The Sun. — London, England, 1816-01-11 00:00:00

1' tl(e. Governynent di:l not feiir itself the responsibility of ‘ll . ?inil -one • ?%lennher 1..44 spoken. NVe Icor not to tae this irsponsibility (he sai(l) on noi• own heads, %%Lich 1 - :e are gtitvays ready' to devote for the service of the Icing, and which con ontv thremened by his enemies. Puffin. (dela Gironde) refuted the argil.- - firtotl or the cOmrnittee; 'Hod tirottil-141.1114 , riii:: , giwti I,lua, ‘V . itli the Fime . iiihoeilis propo•sed by M. de itolieheWlesin thellaitid 441 Pattlessits, (Otte o'f the Niembers of the Com mittee), dt.fended tte opillions,of the majority.coucludttl ati elocreut cpeeeh by :121,ese are our wishe%:, we de;tiec our King, the, fost Ides,ing cif our heatts, the firer' blessing of nor reconciliation with the great ,1 7 ,iirppean, ta-• : we desire the Charter which he hats given iIC : we will make all sacrifice% which circurn tit auces require to discharge our share of the taxes Svc will sell, if necessarY, 'the relics of our ,pa.: trimonies. Europe, so long abused witt ! re(pect *to our character, shall find in us t h e old French inen."—(eipplause, and some Cries of l'ire Ic Mi.) The discussion trots' then adjourned sit live o'clock, till'the next clay At noun • SITTING .07 THY? "ITU. CoiOtlibe (ties 11autes-Alpes), was for the 1 iw' without ametithitettt. tie maintained that public ereilit, and the safety of the State, Item:m(l - that same end. should:lle put to that uncertain ty,which.alarttwil, an•Prartee, M.l3cutrist Olt Maine and Loire), itt all extent -por.iry discourse, suppotteti,the oligiuml taw, w ith the simple attlentla)ent proposed by M. de Ron. cherolks.. ' • • 14- it icklet .(dt.l Ia evenly.); argned strongly egaivst.the amendment .of theContinitteo, which said would spread alarm, (even on the one point ofineilitating the return of the : lt,urper), stnotiK n(St less than ,six thousand M. de Salabery defended with much: energy the taw as.aoleatled by the commltteei end: refrtyrd very pointedly to, the escape of Tanvalette, as likely. l tp. reviye hops .ani)ng .the, civil conspirators. against .the legitimate Government., M. in at , eitetnporary:ipeech, ~ilO tenkci the law o . .recontmended 140 emelt-partici:hilly on wlrat.htt eallett•the.ana logons,,ease of the amnesty of Henry.lV., We l are .(said he) a hunched times more gltiltyihan grir, fathers : •but it is . beetotse we are more cut. Stu lc that the amnesty I*, .the snore lleuessitry. Tire Contniittte his 11? t reflected cm cite injustice 41 4 its4eategoriei which •it. do . wo, There erns no ki44l of egitalityin the several, eximes on w hi c h it would wish to inflict goal punishment. V was the'doty of the Chamber to wait till the Cithernment had acquired and exercised itc powers. beforeit investigated its comlnet. Then (said he) 1, who have been hrot,Aht,up in the sanctuary of the 1, 1 1, ;111(1 who have forgot none of the min-, vides ‘vi t ich 1 have derived from the study of ilium, 1 udi be the tirt to demand . of the 'Ali ttituri no account of the eitiployment al that power with whieli we have entrusted them. I v.:;11 dimwit, In the name of the pithlic - good, an. neeouot of. all which they have. left undone. Chifllet 1)61 . 10101y confined himself to the &mission of the point, whether the indernuity woporoed by the Committee tutu a real coutisea. Ile saw in it nothing contrjry to vo(ed for the plan', as . ainentled by the Committev. ScverSl l'lctribers caned close of the di9. cioi4ion ; others tent" a%coniiiiiintion of it ; otlicts tt?i• an adjottrtitticnt till next day , . 'rhe adjpurum,:ut till next dity at noon it'as put kite vote ) , nod carricti Lifter two divisions. he Sitting..laok, up et o'clock. SITTING, JO. 5: After sf petitloit from lsorlie ,persons, styli/1g theniselvesTrisoners ut Siete;'which wfis referred ttt t he . 0 oititnitteu ut Petitions, the debate on the bto , a-AM:testy was remits/11 hy . 114. fie Scrre) - /Itt lio l rAtili t i), who, Its along speech, supported the p1e1; 13 hid down by the Government. unintstlvOrted tin the Inittitiet of the artittes . pro posed by the Committec, Mach he sakl.leould-ef tect the bivalent:try erimirtslivitbiled been forced t 4 'obey the usurper, hi; Wen •es the cuot4pirstors who let/mired 116 tettirit.. 'Bret) with respect td the regieitles, he ritglied i that to poti6h them now for their aticient crimes, woold be en express vio4 liftion 'of the . Charter." • -M - ..reollunt; on` the . contrary; votol for life amiadment. , Lie principally addresied,l,ntrielf to establish thejustice Of the ariicle nimed.ngainsi pohlic funitionisfits. He said. it was cif the:ut most iinportanceto,aittack n class of perions whose influence irt-sbeiety eruchlett them to Mit;tead the public opinion, which they had been so long in the habit of managing. 44..flabo*Choge, Ninisttr,of the Marine, to the last speaker, lt,is asserted; (husoid) civil I unetiomtries, Ve . t, taihc lowour told gJO . t, of the arnty - he tits soldiers,,Cre sex.. AncLo, 11V 'those civil lyttl pktiONl theittc.elVti $ . O po . W•erfully to the roolu tiOn, Who all wished to overturn the '.who Avishea eVery thing except the tegitil`nate . 'King and his dynasty. t (Applituse thioq,;l . l,. all Tatii..4if Well, of these thirty are eNce'tted from the ai . ußes ty the King . ; init.:pardoned the test, but if ,they offend,. and -that they will offend, their character plainly Wain to suppose-,. then the Aliiiisteri of the King will seize them promptly and deliver them over to the 'Vengeititee•of the laws. The mass of the French wish for their King, and a legitimate . GoVernment ; tyc wish it also, and we. have all- sworn to die .rather than . suffet .any deviation. from this direct•line, the only one. which assures • the honour and tranquillity of . the Ination. Well s then, let us I►rottratc' ourselves before the wisdou►, the magnanimity, and the eieinen.'y of the King. Let us adopt vl.,ititoot aiuenda►e'ntN the law which be proposes to us. ' ' 'l he carne 41,i‘s.ts (ruin the TObilne, blui;lbt cries of nre. le Itoi, and trmlspnrts (m• tlittohi,sm, excited by the veheilleltCe 91 . ii>i UCti , M, and the.iuergy nt his initgulge. Thefe Was u gr.2.ot call for the close of the dis•-• cussion. M. Corbiere, the Reporter, was then cal{id to by the Prusitletit, but demanded a delay till next day, in order to answer objections in the manner suited to the occasion. .M. Doiningen 'de Wonsan obserVed,•that the next day Was the festival of kings, (tw . t.:ifth thy)' (0 burgh . and some mu'rmurs). I have always con tinned the speaker, celebrated this day, even in thingeoni, anti I shonid wish to celebrate it to morrow. I demand that to-morrow be t holi day. The proposition, ho►cever, of M. Cot irtere was carri*d, and the debate was adjourned till next day. lit a Secret Committee, Ilyde de Netivilie spoke, as we hear, with his usual wArnith, Rgitinst ail English Jonrn4l, which too often CuluntniateS the sentiments of the Fietich . - •" SITI'iNG,,OI I .14N. G. torbiere was heard in reply at great length. lle discussed the priucipal , olkieetioni to the re port of the Committee, and the justice of their cla.:lifications of crime and critninn!,. There was a great call for the printing of Lis speeh, but to avoid a discoSs4osi nn th suljecT lie undertook to print The debate was then cloga at twit= pist one o'clock. The Minsters 41 , en left the hall—th e Sitting was resumed at two, o'ch)ek. The President arni.ouncedll4,ll M. the President of the Council of Ministers eldimed.rn fieirtatd. • The Duke (le Riehelien.—We have rendered to his Majesty an account of this dismission - , in which so much good faith has been allied with so much diversity of sentimeltt,:and so notch' love of it's lice bas'been mixed with so much ,uf veneration for the clenienev of the King. Tooched with the honourable scruples that in, duce muuqi, of you tgi believe that they arty, called upon to Judge men already..stuitten by the,power which necessity assigned to hint, the King,assents to the insertion of Arr. 3 of the poiver jug, it they are not brought before the TribmtalS, the 38 individnals comprehended in Art. 2, of ate. Ordinance of the 24th of duly. His Majesty approves , also the new tirlwing np of Art. 4, relative to thy family of . the, Usurper, with .the exclusion of the word shildren, which my be misiuterpreted, and which is naturally included in the wort) descendants. 111,1 these are the only amendments to which the King has charged us• to give his assent. The Chainber must fed, that to add so pitch to the enactments of a law, would. be rather altering. its whole economy, than exercising the power of amendment. Yes, Gc.utlereen, it WO, doubtless a proposi tion of law that was made to y".)11; but 'yon haie easily perceived all that was•in it of e*tratirdittary anti particular. It is a.law wilt ut thi cummou rules of legislation ; ibist once an act of Sove. Vignty, Milli a INgiSliltiVe.iiet.• Th-; Assembly - has nearly unanimously recog nised that the right of Amnesty was one of the !loyal prerogatived r - and even those who have 'most criticised tbe law, - have , iri)pearell to regret t h a t i l ls Majesty did not continohintself to mak-. tog a communication of it: Brit you already koow that the King has °ton& that the amnesty would be amore solemn, pledge of reconciliation, if the, Deputies of. the nation were associated in this great met Of Royal muni ficence, and Frenchmen -een hardly reject the ho nour .ot sharing in the clemency of their King. lit 'COlibetptenec e ,to give to. he great conceptions of the amnesty the necessary sanction, dit - ers le gislative enactments were odiipansable, The Ministers feel, that.il in ordinary debates it-is proper to veil the Royal Majesty as much us the French Coustitittion permits . , (accordmg to which tire King proposes the law) there aresome: acts so.much above ordinary rides, that it.is possible not to maniteit life paternal intenticins'af the Monaich : you will be convinced of thisiGeti., tleinen„, oiCeoniiideiing the essence' of a law of amnesty, of white!) - the ebaeseter ;. hks been so well 'traced by many of you) and we take a pkulure pronolgat'a !)y the s,ineereign. 'ayes :11ltii'stc~r:g vita tet.';4 neat to eramn . otar clip-', fityni,itesto • the. ‘vorl.t . . thatiour litteityis ,complete..• MinisterS•are , - far from compranitilt - of thii; foe . tliry are 3Otica bon& of .I,int,.GOttlernen . „ is that a reason far not expressing the wishes.of- his Majesty, when he has ordered us to annouhce them on his part Anil can we he accused of doing violence to your 'inoltfrstandings, if we repeat - less tureibly thatilhe King obe flute expressions that'moved your hearts It \ hunt confidence in the sentiments that they have produced, that w4r are about to present to • yott same reflections'. y • •,' Article. 4of the . prejet lofI of the committee, so improperly called an amendment., by adding se veral large classes to the exceptions of the law propoi!ed, appears to uslo exclude the idea of an amnesty ; the persons included in these classes would be sent , before tribunals by a law which beforehand declares theth authors and instigators - of revolt. It Would remain only for the Judges to ascertain their identity, and to apply the nishment of the penal code, which is death ;. and then the law says..to time tribunals, you shall con demn to death . 411 : thine .whom prOnounce an• thors and.iustigators. is not the comprehending 1 them in classes itt once destroying the. dignity of the law and, of justice ? And then, what - answer Cali int given to the Magistrates, %elle,' they ask, must -we condemn to death Alto, der to he classed iu the other enactments which expel them' from the territory,. are not the less comprehended in the categories of Art„.4ot the, Committee. ~ The Committee has proposed to you, in its Art. an emtetmentwhich gives oceasion to still graver observations... Withou t. repeating that this Article, touter the name of indemnity, t,e-estd bikbes Confiscation, lie pleased to remark,.that, at t h e sKatc time that those are subjected to itWlio shall he sent- before .the tribunals, both, they who depart the kingdom iu virtue of Art. 3, and those Who sholl be expelled in virtue of Art.. 7, are exempted from it; r - viz. the members .of.the Usurper's family, actors like hiaiself in his bloody . political tragedy; men whom one Catmot even .. resolve to..tkattle. • • Were it possible that mere- calculation could have'an influence on sogreat a dttertilination, should'reneirit to you, that even, by confiscating alt the 'properly of the men included in thefiie classes, France would obtaiu nothing like is..rear indemnity. But it heroines es to rise to much higher con sidcrations : it is our opinion,, Getrlemen, that it is under another naine le,estahltshing confisCa• tino, abolished far ever. •-•- - ' From 'Tiberius to annnaparte, confiscations have hern only excto.ctl.unettr the name of indem 'lilies, and the-4'61*(1.6 ha . 'tomut speechesHof the orators who', uu-.preseuktog Penal Code, haatiiled it with contiseatoryarticles whiCh.his alajesty lots erased. No more coolisemions—t he Charter ‘vhich we have sworn ttibas'pronoiiced extracted (rpm our misfortunes at great lessun for all nations. itH .is coofiseations that reimcit'r the. mischiefs ot , lotions eterual and it re.l4l‘able., „ 'Behold among ourselves tin!ir honentahle eff:cts: by punishing the•children, they • bripteatit hatred .and 'vengeance' as irgadvi to .generationS ; they desolate the earth like, the cotiquevirs in, whose train they 'March.' Lit to leave to the , aer,toit of the 1501:rbons the celestial glory .of hav, inv., - abolished' them ; t,ntl it 611it:r bOligt ,4)1 . originated' great acts of humanity. set them the example'of putting *au end to that !Ju:- rible inheritance of punishments which' dishonours - their rows. -7, now date yoti siiol4l , ,,GentLteen, of th:)Ee .vitloals 'whom thc. Con,rilittee,propose 10 r- ~s 1 0 expel lui• ever frooi . tlic )...sreneo soil '?„, It is .110 t men, it is not opqn earth, that we louvt seeh for reason, to aNswer it. The '‘ . rho has lliin i.li tiveLtrol hiS OcltSiire,.lisis,.repliell by saying 411,nt he ttit4l,es;ottly to , recOliciA hi* pardon ; atiti certainly 1.11 . retisons- - are derived from ficaven itself. • „ . Like the majority of you, we ptostratc ourselves beforati clemeney,•above etitt3idecatiuni., It is inspired ,by The,inattyr ,King, who will le consoled in his ,toulbby teepardon ivhieli you tie , 'cord ie his name ? .•I , sit.conii.inded by GOd, alone, lip to these times, had given another tA - ample of it to the world ? This is wits: tvc (tare Hot permit mirSeir,es to penetrate. Hit' We know, like yoe, that suchis the ivisll of the Monarch ‘t !HMI France cherishes and reveres. Who thee, could attempt to do violence :0 his heart, by int poi* on thini a great iacrifiee, as a necessary condition of uh'e Law ofAmnesty ? u •no longer, Gentlemen, crespass 'tire patience, 1 -would alitiogt say the kindness w i t h hicir you have been pleased to listen to me. Let me, he allowed, however, in 'closing, to conjure. yoli not to suffer a law of grace to become a cause of discord and, to borrow your own expressions, so act, that after the deluge of Woes which have bland:4o our . nefoitunate France, this LaW of Amnesty `may appear in our political horizon as a sigti , of recoociliation, and of rallying to all Frenchmen.. .‘ • Preaiklit.---After such, ample debates, he tegrt:ttutt that IZe. was COIIII/010 to present tile. nietc . retioltspf the disc4*sintz.. • It is melancholy to remark, that in debates,., 0-.:, lative to a law at grace, opinions liare'beim.di- ,. vide(' both on the number of the guilty and% the. nature 'of the pUnisliment, to be inflicted. All the speakers h.kve, in fact, recognised the necessity* au amnesty, but they differ \Vitt; regard to who should enjoy its benefits- - The p/0 . 14:Ct at the law'presented by the King contains itself te ver.4l exceptions. It coritiunes to deliver up •to jniticc the 18 iuotividuals• whom the Ordinance of the 29th of JOY had ordered to • be tried by rite Conticits of War. It confirms rite exile pronounced in article 2d, of the sanie ordinance, of tie person* wham it dellignates. The : proposition made in the name Of the King, excepts likewise. from the amnesty,' all thi)se wt i bave berg judged, .or who are prosecuted at the present moment 'before the tribunals. amnesty does not extend to the relatives France e?titain's particitlat disposition s : :The exceptions hate not cippealeti filtwVieist to . I(llll"Cotnthission. il i k lll U e . ../.ti r .:Prlf' a P liti t e lg e t u 6 ve Y ; j oa nu. ne Itt ronetions o the JatliCatare, and the: pi• , !l' 4 wihiegi; trhproposie allowi to the King the po"'CF to he judged, the 3.4-ball» .viskaalp which the todinaucts."ol. the Atit , of • ';takit islreaslV attecteil. atct ° ei l t i ri!t ' l l t of he 8, the rn S P iti r l in ? be • I s c 1 n ninility t 6 e t as to expltiln• more clearly that the King Will. have the power to alter the likt Of 38 intlivido"l s . as he shall think proper ; anti a!ltitli"er Mentheri nno in announcing that.he approved thii infulltiFittiont has proposed to confer upon the months the right of banishing all the ittdiyikttl - who ? !having taken the Talc:l44) "w ild . by bun tie thought ilangerons. ; • The sth. Article of the prOjet of the law raii".- v . e.1(1 the:. family. of Boonaparte has app!Ored to y9isr, ...onsmistion too vague, and 'in anew dil;eo. • of tc, it marks out mare in detail those who are tlfected .11it, in Order not to alarm any farther: those who might, believe themselves menaced.• eotrunkssion has thought it a duty tct • sup Press the sth: . .artlcle of theit' . 9j` t lative to .the already.. e prOseenteti, either toplace th'ent limier the 010.... negy, or to. consprettetiii t hem , its the eltstscs which r • ' Those. elaSses ate:oaf two kinds ; the int • duals caniprisell - in the first kind are only to he, :prosecutedaccorrot.; tri- the common etnirSe ( 1 and the silence o the "CoinntiSiion oft , pitoisuments to• be intleted, declares ~t early enough, that it moans those which the Pelt" : ptoitottnerstleath: „ first kind of ciass'contains•five rate ;odes. • Prosecutions are tit...term e direct :11— - • 1. Against tha.e 11.4ve corresponded with the,4 1 4.0 ,411 ' ' Li is to facilitate the escape of the authOr of uoy tt. Aipiust the atea.who .bccato,Nis Coutisellurs,,uf,,Sta tcs ur his Minister* before the sad of March. r; • 13 1 1trt 7 ;115t the Prefects ree,•,...:ni• , ed him belly that d ' itr ' -4.lAgoinst the 3,145 i stills and Goier.ls of Dirisio:l ,rho jc .clarrll far t him before hiseht ry into Paris. • •Si 'Against the Generals in Chief wi.o directed their forci .. •. *%inst'the Boyd Nevertheless a tirember of the coutnti'Fh" ) . told you that it hod rot- its object rather to 0' 3 4! nate crimes 'than to pursue criminals, 'Fink' it 15 with this intention ttlilt it refiners the prescrir . :',,. tiP'‘f ' ll- t h -eir -guilt to hree months, leavi , lg till" /4 1 . thne:to tote little that aitiliStV W itiCh the N;lif.fpr oses immediately : to g . ratit. tie.ti:dispositinn has struck Your a ttention.: °;' . l l '"r 3 o.e i“.leolnilv France for the Most cif ISt l'ly n it'S, 1 ;t! propo,e, 044 perinit the hiterf , ret , cto,iit-tile t riail that - .11.111 ilt!c:l4'i . place of anAgeut oi fiUthority to OLfnatift 1,1.1• th;.; imabeoeil ill some int n. 4 s tne let cur of ti the. (:ltart:zr, which ,vi.110.1.±. to give to flte - ivorlira:late.tesspit. • , n tide, the t roam! kind of I dual ' the commission excepts leom iii l ß-3 ! .)14.1,tw0.,,, mei, elares war,-and wham ^ Heaven, iteVcrtfieless,,Are pears williftljfi pr r serve by thy holt,' of t witoat ot.i • ettilt4S eittied the ili-tges 11f tiod tipal the earth. In this brief an - tlys;s 1 have followed th e tott" rid 'it 111 den:sr:lug' frOnt the'rli e t, (it la , v ,toil it is this proi , :e . t which o:l;.tht Me - rule •-•of your deliberation. 10 ,- followitiV"I• •!Ici amendments of will proposed. l'isise:wiiiett relate ill toi;vc it'll ides of • Cp leroleet o jaw f , 1":1! - hhre ttt). ol l object but to modify' will 111 :it' sohinated to yo.i before the text of the allele" , t helltselves i -*ad .those which' tire Only additiotti to t ine be.presented- "to : yort - ' atter Ih B ' roivett 1.1 you will lo". fly the rules COq - "0 11 .Y . tobiser_ved hots; by von and before I nAt>' , :would ,s 1 ), if t h e y ( li f t' tine' Pre' vlikklyANkt, , o nt of deference tO - titc propo.iiii , )", natal, After the . Char,er a re isiaik in the name alt w the King. 1 . 1 oald not he pOsStble to invert • order, except in the case selleir the amentiole'" dilcusied 'would be irrecnneileable witty the 'hi- positions of the projet of . latV. Bat here the" are none such ; so far from - being exvindctl, t 1112) AfaAlipents, if they ate. a dop te d a l ter the 4rt i : ' .e,i'My form Oith them a coirsiitea whole.]l3csittes, after having voted ) , you hate t t in your ipowcr to assign to, every one of the poll° 'of your , resolut !he place whiek you tlke:Olost natural ; awl farther, nothing lore rents-you front giving -in the coati,: of the -M l. _ beration„-the-priority to such or such dram - 011 101W . as spring up among yon. Atter some iliseitsiots on the mole o f puttio.-; the question, "the debate rciurreit to thy. ti;st •] ' titles of the project of the.law. M. tie Kergtirlay spoke its the . llTithit - Of -- (l li. ' moor. He contended, that in calling the Chant • ber to deliberate upon the Amnesty-which taitied only to the tire Clonnber'VA-reiv• drill st *.ennsaltatire instes4 of continuissici their legislative character. Several Membersohserved, that this was spea k' and upon the utiriis-of thelaw. The - Speaker des' . . l: cended lions the TribUnal.. M. de 13onnich--" An interval nrust pass be' twerp the presentation of the raja to . theChato - ;';' , boa t the tliscit!tsion,and lite.sanetkon. of his Circutni,tanees• may_ change ; it iS.neees sary to give to. tha- : King-the.powerOf taking tilt' I ' ni•ceis4ly nteinotritiVl. M.A poWer is in the Cliara ter.'" ; • 111. E 11}Jfie fit N'eftville desired, that in order to i.g declared `us fife', a 1. 1 i t t i s c t-o ch v a e t rei ti 4 : t e sty A , Eit it o s e lo ssiyulivil,b:l teigr Anted by the: n . — g. (‘ The . laws . emanate' from ;he that is expressed in thepreititiabW 7 ,- I : l "` t • llkewis Austrers la' the argument ot AI. tits L\ergorlay.- - Cloo.lberare tievdr called but consattittiFetirliberationS." 'Lae prghthts question was adapted off the pro: pos,iLion. . At - ticks 'Fittanti 2d wre successively adopted• ...tlitft.i4Piiris read b i' the Presi , lent, vrieb it) ~::