The National Register. — London, England, 1815-10-22 00:00:00

OCT. 2Q. aiztiation, and all those criminals who, through obscurity, have evaded the action of the law. Should the public fore :west the pi c.lress of their designs, st ill they do not renounce them; they have ectiorse to injurious- speeches and calumnious writings; they have their a.iens and ralving words, and the weaker their numbers are the more powerful 'hey wish to appear by means of nose and tumult. They are encouraged ley impmeity; srveral sliew themselves openly, and though their iniliscrction betrays their wcahnces, it is neve! the. less certain that their praetices dietorb social order; and the public interest requires that their turbulent designs and detestable valet prist4 should be efficaciously repressed. There are men whose moral conduct depends solely on the fenr of pliniNhmelit. It is alzaitist these eriniinals, %r ho torn. the greater por tion of the species, that our present laws are in many respects I t o. availing. Tile penal rode doe• tint express itself in a manner sufficiently pre eiie on the subject of seditious cries and speeches tending to insti gate crimes against the internal safety of the State. That code caitiff not foresee the att;Ackii which might be diteeted against the Constitutions! Charter, since the latter air! nut exist shin the cede was fr4riied. caltinniinits imputation.% - insults, and ontra,geons ox proi,intss, publitly offered to tali` Mrmarelt, or the members of his fa mily, were not ranked among crimps. The law only tool: eomni7attee of ontrv:to and violence directed agaiicst the depositariva of tire priblie authority, and insults and Cilit1111:11C3 directed against private Pvit to the necessity of a positive law on these matters, is joined that of N speedy pursuit. Nud a panidlinteol, which, to serve as an effeetnal ex.ini;ile,,nmq De inflsetetl promptly after the crime. Of. lesser• so frequent that it is necessary to characterise them, :nay be parsind earrectinuAlly ; now, pussnit in a correctional inaimer, id iu its stature very speedy, anti the judles are iss 2eiteral very near the spot in which the crime has been committed. Tile p!asi of law shish I.iy hernre yon. Gentlemen. has for its object di:n.11111 aorta se-litions action's, not no , iceil in the penal code; cries, speeches. Writings which ratite rebvllion, ealnusssiOlt insults' and outrageous exuse , -iins ilf:aiiist the Kits:: an f:onsiy, and the plan proposes to determine the pi:lli...laments dot: to the..e• crimes. We think it defines theta with preci.ion. Cries, 'needles, ea- !' Ittottiies, cattilut, he lint in the eve of their ptitiplicity; writing: which re-prodime, t,r, as it may he said, nmltiply the•e fitteuer 4 ,miner another form, acts which attack publicly and witNetilst the ielm-tabie elisigits of the Royal authority, ought to bf rva'ay 'Cue same o nervation :(lel,lie• to IlifFerent acts and "speeches which derive thcir to it:t.:p it ofron•ive e•hsracte•r from priNellt cir eunWmees, and which teed to :halm. the eordisienee whirls is due to the promises of the litn4, and to the Constitutionai Charter. Without doul►t we should have considered the Kiln; and Ida an guat !loose as too highly elevated to It reached by ca!mnity, or iejorv. dill not a long and ie" 0114 experience teitelt no that these plocce:lta.ta form the prelude of revolution autl tren , on. and that ;boy teiti4. by tiestroyin , respect, to undermine the Tht one, and to elimini.lt the veneration and love doe by so malty el a im% to tht• Monarch for thr porposo of welluming his authority. limits di rected agatte4 him are offered toe the State. They compromise tilt• dignity awl safety of the nation% i sy.lent followed by calumnies itistilt4 itisetisibly prepares ntiu•l: for the development of the -11,4 ahn•ninabic ilesigne, and at kW, by means tit* spreading the opintott that an event cannot he avoided, becomes inevitable. 'Die punishments in the law proposed to you are imprisonment, r tfveilatice wider the hittliority of the High Poficr•of the State, pri vation ut• the ri Of voting, e lection, and eligibility and epi difica tiofts for public and administrative functions or bearing arms. The pitui-limentS are correctional, because it is believed that their iminediate notification, without bei.:g injurious to justice, will be stilt more effectual than their extent. IVe have endeavoured to proportion then punishments to the natnre of their crinies. Tinos, we have supposed that he who shad endeavoor to excite tumult id tie State, cannot ity.lly lively!' I to t , :reeise his political rights; he mho diourlii the public 01111* '1.)1111.1 he excluded, at lea.t for a tine, from exerei-in , .; paiil;e rune t tnift; that lie who threatens, by indirect provocation , , public and private safety, cannot, Without endangering the tranquillity of the citiz.ms, obtain the privilege of bearing arms. )V e. intend, Gentlemen, to read to you this Law-Prejeet. It has been meditated by the King. The knowledge and exptiletleo of the Chambers Wilt give to it the necessary authoi.k. Tilt NATIONAL MUNSTER. THE LAW-PROJECT. Louis, by the Gram. of God, King of Prance and Navarre, &e. We have ordered that the Law Project, the tenor of wh ch fol lows, shall be presented in our name to the Cnamber of flep +ties of the Departments by our Keeper of the !teals. Peer of Fratr•e, and Count Portalia, Comisellot in one Council of State, to w tom we eonsizn the charge of explaining its motives and sustaining the dis• cnssion thereon. Art. 1. Are declared seditious nll cries, al! speeches, uttered in pub lic places, or such as are allotted to the habitual meeting of eiligeAs; All printed papers, or such not having been printed which shall have be"n posted up, sold, distiihutei, or delivered to the pres., and which shall express ilia menace of an attack against the life, the per. •n, or the authority of the King, the life or person of the Me.ttbers of the Royal Family • Which ma y he inj,trious or calumnious towards the King or the Members of his Family; Mkt shall exci , e to the taking op arms against the Royal autho rity, to disobedience of the Constitutional Charter, and 11. e laws, dis regard of the authority of the Magistrates or Agent sof the Government s legally constituted, or to the dist cirh Ince of public trangoillity by acts of violence towards persons and property ; Try which shall be invoked the name of the Usurper, or of an inilivi dunt of his family, by which shall bt- provoked, directly or indirectly, either rice overthrow of the Government, or a change of the order of succession tit the Throne. Art. 2. The speeches or writings mentioned in the fillet clause of the preceding 'of-tide, whether containing inderett provocations to the off e nces described in the said article, or wickedly announcing that crimes or offences of that nature should or ought to he committed, or anon festing on i:dention to commit them. ire equally dechired seditious. Art, ~ %r godly of seditious acts, all persops who shall c rculate . or ceuntenoner, either alarm: concerniog the in•iolability 4)f the pro perty called nar - onial, or reports of a pretended te-estakrli-lortient of rirthe., or fl•ndal ri , rlds. or nrcotods tending to alarm the cit.zeris re 'peering the maintenance of the legitimate authotities, or to oli:rke their fidelity. Art. 4. Are &Ogre(' seditious acts, the removal or deratiotion of the white flag, of the :mos of France, and other signs of tin.. ; of placards of laws or put tic regiiiiitiott.; the ere( (inn of flag. or the wearing of any enc Lade, or any other sign of rallying f)r• bi.!dets, or even not authorised by (he King. :krt. persons guilty of the aforesaid speeches, cries, or acts..— rtll ntoliors, priuters, and diArihutors of the seditious writitasit•deli-oe,l by the present law shall he pu6i.lie.l by imp , isunment a al lr..t three months. and tint t•sceeding Ave year,. The persons thus convicted, hull further remaim afrer the es;,7- a .. firm of their pitoi.hment, under the •operintentlence. of she- Theis Po. lice, for a space et time, which shall he deiermilted by the sentence, acid which shall not esceeti five years. the whole cont irii.ablv tN Sil Chapter ..f the fat Hook of the Penal Code, without prejobtice to the criminal prosecution, end application of the wore serious initii•lntiews pre.exilied by the Pens' Code, in case of the sedLiuus tries, speeches, writines, and ICial having certain tared. The rmpaition of the otience strait b. punished coofurtontly to the srt'i Artie!,. o r t h e Penal c„ r t e . A.l. 6. The 'Prison Is of Correctional Police cSsll take cogniz ince of - . the larences mentioned in the present law. Art. 7. The disposition: of the Code of Criminal Process, and of Penal (70(1 , , cooliono to he executed in ..41 cases in which a is nut superseded by the enactments. (Signed) (rimittersi g nel) Given Paris, fit the Theilieries, Ott. 19. Cintmher ordeted that the I.uw-Pr , jeer shonl3 he printed its • order Oat :t might be distributed and. discussed in the Bateaux or: :re list sittihg. • BARBE MARBO74. CORUNNA MAIL. ennuNN A, OCT. 12.—After the arrest of Genera) Porlier. at Santi.t.zo, where he wa: thrown into the prison of the in quisition, i.e was bron , 4lll here on the 26th of Sept - ember, with seini officers of his party, and hanged in the Campo de la llnrca, on the .3d instant. The following is the proclamation addressed by I i n to the Junta of Seville: hose ir.r.uvrotors SyNons—The deplorable and - ditversol iitwitio.i iu whi , •l3 the nation liac !wen for this yei . ii-,patt, Rail (Ile conviction I t. ci that the people. at the sinit time that they valor their own felicity, desire, if pot , sible, W tuOibtain the- oast eoostaut •• per ted the tad ►lan re•