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FARIS PAPERS.

IFrom the Doile.l
Pikßl, DEC. 29.—The Duke de San Carlos
had yesterday a private audience of the King,
when he delivered to his Majesty the decorations
which the King of Spain has conferred upon the
General Officers of the French army.

ROME, .DEC. 16.—Don Emmanuel Perez de la
Vega, the learned and intrepid Spanish traveller,
Las just . arrived here. He has traversed Asia,
Atnerica, and Africa, and made many very cu-
rious observations. He has been ten years absent
from his country, and only knows from report
the recent evils of that kingdom, which he is
about to.enrich with the tribute of his talents,
and the, fruit of his-toils.

Madame Recamier arrived here to-day from
Florence.

MADRID, Dm W.—Yesterday there was a
Council of State at which his Majesty presided.
To-day it assembles under the Presidency of his
Royal Highness the Infant Don Carlos. To-
morrow it will meet under the Presidency of the
Infant Don Francis Paulo. The object of these
repeated meetings is the amnesty, which is on
the point- of being settled. It will appear, it is
-said, on the 30th. Nothing has been neglected
to obtain precedents which may enlighten the
Council in this important affair. The archives
have been consulted to ascertain exactly what
took place in the reign of the Emperor Charles.
V., with regard to the Communeros, and under
that of Philip V. with regard to the Spaniards •
who were implicated in the party of the Arch-
duke of: Austria : some valuable documents, re-
lilting to both those periods, have been obtained
from the Archives of Serancas. What embar-
rasses the council in deciding upon the cases of
certain persons compromised in the course of the
revolution, are the capitulations granted by the
--Chief of the French army to the soldiers of the
Corte-s. However, all difficulties are surmount-
ed, and we shall shortly know what has been de-
finitively determined upon.
BAYONiiE, DEC. 23,—We are assured that a
commercial-house of this city has received news
from Madrid, in which the return of Victor Saes
to the Ministry is announced.—(lndicateur of
Bordeaux.)
TURIN, DEC. 22.=King Victor Emmanuel re-
covers daily. The state of his health no longer
-.e.xiAtes uneasiness.

[From the Constitutionnell
BASLie, Dac. 22.-IVe hear that a Spanish
Envoy Extraordinary is to be sent into Switzer-
land, and will arrive at Berne in a very short
time. The -principal object of his mission is to
engage the Cantons to adopt a proposition of the
Spanish Government to conclude with it another
'Military Treaty, according to which, four new
Swiss regiments will enter the service of the
,king of Spain. The system of Switzerland has
• changed very much within a few years as to
foreign service. The intellectual efforts made
last year, and again in the course of this year, on
the subject of a military treaty with Naples, are
the best proof of the prevailing disposition on
-this point. The restrictions which the liberty of
the press labours under in Switzerland, and the
extreme rigour of inspection which the various
agents of Government exercise in this respect,
have induced the Editors of several Journals and
periodical writings togive up their undertakings.
I:his resolution has been particularly acted on in
Canton of Argovia, and no journal is at pre-
sent published there. It is said that the motive
for this measure is, that the editors of periodical
works did not wish to implicate the Government
f the Canton and expose it to censure, and
thererore for the present gave up every species
of publication on political subjects. It is much
regretted that M. San.Orlacoden, bookseller, at
Aran, who has published several periodical works
for a number of years, which have had a great
run both in Germany and Switzerland, has also
been placed in the same situation, and has sus-
pent,led for an indefinite period every publication
of this kind.

Ti-tfECJINTAL OF THE FIRST INSTANCE.

PARff,ThEc. 22.
THE STACKPOOLE CAUSE.

M. IfEeTerEctterw this day finished his speech on behalf of
Mt Drive: Cooper, the representative of Messrs. Marsh and
Itoclie, the claimants against the Count Georges Stackpoole.
The Learned Advocate observed, that a robber sometimes sue-
ecod ed in escaping from justice, het it eves only to dragon a miser-
abl eexistence seeking temporary asylums far front his own coun-
try. That, however, was not the case with Lord Stackpoole.
HQ had, during a period of 24 years, possessed before the eyes
of all England, the immense fortune of which he was the ad-
ministrator ; he had come into France, not for the purpose of
concealment, but to obtain the advantage of enjoying the
riches which he had possessed liimeelf of, and when he
might die he w.iuld leave to his heirs the patrimony of his
(M. flennequin's) clients. Such a sy.steei of fraud was
the more dangerous to society, because it was practised with
impunity, and attended with comfort and opulence, and the
culprit was not even reduced to the necessity of conceal-
ing himself. Every European society, and indeed every so-
ca.:Ay in the world, formed an independent power. I-1,3 knew
well that every republican or monarchical state had a right to
Le master within he own territories ; that tie ofEcers of ju,:- I
tire should obey only the voice of the sovereign cr of the /
senate. He alga knew that decrees made 4:1 a foreign ecrentry
must, before Ceey, could be executed in France, be laid before
the Judges of his ioajesty the King ; but It was asked, should the
ordinance of execution, the fermota of paoi.etei or arepatUr,
which wag demanded in this case, be geanteet witheut an exarni- t
ration of face; ? He would refer to the principles of the old French
law to prove that it might. In article 21, of the celebrated
ordinance of 101, the following absolute prirciel.e was laid
down :—" No judgment given, ncr act peseed in foreign king-
doms, shall have power of execution in France, but shall be
considered an simple promises." The ordinance aided, " Not-
withstanding the judgments delivered, our subjects may con-
test their rights as entire before the French judges." Ac-
cording to that passage, and to the authorities of the Ad-
vocate-General Sequier, and of many compilers of decrees,
who havti-adopted these authorities, he contended that judg-
ments delivered in foreign countries against a Frenchman
could not be executed in France until after new trial; but a
simple decree of exequatrir, after the manner of those rendered
in cases of arbitration, was sufficient to give the power of exe-
cution to foreign judgments as betwdeu two foreigners. The
Court of Cassatien, by a judgment pronoenced in 1806, had
sanctioned that interpretation of 1629.. The cause in which
that judgment was. ronounced had this peculiarity--that
the parties were two French emigrants who had returned to
then native country, but who were considered as having been
stricken by civil death, and consequently as having been fo-
reigners at the period when judgment was pronounced between
them by atribunal of Neufchatel in Switzerland. The Learned
Advocate concluded by calling upon the tribunal to distinguish
ifs its judgment the case of lieressrs. Marsh and Roche from
that of William Stackpoole and-other heirs, who had separate
interests.
M. Dupin aftewards addressed the Good ore behalf of Wm.
Stackpoole, and consented ithreself with adopting and further
developing the arguments which had been adduced by the Coon-
sal who had preceded him.
Tripier will commence his reply for Gourd Georges at the
expiration a a week.

COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

TRINIDAD.

At a General Meeting of Proprietors and others
interested in the quarter ofTacarigna, held by special summons
at the house of TM:Kum-Le Gendre, Esq., the Commandant,
on Saturday, the 20th=day of September lust, the following re-
solutions were unanimously approved and passed :
Resolved, That to deprive the master of the lower of inflict-
ing corporal punishment on any slave, whether male cr female,
would, in the opinion of this meeting, subvert the discipline of
every estate in the colony, without answering one single bele-
end. So long as slaves continue property, judicial punish-
ment can hardly ever take place ; and it is notorious that " flog-
ging" here is the general punishment resorted to for the pre-
vention of crimes, which, in England, would inevitably sub-
ject the offender to death. If this punishment is removed, no
check will remain to immorality, theft, disorder, and blood-
shed ; to which vices the women are generally prone as the
men ; but, with respect to the exposureof the persons of women,
in the mode of punishment, it is resolved, that where such ex-
posure may not have been abolished, it shall be henceforth dis-

continued.
Resolved, That the present meeting considers the abolition
of Sunday markets as tending in no way to the promotion of
religion ; a large proport;on of the thinly scattered population
of this island must ever be distant from a place of divine wor-
ship,, and the market which ought never to continue after nine
o'clock, is an additional inducement to lead the lower classes
to the neighbourhood of the church. Innocent occupations,

embracing practical utility, have ever been recognized by the
British Legislature as no violation of the sanctity of the Sab-
bath ; and on this principle, milk, porter, and mackerel, are in
England openly permitted to be sold on Sunday, the latter even
during the hours of divine service. A large proportion of this
meeting, consisting of individuals professing the Catholic faith,
consider the institution of the Sunday market to be neither at
variance with the strictest form of their religion, nor the scru-
ples of the tenderest conscience. Finally, as an invasion of
an established usage, it would assuredly excite in the minds
of the Negroes great discontent-•a sufficient reason, in these
perilous times, with men who regard the welfare of the coun-
try, to defer the adoption of measures even of unquestion-

able utility.
Resolved, That as the evidence of slaves is already adrrOs-
sible in criminal cases, under the order of the King in Council,
of the 16th day of September, 1822, and may avail when sup-
ported by two free witnesses, in the manner required by that
law ; the present meeting is humbly of opinion that the facility
called for is already obtained.
Resolved, That an order for the encouragement of marriages
among slaves, marriages which may prove binding as a religious
tie, and not a mere form productive of expence, will, if they
can be carried into effect, prove equally advantageous to th'e
master as to the slaves.
Resolved, That the present Meeting can see no advantage to
the " slave in any order for preventing the removal from the
land to which. they are attached of slaves sold with estates,"
which in many instances would confine them to an ungrateful
soil, where they could not be properly supported by their
Master, and will prove an insuperable obstacle to the dis-
posal of the property of deceased persons according to the laws
of this island.

Resolved, That an order for " preventing the infliction of
punishment until the day succeeding that on which the crime
may be committed," could only be framed on a groundless as-
sumption that punishments are universally inflicted under the
impulse of ungovernable passion. Such . cases, when they do
occur, merit the severity of those laws which in this colony
effectually protect the slaves against the injustice of the master;
but the present Meeting protest against an enactment which
would ailix the stigma of disgrace upon the whole community ;
its operation would be to add the punishment of incarceration
to that of corporal punishment ; to protect the mental distress
of the offender, and consequently afford just matter of dis-
content to the whole slave population. To the master it would
add the ptivation of the labour of the culprit and of those ap-
pointed to attend under him.

Resolved, That the present Meeting sees no objection
.to an
order providing for the record of all punishment
lashes. beyond three

Resolved, That an order requiring the attendance of a free
witness at every punishment, would in some parts of the wide-
ly-extended coasts of this Colony be scarcely possible to be com-
plied with. But the Meeting contemplates with dismay an en-
actment to compel every ploprietor, whatever may be his rank
or station, to witness a scene which a sense of duty alone may
have compelled him to order ; and should that proprietor be a
female, they hope that something will be found due to those
feelings, " arising from a sense of shame, at once the pride and
ornament of their sex," which my Lord Bathurst is so anxious
to implant in the mi.ids of black females.

Resolved, That there can be no objection to the eatablish-
merit of Savings Banks ; but that for the protection of the nro-
pert), •of the master from plunder, for the purpose of being so
deposited, it would be necessary to frame regulations which
would require a satisfactory account from the slave, in the pre-
sence of the master, of the mode of which he acquired the
sum
intended to be placed in the Bank.
Resolved, That as the present Meeting apprehends that
the revenues of the Colony are not adequate to the expence of
providing a sufficient number of Clergymen and Teachers for
the religious instruction of the Negroes, they feel grateful
to his Majesty's Government for the promise of applying to
Parliament for such pecuniary grants as may be necessary,
which disposition will be properly met by the inhabitants of
this quarter.
Resolved, That the present meeting is anxious to comply
with the recommendation of his Excellency the Governor to
adopt task-work on their estates, or any other measures likely
to promote the happiness and comfort of the Negroes • and
they earnestly entreat those planters, to whom his Excellency
alludes, as having tried it with success, to favour the public
with a detail of their plan.
Resolved, That it is the unanimous desire of the inhabitants
of the quarter cordially to assist in giving effect to the wishes
of his Majesty's Government, but that they feel themselves
justified in interpreting those wishes from the declaration of
his Majesty's Ministers in Parliament, and the unanimous re-
soktions of the house of Commons,___ rather than from the
communications transmitted to his Excellency the Governor
by the Secretary of State; and they conscientiously declare,
that their opposition to a part of those communications arises
solely from a solemn and deliberate conviction, that their ope-
ration would not be " compatible with the well-being of the
slaw themselves, with the safety of the colonie3, and with a
fair and equitable consideration of the interests of private pro-

P.'esolved,. That the unanimous thanks of the :fleeting be
given to the Commandant, fi)r his independent conduct, and
the great interest which he takes in the welfare of the quar-
ter 7; nder his charge.
Itesolved, That the foregoing Resolutions be published.;
which I certify to be a true copy. •
TEIONAS °ENDRE, Commandant.