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London, England, 1819-01-25 00:00:00

PARIS PAPERS.

PARIS. JANUARY 20.
The Kilt% did business yesterday with the Mi-
ster for Fo►eign Affairs.
Mi►ie Tne►em or Pa►ma, Queen of Charles IV.
of Spain, and Mother of Ferdinand VII. King of
Spain, died at Romr on the 411; of 111;$ ut
his Prowess was born at Parma. on the 9th
December, 1751, and was married in the 4th Sep-
tember, 1705.
The Duke of Gloucester yesterday riggitell the
Mix.irine Library. Ills Royal Highness informed
loins• If r ith much care and with au I; tttttt urgible
corigooty for literature, of the several details Mo-
tive to thi. great useful establishment. The Duke
of Gloucester was afterwards present at a public
Sitting of the Academy of Sciroers„
The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies,
charged with examining the project of the law, con-
cerning the national ri-compence proposed for the
Duke de Richelieu, met on the Ixtli instant.
flattttt line, first valet de chambre and keeper
of the King's closet, ;lied last aserning, aged 67

years.
OliThursolay next the reading of the King's will
o ill recall to all France the gloriutts test' yof his
fidelity. The funereal commemoration of the Royal
Martyr will be celebrated at Paris in the churches
of the Reformed Chinch, on Thursday, the 21st of
Jootiiiry, at the usual hours of service.
It is mesitioned to a letter from Nlayence, that a
f-w clays since there hail been taken up from the
'Wile. a stone of one of the piles of an ancient
bridge, on the side of Cassel. This stone, four
et in Irogili and two in breadth, bears in the •i_
elle the following insciiption i—" I.F.G.XXII "
it is thence probable that the 224 Roman Legion
had been employed in the building of tins bridge.
It is known that it had come front Syria to
Mayence sixty-nine years after the birth of Christ.
and that it remained there until the time that Con-
stantine changed the organisation of the Leg' a.
A statistical account of Poland has been publish-
ed of Warsaw. This kingdom, iii its present state,
contains 2,191 square miles (of fifteen to a degree).
491 towns, 42,694 villages, and • population of
4,732,224 souls, of whom 212,944 are Jew's.
Twelve medals, granted to the Orleans Library
by the Government, have been deposited in that
establishment. The following are the names of the
celebrated men to whom they are dedicated :—lto-
gerus Bacon, Nicolaus Copernicus, Michael Cer-
vantes dr Saavedra, Gutielmus Shokspeare, Cab-
loons Galilsei. Corollas Liniiseus, Christophorits
Gluck, Salamou Cramer. Joseph" Haydn, Joh.
Casparus Lavater, Thistles. Cusciusko, Dossitlicus
C *twat use.

PARIS. JANUARY 21.
The ICing presided at one o'clock yesterday itt a
Connell of his Ministers Secretaries of State, which
continued till four.
Marshal Macdonald has been for some days con-
fined to his lied bra severe attack of the gout.
The Viscount I)'Osmotid, brother to the French
Ambassador at the Court of London, has been
ourceedtd its his employment of Inspector General
of Infantry by General Foy.
The official Gazette of Berlin contain* the follow-
ing taticle :—" Foreign and native Journals have
• zestro4 some inquietude in the piiblic mind, by the
'elbow. of projects of exchange on the part of Pills-
!III. Discussions on the suNect have rtsCrittly
ot-
theJourtiols on the Rankin( the Rhine and
hloi.elle. The tooth, however. is. that the Govern-
mem of Prussia hos no further cave than to preserve
to tranquillity who it now possesses.
Louisa Maria 'Theresa, Queen of Spain, nod
Consoit of Charles IV. was flAighter of J)on
MOW. Duke of Parma and Placentia. Sue
was born on the 9th of December, 1751, and
bald therefore .completed 67 d oars. Married to
King Charles IV. on the 411, of September, 1765.
pia. bore him six children, of whom tiller were
sons ; viz. Ferdinand, ,tow King of Spini, who
was born in 1784 ; the Inland Don Carlos, loan in
1788; and the llama Don Francis, born in 1794.
were pull , viz. the present Queen of
Portogal, born in 1775 ; the Queen of Etruria,
now Duchess of Lucca, born in 178'2; and the
hereditary Prioress of Naples. Loin in 1789.
Louisa Maria Theresa Joined with tier august coo-
sort all the vicissitudes which succeeded the event
known under the name of the Revolution of
Aratitiez. She afent tollttyoune, and thence pro-
ceeded with the Kiitg to Marseilles, and thence to
Alone, where she died.
A ri port, probably unfounded, oils circulated
at
rtapecting the upprouchisig publication of
a general Cotistilution fist the kingdom. The 11311
J inn4f), the asitisivertsary of the King's coition-
meotintittl as the day for its publicatioil.
hareem' .laitirtii•la renounce that a project of a
I.m nn the !doily of die preps. till be presented to
Islet:bomber of Deputies viiihr 181 h of this month.
A few Ala)* *nice Miss attempt Lit was
tads in the Faubourg Saint Goimain. which have
vier there to a (rood of cot jrututer. A )lung g,irl
being in the same apairtimiii with her mother,
I,raidis knock at the door and went to
what she sow a main having I.is fare covered with LI
a late handkerchief. I le s tisbed t u he r, and ,i,uck
it her with a pooinial. Tl.e gill, 11 a uattnal
in Art meats crossed her arms Via her lareast, and thus

received the weapon in one or them. Slit uttered a
cry, and called on her mother. The a in ran
otr, exclaimicg " Heavens! 1 a■ deceived !"

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, JANUARY 20.
The Marquis Doria arid M. de Courtavel re-
ported from the Committee of Petitions.
A Petitioner proposes plasm for a new division of
the territory of FfIII/CC, the suppression of Prefects,
Sub-Prefects, Mayors, Assistants, Comptrollers.
General and Particular, and Receivers of Contri-
britioris.—( A laugh.)—lle proposes to replace
throe by Intendants, Sub-Intendants, and Secre.
furies of CoIIIIIIIIIWP, arid submits a new mode of
assessing the direct contributions.
After ►ome observations on the revolutionary tett-
dewy of this Petition. the Chamber passed to the
Order of the Day.
The President read a letter from the Marquis de
Dreux- Breze, Grand Master of the Ceremonies, in-
forneirig the Chamber that the King desired the at.
tendance of a grand deputation at the Church of
St. Denis, to HIINIbi at the anniversary funeral ser-
vice in memory of King Louis XVI.
In consequence of this letter, a deputation of 25
Members war appointed by lut.
_ .

M. de Courvoisier developed a plan for altering
the existing mode of liming all petitions to the
Chamber previously revised by a Committee, slid
generally for enlarging the right of petitioning;
sod Monday was appointed fur taking the proposi-
tion into comoderation.

The Chamber formed itself into s Secret Com-
mittee, fur the purpose of hewing the developernent
of the proposition of M. Vernetlh de Pujnizean,
concerning n►srrisges between brothers•in-law and
sisters-in-law, for serious cuusrs, and whea a family
counc►l shell hose given sit opinion in fsvour of
them.
The proposition wee opposed by M. Courvoisier
awl another Member, and rejected.

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