The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-03 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the Journal des Debats of Saturday.)
PARIS, MARCH SY.—The obsequies of the Duke
de la Rouchefoucault-Liancourt took place this day,
at the Church of the Assumption, his own parish
church. At ten o'clock in the morning the old
pupils of the School of Arts and Trades of Chalons,
of which the illustrious deceased was, for a lung
time, the Inspector-General and the benefactor,
assembled at his hotel, and, of themselves, carried
his remains to the church. A considerable assem-
blage of persons of the highest rank, among whom
we noticed the Dukes of Fitzjames, Duras, Decazcs,
Ragusa ; the Counts Darn, Lafitte, Cassimir Per-
rier, Ternaux ; General Sebastiani, Baron de Ba-
rante, followed the mourning train, which was headed
by the Duke d'Estissac, the eldest son, and the
whole of the family of the deceased. The Duke de
Doudeauville supported one of the corners of the
pall. A deputation of the Chamber of Peers, and
one from the Academy of Sciences, of which M. de
Rochefoucault was na honorary member, were also
present at the ceremony. After the Divine Service
was over, the young people arranged themselves, in
order to continue to the barrier of Clichy that ho-
mage with which they had commenced the funeral
procesSion, bearing the body to that point where the
train was to take leave of it. At that instant one of
the superior officers, who commanded a detachment
of the funeral escort, advanced towards the groupe,
which were about to lift the bier, and declared that he
could not permit the body to be carried other-
wise than in a hearse, and manifested his inten-
tion of executing by force the orders which he had
received. This prohibition appeared so inexplicable
especially after the decent manner in which the
body had been borne from the hotel of the deceased
Duke to the Church, that the young folks thought
they were not called on to yield obedience to a ver-
bal order emanating from military authority, which,
in addition, no known law enforced, nor any known
regulation of the Police, and which was opposed to
numerous recent examples which had not called
forth the slightest murmur; they proceeded, there-
fore, to do what they had so innocently projected.
On this the Officer alluded to immediately began to
use violence. Bayonets were fixed ; a number of
the young people were struck; and witnesses, in
whom we repose perfect credit, affirm that serious
wounds were inflicted, and that blood flowed, and,
in the midst of the frightful confusion, the coffin of a
Peer of France, of a friend of humanity, of one of
the moat respectable men, abandoned by the hands
which supported it, fell to the ground, and remain-
ed in the kennel for a considerable time. It was at
length raised and placed in a hearse, and the train
again moved on, while indignation, mingling in every
heart with the grief which so mournful an event oc-
casioned, added to the mournful appearance of the
funeral ceremony. Arrived at the barrier, the train
halted, and the Baron Dupin, Professor in the Con-
servatory of Arts and Trades, pronounced the fu-
neral oration over the illustrious deceased. Count
Alexander de la Rochefoucault, his second son, then
thanked the young folks, and requested them to re-
tire peacefully to their respective homes, which was
done with religious respect. -

We have-tliis moment received from Count Gae-
tan de la Rochefoucault, third son of the late Duke
de Liancourt, a note which too fully confirms the
truth of the recital which we have just given.--
When the facts Which we have hastily collected are
better ascertained, they will suggest some reflections,
of which our readers must already foresee the great
importance. We limit ourselves for the present to
the transcribing the note, which the Count de Gae-
tan has done us the honour of addressing to us :
I shall not say one word more upon the dreadful
scene that occurred at the funeral of my father. I
ask, however, what right the police has to hinder a
family from allowing the body of a citizen to be
borne by hand, instead of being borne in a vehicle ?
-I ask what is the use of such a prohibition ? Po-
pular homage, which is honourable to him that has
merited it, is actually paid when the wish to pay it
is manifested. -

Count GAETAN de la ROCHEFOUCAULT.

We participate entirely in the sentiments of Count
Geetan. Let us be allowed to add, to-day,a single
observation which naturally presents itself. Though
it were true that the police had a right to give or-
ders how a body is to be carried, which we are far
from granting, certainly they ought not, after hav-
ing suffered the carriage by hand from the Hotel of
the Duke de la Rochefoucault, as far as the Church
of St. Magdalen, to have indicated, for the first
time, their prohibition at the moment when the corpse
was coining from the church. Why should that
which had been allowed before the Divine Service
be forbidden after ? How could that which in the
commencement was lawful become illegal by the
lapse of an hour? Is not this altogether an arbi-
trary proceeding ? And looking to its consequences,
might we not be authorised in giving to such a ca-
price of power even a severer name ?

(From the Quotidie;me.)

" Our letters from Madrid state, that it was on
the 12th of March, and not the 16th, that the letters
re-accrediting the Marquis de Moustier, as Ambas-
sador from France, were presented to his Catholic
Majesty by M. de Beaurepaire, First Secretary of
Legation, who remained at Madrid in the character
of Charge d'Affaires after the departure of the Am-
bassador. The date of the recal of the Duke of
Villa Hermosa, therefore, coincides perfectly with
that of the presentation of the Marquis de Moustier's
new credentials. What we farther know is, that ne-
gociations had been opened at Paris, between the
Spanish Embassy and English Commissioners, for
settling a plan by which the claims of British sub-
jects might be liquidated. The principal agents in
this negociation, the ratification of which has been
refused by the Court of Spain, were, it is said, MM.
Cordova and Carnezero, Secretaries of Embassy at
Paris; and they are understood to have received, on
this account, an unlimited authority to reside any
where else than in Spain."
(From the Moniteur of Saturday, March si.)
(Non-official part.)
" PARIS, MARCH 30.—Several journals published
yesterday the contents of an article of the Jamaica
Gazette, dated January 30, which says, there had
been an engagement in the Gulf of St. Lawrence,
between two French corvettes and two American
men-of-war. According to custom, three French
ships of war were stationed in 1826 off the coast ofl
Newfoundland,. for the protection of our fisheries, 11
from the month of May to the end of September,
during all which time they were on the most friendly
terms with the foreign vessels, Americans as well as
English. Since that time no French man of war
has appeared off those coasts, and those which are
to beitationed there this year will not sail from
France before the beginning of April.
" The account published by the Jamaica Gazette
is, therefore, wholly apocryPhal• •
(From the Elaile, dated Sunday, April 1.)
" The funeral of the Duke de Rochefoucault took
place yesterday
at the Church of the Assumption,
as had been announced, and thence the body was
conveyed to his estate of Liancourt to be interred.—
Two battalions of infantry accompanied the proces-
sion to the barrier of Clichy, where they paid the
military honours to the deceased.
" We have to deplore some disorder which took
place inside of the church. At the moment when
the coffin was brought out, and had just been placed
on the hearse, or bier (corbillard), several persons
having put aside the escort and the barriers, took off
the coffin, declaring that they intended to carry it as
far as the barrier.
The undertaker and the police gave orders to
replace the coffin according to the regulations, but
the pe.rsons who had seized on the coffin attempting
to resist this order, the armed force was obliged to
interfere to have it replaced on the carriage,
every thing might be done according to custom, and
With the pomp proper to'b b ed on such an oc-
e o serf ,
casiOn.
" The coffin fell on the grPun-u.
"Among the P who followed the funeral,
the Dukes de Choiseul,
Were Prince Talleyrand, told that

DocateS, Treviso, mid- the Marquises
Maison and Lauriston ; Counts Million, Molitor,
Rivard ; Barons Barante and Pasquier ; of the De-
puties—Messrs. Sebastiani, Cassimir Perrier, De-
vaux, and Boulard; lastly, Messrs. A. Lafayette, A.
Lameth, Gilbert des Voisins, Ternaux, Lafitte, De-
lessert.

" After the mass, the offering, and the absolu-
tion, each of the persons present sprinkled holy-
water on the coffin. The procession passed through
the streets of Neuve du Luxembourg, Caumartin,
St. Lazare, and Cliche. It stopped at the bt:n3aux,
and a discourse 'was spoken by M. Ch. Dupin,
member of the Institute. Other discourses were to
have been delivered by Messrs. Million, Lafitte, and
Ternanx, but the tumult at the door of the church:
having separated them from the procession, they
did not go to the barrier. After three volleys of
musketry, the coffin was removed to the carriage'
which was to convey it to the Chateau of Lien-
court."

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

31 NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR THIS DAY.
r John Newport—To bring under view of the House the
! state of the law for rebuilding and repairing Churches in
Ireland.
4 44, r. Home Drummond—Bill to regulate the prosecution of
3. Si? l'audulent Bankrupts in Scotland.
r John Newport—Po refer the Irish Estimates to a Select
4.
,Committee.
• 'T. Hume—Select Committee to inquire into the state of the
Fleet and other Prisons for the confinement of Debtors ; and
the operation of the Laws of Arrest and Imprisonment for
• • Debt.
Mr. Kennedy—Bill to regulate Parochial Settlements in Scot-
s, land.
Mr. Powell Buxton—Copies or Extracts of all Communica-
tions relative to the amelioration of the condition of the
Slaves.
7. Mr. Keith Douglas—To add Mr. Robert Gordon to the Core-
, mittee on the Edinburgh Improvement Bill.
8. Sir James Graham—To iiresent two Petitions relating to the
introduction of the Military into Carlisle during the last
Election.
ORDERS OF THE DAY FOR THIS DAY.
I. East Retford Election Petition—Ballot for Committee at half
after three.
2. Names of Members absent to be set aside.
3 Defaulters absent from Ballots to attend.
4. Deputy Clerk of the Crown to attend to amend the Return
for Banffshire.
▪ Corn Duties Bill—Committee.
• Passengers Regulation Bill—Committee.
Distresses (Ireland) Bill—Further consideration of Report.
5- Innkeepers India Half Pay Bill—Third reading.
In• innkeepers Bill—Third reading
Postage on Parliamentary Proceedings, Newspapers, and
PAmphlets—Committee thereupon.