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I - FRENCH PAPERS. CHAMBER OP DEMI t Tesmar, lAN. 7. ZLECi vuoncT. The Bth Article was moved in the following terms : Art. R Thd Electoral Colleges shall be convened by the King—they shall meet en the chief place of the • DepArtment..'t such other city of the department as the King appoints. Thee C.innot enter into any other business than the Idection of Deputies. AU discus sions, ad deliberations ate foe hidden. A:t?r deh• . te of considerable length the Article wa s a dived. In the s quel of the Sitting, the Articles 9, 10, 11, 12, and IS, 01 the prijnt were successively adopted, with various amendments. An amendment .by M. AIONTCALM. propodog to render the votes public, wasirjected Aiwther proposed by M. Commotsvms, produced an animated debate. It was, that there should be a list, in v. hick the names of the voters should be in stiibed to check the number of balls. This amend• =rot was carried, on a division, by a majority of 115 to 111. The continuation of the debate was then adjourned to the next day (Wednesday.) RITTING OF JANUARY 8. One of the Petitions reported this day was from the booksellers of Paris, praying—lst, Fur the free im portation into Prance of 'all foreign books-2d, The imposition of a duty of 150 francs, per metrical quintal, off all French works originally published in France, and reprinted in foreign countries—se, The verification of bales of hoicks coming from foreign countries, either at the principal points of the fron tiers, or at the direction General of books at Paris.— Referred to the Central Committee on the Budget. The •discussion on the Election project was re. armed. • Articles 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19; and 29 were adopted with some amendments. The Chamber proceeded to a scrutiny on the whole project. It•was adopted by a majority of 13V to 100. The report will' be made to-morrow on the project respecting individual liberty. The Sieur Moasau, of Paris, complained that there was a company named The Bluel Bead, who buy the finest estates for the purpose of demolishing the mansions, and selling the iron aid lead; in con sequence of which the wealth of France is daily di minishing. He proposed that a stop should be put to these proceedings, by facilitating the formation of neorates. The Committee, *hiring the indignation of the Petitioner against the kind of Vandalism of which he drew so distressing a picture, was of opi nion that it could do no other than impress the stamp of public reprobation en these merciless despoilers, whose deplorable activity is attested by so many rtfus ; but as the formation of Majorates which the Petitioner thinks calculated in part to correct this abuse, is not in opposition either to the Charter or to the subsequent Legislative acts, it proposed the order of the day, which was adopted. PARIS, JANUARY 9. The Duke de Richelieu visited the Duke of Wel lington yesterday morning, with whom be had a long conference. The Minister of the Interior visited his Grace at the same time. The two Ministers came away together. They write from Cambray—" Lord Arthur Hill has been here for some days, on his return from London. The English army is in a very COOl - state." . A courier sent by the Dube of Wellington to head- 1 quarters at Cambray arrived thereon the 2d with in structions. It is said that his Grace will return to Camino in a few days. A grand solemnity is arranging for the 21st of January, at the abbey of St. Denis. The remains of our Kings, which were deposited beneath this abbey and which were profaned in 1795, were subsequently; secretly collected by religious and faithful hands, and' deposited in a cemetery adjoining the church. They have now been placed in twenty-two leaden coffins, andoill be deposited with ell suitable pomp in a vault of the abbey church, which will be converted 'into an expiatory chapel. The Chancellor of France has been employed by order of his Majesty,in making an inrytiiy for the purpose of recognizing and distin pianos these remains. The same day the remains of Madames Adelaide and Victoire of France,"disent barked at Toulon a month since, will also be de posited in a vault of the abbey church. The tombs of Henry 11. Clovis Fredegonde, Clovis U. Clo. Wire 11. and several ;thee Kings, levasion been con veyed to St. Pt*. The Chapter newly established In the Royal•Chtfreb of St. Demi,, will, it is under. Mood, be in the full exercise of its functions on the gist of January. The new Canons will have to per form nine messes for the dead every day, namely, three for each of the three dynasties of the French Monarchy. sNANTES, JANUARY a The Moniker has made known the arrest of Ren des at Bourdeaux, for consiracy. It is slitting to regent that be not only found accomplices and dupes immediately around him. but also in this city. .Aboit the sad of Nbvelober Itsr,•Rendon farmed. ,cootteetion with a feediseamerchant of this city. The latter associated with him;•o - Liemenant on half-pay, and a schoolmaster, without resources, and with their aid . promised to second the peojects of Randon. The Police, who watched all the motions of these time iirdividuals, arrested them on the Ist of January, e a learning that Randon was in the hands of justice.... Their papers were also mixed. FRANKFORT, JANUARY s. Lord Clancarty is abOut to set out for Brussels, to re-assume his station as English Minister Plenipoten tiary to the King of the Netherlands s be will besuc ceeded hereby Mr. Lamb, British Minister at Mu nich. It is supposed that Lord Clancarty will return here to sign the Rem, when the. segoeiations re specting territorial arrangements shall be entirely terminated. The Diet will resume ita t Aitaiegs oe the 14th of *is month. • VIINNA, DICEPAYER . By letters from the North of Germany, we learn that the free importation of foreign cloth is permit. ted into the Russian Provinces. private lotto. from Constantinople speak of omie disquietude • having been felt. there on the 25 t h o f November, in consequence of the Russian troops being strongly concentrated in. Wallachia. M. d o eroff that it right to declare formally, that or of Russia bad no stabiect of difr, cc with the Divam, find that the movement of the troops had no other object than a grand review by signer& Benningsen. HAMBURCH, DECEMBER so. Exaggerated reports have been circulated here of dirmbances in Norway. It Is said shat the peasants in Upland have revolted, that 7,000 of them went to Christiana, pillaged the warehouses,• and need the price of grain, alter liavirl defeated the:troops and assassinated some of the principal inhabitants. It is cot true that events•so melancholy have occurred at Christiana. but it is undeniable that the peasants in the interior are extremely exasperated against the in. , habitants of the sea ruts and the merchants, in con sequence of die sufferings they endure from a scarcity of grain. I.UBEC, DECEMBER es. Letters from Sweden state, that the Stares of that Kingdom will assemble about the middle of January. 143ey will be occupied with the reduction of the army. MITA VECCHIA, DECEMBER 43. An English frigate has entered this port, and ap pears destined for the Eaglish station on our coast. It is said that it will be reinforced by a ship the line and three small vessels, having troops on !)oeird. It is supposed that these troops ate destine' for the lonian Isles, but that they will not at present pro ceed thither. TRIESTE, DECEMBER 23. The Sublime Porte has expedited Firmans to the Barbary Regencies, enjoining them to respect, and cause to be respected the Flags of Powers with whom the Porte is at Peace. The Imperial and Royal Internnncin atConstanti nople has addressed the following Declaration to the Chamber of Commerce, in order to satisfy the Mer chants, Manufacturers, and Ship-owners:— " The Ottoman Porte, faithful to its engagements coomacted by the Treaty of 1785, renewed in 1815, is rerly to give com pensation for the depredations comm tied by the Barbary Powers, should the latter refuse to do it, and has addressed new Forrnans to the Barbary Reg , news, ordering them to respect the Austrian flag. We have tease*. to believe that these injunctions will pro duce the desired effect." This act is considered remarkable, from the juris diction assumed by the Porte. in the transactions of the Regencies with the Christian Powers, and it is attributed to the effect produced by Lord Exmouth's victory. ROME, DECEMBER. 19. It is stated that the Emperor of Austria, on the reiterated demands of the Court of Naples, strongly supported by Prince Leopold, has at length deter , mined that the Austrian troops shall evacuate the Kingdom of Naples. A part of these troops are to be cantoned during the winter in Upper and Middle Italy ; the other part will embark in the Neapolitan ports to proceed to Dalmatia and Albania. There is no talk of the evacuation of the States of the Church by the Austrian troops, although the Court of Rome made some time since strong representa tions upon the subject. FLANDERS MAIL. HAMBUROH, JANUARY N. Here abe we bare accounts that the French Go. vernment has applied to the tallied Powers to have the number of their troops reduced; and . it is thought that upon certain conditions tbimrsiguest, is very likely to be complied with. ROTTERDAM, JANUARY 4. Ships arrived —ln 181.5. 1603—in 1816, 1466. I Fewer arrivals in 1816, 137. Sailed in 1815, 1568. In 1816, 1585. More sailed 17. BRUSSELS, JANUARY 4. Hitherto there has been at Cambray a mixed com mission charged with furnishing the troops of the right wing of the Army of Occupation with the ne. cessary provisions and forage. This commission is. now dissolved in consequence of orders from the Mi nister at War, and a Commissary provides by special nseasnres. In case of need this Commissary can call on or even comifel the Communes Which are known to have laid up more corn 01411 they want, to deliver a certain quantity of grain which is to be paid tor immediately. Commissioners are already traversing for this purpose Picardy, Artois, and French flan den, in order to procure the necessary means to fulfil the arrangements made between the French Govern ment and the Allied Powers. The departure of the Duke of Wellington to Lon don was quite unexpected; however the most com plete tranquillity prevails in that part of France ; some trifling excesses of single soldiers have been ri gorously punished, which ha; had a very good effect. With respect to the report that has been spread that the Army of Occupation will be diminished one third. and so reduced to 100,000, there is reason to suppose that it is entirely without foundation. The letters from Cambray say, that on the lit there arrived there a courier from London with dis patches from the Duke of Wellington to the Gene ral who has the command during his absences these dispatches have doubtless brought fresh instructions, for many superior Officers who were on the point of going to Paris remain till further orders at the bead quarters--.other Officers departed immediately on the receipt of the dispatches--it is thought this they are recalled, and that others itibl come in their room; all this gives rise to various conjectures. Four hun dred British soldiers who have left the Army on fur lough, have been immediately replaced by others; the Contingents are all more than complete, and *Nen we consider the men, their appearance, their discipline, the artillery, the train, etc. the army is certainly one of the Boat ever seen- in Enrope. ' They write from France that the Legion of die Make, 1000 strong, is expected at Lisle, to form part of ibe garrison of that important plate. Two other Departmental Legions are expected from Nor mandy and Picardy. A general movement is ob served among the Fritsch troops in the .Northertf Departtiseots, which is supposed to have so other object than a change ot garrisons. We learn limber from. Pawn, that gin inhabitants of the Depart. ments of the Maine, the Moselle, and the Ardenaes, have sent Memorials to the Government, containing a description of the. melancholy situation in which they as and at the same time requesting his Ma jesty to nu his endeavour with the Allies, in order to obtain a diminution of the troops in those Pro vinces, as they are so exhausted that they will sow, be un able to bear such burdens. It is added, that the Depaetntents crin!poiing Lorraine and Alsace have made emits, peutions, the effect of which Wow will thaw. THE 'EVENING STAR. LONDON. TO-MORROW WEEK THE S CATE LOTTERY BEGINS DRAWING. MONDAY, JANUARY IS, 1817. PRICE OF S rocks THIS DAY A . I"IWILLVE O'CLOCK s Reduced Ba 4 —Cons. mo. 63—.C00r. for art. 6411 4 prr Celt. 74 60-3 per Cinit. Navy 941} Elea/quer Bins, 135. 15.. pr.—ludia Beads, 455. SCr. pre. It is reported with confidence in the Ministerial Circles, that no Loan will be required for the service of the current year; and that such arrangements have been made as will enable Ministers to meet every exigency by the aid of an issue of only Eight or Nine Millions of Exchequer Bills, not all at once, but at different periods of the year. The Paris Papers of Wednesday, of which we announced the arrival as our Paper was going to press on Saturday, contained some further proceed ings of the Chamber of Deputies on the subordinate regulations of the Law of Election; and those of Thursday and Friday, which we have also since re ceived, furnish us with the definitive termination of this important discussion.—ln the course of these adjourned Sittings, the remaining articles of the Pr. ject, from the 7th to the 90th, were successively discussed, and after some slight modifications, adopted. The Chamber then proceeded to vote de finitively on the whole of the law, when, out of 232 Members present, in voted in favour of the law; and 100 against it; thus confirming by an in creased majority the previous triumph of Ministers on the leading articles of the project. The Report of the Commission on the Plan of Law relative to individual liberty, was fixed for dis cuuion on Friday; and as soon as that is disposed of it is understood that the labours of the Commission upon the Budget will be submitted to the Chamber. Since the interview of the Duke of WaLumnrou with the Kiro, he has also had a long private cage. fence with the Doke of RICHZLIZU and M. LAINIL It is generally believed that his Grace will remain stationary at Paris for some time. The French Funds bate advanced upwards of two per cent. ; and there can be no doubt this improve ment is owing to the triumph of Ministers, in the line of liberal policy which they hive adopted. The broader the basis of any Government, the greater will always be the confidence of the monied interest in the security of its obligations. Two Dutch Mails arrived yesterday, from which we have given some extracts in a preceding column ; and this morning a Flanders Mail arrived, from which we have subjoined every thing worthy of notice. The Dutch Papers auert,•that the French Govern ment has not succeeded in its application to the Mired Powers. to reduce the number of the Army of Occupation. On the contrary, all vacancies are filled up regularly, and it appears that many Office,: of rank are proceeding to Paris to wait the orders of the Commander in Chief. Every where the alarm of scarcity produces more or less distress. When there is a sufficiency, the people are'alarmed lest it should be carried to other places, and the price is enhanced by the machinations of speculators; and when there is an actual deficiency the people are suffering severely, being at the same time in want of sufficient employment to furnish the means to enable them to bay bread. In the Netherlands, the Ecckviastics excite much discontent. They are working on the consciences of the weak, the imbecile and dying, in a way which must certainly cause the Government to visit this body with some wholesome civil discipline. ANTWERP. JANUARY s. It is positively affirmed that. the Custom-house of this :icy has just received orders, provisionslly, to suspend the deliverance of licenses for the exports don of torn. Will the partisans of the unlimited li berty of commerce at length take pity on the sutfer ings of the indigeo; class, which has been too long sacrificed to the shameful -speculations of some indi viduals The Mayor of this city has just made a n appeal to the generosity of the people of Antwerp in favour of the indigent, who are on the point of Icing tedueed to dm greatest thaws, as the means hitherto employed for their support, are beginning to fail. BRUSSELS. JANUARY 9. The following circumstance has been sated in se. veral of our public journals, and excites no small •degree of alarm. Are we still to be priest-ridden? Are Ecclesiastics to be suffered with impunity thus to counteract our civil institutions, and set up an in- Buenas subversive of the constitution of the ccuntry? a M. de Wargny, a Knight of the Belgic Lion, finiting his last hour approach, sent for an ecclesias_ tic, who refused to give him absolution, if he did not retract the oath which be took as Member of the States-General, because this oath had been formally declared contrary to Religion by the Bishops of Belgium. Two . Notaries were immediately sent for, before whom he retracted and abjured the oath which he bad taken a year before, begging them to' make this act as public as possible, and at the same time bequeathing to the poor the 7000 francs which he had received till that time from the Government, as the salary of his place." 1 GHENT, JAVIARY t t. ealur MARKIT. crto increases in a most toning 111/1114a• May it elect a Ministerial con f. 'version. Wheat has been sold to-day at CA and a half, and Rye at 16 florins I and by e-, all was bought sp. , The distress so deplorable among us, is France a disastrous and threatening prokrts.. ral Departments have requested a ditninutit.n 0. ' number of foreign troops. The situ item t.l F 1.:• is such, that the rigorous execution of th e l ast T ie ,, would plunge that unhappy country into the extrer of distress. An inflexible enforcement of it we , ;: be a real act of hostility, and might be the came a new conflagration. The Swiss nation has pursued, amidst the Reb er ] corruption, a simplicity of manners which is prrha not to be found any white else, except in the rr• • tains of Wales, Scotland, and Albania ; yet this LI, • . not hinder this republican nation from srlli tt, tee;: year thousands of its subjects, who go to all conre• s of Europe to fight against the first that present; li ra , self, for so much per day. In the last war in Spain, the Swiss Regimcnti; n the service of France and of Ferdinand VE. Atm fought either for glory or for p.ty. .Vo men,y is a current proverb. For the rest wn will not decide whether that nation is the most to he pitied which is obliged to sell itself, or that which is forced to bet defenders ? Oar Readers will observe a notice which we have inserted in our Naval Column, of a vessel belong' ll to Embden having been captured by a Trip Ii rover, and of the summary punishment which the BasitAw inflicted on the pirate, on his carrying his prize into Tripoli. Such prompt and exemplary satisfaction, we think, affords a strong assurance of the sincerity of the Barbaresque Powers in the engagements they have come under with this and other Christian States. And it gives us pleasure to observe, from aaoths article from Trieste, of the 2Sd ult. also inserted is our Columns of to-day, that the Poeta has added all the weight of its supreme authority to thew ea gagements, by Firmans addressed to all the !him Regencies, most peremptorily enjoining them to re spect the Flags of all those Powers with which the Poor: is at Peace. The QUIEN is recovering from her indispositinr, but has not been out yet, owing to the severity of tke weather. Oa Saturday night, at nine o'clock, his Imperil Highness the Grand Duke NICHOLAS arrived in tntm from Oxford. Yesterday morning his Imperial High ness attended Divine Service at the Russian Ciapri, in Welbeck-strect. Yesterday the Archbishop of CanTeanuav, and number of the Nobility and Gentry, attended Divae Service . at,the Chapel Royal, St..T.lmes's Palace, and beard a sermon by the Rev. Mr. li7hano. The Bishop of SALISIOUPY gave a brand concern and ball at MI Palace, on Tlesday night last, to cne hundred and forty of tne most distinguished per,:: s in the neighbourhood, firming the :grip d'eil of beaqty and fashion. From the important Report of the Committa cf the House of Commons, respecting Roman lies, it appears that no Ear Ipean natiGn, either C. - tholic or Protestant, has permitted the Pon to c.c.- cise an exclusive power in :he choice of Biihapi; and that the cot:trout over the ..erarchy has cd-- standy been exercised by the Sovereign Yo•.vrt enchaining). Thursday the Marquis of STAFFORD entered :Ira his 60th year, and the day was, as usual, comaito, rated by a merry peal in NCWCAS:Ie. The Marquis of ANGLESEY has given notice to !.:s tenants at Burton-on-Trent, of a reduction in tht.r rents of 20 per cent. to commence neat rent-day. The floods are so much reduced in the neighimnr hood of Windsor and Eton, that the inhabitants ate again able to occupy their lower apartments, the waters are still very much on the land adjoining the Thames. The steam engine sent from this country, to he used for clearing the mines in Peru of water, has suc ceeded to the utmost expectatton, and is considered by the South Americans as a mho: miracle. It has been incorrectly stated in a Morning Parr that the appointment of Alright Hai Ginger is rer : This is one of the useless appointments recommendsd ' by Mr. BURKS to be abolished; but Mr. RYCSOfT has enjoyed it for many years. At the Pavilion, en Saturday se'nnight. after dinner, Mr. Rvottort, rn the course of conversation, said that he enjoyed a Knight's appointment without the honour of Knii;!e hood, and that he WAS a placeman without profit, the tees were irregular. Part of this observation :•i5 Royal Highness happened to overhear, and asked what Mr. Ruitorr bad said about Knigiithoodi The words wete repeateJ to the PHINce, v.lier, his Ro)al Highness said aeltvcnerv, you shall no longer - 1w - to complain of wanting the bruirr of knighthn3a ;" and turning to Major Losarricti, said Major, me your sword." In an islsta:A he COsierreJ honour of knighthood un the astonished and grateiel Sir McNair RYCROFT. Fortunately Sir Geortv; NAYLOR was present, and hi- t .ok note of the cere mony towards its registration ; consequently the ) ,Is of knighthood will be paid, whatever may be hecume of the tees of Kid,* lia4inger ! The following account of what were the duties of this officer, extracted from the" Booke of Hoirseho'd of Queen Elizabeth," will thew, that they are the las., which could be serviceable to out venerable Aiveteigl in his present condition : • " HERSlNOElt.—Gintlemati. He !nth z yeare, c^d ;el! a day boarde wages, and Cs. 4d. a day, while he la clak:rg h, t.r gage; be and kb fellows the fours yeomen are to provi, l 4: 7 off as )10qt:raja& remove:, all the Queen's men, an tom —, L.,;.e. i and eilefe officers needhd men, nctesbary l odgeing, is they tot lodged .in the Cotirt." HUNTING. The Hampshire Hunt meet to-morrow at I%Thttirrly Coil Minds,. at Prestos Oakkills ; Siturday, at Snalthcr's Baru, a ten o'clock each day. The Hambledon Hounds meet on Wednesday at 11's , .nt,•en Windmill; Friday, at Milburrow. at ten o'clock each da7. Sir Henry Crewe's Fos Hosuids will meet on flacrm'aF, Lockington, at ten. Mr. Mcynell's Fos Hounds will meet 04 Tll:4odzy , tt Ntiv ton VilLisa s at bill-Pat tat. Itt 'i:S S:.