The National Register.
London, England, 1815-12-31 00:00:00

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:The populace liberated him. The Prefect, with somewhat.
more of timidity then bedsit'', his station, withdrew from
the city but in his absetfee the Municipal Council sue-.
ceeded in' pacifying the people, and persuading them to
give up their leader; who was reconducted to prison.
The French Budget was brought forward (so the i3d iti
the Chamber of Deputies by the Minister of Pinance: The.
indirect Taxes are to be increased in a variety of ways.
Under the had of Custom-house Duties; it iFtpropo4ed to
lay a' duty of 60f per metrical quintal upon French
coffees, and 10D upon foreign coffees. French raw sugar,,
45f. foreign dm sugar, 70r. foreign. white sugars, sOf. rho,
prohibition against riefined sugars iss to be kept up—Frencht
cocoa; 100 t foreign, 120 r. Tea, St per kilogram, French
pepper and pimento, 120 f. foreign, 145 f. Additional
Twaqtre td be laid upon wines; beer, brandy, leather,
iron, paper, oil, woollen anti linen cloth, licences,
6cc. ; the mannfacture and sale of tobacco is continued as
a monopoly for the exclusive profit. of the state ; and di.,
same principle is now applied to playing cards; a deductiork
according to a graduated scale is also to be made fraltt all
salaries above 600 francj.
We have received Americio Papers to the lit instant.
These papers mention the nrrival at Washington of the
Ministers and Corps LliploMiticiltO preparatory to the
opening of Congress.
(From. a Baltimore Paper, of the lath Nov )
" On our side we again and again repeat, that to be well
prepared for war is the best way to Maintain peace.
" We have long seen various repocts of the cession of
the Floridas by Spain totngland. livery wan must clearly
see the consequence of England being its poswsion of this
" tongue of land." It is a serious warning khe people
and government of these United States to be on the alert,
and to be well prepared for coming disputes and frOttess
negotiations about the extent of the Floridas, which border
so closely on the disputed limits of Louisiana, which we
assert extends to the Perdido.

" The United States will now be nearly surrounded
either by the English or their red Allies; by the English
in Florida; by.the Creeks in Georgia; by the Indian
tribes, nearly all of whom are in the pay of England, on
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the Missouri; the Mississippi, and the Lakes ; by the Eng..
list, in Upper and Lower Canada; and alsosin Nova Scotia ;
we therefore say, that to be welt prepared for war is the
best way to 'maintain peace.' ''
FRENCH. PROTEST ANTS.—It is said, that there has been de:
livered to the Duke of Wellington, a paper, under the title of—
., Aceerate and-authentic Details relative to ire Affairs at Nimes'
between Me Catholics and Protestants."— The object of this nar-
rative is to show, that the Protestants of the South of France
been hostile to the Bourbons, to
have, ever since the year 1799,
whom the Catholics of Nistnes and the adjacent country have
been always particularly attached. To these Bourbonite and
Anti-Bourbonite principles, the writer of the article in question'
attributes the excesses committe lat Nismes ; alleging, that.
the Protestants were, in many instances, the perpetrators, and.
the Catholics the sufferers.
1.40 whole statement, however, is matter of unsubstantiated,
assertion, and of argument unsupported by fact; and its design,
appears to be, to put a stop to the exertions making in this
country lor the relief of the persecuted Protestants in Franoe.

The Irish papers contain a long letter from Cardhral Litta to
the Right Rev. 0. Pt in answer. to the representation from
the English Catholic with a view to such an arrangeme.ir eta
their religious particularities as might induce the Goverment
of their country to concede to them the full rights of British'
subjects.

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