The National Register.
London, England, 1819-01-04 00:00:00

CHANGE OF MINISTERS IN FRANCE.

A crisis has at length arrived in the Awe of French
party, which can scarcely tail to he followed by impor-
tant consequences, let it take what direction it
Sufficient had transpired though the medium of pri-
vate correspondence from Paris, to justify a persuasion,
nearly amounting to certainty. that some serious differ-
ences had arisen in the French Cabinet, and that some
change of measures, or of Ministers, or of both, was an
event to be considered as rapidly approaching. It is
announced by letters received on Tuesday, that the
Admini.tratimn, of which M. de Richelieu wag the of-
ficial head, and of which M. de Cans was, in many
points of view, the most efficient and prominent mem-
ber, has actually been dissolved. The details are, that
on Wednesday sennight, M. de Cares resigned his of-
fice ; and that on Thursday, Christmas-eve, the other
iuisters followed his example. His Majesty accepted
the resignations of all but that of the Due de Richelieu.
who forthwith exerted himself to till up the vacancies,
and named a Cabinet as fiillows:

M. Cuvier, the celebrated naturalist, but caebn.h...l fir nothing
di:: that we know of, Ninivter of tae Interior.
11. Monier', (Minister of the Treasury dur44; the ion days, to
Bonaparte), Minister of Finance.
M. Sittieon, (Jiinis:e•r of Jte;tice in the kiugateu of Westphalia),
if inistcr of Justice.
M. de Videle, Minister of Nl.trine.

Count La :v of lauristo.), (Aid-de-Camp to Bonny-ate. and hia
Antba,stolor at St. l'etet.burgli, preview) to the grrui Hui/situ) •war),
Minister at War.

Every one of these persons, however; declined the
places to which they had been nu•oinated, beflee five
o'clock on the Friday following, the old Ministry having
resigned only the day preceding. Thu immediate cau•:e
to which this was ascribed, was the opposite materials
.of which M. Richelieu sought to compound his Cabinet.
Messrs. de Viilele and Law required a pledge fium
their colleagn:ts, se modify the law of elections, and
the recruiting law, in such u manner us to render them
" more monarcliieal:" the other members of the new
Cabinet at once rejected this condition, and a general
refusal was the inevitable consequence.
The hluliteur of Wednesday last, arrived on Friday,
remove all doubts with regard to the fhrmatioa of the
new French Ministry, and brings a Royal Ordinance
to the etl;:ct following.—The King appoints—

M. Le .Martiaii wars. Peer o( rranco. Minister of Foreign
Afrair.:,; and, in place of the Duc de Rich lire. Pretitlent of toe
Cutineit of Ministers:
M. de S.:rre, K =per of t's,: ofJusti..o :
M. de CitLel. Minister of the Interior; the Ministry of Polict•
being suppresse,'. :
Baron t o. al, Minister of Marine.
Baron Louis, Minteter of the Finances.

tit. Cyr. oat Wins' n.inittil At sal, either annor.g,t the
re.ignat.o.l. or tipp.onottoots, retains, let: bupihisc, ttie litt..try of
War.

This official statement introduces some names into
the Cubiatt, which had nut been antieipated by the
previAtis arriv.4.4 from Paris. The Count de Cazes, it
se2ms, preferred Cie Ministry of the. Interior, with its
collateral directian of the general police, to the higher
official rank which rumour had assigned to him, in
conjunction with his present office; and which would,
indeed, have concentrated in the ::tune hands a mass of
p aver and ministerial influence, very naturally the
object of jealousy under a free constitution. The
Ministry of the Interior, from the nature of its delicate
and extensive duties, brings the possessor ,of it (now
that there is na police Minister) into more imine.liate
conmet with the spirit of party, with public opinion,
and with the most interesting vilations between the
people and the Government, than :my othrr (Ace under
the French Crown. We trust that, fur the t‘die both
0.. France and a her 42verei2n, the administration of
impoifr.ut C.ufies twill bu upright, able, and stir-

PLucE 90.

cessful. The promulg-ation of the names of the new
11inistry, together with the prospect of a speedy sale
by the 'Treasury of the Royal Forests, ar.d the conse-
quent absorption of 10 or 12 millions of renles, is said
to have had the effect of raising the Frunch Stocks to
67 on Wednesday last, ant! they were expected to
advance still higher.

tullowing are all the particulars which we are
at present able to give respecting tlae four new met:-
hers of the French Ministry :
M. amanita, P.tgo Of France, Watt, in tB-14,
mender of the Natiosel Guard of Paris;, when he con-
ducted himself so as to acquire the perfect confidence
of the King, an.l WAS raised to the peerage in June or
the same year: he is a Lieutenant-General of the
armies of France, a Knight of •-,t. Louis, and Giand
Cross of the Legion of Honour, and was, previous to
his present exaltation, a member ot' the Privy Council,
and a Minister of State.

Aide Serre was President of the Chamber of De-
puties (luring the last Session, and was within four
votes of obta:ning the same dignity this year : he is a
Knight of St. Louis, anti of the Legion of Honour, and
was, before his new appointment, one of the Council
of State, and a member of the Cotnutittee of Legis-
lation.

M. Louis was Minister of Finance in 181-1, being
one of the Administration of which M. Tallevrand was
at the head :• he is a Grand Cross or t e L;:gion .01
Uonoui•, and a member of the Chamber of Deputits;,,
he was also a member of the Privy Council, and a
Minister of State.

M. Portal is an Officer of the Legion.of Honour,
and a Member of the Chamb.A- 41f Deputies ; he has
also been one of the Conneil of State since May 1814,
and has been for two years vast, intrusted with the
ilirecsioa of the Colonial Branch in the Department of
tha Minister of Marine, over the whole of which he is
new appointed to preside.

Ogle of the last acts of M. Laine, late Minister of
the interine,• was ter present to the King a report on
the internal condition of France with report tails va-
rious institutions fir the regulation of the poor, and for
the punishment of criminals. The most important
feature in it is, that he reco„nizes the principle now so
generally approved in this country of the absolute ne-
cessity of classification in prisons. He states the in-
crease of crimes brought to trial in the years 1816 and
1817, to be 6,857 in the first, and 9,185 in the last
year ; an increase considerubl:: less than appeared in the.
official statement to have occurred in England, ume%g
a smaller population, during the same period ; fi r the
differene4.-.. here was as 13,932 to 9,091 ; hut, perhaps,
the mirianery necessary for the accurate production of
the proper returns does not work so well in France as
in this country, where it has been longer in use.
The Dul:e of Glacestcr arrived at Paris, on Sunday.
last, and alighted at the Hotel def Empire, rue d'Ar-
tois, No. 15, with his suite, composed of Col. Cotton,
the Hon. Major Curzon, and Major Sir Murray,.
with four valets de charrihre.—lt is stated, that vrioce
Leopold of Saxe Coburg intends to stay with his tinnily
at Coburgh. till March next, whet his Itiyal Highness
proposes to return to England.

It is to be n iticed, that althomA there will Le four
eclipses this year, neither of theta is visible to us.; they,
will no doubt excite much astonishment and ti:ar in tha
coasts of New &alma], New Holland, Guinea, Cali-
fornia, and Japan, awl espocial4 iu Nladagasear, on the
Stl October, where the moon will rise eclipsed, and in
the Sandwich Islands it will set ; it tvill have
the sante appearance in Persia, the Caspian Sea, and
west of Poland. Whatever appearances the moon ever
assumes, they are always interesting to the followers of
Mahumet.

In a statistical sureey of Europe, lately published. at
Vicaaa, it is estimated that the armed force Of Europe,
on the PCiteg Establishment, consists of 1,798,000 men,
and on a %% ar Establishment of 5,608,000.. The Ma-
rine is eaten's' cd at 462 vessels of the line, .370 frigates.
and 1,92 vessels of lesser rank.
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The workmen began yesterday to erect handsome sup..
porters for the lamps, which are to ilium ate %I'ater-
leo-place, opposite L'arltoti "they in•e in a e
to correspond with the adjacent reskler.ce...
The uew iron bridge int. tided to be thrown over tiro
Menge-strait, in %Vales, will be l,truO feet m li.itgth,
and will be atibi,oided between two risks, at t::t htiol.t
el 100 icet above the surtiwc offal: watts.