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r ‘N z . • ' 0 • Il4 r , W 76 fir 44, 4f , te. 4 • f te . 4% ,)/- c../1" 1 .1 ~.„1 - . - _,, . 7 .,,,- . ,„„ ",'-_>4-,--,_.__ .... j5,..,-:::4 19 - -4 /,' —..,......„,./ n , ltuneJ .T. .- < - 1 - '-',V .A. - i t- . 1 - S 0 1-Jt2 -r& a-i,v/a‘ry- NUMBER 9174.] PRICE SEVENPENCE. SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 522. VICTUJLLING-OFFICE, Jan. 18, 1822. TRE MMISSIONERS for VICTUAL LING His AUJES7'Y'S 217',1 Vl' do hereby give No tice, That on Monday, the lath instant, they will be ready to receive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for One Hundred Thousand Gallons of WEST INDIA RUM, of the strength of 5 per cent. under proof by • Sihes's Hydrometer. Pni Hundred Tonss of MUSCOVADO SUGAR; rnity Tons of BLACK SMYRNA RAISINS; to be an 41oeritble to samples of not less than two pounds weight each, tole produced with the Tenders; (M e.Thousa;zd Quarters of New ENGLISH PEASE ; And One Thoitsand Sacks of BISKET MEAL; 7'° be delivered into His Majesty's Victualling Stores at Word, in the space of One Month (the Bisket Meal and e 2" 4(,erlual weekly proportions), and to be paid for by 4 ! 14 " , Pay4Itle, without interest, sixty days after date. $ . 1114 - 9441 lONitit e g4fttictrt:tgait '6'eseit 4a She Secre ''''ei Office; 'No regard will be had to any Tender in which the Price ' h ail not be inserted in words at length, or that shall rbe deli vere d to th e B oar d before One o'Clock on the said ! °7414 1/, the 28th instant ;• nor witless the Person who makes t he Tender, or some Person on his behalf, attends to answer- AI% CH EAP TRAVELLING TO DOVER, DEAL, RAMS GATE, MARGATE AND CANTERBURY. BUR INSIDE COACHES, AND KEEP GOOD TIME, By S. A. MOUNTAIN and Co. SARACEN'S HEAD INN, SKINNEIt-STREE'I, SNOW HILL, LONDON. TIIE following POST-CONCHES, MAIL COACHES, &c. set out from the above Iris The "'Telegraph," DOVER, Deal, Ramsgate, Margate, C anterbury, F evers h a m, and Sandwich, new ,Post-Coaeb--- , er evY Morning at a quarter past 7. o'Clock.-- - -In consequence °I the decided preference given to the above Coach, the rettPro ors are determined no expence shall be spared to render' ' t he first conveyance on the Kent r lad. IiROMPTON, Chatham, Rochester, Gravesend, Stroud, ,l▪ i ttingbourne, and Reinhart), every Morning at a quarter past and Afternoon. FALMOUTH, Plymouth, Exeter, Truro, Bodmin, Pen 'Yn, Ashburton, Totness, Weymouth, Dorchester, Dart -I.4ll'utht and Salisbury, every morning at Seven ; through - '. ° otton, Axminster, Bridport, Blandford, Stockbridge, Ba " Ma k e, Hartford Bridge, Blackwater, and Bagshot. • The" Union," SOUTH AMPTON, Lyunington, Winches- Basingstoke, Hartford Bridge, Ulackwater, and Bagshot, "v Four Inside Coach, every Morning at Eight; arrives at the Coach and Horses, Southampton, by Five.—This is a I.!ost delightful Conveyance to the Isle of Wight, Jersey, ','hs uernsev Maloes Havre de Grace, Cheburgh, &c.— .„ k • , rroprietors of the above Coach hope to r ' ceive a con -I,"u4oee of that support which . has hitherto been experienced -- Ze the commencement of the " Union."—No racing with "" r oches. Pep ATlland BRISTOL Flying Post-Coaches, through Chip %,ll4ol, Caine, Marlborough, Newbury, and Reading, every garb, at one ; I arrive at Mr. May's, the GreyhOund Inn, •Lis and tile London Tavern, Thomaa-street, and Swan, 'N '' ', s ttl next Morning.—Coaches to Wells, Bridgewater, ' l ,_non, and Plymouth. UMPIRE, a New LIVERPOOL Light Coach, only one Sht nn the Road, carrying Four Inside, sets out Daily at 11;' 4 ; arrives at Liverpool next afternoon at Seven, through ° „ , nrrn, Lathbury, Northampton, • Welford,iLutterworth, Atherstone, Lichfield, Sime,. Newcastle, KAM. , L'o, Warrington, and Preston. 41 11.EWSBURY, Wellington, and Shilinal, Post-Coach, ,„ e rY Afternoon.—Guarded. h he UNION, WEYMOUTH,Dorchester, Blandford,Salis . 4 4,Andov e r, Overton, Basingstoke, Hartford Bridge, Black ,w gild Bagshot, new Post Coach, every Afternoon.— rahter, e. Weymouth Packets to Guernsey, Jersey, Cherbourg, &c. d B ARNSTAPLE and Southmolton Post Coach, every Mon aY. Wednesday, and Friday Morning - s at Seven o'Clock. o ,, t 'e " Rockingham," LEEDS light Post Coach, sets ant -- ;ecY Afternoon at Four; and passes through Balduck, Big 'eawitde, Eaton, Silton, Greetham, Grantham, Bawtry, ztaurford, Markham Moor, Newark, Retfui d, Doncaster, and er ryhridge, to the Golden Lion, Leeds, next Afternoon.- 4- 'ecKage rind Packages only 2d per lb.—Notwithstanding the o eurninon Expedition of this Coach, it is allowed to be the agi ceable and complete Public Conveyance on the 'orth Road, tieing unequalled by any other. "ARRO \MATE and Ripon new Light Post Coach, every nfternoen at Four. 11 G LASGOW, Longtown, Gretna-green, Annan, Dumfries, t9 a'nhill, Th orn hill, Sanquhar-Kiln, Cannock, Kingswell, i cd all Parts of Scotland, a Post Coach daily. a, G , LK, Scarborough, Whitby, Shields, Sunderland,' New tf;"es and EdinbUrgh, New Post Coach, with a Guard 4"'oghout ; sets out every Morning, by way of Newark, 11; etft 'vd, Doncaster, Ferrybridge, Tadcaster, Darlington, ti °4l rallertorr, Durham, Mu, peth, and Berwick. Passengers ti t , i ti'lg themselves fatigued on the journey, may rest what P: e. they please, and then proceed without any additional th 4 ARLBOROUGH and Swindon, new four-inside Coach, p e - bugh Aldbourn, Reading, Lambourn, Purton, - Lydington, a nti ts e9, Wootton Basset, Ranastrury, Hungertord, Newbury, Niaidenhead ; every Morning. h„kinGENoRTH, Walsal, Shrewsbury, Salop, and Holy ad Four Inside Coach, every Afternoon. d „` ) „.,STON, Spalding, Peter borottgli, Stilton, and Hunting et-•;.,...1'0yal Mail CoaCh, every Evening, to Spitsby . , Louth, ivlchy; and Hull, Afternoon at a Quarter before Six. Ivi,ARLISLE Penrith, and Whiteharen Pu3t Coach, goes t 4 Four Horses, ' and a Guard all the way, passes through to-u ghbridge lt gh, Appleby, Greta-bridherby, Aber ge, ford, Richm errybridgeond, Catt , erNeick, Bo b , Wet .Fwark, stZteaster, Grantham, Stamford, Bawtry, Greetharn, and i t en• Sets out every Morning, arid performs the journey by'l l the greatest facility. Passengers detained nit the Roat/ So n , ll Sioess or pleasure, have the peculiar advantage of their bin s secured in the next Coach. ei,7;NDAL, Lancaster, Preston, Kirby-Lonsdale, Bolton, Dor i t `eY, Otmskirk, and Garatang Post Coaches, every After aria Llrc• I tPOOL, Warrington, Knutsford, Stone, Stafford, , L itchfield new light Four Inside Post Coach, (only One 4t e.",t on the Road), every Afternoon at Three o'Cl'uck ; arrives E ven Saracen's Head lon, Dale-street, Liverpool, next CEFIELD Post-Coach, every Morning.. ki c k ESTER, Newport, Whittchurch, Tarporley, Natopt, n oon s Northwich, and Middletkich Post-Coach, every*After- SUN. DERLAND, Stockton, and Yam. Coach, every ai nt ,,,,t l K, to the George Inn, Sunderland. knd . I "CHESTER, Winslow, Cungleton, Newcastle, Walsal, ttru V olverhampton new Four Inside Post-Coach, every.Af. 8 / V.P.--Only One Night on the Itund. to n ~v•FFIELD and Rotherham Post-Coacb; called the "Net -8%, every Morning. hrat•MINGHAM Post Coach, sets uut every Afternoon at V,!e.o'Clock, carrying Four Inside only; and passes through tat'er!;ick, Leamington, Southaru, baventry, to the Sa 1-14' s Head, Bull-street, Birmingham, next Morning at "Past S • BU LL, • Lincoln, Northeave, Howden, and Doncaster, Post every Morning, to the Cross keys, Market-place, - HR: > rFORD, Ware, Hollesdon, and Cheshuut Coach, Morni • • rENHAM and Edmonton Coaches daily, at Eleven, 7past Two, Five, arid Eight. • b• * L uggage and Packa , - sso Leeds, Doucaster , and Ferry- Luggage only 2d per pound. a. MOUNTAIN and CO. respectfully acquaint their an, and the Public,that they will not he accountable f or kerte areels, Passenger's Luggage, Writings, Plate, &c. of )~ ® s h • . ata Five Pounds Value, if lost, stolen, or damaged, un nt'.,entred as such, and the Insurance paid for accordingly, "c btu actn's Hea,l Inn, Snow-hill, London. IRBH PEASANTRY. SUBSCRIPTIONS towards RAISING a FUND for the PURCHASE of FOOD and FUEL for the DISTRESSED PEASANTRY of IRELAND, will be received at the Office of Tut SUN Newspaper, No. 112, Strand, London, until proper Persons are appointed in Ireland to reecive and appropriate the same. • A Freeman of Cork - - £5 0 0 Another Freeman of Cork - 5 0 0 John Atkinson, Fore-street, London 1 0 0 A. S. A. - 1 0 0 R. E. - 1 0 0 THE SUN Newspaper - - 5 0 0 Joseph Pinsent - 1 1 0 d'IMIIII.eiL7'Y—OFFICE, Dec. 10, 1841. N OTICE is hereby given, that a Session of Oyer and Terthiner and Gaol Delivery, fir the Trial of °fences comnatted on the High Seas, within the Jurisdic tion of the Admiralty of 'England, will be held at . Justice Mall, in:he Old Bailey, London, on Alonn'ay, the 21st day of January next, at Eight o'Cloch in the Alorning ; instead of Friday, the 11th, ar before advertised. J. W. CROKER. PUNL. ACLERGYMAN of the Established Church, residing within a Morning's ride of Lont:on, receives into his Honse a FEW PUPILS, whom he prepares for the Universities, &c. has at present a VACANCY. Letters to be add , essed to the Rev. G. It. Mr. Jeffery's, Bnohseller, Opera [-louse Colonnade, Pall Mall. SECOND EDITION. Thi. Day was Published, Price ss. 6d. THE STATE of the NATION, at the com mencement of the year considered under the Four Departments of the FINANCE, FOREIGN RELA TIONS, HOME DEPARTMENT, COLONIES, and BOARD of TRADE, &c. *** This work contains a full Review of the Agricultural Question, and a Statement of the prospective Reductions in the National Expenditure. Published by T-IATCHARD and Son, Piccadilly. PEOCENS to PREVEN 111LIJEW .in every KIND of CANVAS, made either of 'HEMP, FLAX, or COTTON. MESSRS. BROWELL and CO. 23, Alder. manbury, having had their Invention honoured by a thorough examination of the Society of Ship Owners of Great Britain, and Mr. COCK, its Secretary, having on the Itch October last acquainted them, " That the Committee (from the evidence laid before .theta) are perfectly satisfied that " the InventiOn possesses the valuable quality ascribed to it, " and consequently that it is of great importance to Ship " Owners in general;" beg leave to acquaint the Shipping INterest, - that Sail-Cloth of various kinds, winch hare under gone their. Process, may be had of Messrs. Chalmers and Guthrie, Idol-lane, Tower-street. Each Bolt is marked by a red stamp with 9 Crawn surrounding the letter B.—The low price of ss. per Bolt (or lid. per yard) occasions an expence not exceeding in any case 5 per cent., for every Ship of what ever size, upon the whole cost of the Sails. WIDOW. WELCII'S FEMALE PILLS have obtained the'sanction and approbation of Gen tlemen of the Medical Profession, .as a safe and valuable medicine, in removing ob3tructions, and 'relieving other inconveniences to which the female frame is liable, especially those which at an early period of life frequently arise from want of exercise, and gcncral debility of the system. They create au appetite, correct indigestion„remove giddiness and hcad'aclei-,' and , isiejetnitrently nseful ►n 'windy dis orders, pains in the stomach, shortness of breath, and palpi tations of the heart. Purchasers are requested to remark, that, as a testimony of authenticity, each Bill of Directions is signed with the name 11 67‘a , in writing. Sold wholesale and Retail. in London, by Wright . No. 45, Fleet Street; Barclay and Sons, Fleet Market; New bery and Sons, St. Paul's Chinch Yard Sutton and Co. Bow Church -Yard ; Sanger, 850, Oxford Street, opposite Bond Street . Evans and Son, Long Lane, Smithfield ; Johnston, Greek Street Soho; Butler and Sons, Cheapside ; Godfrey ancl;Windus, Bishopsgate Street; and by all Country Vendors, at 2s. 9d. per Box. 4. . * * It is necessary to inform the public that KEARSLEY'S is the only original and genuine Medicine, and has been pre pareil by them for more than thirty years. LAW INTELLIG ENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, JAN'. 18. This was the second Seal before Term.—The LORD CHAN CELLOR was occupied the whole of the day in hearing a part heard motion, of no interest except to the parties concerned. Ih_the course of the day the business of the Court was inter rtipted.hy a innn coming into Court in a hurried manner, and exclaiming, " 1 have come all the way from Aberdeen to deliver a letter to the Lord Chancellor relative to my rights, as the next of kin to the late Mrs. Sarah Bond. 1 offered this etter yester day at the Lord Chan&llor's house, and it was refused to be received. 'Which is the Lord Chancellor, for 1 must deliver the letter to him ? I came all the way from Aberdeen for that purpose." He then advanced to the body of the Court, and threw the leiter amongst the King's Counsel. The officers of the Court interfered, and without much difficulty persuaded him to leave the Court. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 18. This day their Lordships Sat in the large room adjoining the Court. Hall, and heard arguments on some cases in the special paper, of no public interest. THE EARL OF DARNLEY'S RENT-DAY:On Monday, the 14th instant, the Earl of DARNLEY held his rent-day at Cobham Hall, which was more numerously attended than for many years past.—After a very sumptuous dinner, the Noble Lord stated, that, in consequence of the existing pressure, he had ordered a reduction to be made in his rents ; and, although he did not find him self called upon to make an absolute pledge upon this point, he felt his disposition towards his tenantry to be such that if, unhappily (and con trary to his present opinion), the difficulties should continue, he should be ready to make even greater sacrifices, under the fullest persuasion that the interests of landlord and tenant were in separable ancl so interwoven that they must and ought "to sink or swim together." There was, however, one event upon which he had no hesi tation in giving a pledge, namely, that if a fa vourable change should take place, he would not, in their prosperity, seek an additional ad vantage to himself. He concluded by proposing as a toast, " Success to Agriculture." The address was received with every demonstration of satisfaction and gratitude, and the day was passed in perfect harmony. The reduction already made by the ,Noble Lord is, in most it - stances, to.the- exte nt of W-per cent. I It 1 1, A N - 1). [FROM THE CORK INTELLIGENCER OF TUESDAY.] DESPERATE ATTACK AT BANTRY. Further Particulars.—On Friday last, at four a. in. a body of men, consisting of between 500 and 700, well armed, and mostly mounted, at tacked the house of D. Mellefont, Esq. and also the houses of Messrs. Doyle and Patterson, from all of which they took arms. The Earl of Ban try, with that promptitude and gallantry which marks his character, hearing of the circumstance in about three hours after, proceeded with five or six of his friends, with a hope of cutting some of them off before they separated, and made for the Glen road leading to Macroom, where they overtook them, about day-light beyond the Chapel at Ballingearing, crossing a mountain road leading to Lackavana, in Kerry, about 14 miles from Bantry. The Insurgetiisliaving taken to the heights above 'the road, gave them a full view of his. Lordship's little band, and they thereby were encouraged to make an attempt to surround their pursuers, and they com menced a regular attack, shouting from every hill, and firing, after quitting their horses.— The party of his Lordship retreated back the Glen road, finding themselves unequal to contend with such numbers, firing slowly to cover their retreat ; the insurgents, however, not only dis charged their arms, but rolled and threw down stones into the Glen. Lord Bantry had a fortu nate escape, for one stone was particularly thrown at him ; but Mr. White, his Lordship's brother, was so successful as to shoot this man ; and two others are supposed to have been wounded. The party of his lordship maintained their ground as long as possible before they returned to Bantry, with a view to get possession of the killed and wounded, which, we are sorry to say, they were not able to effect. Had the account reached his Lordship in sufficient time to have enabled him to collect his neighbours, a good ac count would have been given of the depredators. It is supposed that these fellows came from a distant quarter, as his Lordship had the most perfect assurance, that every thing from Drimo league to Sheep's llead, a distance of from 20 to 30 miles, was perfectly tranquil. On Saturday, Mr. O'Brien, Coroner, proceed ed to the spot where the Rey. Mr. Lowe was killed, for the purpose of holding an Inquest on the body.—.--After hearing evidence, the Jury found the following verdict :—" That the said Rev. James Bond Lowe came by his death near the village of Glauntane, in consequence of the unsteadiness of some privates of the 22d regiment of Infantry, who fired without receiving the com mand of either their officer, Lieutenant Stevens, or the Magistrate, the Rev. John Chester, while on a patrolling party on the morning of 'the 12th inst., in consequence of information that a body of Whiteboys intended to be out in that direction." Since the late desperate attack on the resi dence of Samuel Swete, Esq. of Grenville,which was so courageously and fortunately resisted by that Gentleman's family, it has been ascertained, that, in'tead of one, as at first supposed and stated, there were four of the villains killed, and eight others are lying wounded, without any hope of recovery. The following article has appeared In The Brighton Gazette:—" On Thursday evening last, the satellites of Cobbett, with their Sun of Radi calism at their head, sat down to supper at the New Inn. Notwithstanding the assiduity with which his partisans communicated the secret of his coming, but few persons could be mustered to bid this great man welcome—about thirty persons only, we understand, were present ; (we should have gone ourselves to have witnessed the assemblage, had we possessed no fear of our throats being cut ;) the very best evidence that can be adduced of the estimation in which he is held in this loyal but insulted town. A Mr. Stent presided, and Mr. Slight officiated as the Vice President ; with the exception of these two Gentlemen, not a 'respectable person was present but one, who, we are sorry to hear, forgot his own dignity by accepting a place at the table ; but curiosity might have led him into this error. The only speaker who shone upon this occasion, besides, was Mr. P. F., the commencement of whose speech we publish as a curiosity :- 6 C When I witness such an assemblage as this! in the immediate precincts of the King's Palace —when I look around me on the congregation of persons, not less distinguished, I am sure, for their talents and respectability, I feel it to be one of the proudest moments of my life : and I cannot but (lifer you my warmest congratulations. on the progress of our cause, which not, even the presence of Royalty can put a check upon." We leave our readers to make what comments they please upon this beginning. When he called those around 'him men of re spectability and talent, the very tables: danced with applause. and two half pints of mall drink, vulgarly called gin, a pot of beer, and two jugs of water were overturned, and several pipes broken, in the exultation of the moment. What the cause is whiCh Mr. F. so eloquently dwelt upon, as attaching to the " congregation of ta lent," we cannot tell—it is doubtless a most " glorious cause," and, for the benefit of man kind, it should be more . widely disseminated. The jocund and mirthful crew did not separate before the license of the, house became in danger by the noisy speechifying and hilarity which pre dominated. The impression of men was well traced in the mud the next morning in several of the bye streets—a proof that reason and free _thought cannot control us, at 411 times, and that we forgot, in the presence of greatness, the doty due to ourselvei. FRENCH PRESS. [FROM THE MONITEUR OF WEDNESDAY.] REPORT, Made in the name of a Central Committee, by M. Chifflet, Deputy for the Department of the Doubs, on the Law Project relative to the prosecution and repression of the Offences of the Press, or of any other mode of publication, in the Sitting of Monday, Jan. 14.: 46 GENTLEMEN=-The law which your Commit tee has directed me to report to you has for its object a class of offences which has not been foreseen by the Code. "The laws of the 17th of May and of the 9th of June, 1819, endeavoured to reach those crimes, and that of the 26th of May regulated their pro secution. " The object of every penal law is the preven tion of crimes. In striking the guilty, it has_ in view him who would'wish to become guilty. 'When offences 'continue, when they escape just punish ment, the legislation is imperfect. " Have the laws of 1819 fulfilled their object ? The law project answers in the negative, and points out two of the causes. " When it is necessary to look to numerous offences, new in kind and in substance, several must escape from the definitions and distinctions of classification. Experience alone can make known the defects of penal law, and spew in what respect a general expression, frequently ne cessary, is too vague and inapplicable to a parti cular case. Experience may also demonstrate the insufficiency of punishment, and the necessity of imposing it of a special nature, analogous to a special kind of offences. Such are the defects of the existing laws, which this project tends to correct. " There is still another. It has been thought possible to depart from the rules of competence, of forms of law common in the prosecution of simple offences. Experience has again caused the inconveniences.of this attempt to be felt. " The authors of the law project, in order to remedy these two causes of impunity, explain, in the first place, certain expressions, the appli cations of which the tribunals do not consider themselves authorised to make in particular cases; and they sometimes raise the maximum of penal ties to give greater latitude to the Judges in their graduation. They therefore remove (coin the Courts of Assize the cognizance of a part of these offences. " Your Committee, penetrated with the same motives, convinced both of the insufficiency of the penalties, and of the impunity resulting from the violation of the rules of competence, adopts the proposed measures ; but it perceives therein too much reserve, and in order to reach with more certainty the desired, object, proposes to you im portant additions. " Permit, gentlemen, one preliminary reflec tion on the kind of offences now under our con sideration. " The offences in question present themselves under a variety of details and circumstances which aggravate or mitigate the criminality. It is impossible for the legislator to foresee and dis tinguish all crimes. By too strict an observance of that general principle of criminal legislation that crimes ought to be exactly defined, •and the penalties graduated, would he leave them un punished ? Would he leave society without de fence ? Certainly not, gentlemen. If he cannot precisely define them, he may at least class them, and attach to each class a punishment, the limits of which, in the greater or lesser degree, may be sufficiently remote to enable the Judge, after appreciating the criminality of the different acts, to graduate the punishments. Necessity re quires that the legislator shoal! abandon this task to the tribunals, though it be an essential part of his duty in ordinary caseW. But here he can only have for his object the forming a sufficient number of classes of crimes, and the de fining them in terms sufficiently general, so that all may be included in one 'of these classes, and then graduating the penalties among the classes, leaving such a latitude., that each offence may be reached in just proportion. • " Do not fear, Gentlemen, tolconcede thereby too great a power to the'tribunals It is under the reign of distrust, in the midst of destructions, that that power has been restricted. It is doubt less allowable to regret the times when more ge neral lawswere sufficient forthe wants of society; because the Magistrates whose duty it was to apply them were invested with an ancient and just confidence. Besides, this • proceeding, alto gether political, is indispensable in this matter : the detail of the Articles will convince you. Being obliged to state the grounds of these Ar ticles, and several of them presenting less inte rest than others, I have to•claim all your-indul gence. _ _ " ART. 1.--Article 1 of the project relates to insults a7ainst religion,. *You are at length called upon, Gentlemen, to supply one of those defi ciencies in our laws which afflict all good French men. Our constitutive law, the Charter,' de clared the Catholic Apostolic and Rotnan Reli gion to be the Religion of the State. It an nounced advantages to different Christian . wor ships, and protection.to•all.. 44 After a declaration ,so solemn, it could only be under a real delirium that .any one dared to assert that the law of France was atheistical, and that it ought .to 'be so. Deplorable ,epoch of audacious attacks ! It is not. by false itidnigen cies, but by rigorous penal laws, that the enemies of the altar, of the .throne,, and of, our. funda mental law, ought to be repressed. " Fortunately we are no longer reduced to the necessity of regarding it as an acquired'advau tage, to have caused the epithet religious to be added to the words Outrage Of public morals. This Chamber will recognize that besides mora lity, there exists in religion dognias and a form of worship ; and in this Session, no fear has been felt in proposing an article of law which textually declares penalties against any person who may iwsult or turn religion into ridicule. " Your Committee could not'but receive this proposition with favour': not, hOWever, that it thinks it possible to establish any proportion be tween the offence and the punishment, when the infinite Being, who is the objeit of the worship of religion, is contemplated. But religion, that only solid basis of all society, which insures to the law for the future the most formidable sanc tion against all the violations -that man can. at tempt, also expects protection for itself from the law. Thus religion and society receive red procal . ndvantages, and ought to be protected each by the other. " Your Committee has, however, endeavoured. - to embue itself with the spirit which guided the Legislator, when he granted the Charter to his people. Ife then assured religious liberty to each, and the same protection for worship. Ifow ever, said he, the. Catholic religion is the religion of the State. This express condition, given in a particular article, and marked by the word how ever, after a protection promised to each, an nounces a special protection for - particular ad vantages. Besides, the religion of Clovis, of Charlemagne, of St. Louis,-is the religion of our Kings, and that of almost the - generality of Frenchmen. Is not the insulting it, insulting nearly the -whole nation and its King ? and on this ground, ought not such insult to b - e.more severely repressed ? Its worship is not like that of other communions confined within its. temples. It is external in several solemnities, and its Ministers are constantly distinguished by a particular cos tume ; and' the signs of religion are on our edifices, and in our public places. Has it, on the sole ground of public safety, need of special protection ? 1 must observe farther, that the greater part of its dogmas are those of other Christian communions. To outrage by a denial those dogmas which are sacred for all Christians, such as the existence of God, future rewards and punishments, the divinity of , Jesus Christ, is to insult the Protestant as well as 'the Catholic, in that which is to both the most precious of all things--their faith. Thus, to defend more espe cially the religion of almost the totality of Frenchmen, is an object of general good, which ought to be appreciated by all. such are the grounds on which it has been thought fit to aug ment the maximum of the penalty for outrage committed against the religion of the State. " Art. 2. Outrage towanls any other religion legally recog nized shall be punished by the penalty expressed in the law project. This will be the object of our article 2. " Art. 3. After his God, the King is every thing to a French man ; to be faithful to him is his happiness. France and his King are identified in the heart of a Frenchman. They become the sole object of his love. The repre,esion .of outrage done - to the King, ought, then, to follow immediately in the law, the repression of the outrage of religion. It has not been supposed that the King's dignity, his rights, his authority, the inviola bility of his person, should be separated; all these rights are in herent in bins. Doubtless his constitutional authority will be protected, but this epithet (constitutional) of ;the ancient law cannot be employed for the purpose of restraining it. Was not his authority entire in his sacred person, before the charter was given to us ; since we hold it only from hisTeyal will?.—Are not the dignity of his crown, the inheritability of the throne in the order of primogenitureship, the principles of that monarchy of fourteen centuries, rights which ought to be respected, and rights which are not of yesterdny's date ? • It was, then, proper that the law project should suppress this word, and thereby an ticipate the captious pretexts which it afibrds for protecting-the guilty from condemnation. • • " The project also suppresses the epithet FORMAL, which was joined to the word ATTACK, in several articles of the If an attack, proved against authority, were to remain unpu nished, under the pretext of its not being perfectly direct and . formal, it could only do so by a scandalous abuse of these ex pressions. You must be sensible, gentlemen, of the necessity of these changes ; and you will thus perceive the reason for aug nienting the maximum of the penalties. Among outrages on the rights of authority either of the King or the esambers, nu merous shades may exist, of which it would be proper to gra. duate the penalties. " Art. 4. On the same grounds, the law project has increas-: ed the extent of the fines and imprisonments, in the case of an attack on rights guaranteed by articles 5 -and 9 of the charter. It is thus left to the justice and the sagacity of the Judges to appreciate those ettacks, n whc t ler formal or not, according to the impression they may receive from the writing or discourse.— The Comfnittee proposes to you the adoption of this article. " Art. s.—Article 4 of the project punishes the exciting to hatred or contempt of tile King s Government. These expres sions, well considered, present no uncertainty. • They relate to the forms of the King's Government, antlits different modes of action. The same general expression is eniplpYOd in the char ter in the same sense: It would be a political blasphemy to separate the Government from the person of King, and- to dare to say that the Government proceeds or does not proceed in harmony with the King ; as if the -Government Were only in the Ministry. flowerer, to calm the most scrupulous minds, your Committee proposes to you to add to this•article—' This provi sion shall not affect the right of discussion, and the censuringeif the acts of the Ministers. It is needless to insist that the cen sure which has the public good for its object should be re spected. The law wishes to reach only the artisan of mischief, who begins by casting odium and . contempt on the, Govern ment, in order that he may afterwards rise against it and attack it openly. " Art. 6.—The law project in its sth article has in view the protecting not only the tribunals and constituted bodies, but the authorities and public administrations. • This omission' in the preceding law cannot be allowed to subsist. How can protection be refused to those administrations which have cha rity for their only impulse and reward ? Itut - every other admi nistration, any authority; if it be held useful for the public,, is entitled to the protection of the law. Your committee proposes to you the same rate for the fines as in the preceding article. " Art. 7.—The law of the 17th of, ay had foreseen this case of oWence against one of the Chambers, It had also foreseen, as welhas the penal code, the case of outrage on a Magistrate or on a depositary of public authority in respect to the func tions.. But the law did not specially 'name the'Chambers, and the .Tribunals considered themselves bound by the •striet letter of the LIN. The present law relates only to outrages received publicly, on account of fnnetions or rank. The committee, which thought that the penalty in the preceding article fix insults to constituted hothes . blight to be increased, allows the slightest punishment in 'case's of outrage nn individuals to remain. " This article also, enacts penalties.for.outrFes on a juror in consequence of his functiens, or on a-witfiCesp consequence of his. deposition. Every One must be sens*e of the justice of this pro Vision. . It is necessary for ptotecting:the independence of persots,s and. witnesses, and it is therefore unnecessary to dwell longer upqn it. , • ". The same ti o ct justly 'distinguishes outrage committed on . a minister of re .ou 4coulat Of his fupctiors from that