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PARIS PAPERS.

PARIS. DECEMBER 15.

The King's indisposition did not suffer his Ma-
je►ty to repair to the Chapel ; his Majesty heard
Mass in his apartments.

Lord Welliog►on left Paris last morning, for
London, at six o'clock. Lord (7:r.ilsreagli departed
at nuon fur the same destio3ll,ll..

CHAMBER OF PLE.IIS.
BULLETIN OF THE SITTING OF THE 14tH OF
Dr.cEINBEB, ISIB.

In the Royal Sitting of the 10th of this month,
the Chancellor of France, iu the name of the
king, had invited each of the Chambers to as.
amble on Monday, the 14th, in the ordinary place
of sitting, to resume the course of their labours.

The Chamber of Peers assembled in conse-
quence at the Palace of the Luxembourg on Mon.
day Ilse 14th, under the presadeuey of the Chan-
cellor.

After some formal business, the Chamber pro.
ceeded to the formation of its definitive bureau.
The Duke de Deadeauville, the Marquis de
Pastoret, the Marquis de Verse, and the Marshal
Due de Belluno. were declared Secretaries of the
Chamber for the Session of 1818-19. The Cham-
ber likewise nominated a Conimittee of tive Nlem-
bers, to prepare an Address to the King, in An-
swer to his Majesty's Speech.
The rest of the sitting was occupied in the for-
mation and organisation of the bureaux, and in
nominatiog, a Committee of Petitions.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES—DEmissaI4.
M. ANGLE% PROVIsIoNA I. PRESIDENT.

At one o'clock the Deputies assembled in the
Hall. M. Angles, the senior Member, took the
chair, and opened the Sitiiisg.
The Chamber then proceeded to constitute the
bureaux.

The President—" Gentlemen, 1 have received
a letter with the following address—' To 31errieurs
the Representutires of the French nation.' It is
signed Louis Burr;. The author requires that it
should be submitted in the present Sitting to tl:e
eyes of the Members."
A gient number of voices exclaim, " No, no !"
MM. de CliaLifire, de Chsbriaul, and seseial
others—" ire we not the Representatives sf she
French uution—the order of the day."
Other Nleinbers—" The Chamber is not yet
constituted—let it be sent to the Committee of
Petitions."
The President announced that it should be re.
ferred to the Bureau of Petitions.

At lour o'clock the several bureaux had complet.
ed their organisation by the following nominations :

ld Matren. The Baruu de Saliu, Pierident ; M. Bre-
tub, Secretary.

2u B. The Count Simeon, President; M. Ssulni.r, Se-
cretary.
3d. B. The Count Dutuanoir, President ; M. Barthe la
Bastille, Secretary.
4141 B. The Count Beugnot, President; the Baron Blan-
quert Bailleul, Secretary.
5tA B. General Count Lagrange, President; Count Dan-
gler, Secretary.
6th B. Baron Barairon, President; M. Mestadier, Se-
cretary.

7114-11. M. Deserre, President ; M. Prue de la Botillye,

Secretary.

Slh IS. Coma Dupont, President ; Count Saint Aulaity,
Secretary.

M. de Villete, President ; M. Rourdesn, Secretary.

A tijou rued.

11'; are assured that the pretended Address to the
Represeotatierg of the /Patio?, and of *lnch the
Chamber of Deputies prevented the rending, is
very insignificant, and Offen only a cold irons. It
begins Iltusw

" I have the hoopoe of very humbly oppriaing yom that
in the year 13 of the !Witch Repolilic I composed the true
cv■trm of government of poliliral Wilier, nod of eeof ...... y
iu articral, which I aiWrrsa by the vtlortfcre to the furor r
St nate."--(Ga:rtic dc France.)

GERNIAN PAPERS.

VIENNA. DECEMISFR 1.

The " Memoir on the State of G eromoy," which
a person in office circulated with a kind of mystery
at Aix-la-Chapelle, has excited a divagierable ten.
sation in some parts of Germany. They could
easily have dispensed with the efforts of a stranger
to annul the liberty of the Journals and periodical
works, which is already sufficiently restricted in
mutt of the German States. Ile pretends that all
calamities are concentrated in Germany, and that
every thing dernairds the return of a better state of
things.
The Archduke Ferdinand, Commander in-Chief
in Ilungary. and the Duke of Wellington. are ap-
pointed Field-Marshals. The Archdukes Lewis
and Masters of the Ordnance, said our
Anihairsador of the French Court, 13aruis 'Vincent,
General of Cavalry (this is the sante rank in the
cavalry as illaster of the Ordilance iii the artilltr).
The Emperor Alexander is expected with cer-
tainty on the I.2rh.
Yesterday forenoon, at eleven o'clock, Ins Ma-
jesty the Emperor arrived here from lies journey to
Aix-la-Chapelle, toarther with her Majesty the
Empress, to the iiiiivtraid joy of the inhabitants
of this city. Their 11.jesiics are both in pertect
health. Prince Schwartorriberg is also arrived.

SWITZERLAND, DI-CI SIDER .5.
IJis lmlr tial llig!utess the Grand I)tslie 511c1suel

LON DON,

SAI IiRDAY. DEcemseit 19, 1818.

From private accounts we have collected some
ftirthrr intelligence respecting the arrangements re-
cently made in Paris between the French Govern-
ment, the Contractors fur the Loan, and the Am-
bassadors of the Allied Powers. It is understood
that u Convention has been concluded, by winch a
further extension of time, from eighteen to twenty-
seven months, has been granted to the French Go-
vernment for the payment of the contributions, snd
that the payment of the debts due to foreign indi-
viduals, which was to have commenced shortly, has
been postponed until July nex•. This Convention,
Orison: 1i said to have been signed by the several
Ambassadors and Ministers in Paris, still wants the
confirmation of the respective Sovereigns, and it is
not improbable that Prussia and Austria might re-
fuse their assent to an act annulling the solemn en-
gagements so lately concluded at Aix-la-Chapelle.
The folloaitig extract of a letter from Paris gives
smile particulars of the arrangement :

" At the espiratioo of the eighteeu months, the French
Government wilt give, not boar de la raiasc d'ettrartissement,
but ?emu roptir, which will not be negociable till nine
months after they are issued, and will remain in the hands
of the Cominksioneis of the Allied Powers. At the expira-
tion of that period they will be payable every day for nine
mouths; which will thus make the whole lilac extend to
shoot the 1.4 of Marcli,ls2l.
" The arrangement was not made with MNT. Laboueheve
and Barimr, but by the dilTerent Ambassadors of the Allied
Powers. The Banker► of course were consulted. It will
nifty( only the latter part of what was dime at Aix-la-Cha-
pelle respiTtiug the liquidation payments."
professed object of the Government of
France in thus repeatedly requiring extension of
time, is to raise the public funds from their present
deptr•a"o. Private accounts state, that this seemed
oat Almiday to have been attained, for thr live per
cent'. /Trued on that day at 60 f. and finally closed
at 651 E. Hopes were entertained that in a few days
11w live per cents. would teach 70 1.
Since writing the above, we have received Paris
Papers of Tuesday, but they are quite silent re.
specting the alleged pecuniary arratigeinent be.
tweets the French Government aetl tie A tultassa-
does of the Anita Powers. They, however, afford
full confirmation of the statement we have already
given taspecting the state of the funds on Monday.
On that day, as we have already said, the five per
cent•. opened it 66 fr. and clo.ea ut lis fr. r 0 c.—
The &silk Actions were at 1,513 fr.

Cerim% Myers have arrived of recent dotes. A
Vseona Paper notices writiog, winch i.
'said to have been circulated ut Aix-lit-Chopt•Pr,

with an air of mystery, by a foreigner of distinetiii,
respecting the state of Germany ; the object of
which weals to have been to obtain the itnposit inn of
further restraints upon the public Ines. through-
out Germany. This work is syid to hare prodarA
a sensation of displeasure to wary parts of Gel.
twisty. The Vietims Paper observes, that the pet,,
of Germany already labours under sulfiei: at tc.
strict ion.

Private letters ha.ve been received is town Lton
Madrid. dated the Gus invtants which slide
the KING has hero inditerd to 'rare Crtt
retire for svfety to the whither lie

ucconiiiittiird by the British Alitiister, Sir II EN r
‘VEI.I.I:SLEY. We cannot dioguise the tileiot:ril
it would afford us, were we enabled to

firm the truth of these reports, but we fear they
are sa yet premature. The people of Sons mug.
HU doubt feel deeply indignant at the despett
cruelty of their ingrate KING ; but there is WI
Government, however bad. that has init some
strength even in public opinion, which it wutdd rr_
quire energy and union to shake. The day of re-
tribution, however, we firmly hope is not far distant,
when the people of Spain will prove themselves
worthy of their ancient name, and of a bettor fate
than to lick the dust beneath the feet of an imhe.
cite hing, and tremble before the fainthar.
The P.iris Papers which arrived at a late Lour
last night, contain no intelligence from Spoil,.

Yesterday a Meeting of the Insurer,: in the Fire
Brandi of the London Department of the Norwich
fintitution took piace, and our readers wi!l ate by
mar report of the proceeding% that the Norwich
Board have given not ice of their ioteciion of dow
continuing tile Fire Departuu•nt w London afi. r
the expiration of the billleiStiOZ Policie% The L
Department will be iipiald in the usual mantle:.

On Thursday week, Lieut.-Colonel MITCIII3.,
Major CAMPBELL, and Captain M`DONNEI.L.
embarked ins board the Hillsborungh ;.c
Donagliadve, for Portputrick ; and on Friday,
General Dirumuoriu landed at Donagliadee Irons
Port pai ick.

A direct line of road is projected from Cl► ite:t.
ham to Brighton, which will also open a counnom.
cation to that !tart of the coast. from lieref..ril
South Wales. The intended bridge at the Lots, r
Lode near Tewkesbury will greatly facilitite thin
communication, and also improve the direct road
from Brecon to London, as the distance from Bre-
con to Cheltenham will then be nearly seven miles
less than at present, and the road pasts through the
finest parts of that county.

Lord GEORGE CAVENDIsH'S new Arcade, lead-
ing from Piccadilly to Borlingtotogrodens. is n. w
in a considerable state of fun wardness. The entrance
at each end will be formed by arches of stone, sup-
ported by Corinthian columns.
Lord GEORGE CAVENDISH has sold his patent
residence in Saville-row, to Colonel Sirloin NS, Ulla
1/0/11‘e1.141011 to be given to the Colonel at Cowin:is
next. His Lordship and family will iminedintely
retire to Hunter, his seat in Lancashire ;
their return to town, they will occupy 800'1.40'1.1
House as a family residence, fur the first
(k.rening Paper.)
An attempt to convey a boy, of albotit six yertrs
of age, from his parents and home, iii the
Sheffield, was made a few days since by a person
who had succeeded in decoying him to some distatice,
and there compelled the boy to c4ll him father, Iry
threats and punishment, which we understand In
have been severely indicted. They were observed
in a field together by some persons, who interro-
gated the child ; but influenced by a terror he hot
told them the man was his father, which they, how,
ever, discovered he was not. They then brought
the man before the Magistrates, who, finding lout
to be somewhat insane, sent hint to the overseer.' of
Brampton Bierlow, with WI order that lie should be
taken Care of ass lunatic pauper, under a forfeiture
of 501. for not obeying it.
The extraordinary demand for the Royal
hare Pocket Cabinet fur 1619, and the interest
excited by its elegant embellishment*, enriblea the Proprie-
tor to announce, that the Second Edition is already Fu'i-
lished, enriched with eleven beautiful capper-p.4, •orr
ings—Portraits alter late Royal Highness the Princess Coil-
title and her Illustrious Consort—Views of Claremont, Ike.—
Memoirs, Anecdotes., Poetry, &c. 3u. ; tdcgautty
with gilt edges, only Ss. ed. W. M. has also on sale Ina
cheap Pocket-books for 1819, price only eigliicen-pence,
contaioing eight select Views—List of Menitxra or the iww
Parliament, &c. The extra Edition, handsomely Wand,
with gilt edges, Sts. can uuly be purchased at MARSHALL'.
Lottery-Office, 1, Holborn-ban, and no where else in lon-
dun. W. M. has on sale all the Pocket-book. far ISM—
The Repository", Regent—.Souvenir—Atlas—Kca.sly's,
in elegant hiudiugs. A satiety sent to choose Icoau to any
part of Town, free of expense.

On Wednesday la.t, as Mr. J. CLAIMS, jun. of
Greenhammerton, was shooting in a field below the
village, a hare was started, which ran parallel with
a fence, and only a few yards from it after ramie%
a short distance it was shot, and on going op to tne
hedge, a woodcock was discovered, which had been
set at the bottom of the hedge, in a line with the
hare, fluttering in the agonies of de.itli, having hero,
mortally wounded by the same shot which killrd tha
hate. IV hat renders the above CirCUlllSillllet• CA,
more remarkable is, that woodcocks ere very *met
in the township of Grecolmitines ton, heing the
only one ever seen in that part of the manor doting
this leil3oll.

GAMBLlNG.—Gambling was invented by Ih
Lydian. when moire the p•essure of a great Nowt,
To divert themselves loom dwelling on their still-r
lugs, they contrived dice balls, tables, Ike. 'l.ll,
invention, intended as a remedy for hung( r, is 1:01
a very r cumnon cause of tort evil.
Turner, tole pugilist, met his friends at his bc•ri
in a spor•imis room no That-ad:l eveniog,
WII attended by a most re.pectable party of the
::,firers of his boxing talent. He made nit rei !y
ithatin accepting his challenge, and atatia t:
Ins money Was ready at BURNS, ill Wiloltii•••
street, and which has oicitcd mitt:h streprise to
sporting cm'clet,

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