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FRENCH PAPERS. PARTS, DECEMBER 16. nOlbtiktiiint NANCE. " Loess, atc.—On the report of our Minister Secretary of State for the Home Department, " Wishing to recompense the zeal which Dr. Sally has mani fested at Barcelona, in devoting himself to the study and treat ment of the contagion which spreads its rava g es there, w e have ordered and do order as follows : Art. 1. The Sieur Bally, Doctor of M edicine and Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine, Is appointed Knight of the Royal Order of the Legion-of Honour. " Art. 2. Our Minister Secretary of State fur the Home De partment, and the Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour, are charged with the execution of the present ordinance. i rc e : Oasuiter-sigutd) " LOUIS. ) " SIMEON. " Given at the • December S.* " During thirty years past we have been so repeat edly conducted from inconsequence to inconsequence, and from contradiction to contradiction, that the absurd has almost constantly predominated. It may be said that we have so adopted the habit of false positions, that a position which is just and natural seems to us something new, bold, and somewhat em barrassing. A vague and transitory state, protracting itself under various modifications, had become in our eyes a positive and stable condition. Repeated excep tions had assumed the place of the rule. " We have seen the Ministry perilously placed be tween two oppositions, whose perpetual shock, whose continued collision, co uld not fail to shake and injure the administrative machine, which had so much need of a solid support in the legislative power. " Was it not most deplorable to see the zealous friends, the unost ardent defenders, and the most ex perienced servants of the King and his cause, placed in the absurd position of opponents to his Majesty's' Ministe;-, who were thus, by an error, in which a false self-love made them persevere, deprived of that natural and powerful assistance of an imposing majo rity, composed of homogeneous elements, and repre senting in the Chamber of Deputies the grand and • intimate alliance of the nation with the King, of the interests of the people with the rights of the Crown ? " Deprived of these noble auxiliaries, the Ministers, to whom a majority was a thing to be gained at all hazards, sought to obtain it by, the most wretched combinations, formed, modified, and destroyed in one day ; and by unsolid alliances, founded upon no just and reciprocal interest. 48 The Ministers were condemned to manoeuvre painfully between two oppositions, wheA they could by a single movement have enlarged their ground, and strengthened themselves with an immense force, which, however, they richer chose to fear, brave, flat ter, or combat, according to circumstances. " Those who had this force at their command did not put too high a price on their alliance. They merely required that the Ministers of the Monarch should march at their head in a monarchical direc tion—that the Royalists should no longer be regarded and treated as the enemies of Royalty ; and, in fine, that it should be acknowledged that neither the prin ciples nor the men that overturned the Throne could be capable of consolidating it. These conditions . were so reasonable, that it is astonishing they were not accepted. " The choice which his Majesty has made of the personages composing the new Ministry, is a certain guarantee that there will henceforth be a perfect ana logy and consequence between the regulating princi ples of a legitimate Monarchy, and the acts of the Government and the Administration. Royalists, all equally devoted todegitimacy, and ready to combat its enemies, the slight shades of opinion, which dis tinguish without dividis them, are lost and con founded in the union of all sentiments and all wishes."—Drapeast Blame. Before Mass, the Bureau of the Chamber of Peers, conducted by the Chancellor, had the honour to pre-' sent to the King the Law Project relative to the sa- 1 natory system adopted by the Chamber in the Sitting of Friday. At one o'clock, the new Ministers, with the excep tion of the Marquis de Clermont-Tonuerre, presented by the Marquis of Laoristoo, Minister of the Royal Household, had the honour of taking the oaths be fine the King. Count de Serre, the late Keeper, brought the Seals to his Majesty, who delivered them to M. Peyronnet. M. de Berenger has abandoned the intention of appealing against his sentence, and surrendered him self a prisoner, in execution of the decree of the Court. Extract from a letter written by M. Pariset to Dr. Robert, Physician of the Lazaretto of Marseilles, dated Montelegre, November 27 :—" A Spanish Phy-, sician said to us, 4 To deny the contagion is to deny GOD; and he was right. It is, in fact, to deny the light—to deny evidence as striking as day. We should be culpable to leave the field free for errors so per. nicious; and I caunot conceive a more painful situa tion than that is which the physicians of Barcelona are placed who have taken and consorts for their guide and authority. Their own act confounds them ; the cry of so many victims overwhelms them; they are ashamed to live on the grave into which they have precipitated so many unfortunate beings. A mo ment of since+ sty, a slight sacrifice of self-love, a shade of distrust in themselves, would have spared Catalonia from a load of evils, and themselves from endless op probrium and regret! They hope to escape from opi nion, but opinion overtakes and judges them, and oven the vulgar, who had exalted them, now con demn them." . , letter of recent date from Frankton, which confirms the report that Lord Strangfoid his no looger the same influence with the Divan, and that he has now ry seldom conferences with the Grand Vizir. From Petersburgh we learn that Baron Debitch, Adjutant-General to the Emperor, and Chief of the Staff of the first Army, arrived on the 48th October at Tschernigow, where he reviewed the troops. He then proceeded by the route of Kiew to his ulterior destination. Considerable purchases are now making in the North, of wood for ship-building, on account of the French Navy. l'H E EVEN LNG STAR. FRANKFORT, DECEMBER 10. The Court of Vienna continues to maintain silence on the contents of the dispatches lately received from Constantinople and Sr. Petersburgh. The friends of peace augur nothing favourable from this reserve of the Austrian Government. The different versions which have been published on the causes which have led to the dismissal of the Reis Effendi are not correct: on better authority, it is now pretended that that Minister had incurred the displeasure of the Grand Seignior, for having ,!hewn' too great a partiality for Russia, in supporting the demands made by that Power in the Divan in the in terests of the Greeks. A courier from Vienna, with important dispatches fur the English Government, passed today through Rastadt, proceeding by the way of France. During this season, all the couriers from Vienna to London, and vice versa, take the route of France, Swabia, and liavaiia. A poison of distinction ia this city has received a LONDON. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1621, THE FUNDS. ritICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Bank Stock 236 1 4-3 per Cent. Reduced 76% ' 7 /i 3 1 / 2 per Cent. 87 5 / 8 1 / 2 -4 per Cent. 96 1 / 4 let Bank Long Annuities 19 S-16 sA India Bonds 70.. 71s. pr.—Exc. Bills £looo,ls. 2s. pr. Exchequer Bills (Small) Is. 3s. pre. Cons. for Account 78 1 / 4 78 lA. There was quite a bustle at the Stock Exchange this morning; the Bulls and Bears were on the tip toe of expectation, relative to news from Paris. Two Expresses came in about eleven o'clock, bring ing, as it is reported, the French Five per Cents. on Monday, so high as 88 1. 25 c. The immediate con sequence was, a start in Consols from 73 ip 7114. Of all the Administrations which have succeedei each other in France with great rapidity since the Restoration, there has not, with the exception of that Of isle, been one so decidedly Royalist as the new Ministry ; all the others have been mixed with some portion of the Liberal party, with some " child and champion" of the Revolution ; and the discordant elements of which they have generally been com posed, have added to the thousand instances of the truth of Sacred Writ, " that almuse divided against itself must fall." In addition to the advantage which the new Ministry possess of a general harmony of feelings and principles, they possess another, that of fol lowing a set of men who rendered themselves odious both by their measures and their personal conduct. The first act of the new Ministry, the withdrawing the Project of Law on the Censorship, is prima ficie calculated to excite a feeling in their favour; but too much importance should not be attached to this cir cumstance, since it was one to which they stood pledged in their opposition to the late Ministers; nor do we think, from the present composition of the Chamber of Deputies, that any Minister could have obtained a renewal of the Censorship, as it has lately stood. Besides, it is well known that this Law ori ginated with the very party to which the new Minis ters belonged, and was enacted on the assassination of the Duc de Beans, which, ridiculously enough, was attributed to the licentiousness of the Press. It might, perhaps, be supposed that thew Ministers had profited by experience, and found the ineffi ciency of the very law which they had promoted ; or that men in and out of office often act very dif ferently. We would gladly give them credit for having seen their error, did not the proceeding's in the Chamber of Deputies on Saturday, justify a suspicion to the contrary. The Ministers, it is observ able, have not intimated the Royal pleasure that the present Law of Censorship shall be suffered peaceably Zto expire. They preface t announcement of a Decree for withdrawiag the Pro t' which M. de SERER had just opened, by announcing from his MAJESTY the pre paration of another Project, for the regulation of the Journals. What, then, is tb be the character of this . new Project ? and in what is it to prove more or less acceptable to the friends of the bonstitutioa than the Censorship which has just been given up ? If it is anything in the form of a previous controul, it is still a Censorship, even if it changes its name. Some po liticians suppose, that it will be an arbitrary power of seizure after publication. Such an authority would be equally obnoxious as the Censorships and, widle is would not render party writers more circumspect, it would defeat its own purpose, in being unable to prevent the circulation of the objectionable matter.— MILTON has said, " A forbidden book is like a spark, which, trodden down, flies up into your facer and experience has taught us, that what are called " sup pressed publications," circulate as extensively, and are read with infinitely more avidity in England and in' France, than if the publication had not been restrained. Amidst the conjectures as to the future conduct of the new Ministers, no -one appears to contemplate their adopting that system with regard to the Public Journals which can alone restrain and correct a bad Administration or give adequate support to a good, one—the freedom of the Press, which Arms has so admirably termed the palladium of all civil and reli gious rights. Some will say France is not yet pre pared-for such a measure, we think she is, and dat all events would be glad to see the experiment tried. One circumstance consequent on the appointment of the new Ministers is the remat kable change in the 1 relative importance of the French Journals : some of those which were before silenced can now speak aloud, and proclaim the sentiments of which they are the accredited organs. The Drapeart Blanc seems, by this revolution, to have obtained an extraordinary prominence. We extract from it an article worthy of perusal, because it apparently points out the coarse • 'of party yolitics which the Retplist.leaders are in_ dined to follow. It States that the Royalists only re quired of the late Ministry an acknowledgment, 44 that neither the principles nor the men which overturned the Throne could be deemed capable of consolidating it." This is a bold avowal in the outset, and would imply that, although the Royalists accepted the assistance of the Liberals to turn out the late Ministers, yet that now they must not expect any favour from the new Ad ministration ; but passato it ponto gabato i 6 Santo has been the maxim of more Administrations than that of France. The next paragraph yields an assu rance that there will be " a perfect analogy and con sequence between the regulating principles of a kgi tionate Monarchy, and the acts of the Government and the Administration." What ideas the new Ministers have of the regulating principles of a legitimate Monarchy remains to be discovered ; perhaps their own ad's will soon supply the definition. LAURISTON, whom we spoke of yesterday as a new Minister, was a member of the late Administration; he observed, when the changes were in contempla , tion, that as he wished nothing better than to form part of a Royalist Ministry, he saw no reason to leave his place. New Brunswick Papers arrived this morning to the 14th November.. but they do not contain any news of importance. Halifax Papers arrived this morning to the 25th Olt. QUEBEC. NOVEMBER 24. Arrived the brig Harriet, from Jamaica, laden with rum, was boarded by two schooners under Spa nish colours, off Cape Antonio, which kept posses sion of the brig five hours, and plundered her of everything, with 6000 dollars. The Sophia and Sarah left at Kingston the brig Union, of-Liverpool, to sail next day; the brig Mari ner. for this port, in five days; the brig Harmony had sailed eight * days before, the schooner Sally one day ; the brig Dispatch, for St. John's, New Bruns wick, sailed in company; the brig Beaver, ditto, was beating up from Port Royal when the Sophia and Sarah came out. The Ida spoke in the Gulf Stream the schooner Mary, Swan, from Annapolis for St. Bartholomew's, out five days, lost part of her deck load. The Alert left at Barbadoes the schooner William Jewel, of this port, to sail in four days. • EXTRACT (Or A LETTER FROM SAINT LOUIS, NOV. ,1. 4 , General Atkinson and Major 07tillen (Indian Agents) arrived in this place on Sundaylast, from Council Buffs. The latter Gentleman brought down with him a deputation, consisting of Chiefs and Head men of seven bands of the Missouri Indians, in all sixteen men ; their destination is Washington City. We learn, that the various tribes of Indians inhabit ing the country on the Missouri, as high up as the Great Bend, whence our trade has been carried by the enterprize of the Fur Companies, remain friendly towards the whites. The Araiaras, some two hun dred miles above, still evince a disposition to be trou blesome, which nothing but the shew of an armed force will quiet. Some hostilities occurred last sum mer, between the Omaha nation and the tribes of the Sioux ; a battle ensued, and the Omahas were driven off the field, with the loss of thirteen warriors. u It is believed that all the disquiet, as well as the petty warfare made by one tribe against another, amongst the remote Indians, will be silenced by the shew of an armed force in the parts of the Missouri they inhabit, and it will open to our traders a road to the richest fur trade in the world. Views to this effect are contemplated by Government, and will no doubt be speedily accomplished, Ample means are in the hands of the military at the Council Buffs for the furlfilment of this grand object." It re stated, on the authority of a letter from Lisbon, dated December 9th, that " The Pernambuconians have declared themselves independent. ♦ vessel arrived in the Tagus with upwards of 100 passengers, who had escaped from that province.: every Euro. peen was about to embark." It is remarkable that no date is mentioned when this event took place, which renders the circumstance extremely doubtful. The latest direct intelligence from Rio Janeiro is of the 24th October, and gives a direct negative to the report of separation up to that period• The same letter from Lisboa adds Assassina tion and robbery are become very frequent. The' Report to the latendant of Police, for the last ten weeks, amounted to 884 assassinations is Portugal. It is most unsafe to go out after dark. We are on die eve of some great change. The luso was with out money to pay his daily expenses the other day ; with difficulty some . was procured for his present subsistence." Extracts from two private letters received by a re spectable house in the City : CONSTANTINOPLE, NOVEMBER to. Persia has declared war formally against the Turks, and the Persians are marching. They consist of 120,000 men, in three columns. Bagdad is now be sieged by °nevi their colums. It is said that Tre bizond has been taken by another column. All the Persians that could not escape from Constantinople have been put into prison. The Ciceeks are making progress in, the Morea. Letters from Zante state that Rlavariuo was occupied by them, and that they had laid siege to Modon and Coon. Notwithstanding this, the Tui-kish fleet is lying at the Dardanelles, but for what purpose I ant not able to say. Its Cora. mander-in-Chief, the , g Capitalise Bey," arrived h ere five or six days since, apparently by espress eed em How this business with the Greeks will be ended cannot form an opinion, but I think little or whi t will be done by the Turks during the wint er . w e are pretty quiet here. Yesterday eight or tenGre e k e . taken at Bucharest, were beheaded. Another letter of the same date, rays..-41 We are perfectly quiet bere ; though we lay owr acc ount f or dreadful exaggerations, when our English frie n d s re , ceive the intelligence that yesterday thirteen Mold & vian prisoners, chiefs of the insurrection, and * en with arms in their hands, were executed at Connao. tinople. One of, them, a butcher, formerly re s idi ng in Pera, was put to death in the Frank quarter, Opp, site :the house where he had lived before he tu rne d Patriot. Lord Strangfbrd was offended, that t h e ese . cution should have taken place in the vicinity of the foreign Embassies, and sent a message to the Po, e . insisting that the dead body should be removed. Thi s was accordingly done, and a proper apology so n d es . his Lordship ; though it is the custom to expose t h e bodies of criminals for three days. The Porte seems resolved to punish the Chiefs of the Rebels who au taken with arms, and to pardon those only who an. render. At the intercession of the British Embus; forty-four prisoners, taken in Samethrace, for refusing to pay the Poll- tax, were spared about a fortnight ago.' EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER, DATED SALONiti, NOVEMBER 2. " Cassandra still holds out. A few days am Abul Luburt Pasha arrived from Constantinople, and assumed the command of the Turkish anny a that place. He made an unsuccessful attack, ad suffered a loss of about 300 men, some accounts ay 1,000. He put one of his Officers to death with hit own bands, for having discovered emotions of cove. dice hs the act of planting a flag or standard casco, of the outworks in front of the army. 4 , I am informed by an eyewitness to the &stria. tion of Galax!di, on the 2d ultimo, that the Alpine, who formed a part of the squadron, behaved vat the greatest intrepidity and bravery. The Turksckv stroyed most of the Greet vessels at that place, wirk the exception of about twenty of the finest ship, tf which they took possession." A letter from Paris, dated December 15, es the authority of a communication from Bucharest, states, that nevus had just reached Odessa, that, shortly pm vious to the departure of the Courier, all the Ras* Officers who were on leave had received orders fray the Government to rejoin their respective corps with all possible expedition. It is, in truth, written by a Greek merchant ; but he adds, that, ere his luta arrives at its destination, the Russian troops will is fallibly have passed the Pro& Yesterday, about three o'clock, the Princess Soma arrived at York House from Kensingtoo, oe ask to the Duke of YoRE. The Royal Duke smite. wards returned home from a rid*, and met his tape Sister. The Duke and the Princess rode ant taw ther in a carriage in St. James's Park. The Prim afterwards returned to Kensington, and the Dead You proceeded to the Commander-in-Chief's Oto in the Horse Guards, where his Royal Highnessak a Levee, which was attended by about forty Mil* Officers, principally these upon half-pay, who eat anxious to get employed in the three Veteran Ben , lions embodied in Ireland; but it is understoodtm are no Officers necessary now, there being more the are wanted of those on half-pay who were called' service in the Veteran Battalions nearly two tan since. The Levee continued till a quarter before or. It is confidently stated that Lord NlELvitu ha expressed a determination not to vacate the Admiral; that Lord LONDONDERRY is to be called to the How of Lords ; and that Mr. PEEL expects to have the lest in the House of Commons. Ministers think that de talents of this Gentleman will enable them to dispels with the .services of Mr. CANNING; and there is • reason for supposing that a lower estimate of these* lents is formed by the expectant leader himself. General Sir COLIN CAMPBELL is appointed Chao berlain to his Excellency the Viceroy of IRELAND. The Duke of ',METER has arrived in town fits Ireland. The Earl BATHURST . arrived at his house in Gent Stanhope.street, yesterday. Sir BENJAMIN BLOOMFIRLD left Carlton Palace Monday, for the Stud-house at Hampton Court, who he entertains a party this week. The Marquis of AxoLasr.* has left Brighton hi Beaudesert, where he has invited a large party meet him this daA The Duke of DEVONSHIRE is at Chatsworth; I! morrow he proceeds to Hardwicke ; it is expected hi Grace will be present at the ensuing Ball at the Pr vilion, Brighton. The Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND has extended lee improvements so far, that no expectation is eoN' tained that Northumberland House will be it force cupation before June, 1823. The Earl FITZWILLIA WS noble mansion in 6* venor-square, is undergoing a thorough repairs 01 the front beautifying with imperial cement. The Duke of RUTLAND spends the holidayssaki voir Castle, where z large party are invited. Mr. and Mrs. WATSON TAYLOR entertain lila, friends this Christmas, at their new purchases Ow hall Park. The Marquis of Earrau keeps open house Christmas, at Burleigh Hall, Stamford. The Earl and Countess of TANK =vita.' area° taining their friends, at Walton-upon- hawses The Earl of BRIDGEWATER gives an elegy en tgr tainment this week, at Ashridgc, Herts. Lord GWYDYR gave a sumptuous entertainarl: a large party, yesterday evening, in Itinislina - r w , Lord ANsos entertains a large party this ver Shugborough ' Staffordshire. The Hon. Jona 'f RIVOR had a fob party on Monday, in Berknlepsquare. Ts Tow . 'Thor tomb Or! bow On Hp ~t.L VS the I WWI I 101 n . 114 will 11l e Arm rt all we Do the ei fog ri M ou .Nom St. Jo X.We, R kat dears Beau Iron . • Des A diere io Be ePPoi Cabil in thl requi Fent be P 94F Si NI a la' T at th . 1‘ We I fro Test from WO Prig net Itsz ac ke. all Wal der, the to i Lin tire me of I"'