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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

MAY 15.

PRICE Ok S'T'OCKS YESTERDAY.

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SUNDA V, MA Y 15, 1814.

FRANCE.

We lament to find, from the papers received in the
course of the week, that many diinvence=, remain to be
reconciled, which are continually breaking out in the
!!anguinary (-carrels. The people are.divided with
req‘ect to the Senat., and alto on the subject of the con-
stitution. It is to be hoped the patriatie energies of the
King will put an end to th,se dkoiders. A temperate,
but firm e7.?rriv.e of the Royal Authority, can alone unite
tiro nail.-n stud annihilate those party feelins, •which me-
nacc.b France with evils not leg tremendous than those
V. Lich she has already been fated to witness and deplore.
ti a addition to the unpleac.ant tidings above referred to,
we.learn from the proclnmatkus of the that contri-
Lutions have heel: 1.,3- the Allied forces shice the
F ig of tl:c :Convention, on the Fiench people. it is
uvol7able these hale been put an end to by the Allied Com-
n.andors, and, indel.,d, wo know that orders have been
i,sued to that effect. The French Kiug, in one of his
proclamations, states the droitr ?Tunics, as modified by
Polonsieur, have not been pttuctualiy mud. These irregu-
lalities, in ti:e present situaticn of things in France, ure
no more thon we were preparcd to expect, but still they
alarmlui4. A fell- wc....ks n lA, we trust, relieve the
Fuench froth tho pres,:ure c.;' which they complaiu,
Hod ivstcre to them the I:lessings of peace under a mild
and patcrual t;overnment.
following Is the substance of the French papers re-
ceived yestinday.

::**, MAY 11.-13 v ordinanre of the Icirg dated on the
of May, bis Majesty sap, ' We ie,ve had piefelited to us in a
Coo;mil of S:iite, the Conventions between France and the Allied ,
Powers oii the April last, and ra:itied ten the :sth by our dear
Li other, Alonsieor, Sou of France Lieut.-General of the Kingdom,
in our aliAmec ; and vv. hare seep w ith the greatest satisfaction that
it wag the intention of the high powers, as they are clearly ex.
SSed, to give to France as soon to possi:de the enjoyment of ILL 1,
sines of Pelee, a cn befoie ail the pro., i'lei:S of it had been I,
mipolated. have fixed our patilinliu• unct:linn neon the Btll
itt is lc: of the Cott,.etition, in which the Allied Powers, in come-
quence of their hit ndsliip for France, el:plots their wish to pot an
cud to military revisitions I u,n the to:Anent these provinces should I,
debyrred over to she 161. j: bottle utmer It is not therefore
,i:shment that we let c learnt, that, though the royal
authority' he now the ot,:y one icengnbcd in france, and subse-
'picot to the delay tietessLry fur the ratiticatimr cf the Cotiventiont
or the Y.'l April. the Conainandeis e r In;endants of the Armies of
the. Allied Powers, have continued to rt quire war contributions, or
to exercise veiy extensive requisitiro.s : that even hi sortie provinces •
they have pi( cio•leil to anticipated Ltijudications of %wood, and
sa'es of moveabb.:s belArgiii4 to the state. W have the hap," as-
sw ance that such measures are contrary to the intentions et 'the •
Mi•Vi reigns assembled in our capital, aild that they wish to tenni-
n lie with genorosity a war undertaken not against France, but for
the satily of Europe. We have thought, tnerttOre, that we owe
it to the Allied Powers themselves to ontotain by our authority
the execution of the Conventions of the 23d April, and to prevent
any of /In stibkets from taking part in measures which would be
vii,ktions of the Convetittone. We, therefore, decree as follows :
[The decree orders tin.• fin ei,rn troops to be supplied with meet.
SRI kb, but the orders are to be given b the King ; and no orders
are to o;,eyed which sir dl proteud um 114^ Ctuuuanderi or 1u-
te14;144.4 of the Allied Power. 4 ]

315

A second fieolaration comp' :ins of t!ip 11411• tilty in eollyrtiug
tile tax . of the dreils reunist Rs modified by the device of Monsieur
of the 15th April. " The State has its ereditovi, functionaties,
and armies. The Government is in watt of all itb resource! ; and
it is not vt heti they are enfeebled by the miserly! of vrat that it
sarrifif.e an important part of them without finding an equi-
valent. Hence the Fafety of the State requires that all the laws
taxes s;iall be respected and obeyed, until °Oer laws p, °core
to our polvie the relief which therdeturep and %%Inch circumstances
•hall render possible.
gg We proptie to change, conjointly with the Leciy•lative BoclY,
the system of d!...its reani.. But till then. we t:rst, that from the
love mai of our subjects, will payoactly and p. aec,:bly all
the direct end itulirect taxes itowiexisting. ,

,
" Given at tl.e Palace of the Thuilleties May 10, •1814.
(Signed) " Louts."
We, Chmleu Philip of Fiance, Son of France, Monsieur, Brother
of the Kibg, Lieutenant General of the Kingdom:—
" Upon the report of the Provisional Cominiasiener of Marine
and Provi.ional Collura of State, order as tollows

" Art. I. When the of Peace between France and
the Aliied POWt.rs shall have been signed, or a general armistice
hi en,agreed upon, the number of ships of war or transports which
ate actudily equippiA iu the six maritime districts shall be provi-
reduced itsjollows:—
" Thirteen ships of the line,. twenty-mte" frigates. twenty.scvee
cutters, fifteen wigs, thirteen flutes, and sixty trengporbi."
ft. The above munbur of light vessels and transport:, nifty he tem-
porarily alionented, if circumstances respire it, to serve for the
,peedy euarey:thee of English prisoners cl war who are to be sent
home in uxeention of the decree of the 13th inst.

" 3. The foreun seamen, or ti o,re coming from the departments
Inked to RUM since 179 i, shall be disbanded the first and scut

home..

" 4. There t hall be provisionally employed only two ReanAdntirals
in the i•ommand of the .naval futre in active service) one at )heat
and the other at Tol:loo.

4k 5. ilk. vessels iv hick are at Flushing, Antwerp, and Genoa, shall
remain evippctl until fresh orders.
" Give tl§t Avid, Gl4:
(Siened)
By No lit' re.
(Signed )

CHARLrIi PHILIPPS.

44 Baron tit VITROLLAIO

" A Decree of the 9tli of May direct.; that the 71 clie7ta of Pa-
rrs irons the Diplomatic Archives of Holland, and depo,ited in the
Archive, of the Minister for Foreign Offices of France, shall be
restor, d to the Dutch Government.

" A Doeree of the 9th of May directs that there shall he restored
to the ten fist Spatiish the Onjects of Art. and other pro-
pi.rty, which were 11 ql les t e raid by the former French Goveryouenty
in cynformity with the Decree of the itth Nov. 1808.