The Sun. — London, England, 1816-11-19 00:00:00

FRENCII PAPERS. [VURTTIER EXTRACTS.) 1 / .611r., NO7. 11.—On Sunday, the 10th, the KiAg received in the Hat! of the Throne the Grand Deputation of the Chamber of Peers, charged to present to his Majesty the Atltife9 voted by the Chamber.. The Deputation was introduced to his Majesty ity the Matottis of Drenx-Braze, Grand -master, astd presented to his Majesty by the Grand-master. The Chaneel •as President of the Chamber 'of Peers, read to his Majesty the. Address, as fol lows : " Sllta,—Your faithful subjects, the Peers of France, come to renew, at the feet of your Ma itsty, the homage of their inviolable devotion. They congrocolati: themselves with . her upon that tranquillity, that internal order, which, becomiug every day‘snore secure, will prove more and more the vigilanese of a protecting authority. 1' cy 'have participated in the joy which your paternal „heart has felt at the happy alliauce contracted by toe of the princes, pint. children, Sire, we call them, like you. This name, given by Yoorst'it * to the Roos of your }stigma brother, is the only one - w . hich can express all the seutiutents with which they inspire us, t 1 young Princess is come to +embellish your days with the graces of her age and 'of bee character. She will aid the tender ness awl cares of her who consoled von in your vtile, and whose heroic virtues recOmtneud her to the homage of all. " Site, the people are also the family of good Kings Yott are deeply eflecsed by the tr.insiorry distresses which th e i n t em p erance of ties ,easr m s las made them suffer : Out your paternal toresight 'has assured them that the harvest is sift/laud for - :theettasumptiots : thus the evils which you deplore will.speeddy cease. " France is not ignorant that sacrifices are ne -cess.trY. Your MiljestY.ofretis them by sharing them. We recognize the goodness of yoiir Royal mind In t h at economy which has been j!issly cklied * the fi rs ; Id es .c og sit monarchs, Advecsity sup ported wish courage does not, confer less lionour 'than eie , ot v. A people who preserve their own 2 estcum and flea of Ettl'ope, Al its in a noble resignation We feel the pre tent difficulties she less in contemplating the happy Inittre, which the stability of the legitiasa . (.10- yernment has prepared for our children. To accelerite these happy days, all generous sentiMents awake. Morality is going to resome het empire. in seeking her first support it; principles. The negociations which you continue the Holy See, and 'of which you announce the conclusion at hand, veil complete `this great work, We hare 110 f 101`g 1 4 that the 'rench Mcotarchy has grown under the auspices 'of thsit religion whielt ckiliz , .d our hail barons CeSt()l'S. Melt the Monarchy rises attain, reli gion should also rise again with it, in suppor s ting itself upon that augaSt sceptre which has passed from the hands of St. _gnus down to yours He- Jigion and her Ministers have a sight to expect this clay every thing that too rigorous circuit!. stances will allow so the tt , tionsl munificence. lla eply impressed, with all our ditties, we will not slit less adhere to the principles of that Charter given by yourself. On this t.itte, or on that, 01 the eoostitotiOtial line, along which we tat-c constUntly followed your stetis, all is danger and confusion. '' Strength now consists only in moderation ; skill in pi tidence. Ii it be a great crime to have nyged the impnise given by the age beyond the 'booods of ,wisdom and morality, it would he e.ctally wrong, not to follow this impulse to the limits fixed by reason. Guilty hopes ought to be dispelled ; useless regrets to be• appeased. With the purest and the noblest intentions, it is pos -sWe to destiny the &to even of what is good, 'if it be imprsofewly haistefted. " With !heir- ryes constantly fixed. on this thitone, the Peers of France will follow witli re spect the:safe dii.ect ions which emanate from the . spot where, elevltted above all, the supreme le cau discover all wants, and judge of all interests. Site, your last words will be the rule of our conduct. All parties, if there still be any, will ahsfaio front all exceNs, except in the sentiments o f love and tener4tiou which collect them round _your 7tla jest y, ando whiet t the Peers of FrAoce Ver be the forernotst to set WI example. - Ki.tg replied— " I am deeply alfeCied by the sentiments of the Chamber of Peers I discover with vety great sat i7msction, its its address, the good spirit with ithiCP it is animated, and whieb it has always • . • , ; I perceive i t asse pledge of that Co; ti.AjtV r,f that, onion ititiOng OUESCIYCS, ;41.11 - .47 heal the u:ossods of France, and i nsure 111 ifolltiften“ And trantillillity, the constant oh jectsot toy 11•1;ett:."--(MGisiierir Qt, the first halSot, M. rt„,, , , , ,-c,,Nrd alone 411)-. 11'941188 voters, the akoliite majority by 97 suffrages. 1-k was ftrochtioned Vice-l'resi dt tic. Ott the. second ballot, out of the num ber of itteioliet s present. M. CAloille Joni d.ol hxtiel obtahied 106 votes , Al . 10 ' 2, and 111. lleol f .not 97, they were also procldirned Vice- Presidents of the Chamber. CONCLUSION OF THE nvnGET, expenses of the Chamber of Peers axed by the Acts of institution :it tour millions, will be reduced to two, as in 1816. Those of the Cham ber of Deputies will be augmented by 100,000 (roues, experience having proved that the sum of 700,000 was not sngieient. The Ministry of Justice cannot defray all its expeuccs with the 17 millions granted to it in the budget of 1816 ; u million more is indispensable, FOreign affairs present, on the budget of 1816, wad) was 8 millions, a reduction of 1,500,000 fr. The-iklini3tcr of the interior requires, for his .ordivary service, ,57 millions, instead of the 51 millions granted last year. This sum of 57 mil lions comprehends 6,500,000 of increase ; viz. 5 millions_ to 'iodic a new step towards that ante lit,ration, so necesSary and s o desired, which thc fate (,f the opinitris tlt ,religion requires; and, 1,5L10,0001r. for :he aid of public instrsiction, j supported formerly by arbio ary yet► anitions, which the reign of his M ni s esty.no longer tolerates. The same Ministry had in 1816, for the depart mental expellees, 23,930,530 fr. lie retoires for 1817, 27 millions 300 tr. ; this difference is taken on the increase of the additional centimes. This department has so much to repair, that even this increase is far troth enabling it to meet all its ur gent wants. The War Ministry is that of which the service is the most expensive arid most complicated. The Sinn - of ISO millions, fixed in the last badge!, was :mind even beforehand insatlicient. Thii depart, ment has shown that it cannot Inwer its demands for 1817 below 212 millions. Besides an army to be teeonstituted in all its branches, it has the charge of pay of reti cat, half-pay, &c. for an army disbanded, and the lragitlent . S sit preceding armies since - 1792. , These remains of a gigantic military force cost still 64 millions. There only remains therefore 148 minions tar the active army, coin ising the King's military household, the royal guards, and the gendarmerie. This sum will not appear too large, when we colniider that the pay of the troops, their subsist ence and fiaage, absorb agent 100 millions ; that seven other millions are devoted to expenses of clothing, and especially to retnonuts become in di.pensable ; and th3t the artillery, engineerS, and military beds alone require 19 millions. This rvice will become lees burdensome in propor tion as its expenses are reduced to those of pay and equiptut nt. The navy, which has been so long neglected, rtgoire great supplies to . enable it to rise from its perishing slate, and merely to place' it in a capacity to protect oar commerce, our fisheries,l and to form seamen and o ffieers. It had for 1816 48 millions ; it confines itself in 1817 to ask mg 2;570,000 tr. additional. The• i►+•4(l of departn►ent of fio3oce, fixed i 1816 at 16 willion4, prcois for 1817 ouly au at /Nikon of 700,000.traoes. The Minister of Police is obliged to augment hi• budget by 200,000 ►relics, detroy the ex pence of the increase or services which dream ,t,inces have required. - It will he in the whole I ;200,000, francs. • :Ike interest on seem ities., on royal 01)Iiptions, &c. present an expenee of 13,860,000 fr. Ti k e expeneet of negotiations, fixed at twelve tt.~illi~iits in the biineet or 1816, cannot he below 13 . n ollions in 1817. The cattle of this difference MO be in the new means of credit we shall have to 11.• next We require for the Sinking Fund 40 millions in stead of 20. This fond is a real deposit, to make the means of the state fructify, and found for its cleatt always increasing alongside its debt, which it will eveurtia!ly extinguish, if its progression be followed tip to its Imest term. We kase calculat ed that this fund of 40 millions, annually increased up to 1830, and augmented snceessitely by its twit mil optt interests, will have absorbed at that era 87,700,000 francs of annuities, at the rate of w ;,i,h is the most moderate that can be rni.eivei. It to.this 40 millions fin. the Sinking Fund, you add pr9diicv of 150,000 hectares of state forests, the extinction of the Ntinn a l D e b t w ill ;pc, still more rapid. Thits,.'on the out: band, the State will clear itself by the Sinking Fund, aril on the other, will consolidate its re venues. Ye shall Solve by our example, as ,th otlit:r Nation has done by its, the problem of de riving from the toxessity of contracting debt, the means of enriching itself, vs ithout those m ea n s Costing the probity of Government any Sacrifice. 'Elie Minister then stated several smaller items of expellee, to all which were to be added 83,051,153 fr. previously hnoticed as the money deficit on the budgets of 1814, 1815, and 1810. The Minister then gave smile consoling, pros pect as to the probab of tt decease of expen diture in futtlye years. Our expellees, he said, relieved from the burden of subsidy, but aug mented by tie interest of our loans, Will h e f a r from absorbing all the reeeipts.' The war de partment, re-organized on the peace establiib ment, will become gradually' less, ex" v e us ie e ,— That of the interior, more advaneed in the re nail. of our ruins, will require lees. it ie pns ible, alio, that the navy, having befor e i t a long perspective of peace, will be able to moderate' its demands. The life AlllltlltlCS and pen,io u s, aniounting together to 37 millions, will experience successive reductions by the chances of lif e . W e have to propose to yon measures for limiting the pension f un d. Beneficence most phice by its side the ttilditry severity of the lavv. he eN pences of negociations, when 'Mir emb;irras.ments have' pit.‘edaway, may he presumed to offer a sensible diminution. Other otea.ns of economy are search ed atter, and may probably he found amidst `an infinity of details, both in the public departments and in the administrations. The presence of con fined nteons will always rentintkits of the necessity of patsimony : your vigilance, Gentlemen, will strengthen this memento, and your intelligence, will aid in turning it to account. There will probably be no illusion in believing that, France being once restored to herself, the developcmcnt of commerce. the Progrets of aOI - the security of proprietors, will procure without droll an increase or the duties on import;' those oc consumption, such as salt, which will he better watched ; tobacco, which will be better protected against fraud, and more in request as formerly among foreign consumers. In fine, the duties on registration will increase in proportion to the number of civil transactions; , The posts also, anti the lattery, in tittles of easy circum stances and of good order, will probably offer Ito mean resources. Thus calculating what we may gain, in the receipts, and economise in.the ex petters, we have a new ground of hope, that ou' coming out of our sufferings, the natural reionrces of the State will present a remarkable excess over . the necessary charges. Thi s fine kingdom, scourg ed us it has been by revolutions, by the compres sion of military despotism, by its reverses of every kind, has not lost its principles of vitality ; . it con filmes to possess its fertile soil, its active toll in dustrious inhabitants, its geographical positioni between two SeilS, and is surrounded with popu lous countries, which present a vast field for,its commercial relations. It has, besides, atter 25 years of absence, a King, French, like his people, having It ith theca A community of interests, as be has that of country. You ate aware that, pending the dpration of our political obligations, every year Will ptesent a void to he filled up by means of credit, fur the maintenance of which we shall have the aid of vigorous sinking mum!. That .void, which will amount to more than 500 millions for the years 1817 and 1818, may be This mitigation depends on ours...lves. In every event the taxation will not rise to the scale of our wants. We must always resort to confidence to reach an equilibrium. That confidence, it can not be too often repeated, must come of its own accord : peace, steadiness, arc - the ele ments which attract it. Alarmed at theidea of the least vacillation, it requires to be te-aisored as to the inviolability of pledged faith.. That faith shall -be kept. An engagement eluded resembles an oath retracted. The Government recoils from such a violation, like an honest man from dis honour. Let us hope, then, that with our re sources and your assistance, France will come court!! victorious Icout her struggles with fortune, and will be worthy of herself, wOrthy of her King, mid of the destinies that await her un der the dynasty at Eirnry IV. and of Louis XI V. M. DvooN, Counsellor of State,then succeedNl the Minister at the tribune, and read the plan of the_law comprised in 63 articles.. The principal new taxes appear to he 10 cent 3. increase on. patents, 90 cents. increase ou the principal of that on doors and windows, ,50 cents. on the tax On persons and moveables. Ilydrontel to be a taxable liquor. A tax on oils, to be paid by the manufacturers and dealers in all towns, who shall take out a license. Public carriages to be taxed 10 cents. on the price or each seat : the tax to be a fourth on seats remaining empty. Perio dical Works relating to science or the arts appear ing only once a month. and containing at least two piloted sheets, to be exempted from stamp duty, tie BARENTS,Director-General of the indi rect duties, succeeded N. Dation to make a report. It appeared from his statement that these taxes had not produced so much as was expected, be cause they were too late in being put in opera tion. The misfortunes of the times,- the accusa tions, time calumnies unceasingly renewed by the spirit of party. "and which had discouraied the persons employed tor those taxes, the disasters of the seasons, and the badness of the harvests, the penury of commerce, the diminntion of consump tion', all those causes had contributed to render the indirect taxes less productive. , The Chamber ordered the Reports~ and the Law Projects' to be printed. THE KING O 1 WIEITENIBERG. nurroAßD, Nov. q. [EXTRACT OF .A P.UIVATE LETTER.] It was during an excursion'which the late King madt on the 25th to Cronstadt that he tvtrs.seized with the , distemper of which he died. The object of , his visit was to.see . the 14 teeth of a mam moth, of enormous -size; which had been found in a place called Peelberg. The King staid "it consi derable time, expressed much satisfaction, and directed that they should be dug up, with the ciew of having them conveyed to the Cabinet of Na tural History at Stuttgart!. This, it point of fact, has since 'been done... tik Majesty, how ever, took'so severe a cold on this occasion, that on Isis return he caused his feet to be rubbed for tw o hours withoot success in restoring warmth and circulation. The physicians considered the symptoms to be of a serious nature, and the King was confined to his chamber. Ilia malady pro gressively increased up to the 30Th of. October, when he expired, at two o'clock in the morning, with astonishing composure. A few hours before his death he sent to the reigning Prince the key of his private chest, recommending his country to him, and the care of a few particular indi viduals. After his Majesty's decease, all the Ministers were summoned to attend, and the o.►tlis of Rile; giance to the new King were administered to them by the Grand Master of Ph►l►l. M. le Comte de GoerlitZ, the Grand Equerly, was also con:i tined in office. At eight o'clock the will of the late King was opened in the presence of the Ministers, and the arc among its principal dispositions : Uh l M~j~ . r , ,t y King William is, declared heir to all the priv,tte•property of the . Kaig his father, under the obligation ,of paying 200 ' 000 florins to the children of Prince Paul, 80,000 to the children of Prince ‘Villiant the late King's brother, 1.20;000 to the children of Prince Lon;s,. 60,000 and an annual pension of 3000 to the Count de Ditien, who is likewise to bare the power of choosing eight horses out of the Royal stud,. .20,000 00.1 tour horses to General de Brenniug, 10,000 and a do:ation of the annual value of 1000 to M. de Vellnagel the Secretary of State, and 10,000 florins with two horses to the Count de Southern. There are' also a great number Of smaller legacies. The first act by which the King signalised his reign was to direct the purchase of gisitt in the ports of the Baltic, in order to ensute the sub sistence of his subjects. All the fallow elecr of the Mrnagerie who can— not he fed within the limits of its parks are to be destroyed, and the potatoes, barley. oats, and every kind of grain used at present for their nou rishment, will he dit,tributed to the poor. All the late contracts relative to the Menagerie, Arne of the richest of Enrope in foreign a:iiinals, are an nulled, and the contractors wiil be intleati6ed for the losses to which they may be subjected in consequence. • Her Majwy the Queen Dowager has required of the new King, the appoimnient of the Count de Dillon as Grand Master of het Household, to which his Majesty hat assented. Mons. the (..00nt de Zepplin, who was Minister for Public Worship, has been appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs. He is succeeded in the for trier Office by M. de Hagenheitn, President of the Tribunal -of 'l'ubitn Mons. the ennui tie Winz;utferfule the elder, who was Mlui*ter for rore!gn Airtirs, is appoint ed tirnncl Mnster IN) the reigning Queen. It is not known whether his son, who fillud the office of Minister of the Interior to the late Kings w be retained in that situation. M. de Muhl, Minister for the War Deptirtmen is appointed Go vernor of ti4is metropolis. kle succeeded as Minister for War by M. Genersltl ePfilit de Franguemont. M. de Scckcndnrf, who was Grand Alava of II Queen's household, is tib unmated to the same 0 01 in his Alajesty's. M. the General de Wolvearth, n ho commatult our corps de armee in France, hits bee•ii recalled he has been succeeded by Gen. Seboeler.—(Tal Paper) FUNERAL OF THE KING OF WIRTEMBEIM STUTTGARD, Nov. 2.—The body of his 'MI jesty. the late King, having lain in state the ds before yesterday and yesterday, nett the tants of the capital. alloived to see it, was le" day removed to the family vault at Ludkvigrint4. The ,solemn procession began at seem o'cloc k at the Coittt ; _officers, &e. a lt e oticd. When t procession -arrived at Ludwig.burg, thehody ua brought into the cl:nreb ot the Taber, andafte. a discom Se by the Court Chapl tin, placed ludo Royal Sepulchre, a funeral dive being execute( by the musicians of the Royal Chapel. -- His Majesty the King, Prince Paul, and DI William, attended the nerd eerk inane, and P i , the late King the last tribute ot filial and traterusi regard. BUONNPART E. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FRWNI ST, 11FLERA. (Ft om The .1 utigullicun scA A. 01. 18 1 i. A very curious circumstance occurred here few days ago :—Buonaparte, in a I,,ge, ordere his service of , pl ate to be, broken up, the c'g ki which were enga tved to he effaced, and the %%11"l e to be disposed of AS old silver. He a pplied to° merchant, a resident of this place, who askcd Per mission of the Governor. lle thought. OA amount won't, not exceed 3 or 4001. sierl ii ; / ;; The Governor consented to the tuerelanes W hi ?, to look at the plate, but observed, that thesoll should not be paid to Bon oaparte, but depgil'i` in the bands of the Governor, or the purver t. When the rnercha"t weot to look at the plitie , .' ll : tI stead of the stint shove-melationed, the pro Per was about 19,5UU1. stetlitn;—a sum t sar** I°G great to be procured here at so shot t a 1/fleC : i c il2 . e u t s . e . r , n , e i g r o i cb a:f l ay Or two it is expecte d that 01' ion %rill be brought to a d ose 0 ; It is said, that Buonaptarte wishes by there 10411 to make himself independent of the i ll itish (k): vernment, and that in future he will never too" any application for money, but live on his o.`",' res , natces. His suite receive their reg ular allow' ance front Government. MaNnctst, Nov. .—A.public Newspaperctsv tains the lolloui.:g front I'M is: , ftte has lately sent iv his Court feet! .rtnrh Commissary at St. Helens, 14; onichenrt isl of tile incidents that have occurred at thatattee, since iris arrival there, in which th e following dote among others has created much laughter: Bitonaliarte had, since his reside nce at St. lie r formed tio acquaintance with the daughter tr: notary, who is a eery livelrgirl,—so that she has been reckoned a little cracked. W ei , a room, this young woman Boonaparte was lately 4)1 ! .v sword, which stood in otte corner, out 0 . oc , when ste took it into Ito - head to 4hr its scabbard, to put herself in the posture of a l' oe ing - master , and to-'push at Buotrtreirte wth% __uomtpatte, who at nip ( t c)1)1( d o g assault for a joke, hut soon saw the girl pre i s ir; ypoouhristeintyi,ncrving out lustily, c upon him in earnest, flew behind an and here the former ruler of the world " e l i ef il. tyre sentinels, who rescued hint from his l obe talcusas, littottaparte's secretary, reproolletnito, young woman) for her hostile purposes, t e st as be said Buonaparte really loved her, d n' sire made a very had return tor his affecil"„ t i c "Now, dettiiiii. haughtily rgalied—' He love ilk never loved allay one ; it is not in his oattif° The followin • , i .s he' g story relative to. CATALAN fool bar iour and treatment at A14111:Ch is taker; a French Paper, under the beAd " It appears that we shall not have tl,elll'oe sure of hearing 'Madame Catalan i, oft 1 "" 14 , has now been here for eight days. She bi,"ltbe trirted, on the day of the Ile n ethetio ll, , i i ni ,:„ l ri l'alare of the Empress the (which is very small), took her ceremony with M., Finial-, who gave her tree the bench appointed for the wing PI il ie- 0 6 1 11 IVllen the Princes.,..es arr ived, sh e o rl removed by a Master. of the Crrentook s ,' t bilged to retire into-an'opper uallery. owing day, heing at the QZert's irtu i r W site where she was .to sing in a Private Cooc ut " for complained bitterly o f the proceedings ot be met day, saying, that she was accustowe'l,"•uce se:ited by the side of Princesses ; t h at the It d Itegent of England and the'liing of Prito i ,.% 3 'l often placed her it) the first rata:. ' 14 A La whose good-nature is angelic, etuleavo ", re- t -if tranquillize her, and said, l a nghiugly , ‘ ,l s there bad ever been at St. Jdities ' s 01' 15el'-nsila grand rx ':cturmy it) so very small a ro‘ )°/ ' i s would not perhaps have fonr.d so commorliolloo finer. But the Singer became more old Ottf el excited, and at last, bursting. into tears, that she - could not sing. The King, "'', ° „.:(1.4 , come in, distnisSed her, atid forbade her "loi at INltittich. Since that time, Mbilame Cm" jo g dst o say', ay7tide, " Catalina set off tor Floreilir dated I‘lanich, N ov. 5, made several at temps to obtain pertnisioll t ° 6 at Court ; but it was refused lier." r tote 341 ; she was going to her own fatullY• cou rt tardy eliorts - to obtain permiision 1 . 0 lit'} tat::1; cee Another have not succeeded 1 " t a t ; sod as, bfter what bad ed . , she could not expect better receptirill to gilt pror r i oi r vienitil, tills celebrated Singer bolt go directly to Italy, where she will puss B g part ut the winter." MADANIE CATALAN!• -fei 'the twelve Judges have unanimously (le c ` l that the conviction rota, the Luddi te ' lit ad, cester, is legal, and his exec;ation, it is Pol'r °- wilt uar lo:ig ticlayeci.