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Thilsdlts .1 Richelieu has arrived
The folluiviog. Is so extract of a private letter
4. oil Rome:--

" Tire Holy 'See. satiiibed with the unanimoaa sentiments
T. the Clergi of France, has negketed Nothing to second
that/ desires fur an segmentation of flees, so necessary in
the. present mate of religion. The weakness of. the. Freach
Misditery is the sole cause of the delay which the recteriesti-
-wil.affain of that kingdom experience.' Yours Ministers
every day change their ruteationa, and seem an desire only
priduag the affairs, and propose only a f r fav is io no I W.
raaftement fur filling up the vacant Sees until one shall be
elefinit ively prepared.
" Fur twelve years France has sot pent • single 'Bishop
installed. It is Sot cousi.tent with the interests to the Moat
Christian King to delay this ammgement, for the purpose of
pieratitia a faction whom your Ministers appear to dread.
The j..iirerals citeaected with that faction are tilled with in-
VI elver, and the grossest
.ealumnies aping the Catholic
-e. logien and its Ministers. The silence of the Government
inch a crime is a misfortune to Europe.
" are mimed here that a provisional arrangement hes
Leen concluded between the Holy See and France, of which
the articles will remain secret until a new order. In the
mean time the bulks of institution will be delivered to the
Bishops already named by the King to the vacant Sees—the
K ing will coutinue to nominate to the Sees as they shall be-
come vacant, and the Pope will grant institution."

PAUI9, JULY 22.

'Else bad weather yesterday prevented the King
lions making his usual promenade. His Majesty
poised tie day in his cabinet, where he transacted
bn•iness successively with the President of the
Council and the Minister of thee Interior.

TSe two last days of the Session of the Court of
Aoires will be occupied with important mutters.
The cuts? between the widow of Marshal Brune
„aid NI. Niartainville will be heard on the S0;14 and

the case of M. Baroux ou the 31st.
The Council Chamber of the Tribunal of First
Instance pronounced judgment yesterday in the case
of the eight young students, who were arrested in
consequence of the disturbances which took plate
ice and about the Lsw School. Five of them were
set at liberty absotutely—a sixth, accused of a sim-
ple misdemeanor, obtained his liberty under bail—
and the two others, MM. Armand and Bazoche,
were placed in a state of accusation, as guilty of
funning part of a seditious body of unarmed per-
sons to the number of twenty. This crime is
punishable in the Penal Code by the severe and in-
famous penalty of solitary imprisonment. The
documents of the case will be transmitted to the
Court Royal, which will determine whether the ac-
cased shall be sent before a Jury, and w,ll Liz de-
tlnitivtly the object of the accusation.
All the general dispositions which emanate from
the Ministry of War are of the utmost importance,
from the influence they must exercise upon the
spirit of the army, which must in its•turn affect the
fife of the Constitution. A paragraph in the in-
s:ructions transmitted to the corps of cavalry is thus
conceiv,d

" The poverty of the individuals fit to be made under-
olSexre has been felt in the several corps, perliculary since
Cie augmentation of the effective of the army. it is, there-
fore, the intention of the King to restore to their turner
rank the under-officers, brigadiers, or corporals, on um-
Icitited leave of alineoce, who shall desire to return to the
service, soil shall contract a voluntary engagement. All
requests to that effect, addressed by the old soldiers, caps.
L'e of performing active duty, shall be received."
On the 13th of this month, a sloop belosizing to
•isome person of Dover foundered between Wyk-op•
Zee and Zandvoort, in Holland. The body of a
man very well dressed, and four English horses
drowned, have beets thrown on the shore.
Its a letter from Vienna, we find the following
details resFecting the Austrian army. The army
closist I+ at present of 58 regiments of infintry'of the
I;tie, 20 battalions of grenadiers, 1/ frontier regi-
IT tents, 12 battalions of chasseur4, 5 regiinrnts
artillery, 14 districts of garrison artillery, 12 b itta-
bona of chaikes, pootourers, sappers, and miners.
The A tni jilts cavalry is composed of 9 regiments
-of cuirassiers, 14 of dragoons and light horse, and
of hussars.

111A1UE151, JULY 16.

Severs' private letters announce, that in purse.
*ice of fresh instructions received by the Moisten
tor the four Powers le Frankfurt, they have at
ngth, io the names of their respective Courts, de-
finitivily regulated the affairs of Baden, which had
been referred. to them by tile Cinigress of Aix-la.
Attordirg to this regulation, the inte-
grity of the Grand Duchy is getaraineed, and the
.in-cession of the ancient Counts of Hochberg, now
Aloigravra of Baden, formally recognised. The
Growl Duke of Baden shall cede to Illsvaria a
part of the ancient .principality of Loe-Weirsteims
Wertheim, of the Bedese circle of the Mein and
t)ie Tauber. The pretensions dr Bavaria to the
tiiid of Austria to the Brisigiu, are de.
chard extinct.

The Commission of the Finances of Bibdee.
charged to exannine the Budget, his terminated it.
labours. We underftond that it propmes an extols.
s.ve sy.lein of economy, by means of which it is
hoped the deficit in the revenue. as cosoptired
with the expenditure. will lie covered, mull without
which it will he °revisory to impose rew tuxes.
The reduction in the army eftiinutes k •ue of the
br4ocshr# of ti(•.10!ily .1; pointed out by
tier Comeivisium

THE BRITI SR PRES S.

LONDON.
MONDAY. JULT SIG, 1619.

Paris Paters of w;,114“4147- ftieeC:florietay EDt
have arrived at our office. They are, amoir.earsauler-

able extent, occupied by articles of intelli-
gehce from Germany, which (oral, at the same
time, by far the most interesting portion of
their contents. It is stated in a private letter

from Berlin, that a project of a constitution,
drawn up by the Prince of Mu mmaElia. has
been presented to the King of PRUSSIA, and
referred by his Majesty to the Stitutfing Com-
mittee of Constitutions. it is not, however, to be
supposed from this cireumnance, that the. Prussian
States are mach nearer than they have hitherto
seemed, to the attainment of their wishes; for with
whatever feeling of sincerity the KING may
wally have held out to his subjects the promise of
a free constitution, and of a representative form of

government, as the reward of their devoted fide-
lity to his crown and interests, it would appear
that the danger in which this promise had originated
being over, his MASE,TV has exercised his inge-
nuity rather in devising pretences for not fulfilling his

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engagements, than lit removing the (families that
might have obstructed their completion. A Commit-
tee was appointed some considerable length of time

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since, avowedly for the purpose of preparing a con-
stitution, but the result of their legislative labours
is still only a matter of conjecture. We are well
aware that o constitution is not. or, at least, ought
not to be, the work of a dsy, but we cannot iota-

gine my circurusances in the case of Prussia which
could render inch a work for that kingdom much
more &Meet than for France, the Netherlands,
or Bavaria, and its there three kingdoms we have
seen systems of government founded on admirable
principles, and displaying profound practical wis-
dom, brought into existence and put into operation
within a third part of the time already employed
by the Prussian law-givers. But what else could
have been expected from this Standing Committee,
consisting as it does of men avowedly hostile to
each other in political principles, and of whom it
would be more surprising that they should accord
in opinion on any one subject, than that they should
waste so much time in divining upon many ?
But even were the constitution framed, there
exist some difficulties, which must be removed be-
fore the system can be set in motion, and unfor-
tunately of these dificalties there is one of •
very perfinacious character. We allude to the
financial embarrassments of the country. The
other difficulty respects the claims of the mediatised
Princes, whose irritation has not yet yielded to the
blandishments of the Court, awl the skill of the
Prussian Statesmen. These difficulties, and such
others as may ',resent theinaelves, would be best
determined by the representatives of the people.
The Chamber of Deputies of Bavaria has op-
posed itself with grett firmness to the wishes of the
KING, respecting the maintenance of the military
establishment. The Minister of War demanded
eight millions of fi a, but the Chamber finally
granted only 6,700,000 Burins. The Chamber of
Senators proposed to rescind this vote, and to im-
pose new taxes ; but the Deputies rejected this
proposition by 59 to 32. The Bavarian army at
prevent consists of 47,585 men, and 7,523 horses.
The gendarmerie, consisting of 2,000 men, are not
included in this number.
The finances of Baden are also in a distressed
state. A Committee was appointed to examine the
badget of the present fear, and having to decide
between economy and new taxes, it adopted the
former, and iu particular recommended a reduction
in the military establishment of the Grand Duchy.
The army of Baden was raised by the late GRAND
DUKE, to the ()anther of not less than 30,000 men,
fur the purpose of opposing force of arms to the
pretensions of Bavaria. The differences, however,
which had arisen 'between the Courts of Munich
cud Carlaruhe are at length happily terminated by
the Miisirters of the four great Powers sitting at
Frairk fort, to whom these affairs were referred by
the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, consequently the
reductions proposed by the Finance Committee
may now be made with safety and honour.
Nreciations have been fur some tune carried en
betwteu several of the Protestant Powers of Ger-
many. such as Hanover, IVirtemberg, the two
Hesse*, Laden, and NASSIStl,vit the one part. and the
Court of Rome on the ottor, the object ot which is
to induce the Pee' to accede to a Prognsui ir Sanc-
tion for definitively regulating-the exercise of the
ecclesiastical power within their respective states.
By this the Princes will guarairtee the free and pub-
lic esercise,of the Roman Catholic form of worship
within their states, aunt engage to nominate five
birhops--oue for the kingdom-of Wine inberg, one
for ilarleil, mine for . Electoral Hesse, one for the
Grand Duchy of Hesse, and one for the Duchy of
Nasser and the free Sown of Fraokfort. These
bishops shall be eligible by the canons of each are,
stud so equal slumber of the other ecclesiastic' of
• the dissever, iu tier f Iluwing manner:—The electors
.glanilAtoorienfe three persons, rf whom the Sovereign
shestorntry shotl choose one, who shall demand
triitrAnititro buns the Peru, sod if the l`crE shall

refuse this confirmation, she bishop so chosen by •
the Prince, shall remain in the full and ample pos-
session of his see. This is a step in domestic lonia-
'Wiwi or Roman Catholic bishops exceeding even
the concession of the Peso to the KING. on which so
much diversi'y of opinion has been expressed is this
country and in the sister island.
The bishops shall take an oath of fidelity to the
Prince, and hind themselves not to concur in soy
' measure detrimental to the public guod, and even
to reveal any circumstance having such a tendency
which may come to their knowledge. They shall
have the power of reproving the laity of their own
communion, and of demanding the assistance of the
civil power to enforce their spiritual authority.
They may also interdict the use of any hooks which
they may think reprehensible in churches and
schools, and the property of their churches shall be
guaranteed.
Such are the bases of the articles submitted to the
Supreme Pontiff, but which it would seem do not
meet with his approbation, from the length of time
to which the- negociations have been already ex-
tended. .

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Tie French five per Cents. •re 71 f. 45 c.-13ank
Stock 1.4371 1.

A Flanders Mail arrived last night with Papers
from Brussels to the 23d lust. The following are
extracts :

wvanisuita, JULY 14.
Oar correspondent, tinder the head of Beata, July 8,
says---" Yesterday morning, very early, all the papers of se-
veral students in our University were sealed up, and after-
wards delivered to the Magistrates ; all the papers of a doc-
tor have had the same fate. This measure has caused a
great sensation' here, and we wait with impatience fur the
result."
TRUBURCI, DULY 7.
Yesterday at noon two students, members of the basso-
elation of German Students, were suddenly arrested at their
fudging', and conveyed to the prison of the University,
after their papers had been seized. At the same time the
police *cited the papers of four other students belonging
to the same Association, as well as those of a woman :
the latter is a prisoner in her own a►ode; the stu-
dents are at liberty. Dork Pfister, Director of the
town of Heidelberg, who arrived here at break of day, as
Grand Ducal Commissioner, had ordered these measures.

This affair makes a great noise here. It is affirmed that it
was called for ►y a Foreign Court, and that a Special Com.
mime had been formed fur the purpose at Carbonate, at
which a Foreign Minister, and the celebrated Professor,
Arens, of Giessen, were present. It seems that similar pro-
ceedings base been instituted ■t Heidelberg and other Uni-
versities, to inquire into the Association of the German stu-
dents. At present it is impossible to form an opinion upon
all these reports. As for what has passed here, some circum-
stances at tending it have excited great indignation, especially
mom' t►e students; first, because the above measures were
not entirely executed by the competent academical authori-
ties, but contrary to the laws of the University, in part by
the police; then because the police was strengthened is
the evening by a detachment of the landwehr, as if
there bad been a fear of distiotbance during the sight,
which induced the students who are used to walk
in the evening in the great street, to assemble before the
police office. They, however, soon dispersed, and there

was nu disorder. The judicial inquiry has commenced to-
day, and we hope it will uot confirm the suspicion of guilty
intrigues which hang over the German Association.
witusstLe, JULY M.
The sittings or the Wirtemberg Diet were opened at
Louisburg on the 13th by Royal Commission. M. de Luke,
one of the Commissioners, made a suitable discourse on the

occasion, and the Asoembly •oted, by acclamation, an An-
drea of Thanks to the 'Clog. The Swiss Diet opened on
the Stb.

We have yet, says the Hampshire Tekgrapk,
to learn the object to be accomplished by send-
ing two line-of-battle ships to South America. ,
It appears the ships (Superb and Vengeurf are not
intended as a permanent augmentation to the naval
force there, as they are expected to return in abort
ten months, and resume their respective stations, as
guardships, at Plymouth and Leith. The Superb
has been equipped fur sea with great celerity, at
Plymouth, where she waits only for men to com-
plete her complement to 540. Lieutenants the
:Honourable H. FINCH and T. J. C. EVANS, and
Assistant-Surgeon APDOUGALL, are appointed
to her. Commodore Sir THOS. (TAROT lift Ply•
mouth on Monday, for the Admiralty, to receive his
final instructions from that Board.—The Veegeur,
74, Captain FREDERICK L. MAITLAND, arrived at
Portsmouth on Thursday, from Leith ; and is fitting
with the utmost expedition, Tor foreign service. Atl
the Officers who served under the flag of Rear-Ad-
miral °TWAT, at Leith, are continued in her. Her
complement on hoard is to be increased from 300 to
540 men. The Quail cutter, intended as a tender to
the l'eageur, arrived at Portsmouth on Friday,
from Plymouth. 'f he Owen Glendower frigate has
been commissioned at Chatham fur the South Ame-
rican Station ; the Hon. Captain SPENCER is to
command her. The Guapore* will take the station
of the Severs in the Downs, which ship will remove
to Leith.

Consols for the account closed on Saturday at
71h, and the (laminas at .31 premium. This im-
provement, amounting to not less than 4 per cent.
in the skert space of three weeks, could not have
been contemplated by the admirers of the Sinking
Fund. That system, long regarded as a main prop
of the funds, being removed, it might be naturally
expected that they would fall. The reverse, how-
ever, is the case, and it necessarily follows that the
purchases recently made on the part of individuals
have been more than sufficient to supidy the defi-
ciency caused by the absence of those which the
Commissioners, before the present month, wete

accustomed to make. As the price is regulated
by the demautl, had not the deficiency produced
by the withdravritig of the Smiting Fund bees
supplied from other sources. the funds could
tint possibly have obtained their present eleva-
tion. flow long this state of the motley market
shall continue, must depend upon the state of our
trade and manufactores. The menus and t►tmpta-
tion to commercial enterprise and activity must be
greatly reduced whets capitalist. are content to vest
their money in the funds, nt an interest of
per cent. When the money thus pent up shall be
diverted to other uses, then the low of the Sinking
Fund may be duly estimated, and the want of its
support will at tio period be more strongly felt than
wlseit the funds are, from some external caose, in
a state of depression. At present, many causes en-
courage an expectation that the funds will main-
tain for a time their (►resent high prices. More
than half the loan has been paid up at the
Bank ; the great holders of Stock and pruniurn
abstain altogether from selling; the public acquire
confidence, and many even of the spe-ulators for •
fall are amid to have closed their accounts, and come
round to the opposite party. An application to the
Bank to take in the Omnium is in progress, and
will probably be seceded to, as the demainl fur
commercial discounts is new extremely limited,
■rid no better or safer method can be suggested for
the employment of its capital.

Nothing can exceed the rage rod disappointment
of the Government Press at the peaceful termina-
tion of the Smithfield Meeting. Notwithstanding
all the excitements of " the guardians of the pub- •
lic peace," the people remained unmoved and
tranquil—" the energies of the Executive Go-
vernment" had no opportunity of bring exercised
—and now, instead of detailing the gallant con-
duct of the soldiery, and the overthrow of the
rebels, the Ministerial Prints have nothing to do
but to record the dull and insipid transuctiosis of
one of the largest, and the most orderly Meet-
ings that was ever held in this metropolis. The
Habeas Corpus Act ought to be suspended—and
so it would had not the Reformers at Smith-
field remained firm to their purpose—the con.
stitutional purpose of meeting to record their
opinions, and then peaceably dispersing. It is
too much for human patience to see fifty thou-
sand of the populace (notwithstanding all the exas-
perating means that were taken to irritate them)
conduct themselves with so much propriety, order,
and decorum. The loyal gusrdiatis of the City
never could have calculated on such a result. The
Ministerial Press, with affecting sincerity, weeps
bver the defeat of all their hopes. Not one word
of sedition—not a single word of disrespect to the
head of the Government—not one solitary breach
of the public peace !

" 'Tis strange, 'us pursing strange,
"'Too pitiful, 'iis wondrous pitiful,"
bat yet 'tis true. No cause of hateful triumph
over the people—no excuse for taking away the
protection of our laws, for sending unhappy
wretches to groan in lonely dungeons. Knowing
them as we dii, we are not at all surprised to wit-
ness the spleen and writhings of the Ministerial
Prints—we are not surprised to find them indulg-
ing in language at once incoherent and indecent,
under the cruel disppointsuent of their fondest
hopes.

Yesterday the LORD CHANCELLOR, Viscount
CASTLEREAGH. and the VICE•CHANCELLOR, had
audiences of the PRINCE REGENT at Carlton-house.
Out Thursday the Menai, .36, Capt. F. Malmsey,
C.B. arrived at Purt.snotith, from Chatham. Site
is fitting for foreign service.
Remain at Spithead—Vengestr, Menai, Falmouth,
Bind, Myrmidon, Cameleon, and I:relian.
l'he Hyperion frigate, Capt. T. SEARLE, C.B.
is expected at Port. th from the Leith .tattoo,
to attend on the PRINCE REGENT. The Liffey,
50, the Hon. HENRY DUNCAN. isna intended fur
this service, hut as she most be taken into dock,
it is not expected she will he completed iii time.
The Wye, 26, Capt. G. WILLES, arrived at
Leith, to receive the Hag, pro tempore, of Admiral
OTWAY.

'flee Si. Ceorge. 140, Vokroto and Derastation
'bombs, and Bramble cutler, are ordered to be built
at Plymouth. 'fl'e Meteor, bomb, and Sparrow,
cotter, are to he built at Pembroke.
The Coromandel is to be fitted to take convicts
to Botany Buy.
Coptuiti S. RouynTs, C.D. is appointed to the
naval verviee on the hakes of Canada.

Eight large transports (upwards of 2,500 tons)
were discharged from the service +►t Portsmouth last
week.

The Veronica, Mt ht.vot, CMS Shields for Quebec,
was on shore on Thuisday to the eastward of Calais.
A Meeting was held near Paisley on Saturday
last, at Nloor, at winch, according to
the estimates, between 20 and 30,000 people were
resew. Resolutioos were passed, alleging that
the cause of the distress of the country was to
be found in the burden of taxation and in the
system of Government, and expressing en opinion
of the necessity of Annual Parliament* and Uui.
versal Suffrage. A Petition to the PRANCE RR.
GENT was proposed, but this proposal was nega-
tived, and an Address to the Nation was adopted,
on this ground, iimong others, that from the recent
conduct of Lord SIDDIOUTH there was little pro.
bability that the PRINCE REGENT would see their
Petition if they agreed to it. 'flits is worthy of us
Lordship.' attention. It was mated. and a detail of
the numbers were given, that iu Paisley and two
neighbouring sinew-. 1,473 weavers were out of
employ, besides a number of places whicli had not
given 10 returns. The Netting was conducted
with the greatest order.

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