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

• ••••. • 13Th. The Constitutio3 cf the tines in June, 1815: 14th. The Royal Charter, with DlOiEcatiohs in July, 1815. fiber of Rep • :* V/ . •ff "I"'s The Constitution of the Assemblee Constituante had been formed by the most enlightened men at the close of the 18th century. Every article had been attentively dis e.issed, and three whole years had been dedicated to the aLcomplishment of the whole. Yet it contained tw•o great defects : the concentration of the legialativo power in a Fingle Chamber, and the _nullity of. the Royal authority, hich was.left unprotected against the progressive usurpa tions of a.selcaud permanent assembly, or the open enter prise of anarchy, whose first attack overthrew the mo- itarchy.- , The Constitutions of the years 3d and Sth, had only indicated that balance of three powers, which by main *filling their equilibrium, insures their independence. The Council of Five Huadrcd and that of the iincicnts, ema -slitting from the same source and composed of the same elements, presented only two divisions of the same as sembly, which therefore could nut counterbalance each other. The Executive wanted that unity which forms its strength ; and that hereditary succession which alone aan perpetuate and regulate its action. Tha Imperial Constitution remedied those inconve- niences by creating an hereditary throne, and a senate for life. But a dumb Legi%lative Body and a Council of state transformed into a manufacture of laws and Senatus Consulta, rich servilely expressed the sole will of the Prince, left of a Constitution little more than the name. . The Royal Charter, formed still more closely to our model, was, however, only a variation of the Imperial. Its chief merit .was.jta,being executed_ mere faithfully. The Additional Act to the Constitutions of the Empire brought it still nearer perfection, as it secured the un limited liberty of the press, the trial by Jury, and the responsibility of ministers. The present altered charter I:4 diminished some of, those concessions, or cast a doubt on their durability. It is, however, sufficiently ti!:eral to ensure a considerable portion of freedom to the peetple, provided it be put in force. Laws unobser►ed do rtve harm than if they did not exist : rightl granted and then denied would raise more enemies to the throne than the refusal of those liberties at the tine they were claimed. Tye Diet of Zurich Las declare - I every Swiss, who sevred under linonaparte •since the 26th of March last, inctipaiVe of exercising any political right ) aid liniturthy al new, I __ ~_ ►REIGN INTELLIG F ENCH PAPERS. - P ARM OCT. 10. Yesterday, at . eight o'clock , the king received the Depu• tation of the Chamber of Peels in the Hall of the Throne, 'The Deputation. was introduced by the Grand Master, the Master and theAssistanta of the Ceres nies. The , ('• cellar, as President of the Chamber of Peers, read •he Ad dressof that . Body, which was conceived in the following terms:— Sire,—Your faithful subjects. the Peers of France, hare been profoundly moved by the words which your Majesty delivered, from the throne, and whicb ,are felt : in all hearts. They hasten to ,deposit at your feet the homage of their respectful and ardent loyalty; that of their retrivt for your sorrows, of their hope in..your wisdom; ; that of. all the sentiments which circumstances so important roust excite ; of all the resources which can he offered by our love for your person. our fidelity to your blood, our irliertninnble and boundless devotion for our country and our King. Sire, when last year Providence, listening to the wisbe,i of the world, restored you to the wishes of France, re erected for you the throne of your fathers, our patrimony as well as yours, the appearance of yoer Majesty , was the signal of a peace with . which it will permit the ,ciligens .to go on in that career which they have begun. and because it will establish the national honour on- the principles of unalterable justice ; results of the utmost _importance to the nation, because it will place individoals in that relative condition which the state of society requires. If we could have given this direction to your Majesty's Government. Frenchmen would have been united ,in heart and in conduct with the wishes of their King; their interest would have been confounded with the glory, the love, and the safety of the Prince. Those desires and those fanatical passions which would have tilisturbeil atv_ssr‘ler, of.thiogs so auspicious to the general good, would gradually ..have died , away, or have been lost in the emptiness of an ineffectual opposition s Your subjects would have submitted.royogr.laws„whatever their :opinions might have,, been or ,their !Tow condition. The Republican or the Imperial party is no lonve to be •feared; the mass of the nation wish' only - for liberty and tranquillity. .Foreign , cabiaets..in seeing Frencluneo.-rallied round your throne, would have limited pretension which then , you might have withstood, The constitution having rendered' in for the • acts of..your .authority.. we priposed. tw ragniaSe it by .those principles which. we.,bavc hare,..unfolty. sv, 9 Aeon had to strthtgle with the ignorance, the passions, and the ha•red of the persons who surrounded' yoti they' soonlkgan 'to intermeddle with the Government.. Orders welt* tsiven, and measures adopted,. in ,which we did not participate. :Royal Conitni.saries went and kindled civil war in the pro vinces, gave arms to the seditious, direct ed their ferocity against peaceful citizens, .and spread around terror and dismay ! They easily succeeded. in : .this, when they an nounced that foreigners were their auxiliaries, when they profaned the name of your Majesty, by invoihig if In their .addresses, and when in the . South, which foreigners did not yet occupy, they permitted the entrap thousand Spaniards. A Marshal of Franc( on. the bank of the Rhone, and his assassi apprehended par punished:!. Was it, by; the people were to be inspired sv#h a lova meta ? Outrage soon extended itself . ; in . so! were displayed which were pet thOac Of ■ ranc t e ►►i: (eighty re wap muiAered ;sins were neither oppreassictn that (<;r yugr.Goyern- Dote citiati colours f )hjisty►