The National Register.
London, England, 1814-07-17 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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Horn of every kind, personal labour, all weighed heavy upon the
industrious cultivator. • Will posterity belies e, that • they we
forced to carry with their own horses and carts the artiefis which
they were compelled by requisition to furni-ii? and that very often,
when they bad so carried them to the place appointed, the men, the
horses, mid the carriages were often detaieed. The Abbe Montes-
quion afterwards retraeed the di•astrous effects of the Continent
blockade upon cenruerce, diseoueaged and ruined by licences, ;and
which tumid in Government a powerful and greedy rival. Itiit
culture will flourish again, under a mild and paternal Government.
Lyons is again recovering. and the effiicis produced by the opening
of our communications with the rest of Europe, will be highly ad-
vantageous to IliCional prosperity.
The Minisier they, adverted to the state efhospitals, the public
works, the state of roads aced of canals. the embellishments of the
capital, and the place prepared for the reception of beggars.—The
departments of War and of Marine were 10so in arrcar4. The for-
mer was the centre of our calamities; with respect to the second,
every thing tvas sacrificed to the developement of a useless force.
'the s sloti; w ere, in tact, nothing more eventually than recruits for
the land service. The greatest sums of money were lavished npon
ports which one severe winter was sufficient to dedroy. What ex-
pences for flotilla, w Inch were not tit for their object. What trea-
sures lavished to attain au end which was impracticable. All the
arsenals, all the magazines, prepared by the wisdom of Louis XV L
We hive last 43 sail of the line, and 6& frigates, which it will cost
-20e,teur 000 Byres to replace. Tile naval reverses which we exile-
rienced, occasioned the loss of our colonies; that which a maritime
war spared, was consumed in a continental war.—The crews of one
ships were slaughtered in the forests of Germany and on Vie moun-
tains of the Asturias ; and if some of the wrecks of them remain, it
is owing to the good conduct of the Admirals and Officers.
The State of the Finances then occupied the attention of the Minis-
ter. The disorders which prevailed iii that part of the Administra-
tion were industriously concealed from the countrr In nine years the
anticipations mid the misapplication of funds have increased the defied.
'o 1,615 000,0;) of livres. The spe J ker thea adverted to the coma'.
tilry prospects which opened to France. The couinry 114 d breir:
vatted in the midst of the calamities of wnr, and capitals were ready to
enable commerce to revive, and to give support to the inexhaustible
Activity of France. Having dwelt upon these topics some time, he
concluded with statiug, that time was necessary to heal the wounds of
Fiance. 'I he King relied upon his people, and upon their It epresent4-
and France might expect every thing loom their united ams.
After this Minister Irtd concluded, he returned to his place, and the
Chamber adjourned.

GI.N OA, .11' 1.1! 5.—A greed misun lerstanding prevailed upon all tilt
line occupied by the English and Austrian troups, and untottutiately
our position is but too unpleasant. There have been serious quArrels in
.our city. Soo e ladle/Ana's twee bevu wounded, and the consequences
,<utild have been more disastrooa if order had not been restored, and
mein, take') to prevent tie recurrence of such events.
Die English and Austrian Gruerals have given orders to their troreps
not .o pass their respective lines, and not to have any communications.
Every transgression of this urder to be considered us au act of hostility.

TILE ST %Ili OF FRANCE.

Among the daily novelties w' ;ch inane from the Parisian preen, is
one of vlOrti we have thought p,bper to present our readers with a
entitled " dernier Traite de Paix nuts a to
port et. d M:nide." Tim ,se and arbitrary projects kit the
late Ruler ~f; France. milted with rip necessity which he imposed
upon all' people of ;:raising and jug' Irving every one of his actst
e- .Itrocions, seem to have corropwil all notions of right and
wr.- :; in the minds of the gi eat mass, or at ir,,st of the active part of
the ereneli people. Louis X \III. will have :I more difficult task to
rectify the principles thou to relieve the sidle' his so
ft-.: the.e twenty five years of war : they still call air th: flesh-
pots of Egypt ; they still hanker after the worship of that Moloch
to whom they sacrificed their very children.