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of greltensiveness of intellect, and. sonndness moral principle which renders thelabonrs of rea soning addressed to theni, easy, and !3ffords the fairest prospect,Of producing the desired fruits, if the seed sown be only so right and wholesome as to warrant the fair expectation of a prOsperous return in the crop of mental conviction.. The condition of the French Press, in so far'as the words of the Law respecting the censorship appiy to it, is distinctly knomn to tli k ePublie, and it is unnecessary for us to dilate upon that topic. But - there has been a forced and excessive con— struction put upon that Law, not Only by the Party Organs in this Country, but by those who ought to have more accurate knoWledge and more honest feelings, which renders .it incumbent upOn us to endeavour to' dissipate. the illusion: This, we think, may be most shortly and satisfactorily. doneby the argumentain ad ahsardum. The maiu tainersLoF the doctrine that. the Law of Censor ship has entirely destroyed the liberty of the Pres, in France, and subjected the Government, which . tacitlysanctions every publiCation, to the peril of . being held responsible as the author thereof, seem to us to.carry the argument to an extent which . cannot for an instant be defended. It may suit theirba4 views indeed to consider-stich.and -such Essays in any Newspaper or Brochure that is pub • lished, as emanating. froin, and speaking the senti- - , meta% of the French Government ; hitt if th, per mi•;.F•ion of that GoVernment ;s capable of this un limit.-d—explanation, if it . is to he Said that it approves of that - which it doeSniot stop, and mitt frepotitically . iinswerable for all that in the exer cise of its prohibitory authority (which it assures us 'is only Appliert mOrialy)i it allows to issue from the Printing Office r what shall we say to, La Touche' s virulent and inflammatory attack tipon , the Kiwi, the new Constitution, and the sta bility of the House of BOURBON, t'ir what intereretation can be given of 'the other pamphlet . to which we have allude 1, the Protest of the Par liancent, with its notess6 truly mischievous and iacobinical, so hostile to the existing state of things, and so favourable to confusion and rebel 'jolt th a t the iliorniag Chronicle describes them as the most, spirited, ,freedom- : breathing, liberal, patriotic, and philO-ophical emanations of the New School. 'lf any and every trite or absurd sperm- . lation in Cie Patisian Journals, if every tribute - to natinlial vanity which proceeds front the press of France is to be considered as the . dicta of the Government, by what rule- are the hold-faced villanies of the Regicide La. ToUcHE, (insulting beyond endurance as they are to that Govern-, trent), and the insidious fallacies of the Protest Manttfarntirers to be separated from•-the general mass of productions sanctioned by, and there fore delivering the opinions ~ the "Rulers of. .France.. We leave it to, the wits of tfT adver saries 'to reconcile this, to us, insuperable dlr... ficulty. t• It is i). 7 time, however, to turn ,from intro ductory remarks to the volume of - AI the Cit ATEAU BR 1 XD. haveulrearly hinted that it is a very clevet - and ingenious production ; ma.dlesting great abilities, aria displaying the author as a pet sun well read in history, of a eh: o - and inc.d undm.standing, an acute 'contraversiast, and a luminous ,learned, and ,convincing reasoner. Were we to add, as a further eulogium, that to us he appears. to bring to the contest in an especial tuahner, the perspicacity and intelligence of -11 English mind, the process of which he throws out with prodicjoes effect, in the neat, terse, and epietanunatiek style, which 'so much distinguishes the hest writers of France; we should .only be stating a troth, which must still More recommend , this pamphlet to the pernsal of those who are not averse to having the iatiocivation. on the side of real patriotism, loyalty, justice, 'and, virtue, ex - pressed in elegant and convictive language. • . M. de-,CHATEAUBRIAND'S proposed design into answer the different objections 'in several political - publications which have lately been circulated, to reconcile opinions, and to call _the attention 'of all Frenchmen to their true interests. These inte rests being at the sametime strictly - consistent with the tree interests of every nation in Europe, • and of none more than Great Britain ; k is npt unnatural that we should accord our most ungna- lified approbation to thsiwork which SO admiribly enforces them. 'lt commences with a marked and effective aEuSion,to LA TourtE's letter to Louis XVIII. of which,'as it is not immediately under our cognizance; We shall not step further out o f • our way'than to state; that of all the unprincipled pamphlets we ever perused, we do not remember one more infamously conspicuous for talents per verted to the propagation of the vilest sentiments, the advocacy of .he most . diabolical doctrines, and the conveyance of . instill to the throne, combined with injury to the state, rnischiel to the people, and maievolenec to the human race. It is, in' short, unique, ;s,t'ae product ion of.a scounthel of , the tirrq ,and an agitaf 'of - the tu6st _ da , lgerons grcality. Snell writerS as 4c the'boats of t.he Morning Chronicle 1).: ft alter the excel knees of this ithAer-villain in vain. They are petty 7 lareeli'y rascals 'when coinpared with bith ; nod scarrildos, and ha73e, and nialiuint tliey pre,- th : i rttole mass'of their scurrffitrand baseoe , ; • an d „ ) ,!)ity :\%ould not constitute Lac so perfect demon ;71 human shape, as thiss:mple ItlangE - Drr. LA TOUCHE. (Mr . Author enlarges on the clemency of the King to this aiith:ll2,,pnd cotits...o,tilo! the p: 0- cut (1i , ,:0 of tow•artis his Brot.,er', Inurd et cis wit '3 tile proceedings in England after tale i :s Ol ' dtlnll, d e „ ) ,,ustiates ;he more merciful., thone,h not so conrs , I) , " "led, in the former case. (h i s ci n i p, 2 /1.: , ;, the for;iven to he ttra..loll, ~tisttad of I c l pi..1,1g to their- p:t:! crinws r miit 4if itt•gratitittie. He next-sile\is ibly, , tilt; hif.od of the Ittart 111:?vair., rests tpl,ori the iivads of the Fm- I{ll c h h" l'Oyed lil:11 ; anti cal not, by all t h "i Ind kor laid to the charge td the 14:1T1,4 Pc(iple. ti, i•xiiiict troth this imit 'S ill i i iiw cousicicrattly and .lioerally ll.i, de C. distiDL,tasiics one portion or tltt.. Regicides, Prom ilirise v'mlent and desperate Bloodhounds' who , like LA Tot) , were . for instant execution, or, as'another of the Wretches exclaimed '' .nins ,pitrese. !I !" Those who pronounced sentence on Lout XVI. ought then to abandon DU idea of attach ing Frenchmen in g - enerat to '.their causes nor will it'be for - their advantae:e to place too much ttonfideoce in their earn numbers. lii\fact,ought we not to deduct froio dint number all who voted for the death with• the-appeal to the people, or with any condition tending to delay ,the eNe,cu don. It Mast he surpo•ed - that all these bad tije idea of saving their master. At such a time, to gain twenty-four boors might be to gain every thing. They might helieve that votes, which presented a hope of• safety, ‘vithout, directly ap posing die revolutionary phreniy, vtere• more likely to be of .avail iii saving the victim than an absolute negative. It was an error, a weakness but who is exempt from errors, from weakness ? Let us transport ourselves hack to that horrible period, contemplate the erecutionurs, *the assas sins who filled the tribunes, who encompassed the Convention, who aimed the pat card at the bo som of every . one that might refuse to vote for the King's death. 'fbe:st reets, the markets, the public places reSountitel , with ; menaces, the tnas=• sacres of September were before the eyes of every body; RLIII ,110 said $,-ty , ,yhut. lengths a frantic populace might go, where every passillie effort was employed to exasperate them. -g‘ It is tnpreover•Certaia, that preparations bad •beetil made to Braider al! the Royal Family, .a part of the Di... Pinks, and a long list of Proseripts, in case the Ring had not been conduierled. Per. plexed, tormented, at the aspect ot.so litany dan gets, some•meo tnig , ,t think that they bad d itound th e a l eam . of conide-mug these•jarring iliterests. 'I• hey- might think that an. - eva4,ive Vote- would, Koy perhaps, ultimately save the al Family, sus pend it:, death of the }'tog, and prevent a gene ral massacre fatal idea may have been eager ly. einbr::e cd, and a\ eoad:tional vo t e given areo pd.. inely. But,the Colleagues of these men were not 'to be so deceived; divining their intentious; the appeal to the people,. anti otherdila tory, condi tion, were intlii.. , o,andy rejected; all were ntnn bered among votes t•Or the death. But are such !nett to he considured euilty In strictness they are intention they are -not. It is not here the question of principles Carried to their utmost 'rigour : in such a ease, •evele those whoi voted'for saving the Icing„ weeenevertheless shifty of'high treason, as the, Engli sh-Judges justly observed ha the trial of the R,!gieides. But our misfortunes hate been so great, that they are out of the. Leach or all comparison.; „they cannot be ,measured by any rule. It is , easy to say, in times of calm and • security, ":I 4iould in such a case h a v e . a cted so and.so i" it is only In the hour of battle that our courage is to, be-aseertained r Whatever is done, • with the kitife at the tholat,,must not be too ri gorously'inded. In this case; a good intention presmiod establishes innocence, the rest is the tun's and liuman infirmity. - It is Intl just, also, to make a separate class of those weo,-eii:led, since •the King's death, to the service of the State, hate endeavoured to ex-. .piate th e ir, further errors, by saving victims, by resisting with courage the sangu!nary orders of tAtranny-; .who since the Restoration have shewin, by their , obedience, laud their . lesire to render themselves useful,under'the Monarchy, how much they were affected at the forbearance shown by " Here then we sec. to what that. feet which has endeavoured to represent itself as so strong, is reo.iteed,. , when all are deducted ‘'vlio Cannot properly be included in their rank;;. Tney deceive themselves still more when' they ex-, claim that they are the safeguard of all who have participated- in our-troubles. It would, - on the eontrary, be much more true, were they to say, that it any thing could' alarin men's minds, would be the pardon granted to those who judged , the King." [To.be c3ntinn'ed.] DITTCII ALAIL. BERLIN, DEC. 3.—lt is pretended . that three cotnaers, one after another, brought news from the Congress that WAS fat from satisfactory. Later letters 'are rather more favourable, and af firm that the points in d:spute are amicably ad justed.. The Congress is expected to close by the end of the year. . STOCK HOLM, Nov. 23.—When - tbe Deputies of the Norwegian Diet had their' audience of the Crown Prince at- nederiekshall, Count Wedel Jarlsberg made a speech, in which he said that the Norwegian Diet had proclaimed Charles XIII. : on the 4th, and his heirs, according to the order •of succession of Sept. 26, 1810 ; that thus two ancient-kingdoms which the Creator had' united togethen, would be bound in common ties; that the happy hour was - arrived, in which Nor wiegans and Swedes could embrace as. brothers, who had one father in common, that it had been reserved for Charles XIII : - and his worthy son to accoMplish the glorious work of the Union ;, that the Norwegians greatly regretted that his Ma .F.Ay's weak state of health . would not allow of his vis.ting them in this rigorous season;-- that they wished therefore, that his Royal Ltsghttess and his promising son would repair to the Capital of Norway, and receive the assurances of the love and . alle, , -;iance (.1 the People of Norway to their-new King, and at the saute time give them an opportunity of bebolding a i'rince o - f such rare qualifications and distinguish ed virtues - , %%Ito wits destiped one day to wear the nuked CruWn of Norway and Sweden. • ,11ighness answered •" Gf NTLEMEN,---Tile Swedes have with reluct ance loci& azaiust you. The war had no obje c t at t:onn,as your Chief nffered to give the power into the bands of the Nation. The Xing has ab stained from making , nse of hi.s rights. • True to the course he had Prescribed himself ; happier to reign over a free Nation than oveta people subdued by arms, he has left von time to deliberate on the great principles whicb'form the freedom and inde pendence of States: I know the spirits that guided. your Assembly. If there were errors iN the prin ciples, I have the satisfaction of seeing in it p*-r -'feet good faith. Let ns thank Providence for haripg pointed Out to us our duties ; and let its consider that we have the same interests Co de fend, the same dangeri to undergo, and the sdmO glory and prosperity to hope. I readily accede to your wishes, 'and gill to-morrow, with my son, accompany yolk to Christiana." This reply 'was ruade 'by his RoYal Highness in Fiench, and then 'repeated' in Swedish by the Duke of Sudermania. Bntissens, DEC. 10.—The accounts of the mi.- litaryJneasures on the French frontiers are the same as lieretofove. The French Government, it iS presemnd, enter the frontirrc thL, net: till the Congress is closed ; the troops are,. as far as possible, complete, and the magazines Bill. -* lt is, however, observed with pleasure that the good understanding, and the intetconrse-be tweet'. this' Country and France increases daily. It is positively affirnwd, that the French Officers who hart received passpolls for tlrnerich, have re- Ceivt , :i an intimation nor to embark. This k at trihntej tosthe interference of Lord' Wellington. - The organization of die a•1'3719 is continued.— (Netherland Courant, &c to 14th bee) FRENCH PAPERS. [From t/.e• Alonitear ANTWERP, DEC. I L---Our political situation, is really remark:o)le. If t he wishes of the Belgians were attended to, they would nothe nnitcd to Holland. If the wishes of the Dutch were lsteped . to,_ they 'would equally reject a union which they appear: to I. dislike as much as we -do. They consider the opening/of the Schehit as a calaMity for Holland, and we consider the, junction -of oir trade with that 0f ,,4 ollaml as injurious to us. -In a word, our union is like those ill-assorted marriages which Princes sometimes contract for political purposes. There subsists in this case certainly an incompatibility of humour and Character, and above all, an incompatibility of interests. The only points upon which all parties agree are-, all are discontented, and that the Sovereign Prince of the Low Countries is- the only one who has any reason to be pleased. We do enOt hesitate to say, that if the Belgians had the power of choos ing their own condition, there first wish would he to be absolutely independent, like Switzerland, which would give them a rank arnors A- nations like the Dutch and the Swiss. As they feel that they cannot return to Austria. Their second wish is to be restored to . France. If neither of these wishes can be granted, they I'vould, prefer being ' ,under the dominion of the English. Such are our national wishes. Our union with ,Holland would 'certainly. be the last choice we should make. ..The Dutch confes;- that they consider the op2ning of the Scheldt as' their ruin. They say they, pur chased that preat national - benefit at the Treaty of Utrecht. It is true, that the Treaty. of UtreCht put them in possession of both banks 'of the river, and that they erected forts to con trout the . 'navigation ; but .such a claim is as absurd and ante-social, as if a man were to pur chase grohnd with the intention to leave it.with out culture.--(Gazette de France). VIENNA, DL. 4.,--Tournaments are at present highly fashionable in this capital ; there - will be one next Alpnday. Every precaution has been taken to prevent accident's from the crowd. We are assured that before General boiler set out for Elba he ha,d a long interview with the Archbishop of Vienna.- As every one knows the consideration in which the Archbishop is held at the Court of Austria, it is supposed that the con ference nlated to the divorce - of the ArchdUchess Maria-Louisa. , Those persons : N . olo announcNl that they -xvcrild on the 10 h, publish all the Articles of the Con gress, amounting' to 345 (the number of the days of the year that haVeelapsed) have postponed their intention to an indefinite period. The last ver sion is, that the Ministers-of the Great Powers have agreed that the Kingdoni of Saxony should be established; that Prussia shall retain Torgau and Wittenberg ; that the territories of Austria shall be rounded by'the district of Vogtland ; and that the right of the Vistula shall serve as a frontier to Russia. -Nothing is said of the pavicipatibu of Fiance and England in this arrangement. Reports arc .now in circulation -ot marriages. The Dnehess of Oldenbargh, would at present he Sovereign of many -States if she married all .the, Sovereigns whom the Politicians have -selected for het. • 4 Declaration, signed by Prince llardenberg, :- . !P ile .:.nd dated the 2-itb November, acqil3'll-t 5 the ser Prussian Volunteers who intend to quit i:itlleil vice, to return to peaceable occopations,l i ijogi authorised by his Prussian Majesty, t" furtiocCll' with the means of resuming %vitt' - c r C lit . t t ile/ rations in which they were eugag ed et°l ' ' ~,. entered the service. t o f tb e'r. PA DIJA, Dcc. 3.—The grea test pa r _ • [li ce strian forces in Italy. hate put theil lsel"-5 11 ''' t tion to evacuate ottl• provinces: It j me' only weak garrisons will relnain, in O le o / et States, and in some towns whose faC e ' fmA s' Y - • rmoll • , The troops whicb were at Ferrara, .1 sacs m e s ' logna, Cremona, and Codogna, 'i'vill P3ss.a s b.)' till sivtly through our city to'retu'rn to Au stri• - • At route of the Tyrol. . I ° ~ ' e ort li'- IVe are assured that an army is f o r °ll " ° „i f ell t° Save, the command of, which is t be° General Villack. - n 0 j T 0; hese military movements arc verY °' ' "ost e " 1 ° • . . uponou'r city, which was very ill '''' sir t ip IM during the war, by both the-F r ench L'ltt . 1 1 11 0 ts .-7 The i tio ael its- I S 'A i L it r it il t m gs ° , ' 0 1 6e• N at o i< v i creed, that it acknowledges as a tiatiooavi.iiice of loan contracted by the 'Minister,' the ;, l i t ificj Casteliamvp, with Great Bcitain,'after 111tlie.';esj' the legitinrnte deduCtions rorr.ed Ol)( 41 d -i le st ': Ni-ters vt their Britenni;.7 anti Sicilian - g r i ei , tj But the Paritainent, in a'eknowledgin:.; tlti'''h t,latong other (bIl(1,11041 does not give its sanction to the wit:o, slit"l, iSit'i Parlia.ilierit C . iirs, 6 conduct of AL nisters in contracting- this I ° ~. I s r out its knot ledge yeti , , 0 . . res A i l s '‘ tZs E ' ' ' Vet. ' - :'" k ' . '' • ' 3 ,l' . l. — le T ri : : . ::::r ll : " ith bweti""csl:94°"lfe; : itiqies arc treated, 'does ' 'not prevent or be ' 11 ' enjoyi.ng• the;r cnstomary amusentent'.4 ,coie Wills are numerous, an d the Antlyis s3 : l :: r IF 1: : ( s l t e tn i vil e y ga g i. i‘ s •e g. ogi,i:eg to e i n i , t i t % r e t aai iptioat:uptse.:t.o;';ll,l.:lol:lol, which his Majesty is e xiiect-e d ' t° . hotel, Notwithstanding- 114 0 with his presence. ' , ..,t icli it jet' been so ' i ' I imaistriotts.y circulated, Sp 3in lc , :likely to changs the tiatt;re ot her 31 0°1 ' c ' livi d' Ito fulnerahle our ni, ; ; r-s." 01); guarded by the 40 all the rumours .' is PI nets, the ocean, and Our Natio"'"„its ; 1 our .Systent is our own. an d ooly " - t O l d , selves.- \Are Ve itot. forted into cont''ie sfl' i o f any Coniiiiental Power except l'ort u gl,, cr e w gives us no ttnea4iness. Engt.itul JOY , '''„.r.e o f lyar, tires:cm our comanno('„aions with oe'ide.7, nie!s; but we have been accustomed to 0 ,1. of it , a s total separation, and we arc not ai't ralc‘ fed z e i r n ic § a t_oo:l l:: ::e_ i i t y lea .h cl ig n l l t s . o b } e e t s . o i r i e s, tile clisc° 1 CO ' e .1 he t i- The:lcing is adored by his subjects• ';'',. of ~0 are with the King, and eve n t he iluil i lde t toll . malcontents become less formidable. I-4.4010i; Nations Undeceive„ themselves, the SPI I b a ir upon and si4lis not for the luxuries 1-1 ' ef t), he is nimequainted. le .( ' -ea ' The. Law for the payMent of deb" .5-111)ef by his 'Majesty while living ' •tbro:1(1 (;01" unanimously tints by ,icchudation in'tbe e ll of Deputies. on the 14th iust. ite ) .2, 1 PETERSBI7RGII, NOV. 1 ti.—T:iey '''' ii t, dc i l ks Riga," that the frost commenced tit' ' l da ir e, inst . . it has since continued, :11‘1 1.11,e i , v ith' i l i e -been at 7 degrees. 'The Duna is coy"' ct Itl ° e go and on the (it li it was passable. l ile e t ° 1 ele' .l ; d l ; .' l :2.3(1 (Throher at Archangel, was 'i t 'be li r ; ' and the Dwina , was arso fr'ozeit; as "r c ere l .aib n e "; and Costroma, on the'fitst days of l' °v , t ‘ lie 7-h ol ' Thc Czar of (4russini di e d here - °I ) /4 , Wa s s jea this month, at the age of 53 years- , C ; lit d if Ir' the celebrated Heraeluis. 'Phis prOIC e S ' A l l ' es l : on the 12th, is the c.cliavent of S l l4 Po' Newsky, with. all the honours d ui ' t° Ji trrtupq_ I)i sle AILS. •• ke, Alum En-1 Lisbon 1 Holland. i r j a c o')'i 1 , burgh, 1 Malta, Aiolland, Guernsey a u " lin,. 0 Waterford. ' • PitiC FA 0 Till S Y #ll v F `4'l` '',i(s wk.:l,v o'ci.ocN• 6 1 .1 01 13anli 1...t1i50• 0 3 r India lloods, 14s. P i .. Exclwq. iiills, 35 ' P Otonituti, lii d is ,' '66l# Cons.. fur Operli".6' Bank Stock, 3,per Cent. Red, 654 , :q 3 pej Cent. Cons. snot .4 per Cent. Cons. 82j 5 per Cent. Navy AlFil. shut 'Nf ()ll. ll ,,r HIGH wATER AT LONDON BitlOGg lorning, mintitet . afte . r. 8. Evening, 53 2- L OND ON , 6n I sl 4, TUESDAY,' DECEMBER .'"1 . iis lirl.elir),.'rKteEdYtsl,:atth:i?ii.i.es:eriger, Orly"' '' l-e ot . 1 ' '''..---'-'---, 1 t lo , t jijP i froin Ghent with Divatelieslor.C;overll3le,otclifi, 1,111 Vienna. We ea E n YS asasltsito.e bra 0 111. gill' e4l)diestr ;t e.ls; I:.00::ellieyll whatever elo.,:iu:_ were scm tell of fth e contentsm, , (: 1 : 11 : 4 1) I ll e : i.is i ' , 1) :' ,. ' l 1 ti f e jo ' l l .iat. n o t t raus pi re d %vbe.•l) this rAP' : , ~,e j ° sl i Y is s . t c 9 o Dispatches ;- bkit the , ;riith is, that the 51 3 to. ,for e the .Cabinet t30ooc.1.t„01; pl'ice to 3i ' v "'if • l ell;' i ( ill 1 ,0 the .y arrival of Mr. KEYS. it 0 - 14 3 ', Itilet : 1 1 1,e 1;11i) : 1 tieldsettiltliaeti;alecClo'bf-inteit:a“lrilievilll'astlitfciotgle:ll ~..(,:loi!e•respectiri!2; the se 511°° ` " v De ' I I I i -I le course of he clay, th;! Public nvi s ;i - : 11 i cured , that 'ive shall commaiiicate it ' The eleMental ~bargo at e t in i . 0 . ved from the Ports O. the Co.,4i'le°',e (4'lllo s day eltAble‘l to lay belore t:l e 1'1 t it 'll. of the french l'a • Ut flria'l po* utmost ex e linn t \ lli et .t y t} to , tliat 1 !, tk 16 11 Ii " u " Ith ere Et n. t the 0 i t .. 4Ct 'i~(i i