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I DUTIES ON 2XPORTATION. Fifty eentimes for ioo killogrami, on v.ffee, cocoa, sugar, of retry kind, and molawes ; 1 tr. on pepper, pimento, gum, cud*. neat, co.too, indigo, rice, sulphur; piece goods of cotton only will obtain a bounty on r.aportation, of 50 tr. the 100 killogratria. PERSECUTED PROTESTANTS IN PRANCE. The Cqmmittee of as The Protestant Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty" have been im pelled by no party_feelings to manifest their interest for the Protestants in the South of France. Party motives - they have invariably and justly disclaimed. To their own Government they cherish an attach ment independent and sincere. For that of France they have no desires but that it should be rendered permanent by the attachment of all the people, and that such attachment should be insured by the com munication of those blesfings which civil and reli gious freedom only can bestow. They have been in fluenced by obligations which they esteem sacred to advocate the rights of conscience, and to offer their sympathies and their relief to the victims of persecu tion, although suffering in a foreign land ? That necessity required the efforts which they have amide, and which other public bodies throughout this Einpite have . nobly' supported, .they cannot doubt, nor can they doubt that those efforts have already. 'produced inestimable benefit ; but thole efforts they vein be most happy to relinquish, wheneves the evils by which they have beer. excited shall have corn pierely dtsappeared, and the Protestants shall selijo.y 'bat religious liberty which all men are entitled to claim, and which the Constitutional Carter was in tended to ensure. But until that result shall be attAined% their duty cm-iv:l.lllth them.to persevere, ttoJeterred by c.rienrhYs rincleluded ay letters extorted by the dread of punish. silent ! -and reg.:1..1411 only of their wislt to accelerate the universal return of religious Iseestoni, ut prospe. 1 and of peace. These determinations have been confirmed by the recut attempts made to distract and prejudice the public mind. In those attempts the Committee have perceived a design to.divert attention from t'he evils which our own Government acknowledged and de plored ; to overwhelm truth by clamour, and to per petuate a neglect to the oppressed, or to invigorate the arm of the oppressors. Designs sn injurious they conceive themselves re. coned to resist and counteract. Nu means more el. sectual for such resistance do they perceive, than the eaposition of some of those facts which justify their past interposition, and illustrate the real present situa tion of those persecuted brethren, whom they WWI& aerate, and have resolved to protect, Unaccompanied by any remarks, they accordingly publish a letter which they have recently received, and which was written by a gentleman of great erni. nence and undoubted worth, And was brought from trance and delivered to them by a distinguished and intelligent Member of the British Parliament. This letter, the Cominit li tee think, will develop" facts mere impres s ive than many arguments.—facts that ago. sized them with grief and horror—which the wise and benevolent of all parties and denominations will partake, and which, they hope, that the French Go vernment, by prompt, active, and unequivocal elev. tons, wid not only continue to mitigate, but will eelntually remove. bniurrf IS. 1516. Tu 111 E COMMITTSE OF TYE PROTESTANT SOCIETY FOR TSIE PROTECTION OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. " Paris, December SO, nits. " The 11,ety interest uh;ch you and your Society have taken itt the fate Df the persecuted Protestants of the &nth of ?ranee, bas'rusele a num gratefel sensation on those of the inhabitants of the Capitai who are acquainted . with this circumstance.. have.kad the satisfaction of teeing a printed letter annezed tratasetutions taken by your Society, which you have addressed ,to some Members of Use Protestant Comistory at Patio. A Gentleman celebrated among the Protestants of Francs commu nicated to me confide-ottani this letter. He 'timid return you, Gentiemeii, Ms warmest thanks for 'our attention, and is Im pressed with the deepest gratitude for the sentiment' it conveys; but he is dept seed of the means of answering it bythe pecuuar circuniamucea under which his country atoprtsent labours. I thus learn also that you have a24ressed a similar letter to' Mon new Marron, the Preeideut of the Protestant Coasbtory at Pa ris, and that that Munster has ince written a letter to E.:timid ia terms which bla cob rcience disavows—terms dictated by the fear et individual persecution; for, op his return from a recent visit to London, he 'one called up before the Minister of Police, pod was closely cairn ined as to the motives of his journey, which were supposed to be COMMA:tad with the interests 'of the Protes tants, sii.ce which perked be has been looked upon with great 1.-aliniry by the Lloyerunient, For similar reasons ypp have been depiived of much essential iafoimatinp trom ether quarters. A taw woich forbids the Member.; bf the Protestant Church fium cOrtespoudibg ith foreign authorities.---(1.oi organique dos tubes krotestarits le tiertannal, An 10- 4 L.esEgines Prate.. tants, iu leers Alisibires, no patriotic ayoirded Mathias sect jueune puiv.ancr au aututite etrangerel And you will easily ,ipprehetio t be posatto:lity ul IL lorCed construei=on being pet Upon nos law • in additian to which, the French system so closely con: neer.. the r M0m:n . 4:14 reit t ,ious iuterrus, and enforces so vigilant. savaillatier upon Our krotustanth in the Capital, that the dread of persecutniii as sensibly felt here as in the South. •• Ihe consideration of these circunistiotes and the altprdi ! 'Ailey of your being rightly and speedily intonneit 14; the partial- ' 7 • , kr objects of your inquiry. Lae, induced me to *dame re on' the subject. My information stAK lee 4:Melt derived from per sons who have lately arrived from Nimes, having led from that scene of penecution, or from othai who still lad Maus ' ell keeping up ask corresponds ice with that city. lam farther authorised to &form you, du the Protestant Minister, why had the courage to publish some time since the pamphlet, end-1 • Memolre pour la Poicesums dieliii-Languenoc: had re wady the fortitude to refuse subscribing a circular letter to the Protestants, written under the influence of the Minister of Police. " On the following facts you may rely : " In consequence of the King's Ordinance of the 21st of No, vember, which was - iulgated at Manes on the 2utb, several prem. of the murderers ct that Protestants, and depredators of their property, were taken into custody, gut on the 6th co' December they n ere all set st ithetty. Oa the 7th they spread over the neighbouring country ; a party of them repaired to the house of a r klonsieur Peyron, a rich tanner at Bresnan, who from the beginning of the persecotioni had been greedy exposed to the fury of the fanatics; not fiedicg him, they manumitted his three tom either to give up their father, or pay a sum of 50,000 dens. _As the young men could not comply with either demand, they were dreadtully beaan by these villains (one of them being lift fur dead), and both house and farm were pillaged. •• On the same day another party of the same description; went to a country house inhabited by three respectabit old ma t ; brothers. Alter having efeered theme everyiartigitity that fames ticisin could suggest, they proceeded to az. of ofence. Upoo these unfortunate men attempting to resist, they were instantly charged with rebellion to use King; said upon this proasaso b ' seised, and carried by these fanatics before the King's Attorney. Getieral, who, Indignant at the outrage, refused to canna them. 1147 were then dragged before the Prefect, who ordered: them to prisok ' par mesure de stunk,' which was ininsedustaly executed, amidst the shouts of 6 Viva le KM!' • •• 'the following is an extract of a locus from Uses, mar Nismes, of the lath December: 6 ' 6 '1 he chief persona of the Protestant families have lee front their habitations, which had considerably suffered. Our Church is now in the most deli:or:tile condition; no public wor ship is celebrated. Ministers of our promote' at rani,• who are so near Government, forget not your brethren of tbt south ! We have lost M. 111.1coun, President of the Condatery. fiat late events have hasteued4ris end; he Isad been obliged to desert first his house in town, and then thet in the country. Lisa latter has been pillaged.' _" From Uses, same date. " • B— informs us, that his son settled at Arpalllargues (near Um), after having fled and wandered 'in the woods for two mouths, has been arrested and conducted into the ;new" of Uzet, where he edit remains. A great many other Protestant continue in the same predicament.' " We were led to expect that the proclamation of the King, and the measures taken in pursuance of that prectintatiou, would have restored tranquillity to the distracted city if Nimes. Rut if we examine vii-.h attention that proclamation, one would really suppose, Isy the language, that the law. had not been of tended by any act of violence etore the assassination mentioned therein. And yet hundreds of liniment Protestant, had been butchered hy teivfiteaf friends of the Kind previews to that pe riod, and almost all the country holism aniutiel die city, to the number of 140, bad been completely destroyed, the few that escaped belonging to the mmt bisected Cadtelics. " T am assured that the 'Mesh Goverinn...ot bartin: applied to the French Court for information relative to these pent-, wions, the Duchess d'Anguidente suggested stilt Monsieur de Delius (a Member for the Departnieut du Card) should be 'leaked to make a Report on the subject, which WAS eteerdingiy made; and in the spirit that might he expected, it states that the exag gerated accounts of excesses committed Su the City of N16111C• may be reduced to the fact of Its or 17 individuals hay Ina been assassinated, several of whom were Cathodes and uounious Ihn impact:as. Ihe Paris Porn of the eßth Instant state, Out the Prom.. tant worship was celehr.itecl with great pomp in ti.e chureht.s of Nisnits, on the 21st : this Is true. " '1 he Address of tho City of Londpn, rowing in support or your and buntline turtions, Iw.tgt to havu the aanAre qicalire. " by private letters we learn, *bat tlitt ceremony of the L'lst mentioned in the parsTers ot de: tt n.. place with per k= Watt, the Catholic l'aieNts took th:::ir p.:14 at thu Church doors, to prevent disturbance. " It apecats also by the latest accounts, that the P7otostant Churches which Lad bee:. pmeltased t, thy Menai - cr. of that Commotion, are to be re:torzil to the Catholics, and that two others are to be boils In ibex ttcad. Ihe Di.e ii7il:l3nuleute has subscribvd 15,000 byres t.e.r..ar.!* the erpe:.-e ot them. " kriscrillon and Quarrctalioa, mei notorious leadars of the Catholic lands, have bets] appreitenits.l,, ,, .l 4....1i50554 for the purpose of being tried. _ _ _ " lolloaing tune I bare received, it: amwer to some inqui ries I bad made •• •II n'T a rien d'eaagE•E dans ce qu'on a di:. Nous *vim des nouvelles ier suite; :Dais un ne eau. dit pa• toot. Un cranit dr now retire. Co qu'on a le/trims; a talenti Ir :nal. ContitiucT nue. entre bonne volume, tie dicc• i pentium quc je vous 1 t&a it, vests na'expuserier sans necessltU,' " NOTE RESPECTING THE PROTESTANTS OF TIIR DKPARTMEXT OP VIE GARD, AND THE EVENTS THAT HAPPENED IN THAT COUNTRY IN 1814 AND 1815. THE OARD BEFORE AND VORIS° TDB REVOLVTON. The Department of the Gard comprehends 3:?2,000 inhabitants, out of whom 122,000 profess the Protes tant Religion. These 1'22,000 pay one half of the contributions of the Department ; and by their in- dustry, both in agriculture and commerce, support a considerable portion of the other inhabitants of the Gard, and even of the Ardeche and Lozere. The Protestants, whose existence in France was not legal before the just and beneficent concessions of Louis the 16th. generally adopted with as much en thusiasm.as, the immense majority of the French, the liberal ideas which prevailed at the Revolution of • 1789, bet abhorred the excesses of 1793 and 1794.. They shed tears on the dreadful murder of the King, and under the dominion et the Federalibt. they for cibly resisted the tyranny of the Convention ; the con sequence was, that out of 150 persons who perished at Nismes under the revolutionary axe, 117. were Pro. testants, among whom were the Ministers of their worship; and in the Revolutionary Tribunal, which' was composed of Lawyers and Priests, who con formed, there was nut one Pr otestant. The dreadful Government of Tetror ceased at throughout France. The Protestants, equa:ized with All other Frenchman, did not exercise in the Gard any particular son of power or influence. The Judi ciary Authorities were almost all composed of Catho lics, who alone before 1789 could bo civilians, and out of the civilians the Judges were chosen. No Pre fect was appointed but from among the Catholics; and if in the inferior Tribunate Protestants were found, it was only in a smaller number, and in pro. portion to the pepulatien or local conveniencies. Per tidy, therefore, or misinformation, could alone assert that the Protestants had e;ercised an exclusive power and made a wrong use of it in the Gard. TUE CARD UNINUt TIIE EING'S GoVERNIIRSTt The return 'ot the legititnate Monarch was gene. rally welcomed with transport in the Department ; but whilst the immense majority of the Protestants ptoclaimed that return as the return of liberty, and saw the consolidation of their rights in the Constitu-• tional Charter, the majority (If the Catholics dreamed of reinstating the old system of government. of also. lishiog all liberal ideas, and etpeeially of anatilating. all did the Protestants had &sunned, The motto of the latter.was i 6skl i ong live the King—lung. li c e, t h e Charter I" The motto of • the-fornier wasp " Long live the . King—down the Charm I" - From this difference of opinion, thiAsh with in unanimous lore ' and attachment to the sing, isms,' • . divisions and sentiments of hatred nniong the inhabi. • tars of s‘e• Gard, and chiefly between Vitt:We plinfi thousand Catholics and the , fifteen thousand Protes tants of the city of Motes—the, former, •with great affectation and grand pomp, assisted at the revival' of processions and outward religious ceremonies, ell disused for a long time according to law. Many of them, by addresses, petitioned for the recall 'of the Jesuits, and some of them manifested a frantic and unseasonable zeal. They composed, and publicly sang along the streets songs, the burden whereof was, that they ought to wa►h their hands in the Protestant blood. The Mi nisters of worship were insulted, and the report was spread abroad that some men of distinction had said that there could be na tranquillity in the country but after another St. Bartholomew's day. On their side, the Protestants, exasperated. replied with some pride. that their ancestors had replaced Henry IV. upon the French throne. thought they were as good Frenchmen as the Catholics, claimed justice and protetiorf, and complained of their denial. In fine, had it not been for the enlightened toleration. of the King. his Ministers. and particularly the Mi nister of the Interior—had it not been for the pru dence of the local authorities, and the excellent un derstanding of the Catholic and Protestant Clergy, one might have teen Frenchmen, though equally submitted to the Royal authority, cutting each other's throats, for opinions which should have been absorbed in•an unanimous sentinsent of veneration and attaelt ment to the King. • TIPS GARD DURING THE USURPATION. • In the mean time the Usurper entered France, wad the inhabitants of the Gard. like all the French, wen: struck with stupor. His Royal Highness the Doke Angotileme came to Nismes, where he fixed hiN head-quarters, itnd issued a proclamation, which all the inhabitants, for their own happiness, should have considered as the rule of their conduct. Several young men, of the richest families among' the Protestants, enlisted in the Royal army--..a1l con tributed sums of money, more or less considerable ; but the Protestants of the inferior class, it must be confessed, did not spew the same eagerness te enlist. The common people every where reason but little, and feel strongly. They had been quiet during 6f teed years with respect to religions opinions ; they had no longer been so these ten months. Can it be astonishing that men, every day insulted and me naced, esu'd remain with their families to defend them ? The Cathorie Chies spewed so much the, more devotedness, and by every means in their power increased the number of volunteers who offered to join the army. Qn the other side, the troops of the hoe, the ball-pay officers stimulated the Protestants, and by promising to protect them, exaggerated their ap*- prehensimis. It most be remembered, however, that k was the Citliolics who directed all measures in favour of the Usurp:4 and who, during the short moments of his lung reign, have executed criminal revenge against those most devoted to tl& King and the Royal Vo lunteers. It was they who had been the first authors of all the misfortunes felt in.the Gard. It will be stiflicient to mention the General Gilly, Comman der of the Division and Commissionary Extraor din:iry, and to refer to his numerous followers, to be convinced of this truth. . THE GARD ONCE THE KING'S RETURN. Their mischievous power was, however, exercised with A 101 l energy, when the battle of Waterloo, the abdication of the Usurper, and the return of the lewd mate Sovereign, changed the face of things. Cora -1 usissioners cf his Royal Highness the Duke of An. gouleme, men devoted to the Royal cause, but ;goo. rant of affairs, things, and men, for more than 25 years, were sent into the Gard. They were not sen sible that they could no longer. stop the impulse they gave. They :acted inconsiderately, and the white cockade, put up in some places before the moment fiord by prudence, W4l tinged with French blood, 'shed by Frenchmen. The despotism of the Usurper's agents, and the _conscription of the citizens, ceased at Nismes on Silly 15. The white flag and the white cockade were put up, and the whole population of this town, without any distinction of wors!aip, unitedly devoted them selves to joy and happiness; when pretended Royal troops came to bring desolation and 'heath into that populous and interesting city. Taere was a small garrison in the barracks of Nismes, by offering it a .capitulation, it was enticed to surrender. " Scarcely bad the poor soldiers laid down their arms, and left the barracks, when they were massacred. The mai. tart' chest of the Gendarmerie was plundered, the *Gendarmes put to flight, the city guard disarmed.= Then the pretended royal troops, tearing no resistance, committed dioarders and excesses, which their chiefs had not been able to foresee, and could not stop. During several months, in a distance of ten miles around Nissnes, all the Piotestant villages were put under contribution, plundered, or laid waste ;—the isolated villas burnt down, pillaged, or ransacked ; the vineyards destroyed; the olive trees cut down, the corn taken away from the farms. Men were not more spared that' properties, many have been massacred, others proscribed, hunted after like wild beasts. All these horrors were perpetrated with shouts 014 4 Long live the King!" whilst they took place in the edit. cent countries, the cities of Nismes and Uzes were the scenes of all sorts of excess. The houses of pre. tended Bonapartist: were ransacked, the inhabitants forced to pay a ransom, and the unhappy victims who bad no property to plunder of money to deliver, were massacred—they bed nothing but their lives, which were taken from than. Five brothers , among others, perished in that manner at Nismes . . The Protestant women were not better, used than their husbands. Being insulted,strock with bats, through which nails were driven, they were afraid 'to go out of their houses or if their daily wants called them out of doors, they often returned hustle, but - bleeding. Many died in consequence of such shocking treatment. Yet 'the Authorities were silent,. or perhaps, said—" diet it was a misfortune!" . • At Uses, in 24 hours, they raised n contribution,of 50,000 franks, pillaged 25 or SO house', and killed 12 or 16 people, six of hem %Fere 'snatched from the prisani and shot on the public walks.' The exertiosis of the Mayor were ineffectual tit re-establish tran till. he was assisted by the Austrian troops, whom the &liveries.. authorities dismissed atter a stay Q. 45 hears, although they had.alOne restored order. Peace-lasted in 'dm Gard but a few days, because the Of the elections strew near, and of course at Mmes. thelOth, 20th, and 21st An tut, fer* the convocation ot-the 15 people were massacred, some of whom had jest taken out of prism The Prom tors did not dare to repair to the College 1'20,000 Protestants, not having represen no share in the elections. The disorders preceded compelled the Authorities to ca troops, the only ones, according to every I mots, who could re-establish order. Whilst they were pinning, burning, i ing at Nismes and the adjacent places eyes of the *Shriek:. in spite of the en Catholic Clergy, whose conduct is alms the part of the Gard known by the nam venues, enjoyed the greatest tranquinity. population of it, the greatest m .jorit) Protestant. delivered themselves to the after the King's return, were employed rural or induatrious occupations, gave a thousands of fugitives from Nismes, U : lower places, not suspecting that every gusting. heinous, and calumnious pam were represented as rebellious, and in lien. Even those who wrote these pam believe a single word of them ; but there plan to constitute the Cevennes as rebelli to treat them as such afterwards. • E means were attempted to make that sai and the dreadful event which happened August 21., proves that they have been cesslitl. The rretended royal vnlunteer existence. as expressed in the King's 0 itself a mhdemeanour, could not staff jointly svtli the Austrian army. It wa canton - tl:em in the Cevennes, the tranqu displeased much the enemies to the Gar resolved to trouble it at any rate. ‘Vithout any previous nrtice (a na( necessary, but indispensible in these tim and troubles), a first detachinent was se night at lloucoiran and Hers, on the r rimy arrived in the night ; but thronj mistake, some musket-shots beipg fi red b upon an advanced post of that troop llled, and another slightly wounded. urnpli I At length the Gard is declare( rebellion. They did not venture to at they had no other troops but the royal v now it is the Austi ian army they are i up. ,A detachment of it reaches the six tunate peasants defend themselves-6( killed-i--the prisoners taken tram tq re Nismes and shot immediately. It is i to obsrvc here that not one of those m during two months had filled the Gard murders, and conflagration. had even b The Prefect of the Department, b sued August '25, canton: foreign troop: in places exchuively, causer these only placer ► olligei the nomeroms and unhappy fugitive Mimes and Uze:, and thus a wh o ic f a it' population is punished as rels:llious, quested justice and protection, and des But instead of factions they thinq ganig to encounter, the foreign soldiers but taithful :objects eager to obey the Sovereign. 'The Baron Micault began of the Cevennes without experiencing sistance ; and the manner in which he rigorous order, caused the Protestants partune with sorrow, and solicit his retu The raising of the impost of one hur has been the pretext and means of arbitr as appears by this statement ; out of 9 , the contingent of the Gard, 600,0() the Protestants, 200,000 on the Jews, only on the Catholic's, though thesl Its the t wo.thi r d ii of the population of the Throughout ail France people sighed plum of the foreign trnops : but in tl did not wish for it, dreading it as a' troubles. The fatal night of October too much verified these tears. At Mom been plundered, furniture bunt, inhat cred, anal nlibody can know how far tt rages miglit . have been carried, had kin prudence, activity, and firmness °Eger the Commanderot the department. In the mean while commerce is annil thousands of the inhabitants of Nismes and fugitive, a numerous population h anxiety, but not without hope, till the be pleased to cast a favourable look on store to them security and repose. THE MEANS oF Itit-ISTAHLtSHING ORDER In order to obtain this repose, and t quillity, it would be necessary to con testants by facts that they are like all men under the justice and protection of I it would be-necessary that they :nigh' worship, which for some months has bee It would be necessary that. in the G rifles should as much as possible be proportional number of Catholics an The latter, on the contrary, are este from all public functions. _ _ France reckons among her children t million of Protestants, - Why sbuuld n of Frenchmen be represented in an 111 portion in the Chamber of Peers t In the popular elections to this day, they have Liken free, chance has offered rantee to the Protestants of the Qard. that they have been refused to them I tions, and have raised among them fear never have been revived in Trance in wry, and mingled with the recital of lionis the desired ! NIL Enrrott-1 saw the other day i paragraph relating a supposed occurr the fashionable Gashing-houses, whicl clusion 1 instantly recognisal as a 14 contained, however, an assertion, wl that even these Gentlemen, in the ye their inventive faculties, would not 1 had it not had some foundation in that in the present Liottery it is five to of the holder of two Tickets or Shares of the aphals,or some other Priae; tl nearly Two Blinks to a Prise, I cool hand, but upon stating the question I mine, one of the most eminent Calci •City, to my utter astuniihment he assu was really so, and offered a byt of a In he would prove it. . ~,~ ~i~:_'. i i .~ 0 31Z111:111 - COMMEACZ Tile following is the Prnject of the Law respecting Ow New Duties prepared - under the direction of Count Vaublanc, Minister of the Interior, assisted by the Board of Trade, consisting of four Counsellors of State, and six Masters el Requeits; who were cm powend to invite to their assistance Merchants, and others Connected with Coinmerce, of the greaten cminer.ce: eiNCE. X.XTRACI FROM THE PRe,YET Ai , TUE LAW OP DUTIES. DUTIEts REDUCED. Dark of Querehros. iustead of so rr. to pay 10 fr. the 100 kU. logranis.—:•laumac ICrfr.—Ginger, instead of 39, to pay 40 fr.— Ipnacuauba, tattea l d of 1, 4 2001 r. to pay 500 fr.—Rhubarb, instead of t,OO fr. to pay 300 fr —C;ehoo, instead of 600 fr. 300 ir. .• DUTIES. AUuNiENTED. Co!fee—French Colonies, 00 1. Foreign, instead of 75 f. to ' pit 1110 I. Sugars—Raw of Or &Ironies, instead of 40 f to pay 45 t. ; Foreign, ins-ead of 60 1. to pay - 70 f. ; Whke, instead of do r. t 3 pay .;() 1. ; Clayed of the Colonies, instead of 70 t. to pay ., ez_f.; Foreign, instead of 95 f. to pay lOU I.; It'hite, instead of 95 T. to pay 120 f.; Refined prohibited. Cocoa—Colenies, tn• stead of 90 1. to pay It 4! I.; Foreign, instead of 95 f. to pay .120 f. Peppt r and Pimento—Colonies, instead of 9u f. to pay 100 f.; Fortran, instead of 95 t. to pay 120 f. Truflics—Colontes, in stead of 2 t. to pay 3 1. the tiling.; Foreign, inatettd of 2 1. to pay 4 Cochinial, instead of free, to pay df. Dying WOods, exclit Broad, Sf. french Colonies, instead of free, to pay 95 f. Cotton—Foreign, instead of tree, to. pay GO f,; Levant, hu.tead of tel.., SO f. All these new duties are on the Importation of the articles by Pieach ships. If imported in foreign ships, they are to pay 10 per con on the duties of 50 francs and tit.der ; 5 per cent. from 51 flares to 150; and 9 per cent. (row! 51 fr. to 300; nothing a tditsotial on goods that pay more than 3t O fr.--:The toper cent thlttional on the former duties, which was to have been taken nit on the lit of January is to be continued. e