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PARIS PAPERS.

PARTS, 0C101161.1.

The King resterday transacted nuoiness with his
Minister of the Interior, and afterwards with the
Altri‘tPr of Finance. His Majesty went at three
10(k tOOlty.

It has been announced that the Chamber, would
lie convoked for she Ifith of October. We are now
iuf•rmed that the coIIVOCII6OII will not take pl sire
Wore the 1 eth of November. The project of law
volitive to changing the financial year will, it is
•.id, be bought forward at the commencement of
the Reunion.

We ore moored that the Government is now re-
eop;e4 with the reform of the Code of Criminal in-
stretetion, fir as concerns the security of general
libert7„

A Journal yesterday announced that her Royal
flights's% Niodame will hold over the baptismal font
the i.gfaut sou of the Couto' Declare. This state-
orient we believe to be udformiled. It is impossible
that the august daughter of Louis XVI. would re-
solve to grant so high a favour to the most ardent
supporter of the law which places 11J. Gregoire is
the Chamber of Deputies.

'file charge of defan3stion made hy Sir James
Crawford against his runt, lira. Crarifurd, the
Count nod Countess D'oi say, the Marchioness de
Sourdis, the Doke de Graiiiinnot, and the Duke
ale Goiche, came on yestcrday, for the third time,
liefore the Tribunal of Municipal Police. The
lowing of this case had been postponed on the for.
mer tic( asion, for the purpose of enabling Sir James
Crawfied to obtain the tertimully of the Duke of
A rgoaleme. IVith the K.ng's permission, an
nactr ofthe Court attended upon his Royal High-
ness. who having taken the oath prescribed by law,
declared his ignorance of every circumstance con-
nected with this care.

This depositio►► was read, as were also the articles
tithe law which denounce a penalty upon all per-
►nns who shell venture to ivault a Judge or Ma-

giftrnte.

Some convervation.then ensued between the Ad-
vocites awl parties, anal a request made by Sir
James Crawford for further delay WAS refused.

The King's Advocate addrevstd the Court, end
concluded by preying that the complaint be did-

tui.sed.

The Judge concurred i■ this motion, and the
complaint was dismissed as beiug umupported by

ev:dence.

Sir Junes Crawford was condemned to pay all
the costs of the proceeding. and the eartuses of
printing fifty copies of the judgment.
Two English naval officers. named Hopkins and
Frazer, have fought a duel near Boulogne, in which
the former received a hall in the abdo►ren; the se-
comla were two Etiglionmen.

According to the German Journals, the Ladies
of Nionheiin take • lively interest in the fate of
Sandt, soil stud him flowers and other trifling pre-

tents.

It is stated, ea the authority or private letters
from Hamburgh, that the disturbances at Copen-
hagen, directed against the Jews, had been renewed
with greater violence. The troops having again
put them down, it is asserted tlytt the next day the
*wham in the port reinforced the populace, and
after holding sane parleys with the soldiers, the
latter refused to act against the people. It is added,
that the King had, in consequence, quitted his
capita!, to proceed to a strong fortress at some
leagues distance, and that new troops had been
ordered to march upon Copenhagen. There have
been disturbances of a similar character at Elvineur.

The Journal els Paris has published in a Sup-
plement various official documents relative to the
late 'ministerial conferences at Carlsbad, compre-
hended under the following bead, viz.—" Propo-
•ition of the Minister of his Imperial, Royal, and
Ajot,stolleal Majesty, President of the Germanic
Diet." The exordium sets forth, that the spirit of
disquietude and fermentation which has for several
years past prevailed throughout Germany, the
symptoms of which are becoming daily more *ppm-
rect and alarming, in the publication of seditious
writings, individual crimes, cud atrocious attempts
at assassination, has induced hie Majesty to call the
special attention of the Diet to the following
poiate, which may he considered the most argent,
ns involving the defects, vices, and positive abuses,
which it is presumed may be remedied by maturely
deliberated and well-combined measures:—
l. The incertitude which exists relative to the seine of the
)3th Article of the Federal Act, sod the false interpretations
*Lich hive recoiled from such incertitude.
2. The grant of au exact definition of the rights and
posers id' the Federative Diet, and the necessary means to
enforce their audio' ity.
3. The vices of public education in the Schools ■nd
letdversitils.

4. The abuses of the Press, and especially the excesses
which have been advocated in the Journals, periodical wait.
ings, and ephemeaal pamphlet*.
A fifth head proposes the establishment of a Central
to be exclusive', charged with the investiga-
th.ns above soeutioned.

Agreeably to the orders of his Sovereign, the
Austrian Minister has recommended to the Diet to
c'd.brate mid determine upon these latter proposi-
tiwis sill all possible promptitude.
[The 13th Article of the Federal Act, referred
to ut.der the Ist head, is that glitch stipulates, that

LONDON.
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 5,181 g.

As the quarter-day approaches the anxiety in-
crresee at the Treasury, and even• effort is made
to give an imposing appearance to the account of
the revenue. We fear, however, that the remelt
will seriously disappoint the sanguine expectations
entertained by the CHAdcEI./.ua of the Ex-
CHEQUER, when be ventured to impose additional
duties upon articles of general consumption, on
which the Ministers had already pressed too heavily.
Instead of an incresee in the revenue for the cur-
rent quarter of at least 800.000/., as compared
with the October quarter of the last year, and
wh ell was en r onlidently promised in the last
Session of Parliament, it is apprehended that
there will he an actual decrease o: from 300,000/.
to 400,0001. We state!! raft-May that the
dtnu-
nutiou in the article of tea alone is estimated at
165,0001.; we have since leer• d that the defi-
ciency is far front being coofilled to this article
bet that a -lecresse is tuanifest in many
branches of the Excise, and in the receipt of
'the Assented Taxes. If it were asserted that
the causes of this decrease were to be found in
the imposition of the additional duties, the ClIAll•
amtaoit of the EXCHEQUER would readily re-
ply, that those additional duties could not have
seriously affected the consumption of the artis.
Iles on which they were imposed; ',remise, with
the exception, we believe, of tobacco, the prices
of these articles were not in general raised, and in
the instances of tea and beer the prices have, not-
withstanding the increased duties, been actually re-
duced. The reduction in the price of beer was ex-
pected by the public in consequence of the con-
versations which parsed on the subject in the
House of Commons last SesSion, and we doubt
not that the consumption has proportionally
increased ; but the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CIIFQUER dill not seem then to anticipate a fall
in the price of tea, nor does be now, we imagine,
regard it as a matter of consolation and triumph.
In this country the effects of a new tax are not
always, or rather are very seldom felt in the pro-
portion of its estimated amount, or in the quarter
where they are meant to operate ; ingenuity veil
ever be exercised to avoid the pressure of the
burden, hut if it be judiciously imposed, though
evaded in one point, it will be encountered at an-
other. It is, however, a pitiful thing to watch the,
contest between the Government and the subject—
the one striving to avoid the imposition he finds
it difficult to endure, the other anxiously mark-
ing his windings, and preparing to catch him in his
doubling.. During the war much dexteri'y was
not required on the part of the Government, but
since the cessation of hostilities the eubject has
recourse to an extensive system of smuggling to
evade the taxes, or is at liberty to remove to the
Continent with his property and family, out of the
reach of their destructive influence. In either case,
not the Government alone but the country sun.
tains • serious injury. Upon the loss of moral,
industrious, and wealthy iiiliabitants, it would be
idle to expatiate, but even their loss is capable of
being repaired, and is light and unimportant when
compared with the great and crying evil of an ex-
tensive smuggling, and its effects upon the morals
and feelings of those engaged in it, and those at
home by whom it is encouraged. Its first step is a
hardy and open violation of law, a contemptuous
disregard of every political engagement, as it pro-
ceeds it generates a spirit of outrage and insubor-
dination•,, and by rendering scenes of violence and
death familiar to the mind, it eventually oblite-
rates every moral principle.
Yet every schlitional burden on the honest trailer
is a premium and incentive to this pernicious ay..
tent, and noise have promoted it more than the pre-
sent Ministers of Great Britain ; to think of pre.
venting it, or even of offering it any serious impedi-
ment while the present enormous taxes are conti-
nued, is childish. Naval stations have indeed been
established along the coast at an enormous ex-
pense, in the vain hope of destroying the practice ;
yet it still continues. Smugglers have in some in-
stances become more ingenious, in others more
daring and resolute ; vessels are employed in
smuggling between our coast and the Continent,
remarkable for their swiftness and of very cousi-
deruble force ; these either outaail the revenue
cruisers, or, if attacked, make for the most part a
successful resistance. We seldom or never beer of
captures to any amount made by our naval forces on
those stations; yet the advantage should be very
great to compensate for the expense of these este-
blishinenta. and the relaxation of the seamen's dis-
cipline consequent opals this ilegrailiog service.
With Holland, in particular, the system of
smuggling is most extensively carried on. From
the Dutch ports, tea, spirits, and various other arti-
cles, are clandestinely introduced into Great Bri-
tain. Thus it has 'happened that the price of tea
has fallen, notwithstanding the additional duty,

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and as the trade between the Netherlands and the
Indian Wands is Wended, we shall feel similar
effects in the prices of other articles of eastern pro.
duce.

Paris Papers of Friday last have erriv-d at our
office. 'lt is now stated that the Legislative Cham-
bers will not be assembled earlier than the 10th
of November, and that one of the first points
submitted to the consideration of the Chamber
of Deputies will be the project of law fur alter-
ing the commencement of the financial year.—The
complaint of defamation preferred by Sir JAMES
CRAWFORD against prtStitill of the highe►t rook in
Paris, who he says had accused him of threatening to
►hoot his uncle. &c, was finally heard on Thu:allay
before the Tribunal of Municipal Police, when the
complaint was dismissed with costs.

'flie French Five per Ceiits. +►re 70 1. 20 c.
Bank Actions 1,465 f.

Mitch Papers to the 2,1 instant have arrived.
The following are extract, :

HAGUE, SIPTCWILIFR 30.

The Grai! Duchess D:iwa..Ter Stephania of Baden has just
hired the Castle of Wulf•ilwrg, near Constance. The
Dueliras of St. Iwo is in the sante neighbourhood, at the
retied.
Castle of Areutherg, where Prince. Eit,ti
lie is also ex

VIrNNA, SPPTEMiIt.It 18

The arrival of Marshal Marniont in this city last Satin,.
day, attracted :tome ■ttentiuu, especially because he hail
travelled in great haste, haviitg come from Paris to Vienna
io six days. It i■ now agieed that lie is come on own
private business, and chiefly the arrears of the revenue of
his former &tedious in Illyria.

We 'wee received New York and Philadelphia
Papers to the 2d last. The fever arlr{res►4 to be
raging to a comiderable extent at Baltimore.
Twenty-four burials had takeu place iu the same
number of hours.

The following it au extract from the Leiter of •
Private Correspondent, dated Louvain, the lat

itostant :

" Suppose I were to speak to you of trade, I am
forced to repeat the general raimplaiot of nothing
doinw, universal stagnatinti, &c. and little or rid
hope of seeing the heavy cloud that lowers ore, it
cleared away. Every branch seems to golfer ; there
is • vast deal too nitwit merchandise to the world
for the wants or the menu, of the inhabitants. A
war, or some event tort would burn or destroy, by
some mcans, the roil half of all the manufactured
goods, colonial produce, and the produce ..1 our
fields, would cause a salutary change. say,
destroy a third ofleimitulation ; that is, I mean
the third of all th who wish to tide Manchester
yeontan4e or/tahe rest of the creation, and I can
assure yob, that all over the Continent there are
many similar brads and similar spirits; this has
produceal a general discontent through all Europe.
It. Germany the to ople are extremely displeased
with their present slate; the blessings of peace has
not wade them snore happy or coniturtshle that. it
has made John Bull and his neighb mrs. They
are all grumbling as much as they dare, un-
der the arbitrary measures that are exercised, and
the infamous system of spies and police, and secret
prisons, so general at present. How all will end,
God knows 1. for every State has so completely dr.
moralized and divided its people, that there is no
confidence between man nod man, and us little be-
taste') Governments and the persons they employ.
In this country, we have wise-heads and wiseacres
who invent new texts, new burdens, &c. every
day, and the people are as little pleased as they are
elsewhere, and view with disgust and contempt the
Dutch *system of squeezing growing on them
hourly ; the commerce of the laud is fettered by
customs, excise, &c. and the country swarms with
cleiks or employis, who are sent to vegetate on the
people, for their salaries are pitiftil, but their num-
bers (which the Government think are so many par-
tisans in care of seed) draw considerable sums from
the Treasury. They continue to erect nod aug-
ment fortifications every where, at a great expense,
and the same conscription, with (tumble the contri-
butions paid before the change of the Government,
still exist. At present, in order to harden their
soldiers to be fit for service. they send them to pass
the month of October it. what they call a pleasure
cutup, and enjoy the cool nights and foggy
mornings in the open air, or in bivouac, after
having spent the hot summer in barracks. The
troops in garrison here marched out some days
ago, and although the barracks remained unoccu-
pied, the Burgomaster and Aldermen thought tit
to quarter about 7,000 men, who were oat their
route to the camp, on the inhabitants, who are
obliged to find these soldiers, men sod officers, in
food and lodging. This passage of troops lasted
four days, and I assure you very troublesome and
unwelcome guests they were. The article 212 of
the Constitution, which the King has sworn to
maintain, says, in these words—
, All the expenses relative to the armies of the Stale are
to be supported by the PUBLIC TRIASUBY ; neither the
quarters, the ralions, our any expenses of what nature so-
ccer, incurred for or by the King's troops, or fur his for-
tresses, shall be at the expense or charges of our or any of
IM inhabitants, or of one or any district (commune). If,
however, by uutostuasau circumstances, such or any ex-
pewees shall he incurred either by the inhabitants or by the
districts, then the State or the Government hold themstlers
accurstable, and shall pay to the individual or individuates,
or to the districts, an indemnity such as is fixed by the re-
gulations.'

" An English gentleman, wbst hiss lived here

now near four vein, relying ou doe inviolability of
the above article, and the Constitution in general,
refused to let n soldier in who came with a billet
fur on officer. The worthy Burgomaster Monsieur
D'Onyn de Chlorite, and hi. colleagues the Alder.
men, taking example by the determined conduct
of the Itlinichester Magistrates, sent an armed force,
and after almost three-quarters of an hour's siege
they burst in Mr. Trappes*s door with a sledge-
hammer. to the great edification of hit neighbours
and a crowd assembled in open day. His next
neighbour, a Mr. Delhnugne, en advocate, a peace-
able quoit. man, hearing the uproar, cattle out in his
slippeis to inquire the reason, and by what author.
rill• the police officer acted, was, by his order,
eil, tick, ill-trented. ancl,draggrd to prison mooch
In where be was kept till next day—all this
ailln,tit any legal authority. 'frappes sent the
olliver who was billetted on him to the inn, and
all his expenses, as those inhabitants do who
i.tttht r roan tier •ocbuatiou to have company
The violation of the house is sufficiently
et ident ; he brings his action, but in the age and
country we live, lie will get nothing, I think. How-
ever, the stfair is already judged by the public,
who are, as you may suppose, indignant at the
conduct so veiy ridiculous amid unconstitutional
of the Megistrstes. A protest against future bil-
letting has been drawn tip, with a remonstrance, and
O. now signed by numbers, and will he by the rhos
jor,ty of the householders. I give this anecdote to
chew the disposition of the rulers towards the peo-
ple. The camp is situated near Muestricht, and
preparations have been made for it during the last
two ',moths, contracts accepted for the rations, &c.
therefore it is not ithexpected."

Yeaterdae Lord SIDMOUTH had an audience of
the l'lztNl:ti; REGENT at Carlton Howie.

Alter the Council broke up on Saturday at
Windsor. their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
Duchess of YORK went to (Lalonde to dinner.
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY remains in
waiting on his MAJUTT At Windsor.
The Noble Lords returned after the Council to
their repprctive country seats.
So great was the expedition used in preparing
the Trweruire. 93, for undocking, at Plymouth,
that 14 companies of shipwrights. consisting each
of 30 men and boys, were etnployed on her.

Lord GZOSVENOR has de fired the Editor of The
Courier to contradict a ini,represent4tion in thut
Paper, 'outing that his Lordship had subwribrd to
Mr. HONG.

One of the most numeral)a and respectable Meet-
ings ever suoirnibled at the Guildhall, at Tavistuck,
was held 00 the glut List, when a series of Resolu-
tions, condemning the transnctions at Manchester
no the 16.1 t of August, and fur the relief of the
surviving sufferers, was adopted.
At Richmond placards are posted for a public
meetinv oo next, to consider of an Address
to the Patsce RkGENT on the late proceedings at
'Alanclirster.

At the Brantley Reform Meeting, held on Fri-
day, the weather was very unfavourable; hut not-
withstanding this adverse circumstance, front two
to three thousand per‘rois invembled, and after
speeches from the CHAIRMAN, Mr. CLAPHAM,
Mr. Mt rcnet.t., and Mr. MANN, • series of Re-
tolutimis were adopted, which were substantially
the same as those pissed at Leeds. The procession
advanced to the ground preceded by • band of
inu.tc„ mid there were upon the field no fewer than
17 Hap.
It ii now certain, and we rejoice that we are
enabled to communicate the information to the pub.
lir, that a requisilion to the Sheriff of this County
will shortly be given to, signed by many of the most
respectable gentlemen inCumberland,requesting him
to convene a politic meeting, for the purpose of ex.
pressing their sentiments on the late illegal proceed.
logs of the Manchester Magistrates and yeomanry,
iii attacking and disperMig a legal meeting of
the people. IVe understand that ‘Vigton will be
the place appointed for the meetiog; but the pre-
cise day oss winch it will be held is not, we be.
lien., determined upon.—/Carlisle Journal.)
A very respectable Reqoisition front sixty-four
of the real inhabitaid householders in Bolton, was
last week presented to the Buroughneve and Con.
stables of that town, to convene a public tneetitig,
fur the 'impose of talthig the late atrocious occur-
truces into coosidoralion. A vomiter-address was
signed by sixty-eight. The Borosighreeve and Coe.
stables of course availed themselves of the plea,
that as the counter Requisition was more numerously
and equally as respectably s Cued, they should de-
Chine in call the meeting. It is an undisputed fact.
that seventeen of the counter-gentlemen are hot
liotaseholderr.—(,llunclaester Observer.)
Sir JAMES GRAHAM, Bart. has fur several months
past set a very laudable example to permute of pro.
pent, in the country, by employing from two to
three hundred workmen in improvements upon his
estate at Kirkstal, near this place, and it is pub-
licly OllntlUllertl that on Saturday night last lie
gave each of his mess who did not attend the Leeds
Reform Meeting on the Monday preceding half-a-
crown, in addition to lion wages for this display
of their self-deniul. Sir Jastss is doubtless enti-
tled to much praise for afr.rdisig employment to
the poor, but the half-erns it story had much better
never have been published, because it will lead the
public tinperceptibly onto the following tram of
thinking :—Sir J AbIES GRAHAM is the agent of the
greatest liurougho ##### grr io Esiglastii, nod is it not
natural that the worthy Bitroiset, who owes his de.
ration 111 life partly to his patron, awl portly to the
present st stein of leprebetitatiost, should be au cue.
my to Reform ? IPr suspect, too, that Sir JAuss's
workmen, who were paid two-and-sixpence a bead
for stopping from the meeting, would have been
to attend it for half the money. There is,
moreover. something in the tiiiiisractiois like Mime
clueing Court practices two humble life. and it
savouts strongly of that bribery and corruption
which is said to prevail in a certain liotne, with the
hasiaess of which Sir JAMES has the reputation of
bring so well sequisitsted.—( Leeds Mercury.)

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Here Smith now rests, who acted well Ida rot,
Mere human errors mark'd his !ife and at t
Yet were his merits of no common kind,
For Nature had ailorieil his form and mind.
°arm d of learning gave an ample store,
Genius, experience, judgment tauriit Lon mere
And e'en when Garrick charmed a
smith threw a lustre o'er the rival stage;
Conspicuous for the skill he then dicplayee,
Or with the Tragic or the Comic Maid.
At length, when Summer veiled her rmlia:lt far,
Reflecting Autumn warned him to retire•
Yet, prupp'd by Health, he scarcely 6-!!
And Winter cheered him with the glow ui May.
Time kept aloof, as if inclined to spare
A work that Natnre foren'd with pat lull cave,
And when resolved ma longer to delay,
He gently wafted lingering life away
H:s mournful Widow placed tal.let hoe,
And paid the tribute of a silent liar,
Soothed by the hope, when her brief srene is o'er,
To meet in puler realms and pit no inure.

F.4SHIONADLE PARTIES AND MOVEMENTS.

Count Lima. the Russian Am%wow dor, Raven gran.: ri-
tsitainment, on Satrrday, to the PEUPIIi3I. Ambassador so.I
suite, the Ambassador from the 111.11 s 'Laois, and a bite
party, at his villa, Camilen•place. neat Chis!chorw.
The. Ambassador from the Netlwrlluils entertains a parts
of distinction ibis day, at his house,
Earl March, now Duke of Richmond, arrived in town un
Sunday morning, about right o'clock, from his seat, %g-
-roins, Sussex His Grace remained in town shoot as !vat,
and set off fur the Marquis Cornwallis'a seat, Suttok.
Lori! George Lennox arrived in town about trao'clock on
Sunday morning, from his regime's( at Ipswich. kin
Lordship immediately set off fur Marquis Coruisallis's seat,
Suffolk.

Lord Midtown and his brother, the lion Mr. Leeson, are
arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, Bond..irret. from Ireland;
Frank Siandish, Esq. left digitalin' Mellon Mutt :may,
teroltire.

The Hon. Colonel Henry Lyetin, M P has left town rue
hia brother's, Earl Beauchamp 's seat, Matlerafirkl, Worces-
tershire.

Lady Louisa Lytton leaded yesterday at Dover from Cs.
lair. Her Lail)ship is expected in tows this dily.
Mrs. Mitchell esilerlailwel yesterday the Piesssitn Aruba-
Rados., Mr. Moiler, sad a select party, at her bowie in Charles-
street. Berkrley.square.
DLPARTURLS :—The Earl of nective, from Rrililish's
Hotel, Jenny's-street, on a tour; Mrs. Da Came mad family
from ditto, for basset.