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ceptance of my resignation, and that I may act henceforth be
ranked amongst its members.
" Receive, Sir, the assurance of my high consideration.
(Signed) " Tbe Duke 'de LA ROCIIEFOUCAULT.I?
" To Monsieur the Prefect of Police."

The Journal des 'Mats contains, under dote of Frankfort,
July 11; a long extract from the Protocol of the Sitting of the
German Diet of July 3, which contains an account of the re-
port made by the Minister of Wurtemberg, of the execution of
the Decree fulminated against the German Observer. It will
appear from the following concluding passage of the answer of
the President of the Diet (Minister. from Austria), that it is
trtn'the'suppreasiOn'il 'ode Paper that the measures of the
Diet are to be limited :

• " The Emperor and King, my master, has done justice to
the conduct Of his representative, and to the resolution of this
illustrious A ssembly, founded on the federal law of Sept. 20,
.1819 ; and his Imperial Majesty has tliought fit for the present
todiSpepse with the execution of the order he had previously
.given, to direct, at the same time, the attention of the Diet to
other Journals, edited in a manner not less dangerous and per-
turbative such as the Gazette qf the Neckar, Annals of Mar-
chard, and National Chronicle of the Germans, because his
'Majesty supposes that a sentence pronounced according to the
laws of the Confederation, against the German Observer, will
make Journalists more circumspect, and censors more vigilant.
" The Minister President has consequently heard witlk plea-
sure the declaration that the 'Government of Wurtemberg,
highly disapproving of some periodical papers which appear in
the kingdom of Wurtemberg, proposes to stop the abuses of
the press by severe censorship regulations; which prevents for
the future, in a manner conformable to' the objects of the Con-
federation, the degeneracy of the press."

[From the Pilule of Slunday,l

PARIS, JULY 20.—The Journal de Perpignan, under date
of the 12th, states that Mina has died .by vomiting blood.—
Letters of the same date contradict the news, and other letters
dated Barcelona, the 13th, say nothing. of uu event whazh, if
real, would have occupied all men's mtnds.
Military men of experience wonder that there were not pri-
Sobers taken in the first affair of Barcelona. From Pont du
Rol to Barcelona is four leagues. The enemy was, according
to-the bulletins of Marshal Moncey, in an entire rout over all
that space of grourtd. ft is surprising that a great number of
prisoners were ndt left in our hands.
Among theguerillas between Madrid and Seville is one corn.
posed of 3 or 400 national militiamen of Madrid, commanded
by the former Political Chief of Huelva.. This corps occupies
the country of Niebla, and when pressed retires into the Sierra..
Morena, with which its Chief is well acquainted.

(From the Constitationnel.)•
PARIS, .11/L1'19.7-The career of arbitrary power islierilous.
A first step draWtt those who precipitate themselves into it much
further. ISI. Itrawalon was condemned to a correctional pu-
nishment for an offence of opinion ; he was fastened to a criminal
suffering dreadfully under a contagious disorder. He was thrown
into a prison containing criminals whom society repels,anti jus-
tice brands. A thousand generous voices were raised, tut it was
answered, that'equality exacted the same humiliations and the
same dungeons, as it it were to be believed that there was
no distinction haween faults of the imagination, or errors
of judgment, and baseness of soul, or depraved sentiment.
A member of the Council. General of Prisons, a highly
philanthropic institution, destined by power itself to watch
over the errors into which it is too much inclined to fall, has
corrected the inhumanity untertuaately so familiar to the agents
of its rigours ; he caused the dungeons to be opened; he
published what he witnessed, he made the generous accents of
incent de Paulo be heard, and however infallible authority
may believe itself to he—whatever repugnance from a false
pride it may have to acknowledge a fault, the public voice has
been so powerful, it has spoken so loud, that the man of letters,
confounded with criminals, has been conveyed buck to the first
prison from which lie was forcibly taken in a way so little con-
formable to our manners.
Soon, however, as it 'were an indemnity for the constraint
of a homage rendered to opinion, a nee/ Ministerial Or-
dinance appeared, proclaiming as an abuse the attributes of
this Council of Prisons, which had, through the instrumentality
of one of its members, made an appeal to the generosity of
power and to the public sensibility.
This Ordinance having been communicated by the Magis-
trate charged with the police, to the Duke de la Itochefoucault
Liancourt, the latter thought that his interference would be
thenceforth illutiorY. and that a paralysed Council could nb
longer be useful to misfortune ; he therefore sent in his resig-
nation ; lie received the next day a letter from the Minister of
the Interior. to which he sent an answer that will for ever re-
main a model of dignity anti true
BASLE, JULY 11.—The Swiss Diet opened at Berne on
July the 7th. The Avoyer de Watteliwyrpronounced a very
temperate discourse on this occasion, which is to be printed,-;-
The Foreign Relations of Switzerland were mentioned in gene-
ral terms only.
Several important communications from the. Ministers of
Foreign Powers have, however, been made, and communicated
by the Avoyer to the Deputies.
PERPIGNAN, .ItILY 10.—Mina is still unwell at Barcelona.
There u
js a considerable degree of sickness mong- the French
troops in Catalonia, and the more than ordinary number of sick
at present is said to be caused by pursuing i\Lina over the
Mountains.
BAYONNE, JULY lg.—A courier, who left Madrid on the
7th, has hiought intelligence Wet a serious engagement has
taken place near the Isle of Leon, between the Constitutional
troops and the french. Two companies of artillery were im-
mediately dispatched from Seville.
Monsieur de Stances, Aid-de-Camp of the Duke of Angou-
leine, was killed in the engagement.