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which reeds bim,—that commerce, without which he
cannot live; and with large frigates, with light squa-
drons appearing suddenly in every sea, return upon
him, with good faith, after a declaration of war, the
evils which have frequently been inflicted on us in the
midst of peace by enemies acting like pirates, who
arc now punished, but who would doubtless, with-
out a blush, be imitated in future. If the attack
directed against commerce should not be sufficient,
the enemy must then be grappled with hand to
hand, and for this steam will afford the means.
Steam seems destined, as was well said by the re-
porter to establish equality on the sects, as gun-
powder has on land. It will render useless naval
tactics, of which Tourville was the inventor, but
which has proved more advantageous to our neigh-
bours than to us. It will set aside the advantages
of a windward position, of breaking the line, or
doubling a line, and of all those complicated evo-
lutions, which, at Saintes, Aboukir, and Tra-
falgar, secured to our rivals triumphs which
our mariners might otherwise have wrested
from them. Naval battles will, perhaps, be•
come what they were in the time of the Romans—
contests in which intrepidity, address, physical force,
and numbers, will give the victory. Ah ! had not
he who, from the heights of Boulogne so long
threatened England, rejected the offers made to him
for four years by the American Fulton, it would not
have been as a captive that he would have visited
the banks of the Thames. The forts and all the
works which terror raised on the other side of the
Channel would no more have impeded the march
of the army of Austerlitz, than the fencibles or the
yeomanry. Other destinies would then have been
reserved for the world, and had Providence, which
has willed that France should be free, brought back
amongst us the ancient race of our kings, they
would not have returned with a foreign chief, who,
strippiug our Museums, violating capitulations,
trampling on national pride, proved to us, as
Closterseven proved to our fathers, that the
traditions of punic faith had survived Carthage.
I cannot, then, approve the reduction of two
millions from the sum for steam-boats, nor two
millions from the item of maritime operations, certain
of which are destined to protect on the banks of
the Tagus the martyrs of liberty and legitimacy. I
object also tothe opposition made by the Committee
to au expence necessary to give a preponderance,
which, according to the report, we can only acquire
at the expence of our best interests. We never
will have a continental war but such as will be ex-
cited and paid for by England. It is then on Eng-
land that we should endeavour to make the ex ils of
war revert. The General then adverted to the
affairs of Greece, and concluded by admonishing the
Ministers to beware of any attempts against the
Charter. Coups d'etat on the part of the Govern-
ment had been spoken of, but it ought to be recol-
lected that the people had also their coups d'etat.
He would vote for a reduction of 150,0t)0 francs on
the /filmy Estimates, would allow the sum required
for the navy, and would refuse to appropriate to
foreign relations 5,000,000, the application of which
was not explained.
M. LEI'ELLETIER D'AULNAY explained the grounds
on which the Committee had proposed its reduction,
and expressed an opinion that the reduction pro-
posed by General Lamarque could not be agreed to.
M. DE CACX opposed Gcn. Lamarque's amend-
ment.

M. HYDE DE NEuviLLE—We have but nine
steam-vessels; England has 338. We want steam-
vessels, and for their construction I demand
2,000,000 f.

General SEBASTIAN! said that the Committee per-
sisted in the reduction which it had proposed.

General LAMARQUE then withdrew his amend-
ment, in. favour of that proposed by the Committee.
M. DE CAMBON opposed the amendment.
The Chamber then proceeded to the ballot.
There were 311 white balls to 265 black, leaving a
majority of 46 in-favour of the project."
FRENCH FUNDS, PARIS, JULY 11.—Five per Cents.,
109 f, 55c. 60c. 50c. 55c. ; Three per Cents., SOL 85c.
75c. ; Bank Stock, 1,8401. ; Naples Stock, 861. 20e. ;
Royal Spanish Loan, 73
'f. ; Spanish Rentes Perpetuelles,
484 E ; llaytian Loan, -450 f. Exchange on London, one
month, 251.50 c. ; three months, 25f. 35c.. Lours Au-
thcntique.

HAMBURG PAPERS.
(From the Hamburg Reporter of July 7.)
The Prussian State Gazette of yesterday contains
le following :

RUSSIAN BULLETIN.
General Count Paskevitsch, of Erivan, gives the
following account of an affair which took place on
the 13th of May, near the village of Tsurtskab, be-
tween the detachment of Major-General Burzoff,
and the numerous militia of Achmet Khan :

Major-General Prince Bebutoff, having ascer-
tained that the enemy intended to attack the for-
tress of Achalzich, with a considerable force which
the Khan had assembled in the Sandshak of Patshof,
resolved on sending Major-General Burzoff against
him, in order, if possible, to disperse his troops, and
thereby delay the enterprise against Achalzich.
General Burzoff immediately set off in search of the
enemy, at the head of ten companies of infantry,
five light field-pieces, and 200 Cossacks; on the
way he learned that Achmet Khan, in expectation of
reinforcements, had thrown himself into t lie Christian
villages of the Sandshak of Ardaghan, in search of
plunder. This induced the General to direct his
march towards the village of Tsurtskab, through
which it was necessary that the Turks should return,
and where, on his arrival there on the following morn-
ing, he found the whole of the enemy's forces united.
Notwithstanding the great superiority oft he force op-
posed to him, and the advantageous position occupied
by that force, the General deemed it more advisable to
venture an attack than to retreat upon Achalzich ; he
accordingly advanced, and drove the enemy, at the
point of the bayonet, from one height to another,
close up to the village itself, which being defended
by a wooden fortification, our party were obliged
to make a halt at a distance of about 100 fathoms
from the same. Hereupon Achmet Khan attacked
us with the whole of his forces, consisting of about
5,000 infantry, without reckoning cavalry ; but was
soon repulsed, and forced, after suffering considerable
loss, to seek shelter again behind his works. The
following day, without awaiting a second attack, the
Khan had fled in the utmost confusion. Taking
advantage of this victory, General Burzoff set fire
to those villages, the inhabitants of which had
shown themselves hostile, and laid waste the whole
neighbourhood, from which the enemy had pre-
viously drawn the resources necessary to enable him
to make incursions into the Sandshaks occupied by
our troops.
HAMBURG, JULY 10.—The Austrian Observer of
the 3d instant contains the following :
" Letters from Bucharest of the 15th of June
contain the following news from the camp before
Silistria, which are stated to have been received
from an official source :--` 'I he siege is proceeding
in a satisfactory manner. The batteries of the third
Parallel were mounted yesterday, and have so com-
pletely disabled the artillery of the opposite bastions,
that the enemy now replies only with musketry to
our fire. The outworks are already destroyed. Last
night six double saps were drawn from the third
parallel to the glacis, where, in a few days, a battery
of sixteen pieces of heavy calibre will be erected,
and thereby soon bring the siege to a conclusion.
to have aban-
dDoeaseedr t ea rhs
hroepperse resent ta
pt hea(bi idt ae nf
etas e
the artillery
on the ramparts being no farther serviceable, and
the want of provisions having already reached the
utmost point of endurance."
BUCIIAREST, JUNE 17.—Since the various en-
gagements in which the sallies of the garrison of
Silistria were repulsed, and the views of the Turks
to retake Eizeboli, as well as to cut off the commu-
nication between the corps besieging ilistria and
the magazines at Varna disappointed, we look for
the speedy surrender of Silistria. Count Diebitsch,
after having so vigorously repulsed the attack of the
Grand Vizier, and partly dispersed his army of
35,000 men, intends, as is affirmed here, to prose-
, cute his victory, leaving a corps before Silistria, and