The National Register. — London, England, 1819-01-03 00:00:00

y - /-pe < 4 „ . • .4 No. 6.0.—V0i.. POLITICAL DISQUISI TION. STATE OF Fa %NU:. 1 THE intelligence just received from Paris re.perting the changes of Ministry, of the flti:ere of the Due de Richelieu to form one with a greater leaven of Rey alisat, and of the ultimate triumph over him of M. de Cute and the Liberahi, will net surprise any wha have ralected on the mailed effects to be expected from the evacuation of France by the Allied Armies. The situat' of the French nation is timittly expressed in the King's decree, declaring that the cities on the northern frontier arc no longer " in a state of siege." The sic re of France has indeed been raised, and the real sentiments of the French people will now tai' play theuisulvcs. As the Times newspaper justly says, the Royalists stand in opposition to nine-tenths of the Ito pnlation, and the King must t droose, not those Minis ters which he would like best, but those who call best serve him. Hence the Due de Riehelien's failure, and M. de Caze's success. The practical question upon which the two political parties are at issue, appears to be the recent law of election, by which the Chamber of Deputies is to be renewed partially every yenr, and not like our 11. Asc. of Commons, by a general election at the end of a certain number of years. Tim Liberals re • Kann this law as the peliadh tot of French liberty, and tho Royalists are equelly ware! in opposition t ► it. To us, who are unscqueinted with the practical operation of this displace law, it is by no mean: visible how its eon thluauce !is favourable to liberty; or how its repeal, mid the substitution of a p_-helical general election, would be favourable to the Itoyal authority. We can not theretbre pronounce an opinion on that dispute ; but from the relative strength of the parties which is proved by the result of this dispitte,we. 'lily augur who arc likely to rule in France, now she is free f're.n fireign interference; and front the strange remedy for the King's difficulties, viz. to revive the Chamber of Is 1 by a simple Royal Oraminaaee, We may also judge of the crude, itmoesisteat, and abinel notions of Comeitutiettal liberty entertained in France. These State doctors seem to think that. upon this the Chamber of Deputies, which was lid! of Royalists, being re vivid, though by the arhitrary and illegal authority of the King's will, they may pass a Iwo to alter the fibrin of elections—as if an illegal assembly could pass any law whatever, The Chruni:le justly observes on this project, that a Constitution which may be suspen led or violated at pleasure, is in flret no Constitution ut all Though there is no probability that the King woull be :et rash as to have recoarse to such a measure, yet the serious mention among French politicians of so gross a violation at' the Charter, is a proof of how unripe the peblie tn:n.l in France is in its notions of law and Itherty. No individ,eil would be se silly as to propose seen a measure is teis country ; and, it' he were, he would be laughed at—much less woall a party in the state propose it. Tnis eireentstance is, we think, much seam unfavourable to the progtese of liberty in France, than :my laws—then die exclusive pier' ativeof the 1 Kie l ; to originate laws, or than any other circumstance, except the trammels of the press. The public mind mine be enlightened, and fur this purpose time is ncces eery. No netien cait beemne really free, who have not arrived at this taeterity of 'mind ; us was fully proved ut . the instance of Spain, where Curtest were toe eafightened for the nation, nal te the crisis were de setted by then. Had this been the ease in Eaglend, ia thee, the :earlieeteat mil the aristocracy Wo.d.thaVe 'lst vale opposed Jetties 11. The result of these consi deratins seems to he, that the French mei In have nut resulted dia state in which the great work of poll freesloin start be Accomplished ; but that else; : ate it I.l%).ircsa towards it. Thy party of the I, u4rAls re / '.l Gi g z-gf 3-13 ln ^ ? . 4L , . !bt fiatian - x t ut tii • ituti our torts',', to it . .on anb it wing. n .......--......_-- \ll. SUNDAY, JAIWAII.Y 3, 1819. have the lead ; if they onus it tanderutety, they will keep it, and benefit their country ; if they abuse it, they will check the march of publie opinion, and retard the future consummation of liberty. The political It state of France, ut preseni, la like the of England in the time of Charles YI. The characters of the blo tiarchs, ns well as of the peo:)1e, arc very different ; :.ut the circumstances, in hlcb thoy are phica, are very analogous ; and WerttOrt loo k forward to alfimilar vacillation between liberty and despotism. We trust, however, that the far wiser, as well as more virtuous, character of the S'Jeercign, in Franc, will save that country from the affliction• of such noble blood being shed as It:lssell's and Sidne)h. CHANGE OF AIINIIITERS IN FRANCE. mm. 04.111• A crisis has at length arrived in the state of French party, which can scarcely tied to be billowed by iinpur tent constituent:es, let it take what eirectign it will had transpired through the medium of pri vate correspondence from Paris, to justify a persumian, nearly amounting: to certaintyt that some serious differ ences had arisen in the French Cabinet, and that some change of measures, or of Ministers, or of both, was an event to be considered as rapidly approaching. It is unnouncel by itt!ers receivqd stn 1 tic:day, ttiat the Administratiln, of which :4..a Iliehelic e we.; the of ficial head, and of which M. tie Cazes was, in many points of view, the most edlcieut and tor:iminent mem ber, has actually been lissalved. The details are, that ou Wednesday se'unight, NJ. de CaZys resigned his five ; uml that. on Thursday, Christmas-eve, the other ‘linisters fidlowill his example. Ills Majesty accepted the r,:signations of all but that attic Due de Richelieu, who forthwith exerted himself to till up the vacancies, and monad a Cabinet us billows: M. Punier, the celebrated nata t alba, but crlehrottal the nothing else that we know of. Minister of die Interior. M. Mullisa. (Minimar of inn '1 Bury skt. - ing she 100 days. to nonalattrieh Nilinister of Pinions. M. Suwon. (Nlinistet Justice la the kingdom of 11'caphalia), Minista .•f .lustiee. :al. it.: \'niche, Mini,ter of Marine. Count 1.4 w of Laaristuit, (Aidale.Crottp to Bonaparte. Anti his Antimmaiir at 'IL PeLersjtiratl, preb lotto to tit: great itusaan wary, Ilium:: at Va at. Every one of these persons, however, declined the Waves to which they had been acminated, retire five o'clock on the Friday following, the old Miuistry having resigned only the day preceding. The immediate catre to winch this was ascribml, was illr opposite materials of which M. Richelieu sought to compound his Ca!duet. Messrs. de Villele and Low regnired a pledge from their colleagues, so naxlify the law of elections, and the tvcrititing law, in such a tutau as to render theta " more monarchieal:" the other members of the new Cabinet at once rejected this condition, and a general refus.il was the inevitable consequence. Ti: , : NW:silent. of Wednesday last, arrived ou Friday, remove all doubts with regard to the limn ttion of the new French Ministry, and kiriugs a ltoyal Ordinance to tit,: ctfect following .—The King appoints-- NI. Le Martmi, Des...a!Ls. Peer of Mr Luc.: Mt:l6:er of Foreign Afi:sin:t an I. m plat!: of the Due te.lticalem l'reaideat of We v sm „, : ii Ai i„ i „ e „ : M. de S:rre, Keeper of the S:alr. Milli der of .Iwdiee : • M. tk Minister or tae Miniory of Policy : Utron Nomad, ?linister of 31.teie. iisi-on Louis, Minister n( tie furieets. Mi5,•,1141 tit. Cyr, front not &int; nisuirti at 1111/Orlgit the uppointezeie4, r.A.uns, we suiipu,e, the Miu,btry of This official statement introduces soinJ names into the which li.td lint been ou'icipated by the previous urritaa rrinn Poris. The Cniiiit de Cages, it seems, prclioTi.d the Ministry tithe Intorinr, with is, collateral direction waren' pekes, to the higher official rank whicli rttinui.r bad aSsigil-41 to him, in conjunction with Lis priwat office; unit which wotilil indeed, hove colit , .oitrated in thrrtue hurl, a mass of power and lroiuistcrial influence, very naturally the i.:..lect of jeithin,y toiler a five colistitotim. The Nlinktry lit the Interior, front the enure or its delicate. and exte.arve duties, the peat:es:or ur it (now that tuere is m police Nlitin.tvr) into Mor, vu .t Willi Mt; spirit tif party, imbhc mid with the most lute cot ti rclutiJas between the pisople end u.e Guvernment, than any other Ake uiplur the I:Tuti.4l tetiviii. Wu trtNl, flint, fur the sale hitlt of Frallee :11111 or tier Savi.rei;.rri, the oamuustr.•tion lit 11.111 , 114111, li1.11:10 will 4.41,1%/11, .11.114 11.1:1 JUL. cessful. The promulgation At the names of the new Ministry, together with the p t of a speedy sale by the Treasury of the Itoya=eats, and the conse quent absorption of 10 or 1.'2 millions of rentes, is said to have had the effect of raising the French Stocks to 67 on Wednesday last, and they were weetad to advance still higher. asor Thu following are all the particulars Which we are at present able to give respecting the four new ,hers of the French Ministry:— M. Dessolles, Peer of Prance, was, in 1814, cam mander of the National Guard of Parikr.when he eon ducted himself so as to acquire the perfect confidence of the King, and was raised to the peerage in June of the same year : he is a Lieutenant-General of the armies of France, a knight of St. Louis, and Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, and was, previous to his present exaltation, a member of the Privy Council, and a Minister of State. M. de Serre was President of the Chamber of De. puties during the last, Session, and was within four votes of obtaining the alma dignity this year: he is a Knight of St. Louis, and of the Legion of anions, and was, before his new appointment, one of the Council of State, and a member of the Committee of Legis. lation. .-.—... was Minister of Finance in 1814, being one of the Administration of which•M. Telleyrand was at the head : he is a Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, and a member of the Chamber of Deputies; be was also a member of the Privy Council, and a Minister of State. M. Portal is an Oliker of the I.er ; im of iiontrdr, anal a Member of the Chamber of Deputies ; he has also been one of the Council of State since May 1814, and has beim for two ytatrs past, intrusted with the direction of the Colonial Brunch in the Department of the Minister of Marine, over the ;:hole of which he Is now appointed to preside. One of the last :els of M. Leine, late Minister of the Interior, was to present to the King a report on , the internal condition of France with report to its gee ruins institutions for Ow regulation of the ism, and fin the punishment of climin.ds. The most important feature in it is, that he nteonizes the principle now so generally approved in this count:). of the absolute ne cessity of climification in prisons. Ile stater the in. erease of crimes brought to trial in the years 1816 and 1817, to be (1,8.17 in the first, and 9,183 in the List year ; an increase considerabl:; less than appeared in the official statement to have occurred in Englund, among a smaller population, during the same period ; fitr the difference here was as 13,934 to 9,091 ; but, per7iaps, the machinery necessary for the aceniate production t." the proper returns does not work so well in Fra: - .,t in this country, where it has been longer in use. The )10:e of Glocestcr arrived at Paris, on S.inc:ay last, and alighted at the Hotel do (Empire, rue d'Ar. toil, No. 1 3, with his suite, composed of Cul. Cotton, . the Hon. Major Curz.m, and Nlajor Sir— Murray, with four valets de chambre.—lt is stated, that Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg intends to stay with Ws titiniiy at Coburgh. till Mareh next, when his Royal ilighucss proposes to rsitirn to England. It is to be noticed, that although there will be four eclipses this pair, neith:r of them is visible to us ; they • will no doubt excite much astouishm.at owl fear in the rousts of New Zealmul, New holland, Guinea, Cali. furnia, and Japan, and especially in Mathyasear, u,, the 3.1 October, where the moon will rise eclipsed, and the Sandwich Iltntls it will set eclip.ed ; it will have the some appearatwe in Persia, the Caspian Svc, we:it of Poland. IVhatever appearances the wawa evcr assumes, they are always interesting to the Ii lowers of Alalioawt. The .Imerican l'operg inihrtus us of an important raet with rvApect to the Northern 'kit':!try line ne t when i'itaistia and the United States Ti:, for: b.ai:t on Rouse s roint by the Anterivans since the peace, h s been tit:L.:mined by the C,ne u tiaac. n h. on c Mite of the line. 'rids is inticod an imporal.t pk;ve of inteligence ; as the posacuoiun of Fort Iti ms e Maass in our bands the key of etnutuitnis,.ion het we: n Cannot', and the United sates oil the teicerst of I..tke (luny ; and in eas,. war, seem es ,o us al. terr,. 1 40., c, uw.x low that Lie. 'hie new iron britlp intruded to be thr own liver L!:4 N1t.....0-sulo,t, in Notes, watt hte t,OOO trot to length, b..tween two r. , ck:, A the 1.:1.W SI• •4, •••••• • ;IL, •ts fa. 4; 44 . Li.t. al4.i• v - ' ~~ 1.•