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FRENGq P.IPIRS. PARIS, JUNE 1. On the q4th ult. M. Olivier de Sardaujormerl) • ••nt Pastor of Rouen. from which he has beer rfl: , vett to Nismes, had the bonnoi of presenting hi, respect , ul homage to ti:e King. in a private audience which he obtained. The Court of Cassation will have to decide an int portant ease in the beginning of next month, inv..lv ing a question of natural right of great interest. The question is. whether a decree of the Royal Court of Donny violates any dispositions of civil law, by obliging a grandfather is suppr.rt the natural children acknosrledged to be the off,p,ing o f hi s son, w h o i s deeiased, the masher of the children not bring able to support them. The Puke of Wellington s who was yesterday even ing expected littre,from his head-quarters at Cam bray, arrived about seven o'clock,-with Colonel Her. vey and his wife. Tom of his other aides-de-camp, namely, Lieutenant Cathcart, and Colimel Freman tle, are likewise here. General - Alava had arrived, the day before yesterday. BARCELONA tSPAINI, 'MAY in: • Nothing is yet decided respecting the fate if Ge neral Lacy. There is no-news of Milani. Catalonia l is perfectly tranquil. MADRID, The subject which occupies men's minds in the capital, and throughout the 'of is the ap proaching execution of a plan of financial adminis tration, or rather of general measures, whose object is to give stabiiity to the public treasure. Alter long and warm discussions, it appears that M. de Garay has succeeded in obtaining the general approbation of the system attributed to him, and of which the prin cipal bates are as follows: masituunt of the ecclesiastical homages is axed at 10,000 reels' (5; co francs, or about .eto.ie sterling). Halt of the re vetoer of bialsopricite and arclibishopricks shall be co:wiped to the cullers of t h e Slim The Wth of the product of the sisnurial rights is equally applied to the State-funds. A 'lateral land•tax shall be kid on all landed property without exception. The Customs in the interior are supprmsed. and there are to be no more except in the frontiers sod in the sea pons. • 'Else 'privileged provinces, such es Biscay, Navarre, Sic. are subject to the gentnd law. 1 he King guarantees anew the whole of the public debt. Already the Court of Route has expedited the bulls necessary fin the modifications which concern the . roods of the clergy. There is no doubt of a reform. in whole or part, of the four orders of the Benardins, the benedictines, the Hycronimites, and ot.St. Basil, which are the richest in Spain. These arrangements are doubtless necessary, be cause his Majesty adopts them. .It is to be desired, that they may not fi nd to 3 strong an opposition in the particular interests Of those who may be injured by them s hitherto the class of the grandees of Spain, together with the high na bility and the clergy. have never ceased to give proofs of their devottdness to the person of the King, and of their zeal for the general good. The moment is come' for renouncing great pecuniary advantages ; the Ministrybave no doubt of the readhu.se of th• two eitiei bodies of Fite Statist concur with all their power in the re-establishment the finances; for it us on these principally that the happiness mid preservation of the Monarchy depend. This plan has not yet been published : the hope of seeing it put in execution has already considerOly improved the rate of the fends, though they 'Mire es fenced a slight depression during this last week. The new Ministry is charged with a heavy respon. yibiltry : but it will have all the merit of success, if 1t _shalt smoOth the obstacles that terrified its pre., .dscessors. . 'l'he Duke of San Fernando marries the sister of the Princess of Peace, daughter of the Infant Don Louis de Bourbon, who wu brother of Charles 111. and consequently uncle of the present King. The D u k e of Lien Fernando is young lord, recently elevated to the dignity of a Grandee of Spain, and for whom his Majesty manifests a particular affection. The King. willing to multiply the advantages of the education ut the deaf and dumb, accepts the pc ',lamas offer of the Director of the Hospitals of St. Ferdinand and of Madrid, wire undertakes to receive andOucate,. at the expense of those establishments, poor chilJren, and all under 18 years of age, who are bora in the jurisdiction of the Archbishopric of 'Toledo, and who have no other source of subsistence but the charity of the faithful. They will be taught in these hospitals; the first elements of design, a trade, reading and Writing. arithmetic, and the principles o f ' ,Ae on , in the Royal College of—the Deaf and Dumb; according to arrangements between the heads of these establishments of bentvr.lence and public MARSEILLES, MAY as. Ni r o inived fresh St. Domingo apprise os, that Shire Las spruag. up is that island a third Sovereign, named Gramma, who occupies the mountains above Iffemia, and sometimes makes incursorts as tar as that city. Peden is obliged to send a considerable force so keep him in check. On the othi.r hand, the advanced posts of Potion and Christophe aro always in face of each other, Above) they never come to action. Pram maintains tranquillity by his policy i . but si his death, which appears not to be distant, front bis consisoei indisposition, civil war seems in evitable, so great is the aversion of the negrOes to the mulattoes. That Chief allows cominerce, but be sibckles it with exorbitant duties. Merchants are well received in the part of the islar.d which is under his sway, but they can expect tic justice when any dispute axisesbetween them and his Government on matters of interest. AUGSBURG, .141.1 Y 21. A letter from Milan assures us, that her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales will soon quit Lom bardy.. sad come to the south of Gershuny to pass the summer. FRANKFORT, MAY lE. In.** last Sitting of the States of Wurtembery M. Fauber insisted sneer on the right of the reprr sestativesoi the people to assemble in certain cases without she "tho g iti of Government. The Project of i h e ccestigasion presented by Ministers prescribes, it is tsde4hat durinz a prorogation, the affairs of the Omits dud! be anufneted by a Ctunnuttion ; but, says M. Fischer, ghat ia.a eammission of tour iodi tiduals to reprimeat tbenadon ? Is it reasonable to re quire from the 'staple that they should rely, in dis- putes with the Government, ou the CitnioU4 and in. Dependence of four funetinnvics eltcted by the tarn' Gcivermnent, and eonsequentlysubjrct to its influence We ale assured that ramiScations of the seet cf l'ceschel have been discovered in the north of Germany. STOCKHOLM, MAY 18. An approaching convocation of the States.of the Kingdom is here talked of. This assembly will not wave for its object pretended changes in the Consti. ution, nor a diminution of the privileges of the No. blesse, which are little felt as an oppression. It is the state of the finances and of commerce which rea sonably excites the paternal solicitude of Government. The commercial policy of England, and of several other Powers, has diminished by a halt the demand for S'wedish iron and Norwegian wood. To establish the balance of trade the Government has had recourse to the prohibition of coffee, of wine, of foreign cloth, and other articles ; but the less we buy from others, the less will they buy from tis ; and the prohibition has bad no other results, but to lead to contraband importation of articles of luxury in exchange for our ready money. The Danish and the English smug glers, who are unwilling to export our iron, carry away our money. From this results an absolute dearth of the precious metals. There are no com mercial-houses who could at this moment sustain their credit with foreigners without the direct assistance of Government; but this assistance is not given without great formalities: the trader is obliged to prove that the bills of exchange which he wishes to liquidate have been given ior conimodities not prol.ibited ; and, above all, for articles of the first necessity. In this state of pupillage Swedish commerce bas lost its cre dit at London and Hamburgh. In ftlic, the prohibi tory system.cannot be executed; fJr the immense ex tent of our maritime coast, where Oere are so many small ports or little creeks formed by the rocks, would require an army of custom-house officers and a fleet of small craft to guard it. Between 18 and 20,000 ships, English, Dutch, Hamburgh, Danish, and Rus sian, pass and repass every year Along our shores, and in their passage find the opportunity of conducting a contraband trade. How are they 'to be stopped and visited without exposing to a war with all commercial . nations Such ate the dlffictiltie4 which at present occupy solely the solicitude of Goveminetit. THE EVENING STAIt. LONDON. THIJRSUAV, JUNE 5, 1817. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY Al"TwEs.vE o'ci.ocx Keenest! 7241.-4 per Cent. 94—Navy, 104 Esebetiner Bans 13e. pr.- ; -Cuneols fur Opening 73 A Third Report by the Select Committee on Fi nance, embracing the important department of the Ordnance, has been presented to the House of Com mons, and printed. The exertions of this Department during the last war, are very strongly eulogized. The Committee state, that from MOS to 14316 there were issued to our gwn Army and Navy, and to certain of the Allied Rowers, no less than three mullions, two hundred and want,: -:even thousand, sewn hundred and noway-six stands of Arms. Mote than two-thirds of these ums were newly manufactured within the period—th. :oaken at one time delivering, by contract, one thou sand daily. The amount of Stores at the end of the war, is stavd to have been as follows : Szdall Armi - 8111,2112 Salt Feu* - - 7,3110 Teas. Glappawdfir - - - - 1104000 Barrels. .Including 05 millions of Cartridges. Tl* Estimates of this Department s for the present year, (as they have already been presented to the House of Commons). are neat examined by the Com mittee, in detail. It is with peculiar satisfaction, they state, that they observe the great redaction .of the Unprotrided Ser vice, thinking it highly expedient that this should, at all times, be kept as low as circumstances will pos. . sibly admit : and they deem it also important to re mark, that one-half of the sums charged under this head, in the Estimate of the present-year, consists of expenses arising nut of a state of actual hostility on the Continent in the year 18145. In the expense of the Ordnance Establishments at the Tower and Pall-m4ll, so far as relates to the Sa laries of the Officers, the Committee do not see room for any pretests reduction ; but they recommend cer tain prudential regulAtions, to restrain any improper enerrase of these salaries in future. • The Establishments at Woolwich, Greenwich. &c. the Coromiuee conceive to be of such uulity--espe. clay that at Woolwich—that they ought, on every account. to be maintained in their present state. . In regard to the number of Engineers, Sappas,, Miners, Artillery and Artillery Drivers, kept up on the Peace Establishment, the Committee express great satisfaction at the prompt attention to economy which has been here displayed; and although they refrain from giving any opinion on the amount of these corps as constituting a military force, 'yet in their character of depositories of military kedwledge and skill, and as schools fur impacting largir Dam bers when occasion may require, the Committee de-, cidedly recommend that they should be at all times maintained on a scale adequate to these purpma. On the subject of the ORDNANCE MEDICAL EWA* DLIAIDIENT, the Committee :mask, that the Esta blishments of this Department at home are of shell a magnitude as probably to require a separate Medical Department—but they recommend that' °askance, Detachments on Service, like Regime:Ai Of that Lano,' .spon should in future be provided with their -owe Sur.' s, and be at the same time dependent on sheds.. neral Hospital of%the Army for all their supplies. The Establishment of the Corps of Royal {approve Surveyoes and Draftsmen, the Committee pprove of as In the-highest degree useful. The accurate andicienti& researches conducte: by Colon l Mupor. they conceive to be not merely a credit to the nation, but calculated to become mainly. assistant in Mos 'luting several of the most curions.problems in asiro; nomy and geology. And they recommend, that no false views of economy, where the adsantage to the public is so great, should impede the prosecution of the important undertakings commenced in this De pat intent. On the subject of E:':TRAORDIS:AUJES, the Comm't• tee recommend that there should be an entire suspen. sion of all works of fortification, where the object of them is extension, reconstruction, or reformation, or any thing beyond' what may be celled necessary re pair.—" A powerful fleet," they say most truly, " and an unconquerable spirit pervading a nume rous population, with the means of - a7min and train ing whatever proportion of that number may be r e quired for any emergency, offered better security against foreign invasion than can be derived from the most perfect system of lines and towers which could be applied to every point of our extensive coast." The Committee sum up their Report by some im portant observations on the Cenral Conaiissrion of this Department. The whole of its proceedings they earnestly recommend should be subjected to the ge neral controul of. the Lords, Cismmissioners of the, Treasury ; by which means they conceive they would' come more completely under the observation of the [louse, and its demands on the Public in every cur. rent year be better sifted and appreciateJ. The whole of this interesting Report reflects the highest credit on the conduct of the MAiTER-GENI - and the Board of Ordnance, who appear to have discharged their duty to the country with the greatest ability and integrity. We are extremely happy to find, that in the Re. port of which we have just taken notice, the Com mittee of Finance have not recommended a further reduction of that valuable Corpi.the Royal AriillJry. As we are fully convinced that such a measure would neither have been warranted by sound policy, nor even ,ultimately by real economy, we trust that Minis►ers w►ll most deliberately weigh and consider the subject in all its beatings, before they consent to make any further diminution of this branch of the service, on the efficiency of which so much of our success in war depends, and which, if once suffered to fall into neglect or d •cay, can he less easily restored than any other part of our Military Establishment, and will, in the event of any future war, inevitably expose us to all the mischief and inconvenience we experienced at the commencement of the revolutionary war, from our inadequate force of Artillery at that period. In less than thirteen months after that war corn. menced, eighteen hundred men of the Artillery were embarked for foreign service, comprising the whole of the disposable force of that Corp, in this country; and yet this force was found completely inadequate t i meet the numerous and urgent demands for Artil lery which was made from all our foreign possessions. For the truth of this we may appeal to the cones pondence in the Cosassasnim.in-Cnter's office, where remonstrances pouted in from all quarters on the sub ject. So completely, in fact, was the country drained of Artillery, that there was scarcely Officers or men left fer the recruiting service, cr to instruct the re cruits that were transferred to the Corps from other Regiments; and the Laboratory Works at Woolwich, where all the ammunition is made up by the Artillery soldiers for the supply of our Atmy and Navy, and the garrisons abroad, were frequently stopped for want ,of Artillerymen tqcarty them on. in this si tuation, • the Duke of . :ltionstoxn, who was then Master-General, was indefatigable in his exertions to increase the Artillery, so as to meet the demands of the service ; this, however, he never was able to ae:. complicit ; and most of the new levies were sent on service, not half instructed in their duty, from want: of time and opportunity. The Royai Academy at Woolwich being unable to supply the requisite pro. portion of Officers, the number of Cads was greatly increased; but as it. requires at least three years close study to qualify a young man to pass die requi site examination previous to his being made an Officer, his Grace was impelled by necessity to give a public intimation, that any gentleman capable of passing a certain examination, very ir.ferior to a hat was required from those regularly bred to the set vice, would, immediately on his application to him, be ! appointed an Officer of Artillery ; and notwithstand ing this, in the second year of the war there were not less than fifty Officers wanting to complete the diffe rent Corps ; and, such we venture to predict, woulJ I again be the case in a few years hence, should ass- ! further reduction take place, and we should ever 1 again be involved in war. An army of Infantry may be raised and made effective in a few months, but this is impossible witl , Artillery, which can only be formed by long prac tice sad experience. Indeed, when we contemplate the enormous valve of the Ordnance Stores, entrusted to the sole manage ment of the Artillery on actual service, and when we know that in one single day, during the memorable siege of Gibraltar, the ammunition expended by our batteries amounted to the value of fifteen thousand porads:sterliap—svlren we contemplate such facts, we could not but have deprecated as most mistaken economy any reduction which might, on a sudden renewal of hostilities, have made it necessary to en trust such costly materials to unskilful hands. Numerous as the Corps of Artillery may have ap pearod tr unskillol observers it tl , e close r,f th e it is cortain thAt they rever were adequate to tl e manes of service even in tH ary prece,L, war. Every OfEeer wlio 1 , :t4 14.1,1 any ere . . man.; or service, must Le at'. to Le4l rucry to, this fact ; and as a farther pluif, ice ri..y state whit is nt.t, perhaps, so sell kvown, that in :F.. and in all our former wars,Sv.e Lave it.s4ilably b' obliged to employ foreign Artillery as so autil::. rf lot ce. During tlw 14st war tee no *sou 11... an 21)(.0 foreign Aaillery in our pay, The foreign Altil:ery which we have tbns be, ll obliged to hire at au equal expense, r, i; unirers4 7 admitted are far superia in pliot seienzt to ot.r own, and conudering besides the immense wine of ordnance stores and ammunition, which. i. thus 117. avoidably intrusted to these foreigners wlan in our service, and over whom it is impossible to hold the same contrail and responsibility as cvcr British Officers, we should condemn any further reduction in a Corps, which trust, in tile event ti another war, inevitably lead to the employment of foreigners in this branch of din service, Ir( , rn our own inability to supply. the force that would lie reqeired. We would do tl•ell in this paiticu:ar to copy tit example of our neighbours the French, who in :41 times and under Al ciscur.k.;ta:.ce:, have rioter re- 1 glected their artillery. When Dumounient invaded Fiaii!ers, be had 7.) less than 540 pieces of artillery with his arm 7. Even at the battle of Wa:erl.co, x1:1 was an old artillerist, and who knew the imitcr:4;ice of a formidable train, contrived to bring `..,itt pie:rs of tanni; into the field, whilst we. at 4 memert when the resource: of the Empire were st.rarted to the utmost to enalil , the intmortal o to me: his great opponent on equal terms, could only bring one hunched pieces of Briti•.!) artillery into the action; and our chief loss on that hkody day, arcs from tl-.e superier number rat tl,c enemy's a:title:l, as it Ire. cptently happene.l thztt t single luiyade of our ar.;!. lery was exposed to the fire of three brigades of tl.e enemy's; the cot.scquence was, that the guns v.-etc soon dismantled and the men destroyed; and the French artillery were then at liberty, when no longer checked by the foe cl our guns, to turn their s*/;o".e fire on our infantry, drawn up in squares, which po sition they were obliged to atsume to resist the enemy's, cavalry. 13RAZILn. Advices from Iltavre state, that a French re;sel, named the Pearl, had just arrived there from Per nambuco, having on board, as part of t.er crew, three Portuguese sailors. All these men concurred in stating, that the attempt of the insurgents to re volutionize Bahia had failed ; . and that the ritigkaders of the plot in that city had been secured and shipped off for Rio de Janeiro. The Authorities at Bahia, no longer apprehensive for their own safety, we►e en gaged in fitting out some large vessels to annoy the Inuirgents of Pernambuco, by cruising off thcir port, intercepting their provisiuns, and cutting op their trade. Among the ships under equipment h.r done purposes were three, the Domingo:, Cenna, and another, of at least I.ltX) tons !, , irden each, and nearly ready for service. At the time k me.t be ob served, that although the Pearl had t.ar:hed at Pt:• nambuco on the 6th or April, it does not app-.:r she had previously vhited Bahia ; so that .•e have nit yet traced to it; s-;urce the io!ormation people describe tlitutschtes as having received in, a the kgter city. The lidlut:ing e::trart, how:'ver, of a Letter fiats Bahia, dated the ‘,;.'itti Match and port fd•up at I.Lovo's this morning, :,:Teal; suiiicieut consr:natioa or the preceding intel:igence : A ves,el tom Y.tnamtpico tsar SC/ dat the B:r two dal , since, havit:z on board a l'et.,t and !is other Lerurgeats, =to Prolontatiow, Appo:ntinentri be. all of ..v!ers were ¢tiZell and are now in possession of the Governor of •Li place. The Conspirators are DOW on trial before a Court-mart , , and it h expected Will be excepted to,m4rro v. " The MOK perfeet • tranquillity reigns bere. ai.J front t'e satiAlat !ion .a theapprAtemipri . of the `.ololl...opire , rt, the firmness and loyalty of the cigars- and inhabi•aots, we fuoi nature than ever satisfi. .1 that are perfectly refute. Vv. enutr, y and activity of the (ksiertior is beyond all praitc. of thh place, and probably that of thwwbole of ibt m a y N e attributed to hunt. ITr 11:11 per men.: and pre3ence of vimid in all hit n•-a , ure:-., ;rail both .11 Itroops and inhabitants have the hijb,-; respect Ins : . J, deuce in him, as he h..s 4111147 i ar.d j..t GJV eritor." Soule intelligence (so/monk:it-1 thronoli Ne 7 York Papers to the Ist of May ' I , "i ;:ie had taken place in Pcitt•g•iese A trwrica, thoe;Th n t at variance with what had pre-Au:l,ly . rt:.:thed is of older date, nod !;ives no ads.itional of any moment. Dispatches had ben forwirikd Maivritcs to the Eriti,ll G•ivtriiinent, as Well AS that ot liii• Unit:d State.i, soLcit;tig an stannvied,:• meat of Brazilian i.idcrendence, atid inviting' ir :ercourse on tl.e crust friendly too.:.ng. The Pi'vi sional Governoient appointed on the 701 of Mirc!:, was composed of five dietinct departments, the her! 1f each having the tide ot " Patriotic Governor." The interior officers of the old administration. their 'pl..ces under the new, with the exception cf those who had voluntarily given in their resignatinc. The pay of the military had teen raised —a conifncl but perilous expedient ; as it involves the nece.tr , y^t an increased expenditure, and, by consegocnce, , odium of fresh impost, on t h e propte. The Paris rapers of the Ibt 0rri.. ,, ? night. and in a preceding columr. we i • rather inttresting cAtriscia trorn ra C 3( W? 317: vei F.:: in 1 . , his ( Atilt