The Sun.
London, England, 1818-11-16 00:00:00

confident 'l►e required consolation, and wits leav-
ing his property, &c. abandoned.
.I\ir. Clive an-
swered he was out of town. The friend, said
key ‘votild take a coach and follow him. hut Mr.
Clive refo•ed positively, stating, That the sithle
re4SlMS.whiCh gave rise to his arrest, prevented
any one from seeing hitn. A person went to the
cottage, but Mts. Capper said Ire had been strut
to Dover.

[Morning Post.]
(GENERAL 'thlol,lGAUD.—This Officer, one of
Buonaparte's adherents, was on Saturday arrested
by a warrant front the Secretary of State, at 'his
apartments in Upton-street, Brunswick-square
The Me.senger who executed the warrant did not
effect this objet without Considerable resistance,
and in Ow scuffle that took place the windows of
the house were broken. The General struggled
hard to save his papers, but they were all seized
and brought with himself to, Whitehall, where a
private examination took place in the presence of
Lord Sidmouth and several other Cabinet Minis-
ters. This Officer, it is understood, was one of
the persons concerned in the recent St. Helena
plot. Considering his misrepresentations of our
unexampled glorious achievements at Waterloo,
and his avowed adherence to the cause of the
v,miniShed Chef, we cannot, at any rate, dont)t
his indisposition to the interests of that country,
the splendour of whoSe reputation he has S.O
basely attempted to dim.

[New Times.]

GENERAL GOURGAUD.—On Saturday morning,
between the hoots of six, and seven o'clock, Ge-
neral Grourgaud was arrested At his lodgings,
No. 7, CoMpton-street, Brunswick-square, under
a warrant issued for that purpose 'from the Home
Department. • Two officers only were employed
tit► the occasion, as no resistance was expected.
The Ge►►eral, however, on being informed:of the
object of the visit, declared his determinalion to
resist the attenipt:-' by all possible means, and a
scuffle ensued, in whir), although assisted by a
friend when was in the house with him,. he was
overpowe?ed, and conveyed to a carriage pre-
pared for his reception. His ftiend followed and
forced himself into the carriage, from which he
was with difficulty taken out. The officers bad
previously succeeded in seizing General. -Gout.-
,gaud's hooks and papers, and the intimation they
l►ad given of their instructions to effect that pur-
pose, appeared in tl►e first instance to have irri-
tated aud..excited the General to the resistance
which lie !Dade. He repeated!), exclaimed, that
Ile would -not suffer his pallets to be examined,
and when he found all opposition unavailing, he
entreated permission to place his seal upon them.

[The Times]
AIX LA-CHAPELLE, Nov. 11.
PROLONGATION OF THB TERM FOR PAYING THE

FRENCH CoNTRIBUTIoNS.
When I mentioned in my letters of the sth an
6th instant, that the Ministers of the tour fig;
Allied Powers lad agreed, at the conference of the
3d, to a prolongation of the time of paying the
contributions, it was plain that I alluded merely
to a general understanding among them to that
effect ; as I-afterwards said, that the tams of an
additional convention on the subject would be set-
tled on the arrival of Mr. Baring, and the add I.
tional information that he and the French Go-
vernment• would supply. This general .mider-
standing was expressed in the protocol which I
sent you itt my letter of the 9111, but had not
assumed the formal shape of a complete conven-
tion. At that time the prolongation of the term
from nine months to twelve was considered as all
that might be revired ; and it was the sense of
Congress that it should be accorded as an
tional boon to France, for the security of all par-
ties concerned. In the conferences of Monday
and yesterday, the whole subject was reconsidered
with the new lights which Alinisters had gained.
Mr. Bating, I am informed, gave in a memorial
oil Monday, containing the reasons for this appli-
cation on the part of France, stating the extent to
which it was desirable the prolongation should
extend, and enforcing the policy of consenting to
the demand on the new conditions that would be
offered. The whole of this intricate business 6
now said to be definitively arranged, and the ad-
ditional convention signed in the conference of to-
day. For all the details, we must wait for the
document itself ; but the following may be re-
garded as its principal and only interesting arti-
cles :—The time. for paying the whole of the con-
ttibwions is now at last extended from 9 to 18
months. The first payment is to take place on the
6th January, as before stipulated ; and the whole
sum of 265 millions is to be discharged by 18
equal monthly instalments. The half is to be
paid in foreign bills, on houses at Hatnburgh
and Amsterdam, and the other half in Paris.
Interest at the rate of 5 per cent. is to be
given on the part of the contributions., the pay-
ment of which is deterred beyond the 9 months
stipulated in the first convention. The same
rate of interest, and the same division of funds
into payments at Paris and bills on foreign
houses, are to be common to all the Powers. The
contractors, the securities, and all the other terms
of the original convention, remain unchanged.
—lt is reported, that the four Powers have cor-
dially and unanimously deiced to these conditions,
whatever might at first have been the feeling of
some of them on a proposition to prolong the
term of realizing their shares so much beyond the
period originally stipulated. The giving of interest
at 5 per cent., and the security of ultimate pay-
ment, added to the new conveoieoce of hills on
cities with which the most of them have more in-
tercourse than with Paris, are advantages which
have rendered the measure satisfactory to all.—
Messrs. Baring and Co. are of course security for
the interest as well as the principal. They will
receive the dividend on the French stock footled,
and will pay it over to the parties in proportion
to their shares of the contribution. Thus this
difficult negociation, which was more likely than
any other to create differences where they did. not
exit, or to give 1.1.1e111a prominence if they exist-
ed, has been ierminaced with that unanimity, with
that dispatch, and with that conciliatory and con.
filing disposition, which affords the best evidence
Lof present union among the great L'u wers. and