The Sun.
London, England, 1818-03-04 00:00:00

" CHAMBER OF PEERS, FEB. 23.

" The discussion on the Recruitment Projet was
resnmeil.

Two new speakers, the Marquis de Lauriston
and the Duke de la Rochefoticauld, were heard,
one for and the other against the Projet.
" The Count Mole, Minister of the. Marine,
and the Councillor of State, Count Simeon, de-
fended the Ptojet. Their speeches were ordered
to lye printed.
"The DukedeTarente, in the name of the Com-
mittee of Recruitment, made a report on the dif-
ferent Petitions referred to that Committee. They
were all got rid of with the exception of, one,
which was referred to the Ministers of War and
Justice.

" The discussion on the Projet was adjourned
till Monday.

"PARIS, MARCH 1.-The Committee of the
Deputies upon. the Concordat will assemble on
Monday next to resume their labours. The Mini-
ster for Foreign Affairs,. the Keeper of the Seals,
and the Minister of the Interior, will attend the
Committee. •

" The trial respecting the assassination of M.
Fordde3 commences the llth instant, at Albi : 360
witnesses are summoned from Rhodez.

`` FIVE PER CENTS.
" Saturday 67 f. 43 c.

" MADRID, FEB. 17.—An Official Dispatch
from the Governor of Vera Cruz, Don Francisco
lievia, dated the 10th of November last, confirms
the intelligence of the capture of the rebel Minn.

" CAssEt., FEB. 17.—1 t is said that negticia-
lions have been set on foot With. our Contt for
the marriage of the Duke of Clarence with the
third and youngest Princess daughter of the Land-
grave Frederic, brother of the Elector of Hesse.
" AUGSBURG, FEB. 19.—We have received to-
day from Vienna the important intelligence, that
the journey of the Emperor of Austria into Dal-
matia is postponed. in consequence of his Majesty
having received advises that the Emperor of
Russia proposes to proCeed, in the middle of May,
from Warsaw to Vtenna, and that the King of
Prussia will also arrive in that capital. Several
Sovereigns and Princes of Germany are expected
at Vienna about the same period. These Sove-
reigns will remain incognito, and reside at private
hotels."

The Indemnity Bill was the chief topic of
debate last night, in the House of Lords, and it
went through a Committee, Many questions
were askedi and suggestions were proposed by the
Opposition.- The objections rather displayed tba
temper than the sagacity of the Proposers, and the
suggestions were knot calculated to improve the
intended legislative enactment for the protection
of those whose only fault was in having pro-
tected the Country. The plain question, divested
of all party sophistry and party zeal, is,whether Mi-
nisters and Magistrates,who,by timely interference,
saved the country from probable insurrection, and
possibly from all the horrors of anarchy, should
he subjected to prosecutions, instituted by malig-
nity and revenge. In fact, nothing but the forms•
of the Constitution, which we trust will alWays be
sacredly observed and maintained, require the
proposed Act of Indemnity for signal and essential
service to the State. Another question, equally
simple, is, whether those persons, who gave such
information on oath as led to the fi ustr•ation of
seditious and rebellious machinations, should, by
the disclosure of their names, be exposed not'only
to perpetual annoyance and insult, but most pro-
bably •to devruCtion, from the artifice, violence,.
and vengeance of those whose atrocious purposes.
Were defeated. For the rest, we refer to our
Report of the Debate.
Sir WIL-LIAM •BunnonQns, in the House of
Commons, on the Report of the Committee of
Supply, moved for a reduction of the Army to the
atuonnt of 10,000 men. At this time, too, when
France is endeavouring to prepare an Army of
240,000, which, if the• Allied Forces were to be
withdrawn, or even diminished, might bring back
the whole train of revolutionary' horrors •in that
Country, again involve Europe in consternation,
and shake the foundation of its whole political
Edifice !! ! -

We are happy to inform our Readers, that yes-
terday evening, after a trial of nine hours, the
Jury, without hesitation, pronounced a Verdict
of Acquittal in favour of EASTAFFS, Keeper of
Reading Gaol, on the indictment preferred against
him by Lord FOLKESTONE, for refusing to permit
him to converse with the State Prisoners, lately
'confined in that Gaol.

CITY, ONa o'CLoctc..---Tbis morning the Funds
experienced a fluctuation of One per Cent. ; the,
Market opened for Consols at. 77'.; it recovered
a little at twelve o'clock, and several Brokers be-
came buyers ; at one, Consols were 784, An-
other defaulter was declared this morning to a
considerable amount.