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"horn cariosity and interest load induced to come into lier presence. On her entrance into Alby, Madame Manson s►ked whether there were ;my letters for her at the post-office, or some hook from Paris ? She desired then to know whither she should 1w conducted?-- 'r Tii the prison of St. Cecilia."—" This nellir, " she replied with a is displeases me less than that of the place I have hef►. 1 shall here be under the priori of the Pairoorss of Harmony ; and in truth the prison of Roust did not ill resemble what St. Ceeiha said of Hell— , It iv a contagious plare, wlwrr nue has no friend•'." We learn from Rod e r th a t the wott►an, Basica', is very seriously Cuintnittrenn the Concordat has suspended its rittings, four of its Members barrios decided for the rejrctiosi, and the (others for the adoption of the I'ruj•t of Law. One of the Metnlwrs proposed, order to ',loans an approximation of opinion, to invite the Doke de Richelieu mid 11. Leine, 111i nister of the Interior, to attend the Cuintnittee. This reeoustutudatiost boa been agreed to, and in consequence the Committee waits the slower of Isis 111sjesty's Ministers with regard to another Meeting. A t will not be till after having load a conference with these Ministers that the Committee will terminate its taboo's, and appoint its reporter. The consequence of the residence of Madame de K rottener in different parts of Switzerland, are now felt isi different quarters of that country. Two of the Cantonal Governments have been obliged to take t flicacions measures against the disorders which have taken place isi their territories, in consequence of the flat o i tttt s propagated by that lady. Very afflicting dissentious have arisen iii several families. The must u h prophecies continue to circulate. It is stated fruits Zurich, that the ci-deetant King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus, who has resided for some time past in Switzerland, has requested of the lesser Conticil of Bale to hose conferred upon horn the right of citizenship at Bale. It is said also that ha intends to purchase a very hue villa in the Canton of Bale, fur his constant residence. There has beets no public Sitting of the Chamber of Deputies for several days. The discussion of the projet respecting recruitment commences to-day. The affair of Mathurin Brunetti, calling himself Louis XVII. comes on the 9th of next 111011 ill, be fore the tribunal of Correctional Police of Rouen. It is said that M. !Wien, who was to have been his Advocate, has resiousiced his defence, and it is out known what Advocate will plead his cause. The Count de Palinthi. the Portuguese Ambas sador to the Court of Loudon. who had come to Paris to confer with the Plenipotentiaries of the High Allied Powers, respecting the differences be tween Portugal and Spain, set out on Monday even iug fur London. CRAMDER OF PEERS. Rt1.1.1,111N U Tut: 15t1 JANUARY. The Chamber met at one o'clock, under the Pre ctleticy or the C The Oider of the Day %lib moved on the Report of lite Special Committee, charged with the exami lcitois of the prvjet of the law on the Liberty of the l'reas. 'the Assembly ordered the Report to be printed, and adjourned the discussion of the projet of the law until Rlonslity nest. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIFS. SITTING OF THE 14TH JANUARY. The Chamber met at one o'clock. M. the Mar quis de Courion St. Cyr, Miui►ter at War; M. A !lent, Under Secretary of State to the abase Minis ter; and M. &waste, Commissary oldie King, were introduced. The President—The order of the day appoints the dtseussioti upon the projet of the how restive to the recruiting of the army. M. Jesse-Beauvoir is thr fiist upon the list of those who intend le speak sigiiiirt if. %I. Josse-Ilrauroir then aecetteled the tribune.— The safety of the State, he observed, end the Cm ititutional Charter, ritually demanded • law for ►e frrntlug the aunty. It the one nine prevented were noon and vaiortil unload, it ought to be adopt ed ; but if, contrary, it presented two triodes of recruiting, one illusory, and the tither cal. collated to renew the hams and diril*CS of the you scivion, aholi.lierl by the Charter; if, wishing to art-me an army of reser, e, it renders that a►my use lt., and datigertms ; if it destroys the lltryal prero gative a hid condil sot crone that army without a law, %bitterer dangers might menace the country ; ae mum then not discord the law, but discard its and testily each of its enactments, 64) that it may brco u ut• %hat Fram:e require., a monarchical and cuuslituttoia.l law, ir otir regoorotr. uml oar legiotti ore to be re , sollySt in flair ul praCe. tpaly by voltoolory etwol wool. thol• 111 soo n lan 111,10 dreary. Our o loch hay,- lorti i Ulm/. it cruittil for two yedrog and a half. awl wi,te h , notwitlistoodu oic , h a v e not *moo ed a thud of tIo• lI V tht. Or iimaorr, tlcit this s)•io ni mragenirsit 111.1) Mite a relaxation or Two silioirs lorr-ent thrile.tolves—v..ll (l , l l 4 , y , irr .. louse, mid the Couunittrr, *l9.stil e you. IL.t the flirt 11:1, Tried uttliolit t•lirrt•S•4, Gor Iliter year.. %re itiav • •Itmlr. flirt it tirt, 111111 ar toLappobe that n young 111.111 oliili.msrlfto btu.: lit tlit: 1;03 al Cowl', in thy cavalry. the artillery, the engineers (corps for which this mode of recruiting is employed), for the sake of slender advantages r It is not thus that the Royal Guard ought to be recruited. It should consist of the Rite of the army ; no one shrinkd be eligible to serve in it, without haring given proof* of tried courage and steady assiduity. The Royal Guard remold then Leconte a force always repaid, and always the same. We must, therefore, hare recourse to compul sory sersice. FureiKti Princes have adopted it in times of danger . ; they do not Trish to abundon it. However painful this mote map be to his Majesty's heart. it is a thing of absolute necessity. The which has no abuses but in its privileges, was always a compulsory service. At the some time, let us not re-estublisli the monstrous code of the conscription, those councils of revision, those Etats-Majors, of Officers of Health. Let the young men be examined before, nod not after being drawn, that the release of those who shall not be immedi ately Steil upon may be certain and irrevocable. M. Josre-Beinatinir then entered into some details upon the several provisions of the law. He ob. jvcted to the enrolment of married men, as calcu lated to make their wives and families a burden upon the country•. He called upon the Chamber to reject the unconstitutional mode proposed, and concluded by moving several amendments, which, if not adopted, he ►hould vote against the law. Two of these amendments were, that the Royal Guard should be recruited from the regular army, choosing such men as had given proofs of their bravery, &c. and that the durstion of service should be limited to eight years in all cases. M. de Bondi demanded that the vote for the army should be ennuis! ; conceding at the same time to the King, the power of making au extra ordinary levy in case of an imminent war. Ile suggested also some untendineuts, and said he should support the law with those amendments. M. de Caumosit said, it appeared from the Re port of the Committee, that an experience of two years had proved that the system of voluntary re cruiting was inadequate ; but was such an expe rience ve►y conclusive ? He condemned the mode of distribution recommended in the 6th Article. lie thought it might prove highly inconvenient to assemble tinder the same colours, men from the same departments, imbued with the same political principles. Their union in the same corps might be favourable to insubordination, end render de *enlists, more frequent. He accordingly proposed to scatter the recruits from each department in dif ferent carp*. The Baron de Brigade supported the amend ment fur voting the army annually. That war done even under the system of conscription.— They had been sometimes told they should not be more. constitutional than the English but ought they to be less constitutional than Bonsparte? M. de Courtaroel voted against the law, frown conviction that it was contrary to the Royal poet* , gative and the interests of the Alonarchy. All.. ing to the Mitt Article, which enacts that the vete. ran► legions shall not be required to march out of their departments in time of peace, nor out of thei• military divisiot.s in time of war, but by virtue of a special law to that effect, he said, " you will find it s great inconvenience that there should exist in France an armed force not at the disposal of the King, and which can march only by order of the law. Those meat will learn to consider themselves as belonging to the law, and owing obedience to the law alone ; and they may one day become Perliamestary Arwy." lie proposed to substitute the words, " in virtue of a special Ordinance of the King," its lieu of the words " by virtue of a law." The discussion closed at live o'clock. RUTIN° Or 13TH JANUARY. The discussion of the projet of the law on re cruiting was resumed. Lieut.-General Count Dupont spoke at peat length in support or the iirojet. M. Harthr-I.aha►tike opposed it as unconstitu tional, mid an attack on the Royal prerogative. M. de Chauvelin proposed an amendment. Two other members delivered their opinion. The debate was then adjourned until to•morrow. . PARIS, JAN. iti. The Duke of Richelieu yesterday traissacte.lbu. sinews aMt the King. We learn with regret, that three of the Mission. sties whom the Bishop or !Animus* had vent out before him on that mission, bare died of the yellow fever at New Orleans. An article from Lucca, of the 5t Is December, states, that her Royal ilighibers Maria Louisa, room or Spain and Duchess of Incea, is. her desire to promote the happiness or her people, without dis tinct 00000 or rank, will, MI every ‘Veilliesday, hold a politic audience, to which every ii.ilitialual shall be admitted, *rid t slily other formality than that vir his mime uss the prrteding day in the office uf her private Ski:fruity. JAN. The King has Issued a new ortionnimee respects Mg the 'liberty of the 'tress, which prescribes, amongst other things, the dimwit of all new works that shall in future be publi►hed in the kingdom. 111t4M!:!f, JAN. 3. Our Ciazeite emit:llllS p resualitti(lll of the Seiside old( retl Io he publi.latil Ili it, witlllllll lIIIA r,l,.,•rva tirdu, cosideasitaiNg its conduct in its reiliailo upuu the measures or foreign Covernmentr, and desiring - quire what legiblotive provision ii necessary to he it to abstain henceforth from the insertion of cilium- made for alcertaiiiiiig and estubli%liing the northern Mous article's, otherwise the. Serrate will proceed kr- boundary line of the state of Ohio, mid agreed dicially against the Editor. thereto. Messrs. Morrow. Whet, Taylor. and King. were appointed w Committee in pursuance of the hot Resolutiori. The Resolution directing a distribution of cer tain Lows ninong the Mertilrers bi the Fifteenth Coo• fires', imil the Resoliniiter authorising the ilistriliu t of certain documents. were rend the third time, passed, and sent to the Motile for coneurreuce. ♦IENNA. DEC. 31. The conferences of the Prussian Counsellur of State, M. Jordan, with the Chiefs of our Depart ment fur Foreign Affairs, still euntiiiite very frequent. WEIMAR, JAN. '2. The Opposition Paper has re-appeared. Its first number of this year commences with the following article The direction direction off' the Grind Ducal Government permits that the Opposition Paper should re-appear with the commencement of the year 1819. i l O prize the public of the motives to its suspension, we publish the following Declaration:- 14 His Excellency the Count de Zichy, the Austrian Mi nister at the Court of Prussia, and charged with an extra ordinary wassicas from his Court to that of the Grand Duke of Weimar, made to his Royal Hirdhaexxs in the "'Iwo ( his Imperial Majesty, certain compisiste ea some very displeas lag renectiors which had been whled by the Editor to an article dated from Vicuna, in the 266th Number of the Op position Paper of the 12th of last November. " This complaint being accompanied by the observation, that no writer can reckon as the protection of • AMC when he has had the audacity to cabsmniale the institutions of another, to err& the people, Sid to ,reach insurrection, his Royal Highness considered Hein observation to agree perfectly with the laws subsisting In the Grand Duchy, and comprised iu the Ordinance of the 3.1 of May last, and there fore made no difficulty in ordering a provisional suspension uf this Paper, resetting the right of a judicial inquiry. His Royal Highness agreed so much the more readily to this proceeding, because that the Editor had been already se veral times admonished and censored fur injuries of this nature, and that this proceeding of his Imperial Majesty an nounces the conviction that the respect sloe to the constitu tion and Government of his States can never be riolaterl with impunity in the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar. " The same Paper had also inserted an article, which spoke of the constitution of Denmark in very unbecoming terms, and which seemed to consider as admissible as op position to the existing state of things." The Declaration then goes on to aide that the Editorship of the Paper having since passed into other hands. the Paper is permitted again to ap pears but to prevent all misuude►standinga. the words " with the Gland Ducal privilege," which had hitherto appeared in the head of the Opposition Paper, should be suppressed. It concludes with asserting that the Opposition Paper never was, nor ever shall be, an official journal. Gives at Weimar, January 2, 1818. The Director of the Grand Ducal Government of Saxe -IVeiniar, Eisenach. MADRID, JAN. 2. The Corps d'Artnee, now catitoned in Andalu.ia and Extremadura, destined for America, under the commend of the Count d'Abishal, is composed as follows :—Four battalions of infantry of the line of 1,000 meta each, four of 800 each, two regiments of light infantry, and two regiments of cavalry. There is alt.o a regiment of infantry of depot, and one of cavalry, to instruct the recruits destined to complete the corps now in America. The expeditionary army under the orders of the General-in-Chief, Dow Pablo Morello, liciw- it' int provinces of Venezuela and New Grenada, i• t „n -posed of the following .ores : • Infantry of the Line—fire regiments, forming together ten battalions of European hoops. Light I,4st. Infantry—seven battalion* of European , in terspersed with Amertrats troops. Cos ry—tive regiments. Disciplined Militia ( Iffhi,e 114;notry1 —three battalions and 17 companies. .litititit -- three battalions nod 21 communes. I:hirK—tli-?e companies. Cavalry ' irtitel—threc s(ltiNd"m4 and four companies. Mulatto—three cowponies. Black—one company. European troops now in Mexico, arrived from the Peninsula :—lnfoistry of the Line—ten regiments, forsiiiiig 1 2 battalions. Light Infantry—the bat. tel ' of Navarre. Cuvulry—two regiineiits and a squadron. AMERICA. TIC E BfUTI S H PRESS. NEW YORE, DEC. 20. GENERAL MINA. We expressed some hesitation in giving full cre dit to the report of the capture of General Mina by surprise, as received by a vessel from Havanna!' at this port. The following extract of a letter, coin. municated by a gentleman of the first resi*etabi• lily to the Editor, will tend to show at least his cap. tore by surprise is not very probable. ►:XTRACT OF ♦ LETTER FROM NEW ORLEANS, DATED NOV. 27. We have to-day a rumour of General Mina being in the vicinity of Mexico with an army of ten thourand men, and of liiv isovpessing the confidence, and his cause the affections, of the people at large ; the probability of his final success gains strength daily." CONClffss. The Amendments of the Senate to the Bill for the repeal of the Internal Duties were taken up in the flume of Representative* on Wednesday, and were all adopted, The Bill, Therefore, only re quires the bigiviture of the President to heroine a 1N SENATE, Dm 17. The Semite resumed the consideration of the 11110 mode ys sterility for instructing the Cont. notre of Piddle Lands to make inquiry relative to lands in ►ha Virginia military tract ; and of the Itt..olution to appoint u Committee to LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, WIS. Paris Papers to the 17th instant have arrived sit our Office. The law relative to the recruiting of the army still continues the subject of discussion ill the Chamber of Deputies, where opinions appear extremely divided, as well on the expediency as on its consistency with the principles of the constitu tion. Some members there are also, who would oppose the law as derogatory to the Royal preroga tive, although it has been proposed by the King himself. M. de COURTARUEL considered it dan gerous that any military bodies its the kingdoin should be rendered so far local as to require the en actment of a particular law to enable the King to march them beyond the limits of their several de partments. It was inconsistent, he said, with the prerogative of the Crown, and might eventually render them a Parliamentary army, obedient rather to the law than to the King. The power of the sword ought without doubt to rest exclusively with the Executive Power ; but this prerogative is by uo means invaded by renderitg particular division* of the military local throughout various parts of the empire. M. de BONDI proposed an amendment, ' that the vote of the army should be annual, as it is in England ; and the Barnum de BRIGODE, in sup porting this amendment, remarked, that such was the practice in the time of BONAPARTE, and added, that if they were not more constitutional than the English, they ought not to be less so than BONA PARTE. The proposition is a good one, 'nitwit!). ►tauiiiug the moult . ..at absurdity of the Baron's il lustration, in which there appears is greater regard to point and antithesis than to truth. The Weimar Opposition Paper, the publication of which had been suspended since last November, has again appeared. The Editor, have been changed, and it is made to publish a declaration, drawn up under the direction of the Government. acknowledging its repeated offences in comment ing too severely upon the existing state of public affairs, and promising a future amendment. This circumstance teaches the full value of the Wieny of the press iu Germany, when in ‘Veiniar, where it was supposed to flouri►h, the complaint of ass angry• despot, or of his Moister, is sufficient, without a public or private trial, to call down on the alleged offender the utmost of Royal or Imperial indigna tin% Of Madame Matcsots some interesting circum stances will be found in our extracts. This Lady has been conveyed to Alby, where she is to undere.:o her trial as sit accomplice in the murder. She en• tered Alby on horseback, and, font the pleasure she experienced in the gaze of the people, and her desire to gratify their utmost curiosity by throwing off the hood of her cloak, she evidently looked upon her entre , as a species of triumph. She bas published her Memoirs, which are read in Paris with great interest, and of which some notice is taken in another part of our Paper. lu this book she still peremptorily denies that she was the woman said to have been concealed in a closet in Bsa. CA I:3 iIIEMOUS honk', at the tittle of M. FLIAL DES' murder. She will find some difficulty in in ducing the world to credit her assertions, partirii lady as a Court of Law has recognised her guilt, so far us to grant her husband a divorce. The Five per Cents. on the 15th, were, Ski f. 25 e. Batik Actions 1.557 f. 50 c. Some doubt• seem to be thrown, by the New York Papers of the 9ist, on the report of MINA'S capture, but they adduce no satisfactory evidence to discredit the official report that communicated that event. For the present, at least, we cannot refuse our reluctant assent to the probability of this unfortunate circumstance. The disposable forces of the United States con tinue to advance towards the South. The inrtsse• dime and avowed object of this armament is the seizure of Amelia Island—not fur the purpose of appropriating it, hut merely to interrupt the sys tem of piracy that has been there organised against the commerce of every nation in the world, li n t who can doubt that the ultimate object is the possession of the Florida,, on which the United States have long been looking with the anxious and wistful eye of ambition ? A letter from Sa vannah notices a rumour which is said to have prevailed at Amelia, that a expedition was fitting out at some of the %Vest India Islands, for the purpose of taking poosses•ion Of tile Flotilla*. We have already given our opinion at some length Al the onluotw.c.e vi 11. l ar itroirioceN, owl we eitttoot avoid once more expre..- tog our fears thlt they call prove lit no thAiwt iterioll es untie of quarrt-1 lietweett Great Dotaita autl the littiteil States. We may expect to find the southern contest he. come very Shortly the 501..j...t.t of discussion in Cor t;res•. ()11 the 15,1 i last the INSIHDENT, in pm- Nuance or a vote of the !Uite of Representative•. transmitted to them co.n.ounications respecting the motive! that induced the Government t o ia,,,e onlrN for the seizure of Ainelin Island awl Galveston: A motion has also hero made and carried in the Senate, requesting the PREqDENT to have all papers relating to tirgociations with 504111441 be. fore the Itonse. The debates subsequent to these communications will be read in this-country with peculiar interest. The pertinacity of Ministers in trs in;; Mr. floss thrice for the same offence, elaited a display of ta lent that would otherwise perhaps have never beets known; and crowned him tvith a triple victory. The persecution that has been since carried on against him in the Treasury Journals, like the trials, is cal. culated to defeat its own pur t awe, by exciting the sympathy of every just and liberal spirit in his fa vour. For his fortune and his lame he is, there fore, indebted to his enemies. At the head of this day's subscription are his Grace the Duke of BED FORD and the Mariptls of as high in public estimation as iii rank mud virtue. Some weeks have elapsed since the cot 1111 l eiscement of \l r. !NNE's Subscription, and in that interval the outcry against it in the Treasury Yount'ls has been lowland incessant. Th e calmes t/ fi ner y talents, the courage and eisaislinesv of Mr. IioNE, could not command 'heir respect ; the embarrassment of a uuurrruus family could out disarm their vetil n eance. Stanching between tie benevolence of the public and its object, they would represent Mr. Hose as a vile criminal, awl every person who contri buted a mite in his behalf as the advocate of im piety and profaneness. There is no clime more odious than impiety, aidl uo charge more likely to operate with effect. %Veal( and timid men, him ever strong in the consciousto ss of their own inno cence, would be slow to encounter it, and there cats lie little doubt that many of that de , criptioit hive been deterred front connog forward its aid of Mr. 110 N C. It is with this view of the case, Lord SFr rum lately wrote his hold and liberal letter, and the Duke of HFttronn, with the Ilarrpiis of Tv% N- I - rick, we may presume, now present tin mseltes; we trust that their weight and influence trill stem that torrent of malice which has swept away ruby persuluis of inferior rank and less consideration, and that the stream of liberality aill henceforth flow pure and free from the foul obstructions by which the bare ness of the Ministerial l'ress has sought to impede its progress. Among these we lately noticed one, front which the enemies of Mr. HONE flattered themselves they would derive great advalitage, but which has, unfortunately for them, turned to their confusion. Three or four names, with SIM+ nonexed, which appeared in the list of subserip. tioin, have been disavowed by the parties, and this circumstance liaa beets eagerly seized upon by the Treasury Journals, and reprevented as a trick of the Committee to promote the subscription by indirect and fraudulent menus. Ilad the names been of high rank and consider:auto, or had the sums annexed to them been of great magnitude, this construction, however false, mittlit appear plausible; they might have haul a lwinficial influence, however temporary, upon the suhscrip (ion, by inducing others to follow their example but this was not the case; they were the mimes of prisons, however respectable, of humble life, and the struts trivial. As a trick or deception, it could not operate lair a moment to the hrurtit of Mr. HONE; its exposure, shalt was certain, must, nu the contrary, throw an odium 011111 the cau.se. The smoke may readily and surly decide witrt tier this stratagem was resorted to by the frie:uds Ai,. !lONE, whore cause it must nrcessatily injure, or by his enemies, whose purpose it was calculated to promote, and alio have eagerly sought to implore at. 1/n Fridav last a 11leeiiiig of Enrolls to the Liberty of ihe Pass and Trial by July wa: Intl at the White Swan lint, St. Peter's, Naraicli, T. O. SPRINGFIELD In the Chair, for the pm - peon of commencing a Subscription for Al r. Wl4. , when severed spirited Itestilutions were 1181/11•11110;1•Iv passed, and a Committee appointed to receive solo. seriptions. Extract of a letter from Castle, J., 1 1. 13 We are Isere 111 the but rct:tee (or rather el ie f ecm e s ertn g liptarj of is election coolest. The 1114111. 40 KINN RD essiivtissed the Ilurgesses in upposiii.iii to the interest of the E tit of lion Is, yesterday Lord (*tier and his moles (the present Nieuthers), with the siirrouoiliiig Gen try, respectable Tenantry and mails-is grill tl riot - inter, decorated with flrilllrs. Sit FR NCI% RI RDLIT, as the friend of Mr. Piss e um. in - lived flow the Ciaven Anus Inn—the looses were taktet limn his carriage. and it was dragged thron,;ll the streets. Lord CI.IVN, on hrsr.,ll of the addressed the liiirgesse-; Ilt. I:INN .4 ulso south an rhopirlit appeal ; all the poli!:c hots s iii the town were open to the fiirsids of the pail**, nod there have been se teral skit iiii.lirs. 110 I. parties lire sanguine of potter:lb tl liell *hall be di.solVed. This ruining Sir F. BiItDETT and 11;s fot:"ldv lift Wail fur the Leicrsteisiitit. II inf." I I