French Papers.
The Times, 1824-10-08T00:00:00

Scarcel.y any thing -oF the least interest or novelty ap- pears in the Frenche papers of Tuesday, which arrived' last night. It is mentioned in a letter from Rome, inserted in the Quotidienne, that another Cardinal, of the name of So- laro, is dead. The Sacred College is now reduced to 46, its cenlplement being 70. As this venerable assemblage of red hats has nowand then theclection of a sovereign,the death of one increases in proportion the value of the votes of the sur- vivors. Their object shouldl therefore be to keep the Conclave as scantily supplied with new members as possible: but the interest or the feeling of his Holiness is generally different from that of thle candidates for his thlronie, or the creators of his power ; and accordingly every Pope repairs more or less the losses of the Sacred College. Accortlinigly we are told;, that four or five churchmen were to be raised to the purple in the course of last month. The following are ex- tracts from the Etoile of Wednesday:- "MADRID, SEPT. 28. (BY ExpIREss.) " The King and all his august family have been residing at the Escurial since the 222d inst. " His Alajesty, desirting to transmit to thc remotest futurity the memory of the happy day of the Ist of October, on whilh he was re- stored to the love of his faithful subjects, after three years' captivity in the hands of the rebels, has ordered tltaf a solemn thanksgiving arid Te Deni shall be celebrated every year for ever, in all the churches of his domains. " The military commission at Carthagena passed judgment on the 19tth of this month on 63 Constitutionalists accused of having borne arms against the Kiing. It condemned eight, one of whom is a captain of'infantry, to be shot in the back as traitors. The others are condemned to different penalties: of this number is the MUarquis de Rafal, who will be imprisoned fbr a year in a fortress. : " The military commission at Pasnpeluna has, in like mannaer, passed sentence oen several inhabitants of the town of Peralta,wlho had endeavoured to excite disorder in the name of the Constitution of theCortes. 'i The Aigus of Buenos Ayres contains a proclamation of the Viceroy of Peru, to order the stone of the constitution to be over- thrown, and the ancient regime restored in all the cities of the king- .dom. " It is remarkable, that while the Spanish refugees circulate re- ports in Eugland, that the Royalist General Olaneta has joined the banners of the insurgents, the official Ga2ette of AMadrid speakS of him with honour, among the Genierals wvhe display the most zeal to preserve Peru for the legitimate Sovereign. The same gazette, on the other hand, gives a list of above 80 colonels, captains, lieute. nants, and suh-lieutenants, who have forsaken the standar(st of the Peruvian insurrection to join the Royal troops. " VIENNA, SrPT.25. The Emperor has ordered the Court to go into mourning for 20 daya, on occasion of the death of hi2s Majesty Louis XVIII. The miourning commenced on the 23d of September, and will thereibre continue till the 13th of October. " The French Ambassador ib preparing to 'have a' funeral ser. vice celebrated with al the pomp de to the memory of- so great a Sovereign. " UPPER MIAINE, SErT. 26. " The mzost recent letters received from the frontiers of Turkey acquaint us that new finnans have been sent from Constantinople to the Pachas of the northern provinces of EurspeaR Turkey, enjoin- ing them to send immediately sall their tToops that carn be spared to Thessaly, and to direct them to IJarissa to cnable the commander of the Ottoman army in Thessaly to re-open the campaign and resume ofrensive operations. These finrnans have produced so2ne effect; for we lcarn by the samte letters, -that several corps, taken feom the camps on tie right bank of the Danube, have already marched for Thessaly. New levies are mustering in those provinces, but the Turltish commanders in geerseal-complain of the backwardness of the recruits, who take every opportunity to leave the service, and seem whvolly indifferent to the result of the expedition against the Greeks. The camp at Nissa is so reduced by desertion, and by the numerous de!achments sent successively to Thessaly, that it con- tains no moer than 3,000 men. The camp at WUiddin is one of the most numerous, but the troops composing it have no mind to march to distant provinces. The camp at Rudschick has also been much redluced. " The new measures ordered by the Porte confirm all the pre. ceting private accounts of the defeats of the Scraskier of Thessaly, the great losses which he has sustained, and the ravages of the plaguc, which still prevails in the Turkish army. Several landings made by the Greeks on the coast of Macedonia were mluch spoken of, as weU as the cri%ical state of thlings at Con- stantinople. No new details, however, are given on this subject, at least no new facts are mentioned. (At Vienna no letters had arrived from Pisa of a later tlate than tihe 26fth of August.) " A letter from Bucharest announces the receipt of letters from Coonstantinople of the 30th of August, wiichl stare that the operations of the Capitan Pacha againist Samos have not succeeded, ant that this Adniral has suffered considerable loss, but without giving any details on the subject. This letter adds, that the Grecks have in. terrupted fbr the moment the direct communication between Con- stantinople and the Cayitan Pacha, by the aid of a division of their flotilla, wvhich cruises at the entrance of the Dardanelles, and has cap- tured . good manyTurkish vessels ladeu with ammunition and other articles for the Turkish fleet. " PARIS, OCT. 4. It is affirmed tiat the King will go to Foutainlebleau at the end uf the nronth. Ilis llaje8ty'sfitc will not be solemnized tlis year on St. Charles's day, on account of the tflouflding. i The P'lorence Gfazete of the 23d of Septetnber states thc da. mage done to the Turkish fleet, by the Greek fire-ships, tobemuch greater than was at first said: The Christians, it is added, lost on their side three Ipsariot ships, and, what they still more regret, tite intrepid Canaris, who was blown up with tels Turikish ship which lIe engaged. Tie same papers report, that Derwish Pacha has expe- rienced a fourth defeat at (iauria, whence lie designed to penetrate into Livadia. Letters from Trieste, in the Aug.vburg Gazette of the 30th of September, say, that a ve.sel which left Corfu on the 11th, arrived at Venice on the 18th. All the passengers are agreed as to the great disasters sustained by the Turks in the canal of Samoa. The Capudan Bey of Tunis, commanding one of the frigates that were set on fire, attempting to cscape in a boat, was taken prisoner. According to these passengers, the Greeks made a second attack, in which tthey burnt a Turkish ship of the line and two frigates. "As for the corps that landed on Satnos, it was destroyed to a man. -A great victory by Admiral Miaules, over the Egyptian tleet, is spoken of. Mlany other reports, all advantageoua to the defenders or the Cross, are in circulation ; but it cannot be denied that they need conflrmation." TITE SITUATION OF PRO'TESTANTS IN F.RANCE CONXPARED WITH TllAT OF ATIIOT.ICS IN ENtcGLAND. Tlie law In England isa.. 'd or the maintenance of the Protestant religion. In. France, on . . - contrary, notwithstanding the small number of Protestants, the hostility of their principles to all autho- rity, and the novelty of their existence, the law is equal for all. It is'a principle in England thtat all religions which differ from the re. ligion Of the State ought to be destroyed. In Franice, far 4rorn being destroyed, they are protected, and even supported at the expense of the public Treasury. rn England, Protestants, considered as the friends of the new system, are distingui hed by the most eminent prerogatives; and the Catholics, who fortmr a third part of the popu- lation, are an outcast people. Tley are children di8inhlerited by their father, excluded from all marks of confldence, and from every pur. suit which leads to honour and fortune. They bear all the buidens of the State, and share none of its advantages. In France, the twenty.nine.thirtleths of the population attached to the religion of the State do not enjoy the slightest exclusive pri- vilege. Protestaits are admissible to all public posts, and, in fact, hold them to an extettt beyotnd the proportion of their nutnber. They are electors, and eligible equally with Catholics, who freqaent. ]y return them, without inquiring into their religious faith. There are among them Peers, Deputies, Generals of Division, Prefects, Presidents of the Royal Courts, Councillors of State and of the First Tribunals, Mlayors, &c. We have even seen, both under the old andl the new regime, several Protestants in the French Ministry; whilst England would be alarmed, and think herself on the britn k of ruin, if a single Catholic were to enter the King's Council, or occupy an important office. "In the British Empire the Protestant clerg lives only upon the spoils of the ancient Church-they enjoy immense property, founded by Catholics and for Catholics, who little imagined that these benefices, the fruit of their pious dontations,' would one day pass into the hands of their enemies, and be employed against the donors. Besides, the Catholics who have outlived oppression, or who are still tolerated, are compelled to- support their bishops and priests, and to build, at their own expense, humble clhapels by the sidle of the temples which bave been taken from them. They are forced tao-besides paying the ecclesiastical tax, tithes, to a clergy foreign toAtheir creed, which provides for none of tbeir spiritual wants-to Contribute to the building of Anglican churchea , which they never enter, aRd whieh are not even frequented by Pretestants. In France, on the contrary; the Catholic clergy, although reduced to a slender hire-a poor compensation of their confiscated property- e Thts proclamation has been publlshed-both by the gnglish pour- !un0a ogrs.-Note Qf the Etolle. have not taken a farthing from the Protestants, There are even given to the latter Catholic temnples, and where there are none, they 'receive aid to constract new ones; none of their property has been confiscated ; they enjoy in peace what they possessed, and their sni- nisters receive a. sal:xry from the Government, although they can- not claim it by any'title of indeirmnity; and this salatry exceeds that of Catholic reciQys, who are very diffurently occupied. 'We will not inquire whether this is right or wrong-we will not attempt to decide wlhether the toleration of a religion which is n1ot that of.'the State, or even the protection of itin the event of its be ing troubled; ought, ito trict propriety, to extend to favours und direct support ; we will nerely report facts, establislh a point of com- parison1, and EhOti the respective positions of the Protestants in Flrance and ihe Catholics in England. Notwithstanding all this, and the liberty of the former, Frante still passes for fanatical, intolerant, and persecuting;. and under this view the English anid Germnan papers are filled with invectives against her, whilst, not- withstanding the state of oppression of seven millions of Catholics, England passes In the eyes of the multitude for the classical country of toleration; antd the generous protector of civil and religious ii. bet ty." [From the Conttfitutiotnnl.] PARIS, OCT. 3. At htlf-past one there was a Council of Ministcrs. This Count- cil, in which the King presided, and the Dauphin was present, sat till half-past four. The Minister otthe Marine was not there. " Yesterday afternoon, Baroni de Vincent, the Austrian Ambas- sador, transacted busisess with the Count de VilUele, at the house of the latter, For about two hours. " At the review in the Clhatnp du AMars,one of the National Guards, who on the day of the King's enitratnce into laris liad had the lio- noar to present a petition to his M1ajesty, left the ranks, and advanc- ineg towards the King, witit blunt confidence complained that he hal received no answer to it. His Majesty pleasantly replied, ' That is very possible, hl. le Gard;e; but I have had so much business to attend to within the last two days, that I have had no time to occupy mnyself as yet with yours. But have paticRce; i will answer you."' 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