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~: ,_ : ~. 110 OBni IPAPERS. PARIS, JANUARY N. loom Tin ;00141414 Dlti Di 11.11714 pump- Tor SQCIETY OF LONDON: The ansiety 'end inquiries of the Protestant So- • piety of *London have.at least produced one good el ,fect. These inquiries have become, to a very.consi derable class of Frenchmen, an opportunity for ma .. pitesting sentiments respecting' which the most perfi • dips malevolence cannot any longer express a doubt. Fr.,n, all sides, the heads:and the members of the Consivories are eager to prove, by the most authen tic Protestations and the molt - fcirmal declarations, that n., real cause existed for the proceed?ags of the pgciety in London, and that an excess of zeal alone inipired that Society with its fears and inspicions.— slue following is the extract from a letter which M. iSlartiiifati de la Zalgue, President of the Consistory pf ihelteformed Church at Clairac, has written to his Excellency the Minister of the Interior, sending to htm, at the same time, the letter which the So ciety of Limckan had addressed to all the consiitories pa France : Full of an entire confidence in his Majesty Louis KVIII. my well tielbved King, 1 fool: for peace and ttanytt.ility on the earth from him alone. The finest Prot/Imes of protection and_ aid from . a foreign Go. -Wertiment cannot make any imptession on my heart: GOD, my Country, and . the Charter of my King, are my sacred signs of rallying. and I n'ouldifie Ml= thM ArSandon them. e‘ These, Sir, are the sentiments whichl unceas ingly endeavour to fortify by my dis Courses and my example in the minds and hearts of my flock, and where they have long since been engraven ; and 1 dare affirm, without tear of contradiction, that the King has not any subjects more devoted than the rrotestarrs of Clairac." We think it our duty to add to this new testi ninny, the following extract from an Address sent to the King by the President, Pastors, and Membtrs of the Reformed Consistories of the Department of ;be Ardeche : Sire, your faithful subjects professing the Re formed Religion in the Department of the Ardeche come to lay at the foot of the throne the respectful homage c 4 their gratitude and lovp. They form no body on the State; they do ire harbour the guilty ;!sought ,of forming one. 'Visited together by the single hnnd of a critiontnn worship, they are - also uni ted to a!! your subjects by their sentiments for your august person, and the precious title of Yo enchman is sufficient for their happiness and glory'. It is in this quality, Sin , , that they come to swear to your Ma jesty as unlimited 6 .Iclity. They have no complaints to make, no petition to offir; they -rely implicitly on your justice and goodness. The tribute which they presume to offer to you is egtealy pure and disinterested; and their languaze must be that of unalterable gratitude and ;mare devotion. 61 While the torch of fanaticism, repressed by your Majesty, has been shaken in less happy districts, they 'lave emistantly enjoyed all the liberty guaranteed by via Charter, the immortal offspring of your noble wisdom, and the pledge of your goodness. No at tempt has been made to check the imptlhe of their f.mscieoice, to oppose their devotions which they pub. licly practise, and in which they terxently pray for yoor safety and happiness. _ _ " You come to secure to us for ever that internal tranquilliq which can alone serve as the basis for the public pi nsperity. That tutelary amnesty, proposed sn your name, by your Ministers, has subdued all hatreds, dissipated • all alarms, calmed all resent ments, re,tstablisheg universal confidence, and bltn dtld .into one coninion sentiment of gratitude and love the differences of opinion which party spirit had fomented. le Sire, poi t terity "will place the name of Louis XVIII. betwetn elOse of Louis XII. and Henry IV. The latter, wow was your ancestor and your model, has always been to the Protestants of FLAUCC the ob ject of a sort of adoration. We love, Sire, to disco •_T him again in you : and if ottr ancestors had the glory of powerfully conttibuting. towards placiug him On t throne which:b4s become your inheritance, we will prove, by our conduct towards your sacred per. son, that the Protestants of the present day have the same love And the same fidelity for the august family of the Bourbons which animated the Protestants of two centuries back. " We are, Sire, with the most profound respect, your Nlojebty's most humble and most obedient ser vants and 1,14;4'0 subjects, the Presid.qus, Pastors, and NI: tubers ut the Reformed Consistories of the Departments of the Ardeche." [Here foUow the Signatures.] =min ...Iv Of the three English Officers . who have been ar rested, Captain Hutchinson is the only one actively attached to the army now in France. It is said the English Officers Bruce, Wilson, and Hutchinson, have agreed at their different inter-. Togatories, in an absolute denial of the charges against them. From the different intedogatories which have been pnt to the Enylish Officers who have been arrested on account of the escape of I....avalette, it appears cer tain that there is s yet not a single Frenchman in volved in the charge. They write from London to Brussels that one of the domestics of Bonaparte bad been sent back to Europe, Admiral Cockburn suspecting that under dress of a servant was concealed a personage of high rank. The individuals included in the second article of the Ordinance of the 24th July, and who by his Ma jesty's Ordinance of the 17th instant (inserted tes terday), are to quit the kingdom ity the 25th Fe bruary, are — smut, Alit, Ezeelmana, Maret, Whet, Feli; Lapelletier, Boullay de la Meurthr, Mate, Freseßret, Thibadeau, Carnet, Vandamme, Lamarque (General); Hare, Pire, Barren, Arnatilt, Renaud tie St. Jean d'Angeley, Pommereal, Atrighi (of Padea), liejean, junior; Garrau, Rcol, Bouvier Dontoulard, Ittlerlin (of Douay), Durbath, Dirat, Drfermone, Dory $r fait Deiports, Garniei - de • Saintes, Me ll inet, HulUn, Ours, curtinviorbin laneon,.*-aldsT sop, and Le Lpegne In tim. ale. 'A report having been eirealated yesterday in Paris :.pe;ting a new arrangement of the batteries on the heights of Moatrprtre, we were desirous of informing. inarsetrea !Top, the subject, and baying made inckliry We tan affirm that they are in the slate state as they have been for some thine. The Ojicial Gazette of January 20, contains the fol. lowing Royal Ordinances: - _ _ ,lst, For a general mourning and explatioe, and a solemn ser vice in every church throughout France, op tho gist of January in every year. That in further expiation of the crime committed on that un-' happy day, there shall be erected, in the name and at the ex pense of the nation, a monument in such place and mode as his Majesty shall direct. _ _ That there shall be also erected a monument, In like manner, to the memory of Louie XVI. of the Queen Marie-Antoinette, and of Madame Elizabeth.•—And, That monument sbaU be erected, In like manner, to the memory of the Duke d'Engbien, This solemn Ordinance is dated January 19, 1916, signed by the King, and co untersigned by Barba Marbists, Keeper of the Seals. The Second Ordinance goes to establish Regulations for the University of Paris, and the other Universities of France, to ob viate the present too great facilities in obtaining degrees from the same; and the specification of numerous Decrees of the Civil Tribunals with respect to verif)ing the causes of absence of cer tain individuals. They write from Nismes, that the number of de cenus in the prisons of that city diminish every day, in consequence of the measures of the administrative and judiciary authorities.. The Court of Assizes has ordered several to be set at liberty. It has con- demned to three months imprisonment and a fine of .50 francs, Bernard Fontaine, convicted of seditious expressions. We read in the Administrative Memorial (of the Cote d'Or) a Decree of the Count Maximin de Choi seul, the Prefect, by which this Magistrate, " consi dering that there still exist in several Communes what are called trees of liberty, planted in places and before, the churches—that these trees recall a mournful et: ich when innumerable murders, and even that of the King Louis XVI. were committed, in the name of an illusory liberty—that it is fit to efface the traces still subsisting of crimes ever detestable, which ought not to live in the memory of Frenchmen, except to excite their profound grief, and to make them bless theclemency of our august Monarch," decree 4 Ist, That on the 31st of January they shall proceed in all the Comnii:nes of the depat :mom, :vier Divine Ser vice, to beat down those teal "dray. 2d, That the wood shall be distributed by the Mayors to the in digent. A Committee, composed of Fri nch and foreign functionaries, li is been formed at the head-quarters of each corps d'arti.ee of the aliied troops, wocse bu siness it wit! be to superintend the service, to prevent .bases, and to do Wile: is proper with respect to all the reclamations :hat may be presented. The Prefect of C ilir.Akis has dismissed 60 Mayors and Adjuncts, against whom heavy complaints have been made from all qua; ms; The previsional Govtrnu.ent of Milan was dis solved the 2d of this nio!oli, and a new Government is now established for Lombardy, under the Presi dency of the Count de Sourau. an Austrian Minister of Sate. The work entitled " Confessions of Napoleon" was seized yesterday. _ _ According to intelligence received from Marseilles it appears that the catarrhal malady which Las pre vailed there, and the sty rounding district, for some time, is not so serious as was at first imagined. 'flie ceremony of the marriage of the Prince Royal of the Nethe;lands to the Grand Docless Anna Paulowna, is rear at hand, but the day is not yet fixed. The Princess joins, to the charms of beauty vd youth, all the graces of body and mind ;—she possesses a pleasing amenity of manners, which softens the maj-sty of the throne without diminishing its lustre, which will one day make her the happiness of all who approach her ; meantime the Court is en tertained by a succession of magnificent fetes, which often combine the most es eprisite taste of Europe with the sumptuousness of the Courts of Asia. Last Saturday a chef d'escadron belonging to a re. giment of chasseurs, 'after quitting the Levee of the War Minister, went to dine at the P.slais Royal, at the Freres Pmvincaux, where he accidentally found himself at the same table with an English °dicer.— The English Officer had two bottles of wine placed before him, which he emptied all but a single glass, which, when full, he threw at the French Officer, who indignantly rase Irons his seat and took sum mary vengeance. The Englishman, stupified by the sudden attack of his adversary, demanded satisfac tion, which was immediately agreed to, but the Eng lishman requested a criarttr of an hour to go for his arms. He accordingly went out, and soon after re turned with two pistols. The place was not very , convenient for a duel, and as, besides, it was very late, they agreed to decide it in a private room. The Englishman proposed that only a single pistol should be loaded, which should be drawn by chance, and thus each to run the hazard of blowing bis own brains out. This proposition was accepted—the pis tols were put into a hat, and each immediately drew forth one. The chef d'escadron, impatient to put an end to the business, placed the pistol in his mouth, and pulled the trigger, but he happened to select the one that was not loaded. The Englishman, with that phlegm which he had hitherto manifested, drew the ram-rod, put it into his pistol, and finding that it was loaded immediately observed, 44 I begin to think' ' that I have the right one." He then paused and asked the Frenchman if he had any children, who replying in the negative, be added, I have, a wife and children, and I wish to settle my affairs; T request' an hour and a half. 44 I will give you all your life," replied the Frenchman, and at the same time he in sisted that an end should be put to the business. The Englishman persisted in his demand, promising his' adversary that he would not be found deficient in honour. They forthwith separated, and four hours ' afterwards the French Officer received a note from ' the Englishman, informing him that at the moment when he should read that letter he should be no more ; he made a thousand apologies for having employed four hours instead of one and a half, but he assured him that his private affairs itiditpensibly required it. 4s soon as the English Officer had put his affairs into order, Ile had his bed warmed, went into it, and a few minutes afterwards blew his brains out I The Frenchman and the Englishman were both of thecti men of honest:llN but it is Afflicting to humanity to we the barbarous custom of cloelliq yetpierail is 4it age of kiwwledge and philosoPT h.. • • - • YILL OF LOMS XPI. . 4 In the name of the Most Holy Trinity, of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.— This day, the 25th of December, 1792, I, Louis, the Sixteenth by name, King of France, being for more than four months past imprisoned with my family in the tower of the Temple at Paris, by those who were my subjects, and cut off from all communication whatever, even with my family since the I ith inst.— being moreover involved in a process, the issue of which it is impossible to foresee, on account of the passions of men, and for which neither pretext nor means are to be found In any existing law ; having no other witness to whom I can addrsss my thoughts than COD—here declare in his presence my last will and my sentiments. 46 I leave my soul to Gon, my Creator ; I implore him to receive it in his mercy, not to judge it accord ing to its deserts, but by the merits of our Lou DJESUS CHRIST, who offered himself a sacrifice to Goo, his Father, for us men, however unworthy, and for me, the chief of sinners. 44 I die in union with our holy mother the C.ttho. lk, Apostolic, and Rnman Church, which derives its powers by an uninterrupted Fuccession from St. Peter, to whom they were committed by JESUS CHRIST. " I firmly believe and confess all that is containe,l in the Creed and the Commandments of GOD and the Church, such as the Catholic Church telches, and has ever taught them. I.have never presumed to set myself up for a judge in regard to the different ways of explaihing the doctrines which distract the Church of JESUS Cstrus-r ; 'but I have always con formed, and shall always conform, it GOD grants me life, to the decisions which the Ecclesiastical Superiors belonging to the Catholic Church, give and shall give, agreeably to the discipline of the Church, fol lowed ever since the time of JESUS CHRIST. " I pity, with all my heart, such of our brethren as may be in error ; but I pretend not to judge them, nor do I love them all the less in JESTS CHRIST, as Christian charity teaches us. I pray GOD to pardon all my sins ; I have scrupulously sought to detect them, to abhor them, and to humble myself in ni. presence. As lam nor allowed to avail myself cf the ministry of a Catholic Priest, I pi .iy GA) ti receive the confession of them which I have made to him, and especially the profound contta:ion that I feel fir having put my name (thi u;;1; it v.. re against my will) to acts which may be. contrary to the discipline and the faith of the Catholic Churcii, to which I have ever continued sincerely attached in my heart. -44 I pray COD to receive the resolution in I an) firmly fixed, if he grants me life, to have recourse, as soon as it shall be in my power, to the ministry cf a Catholic Priest, in order to accuse myself of All my sins, and to receive the sacrament of repentance. " I entreat all those whom I may have offended inadvertently (for Ido not recollect having wilfully given offence to any one), er those to whom I may have given a bad example or scandal, to forgive me the harm which I may have done them: 1 entreat all those who have charity, to join their prayers with mine, to obtain pardon of my sins from Coo. " 1 forgive with all my heart these who have be come my enemies, without my having given them any cativz to do so ; and I pray GOD to forgive them, and likeniee those who, from a false or mistaken zeal, have done me great injury. " I recommend to GOD my wife and my children, my sister and my aunts, my brothers, and all those aim are attached to me by the ties of blood, or in any other manner whatever ; I pray GOD particu larly to cast an eye of pity upon my wife, my children, and my sister, who have so long suffered with me, to support them by his grace, if they should lose me, and as long as they shall remain in this perishable world. " - I commend my children to my wife : I have never doubted her maternal tenderness for them : I recommend to her, above all things, to make them good and honest Christians ; to teach them to con sidur the grandeur ot this world (should they be doomed to endure it) as a very dargerons and pe ris'iable possession, anti to direct their attention to wards the only solid and durable glci y ot eLernity.— I beg my sister to continue her tenderness to my children, and to supply the place of a mother to them. if they shculd have the misfortune to lose theirs. " I entreat my wife to forgive me for all the hard ships which she suffers on my account, and the vexa tions that I may have occasioned her during our union ; and, on the other hand, she may be sure that I bear her no if she thinks she has any thing to reproach herself with. 44 I recommend most earnestly to my children, next to their duty to Goo, which ought to take pre. cedeace of every thing, to continue ever attached to one another, submissive and obedient to their mo. titer, and grateful for all the pains and attention which she bestows upon them ; and, in memory of me, I beg them to look upon my sister as a second mother. " I recommend to my son, if he should have the misfortune to become King, to think that he should devote himself entirely to the happiness of his fellow. citizens ; that he ought to forget all animosity and all resentment, and especially whatever is conoected with the hardships and the vexations which 1 experi ence ; that he cannot make the people happy, except by reigning according to the laws; but at the same time, that a King cannot make them respected, and do the good which is in his heart, unless he possess, the requisite authority, and that otherwise, being fet tered in his operations, and inspiring no respect, he is more prejudicial than useful. . • " I recommend to my son to provide for all those petsons who were attached to me, as well as the cir r cumstances in which he shall be may enable him ; consider that it is a sacred debt which I have con tracted to the children or relatives of those who have perished for me, and in the next place, of those who are reduced to indigence on my account. " I know that several of those who were attached to me have pot behaved to me so well as they ought, and have even treated me, with ingratitude ; but I forgive them (it is often the case That in moments of commotion and effervescence people are not masters of themselves) ; and I beg my son, if he sht,uld find occasion, to think of their misfortunes alone. 44 . I WWI it were in my power here to testify my srittitude . to *se wbo bare nunifested a real and " • disinterested attachment to me. If, on th I was deeply affected by the ingrat;'ude alty of people to whom or to whose n friends I had never shewn any eoiaq bu enjoyed, on the other, th e coaso l 'tins of the attachment and dienuerested „ persons have manifested f ur me. lix accept my warmest thark s f or i t state of things, I should be afraid o f co , them, were I to speak mor e expliciCy ; cially recommend to my son to seiz,2 all o of discovering them. I should, however, deem myself F lumny against the st.ntiments of the od.i not openly to recommend to my son i%les milly and Hue, who were induced by t attachment to me, to confine themselves this dreary abode, and whA had wal ni; happy victims to ir: I recommend to hit with whose attention I have had every satisfied since he has been with me. A mained with me to the end, I beg the C the Commune to deliver to him my ch watch, purse, and the other things wh:c deposited with the Council of the Coma 6' I forgive, likewise, most cheerfnl!y, for the severe treatment arid restraint they have thought it their duty to lay found some tender 'and co:lrv:Arm:de ; :hese enjoy in their hea:ts that tr.:nt; their way of thinking must impart ! 0 , I beg Messrs. De M4l .t.cheers, Deseze, to accept here my st pression of my el , .ep sense ot All the L'ou which they hive or. my account. 6 6 I conclude with declaring before Gi to appear before him, that I do not re; wit!' any of the crimes that are alleged " Done is (11:viicate, of the Tower of the l'ea D..cernber, 1792. (S:grri!) " BACDRAIN Mani PETROUSE. LEITRACT rR om TN! " JOURNAL DUO SRL i•OTu JNiTANT•J " To THE EDI I9R. _ . Stn—l hasten to coramunicate tr tails ‘vhich I have received from the I, relative to ae expedition of the brave nate Peyrott.e. Ttle uncertainty %Alia op to the present Jay, of his _unfostom tm.tiered it is me a duty. As I cLubt not this rzws will inti leaders, I request its insertion in your ne A Partogut se Captain, arrived at Maca. the &I relates ct,a• 0:1 passicg to the east of the 1-h:fin ro-is, to the so..th-cast ot .he 1•le of Timor, l.e sae b,ach a man, who, ty Liz signals. sn:Voietl: he immediately sent Lis oat ashen., and that it i . renchrnati, named Dagelet, the astronomer of t M. I.a yrouse, and that M. Dazelet gave the ft M. tie la l'eyrunse settit.g out (rein Butte 17$8, with the two ships under his consmand, ti to the touch-west of ISiew Holland, coasting a! rocks, the direction and po:Wt . .rt of which are en( M.Da.p.::et. The barge, he Astrolabe, to k night, az::: was lost. Ihe crew were in far: as soon after run short in water and provision•, traverse dos chain of rocks, la Per oust- discs oltUll:rd, according to his account, in :he S S.B. I '1 his island may be from about 12 to 15 leagues 1 fitter having made a tour of it, he entered with that remained to him, into a deep and safe bay,w He was very wed receiv..d,and found there an k a supply of provisions of every Ishii, and obtain tet.lb un chore for the accommodation of his sir thertw had disturbed the good understanding 1).1 and the natives of the country; nit by the II sailor a fire broke out an board, at, i the shy tea burned. the cares of that bsave officer, Al. Is then directed to the saving of every thing pots:Jet utensils, arias, and arnntunitinn. His plan was to carry the news of his misfortune into some nits; but the natives of the country, who ailswi a camp, and make all his dispositions !Mr his us uppussid this des.gn. here-then remained to M. k Peyrouse only uncerra.nly of his fa.e might determine the Free to stud ai search of him. Meanwhile the yeah no vessel made its appearance. It was after .irtni one years hi this expects:ion he at length for build a vessel. Having siva, oriaers to cut the necessary timber, the nativ..3 ef the unuatl order as its ate cot hota...:y on 64 part, and war between the two partite.i °Wised to always sive, the French neitner our dared ti, care M. 14 Peyrouse end , :avoureci .evelal -inns r, but could slot succeed kinally, aft- a war, in :1111111Utilt3011 chat remained was soon eituath.i overpowered by numbers, yielded, and were s Indians Luriied the camp. M. Dageitr, who commanded a small post of ed of the total defeat of M. de la e.'eyrouse, at fate that threatened bimselt and' his companions tittle battery, and laid the good :mune to rca where some Indian boats were lying, which t these trail little boats he put to sea, without oars meats, without.provisions : he had to contend v which precede inevitable death. However, tb currents threw him, atter several days, upon the whence the Portuguese vessel had meet] hint, J two years, durabg which he suffered the sorra one after another, the sad companfons of leis 'id M. Dagelet was the only person who survive the ninth day atter his arrival.on beard the chi tion has been signed, and his journals have b Macan by the Purtuguese Captain. l'here will mined iu them the longitude and latitude of the de laXeyrouse remained so long. lhe Hovers, ' has lbrwarded the one and the other to they will be sent to France. '1 hey have bees, compared with those of M. d'Entrecasteaux ; ao this examination, that the latter had passages within (rum eight to ten leagues of the place war rouse was obliged to reside. But the account o teaux makes no mention of the land perceived I will indulge in no observation upon this ma yet confirmed by any authentic declaration. It that this part of the narrative, which relates to D via, aid of the sending to France ut the journal may be true. '1 hese Important pieces will he h non a lasting monument of its love fur the peon and its title to a species of glory which would Si donee property of our rivals. 7. F. DE Lieuttui SPLENDID FR= AT ST. PETERSCUB anniversary of the Emperor's birtb-daY• Mother gave a bail equally gant ; all the members of the Impniii the foreign Princes now there, were I the grand ball-room was entirely orn, natural flowers; the immense sidocti sated with 36,000 wax lights; if v. resplendence of the diamonds and stones worn by the Ladies, the wzrile chanting sight beyond ail the chat ms tiers of the Palaces ot the Caliphs of t scribed in the Arabian Asher; i as scene. At supper, we table consisted all silver, except that of the Imperial was of vld. ~ of