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No. 1,347.—V0t. XIY.] MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1821.

Extract of a letter, dated Paris, Dec. 16.--"
morning great changes were expected to spear itt
the different branches of Administration. Pre.
feet of Police at Paris, the Director of tisi PIZ the
Director of the Customs, the Directors(Po
the Direstor of Beestrittlims, wiU all lea
These changes will be followed by the appelpleseee
of new Prefects in many of the depagtments.
change of Ministry in-Ersnee infers a much mem
extensive change in all the departments of authodty
than in England. From the centralizatiox of politer
at Paris, a shock in the Cabinet is felt through all
the gradations of office down to tho Mayor of a vit.
18ffe. Directors, Receivers Generiil, Prefects, Police-
agents, &c. are all subject to the impulse."
Bator/me, Dec. ,83—On the • 27th ult. Mine
assessed a heavy contribution upon the mldille dames
of 'Galicia and especially upon the tiobility and-
clew, for the sobsistence of his troops; and this'
measure has met with general approbation at Co-
runna. At the fame time he has nominated a Pro-
visional Junta of Governineat, which has declared
all the ports of Galicia free to foreign vessels, upon
payment of a very.etuderate duty. He has also di.
minished the direct Contribution. This will pro,
vide very ample remora, v.u.tieglarly, on account
of the 'prohibitory system adopted by the Cortes in
other provinces. The levy ex name of the national,
aLtive, and local militia, and the formation and or-
elsation of an army of 30,000 men, have likewise
decreed. Four thousand troops of the line,
sod six thousand of the regular provincial militia,
are ordered to march to the ti *niers of Gelicia, and
assemble i& the vicinity of Astorga. In case of ne-
cessity. this division will be reinforced by all the
militart forces of the province
,W aws, Dec. Ili.-Yesterday morning the Min.
tess Simeon was received by the King and Madame.
The first and fourth Bureaux assembled yesterday
to take cognisance of the resiguatioa of M. M.
Villele and Corbiere, of their functions as Members
of the Budget Commission. Their opinion of the
expediency of this step, in cons& quence of having
been called to the King's Council, was not partici-
r'tated by the other Deputies of the Commission, and
they were accordingly re-elected. It is said that a:
public letting will take place to-morrow, to receive
a communication from Government, relatively to the
Health Law adopted by tge Chamber of Peers.
The nomination of MM. Royal and Portal to the
Chamber of Peers, vacated the representation of the
department of,the Seine, and that of the depart-
ment of the Tarn and Garonne.
M. Corbiere was yestPrday installed in the Mi-
nistry of the Interior.
It is announced that the office of Director-Gene-
ral of the Police•is suppressed, and that there will be
on uodcr secretary ittached to the Ministry of the
Interior.
On Sunday night, M. Angles, Prefect' of Police,
resigned ; the administration is, ad interim, confided
to Vii. Parisot, Chief of the first division.
ft is announced, that the sittings of the Chamber
of Deputies will continue suspended during some
days, in order to afford leisure to the new Ministry
to complete its administrative organisation, and to
prepare its legislative labours, It is added, that the
first communication from the Ministry to the Cham-
ber of Deputies will have for its object the demand
of six-twelfths, and the pr jet of law fix the regu-
lation of the journals as announced by the Keeper of
4he Seals
Two of the children of Lieutenant General Count
r Bertrand have just entered the Institution of St.
Mahe.
NI. le Che-alier Delaville, the ex-Sectetary of the
Council of Ministers, is to be named Master of Ite-
quests Extraordinary.
L King
Report states, that on the 14th instant toe mng
made a promotion of ten Marshals-de-Camp, among
whom arc mentioned M. de la Bourdonnaye, Colonel
of Cii.o:eurs ; Viscalunt de Latour Maubourg, Co-
lonel of Cavalry ;. and Colonel de Matharel.
The population of the 86 departments, of which
the kingdom of France, according to the treaties of
.1816 and 1815, now consists, consisted, in the year
1840, of 30,407,90 T individuals. lu the year

FR &AVE PAPERS.
PARIS, Dec 16.—Ufahenew appointments, that
of M. Peymnnet to be Keeper of. the Seals has ex.,
cited considerable' surprise. He is neither known
fur family honours, for political influence, or extra-
ordinary talents. He was originally an advocate at 1
Banrdsaux, of which be is a tistiva; and la Abatiss
to eat of M. Leine was appointed •Psocuteer'
All ofthe Royal Court of ieirgee, in the daparblaett.
• L'Ain. The patronage of M. Laine'antl M.
Raverihis townsmen, brought him to Paris, where
he obtained the appointment of King's ProeurettV%
the court of the Chamber of Peers. In capacity
he conducted, last spring, the trial oft Alleged
s conspirators of August, 1820; and the trial of ono;
of them, Marion, who wascitondemned about
month ago. Having thus made his appearance Or
Paris' political and judicial boards, hei' VI MS found-
useful to the late Ministry for his seal, and by their
influence was elected member of the Chambpp„ of
Deputies for the department of Cher. Jtri,he
Chamber he has spoken only once or trice, and
without any success. His accent, *slate Parisians
express it, swill strongly of the province. He is
said, however, to possess the Osier of extempore de-
fence. He appeared yesterday on the bench of
Ministers without his robes of office, which, from
the tiuddenness of his appointment,', could not be
ready, and excited a smile in the Chamber, at the
figure he cut in his court-dress with a sword. " See,
(said one of the Deputies), Justice with the sword,
but without the balance!"
It is said that M. de Serre is to be sent as ambas-
sador to Berlin, and that M. de Chitesubritutd is to
be appointed to be Master of the University. with a
seat in the Cabinet ; but these are mere rumours..
M. de Serre will most probably remain in the
Chamber of Deputies, where his friends will require
his aid,
M. Laine has given in his resignation as Minister
of State.
Antong,the rumoured appointments is that of the
deputy Bertin de Vaux to be Prefect of Police,
M. de Clermont-Tonnere was yesterday admitted
to take the oaths before his Majesty, in his quality '
of Minister of Marine.
MADRID, Dec. 6.—Yesterday at half-past three
in the afternoon, their Mljesties and: their Royal
Highnesses returned to this capital. The garrison
and local militia fiirnted a double line for the passage
of the august family, who made their entry amidst
the acclamations of an immense multitude, who
evinced their attachment by the most ardent demon-
strations of .joy.
The following is an extract of intelligence which
has just reached us from Barcelona, down to the 6th
December •
Several incendiary parriPlilets, in which insurrec-
tion is openly advocated, have bean distributed is;
profusion ; the Captain General has, rather clan-
destinely, introduced 300 soldiers and warlike stores
into the citadel, in which the Commandant of Bar-
celona has shut himself up. As soon as this event
was known, the militia caused a general muster to
be sounded, and spontaneously assembled to the
number of four thousand, shouting " Death to the
Serviles.' "
An attempt was made to. surprise Mount-Joey;
but this failed. The commandant of this fiat, and
ha who commands the citadel, replied, that they
could not do so without an order from the Captaio•
General. An officer was despatched to demand an
order to this effect The answer is expected with
impatience, and great ferment prevails. The most
disastrous consequences will inevitably follow, if this
order be not granted. 'Lae pupti.ace are very ve-
hement. and openly avow their intention of repul-
sing site authorities, should they present themselves
to re-enter Barcelona.
The election of the Regidors at Sarria gave rise
to violent conainotions. Tli.e Pr aident of the AN
snub!), was ill-treated and struck ; a conflict with
knives took place, in which many were woutolcd.
-Tile militia have hem despatched to restore °. yr,
Ind at"art yet ignorant how things have ended.
All eyes arc turned towards iego, who has shit wn t
himself in various points of Catalonia, and who
now said to be at Nlanrc%i.

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1119, there were 990.00 lints, and yeb,Us •
deaths ; making an exam of births amounting to
103,685.
The first act of thei new Ministry hasp men to ..:
withdraw the Censordlip, lately pr peetd to the
Citionbertrbisputies by the Aditioistfattio wisest A •
they have succeeded. This seems to passim than,
henceforward, the entire charter will be Mended kV
without laws of exception, and that the Adminis-
tuition who have succeeded will tender it the rule
of their conduct and the object of their devotion.
This is to hold that the new project ado law re•
lative to the police of journals, announced to el by
the Keeper of the Seals, will contain only repressive
provisions, and will banish front'our legislation for • 1/*
ever the preventive system, condemned by so many
sound minds, -and which, accoeding to our opinion, ;1"
is more conformable to the, spirit ofstbsolute govern- f.
ments than'tkese of Which the flume is alostitutionel.
which should punish faults only which have been .
comfititted.
The Drapean Blanc congratulates himself on the
law of the censorship being Withdrawn, and theist
who have any attachment to oonstitntienOline.
agree in that respect with the Alveoli appear
to believe that the withdrawn law will not be re-
placed by one of the same sort, but by a definitive
law, which, exempting the journals front previous
censorship, will leave them liable only to repressive
measures. This is a hope in which every one may '
participate, but which, like many other things, is
only fbunded in conjectifee, The' Draper* ,
justly reprobates the argument hitherto enipkrand
by the Ministers. and (which amounted to this—that
as it was almost impossible to mke a repressive law ,
for the journals, it was useless to attempt it, and
that it was sufficient for their purpose to perpetuate
the censorship.
Me CT IMO or PR RLIA M N —As the'titig will
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open the Parliament in person, the most etfensive
arrangements are mating by the Lord Great Cham-
berlain, Lord Gwydyr, for the royal reception, on
his Majeaty's first appearance before the Parliament
after thi Coronation ; and - contrary to what has , ,
taken place for sotne years past, they will be ender '
his Lordship's sole controul. The Lord Greet Clem-
berlain, by virtue of his office, has the governoiest
of the whole Palace of Westminster, the Gentlemen -.OW
Usher of the Black Rod, the Yeoman [biter, and rs 4,
door-keepers, being under his Lordship's toompan4. •
—Frow this controul not having been here fore I•`# '4.'•
strictly enforced, considerable confusion has, at times
arisen from the admission of visitors to the old
jiouse of Lords, the Painted Climber, and other
places through which his Majesty had to pass.— !It
Various individuals had issued tickcts, or had,ieen
instrumental in procuring the admission of specta-
%tors, but at the approaching openinit of Parliament,
none but the Lord Great Chamberlain's tickets will
,be suffered to gain an entrance for visitors. A ticket
and seal are preparieg fur the express purpose; and
the issue of tickets will be on the most liberal scale,
as far as the same shall be consistent with the dig:
nity and comfort of the proceedings en that day.
On Thursday last a report was propagated on .;
'Change, that Ministers have it in isintenipiation to
reduce the interest of the public Funds One per
Cent. respectively ; and that, an arrangement has
been made for carrying it into execution immediately
after its being submitted to Parliament. The rue
mour did not obtain credit on the Stock Exchange,
as it had no of whatever on the funds.
PROSECUTIONO.—The cause paper in the Court
of King's Bench exhibits not less than SOl actions,
all set down for trial at the Sittings after Term.—
the number many are prosecutions. We find
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the ICpsg • . Hance, and the King tr.
The lie both indictments preferredby Mr. Merray,
the Solicitor. There is also the following highly
important cause, to which the public are looking
with great interest:—The King v. Murr.ty and 1.1
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three others.
Mr. John Johnstone, the celebrated comedian,
has been sworn in one of his Majesty's HAL Band
of Gentlemen Pensioners. The situation is obtained
by purchase, and initu,:diatel previous to the 'giro.
nation, one was sold fur LOn)l.

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