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FRENCH PAPERS. • • CHAMBER OP DEPUTIES, DECEMBER ss. The Sitting openeu at hail past one o'clock. The Keeper of the Seals and the Minister of the Interior were on the Ministerial bench, The Count de BERN'S, the Repotter of the Corn xisittee of Petitions, called the attention of the Cham ber to one which prayed for a tax of the tenth part of a franc on, landed and personal property, for the re lief of the poor who were unable to gain their liveli hood by labour. lle stated, that the Committee bad authorised him to move the Order of the Day on this Petition. M. DUIIAMEL, in seconding the motion for the re jection of this Petition, observed, that experience had already shewn the evil of such a tax in England ; it had led to the production of vagrancy and crime. It ought to be rejected immediately. He lamented the alarming increase of beggars throughout France, and proposed that beggars should be registered ; and that the license or (certificate) of begging should not he granted with such facility as it was at present.—Order of the Day. A Petition from the Olive-growers of the De. ail ment of the Var, amounting to 56,000, was then no ticed: it prayed relief from the tax inipo•ed on that branch of cultivation, on account of the heavy sustained !loin the frosts of the yea! 1820. The Pe tition was referred to the Minister of Fir,a,we. The REPORTER.—The Sieur Item', merchant of Paris, complaini of the fatal consequences of the pas sion for gaming, and the evils which the • •pen houses cause to persons addicted to that vice. He dim of re prays.that those houses may be shut up, and severe penalties inflicted on all persons attending any of the kind. The Committee shares the senti . , ent sof the Pe- titioner, but refraining from assuming an initiative which does not belong to it, has directed me to pro pose, that this Petition should be referred to the Mi nister of Finance. The Reporter said that the• Petition might be re ferred to both Ministers. The question was put, on the reference to the Mi nister of the Interior, and carried. _ _ _ A call wa, then made for also referring the Peti tion to the Committee on the Budget; but the ques tion being pat on this reference, it was negatived. M. Chabrol de Crouzol was elected fourth Vice- President of the Chamber. He had 164 votes, and the other candidate, M. Delalot, 130. CORRECTIONAL POLICE. The Seventh Chamber of First Instance has pro nounced judgment in the affair of Viscount de Mon telegier and Colonel Barbier Dufay. Here follows the sentence, with the grounds on which it is passed: " In regard to the complaint of Gen. de Montelegier: " Seeing that it results Iron: the instruction of the process, that towards the middle of the month of July ia- c, Colonel Dufay caused to be printed and diFtrib .ted, a writing containing a letter dated May 20, addressed by him to General Montelegier : " D.J. in the said letter he accuses General Mon telegiei having calumniated him in the most odious and wicks.. manner, before the first Court of the kingdom, and before all France ; adding, that the declaration of the General, the sole author of that fiction and of many others, is an impudent falsehood, and that he degrades himself too much in corre ponding with a being so base and so demoralized ; that, in fine, he therein provoked him to a combat a out mice, in the most gross and most insulting terms: " That the said letter was written on the 20th of May, three days .after the General had given his deposition in the Court of Peers, which happened on the 17th May : That allthe journals of the 18th, one only ex cepted, the Journal des Debuts, in reporting this de position, cited the name of Colonel Tabvier, and nut that of Dufay ; that Dufay could not, and ought not to have been ignorant of this fact before writing that letter, in which he states, that on that day the Journal des Debals of the 18th had accidentally fallen into his hands: That accordingly, from that moment, he could have no doubt that the Journal des Debuts had com mitted an error, and that General Montelegier really had not mentioned him in his deposition before the Chamber cf Peers: " That afterwards, he could as little doubt that the answer to the said letter, which he has also published, emanating from General Montelegier, and dated on the same day, states that Dufay had never been men tioned either to or by him : _ _ _ "That it is, therefore, knowingly and wickedly, and with the design of compelling the said General Montelegier to meet him for a combat a outrance, that Colonel Dufay printed and distributed the said defamatory writing " Seeing that on the 26th of July last Colonel Du fay caused to be yrinted and circulated a second writing, in which he stated, in speaking of General Montelegier, that it would not be easy for the Tri bunals to pronounce the innocence of the author of the end of General Bon ; and farther on, that being present on the 23d of January, in the house of Gene ral Mcntelegier, the said General presented a pistol to his (Dufay's) breast, and drew the trigger, but that the priming did not take fire ; and that these de. famatory and calumnious facts are contradies!cl by the persons who were present, and by an Ordinance i of the Chamber of Council, dated August 18 :—That Dula) , is therefore guilty of the crimes provided *phut by Articles 13, 14, 18, and 19 of the Law of May 17, 1819. " With regard to the complaint. of Colonel Dufay against General Montelegier " Seeing that General Montelegier, instead of de spising the belme-mentioned insults and calumnies,, or of proceeding legally against them, caused to be printed and distributed a letter, addressed by him to Colonel Dufay, in which he says, 4 A wretch covered with infamy, who has been condemned to the gallies, imposed in the pillory, and implicated in the crime of Louvel, has no right to claim an affair of honour, nor even to speak of it :' " That General Montelegier, notwithstanding his having been insulted, calumniated, and provoked in the most outiageous manner, is, nevertheless, repre hensible for taking justice into his own hands, by publishing the said letter. " In pursuance, therefore, of Articles 13, 14, 18 , E and la of the Law of the 17a1 of May, 1819, " The Tribunal condemns Colonel Mk to an • - prisonment of one month, 506 francs fine, and to the payment of five-sixths of the expenses. " And General Montelegier to 25 francs of fine, and one-sixth-of the expenses. " The Tribunal also orders the suppression' of the three writings in question. With regard to the other requests and conclusions of the parses, they are put out of the cause." Dufay has entered an appeal. TIIE EVENING STAR. LONDON. MONDAY, DECEMBER 81, 1821. • 1 , STOCK EXCHANGE., ONE O'CLOCK. Our Funds have fallen this morning 9/s from the Saturday's closing prices, but have since recovered, and Consols are now 77%. This depression is attri buted to the reported fall of the French Funds. An' Express is said to have brought the price of the French Funds on Saturday at 82 f. 20 c. but we have some doubt as to this being correct. A vari ty of reports are in circulation as to the failure, cf a number of French Brokers, and that a consider able House in Paris has been compelled to sell out a large quantity of Siock to meet its engagements. CURRENT PRICES : S per Cent. Redo. 73'h %-4 per Cent. 9.5 9: 3 / 4 Bank Long Ans. 19 3-16 1 / B —lndia Bonds 68s. pr. Exch. Bills par, Is. pr.—Small 2s. Is. pr. Cons. for Account 77% 76% WA. ARRIVAL OF MARQUIS WELLESLEY IN DUBLIN. The new Lord Lieutenant, the Marquis WELLES• LEY, arrived at Howth on Friday night, and was to make his public entry into the. City of Dublin, by Summer-hill, on Saturday, at twelve o'clock. The LORD MAYOR aad Corporation would proceed from the Mansion-house at eleven o'clock to meet the Noble Marquis. Mr. JOHNSTONE, Private Secretary to the Marquis WELLEsunr, and who is also said to hold the situa tion of Steward of the Household, arrived at Dublin on Thursday, accompanied by Mr. BLARE. All the carriages and liveries of the new Lord Lieutenant are to be made up in Dublin: the livery buttons of the Noble Marquis will bear the impres sion of the Shamrock alone. New York Papers arrived this morning to the 9th November, bringing the following Abstract of the PRESIDENT'S Speech to Congress: " The progress of our affairs since the last Session has been such as may be justly claimed and expected under a Government deriving all its powers from an enlightened people, and under laws formed by their representatives on great consideration, for the sole purpose of promoting the welfare and happiness of their constituents. In the execution of these laws, and of the powers vested by the Constitution in the Exe cutive, unremitted attention has been paid to the great-object to which they extend, in the Conce►ns which are exclusively internal : there is good cause to be satisfied with the result. The laws have had their due operation and effect in those relating to Foreign Powers. 4 , I am happy to state, that peace and amity are preserved with all, by a strict observance, on both sides, of the rights of each, in matters touching our commercial intercourse. Where a difference of opi. nion has existed in any case as to the conditions On which it should be placed, each party has pursued its own policy, without giving just cause of offence to the other. By an Act of the 31st March, 1815, so much of the several Acts as imposed higher duties on the ton nage of foreign vessels, and on the manufactures and productions of foreign nations, whenimported into the United States in foreign vessels, than when im ported in vessels of the United States, was repealed ; when the nature of commerce between the United States and every other country was taken into view, it was thought that this proposition would be considered fair; and even liberal, by every Power.—The orts of the United States corisist generally of articles of the first necessity and of raw materials. Many considera tions of great weight give us a right to expect that this commerce should be extended to the colonies as well as to the European dominions of other Powers— with the latter, especially with countries manufac turing, the advantage was manifestly on their side; an indemnity for that loss on our side was expected from a trade with the colonies. " Such was the basis of our system, as established I by the Act of 1815, and such its true character. In the year in which this Act was passed, a treaty was concluded with Great Britain, in strict conformity with its principles in regard to her European domi nions : to her Colonies in the West Indies, and on this Continent it was not extended. The British Go vernment claimed the exclusive supply of those Co lonies ; to this claim the United States could not con• sent, and, in consequence, each party suspended the intercourse in the vessels of the other, by a prohibi tion which still exists. The same conditions were offered to France, but not accepted: her Govern-1 ment has demanded other conditions more favourable! to her navigation, and which should give extraordi nary encouragement to her manufactures and pro- ductions in the ports of the United States: to thew it was thought improper to accede. t‘ It is much to be regretted, although a negocla don has been long pending, such is the diversity of the views entertained on the various points, that there does not appear to be any reasonable prospect of its early conclusion. It is my ditty to state a cause of very great regret, that very serious differences have occurred in this negociation, respecting the constric tion of the eighth Ankle of the Treaty of 1805, whereby Louisiana was ceded to the United States ; and likewise respecting the seizure of the Apollo, in 1820, for a violation of our revenue laws. The claim of the Government of Trance has excited no less sur• prise than concern, because there does not appear to be a just foundation fur it in either instance. " The principles of the system of reciprocity, founded on the Law of the Slst March, 1815, have been since carried into effect with the King of the , Netherlands, Sweden, Prussia, Hamburgh, Bremen, Lubeck, and Oldenburgh. " The Government of Norway has, by an ordinance, opened the ports of that part of the dominions of the King of Sweden to vessels of the United States, upon the payment of no other higher duties than are paid by the Norwegian vessels. The question concerning the construction of the first article of the Treaty of Ghent has been, by a joint act of the Representative, of the United States and of Great Britain, at the Court of St. Petersburgh, submitted to the decision of his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia; the result of which has not yet been received. la With Spain the Treaty of February 22, 18111, has been partly carried into execution : possession of East and West Florida has been given up to the United States. It has been seen with much concern, that in in the performance of these duties a collision arose between the Governor of the territory and the Judge appointed for the western district. " In compliance with an injunction of the law of the Sd of March, three Commissions have also been appointed, and a Board organized, for carrying into effect the 11th Article of the Treaty above recited, making provisions for payment to such of our citi zens as have well-founded claims on Spain 3 this Board has entered on its e uties, and made some progress. " The Government of his Most Faithful ►Majesty, since the termination of the last Session of Congress, has been removed from Rio Janeiro to Lisbon, where a Revolution had occurred, similar to that in Spain. " It is understood, that the Colonies in South Ame rica have had great success, during the present year, in the struggle for their independence. " In conducting the financial operations of the year, it has been found necessary to carry into effect a loan of five millions of dollars : this sum has been raised at a premiam of five dollars, fifty-nine hun dredths per cent. upon Stock, bearing interest at the rate of five per cent. per annum. " A considerable increase of domestic manufac tures, by diminishing the importations of foreign, will probably tend to lessen the amount of the public re venue. It cannot be doubted that the more cempleat our internal resources, and the less dependent we are on foreign Powers Tor every national, as well as do mestic purpose, the greater and more stable will be the public felicity, by the increase of domestic manufactures. tg The examination of the whole coast, for the con struction of permanent fortifications, from St. Croix to the Sabine, will be completed in the present year. Due progress has been made in the construction of vessels of war, according to the law provided. Deeply im• pressed with the blessings we enjoy, and of which we have such manifold proofs, my mind is irresistibly drawn to that Atasionxv BEING, the great source from whence they proceed, and to whom our most grateful acknowledgments are due. The new Government of Columbia has extended its tenitories, and considerably augmented its strength; and at Buenos Ayres, where cis il dissention had for some time before prevailed, greater harmony and better order appear to have been established. Equal success has attended their efforts in the provinces on the Pacific. It has long been manifest that it would be impossible for Spain to reduce these Colonies by force, and equally so, that no conditions short of their independence would be satisfactory to them. It may, therefore, be presumed, and it is earnestly hoped, that the Government of Spain, guided by enlightened and liberal Councils, will find it to comport with its inter. rests to terminate this exhausting controversy on that basis. To promote this result by friendly counsel with the Government of Spain, will be the object of the Government of the United States. Washington, Dec. 5, 1121. " JAMES MONROE." 'rue SPEAKER.-The Flag. from Tammany Hall, announced another Republican victory, and, upon inquiry, we learn with pleasure, that Mr. P.l 1. BAR BOUR, of Virginia, had been elected Speaker of the House of Represeneather. We have reteived the New York National Advocate to the 10th instant. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DECEMBER 4. The house this day resumed its ballot for the choice of a Speaker, when the election was declared to have fallen on P. BARBOUR, Esq. one of the Representa ives of the State of Virginia, and he was duly elected Speaker of this House. Saturday last the Prtistnest of the United States received the resignation of General JACKSON, of the ()Rice of Governor of Florida. • The Provincial Jrfirnals contain afflicting accounts of the damage done in various parts of ti:e country by the late incessant rains : but the favourable ai peirance of the weather this rnorsaing,tives hoes of a Vet . ] matet4ll change for the INTELLIGRA'CR. THE LOSS OE THE JULIANA. Extract of a letter from Margate :—` 4 The Juliana, C.. 210 ,F s Oots.virs, left Bengal the latter end uf July, and had a fair run to the Downs, at which place she put her mail-bags ashore day Week, the ;Usti and a short time after, Mrs. Ocis eig, the wife of the Captain, was landed. The ship brought up on Sat. day in Margate Roads; but the weather being verytempestoone, she drove, and lest one, if not two anchors. A lishlng.b ogg spoke them, and promised to send off an anchor and cable, which was duly performed ; but, owing to the state of the tide, this valuable assistance could not depart before the evening, and their utmost exertions could not enable them to find the Juliana. It appears from the accounts furnished by the surviving part of the crew, that the ship struck upon the Kentish Knock, when ; it was thought expedient to cut away all three masts, which was effected, and the vessel floated again. The sea running moun tains high, and the wind raging at the time, the boats were Lowered, and all hopes of saving the ship abandoned. At this moment, when all bands were preparing to leave her, a heavy. swell tore away the boats from the ship's side; in this forlori state a raft was determined upon, which, after much labour, was completed, when, by another very heavy swell of the sea, it was actually capsized. Despair, if ever it found a plac e i gh the breast of an English seaman, might at this moment era/rat ably be supposed to enter; but to hasten the catastrophe, th e in satiate element quickly swallowed up nearly the whole of this fated clew, poor Captain Ocn.nt amongst them ; and only three or four have got on shore at :Margate, to communicate the dread.. ful tidings. Thy above will be found substantially correct." We have been enabled to collect the following addition;) ticulars of this lamentabk catastrophe :—The Juliana had arrived lopposite 2. gate, when a sudden swell of the sea drove her with irresistible violence from off land, and after being exposed for several lunar* to the violence of the storm, she was cast upon the Kentish Knock. This Was 00 the evening of the 24th inst. The first thing she lost was her rudder. The distressing situa tion of the crew during the night passes description ; all hands were employed at the pump, but the water yet increased upon them, and every moment they expected the ship to go to pieces. Captain Mize's, unwilling to quit her till the last remnant of hope was exhausted, prevailed upon his men to continue their exertions, and it was not till the afternoon of Christmas Day that they resolved to abandon her, and endeavour to save their lives. They then hoisted out the long-boat, into which all who could were taken, and the rest gat toms a raft. After the an. fortunate beings, thirty-seven in number, had thus left the ship, the Captain imagined that he yet saw some hope of saving p ar t of her *ergo, by waiting till the morning ; end as there was as immediate danger of the ship going down, actuated by at ardent desire to promote the interests of his employers, and reluctant to abandon his post, he unfortunately persuaded the crew agar to return to a scene from which so few were ever to escape,— They did so, and lashed the boat and raft to the ship. Wi ng this Night their sufferings-were beyond description : the sea ran mountains high, the water continued to gain upon them, and they were obliged to remain upon the deck, exposed so all the horrible inclemency of the wea:her. When every hope of saving any particle of the effects was lest, and every moment added , a their danger, the Captain gave orders to seek safety in the beat; and notwithstanding the intense darkness of the night, all were instantly in motion.. Before, however, the unavoidable prcpara. tions were completed, a most violent sea broke upon them, and shivered the boat into pieces. Nothing could now exceed the consternation and despair of the unfortunate victims; but it wss of short continuance, for soon after the vessel itself was so u s, and immediately sunk. in the dreadful scene that ensued, six of the men only were able to fiad the raft, and they by that means avoided the immediate fate of their wretched companions. Such, however, had been the privations they had endured, and such the dreadful inclemency of the night, that four out of the remaining six perished before the morning, and the other two, when quite exhausted, were picked up by a fishing-boat, and they only have escaped to tell the dreadful tale.'these men have reached London. The only passengers on board were Miss Ileriot, daughter to Lieutenant Ileriot, of the Bengal Establishment, and her female attendant. This interening and was coming to England for her education, and the Captain was to have delivered her to the care of her grandfather, who resides at Chehea. Zdanoars, Dec. 30.—The boat which was so long in attend ance with an anchor and cable for the Juliana, has becn out to the Kentish Knock this morning. and reports that, in about 7} fathoms water, they discovered the masts of a sunken vessel. which appeared to be teak wood ; the sea being high, they con tinued but a short time. Bomar, JULY 4.—The Mulgrave Castle got out on Webs. day, and the Lady Nugent on Thursday, without muck diffi culty, though the wind was dead to South, and in the evening began to blow hard. Friday was a very boisterous day, ands schooner (the Fly) was blown from her moorings and grounded on the rocks under the walls of the Castle, and it is feared she , will be totally lost. The same weather continued on Saturday and Sunday, and with repeated hard squalls, and a good deal d rain fell; the Royal George and the Nadiree at the Midas ground. The weather was somewhat more moderate on Maw day, when the Royal George, Farquharson, and Caroline, sailed for China ; the Fazed Karim, for Madras ; and the Hon. Car patsy's cruizer Antelope, for Mocha. The weather was modem's during the day, but began to blow harder in the evening. Joie 21.—Letters from Muscat Cove, dated 9th July, men. don the arrival there of the Francis Warden, after a fang, tr dious, and boisterous passage of 53 days from this port. The Hon. Company's cruiser Tornate arrived at the same time, having suffered some little damage in her masts and yards from the bad weather. The Hon. Company's cruiser Teignmoutk was to be dispatched with packets, &c. to Bushire. Dens., D i e. 30.—Wind N.W.—The Rawlins, Datw, foe Ss. Kitt's; Amazon, f'r Jamaica; Charlotte, for New York; and Adept'', for Jamaica, lost anchors and cables yesterday: tits latter has proceeded for Ramsgate harbour. Sailed for the lii' ver, the (:alcdonia, Gig ;.TES, from Bengal. Came down from the River and sailed, the Factor, MORGAN, from Belfast. Cans down from the River to-day, the Mary Ann, Waaantcroi, fat New South Wales ; Nestor, 'fit zarra, far the Isle of France ar.i Bombay; Iris, SM/TH, for St. Vincent's; Britannia, Hamra, for Grenada; and Wallace Edkin, Ennui, for St. Domingo,. Sailed the whole of the outward-bound, with a light breeze frost the Northward. COWES, DEC. 29.—Last night a part of the quarter-deck and companion of the Russian brig Ales, of Ukaborg, Ties:Toss, from London for St. Übe's, sv,th the Master and 13 men, drove on shore at Steephill ; two turn perished before they reached the shore. The other twelve were saved by Lieutenant Jovits of the Preventive Service and his bo.it's crew. The Ales had struck on a reef of rocks called the Casket, and parted. The crew were four days and five nights oe the wreck. Arrived the illieroni mus, Some, from Naples for Antwetp, leaky. Pr.vuoiero, Dec. 29.—Wind S.—Arrived yesterday the Pie- I vidence Jar, from London for Naples; Farmer, SOTHEEI.ANP, from ditto for Terceira; and Peter and Rebecca, Am.xx, front ditto for Lisbon. Arrived tn-day the Trial, --A EVEr, from Si Jago de Cuba—on the 10th inst. off Lavasa, was boarded by it. 'privateer; Lucy, CLARE, from London for St. Vincent's; Segm, MIDDLETON, from ditto for Jamaica ; Telemachus, Totemic, from ditto for Gijou, with s-ils split; Vibelia, Ilotio:aio, front ditto for Jamaica; Venue, Itow, from Penzince for Venice; Betsy, Timone s,frcm Bristol, with loss of boat ; and Friendship, Waiter from Bristol for J,voloth with bowsprit sprung. The Williao, Grum, has lost an anchor and cable. The French ship Man- Bus, from Havre for Rio Janeiro, drifted from her acclints and aval on shore on a reef of rocks at tl'e er:r4r•sc of PrilYe i1!' 7241 and has since gone to pieces —part of her cargo saved, nil materials expected to be saved. Yesterday it blew one of the severest gales at S.E. ever remembered by the oldest hilt:Mutat, with so high a tide as to throw many boats on the goer, oul completely overflow the low er p arts o f the town. Faemouto, DEc. 29.—:hived yesterday the Moreover packet, with a /*tail from the Leeward !sLnds. Put has' the Fox packet, far the Isiondi ; and Camden ditto, for the Britoil'. About three A.M. it blew a heavy gale front the S.:. l: and !mod until nine The Manchester packs: drove from her znchorc and the Nuctun packet drove cm board EN carried away the bowsprit and be.:tl of the Duke of lietit packet. In addition to the above damage, the French chasie-marre IA Trois Deny Antis, in ballast, was driven on shore near Restrongnet, and strauded--crew saved. Several houses were DIA with water at St. Maines i' as were several in this WWII and renthrn. We have not heard of any lives being to: t. Th 4 wind becalm meth , - rate in the afternoon, but between ten and coven, rm. it com menced again, and blew a heavy gale all night. The vessel* all ride well. Arrived the Phesdo, Pessavr, from Leralto, . with loss of bulwarks; and John, Artro, front St. Johtt . .,witk loss of bulwarks, stern-boat, and pails. ' Yaaxuurti, Dec. 30.—it blew a heavy gale last night irr• „ the S.S.R. and S.I. A Caister boat fell in with the wreck Ja small brig, just loyel with the water's edge, whikit drifted to the so/ts moral. agrived the Betsy, Roeues, from Rotterdam, lei* I ~~ ..- "yam ~"<.