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The first relates to the Civil List, which is to be fixed dur-
ing the present reign at the yearly sum of 25 millions of
franc,. Seven millions are to be granted annually to the
other members of the Royal Family ; and six millions for
the expenses of the late KING'S funeral and the coronation
of the reigning Monarch. To the House of 0111.1:ANC is
to be continued the possession of its restored property
until the extinction of the male line.
The second project relates to the indemnification of the
emigrants: this is a comprehensive measure, at once laying
down the principle, and prescribing the mode of execution.
The indemnity is to be extended, as well to the represent-
' mires of those who were transported or condemned by
the Revolutiortry judgments as to the emigrants. The
amount of the indemnity is to be a capital of three per cent.
stock equal to twenty times the revenue arising from the
property. Where no estimate of the revenue was made,
the indemnity is to be equal to the sum for which the
property was sold, making allowance fur the deprecia-
tion of the sssignats. In those eases in which the
property has been re-purchased by the emigrants, or
was originally sold to their relatives in the ascending
line, the iodamnity is to be the same in amount as the
real value of their payments. Assuming the justice of the
principle, we see nothing objectionable in these modes of
carrying it into execution, though we doubt much whether
the provision made to meet the claims will be found suf-
ficient. For this purpose GOO minions of stock, at three
per cent., is to be placed at the disposal of the Minister
of Finance ; one fifth portion to be given to the emigrants
yearly, with dividends, from the time of the grant. The
term for preferring claims is limited to one year for
France, eighteen months for the other parts of Europe,
and two years for the rest of the world. This project
was presented by M. de MareTtcxsc, who, we are
told, "in an eloquent and luminous speech, de-
veloped the motives which had determined the Go-
vernment
,to propose tbe law." M. tic Vit.!. ZIA after-
wards ascended the tribune. We have not these
speeches before us, but we may easily guess what would
constitute the chief arguments that would be addressed to
a body compos.:el like the French Chamber of Deputies.
Our Paris Correspondent has lifted up the veil which
covered the proceedings of the Secret Committees ap-
pointed to prepare the Addresses; and our readers may
judge, from what then passed, how anxiously those bodies
will manifest their desire to be convinced, by M. de
Lb I.M.S rhetoric, that all he asks them to do is right.
The third was a financial project, " having for object to
afford the means of indemnity without new taxes." Ac-
cording to general expectation, the Sinking Fund is to be
applied from March next to meet the charges on account of
the emigrants, and the stockholders arc, until June, to have
the option of converting their capital into three per cent.
stock at 75 ; that is to say, for every 100 f. at 5 per cent.
133 f. 33c. will be allowed; or, into 41 per cent. stock at
par, on condition that they shall not be paid off' till Sep-
tember 1835. The amount of the sums saved by these
conversions will be remitted to the public by a propor-
tionate reduction of those fiscal burthens, which resemble
our land and assessed taxes. The security against repayment
for ten years, given to those who shall reduce their renter,
so evidently holds forth the menace of immediate repay-
ment to all who shall refuse to make the reduction, that
few, we apprehend, will be hardy enough to try the expe-
riment of retaining their income undiminished. The
French'Funds rose considerably after the project was made
known. They closed at 109 f. 50 c. for money, and were
afterwards done at 103 1. 15e. for account.

It was repined yesterday, that advices had been received,
by way of Bordeaux, that the Burmese had gained con-
siderable advantages, and advanced within a few leagues of
Calcutta. We have no doubt that this report will turn
out to be only a French version of the Chittagong alarm at
the commencement of the war. The following is the
paragraph from the C.ataiittitionnel, on which the report
was founded. Oar readers will see that no dates are men-
tioned, and the whole statement is in the highest degree
vague and unsatisfactory :

The news which we have received from the East Indies, by
way of Bordeaux, announces that the war with the Burmese and
the English has taken a serious turn ; the Burmese, by their suc-
cesses, have come within a few leagues of Calcutta, which town is
threatened with great disasters, and has been deserted by most of
the r►ch inhabitants."

iVe glided some time ago to the improvement that had
taken place in the revenue for the quarter ending yester-
day. To-morrow we shall lay the official details before
our readers, when our gratifying statements will, we have
no doubt, he fully justified. Meanwhile, the following
particulars will not be una:ceptablc. On the year there
is, we understand, in the Customs an apparent decrease of
about 160,000/. ; but allowing for the autos repaid on ac-
count of silk, and for what would have been yielded by the
repealed duties, amounting altogether to about 700,000/.,
there will be found to be an actual increase of more than
half a million in this branch of the revenue during the last
year. In the Exeis?, the improvement is still greater and
more agreeable. O:t the quarter alone, it is expected, that
the excess ever the corresponding quarter of last year will
be at least half a million, and on the whole year, nearly
900,0001. As the revenue in this branch is derived from
the consumption of articles used by all classes of society in
common, its growth is the more cheering and satisfactory
as indicating the increasing comfort of the great bulk of
the people. The taxes remitted last year, we may state,
in round numbers, at a million. Nut only, however,
does the revenue still amount to as much as before, but
there will be, we learn, almost another naion of surplus!
We may therefore look forward with confidence to further
reductions of taxation next Session.

The following was the substance of the communication
made by Mr. Canning to the Foreign Ambassadors:—
"That in consequence of the repeated failures of the appli-
cations of his Majesty's Government to the Court of
Spain, relative to the recognition of the Independent States
of South Ameriett, ltis Majesty's servants have come to the
determination to appoint Charge des Atfaires to the, States
of Colombia, Mexico, and Buenos Ayroi ; and to enter into
Treaties of Commerce with those respective States, on the
basis of the recognition of their independence."
The Emperor of Russia has addressed a rescript to the
Minister of Ecclesiastical Affair:, charging him to exercise
the most rigorous surveillance over all publications that
touch on religion or public instruction, in order to prevent
any from being published that have not received the sane-
lion of the Synod.

The 31adezd Gazette announces that the Bishop of Leon
had received the abjuration of Protestantism by two English
fatnilies.—This is the same veracious journal which has,
for these twelve months past, been announcing the defeat
and capture of Bolivar, and the overthrow of the new Ame-
rican Statzs.

The following is the official account of the destinations
of the regiments ordered to India:-6th regiment of foot,
from the Cape to Bombay; 31st regiment to Bengal; 2.1
regiment to bay;ll6m 9711, regiment to Ceylon; 45th re-
Liment, from Ceylon to 111adrax. Thoarregimenta ordered
ome are now countermanded.

THE

PRESS.

FRAYCE.

ITCOM Ohl COURESYONDENTI
PARIS, Jax.l.
The discussion which the Address to his Mar sun. un-
derwent the day before yesterday, in the Chamber of Peers,
evidently proves that it is in that Chamber that the last
elements of a Representative Government, and of an Oppo-
sition, have taken refuge. M. de Ho x Arm, who was charged
with drawing up the projected Address in reply to the
Speech from the Throne, has not failed throughout the whole
to leave a strong impression of his ultra-monarchical, and
ultra-jesuitical principles. lie had formally declared the
resolution of the Chambers to support the measure of in-
demnity to the Emigrants. Some, even of the emigrant
Peers, observe.!, that his MA.IFSTY hating restricted him-
self to the intimation of such a measure, without further
committing himself, the Chamber ought not to interpret
this intimation in more explicit terms, nor appear to call
peremptorily for a law, of which the presentation was at
present doubtful. M. de DONALD, agreeably to his fa-
vourite custom, was pleased to designate the latter period of
our history by the following expression: trente aarv'es de
crimes,—" thirty years of crime." This expression ex-
cited the most violent and authorized indignation. M. le
Due de BAOGLIV, and M. de flirts?: TE, replied with great
warmth. M. le Comte de Moir.): twice mounted the
tribune, and spoke strongly against the proposed Address;
lie was on the point of rising a third time, when another
Peer, M. de Benuaro NT, observed to him that it was con-
trary to the rules of the Chamber to speak more than twice
on the sante subject. This interruptive remark, however
well justified by the fact, was considered so uncourteous,
si dirobligearde, that it was very ill received, and the
Count reproached M. de BEAUMONT in very strong terms.
M. de CLEamosr de TONNARE took part in this discus-
sion ; anti had the boldness to declare, that the expressions
made use of by M. de Do x.sur in the Address, were per-
fectly accordant with the intentions, and the sentiments of
the Kixo. The Opposition at length triumphed, and
the Address was sent back to the Secret Committee, in order
that they should modify the expressions which had excited
such vehement disapprobation. These modifications having
been made, the Address was adopted the following day.

The Secret Committee of the Chamber of Deputies,
which took place yesterday fur the purpose of making the
modifications in question, presented quite a different scene
from the Chamber of Peers. Never was baseness and ser-
vility carried to a greater extreme. The first observation
to which the proposed Address gave rise, emanated from
M. de Cot.t Iris, D.ldtty for the department de r Ainse, one
of the most imbecile of all the Members of the Chamber,
who took offence at the words an Dieu qui inspire—" a
God who inspires." He observed they were ill-sounding
words, and savoured of heresy ; for, ;said he, if you
admit " a God icio inspirer," others may admit " a God
that does not inspire," am! that consequently the proposed
terms of the Address expressed the ideas of Polytheism, and
that he should say " to God who inspires ;" yet so in-
credibly feeble-winded arc the majority of the Chamber,
that they did not appear to ace the foolishness of this
pour ruan's scruples : however, the phrase remains unal-
tered. A more serious circumstance next arose. M. Boca-
DEAC, Ex-Procureur General of the Cour Royale at
Rennes, who was dismissed last Summer at the same time
with M. FRETEAU de Pexv, expressed his great astonish-
ment that the word Charter was not to be found in the
Address. lie observed, that this omission vas :1 very
alarming incor.sistency on the part of the Chamber of
Deputies, who wire bound to support the popular lice-
rests, and ought consequently to dwell emphatically on a
circumstance which went seriously to affect all those
rights which are specified and declared sacred. This
motion was supported with much warmth by General
For and M. Casimir. Pt:tette. The General mounted
twice into the Tribune. The motion of M. dc Bov JUDEA!:
was opposed by Messrs. Denox and PAnnessus ; the
latter observed, that since his Mai tarn had not thought
proper to name the Charter in his Speech, the Chamber
ought not to go beyond the limits of discussion his MA..
es-rx had chosen to prescribe; this sycophantic and
servile observation was assented to by a majority, and the
motion of M. BOUIIDEAC was rejected! Thus the word
Charter is for the future to be proscribed from all official
acts of the Chamber of Deputies, in compliance with the
precedent contained in the K xo's Speech. If it was not
thought worth while attaching much consequence to the
omission of the word Charter, in the discourse of the open-
ing of the Chambers, what has just passed at the sitting of
the Comite is sufficient to prove how far that omission was
worthy of attention. The Chamber of Deputies suppose
that the K sc omitted the word Charter intentionally,
and with design, and they appear fearful lest they should
appear wanting in subserviency, were they to articulate
this mot proscrit. This circumstance, which fully de-
monstrates the shatneless venality of the Chamber, shows
at the same time as clearly the accomplishment of the
counter-revolution. Hitherto, some regartl had been paid
to appearances : in violating the Constitutional Chattel,
they at least spoke of it with becoming respect ; but at
length its very name is banished from all courtly discourse
and men are not afraid or ashamed openly to proclaim their
contempt for oaths, so recently renewed that their con-
sciences have scarce had time to shift them off: From this
date the popularity of €IIAULLS X. may be considered as
having received a fatal blow, and his wily Ministers as
having accomplished their design. In the short space of
ten years, the Charter has paused front its cradle to
its grave..

Accounts were yesterday received of the arrival of the
Little Sally oft' Ala!ta, on the 30th November, on her way
to Napoli di Romania, with upwards of 50,01/0/. on board
for the Greeks.

Letters are in town from the city of Mexico, of the elate
of the 2sth October, mentioning the arrival of the Diamond
frigate with Mr. Morier. They alto state that every thing
was perfectly tranquil.
The Etude of Tuesday remarks. that since the com-
munication between England and France has been carried
on by steam-boats, it has been subject to more frequent
and longer interruptions than were before known. Yet,
the French Journalist observes, the great advantage ex-
pected froth the steam navigation was the perfect regularity
with which it was to overcome all obstacles of wind and
title.

Mr. Littlewowl, a King's Messenger, was sent off from
the Foreign-office yesterday evening, to Aladrid.
Despatches were yesterday received at the Colonial Office,
from New South Wales, dated the 14th of August. The
colony was rapidly improving, particularly in agriculture,
for which every encouragement is given to free settlers by
Government.
TITHE COMPOSITION understand that Dr.
Woodward, the respected Hector of Ulauworth and ad-
joining Union, has accepted the offer made by his l'a-
rislaioners of 1,2001. a-year, in composition for their tithes,
which were valued at over 2,0001. per annum. The
II moderation which Dr. Woodward has always evinced in
Ibis dealing with the parishioners, and the friendly inter-
course which 41e has uniformly preserved with them,
have secured fur him their best and kindest wishes.—
Curk Pope?.

FRENCH PA PERS.
(From the Eloik, doted Tueeday.l
CHAN( BER OF DINPUTIES, J•x.3.

All the Ministers were present.
31. du V illele presented the project of law respecting the Civil
Art. 1. The property acquired by the late King, anal undisposed
of„ as well as the 31ews of Artois, acquired by the private property
of the reigning King, are added to the endowment of the Crown.
2. The Civil List is fixed for all the reign of the King at 26
millions (francs`. to be paid annually on the orders of the Minister
of the Household.
2. There shall be paid, moreover, seven millions annually as an
appanage to the Princes and Princesses of the Royal Family.
4. The property restored to the (louse of Orleans in execution of
the Royal ordonnanees of May in and 20. and September 17. and
October 7, 11:24, and arising from the appanage erected in Ithll.
1672. and 1692, for Monsieur, brother of Louis XIV. for him and
his descendants in the male line, shall continue to be possessed
on the same title and condition, by the head of the branch of
Orleans till the extinction of the nude line, in which event they
shall return to the State.
6. A. sum of six millions is to be paid for the obsequies of the
late King, and the coronation of the reigning King.—To be die-
cuesetßon ‘Veilnesday.
M. de 31artignac then presented the project of law for indemnify-
ing the emigrants, entitled, •• Draught of law on the indemnity to
be granted to the former proprietors of real property (bite foods)
confiscated and sold for the profit of the a:ate, in execution of the
lass on emigrants."
TIT I.F. L—AI.I.OOATION AND NATFIIE or a'nx INDEMNITY.
Art. I. There is allowed an indemnity to Frenchmen, former
proprietors of landed property situate in France, confiscated and
sold to the profit of the State, in execution of the law concerning
emigtit.
2. For property sold, the indemnity shall be an amount of three
per cent. stock equal to 20 times the revenue ascertained by the
prores-rerboos of adjudication.
(Where the revenue was not estimatr*, th • indemnity is to be
equal to the amount of sale, making alk wane: f •t• the depreciation
of sssigt:ats.)
Where the relatives in the ascentlieg line bought the pro-
perty. the indemnity is the real value of the paymen s by them.
4. Where the firmer proprietors or their rrpresentatives have re•
purchased, the indemnity is the real value they have paid.
b. The renter 3 net. cent. given as indemnity, shall be delivered
to the former proprietors or their representatives. in fifth a, i t five
years, to bear interest from the time of the delivery.
6. A credit of thirty millions of rentes is placed at the dis-
posal of the Minister of Finance, to be inscribed in the following
order :
. millions -
6 - 11126
6 22d . 11127
6 2'd - 1828
. - 11129

iVith dividends from the day on which their inscription is stub°.
riged.
Title li. regulates the manner of preferring ela;nl., and the
allowance to be made for debts due on the estates, anti defrayed
the ,%uthorities at the time of sale.
Title 111. declares the law applicable to the representatives of
those transported or condemned revolutionarily.
Title IV. Property nuached to establishments of bemOcenee is
provided for.
Title V. The right of creditors only to be considered as f.:r as
concerns the capital of their credits.
Title VI. Term for preferrinc claims :--one year for inhabitant.
of France, eighteen months for those in other parts of Europe, and
two years for those out of Europe.
The Minister of Finance then proposed the following project.
which has for object to altonl the means of indemnifying the f:
rris without new taxes :

FROJET OF ♦ LAW CONCERNING THE SINEINti FEND.
♦ND TIIE OPTIONAL CONVERSION or PER 1:1:N T.
RENT ES INTO 3 OR 4 PER CENTS.

1e:;;;—•AulieTI by the Sinking Fund from its
establishment up to 22J June, 11115, shall not be nnoiltilated nor
diverted front their application to the purchase of the p4blic deb:
before 2211.1une,
2. The Rentes which shall be acquired by the Sinking Fund
front June 2-2, 1325, to 22,1 June. 1331), shall be cancelled litr the
benefit of the State, as they are purchased, as well as the coupons of
interest attached to them. . _ .

3. Dating tram March 22, 1824, the sums scatting from the
Sinking Fund shall not he applied to the purchaae of public stuck
when the price is above par.
4. The pmprietors of 41 per Cent. Renter on the State shall have,
dating from the day of the publication of the present law rill June
U. 1825. the faculty of demanding from the 3linistry of Finance,
their conversion into inscriptions of Hemet. at the pace of 74, and
to date franc the same clay of the publication uf the same law to 224
September, 11t25, the faculty of requiring this conversion into 44
per cent. at par, with guarantee agamat reimbursement till 22d Sep..
tember, 1i133.
The Renter so converted shall continue to bear interest at 5 per
cent. till ?2d December, 11125.
4. The snots arising from the diminution of the debt under
the conversions authorked by the foregoing article. shall be ap-
plied to the reduction. front the year 18211, an equal proportional
number of hundred puts, of the land tax. personal tax, taxes ow
moveables, doors, and windows (ewtributiourpnelete, poi tonna,
wobilidire, et des porta et foretres.)
To this end a statentent of the annual produce of' the diminution
of these interests shall be drawn up by the 31inister of Finance,
Ist October. 1825. and sera as the hams of a Royal Onlosmance,
which shall realise, on the assessments of 18%, the diminution of
impost granted by the present law.—(l.eft sitting.)
I.rciltomx Dec. 23.
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Several commercial house* have received letters front their core-
spondents at Corfu, dated the first day of this month. They speak
of a new naval action between the Greeks and barbarians. The
details are not given, but it is certain that some action took place
on the 12th or 13th November.
It was of Candia that the battle was fought, which may be re-
garded as one of the most important of the campaign, as Ibrahim
Picini's loss it estimated at fifty ships of all classes.
The blockade of Patras is become very strict on the land side.
The garrison lately made a sally, which seemed to promise success
but when the Greeks thought that the Turks had advanced fu
enough they fell upon them with their usual impetuosity, killed
many, and took a considerable convoy of oxen and sheep, which
the besieged had hoped to get into the fortress. Soto^ letters state
that the Greeks have begun the regular attack of l'atras, and that
they have. already made themselves mestere of Fort Seattantm.
We have, however, no positive information on this subject. Omer
Pacha has been obliged to fall back upon Arta; his corps is almost
entirely melted away.
The citations for the renewal of the Greek Government passed
over very yuictly, and ended the 12th of November. All the 31em-
bets of the Executive Power are co minted in their places. The
President of the Legislative 1:ody is Panauo Nutara, and the
Vice-President is the Bishop of Prate. 1
ODESSA. DEC. 10. !

We hare just received letters from Constantinople of the Sth.
It has heroine public that Ibrahim Pubs has not executed the
orders of the Sultan to make a desperate attempt on the Mores.
Ile went first inwards Candia (probably to take in troops), but the
victorious lireeks came up with him, and made him suffer new
losses. Ile then took refuge in the bay of Slarmarissa, on the
roast of Asia, where lie labours to repair the damage done to his
fleet. _ _ _

No change has yet taken place in the relations of the Porte with
the Ministers of the Christian Powers, particularly with M. Min.
ziacky. From saute expressions that the Reis Effendi let full in a
conversation with a diplontraic character, it should even seen' that
the ()annum llosernment Attaches but little itniwassuice to the Si.
rival of a Russian Ambassador, and especially if. as is believed,
his instructions should enjoin to interfere in the affairs of tfteece.
Some persons go 140 far as to asserr, that the Reis Effendi has for.
malty declared, that the Porte would refuse to receive any Russian
Envoy, who should be charged to make any arrangements respect.
ing the existing roiliest between it and the Greeks. However, the
Great Christian Powers are so strictly united, that they cannot
attach mush importance to the resolutions of the Turkish Govern.
mint.

J•N. S.

On the 16th ult. sailed, from the port of Cadiz, the frigate La
Fame, for the IlavAnnah, and the brig Maria Isabella, for lion-
duras. Thew vessels, it is said, aro to rejoin the expedition which
sailed from Corunna; and the ship of the line San Francisco
which went out with L'Aquiles brig of war, January 13, 11124,
to proceed to Lima, and to protect the Royalist army in those seas.
I From the Moniker of 31unday. I
Palm, JAN. 2.
This day hit Majesty received a deputation of the Court of Cu.
cation, and the Council Royal of Public instruction, and several
other public bodies, to pay their cangnitulations on the New Year
The following is the answer of his 31ajcity to Comte de Sete, Pre
sident of the Court of Cessation

‘'MONSItIII-1 MU very sensible of the sentiments you express,
in the name of the first Conn in my kingdom. I calculate on your
devotion, in seconding all the efliirts l shelf make to render France
happy. You are right. Monsieur, in saying that legitimacy is
the surest guarantee of the public good ; but I must add, that the
nisgistrary has al w.sys been, and always will be, the firmest sup.
port of legitiniacy.—Continue, Gentlemen, to administer justice
with the same int inirtialit v„ discharge all your duties with the same
vigilance. and I shall not be unmindful of the zeal by which you
are always distinguished."

3lmantn. 14:e.40.
Lists have been made by the twenty.two different Chiefs of the
Captaincy-General of the l'rorince, of the military charged with
offences, their mimes. the corps to which they belonged, and the
rival before whom they hare been examined. It is not known
what is the object of preparing these lists but it is said to be
thought to relate to an act of clemency on the part of the King.
The Trappist is said to have exchanged his sword for the crozier,
and is travelling through the country preaching union.
union, and mutual pardon. It is thought lie has been employed
by Government for that purpose.
[From the Conttitution set of 3lnnday.l
n. etc. 23.
General liassecourt, as you hare seen, published a Prod: motion
at Valencia. in which he announced a landing of LW Constitution.
'lists. Government ordered him to depart immediately fur the
coast, with a cvnsiderahle force. consisting of tire regiments of the
line. Venetia ilac,e:ottrt was decettroO, and the latt:”Pg was 0:11y