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FRENCH PAPERS.

ile.von.tet erom the PapeT—s of Weiodnde.sday.) •
ess. ,4 e contains six Royal r aces relating to
the "I first, dated the 22d of July last, which. con-
the' government of the colony, declares, by article 1,
e, general command and high administration of the
Ai°. possessions in the north of Africa, late the Regency
Ye% are in
to a Governor-General, who is to
~se his4tei, ~,Pnwers under the order and direction of the
kiii °` 'Var. Article 2, charges a General Officer co,rne-r
tt,,,T4 g
.the troops a Civil Intendant, a General Offi. z ,
kter,,Lantlicg th,) ,:. Procurator General, a Military
I, t, and --N.y, a .
ett • a Director of the Finances, with the dif-
i%t etvil and militar se ices within their respective
ktieleraetits, under they orderr's of the Governor-General.
1 tonna,' declares that the Governor-General is to have.
1.4'. forer,el? composed of the functionaries mentioned. in
'tlic°l'ng article. Article 4, declares, that until it shall,l
sditaterwise ordained, the colony shall be ruled by Ro)
'the
Article 5, empowers the Governor-General. in
alto
Prepare draughts of ordinances, and transmit them
taistes of War • and on extraordinary and urgent
tp ins, tha Governor-General is authorised provision-
INktaoisslle decrees, rendering the dispositions of. these
'Piial ' erdances executory. According .to article 6,
, . ordin
I'llons laces are hereafter to determine the attri-
ll'e org:iztile governor-General in . Council,. as well as
4ticea atl° of the Civil Administration, and that of
141, ar and then Finances The administration of the army and
illei at: t°,renlain subject to the same laws and ordinances as
ated j 114 present regulated by. The second ordinance,
tttlonit,Y 27, appoints Lieutenant-General Drouet, Count
It'tat-' '4lllMander of the 12th Military Division, to be Go-
ke
of of the• Frnch po sessions in the north of
tj:;,• The third ordinance, dated the 10th instant, declares
f
tl,! King shall he administered in the colony in the name o
`,llllttvi bY the French tribunals, and by the tribunals of the
!k!'lliae'e' 4ccording to the distinctions established by this or-
th n'm'llieli contains 64 articles, and occupies four columns
kct,-'cial •journal. The fourth ordinance, dated the 1,./ C:liiil,s,neentinates M. Pasquier, Prefect of Finisterre, to Z.
rqty".; of of the African possessions, in the room 9t.
1,4 lheltl3ll°-ssY,
.Master of Requests in the Council of State.
Oure,,eo ordinance, also dated the 12th instant, M.
,iktiai illeraber of the Chamber of Deputies, is appointed
i
;4 forth °'llmissioner of Justice in the French possessions i
l'etit`,, of Africa, d, isthis anaci charged with col-
-1...-Nl;ll+,."iha facts and documents ente's calculated to enlighten the
i'll, la mitift on the actual nstaumte of. the legislation of the coun-
Iliiet itka `8 Parts, and on the alterations improvementsandthordinance_
ni Ybe proper to make in it. The. six
1/'lhes°l4tedtwelfth 'nstant —appoints Rear-
Na)
lilitti.e` tic la Bretonniere to be dommandant of the as)
NANipt,,
NI bap-3/44 OF DEPUTIES.—SITTING OF Aoa. 13.
theTL
order
in the Chai-
NtadjettZer. of the day was.: the discussion on the draught of
tllitil'at(l,:lot:raratoiltii_vvas desirous of. calling. the attention of the
th,‘"tin of , ", financial question arising out of the present
ttab,illa
t'ir:,l,Ye,,tiotofi:rapeat :°• The Hon. Deputy was of opinion that by
n. her to
realit, the quadruple all;ance Fiance had gamed an ally
He
tale .i injurious to her than her worst enemy.
enniltre credit of Spain was sufficiently good
.to
that nothing could justify
t7:treaj:et
of
havi:c„trneeelovulroseantso,
anda
national bankruptcy said
f:PniylleteillPlated ty the S-ianisii Government. The Htonto.
tiklutrod eluded by proposing the following amendmen
Ij,' Place".ed when the discussion on the paragraphs shouldnt..
tPd'alls. fae.tio" The Chamber has learned with the most hF .
p esvol,rin n that your Majesty in concert with your allies is
tiou*tai'lanl gto put an end to the complicated situation of the
eo,n_thaaa;haend nothing is more worthy
.your Majesty's atte.n-
A, cnnoent Project said to be entertained. by the Spanish
ti,, t'attitry °f effecting an arbitrary reduction in the debt of
(414 With " Such a measure could not be carried into ex.ecu-
Ilvskiriltt‘,.,iolating equity and the duties of a constitutional
‘mend 1411Iister
de k. /atilt op „ of the Finances
lhe7tassed `‘4o HOn. Deputy who
fhtandejust sat down should
address were under
italsidera.7en the paragraphs o
bill' vt. non of the Chamber. -
ohY io his would not follow his Hon. Colleague M. Da-
(l‘7Nion is Panish excursion, but would pass at once to the
,hlwer: internal policy laid down in the addre ; T
44°,11;A fe:it.,ol July had been taxed with not having donet
'on (,°, `uematerial interests of the country, but due a -
titiori had not
kclre:lt Qovenn,a been paid to the exrorneemhe
mightdifficulties of the po-
more justly be
t(5,,.; std to The
ent. The rep
of public_ opinion at the pre-
tf pi,.laa,y. Th"ee general tendency
oceded to contrast the state
ll'iZddliss,oovlteritillentthat Of
.Deputy England,. observing", That with regard to
t 4 Were ' oeneficial to industry, the measures of Eng-
, oil. Practical whilst France was content with.. mere
roil ykopftte,r,s7ii.objections to the present system of eei
Deputy concluded by
; Nljtor the'atild e France the H
the4l i)°
rtaatir, tsnie r r
e.garrdsesd. the address as an adjournment of every
Depot t°tinlaestl°ll, and particularly of that. which
Therelated to
Hon.
ktklt' said th
tia'lce in office of the present Ministry.
144,, keksur at though he respected individuals, be would
as not the man to
14 Q,,,,,,,,e8•"---( Hear, hear.)
litio!'ela
„4,,,c;nment for loyally extoHrme invtatin. its enemies on
th 'ed Ir. battle • but after the victory, migght not the van-
NOee ave '
entre. \ 50m0 just cause of complaint ?--( Murmurs from
Wag ontilot 2 Generous conquerors might ask if the battle
1110,,aintade tanave been won with less bloodshed. No allusion..
tolo,t p," such sentiments in the speec,h which Ministers
mouth ; nothing
14 rp,':llsve pro
to put into his Majesty
the ('ikrth-ten more dry than that speech whenin alluding to
het titre.) es inseparable from civil war.--( Murmurs from
the 'oroal, It was consonant with the dignity of the Cham-
tot4latoill,°se of the most energetic language, in order that
1-' ris might not be
it4pit7req 4'l.Y truggle at Lyons an
Ya6lea.)s°l3Ject of merciless congratulation (felicitations
(LEFT SITTING.)

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:,1/4),fivrt „ (From the Times.)
Auo. 4.
fro The ti ul'' PROCURADORES, MONDAY, "
,:',,tlio gatether on the draught of the answer to the speech
Pair, 'eaor 6.1)° was resumed.
et Jed to Diet Gonzalez, a member of ohmemwititseheedait'o-
fh,Plairk thlttpare the draught, observed, that
tot,44`',..ia.,:ce..ret.isons which had influenced the committee in
words as to facts. The
tt,,,') ttid :31 in the way it was, for, added he, the Es
14 arattee,?t attach so much value to
etiofi,s.ne said, had made out the. draught in a generaland
•N lateiy"'ag itself solely to the necessities of trheefecronnunnetrtyn, afnn_
S9l, aitio4,v6cling anything that might have
ot!he, I),ea-ass.a
the individuals
committeewhcoonfi
point genera:, .
he it °lit the'
evils
composeditsare
of their country,. in
conceived that to
remediestihtnitstheir duty to
kingdom,
rd
1/ity' c3lat theu theta. The committee also
the best
441° reartitridatrautght in the wasmannerdforallhundedpetnoplo
•tli at. he et e public min ,
the suffer-
. wo.uld thus
asxl 1r representatives, instead oft wasting time in value
t'ts 4r, had
ter, atl Iln_ . franklyt represented to the throne
mem_
By this course the d
litthelthe'''essities of the country.
o ere I),,rornittee hoped to justify the confidence reposed
elin4„e Chamber.
of the patrioticfeelings
arth°_f tit'ola_n.tafe said that he as well as all the.oth. other mein-
1,,,,.._ e get.i-biate was fully convinced.
Ire, Ned their of the Committee,
c:ka "eir draught • yet, nevertheless,
and that
u thosest feelings
per
-
Ihellittee:Tiiilakea,,a few animadversions upon that draught. The
td,,llalof B,,,toiding to the causes
nwhni.ch.e...hyad brought t
to tll;(llegisira?!u, said that they v.ver
got Le Rio/. 'l°ll. This expression connvieris aattributable
0 direct_ Spain
.a
attackhas?
ex °te Yk°f our ancestors. The legislation 1 binal
Tleatien. '''sAllrdonly fau. lt h. as been in its ode of
atat„Prove tbl,rl attentive examination of somme
tiorivs t4t t"1, they are anything but absurd.untry
to set in mo-
ktiarl the '3, .regenerate this fallen. co
nil saran he PriegseefCeomurtnitetwees
of her aggrandizement—to
rights,
andnodpttnallratihsee
throthnse 11,1ecessary for securingsocial
aneti, and i1t7,3 the monument
of
t of the Estamento,
io ee ob. the people, are her uniong between the
the wishes
Of, all this J. eets of their efforts.' Senor Santafe fullhyncmonecmurrheerds
theslt_e co'rab_ut,..he thought it his duty to remind t
1800nararleiteiettsee that the Spains gained, nay, recovered
years ago. From the yeard
"teextYvheri the and rights many Rrk,._ ity of c...,..6parnards f.ound liberties,themselves
they haveunder
possessedth e
tsi
oa n
to tAtitte,
erin,ung, for their
distno
f4_ pe wor, , . ir,edoin such as do no
thrtalen exprtinar,ridththe. Committee in t anyh a
vhoet other
nn
from
re
to he In ~., is in the answer .
th—: of att • • d ised
for removin from the ill-a N. .
wtteoellixthe speech
Prince every
that
bo: 4doproFragraph 4, the Committe. e alludes to t.he means
, e extol, Dingal the throne of Spain, and it is. allegedut it is
17°1 th est t_ presentdynasty demands this.
Spaniards
aaxe , 'oterest
Qtnheeen
11, I:41 support , 9f the present dynast
Nt
tSts the datig.hterlB the legitimrevirigyhtthoaft
1 It is not
fhq t, her Maithato Ferdinand
defended, but her right ,
totti, o thin__ grey.are to, be thn Isabella.nte:
mil gees thni6a, different. The laws oc,fe the_ monarchy,_
the general
geo;-_-:111 ,r'e urnaught,--.‘ the public acli.rantap_a,ugher., The
t110„,r;a1 will ,t% favour of your illustrious d '1 batjA4 it might now e.ow nothing to do with the question,
15 A periods when the 1v,4 tie Z'Vil inosreemlleyretayrsthabnaeit. now does, when there
,r°_rtl v,s ;tar ele to the manifestation of opinion, not a sing_l!
'oe°_lle.r t,
„.. el
against the law of succession. It may
.b,.-.
:4.ltutio'lliention what was decreed on this subject during tb-
I:etrdilll.e, h°efkithe year I. 81 In the general Cor
Cesroowf
nthnef teat, . ,ett v,. ui Cadiz, it was decreed that the . .
lie, la de,_ 1,.1. should descend in the direct male line ~.bu.t
eatts‘, iNtriltalt,t thereof, it should descend to the fem.alel,tihne......
ivithe,,ou th,..'t
ooppesitj.on was raised against the decisio
ref, ha re,.,,P int
theutlns ikt-'Ol,, sintattres.
.re,e: red to, the nation perfectly concurredi
With regard to the institutions and
i 4 icli%; P9s,ed by the committee as necessary for raising up
pretceetioAniwatttao retire and harmony, M. Santafe concurred
e hira. e.pressed by most of the speakers who had
mind,
It N", 5 important, he said, to bear in

that in making a law it is not sufficient that it be just, it must
be suitable to the habits of the people for whom it is made, and
that those people should be prepared for it. There was, how-
ever, one measure of which the committee recommended the
immediate adoption, viz.—the liberty to print without the pre-
vious inspection of the censor. The committee must pardon
him if on that point he could not agree with them. l-1 was
firmly persuaded that there was at that moment in Spain a
party, and a considerable one, totally hostile to the liberty of
printing in the manner referred to. Why call for the institu-
tion of the jury, after seeing the contradictory results it has
produced in France, in England, and the United States, those
models of the representative system ? Senor Santafe was of
opinion that the draught should he sent back to the committee
for amendment.
" Senor Abargues observed, that in praying for the liberty
of the press, the committee needed not to have borrowed ideas
from foreign politicians ; the reports of the sittings of the
Cortes in the Isle of Leon in the year 1812 furnish sufficient
data to refer to. In that celebrated assembly the liberty of
the press was vigorously defended. Among the distinguished
speakers who exerted themselves in support of it were Toreno,
Martinez de la Rosa, Garcia, Herreros, &c. The preceding
speaker had declared, that the nation is not prepared for the
liberty of the press, and he seemed to insinuate that to that li-
berty were attributable all the disasters which had assailed the
nation since the year 1823. This was untrue ; the liberty of
the press had not brought about the disasters which Spain de-
plored. Those disasters Lad another origin—they sprang
from the Holy Alliance. That institution, whose true focus
was in Paris, scattered gold with liberal hands, and employed
venal writers. The Holy Alliance availed itself of its instru-
ments to create in Spain a party for two Chambers, and thus
produced a schism among the friends of liberty, which, more
than anything else, facilitated the entrance in Spain of the
French army commanded by Angouleme. At that time the
Holy Alliance governed Europe, and the army of France was
undur its command. Now circumstances are changed. How-
ever, the Holy Alliance still exists and is powerful in Europe.
It may be said that one-half of this part of the globe is armed
against the other. That unhappy Prince who has provoked
the indignation of our constituents is but a tool of the Holy
Alliance, and it hoped to make him the instrument of acting
over again the scenes of 1823, and to subject Spain for ever
to the horrors of despotism. But when liberty has so many
enemies, by what weapon can it be so well defended as by the

press?
" After a few words from Senor Redondo, the topic was de-
clared to be sufficiently discussed. Senor Lopez then, in his
character of member for the committee, recapitulated the ob-
jections made to the address and answered them.
" Long debates followed on the form of voting. It was at
last decided that the divisions should be nominal, the name of
each member being declared. The question that the proposed
address be put to the vote entire was carried in the affirmative
by 48 to 36. The approbation of the address as a whole was next
carried by 49 to 35.
" It was then ordered that it should be considered, para-
graph by paragraph, in the next sitting, and the Chamber
adjourned.

TUESDAY, AUG. 5
" The President informed the Chamber that they were
about to proceed to the discussion, paragraph by paragraph,
of the draught of the answer to the address agreed to yester-
day in totality.
" On the first paragraph being read,
" Senhor Lopez said that the committee, in deference to the
views of various members of the Chamber, and more espe-
cially to those of the Secretaries of State, had agreed to sub
stitute the words in the midst of the Cortes' and absurd
administration,' in place of in the midst of the Estate' and
absurd legislation.'
" Senor Martinez de la Rosa said that he 'had been mainly
induced to oppose this clause, en the supposition that the
committee were determined to retain the expression, absurd
legislation.' But since the phrase had been varied by the
substitution for it of absurd administration,' the Chamber
was placed in a different position with regard to it, and one
which could be better comprehended, for it would have been
by no means an easy task to decide at what particular junc-
ture of time the legislation termed absurd had exert ised an in-
fluence on the decline of Spain. He wished, however, to ask
the committee one question. Were absurd legislation and
absurd administration the same, or different things ? If the
same, where was the necessity of alteration ? If different, then,
indeed, the committee either made a mistake yesterday, or
it mistakes now. Yesterday absurd legislation was the cause
of the decline of Spain ; to-day it is absurd administration.
So hazardous was the attempt to express by a single word
general ideas ! But was it by any means certain that the de-
cline of Spain had been owing entirely to absurd legislation ?
Spain was not the only country which possessed absurd laws.
They prevailed in England, the model of an illustrious and
free nation. The legal code of that country was stained with
laws which reflect the barbarity of the feudal times, and two
elevated individuals of that nation, both celebrated though
opposed in their political principles, were at the present day
reaping the highest glory by reforming it. So much for ab-
surd legislation. He had now a few words to say with regard
to the amendment. A.id who, he asked, woul:i contend that
the administration which prevailed in Spain was good ? Not,
surely, the present Ministers of State, who had commenced
their official functions by declaring it vicious, and insisting on
the necessity of the division of powers for the purpose of re
forming it—who had proposed the abolition of the old councils.
which shed their benumbing influence over it—who had begun
by making a division of the territory to regulate its move-
ments—and who propose to introduce a municipal law and to
establish provincial councils, in order to bring the interests of
the people in harmony with those of the Royal authority.
No ! these were not the men who opposed reform in the
administration, though they might insist that the decline
of Spain was not solely owing to its errors. The evils
which afflicted Spain flowed from a thousand causes—from
an erroneous policy, followed up for nearly a century—a
policy which omitted to secure the glory and independence
she deserved, by profiting by the advantages the magnificent
situation of Spain presented, while it allowed her to be towed
after the policy of France. The evils of Spain also proceeded
from the substitution of absurd laws for others which were
excellent. Were the COmmittee not aware that from the
last edition of the Novisima Recopilacion, two laws the most
calculated to promote the happiness of the nation were torn
by perfidious hands? These laws the Queen Regent would
have the glory of re-establishing.. They were those laws
which related to the illegality of imposing taxes without the
intervention of the Cortes, and to the necessity. of calling that
body together in difficult and serious emergencies. These two
laws would be found in the Nueva Recopilacion, but they were
omitted in the Novisima. In his opinion, the term adopted
by the Committee was not very exact, though their idea might
be perfectly correct, and he therefore opposed it, deeming it
unwise in the Legislative body to adopt phrases which might
justly be attacked.
" Senor Lopez thought it was certainly entering pretty
deeply into the intentions of the committee to assert that they
had expressed an idea they did not really entertain. If the
evils which afflicted the nation were owing solely to the ab-
sence of a good legislation, to whom was that absence owing ?
To an absurd legislation, which, opposing itself to the hap-
piness and glory of the nation, plunged it into degradation and
despotism. With regard to the proposed amendment,he would
cay that the committee out of an excess of delicacy did not
wish to allude more than generally to the legislation which
had been substituted for the last, and if they had altered the
phraseology by inserting the word administration' in place
of ' legislation,' they had done so solely out of deference to
the observation of Count de Toreno. In conclusion, he con-
tended that the committee did not adduce this as the only cause
of the evils of Spain, but as one of those which had contri-
buted to the decline of the nation.
" The Count de Toreno said it appeared to him that they
were agreed in opinion that the evils of the country did not
spring from one cause alone, but were occasioned by errors in
politics, legislation, administration, Bac. The difficulty, there-
fore, could be got rid of by the employment of a-word which
would comprehend all these, and he believed they might use
with advantage the neglect of their ancient institutions,' a
phrase which would embrace the whole.
This amendment was agreed to. The second paragraph
was also agreed to.
" On the third paragraph being proposed, the Marquis de
Falces wished it to be expressed, that the Estate would be
disposed to co-operate, if it were judged necessary, with her
Majesty, in punishing offenders.
" This suggestion was adopted, and this paragraph, as well
as the next, was agreed to.
" On the fifth paragraph being read,
" Senor Florez Estrada thought it would be right to declare
that friendly relations with Foreign Powers were relative to
the preservation of the independence and liberty of the nation.
" Senor Martinez de la Rosa said that he should not oppose
the paragraph ; if it had any fault, it was that it did Wit Fo far
enough. The Committee had said that the Estate viewed
with complacency the turn affairs had taken in Portugal, but
in his opinion they ought to have said more. He wished they
had added some expressions to signifj7 that t'oe Spanish nation
had efficiently contributed to that important success. He
should therefore propose to add the words ' so glorious for the
Spanish arms.' It was most certain that the Portuguese army
had attained triumphs which reflected the highest honour on
it ; yet the co-operation of the Spanish troops had neverthe-
less accelerated the result of the operations. It was not,
therefore, in his. opinion sufficient to say that the Estate
viewed the result with complacency, but it was necessary to
add some expressions which should show that the cause of
Portugal was not considered by them as a foreign matter, since
the Government, as well as the nation, looked on it as their own
cause. Even the terms relating to the amicable relations existing
between her Majesty and her allies were not, in his opinion,
sufficiently strong. The cause of Spain was the most just of
causes, upheld by the support of the laws, the general will,
and by that pledge and guarantee' of triumph—the well-
approved constancy of the nation. '1 he alliance which had
been entered into with the two nations, influential from their
power and example—who had hastened to recognize the legi-
timate rights of her Majesty, and had formed the treaty of the
quadruple alliance—assured the ultimate triumph of the national
cause ; and effectively assured it, for scarcely had the rumour
of the entry of the ill-advised Prince into the country spread
a e e
coasts, whileis dispatches
thec
s
abroad, than these Powers hastened to make the kindest de-
monstrations in her favour. "
theAt this very moment,"
is
rding to d
con-
tinued Senor M Irtinez de la
l English Government
Rosa,onr
northerno
o
ernpmroetnect
just directing reee
nasalved GoN
to
forces
French Government closes the gates of its frontier."
" After some further discussion the paragraph was altered
in accordance with the views of Senor Martinez de la Rosa.
" On the 6th paragraph being read,
" Senor Caballero, in the course of some observations on
the distress of the country, complained that certain public
works, as roads and canals, which in the official notices of the
Government papers were said to be in pregress, had not been
commenced. He admitted, however, that the delay was