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PRIVATE AND ALTTLIENTic CORRESPONDENCE. STATE OF FEANCE Ai' THE CLOSE OF 1819. DEc 30 —One would imagine that the French, who ktve been -30 years in political broils, would, by this time, understand something of the science of polities, hut expetience proves that this knowledge iy-onfined to a very limited number. A Frenchmen, views evut y thing throuAli a inicloscove, vhich swells into a vast import ane. • the insect directly under his eye; this insect is his own party or faction ; beyond i:s sphere his optic nerves can trace no object distinctly; all -is confusion awl disorder. E•ch politician views a (tart, hot cannot cot race the like the Phil,sophevs of Antiquity, tsbose ignorance and vanity nrid F , them fancy the PAU Ili to he the centre of thc,..worhl, round which the fancied, no►t only the sun and plat►ets, but even the fixed .tars, ►owed in their orbi!s to do it homage. It is !his narrow view of affairs that has pre vented the French from ever hei.g able to apprc : elate either the character or the measures of M. DEcAztis. To-lley he appears to incline towatds the Liberals,• who inst - aptly predict the imme diate downfall of the Uitras, who heap on M. DacAzas every speci , -s of abuse ; to-morrow •he seems to desert the Liberals and favour the Ultras ; hence similar conclusions and abuse, on the other side. On the third day his con duct is equally hostile to both the Ultras and the Liberals. New abuse from all, M. Decazes is now a hypocrite, a man who has no settled system, and who never knows his own mind for 24-hours together. bus the ignorant fancy the moun tains they see as irrefragible proofs against the rotundity of the earth, whereas, could they em brace the whole at one view, they would find them only like a grain of sand on the surface of The Parties see nothing hut i neon sistencies in M. Decazes' conduct, because they view every thiug'with a reference to themselves only; but could their narrow minds embrace a gene ral view, they would find his system always in har mony with itself. His object is to protect the Constitution horn all attacks, preserve the pre sent tl nasty on the Throne, and cause the Laws to he observed. This is his system, anti when we examine the events of his ministry, we shall find every measure tends to these points. In 1815, proscriptions and the guillotine were the order of the day ; it was the ttiomoh of cowardice over disaffection, and the rack and gibbet became the weapons of those who did not dare to draw their swords, which hung dangling front their sides like a lady's ridicule. France could ill brook the insolence of these Gentry in 1314 ; so that when BUONAPARTE landed, no one opposed him, because discontent reigned every where, and even his despotism was preferable to the alarm of hating to pay tithes, of losing all their property, and of being rendered inadmissible to every office worth having. These are the real causes of the stupor and indifference that reigned every where, but no one &Sired BUONAPARTE' S return ; as a proof of it, with all his exertions, his Com missioners Extraordinary, his Champ de Mai, tte., he could, out of a population of 28 millions, bring only 100,000 men into the field against WELLINGTON. France was delighted at his re verse, for she hoped to be free thereby, and that the BOURBONS would ebuse better advisers.--- They did so, and when the 1.11.ra influence was on the eve of producing another 20th of March, M. Dersiszes arrested France an the very brink of destruction, The Or donnarce of the sth of September saved it. The Liberals rejoiced at this measure, fancied t'siey should have every thing their own way, but M. DECAZES, to whom all excesses appeared col , liable, repressed their attempts and humbled their • pride; hence their hatred of him. The Law of Elections was the necessary compliment to the Ordonnance of the sth September ; yet the Liberals abused it violently ; but finding there were loop-holes in it, which rendered its abuse facile, they changed their minds, and now regard it sacred as the Chatter ; but they forget their impudent boast, which would perhaps have been realiied, that on the renewal of the next fifth, all the Elections would be Liberal—Ought then the Law toexist in its present form ? Certainly not, the annual renewal of a fifth of the Members is found to be pernicious, though it is an article in the Charter ; why then should it not be changed ? But no, the Liberals wish only to be able to elude the . Laws ; they do not want them to be changed, because a change would 'sling their intrigues to nought. The banished are called those condemn ed, without a trial, are restored to their families and their conn try ;' they were accused of cmespir ing return, but it is well known that no such conspiracy ever existed ; the only sha dow of a proof of it is the forged Letter sent by sin orange. Dc,riNoig, ordcr 1.0 ccm%ict BAvAav, ! would have been beheaded on its evidence had he been trete at the tittle. The return of the Ex• iles is regarded by the Ultras as fatal to France, and the necessary changes in a law or two is re garded equally fatal by the Liberals, while the confidence of the Nation is apparent in the ride of rite Funds, notwithstanding the sinister predic tions of both the Factions. 'M. DLoAzes has ttiumphed over all the Partieq, or rather he has enabled tine Constitution to triumph over them ; he assured the stability of the BonftßoN Dynasty against the folly of its friends, and the hatred o f is enemies, and, at tie close of Isl 9, there is not a rwver 10 Europe so tranquil, or that possesses in an ctptal de4ree the elements of tranquillity, Ittippinessi and prosperity in its bosom. To THE /a-FORNEY-GENERAL SIR-1 beg leave to call your attention to the following paragraph,, which appeared in The Manchester Obserrer, of December 25, 1819. That Paper is pnblilhecl by JAMES WROE, No. IS, :\larket-street, Manchester : THII BENCH OF BISHOPS LOST.-00 Saturday '‘ 00 the commis.ion to give the Royal Assent " to the Training Bill, th,commission could not '` be opened, for want of a Bishop to read prayers ! " more pious times, this would have been Con " sidered a bad omen, and the Bill might have been " lost, for the want of a Bishop to bless, a mid the " curses with which the Nation will hail its en " act ments. But in these times nothing is re " garded. A porter was sent .to find a Bishop; " and having found One, prayers were read, and " the infamous Bill received the Royal Sanction " in due form." " THE INFANIOUS BILL BECEIVIID THB ROYAL " SANCTION IN DUE FORM." 1 dischatge only a bounden duty in placing; these words before the King's Law Officer, whose especial function it is to watch over the digriov o f the Sovereign. When the Parliament re-assem bles, I shall place Mr. WitoE's paragraph before their nutice also. TENAN. HOUSE OF COMMONS. NOTICES of MOTIONS, and ORDERS of the DAY, wh:ch now stand in the Order-book of the liouu of CommoN3. TUESDAY. FES3Iii*MIY 15, 1920, - Order of /he Dar/. Local .lurixdictioris Bill ; srcond reading. WHI)NENDAY, FFI3. IG. Orders qf the Dv. 1. NKrtrent TV11; second reading.—g. Conveyancers' Bill ; second reatline - .--3. Supply; Cumtnittee.-4. Ways and Means ; Committee. Tut , ninAY, PEI). 17. Notice of Motion. Gener4l Hart—Account of Property dist rained for Fines on Toa•ulands since appointment of Collectors of such Fines. Order of the Dag; Exchequer Chawber Arelantl) second reading. FitlnAY, F. 13. Order of 'he .I)ay. Marriage Act Aniewittient Bill ; second reading. AIONIMY, FEB. 21. Orders of the Day. 1. Penryn Bribery Bill ; Clurt of Exchequer not ; further consideration of Report. ToEsnty. Fru. 92. Noticcs of Motitms. I. Sir James Mackintosh—Comniittee on the Criminal Laws.-2. Lord Cranhour;,e—Coniniittee on the Comic Laws. —3. `jr. 11'1W:tins—Bins to prevent Occasionality, and to i ni puse a Qualification Oath on Voters at Elections. FRIDAY, Fr.a. 25. Orders of I/o Day. 1. I r i s h Eleetious Bill ; second reading.--2• Irish Partner ships Bill; second reading. TrESDAY, FEB. 29. Order of the L'aq. Bishops Castle Elections Lill; Ballot for Committee. MONDAY, Nlsacn 6. Last Day of reading Private Bills the first time. }'away, Mallen In. Order of the Day. Bankers' Regulation Repeal (Ireland) Bill • second reading. MONDAY, MAY 1. Last Day of receiving Repasts of Private Bills. NOTICES OF MOTIONS, FOR NO PARTICULAR DAY tiAs BEEN rzxcn. Mr. Serjeaut Onslow—Standing a der regarding Bills fur the regulation of Manufactures, Mr. Michael Angelo Taylor—Bills to rtTulate the Con duct of Stage Coachmen render effectual the Ap ',OLIO, Jurisdiction of the House of Lords;—Appointment of a Committee to consider of the Nuisance created by Steam Engines. Mr. Lambton—Bill for repealing the Septennial Act, and for the more frequent calling of Parliaments. Mr. Leslie Foster—Bill for regulating the Union of Parishes in Ireland. • • Mr. Charles Grant—Bill to regulate the Office of Constable in Ireland. Mr. 1 Fitzgerald—Committee on the State of the Edu cation of the Lower Orders in Ireland. The Lord Advocate of Scotland—Bill fur the Regulation of certain Proceedings in the Court of Session Bill for regulation of Proceedings connected with the Court of Ad miralty in Scotland. Mr. Alderman Wood—Committee to consider of allotting Dartmoor Fort st, and of the Occupation of the Government Buildings there, for the Employment and Maintenance of the Poor. Mr. Grey Bennet—Bill to disqualify certain official persons from sitting in Parliament. Mr. Maherly—Bill for continuation of Linen Bounties. • Mr. Bootle Wilbraluun—Committee on the Petition of Mr. William Salisbury. Mr. Calet-aft—Correspondence of Government with the Manchester Magistrates in July last. Sir Henry Parnell—Resolutiems regarding th e c o llection of the Revenue, and the Civil Departments of the Naval and Military Services. Mr. Parnell—Bill to enable Catholic Dissenters to provide Residences for their Clergy. Sir William De Crespigny—Committec on • Plans for ame liorating the Condition of the Poor. Mr. Warren—Bill to facilitate the Employment of the Pauper Children of the Metropolis. 'RIGHTS AND Pit VI LEGES. TO JOHN BULI,, ESQ. LEflElt 11. krioNEs‘i• JoHN dot ! Afraid we shall 'Fuld but , • few Rights and Ptivileges amongst the earliest ins habitants of BRITAIN, that are at all applicable to the present day, or to the existing state of so ciety. Previous to the invasion of JULIUS CiESAR, a Gentleman who like Napoleon Buona parte, thought ha hail a right to invade every country within his reach, and the privilege to take whatever he could lay his hands on, this Country was almost totally unkoown to the world of let ters, though there are some slight notices of it in works written before CiESAR'S time, about half a century prior to the commencement of the Chris ) Ilan Era. The Phenicians and Carthagenians certainly did vi sit the South-western parts of the Island previously, in search of tin and lead ; and, no doubt, sailor like, may have assived in the great work of pro creation about Falmouth and l'enzaice ; but I know not of any particular rights either you or the Cornish Boroughs ciu inherit front them, on less you claim the right of passing your-'citildren through the fire of Moloch, or of whipping them severely at every mile -stone, a custom still com memorated in London on that day ,vhen the Churchwardens and Parish-bovs, with long white %vands, like a Committee of Radicals, traverse the bounds of each parish, striking their ro,k, not upon those places where they might be felt, but upon the brick-walls of some corner, which, like fat Aldermen and Cominon-council-men, has been " widened at the expence of the Corrora- (lull. ,~ Boney, however, who was a great Genealogist, seems to have laid great stress upon your Cartha genian blood, it we may judge from his cry of " Delenda est Carthago ;" but, instead of his pulling clown the Modern Carthage, it has both pulled hint up And pulled him down; so that de prived of sitting, like Marius, upon the ruins of Carthage, as he flattered himself he would do, not as an Exile indeed, but As a Conqueror, dropping a few crocodile tears, end uttering a lea' Corsican sentiments, the great little Man was obliged to attempt getting up the part of Theinistocles, and even to drop that for General Bombastes Furioio, which he now performs to empty benches, but with a full 'for the bent fit of the world at large, a minor Theatre of the Southern Hemisphere I believe the:t, JOIINNY, since Mrs. Boat. is anxious that her little ones should not butyl their fingers, and you ate not fond of fioggi:lg them except when they deserve it, that we most give up all Cartbagenian rights, and look to the period efLesatt's arrival,when the inhabitants of this Isle were merely a fesv wandering tribes, possessing little •beyond their arms and a strong spirit of independence, the latter of" which you hap pily inherit to the full extent of all the o1•.1 Bri e fish blood that is in your veins. At that period, however, Britain was neither an agricultural, a commercial, nor a manufacturing country, even in proportion to its small number of inhabitants, whatever has been advanced by legendary histo rians, who taljt of cities, ships, commerce, &c. if our Manchester and Yorkshire weavers had lived at that happy era, they might perhaps have enjoyed their natural rights in a country that pos sessed scarcely one .indigenous. Fruit or vegetable, though they would have been rather puzzled to find spades or shovels to work up their four acres. —Nay even our Radicals • would have heel' saved the taste and smell of tea, gin, and other Excise able articles, whilst Ho :ST would have had his full swing, not indeed where he ought to have it, but in that delightful 'communit y of wives which is said to have then been prevalent. -As for spinning and ry ving, he land his friends might have spun out long spe . ches and woven Manchester fabric—alions.; but doilies were un known in a country where every body made his birth-day suit last him f.r life, contenting himself with painting it agreeable to the newest fashion. One Daody indeed, about thkt time, is described by Sir RICHARD BLACI:MORE as having invented the first Spencer that ever was worn " A painted rrst Prince Vortig,ern I,ad on, Which from a nal:cif Pict his grandsire wutt." Some people, however, have accused poor BtacKmoaa of a Bull in these two lines ; but'the thing is clear and easily explained. Prince \TOR grandsire having killed a baked Pict, whose skin was painted agreeable to the tashiom of the times, whence the names of Brit and Pict, thought proper to flay him, to make a Spencer ut his skin, Just as you, JOHNNY, sometimes make a waistcoat out of a c4if's skin, something like the patent shoes that are cnt without a seam. Unfortunately these precious liberties were of short duration ; for the Romans soon over-run the country, mining domestic slaves of souse of the &irons, whilst the remainder fled into the fa - stnes , e6 of Wales and Cornwall, and even at rosy the Tweed. So much. JOHNNY, for ancient British Rights— to ,‘ hich I believe, in generml, the g rtnt est palm of your family can in but t few ancestorial claims. Holy much you inherit from the Romans shall be dilcusied iu illy next ‘Y.Quis o IGNOTUS. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Last Night. • Tut.% IRP: ROYAL, Dun ItY-LANE.—The Siege of Belgrade t The Seraskier, Mr. Brabant; Lila, Miss - After Jack and tie 13eatt Jtalh ,„ 1 IingATttEAOYALi : ari ft: CeleestaiAlr. Macreatly ; EllYabeti , •MN. Burni. 2 After • which, Harlequin and on Quixote. PRICE OF STOCKS TlllB DAY AT TwELvE u•CL(CK. 3 per Cent. Red. G 7 ii 68 67 31 per Cent., %Hit 4 per Cents.... Bl4 iii Bank Lung Ann. 17 D-Ittits i Imp. 3 per Cent. Ann... C6l India Bonds ... Is. 34. 4s. pr. Exch. Bills, 2d. Ss. 4s. 2s. des.. If dis. Cons. for Account . 69 68 MAILS. ANRIVF.D-2 Waterford, I Lisbon. Due—l Qui)lin, I Guernsey and Jersey, 1 Ciuttenburgh, I France, I Hamburglt. HIGH VATER AT LONIMN BRIDGE TO-NIORItOW. mmnimg, 35 minutes after G. j Evening, 5 minutes after 7. TH_E S IT. SOLEM LUIS MCEREI FALSUM AII IJEAT ? LONDON, T(TESDAY, JAAU.IRY 4, 1820. The Paris Papers of Saturday last, which were due this morning, have not arrived. There is so laudable a spirit of patriotism iii The Morning Chronicle, that it is not only distress. ed by the pressure of present evils, but over. ‘l.lielmed with apprehension of future calamities. The " alarming debt on the Consolideed Fund'' is a great source of anxiety to the ritriotic Con- . doctor of that Paper, this day, and he is not cooes tent with enquiring what the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER will do to lessen the present load, hut is full of terror lest " the Speech of the President of the United States thould be of a hostile n2ture respecting the Ho ridas." " SufT►cient lor the day is the evilthere of it too narrow-uniuded a 'election for this profound politician, ‘vho can see events in their causes, and who, to use his own words, on a for-. Fuer occAsio►►, seen►s to have returned to hi, " prognosticating predictions:" " That we must be mixed up vitb the question Kett;•een Spain anti the United States there can be no doubt." The idea of mixing up a question with a people is a rhetorical figure worthy of so ,enlightened and profound a Politician ; but surely it would be wise in him to wait till ore and the question with which we are mixed up (tor we presume his poeti. e a ! (apey will give ealS tv the question) shall hear what the PIZEt , IDENT will say. After such a leap to the Vloridas, the Havanna!), and our Nest India Possessions, (for :he good Gentle man is alarmed for their safety,) he comes back in a literary balluon, resumes his notice of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHFCIUSR, and asks this emphatic it'nd porten►ous question, " Ought we (the prorertial apples) to be placed in s►►ch a sip Nation with respect to fiaance by any Minis ter )" And here his Iseroism rises, and he ex.. " We boldly say- , -we ought not ;" anti concludes with this sagacious truism avoidi. " .we should he always in a situation ur " repel it, which we never shall be by pursuing; ' temporary Measures of expedients with res-pec; " to Our fillanccS."—Pca y • Mr. VAN SITTA HT, da relieve the distressed mind of this truly patriotic Journalist, and tell him what yo.l will do to taisd the supplies whets AmeriFir gets the Floridas, tiler Havanna!), and our Wtst India Possessions The dispute between the Party Chronicle, artd• the Times-serving Journal respectiog the intro ceoce or merit (For guilt seems out of their view of the question) of the threatttiel assassination of Mr. Canning, may he resolved into this— that it is perfectly lawiad to minder an English Mini'ter, but damnable to attompt the life 0.4 , the most atrocious foreign tyrant that ever exiwt.. cd !--One would really think they hail forgo!ittk tie practical illustratirm of their doctrine in the hot rid murder of the great and amiable Peuca vAL !!—Their opinions are any thing but specu• Wive and abstract 3 How many constables have been assassinated, %vitnesses and jurymen fired at already ? The controversy is doubtless well limed, and may prove usctul !—(.llorning Post) DlJNlnuttlEtt, the once celebrated French Re publican (it neva!, now in the 801 It year of his age, is at this 11011• Loudon, and sitting to an Artist; for his Portrait. This vetcrau, in ;be course of his n,:merous campaign:, irasi hven wounded at least twenty times ---(Norning Paper.) A letter from Sierra Uone, dated Sept. 24 • ISI9, says--." His Majesty's brig Thistle, Vent, ihu.vs, is artived nom Portsmouth nod t h e C ape de Verd i and will proceed in a few days, to ice ward, to cluck; if possible, the i nci - eus i ng trada in slawo, cai tied on by the Pot Inguese and Spa.. ttialds. Within these few (I.iys two of the above description have been sent iu by his Majesty's, ships Motgiatra and Peasant. This colony ha* been very unheal , hy t igring tie rainy season, tin d,, I regret to say, many lives were. lost, principally Enropeans.'. Our colic() tnaric.ct this r.-ee« has been rather br4ker thHil of Isle, fl) the ii , :itter of seventy-Fours litive experienced a rise of ,it l f ) ,it 30, to 641, ; in the course of JAnuary R coosider.4l hie advtioce is entici: , Hted by the mantit ßct „, e „, and we sincerely with (11,14 their expectationi. way be reedited. —(_lla,tchestei 4azeicv,) 1)4 1. , and Si 'and amai bevy ter, 1 Irelat enter anal tern Po De tv steal ranea ton I his I` Stati has y Mod PL lien( Frier F A pack for 'I beth Li du Want to lit Mont Purse Jaw • Pa Antis ti:ti y ccat, ; Dlahl ceNs, E 2 liopt I.lurr Jam Ch lbtinz JL mrtie li»; (;etiin Ivich peti toil .pr( - fol on boi