Star.
London, England, 1822-12-05 00:00:00

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FRANC

PROW THE PARIS P#PERS OF THiEDAT LAST.

ROYAL ORDONNANCi •
" from, Ste..—W.shing to give a testimony of our ftvoor and
Satisfaction to oar weli.batoved and right trusty Viscount Met-
thleu de Montmorency, our Minister Secretary of State fat the
Department of Foreign Affairs, wit have ordered and do order
.as follows :
" Art. 1. Our well-beloved' and right trusty Viscount Mat.
thieu 'de Montmorency is created Duke.
".4. This title is attached to his dignity of Peer.
" 3. Our well-beloved and tight trusty Viscount Matthleu do
Montmorency shall consequently enjoy and after him his children.
Pneterkt, and descendants, la the direct line, born or to be born
in lawful marriage, shall enjoy, the ranks and honours attached
to the said tide of Duke, by order of primogeniture subject es
the conditions of our well-beloved and right trustyilscouut de
Montmorency conforming to the laws therewith relating. part co.
lady to the provisions of our Ordonnaaos of the lttit of August,
isiS, and moreover of going before ear /Casper of the Soaks,
Minister Secretary of State fox Justice, to obtain our letters
patent necessary in this cast.
" Given -at the Castle of the Turneries, December 1, in the
year of Grace 1881, and of oar reign the 88th. -
Signed) " LOUIS. --'-
(C"lstersiffiled) DI DE V.ILLILE."
Paris, December S. Mathew.

Those who did not find the article of the Moniteur 1
sufficiently clear,will not be much enlightened by the.
Balk. The latter paper announces that .it is. well
informed ; but that says nothing, becausi it waits
until our Cabinet shall have " put forward its diplo-
macy and prepared its armies." We thought that
France had put forward her diplomacy at the Cdn-
gress of Verona, and that, for a year pelt, she had
been preparing her armies; but it seems we must
wait for another exhibition of diplomacy and mili-
tary force. " In peace;" says the Ltoile," France will
be ready to make war." We hope, however, that
this prediction will not be realized, and that France
will not, daring peace, be burdened with the expenses
which the necessity of being ready for war must im-
pose. This would be promising us all the inconve-
niences of war,without atii, of the favourable chances
to which it might give birth. Some men may find
their account in such a state of things; but assuredly
those who pay taxes will not, The Etoik adds--" If
France make war, she will always be ready to make
peace." Would it not be better to adopt this pacific
disposition in the outset ; and, since it is only meant
to return to a state of peace, to keep in it rather than
run the chance of being brought back to it after nu-
merous and painful sacrifices?— Courier Francais.
The Etoile announces that the first thing done by
M. de Montmorency, Minister of Foreign Affaits, on
returning from Verona, was to deliver to M. de Mar-
changy an autograph letter of the Emperor of Rus-
sia, which contains the -most flattering expression to-
wards that Magistrate. The Requisitory, which has
obtained M. de Marchangy this mark of Imperial
favour, was translated into the Austrian Observer,'
and repeated in the Conservateur of Petersburgh.
It appear that M. Pozzo di Borgo will not return
so soon to Paris as was expected. He left Verona on
the 23d of November to visit Corsica, his native
country, where private affairs call him. It is said he
will remain only forty-eight hours there, and will re-
turn immediately to Paris.- The persons who accom-
panied that Ambassador to Verona are expected at
Paris an Thursday or Friday next.
M. Jabat, who was Secretary of State for the Ma-
rine in the Spanish Ministry formed after the esta-
blishment of the Constitution of the Cortes, has been
appointed Ambassador to England, instead of Zarcu
del Valle, who is to be otherwise employed.

VItoM to CoNSTITUTIONNILL.

The Moniker is to-day less enigmatical upon the
affairs of Spain than it has been fer some days past.
The arrival of the Vicomte de Montmorency has pto.
bably given it permission to express itself less ob-
scurely : nevertheless, it still preserves a tone of re-
serve and a diplomatic style which is not calculated
to give a categorical explanation of the question, and
consequently to restore confidence to all the interests
of France which have been so frequently alarted by
the fear of a war with the Peninsula.—Annexed is the
article published in the Monaca,. of this morning—.
[Here follows the extract, given in the STAR.]
The first observation which strikes us in this Note
is, that the official Journal confesses that it would be
of some advantage for things and persons " to know
the progress of questions which► interest them at least
in proportion as they are accomplished." It is de-
lightful to see the Moniteur, especially when it speaks
Ministerially, acknowledging the necessity of not
allowing affairs of the greatest importance to be sur-
rounded by those uncertain and contradictory reports
which have constantly prevailed since the opening of
Congress on the subject of Spain. The Moniteur
thereby proclaims one of the fundamental principles
of every Representative Government : it is this—that
tke nation participating directly in that form of go.
vernment ought not to be left in entire ignorance, if
not of the discussions, at least of the facts which art
connected with its dearest interests. This is an homage
paid to public opinion of which the expression is so
often misunderstood, and to which, however, in the
long run, men are always obliged to submit.
It is only painful that the Moniserr should have so
long delayed to make the proper application of this
maxim: if it had been less chary of positive informs.
tins-.-if it had not frequently taken from other jour-
nals articles of intelligence most alarming in their
nature—if it had constantly and immediately given
the lie to the warlike articles which rapidly succeeded
each other in certain Gazettes, and of which the con-
sequences, which ought to have been immediate, are
even now adjounied—if the Monacur had only ob-
served a species of neutrality which, perhaps,was
quired by its character and gravity, it would have
saved France from the alarms which have lately
passed all limits ; it would have saved the exchange
of Paris the great losses and commotions which have
been felt afar, and which have drawn ruin on so many
families. It is fortunate for France, and we congra-
tulate ourselves upon it, that this nation, so great, so
noble, and so generous, has at length re-assumed in
Europe, as the Moniteur asserts, the rank and import-
ance which naturally belong to it from its population,
its climate, its industry, the character of its inhabit-
ants, and its happy geographical position.
We remark, however, that the Moniteur seems in-
directly to exclude England from that honourable
union which has placed in the hands of the French
Government the balance on which, relatively to
Spain,„ the policy of the European Cabinets ought to
rest. " The Continental Powers,' says the Menitcur,
s, have banded over to France the future manage.