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MADRAS. SIP?. 5.

The latest accounts from theDerkau state, that
Mr. Elphinstone is imperial at Poonah early in
September, from Kandeish, where every thing is at
present quiet.

It gives us much pleasure in stating, we believe
from the most authentic sou►ces, that Durmajee
(the Chief so gallantly captured by Lieut. Sather-
land, at Duby, in the beginning of this mouth), is
the identical person to whom the murders of the
Iwo brothers of the name of Vaughn's, Lieutenants
in the 11Iadtas army, is to be .ascribed; we must
hope, if this is - fully proved, that be will meet the
punishment he r.ct justly merits.
It app►ars that Sir John Malcolm has found it
necerrary to accompany the Ett-Pei►lswa a part
of the way to the place of his destination. On
the 26th of July they were et Kutclirtxle, and were
proceeding along the banks of the Chumbul, to
the filuudeaor district. where the separatiou will
almost likely take plate.

AtIOVIIT
Account, from. Bombay stair. that the fort of

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THE BRIT!. SH PRESS.

LONDON,

TUESDAY, JANUARY 5. 1519.

We have received Paris Papers of Friday last,
but they still rental's silent respecting the probable
causes of the recent changes in the French Cabinet.
Those of our contemporaries at this side of the
Channel, who in general discover most anxiety about
the internal affairs of France, and who; indeed, are
commonly regarded rather as French partisans than
as English journalists, continue most perseveringly
to attribute this ministerial revolution to some dif-
ferences in the Cabinet respecting the provisions of
the Election and Recruiting Laws ; but they offer
no authority for t:t.ir assertions beyond the first
antiothenticated rumour, and must be informed
that the mere repetition of a statement can afford it
no additional confirmation. The changes of Mi-
nisters in France have of late years been so frequent,
that mistakes might well be committed in attribut-
ing measures to them respectively ; but we believe
we are correct in saying, that the Law of Elections
was the offspring of the late Cabinet, by whom the
Law of Recruiting certainly was produced and fos-
tered. It certainly is possible that the Ministers
might have altered their opinions within any given
time, no matter how short, eves upon their own
works; but conviction of error is seldom found a
sufficient cause for the dissolution of Cabinets, un-
less they be assailed by external weapons. Such
of the Ministers as disliked the effects resulting
from their own measures, might well have awaited
the result of a Session of the Legislature, or have
trusted to circumstances for producing some salu-
tary change iu the system ; but it is altogether un-
exampled in the history of Ministers, that a
majority of a Cabinet should resign their offices
solely because they began to doubt the prudence
of their former opinions.

%Vitt' respect to the merits of the Election and
Recruiting Laws of France, we do not hesitate ►o
consider them as founded on erroneous prnu•ipli s
of government, and utterly inconsistent with eve!y
idea of rational liberty. The right of voting for a
representative in the Chamber of Deputies is re-
stricted to those who pay in direct taxes a sum
equal to about twelve pounds of our money, where-
by the elective franchise is confined to a number of
individuals extremely few, who are consequently
exposed to the operation of corruption and other
improper influence, and cannot therefore be sup-
posed, in returning Deputies, to express tlx sense
of the great mass of the people. Should the taxes
of the country be diminished in any future year,
the number of electors will be reduced also. and a
Mow might at length be struck by one of the con-
tending parties which would render ■ny future
appeals to the electors altogether unnecessary.
The other law, that for recruiting the army, is but
a modified couscsiptivn, which is the more odious,
as it proceeds from a Government whcse advocates
have uniformly held srp the conscription of the
Revolution as a detestable art of tyranny, and can-
not now be defended by the Wretched plea of
necessity.

The King of FRANCE will now have an excellent
opportunitrof fulfilling the intentions expressed in
one of Ins late Ordinances, of testifying, in a
strikis.g manner, his sense of the Duke Da
RICUEIIEWS services. In the Chamber of Peers
the Margin* DR LALLY TOLENDAL submitted
a proposition, that the Kinn should be requested to
',repent a law to the Chambers for assigning an he-
reditary recompense to the Duke DE RICHELIEU,
at once honourable and useful, proportioned to the
eminence of his services, :cud the extent of his
disinterestedness, alike worthy of the satisfaction
of a great King, and the gratitude of a great
nation. In this propo.iii.m the Duke is designated
as u Ntxt to the hist:, the prict ipal cause of the
liberation of France." A similar proposition was
made in the Chamber of Deputies, by the Baron
DcrEastcv.

The provisional law for collecting half of this
year's taxes on the schedule* of the year just ended
has received the sanction of the Preis by a majority
of 103 to 2, and i• inserted in the official part of
the Moniteur.

'l'l►e late improvement in the French fund. VIRI
but momentary. The five ptr Cent*. which on
Wednesday closed at 66 f. 60 r. opened on the fnl.
lowing day a► 64 f. end finally Lifted at 65 f.; Bank
Stock also fell (runs 1,473 f. to 1,450 f.

We should be glad to !vire the polities sf Paris,
and return to titute which ott much more import.

ant to Ilse interests or our own country, tr,l We r.t.
0„ r..-entering the pale of our own othirs, f. ii
attention arrested by that *ignitions mon.me tkintt,
is now forwarded by mimeo-nu* lanillaildeiv
most every part of the kingdom. ...Wr abode t.)
what is commonly c.illed tile " .A.gr;eilltar .1
ti )))) ," which it is intended early in 1.1 I*. a-prole,
log Session to present to both Houses of P4l:i3.
went, for raising still further tie already 1.1411 lane
of bread. The SAreirsbury Chrunede .
that this Petition has attracted the notice of 1; ,*
landholders in Ireland, who have deputed striae

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tlemeu to inquire into the merits of the proi,o.:i„ :1.
and that the measure is likely to he supp.,;,, i / 7
the Sister Country. We ere at the '4l,
instructed in the progress of the Petithn., by an
intimation that Radnor mud Nl•iiimouth
" joined the cause," and that " there are but there
Welsh counties, and five or six English uses, u•,.
provided with the Petit ." No doubt can 1,,
entertained that the great body of the vi4riee'.
purists will give their support to a inewaine r P alt 4
the apparent tendency is to promote their own
interests, by removing all foreign competition in the
home markets. and thereby raising the mousy pri,:e
of their produce. Ireland is eriesetially en agri-
cultural country ; and therefore Strenuous exer.
Lions may be expected from that part of the United
Kingdom, in support of the Petitioners in Crest
Britain. But our agricultural friends must not
expect that the manufacturing, Commercial, sod
monied interests of the country will remain idle,
and not endeavour to counteract such direct attack
upon their property. The manufacturing mat
commercial bodies are proverbially querulous, arid
will, we fear not, do their duty to themselves, to
the country, and to the agriculturists themsele.s
on this occasion. It was an news' saying of S:r
Rosette WALPOLE, that the country gentletnea
in Parliament, as representatives of the land-Ivoldtr4,
were like their own sheep, and submitted to
fleeced in silence and without opposition ; but tl.at
the manufacturers. merchants, and capitalists,
were like hogs, and would not suffer a bridle
to be plucked from their backs without rais-
ing a most violent and discordant uproar. A
little of this swinish feeling would not be
placed should the threatened Petition mike ii,
appearance before Parliament; for it cannot he
borne. that in a time of profound pears! ao
attempt should thus be made by any p
the State to impose an additional tics upon t!,e
prime article of consumption, and thereby incre.se
the absolute weight of all the other taxes that
paralyse the energies of the country. It %mild,
we fear, prove a vain attempt, were we to thick
proving to one of the promoters of this Petitioi,
that in urging it forward he *as doing his must,. t
to injure himself, and that should he succeed its
raisi. g the price of bread, he would, while be
put more money into one pocket for his wheat, he,
take more in proportion oat the other, to par
for such articles of necessity and luxury es he
might think fit to purchase; for although each Iv-
perste article would be increased in price wily in
proportion to the increased price of his wheat, yet,
as this proportion would he felt equally in all, lie
would find, to his cost, that the difference in the
collective prices would be very considerable.

A Dutch Mail arrived last night, with Papers to
the 3d instant. The rumour of a further extension
of the Royal clemency, in favour of the French
revolutionary exiles, is again repeated. It is sup-
posed that if they should live long enough they nisy
all experience the Royal clemency : —to airily of
them it will be little MOM than a privilege to sleep
with their ancestors.

The Dutch Budget for the present year is now
completely arranged and 'titled. The Way. and
Means are estimated at 80,000 Botha above the
public expenses of the year.

German Papers have arrived. An Article, date.)
Vienne, the 17th ult. states, that the Princess
CATHERINE DE MONTFORT (wife Of JEROME I;J•
HAPARTE) had arrived in that capitol a few r!”ys
previously. sud had been visited by the Emperor
ALEXANDER, who remained two hours wish hi.
cousin sud sister-in-law. The following day the
Princess returned to Schonass.

Ministerial changes in England were et one pe•
rind so frequent, the first queslion asked by a tra-
veller lauding at Dover from France was,
is Minister now ?^• The English traveller land•
ing at Calais, may now of in Ins turn, Who is
now Minister in France

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Jamaica Papers to the 14th November have reach-
ed town. Persons of the most dangerous deacrip-
tion had, it is solidi been landed in the Island, where
they had been immediately put under err& by the
House of /tractably, which out on the 9th Nov. at
Spuoish Town, dud had come to a resolution of ay-
pointing a Committee to inquire into the operatic u
of the Alien Laws, in coosequence.
We are happy to learn that the foreign trade of
Bri+tol, inatend of falling off, has increased okire
than one-third in the past year ; and that Mete Inia
beau an addition of one-firth in the emoting trod:.
during the same period—the tonnage of the lattt,
being at least one-third greater, in the sggicgate.
than at any port in the kingdom, and Li-
verpool not excepted.—( Both loaned. 1
It is riimoured that CHARI.EI WARM-P. E•q•
has bt eis applied to by Munster* to quit hip
friends, and accept the vacant office of twin, y-
General to his ROYAL NtaMNtSs es Duka of
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