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Suet' Persons as are desirous of Contracting for Adttit• With the A gent for Commissariat Supplies, to furn i sh -el re Month s from the tst of Novem b er next, suc h es Trott °f STRAW f o r FILLING PALLIASSES, as m ay ,t tirOttlkt,—e to time b e requ i red at B arrac k s an d O r d nance Sa " i n ; 'tti the un derraeationed Counties and Islands, may re f: Particulars of the Contracts on applying at this 0 'P c e e e ' r l'e e t : een the Hours of Ten and Four; and to the re 4nd A LI ; - Barrack Masters in the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, k '° g the and deliver their Tenders at this O ffi ce, (mar - Prid -ere" "Tender for Straw,") until Twelve o'Clock on aY, the lathof Pr or , o. , October. Sol itt :;!ts are to be made separately for each . . C ounty in tai t rtt ain, for the whole of the Barracks in North Bri- Ne: l 4" also for the whole of those in the Three Islands of tited J ersey, and Alderney; but no Proposal will be no. thtp4.nless made on or annexed to a printed Particular, nod be ,: b . s inserted in Words at length ; nor unless a Letter prop er t j ' itl ed to such Proposal, from a Person of known tae f o sY ' engaging to become bound with the Party tender lf tile due performan ce o f th e C on t rac t. " ' l ets are sent by Post, the Postage must be paid. li erk COUNTIES, &c. tie % s ' Bre c k nock, Chester, Cornwall, Cumberland, 1,1 1:1' Do rset,' D ur h am, Essex, Hants, Isle of Man, 114:15:f Wi ght, K ent, Lancaster, Middlesex, Norfolk, North- SNltitrl4rni, N orthampt on , N ott i ng h am, P em b ro k e, S u ff o lk , 111,441, Surrey, Sussex, Warwick, York, North Britain, Guernsey, Jersey, and Alderney. TO GAS CONTACTORS. CORK. COMMISSIONERSI2.II.StI,,, of WIDE Ce ive 11 - `iit ETS of the CITY of CORK are desirons . to 44t1L.,,.40P05ALS for Erecting Apparatus, and Providing ikleigpAllif Mains for LIGHTING that CITY with GAS. _ bjed i t •taPosals, with Plans and . Specifications, are to be -u:it e thet"'South Cork, of the Commissioners' :Mall, Cork, 21st OfficeDmb next. 34 September, 1822. A., a t ,, THOUSAND POUNDS REWARD. lel, I .' IIt2'" I ‘TEIERS and CO.nothavingsucceeded theisota ° - 'ta t il e p their PafFel of Notes, amounting to £31,199, ili t h . Ald'i ,e k e aosirit i t tcll,3lail on the night of 11th Sep K and in order to prevent .e N --,,,, Drip-( it advisable to circulate a NEW ISSUE tit e Pelati k'd In RED IN . kt th e la on of i, A ubli e . ally of the Stolen . September Notes printe in have to . request -4-te iC mi , "l be pleased tor . le o c n t e a s ny th . ey bitieh " 1 Alark e r efer ;l o t, f ! t he o o - f d 'o h l r lo h ;W g i e, n ; , ,, Banks, viz. :— . lpswich . and I"er to th eme` in London ar l- e ia i ( n il s e tr ig u i c i:! Led when presented, lll , anmngtree , and Ip li Wich; (21-ictsves at Ipswich. 4 th tlevet w ill -' 'v lB22 ;:e .. • at ALEXANDEBS -Ett '1 or at pi, ? information l either t otiti til .e Pani c 'l' S and Co., St. Mi dred's-court, Poultry, so It etloa, A 3 l oaV he apprehended theta td ; n n a . th ekecovery Of the Property, receive the above shall, on . his or their ertai",,,llP conviction alone, without the recovery of N -' " e s um. of Two Thousand Pounds. 4POL ic • , I‘ . 4°TEL, KING'S ROAD, (late West Cliff,) r wAL,.., BRIGHTON. hi s P i • t ilde f o 1.13 N 5 deeply impressed has rwecietihvedgrfarottni lliqte,leade r• the very zreat Support he . ei.\4t44kesallthdisthe Public since he has opened the his above t ,r,,,, opportunity of returning them . . ce r p li ., eet r ie 4 ,, of w-11inAeiNKS, and to assure .d th t e to m m t i h o a n t, to b t y he a ir ci c i o o m i . lro ltan. ..ull y t , and an unremitte a • "se Whi e ' h i sts he shall secure a continuance of that tllni. pis , - now calls forth his grateful acknowledgment. STAIIT)PIRE OFFICE STRAND and CORNHILL, . %rid. If:4 13 , 141 SII ED in ' 1799 for Insurance of N lliit.,e, s i 9, Buildings, Manufactories, Goods, and Mer- St‘ g le t e l', horn,Ve3sels and other Property, on . themo r s! ela t s ct :A .4 s, an Principles affording solid and pe ..tY to e insured. , r , 1-1„ D IRECTORS, &C. itt. I,4I4II.Ii,DOUGLAS KINNAIRD, Chairman. '''.1 4154 . tC''' P EtEENI AN FSQ Deputy Chairman. it. ebtl c e V iee'et ‘ ' j. •• • preeling, Esq. ty. NA, ox t ii . iancellor Francis 4 lli" s ert 1476 P Ply, Bart. William Marsh, Esq. l' *" A 'o r aol, Bart Thomas Maude, Esq. 40 1 1 . ki' e w , Es . . G a nti loi, E ( I. I' ebb s ti• 4ah:t6o,' Esq. 7et Ilerlerr:Li, E sq. George G. Mills, Esq. John Soane, Esq. G. H. Sunnier, Esq. M.P. R o b ert Taylor, Esq. , ueacon, Esq. b h Nt th R6 ... " - "\................................________ 1t . '4ll dist.EXcHAN E ASSURANCE OFFICE. r t t- `I Royal ChiartGer,4 in the Reign of King Geo g ib, the First. Premiums fa ll ,its 44 * °4 th DN S nP 'whose annual Pr t he lx, reaecb'.9.thinstant, are hereby informed 's , t o ha ffi t c ß a e i s l l e:c 2 e o due r s Ptkin:Yal t„ , O be delivered at the Company Ikte(ig-e"nge and in Pall-Mall, as well as by their a re s- - '4E 4 44 , ellts iti tbe several Counties ; and the Parties. _... t et h ,, 6 4 or beYleste 1ie),,,,,14 itilefore Theo m a t p li p o ly f f o o c r to t b h e e r Wi ti tt °W ed for beyoßnneednxtteLaadslattoehfleotfuheseualraclliPFPoiloft: 4 le4 expire. Payment, - !Ile*: Atte,, SAMUEL PENNING, Jun. Secre! s ary... or 14 irkirane'ance is given, daily, at the said . Otfi r c.,_ ! . p f s. Itia g a tbo t ,,.. e of Buildings, Goods, Merchandiz i e, L a os id Shi df44tiettitY Pit'i-',IoCk, or while Building, fron s o ' r Da. b its 1,11(1 also for the Assurance of, and granting •Rt e . „ • Fire , aar es. ap e d , . xvh:Poes will b ' ed free of Expence to the As " 'II the AnnualePirsesnauiumamounts to 6s. or up- RICHARD BARNES, Sec. -----.........„.„_ IlU r .,to ~ OLL) .ENGLISH SCHEME. v t ,_ . '',!'“, esta, i . . with the other II:, to ‘ntractors, . n conjunction ~L ! ri ~,'9lply s _,,_ . tor the Present Lottery, has felt oift his I,r tao.fur`l'ush the Public Wish, Ot t , 1 e ,reiVoS..clietns of the old English nor any Stock Vele 'I"Y f uith e ;las ses, No Fixed Prizes, . a of the Prttl‘Vit"t? his Par:, continent or reconune a n s o_ E e l n Lotteries, in h is assured tti.le4rit Lose put,„_ ,tantruest.he unnecessary, as Lt iiitl;_ery b e i g l ' i ' n l a 0 Ltritlled for . the will _ and THIS MONTH, ; • „...0 eANTALs,"in'eet• 30th o patronise. The X-2,000 :,: ' ' • :°'. ••• • • zio,oo o 1 3 1" g of .. 1,000 .„•- " • 10,000 10 500 ttiivtaiet , Au ( ' i; h '°°° 20 \'iltr` qt • 'IL 1 a r , .g....ty of k3eo and k 200. CARROLL'S for- Nti: 4 e e S e o s i i ID.YORINYIitUIaad ig2a6tisCilFOßD-STREET, 411he,:wn the last an d late Lo ' tteries, a 'great pro- Vt Jita,l Prizes, including '' • 7 ',C 001.000 abtl FIVE - of £ 20,000 ! M. BENJAMIN CONSTANT. The following is the letter addressed by this gentleman to the Procureur-General of the Royal Court of Poitiers : ➢lonsieur 1e Procureur-General—While you merely confined yourself to introducing my name, and that of several of my colleagues, in an act of accusation happily unexampled in our judicial annals, and which I hope, for the honour of the French courts, will also be left without imitators, I was, and was bound to be, silent. I was silent, because it was proper that the pro ceedings should show how far your indictment was, as your apologists asserted, the faithful mirror of the factk of the case ; --I was bound to be silent, because in a cause which involved the lives of a great 'lumber of citizens, I should have reproach ed myself had I attached importance to what had interest for me alone. . Your speech of the sth of this month authorises me, or rather compels me, to emancipate myself from this reserve. In that speech you no longer confined yourself to pretended extracts from depositions of the witnesses or of the prisoners. You were not merely satisfied with bringing up my name in question, which had no relation to the case you were employed to con duct, but in justification of which you may allege the latitude granted in discussions to a public officer. You formally ac cused me, while you declared that you were destitute of any thing like substantive-proof. With events which took place at Saumur in 1822, you connect my passage through that town in 1820—you pervert all the facts—you appeal to witnesses which no longer exist. All this part of your speech assumes an affir mative form, which leaves no room for explanation, and is equally destitute of truth and of moderation. I shall, however, endeavour to reply to it calmly, and with• out passion. You are so melancholy an example of the errors into which passion precipitates those of whom it takes possession, that you will serve me, I apprehend, as a preservative ; and to your violence I shall be indebted for my moderation. This is not a justification which I am about to address to you. Impressed as lam with respect for regular forms, sanc tioned by the laws, I should consider myself wanting in what I owe to my functions, my colleagues, and the whole Chamber, were Ito descend to play the part of a person accused, when you yourself have stripped your assertions of the only character, which could render them legitimate—that of legal accusation. By the single circumstance of declaring yourself incompetent you are placed with respect to me in the situation of a man who attacks uncommissioned, who inculpates without proofs, and who is no longer a public officer, but an individual who may, if he deserves it, he confounded, without any deviation from till t respect which every citizen owes to the judicial magistracy of his country. My chief object will therefore be, to explain to the public and to you the course which you have pursued since the origin of this affair, which you have rendered as singular as it was deplorable. France, and you yourself, on your conscience, will judge whether I am wrong. The object of your indictment was to compromise as many of the members of the opposition as you could. You have ac cordingly sought after, or made most of the opportunities on which you seized for introducing their names. I shall here after supply the proofs, and I shall show how you have for this object misrepresented every fact. I confine myself at pre sent to pointing out your object, and to enumerating the means of reaching it, of which you imagine you are possessed. The first of these means is the formation of a pretended pro visional government, a fact which you would establish on the authority of a person absent by contumacy ; an inexhaustible source which may be drawn on without restraint, for there is no fear of contradiction. But this fable has in the course of the proceedings been rendered so incoherent by the multiplicity of names and variations, that, in spite of all your efforts to pre serve for it some character of unity, you have been obliged to retreat under the infliction of ridicule. Your own apologists in the Chamber of Deputies had settled the business before you. It would indeed be an easy way of inculpating men to insert their names without their knowledge on a list of which they could know nothing. You hoped for more success from your second means. I mean the letter which according to your assertion was written by me to M. Goy:A de la Sarthe. This means, however, failed you, for the very simple reason that this letter never was writ ten, and never could be written by me, as I never knew of the affair of Saumur until the news was circulated in. Paris. Never theless, you laid it down as a fact that I wrote that letter—you laid it down as a fact, in speaking to a prisoner ; you said that he knew it. You have. Sir, affirmed what is false, and you are now in the situation in which your defenders in the Chamber • laboured to place you ; for if I wrote that letter, and if you knew that I had so done, it was your duty to accuse me. Your excuse, derived from the existence of two plots, does not apply here. According to your assertion, I had written the later to M. Goyet during the first plot ; I must therefore have had something to do with that plot. You were competent to the prosecution of the first plot. My accusation was your duty. Is your assertion true ? You have then failed in your duty. Is it false ? Then you have violated truth. It is, indeed, well known, for we have it from your own mouth, that you often make affirmations without proofs. On the 2d of September you said to a witness—" We know that you were the messenger from Saumur to Paris." When he exclaimed—" Where are your proofs ?" you replied—" If we had proofs, you would be among the accused." Thus you de clared that you knew the fact, and yet you admit that you had no proof ! It was then necessary to renounce the invention of a pretended letter which never was written. Two means still remained for you ; and I must say that you did not neglect the first. The first was the soliciting against me and my colleagues, by questions for which no ground was laid, depositions from the prisoners or the witnesses—the repeating our names when mine of the deponents - had any reason for pronouncing them (which was called "putting them on the way" in the sitting of the 28th of September)—the inviting with an affected delicacy every witness and every prisoner to give us a place in 'his declaration —the officiously prompting. the recollection of those who did not name us; by reminding the refractory of your valuable right of recommending incarceration—the impressing on rebel con sciences the terrors of dungeons, in order, doubtless, to render their testimony' More conformable to truth. I must do you justice. In this way you have done all that could be done. Hope, fear, insinuation of favour and of pu nishment—nothing was wanting on your part. You are not to blame if so much address has produced nothing. Finally, you had a last means, and on it you doubtless greatly relied. 111. Grandmenil, to whose existence, never having seen him in my life, I gave no credit until I saw from the proceed ings that it was certified by the prisoners—M. Grandmenil was in contumacy. An absentee of this description is extremely useful. You have accordingly bestowed particular care on the drawing of that part of the indictment which relates to the words attributed to Omndmenil. You said—" It results ^ from the declarations of Grandmenil, that he was presented to MM. Lafitte, Benjamin Constant, ,vo. 1 ,1,0 C 5, t b° 11 ,4, 1 0 rs ' t t be 10 1 st iy O l e as duo' „ p fire e the is, core ut t mg* iy toe . I Cr ,. • eon' as hrot e v• ) i k I 'OP 0 I 0 ic y ) % l i -jfec Ll ic e ojec t Site° ~l• ICr • 0 pe r . 5. , ,, 11',! ,. 1•,' ‘ ',,, , , , . . - .. :..„ /.„._... ~..... E <,„, ( .., ,___.0„.....,...„ ~. ,‘„,........ . c 5.,....,•,,,,,,,,,„.„ . . . U • , /„._._ ~f,-,_/0-: . .,,,,,,,,,,,,c,,,,z- , ~.._. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1822. Foy, and Lafayette ; that he made hiMielf be recognized by Carbonari cards ; that he has seen them separately, and to gether, &c." Thus, by the irkilful arrangement of a single phrase, you left it to be inferred from the language of the person in contumacy, not only that he had mentioned such a thing, butalso that such a thing had actually taken place. You transformed the pro posal into a fact, and according to your general custom, Affirm ed it to be so; being probably at the same time ready, accord ing to your general custom, to agree, if necessity required it, that there did not exist the slightest proof of it. A measure of this nature promised soinething, I allow ; for you announced that a witness, whom you had in reserve, and kept in the shade, had heard these proposals made, and would swear to them whenever you might wish it. I might even add, as you might wish it ; for do you not tamper with false wit nesses ?—do you not threaten with imprisonment every witness whose memory is so intractable as not to recollect whatever you order him to declare ? • If moreover, as the discussions seem to prove, this witness, who afforded so much information regarding tin person in con tumacy, was himself implicated in what you have thought pro per to denominate the second conspiracy; if his life or his li berty depended upon his obsequious compliance with your wishes, then the success of it appears infallible. Such measures were employed in England towards the conclusion of the last century but one ; and were successful for more than 20 years. However, your confidence in this trick seems to be diminish ed • and I conceive this to be the case, because I know, by what relates to myself, that there is not a single syllable attri buted to the person in contumacy which is not a lie, aid this is assuredly the fact, too, with regard to others. Thus ii is that there is so much nonsense in these different proposals, so many evident marks of falsehood and imposition, so many strange descriptions of men's persons, so many palpable contra dictions ! To palliate so Many embarrassing absurdities, it is idly proposed to substitute the son for the father—a suistitu don of which the idea is taken from a fable of La Foltaine., The effect is produced. The invention of persons i con tumacy is rendered incapable of credit. Persons in contumacy, Monsieur le Procureur-General, are instruments which have now become quite hacknied. All France knows that the car dinal point of every indictment for conspiracy is formed by some person or other who is in contumacy. Such being the case, it becomes necessary to abandon the list of the Provisional Government, because it criminates nobody,-- and the letter written at La Sarthe, because it was never written —and the depositions of such of the witnesses as were intract able, and such of the accused as were conscientious, because they only declare what they know—and even the declaratiOns of the person in contumacy, more manageable, however, than all the rest, since, owing to his absence, every thing can be made of them that the prosecutor may desire. What part is then left for you to take, M. le Procureur-General ? To search in the distance of past time for that which cannot be found in the clearness of the present. Thus, what is it on which you insist in your speech of the sth . ? On charges quite new, and totally unconneced with the pretended Provisional Government—with the suppositi tious l ;Ater —with the suborned depositions—or with the proposals put into the mouth of the person in contumacy. The char g e made ag.snst M. Leduc, tor example, is the gold deposited in his hands, with which you swear (for you are ever swearing) he or ganises and keeps in pay bands of conspirators. The charge against myself is a journey to Saumur in October, 1820—a jour ney which you connect with events that took place in February, 1822. I leave to my honourable colleague to repel an attack of which all France knows the falsehood, since all France knows the firm and courageous integrity with which M. Laillac has conducted himself on th 2 two occasions in which he was made by turns the depositary of the wealth of misfortane and of exile. I proceed to address you upon what relates to myself. I shall first of all quote your own words : After repeating; some expressions of other deputies, and after making a merit of not characterizing those expressions by any other term than that of imprudences, you proceed as follows : " Is there not, however, against them (my colleagues and me) what I have ventured to call crowd of imprudences ? " The town of Samnur was tranquil : its inhabitants lived happily, and in obedience to the laws. Can, an experienced physician, the father of an amiable family, exercised his pro fession in peace. M. D. Constant arrives within the walls of thit town: What is it that you arc told by the Mayor, the Com- Missary of Mice; in short, by all the paternal and adminis trative authorities ? Scarcely has that man arrived, before dis coid shakes her torch, and a revolutionary phrenzy seizes a portion of the inhabitants. In the space of six months three conspiracies arc hatched in that town, and 'Caffe. is . placed on time bench of the accused;" and further on, you repeat the phrase " that this culprit lived happily till the day when I came to Saumur to seduce him." In all these expressiints, Sir, there is, with regard to the facts, the most downright falsehood ; in the last of them there is an imputation to which I will not give any title. When shall have established, the truth, sure I am that France will give it the title it deserves, and therefore I leave it to her to of to it the proper epithet. Let us now examine your words once more, M. Ie Procureer-General. " What is it that you are told by the Mayor ?" is your question ,• and your answer— " Scarcely has that man arrived, before discord shakes her torch, and a revolutionary phrenzy seizes a portion of the inha bitants." You are unfortunate in your proofs, M. le Procureur-Gene ral. You quote the Mayor of Saumur; and it is from the Mayor of Saumur that I now hold in my hand a letter in which he does justice to my conduct, and marks out the real authors of the disturbances, which you are now endeavouring to attri bute to me. " Sir," writes this Mayor to me on the Bth of October, 1820, at 11 o'clock at night—" I am very sorry to find myself corn pelled to write to you on the troubles which have taken . place during the last two days in our town ; I take - pleas-are in -ac knowledging that your conduct, and that of the individuals with whom you lived, have not given, rise to them in any. de gree. Butyou know that insultingand provoking cries, which NC attribute to the folly of some young men belonging to the school of Equitation, were set up yesterday evening underneath your windows, &c. (Signed) " The Mayor of Saumur, N. H. MAHAUD." The remainder of the letter refers . to a banquet which was to take place the next day. Thus the Mayor of Saumur declares that nothing in my con duct, or in that of the individuals with whom 1 lodged, gave rise to the riots which then took place. He does more than this—he points out the real authors of these riots. He proves that these riots were directed against me, and were commenced by insulting land age and provoking cries set up under my windows. lie bears witness. that these riots commenced the very evening of my arrival, before I had seen who there was in Saumur in point of fact, I had arrived there at three or four o'clock ; I had not gone out ; and when the cries were set up, I was at dinner with myhosts and some other persons, amongst whom were some of the magistrates of the town. This is the testimony of the Mayor of Saumur ; and you, M. le Procureur-General, you dare to assert that I was the author of those riots, which were directed against myself : I repeat the expression, of those riots, to which the paternal and admini strative authorities, to use your own expressions, have solemnly declared that 1 was a perfect stranger. You call these riots revolutionary ; and the Mayor testifies that the authors of these riots were young men distinguished, as you well know, for their anti-revolutionary spirit and prejudices. Will you say, that in speaking of the Mayor of Saumur, you have not spoken of the Mayor of 1820, but of the indivi dual now holding that office ? But at that time this latter gentleman was not one of the paternal and administrative au thorities. Why have you given him that designation ? 'Co give additional weight to his declarations ? Is .not this to de ceive justice and to outrage truth ? But let us see what the present Mayor has said. I should be astonished if his words were to justify your assertions ; for he has always been represented to me as a very praise -worthy character. He has said that he learnt from the Commissary of Police, that before my presence at Saumur, M. Cafe never interfered with political matters. I take the version of the Monitcur, that I may not be exposed to any contradiction on your part, thoughi there is good reason for thinking it not very accurate, since .the Moniteur has m u til a t e d, i n t h e f ace o f all France, the defence of the principal person accused in this indictment. If I were to borrow the version of journals which I think more faithful to the truth, the Mayor of Saumur would say, that up to the pe riod of my a rr i va l, M. C a ff e h a d never been the object of th e surveillance of the, police, which is a very different thing ; for the police, we all know, watches—ay, and does more than watch, men of irreproachable character; but I adopt the official words and the analysis of the trial approved by yourself. It is, then, N. , . . from the Commissary of Police that the Mayor declares, that he learned that M. Caffe never interfered with politicalmatters before my arrival; it is from the Commissary .of Police that he learns :;hat he adds, if indeed tie has added it—which I very much doubt, seeing that no unofficial journal reports that phrase—that-it is from that epoch that we ,are , to date al/ that is charged against hint : the paternal and administrative au : tliority is found, then, to be limited, to the police alone. Ques tion after question is asked as to whether after my arrival M. Caffe pursued a different line of conduct ? The Mayor Of. San mur answers, according to the text of - the itionikur—" That point can scarcely an within my Iznowledge. I have only been Mayor since last October." (You know, then, that - he was not Mayor at the time of my passing through the town: ) "Before that period," he continues, I spent six months of the yearin Paris, and the other six in the country." This, Sir,- is all that the Mayor of Saumur has said, according to the Moniteur: So that it is not his own opinion that he gives, but that of a Commissary of Police; and in the opinion of that Commissary of Police, there is nothing like that which vou attribute to him. He does not point me out as the author of 'the riots at Saumur, and in reply to the question relative to the change in M. Caffe since my journey, the Mayor replies by stating how impossible it is for him to form any judgment upon that point, owing to his residence at Paris and in the country. Thus, M. le Procureur-Gencral, in defiance of the most plain facts, and the most positive declarations, you heap false asser- , tions upon each other. You quote the Illayor of Saumur With out mentioning any date,—and the Mayor of 1820 has not been examined—and the Mayor of 1822 has not said a word like those which you have placed in his mouth. I wish to refrain from using any injurious expressions; but tell me what lan. guage I ought to use in condemnation of such conduct ? Yes, M. le Procureur-General, there were riots at Saumur on the occasion of my arrival; and are you acquainted with the cause of them ? It is to be found in the excitation which cer tain men had created in the minds of some striplings by the calumnies which they were perpetually uttering against the real friends of the, constitutional monarchy—it is to be found in the conviction in which insinuations and assertions like yours had produced in some mad youths, that I was the enemy of the constitutional King, whom I respect, and of the charter, which I defend. They thought, in the elThrvescence and cre dulity of their age, that they were performing a meritorious action in announcing that they were ready to commit upon me any culpable and illegal outrage. Yes, M. le Procureur-General, there were riots at Saumur ; and there will unfortunately be riots—sometimes on one point and sometimes on another—so long as it shall be the custom to point out as factious individuals the defenders of the liberty promised, and the order established, by the King himself—as long as it shall be the custom to take advantage of the inexpe rience and party-spirit of our young soldiery in order to present to them as guilty wretches whom they ought to strike down, the best citizens, the most sincere friends of that Constitution upon which- rests the security and the tranquillity of France. There will be riots, and the real culprits will not be the young madmen who deem themselves authorized to excite those riots in profaning the cry of " Vive k Hof." The real culprits will be the men who shall have sown absurd suspicions, idle alarms, violent enmities against' those whom their lying denunciations depict as conspirators. Legal processes, like that which you have just conducted, M. le Procureur, are the sore causes of mistrust, riot, and frenzy ; and if one of the individuals =Used by you—and accused, on your own confession, without satis. , - factory proof—were to be assassinated in any town of France by frantic creatures, excited by your speech, that speech would have served as the tocsin of murder, and the blood shed by assassins would rest on your head alone. ! You continue, after this narrative, full of assertions which have shewn to be false : you set out with these false asset. tions to arrive at a conclusion which you had previously fixed upon. " Ile lived happy," you say of one of the pri soners, " he lived happy till the day when B. Constant ar= rived to seduce him." This prisoner, whose moral qualities, whose amiable charac , ter, whose virtue and benevolence have wrung etdogiums even from you—this prisoner, examined and cross-examined by you against me like all the prisoners and all the witnesses, has de. , dared to you that he never saw me but once, and that in the street, in the midst of an immense crowd. When and where, then, have I seduced him ? Whore have I seen him ? When have I spoken to him ? An assertion as posi tive as yours demands proofs ; and if there be no proofs, T ask of you again what term of reprobation he deserves who has condescended to make use of such an assertion ? There is not, you say, legal proof ; but there Is moral proof. I would gladly learn what you call moral proof. I have read all your indictment, all your argument on the trial, and all the summing up which crowns your work. And what have I found in it ? lacts, which you have stated to exist without sliming the slightest shadow of their existence ; —names, which you have been perpetually repeating, without being able to make either the accused whose hopes you awakened,- or the witnesses whose fears you excited, repeat them. as you wished ;—stories of per: sons in contumacy, the only revealers of pretended mysteries which their-absence left you at liberty to explain as you liked; —rumours taken from libels the most scandalous, and with which the ear of justice had not yet been polluted. This is what you call moral proof : peruse again the treatises on the law regarding suspected persons, and the report upon the revo lutionary government : the invention of what you call moral proof is not a merit that belongs to you. ' I have replied to your allegations, and I have sheen them all to be kalso. You mid that I was the cause 'of the riots at Saumur, and cited the Mayor of that town to prove it. T have proved to you, by the letter of the Mayor himself, that so far from being the cause of the riots, I was the person against whom they were directed. You called those riots revolutionary. I have proved to you that they were the effect of strong anti-revolutionary excitation, You said that 1 had seduced a man, in whose eulogium his reputation and his misfortunes make it a duty in me to join. That catimable individual, who is on that very account worthy of credit, 'tad you that he never saw me but once, and then in the streets.' Thus all your scaffolding has given way ; this new engine, which has been set at work against me, has entirely failed, and in point of fact you have not had leisure to combine skilfully my journey through Saumur in October, 1820, with an at tempt made in February, 1822. Time failed you ; you rec koned upon something else : I have told you what it was upon which you reckoned ; you were too late, and in despair of your cause, you made use of your last weapon. But that last weapon, the Mayor of Saumur whom yon in voked, and the prisoner to whose moral character yOu pay re spect, have broken to pieces in your hands. Now, M. le Pro cureur-General, allow me to ask what advantage you can ex pect to - accrue to the King, to France, and even to yourself, from the dreadful system which you are adopting—from that violence in the exercise of functions which require, above every thing, calmness and impartiality—from that thirst of vengeance which your slightest expressions betrayed—from . those move ments which your panegyrists call oratorical, and which dis cover an effervescence of passion ill-suited to the character of a magistrate. _ _ _ In point of fact, • hen you declare that you are not competent to accuse us— (a strange declaration to be made en passant, when all the rest of your, speech is a thundering accusation) — and that you express in writing a wish that you were so—(oh si je l'etais )—I ask of you what is the meaning of such an ex clamation, if it be not the expression ,of impatient regret that you cannot hurl destruction according to your wish upon a sufficiently large number of heads ? If you-had been corn. petent, what would you have done ? Surely, you would not accuse us with much greater impetuosity than that which you have already displayed. Such is your ardour, that, incompetent as you declare yourself to he, you usurp the functions of an ac cuser. What, then, are those of which you regret the want ? I wish not to name them. All who have read that famous exelama tion—name them in terms sufficiently strong ; and it is in your hands that is placed the formidable power of accusing, de nouncing, and pursuing to destruction. A blind zeal has, from the first, misled you in this deplorable' career. A furious resentment has conducted you from excess to excess. You are offended at the' censure which the deputies cast on your inexcusable conduct.. You have not considered who were the deputies. You have not reflected that none of those who proposed to summon you to the bar were among the number of 'the individuals attacked by you. The feeling of our dignity taught us to be silent. The men whocalled foryour impeachme t were disinterested as to the question. France is accustomed to admire their talent, to revere their character, to approve their moderation..-The names of MM. Royer Collard, St. Aulaire, Tripier, command respect and confidence; and yet, in speak. ing of such men, wounded vanity dictated to you this language— The accusations which some men have dared to direct against us." Have dared ! Monsieur le Procureur-General,' what delirium has seized you ? What a gratuitous in- PltiCt SEV:ENPENCE. ! suit -to the Representative Power with which the "King himself has been: .pleased to divide the right of fixing the destinies ;of France ? Have .dared ! What ! The De , , puties have the right of accusing the Ministers., and when 127 of their number propose to exercise the same right against you, dbes their insolence astonish you.?. What the President of the Council - would not say, for the President re- , -spects the authority of the Chamber—what the Keeper of the Seals; your Chief, would not say, for he knows • our constitu tional rights=you, the Procureur-General, the creature of the Ministers, holding an office revocable at their pleasure, have the hardihood to say ! Such d' degree of - -extravagance has,- in one respect, claims to a kind- of indulgence. A man so carriectaway by passion cannot be regarded-as perfectly responsible for. his acts. But I pity the Accused who haveadversariesourd the .Monarchy which has in , struments; such as you!. ••• Deceive note M. le Procitreur-Genetal, either yourself or those who Walk in the same path with you. France abhors your warmth, and shudders with horror at your doctrine*. She shudders with horror at those- tnotttl proofs which dis pense with legal proofs, (and which were employed as in struments of destruction in every proscription of the Re volution. it' was by moral proofs, in defect of legal ones,• that the. massacres -of 1790 were- peryettated. France 'bud der• with - horror at' the very thpuit of , extortmt deposi tions to obtain the names of those w hore safety Oovernment wishes to compromise, -and of The pursuit and incarceration of witnesses wile- give testimony different to what is commanded them. France views-with abhorrence those threats to advocates who are censured for taking down the terms of declarations made in their presenc'e, and who are only permitted to continue their tutelary functions under the cruel prospect of suspension and ruin. France shudder's with hotter at those attacks which have been made on the law of defence—at that limitation of 3 days for the defence of forty accused ; with the declaration that not half a day more could be granted them. Thus the defenders are placed on the bed of Procrustes; especially if, after the term is once arbitrarily fixed, six hours more cannot be given them, even though the lives of those they defend may be de• pending upon the mere explanation of a single point more. I check myself, M. le ProcureurAGeneral. Reflections are crowding from every side around me. But in whatever manner I might give them expression, they would not be felt by you ; and I have no occasion to give it them in order to render them felt by the whole of France. You attacked me. In answering you, I have only made use of a right I possess. In making use of that right, I have ful filled,a duty. I have shown how you wished to surround my character by odious suspicions and by perfidious accusations. Men will judge from what you have attempted against me, of what you are capable of having done against others. I have explained myself with freedom, without transgressing the limits of the most legitimate defence. I have done my duty in repelling a gratuitous aggression, and I have been able to do it without attacking the magistracy—for you have your self declared yourself to be incompetent. You have, then, spoken without authority. It is to the individual without au thority,. according to his own avowal, that I have replied. (Signed) BENJ. CONSTANT, Deputy of La Sarthe. Paris, Sept. 1822. CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING• A private express has been received from St. Petersburgh, bringing letters from that capital, dated on the 17th September, which are four days later than those received this morning by the regular mail. They advise the Exchange on London, at 10 1-16th, that large purchases of Tallow had been made for English account, and that the price iii conse- quence had advanced to 107 rubles. There were then many British ships for charter at St. Petersburgh, and the importa tion therefore must this season be very extensive. Still, how ever, large operations go on here for future deliveries, at 395., and it remains very doubtful whether they must not produce an advance here also, on the present prices, should an early • winter, or adverse winds, detain the• late , ships. The regular consumption demand will, however, be -plentifully supplied, independent of these chances, and whether the Bulls or Bears in St. Petcrsburgh Tallow, of the importation of 1822, sue.. cud in their speculations, will 14-of little consequence to the public. The English Funds continue very uninteresting this day. A new account in the Consols for the 27th November was opened at 81, and that for the next settlement remains at 813, leaving for continuation only, which does not shew any great expectation of an early improvement in them. The superior income drawn from the Foreign Funds con tinues to create inamenae transactions in them, and clearly proves that capitalists are ready to invest their money either in trade or agriculture, when the state of the empire will permit them to produce any income above the present Interest obtained from the British Funds. The French ltentes have risen one half, and the Old Spanish Bonds 3 per cent. For the end of this month the Tatter have been done at 78. It is supposed, that in the expected New Spanish Loan these Bonds will be taken in payment at 70, and if the contract-price he under 58s. it brings them nearly on a level with the Bonds of 1821, which ti is day reached 66. A further advance is still expected, for the dealers in them do not understand the arguments against them put forth in The New Times. This Paper argues, that, without great injustice to public bodies, the amount of the Spanish debt should be 161,000,001)1. The Constitutional Government has reduced it to less than 54,000,0001., and the monied-interest think that the dividends are more likely to be paid on the latter than on the former sum. The last Russian and Prussian Loans are also in great demand :lad dearer. The Chillari Bonds have had only one day's rest from their labour, for large transactions were this day done in them, and 1i per cent. advance has taken place in their valve. The general prices this day are as follow : French * Five per Cents. Dividend from 22d Sept., 93. Spanish'* Five per Cent. of 1820, Dividend from Ist May, 744 5 8 7i 7 6 .. Ditto - Five per Cent. Bonds of 1821 (sterling), Dividend from Ist May, 85 1 6 6. Russian *Six per Cents. Dividend from Ist July, 82. Ditto * Five per Cents. (metal].) Div. from Ist Sept. 811. Ditto New Five per Cent. (metall.) Dividend from Ist Sept., 8 74 Prussian Five per Cent. Bonds of 1818 (sterling) Dividend from Ist April, 88 Ditto of 1822 (sterling) Dividend from Ist July, 881 n. Austrian * Five per Cent. (metall.) Div. from Ist Peb. 81. Neapolitan * Five per Cent. Bonds, Dividend from Ist July, " • banish Five per Cent. Bonds (sterling) Dividend from Ist July, 89. • Ditto Banco Marks, Dividend from Ist July,. 88i : Colombian Six per Cent. Bonds (sterling) Dividend from .Ist May, 87-4 Chilian Six per Cent. Bonds (sterling) Dividend from Ist Oct, 814 124 a. Marked * are subject to the rate of Exchange At the Corn-Exchange there is no great arrival of grain. In Wheat and Barley there is a complete stagnation, but Oats are ls. dearer. A demand is likely, however, soon to arise for the Southern States of Europe, which, should prices here re main low, may take off the surplus production, being the hest and only profit which, under existing circumstances, the-fariners can expect ; for the prices for home-consumption must continue to be governed by the value of labour, and 6s. a-week cannot afford even the present rates for the necessaries of life.—(Morn ing Chronicle.) A Dispensation has passed the Great Seal to enable the Rev. W. PRITCHARD, M.A., late of St. John,s. College, Cambridge, and Chaplain to his Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX, to hold the Vicarage of Great Wakering,-; Essex, to which he has been collated by the Bishop of LONDON together with the Rectory of Great Yeldham, in the same county, to which he was recently presented by Sir W. B. of Wimbledon 1-louse, Surrey. The consecration of the new Church in Set' I coates, called Christ Church, took place last Thursday—The ceremony was performed by the Archbishop of YonK, with solemnity and dignity. Mr. Archdeacon IVRAN OITA M preached the Sermon. A collection was made amounting to 1411. At the.close of the religious performances, the Archbishop, with a select party, accompanied the Worshiptill the Mayor of Hull to his house in Charlotte-street, where he partook of a cold collation.