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LONDON,
AIONDAY, FEBRUAI?I' it, 18'22.

We received this morning the French Papers
Thursday and Friday. The former contain
the debates- in the Chamber of Deputies on Wed-
-I,esday, on the final adoption of the, Law for the
4'egulation of the Press, the result of which was
'anticipated by our private advises on Saturday.
4the,last day's papers give an account of Thurs.
Ws proceedings in the same Chamber, at the
°Petting of the discussion on the proposed Law
relative to the Journals. M. M. LAISNE de Vir,=
i4ESQUE, and BASTERRECHE spoke eloquent-
against the Law, and were answered by
v • M. COURTAVEL and de FRENILLY, who
°tett for it. The House adjourned at half
P,aSt five, and the discussion was to be resumed
, ;.e next day. The only other news from Paris
„ . stir importance, is the report in circulation of
4
Intention to nominate twelve ecclesiastical
Peers.

Accounts from Augsburg, of the Ist instant,
ate, that the, Russian troops are augmenting
considerably in Bessarabia, and are prepared to
Nlter Moldavia -and Walachia at a moment's
notice. On the other hand, it appears, by
44, article from Aix-la-Chapelle, that the
4urks continue to reinforce their armies
°4 the banks of the Pruth and the Danube, the
latter of which is provided with a considerable
r
i?rte of artillery. The courier from Constan-
lople of the 10th of January had not arrived at
Vienna on the 26th of that month, and this cit•
tornstanCe gave birth to various reports. It is
again asserted that the Austrian Cabinet has held
frequent communications with the different Mem-
bers of the Germanic Confederation, in order to
determine the policy to be adopted by the Ger-
I'lan States, as soon as War breaks out between
the Porte and Russia ; from which it is evident
that the differences, between those two Powers
Ore not so certain of adjustment as has been
recently imagined.
The intelligence from Spain brought by Ma-
dud Papers ccmes down to the 28th ult. In the
:fitting of the Cortes of the 27th, the opinion of
the Committee appointed to report on the state
°I Spanish America was discussed. The Re-
Port recommended that Commissioners should
be immediately sent out to treat with the
Colonial Governments ; but Senor-GottiN con-
te.oded that it was useless to send Commis-
boners unless the independence of America were
Previously recognized, and he therefore submit-
ted the heads of a Treaty, the first article of
*hicit recognizes the independence of the two
Spanish Americas, which, he said, would meet all
the difficulties, and which, he thmight, the Corn.
Nissioners should take with them. A very long
debate ensued, which occupied the whole of the
Sitting, and the further discussion was deferred to
the next day. The advices from Spain in the
, l'rench.Journals are dated the 29th ultimo, and
give a lamentable description of the distracted
state of that country. Old Castile is in insur-
rection, and Seville has deposed the lately in-
Stalled civil and military authorities. Her
,„ample, it was feared, would be followed by
‘-'lld z Alicant, Murcia, and Carthagena.

FRENCH FUNDS.
Feb. 7, Five per Cents. ' 87 1. sc.
Bank Stock 150 f. c.

Since writing the above, we have received this
morning by express the Paris Papers. of Saturday
last.—=On Friday a Deputation of the Chamber
Of Deputies presented to the KING the law
Passed by. the chamber on the sth for the re-
pression of the abuses of the Press. The Keeper
14. the Seals at one o'clock laid the projet of the
1,”- before the Chamber of Peers. The Chem-
'e'r ordered the projet to be printed, and re-
'erred tolhe Bureaux, as well as the expose of
the Keeper of the Seals. The Bureaux will
tlleet. on Monday (this dap) to examine the
i'Vet, immediately after which the Chamberwill.
,Proceed to the discussion in a general sitting, and
\till appoint a Committee.
,I,Pntscrt ideiCent. Consols, jouis de
:44 Sept. 1821: 881.90 c. 95f. 90c. 05c. 90c; 89f. 88f. 95c:—(Jcnir-
'41 de Patis:l

tt will not be easy to point out any substantial
(Ivantage resulting to the French Press from an
dholition of the Censorship,if the proposed Libel
Law should pass the House of Peers without ma-
terial alteration. The controlling power will
Perhaps be less galling in its exercise, but its
execution will be more deadly, and its operation
kill be difected on similar principles. Cdrrec-
tion, it is true, will be no longer administered
Under the immediate influence of Covernment,
and it will be entrusted (at least we have no rea-
son for presuming otherwise) to independent and
latisuspected hands. But one of the great and
inevitable faults of a Censorship is, not that the
Power is corruptly or tyrannically administered,
for this is an accidental, rather than a necessary
or inherent evil, but that the Magistrate per-
forms his discretionary functions according to a
settled and inflexible system, baying lost the
faculty of applying to iudividual cases that liberal
and equitable consideration so peculiarly requi-
site in judging the irregularities of the Press. A
single 'Magistrate, or a limited number, conti-
nually deciding on cases of the same class, ine•
Vitably make to themselves certain fixed tures, of
interpretation and criticism, and acquire settled
habits and modes of applying the law to the sub-
jects which come before them. Now, it is not
11
_minds thus disciplined that the effect
of literary compositions upon public feeling
a
11 be most truly estimated. The Judge

may be a better critic than an ordinary jtiryntan ;
he. may be better qualified to penetrate the
author's motives, and to perceive the'atlinity of
his doctrines with others of a more or less dan-
gerous class ; but such considerations dO knot

properly. come under review in a trial for libel, I
and a too nice attention to these is more likely
to pervert
,than to promote justice. When a
literary work becomes the subject of accusation;
the true object is to ascertain its operatiOn upon
the common readers of the day, and this can
never be unerringly effected but by chasing for
judges individuals; honest and intelligent, but
selected at the moment; and such as, by their
station, pursuits, and habits of life; may appear
best •fitted to represent the bulk of those in
whose hands the offending publication was
likely to be found. All. tribunals otherwise
constituted, though composed of persons*tinble-
mished in character and of the purest intentions,
are essentially arbitrary and censorial. The
jurisdiction now establishing in France; with a
power of fining and imprisoning; is not; indeed,
a preventive, but it *ill be a punishing censor-
ship : it will not disfigure the paperk by the,
quering theth with blank spaces, but its autho-
rity•over.the publishers will be apparent from
time to time in the Vanishing Of their profits and
the disappearance of their persons from society. It
has indeed been said, and we believe with some
truth, that Dairymen in France haVe occasionally
abused their office by pronouncing verdicts that
could only be iMptited to faction arid favour. It
must, however, beconfessed, to the discredit of hu-
man institutions, that instances of this kind have
almost always occurred, and, *e fear, will never
be entirely unknown, during times of strong po-
pular excitement. In political trials of every
description, taking place under such circurri-
stances, there will always be some danger that
Jurymen may
.permit zeal, arid passion to ccinftise
their judgment or subdue their scruples, and may
give verdicts not founded on the evidence, but
on their own views of some subject connected
with the cause. It is not only in trials for libel
that such an evil is to be feared, but in every
case that connects itself with ,strong party feel-
ings ; this is the concomitant, and perhaps inse-
parable, disadvantage of Trial by Jury ; but if
that institution, notwithstanding any defects or
inconveniences, has, in its general application,
been found one of the strongest safeguards to
liberty and justice, it certainly is not in political
cases that we should be most ready to lay
it aside. The power of summary punishment
vested in the Legislative Chambers by this
law is far more extensive than the similar
authority enjoyed by our Ilouses of Parliament.
The weightiest correction inflicted by the Lords
and Commons of England for offences against their
dignity, is an imprisonment terminating at the
first prorogation or dissolution: But the French
Chattibers, when assailed by the press, may sum-
mon O. ctilprit to their bar, and inflict upon him
the same penalties as would follow a conviction
in Court; fines, to the amount, perhaps, of 6000
francs ; imprisonment of two or three years.; a
suspension or entire deprivation, in certain cases,
of the privilege of reporting; and, upon a viola-
tion of this interdict, double fines, and double
imprisonment. •
Another very long paper has been published,
on the conversion of Mr. LOYEDAY'S daughter
and niece. It is an elaborate defence of the
Governess, Mademoiselle REDOUL, drawn up by
two French Advocates. The lady exhibits great
zeal for the Catholic Religion, and throws con-
siderable blame on Mr. and Mrs. LOVEDAY, but
doeS not; think, justify herself in any mate-
rial point: She avows the letter written by her
sister to Mr. LOVEDAY, Protesting that his con-
fidence would not be abused on the head of
religion ; but she thinks this pledge was amply
redeemed, because the one daughter never for-
mally embraced the Catholic faith, and the other
did not make her abjuration till after she had
left Mademoiselle REBOUL. No light is thrown
upon the long concealment of Miss LOVEDAY,
from the time when she fled to the Enfans
Trouves till she was found at Mr. JERNiSGHAWS,
although there appears every reason to supposethat Mademoiselle REDOUL could assist in clear-
ing up this mystery. With regard to the niece,/
who, according to Mr. LovuDAY'S statement,
became a convert at fourteen, the Governess un-
dauntedly declares, that, as her uncle left her at
the school, he had removed his own daughters ;
as the child had herself manifested a wonderful
leaning to the Catholic faith ; as, moreover, her
mother had beed an Irish Lady, and therefore
might have beeti a Catholic 'Mademoiselle
REDOUL considered it a pious duty to withdraw
this young devotee from the "Anglican Church,"
in defiance of the 'known and vehemently de-
clared wishes of her uncle and guardian. Dig-
nified and illustrious Prelates were consulted,
who " recognised in the conduct of Mr. LOVE..
DA Y a mysterious decree of Providence, which
he was not permitted to elude ;" and the Go-
verness, no longer feeling herself called upon
4C to resist indefinitely the will of GOD himself,"
caused the work of conversion to be completed
by the abjuration of her pupil, and her imme-
diate admission to three Ittnnish sacraments.—
stateniOt will not,, We think, do very ex-
tensive service either to the cause of Made-
moiselle REBOUL, of to the interests of religion in
France. One thing at least is certain, that no
English. parent, after reading such an avowal,
will entrust his children to thi fidelity of French
preceptors, without full Warning of the danger to
be apprehended,, where a system' (if i4e may use
the phrase) of spiritual kidnapping is encouraged
by the highest religious authorities, and vindi-
cated as the express interposition of Divine Pro.
Vidence.

Extract of a Letter from ati annah, .bran. 1.

4C The cruizers are again phindering the Ame-
rican vessels as soon as the latter leave the coast.
There are now three vessels out from Regla fun
of men, who hoard every vessel they full, in with,
and have this week ransacked several vesse:i
and maltreated the crews. The Cabeldo of
Gtiatattala has 'invited the Cabeldo of th:d
city to follow their example and become inde-
pendent, to which the latter has given an angry
reply; and liar published the letter and answer.

The Captain-General has added an Addr,ess to
the loyal and constitutional people of Havannah
and the Island. A new election has taken place;
the Deputies illegally elected to the Cortes a're
left outf and new ones chosen in their stead.
Our Tinkflet is bad, and offers no encouragement
to ship any thing to thistplace."