Star.
London, England, 1830-06-09 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Important document, in the present state of French
parties
FRANCE—PRIVATE AND CONVIDENTIAL.—In pursuance of
the Royal Ordinance of the 10th instant, which convokes the Elec-
toral Colleges for the Zid of next month, I invite you to inform,
without delay, the officers of all ranks in garrison or in quarters, In
the division which you command, who shall qualify as electors,
that you are authorized to deliver to them directly furloughs to go
into the departments in which they have to exercise their political
rights. The duration of the furloughs which you will grant them
for this purpose must be calculated approximatively, according
to the time which will be necessary for them to make the
journey, to be present at the operations of their colleges, and
to return to their poste. These furloughs will not cause any
diminution of the pay of the officers who shall obtain them.—
The King expects from you on this occasion the tame proofs of
attachment to his person and to his service which you have given
him on similar occasions. You have already on several occasioes
explained to the military men called to take a share in the elections,
the nature and the extent of the duties which belong to their employ.
meats, and how incompatible with those employments any conduct
would be that might oppose the direction which his Majesty has
thought most suitable to the present circumstances and situation
of the kingdom. These is none of them who should not compre.
bend, that if they are free as to their votes they have also obli.
gations inseparable from their situation; that it is impossible to serve
at once the Government of the King and the Opposition, and that ho-
nour, as well as duty, requires them to makes choice between the two.
You will have now to maintain, by your instructions and by your
example, the same doctrines, and to employ, in order to make them
effectual, along with the force of your personal conviction, the lawful
means which the confidence of his Majesty has put at your disposal.
The views which regulate the government of the King are known
and may be loudly avowed ; they have no object but the
preservation of the rights of the throne, and the stability of
the institutions of which It is the fundamental basis. They are
a sure rule of conduct for every one who desires frankly and
honestly the maintenance of the monarchy and a public liberty.
I invite you, besides, to come to an understanding with Messrs. lee
Prefets, who are specially charged to give to the electoral operations
that direction and that emeralds which must secure their result...-.
Yen will take measures that the service may not suffer ikon; the ab-
settee of the officers called to the elections from their quarters or
garrisons. I have the honour to be, Le. the President of the Cows-
ell, charged ad interim with the Portfolio of War.
(Signed) " Prince de POLIGNAC."
Smetana, Aran. 18.-117=—ident of Greece has published
in his journal, in the Greek leaguer, the complaint which he has
addressed, through the Baron de Rouen, to the French legation
at Constaatimmle, on account of the two decrees inserted in
Nos. 104 and 105 of our journal ; he formally denies the ex-1
btence of these decrees, and accuses us of calumny. We have
presumed the authenticity of these two documents on the autho-
rity of the Government seal, which Is affixed to the two copies
we have received. We have shown them to the French Can.
sul at Smyrna, who has recognized these seals as being those
that are attached to all papers issued by the Greek Govern.
ment. We must add, that these decrees, which came from a
respectable quarter, circulated all over Greece ; that persons who
are not accustomed to collect false and calumnious documents
possessed copies of them ; and that the concurrence of all
these marks of genuineness induced us to publish them,—
' but with the observation that they were privately circulated.
Their existence however, is now formally denied by the Pre-
sident of Greece, and we must declare that we have been
informed by the French Legation at Constantinople that this
denial is confirmed by incontestable proofs. We confidently
these explanations to the public ; they will suffice to
justify our intentions. It still remains to be explained how
the copies in our hands came to bear the Greek Government
seal: perhaps we may soon be able to give this explanation
in a satisfactory manner, and to unmask the malice that sought to
lay a snare for us. The complaint of the President, conceived in
very violent language, contains various accusations, to which we
shall revert in our next number : in the mean time we shall content
ourselves with Indignantly repelling the charge of calumny. Ca.
lumny is the weapon of cowardice, and the President knows whether
we have hitherto wanted courage and frankness to attack him openly."

Bow-STaEnT.—Yesterday, a gentleman, attended by
Ensign Mills, who made a statement on Saturday at this Office,
which charged Capt. COMMIE with having stolen a cloak belong.
lag to him, and with having obtained ten pounds from him, by re-
presenting that he would procure the insertion of some parsgiaph
in The Star Newspaper, appeared before Ur. Halls to make the
following explanation of Capt. Christie's conduct ;—He said that it
was far from Mr. Mills's intention to charge him with a felony.—
The fact was, that Capt. Christie and Mr. Mills, were, a short time
back, very intimate friends. During the latter gentleman's absence
in the country, Capt. Christie called openly at his lodgings, and
being at that time in want of a cloak for a particular purpose, bor-
rowed it while the servant was in the room. The cloak had never
been detained, and it was now lying at a coffee-house ready for Mr.
Mills whenever he chose to take it away. Mr. Mills said that such
was the case, and that it never was his intention to charge Capt.
Christie with a felony. A reporter who attended for The Those
said—l beg your pardon, Sir, you applied here for the purpose of
obtaining a warrant against Capt. Christie. Mr. Mills : No, no ; I
merely came here in order that I might ascertain what course I should
pursue. The gentleman who attended for Capt.Cbristie said, he under-
stood some very erroneous statements had appeared in the report of
Mr. Mills's appearance at the office en Saturday. Mr. Milk said,
that such was the case in some of the papers, but the report was
perfectly correct in The Observer newspaper. The Reporter for
The'ieses said that Mr. Mills bad stated things to-day quite con-
trary to what be had on Saturday, and that s warrant was most die.
tined, mentioned. Mr. Mills said that it was not his wish to
charge Capt. Christie with felony.—Mr. HALLS inquired if a war.
rant had been issued ? And the clerk answering in the negative, he
said that then there was an end of the mauen—The Reporter said,
that the statement of Mr. Mills today was clearly an after-thought.
Mr. Hat.t.s said that Mr. Mills had come to the office in a state of
alarm, which might, in some degree, account for what bad been
said. He, however, was happy to say, that with respect to the
cheques, concerning which Capt. Christie had previously appeared,
he had had a 001131111112iCadell with the Captain's family; and al-
though circumstance@ were such as, on the first view, to create a
suspicion, still, they did not warrant the conclusion which had at
one time been come to, concerning the Captain's conduct. There
was an understanding in the family that them cheques on Green-
wood and Co. were to have been paid in a particular meaner. They
would be paid as well as every debt of Capt. Christle's.—The gen-
tleman who attended to tusks the explanation, said be appeared at
the request of his father, Sir Archibald Christie. Me that
as regard would be paid to the contradktion of Capt. Wag
the propristew of the Star. Although be was not the propitiator,
negotiations had bons pending on the subject. Whether be would
the was another matter. The gentleman then re-
tired with