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1 11 I. :1 Z 44. * •4- - „ 7 .; 1 ' • FRENCH CHAMBER OF DEFUTIES. On presenting the project of law for indemnifying the Migrants, M. de Martignac, the Director-General of the Royal Demesnes, addressed thiethanther of Deputies to the following effect t— elilegillfeetestsiaahe King hnicommanded us to lay before you the project of a w, ludo/ for its object the ranting of an Milan arty so the ancient pootonors of property confiscated and sold for the good of the nee% the times of civil dissension. There is nip need of develvtfig at length the motion which have determined the King to sefopele to you this great act of wisdom: and of justice. When political templets are laid, when the fury of passion and of • party is terminated, mean and truth make themselves understood ; shat which is generous ad wad. that which is useful and just, awakes Itself manifest to all minds, makes itself felt by all hearts, add` re ulres no longer to be justified, or even pointed out. You know, Gentlemen, at that period of melancholy recollection which . empazated the family of our Kings from France, that the of man of pregman were uncertain and divided . Some sup that peedencemnd the interests of the throne soil the country *Meld &Meth them to the ravaged but always beloved soil of their eisemery. Others saw honour in hemp lands. whwor_ regal • nebanity sought an asylum, and whart4 their opitloa d Zi pe leti ghoul follow misfortune. Many she French ehdr osoatry, already threatened with all the evils whlehormeby Wee be lb train. God forbid, °endogeny that we shesM retrace • the oolowthousevents which distinguished thererioda of trouble and • eilimmem—emots, the memory of which we theirld took@ every effort Stibmpobb. We will only allude to sash evils as justice and eideene to repair; for we wish the past to be buried llevere and threatening Deems recalled to France bass whodgml betaken themselves hum it : a refusal, with which dl thvooddla now acquainted, drew upon them laws of blood and atesor, awed exile, or death. These lima were not found suf ficient; It *as necessary to find a method of striking at once at their properties and families. The genius of revolutions is inventive; their properties were auccessivey sequestered and put to sale; nu. memos laws decreed (and stilt decreer end required, with all the fore: of power and terror, aviolent deprivation, and these properties have beer. divided. subdieided, and &sally sold. Many years pared away when mans chsoged the sit uat icm of the VD igrants, and enabled theta so reviait•France. A considerable number returned,and some of them obtaiiietfthe restoration of such of their domains as remained in the hands of-tbeState. Things were in this situation, Gentlemen, when louts XVIII. ascended the throne of his forefathers. One of the first wishes of hi. heart was undoubtedly to maid those whose honourable sufferings wore linked with his own misfortunes; hut the aim exertion of his wisdom was the assurance of the public tenigufflity of that kingdom which was restored to him. Twenty- In years had passed over Francs, and traces of our calamities pre sented themselves at every step. The Charter, that guarantee of race, .that monument of moderation and wisdom, declared all ririinviolable, anti it expressly comprised in this inviolability, e r ist r Zled national ; it declared that the law nude no distinction between these description , ' of property. You have followed this niederation of the Monarch. The law of the State has been scru pulously observed. Nevertheless, families deprived of their pro perties during an absence, clearly recognieed as legitimate. stripped upon their return of all hope of restitution. have, in the benevo lence of the King, and in public justice, rights which canna be overlooked. Their properties, their mansions, the inheritance of their families, have been confis cated and sold for the benefit of the State. Gentlemen, with a nation generous. just, and loyal, this nil:veld be a possession which should not be delayed. An indem nity ought to be the consequence of the inviolability of contracts made under the empire of confiscations. All hearts feel this, •but duty of expressing these sentiments first should be. long to one of the most illustrious Chiefs of that army, which was sometimes the consolation, sod constituted at all times the glory, of France. France will preserve the recollection of the appeal made to its loyalty by a Noble Peer (the Deice de Tarente) daring the fine months •hich followed the restoranon. Other obligations. other wants, compelled the ad journment of the execution of a measure of which all honest minds and generous heteu perceived the justice and necessity. The Char. ter had also declared the public debt is guaranteed; every des cription of engagement entered into by the State with its creditonlis nnolable. 'this great and solemn prontim must be fulfilled, and the first foundasinos of public fortune moat be laid by this testi- - mony of respect for all engagements in which the name of the State is to be found. We will then be content to extend to all the fami lies of the emigrants the restoration made to some of them of the properties not sold. To this will be joined the abandonment of the portions of the motes which were not as yet entered in the list of domains. Such, you are to recollect, are the dispositions of the law of the 16th December 1814 Soon new calamities pressed upon France ; a long occupation was added to charges already existing. The King and - France united in liquidating them. The time, ma son, that spirit of justice and of loyalty which animates French mesh and the power of credit, gave a happy facility to the effort. Louis XVIII. was on the point of proposing to the Chambers the means of adopting a general reconciliation, when the dangers which threatened the King of Spain and the safety of our frontiers, im posed new sacrifices upon us. Finally, the war waged against the Spanish Revolution delayed the accomplishment of the project long conceived by the royal wisdom. You must remember, Gentlemen ' at the openirg of the last Ses , iim, that this just and 'benevolent Monarch, whose paternal voice you shall never hear attain, expressed to you his wish of closing the last wounds of the Revolution. Your feelings may comprehended his, and your witeltes applied his consoling words to fidelity, unfortunate and plandered. The moment is at length arrived when this wish can be accomn' hed, when this act of deep and sound policy can be carried into effect. The liberation of King Ferdinand. the prosperous sate of our finances, the general peace, the sure and good undemanding that exists between all the goretninenta, per mit us to probe the wound that the restoration left bleeding, and - which presses upon the entire body, though it appears to affect but some of the members. The time is now arrived when it is possible to say to those who have been stripped of their inheritance, and who have euppened their misfortunes with such resignation " The State has deprived you of your property, and has transfer red it to nthati reasons of Mao Id and trouble • the ;date, restored to peace and legitimacy, tillers you now the only reparation in its power ; receive in, and by mean, of this indemnity, may all hatred vanish and disappear." Such, Gt ntlemen, is the plan of the project of the law which the King order' us to submit to you. It is a measure which appears just : sanctioned by the general interest, it has some thing about it true and satisfactory, which seems. from its nature, to an:albite all minds, and which has no need of justifies:ion. Of MI those rights of which society promises, and ought to assure, the preservation, that of property is undoubtedly the most sacred. that to which 4 united most forcibly the guarantee of all others. Of all those penalties which laws can pronounce, and which human justice can inflict, the most cruel is the confiscation of property. It 11 a punishment which strikes the condemned even in his posterity, and by which the State enriches itself with the plunder of those whom it has already deprived of their parent. In the year 1790, you will remember that confiscation was abolished by a solemn de cree in the name of justice and humanity ; and a few months after it was restored in the name of violence. It was re-established by a general measure, pronounced a 'd applied by the law itself, and which comprehended all the families of those whom duty or whom danger had compelled to fly their country. The law did no: con fine itself to the plunder o f the children ; It ascended for the pur pose of wounding; it seized upon the portion promised by nature to emigrants, which was in the possession of their parents still living. These fatal laws hare disappeared ; judicial confirms. lions is effaced from our codes, into which it was introduced. The King abolished it upon his return, and his wisdom. • strugglinp against the possibility of future injustice, has declared that it shall never be restored. These benevolent dis pose:ions aitinot act upon the past ; they cannot get over the interval between June, 1814, and January, 1790. Numerous transactions have taken place under the dominion of laws now abolished ; these tr. haactione here been preserved unaltered. The Charter, which has given to them the support of sovereign and legi timate authority, has declared them inviolable—a respect entirely profound, without reserve or dispute, for acquired rights, is become an imperative law. Bat, even though respect for the rights of pro perty, and theobligations of repairing wrongs, were rot written in the laws of a!l people and all times, there Is something in our consciences droopy than laws themselves, which reminds us, that when sales have been made in the tame of the State, and the State lid ?me net] the volue, and enjoyed it for 30 years, it owes reparation 'to these alto hare been violently dispossessed. Some voices are raised in opposition to rite great redress which these great interests require. they ask win the biases, of which emigration is the cause, should be 1.11)1C atour hue which recompence should be necessary—why ma- tertuhei, of this di scription should be looked upon an the only 'ma which justice and lennanity require to have heeled ? The redue- Con of the national debt has deprived the creditors of the State of two thirds of their securities. The maximum —the enigma—the deist:erect* the war, have injured many families. Why have not all those who have been thus plundered a right to that redress, which it does set appear to be the nigh to grant, except to certain Intafornmes and to entain calamities ? It is an impossibility to repair ali :omen It would be an act of injustice to repair bat some. You lisve already', Gentlemen, replied to these objections. Without elenbt the Revolution has produced evils of all descrip tion,. We !Ind everywhere the crates of its fury. We must un doubtedly-give im the idea of remedying all evils. The wealth of Frerte restored to order and legitimacy would not be sufficieot to repair tbeiosses which France, impoverished by anarchy, has suf fered ; but if, amongst tin: evils caused by the Rexolution, three are some that justice points out as the most weighty, the most odious, and the most fatal ; if there are those, the origin of which was an attack upon the most tarred rights, and the trace of which stillmxisting, is a perpetual cause of division and of discord, we me, *sight t h e impossibility of healing prevent us from applying to saute that remedy which is in our power? The etnigrants have lost all; all the misfortunes which afflicted France have fallen upon them; they have suffered still more heavy calamities, and which were reserved for them alone. The creditors of the State, victims of the most rapreheMbie treachery, have lost two-thirds of their securities, but they have still preserved one; but the fatal measure ',huh has thus plundered them has left them their other pro phrty. As to the ota.rinanni ' the mei/nate have caused the value which was in the hands of the merchants and capitalists to disappear, to their injury and detriment, but no attempt was made upon their fixed property. Those who have suffer ed the calamities of war,. have, whhout doubt, seen the de vastation of their fields and their houses; but, Gemtlemen, the soil—the soli at least has been left them. The laws respecting end. grants have stripped them of their securities, their moveables, their revenues ; they have left them nothing ; nay. more _these eruel laws have deprived them of the felonies of their father and mo het ; at least this has been dune by the laws rellanng to what is called the Diviaion of Presuccession. The emigrants have not been tried. The Mitre confiscation that the criminal laws pronounce against the Icrime thee denounce, and which is intended to be irlieted by the) tribunals, seems at least to offer some • security in the in). partiality of the Judge who shall inflict it ; but the a n ti.- cation hurled upon the emigrants was nut a punishment for the figure ; it was a proscription es maser, resembling therm continuities which attended the proscriptions introduced in Rome by Sylla. (Hee there was a movement expressive of appro. bunion.) These laws of violence, which assail either the ex. lames or the properties of a mass of the citizens, are great calamities, by which all the foundations of society are shaken, Sinew the time when the nation passed, by a single act of authority. from a state of weakness to that of power, there has not Item any security, and the bond of society has been broken. Such arc the consequences which arise from the abuse of power, and which no injury ran justify, and against which the boldest writers , and most celebrated publicists, have at all time , protested. It iit important, Gentlemen, that a memorable and uselul example should be given, in order that all men may know that acts of great injustice must be followed by aces of adequate reparation. This example it row belongs to France to give. It is under the empire of a Kire, the protector of all constituted authorities, and under the int %mime of a Charter, the eminent defender of all rights, that this reparation should with candour and loyalty be offered, as a most solemn pledge as well us a renewed guaran ee. (Expression sof resent.) As the reparation that can be given to all the onfferers ought to follow the confiscation prorouneed against the emigrants, this reparation sboukl be first made to them, because their losers were entire, while those of others were only partial. Besides. there had been something in the violence by which their property had been despoiled, so odious in its principle, and so daegerous in its consequence, that it demanded, and was entitled to an instant re paration. But that is not all ; 'Tenons of another kind sufficiently indicate, that the evils for which a remedy is preparing, should not be confouoded with those of others, and that where the greatest intents are attacked, the interests of all are so, too, in the end. Who does not perceive, Gentlemen, as well as onreelves• the neer! , shy of effacing from the numerous portions of our territory those trues of the eonfiecatiors which are yet visible ? Who does rot still perceive the necessity of preventing the return of divisions and of animosities among the people? Who can doubt that a great measure which would have this double effect, would be a real benefit to France? Well. that measure is the one which we now propose to you. In spite of the profound security. where are, where ought to be, the new proprieton ; • in spite of the irrevocable saretinn granted to their titles, public opinion. it is necessary to say it boldly, persisted to acknowledge again that line which the law has been anxious to do away. It was difficult to find pur chasers for the confiscated property of the emigrants; their value in commerce was not in proportion to their real valve. The indetn. shy paid to their old roesessors can alone make the mutt .g and the laneesge of the law conformable with each other. It was that only by which the dietinction which at present existed between the two claspes could be done eway. Not only wottid the indem nity be profitable to the Sate . by makirg the fur es, which are new worth nothing, resume a healthy and fruitful circulation ; but it would be profitable to even the best interests, by confirming union and peace, which is the principal soarer of All property. How. ever admirable may be the resignation with which the old propri. eters have supported their losses, there is in the continual attempts at reconciliation betiren them and the Rettigl possessors a constant movement, and a coldness which keeps up and cherishes an between them. Other lands are still, atter the lapse of ages, torn and furrowed by volcanoes ; the King demands of you assistance, in order to destroy them. ()leaks of approbation.) The King's, Commissioner is gone to examine the means adopted foe valuing the property. The project of law lute rejected a mode of estin.a. tion founded upon that ef the present value, the least inconvenience to arise from which would be, the bringing in opposition the old and new possessors. The measures which are the object of the articles hereafter to become the project of law, have appeared to be the only ones capable of being admitted. The stint to which the indemnity will amount, lots been fixed at 987,019.9 f di francs. (Movement and agitatios in various ways. The sitting was here interrupted for some time, by the King's Commissioner feeling it necessary to take some repose.) 111. de MART IGNAC confirmed his speech by an exposition of the resent.* to be urged in favour of the present measure. He said, that the liquidation of the indemnities would be confided to a Cont. mission, to be formed of Ministers and Councillors of State. of 5 / a sters of the Court of Accounts, and, lastly, of Masters of lie. quern performing the duties of Reporters (Ilapporteues). You will easily judge, said he, the degree of confidence which such a Cammiesion will be entitles! to. The emigrants will be indemnified by Reines at three per cent. at par. (Agitation from various teel togs.) As to the effects which have been given to the hospitals. and which the establishments of benevolence ought to keep till the endowment is replaced, the old possessors are authorised to tyke them back again, by tranferring their inscriptions of Renters. (New movement.) The announcement made by the King's Commit. sinner of the dispositions relative to those who, having redeemed their own effects, or those of their family, will only be indemnified in proportion to their real loss, has also excited sonic eery lively mutations. Other parts of the project of law are intended to fix the rights of the public creditors anterior to the confiscation; in short, the indemnity will be common to the heirs of the con demned and to the departed. Such is, Gentlemen, both in its whole and in its details, the project of law which we come to submit to your examination, and the adoption of which we request of you. Simple in its principle as justice and as truth, the great act to which you are called to concur in, offers in its execution some real difficulties which we have not en deavoured to disguise from you. The King reckons solely on the concurrence of your wisdom, your prariotiem, and your justice% To accomplish this work of peace and reunion, necessary to efface the traces of our divisions, was the last wish of a meearch, and a legislator, whose memory is cherished and venerated by all France. It is, you say, to yourseleee, a religions legacy, teeth which he has charged his heir, and which the King now eroposes 'a you to acknowledge and accent. (Loud cheers fronethe benches on the right.) PRICES OF FOREIGN &minion Bonds Diuu Acct. 96 Brazilian Bonds Ditto Acct. Ditto Scrip 84 } 9 10 pm DittoAcct.B4 910} 10 }pm Buenos Ayres Bonds 92} 3 Ditto Acct. 93 21 3} Bond, 83 Ditto Acct.B3f Colonati. Bonds Ditto Acct. 91 Dit°o Bonds (1824) 93 } Ditto Aect. 93} 3 } Danish Bonds Ditto Marks Ranco Dutah Com. 4i par Cont. Exchange French Rentes 102 f. :(oc. Exchange 2.5 f. Ilk. Ditto Scrip Ditto Acct. 14} a pm STOCKS YF'STE RDA Y. Greek Bonds 364 t 7 61 Ditto cct. 364 Mexica A n Don'ts 760 1 Ditto Acct. 764 4 3 2 3 4 Neapolitan non ti Ditto Bonds (1820 Ditto Scrip Ditto Acer. Peruvian Bonds 60 Ditto Aect. Portuguese Bonds 884 Ditto Acct. 884 Prussian Bonds Ditto Ronda (1822)99 Ditto Acct. Russian Bonds 964 4 Sj Ditto Acet. Spanish Cons. 224 2 Ditto Acct. 224 Ditto 310 Boods Ditto 170 and 215 Bonds Ditto Cons. (1823) 16 1.54 IC • THE titITISTI of their intentions to carry France back to the days of CLotts and St. Louts. M. do VI t.t.z La introduced his financial pro- ject with an address of some length. When he read the fourth article, giving to the fundholders the choice (futedie) of converting their renter into three per rent. stock, murmurs broke forth from the Chamber, which had been previously deeply attentive. One Deputy on the left exclaimed, " This is the law of repayment and reduction, under another form." The Minister announced that the budget for the year 1826 would show a surplus of income over expenditure amounting to between 11 and 15 millions of francs, which he proposes to keep for another year, in order that the public service may be in every part amply supplitd. Whatever might be the feeling of some Mem bers of the Chambers, the French funds hive conti.iued to rise. On Tuesday they closed at 103 f. slO c. for money. 'File Mositeur of Tuesday, the 4th January, has nothing The non-official part, including a Supplement of four }urges, is filled wrtli the report of the sitting of the Cham ber of Deputies on the 3d January, in which were pre sented the putjects of law for the Regulation of the Civil List, for the Indemnity of the Emigrants, and for the Conversion of the Five per Cents. into Three or Four-and a-half per Cents. STIVINUIG, Dec. Y.S. 'We have before said, that a sum of 16.001 1 franca had been placed at the disposal of the Prefect of the bower Rhine, to be distributed among the inhabitants of this Department who have stained by the inundation. We now learn that the King has` granted 25,000 francs more, to be employed in the form of remis sions and reductions of taxes, in favour of those who are the most distressed in vinsequesce of these dinaten. laeacr FENDl.—Paste. Jax. 4.—Five per Cents. ripened at 1031. 10c., closed at 1031. 20e. ; Bank Stock, 1955 f. ; Status bran, 5 per Cent. 90; Royal Spanish Leon, (1023) filiSf. Ex change on London, oae month, 25f. three months, 211. BSc.— Ceara Arthentiqut, Jot. 4. In the Frankfort Papers, that reached us last night, there are two articles of gratifying intelligence. One is, that the nobility of Baden have agreed to give up their rights of patrimonial jurisdiction, secured to them by the act of the Germanic Confederation. The other is, the nego tiation of a commercial treaty between that Duchy and Switzerland. ,Europe becomes more thororghly pacific every day. The intercourse between all the States will, it may be hoped, be won adjusted on principles of wisdom and liberality. In another column there will be found a document of considerable interest, as connected with the state of our West Indian Colonies. We allude to the justificatory De claration issued by the Wesleyan Missionaiies in Jamaica, Having most satisfactorily refuted some insidious repre sentations of their conduct and principles, they feel it their duty to bear testimony to the good treatment of the slaves generally, and to the favourable disposition manifested by the Magistrates and Planters to promote the " spread of morality and religion" amongst all classes of the population. These Missionaries can have no undue bias; they are quite independent of the Colonists; their sole concern is the in culcation of pions habits and sentiments. In sending forth their statement they could have no sinister views. They are an intelligent and respectable body of men, and they thoroughly know what they assert to be true. If we had to seek for impartial and competent witnesses, where could we find, in any respect, better ones than these? It is, therefore, of great importance, to have the evidence of these well-informed persons before us ; they arc able to instruct us from their own observation, as to the effects that would result from the rash projects of emancipation which have so long agitated the West Indies. They have given us their judgment on this mo mentous question. They solemnly deny that they have ever taken any part in forwarding these dangerous mea sures, because, as they declare, they " believe, that if the design of the Emancipationists was carried into effect, it would be a general calamity—injurious to the slaves— unjust to the proprietors—ruinous to the Colonies—delete rious to Christianity, and tending to the effusion of human blood." The whole of their Declaration is worthy of an attentive perusal and consideration. That the moral and civil condition of the negrces required improvement, no humane and enlightened man would for a moment hesitate to -affirm ; but be would not for that reason think of rsheing prejudice at home and tumult abroad, as the means of giving effect to the measures of amelioration that might be suggested. On the contrary, he would endeavour to promote a good understanding between the slaves and their masters, knowing that without it all attempts must be abortive. 'We have seen the alarming evils that have been produced by the feverish irritation of mind, arising front the constant discussions of this question in Parlia ment, and the gross misrepresentations that have been published in every shape, and through every channel. Let us hope that the time is not far distant when the people and Government of England will recognize the wisdom and justice of withholding their sanction from all further interference with the Colonists, until they shall have forfeited the good character they have received from the NVealeyan Missionaries. The official returns of the late Quarter's Revenue, are now before the public. They will be found as favourable as the most sanguine could expect them to be. The total amount of the Revenue for the year ending on the sth of January, 1824, was 49,478,401/.; that for the year ending on the same day this year, was 50,5 13,0921. ; the actual in crease on the year being 1,067,691/. In those brandies of the Revenue in which no duties r. , re lowered or repealed, the increase was very considerable. In the Excise it amounted to 1,136,816/. Bud in Stamps to 390,476/. We accounted yesterday for the seeming tit crease of th e Customs, and explained that, allowing for repayments on account of silk on hand, and remissions of duties, there was, in fact, a very large increase cn the remaining items of Revenue. The duties remitted in the Customs yielded 1,150,000 7 ., yet the net produce of this year is only 166,7911. Its: than that of the year preceding. The returns for the quarter are still more satisfactory. Every brae.eh of the Revenue is improving. On the Cus toms alone there appears to be a decrease, from the causes we have above stated; but it will be observed that even that decrease is itself proportionately decreasing: this quarter it amounts but to 38,504/. The Excise, compared with the corresponding quarter of last year, exhibits an augmenta- ' tion of 793,431/. In Stamps the increase is 79,4241. not withstanding the repeal of the Law Stamp Duties. The Assessed Taxes have also produced au additional sum of 41,964/. The total increase of the net revenue on the late quarter, as compared with the corresponding quarter of the year before, amounts, according to the official state ment, to 144,0001. But if, as we ought in fairness, we de duct the repayment by Austria, which is included in the corresponding quarter of last year, we shall find that the increase on the quarter just ended really amounts to 912,667/. This result is indeed calculated to make us feel proud and happy ; and taking into consideration all the circumstances of the empire, social and political, never. was there an era, in the brightest days of Its history, when its poster and prosperity were at a higher pitch than at the commencement of the sixth year of the reig n of Gronot: IN'. 0 gilt 15ritish Vregg. 1 THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. This ltvenlng. ?Rimy. January 7, will De performed towed tlmt), altered and adapted for neprepentation. Muenster's vAT AL DOM RV. The Prologue lAncready. Rochfort, Idr.Terry; Charaluie, r.Wellach Holuout. .r. Macready. lira.W.West. After which. HARLEQUIN AND THE TALKIVI man. THE SiNtIIND TREES, AND Go DEN WATERY!. Harlequin, lir. Howell; Pantaloon, Lr. Ulanchard; Clown. Mr. ILarby. Columbine, Wm Ilaroett. Tomorrow. The Cabinet. The rely extraordinarily popular new Pantomime every Evening. 71IPATRE 11(1)%11., COVENT-G AI?DP X. This Evening. FIIIDAF. Jas. 7,1011 be performed A WOMAN NEVER VF.XT : Or, THE %MOW OF CORNIIII.L. Henry the Sixth, Mr. Baker t Foster, Mr. Bennett S;tenben Foster, Mt. t'. Ke:ohle t Foster, Jun. Mr. Cooper; %alter Br.mn, Mr. tiger toss Sir Godfrey Speedwell, Mr. Bartley; Master lunucvsit 1.ro1)141;114 /dr. Meadows; Clown, Mr. Blanchard. Agnes M elated (the N nlow of Corulailt, bliss Chester t Mrs. Foster, Miss Lacy; Jniis. Miss Jones. lu Ast V. the Lord Mayor's Show, as it 91111Sed through Cbeapsids, le the year 1444. After which, HARLEQUIN ANTI TOE Olt AtiON OF WANTLEF Or, IM4YHE OF MORE HAI. I, Harlequin, Mr. Eller Pantaloon, Mr. Barnes; Clown, Mr. J. S. Cohnublue, Miss Burner. To-morrow, Der FreisehUtz. and the uew Pautoutime. rhe naITISH Poses commenced publishing yesterday morning at live o'clock. LONDON, FRIDAY. eh NU* ny 7, 182.5. Last night we received the Paris mooning papers of Tues day. They are filled with the projects of law laid before the Chamber of Deputies on the preceding day, and with the speeches of M. de MAIVI IGNAC and M. de VILLELE on in troducing them. The Director• General of the Royal De mesnes accounted for the delay in proposing the indemnity, by representing that the French finances have every year since the restoration been burthened with some extra ordinary charge. Louts XVI AI., we are told, was prepar ing to bring it forward when the dangers to which the King of SPAIN was exposed, and the safety of the French frontiers, compelled him again to sacrifice his feelings. This story will deceive nobody. If the design existed, why at least was it not announced for the consolation of , the emigrants? The fact is, that however well disposed the Bouttaoxs have been to put every thing into the state in which it was before the Revolution, they we:. till now afraid to risk a measure like this, so obviously declaratory - - , PARR. 'TROY 0111 COMSPONDIXT•I Pains, JAX. The nefarious course pursued on the trial of Colonel GAUCHO!. I:ave been surpassed, if possible, in iniquity by the many falsifications and schemes resorted to by the Pro anent-General MA Nuts, since the condemnation of that unfortunate man. The facts are of a nature so infamous, and demonstrate so palpably the system of injustice prac tit( d towards the prisoner, that it would be extremely dangerous to publish them in France, in the present critical state of the liberty of the press. It is, however, of importance that these facts should be publicly known, and I shall therefore detail them. According to the Code din :traction Crimindle, all the papers which rriate to the pro ceedings against a condemned individual, by a Court of Assize, must be transmitted to the Minister of Justice, within ten days after the notice of his appeal to the Court of Cassarion. The minute of thz proceedings (proces rerhal) of the I sitting of the Court of Assize during the trial had been signed by the members composing the Court, a short time after the Colonel's condemnation. This minute, however, betrayed several important and, at the lime time, inten tional omisgions, arising out of the contrivances of the Procureur-General to hide every trace of his flagitious conduct. It makes no mention of the circumstance of the moustachios of the Colonel. There is no notice taken of the formal requisition of the Procureur-General, demand ing les moustaches of the Colonel to be shaved, nor of the order given by the President, in virtue of his discretionary power, " pour fur lc Colonel remit so . figure dans le meme etat uu ,Ile etait avail la Conspiration," (in 1822). The account given in the journals of this incident had, how ever, shown the Procureur-General that it was impossible to conceal it from the knowledge of the public, and that inevitably the props verbal would make mention of it. file consequence was, that a long marginal note was made on the minute of the proceedings, in which t..is circutn stance of cutting off the moustachios is reported, but with out mentioning the requisition formally made by the Pro cureur-General for that purpose. A difficulty bete arose. The reference ordered in pursuance of the minute turned out not to be signed by the members of the Ce-urt : to obviate this irregularity, the Procureur-General, Ma xot N, thought fit to make out a fresh minute of the proceedings, in which there appeared neither the several marginal notes nor erasures that were in the former one, but in which was expressed, in the body of the minute, and as making an integral part of the text, the reference (renvoi) relative to the moustachios, which figured in the margin of the original document, that hail tint been signed by the members of the Court. The President and two Counsel. lots, MM. DE LA GAIILIE and G•tmtils, had subscribed their attestation to this new instrument, relying on its con_ sistency with the first initiate, thus corrected and recti_ fled; but another Counsellor, M. Ductos, refused to sign this minute, having discovered its nonconformity with the original. M. GacTuica, who had already signed tha new minute in confidence, without reading it, indignant at the deceit practised upon him, went instantly to the Re gistry, and there, with his own hands, tore out the, fraudulent minute, and retired with the sheet to which his signature had been thus unsuspectingly affixed. All these circumstances, it may well be supposed, occasioned considerable delay ; the ten days had already expired, and the Kecrcr of the Seals had written to Poitiers, to de. mond the rapers, and complained of the delay in their being transmitted. In this pressing emergency, the Pre cureur-General, Ma NoIN, hit on the expedient of sending to the Court of Cassation, not a note of the proceedings (preens verbal), but merely a copy, signed by the l'resi dent and the Register, in which copy he had introduced the very points which the Counsellors had refused to sanction ; that is, he introduced into the body of the act, the re ference in the margin, ,net siipte, which had been appended to the original document. There is not, perhaps, on the records of judicial process, another example of a proceeding so perfidious, impudent, and infamous. Several Counsellors of the Cour Royale de Poitient have most strongly expressed their indignation; and it is expected that the President, as well as the Pro cureur-General, will be cited to appear before the Ministre de la Jtstice, to give an account of their nefarious conduct. That the Procureur-General was conscious that his pro ceedings had been tne.t atrocious is evident fr.am the con temptible manamvres he has had recourse to, to keep them out of sight. These men are not content with lopping the branches of liherty,—they cut down the tree ; they set at &firmer, not may the forms of law, hut the claims of natural justice. All this, however, has its influence on the progress of events; and France, if its rulers continue to persevere in theirpresent system, will assuredly Rink again under the weight of its own corruption and abuses, and risk again the miseries of revolution. Tut REVENUE.—The ini quarter just ended is— „h3 Auctions - Ll 4 An lon Paper recce in the Excise for the 1 teer £31.295 57.7:11 I Printed (lands and Tiles 41013 Seep Cardin 4.07 Spirits. British Glass - 1^ 4 4 2 Dino. Frith 31 . .503 I Tobseeo an2gaufr 10.741 - 130.111 Tea - - 1.1 - 01 (SN, ) SPANTSII RETVGEES.—A meetin:: of the Spanish Itc fngees' Committee will be held this day at the city of London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, at two o'clock. Much interest is excited respecting the New Mexican Loan, which is expected in the money market on or before the 7th of next month. 41.147 - - 11..711 310.203 76.4 t M al i Miss Foorr..—The re-engagement of this lady at Co vent-garden Theatre is no longer doubtful. The pert in which she is to appear is already settled, and has no lonbt been selected as likely to create a strong sympathy in favour of this charming actress, from the similarity in in cident nldclt the part she will sustain bears to the secret history of her own severe trials. The piece of Smiles and Tears has been szlected for the occasion ; smith will be recollected, that the .part of the daughter, the victim of maluction, afforded her the first important opportunity of winning, by her talent, that general popularity as an actress, which had previously been accorded to bee per sonal attractions. With the precise day of her appearance, though fixed, we do not profess to be aegnainted.—Eren iag Paper. Mrs. and Miss Foote ate continuing their stay in Brighton. and much curiosity hail been manifested to ob tain a tight of the latter at the theatre, where she has oc cupied a had every night, we believe, since our last. We hear that Miss Foote is engaged at Covent-garden, and will make her appearance at that theatre in about a fortnight. It is curious that apartments were taken at the York Ilotel, a few days ago, for Mr. Ilayne, but, as we learn front the London papers of yesterday, he has been prevented, by in disposition, from coining. It now appears that it in not his intention to move for a new trial, and therein, we think, he does wisely. Colonel Bnkeley was staying at the above hotel a week or two since.—Brighton Gazelle. I'he inhabitants of Cheltenham are much alarmed at the rtported intention of a celebrated sporting Colonel to go abroad, for two or three years, until the conversation caused by recent tramactiams shall have wholly subsided. Among the 11...rkeley Hunt the affair has already caused some very unpleasant feelings, snd more than one of the field have already seceded. - _ -_ THE NEW AMERICAN STATES. The great measure which has at length been ad o p te d Lv his Majesty's Government, of making comm erc i a l treaties ' with certain of the South American States, whil e it answers the just expectations of the whole British Einpire, C4ll ix. cite no surprise in foreign Cabinets. It is now nearly twelve montlis since his Maj esty, i n th e speech which was delivered by the Lords Commi ss i oners ti, both Houses of Parliament, used the following language upon the subject:— " With respect to the Provinces of America which have deel set 4 their separation from Spain, his 31arestj's conduct has beets rim and consistent ; and his opinions have been at all times frankly avowed to Spain and to other Powers. " His :Majesty has appointed Consuls to reside at the prineirj porta and places of those Provinces, for the protection of the tea,., 'Allis subjects. " As to any further measures, his Majesty has reserved to hirr,. self an unfettered discretion, to be ex:wised es the circumstancist those countries and the jute:este of his own people may appe ar his Majesty cc require." At a stilt earlier period (the 31st March. 1823) the lame language was hold. In Mr. Canning's letter to Sir Challis Stuart, of the above date, wu the following paragraph : — '• With respect to the Provinces in A . nicriu which have home, off their allegiance to the Crown of Spam, time, and the course t events, appear to have eulrstamially decided their separation (m e; the mother country ; although the formal recognition of those Province% as inqependent States, by his Majesty, may be hasten': or retarded by various external eireunistar.ces, as well as by the more or less satisfactory progress in each State towards a regular and settled form of government. Spain has burg been &sere tit jet Majesty's opinions upon this subject." Again, in Mr. Canning's despite]. to S:r W. A'c on , t , dated the Foreign Office, Jan. 30, 1,424, the ,nest unre served communication was made of the policy which ore Government had prescribed to itself with regard to South America. " As to any further step," observes Mr. Canning, in ore r 1 an, to be taken by his Majesty towards the acknowledgment to th e defireto Governments of America. the decision must (as has ahead. been staled, more than once, to Spain and other Powers) depera awn various circumstances, and, among others, upon the reports which the British Government snort receive of the octal state et affairs in the several American provinces. " But it appears manifest to the British Government that if si large a portion of the globe shnuld remain much longer without any recognised political existence, or any definite political connexion with the established Governments of Europe, the comequences td such a state of things must be at once roost enobaerassing to those Governments, and most injurious to the interests of all European nations. " For them reasons, and not from mere views of selfish policy, the British Gwyn nment is desidedly of ochiiin., that the rmoznition of such of the new States as have estah'i,lied. ik facto, their , eparate political existence, cannot be much longer delayed." The whole of tl.ese documents were laid upon the table of both houses of Parliament, and consequently have been long before the public. Such has been the frank, consistent, and steady course of Ministers upon this momentous subject ; a course which must at once protect the British Government against the suspicion of having hail any purpose to conceal from Spain or from the world. Our intentions have been explicitly declared from the first; and the execution of them was made contingent upon two events only—the actual condition of the South American Stater, and the interests of his 31a jesty'a subjects. With respect to the former, if we look at the present situation of Men.ieo and Colombia, it must be admittest that both these States afford convincing evidence of their stability. In Mexico, we have seen :he enterprise of her. bide 'slushed with as little difficulty as if he had landed upon the coasts of France to effect the overthrow of the French Government. An anomalous and heterogeneous Constitution bas been replaced by one, which, in all its es sential forms ' Stalls. resembles that of the United Stas. The Government has been regularly installed, by the public voice, obtained in a due mariner from the various Pro vinces constituting the Mexican State. A President and Vice-President have been elected ; the Cortes assemlded; tranquillity restored and maintained ; and all the functions of a duly-organised Government are carried on without interruption. The case, with regard to Colombia, is still stronger. We find there a regniar and settled form of Government, which has subsisted for severs! years under the same head, and with the same institutions, modified only, front time m time, as practical improvements suggested themselves in their internal adiniuistration. It is true, that the war in Peru has not yet been attended by any decisive result ; hut its progress, hitherto, has been such as not only to remove any fear which might have been e nrertain. a with reap, ct to its being carried into the Colombian territory itself, but, also, td furnish the strongest grounds foe cal culating upon final success. Thus, with respect to Mexico and Colombia, the firs condition which his Majesty's Government revireel, as a motive to recognition, is fully completed. These States have made that satisfactory prof/nes towards a regular and settled form of government, which was a necessary prelimi nary to the concluding of tiny relations between them and tu. The time has arrived, when the recognition of their separate political existence could no longer be delayed. 'flue time, too, has certainly arrived, when, to use the language of his Majesty's Speech at the opening of the last Session of Parliament, " the interests of his owu people" have imperiously called for this measure. The commer cial transactions between this country and South America generally, but more particularly with Buenos Ayres, Mexico, and Colombia, are extensive, and rapidly increas ing. A vast amount of British capital is endatked in various channels of enterprise, as relates to those countries. The great Mining Companies that have been established for the workins of mines in Colombia, in Mexico, and the La Plata provinces—the pearl fishery in the first of these States—and other undertakings, which it is unnecessary to recapitulate—constitute a mass of British interests too im portant, in every point of view, to remain without that protection which will necessarily grow out of the relations now about to be established. It is obvious, therefore, that this great measure could no longer be delayed, consistently with the principlts by which our Government had, from the first, avowed its detertaiustien to be guided ; and the sdcption of it is to be regarded only as the necessary consequence of those principles. An official communication of this decision has, we un derstand, been made to all our Allies through our Ambas sadors and Jiinisters at their respective Courts. With respect to the mode of carrying it into efFect, little requiees to be said. Mr. Warde will proceed immediately toldexico, with full powers to himself and to Mr. Morier. who is already there, to conclude a commercial treaty with that lboveniment. Colonel tkimpbell, in like manner, will return to Ctlimbia, and, in conjunction with Colonel Ifs =ikon, who is still at Bogota, will proceed to uegociate with the Colombian GGverinnent a ' 'lar treaty of coin ureic With respect to Buenos Arres, we understand that, at a period anterior to the recent Cabinet deliberations npon thy Ilubject of Meld,* and Colombia, measures had been adopt ed calculated to lead to similar results, and we should nut he surprised to find our commercial relations with the L. Plata Provinces ratified before those can be which have been entered into with Colombia and Mexico. It msy be nercsuarv, in conclusion, as we have heard some doubts expressed upon the saject, to read to the re collection of our readers what we stated as far back as the stoth of last August. ti'e then observed, that the "osiy formality that would be gore through whenesa we slid recognise these States, would be the negotiation of a com mercial treaty. For that purpose a Minister Must be ap pointed. lit that alone will consist the act of recognition." Courier. Hia Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland left Hano ver on the day before Christmas Eve, to return to Berlin, by wav of Brunswick. His Royal Highness intended to be at Berlin on Christmas Day. The Chancellor of the Exchequer came to town yester day from Beckenham. Mr. Plano, the Under-Secretary of State for the Foreign Department, transacted basun:to: with the Right Hon. Gentleman . yesterday. The New England and An ti-Galliesw Coffee-houses. Threadneedle-street, are to be thrown into one splendid coffee-room, under the denomination of the North and South American Hotel, where every publication and infor mation relative to the rising Republics will he regular:a filed. We understand this nxtemave establishment will be conducted by five resis..etable merchants as a committee. and by Mr. Davies, the present proprietor of the New , England Coffee-hous e . - t .... T -~