The National Register. — London, England, 1821-12-24 00:00:00

Our Ai :.. No. 1,347.—V0t. XIY.] MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1821. Extract of a letter, dated Paris, Dec. 16.--" morning great changes were expected to spear itt the different branches of Administration. Pre. feet of Police at Paris, the Director of tisi PIZ the Director of the Customs, the Directors(Po the Diresto r of Beestrittlims, wiU all lea These changes will be followed by the appelpleseee of new Prefects in many of the depagtments. change of Ministry in-Ersnee infers a much mem extensive change in all the departments of authodty than in England. From the centralizatiox of politer at Paris, a shock in the Cabinet is felt through all the gradations of office down to tho Mayor of a vit. 18ffe. Directors, Receivers Generiil, Prefects, Police agents, &c. are all subject to the impulse." Bator/me, Dec. ,83—On the • 27th ult. Mine assessed a heavy contribution upon the mldille dames of 'Galicia and especially upon the tiobility and clew, for the sobsistence of his troops; and this' measure has met with general approbation at Co runna. At the fame time he has nominated a Pro visional Junta of Governineat, which has declared all the ports of Galicia free to foreign vessels, upon payment of a very.etuderate duty. He has also di. minished the direct Contribution. This will pro, vide very ample remora, v.u.tieglarly, on account of the 'prohibitory system adopted by the Cortes in other provinces. The levy ex name of the national, aLtive, and local militia, and the formation and or elsation of an army of 30,000 men, have likewise decreed. Four thousand troops of the line, sod six thousand of the regular provincial militia, are ordered to march to the ti *niers of Gelicia, and assemble i& the vicinity of Astor g a . In case of ne cessity. this division will be rei nforced by all the militart forces of the province ,W aws, Dec. I li.-Yesterday morning the Min. tess Simeon was received by the King and Madame. The first and fourth Bureaux assembled yesterday to take cognisance of the resiguatioa of M. M. Villele and Corbiere, of their functions as Members of the Budget Commission. Their opinion of the expediency of this step, in cons& quence of having been called to the King's Council, was not partici r'tated by the other Deputies of the Commission, and they were accordingly re-elected. It is said that a: public letting will take place to-morrow, to receive a communication from Government, relatively to the Health Law adopted by tge Chamber of Peers. The nomination of MM. Royal and Portal to the Chamber of Peers, vacated the representation of the department of,the Seine, and that of the depart ment of the Tarn and Garonne. M. Corbiere was yestPrday installed in the Mi nistry of the Interior. It is announced that the office of Director-Gene ral of the Police•is suppressed, and that there will be on uodcr secretary ittached to the Ministry of the Interior. On Sunday night, M. Angles, Prefect' of Police, resigned ; the administration is, ad interim, confided to Vii. Parisot, Chief of the first division. ft is announced, that the sittings of the Chamber of Deputies will continue suspended during some days, in order to afford leisure to the new Ministry to complete its administrative organisation, and to prepare its legislative labours, It is added, that the first communication from the Ministry to the Cham ber of Deputies will have for its object the demand of six -twelfths, and the pr jet of law fix the regu lation of the journals as announced by the Keeper of 4he Seals Two of the children of Lieutenant General Count r Bertrand have just entered the Institution of St. Mahe. NI. le Che-alier Delaville, the ex-Sectetary of the Council of Ministers, is to be named Master of Ite quests Extraordinary. L King Report states, that on the 14th instant toe mng made a promotion of ten Marshals-de-Camp, among whom arc mentioned M. de la Bourdonnaye, Colonel of Cii.o:eurs ; Viscalunt de Latour Maubourg, Co lonel of Cavalry ;. and Colonel de Matharel. The population of the 86 departments, of which the kingdom of France, according to the treaties of .1816 and 1815, now consists, consisted, in the year 1840, of 30,407,90 T individuals. lu the year FR &AVE PAPERS. PARIS, Dec 16.—Ufahenew appointments, that of M. Peymnnet to be Keeper of . the Seals has ex., cited considerable' surprise. He is neither known fur family honours, for political influence, or extra ordinary talents. He was originally an advocate at 1 Banrdsaux, of which be is a tistiva; and la Abatiss to eat of M. Leine was appointed •Psocuteer' All ofthe Royal Court of ieirgee, in the daparblaett. • L'Ain. The patronage of M. Laine'antl M. Raverihis townsmen, brought him to Paris, where he obtained the appointment of King's ProeurettV% the court of the Chamber of Peers. In capacity he conducted, last spring, the trial oft Alleged s conspirators of August, 1820; and the trial of ono; of them, Marion, who was c itondemned about month ago. Having thus made his appearance Or Paris' political and judicial boards, hei' VI MS found useful to the late Ministry for his seal, and by their influence was elected member of the Chambpp„ of Deputies for the department of Cher. Jtri,he Chamber he has spoken only once or trice, and without any success. His accent, *slate Parisians express it, swill strongly of the province. He is said, however, to possess the Osier of extempore de fence. He appeared yesterday on the bench of Ministers without his robes of office, which, from the tiuddenness of his appointment,', could not be ready, and excited a smile in the Chamber, at the figure he cut in his court-dress with a sword. " See, (said one of the Deputies), Justice with the sword, but without the balance!" It is said that M. de Serre is to be sent as ambas sador to Berlin, and that M. de Chitesubritutd is to be appointed to be Master of the University. with a seat in the Cabinet ; but these are mere rumours.. M. de Serre will most probably remain in the Chamber of Deputies, where his friends will require his aid, M. Laine has given in his resignation as Minister of State. Antong,the rumoured appointments is that of the deputy Bertin de Vaux to be Prefect of Police, M. de Clermont-Tonnere was yesterday admitted to take the oaths before his Majesty, in his quality ' of Minister of Marine. MADRID, Dec. 6. —Yesterday at half-past three in the afternoon, their Mljesties and: their Royal Highnesses returned to this capital. The garrison and local militia fiirnted a double line for the passage of the august family, who made their entry amidst the acclamations of an immense multitude, who evinced their attachment by the most ardent demon strations of .joy. The following is an extract of intelligence which has just reached us from Barcelona, down to the 6th December • Several incendiary parriPlilets, in which insurrec tion is openly advocated, have bean distributed is; profusion ; the Captain General has, rather clan destinely, introduced 300 soldiers and warlike stores into the citadel, in which the Commandant of Bar celona has shut himself up. As soon as this event was known, the militia caused a general muster to be sounded, and spontaneously assembled to the number of four thousand, shouting " Death to the Serviles.' " An attempt was made to . surprise Mount-Joey; but this failed. The commandant of this fiat, and ha who commands the citadel, replied, that they could not do so without an order from the Captaio• General. An officer was despatched to demand an order to this effect The answer is expected with impatience, and great ferment prevails. The most disastrous consequences will inevitably follow, if this order be not granted. 'Lae pupti.ace are very ve hement. and openly avow their intention of repul sing site authorities, should they present themselves to re-enter Barcelona. The election of the Regidors at Sarria gave rise to violent conainotions. Tli . e Pr aident of the AN snub!) , was ill-treated and struck ; a conflict with knives took place, in which many were woutolcd. -Tile militia have hem despatched to restore °. yr, Ind at"art yet ignorant how things have ended. All eyes arc turned towards iego, who has shit wn t himself in various points of Catalonia, and who now said to be at Nlanrc%i. - - _ ~ ir , Ling, eonatitutton, an 1L034• T t r , i• 0 _ aummines a k_ - ' . .11111114-14,1 . -,- 1119, there were 990.00 lints, and yeb,Us • deaths ; making an exam of births amounting to 103,685. The first act of thei new Ministry hasp men to ..: withdraw the Censordlip, lately pr peetd to the Citionbertrbisputies by the Aditioistfattio wisest A • they have succeeded. This seems to passim than, henceforward, the entire charter will be Mended kV without laws of exception, and that the Adminis tuition who have succeeded will tender it the rule of their conduct and the object of their devotion. This is to hold that the new project ado law re• lative to the police of journals, announced to el by the Keeper of the Seals, will contain only repressive provisions, and will banish front'our legislation for • 1/ * ever the preventive system, condemned by so many sound minds, - and which, accoeding to our opinion, ; 1 " is more conformable to the , spirit ofstbsolute govern- f. ments than'tkese of Which the flume is alostitutionel. which should punish faults only which have been . comfititted. The Drapean Blanc congratulates himself on the law of the censorship being Withdrawn, and theist who have any attachment to oonstitntienOline . agree in that respect with the Alveoli appear to believe that the withdrawn law will not be re placed by one of the same sort, but by a definitive law, which, exempting the journals front previous censorship, will leave them liable only to repressive measures. This is a hope in which every one may ' participate, but which, like many other things, is only fbunded in conjectifee, The' Draper* , justly reprobates the argument hitherto enipkrand by the Ministers. and (which amounted to this—that as it was almost impossible to mke a repressive law , for the journals, it was useless to attempt it, and that it was sufficient for their purpose to perpetuate the censorship. Me CT IMO or PR RLIA M N —As the'titig will .10111 open the Parliament in person, the most etfensive arrangements are mating by the Lord Great Cham berlain, Lord Gwydyr, for the royal reception, on his Majeaty's first appearance before the Parliament after thi Coronation ; and - contrary to what has , , taken place for sotne years past, they will be ender ' his Lordship's sole controul. The Lord Greet Clem berlain, by virtue of his office, has the governoiest of the whole Palace of Westminster, the Gentlemen - . OW Usher of the Black Rod, the Yeoman [biter, and rs 4, door-keepers, being under his Lordship's toompan4. • —Frow this controul not having been here fore I •`# ' 4. '• strictly enforced, considerable confusion has, at times arisen from the admission of visitors to the old jiouse of Lords, the Painted Climber, and other places through which his Majesty had to pass.— !It Various individuals had issued tickcts, or had,ieen instrumental in procuring the admission of specta %tors, but at the approaching openinit of Parliament, none but the Lord Great Chamberlain's tickets will ,be suffered to gain an entrance for visitors. A ticket and seal are preparieg fur the express purpose; and the issue of tickets will be on the most liberal scale, as far as the same shall be consistent with the dig: nity and comfort of the proceedings en that day. On Thursday last a report was propagated on .; 'Change, that Ministers have it in isintenipiation to reduce the interest of the public Funds One per Cent. respectively ; and that, an arrangement has been made for carrying it into execution immediately after its being submitted to Parliament. The rue mour did not obtain credit on the Stock Exchange, as it had no of whatever on the funds. PROSECUTIONO.—The cause paper in the Court of King's Bench exhibits not less than SOl actions, all set down for trial at the Sittings after Term.— the number many are prosecutions. We find Turner Pura _ I , , it Al; 1 01 Jr: . Among the ICpsg • . Hance, and the King tr. The lie both indictments preferredby Mr. Merray, the Solicitor. There is also the following highly important cause, to which the public are looking with great interest:—The King v. Murr.ty and 1.1 • three others. Mr. John Johnstone, the celebrated comedian, has been sworn in one of his Majesty's HAL Band of Gentlemen Pensioners. 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