing W. in money, with Va-
luable trinkets, as stolen in rather a mysterious
way. The property, hoWever, has been recovered
by means as`_extraordinary. ,The account is,
that a countryman, in the employ of Mr. Frog-
get, a farmer at Paddington, had repaired to a
certain bush in a field, after his day's labour, for
the purpose of hiding his pitchfork and shovel
till the following day, as was customary with
him, when, in doing so, he turned up a dressing-
case, carefully tied up itt a handkerchief, and
wrapped in brown paper, which he hailed as
a fortunate hit. Thinking all was perfectly fair,
the labourer took the parCel to a Gentlenratt.
in Chancery-lane, to whom also he recounted
the circumstances of the discovery. It was ascer-
tained, from the heraldic insignia, that the pro-
perty in question was no other than that stolen
from Lord William Fitzroy, which circumstance
was notified to him. Mystery still enveloped this
affair. In the meantime, the countryman will be-
examined, and some clue remains for the detec-
tion of the thief.
Wm. Dottsur FELLOWS, Esq. Secretary to the
Great Chatnberlain of Envland, who is on a visit
to Lord TORRINGTON, at Zotes Conrt,.met with
a seriotr, accident on Sunday last, from itt severe
kick of his own which, it is apprehended,
Will occasion him a long confinement.
The romantic melo-drama of The .Vampire has
has been got up in great style by DOWTON at the
Maidstone Theatre, and with so much success
that it is announced for performar.te eve! y evening.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

[DAILY EXTRACTS FROM -7114 E MORNING_ PAPERS.)

[Horning Post.]
- The. K held a Council yesterday, when the
Speech with which Parliament is this day to be prorogued by
Commission was tam into consideration, and received the
app; ohation of his ;Majesty. The next Session will commence
rn t fig. .0,1 of Jarmare, when .
the subject of the income ne-
et,,sarY to be granted to the Queen, under the circumstance
tet her judicially pronounced degraded state, will be imine-
ireately entered upein, Will then her present income will he
cos sinned. We have appropriated so great a portion of our
col.;,uns this day to the forcible sentiments of our. Corre-
sPw,dents, that we deem nothing more necessal y at present
that, to add a sample of the opinions which foreiviers (in
coainom with ourselves) entertain of the factious " triumph,"
andaCiernsly called; which now disgraces this once mo-
- r..l atol loyal country;—" The offences of the Queen of Eng-
land (pays one of the Parisian Joiernaists) have been
Li!e3 in all their notorious salemnity ; her guilt, established
.upon prOofs unhameilytoo convincing, has been acknowledged
lee the majority 01 the Peers, only •to obtain a more complete
ti lump!) over reli, ion, morality, and human ju-stia-. Rejoice,
inhabitants of London ! let your city blaze with illumina-
limes ! fill the air with shouts of triumph! You have now
-proved to Europe, hat in your country social corruption has
been sustained by numerical force and popular power ; you
• have taught your wives and daughters that:-lewdness is not
criminal in your eyes ; you have shewn to the human passions,
that in your community, morality and_ justice have no longer
the support of public opinion and liberty."—" It may not he
amiss to observe," concludes this sensible writer, " that the
abandonment of the Bill was partly owing tothe systematic op-
position wh,eli arrayed itself under the name of the interests of
Moralitv,against the inistry,for having entered upon thiStrial.
The Queen is guilty, said the Members of this Opposition ;
but Ministers do wrong to try her,. therefore eve- will vote
against the Bill.' Thus, for the interests of morality, you
pronounce for the impunity of a crime which yott.acknow-
ledge."—li may not. be unnecessary. briefly to observe the
Striking contrast- presented by the Whigs on this occasion to
their conduct when in office.- 10 a Report then made by them
on the conduct of our present virtuous Queen, they Pro-
nounced her 0)111,70911:etc Majesty guilty of gross impro-
prieties, not. only without. having heard her defence, but
without leaving even informed her of what were the crimes
laid to her charge ; whereas they now hesitate. to pronounce
against her, although after an open, solemn, and impartial
trial, she has been convicted of the heinous charges brought
against her, even by the evidence of her own witnesses!—
. With respect to ourselves, the Public will recollect, that on
the contrary, when fourteen years ago a charge of child-birth
was brought against her, we strenuniistrilefended her, be-
cause we were perSuaded the allegation_ was unfounded ;—on
the present occasion, our conduct bas•necessarily been widely
different, because we have all along been- possessed of the
most damning proofs of her guilt. Our Readers will pardon
us for this brief observation with respect to ourselves, which,
we assure them, nothing but the illiberal allusions of some'of
.out contemporaries could have induced us,ti, offer.

[Morning Chronicle.] .. . .
We understand that Mr. Brougham, as her Majesty's At-
torney-General, has given regular notice to the Lord Chan-
cellor and Lord Castlereagh, that the Queen means to-send
down a Message to both Houses of Parliament this day. It
cannot be imagined that, after such intimation, any attempt
v.ill be made to evade discussion on the Message by the read-
ing of the- CoMmission to Prorogue the Parliament; nor
Would it, indeed, be consistent with the duty which they owe
to the Crown to proceed to the measure of a Prorogation
until a suitable provision shall be made for the establishment
art lier Majesty as Queen Consort. The_coostitutional course
of jroeeeding would he by a Message from the Crown, calling.
on them., before they separate, to make such provision, and
which, we trust, his Majesty's Ministers will have the pru-
dence to advise.
The important case of Sir Francis Burdett came on yes-
terday. Mr. Blackburtie resumed his address, aced he was
followed by Mr. Evans. The Court took time to advise be-
fore coining to a decision. Sir Francis has•so completely es-
tab!isbed his right to a new trial, that we confess we are
under little uneasiness with respect to the decision of the
Court. The only case which favoars the monstrous doctrine
that publication is not essential to libel, is that of the King
against Beare: and the only thing with the semblance of ar-
gument which has now been urged in support Of it is, that Lord
Chief Justice Holt, -to Whom we are indebted for it, was a
zealous friend to liberty. Without entering on the charac-
ter of Lord Holt, we may observe, that if his doctrine were
to he, a law, the condition of Englishmen would really be as
pitiable as that of the Spaniards muter their late Inquisition.
It. would at once give rise to a system of espionage and em-
bezzlement, aganist.which no mats could consider himself safe.
Even if the Government of the Country should disdain to
have recourse to unfair meat,' to coin persons who were dis-
agreeable to them, there are those who might be less sem-
pohius. The Society fdr the Suppiession of Vice, for instance,
has been more than once accused of displaring a good deal of
what the author of the Night thoieghts calls
The carst ungodliness of zeal ;"

and with occasionally "
interfering ,sontewhat more with the
private ciincerns of individuals than is consistent: wit fa pro-
pi iet y. Such a Society, not content With the success of their
efforts against- published on the principle of de-
stroying the fruit id the hod, and, judging that the end
justifies the means, might perhaps exert themselves to get
hold of such poison as is concealed in private reinisitaries.
We are swished, however. that the Judges will never declare
this to be law. The manner in which the merits of Lord
Holt, as a friend to liberty, have been dwelt on, has, we
know, given rise to apprehension 4 but we consider this merely
in the light of a generous endeavour to prevent conclusions
injurious to the memory of that Judge, (runt being drawn
from the tyrannical doctrine to which he gave his sanction.
The manly spirit which has been displayed by the Bar on this
occasion, is above all praise. Mr. Bliwkhitrne and Mr.
Evans are reported to have commented with great severity
on the manner in which Mr. Justice Best sunamed up the
evidence. The (ureter indignantly exclaimed—" Is this the
conduct of a Judge ? It is • his duty to protect and see that
no advantage is taken of a defendant, instead of perverting
facts, and putting the very worst construction that any trans
action will admit of." It gave us great pleasure to hear, that
this Judge, who lately displayed such sensibility to the abuse
of the Bur, did not allow himself to he in the least ruffled in
his own case, and even declared to M. Blackburne, " you
have not said any thing to offend ine." Whatever may be
thought of the conduct of this Judge, there can he now but
one "pinion with respect to the Bar—and that is, it no longer
requires the protection of the. Bench from the attacks of ca-
lumny. Never'disl its independence shine forth with more
Lustre than of late ; and so long as it contains men who have
the heart to tread in the steps of a Donning and an Erskine,
it may securely bid defiance- to all' the shafts of calumny.—

[Nem Times.] •
A very foolish and vulgar error exists, that the voluntary
attendance of the Queen at St. Paul's, is like the formal and
authoritative procession of the King, thither, to offer up a
public thanksgiving for any national blessing.' The Queen
has no sort of right or authority whatever to direct or order
any kind of ceremony, touch less any variation its the proper,
Church Service of the day. Nay, any clergvinan would he
punishable by the. law of the. land, who, on pretence of any
dirt (ruin her, should at all add to r diminish the coct..
mon ordinary Service of the day prescribed by the Rubric. The
King, as Head of the Church and State, has lawful power
and authority to order all these things,' with the advice of
his Council. The Qaren nrav certainly go to. St. Paul's-
- as any private individual may gd thither, to take part
in the appointed devotions of the day, avid as Wednesday is
by the rules of the Church a day of fasting and •humiliation,
it may be very proper that, in her'Majesty's.present unhappy
condition sine should choose that day fur her attendance on
public worship. Her Vice-Chamberlain, who'probahly knows
but little of Ecclesiastical matters, talks of her going "
to
returns thanks for her late deliverance from her enemies."
For such a purpose Wednesday would rather he wild day;
but the more important remark is, that neither on -Wednes-
day nor any other day can she be indulged with any set
form of thanksgiving. Any private person mar, to be
tre., at any ,time, offer up praise's and thank-sgivings
to 'tine Almighty in the mode prescribed by the Corn-
s:non Prayer Book, and the Qttever can do no more.. ,
to introducing a political controversy• into the Prayer's nf the
Church,- it cannot for a moment hr. tolerated either in the
Queen, or in an other person. Two important questions'
etew, one affecting principally the Queen, the other the In-
babitaats of t.re Metropolis. • It is for her Majesty's solemn-
emisciint ions reflection whether her motive for thus resorting
to St Punt's ,is purely and sincerely religious. Let her not
deceive herself. She cannot deceive the People of England:
•er condrief and her language is before thins. It is sworn
(Evidence, p. 805) that her Miijesty has gone to Roman CM
tholic Churches wills her Courier Bergaari, and has there
/alien on her knees ,by his sides, and that she has declared

she intended to hare Masses said. for the soul of Bergami's
father. This was in Italy. Since she• has been in England she
has had a professed Unitarian to act as her Chaplain. In the'
answers which she has given to Addresses, she has most scan-
dalously, falsely, and wickedly reviled the whole Clergy of the
Church of England,- and professed her dissatisfaction at its
doctrines—and yet she now proposes to resort to that Church,
to join in its devotions, and to submit herself humbly and re
verently'to its-Ministers. Is this sincerity or is it hypocrisy ?
If the latter, a more odious piece of wickedness, or one More
caletilated to shock every serionsChristian, cannot well be de-
vised. Be the Queen blameable or not, it is certain that the
Peace of the City, and the Property and Lives of the Citizens
will be-placed in imminent hazard, by " that assemblage of
vast- numbers of persons," which her Vice-Chamberlain
himself thinks will be collected. The fact doubtless is, that
the persons who have given the Queen this pernicious
advice, mean and intend to intimidate the Citizens by the
power of a mob. They act• on the same principle that
Hunt acted upon in collecting his mobs, and when we are
told thatthe common City Police is sufficient to pre-serve
the Peace, we beg to ask, how the peace of the.Ctty was pre-
served by Mr. Alderman Wood at the time of the Spa-fields
Riots.? Mr, A:dermal, Thorp's Mayoralty has already been
disgraced by shameful outrages;. he thought fit to sanction an
illumination, and be now thinks fit to sanction a procession.
Let bins beware of the consequences. The respe..table inha-
bitants will do well to pi otest formally against this measure s.
and then if he still perseveres,-and the peace shonl4 be yin-
hated, the Court of King's liench will teach bins his duty by
the process of Criminal InforMation.

[The Times.]
We learn, with extreme regret, that the wicked and illegal
exclusion: of her Majesty's name'- from the Liturgy, which
has been the occasion of so lowering the dignity of the
throne, and exposing the person who sits on it to so much
obloquy, appears now likely to produce, if possible, a worse
effect upon our National Church. We hear of something like
a determination to make a secession from the purest and
most excellent form of worship established in this kingdom,
till the wrong dune, not less to the Liturgy itself than' to ,
her whose name has been excluded front it, is redressed. To
what length do Ministers mean to carry on this persecution,
and what perilousconseentences may we not apprehend
from whatls called re-action ? The Bishop of London preach-
ed a sermon, on. Sunday last, for the benefit of the Padding-
ton sehmil charity! and we leant that adisapprobation' of
his Lordship's :cootict was marked by the circumstance of
several of the congregation quitting the Church before the
sermon commenced. This proceeding, however we may
blame it, is still only a personal slight ; but none eJti .con-
template the injury which will be operated on the morals of
the Nation at large, should any considerable portion absent
themselves, through disgust, at this important crisis, from
their Parish Churches, aml turn aside to sectarian worship.—
Our venerable' Eitablisliment may be shaken to the centre ;
and such-a itt!schieftis,-We hear, loudly threatened. We feel
more than- we,can express at the part which the Bishopi have
taken In the bite unhappy inquiry; and really are not less
ashamed at the manner in which their Loreships sustained
their opinions, than dissatisfied with the sinister choice which
they made of them ;
.but we are still in.hopes that the Paro-
chial C'ergy will, by their general character,retain their flocks
at home, and keep them from wandering into other folds.—
A
respectable Clergyman of the Church of England proposes
as a substitute for the Malignant omission of the Queen's
name in the Liturgy, that the Clergy call upon their congre-
gations to pray for her in the shirt address which precedes
the sermon. What we sincerely pray and hope for, is the re-
stitution of her Majesty's name to its proper place, as the first
step towards healing the divisions which exist in both Church
and State.
It is expected that some short conflict 'will take place to-
day; before the prorOgation of Parliament; hut whether that
to,,fliet may be oratorical or physicalwhether of lungs or of
legs—we know not. We summon attention, however, to the
following Nets :—that, after the House of Lot ds has been oc-
cupied since, June last7i.n the examination of the-conspiracy
against the Queen, the consideration of that affair is to be
suddenly snatched away from the Commons by the intervention
of the Black Rod;. the Lower House is not to be softened to
speak on the subject—and that afier the House had, like an
importunate-creditor, been sundry times dismissed unsatisfied—
he amount of the debt not being ready—and directed to call
again; The new train of f,pepitions against her Majesty must
not be impeded or interrupted till they have tilitain,tl consist-
ency, a junction of the now scattered parts of the old plot hav-
ing been uticet.etl. yt he: her the friends of her Majesty will
obtain time to throw in a few words in her defence, we
knOw not ; the attempt will no doubt be made. Nut what
a fearful potency there must, be in her cause, which must
thus be kept in abeyance and thrust off, till force is gathered
to resist it ! fulfilling the engagement—to seek
'only for trpth;;. and by no means to endeavour to op-
press the Queen by, power, or to elude her by chicane !--
'flee genctari'irpinion''. now is, that Mr. Calming will
ynit the'Mitilsters. Whatever of uncertainty there may be
in this affair we trust is' ill out knowledge, and not in that
Gentleman's coot se of action; for the motives cannot be
nearly connterbalanced where there is all the difference in
the result of the choice that exists between honour and its op-
posite. The Country never can forget--neither, we hope,
will Mr. Canning wish to forget it—the important service
which he rendered to IlveQueen, by-declaring her, front his
knowledge, the " life, grace, and ornament of polished so-
ciety."—lf we may subjoin any notice of foreign concerns,
which at other limes would be important enough, we should
mention that the piorogat ion speech will probably make some
allusion to foreign affairs Ministers having received a mes-
senger front Tronpatt, the new seat of Congress, within the
last 36 hours.—(Thiii.)

[The Public Ledger.]
The following is an extract of a letter from Corfu •--rr We
have now here Nlaignols, who has been for some time one of
the agents of Ali, and who is now in the service of the suc-
cessor of the Pacha. It appears that he is employed to-treat
with the Commissariat of the English to obtain n►unitio,ts of
war. This agent has confirmed all the details published re-
garding Ali. The fortress in which he is shut up is guarded
on all sides, and is. bombarded night- and day. Sonic sol-
diers who have escaped from it, have mentioned, that it is
the firm resolution of Ali to blow it up, by firing the maga-
zines."

Two liamburgh Mails hare arrived with Papers to the
16th inst. There had been a consultation between the Swe-
dish Government and the Merchants of Stockholni, as to the
cause of the unfaeoutible state of the exchange with Ham-
burgh—An article from Odessa speaks of a tumult having
occurred at Constantinople on the Ilth nit. The Report of
the Committee of the Gcirmanic Diet, as to the army of the
General Confederation, has been published. In time of peace
it is ;opposed that it shall consist of an efficient force of
98,510 niets, and, in war, of one hundredth•part of the effec-
tive male population of the different -States ; with a reserve,
Consisting, of a two hundredth part.—(lbid.)

[Boiash Press.]
'This day both Houses of Parliatuent meet, its pursua-nce of
the terms of their respective adjournments, hut it is as cer-
tainly resolved by the Ministers that neither House shall be
permitted to enter upon the diseussitur of public 'affairs.—
Some Member, indeed, stay ask a question' respecting the
refusal of a Palace to t he Queen—respecting the extent of the
establishment which will be proposed to Parliament fur her
accommodfAion—respecting the nature of the note presented
by Lord Stewart to the Sovereigns at Troppau—respecting
the causes and object of assembling a large British squadron
in the Bay of Naples—respecting the state of our relations
with our old ally the King of Portugal, or many other points
of foreign or domestic concei ti, which at this moment ob-
viously requite the immediate interference- of Parliament ;
hut no time will he granted for receiving an answer even to
any one of these gnat ions, for the Black Rod brooks no de-
lay, and, itcappea,ance alone would, .with provoking indif-
ference, cut short the most interesting detail of fact;, or the
finest flourish of oratory. It is a very unusual circumstance
for the Ministersof the Crown to evince any disti ust of Par-
liament, or an unwillit guess to confide matters to the wisdom
of assemblies which have hitherto in so many instances.re-
paid the confidence of the Government with interest. Certain
it is that in the House of Lords the discussion of the Queen's
case made sad havoc among parties. The Ministers on that
occasion experienced something of the vieissit Odes that attend
political friendships, and saw many of their stoutest adhe-
rents turn upon them in the day of trial. In the House of
Commons they failed altogether in their endeavonrs to obtain
the sanction of a majwitytotheir ,turictutstitutional proceed-
ings.. They think it fearfully probable, f hat in a struggle be-
tween the honour of the Royal Family and their own personal
influence, the House of Commons may again torts against
them, and theta what will become of their places ? Parliament
therefore insist be, prorogued. A few months might enable
the Ministers to'veernit their forces, to overcome the stub."
born lnyaltylhat is still to be found in the Legislative assem-
hfiest and possibly when the evil day can no loitger, he staved
efr, when' Parliament aunt once more be brought together,
onoch of the new-horn spirit of opprisition may have evapo-
rated, or have yielded to such instances as have too frequent I y
triumphed over poor human virtue.e-i-The House of Lords will
meet at two o'clock. The Speech wilt be delivered by Com-

micsion.
The Inhabitant Householders sithe Borough of Southwark

assembled yesterday in their Town Hall, to express their sen_
timents upon the .proceedings a;:ainst the Queen, and tttsir
opinion generally upon the- conduct of his Majesty's Minis-
ters. It was resolved without opposition, that an Address
should he presented to the Queen, congratulating her Ma-
jesty upon her triumph ; and a Petition was p►epared to the
House of Commons, praying foV an inquiry into the conduct
of the Ministers. It was ►ngeniously contrived fo stuff Par-
liamentary Reform into the Pe:i t ion, this subject having about
as much connexion with the proceedings against the Queen,
as it would have with a voyage of discovery to the North Pole.
To agitate the question of Parliamentary Reform at the pre-
sent moment, and to couple it thus with the Queen's case, is
singularly ungraciOus ; it implies disapprobation of the con
duct of the House of Commons with reference fo this particu-
lar snhject, while in fact it merits the applause of every one
who professes to be an enemy to the late proceedings. Al-
derman Wood alluded to the arrival of several witnesses on
behalf of the Queen, who, had they reached town previous to
the close of the defence, would have established beyond a
doubt the existence of the conspiracy against the honour and
dia:nity of her Majesty. We trust that their good servi-es
will not be lost ; the questions of the conspiracy is still open,
and ❑►ust be probed to the boiloin.—,./fritl.)

[Morning Herald.] ,
Parliament meets this day, and will, it is understood, be
prorogued for two months, then to meet fur the dispatch of
business. There is hut one point—of the deepest import-
ance at this moment—upon which it is to be hoped Ministers
will give some explanation—the foreign relations,and policy
of the country. The Naval armament in the Bay of Naples
is considered by some a decided demonstration in favour of
the Austrian movements. But we will not credit, without
stronger grounds, that they have rashly taken a course which
would fill the public mind with, consternation.
Some of the Paris Papers have the effrontery to attribute
the depression of the Government paper to the suppression of
the Monks! (these industrious and valuable members of the
community) and to the application of the dormant, or rather
abstracted, wealth of the convents to liquidate the just claims
of the public creditor upon the State !! This will not prevail
—the Inquisition will never. revive, however ardent the wishes
of the Spanish bigots and -Parisian Ultras. English readers
have not, perhaps, in general any idea of what the French
Ultra-Royalist Writers really are. -What will be their sur-
prise, or rather disgust, when they learn that these cla-
mourers for the iron fanaticisM of Louis XIV. and the hor-
rors of the Holy Inquisition., are for the most part cast off
instruments of thelitionapartean despotism,—men notorious-
ly infidel in their principles and profligate in their lives, sonic
of whom are renegade priests, who made their court to the
Revolution by avowed atheism and studiously unveiled con-
cnhinage, and again made their peace with the return of so-
cial .decornm, by flinging the- cloak of marriage over them-
selves and their accomplices in debauchery—Such are many
of the men who so. piteously complain in the Paris Journals,
that all religion and piety are banished from Spain, because
the late Revolotion—because " the tiger-ass," as a celebrated
man has called bigotry,'' has bad its teeth all drawn, and its
claws drawn off to the very quick," by the late Spanish Re-
, volution.—(ltid.)