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;t4 it 4 ..~.._• . Our ti it atag. No. 465.—V0L. IX. MONDAY, •JANU. .RY 8, FOREIGN INTRLLI GENCE. tarred the revolutionary system: tact -*hat time he has persevered. Ile speaks with facility: his faults are, to be easily made angry ; and even without being angry, he is not always sufficiently temverate in his language. M. Cardonnel spoke against the law, sad with the most happy irony contrasted the speecheaof the Minis terial members with those they pronounced last year. I cannot speak of what M. Sartelon said: he is One of those gentlemen whose speeches I neater read nor listen to: he is very fund of speaking; big neither the matter nor the manner are such as engage the attention of any one. M. Becquey defended himself from the ifeaassation of M. Cardonnel, of having changed his opiiiion since last sessions ; he spoke well, but always on the dilse ground that the 40th article of the Charter trate a narrow path, oat of which it is impossible to go. N. Ds La Bourdennaye, afters few wordt,Apasidt ed, that the change of one Minister in ourrosiviv directory seemed to have entirely changed * saunas. This word directory gave rise to a • warm familial, whether M. De La Bourdonnaye should be called to order or not. Blanquart Bailleul Bras. woe .that ire should be. Leine, after trying to prove IF Muss s ge o that he ought to be, proposed that he . not, 4 have no doubt but that, in England, asit'very few men who ever heard of any other ' that of the government of France known by s that name. But in this country, quite at the beginnin,g'of the re volution, there was a directory in each department; which then did what the prefect and the council of the department do now ' • so that I cannot comidet that there was any thing offensive in the expression of M. De La Sausdonnaye. M. Ctetisr made a long, historical, philneogibleal, speech in favour of the law : pear the sad f e e t = that the opposition to Ministry proceeded, in a representative government, from the desire of lay in places. There was a cry of indignation at these words from the Royalists, Gerdes tor places! It is Certain, that in peaceable times the assertion of M. Cutler would be true ; but at the present moment, all the Royalist party wish or hope, is to have such a sys tem of government as may ensure them indemeity for the past, and security for the future ; when I pay in demnity, I do not mean pecuniary indemnity, may that they should not be considered as a proscribed otass in society, at such a moment their cry of intligmition is easy to be conceived. M. Cornet D'lneourt spoke against the imesitiith a considerable degree of talent, and produced saineeffee:t. M. Courvoisier, who is in his heart a Reysilim, but %Ow supports the present Ministry on account of the hatred be bears to the class of nobility, not fia4inr, how necessary they are to the crown.—M. Courvoisiet made a long speech, paying the greatest compliments to the tiers-etat, at the expense of the clergy and nobility ; and afterwards he had the courage to defend the . ,in fluence the Prefects had exercised in the late elections. He ended by voting for the law. . . Here the diseumerm closed Saturday. All pafties agree out of the house that the law is bad, thou* muse ado not see in it that excess of danger which alarms ate •fand many others. There is a degree of courage which has always ex cited my admiration ; but nothing is equal to that of M. Bertitunio Constant ; he, as you remember,-wrote a pamphlet against Buonaparte after the landing at Cannes : in this pamphlet, he, thinking that Buono parte would not succeed, said, " Je n'irai pas miserable transfuge," &c. which must be translated-1 will not g.: an infamous turn-coat, &c.: however, filer days atter the arrival. of 11mmaparte at Paris, M; Benjaniin Con stant accepted the place of Counsellor of State, fitrget in.: that his own judgment of hi:nself was already print ed, and in the hands of every one. This man has dared itga i ni to meet the public: he has written a pamphlet, entitled " Ds la Doctrine Politique qui pout retinir tour les Parties." In this work he attacks M, de Chateaubriand, makes one or tava jokes on the Ctermf, attacks the Nubility (1), and praises the Minister of the Police. ...... • P.S. I forgot to mention that Ministry are dissatis fied with the report of M. Lilly Totlentfal on the re sponsibility of lllinisters : they are trying to.get I , ' to make some alterations in it before. it is prime(' cannot think he will condescend to print any thin, ferent front \ •'.aithe pronounced. , 1 (I) A MRI), then in riwer. s-ti I uweir'ef NC 13 rtijana n 'taut; " II est easetai tie de tout, mo w er ., Inoue Pante." • • EXTRACT OF A LETTER PROM OUR PRIVATE COR• RESPONDERT. _ Paris, Dec. So. The Law of Election is at present the only theme of conversation in political circles: there has already been a long discussion, nor do I suppose it will soon finish. It is more extraordinary to think that it is not yet cer tain whether it will pass or not : the Ministry hope that those ofaheir adherents who would prefer some other law, will, nevertheless, when it comes to the question, vote with them rather than with the Royalists. Mr. • •Royer Collard and M. de Villek reasoned upon the luw in the abstract: it was not difficult for the latter to have the advantage over his adversary, who, among other wild ideas, had established, that to choose 600 out of 1,199 would be an odious measure • as it would, in fact, be excluding 599: he allowed, however, dm till objection would not hold, if the choice were to be Node out of ,twelve hundred and one. One must really be accustomed to the theoretical discussions which have masted in France for five and twenty years, to believe It possible that such a position could be sub mitted to the House of Deputies, or listened to by them with patience. After M. de Villele rose, the new Counsellor of State, M. Camille Jordan, whose want of talent is notorious, and who, in 1797, did so much harm to the Royalist esuse by his folly, though his intentions were good : he kept the house in a roar of laughter (not with, but at him); till the length of his speech tired them, and they -gave aueh evident signs of etenti, that he was faired so stop. His proposition of building houses in the great towns, to lodge the electors; to make a law to compel the electors to come to the elections; and above all, his assertion that the electoral matter was wanting is cer tain places (Is &dim electorate ausinque), amused the holm wonderfully. I have not fund this last phrase in the Moniker; and I take this opportunity of men tioniag .t.a you, .that the Morsiterr is no longer, as thr rnerly, the taithfid mirror of all that passes in the house; either 'by order, or from fear of offending, the laughter, , .the mural" are seldom mentioned, except in favour of , the,Ministry, and event* speeches are not reported with, 'a proper degree of exactness. • M. de Cuistelbqjac after speaking a few minutes on the law, went into ;.he real question : what has lately .happened, made him feel that it was not a theoretical question to be discussed by philosophers, but a practical one, .to be debuted by statesmen ; accordingly, he men tioned all the abuses which had taken place during the late elections, and gave the example of a vigorous at tack upon Ministry, an example which has since been fidlowed by others : he said be considered the title of ultra-Royalist as honourable, bemuse as yet he had seen the opposite party apply it exclusively to men of ho nour; "yet he said this appellation had been in the pre sent state of the press made an engine in the hands of Ministry to indispose the people against them. M. Favard de laievisde spoke in femur of the law, and was listened to with attention. M. Jane de Beauvoir inn& a striking speech against it ; aind nut being of the proseri‘hed and suspected cast of nobility, his opinion is less liable to he calumniated. He pmpably never read Hamlet ; but his speech began —To be of not to be, that is the question : " Etre ou . ne pas etie; voila la question." Following the examFde al, de C u stelbajae had given the day betbre, he made different observations on the conduct of Ministry, and the language of the newspapers; and then painted in the strongest colours the difference between a loyal house of I)eputies, and such a one as would probably be elected in virtue of the law proposed by Ministry: he finished by saying, that a loyal house separated at the order of the Kine, crying Five k Rai; but a house composed of revolutionary member, would not separate: they would remain together, crying • • • " The shade of Louis XV 1. will tell you what would be their cry." This conclusion produced the greatest effect, not only upon the tribunes, bat upon the house ; and if a divi-. Pion had at that moment taken place, I am convinced 'hat the law woull have hem rejected by an enormous mujorit y M. De Serve made in 'favour of tlle law the beet speech that has been made : hn proposes an amend :. went, which would melt the law a little better, but he does nut consider that arnendawitt .^.s acre quo non. M. Dc Sarre is by far too clever a loan not to see all the inconveniences of the law but not having a shil ling of fortune, and great ambition, he abandoned the Royalist party at the beginning af the list sessions, when he saw that the majority of the Ministry pre- • 1' rt e , .ing, eandtitUtion ittp oakaaiiiiel..ow...m.sir.• • • - • BRIPiSP.I.9, Dec. U. (Extracted from the Dutch pope's.] Pairs: 94(1. SEfOND CHAMRER OF THE STATES-GENERAL. The President announced, that the order of the day was the discussion of the Law, relative to the celebra tion of Marriages, and on the Project of a Law for the Prohibition of the Exportation of Corn by the land frontiers of the kingdom. The first law was passed unaniinonsly. On the discussion being opened on the second law, Mr. Motlencamp spoke in the Dutch language ; Mr. Reypinins followed him in a speech, which is a curi ous one, and which we give as illustrating the spirit of disunion that prevails between Belgium and Hol land :---- " Gentlemen, the discussion which arises we this new pro posal of the King is not perhaps susceptible of new develo,te meats t twice the question of the export ofgrain has 'wen agi tated, first in regard to the particular inset est of a 111 uvincts. 'neat with a general view to the weittafof the kingdom : the diversity of opinions which you manifested has not at all sur prised me. For along time past, I have known and cal. Witt ed the effects Of the forced state In which we are placed, and the results appeared to me inevitable : when the union of provinces was pronounced which had for axes been separated +by opinion, interest, and by modes of existence, it was easy torapeet this shock of ideas. " On the examination and disceissinn of the law and the tariff of customs, I had the honour to present to you some ob bens suggested by the mode In which these important points of our Niistation were viewed. The name of the pro vince of diet member, which ought not, and in fact would • have any influence on the opinion of the Chamber. it' our ninon were well aiserted, indicated almost beforehand the vote be would give. Since that period, the ideas which I then delivered have been strengthened as often as a sohjectordiscussion has excited a diversity of opinions almost eyie' to that which we remarked on the customs ; but none of them has so deeply impressed this alarming trnth, as the question about the export of grain. On the one hand, its iin bunMied liberty of export has been considered as the most unequivoeal source of happiness, abundance, and tranquillity ; telvilv, on th • other hand, it is asserted with still greater con. Attritive, that it is the infallible cause of the mast iberribie desert, awl of all the calamities which it briars is Its train. " 1 du not believe that there ever was a kingdom, what ever its extent, where the national representatives were di vided in opinion in a way so strongly marked. Those who do not know the physical and moral situation ofthe two great portions of the kingdom, would doubtless suppose, that we were assembled lire only with the view of combating the propositions which proceed front ns reciprocady. It hats a..- peered to me itecesssty to the honour of the Chamber, to rail your attention anew to the cause of that diversity of opinion which originates in an tmiun at the formation of which *is deist did hot preside. I suppose for aln ;it, that the two great divisions of the hitegthim had been muted by federate tics, and that each of them had talented for its owu existemo• and welfare, upon lessons which the experience of ages dictated to it ;• in that case, would the southern provinces have hesitated a moment to prohibit the export ofgraiit, when the Viler Ut• that necessary of life had Helen to a height which the more ninitrion, classes of the people could not reach ? Would they have proposed to that people to suffer with resig nation the espurt of the vt ry last grain that must serve for thi'ir subsistenee, while be the meat; time they fed upon the shadowy hope that commerce wrath' substitute fur 'halve corn that which rapidity would have furnished? We know the comae that government would have adopted ; it would nut have waited for the obsehde necessity in orderto fix the period of prohioitiou; the high price welsh' have !tended it. aim it would have conciliated the happiness of me people with the interest ut the lentlownt rs a n d cultivators in tenaiary emi nently aviculture!. In the northern provinces, on the con trary, the opinions manifested by their deputies, which that of the government, for the tothortitleJ freelont If fruit-, world never have there ',croon , a twitter doubt ; the high price of corn in alines , all parts of Europe would t here :save been viewed as a source ut immense wealth I the 'tattle trade *fluid have bi en euesid :cell as a mine, the we. kite; ut which would be more vamau.e than thosi of rotesi ; and rouse. Tired!, the idea el throw Mg any iu Ito ut ex horting such a it ainable commodity woithl have het a deemed incereilent and a:rintri. In each portion of the kingdom the rt spectiie lie4oilattoro-, wield only have had to follow iinblic• ices at:( •(1 fly expel ience, and the p, aide a.iiild have ilepheldi dti ‘v,..1,,it of owl, „.,„ pve; Ise!, lout tare M ason Of rhr twopeople has bee', vi islii d to be earri. d into effect by proclaiming principle, n Inch suit the one, and ar.• ram glum to the interests other : and, as fit very comae utinstnrt,ne, it Is wished to mete the strangest portion :is way to the weakest. venture to as sert, that if we encourage such doctrines, we are treading on the brink 'via pree;Mee. " The only as•galmslit I have heard on the other side is, that unless we ins art:Oily adept tile principle exportatiun, we can never chi ri•li the ft. p. tit scenic runt merchants:, both foresc tiers and nab. es, esehilivb their speen- Wimp. in a Vt3y that will lie certain to increase the reCIIIINts Width of iiiir pruvuurs , by those. hal.lty rypnrfs wlnieb kcl•p :al ü thi e. re- nit . high price. 'l'o thi• t would again 1 tlls. wl.lpottleiTe D-41 Min of being ili4ov.ioril Ivy my emititty, tort it I I ti.,ttnre,!. l this ht- rioted. I crease of wealth, if only to he stegotrtql at the e‘iteriee a the • " 1.1 " 11 110 t, thii dill aridly% the Wail., and perlia:nt even the death ut her ettildtea l . • • We eintsiiit to be levi rich in capitals; we a‘inie only aft er ,4 . 4 ,_ • . 4, ~ E „,, that top-,,iite.. which ditrose. into nal tiancioility, the fruit ii • .'"*Ni• • • 'moan Cott- of that easy ettenmstanee. whit It the ! wooly enj , “ . , , IV felt . de ceile de " icon' dad, that that is a real geareity where the working r , •.• ciao - ars ate placed hi the ina h .d.ribility of gaining a animist- f•P V 4. ,.. -- t, s %, . t . . . . % •. A ''.. . . . . ..-- -, •...i . ,.4.:7-> , -• . ... - . I • • • # , • . .. . . r • v