The National Register.
London, England, 1822-02-04 00:00:00

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LONDON. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4.
Three o'clock, p.m.

The Paris papers of Thursday have arrived.—
The
preceding day the discussion of the law rela-
tive
to the offences of the press was resumed. The
sitting commenced with the consideration of the 7th
article, which, for inaccurate reports, and wilful
misrepresentations of the proceedings in the Legis-
lative Chambers, or Courts of Law, subjects the
journalist, for the first offence, to a penalty of from
I,ooof. to 6,0001.; and for the second offence, or in
the event of the report being insulting to the Chant-
L.,rs, collectively or individually or to the Court,
magistrate, jurymen, or witncssts, subjects the of.
I;:nders to imprisonment from one month to three
years, and to an interdict as to the publication of
0,0 proceedings of the Chambers and Courts in
future. On this M. D.uinou proposed an nmenti-
o:•.nti importing that the parties concerned in writ-
ing- er inserting the obnoxious report should be sub-
ject collectively to a fine of from 1,000 to 3,0001.,
and indivdually to imprisonment for periods of from
one month to one year: this anti several other
amendments were rejected, anti the other article
was adopted. A short debate then arose on the
ei4hth *wide, which, after the rejection of some
amendments, was also adopted.
On Wednesday the Court of Cassation annulled
the judgment obtained by Chevalier Desgravicres,
before the Royal Court of Paris, against Louis
XVIII., for the purchase-money of the estate of
L'lsle Adam, sold to his Majesty prior to his emi-
gration.

The King has addressed a letter, in his own hand-
writing, to Sir Henry Halfurd, the President of the
Royal College of Physicians, desiring that he and
Isis su:a.er-sors should consider them virigte officii
Physitians Extraordinary to his tlajesty, and that
in their attendance at Court they should appear
dressed in the custom prescribtxl fur the whole who
enjey that honour.
Papers from Newfoundland to the ith ult. explain
more particularly the distressed situation of that
colony. The trade of the island, which, at the peace,
was in a flourishing state, is at length reduced to a
situation little short of absolute suspension, and
without any prospect of recovery, but rather of total
ruin. The evil may be explained in u few words.
The price for which the fish is sold will not pay fur
the catching ; and as the island has no other mode of
employing its population, no alternative remains 'ut
emigration, or starving. The remedies that the
trade, in their representations to Government, in-
tended to suggest, were those of inducing the Spa-
nish and Portuguese Governments to ltssen their
duties on fish, or of throwing open the ports of the
idand to the admission of supplies for the fishery, at
tlie cheapest rate at which they can be imported. Of
bounties they conceive there could be no expectation,
or, if granted, that it would only be putting ofr the
evil day. It was the intention of the principal
merchants and other inhabitants to form themselves
into a committee, fur superintending the stuns
raised for the relief of the distressed, and in order to
see that no claim, except the truly deserving, might
be attended to. With every precaution, a winter of
distress was anticipated beyond any ever experienced
in that island.
There have been an immense number of French
'easels at Southampton during last week, for the pur-
pose of buying up all the herrings, which they salt
and carry to their own country. Our fishermen ob-
tain upon an average from Ss. Gd. to 4s. per bin,11..1;
and so great was the draught lust week, that one
man is said to have cleared upwards of 501.
In consequence of the present mild weather, the
partridges are beginoing to
,pair. a circunttltbuce
scarcely rememtered to In.te occurred ut so early a
season of the year.
At tomtit on the 12th myt, di. d Mr. W. Morc:s, rat-
ca-chcr, iwetity.oue ?care. A few days since he
went out in tlesirny vermin., as usual, u„•; a tax,
containing some liniments amt.! , ghighfittpol in hi.
vocation, in It:sit:A:et, in it.:11..! Llso,. he inc..twously
put a sot.tll 'rut, tie. lli i.t r r tic toes 001 ati:i tat
upou'llie mad, but the lt.i of his box not IA hist still-
eiently wenn', a part of the pn:son had, wi.:n,ut Yea
knot etl;4eJulleui %yen of the pig. Ale.lie.d
aid nal resoite.l Lu u boon as the circumstance wri
eoventd,.iyat the fear fchloat s sulli.l6s tcritimated
iu
death alter ten dapped. eSetiiel.clng
‘Ve hear that an union will zinyittlv t .ke place he-
twe.nt the EA of Alnentarie and Nita Citarlotie
I I tic, the sister of use hue Sir Wm' s), Hunloke,
Bart.

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