The Sun.
London, England, 1817-12-04 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

The following article agrees so entirely witty
what we have said on the present French Ministry,
that we have extracted it from The Chester Courant
of Tuesday last
"The whole attention of the Parisian politiclans
is directed to t‘vo passages in the Address of the
Chamber of Deputies to the King : the one ex-
pressing a hope that the Army of Occupation will
be withdrawn : the other, that the Allies will
lighten the burthens of the Contributions required
from France. With regard to the first point,
there is One serious considet ation which has. not

yet been publicly noticed. The Army of Occupa-
tion cannot yet be removed nom France, because
in the Treaty between that Power and the
it was stipulated that previous to the troops being'
withdrawn, the Fortresses in the Netherlands
should be put into a perfect state of repair, winch
is not yet executed, nor can it be completud for
many months. Before that time elapses, it is
mote than probable that the revolutionary Coiin-
sellors of Louis XVIII, will have so far thrown
off the mask, as to convince all Europe of the ne-
cessity of new measures of security. The Mini-
sterialbits and Jacobins united having now a-de-
cided superiority over the Royalists in the Chain-
brit' of Deputies, the Address of course•spraks the
common sentiments of the two former parties,
and certainly sentiments more shamelessly devoid
of all common honesty were never avowed in the
face of Europe. In the,same breath they tell the
world that they cannot and will not pay what they
are bound to pay by Treaty ; and that they can
and will pay a large increase of, expence for
strengthening their army. A new law is to be
brought in for the latter purpose, and if we can
trust.the statements in some of the English Pa-
pers, this law will be nothing but the Conscrip-
tion. The Conscription abolished by the Char-
ter, and reprobated by all Europe ;—the Coh-
scripton which pcpured forth such hordes of fero-
cious banditti to carry Revolution and Usurpa-
tion, Conflagration and-Massacre,from Madrid to
Moscow, is to be revived under the name of a
law of recruiting, and One Hundred Thousand
men are to be raised under it, and these are to be
the men whose talents and services have been
displayed in the-scenes which we have just de-
scribed 1"

SERIOUS AFFRAY.—The following is a further
account of the.affray at Calais, (which we noticed
yesterday)
" Paris, Nov. 29.—A very serious affray took
plate on the 14th of this month at Landrethrin,
a villagy in the depar ment of the Pas du Calais.
Two irou-commissioned officers, discontented with
the treatment they received from M. Choy,et,
where they were lodged, engaged in so lively an
altercation, that blows soon followed, when the
schoolmaster of the village had the impudence 'to
sound the tocsin. Tl► 4 inhabitants instantly as-
sembled ; several soldiers ran to the aid of their
comrades, when they received a volley trout the
windows and roof of the house of M. Choquet,
which wounded five English, of whom one mor-
tally. The affair was terminated by the arrival
of a superior officer ; and the day atter, the Jage
de Pub: made his report, wheri nine individuals
were apprehended and conducted to St. Omer's."

East India Papers to the end of July have ar-
rived, at which time not the slightest apptelicn-
sion of war with the Mahrattas was entet (anted
We have extracted some interesting particulars
relative to the insurrections in the Cuttack clis
trict and at Sanatoria, one of the principal resi-
dences attached to Amboyna.
Yesterday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council
was held at
,ti.e Foreign Office, which sat till about
halt past tour.