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r'atilfable Nnet Steeling i 3411 *iota at tm thob
cided that night.
Alter u few remarks from the Chancellor of the
Exchequer. Mr. Ryder, Mr. Brougham. and Mr.
Wilberforce, strangers were •gain excluded.—
They were not witeutte4l again ; but we understand
that no division took place.
Adjourned at HALF-PAST ONE.

FOREIGN /AY h.LLIGLNCR.

PARIS PAPERS.

LEGISLATIVE BODY-SIT (NG OF THE TWENTY-

FIRST OF AVItII..

At four o'clock M. Cotiut Regnstilt de Saint
Jean D'Augely mounted the Tribune to commit-
nic ite a Decree of His Majesty, importing that the
business for which the Legislative Body had been
convened, being terminated, the closing of the
Session of 1810 should twice place this day, the
21st of April.
Count Regneult then pronounced a speech, in
which he traced a picture of the great events
whit.h took place since the opening of the Session.
(For the substance of this speech, see THE BRI-
TISH Plit‘sll'of yesterday.)

Count I,tegusalt having concluded, the most
animated applause ensued.
. The President then spoke as follows :—" Gentle-
men Orators of the Council of State, the proof
of his satisfaction, which Ills Miriesty has been
pleased to give ►o the Legislative 13orly, would be
•lone sufficient to terminate gloriously u session al-
ready so strongly recommended by the nature of
our laborers, by the sentiments exprtes d io it, and
by the happy event of which we have felt the
goodness and the glory.

" If the Penal Code has impoced upon us a vi-
genus Ministry, laws full of humanity and of sni-
dest) have softened this painful duty.
" Support has been secured to our temples, and
that Holy Ministry, the source of all morality and
virtue. Wise tneasures hare been adopted for the
maintenance of hospitals. The state of a greet
number of communes has been 'Meliorated.

4. The city of Puns has conceived projects worthy
of its high destinies, and has received the means of
executing them. The exploring of mines has been
encouraged. Weise revived an industry too mach
neglected among us, sod of which our late mis-
fortunes have Rustle us feel all the value.

" The finances of the empire.. far fr3m requiring
new arctified. have only promoted wise end useful
torclifieatioisa. with the hope of seeing them still
further ameliorated.

" Finally. a law of the greatest interest. and
which may be termed the completion of the Judi-
cial Order, has been adepted.
" The Magistracy is going to resume that an-
cient dignity, the First Magistracy of the Laws. A
jest independence will defend it from the excess
of power. Such have been the works of this Ses-
sion.

4, Rut what interest has been spread upon our
Inbours? Three new pledges of peace. these glcr. ions
nuptials. and their happy presages; what tong years
of happiness and repose are presented to our
hopes. May they multiply and render their anthors
as dear to Europe as they are to this Empire. May
this all anee. formed fur the happittem of so many
nations. embellish the destinies of these Consorts.
sod crown the expectations which' we love to enter-
tain."

The President having concluded his speech. the
meeting renewed ita applau•►.

The President then declared the Session termi-
nated, and the Legi►lative Body separated accord-
ingly. . _

WEST I YD/ES.

■LtIADORI. MARCH 13.

However • costrary opinion had been formed, it
now appears that the inhabitants of Guadeloupe Nee
as well disposed towards their new masters as those
of Martinique, a no less conformable end orderly dis-
positiou bring as strongly manifested by the former,
as that which has uniformly prevailed among the
latter; both islands eviuciug • consciousness of,
and gratitude for, the happy amelioration of their
condition.-o-00 the 7th iostant, Sir George Beck-
with gave • grand dinner at Basseterre, Guade-
loupe, to all the principal naval, military, and civil
characters of the island, including upwards of
eighty persons of distinction; among *horn were
the Council and all the Public Functionaries. The
dinner was given • Friuseoise, and served in great
style, but the decorations of the room were truly
British ; the wainscoting and ceiling being covered
voila our triumphant flags, the Royal Standard con-
spicuously spread over the centre. The only
town% given by Sir George were, sr The law." and
'• Prosperity to the Island of Gaadalompi ?" and
that .f the French visitors, ti The Central cad Ad-
miral." During dinner, the Band of the Royal
York Rangers played occasionally; rod ,it eight
o'clock the company separated, evidently made
happy by their eutertainer.
.114jor-General Carmichael, by the last accounts,
u.is hourly expected at Guadeloupe; and, on his
arrival, Major-General Hislup would immediately
return to his Government at Trinities!, where his
poesenee mast be much desired, as, we are sorry to
Icvroo, that the leaven of old discoutents bats been
forrhented in his absence.

1 lis Majesty's ship Petra, Captain Crofton. from
Mla►tiaijtte, arrived at this ambers', on Sunday.

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY. MAT .11.

We received, la.t night, Paris papers to the
24th of April. We have translated from them a
part of the proceedings in the Legislative Body on
the! Ist, the day on which its Session ended.—The
substance of the s:reech delivered upon the °Celt.
'iota, in the nature of the itittra's*peech on clueing
the British Parliament, was given in Tne BRITISH
Pius of yesterday.

The first of Sir SAMUEL ROlllEl.l°ll Bills. that
on privately stealing in dAelling-houses, was lost,
last night, by a majority of two, the division being
31 to, 33.

The great firing on the French coast, lately heard
at Dover, war,- we uuderstand, in honour of the
.6000 marriages which took place in consequence of
BonareaTa's decree for that purpose, io tumour of
his own nuptials.
The master of an American vessel who is arrived
from France, states, that he was lately witness to
the execution of several Spanish women at Si. Se-
bastian's, who were condemned to death fur having
votive) ed provisions to some of their coutitrymen
that were in arms against the French. lie also
reports, that TVILIMAU. the French Minister to
the United States, was recalled, and that • M.
Mutiriatt had been appointed to succeed him.
We a►e happy to hear that the favourable account
of the state es: the war in the Spanish Prainsu la, coin-
municated by the Lisbon papers, is fully coutirined
by private letters from flint quarter. The British
troops employed iu the defence of Cadiz are di-
vided into two corps. One is stationed in the Isle
St. Leon, under General STEWART. the other in
the city of Cadiz. under General Gs 4111 AM. Gene-
rals Certain's and have conjoiotly
inspected the works which are insprovisig or
newly erecting for the defence of that city,
and the moat perfect harmony sub.ista between
these Generals, as also bet•veest the British Minis-
ter and rise Spanish Regency. The latter have
removed for Deftly into Cadiz, the attack on which
proceeds but slowly, in consequence of the frequent
interruption from the British shipping.
According fio letters from Paris, of the twill ult.,
General W MON. the late Commandant of Verdun,
committed suicide on the •'receding slay. 'This
Officer had been ordered to Paris, to 111111%Vief 110111 C
charges of extoition and einhouletneut of their
property, preferred against him by Capt. Sir Tuu-
Its• Levis. and other British Pro.ossers at that
depot. It appears, that Some days beton, he mad.:
au application, through a third person. to Sir T.
Levis, to soften the evidence agniust hun as much
as possible, promising. on that cuessideretion, to rr.
store the property purloined. The prisoners at
Verdun, and the other depots, were in great spirits,
is ronsequence of heating that Commissaries bad
armed Irina England to sie4ociate au ',mintage of
prisoners of ear.
The Mester •tnl Wardens of the Bakers' Cute-
posy. seit«ti on she Lord Mayor, yesterd.iy,
the :Ooze end Price of erred. Ma Lordship,
after exam' g the Mealiceighers' Report, was
pleased to continue it at the preient price.