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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PARIS, Au ou ST :CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, AT:rev. 6. - Both the Gallery, and body of the Chamber 10re p‘typrnOy crowded, in expectation of the inuoiun of M.' St. Aulaire., on the conduct of the Procureur-General of Poitiers. *?..IS T-A L AIRE being called upon to develop the pro position which we formerly stated, vas heard with great atten , anti without the least interruption. When the proposition {he said) for giving to the Chamber the right of prosecuting • ana punishing offences against itself, either collectively or in the person'er any of its members, was first discussed, several ofators opposed it, as conferring too important a jurisdiction, and leading to the gravest consequences. He (M. St. Aulaire) ..exiSidered•it.a dangerous innovation on the part of the accused; he was apprehensive that partial condemnations might some times be prenounced by men with irritated feelings, judging in their ewn cause, and in behalf of their own dignity. He was Viola that the public voice might not 'always sanction such par eial decisions. But considerations of a higher order determined the Chamber to.invest itself with this power, to take upon itself the responsibility of guarding the deposit of its own honour and existenee. It was felt that the 'Chamber would cease to be an independent power, if it was placed in dependence on a j udicial a uthority which should have the right to refuse punishment for attack 4 aimed at its honour, .and consequently at its existence. I," said the lion. Mover, " now call upon you to make use, for the first time, of the power which you have accepted; and I do so with the more confidence, that if in certain circum - stances it might be accompanied with danger; in the particular - instance before us it presents none. The Chamber has suffered an attack in the persons of several of its Members, who are far from cemposiug part of the majority. The interest which they . can inspire will certainly not excite in the minds of a great -number a very lively sympathy. If you, therefore, pronounce against.such an offence, your decision will certainly not be sue pected of partiality in favour of, those who .have a just right to complain. lam not afraid of being accused of disrespect to the Magistracy, or of exercising the least influenee over the persons tinder prosecution. I hate conspiracies ; I respect the Magi strates ; and, animated by these sentiments, I bring forward with eonfideuce an accusation against the. Procureur-General of the Court of Poitiers, because' he has committed an . offenee Against the Chamber in the person of several of its Members, because he has violated our privileges, and because to attack the • honour of the Chamber is to expose it to the hatred of parties, and to annihilate the palladium of the public liberties. I know not on what , ground my 'motion will be opposed —it will be said, perhaps, that the Procureur-lieneral of Poitiers has only done his duty ; that the rigorbus rights which he derived from his place `imposed upon him the obligation of reporting in the indict 'silent all the facts and circumstances . which resulted from the least elements of the procedure. ',formally deny this principle; deny it, as contrary to reason and the true principles of judi , dal order ; I deny it, as contrary to jurisprudence and even to precedent. The principle, I said, is contrary to reason and ju . dicial order ; the criminal code imposes on the Judge of In struction the duty Of collecting all the facts, all the means of , forming a decision, whatever be their importance ehe must write down all the expressions of the accused and of the wit nesses ; but when these unwrought materials are sent to the Magistrate employed to draw up the charge, it becomes his duty to make a choice among those materials. The public pro secutor should therefore make his selection with a good spirit, with impartiality and wisdom ; and in combining all the facts necessary to attain a knowledge of the truth, lie should ex punge those which could have no other result but to compro mise men whom he is neither employed nor authorized to ac cuse. If the Chamber adopts these principles, you must decide 'that the Procureur-general of Poitiers has failed in his dutg, by doing too much, or by doing too little. Ile has done too little, if he believed that the persons implicated were guilty, fo,r he ,ought then to have demanded the authority of the Chamber to prosecute them ; he has done too much, if, believing that there was no possibility of accusing them, he has directed. against them arms poisoned by perfidy. I shall not proceed farther in the dry field of judicial investigation. 1 appeal to the senti ments which animate all Frenchmen. Permit me to recall to you, that in the times oldie monarchy, Frenchmen entertained horror at an accusation which attacked a man behind his back. At all times they viewed with horror the baseness which would . tie use hands of a man that his enemy might strike him with out defence. This is what the indictment has done: It has so street several of our Hon. Colleagues, since it has put them ,in a situation in which it is impossible to dear themselves. Let me not be told that such an acte (accusation is conformable to rules : this would he to say that these rules could be accom- S plices of the greatest baseness of, a judicial ambuscade. The uric (accusation goes the length of saying, with respect to . de la Fayette, that the face of hieconnexion with the conspiracy is ono ED ; and if it does not go the'same length with respect to the rest, it employsan artifice.equally dangerous, as it reads to the same per Suasion. Think what Would be your own rage, if your names were inserted in the same acts d'accusation, and agree to the motion for calling the author of t h e attack to-the ar of.the Chamber, to be punished for the grave offence'he haS committea." . ' M . de Maiterioxac defended the conduct of the Procureur-• ..Generad of POitiees, 'aed opposed the proposition A conspiracy had btcken otit within the . jurisdiction of the Royal Court of Poitiers; that'corispiracY appeared to . have for its object 'to overturn the Goternment ot the King, and to substitute another etlovernmert. External acts manifested the existence of the . -conspiracy, , public functionaries were displaced, and others ap pointed, witliont the authority of 'the King. Proceedings have ..comidenced against a great nuniber of persons—a great number of witnesses have been heard. It appears from the judiciahpro ecedure, that this conspiracy had been directed by a Provisional Government, of which the accused and the witnesses have them -. selves pointed Out the members (MM. Foy, Keratry, B. Con stant, and de la Fayette). The Royal Court has ordained the . mire en accusation of 56 individuals, and the Procureur-Ge neral was bound to draw up the indictment. He did so. He was bound to state facts, and to indicate the names of those who had been audaciously pointed out by the witnesses and some of the accused as having formed the pretended Provi sional' Government. This document has received publicity ; die Members who are implicated complain, and demand in quiry. We answer—those Members have a right to complain that their names have been brought forward in an affair where justice pursues treason, perjury, and felony ; but their re proachee should fall, not on the public prosecutor, but upon those who have compromised honourable names. The propo , sition made to call the Procureur•General of Poitiers to the bar is unreasonable. He has committed no punishable offence.— Ile has merely arranged the circumstances which appear in the ..first examinations. The acte d'accusation must be read to the conspirators : it was therefore indispensable that it should corn : prebend all the facts connected with the nature of the of fence: M. de Dlartignac, after some_further reasoning, pro ceeded, by saying—" Some of the Members of this Cham ber are indignant at seeing .their names mixed up with those of corepiretore. Theinindignation is natural, I allow. They wish to destroy even the slightest suspicion of a participation in so odious a crime. This sentiment is legitimate. To satisfy it, , justice should.be allowed to proceed, acid to open for herself all the gates of truth. (,Movements of approbation on the right.) ,But, to remove a public functionary from his. duties at a trio .-enent when he is about to exercise them usefully for society, is not the way to arrive at truth. No ! doubtless the greatest :liberty must be given, the greatest security to the examinations which are about to open at Poitiers. If the Members Impli .cated take such a way of justifying thernsebiess is it not to be. feared that they may arrive at amend diametrically opposite ? May it nut 'be suspected that the part width they have adopted has for its real object to create a diversion in fav our of those who arc before the Court at Poitiers ?—(Agitation on the left, suddenly suppressed.)—May it not be suspected that such an ,attack is intended to rouse against the public prosecutor all the enemies of the Throne, and to create trouble and uncertainty 'in the minds of the Jury and the• Judges? -I.do not say that. it is so; but such suspicions may gain ground. Will you :allow me to mention the only means which I 'think calculated to repel such odiqus suspicions? It is to come and protest from this tribunal, and in the face - of France, against such an accusation." M. TAYSSERE.—How then ? Voices 2 on the left.—Hush ! General FOY (rising up with energy.)—Must we fell down , on ouelences ? The PRESIDENT interfered, 'quietness was restored, and not again disturbed. M. ire MARTIGNAO thus concluded :eat' I speak of what I should do if I were so coenpromised. 1 declare that I would .ascend this tribune—that I would declare in the face of France and of Europe my respect for legitimacy—my love for the King—my horror at treason and rebellion—and I would then wait patiently for the examinations which are to ensue, con vinced that truth must be manifest on all sides , " M. ROYER. Coreeattn.--Gentlernen, this discussion, of so serious a nature in itself, is rendered further remarkable by an important circumstance. This is the first time that the Cham ber has been called upon to exercise the supreme jurisdiction, 'with which it is invested by the law of the 25th of March. It stow enters into the full possession of its independence, of its dignity, of its security, and of that of itarnembers. Time and reflection were necessary to all of us, and to none more than to •me, in order to • enter sufficiently into the consideration of ques done of so much Importance. I request, therefore, all the in dulgence of the Chamber, while 1 briefly. state the motives 'which induce me to supporte the motion of M. de Saint Ahlaire. The law of the 25th of March last is the nest considerable innovation which has been made in our pub lic law since the promulgation of the Charter, and the greatest step which we have advanced in the career of Repre sentative Government. The right understanding of Article 15 of that lasi, the application of which is now in question, eight necessarily to be first determined. The object of this article is to relieve the Chamber from the necessity of recur'rihg to the jurisdiction of tribunals for the punishment of offences committed against itself; in a word, it is constituted a judicial authority in whatever concerns its own dignity and that of its members. It ' exercises an absolute and a responsible power. It is not therefore against the abuse of the press, but against the tribunals: It is not their dignity that it avenges, but it is their independence which it establishes with respect to the judicial authority. Doubtless the Legislature did not overlook the extraordinary and even despotic power thus conveyed ; but, taking higher views, look ing at the dangers which the Chambers might, incur from the judicial power, it was considered ehat the stability of our insti tutions was to be secured at this price. The law has therefore created in favour: of the Chambers a formidable but necessary privilege. This privilege is the complement of Att. 52 of the Charter. With thateerticle and the law of - the 25th of March, the Chambers are henceforth placed beyond the reach of any judicial aggression. They are self-maintained; and protect themselves as well as their 'Members. Thus, Gentlemen, we must take for our point of departure this truth equally consti tutional and legal, that the judicial power is the natural danger which the independence of the Chambers has to encounter. I come then to the proposition of M. de Saint Aulaire. I re gard it as an established fact, that the Procureur-General of the Court of Poitiers has abused his official power by directing an act of accusation against four Deputies, against whom no charge has been made by the Royal Court, and who could not be accused without the permission of the Chamber. When I say four Deputies, I must observe, thae.l have not in' view that part of the act of accusation which relates to the proclamation of a provisional government ; the statement respecting that government being described as a falsehood, none of the names mentioned are accused. M. Viscount de Montmorency . was, I believe, in the same manner, included in the conspiracy of General Mallet ; but neither the Imperial Government nor public opinion accused him, and ha had no occasion to defend himself. The proof that the Procureur-General had made the :act of accusation attack four Deputies is established on other grounds, and is incoutestible ; for that act refers to facts con cerning them, which form charges against Grandmenil, one of the accused. .They are charged with being his accomplices ; and with regard to one of them, the Procureur-General goes the length of stating that the charge is proved. It has been said that the Procureur-General has only done his duty; that the act of accusation ought to contain the whole of the exami nations, and even reproduce them in all their - details.— Yes ! with regard to the accused, but I formally deny the assertion with regard to other persons. The Procureur-General has therefore overstepped the limits traced out to him by article 241 of the code of criminal instruction. Instead of direct, he has established indirect accusations. If lie state that to be proved which the Court has passed over as insignificant or in sufficient, he commits a libel. This, I state it with regret, the Procureur-General has done. The principal objection against the proposition of N. de Saint Aulaire, is, that if it be adopted the Chamber will encroach upon the judicial authority—it will commit a dangerous usurpation. These, gentlemen, arc high sounding words ; but when we come to apply them, their foice entirely vanishes, and there appears to be no common sense in the objection. The question is not here about the judicial power : what we have to consider is, the conduct of the Procu. reursGeneral. I think, then, it may be regarded as an indis putable point, that a contempt of the Chamber has been com mitted against four of its members; that the Procureur-Gene ral of Poitiers, guilty of this offence, should be placed at the bar of the Chamber, and that he may be so placed without en croaching on the authority of the judicial power. If this were all, gentlemen, I should not, perhaps, have presented myself before this tribunal. The reason which calls upon me impera tively to address you • notwithstanding the daily increasing re pugnance to the subject, is thatehe Deputies attacked by,the Procureur-General of Poitiers are members of the minority. During the course of a long life, in the midst of such a variety of events, in the presence of so many catastrophes, I have never been found to hasten-to the succour of the strong ; I have never been seen to turn my back upon the helpless : it has been too often my lot to behold them overwhelmed and crushed, in op position to justice and .sound policy, for my sympathy not to declare itself by preference in their favour, even when their. cause is not my own. Consider, Gentlemen, how constantly laborious and frequently perilous is the minority in our repre sentative assemblies, and you will perceive that it is to them that the privileges of the Chamber justly belong ; that it-is for them they are formed. . The majority do not need them ; they are not attacked, and if they were, they do not want the means to defend themselves e for, we : have arrived .at that degree of improvement in the representative government, when it is no longer the Aliniatry which 'commands the majority, hut the majority which conimands the Ministry. Something was said in the sitting of : Thursday : on the subject of factions; you must, gentlemen, achuit.equally the supposition, that in an. elective Chamber, a faction - may penetrate into the mino rity, and that it may also establish itself - in the majo rity. But, in the former case, all the forces of the govern :Merit are in readinessilate the faction already .' to annihilate isolated from power ; while, on = the 'contrary, du the second case, when the faction is established in .the majo rity, there remains only the minority to discover it to the Kiug and the Nation, and this it is not'only in its power, but it is its duty to do. It is in this public opposition that the ex cellence of the Representative Government consists, and it is this which distinguishes it from all others. 'Who does 'not know —who has not witnessed, at what risks the minority.has some times fulfilled this terrible duty ? We do not need to recur to the pages of history to learn that there'is no tyrant so full of artifice, of obstinacy, and crnelty, as faction. There is, Gen tlemen, for every majority, a certain and all-powerful mode of proving that it is free from the spirit of faction, whatever be its political direction ; it is to be just towards our adversaries; it is generously to relieve them from oppression, should they be assailed by it. This method, Gentlemen, is now within your reach (a lively sensation.) Deputies are accused by the Pro .cureur-General of Poitiers, on the hearsay evidence of a person guilty of contumacy. The first cry of indignation was the de mand for a solemn investigation. The Minister of Finance replied that an investigation would lead to no result. He was right. Indeed, so long as the person guilty of contumacy .is absent, his hearsay evidence can neither be confirmed nor .refuted: the truth cannot be known. The Minister of Finance added : Let justice. take her course, and every good may be expected. He was "wrong : judiciary debates will be as barren as the investigation, so long as the truth cannot be obtained and established. This situation, Gentlemen, is intolerable, and in other times it would have been an evil omen. I declare it to be .my sincere and firm-conviction that there would be injustice, bad faith, and perfect ignorance of that which Bossuet terms the varied face of time, in comparing the possible errors and misfortunes whichmay arise under a legitimate and regular go vernment with the excesses which we have witnessed. Yet we are involuntarily led back to the signs which preceded these ex cesses, and prudence teaches us not entirely to despise the warn ings they have given us. All proscriptions, Gentlemen, have begun accusations not admitting of proof, and,by accusers screened from attack and held inviolable. Thus the persons pro scribed on the 310t51 ay were denounced by the sovereign addresses of the sections of Paris ; the proscribed of Fructidier by those of the army of Italy. Of what do you complain was then as now the, inquiry of candid men. There are no proofs. You can not be prosecuted. Yet a few months elapsed, and the denun ciations served as a title for themselves : condemned be cause they had been accused, the heads of some were brought to, the block, while others yielded up their last breath in the deserts of Sinamary. (Emotion in the assembly.) I shall close this dismal discussion by a reflection to which the de bates of, the other sitting have led. It has been a matter of sur prise that the - Deputies accused should have ascended from the PrOcureur-General to the Ministry, since they impute to the latter the popa e gation of the odious calumny, of which they are the objects. In the present state of things it is not easy to com prehend the cause of this surprise. 'Tjte Ministers are begin ning to reap what they have sown. They caused these accu sations, and rendered them legitimate (though they may doubt less be unjust), when they declared the political servitude of functionaries—when, in the face of , France, they placed them between their consciences and their employments. Is the mini ster not aware that by depriving them of moral freedom, on which personal responsibility rests, he pledged his own responsi bilityin all their actions'? They have nothing to give him but their - labour and the sweat of their brows. Let him then learn, to his cost, that by aiming so fatal a blow at the honour, digni ty, and consideration of the functionaries, he has shaken the King's government more than all the conspiracies put together. —(General sensations.) M. DE COURVOI9IEII.—I did not expect, Gentlemen, the discussion in which you are now enga e oed. I have not perhaps bad time to consider it sufficiently; I think, however, that I can offer to your consideration some points of discussion which . have not been touched- upon by those, who have preceded me. (The Speaker here re-stated part of the arguments of M. de I%lartignae, and of M. 111. Royer Collard and de Saint-Aulaire, for the purpose of opposing them to each other.) The deputy . who spoke last pretends, that article 15 of the law of the 25 th of March has been framedi principally in order to secure the Chamber from aggressions by the judicial order.' He said, that • if the article did not effect this object, its operation was null.— He added, .that this provision was of an exceptional nature ; but if it is' a law of exception, it ought to be executed to the very letter. What hai been the intention of the Legislature in article 15 of the before-mentioned law ? Why, it has been de sirous that the. Chamber should not be obliged to depend upon the tribunals for the suppression of offences directed against self, and it is to free it from this;dependence that it has e given• to the Chamber the eight of avenging its own wrongs. Does the Chamber require more poWer, in Such a case, from article l 5 of the law of the 25th of March, than it before possessed by the law of 18111? Can it be said that, this article 15 has swept front our code all the provisions specially applicable to accusa tions directed . against individuals i No, Gentlemen; I.do not believe it ;- and these laws which'l havteited, prove equally the necessity of protecting Magistrates from the inculpeeions ct citi-, tens. Citizens possess powerful guarantes against the miscon duct of Magistrates ; the Court of Cessation presents to them the means of appealing from their decisions. •If you briny the Procureur-General to your bar, to what would you condemn him . ? The law referred to points out no punishment applicable to his case, and if you should seek for one in other laWs, you would not be more successful. - The only authority to which this magistrate is amenable, and perhaps.with some effet:t, is that of his own order—thatpf the supreme head of the magi tracy, the Minister of Justice.- - -(Low murmurs on the left, in stantly. repressed.)—You cannot, gentlemen, amend what I say, without at the same time amending the text of the existing laws. This reason alone ought to be sufficient to overthrow the proposition which has been made to you, since, if you were to order the accused magistrate to your bar, you could not inflict any punishment upon him. If the accused magistrate were tried by the only competent authority which I have before pointed out, he might, if it should appear that he had neglect ed.his duty, be subjected to censuze, or be suspended from 'his functions. He might even be deprived of them altogether.— This, then, is the only course to follow, iu order to obtain satis faction, if there exist any offence. If it be desired to subject the tribunals to the judicial control of the Chamber, the inevi table effect of this measure - would be to renew against the judges who have signed the decree of reference, all the grie vances which are alleged against the Procureur-general who has founded on this decree of rference the act of accusation. Then, according'ice the hypothesis of the deputy who preceded me, you would next find offences in the other publication, for it is probable that the same expressions are to be found there—( M. Foy made a sign of dissent.)—lt will be necessary, then that yon should order to your bar the President and the-Members of the Section, who have co-operated in the drawing up of this decree, since they have all equally according to the same hypo thesis offended the Chamber. The Constitutional order requires that the magistracy should not be placed under the jurisdiction of the Chambers ; from the moment the Constituent Assembly endeavoured' to render 'itself superior to the judicial order, from that moment royalty disappeared. I will here make a final observation. on the species of fury—forgive me the word with which the Procureur-General has been accused of a shift ing conduct ; it has been endeavoured to make him pass for docile and even servile towards the insinuations of the Ministry. I have long filled the office of public minister, and I declare it as a solemn truth, that on no occasion, either under the present ministry, or any other, have the holders of that office, to my knowledge, been influenced by any injunction of the ministry in the exercise of their duties. Consider for a moment the tendency of this accusation. To believe it, it is necessary at the same time to believe that witnesses have been suborned to depose to falsehoods. These falsehoods must be repeated 'be fpre the Jury, How e I would ask, can such accusations as these be coon brought against the Magistrates ; and is it not more just and more natural to believe that the public Minister has only retraced the facts which appeared on the informa tions ? I will conclude by saying, that if there, has been of fence towards Members of this Chamber, they have not been attacked on the score of their functions ; and that, even if they had been attacked in their quality of Deputies, the judgment of that offence oink' not devolve to the Cham ber, because the Chamber could not inflict any correctional pu nishment, (the only punishment it can inflict.) Lam of opi nion, therefore, that the proposition is, neither legal nor ad missible. I vote for its rejection. As 11. de Courvoisier was coming down from the tribune, he was stopped by General Foy, who, with a very expressive ear nestness, showed him a manuscript containing a copy of the decree of the Royal Court of Poitiers and of the act of accusa tion, such as it had been served upon the persons accused in concert with Gen. Berton. 31. de COININOISIER went up again to the tribune, and said—A Member has shown me the decree of reference, and. has pointed out to me the circumstance that no Deputy's name is included in it. . I did not say that the names were included in that decree. I only argued upon what I knew to be the custom,_ and I said it Was possible they might be in in— ( Laughter on the left.) 31. GArezin examined the question under two points of view—lst, The competence of the Chamber ; 2d, The culpa bility of the Procureur-General of Poictiers. He resolved both of these questions in the affirmative, and voted for the proposition. M. DE LA BounnoNN'AYE—lf the Procureur-General of Poitiers, instead of finding in the procedure the names which cause so much offence here, had perceived the names of some of those manufacturers of sedition, of those perpetual agents of conspiracies, of those chiefs of secret associations, the-ramifica tions of which extended over all France, and give them that ex -treme facility of correspondence e of which they avail themselves to spread the most alarming intelligence, to agitate men's minds, and prepare them to follow the impulses of faction ; if he had found the names of those men whose mischievous in fluence makes it credible that, furnished with their secret au thority, an unknown military man a General, like Berton, who had never distinguished himself, should have been able to se duce well-disposed men into a revolt which no anterior events had prepared ' • and if by connivance or pusillanimity this Magistrate had taken., upon himself to suppress these names in the acts d'accusation, is there any one of you, Gentlemen, who would hesitate to condemn hint ? I demand of the au thor of the proposition. in what respect the insertion of the name of a Deputy in a criminal proceeding can injure his in dependence, or the liberty of exercising his functions ? To 1 pretend that the honour of a Member of the Chamber , and the dignity of the Chamber itself, can be affected by the deposi tion of an accused person, would be to declare that every enun ciation of a fact involves of necessity the existence of that fact and places the Deputy designated, not only under accusa tion, which does not of itself- tarnish his charaetet, but under condemnation, which does dishonour it ; a supposition wholly inadmissible, which good sense rejects, and experience proves to be false.- Look around you, Gentlemen, consider your po sition, and that of all Europe,.and you will then judge of the danger which Imprudent language in this Tribune may produce, and of the character of those who arc likely to avail themselves of it. Gentlemen, in the midst of general abundance, in the bosom of peace so long desired ; at a moment when industry and the arts, resuming their activity, procure labour and com petence to the laborious classes of society; tifiten the people, happy and tranquil, invoke a long repose—a repose calcu lated to repair their calamities—some ambitious intri guers, men ruined by their vices, and overwhelmed with debts, who are accustomed to,speculate s on political changes, are t again in activity ; . secret societies , are organized ; a vast plan of conspiracy -is preparing ; murmurs, the pre cursors of political storms, are heard; frequent plots; and irregular movements of ill-disciplined Subalterns; break forth in all parts of the kingdom. Every where the fidelity of the Army is put to the test, and compelled at once to repel the in sinuations of perfidy, and the attacks of revolt. The poli tical state of Europe, or rather of the whole world, is shaken, and seems to threaten us with fresh convulsions. Every where the laws fail to repress crime, every where the Police, reduced to inactivity, is compelled to become the passive witness of ex- Ceases. Conspirators, united by thefirmest bonds , and by ling habits of confidence, communicate only by emissaries, corre spond only by signs. : The more extended plots have become, the fewer are the traces which they leave behind. Like the genius of evil, their action is eyery where sensible, while the springs are invisible, and while, the bonds of social order are loosened, and the strength of,Governments is relaxed, the con nections of crime become more intimate, the power of anarchy makes daily strides, and-the anti-social organization is strength ened by concentrating itself in a small number of adepts.— Ministers of the King, you have a great task to fulfil ; im mense 'duties are imposed on you ; the safety of your country, the safety of all Europe, is your hands.—(A strong sensation is visible throughout the Chamber.)—You commenced your Ministry amidst the hopes of the nation ; you have hitherta done little to justify them. Free from the yoke under which you have - hitherto groaned,, a new era is preparing ; let your measures be so taken that that era may contribute to our re pose, and it will contribute to your glory.' The right side having called for the closing of the discussion, M. DE LASIETS demanded the appcl nominal. This method of voting, after some feeble opposition on the . right, was agreed to by a great niajdrity. The PRESIDENT—We must now proceed to a scrutiny, and discharge on this occasion the func- I call upon the Chamber to d i , -tioni of a Tribunal. Let every Gentleman therefore keep silence, tranquillity, and his place.—(A laugh.) The scrutiny was condeicted with great order, and the pro position of AI. ST. AunantE was rejected by a majority of 99. For it 127—Against it 226. The Ministers did not vote. "The Courier Frangais states, that accounts had arrived from Madrid - to the 28th ult. and' that the capital never enjoyed grater tranquillity. Martinez de la Rosa had• resigned the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and Lopez Banos, who has been nominated Minister of War, was daily expected. SEMLI'N, JULY 18.—According to several concurring ac -1 counts, Michale, Bozaris, and Normann, united together, con tinued their operations since the ltlth of June, and Chourschid I'acha retreated towards LarisSa, after having suffered great losses. It is, indeed, reported, that he had sustained a great defeat near - Larissa, and escaped with only a few troops ; bnt this last statement needs confirmation. Accounts (that may be depended' on) from Bitoglia of the Ist of July, say, that Omer Brione, whom Chourschid left at Joannina, has likewise been defeatehy the Greeks and Suliots. Larissa, it is said, still holds out ; but Greek troops ate ad vancing on all sides towards it. The defeat of the Turkish fleet at Scio has produced an extraordinary sensation at Saloni ehi and Seres. ANcoNA, JULY 13.—Among other vessels from the Archi pelago arrived here is a Greek ship, the Captain of which saw the Turkish fleet on fire. His account of the affair agrees with the others received before. The Captain Bey is said also to have lost his life. Metelino is now secure from danger. Bunivox, JULY 29.—0 n the 25th in the evening, after much lightning, .we had a most dreadful storm which has ra vaged a vast extent of country. The crops are wholly destroy ed, the roofs and windows dashed to pieces, and for the space of ten minutes pieces of ice fell, weighing from eight ounces to one pound a half each, killing not only hares and birds, but even many sheep. The distress caused by this visitation is boundless. VIENNA, JULY 25.—Metalliques, 79 5-16. Bank Shares, 780. GENOA, JULY 24.—Important to Mariners.—On the 11th July, at six o'clock in the evening, his Majesty's frigate Cris. tina, Captain 'Wright, being becalmed at two miles And a half to the N.N.E. three degrees E. of the Formiche de Montecristo, and having taken soundings, found 35 fathoms, and then 30 fathoms, uver,a bottom of coral (corallo nascente), and after wards on a shoal (secca) of the length of half a milt, lying as follows :—Centre of the shoal, at the depth of 173 feet in 42.25. N. lat. and 7. 48. E. long. from the meridian of Paris ; the For miche de Montecristo to the S.S.W. 4 deg. W. 2i} miles; Mon tecristo to the E.S.E. 4 deg. 30 ruin. S. 8 miles. - This shoal is of large and small stones. Currents set to the E. NEW slam' WALES. The following i$ an extract of a letter from the Lady of a Military Officer, dated Sydney, New South N\riles, Feb. 2.6, 1822 " This country is so much better described in many publish ed accounts than I feel capable of doing, that I must refer you to them for a minute description of it ; but when I look to the date of my letter, it appears very odd to me that I should be annoyed by a scorching sun, while you are wrapped up in your warmest clothing. Until within these few days we have had no rain for four months. The cattle died for want of drink, and it was apprehended' that (like many of. our predeces sors) we should have to Pay sixpence a gallon for water. Notwithstanding the great ~ heat at present, this Colony is said to enjoy a very happy temperature ; the air is very healthy, and agrees well with most constitutions. The face of the country is covered with wood, yet it is so rocky and there is so little earth, that one is puzzled to know how such immense trees can find nourishment. The soil is chiefly sand, in which there must be mixed a great portion of iron, the proofs of which my stockings frequently furnish me. The natives are said to be intelligent and tractable ; but they are in appearance horribly disgusting. Quite indifferent about clothing, they are very fond of ornaments; and although their toilettes do not furnish them with rouge and pearl powder, they make up for these privations by the liberal use of something re sembling brick-dust and white day, with which they besmear themselves ; in that filthy state (with scarcely any covering) you ' are shocked by meeting them every where you go—they them selves appearing quite unconscious of any impropriety. We find this a most expensive place. The prices paid for every thing are so uncommonly high, and so little will it procure for you, that money is looked upon as alffiost without value. Every article of consumption in housekeeping is dear, except tea.— Butter is ss. a pound ; eggs 3s. a dozen ; fish in general very in different in quality and scarce—oysters only are good and cheap ; fowls are ss. to fis. the couple—so much for provisions ; but clothing is extravagantly dear. At present there are neither (Ladies') gloves nor shoes to be had at any price. About a month since there were still some gloves on sale, and I paid ten shillings a pair for short ones and yet I am told every thing is cheaper by one-half than twelve months ago. The Ladies here are in mourning for the Queen. Being unprovided with a black dress, yet not wishing to be out of the fashion, I was obliged to pay 20s. a yards for vile, detestably bad silk. In short, there are neither silks, satins, gauzes, gloves, nor shoes to be had here at present. Twenty i'ounds worth of any of them from England would bring at least 50/., every thing British is so highly prized, at which; indeed, I do not wonder, the quality is so superior.— It is almost impossible to procure a female servant ; indeed they are not tolerable, being all vile, drunken wretches. We are; therefore, obliged to employ men as cooks, and to do all our domestic work: this is a great source of expense. It is not possible for any military officer with a family to live upon his pay alone. Farmers here are .certain to realize large fortunes, and even convicts, who possess any portion of cleverness and industry, cannot fail to become independent—l' ought to say rich :in short, all are well off ' here except the military. Do not fail to send me by the first vessel shoes, gloves, ribbons, &e. &c." UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, AUG. B.—The Rev. John COW, 31. A. has been instituted to the Rectory of Overstrand, Norfolk, on the presentation of Lord Suffield. The Rev. John Neville White, has been licensed to the perpetual Curacy of Great Plum stead, Norfolk, on the nomination of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich. We have great satisfaction in communicating to our readers the resolutions which have been adopted at the last meeting of the Commissioners for Paving and Lighting this town, with respect to the proposed improvements of the drainage : we can not refuse our testimony of gratitude for the liberality dis played by the University on this occasion, and we rejoice that the offers of the Vice-Chancellor and Syndicate were met with -similar zeal and readiness on the part. of the Town- Commissioners. We may now hope that the unpleasant effects which a late eminent Physician declared would be the result of 'the inclosures may be remedied; and that the common sewers of the town may be enlarged in proportion to the great increase of the buildings and inhabitants oh. Cam bridge. Whilst other improvements have been rapidly taking place, one of the most important has been sadly neglected ; but our expectations on thispoint'avill now shortly be realized, and the judicious amendment to the report of the Committee will, we trust, be the means of accomplishing the desired object of the Drainage. The following are the proceedings to which we have alluded : • • • At a meeting held at the Town Hall, on Tuesday.tlie.3oth July, the Syndicate of the University of Cambridge communi cated that they had come to the following agreement : " July 29,182/.—At a meeting of the Drainage Syndicate held this day at Jesus Lodge, it was agreed to recommend to the Senate 1. That assuming 2,0001. to be required for the improve ment of the drainage of the town, the University should give the sum of 1,0004 to the Commissioners for Paving, &c. to wards such object. " 2. That after paying their quota (4001.) of the remaining 1000/. the University, it .requested, should lend. the residue 0001.) to the said Commissioners at 2. per cent. per ,annum, up tin their engaging to pay off the principal, so..borrowed, at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum: the first year's instalment to be paid at Michaelmas 1827. " 3. That every expence beyond the sum (20001.) above spe cified, should be met in the ordinary way, viz. that the Univer sity should contribute two-fifths of such expence, agreeably to the directions of the Act of Parliament. " 4. That the Commissioners be recommended to avail them selves of the assistance of Mr. Bevan, and that any plan which be may propose be in the first instance submitted, as well to the Syhdicate as to the Commissioners, for their approbation." In consequence of the above Report, a Committee of the Commissioners was appointed to take it into consideration, and they came to the following Resolution : " At a meeting of the Committee of the Commissioners for communicating with the Syndicate of the University of Cam bridge. on Tuesday the 30th of July, 182/, the heads of agree ment concluded upon by the Syndicate being read, the Com mittee, Sensible of the liberality of the after made by , the Uni versity, - recommend the first, second, and fourth heads to be attended to and adopted ; but they beg leave to suggest to the Commissioners, .that they consider it. necessary , at present to confine the drainage works within. the sum of 2000/. Afterwards, at this Meeting, on the motion of Mr. Elliot Smith, the third head of agreement 'contained in the Syndi cate's Report was approved and adopted. Ordered—That the Master of Bene't College, the Rev. G. A. Browne, Mr. S. P. Beales, Mr. E. Foster, she Mayor, Mr. J. Finch, Mr. J. Stanley, lir. E. Smith, and Mr. J. Deighton, jun. be a committee to co-operate with the Syndicate of the University in the measures necessary to be taken for carrying the proposed drainage into effect, • PRICE 0 THIS DAY AT Bank Stock 0 51 i 3 per Cent. Red 3 per Cent. Cons. 804 4 3 per Cent 92+ 4 per Cent. I thd 994 g l New 99fl 5 per Cents. 1797 Bank Long Ann.... 21 1-16th Imp. 2 per Cents. — PRICE OF FOREIGN ST, STOCKS 'NE O'CLOCK. India Stock .................. India Bonds 645. Mg. South Sea Stock ............. Old Annuities........ , ..... . Bills 2 8 Pr• Ditto Small ................... Bank for Cons. Act. ......... India for Con. Acct. Cons. for Account ..... .. CICS IN LONDON, Alio. 87 French Five per Cents. 02 75. Prussian ( Five per Cent. Bonds, 89. 1 Ditto New, 86g. Old Bonds, 00. Colombian {Six per Cent. Bonds, 86i I. Ditto Scrip, 00. Five per Cent. Bonds, 63 f. New Ditto, 62 g. Five per Cent. Bonds, 87i. Five per Cent. Bonds; 73. Five per Cents. (Metallic) 79 Six per Cents. 00. Five per Cents. (Metallic) 80. Ditto New 00. Bank Shares 00. • Six per Cents. 00. Three pei Cents. 00. Five per Cent. Loan, 1820, 00. Five per Cent. Loan, 1821, 00. 824 6 , a. 83,1 g. Spanish Danish Neapolitan Austrian Russian American Chili Riissian ' PRICE OF IRISI .251 A Bank Stock Gov. Deb. 3,1 percent.... 92 4 4 Stock, 3l per ct 9ig Goy. Deb. 4 per cent. — Goy. Deb. 5 per cent. 5 —Stock, 5 'per cent. 5 Treasury Bills, 5 per cent. City. Debentures, 5 per cent. Lying in Hospital 4 per ct. Exchange on Lon STOCK, AUG. 6.1 Grand Canal Loan, 1 p.ct. Ditto 6 per cent.... Ditto 5t0ck.......... -- Royal Canal Stock ......... Wide-street' Cert. 6 per ct. Do. Deb. with Gov. Sec.-- Pipe Water Deb. 5 per et. --- Do. Ballast Office Gpeovr cent.t.Sec• 5 per cent. ... . ........... idon, Aug. 5, 'Ba. HIGH WATER AT LONDO Morning, 38 minutes after 6. , N BRIDGE TO-MORRO W ' 1 Evening, 56 minutes after 6 . —0.0! THE SUN. SOLI":11 QUIS DICERE FdLSUM AUDEAT LONDON, FRIDAY, AUG UST 9, 15c2.2. HIS MAJESTY.—It appears to be HIS M A ' JESTY'S ihtention positively to depart On 1115 Scottish Expedition to-morrow. The MY ° yacht has been in readiness off Greenwich. on ''' , has attracted many people to that place. roads from town will, in all probability, be rO fe crowded than on any former occasion. We received this morning the Paris Papers Oi ' Tuesday. They are almost entirely filled with the debates in the Chamber of Deputies on th e motion of M. de ST. AULAIRE, relative to th e , conduct of the Procureur-General of Poitiers' in having inserted the names of four Deputies 111 the indictment again,st General BERTON and 1;5 associates, and having thus indirectly impl icate d them in the 'conspiracy, without even, pre tendin to have any grounds to justify a charge agains t ,1, them. The motion was, as might be exPec fe rejected ; the tone, however, of the Ministeri% party, was moderate and - conciliatory, and t ut important discussion was conducted t hrough° with calmness and decorum, and with but one tumultuous interruption,—an almost ouPr ece' dented circumstance in the debates of th is I" : sembly. We have given a copious abstract 0 hie!' the speeches in our preceding columns, pay' 11 are interesting, not only on account of the ties implicated (MM. LAFAYETTE, FC"r' “‘ n flt RATRY, and B. CONSTANT), but also on 9.cc-11 of the talents and character of several 0 ' the 0 speakers, and the importance of the ( P esti agitated. PRENTII FUNTH.—AUG. G. Five per Cents. Opened at Highest Closed at 92 f. 7 0 . c• Bank Stock 1615 f' -c: Exchange on London—One Month 25 f• 4 2. Three Months 25 f. .0 .......*l.ll. [From the Washington Gazette of the 6th JillY l sato daA friend recently from Caracascalled at our o ffice Oa , he t st ate a' rboo , metropolis o mo or rning. His account of the flourishing sand ' Cpreolsleasn,dwlh,aogiutai,ria,fiiesdtrtoulythgeratlivfyeisntg—_aindbiaoutFaajog:iti, rtitetltif returned—money was plenty and in free circulati°P n der stores were every day opening—the soil was tigai° Under fortr fte o , et, friends cultivation—political animosities were buried d that have been separated for ten years, ha ve 3giri lie ' etermined to support the new Government —in 2 11 ' 4 ' ° ,, Ys ed $ the old Spaniards say thatlthis Republic has already t es :- er tile state of commercial activity-and prosperity, unknofn un de r o , have,oar was universally popular—hi; ealc-stera9 manners converted more Spaniards to the n e ' v i') than the sword. 1 44 , ( Extract Of a Letter from St; Thomas's, 13M " i h op t-e " A cargo'sale of ! indigo, coffee, cocoa, &c tuol t P' sce aY ter. Ist inst. at S. Barts, prize fo the IndependenCia, C °ll' ; C o b Itell —The Independencia has made a grand cruise, 111414 n: t : .rice thirteen prizes, and got them in safe. It is now two Ye`ss Stn , AI D fa _ the islands of Curnoa and Aruba ha . ve been vat te ' l '''. he hf've The consequence has been very fatal to the plital ers ' 7 i f ra ts ., lost neatly all their cattle. Plantations, which fc' twc a d r cc r" considerable quantities of corn, beans, &C., rw ty .loopry on °tie thing ; and flocks of sheep and goats, amounting t° - - plantation, are now reduced to 3 or 400." iiierer iCet IRELAND.—At the date of our last's te' - ' 5 0 forty-one ti prisoners had forfeited' their l ice- $ 5 Jai ie Limerick Assizes, amongst whom VV3 tbe Fitzmaurice, one of the ruffians I° l° TS '5 t name of Captain Rock, for assaulting Mr.' r j i [i ce louse, and taking a gun: The principal Cc ' w as on the trial of Mr. Hostor,is's iyurderersa al s° Patrick Dillane, an accomplice in chie f ' n o tes, _ the first Svho receiver) one of the Captains Rock, or, as he bitioli that appellation, has be duri ng ha ve n ilt irner( ht4n ce ar e alri tions Q tati on C loses that, t Putti ll liiitu n faithfu t W e en tlisgus r eceivi }' ' t 0 W Justi ce