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London, England, 1825-01-27 00:00:00

FRENCH P.IPERS.

IFrom the Con,lier Francais of Monday.]
BARCELONA, J.tx 13.
The lamentable state of our finances places those who depend
upon the Government, in a position which becomes daily more
embarrassing; in the Provinces no functionary has received any sa-
lary for several months past, and the greater part of t:tent, as well
as their families, are in the most absolute state of want. Not-
withstanding this penury, money is lavished tm certain objects.
It is reported that the Civil List. and the Royal Guard alone,
hate absorbed the greater pan of the preduce of the year. The
situation of commerce is still more melancholy than that' of the
public treasury every industry is paralysed, all our commercial
towns complain that business is in the most complete state of stag-
nation.
It is announced this morning in a journal, that M. Casimir
Puymaurin, who, to the great scandal, if not of the Chamber, at
least of France, has, front the tribune, proclaimed as thieves the
acquirers of national property, is himself possessor of a national
estate, which he acquired during the Revolution, and which
he paid for in assignats. If the fact be so, it would well deserve
to be given to the public, .althoutth it diminishes in nothing
the unsuitableness of the words rhich escaped the orator. In
effect it would be no excuse for M. de Puymaurin to say that
1 he had not spared himself any more titan others, for one would he
justified in answering him that he had not the right to treat any
person like himself.

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[From the Journal ice Debate of Monday.]
lIIADCID, JAW. 13.
The Bccres of Amnesty has been sent to the Council of Castile,
who will nuke a Report on the period of its publication, and will,
besides, add observations on the isersons excepted. As for tho li-
berals, the 40 who, it was said, were to be comprehended in the
eseeptions, now reach as high as 200. But these are reports
so frequent iv! this capital, that too much faith must not be put in
them. With 'regard to those who followed the patty of Joseph Na-
poleon, M. Paul Arribus, es-Minister of Police. will, it is said,
form the only exception in this class of amnesties.
It appears that the foreign accredited diplomatic agents now call
for the suppression of military cmnmisitions, and likewise for the
purification tribunals ; and that the romans who are to purify
themselves should do it before the ordinary tribunals.
The process of Augustus Papavoine, accused of the murder of
Gerbold's children. will be carried on Wednesday, 23d February,
Fictive the dna section of the Court of Assizeir, in which M. Bar.
douin acts as President. About sixty witnesses will be examine:l.
M. the Viscount de Peyronnet, Advocate-General., will carry on
the cause. _ _ _ . .

The following paragraph is to be found in the Echo du ADA
a '.Ministerial Journal of Toulouse:—
"We are informed by a letter from Pais, that the question of ter-
minating the affairs of Greece, is more than ever agitated in the
Cabinets of Europe ; reciprocal overtures have been made by the
Great Powers. It is demanded, we are mural, that the Morea,
and a portion of the islands of the Archipelago, shool be acknow-
ledged independent. The Grand Seignor ought to give his full
assent to this politic measure, which would terminate the mis-
fortunes which at present desolate those countries, and would leave
no chance for the ambition of certain Cabinets. May that news be
tallied, for the interests of religion and humanity.

[From the Ceristitraietracr or Monday.
A fact is reported in all the commercial circles, by which one
may judge of the inconceivable policy of our Ministry. Four indivi-
duals of Colombia having arrived in Eumpe, first went to England,
where they were charged to observe the mechanism and fabrication
of the steam machinery, for the purpose of introducing it into their
country. They had, moreover, a credit for two millions five hun-
dred thousand francs on France, to buy there silks, wines, and
brandies; but having demanded passports to come here, it has, as It
is reported, been given them for answer by our Legation, that
being subjects of the King of :pain, they ought to address them-
selves to the Ambassador of that Power. What has been the re.
sult ? it is that these traders have exhausted their credit in London,
and that they have made in England those purchases which they
ought to have made in France. Such is for our neighbours the re.
sult of their low policy, and such is for our country the result of the
transcend:.nt or sentimental policy or the French Ministry.