The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-21 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the Journal des Debuts.)
PARIS, DEC. 17.--it is with regret we announce
to our readers the death of one of the rnostdistin-

guished women of our day—Helen Maria Williams.
This lady has been known as the authoress of se-
veral political works on the French Revolution, and
of the English poetry, which Boufflers and Esmenard
have translated into our language. Endowed with
superior talents and great sensibility, she has re-
counted to England all the important events suc-
cessively of the French Revolution. She obtained
celebrity by a constant and sincere affection for sound
liberty. Beneficence, affability, and a tender concern
for the unfortunate, were virtues happily blended in
her generous breast. Her literary works are in
many respects the property of history, while the re-
collection of her own character of admirable kindness
will never be effaced from the memory of her sur-
viving friends.
ODESSA, Nov. 28.—Vessels which left Constan-
tinople on the 22d ult. and have arrived here, brought
the news of the embargo being removed, and that a
great number of French ships had set sail. The
negotiations of the Internuncio seemed to bring about
this result. But private letters of the 23d, state, in
a postscript, that the Capitan Bey, Tah e r Bey, had
arrived himself from Navarin at Constantinople, and
• his circumstantial details of the battle of Navarin had
so exasperated the Sultan, that on the 23d, a new
embargo was laid on all Christian vessels. We cannot
confirm the authority of this news. Smyrna is
blockaded by Christian squadrons. The private letters
also mention the new embargo.

(From the Moniteur.)
CADIZ, Nov. 25.—We hope to obtain in a short
time what we have so long solicited in vain—the
freedom of the port of Cadiz. The Governor
Aymerich has almost given this assurance to the
Consulate as well as to the Municipality. If to this
the recognition of the American States should be
added, our port would become the most flourishing
in Europe.
The Emperor of Morocco has had two brigs
fitted out at Gibraltar which are going to cruise in the
Mediterranean against Hanseatic, Prussian, and pro-
bably also Spanish vessels, as he has been complain-
ing of the latter Power ever since 1823.
We have letters from the Havannah, dated the
10th and 14th of October. On the 16th the Pearl
frigate was to sail with a million of piastres for his
-.Majesty.
The following ships, the Guerrero of the line, the
Lealtad, ,feria, Casilda, and Sabina frigates, the
Arethusa corvette, the Hercules and Marie schooners,
and the Amelia and Irelona schooner brigs, all under
/he command of Admiral Laborde, were ready to sail.
The troops of all arms, well clothed, well equipped,
And well disciplined, amount to above 20,000 men.
PARIS, DEC. 17.—The Royal Court of Paris has
to-day confirmed the sentence of the tribunal of the
first instance, annulling the marriage contracted at
Gretna Greerr, between the Baron Delome and Mrs.
Hope, widow.
The Court adding to the grounds ?f this senten.ce,
declared that article 170 of the Civil C?de, which
enacts the publication in France of marriages con-
tracted in a foreign country was sI public order, and
that the nullity could be covered only" by the impos-
sibility of complying with the enactment, "!vbich has
occurred in the case of some Frenchmen, but 1,-711Ich
did not exist in the present cause.
(From the Quotidienne.)

11:91Is, DEC. 18.—The Infant Don Miguel had
not arrived this morning at nine o'clock. The cou-
rier who as to precede his Royal Highness is ex-
pected every moment.
(From the Constitutiannel.)

At the moment when, contrary to the remon-
strances of Bolivar, they are decreeing the reduction
of the Colombian army, there is circulated in Madrid
a report, that Envoys have arrived from General
Paez for the purpose of treating with the Spanish
Government about conditions for the recognition of
Colombian independence.
Mustcti, DEc. B.—This day the following plan
of a concerning the establishment of tribunals of
honour, was submitted to the Chamber of Deputies :
" Louis, by Abe Grace of God, King of_Birvit-

ria, &C.
" Ist, Insults to hor:9ur, as well as the right
which individuals have arrogated, of doing them-
selves justice for such insults, having been the ob-
ject of suitable provisions in the new political code,
desiring to prevent by means of an institution for
mediation and arbitration on the crime of duelling,
which is incompatible with religion, morality, and
social order, with the advice of our Privy Council,
and the co-operation and consent of our faithful
States of the kingdom, we have determined upon
and do ordain what follows :-
1. sxcriori r.---LEGAL ritoTNCTioN BY MEANS OF Si/DIA-
TORS AND TRIBINA* Or HONOUR.
" 1. Every individual above the age of IS, or em-
ployed by Government before that age, may demand
justice from the regular tribunals or from arbitrators
in case of dispute for insults against honour. Public
mediators of honour are for this purpose appointed,
and whosoever believes his honour to be insulted by
another, can always have recourse to them, in order
that the affair may be amicably arranged, or sub-
mitted to a tribunal of honour which will be con-
yoked.
" 2. The tribunal of honour has always the right
of oTecting reconciliation, and if that cannot be
done, of pronouncing a sentence which shall refer
solely to ti:e point of satisfaction,and shall never pre-
scribe any other kind of satisfaction than the repa-
ration of honour, The right of inflicting punishments
does oat belong to it.

" SECTION 11. -- NO3IINATION 07 lIEDIATORS....THEIL

MODE OF pROCEEDING.
" 3. Mediators of honour are named by Govern-
ment, for three years, and can be named anew at the
expiration of that time; their nomination is announc-
ed in the Government Journal.
" 4. The choice of a mediator to whom an affair
is to be submitted, depends upon the agreement Df
the pat-Lies interested. If they cannot agree on the
_point, any mediator of honour may be called in ; in
this case, diligence deciding the point, the mediator
called in by the most diligent party
m ought to use all
his efforts to bring the parties to an agreeent rela-
tive to the choice of the mediator to whom tke
shall ultimately be submitted.

04 SECTION 111.-..-COMPOSITION OP THE TRIBUNALS 01