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London, England, 1822-01-07 00:00:00

LAW PROJECT.

" Louis, &c.:—We have ordered and do order that the law
project of which the tenor follows, shall be presented to the
Chamber of Deputies by our Keeper of the Seals, Minister Se-
cretary of State for the Department of Justice, whom we charge
with the explaining of the motives and the supporting of the
discussion thereof.
" Art. 1. No journal or periodical writing devoted wholly
fig in part to news or political matters, and appearing either
regularly and on a fixed day, or by numbers (livraison), or ir-
regular, can be established and published without the authority
of the King.
"This provision does not apply to the
,journals or periodical
publications existing on the lit of Jan. 1822.
" 2. The copy of each sheet or number of the periodical
papers or journals which is required to be delivered in the Pre-
fectures, sub-Prefectures, and Mayoralties, in virtue of the law
of the 9th of June, 1819, shall be deposited at the bar of the
King's Attorney for the place where the said paper or journal
is printed.
66 3. In the case in which the spirit and tendency of a perio-
dical writing or journal may be of a nature injurious to public
peace, to respect for the relieion of the state, and the other reli-
gions legally recognized in France, to the authority of the King,
and to the stability of the col:di:Undone' institutions, the Royal
courts, within the Jurisdictions in which they shall be establish-
ed, may, in a solemn audience, and after having heard the At.

torney-General and the parties, suspend such periodical writing
or journal, Or ei,,en suppress it, if they see occasion."
The reading of the articte was here interrupted by a violent
explosion of murmurs. All the left broke out at once in excla-
mations.
M. Guilhern—Se.id your law to Constantinople !
Bignon—lt is unqualified despotism, •
M. de Girardin—They wish to make us regret the loss of the
Censorship.
Amidst the confusion of voices, the Keeper of the Seals with
difficulty got through the last.paragraph of article 3, which is
as follows :
" The pleadings shall be public, unless the Court should con-
sider that publicity dangerous to order and morality.—(Vident
interruption on the left.)
M. Dupont (de l'Eure).—A solemn audience with closed
doors ! What solemnity !
Voices in the centre—Read article 54 of the Charter, Gentle-

men.
" 4. If in the interval of the Session of the Chambers,weighty
circumstances should render temporarily insufficient the esta-
blished measures of security and repression, the laws of the
31st of March, 1820, and the 26th of July, 1821, may be for
the time restored to vigour, in virtue of an ordinance of the
King, countersigned by three Ministers.—(Violent interrup-
tion.)
M. de Lameth.—Three Ministers ! That is for the suspen-
sion of personal liberty. • • •
M. de Girardin—L-Suspend the charter, also, lly the signature
of three Ministers.
A voice.—The six Ministers will sign, if necessary.
M. M6chin.—This is a frightful project.
, Other voices.—This will make us bless the censorship.—ln
mercy leave us your censors.
The President had to ring his bell long before M. de Pey,
ronnet could resume the reading of the article.
" This regulation shall completely cease to operate at the end
Ms one month from the opening of the session of the Chambers,
if in the meantime it be not converted into a law.
M. Mechin and other voices on the left.—This is a bad pal-

liative!
Voices in the centre.—Silence, gentlemen. Such interrup-
tions are unexampled.
M. de Peyronnet proceeded :
" It shall also cease on the day on which an ordinance shall
be published, pronouncing the dissolution of the Chamber -of
Deputies.
"' 5. The provisions of the anterior laws which are not abro-
gated by the present shall continue in force.
" Given at the Castle of the Tuileries on the 31st of Decem-
ber, in the year of Grace-1321, and of our reign the 27th.
(Signed) ed ) " LOUIS.
(Countersigned) "DE PEYRONNET."

The Minister raised his voice, which the great
agitation on the left nearly drowned, and pro-
nounced with a very remarkable accent the for-
mula with which the project terminated, viz.:—
" By the King's command, the Keeper of the
Seals, Minister Secretary of State for the Depart-
ment of Justice. Signed De Peyronnet."
This formula, twice repeated by the Keeper of
the Seals, with the particle which precedes the
name of his Excellency, gave rise to prolonged
laughter.
A voice.—Why not say briefly, Peyronnet ?
Other voices.—We are now informed that the
name of the Keeper of the Seals is De Peyronnet.
The laughter continued, while some voices i❑
the centre called " Order."

President.—The Chamber acknowledges the

receipt of the project, orders it to be printed,
and distributed and referred for exa►nination to
the bureaux. IVill it be convenient for the

Chamber to meet on the day after to-morrow in
the bureaux, to proceed to this preliminary ex-
amination ?

Voices in the centre and on the right.—Yes,
yes.

Voices on the left.--flow hasty you are.
President.—The day after to-morrow, if there
be no opposition.
M. Benjamin Constant.—There will be a great
deal.—,(Noise.)
President.—The present bureaux retain their
powers on Friday. They will not be renewed
until Monday in a public sitting, and thyy will
then proceed to their new organization.
Voices on the left—Well, let the examination
be on Monday. It will then be undertaken by
the new bureaux.

M. Mkhin ascended the tribunal--The im-
portance of the project which has been read ;
the prgfundll.y of the views (laughter on the one
Side, and murmurs on the other) on which it is,
founded—

MM. Etienne, Bignon, &c.—Yes, Yes : the
views are easily penetrated.
M. Benjamin constant.—The design is to stifle
liberty entirely.
M. Demaroy.—lt is an intolerable law.
M. Mechrn.—The piquant motives scattered
through the whole speech. (Applause and iro-
nical laughter.)
M. Pardessus.—Ortler, order ! This is a per-
sonal insult to the Minister.

Voices on the centre and right.—Order !
order ! It is quite indecent.
Other voices.—Let the President do his duty.
(Tumult.)
Voice on the left.—Do you mean that the
motives are not very piquant ? Your denial is
the insult.

, M. Machin, to whom the President addressed
some words amidst the confusion, descended from
the Tribunal, saying, " I propose that the meet-
ing of the bureaux shall be postponed till Mon-
day. Is this proposition supported ?"—(Yes,
yes ! No, no !)
M. de Lameth.—l have not ascended the tri-
bune to speak on the projet de loi, because it is
not yet a subject of discussion : public opinion,
which must influence our decisions, and which
passes judgment upon them, will declare itself on
this projet. My object is merely to support the
proposition of M. Medlin, for postponing the
Committee till Monday. I must observe, how-
ever, that I have heard -.vith astonishment a re-
newal of those cries of " Order" which were
given up in the last Session, and hitherto during
the present, and which had given place to that
temper and moderation which befit a Legislative
Assembly. I must confess that I cannot see the
object of that excessive eagerness which one part
of the Chamber has manifested towards this new
projet.
The proposition of M. Mechin was then put to
the vote, and lost by a small majority. Friday
was then fixed for the Committee.—The Cham-
ber then adjourned.
FRANKFORT, DEC. 29.—1 t seems, according to
vaiious, accounts inserted in the Spectateur Ori-
ental, to be the intention of the Greeks to direct
their efforts against Candia, of which they expect
to be able to keep possession, if they once be-
come masters of it.
The Nuremberg Correspondent quotes letters
from Vienna, stating, as a report, that the Porte
had rejected the Russian Ultimatum, and that
Russia had declared war.
The Allgemeine Zeilung publishes an article
from Vienna of the 23d, stating that the Austrian
General commanding on the extreme froutie'r

had received intelligence that it Was regarded as
certain at Semlin that the Grand Seignior lost his
life on the 28th or 29th of November.

VIENNA, DEC. 23.—Since the evening of the

15th, when the ordinary courier,of the Perte ar-
rived here from Constantinople, it is known that
the news generally spread of the breaking out of
a revolution in the Turkish capital is an exagge-
ration ; but we learnt at the same time, that
during the 27th, 28th, and 29th of November,
so great an anarchy, reigned there, that every one
residing in the quarter of the. Franks expected
an open revolution. No person dwelling on the
other side of the port, at Vera, Galata, and To-
phana, durst quit their habitations ; and this is
one reason why, for so long a period, so little
was known of what was really passing. On the
28th several fires broke out in Constantinople,
and also. in the suburbs.

The general persuasion was, that the houses
were set on fire by the Janissaries, in prder to
cover a conspiracy long meditated against Ha-
leb Effendi, a powerful favourite of the Grand
Seignor. Whilst the hippodrome, and the
streets abutting on it, were filled with armed
Mussulmans, and all the ortas of the Ja-
nissaries had taken arms, the Sultan Pdah-
mond, with his favourites, and several persons of
rank, the creatures of Haleb, was shut up in the
seraglio, and it was said at Pera that they were
besieged there by the Janissaries and an infuriat-
ed populace. For a long time the police of Ha-
leb had been taking measures for the protection
of the Sultan's person, and to guarantee as much
as possible the life of the Monarch, and of his
son, Abdul Hamid, a prince eight years of age,
and the only male progeny of the reigning family
of Osman. This young prince never quits the
seraglio, and is guarded day and night by a
crowd of black eunuchs. The favourite no tom-
ger permits the Sultan himself to make his ap-
pearance in public, except on urgent occasions,
and those prescribed by the lawvand customs of
the empire. He is then always surrounded by
corps of ichoglans, entirely under the orders of
Haleb, numerous bostaugis, white eunuchs, and
other guards of the seraglio.
A report was circulated on the 28th in Pera,
that the Janissaries had formed a plan of enteriusr
the seraglio en masse, of demanding the heads of
Haleb and the Kislar-aga, and of making them-

selves masters of the person of Abdul llamid. A
report was even spread in rem i❑ the evening of
the 28Lh, that the Sultan and his principal. favou-

rites had been put to death.
A messenger, who left Constantinople during
this state of alarm, carried these reports to Adri-
anople, whence they spread as far
,as the fort-

resses- on the Danube. - We are assured that the

Sultan subsequently succeeded in tranquillizing
the Janissaries, by the distribution of large sums
among them; but the extraordinary agitation
still continued in Constantinople, and no one
can foresee the issue. Nothing of the contents
of the last dispatches from the Austrian Minister
has transpired here, but the private letters re-
ceived by the same courier leave scarcely any

doubt that the Porte still refuses a categorical

and official answer to the Russian Ultimatum,
notwithstanding the solicitations of the diplo-

matic corps. In the absence of any plenipo-
tentiary from the Court of Russia, the Austrian
legation at Pera is authorised by our Cabinet to
take Russian subjects under their protection.
Even the Russian vessels rshich pass to the Black
Sea are provided with Austrian passports. This
is, 'however, with the consent of the Turkish au-
thorities.

Two days before the troubles broke out in
Constantinople, the Austrian and British Am-
bassadors had in succession their first audience of
the new Reis Effendi. They set out from their
palaces, surrounded by all the persons attached
to their embassies, in grand proces6ion, a corps of I
Janissaries in the dress of ceremony accompanying
them to the place appointed for the interview. The
notes presented by the two Plenipotentiaries were
drawn up, it is said, in a similar manner, and
filled with complaints against the Turkish Go-
vernment. Persons who assisted at this solemn
interview with the Reis-Effendi, expatiate largely
on the haughtiness with which the Franks were
treated by the Turks.
The answers given by Zadki Effendi were vague
and evasive. The Ambassadors solicited a pri-
vate audience of the Grand Seignor, but this was
refused them. In returning home, the escort of
Janissaries by which the Franks were accompa-
nied could not protect them from-serious
,itlsults
on the part of the populace, and it is mentioned
that several individuals of both legations escaped
with difficulty from much greater dangers.—
(Constitutionnel.)
VIENNA, DES. 23.—The report of the assas-
sination of the Grand Seignior has been, formally
contradicted by our Generals commanding on
the Turkish frontier.
DEC. 24.—The solicitude of the Government
to contradict the alarming news lately circulated,
respecting Constantinople, has caused our funds
to rise a little. There is now a report that a
large body of Austrian troops 'will be cantoned
in Upper Italy, and that the army of General
Frimont, which occupies Naples, will receive
another destination.

FROM THE DANUBE, DEC. 21.—We have re-
ceived recent intelligence from Smyrna, which
announces the approaching departure of the
European merchants, as well as the embarkation
of the Consuls and Commercial Agents, because
they are in danger daily of losing their lives.
FRONTIERS OF ITALY, DEC. t2l.—We learn
from Sinyrna that the Pacha of Egypt appears ill.
disposed to obey the orders of. the Grand Seignior
to send troops to his assistance.
FROM THE COASTS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN,
DEC. 16.—The Greeks are again masters of the
Archipelago, and are reinforcing their fleets.
WARSAW, DEC. 10.—People speak here very
loudly and very freely of war against the Turks.
AIJGSBURG, DEC. 26.—We learn that the Aus-
trian Legation at Munich has received official in-
telligence that war against Turkey is decided
upon. The Manifesto of Russia, it is.added, will
appear without delay.
NAPLES, DEC. 16.—The King has just granted
to the Chevalier de Medici, ex-Minister of M-
I !lance a pension of 10,000 ducats. It is again

stated confidently that 6,000 Swiss are about to
enter the service of the King of the Two Sicilies,
and 4,000 the service of the King of Sardinia.
Rome, `o.—Among the strangers at pre-
sent in this capital) is Mrs. Paterson, the first
wife of Jerome Buonaparte, with her two
daughters, one of whom. it is said, is to be mar-
ried to a son of Joseph Buonaparte„ qt.is said,-
that one of the sons of Lucien Buonaparte is
about to embark for America, where he will
marry a daughter of his uncle Joseph.
LEGHORN, DEC. 14.—The Russian subjects
Who have taken refuge in the lonian Isles are
the object of the strictest superintendence of the
local authorities. Some clay all will be known ;
and there is no doubt but that the Emperor
Alexander will extend to them his benevolent
and paternal regard.
The siege of Patras still continues : the Greeks
are occupied in making mines, and it is probable
that a subterraneous explosion will deliver the
Peloponnesus from the presence of the Turks,
who now occupy no strong place but this in Achaia.
A letter from M issolonghi, in G reece,dated Nov.
27, contains the following details :--" I announce
to you that there have arrived here, in the course of
the week,eight vessels frornMarseilles,Genoa,Leg.
horn, Ancona, and Venice, all filled with arms,,
ammunition, officers, and subalterns of artillery,
and of different descriptions of military force.—
Several other vessels laden with cannons, guns,
and distinguished military men, have likewise
arrived at Calamata from Marseilles. The salary
ofthe soldiers, and payment for all articles sent
to us from abroad, are managed with equal inte-
grity and punctuality. May Gon protect us!"
ILAMBETRGII, DEC. 27.—We are authorized to
declare, that there is no fOundation for an ar-
ticle that has appeared in our Journals and other
public Prints, stating that " The King of Spain
had requested the assistance of Austrian troops
against his rebellious subjects." _ _ _

Dr.c. 31.—The number of vessels arrived here
by sea during the year 1821 was 1572, of which
from England 562, France 92, Russia and the Bal-
tic 83, Sweden and Norway 66, Finland 10, Den-
mark, Jutland and the Coasts 31, Holland, East
Friesland, the Weser and the Coast 377, Por-
tugal 38, Spain and the Mediterranean 106,
the Canary Islands 8,- North America 47, South
America 34, Brazil 86, East Indies 6. Only
three ships have been on the seal and whale
fishery, and seven on the herring fishery. The
number of vessels sailed to various ports (exclu-
sive of the smaller vessels) was 1102.

SAN:ONV, Dac. 26.—0 n the 13th instant, a
new rescript was addressed to the Censors in
Saxony to be cautious with respect to paragraphs
relative to the affairs of Greece and Turkey, and
not to allow any partiality.
STocKnor.st, DEC.2l.—From the usual annual
reports relative to the harvest, it appears that
it is only in the provinces of Upland, Mal-
mochus, Nerike, and A land, that the corn har-
vest has turned out favourably ; in the northern
provinces it has universally failed.
From the Report of the Board of Customs, it
seems that the net amount of the duties, &c. in
18'20, was 416,740 rix dollars less than in 1819;
among the causes of this decrease are, first, that
on account of the increased duty very little corn
was imported ; second, on account of the liberty
of bonding goods, granted to the city of Stockholm,
a large quantity of wines and other goods that
pay a high duty, lie there in depot, and no duly
has yet been paid on them ; third, that on account
of the increased strictness of the measures to pre-
vent contraband, only half as much had been re-
ceived for Confiscations and fines for smuggling.
The receipt was, however, 91,000 dollars more
than that of 1818, and 123,000 dollars more than
that of 1817.

Russi.t, Dcc. 4.—The Manifesto against the
Porte, which is so ardently wished for, has not
yet appeared, but war is, however, not to be
doubted. The general opinion, as well as the
general wish, loudly proclaim this. The Rus-
sians will look on this war, on account of the
destruction of the churches of the Greeks their
brethren, as a religious war, and fight like lions.

On the 3d an order was issued to convert 12
regiments of Cossacks into Hulans.
St. PETERSBURGII, Drc. 14.—0 n \the 17th of
November there were some shocks of an earth-
quake felt at Kiew and at Uman ; in the first
town three, which were, slight and without noise,
each lasting some seconds ; at Uman there was a
pretty smart shock, so that the houses were sell-
s' lily shaken.
PETEMBURGII, DEC. 7.—We have advices
from, Semlin of the 7th November, which state,
that the Persians have taken Erzerum, and beaten
the Paella of Bagdad. Several French Officers
are in the army of the Persians.
General Count Wittgenstein, who has been
_bere some days, set out yesterday to return to
his Head-quarters.
IlxNovElt, DEc.2l.—The Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge are expected to go to Berlin soon
after the new year ; and on their return, which
will be towards the middle of February, the
Duke, it is said, intends to go to London.
The K ing's visit, which has in many respects
been attended with many happy consequences,
will also essentially contribute to the improve-
ment of the city, his Majesty having given or-
ders to build a considerable number of houses at
his expence. It is said, that in spring the foun-
dations of a number of houses are to be laid in
George-street, which is distinguished by its fa-
vourable situation next the ramparts.