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FRENCH PdiPERS. 010INANCES OF THE ICING. tows, by die Grace of Gon. King of France and Navarre. to ell to whom these °presents shall - come, greeting : • Having regard to the necessity in which the Arch bishops And Bishops of our kingdom are, in the pre. sent difficult circumstances of the Church of France, of instructing, from infancy, young.persons who may afterwards enter with advantage into the great semi naries; and desirous of procuring them the means of accomplishing with. facility this pions intention; not wishing, however, tliat schools of this kind should be increased without sufficient reasons ; on the report of our Minister Secretary of State of the Inteiior, we have ordered, and do order, as follows : Art I. The Archbishops' and Maher; of our kingdom may cm bltsh, in rich aepannierit, an eccleslactical schwa, the 'spacers sod ft:tin . ..of which tlity may name, where they shall educate sod ionrcet young people interi.led for the great seminaries. H. Three schools rniy he situated in the country, and in place: where there is no ly.ccurn, or commercial college. When they.shall be shuated ih elite, *bete there is a ly teum co commercial allege, the scholars, after two yeare study, shall take he ecclesiastical habit. 0 . Jul shafl be etoneratcd from attending the lectures of the a a _1 ; L.,:tlniS IV. To as much as possible, the expenses of thace istablislunents, the scholars shall be exempted from fees due v. the universlty frog: Scholars of lyceums, Colleges, institutions, and bbsrding,ichoofi. V. 11. e scholars *ho shall finish their course' of studies, May istesetit tit...illative' to the examination of :he University, to ob- Wit •the Degree of Bachelor of Levers. This degree 4111 be ellorifetred grJtuirouslt on them. VI A Isecond ecclesiastical school cannot be established - 1n a &pariahs -sit, except by virtue of our authority even on the report out• Minister Secretary of State of the Interior, after be has beard the Bishop and the head of the Untliersity. Vfl. The Heilesiasilcal schooh ire perraitina to receive legit !les and &maim* in conformity with the tasting laws on this to Whet relpedm out oral/nee of the 12d of June Iw, 4url:lth pruttits provislooally the &erect an:l regUlarions relative the Usti/I:ratty, shall be observed. AU the articles of the said decrees and regulations, contrary to the present, are exceptLd. IX Our Mioicer Secretary of State of the Interior is charged oshh the execotion of the present ordinance. . Gives at our Palace of the Thuilleries, the sth of October, in the year 1614. (Signed) Louts. (signed) The Abbe Da MoNvasnuton. ON PAR [As. PROM TSE CIALETTIL Dli FiIAWCt. *bet in a monarchy you hear say that there are parties; be welt assured that what exists are only in bigues: There are parties in a republic, because a popular government is in fact a lottery of power, in which every me acquires, as it were, a ticket, this man by the rength tat his character--that man by the pliancy of his mild—the onc try miiiiary success, the other by oratorical talents, and sometirms by his virtues, for talents and virtue are.of tame avail in republicsi it it be bit to 1 1i. ptty•cuted: Power then comppses the prizes, where each man may pain by his tic k et; the Ala is divided among the adventurers, the kilers moird around the man from whose semis ttiel hope to gain. The officer butir the geleral, the man of letters uhrstiV on the si:le of the orator=men of in- trigue bet on all sides—and thus are parties formed. bra nicuarchy power is or ought to be withdrawn frorn circulatirm ; it is the treasure of the nation,. of which one family keep the keys, and preserves the deposit secure from ambition, and even hope. • - In these w)eernments the question is not therefore to command the mailed, but to serve it; but at self love Eves always and every where, there are intrigues whether this mart shall serve-in the north or the south. a--with eft embroidered coat or a fringed one... With two epaulettei or merely one—with a blue ribbon or' ft red one—in the first anti-chamber or the *el but these are not parties, because at bottotn'thefe is no game for power, and when .power ie not.platurd for,. the game is not worth the expense of she * candle. • So when it is laid that there are ponies in - France, We are quite deceived, and• mistake foOli and in: tripes' for factious men, and competition for ambi tion. Can we call a party, the large or small num ber, it matters little, of those who expect that the %lam of Abe Isle of Elba shall fall from the clouds at the head of SOO,OOO heroes, and who think that an .Adventurer can re-ascend the throne to which he had glided; arid from which he has glided, as one returns to the Opera by taking a ticket at the door, and ask ing one's neigtabour to keep one's place t This is Sot a party, but a herd of silly wretches of the lowest Classes of society, whom wags amuse themselves by Shan We tail those men it party, who, thinking themselves more profound and important than others, save looked ottt f-r a Reg.-rcy, and thr•ught even for a moment that the brat Hho is scarce out of leading eitrings Might maintain himself on a throne, which bis fath , r, the ripeness of his a2e and talents ; in spite a the asceird.viey which his successes gave iiirh, and the has - re el his glory, could not ke,.p. This is not a party, but some dupes grilled by braves, who wished tb gotait 4 Womin and child, And Ai, is they lay, u troubled wain-. • Float y. bhA4 we give the name nt a party to rlne !most istcorr:giblat wretches wh! ., dream of the repub. Itc— ,, ue mid who t. r p yti it regret at the thott_!,ht; of 1793. :AO relish di evil which for 20 jeors •i,ey Live h;rit iontm;ttiog, as a tiger in the rece,ses cat his den iegorges thelalood, his yesterday's repast, and meditati,g some new prey, passes over his lips pled tongue ? These men, with their lean& full of rapine and murders, dare take up the peal to subscribe their inf quoits names to produ c tions as iniani.uss 1 gars is it el,tt they inform us that they have s:gitlicl the death warrants of our fathers, our br.le.itis, or our children, cOnlidenzly and heedlessly, tend that they have condemned to death innocence it self, as I physician sentences an invalid past remedy. This is not a party, but a hotel of assassins. Asto nished them , elves that they are suffered to live, they Will not believe in the pardon which has been granted thems Like Orestes, hut more guilty in the lever of their troubled consc;ences, they personify their re porse ; and turn it into furies, night and day fol lowing their steps so long as they see about them a human being, they will see a victim to prosecute, or an esecutioner to dread. Nn— thetc ate iv, pArties in France. If there are Some mal-contents, there prevails a general contem ns: nt, of which, like death, the privation is less felt thin the possession is enjoyed. Thsre sfs slovbtless snore nnisappy, And theft lament the least lOW laic mos. Mole gat there is lilac general happiness Which arises porn • repose, eoftAdence, the certaiaty of being able to Oft or go, to rejoice, or even be aMicted, without being subject to observation, without being suspected for your joy, or even your affliction, by a Government liable to take umbrage. This general happiness is like'air Which circulates every where, fills every thing, which we bieathe and absorb in a thousand manners without our being able to say it is here— r it is there. This general happiness is all we can expect from a Covet nment—indieidual happiness depends upon onrselvei. The good seek it in order, and certain of finding it there, they too often forget that order in 'society does not establish itself without aid, but that themselves are the means and the instruments. They are less active because they are more tranquil respect. in;; success. The ill-disposed, on the other hand, seek their happiness in disorder; and this pursuit of happiness vain, and always fruitless, throws them into a state of moral fever, which is depicted in the restlessness of their looks, the irregularity in their pro ceedings. There is nothing calm in their thoughts or in their motions; they appear to be, and perhaps are, more active because they are more agitated. that the medium price for It• years, frost 17711 to 1739, was 18 fr. 59 cents. the hectolitre, while the average price throughout the kingdom was only 15 fr. S cents. during the same period. The difference was 3 fr. 45 cents. From 1802 to 1813, the tnedlem price ;n titer above districts was 27 fr. 14 cents. while the average price of the kingdom wasp only 21 fr. 66 cents, The dif ference was 5 fr. 48 cents, Thus before the revolution, the price of Wheat was one•frfth higher in the Southern departments than the general price in France, And for the last 12 years it was onc-fourth higher. It was not, therefore, with out reason, that the want of importation was consi dered as one of the principal causes of the dispropor tionate price of food in the south. In truth, as in time of peace, that part of trance derives corn from Barbary and Sicily, it could not be doubted that the privation of such aid must have eansed a rise in prices. Upon the whole, and we ought to felicitate our selves upon it,. there had been a remarkable advance in the progress of public opinion, since a law, which in other times would have excited so many remon strances and unfounded alarms, now experienced ob jections from those only who wished to give it greater latitude. In order, howeter, to supply the wants of the South morn completely from the resources of France, it had been strongly urged that the highest price at which export should cease should be raised front '23 to 25 francs. To this he objected, on the ground that it ' would expose the manufact❑rers of these exporting districts to serious mischief by raising the price of labour. These districts were, also, from their situa. tion, exposed to a rapid maritime drain of corn ; and the general interest required that export hold b. stopped before they were exhausted. The imposition of a duty, when the price of grain approached the rate at which export is to cease; had slim been objected to; but Government thought this precaution necessary for the purpose I , f !A :c L'ninp; the actFrity of purchasers at * period whes the country had a very slight interest in the exp art of drain. He then proceeded to defend the princ•plt rf im porting grain fr m foreign parts, duty free. At all times this importation had lizen encouraged in France by abrrlute freedom, and %Ant:times by bounties;- and when we reflected on the vast extent of her ter ritory, it was evident that the harvests would not be evert where equally productive, and that the most distant ports could not always relieve each other with the requisite promptitude and economy. At present, also, it nitit be said that there wete kw nations in a condition to pour corn into our country; but even it they wetv, it woull not lower the price l (.1 corn ; for being stored in warehou.es, titere it might tetnain as a reserve fund, at huie expense, and an excellent resource against want. It w.iuld also d_TanAe our commerce with Barbary and the Ltvan:, were we to prohibit the free import of that corn weir which they furnish the s uth in Trance in return for our manufactures. The example of England, which imposed'a duty on import, was not *Whelan to rebut his argument. Her financial and custom-house iegislat , ol was different from ours; besides, she co. vexed the seas with her ships, and could supply her self at pleasure. Bread could hardly be considered. as the, staple article of her subsistence, while 'in France it was the staff' of life, and its dearness ope rated as a diminution of subsistence to the poor. In our ease, then, neither justice nnr humanity wouli admit that the people should he preveuted from re. sorting to the,best market. The encouragement of agritulture itself should not be pe r mi t t e d to swa ll ow up every other consideration. Fle concluded with observing, that experience would thew in what points the law was sLs..:eptib'e of improvements; and when observed by Cove en. meat, they should be recomtneneed to the Legi.ta. tore. What was important at present, was to carry into effect a principle, the effects of which would in crease the_ general welfare, and particularly that of the labouring clines, who could have no steady em ployment unless the land-holders, who consume the produce of their industry, were enabled to dispose tf the produce of their lands at a fair price. Atter some farther discussion, the whole of the law was adopted by a majority of 120 to 20. This is the first plan of law which the Chamber has adopted without amendment. THE EVENING SIAR. VIENNA, SEPTEMBER 90. Every thing being ready for the Congress, it ap pears that this Assembly will open to-morrow (Oc tober let), and this great event attracts general ar tcntion. The Congress will bold l's sittings at the Secret Chancery of State. There will be littie spoken, it is said & to avoid the verbal discussions, to which there would be no end ; all the business will be done in writing. •It is not doubted, that as soon as the ingociators agr,:e Upon Articles, they will be imme diately Communicated to the public through the Medium of the press. It is thought that those diffi culties, which are likely to run to length, might be public/1r debated, to elicit information from persons who are not members of the Assembly. It is hoped that the press of the Court and State will imme diately publish a journal of the proceedings of the Congress. Atnaig the recent arrivals here, are the Prince Royal of Bavaria, Prince Eugene Pleauharnois, the Prince - of Schaumburg-Lippe, Prince Leopold of Saxe.Coburg, Prince Radsivill, the Neapolitan Ge neral Filangiari, &c. &c. Prince Schwartzenberg, President of the Council of War, who was on his estates in Bohemia, has re. mined to Vienna. He had the honour of a visit from the Emperor Alexander, when that Monarch passed through Bohemia. The Prince Royal of Wfutemberg is not yet *TH.' ved. It is said that before 'coming here he has gone to visit his sister, the ti•devant Queen of IVestplialia. Yesterday morning, the Archdukes visited the King al.cl Queen of I3avaria. About mid-day, the ladies visited the Queen in demi-court dress. The King afterwards visited the foreign Sorcx eigns who are here. About five o'clock the Emperor and Em press of Austria, and the Emperor and Empress of Russia, proceeded together to the Prater in an open carriage, preceded by the court equerries, and escor ted by the gu,trds and pages on horstb:trk. A long file of court carriages followed, in which were the foreign Sovereigns, the Archdukes and Archduchesses, the Princes and ladies attached to the Court of Aus -44 and to those of the foreign Princes, all the nubi lity, all the foreigners of distinctiop, together with an rirnmense muhitutle, sieve collect." in the Prater.... 1 Aftsr promenadingfor some time in their carriages, the august Sovereigns witnessed sonic fire-wcfn ks, !which were magnificent and universally applauded. .The whole_ brirliant cavalcade then.traversed the : principal streets of the capital, to view the tions. Ingenious transparencies and reiterated ae ' clamations every whew expressed the joy of the in. habitants,- • PARIS, OCTOBER 10. The Duchess of Wellington has arrived at Paris with her children. The mortal remains of Marshals Bessieres and Do me, and the hearts of General Larihnissiere and three other Gcnetal3, which were placed in one of the cha pels under the dome of the Invali‘ls, have been re, moved to the vaults under the nave of the church. Very alarming tiots have taken place in the Hessian city of Marburg, between the studeote of the univer sity of that cl!y and the Saxon imps. The officers and sol.liers of a Saxen regiment made an attack, in the open day, upon the students, and wounded several of them. The Saxon Commander-in-Chief, General Tli:elman, whose head-qu ,rtes were at Marburg, immediately ordered the grenadiers to depart, and promind to give the inhabitants satisfaction. An advertisement, published at Bourdeaux, gives notice that the Spanish refugees, not military, compre hending women and children, shall be entitled to the allowances granted to Spanish military refugees. Tee orders of banishment oeounced by his Catholic Ma jesty in the royal decree of the 30th May, 1814, not eoinprehetiding the military man of the lower classes ap to that of Lieutenant, inclusive, those to which this exception extends, and who may be disposed to riti;t France, may dtmand marching papers, which shall be immediately furnished to them. The Ministry has decided, that the Spanish refugee °dicers shall have the same allowances that are granted to French re duced ifficers I the same rank. The amount of lefracies and donations to hospitals and the vor thictigbout the whole extent of France as it now is, artvlunt , :d in 1812 to 1,500,000 francs, and in 1813 it did not reach 900,001. This circuit). stance skews how much the feelings of charity and rtliguin were daily weakened under an oppressive and immoral govertanen t M. Dentu, one ( f t:;e booksellers lately arrested, has obtained his liberty t.n the ground of not being inculpated in the affair for which several of his trade ave now under prosecution. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. 611 TING of 301 x. The debate on the plan of law relative to the ex port of corn was resumed. The discussion princi pally turned on the different prices at which exporta tion should cease in the different districts into which France was divided. M. 13EQuxy, the Director-Gcneral of Agriculture, replied to the objections which had been made to va rious parts of the plan, and stated several facts with regard to the Trice of corn in different parts of France. A wish, he said, having been expressed to know what was the price of wheat in the south of France, before 178.9, he had examined the returns of the five districts of Grenoble, Provence l Languedoc, Rousshlad Auch, parts of the country where the price hat:icon stand), been highest, From these returns it appeared LO 1)ON. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1814. To the iiiterestiriA extracts w; ich we gave yester day from the An erican Papers, we Nava this day added mai,y other ciiroas arti.les I; om the same Pa per,. Some of them are of a date pi ior to the capture of Akxandria, but they are necessary to the series of events of which our Readers have a right to be in formed. As might be expected, the unlocked for visit of the British force, and the successes which attended the operations of his Majesty's arms, have spread a very general dismay among the doughty American cham pions. All payments in cash by the Banks of New York and Philadelphia were instantly suspended, and, as we noticed yesterday, the individual States were, in this dilemma, obliged to look for means for their separate defence. It has been reported, that after the first alarm had subsided, these Banks had resumed their cash payments. We cannot assert that the fact is otherwise; but in the different files of Papers which have reached us, though we have examined them with care, we find no notice of the kind ; and our be lief is that the report alluded to rests on no foundation. At the other places threatened with a visit, there is much bustle. At New York but one sentiment exists—i fixed determination never to yield the city to the enemy but with their lives 1!" We shall ere long see bow truly these life gentlemen keep their words. The Federalist Papers, though they call upon their countrymen to arm for the defence of their fire-sides, 'are louder than ever in their reprobation of the con. duct of ItilAnoos and his adherents. In fact, they are sensible that the evils they now surer, sal those whin which they are still threatened. are all to be attributed to the mad projects and unprovoked aggressions of that drivelling time-serving poltroon. . The Natiowa 1 Inm/li:enter, which again &lamented publishing a few days after our troops left Wa:ltireg. too. im still the effrontery to praise Mamma fir his activity and zeal in the public service. He will sues; find, howeter, that better support is wanted to ficcp iLiin in his situation than the publication of parsgrapri-; of his own dictAtion. NEW-YORK, SEPTEMBER. a. The times are awful ! Fire and sword approac!! ' Americans, adopted citizens, defend your preciou. v invaluable liberties l Without these blessings, Ir.-- would be a miserable existence. Better to perish in .1 manly struggle, than to be degraded and enslaved!'.,. Your country sounds the alarm in a vr.ice of thunder You cannot be deaf to the present call upon pntr pa triotism ! Dream not of safety while the er.cm) is at your doors. The Capital of your country h.:s be a taken ; our acn;ilistration rotted ; but we ta-c Iv: a brave, and if united and deter rained, an or:Conquer able people ! One of the sources of our misfortunes is removed-4 Armstrong is dismissed. Capable men, in whom we have confidence, will soon come into po..ver. We shall have a vigorous war, all hearts being united, or a speedy and honourable peace. Yesterday, agreeably to General Order:, the whole military of the city war paraded, consolidated into full companies, and entered into actual serricl.. —They were ordered cut early is the morning, and bore the fati: . rues of the day with ellaracte:istic pa tience ; and when dismissed to meet again early in the morning, they rent the air with approbatory ac clamations. Soon will this respectable body of troops be complete in discipline, as they are now in the means to take the field. If occasion requires, they will prove themselves worthy sons of illustrious sires. But one sentiment exists—a fixed determination never to yield this dty to the enemy but with their lives. A gentleman from Troy, by the steam boat, in (onus us, that 4000 troops were ordered from Platte. burgh to . the westward, via Glenn's Palls, supposed to be destined for Sackett's Harbour; and that 6000 rations were required to be issued at Glenn's Falls. FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLICAN, AUGUST 2, DEFENCE OF GLORGETOwN.-A-Half-past seven, P. M. —Several of the enemy's vessels are in sight five mile% from the town. The troops of the town, and between 3 and 400 Alexandrians who. marched is from il.e country this afternoon, are drawn up in order cf bat tle, to receive the enemy, should he attempt the place. The Officers waited on the Piesident .in cense. determination of the Secretary o f W ar , an d s i gn i f i ed their &termination to resign their Commissions, unless they received an assurance, that Armstrong should not ba ,soffered to interfere with their arrangements -This assurance was givim by the President. . . • LATEST FRITH ALE, O'ClOCk, The enemy is busily engaged in loading their vessels with the property obtained by the capitulation. In tl:e article of flour they are very particular to take such only as pleases their palate. They throw into the Potomac ail that is oot fresh and sweet. It is sup posed they will be employed several days in filling their ships with booty. All their proceedings ate in full view of the city heights, and within a few miles of Mount Vernon, where rest the remains of the vene rated founder of this republic. Shade of our beloved Washington, look down upon your poor, suffering, humbled, bleeding country I Will there be no at. tempt to cut off these ships as they descend the Poto mac, and compel them to disgorge their plunder ? Are there no cannon, no furnaces, no ammunition, no men ? A bounty of ore hunched and twenty-four dol lars and no urea to throw a few red-hot shot at two fri. gates and four small vessels, with not more than SOO marines to land ? Are there no troops and no muni tiovs of war after the millions that have been borrowed and squandered ? There are, but they are on thr l.akes in Canada. Admiral Cockburn sac told in the city the night rf the conflagration 44 if Washington were alive you could not have done this." No, said the Admiral, s , we should not have been at war, nor would HE have left his capital defenceless for the pur pose of making conquest abroad." Had the Stoning ton Tories been at Fort Warburton, Alexandria would nut have been abandoned• to the enemy, any more than Washington could have been betrayed had a King or a Marshal been at tile head of the nation. FROM THE BALTIMORE PATRIOT, AUG. Captain Porter's purser brings tbe latest intelligence from the British—which we have heard. He states that they had not arrives! at ,Qaeen Ann's—and had not completed their embarkattion—,doe news of the capture of Annapolis is of coqrse premature. FURTHER PARTICULARS. —The following is fur nulled the Editors of the Patriot by as officer of di,. tinction, who was in the battle : The British left Bladensburg on Thursday nizlit, by the road to the Patuxent, carrying with them as many of their wounded as 49 horses could drag, in waggons, carts, and carriages. They left eighty three wounded behind, and tkirty men to take care of them —among the former were two Colonels and one Major. The last died a few hours after. It is supposed their loss in killed and wounded amounted to 501). The field and road in front of Commodore Barney's battery were strewed with dead men and horses. None but officers being on the latter their loss must hate been severe, before the Commodore ordered a retreat his horse