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E FOREIGN INTRLUGENCE. PARIS PAPERS. Pawl. Dicrigsait 9. On Monday evening, after the recept of the 1 4 .iihes, the Kiog gave an audience to M. Corvetto. Vesterilav, at etevos o'clock, M. Roe. sPamiated of Floancr, took the oath of place between the hand, of his Majesty. After the audience; the hew Miiiister paid his t'nu►t to their Rossi High. mimes Monsieur and Madame the Duchats.st•'Au• gou I eine. 111. the Duke of 'fichelieu, in passing through Brit....els, received from the King of the Nether. land. the Order of the Belgic Lion. A Ilimspillet has appea►ed at Mayence. entitled " / he ( ry Vthe Pebanes." addressed to the linguist cid; ~..en►bled at Aix.la.Chrisefle. In this Tramplilet a itiost ardent Isiah is expressed tome this. the Palatinate, retain under its ancient gove►nment of the Mouse of Bavaria. it asserts, positively, diet the recer,ion of this prevince, on the death of the present Grand Duke, has been determined in ciple. We are not aware 'whether this assertion is well fonuded. A private letter from Lis Fleche, dated the Sth 'of this mouth, contains the lollowiiig details, which we communicate without auilienticaurag them On Sunday last the 'moils of the lit or 2d hattslioni of the Royal Military School of that town broke out in revolt, at tight echick in the morning. Their intention was, it is said, to unite altogether at inidinght, to seize their arms, and then to proceed to the Champ de Mars, to form a square battalion, in the midst of which they rte. tended to 'dispose of the youngest **tong them. A detachment was then to proceed to seize upon the Director of their Studies►. The General and Colonel were not to be spared, as well as several 'other persons. " On receiving intelligence of this ►svolt, which took place before the hoe appointed for th►e etrecu. lion of the plot. the Staff' and the Director of the * Studies repaired to the Court of the Ist battalion of the pupils, to bring them to order—thei► appear ance had only the effect of irritating the mutineers, and as they *ere forcing them to ascend to their dormitories, the Directo► mitred one of them by the collar. and thrust him into a black-hole. He had beers the bearer of the keys of the arms'-rooms, and the arrest of this person destroyed the project. Ou the following day, on descending to the study, the IWO* irCOCIIMeIICCd their revolt—they tore their books. broke their desks, &c. " Not to compromise the Professore, it was thought prudeut to suspend the classes, and since that time they have remained timed. On Monday evening thirteen pupils were sent aiway. on Tuesday five, and o►► iVednesday sift. Order isnot yet per. fectly restored, and even a new insurrection is ap. I►rel►euded. The .econd iu command departed on Tuesday -moriiing for Paris, for the purpose of snaking a report to the Ministry." CHAMBER OP DEPUTIXS. BULLLTIN OF DECIJIPSIS I. The Deputies assembled this day in the usual Hall of their sittings, to proceed in confohnity with the Use of Regulation to the drawing by lot of the Gram' Deputation, which should have the honour bf receiving the King on the day of the Royal Sit ting. The Presidency by age was determined ; min M. Angler, who is eighty-two years and three 14 s old, was appointed to continue iii the honour able functions whirls he had performed at the cotn ►nencement bf the two preceding Semions. A De putation of twenty-five Members was then appoint ed by lot. ?AEI% DECEMBER 10. NPEECH OF THE KING, DFLIVERZD ON OPENING THE SESSION OF 1818. es Gentlemen—At the commencement of the lost Session, in the same time thus I deplored the evils which afflict, d our country, 1 hid the sutisfaction to give riasun to consider the termination of them us near ut hand. A generous effort, and of winch 1 have the noble pride to say, no other nation has otforaled a fairer example, has enabled me to ►eahze these isopts, and they are so. My troops alone orrul a y all our strong places. One of any sons, who hastened to join in the first (transports of joy of our delivered provinces, has, with his own bands, and amidst the accfatnationti of my people, hoisted the French standard on the raintairts of Timmy'lle. This standard now flouts oil all the territory of France. The day on which those of my children, who have borne with so much cou rage the burden of au occupation of inure doom there years, have been delivered from it, will be our of the finest days of my life, and my 1' oruch heart has eiiiioyeil no less the end of their dtstre►ses th AU the liberation of the country. The provinces which have t.o puitiru!ly uccupird wy thougists til this day, deserve to tix those of the Hanoi, winch has admired, as I have done, their Itrnnc rrooignosticni. .4 The 'whir onaliimity of heart and of 'coil meat, winds you nitniiireited when I Called upon y.. 11 11/1 Illr. 111/.4115 to fulfil our eng,igtmento, niii4 n brilliant proof of the stttaelteueot of the Freto Is to their couoir, of the eaaliciesice of the nuttina in st• King, mi.ll Europe Ii eagerly rt tAlred Prance Ip laeed 111 the 1411, wlucit laeloogis * ••• • • • 1, Inbl=ll 1 to her. The Declaration which► annotniem to the I world the principles op which the 01% . 100 of the five Powers isfounded, sufficiently chews the friend ship which prevails among the Sovereigns.. This military uniou, dictated by justice, and consolidat ed by morality mid religion, has for its object to prevent the scourge of war by the maintenance of treaties, by the guarantee of ezistiog rights, and permits us to fie our eyes 011 the long days of peace which such an alliance promises to.Ru rope. " I have !waited is silence this happy epoch, to tarn soy thoughts to the national solemnity ►n which religiose concentrates thentimate union of the peo ple with their King ; when receiving the Royal lantlion 4.14 midst of torsi I shall take to witness the God by whom Kings reign, the God of Clovis, of Charlemagne. of St. Louis. I shall renew at the altar the oath to confirm the institution founded on that Charter, which I cherish more since the French. by au unsuimous sentiment, have frankly rallied round it. In the laws which will be pro posed to you I shall take care that its spirit shall he always consulted. in order to secure more and more the public rights of the French, and to preserve to the Monarchy the force which it must have to pre. serve all the liberties which are dear to my people. " its seconding my wishes and my efforts, you will not forget, Gentlemen, that this Charter, do littering France from despotism, has put an end to revolutions. I depend on your concurrence to repel those pernicious principles, which, tinder the mask of liberty, attack social order, conduct by anarchy to absolute power, and whose fatal success has cost the world so much blood and so many tears. Is My Ministers will hey before you the budget of the elevenses which the public service requires. " The protracted effects of events, the conse quence of which we have beets forced to bear or to accept, have not yet allowed me to propose to yen a diminution of the burdens imposed upon my people; but I have the consolation to perceive, at no rest distance, the moment when I shall be able to satisfy this desire of my heart. From this mo. malt a limit is fixed to the increase of our debt— we have the certainty that it will diminish in a rapid progression. " This certainty, and the loyalty of France in the fulfilment of her engagements, will establish on an immoveable foundation the public credit, which some transitory circumstances common to ether States had seemed to uhlect for a moment. •• The French youth .have just given a noble proof of love to their country and their King. The recruiting law has been executed with sub minion, and often with joy : while the young soldiers enter the ranks of the army, their brothers who are released remain in the bosom of their fami lies, and the veterans, who have fulfilled their en gagements, teturn to their homes. They are both living examples of fidelity henceforth inviolable in executing the laws. •• ♦fter the calamities of a scarcity, the remem brance of which still afflicts my soul, Providence this year, lavish of its benefits, has covered our fields with abundant harvests. They will serve to revive commerce, whose vessels visit every sea, and spew the French flag to the most remote na tions. Industry and the Arts, also extending their empire, will add to the sweets of general peace. To the indepeoderice of the country, to public plenty. is added private liberty, which France has never so entirely enjoyed. Let us, therefore, unite our sentiments mid our expressions or gratitude to the Author or 60 many blessings, and let us know how to render them durable. They will he so; it banishes every sad remembrance, and stifling every resentment. the French thoroughly persuade them selves that their liberties are inseparable from order, which itself rests upon the throne, their sole palla dium. My duty is to defend them against their common enemies'. I shell fulfil it, and I shall find in you, Gentlemen, that support *Lich 1 have never yet invoked in vain." PARIS, DECEMBER 10. Yesterday the King, the Princes. Madame the Duchess of Berry, the Duke of Orleans, and the Princesses of his family, proceeded, with the cus tomary solemnities, to Notre Dame, to hear Mass. A great number of Peers and Deputies occupied the Bench reserved lOr the Chamber. The Grand Prince de Talleyrand ; the Marshals Major-Generals of the Guard ; the Ministers of Justice, of the Interior, sod the Police; the Am bassadors of foreign Courts, and a great number of ether personages of distinction, joined their prayers to those of the Royal Family, to call down the wisdom from on high on the deliberations of the Session a hich is going to open. His Majesty arrived and took his place at a quar ter of an I before one o'clork, before the desk which had been prepared for him in the centre of the nave. Alter Musa, which hoed above an hour, his Niajesty and the Court rettuocil 1.• the Thuilleries in the game order in which they come. His Majesty was received in every place with those arionnents of respect alai love of which his pretence never fails to draw forth ■u affecting ex pression. The Duke of Richelieu is indisposed. The prerbotious for the Royaltiitting, which is to take place this day iii the Chamber of Deputies ale terminated. The house is decorated with as much magnificence. The thitme, surmounted by its cui.upy, is raised 111 lona of an ampliithea. tre, in the piece of the President's chair. On the right and left of the King are chairs for the Princes of She blood ; lower down arm chairs for the Chan cellor, and Prince Tallvyrand, Grand Chamberlain; beneath these, on the steps of the throne, benches for the King's Ministers, the Ministers of State, the Marshals, the Grand Dignitaries and Officers of the Crown ; the circular seats on the right will be occupied by the Peers, end those on the left by the Deputies. The house is ornamented at every pillar with escutcheons, arms, and white drapery, Baron Bnuillerie sent to the King his resig nation of the office of Under Secretary of State of Finances, on the 7th inst. It is asserted that he is succeeded by Baron de Barente, Director-Gene- ral of the Indirect Contributions ; the latter, it is said, is succeeded by M. d'Argon, Prefect du Gard. When the Members of the Society of Public Instruction at Colmar were admitted to the presence of his Royal Highness the Duke d'Anguuleme, to present the senior scholars of each class, the Abbe Monsieur C-- addressed the Prince in a speech. which he concluded by observing, that in the course of his instruction, his greatest solicitude was to teach his pupils to love God and the King.—" That is well," replied the Prince; " but do not omit to in struct them to love the Charter." VIENN•, NOVEMBER 28. Count Joseph Colloredu, Grand Prior of the Order of Malta, Privy Counsellor, Chamberlain, Minister of State, Field Marshal, Director-Gene ral of Artillery, and Proprietor of a Regiment of Infantry, died the day before yesterday of a dropsy on the lungs, at the age of eighty-four. The Archduke Ferdinand and the Duke of Wel lington have been named Field Marshal,. PETEREBURGH, NOVEMBER 13. Thr frigate Kamchatka. commanded by M. Golownin, atter having successfully finished in • eight mouths and eight days her voyage round the world. entered on the lath into the port of St. Peter and St. Paul. THE BRITI S H PRE S S. LONDON, MONDAY. Dacsusga 14, IBM The opening of the French Legislative Anew blies. on Thursday last, is announced in the Paris Papers which have arrived at our Office. The KING'S Speech on this important occasion will be read with considerable interest, as it represents an animated picture of the political and civil state of France, and which, though highly favourable, both as it regards the Government and the country, can not, we firmly believe, be considered as overcharg ed or flattering. The removal of the Allied Army of Occupation, in itself the most prominent event that has occurred since the prorogation of the Chambers, and the most grateful to a Frenchman's feelings that could have occurred, takes precedence, as might have been expected, in this periodical exposition of public affairs. The KING judiciously contemplates this event as the close of his people's sufferings, while he also justly represents it as the termination of the Revolution. He exults with pride and energy in having French troops once more within the fortresses of his kingdom, and flatters the national vanity by praising the patience and forbearance evinced by the people during the occupation of their provinces by a foreign force. It is a good rule of state policy, particularly in France, to praise the people ; and there is no oc currence within the range of possibility but may, by a moderate share of ingenuity, become a source of commendation. Not long since the French ailed to be praised for valour and ambition ; but circum stances being much altered, some other virtues must be sought for, and this impatient and rest less people are now complimented for their forbear uuce in enduring • burden from which they found it difficult, if not impossible, to free themselves'. The KING alludes to the Dect.saretou with which the Allied Sovereigns closed their labours at the late Congress at Aix-Is-Chapelle, and considers it a proof of their determination to prevent the re currence of wars by the observance of treaties and " the gua►antee of existing rights." This corn. meat by his MAJsary offers a clear exposition of the principal object that intarested the Rulers of mankind in their recent union. It gives what might be called " a broad hint" to those of his subjects who might vainly hope to disturb his pos session of the throne, that should they conspire another revolution, the Hussars, the Croats, and the Cossacks, will once again be let loose upon their fine country ; and that although the " Army of Occupation" has been withdrawn, measures have been devised fur its re-establishment, in the event of any dangerous popular commotion. To celebrate the close of the Revolution in a manner that may at the same time evince a seine of divine benevolence, and by testifying a sincere re spect for the Constitution, inspire the people with confidence in their Monarch's intentions, his JCSTY purpo►es to confirm the Charter by a reli gious solemnity. Fond as the French are of theatri cal effect, we fear that such a device will not he at tended with any serious benefit. It will follow too close upon the •• religious solemnity" of the Chimp 4 M'd, when 'Bus APARTL'S Ade Addi:ioit(i ‘s. s confirmed amidst the shew ut religion by the so lemnity of oaths, and hailed with shouts of enthu siasm. The state of the (loaners and of public credit t twid not fail of being noticed by the IstNte, who briefly attributes the recent decline in the funds to " ttait sitory circumstances common to other States." It cannot fail, however, to exercise a hem ficial in fluence in the Mill Let, that his MAJc i y should have declared the loan now in the course of cmi tract should " fix a limit to the inestase of the public debt." From this year he promises a diminution in taxes, which are already mo derate in their amount, judiciously imposed, and regularly paid. The ordinary expenditute of France is considerably within her income, consequently the sinking fund can be effectually operative, and France may, within the @cope of an ordinary life, look to be wholly exempt from her public debt. flow long will the people of Eng land endure with patience a system of Government bearing a disheartening contrast to this financial picture of our rival ? Is it not enough that we should have borne the burden of taxes, almost in tolerable, during the continuance of an expensive and protracted war, but must we still be oppressed with it on the restoration of peace ? We can see iso " limit fixed to the increase of our debt," unless the people will earnestly and universally raise their voices for the reduction of our pre sent war establishment, and enable their Repre sentatives in Parliament to plead their cause with confidence and success. This duty principally be longs to the noblemen and gentry of the country; they are emphatically the protectors of the People, and should prove their claim to that noisiest title by compelling the Ministers to practise economy. The only remarkable•point in the KING'S Speech .that remains to be noticed is his allusion to the bid- Intintfor the Army, under the Recruiting Law of the last Session. HIS MAJESTY asserts, that the law has been executed with submission, and often with joy. The departments of the Seine and Rhone could not have been within his MAirsaTt's contem plation when he uttered this sentence. M. ANGLES, the elder, being the oldest Member, presides in the Chamber of Deputies •otil a Presi dent shaft have been elected. The Five per Cents. closed on Tuesday at 68 f. 30 e. Bank Stock at 1,5671 f.—On Wei nesday the Five per Cents. were 67 1. 40 c. ; Bank Stock. 1.667} f. A Flanders Mail arrived last night with Papers from Brussels to the 14th instant. The Duke of GLOUCESTEIL arrived at Frankfort on the sth. The following is an extract : BRUSSELS, DECEMBER 8. The High Court of Justice of this city pro nounced on the 26th November a final decree, in a cause which implicated important questions of public law, and of the law of nations. A loan of 300,000 francs had been made in 1811 by the French Government to the proprietots of some ma nufactories of Ghent, who in the circumstances of those times would have been forced to abandon, but for this assistance, establishments which it was of great consequence to the public interest to preserve. A notarial act attested the loan, and the borrower engaged in it to repay at stipulated periods; he had given • mortgage upon his property. The question to be determined was, whether this claim, which still remained undischarged, had become the property of the Allied Sovereigns, and in the se quel of the kingdom of the Netherlands, in cense quence of the conquest of Belgium ? 2d, Whether, in every case, it had not remained or become again the property of France, according to the stipula tions of the 25th article of the Treaty of Paris, of November 20, 1615 ? Mr. Tarte, sen. and Mr. Destoop, the Advocate-General, enforced at length, and with great force of argument, the principles of public law and of the law of nations, which favoured the claims of the Treasury of the kingdom of the Netherlands. Those arguments were successful, the sentence confirmed these claims, and overruled the opposition of a creditor who had a mortgage on the estates after that in favour of the French Government, and wished to establish the right of the latter. A German Juurnal affirms that the Swedish and German Powers of the Russian Empire, viz. Cour. land, Livonia, Est!lonia, and Finland, will shortly receive a particular Constitution adapted to their situation. and to the advanced state of civilization which these provinces enjoy. A Dutch Atril has arrived. with Papers to the 7th instant. The anniversary of the birth. day of the Prince of ORANGE WAS celebrated at the Hogue on the tith. A discovery of pearls has been made by a Captain PRISSE in the province of Luxembourg. Captain the Hon. HENRY DUNCAN, of the Li/fey, fitted for the Mediterranean station, hits been appointed to the Rerolationaire, which ship is to he fitted for the East Indies. Captain the Hon. FLEETWOOD PILLEW has been appointed to the 4114. It is said the Rerolutionaire is intend. ed to take out a new Governor-General to the East The Demo», Capt. MASON, recently arrived •t Portsmouth from Valparaiso, veiled the latter end Indies. of . lily, tare"' orerl'aii.R were making to and the !Mk pendent Ili II;111 to sr;, voinasiiiix of tight sail, well aimed and manned (oiir of them a two ilecherl, for the toisrpow of blockadi,o,r, LIMN, and I lite, Crptllig the flet t of transports with troops front Cadiz, de,titiril for that !bluer, of which nothing li.id been beard since one of thew attired at Buenos Ayres, to join the Indepeadenh, instead of the Itoyalists at Liana. General MARTIN was coll e ct,. tog his forces to attack Limns on the land side. On Thursday the Sapphire, '24, Captain II ART; f.tr the Jamaica station; Leror, SU, Captain 134a4 limit/MEW, C. B. for the E .st Indies; and the /fed. wing, Id, Captain INK N. for St. Helena and the Cape, arrived at Portsmouth from the River. They will proceed to their destinations inn few dap. On Wednesday the Drirer, Captain RFID, sailed from Portsmouth for her station on the wer•t coast of Scotland ; and the Primrose, Captmi. Plinuorr ilium St. ['elem.), for Plymouth, to be paid off. The 18th and 39th Regiments are expected to embark at Portsmouth, ins Wednesday, f.r Cork. The 4.5t11, 35th, 91. d, rand 'l.l battalion Rifle., fir► the sante destination, will follttiv, as soon as tran►r ports can be got ready to take them. Eleven of tran■ports arrived rat t h at pat last week frosts Cork. The Ist 11117610 n of the I , t Ellie Battalion, front France, marched into Fort Comberland cm S.ttur day morning ; as did the 33d Regiment into Port 4-; month and lithe' Barracks, and the Stet Regiment into Ilasbe and Gosport Barracks. W.-diiesdav marched into Southampton the 54th Regiment of Foot from Chester. Their dedina. Lion is the Cape of Good Fiore. Rear-Admiral DOH•LII CAMPBELL re-hoirted his flag nn Saturday, at Portsmouth, on board ilie Salisbury, 58, Captain JOHN WILSON, which ship went out of harbour on Friday morning. The Rear-Admiral will shortly proceed to take his com mand of the Leeward 1-I:itida. The Camekom,Cmptstio MINOAT, is placed wider the orders of the Commander•iii-Clpef at l'oi is mouth. On Wednesday the Saracen, 18, Captain JOHN GORE (b), was released front quarantine at Plos mouth; she left Benno,la on the I6th ult. The Be!tette, Captnin, GEORGE PECIIELL, had wiled for Halifax. The Harrier, Sir CH•GLES Joszs. may be hourly expected. The Saracen is to be paid off at Chatham. On Thursday morning, about four o'clock. the Linnet, Lieut. APPLEBY (tender to the flag-slop at Portsmouth), captured between Worthing and Lt tlehampton a smuggling boot, with font men, hav ing a cargo of 320 tubs of spirits, and .50 packages of tea, tobacco, and cards. The Linnet had pre viously chased a smuggling cutter, but could not get up with her. A few days since the Vigilant cutter seized a lugger, with upwards of 30 tuba of spirits, off the Owers Light-vessel. The Lords of the Admiralty have made a pro• motion in the Navy, limited to those Officers of the longest standing who have just concluded their three years' of peace service.—The slumber n f Commanders promoted to the rank of Post-Captaiis is twelve, namely— Captains Marlin White, J. Cookealy, !amen Marra!, C. G. R. Phillott, George M Jones, W. Wolrig., A. F. Wee tropp, John Rosa, George Brine, C. R. MUUIIIOIII, Lord John Hay, sod Hon. G. J. Perceval. The number of Lieutenants promoted to the rank of Commander, we understand, is sixteen. Resr-Admiral the lion. Sir 111 saY BLACK• WOOD, Burt. it is amid, will succeed Sir RICHARD KING, Bart. as the Emit Captain AVILLEs is appointed to the U'ye, LG. ordered to be completed at Chatham for imme diate service on the coast of Africe, iii the room of the Cherub, lately paid otf. Sir Tnomas M. HARD* is appointed to the Superb, 74, guardship at Plymouth—Mr. JESSE to be Purser. The Racoon sod Pelican have been paid off at Portsmouth, and laid up in ordinary. Remain at Spit head —Antelope, Sapphire, Leven. Redwing, Saracen, Shamrock, and Hound. Sir WILLIAM Score has decided, that, in all cases of capture of ships In rivers, harbours, Stc. by conjoint expeditions (Army and Nan ), the parties are not entitled to head money ; but only when cap tured ut sea, and by ships alone. An important constitutional question recently occurred at Chatham, by an attempt to subject Serjeant KING, of the East India Company's re— cruiting service, to a military Court-martial. Tile opinion of Counpe4 has been taken on the bubject, which iv, that, by every maxim of law, 11111 i 0:1 every constitutional ground, KING 10 not amenable to martial law. Accounts have been received from York, in Upper Canada, dated the 31st or October, with intelligence that the persons belonging to, or con nected with, the North West Company, who were accused as principals and acceAaries iu what was called the murder of Governor SEMPLE MA his party, in the Red River, in 1816, %ere folly ac quitted. The trial of BONCHE and Baowa, who were parties in the contest when Mr. SEMPLE and his followers were killed, took place berme Chirf Justice Powni. on the 0 6th, and lastril two days , that of the other parties on the 30111 Oztoher ; auJ in the last trial, in clinging the Jury, the Juifze, Mr. BOLTON, declared that, in his opinion, there was not a particle of admissible testimony off c i:i,g the prisoners. Bouctiv, the half-bred who was first tried, had been confined 26 'um ti as close prisoner, previous to his discharge on ac9ulttal. Sheffield and its neighbourhood were visited Mk Thursday, the 3d instant, by a most tretni.ndone storm of thunder and lightning, which cau-ert the greatest alarm throughout the town and its The lightning appeared one vim brilliant t.htet. It passed over the Brocco into the valley iotiiralii. where it struck a strung brick wall lie to tie round, tore up a part cf the foundation, a , .(1 Rh-tor out a se.h-window from • house, and carnal it the opposite side of the room : fortunately no pet' son received the least injury. MIS