London, Friday, December ...
It apPear, itrom z paragraph contaiiied ia the Etoile of the 1st instant, that some executions have taken place at Corunna, on account of political offences. Nine men suf- fered for what mtay be called the Constitutional cause. The crime imputed to them was, the condemniation of 51 per- sons attached to the Despotism and Inquisition. We blame violence on either side, except when men are opposed to each other in the field: but we are not convinced of the truth of the charge alleged against the nine persons who hate recently suffered on such authority as that of their enemfes. One of the sufferers, a high-minded shoemaker, galantly 'ng the Tragala, the song of his party, at the foot of the gallows. tFe other Freneh papers of Tuesday, with the exception of the Mniiteur, are chiefly filled with literary criticism or political speculation. That paper contains -the outline of an important decree, creating a change in the Roman code of legal proceaure, issued by his lloliness on the anniver. sary of his eoranntion. It is rather singgular that amid the present abhorrer ceo4f change which the Holy Alliance has inspired intb persons in power, the POPE should start forth as a.reforier ; though . cerainly no state of Europe, with tn vxception, perhaps, of Spain, stood mowr in need of re-, ,~~~ .:.. formation than the dominions blessed with the presence of the Holy Father. HisHoliness may have done as much ashe persoialIy could to attain the establisliment of a belter sys- tem of judicial administration; but that reform cainot be, ex}cted to be..v&ryladical, which was adopted on the.suug4- gestion of the Roman lawyers, who profit by existing. abuses,. and is destined to maintain, in all its vigour;, t04 secular power of the priesthood. LU4NDWV. FRIDAY. DL?CE.AfBBR 3, 1824.