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FRENCH P.4PERS.

.: I From the ILforaitcisr of Iloitday.l—(Non.Official Part.)
Feuls, Fs.a. 20.
For along time plat- hawkers of books end booksellers' clerk,
iniid.tte tti.r uncris., and still more the country, with books, which
Yre almost always ni.wc hurtful Iliac useful, and often even con-
trary to morals and selittion ; bnt measures have happily been
taken by authority.. tn repress en great an abuse, the least incon-
venience of which is, to do great miiiry to the licensed booksellers
who have fixed abodes..

A recent of his Excellency the Minister of the Interior,
prohibits the hawking of books without any exception, whatever be
the subject, and however small they nay be. In consequence, the
Mayors in the departments are invited to inform the Attorney-
General of every individual, ev:n though he should be a licensed
booksel/er, who may transgress this regulation; because booksellers'
license.; are given only for a certain place, and do not givejhe
liberty of selling out of the residence which they designate, not
even in the fairs or another plate.
We have thought it our duty to give pnblicity to these regula-
tions, for the sake of those who carry on this trade in good faith,
in consequence of the indulgence which has been introduced in
this respea ; it is, however. to be observed, that they are rot new,
since they rest not only on Article 11 of the law of 21st October,
11114, but also on Article 4 of the Decree of Council, 28th Feb.
1723, which pronounced the absolute prohihition of the trade of
hawker of honks. A principle which has been confirmed by a
decision of the Court of Cassation, reported in the Mod/car of
4th June, Ink
I Front the Rtalk dated Tuesday.l
31/infirm FEB. 10.
The Madrid Gaulle publishes a Proclamation of general Rodil
to the inhabits to of Lima. It is dated August 18, 1821. It con-
tains the following passage:—
" Our Araiy of the North has undertaken a reconnoissance. On
the tlh of this month there was a partial engagement of cavalry,
without any wher resulr than that the end proposed was attained.
" The Gereral-in-Chief, Cantarae, resumed the positions which
he °monied the day before : he there waits for the Viceroy and Ge-
neral Valdez. ifaodeed their junctien has not been already eL'ectcd,
siaee they marched on the Zell front Cuzco."

PARIS, FEB. 21.
Amounts from Vienna say, that the Emperor and Empress in-
tend to set out ram Italy in the middle of next month. It is thought
the Empress will go by way of Munich, to pay a visit to her august
parents.
31r. Stratford Canning arrived at St. Petersburgh on the 29th
January.
The King of Sweden has conferred the Order of the Seraphim on
Count Nesseirode.

(From the Constitunmenel of Monday.]
Martato. FEB. In.
' The 31arquis of Santa Cruz, who was Master of the King's
fiousehohl in 18•23, and who, in that quality, accompanied his
Majesty to Cadiz. is among those few who have been admitted
near the King during his last illness, and it is said that, as the
office he formerly held is again vr.eant, it will be restored to
him. General Qiiesasla has received orders to come to Madrid, in
order to give nn account of his conduct at Granada during the
transactions which took place from the 20:h to the 22d of January.
Not only did the people cry out " The Chambers for Ever," but
also Quesada's regiment. which had been raised by that General,
ran about the town uttering the same cries. This regiment has
just been broke, and several of the discharged officers have already
arrived at Madrid. The President of the Supreme Court of Jus-
tice at Granada has been displaced, and it is said that all the su-
perior authorities of that province will be changed in like manner.
The King's health is rather better, but he secs nobody, and busi-
ness is completely at a stand-still. The day before yesterday the
whole of the Ministry were about to be changed, but the Foreign
Ministers having pointed out to his Majesty the necessity of keep-
ing 31. Zen a little longer as Minister for Foreign Affairs, on cc.
count of the importance of the negotiations at present in agitation
with the continental powers, his 3laj2sty was pleased to hearken
to these observations, and the 311nisterial change is once more ad-
journed.
In the meantime the public treasury is in such a wretched state,
that 1,500 persons who had been convened to receive something on
account of their pay, at the latter end of August last, have been
turned back without haying received a maravedi, because the
coffers haul been emptied to supply the Palace expenses. A great
number of these unfortunate persons withdrew with tears in their
eyes, not having a morsel of bread to give their families.
These evils, however, are only the prelude of those which threaten
our unfortunate country, if the present drought continues for some
days longer. For ten months past a drop of rain has not fallen,
and our fields offer a perfect picture of the sandy deserts of Africa.
The price of grain, however, will advance very little, for want of a
circulation to pay for it. Recourse will be had to the ordinary re-
sources of the Spaniards, that of letting themselves die of hunger.
PARIS, Fri. 20.
The Meniteur says that none of Generals who were at first laid
on the shelf, but since re-established in their rights, have been the
objects of special favour. It is because they hare proved that
they did not fulfil the conditions of their retreat, that they are
regimes' in active service. So the Ministry persist in their rigorous
measures against the warriors who have defended France, at the
same time that they impose 1,0110 millions on them in favour
of those who have fought against them. Oise would say that by
this new manifestation they wished to improve the discourse of M.
Agier himself, who haul blamed that nice:sure.
According to a journal, it was the merest chance in the world
that the amendment proposed by 31. de Bastard, to the first cap.
of the law on sacrilege, was not adopted. It is positively asserted
that five Opposition Peers, 3111. Lanjuinais de Croi, Milberg,
Jourdan, and de Lally, entered the Chamber the very moment the
scrutiny was closed; they were not admitted to participate in the
voting, and they were obliged to be quiescent witnesses ; the con-
sequence has been the rejection of the amendment, by a majority
of four voices.

lFrom the Coorrier Francois.)
PARIS, Fri. :O.
Some journals have endeavoured to accredit here the report, that
31. Pinheiro Ferreira had infused the portefeuille for Foreign
Affs;rc, which bad Leen confided to him, par interim, by the King
of Portugal. This statesman, who occupied the mine post under
the constitutional regime of the Cortes, is, it is said, too much a
friend of the independence of his country, to accept such
im-
portant functions at a moment when England exercises the great-
est influence in the Cabinet of Lisbon. Those that reason in
this manner do not perceive that the position of Portugal is
quite different from what it was before the occupation of Spain.
conclude, Lisbon letters of the date of 31st of January,
from the most authentic sources, give us mom to think that M.
Pinheiro has very well understood the change which has taken
place in the balance of European policy. Ile knows that his
country, not being able to maintain its own tranquillity, and
pressed between the system of Continental Diplomacy, and that of
the Cabinet of St. James's, had no other alternative than to take
one of the two to depend upon ; now, this politician is too loyal
and too enlightened not to have freely allied himself to a party who
dogs not run counter to his opinions in a greater degree than this,
and who is favourable to the commercial interests of his country.
Also, the friends of M. Pinheiro have no doubt that he will not
neglect nny opportunity to strengthen more and more the ancient
bonds of commerce and friendship which used to unite Portugal
and England. The letters which we hare before us even allow us
to conjecture that the seal of this new alliance will be the acknow-
ledgment of Brazilian independence, an alliance which will be
concluded immediately after the wriest of Sir Charles Stuart, who
is expected at Ltsbol about the end of February. Another conse-
quence. without doubt, of thearresence of Sir Charles, will be, the
loss of all remaining credit and favour to men who have brought
the Lisbon Cabinet to the brink of ruin. Pamplona has in vain
(for since his fall, he resumed his functions, near the King, of Chem-
berlain), profited by the access which that place gives him to re-
enter into favour: his part seems finished, and it is thought that
that Ex-3linister, as well as his colleague, Palmella, will not set
out on the missions to which they have been named, so that Paris
will not have the pleasure of seeing an Ambassador devoted to the
English, nor London an Ambassador attached to the French in-
terest. which was what some long heads had looked upon as the
most sublime of diplomatic conceptions.
The Memorial Bordelois contains, in its Spanish correspondence,
two articles of news, announcing dispositions very little favourable
towards Portugal. The first is, that there is an idea of placing a
strong Spanish garrison in Iladajoit ; the secong relates to a move-
ment of &strong division of theFrencli army, which it is said is to
re-pass the Ilidessoe, to take the place of that which occupies the
Upper Ebro, and which is to proceed to Galicia and Estremadura.

The Report of the Committee to which the petition for
the Manchester Equitable Loan Bank Bill was referral,
was brought up yesterday, and leave was given to bring in
the Bill.

LAND AT Baloarox.—The increase of the value of
land at Brighton will hardly be credited. The father of
Mr. Kemp originally purchased the whole of his estate in
Brighton and the neighbourhood for a little more than
20,0001., and from this very estate upwards of two millions
sterling have already been realized. The ground on which
Rock Gardens now stands, was purchased within a few
years for SOO/. and the ground rents alone of the
houses built upon this spot produce 6,0001. annually. As
a more striking proof of the surprising increase in the va-
lue of land at this place, it is mentioned that a piece of
ground upon which two houses, near the market, are now
built, produces 451. a-year ground rent, although it was
offered about forty years ago by the proprietor, to a barber,
upon condition of his being shaved gratuitously for the
remainder of his existence, which could not have been
long, as he was then more than fifty. This offsr was at
the time refused by the knight of the razor. The ground
at the extremity of the West Cliff, and even beyond Wick
and the Chalybeate, belonging to the Rev. Mr. Scutt, has
recently been purchased by Mr. Kemp and Mr. Baring, as
a joint speculation, for sixty thousand pounds ; and these
wealthy individuals intend to dispote of it in lots, either as
freehold or on building leases, by which they calculate upon
doubling their purchase money. In the midst of this,
rents of good houses still continue utdiminiehed, and even
at this moment iu demand.

THE BRITISH

PRESS.

INUNDATION'S IN a4:vorEl .
From authenticated reports which have been read from
Hanover, we are sorry to find that the most dreadful dis-
tress is experienced in that kingdom. The following ex-
tracts from official documents received by Government, will
forcibly show how strong a claitn our Hanoverian brethren
have on ate liberality of the British nation. We under-
:Laud that a public meeting will shortly be called for the
purpose of promoting the subscription on behalf of the
sufftrers
EXTRACTS FROM OFFICIAL. REPORTS. DATED HANOVER,
BTU •ND 11TH FEBRUARY, 1323.
While the distress, caused by the dreadful inundations in
November and December last, was still very severely felt by thou-
sands of the inhabitants of the northern provinces of this kingdom,
they have been visited by a repetition of the same alantity, by far
more extensive and deplorable.
On the evening of the 3d instant the violent gale, which had
blown fur tweuty-four hours from the west, suddenly turned to the
north-west, and became a complete hurricane, which raged till the
next day with unremitting fury. accompanied with a duck tall of
snow and flashes of hghtiliog. Fite sea being driven by this hurri-
cane up tile rivers Elbe and IFesier, they quickly rose to the tre-
memlous height of from 2I to 22 feet, which has never been the
case since :he year 1717. The smaller rivtra connected with then',
especially the Schwinge and Oste.aoon rose in the same
.proportion.
All tile dikes and banks on our side of the Elbe and 14 ewer, from
tit'insen and Harburg down to ltitzebuttel and tip to Kremerlehe,
a distance of 130 English miles. and all the inland dikes, were over.
flowed to the height of 4 and a feet ; they soon after gave way in
more than one hundred and twenty places at once, and thus in less
than one hour the whole country between ‘Vinsen and Itremerlehe
Was overwhelmed by the raging floods.
The greatest and finest part of East Friesland has shared the
same fate during that dreadful night • tile floods having risen 10
feet above the usual high tide, and the waters in the Ems having
been swelled to the uninecialented height of t 2 feet, all the inland
dikes sere overflowed; the sea rolled with the utmost violence
items% the sea-dikes, till the strongest Ottftrln were broken in more
than tin places round the coast, from the Dullard to the mouth of
the Jande.
On the morning of the 4:h the scene was most appalling. The
inundated country, comprising altogether from 1,000 to 1.200 Eng-
lish square miles, appeared as forming a part of the ocean. Of the
extensive lines of the dikes only isoia!td ruins were perceived rising
front the waters, many Of them crowded with the untnrtunate peo-
ple, who were exposed to the violence of the still raging hurricane.
Of most of the villages only the steeples and the tops of the roofs
could be seen. Skeleton,' and wrecks of houses and barns, hay-
stacks, furniture of all kinds, trees turn up by the roots, dead
human bodies intermixed wall drowned cattle, were observed every
where drifting towards the sea ; while piercing cries of distress
frdm the poor sufferers clinging to the floating ruins or to the trees
surrounding their habitations, or crowded on the roofs and in the
lofts of tottering buildings, were heard in every direction.
No language can describe the horrors and dangers which the
C 9,000 inhabitants, involved in this calamity, have endured, and
the state of misery and distress to which they have been reduced.
A great many have perished, numbers in the noble attempt of
saving others. In the village of Neuenfelde twenty-four dwelling-
houses have been swept away, and seventy persons have thund a
watery grave. In Francop. another elllage, eight houses, with all
their Inmates, have been tarried otf. A number of single houses in
different places in the duchy of Bremen and East Friesland have
entirely disappeared, with their inhabitants, Thousands, living at
a great distance front the dikes, and thinking themselves secure
front all danger, were surprised by the waters reaching their beds
in the darkness of night, and could only escape without clothes by
hastening up to the roofs or lofts of their houses. There, like
many other families, who were roused front their sleep by the thun-
dering noise of the waters rolling over the dikes, a great number of
them are yet waiting, suffering from hunger and cold, to be released
front their perilous situation, because barges, boats, and rafts could
not be procured in sufficient number to come to their assistance.
Several other sufferers have remained clinging to trees be a whole
day before any help could be given them.
The loss of public and private property is immense, especially in
the districts of Harbin.; and Stade, in the province called the
" Alte Land," so well known by the excellent fruit it produces, in
the vicinity of Buxtehude, in the bailiwicks of Himmelpforien,
Neuhaus, Blumonthal, in the country of Rehdingen, and in the ex-
tennive districts of Emden, Norden, Papenburg, F.sens. in East
Friesland. and in all the districts situate on the coast of that coun-
try ; 30,000 of the inhabitants have lost all their moveable property,
and Itto,ooo acres of the finest land and gardens have been laid
waste and rendered useless for several years to come, if they can
ever be recovered from the sea. Most of the houses, which have
escaped total destruction, are. of will be, rendered uninhabitable,
as they remain exposed to the violence of the floods. At least
two•thirds of all the cattle have been drowned, and immense quan-
tities of corn, which had been hoarded up, the farmers not having
been able to sell it at any price, and of hay, have been swept off or
spoiled. Even in the towns, many houses Lave been destroyed, the
fury of the waters being such as to tear up the pavements in the
streets, and to wash away the guns from the ramparts. In the city
.of Emden vast stores cf rnerchandize have been lost, being swept
away with the warehouses.
The dykes sad *lslas hilts been se generally vainell, the. Sid,
whole population of the inundated districts tannin fumisit sufficient
hands to repair or restore them before next autumn. They must,
in many places, remain open to new ravages of the flood, though
every possible exertion is making, with the assistance of the mili-
tary, to fill up, at least in a temporary manner, the most dangerous
breaches. Several of these breaches are from 300 to 400 feet wide.
Four large trading vessels have been sunk in one of them, to check
the floods on the :oast of East Friesland.

As most of the inundated districts are still from 7 to 15 feet deep
under water, and as all kinds of provisions have been destroyed in
them, thousands of the sufferers arc in a state of starvation, and
destitute of everything. With several of them no communication
has as yet been practicable, owing to the violence of the tides and
the floating Ice. To increase the general distress, there is a total
want of drinkable water, the sea having filled all the wells and
cisterns ; and, to complete the misery of the sufferers, alarming
symptoms of disease have already appeared amongst them.
Every hour brings fresh and more deplorable accounts from the
seat of this dreadful calamity. It has spread gloom and mourning
all over the kingdom, which, during this winter, has been visited
by so many disastrous events. The theatres have been shut, and
all winter amusements have ceased. Our Government has taken
prompt and laudable measures to render assistance to the inundated
provinces, and to save them from further devastation. Committees
are forming everywhere ;u collect the donations of private charity.
The officers of the army have given up three days' pay, and the
soldiers ono day's pay ; and all other ranks and classes vie with
each other in assisting to alleviate the misery of so many thousands
of their fellow-subjects. 51illions will be required to repair this
calamity, to preserve the lives of so many thousands of sufferers,
who will remain for a long time without all mea::s of subsistence,
to enable them hereafter to renew their occupations, and to provide
for themseltes again by their own industry, and to protect them
and their property against new ravages from the formidable element
which has taken entire possession of their houses and fields.
Similar distressing accounts have been received from the Duchies
of Holstein and Oldenburg.