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FRENCH P4PERL. PARIS, DECEMBER 15. There has been a violent hurricane all night in 'Paris, whits has hone considel able damage. Ms Committee of the Chamber of Peers are stated to have agreed to the projects regarding Divorce. , A public sitting of the Chamber of Deputies is expkted on Tuesday to receive the Report of; die Projet respecting the Provisional-Collection of bitir • twelfths of the Contributions of 1817. The prop sition made to the Chamber of Peers re• girding the responsibility of Ministers was developed by M. Lally Tollendal. They write from Havre, that five fresh vessels laden with grain have arrived there from foreign ports. Some persons spread, during the few last days, alarming reports of a rupture of the negotiations with the Holy See. We believe-we may state that these rumours are without foundation. The delay which these affairs. experience is certainly trouble some, but far from despairing of success, we cond.' nually flatter ourselves that-the moment is not far off when the wishes of the friends of the Church will- be Ildfilled. The delays probably only arise from pri. vate incidents, independent of the basis cf the,princi.' Rai Convention, on which it does not appear that lifers has been any change of opinion: . • 'IRUN. DECEMBER 6. Sir 'Henry Wellesley. British Ambassador to Ma. drifts passed through this town on his way thither on the lid instant: . • VENICE, NOVEMBER se. . • We receive melancholy intelligence from Albania and Dalmatia: The plapue makes dreadful ravages there, and carrids off numberless victims. Tiiit EVENING. STAtt. I.ON DON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1816. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK t Reduced den—Cons. nub. shut—Cons. for opg. 6SU 4 per Cent. '7BU-5 per Cent. Navy shut Ezahtsver Bills, 45.71. pr.—lodia Bonds 15s. 165. pre. In our last we made an allubion to a proposition for reducing the legal rate of interest from five ro four per cent. as a mean calculated to reduce the amount of Taxes now collected, and consequently to give essential relief to our Agriculturalists and Ma nufacturers, and indeed to every class in the com munity. But at the same time we remarked, that a question of such magnitude should not be decided w.thout much investigation, with the special view of coming to a correct conclusion respecting its justice. Would it not be an act of injustice to the Public Creditor thus to reduce the hire engaged to be paid fat the use of his money I Let it be recollected that when interest was reduced from six to five per cent, the price of Stocks did not fall. Is it uarea- Malik to believe that, were such a measure now adopted, the same consequence would follow—that the price of Stocks would not thereby be lowered? But what has this to do with the question—which re lates to the interest only, and not to the capital? We answer, that it has every thing to do with the ques tion ; that, so tar as justice is concerned, the question i:sell„ when divested of intricacy, resolves itself wholly into the effect that uould be produced on TIM CarITAL, quad the National Creditor. For if the price of Stocks be not reduced, the holder, whenever he may wish to make a transfer, will be able to ob tain back his prints/la/ from the new purchaser—and t .is is the utmost that he could in any event demand. is justice, from the public. This being demonstrable, who will pretend to argue *that it would not be sufficient that the National Cre ditor should be only left in circumstances in which he may be able to recover his capital, but that he would still have a right to insist on his original interest, or to be paid at par ? By what argument can it be shewn, that if it were found to be for the general welfare that the interest on all monies lent should be reduced, there should be an exception in favour of ene species of lenders ? The measure, if it ever be adopted (and adopted it will be, some day or other, or, else money will be left free to find its value, like every other commodity, which would perhaps answer the same purpose—but we cannot now enter into this question) ; the reduction, if adopted, will be the re suit of a conviction that the general . benefits expected to fi,w from it, not only to the nation generally, but even to the lenders themselves, in the reduced rate of all consumable commodities, and from the diminu tion of direct personal taxes, will more than compen sate any derangement or temporary inconvenience which it may, in the first instance, occasion to indivi duals. None will maintain, if the fixed hire of money should be settled by Statute, that the Legisla tors now has not the same powers and as good a right to decide on its quantum as at any former period.— If it were made apparent that it would be highly be neficial, would it be listened to for a moment that it should only apply topers loans of money (we speak yaw only of private loans) and not to money alreadyl out at isterect t Would the Stockholder himself main tain this with respect to private loans ? On the con trary, would he not say, the L an dholders income': as been reduced, and it is but justice that the income of the mere Money-holder shlrld., suffer a proportionate reduction, that the relative . ' of property may be lt . resto red and maintained . is there any argument applicable to private loans which would not with equal justice apply to the National Creditor ? We conterad that there is not. Qaes'tions of equity are generally easily understood illy honest men of unwarped minds. It is plain that. e a do &coo of justice, the National Creditor could • • have no well grounded compliant, if his power to realign his capital, unimpaired. be not tea* away from him. What then are tkri,points to be considered . toleid to a probably correct conclusion on the ques tion' whether Stocks would most likely to rise or to fall? But our limits do not .allow 011 to discuss this question at present. We shall, however, return to it as soon as we can find room. , At a late hour last night the Paris Papers of Sun day arrived. • The Message 'from the Ktso, which was promised last week to the Chamber of Peers, was delivered on Saturday in secret Sitting. It consisted of the Pioject of S Law for fixing the extent of the responsibility of Ministers :, it was developed by M. Di LALLY TOLLINDAL, a name ever to be venerated far the bold and manly stand he made at the early period"of the Revolutiou,•against the outrageous fac tions which subsequently devoured each other. There is no report of M. De TOLLENDAL's speech in the Papers received : it will in aU probability be. given to the Public through the medium of a subsequent Monlieur, if nut in a separate Pamphlet. After the above was written, we received the Paris Papers of Monday: They add but little intelligence of interest to the contents of those of Sunday. A letter appeem. in one of the minor Journals from the brother of the late General PICHEORUt in which he cautions the Bri tish Public from being imposed upon by a female swindler, who calls herself a daughter of the late Ge neral. He says he investigated her claims to that honour with great care and anxiety, and found them totally unfounded. The following is the only other article of interest they contain : COURIIIII UTRAORDINARY OF MONDAY MOAN•iNG. Yesterday atter mass M. de la Fitte de Courteil, who has been appointed Governor of the Isle of Bourbon, took the oaths of office in presence of the King. We learn from the Departments of La Manche and the Pas-de•Calais, that ten large estates, situated in those departments, have been sold to English fa milies, who have formed the design of settling in France. _ _ - - ---__ The department of Vauclime reckons at this mo. ment 42 families who have there bought properties. We are assured that a Broker of Paris has been entrusted by several English Houses to purchase 1 500,000 francs in our Tiers ConsolidE 3 per Cents. DUTCH MAIL. It would appear by articles brought by the Dutch Mail of this morning, that the most perfect cordiality does not at this moment prevail between that and the French Government : or, at any rate, that there has been a want of that common degree of civility which seems latterly to be expected in the relations of na tional neighbourhood. For some time the War De partment of Holland and the Netherlands has been scrupulously attentive to the arrest of French deser ters and the returning them to the frontier garrisons, on an understanding that the French Authorities were to do the same with deserters from the Nether. lands. In this the French Authorities have entirely bailed ; and in consequence orders issued on the 26t:t of February last for the arrest of French deserters found in the Netherlands, have been revoked by the KING of the United Kingdom of Holland and the Netherlands. The force of the reproof thus given to Louts XVIII. or to his Government is manifest, and it remains to be seen what effect it will produce. The other articles brought by the Mail possess no great political interest. but some of them may amuse our Readers. AMSTERDAM, DECEMBER 9. A notice published respecting the. appearance of the plague in the Lazaretto of Tripoli, states, that up to the 31st of October the population of the city had not been affected, but it was feared that there might have been some contnipnication with the in fected goods, consisting of carpets,•dce. The polacre was from Constantinople and Smyrna. BRUSSELS, DECEMBER 6. Mr. St. Martin, Counsellor in the High Court of Justice of Liege. has given this city (Brussels) a proof of his regard, by requesting the Governor of the Province to accept a Certain numberof paintings, to serve particularly for the instruction of young ar tists. These paintings are thirty in number; and'his Excellency the Commissioner -General of Public In struction has authorised the Governor to accept this patriotic offer, and to place the pictures in a conve nient situation till the apartment in the University, which is preparing for them, can be got ready. Mr. St. Martin has exerted himself to get them removed hither. Tigre has appeared in Germany an interesting ac count of the life of the famous Scbulmeister, who has so often been mentioned, in the public papers as the most active agent and spy of Napoleon. This account throws a very different light upon his ratter : the Author states that his account was obtained from persons to whose custody Schulmeister was confided, and from a subiequent personal ac , quaintance with Schulmeister bimsejf. So much had been said of him, that on the entrance of the Allies into Paris in 1815, it was thought proper to arrest him, which was accordingly dose by the Prussians, and he was conveyed to Wesel. whore he was at first treated with much rigour ; but it appearing sites , - wards that the:accusations against hip were ill founded, that his papers were of no importance, and 'thi"vadoes etathinitioss madetiving at tenet eon 1 viscid bit judges if, his . ions:tem.!, he was set at liberty. The noising of his life is extremely resting, and in some degree romantic, and it appears from it, that his enttniog into the service of Napoleon was not owing to any previous disposition in his fsvour, but merely accidental, and indeed almost compelled. A Mail from Holland arrived just as thi: Paper was going to press. Count Wonoranw, the Com mander of the Russian Contingent in France, has proceeded to Paris to make some arrangement' for provisioning his troops, the part of France where they are quartered being perfectly exhausted. SOUTH AMERICA. Some of our contempt tries do . 611 in their power to vilify the Independents, and bring their cause into ridicule. Could they lay any thing in . favour of the tyrants who have so long oppressed them—could they shew that they owed the Spanish Monarchy any debt of ,gratitude for protection or favours of any kind conferred upon them, there might be some pre- text for their laboured tirades against mep labouring to free themselves from the most degrading state of bondage. Nay, we will go farther—if they could :hew that the South Antericans-(excepting the Spa. nish Royalists among them) had injured our own country, or any of our fellow-subjects, we would endeavour to find some excuse for the ebullitions of their rage; in the fervour of their mistaken zeal. But how stands the fact ? Our Government, for tea- sons, on the policy of which men may differ in opi nion, may new wish to take no active part in the present contest, but it should not for a moment be forgotten that this country was highly instrumental in inducing the South Americans to break their con nection with the mother country. But we were then at war with the Usurper of the Spanish throne ! Does this alter at all the nature of the moral obligation imposed upon uz, at least to shield the unhappy people from the vengeance sought to bet executed upon them by a legitimate Monarch, for acting on the advice given to them by this country. Shameful ! shameful I that any Briton should be found base enough to ad vocate the cause cf such an ungrateful thing as the petticoat-maker to the Virgin MAkY.-But the advo cates of tyranny may rail—the cause of the Revolu tionists will succeed ultimately, and the day will arrive when 'there will be but one opinion in this country as to the line of policy and of duty which this country should have pursued in the contest. • A letter of the 25th ult. from New York, states, that by the schooner Sarah and Hannah, just arrived at Charleston from Laguira, a report had beep brought that the Patriots were again in possession of Margatitta, Barcelona,•Carupano, and part of Oro noko. Cumana was closely blockaded by them, ana being much straitened for provisions, was •expected soon to fall into their hands. The Royalist General MORALES, advcncing to the relief of Cumana, was attacked near Barcelona by the Patriots, and de feated with a very considerable loss : he was not supposed to have more than 1,500 or 2,000 men under his command ; we the Patriots could muster, under their different leaders, nearly. 20,000. Even the Spanish Officers themselves beg4n to despair of much longer defending that part of the Spanish dominions against the Revolutionists.— The celebrated partisan Sir Gas oon bliGazoott, who WAS represented in the late Spanish accounts to have been killed, and his body cut up and salted, and sent to Mexico, is still alive, and in command of a strong body of Revolutionists near Cumana. There was a Spanish fleet of ten or twelve sail at Cumana, assist ing in the defence of that place. The Patriots at Margarita were in great distress for provisions. The Lords . of the Admiralty have recently made , some regulations in the Naval service which cannot fail tb be highly gratifying to the Officers of the Navy. From the Ist January, 1817, Post Captains. Commanders, and First Lieutenants, euhen employed, will be allowed an addition of Pay. Pursers to be put on the same half-pay with the Lieutenants and . Masters of his Majesty's Navy, with the difference of '6d. per day in favour of the former Officers. One hundred of the oldest Pursers to retire, to make room for those Olio have been acting as Pursers' and Cap tains' Clerks, who have the r it claim on the ser •ice. Warrant Officers. unfit for service, to retire agreeably to their servitude in three classes, .51. 4s. and 81. per day.. Masters' Mates, Midshipmen, and Captains' Clerks,- who have served seven years. pan ed their several examinations, and can produce satis. factory certificates, to be allowed their pay when it is oat of the power of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to employ . or promote them. • --- We have the gratification to hear that an order for 2,766 yards of sdk has been given, at Spitalfields, for the PRINCE REGENT, by which many of the poor Weavers will be employed.for a considerable time. The PRINCE REGENT has also ordered ten fine oxen to be purchased, and bread in proportiun, to be dis tributed to the poor of . St, James ' s Parish on Christ- Mas-day. • •• A similar distribution of ten oxen, and a sufficient quantity of bread, has been commanded by his ROYAL HIGHNIUR at Brighton. It has been officially 'announced to the Lono MAYOR . of DUBLIN, that 'the PRINCE REGENT, with his wonted munificence and humanity, has .ordered the . sum of 5e2,000 to be applied in aid of the fund for the relief of the bibouring classes and poor of that city. NAVAL INTEL LIGENCZ. COURT MARTIAL ON THE 0111 'ERN AND Cpri vo: HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP CClana. At a Court Martial held on board his m • , ROCHFORT, the 17tts of December, in P j t • e ed ; B l • Y stti:n. ote s ;nee li b , k i i / ts r H ur at th b e ou p t t — irp S o ir se Aof.trDyilnCElCSOCatip,t Newfoundland;ar a i i ns, r i e dt B a r atgicads Captainumi t liatß d, h s i t et c at r . do t i - t 1 4 : : cm and crew, for the loss of his Mai sty's late shi Cossys, in Saint Short ' s -Bay, After the Members were sworn, charge, narrative th o e f t J h u e no c i m par st r a m o a c v e r s, then called and examined, 14 4 yw. e r a c l s t l s day) the y to t T h h e e A m dm ais i T ra e l o t stated, that on the evening of the 24th, at ha o'clock, supposing from their reckoning and d otb .: t altitude ee (ewdgheichofwthaes Green - bank , e t s il_ t b h a a n t k d i re nn they were in 25 fathoms water, the exact depth El that bank as bid down in the Adaliralty eis ini, which they referred ti ; but for the greater Way de l are illn no z : r a g cco in ut ship, it then blowing very heat, hauled her Vied wits her head offshore, and stood on, uni I Cl' easy il l At 4.5 minutes past eleven she struck on a ner d rocks, extending from the cistern head of St. Shoht i into o y t o h u e t d i a n e t r l e ie nt s ß ea a , y o s, w a in o g d w to hic th h e fur in the Admiralty Charts, which threw the i.• elation w as 5..7 ( . 7 of her reckoning. The helm *as imrr ed . 1 i sate y pa down, and the sails braced a back to get stern *ay, when she was ustfortuately caught by a rock ea th e larboard-quarter and bilged, before the boats mid be got out for her assistance—every used to save the ship, but of no avail. Mr. WILKINSON, the officer of the watch, was then examined, who stated the sail the ship was under, t a d the orders be had received from the Captain, which were that the lead should be hove every two hum, and to call him every hour, and oftener if occasioh • or if the wind changed. The Captain's night order•book was then •res 4 which confirmed the latter statement. It was N foggy, that he could net see half the length of the ship : he received his orders at eleven o'clock. The other Officers corroborated the forma stab meats. The Court was cleared about three o'clock, sail did not open again till five, when the sentence ati pronounced, which was—" That the Court were a opinion that Captain Batsina was censurable, On. much that he did net order the Master to givens , titer cast of the lead when he found they were in sack shallow water ; and that the Master WAS also masa.' able, for not recommending it to the C.iptain: and they were thereby censured accordirgly. The rest of the of f icers and crew were fully acquitted,— The Court were further of opinion, that thegteatesi praise was due to Captain BREWER, his Officers, andl crew, for their arduous exertions in their endeavtinv to save •the ship, and also for their good aid steady conduct throughout the business, both in the boats and on shore. One of the met was sentenced tore. (Ave 1 . 00 lashes and to be mulct of his pay for elm tion about a week after. The ship's company, Own asked if they had any complaint to make agiinst tbe `Captain, is one vcice exclaimed, " No ! but we wit he may get another ship, and we will all volunteer FALMOUTH, DI:CV.IBER it. Arrived the Duke of Kent packet, with a 114 i from Lisbon io seven dayi, with loss of butt sprit; also the Zephyr, BARNFIRLD, frt , lll Malaga, And sail ed for London. The following packets are nowt the Roads, waiting a wind :—Lady Arabella an Duke of Marlborough, for Lisbon ; Princess Elm beth, for the Mediterranean ; Marchioness of Qeees berry, for America ; and Lady Wellington, tor d Islands.—Wind from S.W. to W.N.W. PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER 17. Came in the Bull Dog, DYASON, from Virg * * for Liverpool. Thcbrig Rover, that was on slit at Mount Batten Bay, has been got of with dam PORTSMOUTH, DECEMBER Is. Sailed his Majesty's ship DROMEDARY, for Depl fwd.—Wind W.N.W. DEAL, DECEMBER ta. Arrived and remain the Harmony, Towen,fro: Demerara.—Wind N. Five o'Clock.—The greatest part of the outer bound have sailed. About ten sail still remains,* the result of the wind to-morrow morning atk.l light.—Wind N.N.W. and thick weather. TORBAY, DECEMBER 17. Reniain in this Bay his Majesty's ships Hof Earrosaws, and BRITONIARTO.--WlOd W.S.W. GRAVESEND, DECEMBER 18. Arrived his Majesty's ship HcraLio, front India; tbe Esrll'° Miller, from St. Joie.; ; and the Kent. Miller, front Vlits. Sailed the Moffatt, Lee, for Fort St. George ; Sir S. 1.134 . 0 11 1 . Chlvers; for Madras; Small Est, liatutile, for Genoa; %lr" Carlitt, for Havannah; Britannla,Waikro, and industry,vi for Amsterdam; Princess of Wale 9, Fax, for Ostend; ? Richardson, for Bourdeaux ; and Hope, Bradfield', for • CUSTOM-HOUSE, DECEMBER 18. SWIM ENTIAILD 114WARDS.:-The Prince of Saxe C . ; henna Elizabeth, .---, and Ariadne, Duncan, from Sitior ! S e Ladd, from Rotterdam ; Prance, Mackay, severasice,-Wadden, from Ouebec ; Pilgrim, I)yion, ircm ' i t Volart, Arteagu, front '''aihi. Vravia ; James ;ad Chrer ts i Marsh, and Chance, Read, trona Leghorn ; Robert, Wr4h. from ;evince • Weiner, Dixon, front Alter ; Alert, tear, IN . front Denteran: 4 l Salo.; Rock ' , 'Findlay, from :.'ressina ; Ceres, Ii•-nlerlati , 9 . r Antigua ; Frederick, Barber, from St. Übes ; and Naubiei X* son, from Cork. Ourwattns--The Cornwall, Hope and. Isle of France. Jordaine, for the Cape et GI Yesterday a :Court of Directors was held at East India Hobse, when. Captain J. Brno; w3ssw' into the commindOf the Waterloo, destined LO of Wales Island and China. A further reduction in the Clerks of the Noy I Victualling colces will be carried into effect at end of the present year. None of the Clerks ab to be discharged had a higher salary thati foal 6 t 0 .4110. • • r ums Often K 1 rat comp! Wsisc COM M , point s mall siren ought were Tb boy i the d dra wiAd colic to iv nal Priw kin co . I via ail to