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-roused by his Majesty is .tke tat
"these gdownstesoy WIC Europe has alio metered a
William homage to the wisdom of the imidense
majority of the French nation, who, in uniting
*themselves to the principles of the *march, seek
teatime even the memory of those discords which
hare tee leog agitated France end the world.
The Powers hem aloe repressed their satisfac-
tion it the guarantees offered for the payment of
the sums still remaining dee hi France. For the
purpose of giving mew mark* their high esteem
for the King, they have reduced the total amount
ef these sums front VW to 05 millions, They
'him also given a proof of their entire con6deoce iu
and in the solidity of our public credit,
accepting the payment of 100 millions in an-
, deities on the State.

The sums, it appears. will be distributed auseeg
the several Powers iu the following manner—to
Russia 48 millions, to Euglaud the same ; to
Aqstria and Prussia about 40 millions each; to the

Netherlands 2t millions, to Bavaria 10 millions,
and to the other Powers the remaining 57 milliow ;
the whole its proportion to the sacrifices they have
' made and the losses they be suffered.
We shall now be occupied only in the details re:
lative to the epoch of the departure of the different
Corps, so that they may not too much encumber the
roams, and wsate the countries through which they
may be destined to march. It is thought that the
EOglish troops will pet themselves in march on the
20th or ittst. They will arrive at Calais on the
24th, where transports will be ready to receive them.
The Prostiass, the Russians. and Saxons will ar-
raage their march in such a manner that they may
not follow each other too closely. They will oho
pass thrones the North of Germany. The Rnr
sows will continue their march to Poland. All the
other contingents will follow eacliotber at regular
distances.
It is hoped that in a few days the grateful capital
will agaiu are within its walls the able Minister
whose talents and noble character have so power-
fully contributed to accelerate these negociations.
He will bring to as the sweet trophies of peace,
and, till then, impatient curiosity mast rest satis-
fied with what has been already learned.
Although there events were foreseen with cer-
tainty, they could not fail to excite a general astir
faction among all Frenchmen, and to increase still
further the force and veracity of these sentiments of
gratitude and devotion which our hearts have long
entertained towards a Monarch, whose profound
wisdom, the admiration of Europe, is the best safe-
guard of our country.

The most prejudiced minds, if they have any
good faith, must also avow that this happy termina-
tion of the difficulties brought upon France by the
deplorable event .of the 90th of March, could not
have been effected without some ability on the part
of those who direct public affairs. Their friends,
even the most ardent, could not have dared, at the
conclusion of the Treaty of the 40th of November,
to flatter themselves with seeing the happy day of
our independence rise so quickly.
It is also hut justice, at such a moment, to ac-
knowledge that the personal interviews of Sove-
reigns, formerly so formidable, are now • fertile
source of benefits to nations. The personal vir-
tues, and the amiableness of character, which in
tire Monarchs of our day so greatly enhance the
splendour of the diadem, cannot but facilitate all
negociations, and simplify the science of diplomacy.
These assemblies of Sovereigns and illustrious
Statesmen, considered in whatever point of view,
serve to create an European opinion—an opinion
much more respectable, and much more fertile in
happy results, than those vain csprices of an unen-
lightened multitude, which innovators wish to de.
curate with the pompous name of public opinion.
It is by a calm and moderate conduct, by re-
pelling perfidious counsels, the spirit of calumny
and faction; it is by supporting with confidence
the eacelleut intentions of Government, that na-
tions will be enabled to pay to their Sovereigns the
universal debt of affection and gratitude which has
been imposed upon them by these august labours
for the maintenance of peace and the progress of
general prosperity."—(Josrua/ des Debits.)

EXTRACT OF ♦ PRITATZ LITTER FROM LISSOM.
" The exchange is in consternation, occasioned
by the loss of four vessels richly laden, which have
been captured in the course of this week by the in-
rargent corsairs.
" They experienced the 21st of this month, a
league and a half west of Lisbon, a strong shock of
an earthquake. Ido not know that it has caused
any damage. but it was so violent as to excite lively
appreheosious here. It did not extend to this

city.
6' have at this 1110111 Mi received intelli-
gence that an Indian yew!, richly laden. bound
from Bahia, has been likewise taken in sight of the
coast."

A letter front the Isle of Bourbon. dated June 24.
says--" Our authorities have executed • Treaty of
Commerce *with the Governor of the Mauritius which
only requires to be ratified by the latter. The fol-
lowing are the bases :—.The two Colonies shall
trade our footing of a perfect reciprocity ; the Freed

ceut. for the sake or equality. The export duty.
which bad been only tt per cent. has been raised to
5 per cent.' that it might be equal to that of the
Mauritius. A duty. moreover, of ti per cent. on
natives, on export bothitere sad in the Mauritius
on Colonial orticles. is reciprocally agreed to.—
All merchandise eosin Irons France shall be
admitted at the Mastitis*" on paying the duty
above mentioned; but they must be previnusly
disembarked here and warehoused, and may be
again embarked in the sew vessel. Merchandise
taken at the Mauritius for Europe .most uadergo
a similar aperation."—(Mnaeriol

NIANZPORT, OCTOSSIt 3.
M. the Baron de Vrints-Berberich has, on behalf
of his Serene Hightiem the Prince de la Toir and
Taxis, submitted to the Diet, and caused to be
published in the journals, a Memorial, of which
the following are some of the principal ps'sages
" The undersigned fuelling the mission with
which he has been specially charged by his master,
his Serene Highness the Prince de la Tour and
Taxis, addresses himself with respectful confidence
to the Germanic Diet, in an affair that concerns the
relations of the Princely House of Taxis with the
Crown of Wirtemberg„ and their fixation conform-
ably to the stipulations of the ;soh article of the
Federative Act, to call the attention of the Areopa-
gus of Germany to an object which, after previous
negotiations, wherein representations _and privets
have been useless, wherein no regard hap been had
to the motives of public sight, or to the applica-
tions of the Constitutional Act of Germany, has
reduced the House of Tour and Taxis to the ne-
cessity of having recourse now to the Diet

" It is sufficient to throw a rapid glance over the
diplomatic negotiations which preceded the Treaty
of Paris of the lith of July, 1806, and to pay at-
tention to the spirit and even to the letter of the
Act of the Confederation of the Rhine to be con-
vented, that in then abolishing the rights of poli-
tical independence possessed by the different States
of the Empire, nothing more was proposed to be
taken froniithem than the rights and prerogatives
essentially annexed to the sovereign authority, such
as legislation, the military constitution, the su-
preme administration of justice, slid of the high
police; but that all their other rights were left un-
touched, as they were by name specified in the
Act of Confederation, and particularly their rights
of property; that all the Governmerts interested
were fully agreed in respect to this, and that it was
node' this express condition that the Imperial Ca.
billet of France then pee on its side its consent to
the project of sediattisaffax. . . . .
" Hopes were then held oat that without any new
restrictions the legal enjoyment might be prevented
of a state of things politically annihilated and re-
strained by views of public right.
" Experience has unhappily proved the contrary.
The Royal Government of Wirtemberg, without
having regard to the inviolability of the Act of
Confederation, founded on public right and the
law of nations, and to the conditions of mediatisa-
lion, has withdrawn itself from those which had
been imposed upon it, and which itself had ac-
cepted. By a dash of the pen it has restrained the
mediatised in the choice of their residence ; has
taken from them the patrimonial rights of adminis-
tering justice, as well as the other branches of the
inferior police, and the administration of the Com-
munes. It has consigned the police of the forests,
with its attributes, to the Royal officers of the
forests; the forests of which the Princely House had
the property have been given to these officers for •
rent. All freedom of taste has been annihilated ;
the mediatised territories have been charged with
extraordinary impositions, far surpassing their pro-
duce ; the Lords have been limited to a temporary
abode in their residences at Stutgard ; in a word,
without any regard to treaties and to solemn pro-
mises, all the relations of public right belonging to
the mediatised States of the Empire have been
dissipated.
" The House of Tour and Taxis has for seven years
been like the other mediatised States of the King-
dun of Wirtemberg in this situation, without sup-
port, exposed to the encroachments of this Govern-
ment, deprived of every' means of maintaining its
rights, and it was beholding its losses advancing
with rapid steps, vateu at length the powerful arms
of the Allied Monarchs, and the energetic union of
the Princes of Germany, restored tranquillity to
the country ; sad their wisdom, among other bless-
ing', has confirmed, in a legal trimmer, by the
fourteeutb article of the Federative Act, the rights
of the mediatised States of the Empire.
" The moment was then arrived when those States
that were submitted to the Royal Government of
Wirtemberg could, under the protecting tegis of
public right, and the law of nations, abandon them•
selves to the well-founded hope, that sifter • long
period of sufferings and oppression they should be
restored without delay to the possession of their
lawful state, consistent with the Federative Con.
stun/cloth

•' Years have roiled by since the Federative Act.
without the Court of Wirteniberg fulfilling its en-
gagements. and during this suspension of the rights
and lawful state of the lirince of Tour and Taxis.
and others of the niediatised, which could not but
adfict them deeply. His Serene Highness, to bie

THE BRITI SH PRES S.

LON DON,

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1915.

We lament to state that the Arctic Expedition
of Discovery has completely failed. Last morning
a Midshipman arrived at the Admiralty with dis-
patches from Capt. BUCHAN, whom he left at Yar- ,
mouth, at which port he has arrived with the Dorothea
under his 'mu command, and the Trent under that
of Lieut. FRANKLYN. They could only penetrate
just as far north as Lord Mut.uftes% did before
them. Every thing that nautical skill and intrepi-
dity could do was effected, but the difficulties op-
posed to the passage were insurmountable, and retie
dered the further prosecution of the voyage totally
impracticable. The detached
had recently 'found their way into the Atlantic
Ocean, had encouraged as hope that the sea would
be found more clear of obstruction in the highest
northern latitudes, but this hope has proved falloch.
our. The rlsiFs, had they persevered in their course,
fir remained much longer iu the advanced position tit

• ANCI;

which they had reached, must have perisi‘ed. One
of them was caught between two floating ice-bergs
(ice islands), the collision of which was so great,
she was lifted completely out of the water.
Her irons were all forced, and her ribs broken.
We understand that, with the advantage of evert•
possible care and assistance afforded by her consort,
it is with great difficulty she has been able to mike
port.—The vessels were first seen, on their return,
off Scarborough on Thursday.

A Dutch Mail has arrived with Papers to the
14th instant. Splendid preparations are making
ut the Russian and Prussian head-quarters for tln
reception of the Emperor of RUSSIA and King or
PRUSSIA, during their presence at the departing
review of their troops. The Russian contingent
will return by see from Dunkirk and Ostend.

We have received Paris Papers of Tuesday last,
The Journal des Debars, iu repeating the not-Hi-
t etice contained in the Atuniteur of the pr-ceduir
day, respecting the approaching evacuation of the
French territories by the Allied Army, colds, what
was of course implied in the consent given by the
Sovereigns to this measure, t hut their Majesties had
expressed their fullest confidence in the intermit
state of France, as of the most amide security
for the maintenance of public tranquillity. Tile
system of Government now pursued by the KING
has thus received their unqualified approval, mod iu
this testimony in favour of the present Ailmini.tr;:-
lion, the Allied Monarchs proved the contempt
they entertained for the representations lately trans-
mitted to them by the Ultra-Royalist fiction.
How, indeed, could they, consistently with the
respect due to themselves, and the proper regard
they should preserve for their own sovereignty,
countenance the proceedings of a party who would
endeavour to make foreign princes the arbiters of
their domestic quarrels? The sums ►till due by
France to the Allied Powers amounted to 250
millions, to be paid within two years; but the
Sovereigns have thought proper to reduce this
debt from 280 millions to 265, on condition that
France will pay off the entire sum within nine
months from the date of the present Convention.
The reduction, however, is fondly attributed by
the French Paper to the high respect entertained by
the Sovereigns at Aix-la-Chapelle for the personut
character of Louts XVIII. The supposition is so
flattering, and at the same time fraught with so
much advantage to the King of FRANCE, that it
is with some reluctance we have submitted to the
necessity of representing the circumstance in its
proper light. The sum to be finally paid will be
divided among the Allies, in proportion to their
sacrifices and exertions. Great Britain and Russia
are to receive 48 millions of francs each ; Austria
and Prussia about 40 millions each ; and the other
States lesser sums, as they may seem to the greatr.
Powers to have deserved well by their sufferings
and their services. The overbearing influence of
Russia is discernible in every occurrence, else
wherefore should that overgrown power now receive
an indemnity equal to that of Great Britain, hav-
ing already seized upon Poland, and thereby oh-
tained an extent of power far exceeding her losses ?
while Great Britain has gained nothing by the
war but an immense debt, and an accumulation of
taxes and offices, that exhaust her strength and
midanger the existence of her liberties. It is ex-
, peeled that the grand reviews will take place about
the War and 20th, and that the English troops
will immediately after put themselves in march
for the coast, where transports will be ready
to receive them. The other contingents will so r
gulate their march, that Frme will, accord i.:4 to
the terms of the Convention, be freed from 6,1
presence of her conquerors ou the 30th day of No-
vember.

We have traaslated from a Frankfort Paper some
extracts from a Memorial presented to the Ger-
manic Diet, on the part of the Prince of Totes and
TAXIS. This Prince is one of the Mediatised
Princes of the Empire, subjected to the dominion
of Wirtemberg, with certain rights savouring•of so-
vereignty. These privileges were secured by legal
and sufficient documents, but they interfered with
the plans of government devised by the Court of
Stutgard, and were unceremoniously violated. Of
this infraction of rights, the Mediatised Princes
have hitherto vainly complained, and now the
Prince of Tout and TAXIS appeals for redress to
that body, which his Memorial terms " The Area,
pagus of Germany." The appeal, though trade iii
his name, embraces the cause of all the Mediatised
Houses, and therefore must excite considerable in-
terest io.:Vermany.
Thefunds have risen. The Five per Centr. art
761...35 c. Bank Stock, 1,660 f.

Sir 11. IF-iti.Torth left Kew Palace on Thursday
evening, the' QUEEN. 3 general health being so
much .better thou it had been for some day- re-
vious, and Sir F. MILNIAN remained in close at-
tendance upon her MAJE3TY during Thursday
night, and yesterday morning, at eight o'clock,
Sir F. MRxAN visited the QUEEN, and also re-
ceived the report of the females appointed to sit
up with her MAJESTY; but Sir Fassiers did sot
issue the Bulletin as an official repiirt of the A.tc
of the 9vicsig for sooae time afterwards, and

be urinal is inscription of aamaities at the price of the
ith of Ibis eteeth." -e
Tevdtie "Aide w ese *Wren* detailie !bid)
wileeetlerived*entmaseod:iesvcei
The Allied •Powete have am, Arratiimi. their
*defection at the internal state of 'Nivea, and
the gamete*, her situation offers for the continu-
ance of the general treqquality. The torte* df
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shall pay at the Menritios (the Isle of Frencv),
4 per cent. besides the duty of 'satire sabjectis
which ie 6 per cent. The English eimdi py beri 4
per cent. besides the native dety, ybieb hat bithetto
been only 1 per cent. bat is now raised to $ per '