The Sun.
London, England, 1816-12-17 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS,
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ORA7\lllll.lt ( inpunEs.
SITTIN:3 07 TU Otti bp DECEMBEE
The Chamber opened at a Turner past one.
The Order of the day called for the commoni-
'cation of the Ministers, and the Report of the
Commission of Petition.
Count Corvettn, Minister of Finance, and Baron
'Dutton, Councillor of State, were ilitvoilticcil.
CO MO Corvetto ascended the Triblitie and spoke
Its follows

" GeNrotstsal,,-41re establishment of imposts
nitwit, according to our constitutional laws, to
coneltitied at the end of the year for which they
were voted. , They cannot, be extended further
without an express. law permitting it. We ate
,approaching to the year 1817 it is not probable
that io the short space which will intervene, that
the vote 'for the tax cars go through the various
necessary feints to render it executive. To pre-
ieut delay, the King requests that the Govern-
meta be authorised by you to collect provisionally
the four first twelfths of the direct taxes for the
Next yenr, after the notes of the present year.—
His Majesty is of opinion that this is necessary,—
firsto in waiting the conclusion of the discussions
'of the Chamber open the law of Finance.7-2d,
give time to prepare, conformably to this law,
the arrangement and completion of the notes.—
Theindireeteontributions having been only voted
for 1916, it is equally necessary to inalfe the legal
!collection wli:ch you shall grant f0r.1817,
" These dilositions, Gentlemen, are the ob-
jects of the law which the King has ordered us to
present to you. The Government is in want of this
law, to obtain in this interval the legal amount
of public receipt."
The following is the project of the lsiw
" We, Louis, &c. We- ordain, &c, that the
project of law, the tenor of which we have order-
ed to he presented by the Minister of Finance,
and Baron .Dudon,,our Conneillor of State, that
we charge to detail the motives and support its
discussion.'

ART. 1. For the, present, and during the di-
lay of the discussion of the Budget of 1817, the
4 first•twelfths of the land•tax and personal tax
shall he collected on the account of the' year
1816.

" 2. Until the promulgation of the new law on
Vittitnee, all the tAXCs. shall he gathered according
to the laws Of 1 til 6.

Ei Givqn, &e. (Signed) Louts."
The President ordered this communication to
be primed and sent to the bureaus.
M. Rol then wade a report in the name of the
:Commitsloo Of Petit , 01,which the following
were the principal:—The Sieur Legrmtd, and
other furnishers of Abbeville, complained that
they had furnished subsistences to the English
army quartered at Abbeville in 1814, and that
they are creditors of the State for 200,000 fr.
They petitioned thi Chamber to take such mea-
sures as they thought propel- to assure them the
payment of the sums due.—Referred to the Mi-
nister of Finance.
The Sienr Carpenter, Printer t Douai, corn-
Tdididted of the difficulties he experienced in print-
ing the Journal: .The bonnnissiott proposed the
order of the day.
A Member.--," Refer it to the Commission
ebargrd, with the examination of the law on the
'lournals,"-Adopted;,
. The Knights of the Order of St. .lohn of -Jeru-
salem reclaim the restitution of their unsold Pro-
perty, which is in the domainsOf the State.--The
'Commission proposed to refer it to the Cavern-
-1115:11I,

Jr. Pict thought thin such was useless, because
• petition hittl beim presented to the King and
the two Chambers it would he better to refer
$t to the Commissioner.; of the Budget, in order
tbai th, t'' opet ty reclaimed may be comprised in
the number of those falling under the law of Fi-
inthce and the Stoking Fund.
Davergicr ihturantic declared, that that
law'related only to the State Forests, so that it
were useless to refer it to the Commission of the
Budget, and that the above claim could only form
a special kw, which ought to be proposed by the
Government. In consequence the orator votes to

refer it to Government.
Cottut Marcellus culled to mind the services
rendered by this order to the cause of religion and
legitimacy, in struggling against the pernicious
doctrines of republicanism ; he then shoved how
just and useful it would he, to protect this order. He
then voted ►hat it be referred to the Minibtee of

Foreign Affairs.
From ail sides--„ Seconded—seconded."
'file reference to the Nlinister of Foreign rlf-
f►tire was put anti attnpted,
NI. de Boorish! took, the prescri!Jetl oath.
The President announced that he would make
known the next day of a Public Sitting as SOOLI

one of the Revortets uf, the etmonission titArge:l
with the examination of the Project of Law shall
be retuly to make his report.
The House separateill at four o'clock.