The Sun.
London, England, 1820-08-30 00:00:00

PARIS PAPERS.

PARIS", AUG. 26.—Yesterday being the Festi-
val of St. Louis, the King received the Ambas-
sadors and Foreign Ministers, the Grand Digni-
taries, the Ministers, the Marshals, a number of
Peers and Deputies, Deputations s from the
Twelve Mayoralties of Paris, &c. &c.—The
Keeper of the Seals, who arrived' at Paris on
Thursday evening, also paid his respects to his
Majesty. The sports in, the Champs Elysees
commenced at three o'clock. There were bril-
liant illuminations and fire-works in the evening,
and all the Theatres were opened' gratis.
The Chamber of Peers, formed into a Court of
Justice, is to meet this day. They will in the
first instance hear the Procureur du Rol.

The King yesterday morning, supporting him-
self on one of the officers of his household, pro-
ceeded into the Salle de Gardes, called Salle du
Roi. " You see," said his Majesty to the offi-
cers who were there, " that I am very well. I
do not walk much—but I, do walk. My friends,
I am much pleased to see you."
One of the JOurnals has stated by mistake the
arrest of a superior officer of the Royal Guards;
it is not a Major, but an Adjutant-Major, who
was conveyed on Wednesday to the Concier-
genie, charged with being concerned in the con-
spiracy.
NAMES, AUG. 3.—The deputation from Pa-
lermo, after remaining some time at Procida,
waiting the orders of the Duke of Calabria, have
been permitted to proceed to the capital ; but
his Royal Highness has signified that he will not
give them an audience until Palermo submits to
the Royal Authority. In consequence of this
determination, a part of the deputation has re-
turned to Palermo.

The telegraph announced yesterday the arrival
at Messina of Generals D. Florestan Pepe, and
Fardella.

The letters from Catana, and the Journals of
Messina, state, that about 250 men, in garrison
at Syracuse, having deserted with arms and bag-
gage, they with others, malihm up 400, marched
upon Catana, which.had only a garrison of 40
men. The Commandant-General of the Pro-
vince, however, with the few, troops he could
muster, and a number of inhabitants, marched to
meet them on the river Fin-lett°, about eight miles
from Catana. A combat ensued, the result of
which was, that 20 of the deserters were killed
or wounded, and 200 taken prisoners the remain-
der were dispersed.
The Neapolitan soldiers at Palermo were still
detained prisoners.
VIENNA, AUG. 14.—The Emperor of Russia
will arrive here the first week in September.

We read.in some of the Papers, that among
the admirer: of her Majesty's conduct, and the
assertors of her innocence, " are elegantly
dressed females, who wave their handkerchiefs
as she passes along," &c. There is evidently,
however, a designed exaggeration in these de-
scriptions. We suppose there is not a person in
the Empire who really thinks, and very few who
would have the hardihood to assert (the Queen's
fired scribes always excepted), that the whole
series of charges against her Majesty, from first
to last, with all their attendant circumstances,
are mere fictions. Let it then only be imagined
that any one of the imputed acts should be
proved beyond the power of her Counsel to dis-
prove, for to that issue it must come at last. It
may suit the factious purposes of the moment to
rail at the witnesses—to calumniate their charac-
ter—to insinuate that they are bribed, perjured,
and every thing that is infamous : these things
may do very well as temporary expedients on the
part of the hired ,scribes, and to answer obvious
ends out of doors ; but in the House of Lords—
in the sober judgment of the present age—and
the dispassionate decision of after-times--the
question will be simply this : " here are certain
facts, s*orn to by certain witnesses : can it be
shewn that the alleged facts never took place ?
If not, they must be believed." It should be
observed, that the charges are produced in, no
obscure, indefinite 'banner, either as to time or
place ; they may, therefore, be rebutted, if they
can be rebutted, distinctly and unequivocally. If
this should not be done, how worthily the " ele-
gantly dressed ladies " will have bestowed their
approbation! Under all' circumstances, indeed,
considering the nature of the charges, and the
whole character of the inquiry, we cannot help
thinking it a transaction in which it must be for
the credit and the advantage, of modest and vir-
tuous females not to interfere.

[Morning Chronicle.]

The proceedings in the House of Lords yes-
terday can hardly fail to surprise most of our
Readers. The Earls of Liverpool and Harrow-
by took one side, and the Lord Chancellor ano-
ther ; and on a division the. Lord Chancellor was
left in a minority. Thus justice, and the power-
ful eloquence of Messrs. Brougham and Denman,
Lave triumphed over the law of the Lord Chan-
cellor. This determination allows her Majesty
the privilege of a second cross-examination, after
' the necessary information for doing so with any
effect is obtained. It does not by any means place
her in the same situation as she would be in, had
a list of witnesses been furnished her at the out-
set ; for evidence which a cross-examination may
chew to be worth, nothing, is allotved in the
mean time to produce its effect on the public
mind. But though an impression may thus be
produced of.incalculable injury, to her Majesty,
still the truth, however late, may at last be eli-
cited, while a cross-examination, without the re-
quisite information, would in many cases be of
no use . whatever:—Lord Erskine afterwards
moved, that a list of witnesses be yet furnished
to her Majesty; but this motion was negatived
by a large majority. ,The public ought always
to bear in mind, that by' this refusal of a list of
witnesses, a harsh measure of justice has been
dealt out to her Majesty, that the election which
she is at last allowed is merely a ,choice of evils;
and we owe it, therefore, to her Majesty, not to
allow the ex-parte evidence to influence our minds
unfairly against her Majesty.