The Sun.
London, England, 1818-04-20 00:00:00

PRIVATE AND AUTHENTIC CORRESPONDENCE.

PARI4, APRIL 14I.—Every person of good sense
has been ashaiiied and shocked at the decision of
" the Council of Discipline," of the Barristers of
Paris, with respect to NII.Nia-sat Yost will have
sarty Fretacci Papers-ehitt it
.has adjourned
side die the inscription of the name of this Juris-
consult on the list of the Advocates of Paris. I
am certainly not the defender of M. Mar:vitt, but
will always, as much as in me lies, defend what
I consider to be reason, justice, and good sense,
The- question was, to know whether M. MANUEL
possessed capacity, probity, delicacy, and the
manners of a Gentleman. The Council of Advo,
cates of Aix had pronounced iii the effirmative:
that of Paris is of the saute opinion, yet refuses
to admit him. On what does it ground its re-
fusal) Perhaps, because M. NI ANU EL W 55 a par-
tizan of BuoNAPARTE, dining the 100 days. I
again repeat, that I ain not the champion of men
who played parts at that epoch so disastrous to
France; and I feel that, were I a Frenchman, I
should not have-ranged myself tinder the banners
that M. MANUEL has followed. But the question
is not here political : the profession of an Advo-
cate is a free one ; to fulfil it, it only requires
probity and talent, and no one still contest the
possession of both in M. MANUEL, What then
is the meaning of the coauct• of the Advocates
of
,Paris ? Do they also wish to make their
Epurations ? Or rather, for such it seems, are
they afraid that an Advocate of Aix will display
talents far super for to the greater part of the Ad-
vocates of Paris ? - I confess that 1 am inclined
to believe that a mean and ridiculous jealousy
dictated their conduct. This is enough for the
Gentlemen of the Bar : let, us now regard the
matter in a political point of view. Is it not
abominable to see a urn of merit and talents of
a superior order, hunted down by an ignoble spirit
of vengeance, that pursues him every where? M.
MANUEL may have been ninth to blame, I grant
it ; but why confirm him in his errors by pushing,
him, iu spite of himself, amongst the discon-
tented; by making him experience the most pitiful
perSecutionsi If the Bench of Banisters pretend
that they save only rejected M. Masorq. on ac-
MIDI of his political sentiments,, as contrai y to,
legitimate Monarchy, I would tell them, that
they thereby shew themselves profoundly ignorant
of the true interests of the cause they have taken
upon them to defend, and that it is only by being
just ourselves that we can make truth and virtue
respected by others.
M. ETIENNE, one of the Editors of Lo ilThterve
(wore generally known by its anagram La Ver-
mine), and who was in the pay of the Duke de .
Rovico (SAVARY), under the Usurper, has ad-
dressed a petition to the Minister of Police, to ob-
tain the 40,000 francs a-year that be had in the
time of IitIONAPARI E.

M. ETIENNE is too cunning to make this de-
•mand in a direct manner ; he thereto! e heats about
the bush, and expresses his wishes in ambiguous
terms in the Minerve. fie begins by praising M.
de GAZES for having given an explanation to the
Chamber on a jetition that had been referred to
him. shall have," says he, (i the courage to
praise the Minister of Police for his conJuct." Ihe
courage ! ! ha !ha ! ltd ! Courage is a very pretty
word in the mouth -ot a man whom isi.oure made
an arrant coward, and who, as experience has
shewn, prefers to wipe off the n►ath of a dirty
rioe with his pocket-handkerchief than with a
sword. M. ETIENNE is a man of peace, and of
such delicate nerves, that be cannot bear the smell
of any powder but hair powder ; hence, how
energetical are the words I shall hare the courage
in the month of M. 14.:TIENNE. Yet, notwith-
standing, he will have the courage to praise M. de
Caze.s. What an effort upon himself, _and how
the Minister must thank bins for this rate intrepi-
dity ! tie then adds, on the subject of M. de
Ca Z ES, "After the honour of g /yin g a
,good example,
conies immediately that (if following one." Now
you must know, that the Minister of Police, in
giving the information to the Chamber, followed
the exarujileof the Minister at War. But M.
ETIENNE immediately perceives that be has not
yet shewn sufficient courage, and he continues in
these terms—" I might even place M. de GAZES an
the same line With M. Gout. ioN fir. CYR, for the
vanity of men in place rflen prevents them from doing
a good action which another has done before them."
No doubt, Mr. Editor, you smoke M. ETIENNE,
and perceive that he cleally insinuates that SavAHT
having given hint 40,000 francs a-year, it belongs
to M. de GAZE'S to follow the example of this
Soldier of BUONAPARTE, and that then he could
pl.►ce him on the same line with the latter. What
can be more delicate, more adroit, or more cou-
rageous than this manner of re-den►audiug a pen-
sion of 40,000 francs ; for as M. ETIENNE very
propel!). observes, " Nothing is more difficult for a
man of letters, than to render even the most strict
justice to a Minister of Police in the present state
of the Press." We all know that the task was
umcb easier in the time of BUONAPARTE.

P.vals, APRIL. 15.—1 confess to you, Sir, that I thought
Government had some band in the refusal to permit M. MA-
N&EL. to be called to the Bar, as stated in my last, but ac-
cording to my general role,l forbore to communicate toy sus-
picions,, which, if unfounded, would have been calumnious ;
where a fact is doubtful, 1 leave it, and it is only when
have acquired a degree of certitude, that I praise or blame
ornly. I have endeavoured to clear up the point in ques-
tion, and I can now positively assure you, that several per-
sons who held offices of very high rank, unties' Government,
and who are dacidedly Ministerial, neglected nothing to in-
duce the Council of Advocates to agree to the demand of

MANVeL. I Lm, therefore, Ica to consider the conduct of ill
Council as the effect 'of a base and. contemptible jealousy:he
need not again repeat that I am neither the friend nor al.„
cate of M. MANUEL, but things must not be confouuded‘r
To prevent M. MAN u et. from exercising his talents as a
rister at the Bar of Paris is a cowardly act, and an irOich,
able vexation, and is on a par with the proceedings of l"oi
Mayor of Lyons, the fatuous M. tie Fnantses, who will
allow a Jew, Protestant, Turk, or Pagan, or, in bet'
other sect than that of the Papists, to exercise the li°"°°,l
able but modest functions of Shoe-blacks in the streets
that City; of which he is the glorious Chief I%lagistrate..
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In two of try former letters I mentioned to you the arti
for 'calumny brought against Messieurs COMTE and llyreotO
they would have both been arrested the day before Yrstido
but M. Costre being a married man, the officers b"
right to enter the nuptial chamber, and he escaped bY a b%,
staircase, and got clear off. As to M. Dusoreu, W°
rested and taken to the Prison La Force, from whence' °,',l
predicted, he will be sent prisoner to Ftennes. This arr.'
has caused a great rumour at Parrs, not on account of 3°o
interest taken by the_ public in the affairs of Messieurs C°Mffat
and DUNOYER, but because the Paris Papers, I knew' not tr.
what reason, having never mentioned any thing of tits
to
cedent parts already stated in my letters. The multitude ced
strued the conduct of Government as an arbitrary act' al,
in this respect I must say the Government is rightly se
Why has it kept silent, when it could at once bays rru3'oo ed
every ground of suspicion ? Why was not the politic itlfger
ed of the regular progress of th:s affair, as the simple°
le
tails would have proved that it conformed itself in °l'll to
spect to the letter and spirit of the law, which orders
tillse
arrest of the delinquents who will not obey. the res.oi
summons, and the order to appear before the Court 7
this order has been served on Conrc and DusUria'
of a month, and which these sturdy advocates for the r
of the law have ever since resisted; therefore, what I
ts
aid
done ought to have been done, but what might be -
not been said, viz. that the Ministers are not yet sullicl:°to
familiar with Constitutional principles; they do Oot 6ev-opi•
he aware that it is not enough to respect the laws' ts:t
slims also must he respected, and that if they Wieej
lighten it, the natural and infallible result will ber
will be the butt of calumny, which their neglect
wade them deserve.

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