The Sun. — 1818-04-01 (London, England)

THE SUN.  50LEM DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT ?  LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1818.  - The-Paris Papers_of: Sumlay last, which were due this morning, have not come io hand.  We are Wormed by our Correspoillient at Paris,  :hat the greatest struggles are making at Rome  to procure a Religious, or rather a Popish Ascend• anc9, wherever die Papal father has any influence  %Ire May see by the Concordats` of -Naples and Itome, what his Infallibility is doing towards the accomplishment of this-design. If the -cause of Religious Liberty is not resolutely snpported in France, it will be lost, as it is losing ground there every day, and this decline in a great measure, . seems, to be owing to the pretended friends of the Altar and the Throne in that Country. Will it be believed that the Murders of Protestants at Nimes, which excited great horror some time ago, are now styled the effects of " a moment of effervescence, as the Roman Catholics had long been under restraint." This infamous assertion has been made  in a pamphlet, the copies of which ,have been seized by the French Government, and the Author is to .he prosecuted, for no apologies for such excesses wiirbe permitted ; and as to the crimes themselves, it is thollght sufficlent to draw a veil over thew.  The same respectable Correspondent assures us, liat we have been mistaken respecting tine em ployment of VETERANS in the French my, and states "that they are not to be embodied, nor liable to he so, in case of war, and even then they cannot be compelled to serve beyond the limits of their own province, without .a law passed by Par liament for that purpose ; they may marry and form any establishments they please, and will not, except in case of war, be called on even to perform so many days duty in the year ; they are not a corps; uor do army, for they have no of. ficers, nor can they know who will be their officers. They are therefore merely a number of citizens, liable to be called on by the Government in case of a war. The following is the text of the law on the subject" : • " The Non-commissioned Otiicel=l and Soldiers who bare  returned to their homes, after having finished the prescribed period of service, shall, in case of war, be subject to a territorial service for six years, under the name of Veterans. The Veterans may marry, and form establishments. In time of peace they shall not he called upon for any service whatever, and in time.of war they cannot be required to march beyond their own military division, except in virtue of a law."  We cannot help thinking that our Correspondent, whose judgment and candour, however, we hold in great respect, is a little too bard upon the Ultras. These persons were ruined by the French Revolution, most of them see their property in  the hands of Regicide Ruffians, or friends of Revolutionary principles, and they must naturally wish for the restoration of the old order of things. They may not have sufficiently profited by the lessons of experience, but surely their motives must be good, and they must feel for the honour of their country, as men who are not themselves sufferers, and can view events with. more impar tial feelings, cannot but wish that if it were possible, the French Revolution should only he remembered as a dreadful warning to all people, and that every person of a Jacobin character, and if possible every person who supported the Usurper, before and after his return from Elba, should be excluded from ail authority it not banished from France for ever. We sincerely feel for the Ultras, and can pity rather than condemn those hopes and  Oxpectations wilich may be attributed to a sense of national pride, reverence for their Sovereign, and the honour of their country, as well as to motives of a selfish or vindictive nature.  The Mornitlg Papers of this day contain report that accounts have been received stating that general hostilities by the Native Powers of India were likely to be dtected against us, but that the Marquis of HASTINGS, with expeditious policy, had divided SCI NDIA from the Confederacy.—We have beard no confirmation of this report, but it is well known that such rumours are often circulated for eject in the dull times of Peace. We remember when a Weekly Paper ingeniouslycontrived to receive fresh dispatches from India every Sunday.  Cm-, O O'