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PARIS PAPERC.

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r. MrAtttits 1144. f,,,t .14,..4..• 44 my heart, on finding
tnrsrlf arms H ...... I. So acknowledge she blesoinzs
that Pr' nye Isla drittited at, roller on lie, and Illso.e that
tee are vtrmisiell Su expect in future.

° 31) family is increased, and I may hope that the wi-hes
1 hare csressesl on this subject may be mallard. New sup-
port. to my House will become new ties between it anti my
reple

"Our amicable rrlstionts with the different States or the
two hentitidnes, fort.fied by the intimate nuion of the So-
t errmit, and ust the principle of a insslstal independence,
continues to be the pledge of a long peace.

" fl) the happy effect of my negotiations with the Holy
Sec, isse.pal Churclws are no longer deprived of parlors,
The pretence uf 111.60ps in their dioceses will preverve area
in an pasts of the ecclesiastic administration. They will
frouissigate the respect doe to our holy religion, and to the
law.of the State. We shall preserve intact the liberties of
our Church. I shall zive my ear to the wishes of the faithful ;
I <hall reason their wants and their resources, before I pro-
pose to you the measures which the restoration of the win.-
:.hip of our Fathers may require.
•< Two years of abundance, repair, in part, the evils of
scarcity. Agriculture hats made sensible progress. All sorts
rd industry have nude a noble advancement. The fine arts
continue to ornament and to illustrate ['ranee. I collected
around me their homer productions; the same advantage
was given to the useful arts; public admiration las equally
encouraged them.

4. The liberation of nor soil, and snore favourable times
hare penalised us to attend to the amtlioration of our finan-
res. 1 have isrdeserl that theme shall be submitted to you the
mate of the public chargest,as well as of the means of defray-
Mt them; and I have the ii.tislaction to announce to your
that the legislative foresight will not be deceived by any ur-
grist t r arrideMal wants. No new loan will be demaudcd
Eton you for the (arrest year.

" Already the first relief has been granted lo those who
contribute to the revenue. TM lowering of the taxes the
most burdensome will not be delayed looser than the time
ullielt will be still required to acquit the extraordinary debts
tratraetell by the State.

" F.very ;here the laws have (mind an easy execution, and
is se part has the public tranquillity bleu essentially
troubled. In these circumstances, and for the better übli.
viun of past evil•, I have jniigeil it proper to multiply acts
of clemency and of reconciliation ; I have put no other
limits to this but those wl,ich national sentiment and the
dignity of the Crown required.
" At the same lime, in the midst of these elements of
public ',log:writ!, I ought not to dissemble that just motives
of alai in mix themselves sills our hopes, and claim, from
thin day, our moat serious alt, uliou.

" A %ague but real ineptioude occupies all minds.—
Every •nt this time d••mands pledges for the dors-
lion of our security. The nation enjoy but imperfectly
the first fruits of the legal regimen and of peace. There is
an apprehension that these fruits will be arrested from
them by the violence of the factious. The people are
alaimrd by the ardour of these factions for power, they
are frightened by the expression of their too obvious de-
signs. All the fears, all the wishes point to the necessity of a
new guarantee of repose and of stability. Public credit
looks I o this signal for advancement, commerce to extend its
aperidalions, and in fine, France to be sure of herself, and
to resume among the nations the rank that she ought to
occupy for her own interest and that of others, has need to
place b%r Coustitullua above the assaults that are the more
41noteretel ..tom being the more (resiliently repeated.

. . .
" In this conviction, I have returned to the ideas which
alrcadl, I was desirous to reality, but which was to be ma.
tun J by xperienee, and called fur by necessity. Founder
of the Charter, to which are inseparably united the destinies
of my people anti of my family, 1 have thought, that if those
prat interests, as well as the maintenance of our liberties,
require an amelioration, and which shall only modify some
rep:Wing forms of this Chapter, the better to assure its
power nod its action, I ought to propose it.
" The moment is come to strengthen the Chamber of De-
puties, by withdrawing from it the annual election of a part,
hy giving to it a duration more conformable to the interests
of public order, and to the exterior consideration of the
This will be the completion of my work. Happier
thsu other States, it is nut by 1 •isiunsl measure', but by
the ts3lttrai development of our institutions, that we can
wield our force.

" It is to the drt•otion—it is to the energy of the two
Chambers—it is to their intimate 11160111 with toy Covers.
meld, that I wish to call for the means of saving public
Idlest} from licotae,tn strengthen the Monarchy, and to give
to all the interests guaranteed by the Charter that profound
si emit) whicu we uwe them.
" We shall 'mists?, in the mean time, the lank of pulling
all the laws in harmony with the ClMPillintional Monarchy.
You have already adopted several that lend to this object,
and 1 have given orders to prepare I hose that shall give amour-
anGc to indivitluai liberty, to the impartiality of jtolgnientis,
end to the regular mid faithful admiuktratiou of the Depart.
ments and Communes.

" Piositlenct has ordained that I shall close the abyss of
Revolutions, to bequeath to my surressors and to my comb-
try, free iti.titu.iiists strong and Curable. You are are aaso-
a with hhits sarri d ditty. To fulfil it, rely, Messieurs,
on my unalterable firmness, a.. I rely u■ the concurrence a
my faithful and loyal Peeis of Frauce, and on my faithful
and loyal Deputies of the Drparimetits."

Extract Flom a letter from Manchester, dated
December 1 :—" 1 have just heard that %VALOUR
nut KNIGHT have this morning been arrested on a
wiirriiiit of Colonel 1-biaoacsvE's, an active Ma-
git.trate„ residing near Burnley, awl the charge
jpftist them i. understood to be high treason, com.
mined in the part they took at the Meeting held at
ilubergham Eaves, nn the 15th ult. when a large
i.art of the persons assembled *nil armed, as is
.here in one of the last of the Papers laid before
Parliament."

LONDON.
SATURDAY. DECEMBER 4, Itll9.

The Bill introduced into the House of Lords by
the LORD CHANCELLOR for expediting the trials
of persons accused of misdemeanors, was read last
night a second time. The object of this Bill is to
comnel, the accused to plead within a certain num.
ber of days, not yet specitird. it most, we think,
be generally admitted by every dispassi )))) ute man,
that the time hitherto given to defendants to int-
purl reqiiireJ to be curtailed by the inteifesence of
the Legi.lattire. We hope. however, that the
Learned Lord on the Woolsack will not, in propos-
ing to comet the evil, run into the contrary ex-
treme, but allow a reasonable time for preparing
the means, and considering the mode of defence.
The Search for Arms Bill, nod the Bill for pre.
ventiog and Training, severally went
through Committees.

In the House of Commons, the Bill for prevent-
ing Seditious Meetings was committed, and the
blanks were filled up ; but for the convenience of
the House, it was ordered to be re-committed on
Monday next, when the provisions of the Bill will
he separately discussed. A clause will then be
proposed by Mr. Ttuttswr for rendering the Bill
temporary. The Bill for subjecting certain publi-
cations to a stamp duly was brought in lot night,
and read a first time. We certainly cannot con-
cur with those Gentlemen who arraign the princi-
ples of this measure, fur we conceive it to be an act
of justice to the regular Newspapers, who are sub-
ject to a very heavy tax.
In the course of the evening Mr. LAMBTON took
an opportunity of noticing the statement made on
the previous night, in the House of Lords, by the
Euil of STRATHMORE, respecting the number of
persons on the banks of the Tyne who were ready
to rise in open rebellion against the Government.
The Hon. Member declared, that from the most
minute inquiries which he had caused to be made,
and from his own personal observation, he was per-
suaded that the intelligence conveyed to the Noble
Earl, and on w!uch he made the communication to
the House of Lords, was not authentic. This con-
tradiction having come to the knowledge of Lord
STRATHMORE previous to the rising of the Upper
House, the Noble Lord trot only repeated his
former statement, but added, upon the authority
of letters received yesterday morning, that the
danger was even much greater than lie had repre-
sented it ripoti the former occasion. The Noble
Lord ■nd Mr. LAMITON are at issue upuu skis
point.

The time limited by the Act of Union for the
continuance of certain duties, framed for the pro.
tection of the manufactures of Ireland, being nearly
expired, great apprehensions have been felt by the
Irish manufacturers, ■nd, indeed, by all classes of
persons in the sister island, lest the cessation of
those duties may increase the distresses that already
too generally prevail in their unhappy country.
Their fears, however, upon this point were last
night satisfactorily removed by the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER, who stated the opinion of the
PRINCE REGENT'S Government, that these duties
should not expire at the time prescribed in the Act
of Union. We applaud the wi•domn of this deter•
initiation, for it is certain, that whatever may ab.
stractedly be the policy of maintaining ditties upon
the transfer of articles of commerce from one part
of an empire to another, there can be no (peti-
tion that a time of deep and general distress
is not a fit season for effecting great and extensive
alterations, which must, in their consequence*,
involve the immediate interests, perhaps the very
existence of many hundred families.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday contain the King of
Fits:set', Speech to the Legislative Chambers on Monday
last, when his Majesty opened the Session in person. It
presents a favourable picture of the internal condition at
France with regard to the improvement of agriculture, com-
merce, and the arts, the increasing prosperity of the country,
and the flourishiug state of the reliance.. The revenue so
fa► exceeds the expenditure as to permit the annual ap-
pliestion of large sums to the discharge of the public
debts, arid even justifies a hope of the speedy diminu-
tion of the individual burdens of the people. His Ma-
jesly expresses a desire, so (Jr to alter the Constitu.
lieu of the Chamber of Deputies, as to repeal the present
practice of partial renewsk in every successive year of the
Chamber, and to " ensure it a duration more conformable
to the existence of pishlie order." The King feels himself
sufficiently strung to exercise mercy towards the exiles, and we
find a long last in these impels, (lithe persons who bad been
banished and are now permitted to returns. Among these are:
—Grouchy, Lallemant, Drutiet-trErlon, Lefebvre-Desna'''.
cites, f:lausel, Laborde, Bertrand, Uremia, Candwune,
Lavalette, Rovigo, Rirult, Vaadamme, &v.
The Five per Cents. are OS f. 40 e.; Hank Actions, 1,405

Sir W. RE CRE*PIGNY, in the debate in the
House of Commons on Thursday night, said, that
it was necessary to remark to the Noble Lord (Lord
Ps tucuseoN), that the Hampshire Requisition,
which lie willed disgraceful, was signed by a num.
tier of most respectable freeholder*, and that it
was for the purpose of requesting the PRINCE HE.
0 ENT to call the Parliament togetlwr,asthe legal ad•
riser, of the Crown, and as the guardians of the
liberties of the people, lie (Sir W.) was ready to
take as much share of the disgrace of such *
sure as his Lordship chow to give Maly