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FRENCH PAPERS.

[From the Etoile. dated Tuesday.
111.ttutilD. Dec. 16.
The re-establishment of the Inquisition, about which 6O mirk
has been said, is net yet certain. Although in many of '1..1.
dresses several cities have implored his Majesty to restore the Z,..ty
Tribunal, the King has not hitherto consented to do it.
Notwithstanding the incessant applications to our Unit MO.
nsrch, by foreign bankers, who offer him nioney on cent:taunt's:
the leans of the fortes should be recognised, his Majesty persists
more than ern in the firm resolution not to consent even Ins psi.
till recognition of them. M. Zea ltitrtrutlez. hits declared Its
intention of rather resigning his tare, than contribute to a met-
sure, which, in ev6ty point of view, is more likely to be a.
tended with mischievous than beneficial consequences.

[From the 2lfoailear of Monday.]
The official part contains only the notice this the Prince of Cl..
telocaLs has presented his new credentials, confirming liim m :re
pest of Ambassador Extraordinary from the King of Napki t 3 the
1 French Court.
(Non-official Pan.)
Auctions°, Dr.c. 11.
We have 'reelect! by today's post. lenera from several pans of
the Archipelago, which come down to November 10. They OM
that a considerable number of armed Greek cossets, &tin,/ franc
the main fleet, cruise in all parts of the Archipelago, and laid Far.
ties on the Turkish mans, to make booty and carry off privimen.
The roasts of Asia Minor are also threatened, and even Smyrna
i would not be secure against a rump-tie-main, had not the Conic:
Consuls intervened with the Greek Government in favour cf
city. Resides, that body would not like to run be risk of a year-
, red with the Maritime Powers of Europe, who are all interested in
the fate of Smyrna, which is in the centre of the Ciropesn com-
merce in the Levant. It is affirmed that the news of the defeat Of
Ibrahim Parha, near Stanchio, has induced the Greek Government
at Hydra to order an expedition against Candia, the possession of
which island, under present circumstances, would be of innku-
lable advantage to the Greeks.
CASSEL, FacAti.
Yesterday, at ■ grand drawing-meets in the palinv of the Elora,
the Ministers of the Household and Foreign Affairs deduct.
the usual form, the marriage of her Royal Highness Princes* Mu.,
of Hesse, with his Royal Highness the Duke of base

LFrum the JOSITVICI des Iliats of Sunday.]
Ex trass. e.s. Dec. 2.
The law fur the paying off the old debt, so little favoorable to
the Exchange. has passed the Second Chamber, by CA to XL Is
the speech of M. Stapart in favour of the law, the following pillage
is worthy of remark :—" The new law will no doubt escrow an in-
fluence on the gambling of the Exchange; but does thia rrpetnal
stcs-k jobbing, which withdraws capital from useful purposes—
does this stock jo'Aring, which so often ruins fortunes, and
destroys delicacy, honour, and honesty, deserve eccourare-
ment ? Ought it not.on the contrary, to be discouraged by every
means ? Is it just that we should go on increasing the burdens
of taxes, in order that we may hold oat a premium to gamblers'"
Some one yesterday contended that we should not check the
rising of the public funds, because incresaing the riches of an i:.
dividual is increasing the wealth of the State. This is an shine of
the maxim, which is very true as applied to freth res,uri es by in-
dividuals. by agriculture, or commercial industry; hut false when
money itself is the commodity. I doubt much whether the con-
tributors will applaud this logic. I dislike, as much as others, fre-
quent financial revolutions. I wish that the laws were stable; but
it would be a pity if we could not review certain finance law*.
which were incompatible with public prosperity, and when we fist
them bad we ought to give them up."
From the Coosa/idiom:el of Sumter.]
3
Our skilful and celebrated physician, CasteliAol„'withino' recentlynre it
Js.
Played so much ability in the piotracted labour of the Imam
Donna Maria Francisca, has been ordered into exile without sun
cause being assigned for it.
. . . . _ .

Thera is a fresh rumour of a disembarkation of the constitstiroi
abets In the neighbourhood of .thcant, but this repot, which
originates in the departure of game regiments of prooin:ial
to that town, Ii adroitly circulated by the crap. dus. she find it,
advantage in influencing the Governmemt, and in ununtairing the
high party system which follows of comse.
The payment of tithes begin to be in ill odour with err pessato
and farmers, who, contrary to their ancient custom. are mire Au
to the woltiere of their honour than to the priopet kr of the l'hurri.
They are now falling into arrear. The Bishop of ltierco has ad.
dressed to his diocese a ;mineral letter on this subject, wherein
complains that the tithes are rot paid regularly, and require-
to be more punctual. This letter commerres thus--• Faithful
and well.beloved, the obligation of paying tithes is imposed on is
by God."
There is a talk here of a new customs tariff; which will be c.
forced on the Ist of twit January, by which cuttiin
others much worn in Spain, will be admitted on pot ing a thity
pee cent.; but there is some cub . went as to when the
cuitoni-housest shall be. on account of the freedom of the prinhic,s
which are contiguous to France. This duty of 20 pwr not.
muds by two-thirds, as we know that the ii.surers of Bilway and
Bayonne will enter any cosintaxlity, even to this tuna, at a Fault:iv.
t.f 12 per cent. on its prime cost.

Loan BYRON.—Th, booksellers, A. and W. Ciipani.
Baudouin Brothers, and ('harks Cosselin, are about to
publish " the Corrrspontlence of Lord Byron with s
Friend, with the addition of Letters written to his Mlo•hrr
from Portugal, Spain, Turkev, sn.l (;recce.
flections and observations," caked by R. '
work, the publication of ',Holt has 11
London by an ivjunction of the Lord
anxiously expected. Lord Byron, in th.
spondence, which was intended to mit
opened his whole iniad. his letters or
of his numerous travels, his opMicns on
political matters.—ratis Nper.

- The Lisbon Gcr:etie or the Nth ii
Royal Decree, confirming to the royal
privilege granted in 17,41, 151.2, and la:
exclusively, certain documents, missal.
hooks, and books of laws, which had been
in consequence of an order from the (7ori,
Admiral Krusenstivo his written to
of Woolwich, a very satisfactory and con
on the result of some experiments made
Russian navy at tronatadt, with the gu
recting the errors of the mariner's compass-1
local attraction of the 'hip's pins and ei
and the Russian Government, in corseir:
orders for all their ships to he furnidi..
compass-plates, similar to those now fittin
of our navy and mini. of OUT Tl:erehntit ti
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day, dated Liverpool, Dec. 'l7, says—" TI
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THE PRESS IN INDIA.

;Cc have frequently expressed our opinions against the
,e,hlishittent ot a free press in India. Mlle of the best
srsuntents in favour el such a measure are coutaincel in a
,ses of " hetes: to the Marquis of Hastings, on the in-
,:n Press, by a Friend to Good Government,' from which
tc mete a sew extracts
Censership deprives the prsss of its nationality,
seppress.ece th. reby the voice uf the public
-sardine the vi.•ws and assisting the sinister interehsts
the administrators..
" Should the present condition of the native Indians re-
• ,',re a Ceneorship upon the press, or a eurression of the
~sie 'misc. this condi:lost must indicate that these two-
ss have either welds to make known, nor injuries to corn-
; it must involes the admiseion that the In liens
▪ either brutes or angels : brutes, as bleeps: 1;e of any
;senan teeing ; angels, its superior to all human passions.
tithe Indians arc brute beasts, where is the need of
? It angels, could they refraitt tittles, ire); from
•. • at tit- insanity of despotism, and at the misery
• great statesmen, who, in the plentitutle of power,
se so we • ••It afraid of a whisper ? If the Indians are
-enter brutes nor angels, but men and subjects; and it;
3; otiecte, they have no injuries to complain of, nor as
sse, wants that are not Sully F. 36811,11, the it governors
trust he deserving only of the highest cello:shim. Could
then these governors be ever truly uneasy on account of a
iSte press?
" If the Censorship on it is called for by the present
cordition of the Indians, such condition muse be opposite
people among whom the press
to the cvnelitien or all those
kne has ken, and still is, free. Let us e :amine this
el re ciceePy.
" A free press exists at present in the Northern United
States of America, and in Greece; amongst the Britons,
and the itt.groes of St. Pouting° ; in Chile, and in Switzer-
hie! : in Mexico, and in the Netherlands.
" From !see to Isl 3, F.icily had a free press; front 1816
to Isle a Censorship; in Istse the press was freed again.
In Is2l it was re•StlitiCClCti to a Censorship. The press of
Naples was free iu lssu, and under a severe Censorship at
the end of I es2l.
" Tie' Spanish press, from ISIS to I S2t, was first free,
dun under Censorship ; then free again ; and once more
placsel under a censor.
"France, from ISIS to 1524, has possessed both the
fret:dein of the press and a Censorship at different periods
of time.
Wortemberg. Saxony, and Bavaria, once enjoyed a
free press; but those countries have been since compelled
readopt the Censorship.
" The press in India, till Lord Wi.llesley's administra-
tion, was perfectly free. A Censorship was first ordered
lv him. It was removed by your Lordship in Isis:, and
foe press enjoyed practical freedom during all time early part
lel your ailininistratioo. Your Lordship's successor, Mr.
Adam, has, however, rejected it to a law worse even
tan the Censorship a thousand times.
" By those facts it appears evident, that a free press has
'existed, and may be safely exercised, as well in the torrid
sad frigid, as in the temperate zone ; that enlightened na-
tions, and people the least advanced in the scale of civilize-
non, have ken indiscriminately expered to its free action ;
that the Censorship was deemed expedient, not only upon a
Frees extremely free, but also upon a press of very limited
;ewers; that such restrictive measures were applied to
!Mous people, in the most opposite regions, at the same
time, and at different ones ; and finally, that the freedom
I: the press, and a Censorship on publication, have been
alternately substituted, the one for the other, in the LIMO
countries, at different periods of time.
" In the face of these facts I would beg leave to ask,
whether some revemblance must not exist between the
resent condition of the Indians and the people of some of
these various regions, among whom a free press has been,
:ed is yet established ; or even between the Indians them-
selves, at different periods of their history? If no such
tesemblance is to be found, we must suppose the Indians
be either a new species of animated beings, or to be
teased of the wand of Circe. Should the Indians exist
.y the souls of an inferior order, as imagined by Plata, or
r the thinking properties of matter, according to the idea
!Pythagoras, what would they care for a press, either
or without a Censorship? (Jr what could the Cen-
tip oppose to the instantaneous and wonderful meta-
phosts to be produced by so fatal a wound? If any
.mblance between the conditions of any of those people
that of the Indiana themselves can be discovered, since
press has been advantageously exercised upon people
• all possible circumstances, it would be to reason
east existing facts, to suppose that a Censorship on the
in ludia is required by the present condition of her
abitants.
" As nature does not acknowledge the idea of privileged
ions—as men cannot change in a moment their na-
ll character—as no government was ever incapable of
ventent—end a., when the Censorship was imposed
the press in India, and upon that of the difi'erent
" States, it was not produced by any change is the
. of the people themselves, but by a change in the
of the governors ; so it would be more reasonable to
e this allegation of a necessity for a Censorship on
ban press, not from the pretended condition of the
. of that country, but from the actual disposition of
.e rulers.
" Wherever an administration has been honestly and
• disposed, a free press has been always hailed ; and
the contrary dispositions have predominated, a con-
t of ignorance and official dishonesty Las been
,at for in the Censorship.
The !Julien press enjoyed great practical freedom under
air Lordship's Administration. The establishment of free
blications hail nothing for you to be apprehensive of, and
anxiety you have always evinced to benefit the whole
• entrusted to your care, to hear the voice of the
and not to be deceived by the intrigues of a few
teetered such an establishment dear to your ge-
ass . clings, and comfortnable with your honourable
sslities and noble disposition.
" The great Frederick of Prussia, petting aside his gold
~.arple, used to mix in disguise with the lowest of his
vets, in enter to be informed of their real want,. and
ainsitions. You, trey Lord. thought to obtain equal in-
maation in your private cabinet by the medium of a
press. _ _ .

" more luminous proof of wisilom, integrity, and
cannot be gi%esl by Ministers, than when they
cntli&ge the freedom of the pass, the touch-stone of
-At, 4111%11c ITINt dlectiial antidote against illusion.
" In India, it has been said, there is no public!
"11, I ask, offer thanks, perform duties, and pay the
'rtes? Even the basis of d:e forests can fed, and have

'nuts to cxprt.s, and injuries to complain of Is the eon-
...ion of the Indians, or their public, inferior to that of
,rheasts? lEd then the metamorphosis which happened
r• the wife of Lot, happen also to the whole of the Indian
'svic? or that of o'hail:tezzer happen to those who
•:lare that there is no in India, though a large so-
of human beings exists there? •
"Tit^ Indian people, it leis also been affirmed, arc not
seine condition as the public of England. This is
ve:y true. But is it a necessary inference of such
•:,nl:,tllkt the Pu-nwr can possess no freedom of the press
• welt a ground ? If t•o, the English public alone must
regard.,l al the wile privileged nation of the world
'r•!!!' erenjnring a free press, for there is no nation in
IC, Lune condition as herself. But Greece, Holland,
ra:.rland, Mexico, and the Ilaytian people, are
•n Enos!, end yet they enjoy a free press;
A Nr,les, Sici v, anti Spain, while they dill not at all
"'Wile the English, also possessed such freedom."
The bnpelling agency must be always proportioned to
fasting reaction. A greater impulse is, therefore, re-
.i!te to v:ake a grtrer and more inert natter effect its
per funetiors If the Indians arc, in their present con-
as niere hr:: a of the }kid, if the ballast of the
Ilat's-tes'el is thus inert, the only remedy for this
is to he found in a press extremely free, or
au more tr...., that, among a people moro sensitive and
re quickly olo:o.41.
rhe conlinds that a free rrcss in Indis is eon-
'liable to the wants and wishes of the Italian people.
oluerves...-
' What must be the wants anti what the wishes of a
?le so so t•
Fond as the Indians are? These penp'e lire
1.1 a government autttorised to act, without oblizatiun to

answer for the manner in which it treats them. 'chile peopk
!.ave un ri,:ht to us,“milile and petition: they are at a
great fram the India Directors; they have no
re!,res...ittativ.'s; eoun,ellot a for tilt ir I I p?i,r t ; and tin
direction of tht: a:rain of ti Ai: vast country is entrusted
neither •,.) the it cottuiryinen. nor to the officers disposed to
he nateralia.d amom:: them. The only palholinm of safety
for a rople so condi:lone I, he round in a free pri-sti.
'chi, est thlisiturint a!one eon make the British authorities
in Eindaati p...rcti%e the r: al nature of events occurring in
thee.: ii stint regions, and induce them to sympathise with
the misfortunes of ti.eir vast pep:tlation. ‘Vititotat such a
pret,s, the occurrenc:s that really happen can 414.1i!;nrcil
at our hour; and the calls of justico, genere,ity, and
himeMitv, suecessfury clul.ll. It is impossible, without
the ail of s,:ch a medium, that the dejected and degraded
j liintlons can pr,•vent their rulers from passing the proper
I limits of their power, anti injuring their rights and na-
terc,:s.

" It withnut slich a pr se, for a people ao
deprop,(l. to lit:3e cnlti%at:d, FA) far dislant, and having
no roprcseiratives, to siie,:ced in obtaining redress against
opprorsive fuactionaria, who rulo the country with despotic
authority, trim rich gnat influence there, and who
are In re so he fo•lip:ts :mil interests with
th-ir future jut; es. liein En:lisi. gentlemen
have 1),•,•11 unsuccessful to their at:einpts to obtain redress:
how then can ixor, i!;noraio, distant, and unrepr.a:nted
natives i-Nl:t'ot success?

" No loan can iK :o Hind, or so prejudiced, as to be
incapable of dis.:atting how great are the facilities of the
Indian A,ltninistntion to t•por,ss dose people. No im-
partial intittirer can deny how &Meg!! it is for the Indians
to ('pain redress elicit injured. la a condition so fa-
ourable :0 the .',:lininistratima. and to disadvanta 'eons to
the the true interest of the :tate cannot be to add
to the inieris of the latter, and to coatr new facilities
on the former. Vet this rill be ellleted by those who
intend to deprive that country of a free prim'. is it the
prlvileg tl, or the foe national press, thst could ratify the
wishes, relieve the urgent tlsstrei.s, and supply the wants
of the *tidian population ?"

ASIATIC SOCIETE

From the n.'nt?• nr (*wirier Stipplernem.]

On Irtalneadr.v, the dtli of August, a Meting of the members
of the Asiatic Sawiry was held at the S.teiety's apartments, in
Chowringlre,J 11. Ifattnisic.rcw, Eqt. I'vsident, in the Chair.
Air. IL 11. llokson, awMateent to the resident at Katmandoo.
°resented, to he tiiposited in the 31 UICIIIII, through the medium of
Mr. Ir. !I. 11.111,y, Vice.rr..sident, a great number of valuable
anti exce-etlingly curious Iron ll'ltote. viz.—Potts, or reit.
giros tracts ; juntas, idols of brass and clay, pictures of a reli-
gious kind. called Thangaiis ; pimures of civil architecture, articles
of warring upper', personal ornaments of the religious kind, ditto
not religious, inaphments of art, household and domestic utensils,
presses and moulds.mullels of temples, musical instruments, natural
productions. The manuscripts, &r. appear to be well calculated to
throw considerable light on the religious creed of the Irhoteans.
From 3lr. Ilettlarsou's edmmuniration we learn that the Nepaul
mission which lately returned from China, brought with it, among
other things, a very line Chinese mule, which has been since sent
down to Calcutta, together with two yaks, a wild and domestic dog
of Blame, a shawl goat, a four-horned sheep of Whose, and one
of the common kind. The wild dog is said to be the first of its
kind procured, and was brought from Moastang, a place near the
lean of the snowy range, and about twelve °mauls nortiuwest from
Kama:Attu.

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