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I , " f • N monies of the Project of Law, of which it only., mains to read to you the Articbas: " Art. I. No Journal or Periodical. Mikados, devoted •:i IP'' •.- I _ _' ll n!''' • wholly or in to news or *politica' matters, and appearing end in s Axed day, or In Numbers, or irregt:i cnAIisiwiMPTIRUTIES, JANUARY!. _ . Reports Percale' defines the Committee of Peddling. = can b e ma mm a l e nd published without the authority BMW LAW BASPECTING Tll2 PUBLIC P11E33. the King. This Article is not to apply to Jouresb or Periodi cal Publications existing on the Ist Jill_teel7 . ISEL __ _ _. The .1E Emma of the 8'1'4.- 4 ' Messieurs, the King 0 The copy of each Journal or nUalber vr eet al Plib e lleao_ ec j bas ordered us to present to you a proie r c es t s c . i law re- dons or Journals transmitted te the ta at the asca r th r e r p l - n). , A pro- torus or MAY lative to the Police of the Periodical cureur du Rol of the place of printing. dtposi " Art, 3. lii case the spirit or general teto . deney tf enty Journal ject more general and mote extensive, th the objectof which,essenually different from that of e new proj e c t,. • r pe4 , 4 „. 1 . f the State or the other te 'indiscriminately all the offences commit- er the respect due to the religion o *tithe shall be of a nature to injure the public peace, IS to repress the mall ted by means of the Preis, is now under or the staty of tbe C,onstitutional Institutions, the Roy. notions legally recognised in France. or the authority of th e fed nation of one of your Committees. Conceiv ed arts,ac within the range of whose jurisdiction these Journals cording to other views and other systems , t hat p ro j et are published , shall have the ....,. r , . t• *wow sired inform- after hearing the Procureur . perhaps now appea* to you to be susceptible of some - ixacsi Genstal ptaliewim and the panties in solemn audience, or awn to swoon ti, if these modifications. We shall not, therefore , delay r . ing you of the fundamental changes which have been " The reading of the Article was here interrupted made in this respect in the system of the Govern . by a violent explosion of murmurs. All the left anent, since it.is by means of them that you will be broke out at once in exclamations. enabled to judge in what respect the law of tepres - M. Gut fuse-Send your law to Constantinople I sion may be modified—(Sensetn ea the left).— M. OIGNON-4t is unqualified despotisvm Every one agrees that the licentiousness of journ a ls_ M. de GIRARDIN—They wish to make us regret would be very inkttious. No one has any doubt of the the loss of the Censorship. its being necessary to regulate , by a sp ecial law, Amidst the confusion of voices, the Keeper of the forms of their publication. But what are these re- Seals with difficulty got through the last paragraph, gulations to be ? It is at that point, Messieurs, that which is as folloses : obstacles multiply, and that opinions begin to differ. " The pleadings shall be public, unless the Court should con- The most serious difficulty is, perhaps, in the very alder that publicity dangerous to order and morality—(Violent nature of the guarantees which can be obtained ; for interruption on the left). those which are efficacious draw after them several M. Duroey (de l'Eure).—A solemn audience with l kinds of inconveniences, whilst others , which wo u ld c l o sed doors! What solemnity . doubtless be less inconvenient, ate, for the most part, Voices in the centre.—Bead Article 54 of the destitute of efficacy. We must therefore reject as Charter. illusory and insufficient all those formalities of detail, "4. If in the Joie: vat of the Session of the Chambers,weighty all those combinations more ingenious than useful, ci bl isote.umani.st should render temporarily insufficient the em measures of security and repression, the laws of the 311( of which an attentive examination would soon de- of March, 1520, and the 26th of July, 1821, may be for the time monstrate the weakness and imperfection—( Sense- restored to vigour in virtue of an Ordonnance of the King, coup time on the lell).—The question standing thus, it only tersigned by three Ministers—(Violent interrupti. for remains to consider whether it is possible to establish. M. de Lassern.—Three Ministers ! Th at i s s a small number of simple and certain arrangements , the su pension .of personal liberty. which, without violating the rights of legitimate NI. de GIRARDIN.—Suspend the Charter, also, by freedom, would still diminish the chances of impu. the signature of three Ministers. nity, and contribute also to render the excesses of A voice.--The six Ministers will sign if necessary. journals less frequent and less dangerous. Circum- M. Mecute.—This is a frightful Project. stances, Me-sieurs, are not always favourable to the Other voices.— This will make us bless the Cen public tranquillity, nor does the nature of our institu- sorship.—ln mercy leave us your Censors ! Cons permit their receiving at all times the same aid. The PRESIDENT had to ring his bell long before M. The guarantees ought, therefore, to be conformable de Peyronnet could resume the reading of the Article. to these differences, and to vary according to circum - " This regulation shall completely er ase to operate at the end of one month front the opening of the Session of the Chambers, stances. In ordinary times they would be more sins- if in the meantime it be not converted into a law." p ie , and less extensive. In more serious circum- M. !Weems; and other voices on the left.—This is stances, in a season of disturbance, when the safety a b a d palliative ! of the State might be menaced, if the usual regula- Voices in the centre.—Silence, Gentlemen. Such tions :.re insufficient, instant measures should be re- interruptions are unexampled. sorted to, the efficacy of which should be guaranteed M. de PEYRONNET proceeded : by experience —(New movements on the ldt).—Hence, "It shall also cease on the day on which an Ordonnance shall Messieurs, are deduced the two arrangements which be p u b lished, p ronouncin g the dissolution of the Chamber of serve as the basis of the new law. By the first you Deputies " 5. The provisions of the anterior. laws which are not abro- Will permit the real object and the habitual tendency gated by the present shall continue in force. of periodical journals to be tried and decided upon. " Given at the Castle of the Tuilleries on the 31st of Deceits . - It is a new but a necessary law, it is the indispensable ber, in the y ear of Grace 1821, and of our reign the 27th. condition of the suppression of the Censor. Our lan- The . ' licit-.ter raised h is voice, which the great agt guage has too much pliability, and French wit has tation on the lea nearly drowned, and pronounced with a very remarkable accent the formula with too much vivacity, to render it difficult to write of wlilich the h project command, terminated, the vi z . Keeper— f the seals, Min fcnsive articles to which a Judge may be unable to apply the strict and positive definition of crime.— ister seeee t y t of e _ K i ng' s ae bt for the department of Justice. o There must, necessarily, be a moral appreciation for (Signed) "DE PEYRONNET." an Act, the responsibility of which is always evident. This formula, twice repeated by the Keeper of the disguised, nevertheless, tinder external forms which Seals, with the particle which precedes the name of escape the precise arrangements of general laws.— his Excellency, gave rise to prolonged laughter. There is no person can deny, that a certain number A voice.—Why not say briefly, Peyronnet? of articles of this nature may be more reprehensible Oilier voices.—We are now informed that the name and rw.re dangerous than a single phrase would be, of the Keeper of the Seals is De Peyronnet. escaping perhaps by inadvertence, bet in which may The laughter continued, while some voices in the be found all the material characters of fact, consti- centre called " Order !" tuting in the eyes of the law offence or crime. The PRESIDENT.—The Chamber acknowledges the re- 1 right of judging supposes a tribunal which can exer- ceipt of the project, orders it to be pointed and dis cise it ; to whom, therefore, Me s sieurs. will you con- tributed, and referred for examination to the Bureaux. tide the important right w hich you are about to esta- Will it be convenient for the Chamber to meet on the blish ? We propose to give it to the Royal Courts— day after to-morrow in the Bureaux, to proceed to (Murmurs on the left—voice on the right, " Yes, yes! this preliminary examination ? Mat is its Near! Silence:"f.—As th e judgment will Voices in the centre and on the right.—Yes, yes. be pronounced in solemn audience—(A similar move- Voices on the left.—How hasty you arc. anent : several Members on the left ra i se d their voices, PRESIDENT.—The day after to-morrow, if there be and :interrupted.—Nl. GANILII—At Constantinople. no opposition. Mut - mos on the right ; cries of hear, hear!")—The M. ItsstJamist CONSTANT.—There will be a great number of Magistrates who will have to concur, will deal.—(Noise.) insure to society, and to the accused, all the guaran- PRESIDENT.—The present Bureaux retain their tees which can be equitably exacted—(New move- powers on Friday. They will not be renewed until ,'tent). —There will be formed by this combination an Monday in a public sitting, and they will then pro assemblage of grave and studious men, in which in teed to their new organization. general the mind is more exercised in those operat;ons PARIS. JANUARY 2. which the decision of these acts supposes and renders The Duke of BOURDEA ux, who has been for some necessary. There has been a great affectation for days slightly indisposed, is entirely recovered. some years of spreading doubts respecting the lode- Letters from Smyrna of the 15th November, re pendence of the French Tribunals"—(A new movement ceived at Amsterdam, say, " For two days great dis on the Itli interrupted). quietude has prevailed here; all the shops are shut ; The PRESlDENT.—Messieurs, when a Project of the Turks begin to insult the Franks ; two English- Law is presented in the name of the King, no person mein and an Austrian have been maltreated. Yester has the right, out of discussion, of interrupting the read- day three armed Turks entered a house occupied by ing by the manifestation of an opinion, or by reflections a Frenchman, but seeing the occupier. prepared to which disturb order. It is a violation of your rules. receive them with a musket, they disappeared. Every A Voice on the right.-1t is a violation of respect; day Greeks are sacrificed by these barbarians." i t is a violation of all courtesy. A scandalous scene took place yesterday on the M. de LAMETH—That is a sentiment, and not a Boulevard of Mont Parnasse. Versions, entirely dif reflection. ferent from each other, are in circulation respecting Voices on the right—" Order, hear !" this affair; we hasten to give a correct statement of The KEEPER of the SEALS resumed, raising his the facts as they really took place: voice, and repeated—There has been a great affects- M. —, an English Gentleman, had 'placed his tiun for some years of spreading doubts a; te the in- three daughters to board with Mademoiselle —. dependence of the French Tribunals. They do not Oa returning from a journey to England, he was deserve this reproach. We should not say that the quite astonished to learn that all three bad changed immovability of Judges places them above suspicion, their religion, and abjured Pi ceestantism. The eldest, but we may say, what is a better boast, that their aged '22, was in a Convent: he went to see her, and conduct has constantly belied the suppositions of their learnt that she was with the Su perieute dela Maternite. calumniators—(New interruptions on the 41'0—What Being unable to see her, M. waited in his we have announced would doubtless suffice under carriage on the Boulevard where she had to pass ; ordinary circumstances, but if we fall upon unfortu- when his daughter arrived between two nuns, the nate times, and the inundation of licentiousness should I father, accompanied by Mr. B. sprung f r om hi s car be such that these barriers can no longer restrain it, l riage, seized his daughter, and endeavoured to tear the State must not remain without defence. Prudence her from the two nuns, whose cries brought the dictates that we should hold in reserve a more eaten- guard. The Officer conducted the father, the dough sive but summary power, in order to turn aside the; ter, the two nuns, and the witness, to the Commis perils and abridge their duration. The censure may ! sary of Police in the Rue du Bac. The Magistrate then become accidentally necessary—(A long and ; refused to restore to the father his daughter, who is loud interruption on the left. Voices on the right, Major Order, order! Silence! Llcar!)--Everything con- ! M. caused M. Dupin (a celebrated Advo curs in the persuasion, that these melancholy events cote) to draw up a Petition, which was presented this will no more be realised amongst us ; but it is useful morning to the Chamber of Deputies. We abstain to be prepared, and there can be no security so pro- from all reflections on this affair, which is interesting found as to authorise Legislators voluntarily to leave to every family. imperfect the laws on which are to be founded the Five per Cents. Wednesday, 83 f. 40 c.—Ezehange id even the existence, of society--(Voices on on London, One Month, 25 L 35 c.—Three Months, ' That is true !").—Suck s Messieurs, are the 25 f. 15 c. • • s 4 I z. FasicirdPEßS. loond as to a imperfect thf peace, and e tht right)" 16111111111111111111111 -- . 16 ' THE REVENUE. ABSTRACT of the NET PRODUCE of the REVINUSat GREAT BRITAIN, (exclusive of the Arrears of War Duty IS Malt and Property) in the Years and Quarters ended 6th January, 1821 sad 6th January, 1822; davit the Increase or Decrease oa each bead thereof. roams WM= sax. & Mini. I 1822. I Increase. !Decrease. cast:Asu I at. • 1,117415! 6,515,731 1005,47'. F. 11,456,91 6,390,71 1,497,1! Excise Stamps Post Office Assessed Taxes Land Taxes-- bliseellaneous 821,001 4.533,87 , 447,581 114,18' 2,2,2; 473,1 119,1 43,41 1 13,165,315: 13,568,217 Deduct Decrease... Increase on the Quarter , YEARS MD= JAN. 5. 1823. I 1 ass. 495,41 92,51' Increase. 503,211 181,713 71,01' 9,52 42,707 71,000 54,655 168,242 af. 8,631,191 26,364,702 6,151,347 1,389,060 6,311,346 1,192,257 293,938 9,135,102 26,546,415 6,108,640 1,318,000 6,256,811 1,263,274 303,463 50,334,481 50,931; Deduct Decrease...' Iscrease on the Year Customs ... Excise Post Office Assessed Taxes Land •taxes bliscellmeous h_:N I LONDON. MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1822. STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. The Market opened this morning with Consols at 78 1 / 2 ; a considerable number of Brokers were early in attendance, and extensive purchases have been made by both parties. The Market looks exceeding well at this time, and,Consiils for the Opening arc at 78 3 / 8 t,1 3 , and for the February Account, 78 % Current prices: per Cent. Reduced 77% 5 /s 3 per Cent. Cons. 78% % 5 ex. div. 3 1 / 2 p er Cent. 88%-4 per Cent. 96Y 4 .5 per Cent. Navy 108% 7 / 8 34 es. div. Bank Long Anns.l9 l h--India Bonds 745. 765. pr. Excheq. Bills, 4s. 55.--Do. Small 4s. 6s. Cons. for Account 78 1 / 2 1 / 2 34. The French Papers of Thursday and Friday bring full confirmation of the odioui proposal of the Minis ters for extinguishing the Press in France, and of which we gave the substance on Saturday. One of our contemporaries says this new Law is not so severe as the Censorship: how ha discovers this, we know not. The Censorship, by striking out an obnoxious paragraph, proticted the Journalist, and gave a sanc tion to everything that remained : the new Law, on the contrary, lays wait for its victim, and on the first real or imaginary offence, suspends the Journal, or even suppresses it, at the pleasure of a Court ap pointed by the Ministers of the Crown. ,It is true that the Author and the Journal are not to be"con denmed without pleadings taking place, which shall be " public, unless the Court should consider that publicity dangerous to order and morality." What a mockery is this, in the name of justice! Well might the Member-, on hearing such a monstrous proposi tion, exclaim—" This is the establishment of a Star Chamber: send your Law to Constantinople! This will make us bless the Censorship: give us back your Censors."—The slavery of the Censorship, indeed, was perfect freedom, compared to the new Project of these Ultra deg - oes, the French Ministers. But odious as this Law is, it is not deemed sufficient for the new Ministry, and they propose to reserve to themselves' the right of renewing the Censorship, any time in the interval of the Sessions of the Chambers, by an Or. donnance of the KING countersigned by three Ministers, should circumstances render such a measure necessary. Such circumstances a French Ministry can always create, as several of the Members observed when this part of the Project was read—" You can create ex traordinary circumstances when you please —you will have petards at your command." Not one of the French Journals dare, of course, offer a single remark on the law preparing for their destruction. The Con stilutionnel has barely been permitted to regret the absence of so many Deputies, whose Constitutional sentiments are well known " at a time when projects of law of the highest importance are submitted to the discussion of the Chambers." The French Papers repeat the rumours of the death of the SULTAN. One of them, on the authority of a letter from Vienna, dated December 16, says, "Con stantinople is no morel A conflagration more violent than has been hitherto known, and which has made greater ravages than that of Moscow, has reduced this capital to ashes. The superb Mosque of &Sophia, the Seraglio of the GRAND SEIGNIOR, with all his beauties ; and, at the same time, the arsenal has fallen a prey to the flames. The GRAND SRIGNIOR and his son, ABDUL MIRZAD, have been assassinated ; and the Mufti, the Reis Effendi, the Captain Pacha, and a great number of the dignitaries of the empire, have shared the same fate." All this is stated to have been the work of the Ja nissaries, one of the Chiefs of which has been pro claimed Grand Seignior. All the Greeks and Franks had been assassinated, and the Foreign Ambassadors had with difficulty escaped. An article from Vienna, dated 234 December, de- Wei tfiii Melia Ong but states that on the 28th, and Roth November, an open revolt wa s petted. the last-mentioned clay several fires broke out at Constantinople, and also iu the suburip' A report was circulated on the 28th in Pera, •• the Janissaries bad formed a plan ot entering seraglio ea masse, of demanding the heads of H it. and the Kislar Aga, and of making themselves mas t , of the person of ABDUL HAMID. A r sport was Ert l spread in Pera, ou the evening of the 28th, that •• r SULTAN and his principal favourites had been to death. The Journal de Lyon inserts a letter from So y dated the 12th of December, which gives a frigl it f picture of the state of that place. It bad success of the Turks, and the deplorable state their affairs, redoubles their barbarity, wind: is carried to a point that makes one shudder 1, ith ror, They now count the deaths by hundreds ; j the day before yesterday was marked by the massat.:, of 250 Greeks ; and it appears that to-day the assay, nations will recommence. 'the continued news the horrors that are committed from hour to houl the cries which are re-echoed trom street to street— the musket-shots that are fired—the clamours of 11 Turks in their orgies—all these present to the gination the desolating scenes of a city taken i.y a . unit, and abandoned to the fury of the with this difference only, that the sacking o. a tot; the pillage, and the butchery, last only for three, si x , or perhaps, at the utmost, twenty-four hours, a hi:e we have been six months in this state." - The death of Art PACIIA is once more repeirei!, but on no better authority than that which has kil!el this daring and able Chief a dozen times before. The intelligence from Madrid direct is to the 2.;:.% ult. that in the French Papers is one day later. I t is stated in a private letter in the Gazette do Frfine 4 that the malcontents of Madrid waited 'impatiently the arrival of their General, MEG% who was expected in two or three days, and that the Militia was pre paring to commence the strand enterprize on his arrival. It is added, that Grenada, Malaga, Mu: , cia, &c. had followed the example of Cadiz and .Sc vflle; the Royal authority was comiletely Lisrc gal ded in these Provinces; and that they had prc sented new Addresses to the Cortes, in which wo:c the following expressions :--4. We have taken i.:, arms to defend to the last drop of our blood our (ic nerals and our Political who have bad the courage to brave the orders of Despotis, ." The proceedings in the French Chamber of Depu ties will be found in our preceding columns. The following extracts ;ire from the Paris Papers of F 1 iday PARIS, JANUARY 4. Yesterday the King presided at a Council of Mi. nisters, which sat two hours. By a a oyal Ordonnance, M.Vatiniesnil has been pointed General Secretary of the Ministry of Justice. The Committees on the Budget and on Accounts assembled yesterday in the Chamber of Deputies.— The Committee charged with the examination of ti:e project of law relative to the Sanitary Police, alio sat for some time. There have been distributed among the Members printed circulars ot the motives for the law relative to the Periodical Press, the preparatory examinatioa of which will take place to-morrow in the Bureaux. M. Lourdoueiz, one of the Committee of Censor, is appointed Chief of one of the branches of the Home Office, and his duties will embrace the supervision ot the Theatres, the Journals, the Arts, the Lyceums, and the Belles-lettres. French Funds.—January 2d, Five per Cents. 831 r. 40c.—January 2d, 84fr. 20c. VIENNA, DECEMBER 24. Reports received yesterday from the frontiers of Dalmatia, confirm the news that we had previously given from Constantinople, of the advantages ob tained over Ali Pacha by Churchild Pacha, who is to be appointed Pacha of Janina. On the 13th Novem ber, Churchild took the two fortresses, two boulevards, and all the most considerable fortifications ofJaniaa ; and, while he waited for the surrender of Ali Pacha, it is said that this daring Chief, in despair, put an end to his own life. FRANKFORT, DECEMBER 29. It is remarked that the Russian Imperial Guard, now stationed at Minsk, and who were accustom-1 to pass the festival of Christmas at St. Petersburg'', do not follow this custom this year, in consequence of an order that they are not to quit their cantonments. Letters from Vienna, derived from a good source, announce that the Austrian Government has decided to observe the strictest neutrality in the event of war between Russia and the Porte. tha 'cm iini di ba de Pe of N it T b• 27ch of is ex. jot fire s • that 1 g the wit LAti be la At.% the s c rt4 at • 'ter 1 , 4 Y Tor iglvf rate r : C ode is hert tej th s ; j • ba Pe eWs (,1 tree' --. 26 s of 1: tbi he in:... as t I.y de PI a tot n, of ree, si c , TA hi:e 00 da Teeei!, is ktP.e.l ire. to lrc !ter. 1: Frflitte, is l laticut.~• Pc !ipectcd Or vas 1;;.:. be on Lis M. 17- N ;slid Sc. ar lad pre. y se i in ch wo:e to 4 ken t.? our CI:- ar had 11. e di NUREMBERG, DECEMBER 28. Our last news from the banks of the Mediterranean, dated the 16th inst. state that the Russian army in the neigbourhood of Tiflis, which is very numerous, will penetrate into Asia Minor when war with the Turks shall be declared. The Greeks in the Archi pelago are making preparations to continue the struggle they have commenced ; and, since they hare gained the supremacy at sea, they labour incessantly to augment their marine. There has been published, in the environ s of Smyrna, a Erman of the Grand Seignior, calling on all Mussul men to take up arms, and march against their cnc mks ; but few individuals obeyed the call. News from Alexandria states that the Pacha cf Egypt did not appear disposed to execute the order 34;546 13x000 40,964 91,311 Tmall 765, 169,241