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0 i freedom and safety. which, beneath the late Usurper's sway, they possessed. If they admitted that such was the fact, then all who heard him must acknow ledv that enough had not been done. He hoped that no argument m ide use of by him would prevent other gentlemen, who thought as he did, from expressing their feeltnge; b iceuse much good might be done by a bold expression of opinion, in a great assembly like that, c.‘nsistinfr nt the Representatives of all the Ci tizens it this imm 'use Metropolis. Mr. Waithman then proposed his resolution—(for w.i2ch see adverale• meld is the front page ) Mr. DAVIS seconded the motion, and observed that the subject had already been stated in so able, so car - did, and so judicious a manner, that little remained to he said on the subject. Who could have imagined that the present lamentable state of France would be the result M ail our exertions for the welfare of Eu rope ? Who could have imageted that the Govern ment, whicii to nor wealth and blood was indebted for it: existence, should have suffered our Protestant brethren to be despoiled and murdered with impunity ? Eveiy Englislenen and every Protestant must have felt tor these suffering individuals, and the only gees. tion was as to the means of remedying them, and preventing for ever their rt curience. That Court had imps. tail/ slcpteceteJ the interference by this country in tee aff sirs of other Governments. The principle wes g sed : bin we had not now to give law, but to enforce laws which had been sadly violated. There night be individuals who doubted as to the fact of the persecution of the Protestants; but when they were reminded of the information which had been cecelvtd (taking into Consideration the difficulties which obsoucted suci communicate:as) those doubts most vanish. It MIAS impossible that any thing like judicial evidence could be obtained ; and those who were not now satisfied as to the fact, would not bee hew 4 . even though one should r: :e from the dead." 'lime Address which had "seen proposed would reach the Crown with that force which attended resolutions of such a body as the Corporation of London ; and he lied no daub: the answer would be such as to gre. tity every man of humanity, and give the friends of tol,restoe a pledge of ultimate success to their cause. Mr. OLIMANI observed, that the Court was not on this occasiost called upon to determine any question of euebt ; for here there was no doubt. The oppres. sions practised upon our Protestant brethren in Franc:- were ninitesiable and atrocious. This, therefore, to t enee not a political but a moral question, appeal ing irreeistiely to every sentiment of humanity and lejstice. Tee spirit of time observation of that excel. at man, Mr. Wilberforce, that be would prefer ever without the Slave Trade to peace accompanied by, tiler odious trat&c, he would apply in this instance. For it religious persecution were to be the cense quence of pe.ce, woule have no hesitation in pre ferring the coetieeence of war, unaccompanied ley that &rest of all human calamitiee. On those grounds he thought the assembly bound to sirci.tre, in the face of rte world, its at herrence of such enormities:, and te request the active interpositiosi of our Go. verninent to put a peried to their operation. To prove the severity ra this persecution, the Worthy Gen:l-man read an extract from the Rev. Mr. CoOlin's fimpLlet, which steered, mi the authority of a Builetin teem' Nisines, that sisteen Protes tants, upon one occasem, lied their throats cut be fore their own doors: It was lamentable, said he, to find, that the moment Europe became tranquillized, the ',quoit: 4 ; on reeree its head in Spain, where so much was done to rescue her front slavery, and re ligieus persecution re.appcarrd in France, where it was se long stippcsed to have been extinguished. TI e Worthy Gentleman concluded, by warmly approving of the present motion. It would prodnce, ee was persuaded. a good moral effect, and shew France that England would not silently stand by and see her fellow Protestants massacred. Mr. Dome said, diet as no doubt appeared to exist upon - the subject of the atrocities alluded tr, be hit this to be a case in which the Corporation of London was c teed open to interpose; for although it might be netinetined, as a 7,enerel proposition, that it was not right to interfere tit the concerns of a foreign Go. smooth in, the case tinder consideration formed an exception so strong, that men should not be bound by any declaration in favour of the general principle. But while be expressed no doubt on this subject, he begged it to be understand, that his opinion was not grounded upon rumours, or upon pamphlets pub lished either here or in France. He should be sorry indeed to rest his judgment upon such authority: for to shew the credit due to pamphlets published in France, he need only quote one which lately ap peeted, from tee pen of a French Officer (Pullet), mho alleged that the English ladies generally go to bed di a•:k—(4 Inset.) Fur his part, he felt the ut rnest relience upon tee disposition of the Government or France to use all the means in its power to put an eed to the persecutions complained of; therefore he should deprecate any censure, however iadirect, upon the conduct or character of that Government. He also ;teed most coefidently upon the readiness of oar own Government to forward the wishes of huma nity in this case, and it required no stimulus what ever. Still he should not resist the Address proposed, if it were couched in terms censistent with propriety, which he was induced to exeect from the language of the Werthy Mover, who, by Lie professed solici tude for 66 spiritte 1 and m0r..l interests," encoura ged a hope Lila he had at length had 66 a serious eat !" (A Lath.) Mr. FAVELL strongly supported the motion, which lie felt peculiarly jiastlfiehle upon the same principles which un a la e occasion induced that Assembly to enter into reel talons againstethe continuance of the Wave Trade. Those principles involved a solicitude for tie general interests of humanity. By those noble prsnciples he was most hap e y to see London and the whole country actuated upon the present occasion. For it we were influenced by any view to our own interest merely, we should not interfcie at all to as.. rest the persecution of the Protestants in France, re enllecting the important benefits derived to this country through the revocation of the edict of hlantz, which compelled so many French Protestants to transfer their industry, their ingenuity, and their ca. plai t to Great Britain; and the probability was, that :f the present system of religions persecution were allowed to continue, similar consequences would be found to ensue; therefore; were we self-interested, our policy would be different from that which the pmt motion propied. Put It was a proud ram. rim for every Englishman, to find his country reject ing all selfish consideration, and embracing the uni versal interest of humanity. It was truly a most melancholy spectacle, to witness the outrageous vio lation of that humanity which a rancorous bigotry now excited in France—that after a war so long and So ruinous, the worst species of hostility that could agitate or afßict mankind should be found to prevail. But, unhappily, a great part of the population of the South of France appeared to be demoralized and priest-ridden—quite stink indeed in brutality—the victims of superstition and priestcraft. It was then in the highest degree necessary to arrest the vicious purpose and practice of such a people ; and the de claration of that assembly must be of the utmost im portance, not only in this country but in France, and throughout Europe, in promoting the end in view. Such a declaration would, he hoped, be productive of a very useful impression, as well upon our own Ga. vernment as upon the Government of France, and thus lead to a better system with regard to the per secutors complained of. The French Government did not, he must confess, appear to him to proceed with the etn•gy which its duty prescribed, and thefe fore he thought the proposed declaration the more necessary. The Worthy Member quoted several passages from the Circular Letter of the Committee of the Protestant Dissenting Ministers, signed by Mr. Morgan, their Secretary. From thoce passages ii appeared that an unparalleled systems of persecution and pillage had for some months prevailed in the South of France, of which Protestants alone were the victims Mr. Favell animadverted with peculiar force upon the following extract of a letter from a Protestant Minister in France : " To detail the base ingratitude, gross obscenity, diggustint superstition, aud infernal cruelties, practised during this bheck mg attempt to exterminate the Reformed Churches frmn the soil France, would, under present circumstances, be as imprudent as unavailing. Happy, happy Protestants of your favoured land! No rude infuriated mob shows through your streets and villages, Give us the blood of the Protestants! Let us wash our hand, in their blood ! rive la St Bartheitosir—May you long rap) those privileges c o mmunicating your principles and piety to every nation un der the heavens!" Mr. JACKS expressed great doubts, upon political principles, as to the propriety of the proposed Ad dress ; but still he would not vote against it, although he could not think it necessary •to interfere, knowing, as we did, the disposition of our own Government, and assured, as every man must be, of the benevolent character of the King of France, who had already taken the most effectual measures in his power to suppress the disturbances alluded to. This, indeed, WAS evident from the Ordiiiance which his Majesty 'had published upon the subject, and the language of which was peculiarly strong against the rioters. Mr. Alderman HRYDATE was adverse to the policy of interfering in the concerns of a foreign' govern ment, and the more so, because such interieience was enerally found rather to produce mischief than good. Indeed, whenever any Government interfered in fa vour of any class of the subjects of a Foreign State, such interference was sure to do mischief, if it did not produce good. The present, however, formed an exception to the rule which lie was gererally willing maintain, ftir France was peculiarly circumstanced. By her own conduct she had been put out of the pale of nations, but at length compelled to conforin to the will of the civilised world. There wcte 15fogio foreign troops in that country, under toe c tuain.t:.d of the greatest General ef the age: those troops being stationed there to maintain the pow.lr of the I:in.t, and thy principles of the Constitutional Chart: r, which the Allied Powers had guaranteed ct, Franc:.. New the basis of that Charter was religious °len:lion, and of course the Allies were bound td secure the enjoy ment of that toleration to the pzorle of France. Oi course then this country was warranted in interfering on the subject under consideration—and it was the duty of that Court, as the greatest public body in the Empire, s.:cond to the Parliament, to declare its opinion to the world wgaihst the persecution of our Protestant brethren in Fr AfICC.-•.(II.-ar, hear.) — The necessity of such a decl 'ration he felt the more as there could be no doubt of the exisnnce of perse cution—he had indeed, since he came ant.) the Hall, been favoured with a letter from Mr. Morgan, the Secretary of the Committee of Dissen.ing Ministers, stating that further aud most authentic information had been received by that Committee since the pub ligation of its Report, with regard to the persecution of the Protestants in France., which information not only confirmed the statement which that Report con. tained, but communicated many facts of a still more aggravated character. On those grounds he should vote for the motion, in the hope that the Addreu would be no censure upon the French Government ; for lie felt that there was no proof whatever that any blame attached to that Government. with respect to the proceedings complained of, or that Louis XVIII. had, in his conduct on the occasion, departed in the least degree from the principles of benevolence and justice which distinguished his character. • Mr. DORNFORD supported the motion. • Mr. Warrnmax, in his reply, animadverted upon what he called the ill-timed levity of the Honourable Member (Mr. Dixon), who had in this instance eb. deavoured to be witty and to joke. But Ore Hon. Member ought rather to have reserved such endeavour for a different opportunity, than *obtrude it on any occasion of such grave importance. when ,that Ae. l sembly was about to make a Declaration calculated to give a tone to the country, and he hoped to come the protection of many thousands of our Protestant brethren. The worthy Member then adverted to the observations of Alderman Heygate, who, it appeared, broadly avowed the interference of this c..untry in the internal concerns of France, and the forcing the esta blishment of a Constitution at the point of the bayonet. This Constitution too, it seemed to the worthy Alder man, this country and its Allies were bound to main tain. If so, then according to the worthy Alder man's principles, the Court would be warranted in calling on our Government to employ the Duke of Wellington's army, if necessary, to prevent the per secution of the Protestants in France. Yet, in ano ther part of the speech of the worthy Alderman, a doubt was expressed as to the propriety of interfering iu the concerns of France, because he relied so much upon the disposition of Louis XVIII. whose disposi tion by the way had been very ineffective for the pro tection of the French Protestants. Alter a few words from Mr. GaIFFITHS , ai d an expl o leetion from Air. Alderman HEYGIATZ, who ex. pressed an algwersauce of was and persecution, the motioa was adopted and the Address sr eed to yids oat a disseatips plc& IRISH CATHOLICS. The Rev. Mr. HAIM the bearer of the lemon. 'trance of the Irish Roman Catholics to the Holy See, against the concession of the Veto to the Eng— lish Government, has written to some of his const; to ads in Dublin, stating the result of his minion down to the 1 lth of November. The Dublin Papers give a long and tedious history of this embassy, with a par ticular description of his introduction at the Papal Court. We will dispatch the matter in a few words. Mr. HAYPA arrived at Rome on the thith of Octo ber, waited upon Cardinal LITTA, and, after a va riety of preliminary forms, was introduced to his Holiness the POPE. On . the 10th of November, he was graciously received by the Sovereigu PoNttiv, who told him that " there was no occasion lur the great alarm among his good children in Ireland, and that nothing had yet been done in the business." He then referred the whole master to the Cardinal Secretary of State, who, with his brother Cardinals, is to consult with his Holiness at !VW pure fteriod.--• Mr. HAYES farther says, “ I expect a tasourabl.: an swer, though I fear I must wait a considerable time for it." Here rests the matter at present, and here it is likely to remain. Without entering into the ab stract question of the justice or injustice of the Ca tholic Claims, we would wish to see the matter car ried before another and more competent tribunal than the Court of Rome, against whose interference in our concerns, we must, as British subjects, ever protest : III•••••••••=1 0 " No Italian Priest Shall tithe or to:I in our dominions!" The question between the Catholics and the Go vernment is merely one of civil right, and no other Power should interfere. If the Catholics have Any spiritual affairs to regulate with his Hoctuzss, let them do so, when it does not militate against their temporal allegiance ; but %%sten once a matter in volving a civil and polit;cal right arises, neither the Porz nor any other authority whatsoever has a right to meddle is it. STATE PAPER. EXTRACT OF A PIRITLCOL FOR BERCI. ATI vG TII II DlsrOSlTlolla RELATIVE TO TILE ThatitiTofilEv AN!) PLACES CEDED BY FRANCE. SY ARTiCL Ls 1,2, AND 3, OF INNATY. The Ministers of the Imperial and Royal Courts of Austria, of Russia, of Great Britain, and of Prussia, having taken into consideration the measures become necessary by these arrangements with France which are to terminate the present war, have agreed to lay down in the present Protocol, the dispositions relative to the territorial cessions to be made by France, and to the contributions destined for strength ening the line of defence of the bordering states. Arr. I.—Kingillm of the Low Countries.—Considering that his Majesty the Kii.g of the Low Countries Gupta to participate in a just proportion in the advantages resulting front the prerent arrangenieut with France, and considering the state of his fron tiers on the side art that country, it is agreed, tbu the districts which honied part of the Belgic Provinces, of the Bishopric of Liege, and of the Duchy of Bouillon, as well as the towns of Philipperrille and Marienhourg, with their territories, Which t.:..itice is to cede to the Allies, shall be assigned to his Majesty the King of the Low Cruntries, to be united to his &immune. His Majesty the King of the 1 ow Countries shall receive, moreover, out of that part of the trench contribution which is destined towards strengthening the line of defence of the States bordering upon France, the sum of sixty millions of francs, which shall 'se WA out in (outlying the frontiers of the Low Countries, in coti(ormity with the plans and regulations which the Powers shad settle in chi, re:lu et. It is beetles agreed, that in consideration of the advantages which Its Majesty the Kleg of the Low Countries wits derive trent these dispositions, butt. in the increase of, and b. the means fur defending his territory ; that that proportion of the p.ciiieary indemnity payable by France to which his said Nlsj sty might lay clam, shall serve towards putting the indemnities of Austria and Prussia on the level of a just proportion. Art. 2.—Acquisitions of Prussia..-. The districts which, by the. new Treaty of France, will be detached from the trench tern nor) , in 'the department of the Sarre and the Mwelle, including the fortress ol Sarre-Louis, shall be united to the slonnosons or the Kiag of Prussia. Art. S.--Acquisitions of Austria.—The territories which Prance is to cede in the department of the Lower Rhine, la. eluding the town and fortress of landau, shall he ii cited to those pessersions on the left bank of the Rhine, select' devolve to his Imperisl and Royal Apostolic Majesty by the final at of the Congress of Virtu:- lils Majesty may dispose of his possessions on the left bank of the Rhine in the terrisoriet arrangements with Bavaria, and other states er the Germanic Confederation. Art. 4.--lielveric Coutederadoo.-.Versoix, wits that part et the Pays de Get which is to be ceded by France, shall be united to Switzerland, rid limo part of the canton of Geneva. 'I he neutrality of Switzerland shall he mended to that terri tory, which is placed north of a line to be drewn trim Ugina, (including that town) to t:,e mouth of the Lake of Annecy, and from thence to the lake of lluoyget, as far as the Rhone, in the same manner as it has been wended to the provinces of Chablis and Faucisny by the it4l Article of the final Act of the Congress of Vienna. Art. s.—Sardinia.—ln order that his Majesty the King of Sardinia may panicipate in a just proportion in the advantages resulting from the present arrangemest with France, it is agreed, that the portion of Sway which remained to France in virtue of the Treaty of Paris of the 30th of May, 1814, shall be re united to the dominion* of his said Majesty, with the exception of the Commune of St. Julian, which shall be given up to the Canton of. Lleneva. The Cabinets of the Allied Courts will use their good offices for inducing his Sardinian M.ijesty to cede to the Canton of Geneva the Communes of Chesne, Thonex, and some others necessary ,for disen gaging the Swiss territory of Jassy from the effects of the retrocession, by the Canton of Geneva, of that territory situated between the road of Euron and the Lake, which had been ceded by his Sardinian Ma jesty, by the Act of the 29th of March, MIS. The French Government having consented to with draw its lines of Custom and Excise from the fron tiers of Switzerland, on the side of the Jura, the Ca binets of the Allied Powers will employ their good offices for inducing his Sardinian Majesty to with draw, in like manner, %Us lines of Custom and Ex cise, on the side of Savoy, at least upwards of a league from the Swiss frontiers, and on the outside of the great road of Saleve, and of the mount.tin , of bsufl and of Waache. His Majesty the King of Sardinia shall receive, moreover, out of that part of d►e Fiench contribution which is destined for the strengthening tl►e line 01 de. fence of the States bordering upon France, the sum of ten millions of francs, which is to he I.tid out hi iortifying his frontiers, in cuntortnity with the plans and regulations which the rowers shall settle in this respect. It is likewise agreed, that, is consideration of the adirantages which his Sardinian Majesty will derive from these dispositions, both in the extension and in the means of defending kis ;en icon, that part of the pecuniary indemnity payable by France, to which his said Majesty might lay claim, shall serve towards putting tle indemnities of Austria and ?rustle on the keel of a just proportion. P.IRIS, DECEMBER 8. PRIVATE LETTER. the Re-weies, h a 44 A Society, called Me Soliety of for some time been organised in the Rue St. Honor s It is open to every Deputy when presetred by alio ther, and to Deputies alone. It comprehends alreadl many of the first authorities of the kingdom. Mi n i s tens and Counsellors of State, Directors of the grew Administrations, &c. The Society only assemille: on the Tuesday evening, excepting when a new L iu is to be proposed ; it is therefore previously discussed the objections are there made and canvassed ; bu there is neither President nor Secretary. The fir. Member who arrives is generally requested to net. n tain order during the debate, and to ensure to eve Orator an uninterrupted hearing. They insert a0t1.;.... in the public papers ; they neither make or re:e: , . addresses. They hold no correspondence will. - one. They have oral communications with t!, , r. nistry by the organ of four of their Deputies, to c cert measures end march in ':ninon with the Gi,vl. meat. it would be su('t i ros t(; insist longer the difference that exists between a similar so:iety and one in which the populace was admitted in thi Tribunes, which invited addresses, which ecrte: - . ponded with every disaffected city threughoet Fraacc which organised and affiliated subardinite tli:bs, e^.‘ in which to be admitted, it was indispenssb:c long to a political party and avow a political creed. a The Re.uni 'has made some important aorta sitions, Pasquier, Becquet, kuyrr C.lllard, dec. 'l - of Members last night amounted to 140... On Tuesday night it was resolved to oppose ti,. Categoric of M. M. des Plessis - , la lismrtionnAye Bouville et Germiny. It was then resolved crt tr sanction more rigorous measures than those crmtaii: ed in the Proclamation and Ordinance of his M.ije:ty dated the ‘24tli July, to request the Ministers t. immrdiate steps to execute that Ordinance ana pulffish an Amnesty, comprehending the time ante rior to its promulgation. From this saving Act ar, to be excepted those against whom the Governmea should think fit to enforce the 4th Article of thi ab.)ve Ordinance, and those whom it should deter mine to bring before the Tribunals to be judged tr. the constitutional laws of the country. 6 1 The support given by the Reunion to the Ad ministration was so effective, that at the scrutiny or the subject of the Presmtal Courts. there were but V black balls to 299 white ones. It is expected a mob. animated discussion will take place in the Charabe• on the subject of the King's Ordinance, them, Royalists being determined most strenuously to hup port, and their adversaries as vigorously to o?post the Carries." THE EVENING STAR. I.ONDON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER IS, 1915. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY Ar I WEIVE O'CLOCS Reduced 54 60—Cons. nu.. shut—for opt. GT* 4 pr: Cent. 741-5 per Ceat. ghta--13unJ: 3.. die. 0.na.14f p..y. 1 if , a ; rt.—Ltda. Bits ss, die. par. Brussels and Frankfort Papers, the latter to the St} and the former to the 12th kit.tra, have Arrived ; their coatents arc comparativey unintetecting, b.in t ch:edy occupied with remarks on the Ccsmcins Exchanges of Territory, settled tar in train, fur toad ins tie frontiers of the different Germ An States : S KITZEP.I.AND, DEC. 9. Prince Metternich arrived at Geneva on the 2.htla. in the evening. His Highness declined accepting z!. , lodgings that were prepared fur him. Madame Louis Bonaparte arrived an the 31`;', hum Geneva at Lausanne, with her youngest son, v.La about 7 years old ; her suite was composed of a lady of honour, an almoner, a physician, eight and five carriages—she left Lausanne yestenia) morning, and took the road to Berns. By a political Convention between the Allie! Powers and the King of Sardinia, the viii ige of St Julien, comprehended in the portion of Ssvoy, whit! France ha .1 retained by the Treaty of lbl4, an which has been restored to its ancient Sovereign, n to be ceded to the Swiss Confederation. To-day we received the Paris Papers of Tuesday The Chamber of Deputies is now occupied in good earnest with providing for the exigencies of 18 I The Budget has not yet been presented, but his threatened for next week. It will of course be beaviet than any other within the memory of the present race of Frenchmen. It may be some consolation to then: to know, however, that they are freed from the evil, of the Conscripticn. and oppression of 4 desPoti' Government. We regret to learn front our private advices that Political Club has been established at Paris, which i‘ likely to have a most dangerous tendency. In 'hi' Club, it seems, several laws have originated, and the Members have even recently demanded certain enact menu respecting the general amnesty. No tree Go. •ernment can exist if its proceedings are to be con trouled or even discussed by Any body of men ac recognized by the Constitution. PARIS, DECEMBER le. The English and Hanoverian troops, who occup;e , the collages of Pussy and Auteuil, set out on Fr: day ; and those who were cantoned in St. Cloud an: the Bois de Boulogne. marched on Saturday for CI, trodden. 4 letter from Strasbourg, dated the 7th inst. c oil tains the following article : •S It seems thd the troops which are in the env'. rons of Landau, expect a courier from Lord Welling ton, in order to know in what manner that place is to be occupied by the Allies. We are assured that a Prussian corps had arrived through the mountains, in the vicinity of that place, and insisted upon enter ing it in conjunction. According to the latest intellt• race tie French Authorities were still in Landali 'I r. !Bd. ; bu: end ?Bth. 'ram ;:a it rdat Hie! St an ;(1 1 is ;day good 16.'" it is avier fact then: evil hat ich i. a Oil d di: :nac t : Go . con . I no Mlle, Fr: 4111‘ )1" Gr• con envi• [ling: :is t: tat tains, :titer• Wavy