The Sun.
London, England, 1818-09-05 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL AND GERMAN PAPERS.

AUGSBURG, AVG. 23:—An article, dated Bran-
denburg, Aug. 10, says—
" Thiags are in the same state among us as in
the rest of Germany. There are no active parties,
who attempt to make any political system prevail,
but there are people who spend many words in
defence of this- or that opinion, birth"- in compa-
nies and in pamphlets. Those who attach any
importance to conversations and ephemeral writ-
ings, and who consider the capital as the Repre-
sentative of the kingdom, might believe that the
Prussians were on the point of dividing them-
selves into two hostile people, one of which de-
sires to keep the ancient Constitution, or rather
the rights consecrated by time; while the other
insists on a change, which may prevent the re-.
turn of the past evils, which they attribute to
the ancient institutions. While .people are de-
fending in public sometimes the one, sometimes
the other, of these two opinions, rather from ca-
price or interest than on principle, the Govern-
ment calmly pursues its. course, and, without
troubling itself about the contradictions of par-
ties, leaves it to time to decide which of them is
in the right. This
.dignified attitude does not
satisfy the restless spirits, who fancy that it is
absolutely necessary to embrace one of the two
systems ; in consequence, they spread all manner
of reports to prove that the Government has at
length adopted one side. Sometimes it is said that
a plan
.of a Constitution which comprehends
the whole Monarchy has been laid-before the
_
Council of State, sometimes that it haa.been re-
solved to retain the old one. One relates. that,
the reports of the Ministers, who have.been-sent
into the provinces to examine into what re-
lates to the provincial States, are. so. con-
tradictory, that the result of the merely his-
torical inquiries cannot give rise .to an orga-
nization which; shall be applicable to all the pro,
vinces ; another affirms, that a new prospect of
the aggrandizement of the Monarchy has
caused a sudden., suspension of the discussions
already begun in the Council, respecting the re-
presentative,Constitutioo. But there is no, truth
in all this. In the last of the meetings of the
Council, which take place. every six ;months, there
was no discussion upon the Constitution, or any
thing of the kind, and the reports
,of the Minis-
ters could not be contradictory,,because, though
the Minister of State, l3eyme, - has made his,
Messrs. Alt,enstein and Klewitz have not yet made.
their's. If some politicians are.dissatisfied at this
delay, others, on the
,contrary, regard it as ,a wise
measure, by .which time is gained till the vertigo
of Constitutions is over, and :things may. be in a
manner arranged of. themselves. It is the %Inn
with regard to,the delays about the University of-
Bonn.; the funds for ,the establishment are al-

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ready assigned, but the organization is not yet
regulated."

FRANKFORT,. AUG. 25.—Yesterday morning
their Highnesses the Hereditary Prince and Prin-
cess- of Hesse Homburg!), anti also Prince Lewis
and Prince Gustavus, with hiJ Consi.rt, passed
through here going to Dramitadr, to pay a visit
to their Royal Highnesses the Guild Duke and
Duchess of Hesse. Their Highnesses returned in
the evening to Hotuburgh.
BERLIN', AUG 22.-'On the 18th the Synod of
the two Evangelical Congregations for this year
was opened by Divine in the Cathedral
Church.

An ,expression of M. Ribbentrop, Intendant.
General of the Prussian army, is considcl-pd as
very remarkable. ThiS Gentleman, %rho has daily
bttore his eyes the • effects of standing armies
upon the nasion—economy both on a large and a
small scale—who likes the mil.taryadministratioa
as the vocation of his life, and is known to the
armies, to their Generals and Sovrreiens, ity his
ilistingnisired ser.i.ics, has, in his Es.nly &raze.
Economy of the Ettropean dlrmiev, the 1040iving
words, which, from the mouth of such a mat, are -
highly important
" That every rednetion of the army has always a favour-
able influence on the internal relations of the country; that
these relations, the professions, the property, and the spirit
of the citizens, must be spared and maintained as much as
possible in time of peace, that they may be employed %Aft
more energy in time of war."

SWITZERLAND, AUG. 24.—The Deputies of
Berne and Lucerne,Messrs. Ruttimau and Fescher,
have left Rome, aft 2r taking leave of his Holi-
ness. Their mission has led to no result. It is
affirmed that they will be shortly followed by the
new Nuncio for Switzerland, M. Macsi, who
larely filled the office of Internuncio at Lisbon,
It seems that the Diet will take up this affair be-
fore it separates, and they already speak, of a de-
claration which is to be made to the Roman Court,
according to which the Envoys of that Court can-
not exercise in Switzerland any ecclesiastical juris•
diction, but will be always received with the re-
spect and consideration which members of the di-
plomatic body have a right to expect from a friend-
ly power.

PROM THE FRENCH FRONTIER, AUG. 28.—1 t is
asserted that the French army will he increased
to the number of 120,000 by the Ist January,
1819, and that in the course of next year the ad-
ditional number of 40,000 will be levied, in order
to make the army complete to the peace esta-
blishment.

PETERSBURGH, AUG B.—We hear that his Ma-
jesty the Emperor will leave this city in the be-
ginning of September, to go to Aix-la-Chdpelle:
In the course of the same month her Maj,,ty the
Empress Nlaria will go to Weimar, Stutgard. and
Brussels, to visit her daughters, the Guild
Duchess of Weimar, the Queen of Wietembergi
and the Princess of Orange'.

The }lntik, Captain Kotzebue, now lies in the
Neva, before the hotel of Comic Homanzow.—
The weather is still warm. We do not remember
such a fine summer.

STOCKHOLM, AUG. 18.—His Majesty and the
Crown Prince arrived at Christiania on the I lth
in good heHith. Every where on the journey his
Majesty was received by his subjects with entbn.
siastn. On his arrival in Christiania the city was
finely illuminated. \%e learn that his Majeviyin-
tends to leave Christiania on the 22d, in order to
arrive at Drontbeim by the end of the month.