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PARIS PAPERS.

PARIS, .AUGUST 19.
Yesterdsy the king transucied business with the
Duke& Richelieu. Ills Majesty got into his open
chariot at 11 quarter past three o'clock, to take all
swing to Argenteuil. The Foreign Ambassadors
had the honour to pay their respects to the King,
and to the Princes and Princesses of his august
li.uou Fuel, Envoy Extraordinary, and Minister
Pl""Puteslliary of the Low Countries, had the
honour In lay before his Majesty, in a petrel, midi-
rime, the letter by which his Sovereign notified to
King the birth of a son to his Royal Highness
the Prince of Orange.
Monday morning, at three o'clock, the work-
Hien appeared on the Quay de PEcole, and made
tow preparatory and necessary dispositions for nano.
I.orling the statue of Henry IV. which, *Mee Fri-
sliy 'dm, lied remained on the Pont des Arts. The
mule made by the men and horses quickly roused
Ilse tolialsitants, and in an instant the windows were
hilrol milli the curious. At five o'clock sixtv.eight
harnessed, two by two, put in motion the
emoleious burden; and at nine o'clock the statue
rrrnrd oils the Pont.Neuf, in front of the iwilestal
".. aloe), it will be replaced with great solemnity
on u,r Jay of Saint Louis.
The medal struck fur the omission of the resto-
'moo of the put.", of Fleury IV. and which will
ri.t in the body of tlw starve, has hewn eii-
l4r4"lll.y M. Amities'. This medal, the mane that
t...11.eis adopted for the metallic history of the
eirseid rcgii, bears the head of the Knig, with this
I'4'llW Lwdrorfews X\'l 11. lopideas sPespi-
',dem p.,lNit --D. .28, Olt. Ann. 1517, Begril
V. 1•" Auld oil the reverse, the representation of the
olutettims, statue of II eury IV. wish the inscription.
" Hoak° Megan;" and the eaetgae, •• Creases
Pietas rertiewir, 1817." The equestrian figure on
the milestdl is, ithout contradiction, one or the
nwst remarkable humistuatic twills through the
(harm be of the details.
Tire, wr It trout Utrecht, the 15th Aug.—•• The
Duke and of (Ammer arrived the I I ils
411. 11:16 1110“tli h. this cite ; alit' isasoed t»t

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON.
MONDAY. AUGUST 44, IRIS.

THE QUEEN.

The account from Kew yesterday respecting her
MA)arry is still favourable. The following was
announced:—
" Iler Majesty continues a little belfry."

On Saturday morning her MAJZSTY took an
airing in her little chaise, in Kew Gardens, for up-
wards of an hour. Tne Duchess of GLoucasTua
awd the Princess AUGUSTA walked by the side of
the Quitam. The Doke of Sussex visited his
Royal Mother at the same time.

Several important Papers, ',resented to the House
of Commons in the course of the last Session, have
been since printed. Among them are the Third
Report from the Select Committee on the Puor
Laws—the Third Report on the Police of the
Metropolis—the Report on the Prisons of the Me-
tropolis—and the Second Report from the Commit-
tee on the Prisons within the City of London and
the Borough of Southwark. Of these documents
we give the two former. The Third Report on the
Police of the Metropolis commences with a de.
scription of the Tothill-fields Prison, the in-
terns( economy and system of which is se-
verely censured, as contributing to the increase
of crime. A radical and substantial reform is
therefore recommended as necessary in this Prison.
The Report then proceeds to Clerkenwell Prison,
which it acknowledges is a great improvement com-
pared with the old one; bat it represents the classi-
fication as defective, and the Committee think that
until a plan is adopted to separate the old offenders
from the young, and to classify die prisoners ac-
cording to their degree of guilt, those places can
only be comidered nurseries of crime. Cold Bath-
fields Prison is next brought forward, and the
Committee, on a view of iis state and manage-
ment, are decidedly of opinion that the whole
system should be changed. Here they found
the notorious Vosigkos and Brock filling the
offices of wardsmen. They censure the prefer-
ence thus sheen to such infamous characters,
sod think the system of watchmen is carried to ex-
cern. and that the duty should be done by the turn-
keys. It appears that 10,37 t persons passed through
these three prisons in the course of the last twelve
months, all of whom must have gone away more
corrupt than they came. Thie is the result of the
present defective system, for the correction of which
they suggest many improvements, one of which
is a classification of the prisons, by devoting each
exclusively to a particular purpose as, for in-
stance. Newgate to charges of felonies before

trial—Clerkenwell for misdemeanors and felons
fines—the New Poison fur debtors, and so on.—
They alas recommend a new prison for females
exclusively, on the plan of the Saint Lasare at
Paris. In reviewing the different Police Esta-
blishments of the Metropolis, the Committee com-
mence with Bow-street, in treating of which they
give a decided opinion against the plan of a Central
Board Police, suggested some time ago, which
should correspond with all the parts of the king-
dom and the minor establishments of the Metropolis.
A Board of this sort they do not consider advisable.
The Committee attribute the increase of erime to
poverty and distress, and hope, therefore, that it is
only temporary ; as evidence of this they find that
the character of offences is more mild than hereto-
fore, sod that the general morals and manners of
the lower orders are in a course of gradual im-
provement.

Annexed to this Report are the Minutes of the
Evidence taken before the Committee. occupying,
with the Appendix, 258 folio pages. They
much interesting and curious minter, which r•e
shall take au early opportunity to notice par-
ticularly.
The Rev. Mr. Ford, one of Ike persons examined before
the Committee on the Pram or the Metropolis, says In his
• evitienor.-4 Generally speaking, the prisoner. cunsider
I ransportatioa • bun it awe than a puttishtnent; the young
ones are delighted with it, mid the uld ones are iejuicril at
thc expectation of media' their old acquaisitatiee."
Mrs. Elisabeth Fry, in her eviderree, ►tated that avernt
reruns, ►ashaads is anxiety to folks their oats, and site

We* defe leAtteed to commit crimes. She In%lanced onl.
Tomas who lately buffs red death, viz. Charlotte Newman,
who was &dilated by a desire to follow her iinshised to
Botany Bey, who had committed the 1111166 P offence, but it
was thought proper to stake an example of her, and she was
execrated.
Mr. Betijastiu Baker, in his evidence respectieg forgery,
says these is a orasterial difference of feeling among the pri-
mmer, with regard to forging Bonk notes and that of ulter-
ior them, those who otter fervid motes thinking themselves
offenders it, a lesser degree, sad in general witness Ands
they have been Ammeters who have been drawn into the
commission of the crime by the craft and subtlety of others.
They zee principally youth. Go* of the yentog men NOW
under orders fur execution told witness, that the person who
seduced hint was in the habit of passing at least 400 notes a
week, and that be was the person who supplied Finney,
Spicer, and Kelly, with notes to a considerable amount.
Mr. Newman. keeper of Newgate, speaking of the effect
of capital punishment, says; twenty is the greatest number
be ever knew suffer at once. There were tweisty-otte intended
for our day, bet only nineteen were executed. There were
two executions following each other—one nineteen, the other
twenty. These were after the riots in 1780. Mr. Newman
says, from his observation, the effect of capital punish-
ment has net been to serve as an exempt, to the public.
Persons of bud disposition euslituce crime as • dangerous
professio•—• game in which they Amy get prizes as well as
blanks; and when they are sefortitaste, there is • sort of
heroism sttendiog it,and they do not wish to appear cowardly.
He remembered one instance assay years ago : a boy of the
name of Cox, who had bees tried at the Old Bailey several
times, and had received many addresses from the Court, and
be used jokingly to call the Recorder his "Godfather." He
came to be executed at last, and the night before his rem.
lion, he monied himself by engraving on a plain halfpenny,
the picture of a man hanging, and W. C. on the other side.
He was not above nineteen or twenty at the time of his
.1
death. When young, be Need to go about with a pin-s-fore,
and a ball or top in his hand, which he used to throw down
Trees, and by that theses pia admission to the hanan, mad
'steal something from it."

We have received Paris Papers to the 20th inst.
The Five per Cent. Conan,. on Tuesday had risen
to 79 francs. Bank Actions, 1,645.

Friday afternoon the Wasp sloop of war, Cap•
tarn WILLIAM WoLana, having been in commix
sion three years, returned to Portsmouth, from the
Mediterranean station, to be paid off. She left
Malta on the 17th of July. and Gibraltar on the
itd instant. Sir CMAILE• Petition, who had been
cruising on the coast of Italy, in the Albion, was
going into Malta when the Wasp was coming aut.
The Glasgow was ou tht :coast of Italy ; they Spey
and Satellite, were in the Archipelago; the Myr-
►nidon was at Malta. and the Goarteede on the
Gibraltar station. The Wasp is under quarantine.

Friday evening the Infer frigate, Capt. T. Foe.
HUT, C.B. returned SO Portsasouth from New.
foondlaisd, having takes • out Vice-Admiral Sir
CHARLES HAMILTON, 11SH. who took upon him
the Government of that Island and its dependen-
cies, on the '2oth July. The Icier was 33 days on
her passage to St. John's. She left it again on the
31st ult. when the Drake, Capt. SHIM,' Elt (bear-
ing the Rog), and Carnation, Hon. Capt. GORDON,
were lying there. The Sir Francis Drake, Capt.
Bowasa, was gone one cruise. The Tamar, Cap-
tain TOILER, was at Halifax, under repair, she hav-
ing sustained damage by striking On • ledge of
rocks, when going into &tsarists Bay. The im-
porter transport, for Cork, with a division of the
98th regiment, commanded by Colonel FITZHER
BEM on board, sailed from St. John's on the josh
July ; as did also the Loyal Briton (Lieut. Lay,
Agent), with a detachment of the same regiment,'
for Halifax.

The American frigate Java, Capt. &FM)! ALo
arrived in Cowes Roads on Friday night, to water.
in 28 days from Boston. The /filer was four days
in company with her, but no communication took
place between them. The bier telegraphed the
Spartan. Capt. WISE, C.B. on her return from
conveying the Duke of GLoucErrea to Bourdeaux.
She 'tut into Plymouth on Friday.

The Following are the names of the Commis.
sioners appointed by a Commision which hos passed
the Great Seal. fur inquiring into Charities for the
Education of the Poor. The public will regret
that the name of Mr. BROUGHAM does not appear
iu the list—

Right Hun. Charles Maulers Batton, the Bishop of St.
Asaph,Bisbop of Peterborough, Sir Wrii. Scott, Bight Ho..
Charles Yorke, Right Hon. Sir WiNiaor Greet, Joh. Willis(
Warren, Esq. Henry Thigh Hisiberh, Esq. Wm Gram, Esq.
Win. Roberts, Esq. Wilkiasoo Mathews, E.q. Robert Mar-
sham, Esq. James WMahoo, Esq. Hon. Douglas Fisch.
The Leveret, IS, Captain RODNEY SMAINNON,
fitted for St. Helena end the Cape station, went
out of Portsmouth harbour on Thursday.
Sir BENJAMIN HALLOWELL sailed from Ply.
mouth on Friday se'nuight in the Tornmat, fu re.
slime his command at Cork, which will expire in
October next. Sir JOSIAS Rowley will then re-
snme the permanent command for the succeeding
three years.
Captain BIGLAND is appointed to the Parthisur,
at Portsmouth, for the Jamaica station. Mr.
MADDOCK is appointed Purser of the ftecoharemaire.
The Bette. Capt. G. PCCHELL, MOW 00
Thursday for the Halifax station. She took • mail
and dispatches. The 'endow, Dowses, for Bom-
bay, sailed on that day.
Rear-Admiral OTWAY hoisted his flag Friday
afternoon, at Portsmouth, in the Phaeton. Catania
DILLON, under the usual salutes, nod sailed Satur-
day afternoon to take the command at Leith. It
is rather • remarkable oceureence that the Rear-
Admiral should hoist his Bag, for the first time,
in the same ship in which he first embarked fur sea
as a Mid.hipman, 35 years once. The Phaeton
was thi.o cuuansirded by Sir JOHN COLPOYS.

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