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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1829.

The French Papers of Wednesday have been
received by Express, extracts from which will
be found in another column. The following

letter from our intelligent correspondent in Paris
will spare us the necessity of making any re-
marks of our own :

" PARIS, SEPT. 16.
" As I anticipated in my letter of yesterday,

the argument so formally maintained by the
Quotidienne, of which I then gave you a short
abstract, has revived all the bitterness of feeling
against the new Ministry, which was so strongly
evinced on their accession to power. It is uni-
versally regarded as the official announcement of
one of those coups d'etat so often predicted by

le advocates of Constitutional freedom. The

first object of this official Journal was to esta•
blish the principle that a refusal on the part of
the Chambers to vote the supplies would be an
infringement of the Royal prerogative, which is
held, of course, by the party in power, to be
paramount and independent of the other branches
of the Legislature. The remedy now seriously
proposed for an evil, which is said to be out of
all proportion with the benefits to arise from it,
is, that the King should be advised to decree by
ordonnance

" Ist. That the number of the Deputies
should be increased by two hundred.
" 2d. That these two hundred should be
elected directly by the General Council of the
Departments, ita some fixed proportion.
" 3d. That this addition should be made im-
mediately to the present Chamber of Deputies,

which would, it is suppossd, supersede the ne-
cessity of a dissolution.
" You are probably aware that the General
• Councils of the Departments are in the imme-
' diate nomination of the Government ; so that
the proposed addition of two hundred Mem-
bers would, in fact, give the nomination of a
third part of the Representative Body to the
Ministers of the Crown. In the present temper
of the French people, any attempt at such a
violent encroachment on the principles of the
Charter would undoubtedly be attended with the
most serious consequences. That sort of passive
resistance contemplated in the resolutions lately
passed by the inhabitants of Brittany, which
would consist in a refusal to pay the
taxes imposed by a Chamber so consti-
tuted, would probably be the gentlest form
in which the expression of public opinion
would be manifested ; but after a good deal of
intercourse with Frenchmen of all classes, and
with the best consideration of an observer per-
fectly uninterested and unimpassioned, I am
firmly persuaded that such a measure as that on
which the Quotidienne is now employed to feel
the pulse of the public, would immediately be
attended by a crisis of alarm, and if persisted
in, would be followed by all the horrors of
civil war ; mitigated perhaps in some degree
by the recollection of the reign of terror and
of the military despotism by which it was suc-
ceeded. But whatever be the motives of the
present Ministry, in thus sanctioning the agita-
tion of a measure so evidently attended with
dangerous results, whether it be an abstract at-
tachment to ultra principles of royalty, or the
mere reluctance to part with place and power, it
is to be hoped, for the sake of France and of
Europe, that they will not be permitted to carry
their designs into execution.
" By way of antidote to the poison thus disse-
minated by the Quotidienne, the new Minister
of Marine, Baron d'Haussez, has addressed the
following circular to the Maritime Prefects which
I have extracted from a Provincial Paper, the
Aviso

M. le Prefet—The confidence and kind.
" ness of the King has called me to the Minis.
" try of the Marine and the Colonies.

" Ido not conceal from myself either the
importance of my new function or the extent
of the duties attached to them. I shall apply
to their fulfilment all the zeal and devoted-
' ness of l hick I am possessed, and which I have
sometimes bad the happiness to see appre-
ciated by his Majesty in another branch of
the public Administration. But I chiefly
desire to invoke the free co-operation of
the military and civil functionaries of the
department, with the interests of which his
Majesty has entrusted me ; and I hope that
by their enlightened assistance and tried ex-
perience, I shall not be found unequal to
the difficult task assigned to me.

" The Administration of my predecessors,
" and particularly that of the Minister to whom
" I have succeeded, has been distinguished
" by noble improvements. It will be the oh-

:" ject of all my care to preserve the good whit:
has already been accomplished, and even, i

" possible, to add to it ; and I shall be happy,
" if, like them, I shall be able to conciliate
" ' the esteem and the approbation of a depart-
" ment whose services, always useful and ho-
" nourable, have not been unattended with
glory and distinction.
" The King's Government is immovable in
the resolution it has taken not to depart from
'" the Constitutional principles which are con-
" secrated by the Charter; nor to neglect any
" thing which may tend to create a more anti-
"' mate and irrevocable union between the
" throne and the liberties of the people. They
%1 ill proceed in this course with constancy,
" moderation, and firmness; and I cannot doubt
" that all who belong to the Department of the
" Marine will second their efforts to attain what

" is so much the object of every friend of good
" order and of the legitimate Monarchy.
(Signed) " Baron D'HAUSSEZ." '

We have letters from Havannah, this morning,
to the 18th of August. They state that intelli-
gence had reached there of the dispersion of the
squadron against Mexico in the Gulf, during a
hurricane on the 11th, and that up to the 16th
nothing whatever had been further heard of it.

This intelligence had created a great excitement
at Havannah, and the exiles in particular were
much depressed.

We have commercial letters from Smyrna of
the 4th of August. Business there was in a
state of the greatest depression. In fact, only
one transaction, or barter of 8,000 bags of coffee
against opium, had been made since last advices
worth noticing.

A packet has arrived with a Mail from Vera
Cruz to the 30th July, at which period nothing
certain had been heard of the motions of the
Havannah expedition, as will be seen by the
following extracts ;