Star.
London, England, 1815-08-14 00:00:00

•THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.
MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1815.
pBI.FOF ATOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK:
Kokotil 56C—Cons. money 66W-for acc. 56.
4.r/ Cent. 721—S per Sent. 84f—Benda 6a. dia.
Obtium mo. 6ii pre.—Do. pay. pre
Ls chequer Biill4 64. Its. die.

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Since our last we have received the Paris Papers of
Vedneslay and Thursday last. The most prominent
tinkle is a Report made to the KING by the Minister
nn the present state of the French Press.—
Toat the Press, ever sir.ce the return of the KING,
1 h:en in daily practice of abusing its liberty, no
I!rSnrl in the habit of perusing them can question for a
nos:tent, but the remedy proposed by FOUCIIE, is the
vnrst that could possibly be devised. In our last our
.sniting anticipatid the measure that has been resort-
'.'to, kind oar Readers know our opinion on the subject.
The RIMISt of the liberty of the press in France. so
itr it:validating, gives force to our objectiotts
against such an abuse of power. It is not by streach.l
iug nut the arm of arbitraty power oa such occasions,
bit by a proper application of legal remedies, that this
evil s!:ould be removed. By the former an odium is
'ougbt upon the Government, and the word of the
whirs should ever be held sacred, is violated
LY :he latter the Government acquires credit- for
frrnoes3, while the veracity of the King is held np to

A bad Minister—one who may wish to sink the
ebaracter of the Monarch in the estimation of the'
People, will recommend harsh, illegal, uneentstitu-
tic'nal, Unpopular, arbitrary measures. A gooelll4-
ni,.zr will ever find means in the provisions of law
tea punishment of delingnents ; or, if a case oc-
curs, not provided for by existing laws, *ill seek a
cnne.itutional remedy for future delinquencies in a
I:ess law. He will never) to save himself trouble, ex-
Pcse master to odium and contempt—the neces-
sary consequence of every violation of law in the
e?.:ne of the KiNci.
Since the return of the KING no event has occurred
treatening so much danger to the stability of big

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throne es the Ordinance he has been induced to issue
on the solicitation of Foveae. Pt is absurd to imagine
that Prenchnsen cannot be ruled like other people.—
It is precisely by this vascalation of government ; this
system of expediency; this setting at defiance all
those principles of judicial procedure which maintain
peace and 'quiet in other countries that Frenchmen
are unhinged in their moral energies, and taught to
consider law as having existence but in circumstances
and in force. Till they are taught to consider the
law of their country as osanipoient for the punishment
of every violation of its mandates, they will despi,e it.
Men cannot respect that which has no energy. it
,the weakness of law be once confessed by the substi-
tution of another power, it can only be despised, and'
they instantly begin to weigh the substitute against
their own means of destroying it.
FOUCHgt or Louis, or his advisers, or all of them,
if we suppose they have acted with an honest mind
on the present occasion, have shewn themselves mise-
rably qualified for rule; and their conchict cannot
but excite great alarm among the other Powers, as
directly tending to revive those revolutionary move-
ments which have already nearly overwhelmed the
edifice of social order of Europe. What hope can
be entertained of the happy restoration of social ordel
in a country in which the Minister, instead of putting
the laws in force, allows them to lie dormant, and re-
sorts to such arbitrary measures as tormed, during
the Revolution, the principal topics for popular decla-
mation against royal authority.

From this Measu: e we are alarmed, greatly alarmed
for the prospects which it opens. It Fouctir, by the
Ordinance which he has pmcuieil, aims at making
the Kixo to be hated, and means to prepare the
French for a new tevolutioa, it must be admitted
that he could not have • adviled any thing butter
suited to gain such an end. Bat have the other
Powers no right to interfere ? We rnaatain that
they have. They .have shed much preciou,
blood—they have expended much wealth to put
an end to the anarchy which reigned sn long in
France; and they have at right to forbid any one
whatever from doing what may eventually defeat the
object of their labours, and involve not only France,
but their respective States in the horrors of a new war.
This is not a subject to he vie w:el with indifference ;
and we are strongly inclined to believe, that those
who delivered France lrom ttio tyranny cl a Napo..
LEON, and restored the aut'.ority of the KIYC, Wll4
tell the latter, that they cannot passively look on and
see his Minister using an illegal authority which may
endanger the peace of the world.

A Mall from Hamburgh arrived this morning, but
the intelligence brought by it is neither recent nor in-
teresting. The celebrated GENTZI who held some-
thing like the office of Secretary-General or Recorder
to the grand Ck..s.gress at Vienna, has been sent for to
execute the same to actions at Paris, Madame MU.
RAT has a rrand palace in the vicinity of Vi-
enna. The kJ have sent the Commanders of
some of BONAPARTE'S free corps to Siberia, to strike
terror into the rest. It is said that a dispatch has
!leen intercepted, sent from Paris to the commanders
of the French fortresses, ordering them not to sur-
render to the Allies. There is much duplicity iu all
this.

We have received Boston Papers to the 19th of
July, and New York to the if The Americans
are busily employed adding to their navy. The pri-
soners of war who lately left Dartmoor prison have
published a most inflammatory article against Great
Britain, purporting to be a report of the disagreeable
9ecur.Vences which took place in that depot previous
to their shipment, and in which several refractory
prisoners lost their lives. The unprincipled block-
heads gravely inform their countrymen that the Bri-
tish coolly and deliherately meditatil a general mas-
sacre of the American prisoners of war long previous
to.the riot and mutiny above alluded to!

By an arrival at Plymouth we have received a
series of Havannah Newspapers to the 29th of June.
They contain no recent intelligence of interest from
the Spanish Main. We lament to observe, that car.
goes of slaves from the coast of Africa, arrive almost
weekly in the Havannah—they are all embarked on
Spanisht or at least Jai-di:ant Spanish, bottoms; but
we fear there are some British Subjects covertly en-1
gaged in this nefarious traffic. When we see the ar-
rival announced, for instance, of a Spanish vessel
with 27§ Negroes, commanded by Capitan Don
Carams Featirea, we are strongly inclined to suspect
this Gentleman to be a British subject. The. Cap.
tains of our cruizcrs on the African shores cannot be
too vigilant, and we trust they will act upon the hints
now given them.—Since the intelligence of the return
of BONAPARTE to France, all French vessels.had been
prevented saiiing from Havannah.—The island was
remarkably healthy at the date of the last advises.

The Duke of YORK was doing so well on Satur-
day, that he was able to walk out in his pleaure-
grounds at Oatlands ; and his Royal Highness con.
Musing free from fever, Sir lita4tiv Ilmsonn hasdis-
continued his constant attendance.upon him. The fol.
lowing notice was issued on Saturday :

" H s Royal Highness the Duke of Yoke recovers so favour-
ably, that the Bulletins are to be diseontsnued. (Signed)
" Catiands, August 12. " P. MACURZGOIt, burgeon."
Tirc Duchess of ORLEANS visited the QUEEN and
PaiNcessas on Friday mining, at Kew Palace, pre•
'sous to iheir leaving there for London.