The National Register.
London, England, 1818-01-26 00:00:00

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-4FOREIGA INMLLIGENCE.

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FRANCE.
The Marquis de Pastnret has presented is the Chamber of
Peers an isttercooting report eu the projin tie lei, tiopeeting
the liberty of the pia..., The erniumitee of the Peers have
fully agreed with the recorded vote of die lower Cli.iiiiber
04-sinst that section of the law which construe-el a mete de.
'oat ofa work at the police. as an actual publication by the
author. The Deputies, it will be recollected, passed ass
ainendmeat, by which nothing short of a dieributiot O f
book Is to be held tantamount to such a publication of itthe as
shall repose the party to the vengeance of the law. For
this barrier against the inconsistencies and the abuse of power
the cautery stands indebted to the perspicuous reasoning and
simile eloepteuce of the Royalist chieftain M. Villele ; and
the eliminates of the Peers have drawn from his speech the
arguments on which they have founded their approbation of
this salatary amendment. To be sure, unless the Ministers
Lave been actuated by some secret reasons which they may
toad it inconvenient to avow, their mode of legislating is on
this point unaccuuntable. As a preventive against the mis-
thief of circulating a given book, they ordain that a certain
number of copies shall be lodged at the police for the pur.
pose of previous examination. We say the mischief of rireis•
Imthst the book; for if it he not circulated. what injoiry can
mini from it ? Yet. in the very next line they declare, that
she precaution *ball itself be coostrited into the crime—that
au meths. shall he punished fur that act, which thou have
deliberately called upon him to perform, amt by which he
enables the police to stop the dissemination of the printed
mischief. This, M. de Villele desertiod as a gross injustice.
We are citistied to speak of it as a ludicrons contiametion;
as making obedience a misdemeanour, and the law a snare;
as making e sell anthor legally responsible for not discharge;.
tug agAiiiat his own literary performance the functions of a
Minister of Police, and anticipating by inspiration the judg-
ments of a public officer. ilm concurrence of the Peers'
Committee with the Chamber of Deputies on this constitu-
tional question derives a peculiar interest from the circuit,.
stance, that it is the precise ameadisient against which :Ilinis.
ter. have advised his Nlaiesty to eYercise his Royal perogative,
and which it is said, that lie has already annouaced his reso-
lution of rejecting. The report concludes with proposing to
adopt the prgject de bi, with the above amendment made by
the Chamber *I Deputies to the 201 part of the Nth article.—
'lite Chamber of Deputies proceeds wills a reciprocatioon of
discourses on the reciviting law. which, in the sitting of the '
17th. was suppotted by Messrs. Mecum and Cetwille Jourdan,
especially that principle of it which retains Ile Clown in the
grant of proisiotione and which secures a share of it to seni•
orlty of service. Both of these :Members also voted for the
intendment, which snakes the existence of a standing army
dependent, room year to year, on the legislature. M. tar-
dotted opposed a conscription, as a child of the revolutionary
tyranny, and incompatible with a legitimate throne.
In the Clianshte of Deputies, on the 17th, the Reporter on
Petitions stated, that several Monks and Nuns of the De-
pinewood of the Loxere, reduced to extreme indigence by
the reduction of two.tkirds of their pensions, solicited assis-
tance. The Committee proposed to the Chamber to send
their Petition to the Minister of the Interior. M. Brun de
Villas et described the fate of the ltrUgruses in his department
as most deplorable. Their number was now reduced to
4000, most of whom are old and infirm; and few of them
had more he said. than 200 f. pension, a sum which hardly
sufficed to support asad existence. M. Dievergier do Hato-
ranee was foe sending the Petition of those todoetsioate per-
sons lathe Committee' on Ale budget : but that was opposed
by many Members, and the 14etition was ',tiered to lie r
i worn; to ti.,. ?iinisler ISt the Inteiiior lonia& L....grant tut t.) f.
SPAIN.
Aosieers —'flit keysl pardoi, doses) thr 2411% of }".-- l-
es . which the King of Spain proclaims--; It rite v, ' ... . if
5.., auliV. toarriage a himself and his orother le • • is
with got: ter/outs of Portugal, to all ci ;initials w,l I.
II 'mewl .o. Spain out charges short of ::ugh to s;.. •-, r,
tiller), aison, Aisplretny,iserji ::, Ate. hat Are.. - !, • • o
I. illbape4ll!ail 1110filialOUA, arr,oe Iwo 1.0 jio ~rigiaal i
. • 4._ with additional dense-, end oils published i
-Wes ea the CitratrAl Op Cr' 20111 of Sepiciabei lost.
A. : • .tick: in the clauses of the original proclatuat ilro, it, -
o\.
AA ',I. the foreigo pussessioos of lios Meier*. , held tplit ti.e
1.-ii, i; ~y Al ,adilleaalle to all percoes coenveol for the eu 1
Tiloor , ection, whether proceeded spaiest o:.•, not, whetlo, , .
,orr,% ~air uhselit, provided that ev•ine v u,„ eeiesaiura up tr, r
ie its peeblieation. The Aoth,ritie,, hi 'he L:arsecas' to or oe., t
c.:• (Louis and to rustier all et'', ' ri', one point soinip,a ,
rind the fe?, llowiog inter or •taiooo , I. the lord 51e„,,t,.,
I. Ti,at Os parasol vita II:. ~ta!esty groats WI those 4, e 7
Jts,;-sr•tt.or ! 44ns septa; and e.lawo nxyligaienialleillaier:' 2
flu.: ' t.....1.11.:.b -ftded in '• aid espy its immediate hen • . I
peos>n• ;eopheaurvl ID inchie WS anterior is its pchheriel,, , ~,.,.
ow ,o ,a• bon tei. speeches ar their erci.,,n4, tar:to - 4
ose.e re. ~ :aas, for t ,ir .....:Antiari dua1.4.1.1 i 14.4.1-, 4:11111111.1.', :.

duct.
Ihr the rex: :11. thew shalt remit' fz •
iseimme. •11 tse , wittiMt Invoke: h. en inez.•••
the testy 'ion of the Royal ?ant)
garaw ilhar, we literati: uh'.
lardored persons as saw,
L .r• •. pretmees by vemairr.,• than.
• .t. 310 article regards 11w in, 4* n the u.
'IA. t sh :also mo-e• .1
• evontY cod tr rt • •,. • Av.: dee to to- 'ql3l
tries to return and Shure tie boyai clemency.
C. The property that had been confiscated on account Of rebellion
shall be restored to its owners on their acceptance of the Royal
,pardon.
All pending prosecutions shall cease and not be wnewed.
a. This proclamation and cxpLtnation shall be 41ublislied with the
greatest solemnity in the capital, end towns of the proninee, add the
neik.libouring colonies,ake.
Signed by the Authorities of ihe,Caraeras, Sept. 23, 1817.
SM.ITZE'iI..AN 11.
LetisseNne,..J aN. reilt•ral Directory has received
ur official deelareti )))) Lion e .the Court of Madrid, relating to
Alm recognition of the Helvetic neutrality.
Alt Osman, a native of Castilla, ateolficer•of alie Guards of
the Paella of Egypt, and who had some lime 'Afire been an
uniinced in Switzerland, as i•lnei•gril to procure workmen and
machinery, arrived on the 34 at Heine ' • and on the following
stay obtained nu audience of the bleed of the diatt. Hr sae
attended by an iiiterprete•r, who bad on him a dress as t 'eh as
elegant. liter was accredited to several c medal
homes of Zen ich and• St. 0411. A «nisei for agent of the
of Egypt is now estublishing commercial .setotiesus with the
Powers of the Ninth. damsel Gibraltar apposes soseessiyeky
.Ito 4 Maoist, HantbargMund Copenhagen. Another agent,
Ara 05111411. as travelling ftlemigh Italy. Mostapha Effendi
titas diaen.for some time resideagast Genes 4. Alight it not be
that Shroud* E.gypt the 'ricks will co Itillellee their eivilita•
tiob, mot tliatiaarniag w ill (peace ed 10 them flout the slum
!•.• as.tg wieance it was dei iveti to Ussece and Monad

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