The Sun. — London, England, 1823-04-04 00:00:00

PARIS PAPERS. 31Ancu 29. 'FROM TM ; cOunan rnAsicass.) •, On Sunday there was a „Council of Ministers, held after the arrival of a courier who, some say, came from Perpignan, and others from Berlin: : ;.On the ..breaking.up of the council, pacific report. ,were circulated. FYesterday there was a renewal , of the rumours to :which :we diave alluded respect.. ing the mediation said to have been solicited froM Austria—a mediation which, joined to that of England, would be eagerly accepted. An aato _graph letter, which the King of Spain is, •at the suggestion of Sir William A'Court, to write to the French Government to induce it not to make war, is also the subject of. conversation. Theie decorous pretexts for not commencing hostilities it is said, would be eagerly et - nriice.d by even the partisans of the war, who within. these some days, past have .reverted to more moderate senti ments. There are, however, some men ,who persist in their wish for war, and to whom the • .first 'measures of General Dijeon's administratioa have given much displeasure. One of the Aides-tie-Camp of General Guil leminot arrived' on Sunday,' under the conduCt of an officer of Gendarmerie. Yesterday the natives of the South of France assembled in great numbers. They proceeded 'as a deputation to their illustrious countryman, isl. Manuel, to express to him the sentiments of the high esteem which they entertain for his patriotism, his courage, and his talents. [senora Tilt CONSTITUTIQNNEIA • • On .Sunday, between three and four o'clock, a .• considerable crowd collected in front of the Petit- Pout of the - Hotel Dieu. was occasioned, it a ppears..by- a quarrel between , a citizen and a Swiss Guard; the former had maltreated and • wounded the foreign soldier. The post of the .Petit-Pont was speedily filled with troops, as well ,as the environs. Tranquility was not in . other respects troubled, but .numerous .aentinels remained posted during the night. [roost THE rit.oTE.) • There is. again a talk of a demand of 50,000 men, by anticipation, upon the conscription of 1823, which will be made to the Chamber. 'A private letter from Bayonne, dated the 27th, ult., informs us that the Trappist has been en tirt•ly defeated near Irun, and has returned to Bayonne, followed only by one servant. It adds t hat General Quesada, who had passed the Cron . tier, has also beets completely beaten. . t , %dvices from the frontier, dated the 23d and 24th tilt. state, that two attempts have been made - against Ilan by the combined bands of Gorostidi and the Trappist, who only succeeded in burn ing two houses. The Constitutional troops has arrived and put the aggressors to flight. Letters from Pampeluna, dated the 17th ult., 'tote that. Colonel Pablo, with GO horse,' attacked. body of the factious, consisting of 100 cavalry, Mont Real, of whom they made 27 prisoners, • nd took 56 horses, and various articles of mill» ry clothing. ".liitelligence from St. Sebastian, dated the 23d tilt., announces the arrival in that district of Ge neral Bat lasteros. On the 26th ult. the Police Commissaries of Ltordeanst proceeded to an hotel in that town to ~ arrest an individual who had been denounced by superior .authority. They, however, only seized two boxes belonging to him, as he had escaped. A letter from Havre, dated the 31st ultistates e!sat an order has been received in that port to enrol the coast-guards. His Excellency the Minister of Marine, has charged the Commissary. of Marine to 'inform the - commercial interests, that a frigate will sail from the Isle of Aix to convoy merchant ships, and that another will sail-from 13rest On the 14th of May, after which no man of war will take charge , of convoys until the month of September. This, information has spread consternation in the mer- .cantile community, .0.110, seeing that there will' be no ships of war for the .protection of their veSsels during an interval of four months, will beil obliged to dismantle them. it is known, on positive authority, that privateers have beets .fitted. out at Plymouth and Liverpool, which only await orders to snit. " Extract of a Letter from Marseilles, dated 26th of March, 1823 Agreeably to my promise, I hasten to make known to you what !has passed in this town since the scandalous scene of the 18th inst.. On the following day, the theatre was closed by order of theittaborities. Certum people were thus extremely disappointed!", for they had projected the renewal of these did orders, They are not men, however, to be easily discouraged ; :and accordingly they reserved themselves for the day of the ar rival of General Bridle, which took . place on Sunday, the 22t1 instant. Whilst the hand of the regiment was honouring hen. with a serenade, cries of " Down with the Liberaux I—War , wit 6 the English I"—were re-echoed. Ptiblic tranquillity was nut disturbed ; but a coffee-house was closed as a measure of pre cautien. Two other serenades were given to the General on Mondry and Tuesday, which were only interrupted by some cries et War for ever!" The public saw ,with pleasure that the authorities had taken steps to prevent provocation, and it was even remarked that M. the Mayor was amongst the crowd of peirims whom curiosity: bad drawn together, It was not doubted thathe was' present. with the view of ascertaining pub lic opinion, and what were .the views of the respectable class and party men. lie might have convinced himself that airiongst those who shouted ‘, War for ever I" there were some unknown characters, and others who are well ki.own, either by their former conduct or by the derangement of their affairs. iviult is said in certain groups shout the stay on whiclitherrand '»Ptindirnev will take place; that is to say, a sort of violence whicit certain persons would offer in a certain case, to the opi .nions of thoSe who wish for and demand peace. But I know, from a goad soterce, that superior authority ia inthrmed of these -projects, and that no attack upon the liberty of citizens will be allowed. Vigilance and firmness in this quarter may certainly be.dependftt upon. With regard to my self, r I await. the day of the grand rand4ago without apprehenston t I shall not fail to take my customary walk to the guard-house, to learn the ar. rival. from sea, which daily decrease. All the porters are thrown out of work. The artisans, and the whole industrious chattel here, who are friends of order, unite with the mer- A:bent and lendlimprietor in ardent wishes that peace may not be disturbed. M. Martainville has resigned the editorship of the Drapeau Blanc for that of the QuOlidienne. The Memorial Bearaais announces that her Royal Highness Madame was to arrive at Bor deaux on the 6th iostant. This journal adds, that the geotlemeo of the mouth and glass, at. ..tentlant upon her Royal Highness, were expected to precede her by three days. - Marsbal..Belluno, Minister of War, and Major -General of the invading army, was at Bordeaux the -0 8th ult. on his way to Bayonne. He did scot make any stay.. [lmam TUE INCOME_ There is no longer a veil over the future, and yet men are found who wish to .retake it be be lieved that , uncertiiinty etists - in the dispositionl of the Government. This tactic is trite. In time of pence they proclaim ‘var—in time of war they cry up pence. They would thereby deprive the Government of that moral strength which they know to be so necessary to.empires. But it is in vain that "these inf-n continuo their system' of deception. The Royal words will be accom plished, and a .Frenell army, triumphant over revolution, will become the firm bulwark of legitimacy. .To-morrow the demand for- the army of reserve will be made, and ere the lapse of a few days, "the -words of a son of I...rance, uttered in a solemn moment, Will be,eagorly re-echoed by the Royalists of Spain and France. They will be worthy or France., anti the cause -which She is about to defend. His Excellency the Duke de Belluno, Major-. General of the French army, passed through Bourdeaux on the morning of the 2Sth ult., on his route to the army of Spain. General Guilleminot cbritinues with the Duke d'Angouleme, in the quality of chief of the staff. Her Royal Highness Madame will set off to morrow (Wednesday) morning, nt ten o'clock, from the castle of the Tuileries. Evnom TUE QUOTIDIENNE.I Her Royal Highness the Duchess d'Angouleme will set otf on Wednesday. She will be accom panied by Madame the Duchess de Damns, Madame the Viscountess d'Agoult, and Madame the Marchioness de Hiroo, ladies of her house hold, and by the Marquis tie Vibraye, and M. tha. Viscount d'Agoult, gentlemen of honour. His Royal Highness the peke d'Angouleme returned to Toulouse from Perpignan on the 25t ult. at half-past 2 o'.elock. At noon on Maundy- Thursday (27th ult.) the Prince Generalissimo set off for Bayonne. A report from Marshal Moncey, which has reached Government, contradicts all the state. wilts from the frontiers which have been recently circulated, and gives the best idea of the spirit of the soldiers, and the most positive and fa vourable information respecting the situation of the army. Notwithstanding the affection with which the Liberal Journals have remarked upon the manner in*which the last Royal Ordinances are counter signed, we again say, that M. the Marshal Duke de Belluno has not ceased to he . Minister of War. TRIBUNAL OF THE CORRECTIONAL POLICE. Messrs. Rouen, Sensier, Sang, Parra, - Charlear, anti Des lopes, appeared this day before the Court, on a charge of having uttered seditious cries on the day of M. Manuers exclusion from the Chamber. A great number of witnestes were heard on both sides, but the further hearing was adjourned. The responsible editor of the Lunes Pa ririenneo has been sen tenced by the 7th Chamber to two months' imprisonment, and a tine of 300 francs. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.—Stymo or 3lanctt 31. During the transaction of some preliminary business, the Pre sident of the Council, the Keeper of the Seals, the Ministers for Foreign Aflitirs, for the Interior, .and for ,Marine, and Count Dijeon, charged with the portiyhtille of the war department, were introduced and took their seats. The discussion which was fixed for the day was the law of Finances, and it was opened by 11. de Labourdonnaye, whp, in a speech of considerable length, contended that the budget, being presented in time of war, and yet, not including all the expenditure required for a period of peace, was, in reality, a mere fiction, which did not deserve the honour of serious cession. The object was to create a false impression as to the real state of the finances of the country. He then proceeded to animadvert upon the tardy and indecisive policy of M. de Vil la! with regard to anti upon the failure of his promises, when he entered the :Ministry, that Royalist principles should obtain a signal triumph. " Are we," continued M. do Labourdonnaye, " to regard, as the triumph of Royalist doctrines, those long and ridiculous efforts at conciliation between an active revolution and the King whom it has dethroned ?—conciliation, whose success would only teach the factious of every country that it is merely necessary to succeed in overturning every thing, in order, after wards, to obtain every thing front a short-sighted policy, which seemed to replace royalty on the throne only the more to hunts. hate it. Are we to consider as the triumph of Royalist doe trines, that ambulatory diplomacy, placed in the rear of our army, to watch for a moment of. eakness, and to seize upon con ciliation, by surprise, which would now be the more odious, be cause it would seem less the result of the free will of the mo narch, who has always rejected it, than of that weariness of captivity, now the snore goring from the barbarity of being dragged from dungeon to dungeon ? Are ,we to regard as the triumph of Royalist doctrines, the impunity of those provoca tions to disobedience in the army, which all France has witnes sed ? Are we to regard. as the triumph of royalist doctrines, the impunity of those attacks against every thing which is most au. gust in France, and which has so long been permitted in the columns of certain journals ?" Adverting to the preparations made for carrying on the war against Spam, M. de Lahourdonnive thus proceeded : " Undetermined as to your projects, you dare not either en tirely get rid of a war which it would be too dangerous now to abandon, nor ,yet enter upon it et once, in the spirit of decisive enterprise, which you know not how to manage, which you cannot conduct with sufficient vigour to be certain of success. Titus, by the most. astonishing, the most fatal contradiction, the army, full of ardour, remains upon ourirontier, and no measures are yet taken to lead it rapidly to the spot where the Spanish revolution should be decided. Illy the same astonish ing and fatal contradiction, the apparent preparations. are for war. while the real ones are for peace. You attil remain upon your own territory, where two seas unite to give every flicaity for establishing magueines, which you have had s i x mont h s to prepare, and already „your cavalry is in want of forage, and the most urgent want is felt on very side." Bxclamations on the right and the right contre—" False ! false I Leave those impostures to the Revolutionary Jour nals 1" A voice--" That is not said from the Tribune." M. de. Labourtionnaye.--" I say it because I. am certain of Several voices,—" It should not be said, even if it were Tue." Other Memders—" Happily it is false." M. de Labourdonnaye contined, and complained that under a Royalist Ministry all the various offices were not given to per. sons sufficiently devoted, sufficiently energetic, to cause the law s to be executed. Re concluded with the followin„ _fi• declaration " Limited to the single power of' refusing my suffrage, I vote against the project of - law, because the system of finance upon which it is founded is destructive of credit, burdensome to the Treasury,. and-tharrotts to the -Timms.- i vote against tt be cause it would be compromising the interests of Prance ' anti of the legitimate dynasty, to grant to the Presidentef the Council of Ministers the means of perpetuating a system of imbecility and temporising, whieh,is dragging us rapidly into revolution, by means of anarchy." Several voices on the right called fir the printing of the speech; but a greater nutnber exclaimed, of no:" - The question for printing WWI put to the vote, and rejected by an immense trivority. M. Delacroix-Frainville, and other mem hers of the left centre, united with the great majority of the right, and the whole of the right centre, in voting against the motion. The extreme left of the Chamber continues to be deserted, and its benches are filled with the Deputies of the right. - The President of the Council of Ministers immediately re. plied—Gentlemen, I Intaint this tribune solely for the purpose of explaining some facts which have been brought forward by the former Speaker, and the Ilubliention of which might have unpleasant consequences on public credit and on the general state of our Finances. The orator you have heard accuses the Minister of Finance of having presented a fictitious Budget fir i 8 4, a Budget in which the expellees are estimated; notwithstanding the ap. pearance of an approaching war, at a sum insufficient for a state of peace. I have only one answer, to make to this Maser. Lion. By the Budget for 1824, the same luta is allowed to each Minister, as he is eharged to employ in the service of his Department for 1824 calculated for a state of peace. If the last Speaker means, by a fictitious Budget, that, in 1824, we shall be in a state of war, and that therefore theestim a t e d ex pences will not be large enough, he. ought clearly to have ex plained this. M. de la Bourdonnaye said, I stated that the Budget , would be insufficient even for a state of . peace, and particularly with the reductions which the Committee propose in- the departmental of the war and of the - navy. M. de Villele—lt is a Budget for peace which we have pre sented to the Chamber, and we have clearly explained ourselves on this subject. When,, at the beginning of 1823, it was fore-. seen that there might he expences .in that year which would render the calculations for 1822 insufficient, we demanded a supplemental and eventual credit of .100. million francs, we ex. planted ourselves on this subjectin axnanner not at all equivo., cal. We made two parts of our expences and ourrevenue, we' said (and this contains the most positive answer which can be made to the allegations the Chamber has heard), we said— 1 " The taxes are only necessary to cover the interest of the' debt, provide for its increase, and meet the ordinary expences of the year ; by loans we are to provide for that part of the tem porary and extraordinary expences for which the produce.of taxes would not be sufficient without overburthening the people, injuring prosperity, and re-production, and consumption.'" These are the very words .we used in explaining the motives. for the financial regulations. It is, however, asserted, and insisted on, that the'war, even supposing it terminated in - 1824, will leave the Minister of War : very much in arrear. Ought we not rather to suppose, on the, contrary, that if the war is terminated in 1824, the Minister of War will have superabundant funds? The cavalry has been spoken of s But even admitting that in the present state of things we shall he obliged to purchase a large number of horses, it seems to me that some of them will remain far-1824, and that at least, the expence of the remounts will be diminished by the number of horses preserved, and that it will not be tie• cessary to aquire any more. The moteiye/ has been spoken of,; I reply to this also, that, at the end of, 1023, we are eo happy as to . hitve funs e le war, we shall possess a ver valuable materiel, compared with what we before possessed,.ior we have been obliged to expend con siderable sums in purchasing materiel. - The necessary increase in the number of our soldiers, a nd consequently in their pay, has also been mentioned. Was it for the Government, after being obliged to demand so many mo mentary sacrifices fbr 1823, to f oresee an augmentation in the number of troops for 1024 ? No. The Government could not foresee, at such a distance, this augmentation, and demand of you the sacrifices necessary to provide for this augmentation. Its duty, therefore, was to restrict itself to the estimates for 1823, the last year of peace to which the expence of future years could be compared. There is nothing false;therefore, in the budget for 1824. It has been said that a reserve of 24 millions should have been carried to the budget of 11124, as compared with former budgets. To make this assertion more evident to die Chamber, it was: added, that the only reason why the Minister would not make_ this reserve, was because he did not - know how to contain him self at the display of a trifling advantage of a raving (economic) of 43 millions. It is hi this manner they speak of the . 43 millions which at the expiration of 1022 remained in the Treasury unappropri ated; but the word saving ( economic), which was designedly used to render the allegation supportable, is not the proper word. Whatever may be said, of the 43 millions here in ques tion, it is certain that at the end of 1022 was in the Treasury and disposable. Neither in the report to the Kink, nor in the. speechesof the Ministers in the Chamber, will you find that this excess of 43 millions is represented as an actual seeing. A' Minister can never justly boast of having effected a saving till he has been fortunate enough to carry on the service for a less sum than he had been allowed ; but this was not the case with the excess in question. No Minister can boast of having ef fected a -, saving of 43 millions, fbr this sum is merely the,. excess of the revenue above the expenditure ; it does not pro ceed from a lessening of expence but from an 'increase .of revenue. A large part of the speech to irtlich I have..to -reply has teen devoted to represent the T .Treasury, and the finance s in such a state that it is impossible to provide for the most urgent wants.; that the Treasury is at the mercy of creditors for sums about to become due, and has maintained that oar only resource was to profit by the rise in the public funds, to.sell our. renter at a high, The orator has certainly never' had the , intention of accusing us of the present situation of the 'finances, as far tis public credit is concerned, and yet he reproaches the present ;Minister of Fi nance with ulterious contradictions. •He says to Isitn.—" You borrow to-day on terminable securities, (valenrs d eelleancer and formerly you were among. the first to thew how very .4an gerois were such sorts of loans. _ _ I am not afraid that the speech I.formerly delivered fromthis . Tribune, should be opposed to what I .say at present. I can point out to you with the same s in cer i t y, t h e motives which formerly dictated my remarks and thoSe which now dictate them. A t that time, I suggested to the Aliniater of Finance to do, what.l would. immediately do, if I had the Power. .1 said to him, " The price of the Rentes is high, you Are in a state of peace and prosperi. ty, which nothing is likely, to interrupt, And still, for mere speculation, you preserve 200 millions of floating debt rather than negotiate those Ratites of which you have the disposal. It is because I foresaw the lipecies of financial embarrassment in which we are at. present, that •1 ..then said the operati o n t h e y were carrying on was injuri ous t o t h e i nterests of tire State." I said, since you can make the operation definitive, and nego tiate your Rentes at an advantageous orate, sell them imme diately, and do not allow the future to remain loaded with a floating debt of 'NO millions. 'I said then, as In a late speech, that the ordinary revenues •of the Stateought to cover the or dinary expenditure, and that.the loans ought only to be had re course to .for the extraordinary expenditure. For these latter it:is necessary to preserve the means of credit unimpaired. There is not, therefore, Gentlemen, any contradiction on my part. It is for the general interest, It is Part of a good financial system to convert as much as possible the debt into a funded debt, when it can be done at a reasonable rate; but I have always thought, that when weighty circumstances prevent such an operation, it is necessary to have recourse to the only sup. portable means which are authorized by the circumstances of the moment. Mathes happened ? The wears are.to bepaid in money ; the first fifth has been postponed, and its reimbursement will not incommode us ; fort will take place by terminable annul. ties, so that we cannot suffer any actual difficulty, but the li. quidation of these arrears came at a time when there remained in the hands of the Finance Minister about twelve millions of Rented for the payment of what was due to foreigners. To this expence another has succeeded equally extraordinary. the le. comit y of paying the last 100 millions of the expence of oc. cupation. We.have since had to pay the second fifth of the promissory notes (reconnais sanees de liquidation.) Now we have the expence of another war to support by loans. . The payment of the expellee of the foreign occupation was not concluded when the first promissory notes expired. The Annuities terminated at the end of lust December, and then the Rentes which represented them were sold. The whole of 1822 has been taken up with realizing the loan destined to pay so many promissory notes, as the last 100 millions due to foreigners, and it .was only at the end of 1822 that cir cumstances arrived which made It necessity to issue Rentes. Hut, I ask, was a sale of Helices possible at this period ? Was it possible, honourably, to do it, even if it had been in fact possible. And if the Government had permitted itself to do it, would the Conditions of the bargain have been kept by the lenders ? Gentletnen, your consciences have already replied, and you are convinced, that nothing can be imputed to the Minister on account of our financial situation. But is this situation what has been described by thettreceding_ speaker ? Was it necessary to paint it in such dark colours ? To clear up this matter, I must give the Chamber turd the public some explanation., in order to make known what is in fact the . true situation of the Government, as. to its finances. In laying before you the state of the Treasury at this time, I shall sufficiently refute the dangerous) allegations of the last speaker (M. de la flourdonnaye), and the consequences which he says will happen to the army of the Pyrenees ; this Gentle mm has stated that the army is in want .of every thing, the Climber shall judge of its real state. The Trcasury has Made some advances on the Rentes which you created to pay both the arrears and the extraordinary ex- Pences of thornilitaty service of 1023. This sum of Rentes is raised, as I‘l, de lit Bourdormaye has said, to 23 millions, but he has forgotten in this enumeration, thnt a Jean was destined to'meet debts which fortunately are not yet tide, and which will not be till after this year. Again, the Treasury has paid with. out selling any names, for which I have given the Chamber the reason. It has paid, I say, seventy millions of protnis sory notes ( reconnoissances (lf liquidation ), which became due last year, and to meet which a new loan has been made. The Government has still to pay a new sum of seventy mil lions of renter which became due on the 25th of March, this year; anti it unites with this service half of the rents inscribed in the great book. Now there remain to the Treasury to pay on the promissory notes; 10,&00,000 francs to bearers who have not presented themselves. There also remains 'to pay on half of the perpetual debt, 27,500,000 francs, for which the annuitants 7 have not pres ented themse l ve s but the accounts are made u p Thus having provided for all the service, and reimbursed 140 millions of promi ssory notes that • were due, the Treasury still owes a sum of 38 millions lions to meet all the payments. The ob ligations of the Treasury are clear ; the following are the re sources to which it has had recourse to fulfil them. The Royal Treasury demanded of the Bank of France 100 millions, which it lent ,at a most reasonable interest. It is not, however, but an open credit, and on the 100 millions that are at his disposal, the Minister of the Finances has only yet demanded fifty, and, fi fty more remain to him to touch ; and i t i s out othese fifty millions that he will pay' the thirty-eight for which no adequate provision is made.— Still the public Treasury had to provide for other expences,l and these are the extraordinary expenses for which we demanded of you an eventual credit of one hundred millions. It mkt I not be tho ug h t t h at t h e Mi n ister believed this s u m o f 100 j Zillions sufficient to meet all the expences of the war. Ile was before hand aware that there must be on such an - occasion sums proportioned to the extraordinary expenses for which there might be need. Thus having treated with the Bank for 100 millions, it treated with several other Bankers for fortrmore. These two loans form altogether 140 millions, which represent the sum paid by the Treasttly for the two first-fifths of the promissory notes. The conditions on which the Treasury has treated are not those • supposed by thOast speaker ; for these funds have been granted at we per Cent. interest, and there is allowed a commission of one-eighth for Abu months to the pe rs o n w h o b e i ng c h arge d with these funds..is alone to negociate about them. The Tres sury'has eveifiiven'up issuing other bills while this sale shall continue. This has not been attended with difficulty to it, for after having provided.for its wants, it has no other negociation to make. The following is the.total amount of the issue of these bills:— There has been given .to , the Bank, in exchange Francs. for 50 millions, which it lent, a like sum of Bills 50,000,000 In the Chest for Deposits, with which we con stantly keep a Current Account, 5 millions of Royal Bills - . - 5,000,000 In the Marine Chest . 4,000,090 To different Correspondents of the Treasury - 10,009,000 To the person who treated for the 40 millions, that arc to be instantly furnished us J,000,000 Total - 7 8 , 000 , 0 0 0 Of these 78 millions, - 19 are in circulation. As for the rate of interest at which these sums have been agreed for, it is vari ous, from 8. 1 to 4 and S per cent. Now then the sitpation of the Treasury is perfectly established. Of the 100 millions that we borrowed from the Dank, only 50 have ,been touched; there still remain 50 to receive : the demands on the Treasury are 3/3 millions only ; and there will be an overplus of 12 millions to meet its future wants. M. de Vauklanc, and' M. de St. Cricq, Royal Commissary and Director-General of Customs, followed, after which the discussion was adjourned till the following day. . CHAMBER. OP DEPUTIES, APRIL 1. The sitting opened at two o'clock, and the assembly pro. ceeded to the Order of the Day on the Project of the Law of the Finances for lON. A long anti tedious disatission took place on a point of order, which terminated in M. Leroux de Uhatelet reading a long dis course, in wliicli, after dilating on the war with Spain, the r e . volution, the Carbonari, an d the Minister, he concluded by moving several amendments. M. Straforells then read a discourse in favour of the law. M. de Bouville followed, anti proposed as an amendment, that 240 millions should be raised, and placed at the disposal of the Minister, redeemable according to a plan which he sub mitted. Be then suggested a system of finance to remedy the inconvenience arising from the creation of renter. (This sys tem will be fully developed on the discussion of the amend ment.) M. de Villele began by eulogizing the suggestion of M. de Bouville, to whose system lie nevertheless was decidedly o p. posed. 'We have, said Al. de Villele, hut two modes of supply.. mg our wants--by taxes, for meeting the ordinary demands on Government, and by the creation of rentes for supplying the de ficiency of such taxes. The only difficulty felt by Government at this moment is, the having an accumulation of such 'elites on hand. But the inconvenience is, nevertheless, not so dan gerous as is represented. We have at present an issue of renter to the amount of 180 millions; of' these 66 millions are already rendered immoveable, and the redemption fund operates on the remaining 114 millions, with a capital of 80 millions.— Since the .Ist of January that fund has not been shackled by any further issue. M. de Villele concluded by declaring that the State was ra pidly approaching towards the point at which it will be com pletely liberated from difficulty. Our situation is altogether transient.; it is not the effect of war—it is that of threatened war, and of the uncertainties which attend that menace ; and that which is most greatly dreaded by the French is—incerti tude. lie finally expressed his belief and hope that this ex planation would be satisfactory to the Chamber, and dissipate the general inquietude. M. Hyde de Neuville, with extraordinary volubility, read a discourse, in Whichlie declaimed with ',Treat treat against the re volution and the tyranny of office, which he termed the ultimus moriens. Ile complained loudly that there hail been no efficient reduction in the expenses of the administration of the Interior, whilst the funds of the Office for Foreign Affairs were insuffi vient to maintain the honour of the nation.—(lnterruption by Protracted iwals of laughter.) M. Hyde de Neuvill - C.-1 don't conic here to plead my cause 'peak of subalterns. This Deputy at length concluded a speech of an hour and a half,during which the greater part of die Members had quitted the Hali. The Sitting closed at 6 o'clock. BOVIIDEAUX, MAncir 2D' Madame the Duchess of An gouleme will arrive at Bourdeaux on Sunday, the 6th of April, We give this news as positive, at once to remove all incertitude, and to satisfy the impatience of the faithful Bordelais. M. de Martiginte, King's Civil Commissary, attached to the army, alighted yesterday at the llotel de la Providence, having arrived from Paris. Ile will quit Bourdeaux to-morrow, to re pair to his post. VIENNA, 31 Atte u .--The Austrian Observer of this day contains the following intelligence:— " C'onstanti n opl e , Feb. 28.—0 n the 14th inst. two events happened at Pere, which, although unconnected with public *flaw, or military discipline, have excited a lively sensation : _A French supercargo, named Baissin, had had repeated vio lent altercations with several workmen, who affirmed that they had grievous cause of compl a i nt aga i nst him. They assassinat ed him in the open street. " The other tragical event which has made greater noise is Don Collard, Chancellor of die Catholic Archbishop of Con stantinople, was assassinated in his house, at night, by villains who hail effected an entrance. The murderers have not yet been discovered ; but as they carried off a considerable sum of money and important papers, it is pres ume d t h ey w i ll soon be detect ed. The day following this assassination, the Topoltigi-Bachi, to whom th e c h arge of the Police of P e r e is confuted, was dismissed. " The Marquis de Latour-Maubourg, Ambassador of France, left Constantinople on the 20th February. Some claims which remained unanswered, not allotaing of his having an audience of reception of the Grand Seignor, lie set off without taking leave ; but on the day following that on which he departed, the Count tie 'Beaurepaire, whom the Marquis lest as Charge d'Affaires, was received by the Grand Vizier and the other Ministers of the Porte." BAYONNE, MARCII 22..-The pontoons and , other prepara.' lions for passing the Bitiassoa are now completed. We con tinue in the persuasion, and the great movements which we witness confirm it, that the 'arrival of the whole army is alone waited for in order to enter Spain, though we cannot determine the day on which the entrance of our troops will take place.— All the officers' belonging to the first division. who were in this town, received orders, three days ago, to join their corps, anti they set off instantly. We have official advice, that his Royal Highness the Duke d'Angoultme will arrive here on the 41st. Troops continue arriving : since the arrival of' the Duke de Reggio in our town, the movements have been doubly active; to-day all the troops in this vicinity will be reviewed by his Excellency. A letter from tire frontiers states that the Constitutionalists continue to occupy the border villages, suc h as Itocabrtina, Mollo, Espinavella, Bap . ,et, &c. The forces whi c h are assem bled are estimated at 5,000 men. They have evacuated Cam predon, and have only left at Olot and Ripal a simple gar r i son , composed of die inhabita n t s o f t h e district. • The decree of the Cortes has been published at Barcelona, which ordains the deposit of gold and silver plate,precious stones, and other valuable articles, in the fortresses, in order to preyent theirfelling into the hands of the,Royalists and their allies, who are about to invade Spain. • A Centiewnn who has just arrived here from a tour through France, brings intelligence that it is exceedingly probable the French army will never cross the Pyrenees. lie describes the people, wherever be went, as exceedingly dis affected to the war, an d ( w hi c h i s a strong." sign of the times" under such a Government) as not afraid to avow their opinions. In the Cafes, in the diligences, wherevet he went, he heard' the same expressions of disapprobation against war mingled with imprecations is la Fran. caise on its abettors. All private letters concur in the assertion that the Army of the Pyrenees has more to do with the existing con spiracies than the Ultra Prints are willing to admit. Instead of 100,000 men, scarcely 60,000 can be assembled, who, partly from dislike to the enterprize, and partly from fear of the Spanish mode of warfare, are much more apt to look behind than before them.---(Southampton Chronicle.) The Chief-Justicaship of Ely is vacant by the c , death of nowAtto CuteISTIAN , Esq. PRICE a THIS DAY AT iF STOCKS ONE O'CLOCK. India Stock .................. shut India Bonds .................. 255. South Sea Stock. Bank Stock shut 3 per Cent. Bed. shut 3 per Cent. Cons. MI 3i per Cent. shut 1 per Cent. Old shut 1 Ne w 94i 5 per Cents. 1797 Bank Long Ann. shut Imp. 3 per Cents. — Old Annuities..... Ditto 5ma11............ ... Bank for Act. ............... for Con. Acct. . ..... Cons. for April 10......... 74 PRICE OF FOREIGN STOCKS ix LONDON, Am . !. 47 AT ONE O'CLOCK. 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Pipe Water De b. 5 peret. Lying in Hospital 4 per et. 5 per cent. ............... Exchange on London, March 31,. lit• HIGII WATER AT LONDOZ 111orning, 7 minutes after 9. J BRIDGE TO.AIORROir. Evening, 38 niinutee after 9. THE SUN. SOLEM 061SDICP.111: FAILSII.II AUD.E.Ir • LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1823. 1101111■11.1.011011. ~..--.- The version of the Speech of M. de VIL&ELF to the seen pu tes, w lc i when we ref e rred to it in our pap er of YV6' Chamber of De t* h . l we had terday, was exceedingly inaccurate. We PO insert in our preceding columns a copious report of the Sp ee ch of the French Minister, together with that of the violent attack made upon Ili rn h l M. de la BOURDONNAYE,, WllO is the most furioai S t of the Ultra Royalists, and who charges the Frenc Government with indecision and incapacity is its conduct towards Spain ;—with P reseetlngl : the Chamber a Budget for a tim e of War r' , '' ;c ' requisite i n a does not include all the expences time of Peace, for the purpose of creating a false impression as to the real state of the lion"' of the country w ith having perseve red in long and ridiculous efforts at conciliation be t wren a successful revolution and the King whic h to the it had deth rone d ; — w ith having a ttached for the purpose A‘ rwy a Di plomatic Commission' of seizing the first opportunity of patc hing up a w ith having suffered peace with th e Sp an i ar ds ; provocations to disobedience in the Army, which all France has witnessed, to paSS W ith illiPUnitY;--. ro jects' with being so undetermined as to its p, that it neith er d are s entirely to get rid 0 : datiger ou the war, which, it would be to o o nce, now to abandon, nor yet to enter u p on it at Oki , the Go' hi a spirit o f d ec i s iv e enterprise, nor to con• vernment knows not how to Manag e for s duct with th e v i gour which is necessary tir eels ; — with retaining upott the frontier, by ro„ most astonishing and most fatal contrB",„ tion, an army full of ardour, inste ad of sell.all i n it rapidly to the spot wher e the SPA° revolution is to be decided ;—wit h making 'P. Paretlt preparations for war, while the real Pre parations are f or p ea c e ; and with linvi!'g so utterly neglected the completion of I tt: t t means for entering upon a campaign' t ! be although there had been six months for t , . establishing of magazines for the oral, thy' cavalry l was already destitute of f o rage , I I , " 'These most urgent want was felt on every sltie i. o are the assertions of a frantic 3°ll,9liLi t he and oneof those who most vehemently urge° ` ,i French Government to.undertake that ill-onicftt enterprise which be now declares that— G° %441)- meta which be incapable of accomplishing ! T he PIC ; d o tche' tore Made 1 -a n 00VIIDONNAYE has is no doubt exaggera t e d ; but after every 04'; a nce for the extrava g ance of his colouling , It o impossible not to be convinced that what e ' stated in thi s Paper eight or ten day s ago is tr ° e viz. that th oug h " t h e mome nt for the colnraelie.r. meat of the war has arrived, the p report-11°j_ g de ti Vll'l'6ol'o France are not y e t com plete ! "—M. in his reply confined himself to th e dry totit let ‘ 1 rePe of finance, and made no attemp t ht the charges of indecision and Wert:4o6on W i tt° .., against himself and his colleagues, or to 0 sine the loud assertions advanced by hiq iitte t til a rate assailant as to the income letg sta te c ps the arrangements for the supply of the , tr j site to be em pl o y e d ag ainst Spain !—ln W e a the ting of the following day (April lit), antaaPectei Minister made another of th ose w hich the and extraordinary avowals avith rple A the F rench Ministry have so often peser