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arret heard his sentence with much firmness.

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THE BRITiSH P4ESS.

LON DON,
SATURDAY. DtCgIIBER'3O, 1815.

Paris Papers of the 24th and 25th, and a
.IVoniteur bearing the joint date of the 25th }lad
2lith, have arrived at our Office. They are primi-
rally occupied by the proceedings in th Ciiamber
of Deputies, reiative to the exposition of the
Budget, and the circumstance of Count I.AvA-
LETTL'S escape. The former is Pxtremery
valumi-
nous, making, according to the Ga.:We de France.
a quarto volume of 214 pages, of ‘‘hiels we
hate an abridgment in tour supplementary sheets
of the Moxiteur; but the latter scents to have
monopolisvd all the interest of the Ark.embly. Fi-
nancial cilculations, however great their absolute
importance, are cold and vapid when compared with
the feelings of disappoilited vengeance, irritated at
the ei:cape of its destined victim. Our renders may
remember that M. tirsmAISONS had given wire of
a notion of inquiry i.ito the ci....cuinvmuc'es of LA-.
V A LETTE'S flight, itthi that this ihtimutioa was rt.w
ceivcd by the Chamber with every exprcs.iet,
proval. •in the sitting of the 234 he lion, vet' ap.-
peuyetiutiai°ing to pass the ISliiiisters on a ante=

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siat s delirate, and desired to postpone the deve-
lapement of his motion ; hut he was over-ruled by
the Chamber, which, after a long debate, ordered
that the Keeper of the Seals and the Minister of
Police should produce the necessary information re-
lative to the escape of LAVALETTE. The resolii-
tion was, according to cu-tom, transmitted to the
bureaux. The Ministers were evidently anxious to
'..scape this question, and during the debate nredr
frequent attempts to adjourrtit; but these propo-
sals appeared rather to stimulate the opposition of
the Deputies, tv ho did not hesitate to avow their sus-
nictwi of some connivance on the part of Government.
"What !" exclaimed M. de BOVTILLE, in a tone of
" can it !be believed that a large acid stout
•ntin.lracest;c4 the clothes of a small and delicate
woman, could base eseaped detection in Mn nroteqgne
I.figarci. The prison of the Cuinnergerie is the
!east adapted for practising so stale a trick. It
could never have succeeded without strange negli-
gence or connivance. " With respect to the delay
that occurred in euecnting the sentence. M. BEL-
-I.%RT, the Attorney-General, excused it t) plead-
ing the Prisoner's elevated rank, and declared, on
'los word of honour, that had the Prisoner been
.more obscure, the same delays had not occurred.
This wpright Senator appears to have forgotten a
certain article of the Constitutional Charter. which
declares that " all Frenchmen are equal lwfore the
Laws." He should begin to learn, that the life of
sin obscure man ism' sacred a deposit, as that which
animates the titled dust to which he pays such par-

LI deference.

Several persons in the management of the lards,
and the turnkeys, who were supposed to have con-
curred and assi,,ted in LAY A I.l:lTe* excaiw, lit, ve been
urfrstril, and prosecutions ore Commenced alpinist
them. They have already undergone examinations,
lbw silence is illiserved r petting their igStle.—The
of the officers and soldiers of the Colonia: Bat-

ralum, corpuses! or wen of colour, or;:uttizesi ruler

he Government 4,11. Hors PAILTF., and who, it mu;

rse remembered, ro.e its mutiny on the 2:.td of July
!:14, in the town of Reole, and to►e clown the Royal
flag, ha% already terminated at Bono!must. Their
Comtimuder has been condemned to death, bait
tlr hers were reserved fur teiligus imprisoutment.
rtz. khrur, and exile.

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lu the espase of the Midget, the Minister la-
boured to display the happy state of the fitianees
previow to BONAPARTes invasion; observing how
limn) that event blasted their coact sanguine ex-

t, times.

Ile, however, does not despair of see-
.
France easily surmount her pre.ent difficulties,
as the first proof of his exertions, lie makes
the 11'sys and Menus for the ensuing year not only
cover the Ordinary and Extramilinary Expenses,
but even provides a Sinking Fund of 14 millions
of francs to liquidate the Funded Debt. Thii
is undoubtedly a very flattering exposition, (InA
the proilive of die taxes too often forma gloomy
c ‘iittiist with the pompons estimates of the &mu-
t Frence, however. may congratulate herself
on the absence or a Inaii—we fear much that the
eIIANCELLOR of the Exult? quvit Of England will
find somed.fficulty iu huhlicing his accounts far the
to to year, without the convenient assisting* of one
tor% considerable.

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