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. r‘ ~, ...~'!. %~ ~li't' jt., . ._ .. ,-. tr+ tit Ontiaititt llk tAitit, Cour ilting, etitittityttott anti iLaimS. No. 462.—V0r.. IX. MONDAY, ,R IG, 1816. POLITICAL DISQUISITION. sion have often fbunded stelae, but that it is alone by abandoning these that wealth and enjoyment can be secured; and with peculiar energy he addresses his il lustrious pupils, when advocating the cause of personal freedom and the sacred character of property. " Mes seigneurs," says he, " de tants les conditions Tie sup pose l'avancement de la prospieite rationale, la premiere, et la plus indispensable; c'est la s4rcle, c'est-a-dire, la liberte individuelle etla propkist. Sans la sfirde, point dc richesse, point de civilisation!" Such are the principles that will contribute to ap pease our a:arm, with regard to the purposes and pro jects of the successor of Peter the Great ; and we have even a better security for his intentions, than any the ories his nearest advisers could supply. Since his ac-_ cession, it was a favourite object with the Court to accomplish the emancipation of the peasantry, and many preparatory steps have been taken for the fulfilment of this great Ossify'. In Esthonia it her ac tually been carried into effect; with the concurrence of the entire body of provincial noblesse. Such clear views of the true end all iivernment in the turbid atmosphere of Czarine authotity, is a novelty in the system of European affairs; which, at the same time that it indulges our curiosity, affords an assurance of the future repose of the species, which, under the changes to which the Congress of Views has given rise, is of the utmost importance. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PRIC aid. to you three plans of law, the first of which relates to pee soual liberty. • flan LAW PROJSCT. Article 1. Every individual accused of plots or melds& tions against the King's person, the safety of the State, or the persons of the Royal Family, may, until the expiration of** present law, and without being brought before the tribunal% he arrested and detained in virtue of en order sigoad by 114 President of our Council of Ministers, and of our Meager Secretary of State for the General Police. 2. All gaolers and keepers of prisons shall, within U boars after receiving a pergola arrested under the above article, transmit a copy of the order of arrest to the King's Attor, swim shall hoinediately hear the party, if he roottire t ads heard ; shall draw op minutes of his declarations, receive hie remonstrances and his documents, and transmit the whole, throuell the intervention of the Attorney•eeneral, to the Ml uister of Justice, to be reported to the King's Council, who shall decide thereon. 3. The law of the 29th of October, 1815, is abrogated. 'rhe measures adapted In executloo of the said law Jail cease to have effect within oue month after the . provoulgas tiun of the present law, unless otherwise ordered, to the case and tinder the form of the present law. 4. The present law shall cease to have effect on the Miff January, 1818. SECOND LAW PROJECT. THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. Art. 1. Newspaper,' and periodical works cannot be pub lished without the Ring's authority. 2. The present law shall cease to have effect on the idif January, 1812. TIMID LAW PROJECT. When, in virtue of Art. 15 of the law of October 21, 1814, a work Shall be seined, the order and minute of seizure shall, under pain of annulment, be notified within 24 hours to the party, who may within three days proceed in opposition. In the case of opposition, the Aing's attorney shall ma all dilieence to deride, within one week front the date of the op. position, Mt the seizure. WE are so much in the habit, from a rivalship which has subsisted for centuries, of looking to France alone as the country to which our national jealousy should be directed, that we are in danger of being inattentive to other powers, from which, under the new circum stances of Europe, we may have much more to appre hend. Russia, before she acquired the populosas and exuberant kingdom, which, by the treaty of Vienna, was placed under her imperial sceptre, was already more extensive than the Roman government, when under the first Crsars it maintained its authority over the entire civilized world. The acquisition of Poland has so largely increased her vast resources, that if her interior policy were equal to her physical strength, she must undoubtedly be considered the most powerful state known to the records of modern history. Under these circumstances, it is extremely important to all the surrounding nationt to inquire, what are the maxims of her government, and what the projects of her present rulers, in order to ascertain whether another Buonaparte, on the throne of that empire, is to apply its gigantic strength again to inundate Europe with blood, or whether such are the pacific principles by which her councils are directed, that there is no motive for alarm, and that the more extensive her boundaries may be, the more widely will be diffused that beneficent system which dismisses all hostile designs, and places the happiness of her people in the preservation of in ternal and external tranquillity? In lyazarding such observations, we have reference to a work on-Russian Policy, of which we believe only two copies are in England, and in which are developed a scheme of interior government, that necessarily con nects the security, happiness, and prosperity of that em pire, with the mild, generous, and humane maxims to which we have adverted. M. Storch, the author, stands in the double situation of Counsellor of State at the Court of St. Petersburgh, and tutor to the Grand Dukes Nicholas and Michael, the former of whom, it is well known, is now on an excursion to examine into the arts, manufactures, and policy of these islands ; and, if we are not mistaken, at the express recommendation of the instructor whom we have named. This pro duction is comprehended in six volumes octavo, and ispro fesscdly on political economy, or that department of moral science to which peculiarly belongs the inquiry into the wealth and prosperity of natiuns ; and it is not only published with the customary licence, but with the concurrence and at the expense of the Emperor him- self, who has thus msde his acknowledgments to the teacher of his brothers, and virtually expressed the co incidence of his opinions with the doctrines that are here explained and enforced. An exposition of these doctrines will perhaps supply the best means of ascertaining the intentions of Alex ander in the direction of the enormous power with which he is invested; and it will be seen, both by the principles and measures of his governments, that the autocracy he possesses is likely to be changed into a limited monarchy, and that if the despotism of Napo leon gave an extraordinary impulse and velocity to the application of his resources, none of those sudden and dangerous movements are to be apprehended under the system of moderation which is in progress in the Rus sian empire. _ What then are the doctrines promulgated in this first production of a Russian native on political economy,— a native, who stands in the situation of public COUTN senor and private mottitcor to the fatally on the throne? He declares •that the sovereign is cl7khed with power alone for the cornfut and happiness of his subjects, and that the submission of the latter is conceded but fur their awn ben;.;fit. He admits that force and mires __ FRANCE. Extract of a Letter, dated Paris, Des. 6.—" The Pro- Tina df La Vendee is in a state of insurrection. The insurgents are headed by a M. Menars de St. Jean, an Inspector-General of National Guards, who has long been viewed as a dangerous character by Government, but who is so warmly patronised by Monsieur, that Mi- ' nisters have not ventured to displace him. The rebels under his command consist chiefly of an undisciplined body 6f poor Noblesse and peasantry, who roam about the country without any fixed object in view, destroy ing the property of the purchasers of national domains, plundering the diligenca, the mails, and the public chests ; at the same time cleinting reward for their past services and indemnity for their sufferings, and calling for the subversion of the Charter and the existing order of things. The Prefect at bourbon-Vendee has ad dressed a proclamation to tlogretebels, earnestly entreat ing them to return to their respective homes, and to make known their grievances in a legal form to the King, who, they are told, is engaged in ptoviding for the Clergy, the Emigrants, and his, faithful subjeets of La Ven dee; and whose wish, conjointly with that of the Legislature, is to give them all satisfaction, consis tent with the present constitutional system. The ef fect of this proclamation,which is dated the .1.3 d Novem ber, is assisted by the march of regular troops sent against them from Nante, and La Rochelle, togethet with artillery from Saumuir. The legion stationed at Bourbon-Vendee, being raised in that county and ac. tutted with the nebelljous spirit which pervades it, it has been found expedient to remove it to a distant quar ter. These events throiv the King into fresh per plexity ; the Princes of bid family urging than as•argu ments in favour of their watem, and the Ministers re presenting them as motivalor persevering inflexibly in their own. This state of ills West will probably hasten the intended departure of the Due d'Angoulerae for that quarter." From the embarrassed state of the French Emantes, the Government found extreme difficulty in paying the instalments to the Allies, which were agreed So, and provided for by the tree** and was dreamt of having the time for payment extended. It woe understood at Paris, that in order to obtain the sanction of the British Government to this indggeade, a Persian had been dis patched purposely to England, but that nothing conclu sive could be done in the •susiness till the meeting of Parliament. • CIIAMBER Og DEPUTIKR—s ITTIXO OF THE 71k Dac. M. le Comte de Cages, minister of Pullet.. Viscomte Da houchage, minister of marine are introduced and take their places on the ministers' bench. M. de Clovis, minister of pollee, wanted the tribrme, and spoke as follows p—The- lisas has ceasaseadotaa to•safiosit .~ ~ V •, +K After the delayof a week, if the miscue be net maintained by the tribunals, it becon►es of no edict. MI persons with when) the seized work may have been deposited sitall the& be bound to deliver the same to the proprietors. 'file President acknowledged the receipt of the three pro• jects, which he stated would be referred for preview; distus *ion to the bureaux in the usual form. p A aip, Dec. appeari from as exact enumeration of the pc none maintained sr relieved by charitable institations and the School of Industry at Strasburg, net lueladiag those to whom medicines are furnished gratis, that their daily cam ber amounts to 7,682. The Abbe de Pradt has returned to I'aris, frost his estate in Auvergne. The traveller Richter died lately at Smyrna, of a putrid fever, which be had caught while examining the ruins of Ephesus. He had just returned Emma long journey is Syria and Egypt. The Paris bilis of mortality sled of births for the year 11113, present the fallowing returns : Total births.-- tom Increase of malaise... 0.183 The number of snares was 11.33 d, mad fernaks 11,1111; number of nudes above fameles, 483. follow lag cam throw sow light on the elate oimerel• and society is Puris:—Of the /shove member of hisibe, 12,630 were in wedlock, and 8,962 out ofwedbeb, Another fact iv, that out of the .whole number, 4,227 Wen born 10- hospitals. Of the &ribs, 7,0711 Mob place le hospitals. At the Ar gue (the place ',here persons committing suicide, or inertia, death by accident t are exposed) the number of daatl woo $34 males,'end 11 9 females. The number of Marriages in 1815 was 5,870.' 1 he number of births In 1813 compared with that of 1814, presented an Increase of 1,361. The deaths In 1814 amounted to 37,755, including the fo reigners who died in the Paris hoqiltaks; the deaths in 1013, do sot seionnt to two-thirds of that number, and do not ex , treed by a Stleeath those of 1813. MAlllttAGris.—Their number in 11113, compared with that of 11114, is nearly in the ratio or it to 8. 7lte divorces is each of these two years amounted to 32. Skset-sox.—Thia disease was less fatal in 1815 than In 1814. The difference was 80. The total of deaths by the seeelliers,was 410. Pants, Dec. 10.—The King no longer suffers from.. the gout, and it is expected that his Majesty will soon resume his usual promenades. The Journal de Toulouse of the Sd instant contains the following article:—Camp Marshal, Baron Rouge, commandant of the Department of the Bouchas r du- Mime, has written a letter, dated November 20, to M. Bontant, MAYOr of the commune of St. Sulpice (Haute. Garonne), to inform hint that grain is arrivmg at Mar.. males from all countries. He farther affirms that three millions of quintals of corn have been purchased in the Crimea for the Mediterranean ports, at the rate of IS francs the quintal. A letter from Cette, dated the 26th, states, that the Dutch expedition to Morocco 'malted complete success, - 1 ' ( , and that they have obtained all due satisikiticm from the • ..1.- ---...4 Emperor. A treaty of alliance has been signed be.. -- r .er\ swam the King of the Netherlands and the Emperor .• ,- -,- j of Morocco, on the usual conditions agreed to be . ..'e 3 • Christie& Owe*. Hie Moorish Majesty has armed ~A. qg it IF , 1 14. .4 01. ss'ilt