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''.e it ADDRESSE'D ET . COOVi JUI.FS 11E POLIGNAC TO - THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. 44 Aram 3, 1816. 44 MT LORD DUKR-,-T can no long''r endure that • the visit Which I had the hr noun of making you abont 'three weeks ago should give occasion to. the absurd reports which now circulate in this capital, and which the Eoglish piers have Collected, - adding details equ illy destitute of foundation as the rumours which gave them blrt!‘. In fact, The Courier and Morning Oronicle report a pretended conversation which I am supposed to have has with your Grace; fuethe pur pose of conferring with you! on a change of Ministry in France, and in which I am represented as having .appeared in an official character, which you did not think fit to recognise. " You know, my Lord Duke, &iv: false the state. :twits in such articles of these papers are, in every thing 'respecting the pretended conversation which they relate. The report of your approaching depar ture being circul lied at Paris about three weeks ago, I presented myself at the Elysee Bourdon to have the honour of seeing you ; and I conoratnlated myself the more on finding you there, as in my priceding visits 1 had not had that good fortune. " Paying respect to your numerous occupations, I thought it rglit to remain only for a few moments, clarin e t which you had the goodness to converse with me, in the first place, on the recollection which you preserve of the inhabitants of Thoulouse, who, under your eyes, in the month of April 1814, gave proofs of their live for the King. which were so nobly ap preciated by you; and finally, on the satisfaction you experienced from the punctuality with which the paymrnts stipulated in the last Treaty were made by the F ench Government. To which I replied, first, that almost all Fiance participates in the sentiments which animatrd the people of Thoulonse ; and secondly, that it was the sincere desire of France to prove to Europe that the engagements entered into by the King: were held sacred; and I added, that the Chamber of Deputies, so worthy of representing France, would won give a touching example of this truth. Stich, my Lord Duke, were the only points on which the conversation which occupied the time of my short visit turned, and in which no political affair was treated upon, nor any minion announced on my part. I doubt not, therefore, my Lord Duke, that you will contribute on your part, as I have on mine, to contradict the false reports to which the visit I had the honour of making you has_ given rise, and to which I should never have thought- it necessary to call your attention, had I. not been assured that grove personages (douts•less involuntarily) have given cre dit to them, and had not, from the manner in which these reports hate been stated in the English papers, that error on their part become injurious to the Prince to whom I have the imitator to be attached, and whose nobleness of character and love for all his du ties are known to your Grace. I have the honour to be, my Lord Duke, your most humble and most obe. dun! servant, .4 The Count JULIES DE Potomac." The Noble Duke replied to the above letters, 4, that be had been no less astonished than. the Count de Po!ignae at the interpretati , 4 which the journals had . Om to a visit of mere politeness, and that he would see the die.teowAl of it with the greatest satisfactiml." T.114,-.4V4NING STAR. LONISON'.. • T No MONDAY, APRIL 13. 1816. ZealVas MdStDay....Holidsy st tb• Baca: This morning we received the P.►ris Papers d TSuridAy. It will be seen by tlle subjoined extracts. that the pnpular question respecting the Electoral Ci►lleges been carried against the Ministers, by a great majority. It remains to be seen whether any Court intrigues will be put in motion. to counteract this expression of the sentiments of the National Rer presentatives. !Like Court party wishes to maintain harmony. and resto►•e repose and unanimity to France. it will not only acquiesoe, but heartily cooperate to - - give efficacy to this determination ; but perhaps this is ratim to be desired than hoped for, from some of the individuals who compose that party. Et is reported, that the French Government having been dilatory in the payment of the sums stipulated for the maintenance of our troops, four regiments of horse have been ordered home from France, and may be daily expected. Report also adds, that Ministers, convinced of the necessity of economy and retrench ment in the present circumstances of the country, have caused it to be notified to the French awern meet, that the rest of the British troops will shortly be alio withdrawn from the French frontier, if pay ments be not regularly made, according to the Con vention. We have no doubt that the French will, ere long, furnish the opportunity atforkird by non payment for withdrawing the reoldinder. CHAMBER OF DEVIITIES. SITTING OF WEDNESDAY. M. de BooltA.s, President. Count Vaublanc, Minister of the Interior; M. de Cams, Minister of Police ; Count Dubouchage, Mi nister of the Marine ; and M. Becquey, Counsellor of State, were on the Ministerial bench. The order of the day for the discussion of the pro- visory law relating to elections was called. M. Becouri, King's Commissioner, then roses if I shall endeavour to be short on a subject simple in its intention, but which has been complicated V the Committee, in submitting to your deliberation, not amendments, but additions which do not enter into the object of the law, at the same time that they arc contrary to the priaciples of the Charter and the in dependence of the Crown. The convenience and the siility of the law are not contested. Who, in fact, can complain against the intention of giving provi sionally a legal character to the Ordonnaaces of the ring, in the medc and form of elections, and the. .41.0.11PAASOLor MOO, fee.. ~...-., 111111111P1111rWRMWTTiiiiii - Itretted thist the three brand*, a-the legissilatAteW I not 'nnanimousior the adoption of a monists moo definitive law oa this important subject. It ismseesh nary to supply this deficiency. Ninth me, first of all, to rebut the erroneous 'opinion in the report, that the Chamber of Deputies has a more particular inte rest than the Chamber of Peers in defending the in- I,terests of the nation. There results from the ar rangements of the Charter a perfect equality between the elective and hereditary Chambers, in their parti cipation of the legislative power. " The first amendment of the Committee tends to add to the project of Government the provisory Maintenance of Article 14 of the Ordonnance, which enacts that 14 Articles of the Charter shall be sub mitted to the revision of the legislative power in thi next Session of the Chamber. Do You participate in 'the opinion of your Committee which supposes that , we cannot confirm in an insulated manner one part of the Ordonnance, but that we must convert the whole of it into a law! I am not of that opinion. The silt:lice of the King oo Article 14, announces to you that his Majesty does not wish you to make it the subject of your deliberations. You will not con sent, therefore, to take an unconstitutional initiative on one part of the Charter.—(Manarn.)—You can not wish to do so, because the initiative belongs to the King : You will not lose sight of the circum stance that the King himself and the Chamber of Peers have already announced their intention of maintaining the execution of Article S 7, which forms part of those which the Ordonnance bad submitted to revision. " Wherefore should 14 Articles of the Charter be necessarily compretended within the same category I What right has the Chamber to proncAnce it ? They are neither inherent nor dependent one with the other. The Ordennance has not called for their revi sion : it Merely announced the intention of provoking it. The first amendment ought to be rejected. The motives given by the reporter to justify the second amendment, are in that part of his discourse where be declares, that it is not for the interest of our cotm try that a law. Which might to influence in a manner so decisive with that for elections on the establish. meat of the Repretentativ. Chamber, should be ad journed and cdnfitled to other Deputies than those who have been called by the King, and who have been named by the departments to fulfil this special mission. « Every thing tends to sheer, that but for the mis.i fortunes of the 20th of March, the old Chamber of 'Depudes would have voted on this proposition ; but it it impossible to conceive how the Electoral Col leges, which have sufficient powers for an entire•re newal, should not have powers for a partial renewal." (The Electoral Colleges are provisionally main tained. They have a regular character, and from this instant they may act simultaneously, or in an in sulated manner). M. BECQUET *en concluded for the adopti"n of the Project of Ministers, and the rejection of the Amendments of the Committee. M. DS CASTILIAJAC spoke against the Project of the Ministers and in favour of the Amendments pro. posed by the Committee. M. de CAM. Minister of Police, rebutted the argu ments of M. de Csistelbajsc. He considered the amendments of the Committee as expressly trenching upon the royal prerogative—of initiating all laws. M. de VAUBLANC. Minister of the Interior.—" The speech of the Repeater contains an accusation against the Minister, and particularly against me, since I was the organ of the Ministers..— (Several ♦oices— /VO, Ns.) " I do not complain of these accusations. I accept cheerfully, in their full extent. the personal inconve niences which the Representative Government may inflict on the depositories of the Royal Authority. I know well that the Representative Government was not formed for the repose of the Ministers, nor, are they, in their turn, interested for the repose of the factious. 1 1 Gentlemen, you will soon return to Tear depart.' ments ; you will examine the progress of the psblic mind ; you will interrogate your fellow citizens, your friends, your relations * the Administrators, and 1 have no alarms as t►► the judgment which you will then Eorin. The Reporter has quoted that part of my speech in which I spoke of the dependence of the electoral power; but have you not youiselves recog nised the necessity of the influence of the-Govern ment on elections, by adding to the colleges of the' department one-tenth of the electors to be nominated by the King ? Witb respect to the question of re. newing the Chamber, although obliged officially to vote with my colleagues, the Ministers, for oner6fth being renewed, yet my private opinion has always been fur a complete renovation." M. de C.OIIIIIMII (in the absence of M. de Villek, the Reporter of the Committee) replied to all the, arguments against their proposed amendments, which were then put to the vote, and adopted by a very large majority, 206 against 116. A Project of a Law has therefore been voted in the following terms t 66 Article 1. The Ordoananess of the lath and !Ist of hdy, sboli have the fora of a law provisionally in aY disk orrosio. ascots. s. The Mewed Caws, es sss*bed by these *edam. Ranee, dal be aublealited; without new addithw e until they L * amp ~Mg asewby s isistelve int If dredges white A* berapssigh es Smoke al leaf. r ig S. They Ain not be gelled tie sit is say other deafen thin 111 tbs•e , which shall br neenettered by s diesoledoo of the Chant bee, lo virtue at Article Met the germ." Adjourned till Mouthy (tt.is day. PARIS, APRIL. 10. The Emil& of Rossi hassent M.Pozso di Borgho, a superb swdrd, the hilt of which is studded with diamonds. couat ER 11TRAORDINARY 01 THURSDAY MOONING. The Commissary of Police, Roussel,-of the llth arrondissement, received a stab in the arm with a knife, on Sunday night, in making an. arrest. On the Sd instant, the gen: d'armes of Tarrascon arrested one Sansse, one of the authors of the popular commotion which took place in that city on the Ist of February last. This individual was one of those who went to the King's Procurator, and forced him, by dint of menaces, to liberate Gouvernet. The same person also . went to the Deputy Procurator next morning, and demanded to know the hour of meeting of the Tribunal, in order to bring Gouvernet before it for acquittal. New York Papers arrived this morning to the 12th of March. NEW YORK, MARCH 9. CONGRIIIM —The House of R:fpresentatives, for se►eral days past, bave been occupied principally cn the Bank 3111. On Tuesday List a motion to strike out of the Bill the provision giving to the President and Senate the power of appointing five Directors, was decided in the negative. 64. to 79. WASHINGTON, FEBRUARY 27. The difference which has ezisted between the So. nate and House of Representatives on the subject of the metes and bounds of the treaty making power, and Vie scope of the legislative powers when coming in collision with it, is at length in a fair way of being utifactorily adjusted. A B:11 , has passed the House of Representatives respecting the convention of Com merce with Great Britain, and will probably -pass toe Senate, which though it does not settle the Constitu tional question, will settle on principles of compro mise and mutual accommodation, the present diffe rence between the two branches of the Legislature. FEBRUARY 28.—The Bill concerning the Conven don of Commerce with Great Britain now requires only the signature of the President to become a law, the Senate having agreed to the Report of the Com- Mince of Cod rence thereon, which had previously been agreed to by the House. NEW-YORIt, MARC!! 11. EXTRACT OF A LETTEct FROM CANADA. •e I have this moment been conversing with a Gentleman from Quebec, who informed me th-A his Excellency Sir Cordon Drummond has the Parliament. The.eanse assigned in the Clcvernn:'s Proclamation, I understand, is, the high torte vt•l:ich the Members bad assumed on their being informed of the Prince Regent's and Councils' decision, re specting the impeachment of the Judge of the Pro vince. The packet is on the ere of tailing." Last night we received H imburgh P.qters to the lOth instant. Their contents are very unimportant. An article under the head of Hanover, of the sth of April,' mentions that the French General AN:ILL, in cluded in the proscription-list of the 2tth of July, after a long concealment in Germany, hod been laid hold of at Luneburg, and conveyed under an escort to Hanover. The Harnbsirgh Correspondent of the 9.h, contains anothets of those tragical stories of which we hue lately had several from the Continent. It states, under the head cf Dresden, April 1, that a carpenter of the name of Room., after inflicting such se vere wounds on his father and mother-in-law that their lives were despaired of, had murdered his wife, and destroyed himself. Previously to this, he had, on the same day, though happily without anccess. endeavoured to set fire to several houses. The Editor observes, that had he not received the account from a creditable source, he should have deemed the story a first of April hoax. In an article from the Maine, we are told of the currency of a re port that the title of EMPEROR of GERMANY will be again restored. From the same quarter we learn, that Dr. GOMM had gone to Treves to plead his cause in the action by appeal brought against him by Mr. SACK. G d Oltallta., it is said, will be compensated for the suppression of the Rhenish Mercury, by an ap pointment to a Professorship in the University to be erected at Cologne, A steam-vesselis this summer to navigate the Elbe between Hamburg and Magdeburg. - . Saturday the French Ambassador had an audience of the Putscs Itzorxr. at Carlton House. Friday his Serene Highness Prince LE ,-, PoLo at tended Divine Service at the Pirish Church of Brighton. and received the Holy Sacrament. The worthy Vicar of that parish afterwards dined with Prince LEoPOLD, at the Pavilion. Yesterday Divine Service was performed before the Royal Household, in Carlton House, by the Rev. W. F. lkomnsao, Clerk the Closet. Yesterday being Easter Sunday, the Rev. Dr. PAOI4 head Master of the Westminster School, as Sub-Almoner, preached before the Royal Family and Nobility, at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, from the 10th chapter of St. John, and 18th verse, in the room of the Archbishop of YORK. An appro- priate Anthem to the day was admirably sung, by Mr. Ktivvyrr and Mr. CLARK, " It we believe that Jews died," composed by Dr. Boyce. Mr. KNY• VITT , Kn. presided at the organ. There were present the Dukes of Yoat and Curauratt.Av D i and the Duchess of CaIPSALAIID. .. ~_---=..z_ ~~ cry VTAL iNTRiiIGBNCI. FALMOUTH. APRIL 111. Arrived the Arabella packet, with a Vail' Lisbon, in 13 days, and the American ship Is from New York.—Sailed the Rapid packet stn, mail fin- Nttw York; the S:i.oke pzrktt with a tt fur the Bratik ; and the Dui:, of Kent packet ‘i a mail fox Lisboa . —Wlnd L. to N. fi ne weather. rottTsmouni, A I'IIIL 14. Arrived yesterday the Diana transport, from t braltar, and is under quarantine. Sailed yesttr4 his Majesty's ship EUPHRAI Pc, for ---; Ar cs ay Hebe transports, for Wool wic!, ; and the Hatpe tat Daphne transports for Enthden. Sailed todayi Majesty's ship Rnsatuo on a critize ; and the lioa z transport for Cork. — Wind N.E. DEAL, APRIL 14. Sailed his Majesty's ships Acautt.ov and Nor a . STAR, and homeward bound tar the Itiver.—..p r i tto Regent and Phtie , iix for Madras and Beng a l, —.F it o'clock, the wind has got back to the S. W. and t! , two ludiamen are coming back to their anchoragt, and remain with the rest of the East indiamen as p e last.—Wind S. W. HAP.trICH, APRIL l& Arrived the Active packtq from Gotteoh rg h, and Lady Ntpean packet from Cuxhaven, whit M a il s , also the Antelope, BRYAN, ti. m Scarb oroug h , witi the iciss of two anchors and coh:ei. Sailed the fiend Freeling packet for Holland ; the Beaafoy pocket fot Cuxhaven ; and the• Alliance packet lo t c rut , nbtro, both with Mails and passengers.--Wind p. Mr. PINCKNEY is appointed Ambassador to R d * and to take Naples in 11;s way. S iturday the Dispatches ws•re finally doted nth East India House, ard delivered to the Pursers r; the following ships, viz..— Sachs , Castle,C, tpia i n v,- . fvfoerArT ; Etrl Balearras. Captain J. hums; Hugh Inglis, Captain J. FAlerAs ; Muctiinitoss of Exeter, Captain T. Gums: ; Windham. Captain]. Auneews ; and Surat Castle, Captain W. H o t s , for China direct. Passengers per in of Id for China, Messrs. W. BAINEs, and T. C. Sung writers, and Mrs. BAYNES. We learn by the AQUILON, arrived at apithetl e last from the Mediterranean, the p irtletilars of loss of his Majesty's frigate, Isren Captain T. F REST, on a reet of rocks to the westward of Cane Gat. The ISTER sailed from Portsmouth on the2l of February, fitted nut upon the peace esutbliAmeig and waspn•ceeding up th e itiediterranean, horn M,. lags, to join Lord EXMOUTH, when the accident ha? pened ; she struck :it two o'clock in the moniing c: • the 7th nit. when malting at the rate of nine knob. Hopes we-e entertained that, b) great 'exertini.s, sh might he gut off, and, by :he a:sis'ance a vie: witioli came out of Malaga, twctityonar of her gut, were taken oat, and sent car Ginraitai ; lan it proved, on making fresh exertions, that the nicks had best through her, and she was fast filling a hit sand. All the crew were vfely taken out, ..nd lande•ii at l‘lalags, excepting Mr. SITwELL, Millbhpaun. an 1 men, who were drowned by t h e UpSettsog r f the g,g•hu.:t. Captain Hue aeon, of the MONTAGUE, h who _4! -71 ' sinic time had the command a: Gibraltaron heari•ig of the misfortune, itemediatelv proceeded in n'at s 1;;; to the spor, in the hope of being able to save the stores. The ship had been fitted nut f;•r three years' service, in a state ot uncomman eve-Ince. The NORlii STAR, of 2d giins, Car. IiENTP.4.u, ar rived at d'ortsrncutli front Jamaica and Ei with mails, has brought upwards a f one million- I dol. lars-6f31,000 on act:emit of Givertment—EA',ooo belonging to trercliaots. The tormcr ntiMher she I landed at l'ortsnioe:h— the la ter the vccteded w , th I to the River, on Thursal.::,-, being or.itte,t tubevid off at Depthird. She lett .larresica on the 12th, and lisvannah on the tnh of Febt tray. The accounts she brought cf affairs in Spanish Amerca, ate deci. dedly ie favour bt the Royaiist cause. Since thew cure of Carthagena, Santa Fe (the c7.pital of New Grenada) _had fallen into the hinds of the Royalists. General MORELLOS, who comman.'en use Independent force, and was taken at Carthagena, had been shot ; and upwards of seventy English and American sub jects, eho were likewise taken at the stirtender of that city, had been sentenced to the same punishment ; but General Moettni.o al terw •rds determined they should be sent to Old Spain, under the sentence. to await the final decision of his master, FERDINAED Vll. All these persons were carrying on trade with Car. thagena when it was besieged by the Royalists; aril the Spaniards pretend, that they not only formed, by their exertions and counsel, the main strength of the rebel cause. but that they prevented many of the Spanish subjects from returning to their duty and allegiance to then. King. Mr: Henry (a Jamaica merchant) is the principal person against whom these accusations were laid ; I.e was wiainded rind taken prisoner in a privateer of his own fitting out. it is stated, that during tl:c leurteen weeks that Cartha. gena was in a state of siege, 4,9J0 persoas died in the streets of hunger. A report reached Jamtice, from Sr. Domingo, on the day the l‘lqtra STAR left Port Royal, that CIIRISTOP:Ir. had been assassinated; but it WAS INA generally relied upon at Jamaica. The..PAS:MS ARAXES had s,:iled with troops to N ew Previdence; the N JuNo and O?. had gone to Vera Crux , te r Tecie ; the 111::eenA and Pitimitose (since their ar rival from England, on the race establishment) had sailed ; the former for New Providerte, the latter to Curecita. The DRAKE, CARSATIoN, VALUABLE, ROYALIST, gad EMULOUS, Were 1,..ft at Jamaica. The Noirrst - STAR fell its with the FORESTER, Captain litunia, with 1,f,..00,0a0 dollars on board, from Vera ,Cruz. 'LANAI , " and CaauAme, it was ex pected, would sail far England, about tha '26th of February, with specie which had been taken to Ja maica in the Emtmous. C.eptain Cot, lately in coin. nand of the NoRTH STAR, came home (invalided) to th shi?. The Pnimaole, Captain Pntr.t.or, salted on the Pith of February frcoN Port Royal, fur Curs coa, for the purpose of taking on board the British Governor, Major General Ls Connecta and his suite. and to proceed from thence to one of the windward islands, where they will wait for an opportunity to embark for Great Britain. Major FRAZER Msities, late of the 2d, North has published Memoirs of the Campa igns us orDQiusetrekti'ts Regiment, and on the Staff of the Severn , Holland and Egypt, together with a brief description of the Islands of Crete, Miuoreap Syracuse, and Rhodes, &c. &c. . . ..v Or 101 t‘? vii Q tb .1 ' 1 • 1