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London, England, 1818-01-22 00:00:00

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.

M. Vallee, Reporter of the Committee of Peti-
tions, said, several females in religion,. orders, of the
Department of the Luzere, reduced to extreme in.
digence by the diminution of two-thirds of their
peowions, solicit assistance. The Committee pro-
pose to refer the Petition to the !Moister of the
Interior, as alone .61e to decide on claims of this
nature.

M. Brun de \'illeret.—The situation of the
female religious in my department is deplorable;
it merits all our solicitude. We give considerable
succours to foreign refugees; we open subscriptions
in favour of the indigent ; the King himself sacri-
fices a part of his revenues in favour of his faithful
servants, who, to serve him. had abandoned their
whole fortune; and why should not the Govern-
ment also assuage the misery of these unhappy
females, reduced to about 4,000, aged and infirm,
whose number every day diminishes, and who have
hardly sufficient to drag on a miserable existence?
I assent to referring their petition to the Minister
of the Interior, who doubtless will do something in
regard to this matter.—Agreed to.
The discussion on the recruiting of the army was
then renewed.

M. BigliOn r•aid, that the nation, no less than the
Government, desired an army—not for purposes of
conquest, but because without an army no great
people can or does exist.
The name of u French army, always imposing in
spite of ',Ate disasters, has nothing in it terr4ing to
humanity. The remembrances of glory which it
recalls—of that glory of which we shall know how
to preserve the iulieritance, shall never be associated
with aught but the preservation of peace and the
defence of time frontiers.

The first condition for having • good army is,
that it be national, and that foreigne►s should be
excludedfrom it—that all young Frenchmen should
be I. unsinosied to its ranks, and that in &fault of
voluntary enrollments, ballot should he adopted.
What is there in the word conscription that ►hould
ail sight us? It signifies nothing
chanical operation, registering citizeus according to
the age prescribed. When the Legislature has
abolished the Conscription, can it also abolish the
obligation of military service ?

Take heed leg the unpopularity of the word may
lead you to sanction au unpopular action. The Le-
gislature designed to abolish only the cruel right of
carrying otievery year an indefinite number of young
men from their families—of consioi•ing this sanguine

But what is the new mode of recruiting now
proposed but an attempt to restore the conscrip.
Lion ? I therefore vote for the present against the
law, well persuaded that, in the present Session, the
Ministers can present us a better form of law,
eveu by the debates in this Chamber.

M. Camille Jordan.—The general object of the
law appears to me to he traced by the first condition
of the social compact. Two principal powers
govern the destinies of Empires—political power
and political strength. If one constitutes the right,
the other constitutes the fact ; and frequently the
strength which ought to be only the means of
execution, becomes the tyrannical and supreme
regulator.

For the formation of an army truly royal and
national, four points are necessary. Summons
ought to be the basis—the law ought to regulate
the mode—an army of reserve ought to form its
support—and, finally, a good system of advance.
ment should be a necessary completion of the
entire. After examining each of these points, to
prove that they were to be found iii the proposed
law, the Member concluded for its adoption, with
the amendment in favour of annual votes.

At five o'clock in the evening the debate was ad.
journed.
The live per Cents, on the 17th January, were
65 r. go c. Bank Actions 1,545 1.

FLANDERS MAILS.

131111M1.5. Jiff. W.

General Count Alten, commanding the nano.
verian contingent in France, has arrived here from
the head•quarters at Cainbray, with the English
Lieutenant-Colonel Colletou.

SROSSEI 3, JAN. 16.

Neat spring measures will be taken to carry on
the works upon our fortifications with the greatest
activity ; ou the other hand, the improvements iii
our roads, as well as the emhtllishments of this city
and the Palaces of Lacken and Terveurtn, will rt.
quite a large number of workmen.

BTUTGARD, Drc.

Two citizens of Amsterdam, Richard Rodolplie.
Commissary, aged 25, and Jean Jacques I fartsi lick
aged 40, Clerk of the Tribunal of the Justice of
Peace, having been convicted, on a legal examina-
tion, of having deceived and seduced emigrants, have
been lately condemned by the Tribunal of this city
to five years' imprisonment, and to a tine of 1,400
florins each, and payment of the costs. They are
declared to have forfeited the civil and family rights