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* v, 'FILE MeKNI.If4 STAR. L. NT DON. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23. 1821. Ciastassus-Dar.—}lontlay at an the Publk Mom The French Papers of Friday and Saturday last arrived this forenoon. The following are extracts : PARIS, DECEMBER 22. By an Ordonnance of the King, dated the `2oth inst. M. de Laveau is appointed Prefect of Police, in the place of Count Angles, who his resigned. Another Ordonnance of the 19th inst. appoints M. Kesner Cashier-General of the Treasury, in place of M. Piscatory.: Yesterday, the Officers of the King's Guards, sus' well as those of Monsieur, went in a body to the Mi nister of War, to congratulate him on his promotion. The Minister of War, has addressed a circular to each of the Lieutemint.Getterals commanding Dili ` sions, in which he compliments his predecessor, and says—" The 'strict execution of the laws and ordon- nances, a religious impartiality in the application of rewards and punishments, a strict discipline, and the most absolute devotion to the King—such are our duties, such are our sentiments. In pre,erving the ancient and glorious reputation of French stadiera, founded on our honour and fidelity, we guarantee to the King the dignity of his Crown, the maintenance of the institutions that his Majesty has deigned to give us, and the public tranqitillit)." By an Ordonnance of the 13th of December, his Majesty, on the report of the Minister of War nomi nated the fohowing Officers Field-Marshals: Messrs. Geuty, Math, and Madier ; Count de Chastellux, Viscount de Latour Maubourg, Count de la Bour donnaye, and Balm de Montgarde. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. SITTING Of THE 20TH DECEMBER. The-Sitting was opened at one o'clock. The Mar quis de Clermont Tonnere, M..te Villele, M. de Cot.- bieres, and the Keeper of the Seals were present.— The appearance of the latter excited a laugh on the left side of the Hall. The PRESIDENT read a letter from M. Corbieres, calling on the Chamber to appoint which section 4.f the department of the Seine should elect two Deputies in place of M. Roy and Baron Portal, called to the Peerage. • _ _ The Minister of the Finances, M. de Vitumg, sibusted the Tribune and presented a Project of Law for anticipating the three first-tuelfths of the Land Tax, the Tax on personal and moveable Goods, &c. for the year 1822: as also a vote of credit for 200' millions of francs. The PRESIDENT consulted the Chamber on what day this Project of Law should be taken into consi deration.—(Many voices to the right, " To-morrow"). The PRESIDENT demanded that they should meet to-morrow in their respective bureaux.—(From all sides, " Yes"). _ _ _ _ . M. DEMAROY mounted the Tribune, amidst cries from the right and centre of " Ah I Ah r He wished to call the attention of the Chamber to one of the laws of regulation, which allowed the President to name the sittings of the Chamber, and to open or close them when he pleased. In consequence of the delaxs in the Chamber meeting, much public business had been deferred. The PAESIDENT explaipeti, (amidst cries of, " The Order of the Dar !") and asked M. Demarsay to with• draw his proposition. M. de CttAUVELIN.—He has not made one. M. BENJAMIN CONSTANT made some observations which were inaudible. M. de RIOCOURT presented a Report on the Petitions. Oneof these was from Messrs. d'Elchet and crlierlie of Paris, demanding a law to complete that of the sth of December, 1814, which restored to emigrants such of their property as had not been sold, and w•as vested in public charities. M. DUDON did not wish to agitate the great ques tion of indemnity to those who had suffered in the Revolution, but to call the attention to a Royal Or dinance, which was in opposition to the LaW of 1814, and which rendered the situation of the emigrants still worse. He spoke strongly in favour of the emi grants, and moved that the Petition should be re ferred to the Minister of Finances, in order to ascer tain how far the Royal Ordinance of 1818 superseded that of 1814 (Cries to the right, " Bravo! Supported! . M. hot regretted the absence of M. Laine, who could have explained the Law of 1818—(Murmurs). A long and agitated discussion ensued, in which se veral Members participated. In the midst of the tumult, M. Foy alluded to the nine hundred millions paid by France as a tribute, which the Holy Alliance had imposed. Loud cries from the right of 44 The Emigrants have been injured I—They only claim their rights— No Frenchman ear &Spate them !" M. Maurer, of Paris, claimed a sum of 92,000 fr. which had been lent to the Royal Family in 1793. The Commission proposed to send this Petition to the Minister of the Household. M. BE:SJAMIN CONSTANT.—" The Chamber does not know such a Minister." MM. SEBASTIAN!, LAINE DE VILLEVESQUE, and Cuauvatttr, all rota at the same time to speak. M. Touquet, Librarian at Paris, presented a Pal.; - A ial . . • tion against the Censorship, so rigidly exercised on the Public Journals. ;•••• The Conttnission'proposed the Order of the Day. M. BtNJAMIN CO4ISTAWr demanaled to be heaid, amidst a general cry of 4.. Ah iAh l" He would not detain the Chamber on the necessity of sending this Petition to the Council of Ministers. Infact, the Mi nisters who had withdrawn the Project on the Law of the Censorship, had proved by that act that they would present a wiser and more constitutional law. It was right to conclude that the Ministers would 1 not avail themselves of a law so odious and so con trary to the Charter, not even by giving it another name. It was, however, time that the Chamber should know something of the system the Ministers intended to pursue. M. CORBIERZ declared, in the name of himself and his colleagues, that the Chamber would always find them do their duty both as Ministers and as Deputies. Several other Petitions were presented, and the Chamber adjourned. SITTING Or DECEMBER 21. The Deputies assembled in their respective Bu reaux to examine the finance.project of the preceding day.—There was distributed in the Bureaux the fol lowing proposition, presented by M. B. CONSTANT: I have the honour to ,. propose to the Chamber to add to the law an article by which the. Ministers, being at the same time Deputies, and who are charged with defending the law of accounts, and on the budget, shall not sit in Commissions named by the Bureaux for the examination of those laws." The Commissions on the Press and on the Budget were auembled. The order of the day for Saturday was as follows A public sitting at noon. Report of the Committee on Petitions, by the Count de Sallaberry. Report of the Committee on Finance. A developement of the propositiop of M. B. Constant. A scrutiny for the nomination of two Vice-Presidents. A Secret Com mittee. French Funds, Dec. 20.—Five per Cents. 87f. 35c, —Dec. 21.—Five per Cents. 87f. 65c. NUREMBERG, DECEMBER 15. (PRIVATE LETTER.) The news received to-day from Russia is very interesting. By an order from the Cabinet all the fortresses on the frontiers of Turkey are to be put in a state of defence. Engineers are arrived from Ismael to carry this order into effect. A numerous army is forming in the neighbourhood of Kamineck, in Podolia. It will have more than 100 pieces of artillery attached to it. It is said that the 50th of November is the time fixed by Russia for Turkey to give a final answer to the ultimatum. FRANKFORT, DECEMBER 17. Travellers from Russia state that there are more than 180,000 men assembled on the banks of the Pruth, and new masses of troops continue to proceed in the same direction. It is reported at Vienna, that each of the Ministers of the great Powers at Madrid has addressed a note of the highest importance to the Spanish Government. It is said also that a foreigner of distinction had been obliged to quit Vienna in twenty-four hours. PETERSBURGII, NOVEMBER 29. The Emperor has not only approved of the con. duct of the persons employed in the Embassy of Baron de Strogonoff, but has conferred titles and grants of land on several of them. We are assure& that a considerable body of our troops will proceed to Asiatic Turkey, to co-operate with the Persians. The whole of Macedonia is in the power of the Greeks, who exterminate all the detached bodies of the Turks they meet with. The recent battle near Salonica has been fatal to the Turks. After a total defeat, the wreck of the army returned to the town, and the barbarians massa cred a great number of the inhabitants. The English Government in the lonian Islands continues to be extremely rigorous towards the Greeks. In the Island of Cephalonia they have ar rested the Archbishop Maharius, who was devoted to the cause of his brethren. Brussels Papers to the 22d inst. have been received. from which we make the following extracts: ST. PETERSBUROH, NOVEMBER 27. The great interests treated of in the Cabinet are still covered with an impenetrable veil. Though we cannot know which will be the decision of our Court with respect to the Porte, the general opinion here is that, under the present circumstances, war is inevi table. For some months past oar armies have been in a formidable attitude, occupying a strong position in the Pruth. They only wait for the signal to inflict a dreadful vengeance for the unhappy fate of the Greeks, their persecuted brethren. But the penetra tion of the Emperor Alexander foresees the dreadful carnage to which the lawless partisans of Islamism would then deliver up all the Greeks. His noble soul, his humanity, would wish to see this sad fate averted from them before he makes known his irre vocable will. A pirate letter from the Southern Provinces of the Empire contains the following particulars vespecting the war, and the armed force of Russia I learn at this moment, that the►e are such active measures going on in the Second Army, that it may be inferred from them that war is going to break out. Couriers' from the Emperor are received daily : the.tone of the Journals likewise presages an approaching rupture. Many distinguished Officers think there will be a *inter campaign, which they pretend will be pre ferable to a summer campaign in these countries, the climate of which is very unwholesome. It will not be uninteresting to give you a view of the military force of the Russian Empire. " The mass of the troops is divided into two armies and five large corps. The first army is composed of six divisions, the second of four, which makes in all fifteen corps. These divisions are all composed in the same manner, of infantry, cavalry, artillery, and engineers, formed into brigades, &c. The total of a corps is 60,000 or 70,000 men. Each of the two armies has a Generalissitho. The detached corps have Generals in Chief. All the 4 corps are distri buted is the following manner :—The first army ex tends through all the Western Provinces, and touches on the frontiers of Poland and Austria. The second is stationed in the Southern part of the Empire, prin cipally on the side of Turkey and Moldavia. " The five detached corps are cantoned as follows: Ist. The Regiment of the Guards, the most nu merous corps of all, being 80,000 strong, which is in general at Petersburgh and Moscow and their-neigh bourhoods, has advanced at present towards the western frontiers. 2d. The division of Lithuania oc cupies the provinces on the Baltic, and extends to the frontiers of Prussia. 3d. The division of Finland is stationed along the Gulf of that name, and on the side of Sweden. 4th. The division of Georgia occu pies that country and the frontiers towards Persia. sth. The division of Siberia extends through the north of Asia. Besides this mass of troops, there are in each Government two or three garrison battalions, accord. ing to its extent. Let us reckon only 100 garrison battalions, and add a company of veterans in active service, in the chief town of each district : all these troops destined for the service of the interior, are as well exercised as troops of the line. " The total mass of troops is, therefore, much above a million, without reckoning the invalids, who do local duty, and whose number is very considerable. The Officers alone of all these corps would form an army more numerous than that of some kingdoms." 4 ...41114e!"4 . -eh r Avows FRANKFORT, DECF.AIBER 14. his affirmed that in one of the next sittings of the Germanic Diet, an important communication will be made to that Assembly, on the actual state of the •negotiations on foot between Russia and the Porte. The Prussian Government having ascertained the unhappy certainty that there is a deficiency of ten millions of dollars in its Budget, which can only be covered by a Loan, negotiations have already been entered into with several foreign Banking-houses. SOUTII AMERICA. From the Camas de Seises Marta or October 2 4 . GENERAL CONGRESS OF COLL; 31 131. i. E.Aor Oil Wit DUTIES or ISITORTATIOT/ TO it PAM Ltt Tilt ?Ain COLOitali. The General Congress of Columbia, consideri 1. That the Republic being single and undi‘ide; the duties on imports should be uniform in th e ferent ports appropriated for importation in Coham : , 2. That this uniformity being calculated to cor tribute very powerfully to the evcottrag e ement commerce, external and inte rna l, by facilitazing th operations of the Custom-houses, and preventing th commission of fraud and the depreciatio n of the re venue, which has occasioned the confusion an d it equality hitherto experienced, it has been thought £ to decree and is hereby decreed : • • Atm. 1. All the duties of entry formerly recognized under va rious denominations, are henceforth consolidated in one, under the name of duty of importation. 2. Five per cent. shall be paid on the importa.f.m of bar iron, plate, tin, and copper; also paper of every kind; all sorts of medicines, and Instruments of surgery ; tackle, pitch, tar, cam e ,, cordage, and anchors. 3. Seventeen and a half per cent. shall be paid by every hi e d of cotton merchandise, woollen, linen, hemp-seed, and yarn—. that excepted on which a heavier duty is imposed by th e s a w pent articles. 4. Twenty per cent. shall be paid on beaver, woollen, or elk hats ; wax or spermaceti, either manufactured or in paste; co vinegar, and acid of every kind ; gold and silver watches, riding-saddles; every kind of earthenware of Europe and and glass and crystal of every kind. 5. Twenty-two and a half per cent. on every kind of ulk d Europe or Asia, precious stones, jewels, thread and silk la; point handkerchiefs, artificial flowers, feathers, luoking-g1a,,,,, perfumes, essences, and scented waters ; spiceries from India, ehevrhere, dried fruits, or the expressed juice, capers, &c. 6. Twenty-five per cent. shall be paid on shoes for mes women, and boots, every kind of hcusehold furniture ; ute in copper, bronze, iron, steel, and tin ; tallow iu the IUIIII, manufactured; flour, salted meat, and every kind of fart* eatables 7. Thirty-five per cent. shall be paid on spirits and alkali reign liquors, from the grape, the sugar-cane, or any ma i materiaL 8. The other kinds of merchandize, liquors, and comaetcii articles, not specifically included in the preceding Articles, sid pay twenty per cent. on importation. 9. The above-mentioned duties on importation shall be f k. ducted from the ralue fixed by the tariff approved at Cartinyea on April 22, 1817, and its supplements, until the necessary Ili. rations be made. 10. The rate of duties imposed by the preceding articles old be applicable solely to the cargoes of national vessel. 11. The merchandise imported by the vessels of neutral w friendly States shall pay 5 per cent. over and above the precofeg duties, unless it be otherwise stipulated by particular nattiest/ 12. An abatement of 71 per cent. shall be allowed oa the cargoes of national vessels, and 5 per cent. on those of toreip vessels, provided they proceed directly from European port a Columbia. 13. This abatement shall be made with reference to the per tentage duties payable by merchandise and articles of trade ac cording to the preceding Articles, from Article 2 to S. 14. All decrees, regulations, and laws, in oppoi ri oa tote present, are revoked and annulled. 15. This law shall begin to operate from theist hasay,lll2l/ Sept. 25, 1821. (Signed by the President of the Coogreo.) Ordered A to be executed, J. M. DEL CASTILI Sept. 28, 1821. Vice-President of the &Ole., A subsequent Decree excepts from the above duties books in every language, maps, charts, philosophical apparatus, paintings, sculptures, engravings, imple. Taunts of agriculture, and all instruments useful it navigation, or in any of the arts and sciences. A law has also been passed for establishing a Cal. lege in each Province ; and primary schools for tear]) ing Spanish and Latin grammar, the principles d rhetoric and philosophy, and the most useful brawler of mathematics. His Majesty's store-ship COROMANDEL, ME.JAIRE DOwNIE Master, has arrived at Portsmouth fret New South Wales, last from Mercury Bay, New Zealand, with a cargo of timber, having had a Om sant direct passage thence, round Cape Horn, d only fifteen weeks, without a day's foul wind. She is to go into the harbour to unload the tirfiber,whick is a species of fir of similar appearance to die Ana• rican pitch pine (called by the natives Coale), be lit is strong as well as light, and is peculiarly wei adapted to topmasts of line-of-battle ships. A de. tachment of the 82d regiment, which went outto cut the timber, has lauded at Fort Cumberland-- The natives of New Zealand behaved with remarkable civility to the Officers and crew of the COROMANDEL; one of the Officers and his servant made an mut sion of three hundred miles into the interior, and was in every part treated with attention and respect. The natives have made very evident improvement in the scale of civilization, from their intercourse wilt the Missionaries : one proof of which was not quite so agreeable to our people ; they baiter in trace now for value in gold and . silver coin, and net for pieces of lead and copper, and common ornamental trinkets, as they used. It is a very fine island; and/ as the natives entertain just and honourable notices of the character of British Officers, all its useful pre ductions may be easily obtained. There was no app pearance whatever at any of the places visited d cannibalism, or of those disgusting sensual practice which formerly prevailed. The COROMANDEL left Port Jackson in July last, when the Colony wasmoil rapidly improving in agriculture, commerce, and even in many of the refinements of society. By the ONTARIO sloop, arrived at Portsmooth, we learn, that when that vessel left the liavaumht things appeared in a very gloomy condition, soil trade in general was perfectly at stand, each ma . being afraid to intrust his nearest relations wish by sentiments; all appeared hushed to foreboding still' ness: An insurrection of the negroes was projecteli , headed by some Priests; it was discovered, however, early in November, just in time to prevent a recto' rence of the St. Domingo scenes of butchery. Th:re are three political parties in Havannali—the Lao' nese, who want Independen c e a nd a Republic; !be. second are friends of the present system ; the chit s are fur the old regime. These parties ate keP: awe by . the mulattoes and blacks, who form De; 1 two-thirds of the population. VIENNA, DECEMBER 7. The Gazette of Venice, of the sth of this month, says :—" We have received directly from the coasts of the Merea letters to the 14th November. At that time it was not known that the insurgents, who had assembled their whole force before Patras, had taken that place. These letters do not men ion any im. portant event." Constantinople is not tranquil : the numerous troops which the Sultan has raised, and which surround it, and the Janissaries, always factious and useless, excite fears of an insurrection which woad be terrible; for under the cloak of religion, which requires (say the Janissaries) that the Holy City, which the Sultan inhabits, should be purged of the enemies of the Pro phet, in what scenes of pillage and atrocity would they not indulge? This being Christmas Day, was observed at an early hour this morning by a cheerful peal of bells of the different churches in London and Westminster. The shops throughout the City, with the exception of a few beloaging to the Jews and the Society of Friends, were shut. The Loan MAYOR, in conse quence of the repairs of St. Paul's Cathedral, at; tended Divine Service at St. Mary Woolnoth. It is now said to be his MAJESTY'S intention to visit his Scottish dominions early in May next. The Duke of YORK paid a visit to Lord GWYDYR on Sunday, at his house in Piccadilly, and remained there some time. Yesterday the Duke of Gcouctarica left town for Barhot. The new Chapel Royal at Brighton is to be con secrated. by the Bishop of CHICHESTER, on New year's Day. After the ceremony, a grand selection of Sacred Music is to be performed by his MA- JaisTy's band. Colonel PALMER, M.P. arrived in England, from Russia, on Thursday: The Colonel came in the same vessel with Colonel PONSONBY,who accompanied the remains of his departed parent the Countess of BES• zonoucat. Mr. RUFF, the King's Messenger, was also on board; he performed his journey from St. Pezersburgh in twenty. days, although the roads in many places are nearly impassable. • _ DEATH ON THE COUNTESS OF LISEURNE.This amiable and highly-respected Lady died on the 17th inst. at the chateau of Epine, near Paris. The Coun tess had been unwell for some time, but not alarm ingly so. Her death was very sudden and unex pected. She had left this country about two months since, hoping to benefit by change of air. Her Lady ship was a daughter of the late Viscount COUR.. TENET, and was in person very handsome, but-re markably corpulent, which it is supposed was the cathe of her death. The body left Paris on Friday last for England, and will be, on its arrival, interred in the family vault at Enfield. The Earl will ac company the remains home. The Countess has left one daughter, Lady MARY VAUGHAN, and three sons, Viscount VAUGHAN, and the Hon. GEORGE and J. VAUGHAN, to lament her loss, besides a very large circle of relatives and friends, to whom her superior manners had much endeared her. r ' IJ. ritC Ti Jas. on tt Not Acri A Creg DIM dicte semi] T 1 buts en at th gib i • 1 Copia L= soder Heat, tore, earn; will pi took sighi •1 been t Intimi trf, ti shook threat 'num *tie D fere , dorm and entr Na sioi by inn