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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. [Further Extracts from the French Papers of Sunday.] PARIS, DF.c. 16. ROYAL ORDINANCE. " Louis, &c.—On the report of our Minister Secretary of State for the Home Department, " Wishing to recompense the zeal which Dr. Bally has manifested at Barcelona, in devoting himself to the study and treatment of the conta g.ou which spreads its ravages there, we have or dered and do order as fbllows:— _ _ _ - "Art. I.—The Sieur Bally, Doctor of Medi cine and Member of the Royal Academy of Me dicine, is appointed Knight of the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour. " ?. --Our Minister Secretary of State for the ,lloute Department, and the Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour, are charged with the exe .ctition of the present ordinance. (Signed) " LOUIS. (Counter-signed) " SIM4ON." • " Given at the Tuileries, Dec. 5." Daring; thirty years past we have been so re- . peatedly conducted from inconsistency to incon sistency, and from contradiction to contradic tiorohat the absurd has alm'ost constantly pre dominated. It may be said, that we have so adopted the habit of . false positions, that a posi tion which is just and natural seems to us some thing new, bold, and somewhat embarrassing. A vague and transitory state, protracting itself un der various modifications, had become in our eyes a ,positive and stable condition. Repeated ex ecptions had assumed the place of the rule. We have seen the Ministry perilously placed between two oppositions,whose perpetual shock, whose continued collision, could not fail to shake and injure the administrative machine, which • had so much need of a solid support in the legis lative power. Was it not most deplorable to see the zealous friends, the most ardent defenders, and the most experienced servants of the King and his cause, placed in the absurd position of opponents to Majesty's Ministers, who were thus, by an error in which a false self-love made them persevere, deprived of that natural and powerful assistance of an imposing majority, composed of homoge neous elements, and representing in the Chamber of Deputies the grand and intimate alliance of the nation with the King, of the interests of the peo ple with the rights of the Crown ? Deprived of these noble auxiliaries ; the Minis ters, to whom a majority was a thing to be gained at all hazards, sought to obtain it by the most wretched combinations, formed, modified, and de stroyed in one day ; and by unstable alliances, founded upon no just and reciprocal interest. The Ministers were condemned to manoeuvre painfully between two oppositions,when they could by a single movement have enlarged their ground, and strengthened themselves with an immense force, which, however they rather chose to fear. brave, flatter, or combat, according to circum stances. Those who had this force at their command did ❑ot set too high a price on their alliance. They merely required that , the Ministers of the Monarch should march at their head in a monar chical direction—that the Royalists should no longer be regarded and treated as the enemies of Royalty ; and, in fine, that it should be ac knowledged that neither the principles nor the men that overturned the Throne could be capable of consolidating it. These conditions were so rea sonable, that it is astonishing they were not accepted. The choice which his Majesty has made of the personages composing the new Ministry, is a cer tain guarantee that there will henceforth be a perfect analogy and consequence between the re. gulating principles of a legitimate Monarchy and the acts of the Government and the Administra tion. Royalists all equally devoted to legiti macy, and ready to combat its enemies, the slight shades of opinion, which distinguish with out dividing them, are lost and confounded in the union of all sentiments and all wishes.— (Drapeau Blanc.) Before Mass, the Bureau of the Chamber of Peers, conducted by the Chancellor, had the ho nour to present to the King the law project rela tive to the sanitary system adopted by the Cham ber in the Sitting of Friday. At one o'clock, the new Ministers, with the exception of the Marquis de Clermont-Tonnere, presented by the Marquis of Lauriston, Minister of the Royal Household, had the honour of tak ing the oaths before the King. Count de Serre, the late Keeper, brought the Seals to his Majesty, who delivered them to M. Peyronnet. Extract of a Letter written by M. Pariset to Dr. Robert, Phy. s!cian of the Lazaretto of Marseilles, dated Nlontelegre, Nov. 27 : A Spanish physician, said to us—' To deny the contagion is to deny GOD ;' and he was right. It is, in flict, to deny the light—to deny evidence as striking as day. We should be culpable to leave the field free for errors so pernicious; and I cannot conceive a more painful situation than that in which the physicians of Barcelona are placed who have taken -- and consorts for their guide and authority. Their own act confounds them ; the cry of so many victims overwhelms them ; they are ashamed to live on the grave into which they have precipitated so many unfortunate beings. A moment of sincerity, a slight sacrifice of self-love, a shade of distrust in themselves, would have spared Catalonia from a load of evils, and themselves from endless opprobrium and re gret ! They hope to escape from opinion, but 'opinion overtakes and judges them, and even the vulgar, who had exalted them, now condemn them." M. de Berenger hat; abandoned the intention of appealing against his sentence, and surren. dered himself a prisoner, itt execution of the - de .cree of the Court. • FRANKFORT, DEC. 10.—The Court of Vienna continues to maintain silence on the contents of the despatches lately received from Constanti nople and Petersburgh. The friends of peace augur nothing favourable from this reserve of the Austrian Government. The different versions which have been pub- lished on the causes wl►ich have led to the dis missal of the Rvis Effendi are not correct. On better authority it is now pretended, that that Minister had incurred the displeasure of the Grand Seiguor, for having shown too great a partiality fur Russia, in supporting the demands made by that Power to the Divan respecting the interests of the Greeks. A courier from Vienna, with important dis patches for the English Government, passed to day through Rastadt, proceeding by the way of France. During this season, all the couriers from Vienna to London, and vice versa, take the route of France, Swabia, and Bavaria. A person of distinction in this city has re ceived a letter of recent date from Constantinople, which confirms the report that Lord Strangford has no longer the same influence with the Divan, and that he has now very seldom conferences with the Grand Vizir. From Petersburgh we learn that Baron De bitch, Adjutant-General to the Emperor, and Chief of the stair of the First Army, ar rived on the 28th of October at Tschernigow, where he reviewed the troops. He then pro ceeded by the route of Kiew to his ulterior des tination. Considerable purchases are now making in the North, of wood for ship-building, o❑ account of the French navy. • FROM PRUSSIA, Nov. 20.—The solemn pro mise of the Monarch to give the country a suit-' able Constitution makes the nation easy, and is the surest pledge which does not suffer any offensive doubts to be entertained. Such doubts are in fact not entertained by any impartial per son, as the King has, on several occasions,spoken decidedly for the realising of his promise of a Constitution. Many circumstances prove that every doubt of the intention of the Government to fulfil the promises made is rash and offensive ; and that every attempt to precipitate or violently to accomplish a work which must necessarily proceed slowly and deliberately, is blameable and criminal. This is still clearer, from the no torious fact that, for some weeks past, a Commit tee has been sitting in the capital, of which the Prince Royal is President, to discuss and delibe rate on tie Constitution of the Prussian Monarchy. Among the members are the Ministers Prince 'Wittgenstein, V. Voss, Schuckmann, Counsellor Albrecht, Privy Counsellor Ancillon, and oilier tried Statesmen. This Committee sits daily.— Though it follows of course that nothing can transpire of the material results of the delibera tions, which cannot have effect till they are sanc tioned in the sequel, yet well-informed persons do not doubt, that in essential points the dearest interests of the country are treated with great liberality ; and that, as a guarantee of the dig, nity and duration of the constitutional relations, the tried institution of two Chambers—that is, a Chamber of Peers as well as of Deputies, will he adopted. The nation, as we have said, has in every respect filial confidence in the King, and the Monarch will answer it like a father. FOR THE SUN. NEWSPAPER SQUABBLES, Ma. EDITOR—I am an old --frequenter of Coffee Houses, and patiently stay till I can take a peep at all the Morning Papers in turn; but it is my ill-fortune, when, after having coaxed the waiter to give me a preference, and I expect to find some good information, or sound reasoning, respecting foreign affairs, or the state of the Na tion, to meet day after day, column after column, filled with pro and cbn about Sir ROBERT WIL SON. Pray, Sir, what benefit can the world at large derive from this miserable wrangling about a man whose case will soon besubmitted to Par liament, when the truth must appear? If the ad vocates for Sir ROBERT are really his friends, they are very injurious ones,for they bring suspicion upon his cause, and seem to spew that they think it good policy to pack the public, before the trial comes on. A conductor of a newspaper must have very little taste and judgment, and be wholly igno rant of the public mind and feelings, if h: sup poses that his Readers can be gratified by such dull and hacknied stuff about an individual, who could not raise himself, and can only be lifted into notice by the spirit of Party. Is not the lamentable situation of Ireland a topic of im portant national interest, that should attract the attention and call for the observations of a wise Journalist ? Are not the glorious struggles of the Greeks, and, as all wise and good men must hope, the speedy downfal of the ferocious and impious Turks, subjects of universal solicitude ? Away then with the attacks of The Old Times upon The New, The New upon The Old, The Morning Chronicle upon The Courier, and the retaliations of the latter ! Let the several Editors feel the dignity of their station in society, as lights of general information in politics, science, taste, rational amusement, and sound morality, and then they will deserve the esteem and gratitude of those Readers, who must now view them only with pity or contempt, for debasing that great instru ment of Knowledge, Liberty, and Virtue—the inestimable privilege of a PUBLIC PRESS. Athermarle-Street, Dec. It. PUBLICS. FOR THE SUN. FALLING CIIININIES. MR. EDITOR, -So many accidents have hap- 1 petted lately, from the recent gales, by the fall ing of Chimney stacks, that some measure seems necessary to guard against the recurrence of si milar disasters. A simple and easy mode of doing this is, merely to reduce all Chimnies to a height of not more than two feel above the roof. Some Chimnies, I am aware, will not draw well after this reduction ; but where that is the case, tin or copper funnels, with swinging bell-caps, may he fitted to a proper height, and retained in an up right position by means of iron rod frames.—The ingenuity of .our artisans will soon render such things ornamental, whilst a free passage will be left for the wind, except in very heavy gales ; but, even then, should the whole machinery be blown down, the danger will be but trifling, and the expence not of very great import-. ance.—Your's, I. G. N. FOR THE SUN. PROTESTANT GENEROSITY. EDITOR-When General (l ILLY was obliged to quit Nismes, in the time of the per secution of the Protestants in 1 SIS, he thought either of passing into a foreign country, or of joining the army of the Loire, and it was long supposed that he had actually escaped. But it was impossible to gain any point or find any se curity ; his only hope was in concealment. The attempt was desperate; a friend found him an asylum in the cottage of a peasant, but that pea sant was a Protestant, and the General a Ca tholic. The step, said his friend, merits consi deration. The General did not hesitate; the Pro testant was poor, and his own life might be sold at a great price ; but he confided in his honour. lie entered the cottage of a peasant of the Can ton of Anduze. The name of PERRIER deserves to be recorded ; he lives by his daily labour, but he has displayed virtues which would adorn a throne. The fugitive was welcomed ; his name was not asked ; it was a tin* of proscription : his hest would know nothing of him ; it'-was enough that he was unfortunate and in danger. lie was disguised, and he passed for ti►e cousin of PERRI ER. The General is naturally amiable, and he made himself agreeable ; sat by the fire, ate potatoes, and contented himself with misera ble fare. For several months he continued in this retreat, though subject to frequent alarms and imminent perils. Often he heard the visi tors of his host boast of having concealed Gene ral G ILLY, or of being acquainted with the place of his concealment. Patroles were continually searching for arms in the houses of the Protes _tants ; and frequently in the night the General was obliged to leave his mattrass, and half naked hide himself in the fields. PERRICII, to shelter him from from these dangers and inconveniences, made an underground passage, by which his guest might pass into an out-house constructed on the premises. The wife of PERRIER could not en dure that one who had seen better days should live, as her family, on vegetables and bread, and she occasionally bought meat to regale the me lancholy stranger. These purchases were so un usual that they excited attention ; in a time of terror, danger is every where ;wit was suspected that PERRIER had some one concealed, and nightly visits were more frequent. In this state of agony he sometimes complained of the hardness of his lot. PERRIER one day returned from market in a meditative mood ; and after some inquiries from his anxious guest, he replied—" Why do you complain, you are fortunate, compared with the poor wretches whose heads were cried in. the market; Bruguier, the Pastor, at 2,400 francs ; Bresse, the Mayor, at 2,400; and General Gilly at 10,000 !"—" Is it possible ?"—" Aye, it is certain."—Gi LLY concealed his emotion ; a mo mentary suspicion passed across his mind ; he appeared to reflect. " Perrier," said he, "I am weary of life ; you are poor and want money ; I know Gilly, and the place of his concealment, let us denounce him ; I shall no doubt obtain my liberty, and you shall have the 10,000 francs." The old man stood speechless, and as if petrified. His son a gigantic peasant 27 years of age, who had served in the army, rose from his chair, in which he had listened to the conversation, and in a tone not to be described, said, " Sir, hitherto' we thought you unfortunate but honest ; we have respected your sorrow, and kept your secret ; bet since you are one of those wretched beings who would inform against a fellow creature, and procure his death to save yourself, there is the door, and if you do not retire I will throw you out of the window."—GmLY hesitated; the Pea sant insisted ; the General wished to explain, but he was seized by the collar. " Suppose I should be General G ILLY," said the fugitive : the soldier paused—" And it is even so," he continued, denounce me, and the 10,090 francs are yours." The soldier threw himself on his neck ; the fa mily were dissolved in tears ; they kissed his hands, his clothes; protested they would never let him leave them, and that they would rather die than he should be arrested. In their kind ness he was more secure than ever ; but their cottage was more suspected, and he was at length ollligt.d to seek another asylum. The family refused indemnity for the expence he had occasioned them, and it N‘as not till long after that he prevailed upon them to accept an ac knowledgment for the hospitality he had ex perienced. I could not resist communicating to you this trait of generosity, not to be surpassed by any incident in ancient or modern history. It is ex tracted from a recent workof MARK Wuks, who enters into a most interesting and accurate detail of the enormities perpetrated by the Catholics against the Protestants, which make us shudder at the horrors of intolerant bigotry ; but from which we feel no little relief in the magnanimity of this Protestant family, who could thus di-play the triumph of their liberal principles over all the temptations of wealth, and the terrors of death itself. J. ROBBERY EXTRAORDINARY.—JOHN FISH, cow-keeper, residing in Thornton-place, Quebec street, New-road, applied a few days ago at the Police-office, Ilatton-garden, for a search war rant, under the following circumstances stated that he had been robbed of 601. in bank notes, which were deposited in a salt cellar in the cupboard, together with forty shillings in sil ver, but that the latter was left, and he suspected they must have been taken by some lodgers. The warrant was granted, and two officers dis patched to put it in execution ; but previous to making the search, they went to see where the money and notes were deposited, when it struck them that it was strange the money should be left, and after tearing down some of the wainscot, and stripping up some of the flooring, at the ex treme end of the room in a mouse's nest, they found one 101. note much eaten, and the rest reduced to fragments to line the nest, so that neither name, date, nor number could be traced, At the moment when► so great a change has been effected in the Administration of Franco, it is far from being uninteresting, and it may be useful, to endeavour to form some estimate of the consequences of the Revolution to her internal condition, to her sense and perception of true freedom, and her present capability for its enjoy ment, and to her political influence in the great commonwealth of Europe. With regard to the domestic prosperity of the Kingdom, the King's Speech on opening the present Session of the Chambers remarked, CC If we take a view of our domestic state, what mo tives have we not to bless Providence ? The sensible progress of manufactures, agriculture, and the arts, attests that of commerce."—" The prospe rity of the finances, the intelligible exposition of the public accounts, and fidelity to engagements, have consolidated public credit, and increased the resources of the State."—" Our auspicious situation, and the return of external and internal tranquillity, have already admitted of a diminu tion► in one of the most burthensome of the taxes—that which attacks reproduction in its source, by over-charging landed property. Next year, those so assessed will wholly enjoy this reduction. The laws are respected, and the de-, positaries of my power become every day more and more imbued with their spirit. Order and discipline reign in the army. Every where pas sions, are subsiding, and suspicions wearing away." A more glowing picture of progressive public prosperity has scarcely ever been presented than this. An increasing revenue, with diminishing taxes,—a flourishing agriculture, growing manu factures, enlarged commerce,—respect for the laws, and their due administration,—external and internal peace,—what more could be want ing to place France on an enviable eminence amid the depression and difficulties which con fine the energies and embarrass the interests of surrounding nations ? The Address of the KING was delivered to the Chambers on the sth of November. So soon afterwards, however, as the 26th of the same month, the Chamber- of Deputies voted an Ad dress to the KING, in which tile Chamber, after expressing its participation in the joy of his MAJESTY at the general prosperity of the King dom, places " at the foot of the Throne the re spectful complaints of the agricultural interest, that fruitful nurse of France," and their " con tinually increasing distress, in the departments of the east, west, and south." And, to this repre sentation, the KING replied, in words the most remarkable and important ever perhaps employed in one of these Royal documents,—" I know the difficulties which attend the sale of corn. No LAW CAN PREVENT THE INCONVENIENCE WHICH ARISES FROM A REDUNDANT HARVEST. The whole of Europe eaperienc!s it at this moment." We entreat the particular attention of our Readers to this extraordinary and authoritative assumption and declaration of the French Go vernment. We entreat attention to it, in con nection with a declaration, somewhat similar, made by Lord LIVERPOOL in the last Session of the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland, when he attributed the public distress under which this country was then suffering, to " excessive production ;"—and in connection with the sentiment of our Agricultural Com mittee, when it announced to our depressed agriculturists, that there was little or no prospect of relief for them but by the diminution of the growth and supply of agricultural products.. According to this novel doctrine (a doctrine of despair which has arisen lately from the fallacious speculations of the prevailing Political Econo mists), the agriculture of France, that "fruitful nurse" of her prosperity, is already involved in the distress of t poverty, and is about to replunge iutopoverty the nation at large, merely because her rich and nutritious fruits are produced for her chil dren in abundance, or because the blessing of plenty is, in the fashionable phrase, a redundant curse ! According to this doctrine, the " sensible progress of agriculture, " which furnished one of the many motives to bless Providence," so gratefully and joyfully dilated upon. by the benevolent Louis, was a progress toward calamity ,—toward a point at which the fertility of the soil becomes a mis fortune, and at which the toil of the husbandman is cheated of its reward, in consequence of the very abundance to which the smiles of Heaven upon his industry and skill have given birth. New Brunswick Papers have arrived this morning to the 1-Ith November ; they do not contain any news of importance. Halifax Papers have also arrived to the 25th November. QuEacc, Nov. s.—Arrived the brig Harriet from Jamaica, with nix.; was boarded by o schooners under Spanish colours off Cape An tonio, which kept possession of the brig five hours, plundered her of every article of clothing materials, 6,000 dollars, and used the Captain and passengers extremely ill. The Quebec Gazette of Nov. 5, contains the Proclamation of the Governor in Chief for tit! meeting of the Parliament of Lower Canada at Quebec, for the dispatch of business, on the 18th day of December. [Extract of a Letter front St. Louis, Nov. 1.1 " General ATKINSON and Major O'Fur.r.os (Indian agents), arrived in this place on Sunday last from Council Buffs ; the latter gentlemaa brought down with him a deputation, consisting of Chiefs and head men of seven bands of the Missouri Indians, in all sixteen men; their des tination is Washington city. 'Ye learn that the various tribes of Indians inhabiting the country in the Missouri, as high up as the great bend, whence our trade has been carried by the enter prise of the Fur Companies, remain friendly to wards the whites. The Aracaras, some two hundred miles above, still evince a disposition to be troublesome, which nothing but the shew of an armed force will quiet. Some hosti lity occurred last summer between the Omaha na tion and the tribes of the Sioux : it appears that whilst each party was traversing the plains in pursuit of buffalos, they pitched their camps near each other, and, •as a good understanding did not exist between them, a battle ensued, and the Omahas were driven off the field, with the loss of thirteen warriors; the Sioux lost six or eight men. It is believed that all the disquiet, as well as the frequent petty warfare made by one tribe towards another among the remote Indians, will be silenced by the shew of an armed force on the parts of the Missouri they inhabit ; and it will open to our trade a road to the richest fur trade in the world. Views to this effect are contem plated by Government, and will no doubt be speedily accomplished. Ample means are in the hands of the military at the Council Buffs for the fulfilment of this grand object." Mt DUKE or YORK.—Yesterday about three o'clock, the Princess SOPHIA arrived at York House from Kensington, on a visit to the Duke of YORK. The Royal Duke soon after returned home from a ride and met his Royal Sister.— The Duke and the Princess rode out together in a carriage in St. James's Park. The Princess afterwards returned to Kensington, and the Duke of Yon:: proceeded to the Commander-in-Chief's Office, in the Horse Guards, where his Royal Highness held a Levee, which was attended by about forty Military Officers, principally those upon idf-pay, who, it was understood, were anxious to get employed in the three Veteran Battalions, amounting to 3000 men, but it is un derstood there are no Officers necessary now, there being more than are wanted of those of the half-pay who were called into service in the Ve teran Battalion near two years since. The Levee continued till about a quarter before 6 o'clock. • It is confidently stated that Lord MELVILLE has expressed a determination not to vacate the Admiralty : that Lord LONDONDERRY is to be called to the House of Lords: and that M. PEEL expects to have the lead in the House of Commons. Ministers think that the talents of this Gentleman will enlble them to dispense with the services of Mr. CANNING ; and there is no reason for supposing that a lower estimate of these talents is formed by the expectant leader se l f.—(Morning Chronicle.) As the Case of The KING against CHITTY, Mayor of Petersfield, involves a great Constitu tional Question, it is to be tried at the next Spring Assizes for Hampshire. The Right Hon. Lord DACRE has given notice to all his tenants, that he has put off his audit-day till the first of February, and at that time he shall reduce his rents 20 per cent. This is truly characteristic of his Lordship's goodness, and one more among the many instances of his Lordship's great consideration for his tenants' welfare ; as already his Lordship's farms are let at,a much lower rent than any in the county in general.•'-- Although many of the proprietors of land have lowered their rents 20 per cent. and his Lordship during the whole time of the high price of corp, never raised his ow ter,ants one farthing. ST. MARY, NEWINGTON, SURREY. N SUNDAY. NEXT, TWO SERMONS Iv will be PREACHED in this CHURCH, for the BE NEFIT of .SIX HUNDRED CHILDREN, belonging to the UNITED SCHOOLS of this PARISH; that in the Morning by the Rev. THOMAS SAMPSON, D.D. F.A.S. Rector of Scrotun, Suffolk, and Minister of Denmark Hill Chapel ; and that in the Afternwn by the Rev. H. C. N. HYDE, LL.B. Chaplain to • the Most Honourable the Mar quess of Downshire, and Curate of Camberwell, Surrey.—Ser vice will begin at Eleven o'CL)ck in the Morning, and at Four in the Afternoon. This Charity has recently been enlarged on the Madras System, and united with the National Society. It now consists of 410 Boys and 200 Girls, 240 of whom are annually clothed. THOMAS ENGLAND, See.. Pilien 01 THIS DAY AT TV Bank Stock- 23r, 3 per Cent. Red. 7 li I 3 per Cent. Cons shut 4 per Cent ! ;1 13 I 5 per Cent. Navy Ann shut HIGH WATER AT LONDO Morning, 37 minutes after 10. THE SUN. SOLEM OUTS DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT LONDON, WEDNESDJY, DECEMBER 10, 1821. b' STOCKS AKLVE O'CLOCK. Bank Long Ann. 19 5-16ths a India Bonds 71s. 70s. Exclieq. Bills, 1 3 pr. Cons. for Opening 784 78 78;,- BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Evening, 7 minutes after 11.