Star.
London, England, 1814-06-16 00:00:00

SLAVE TRADE.

Mr. WILI3ERFOILCE wi;hed his motion on the
subject of the Slave Tr. de, the object of which was
to procure st;ch benefits as might be obtained for
Africa, during the five years in which the trade was
to continue, to come on on Monday next, if the No-
hle Lord'opposite (Lord Castlereagh) had no objec-
tion to that day, on account of the urangements
made with respect to the Royal Personages now iii
this country.
Lord CASTLtRE4CH stated Monday, to In
one-of those days which it had been proposed to de-
vote to amusement in Another place, and wished the
Honourable Gentleman to name some other day.—
• On Thursday pr Friday he thopght the motion might
be entertained, With a prospect of comiqg to a satis-
factory conclusion.

Mr: WILBERFORCE, if he could not bring it
on On Monday next, would wish to bring it on on
Monday se'nnight, and therefore wished the discus-
sion on the Treaty to be postponed from that day.
Lord CASTLEREAGH thought nothing likely
to interfeie an Friday with the discussion, if the Ho-
nourable Gentleman would consent to bring it for-
ward on that day. 'lt woulci be very painful to him
so repeatedly to postpone the larger question.
Mr. WILBERFORCE declined naming any other
day at present. The Motion therefore stands for
Monday.•

4PPIIpMcI; PILL.
Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW moved the third reading
of the Appremice Bill.
Mr. P. MOORE wished the opera►tions of this Bill
to be limited to inu: ye4r. He thought the measure
should be considered as an experiment to be renewed
annually, it necessary.
Sir 3: NEW POR I' hoped the Bill would pass in
its present form.

'he gill was then read a third time and passed.
JAIL FEES.

Mr. BENNET moved for leave to bring in a Bill,
for Regulating Jail Fees. He adverted to the Acts'
passed on this subject in the '23d of Charles tI. and
tae 3d ot Geo. 11. In a large number of Jailr.:, and
even of county jails, no table of Fees was kept. In
others the greatest irregularity prevailed. In some
of these fet;; were very exorbitant, and it often hap-
pened that the prisoners were compelled to sell their
clothes and bedding in order to pay their fees—(Hear,
ham.) The Honourable Member then described the
state of our jails in general, as requiring regulation
and improvement. He mentioned two in pat ticular,
those of Rockingham and Halifax, in Yorkshire; the
former was totall out of repair; and spirituousli-
quors were publicly hung tip fni sale in the fats of
two Acts of Parliament; in both, the prisoners were
.without fire, and almost witliont food and clothing.
Sir JAMES SHAW thought it would be proper
to fix the qiiantutt ot clothing, food, &c. totbe pro-
vided in these cases. He was apprehensive, that from
the improvements about to be introduced by Parlia.
Incnt nun the City of Ltndon agy might be
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meats were not aclopte with respect t 9 the jails in
the vicinity of the Metropolis.
.Mr. THOMFS,Qn 4tmpnted. the, sc4te in which
itliny'of our prisotts,ww ai,present#owsr.to 6e kept.
Leave Was, then,givepito brink in the Bill.
• PAi.ME244.l.o4iftcr. exohani,luca fiw words with
'We. Tierney, pn4podebi We Arniy kstiniates Som Fri,day ntit
to Friday se'unipt.4l-AthiMeki.
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Exr4A4"T-.91P-A;PszgAra4irryza.
tg A 'very Iliiagreerable eitctitfletaitee has occurred
within these few days;' fipms the Object of
much conversation at Paris.. aisllejesty the ICSottl
of Prussia, passing, through Cc;mpiegne. on his way 4
to Boulogne, was grossly insulted by a moh, far the
most part military, who pelted hie carriage with stones
and broke the glasses ; obliging the. King, as is re-
ported, to hutry out of it, and betake himself to
fl;ght. This, as you may imagine, became the ground
of a serious complaint to the French Government,
who have seized the ringleaders, and brought thezp
to trial. The French papers being still under pre-
cisely the same regimen as in the days of Bonaparte,
we know literally nothing at Paris in the least worth
knowing, except what comes through private means.
You are therefore not to be surprised that this has
keen excluded from the journals.
• •f 4 The cause ofthe abpve outrage it would be d fli.
cult to guess, if we 114 not hourly reasons for la.
mentinnithe ill humour of many classes of pee* in
this country. The army, it is perfectly plain and
unquestionable, would prefer • a war with all the
warldr td ale happiest peace that could he desired
for France. The nation at large are not a little
savage, because the oresent peace has kicked then
back within their olcf limits—and that no step np-
pears to have been taken by Government to realize
•! 14 'grande peitsile"--to wit, the extension of French
power over Cerriiany.
You will naturally ask, are they mad enough to
indulge such dreams at such a moment'? • Yes ;
they are mad enough for any thing—ambitiOus and
mischievous enough to commence again the wildest
schemes of Bonaparte. Never, never must we hope
to see France, as a nation, lay aside her spirit of con-
quest. EVen now they plan the ruin of Austria :
I pour tep.endre une position digne de la Frince, ii
faut commindr 'tar ;'—these. words I heard
quoted the other day 'at dinner, by a Gentleman to
whom they ware spoken.
Government of Louis XVIII. has, I be-
lieve,' the most prudent views as to foreign affaii.s,
and, certainly, the very best intentions—So much the
worse for it influence over certain classes of distur-
bers. 11. great jealoitsi is with good reason excited
by the vast influx of officers from all quarters's°. I
France to the metropolis. No less than three orders
of die day have issued from the War Depattmenr
widtin a week, enjoining all those, without exception,
whO are not on duty at Paris, to repair instanter to
the head quarters qf their regiments, ott pain of being
dismissed the service.

" The Constitutional Chatter is ft:ltch canvassed
among the higher classes, and very freely censured.
The King having objected to the first draught of a
Constitution drawn up by Talleyrand and his col-
leagues, that although he admitted its principles, it
WAS, as a composition, " hurried and obscure," it his
been observed, that the famous " charte cpnstitu.
tionelle" is only clear in stating the prerogatives of
the crown, but sufficiently vague in pointing out
their limitations—that even the saleguardof the whole,
the vested right to national property, is very equivo.
cally laid down,—and that the grand foundation of
the charter itself being alleged by the King's Coun-
sellors to rest on the will of the Sovereign, implies an
argumentative authority on his part, to revoke the
instrument, or any one of its provisions, whenever he
shall so think fit. '
" Whether these debates are likely to find entrance
into the lower House of Legislature, we shall see bye
and by. Talleyrand looks on and smiles at the sup-
posed indiscretions of those departments of the Mi-
nistry, for whose acts he well knows the public are
not disposed to consider hip as responsible. He has
already, credit with the nation for having infused into
the original propositions to the King all the freedom
which pervaded them. He leaves to the more fa-
voured counsellors, especially to the Chancelloy, a
most virtuoßs and hOnest man, but an old Royalist,
unassolged, and uninstructed by the times, the odium
of impairing his work, and re-asserting the doctrines
that Houriitlied before the ievplution.
" In some of their more minute and local acts, it
also :appears that, either from the time, or manner of
prescribing regulations, in themselves the most ex-
cellent and wholesome, Ministers have had to en-
counter no small discontent. Entering Paris on a
Sunday, one was shocked at seeing all the solemnity,
all the reverence, with which that sacred day ought
to be clothed in every Christian country, and which
distinghish it more strikingly in our own dear island
than in any other part of the earth to which GOD
has extended the mercies of his revelation, it shocked;
disgtbted, and terrified one to see a whole people
lost to the common exercises of Christianity..
44 Neither was business relaxed, nor vicious plea.'
sure restrained—nor did the mind of any one seem
touched by the faintest sense of what was due to his
Cocasou ; the shops all alive—the- gamilig-houies
crowded—the stteets deafened with .ballad-sinors
and mountebanks—the house of GOD was atone do..
serted, and the voice of Religion the only one that .
WAS hot heard. Never *did the moral ruin of ono.
Lion strike so cruelly on my conviction—nor the
scourze of a power built on violence- afford- a more
earnest proof of the relationship bilWeen liberty and
virtue. As some sort 9f remedy for tl,is ;mos of
evils, the Police have done, what, with all one's zeal
for religious decency, it would have been much bet-
ter, because more effectual, to postpone—they have
ordered the shops to'he shut, under heavy penalties.
Tli,e murmurs of the Parisians are loud and furl.
.ous.—"'Bonaparte did nothing hale so tyrannical as
this." In fact, it will not make the people a bit bet-
ter. A good and moral example in their Rulers,
both in the maxims of their government, and in their
domestic. lives, would sooner or later have mitigated
,n cured the mischief, and inclined the public for such
a law, or made it, perhaps, unnecessary. This is ax
least premature, and I am afraid may offer one more
in addition to a thousand instances, how dangerous
and absurd it is, even for the purest ends, to inter-
, fere suddenly with the usaces of a people."

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FIRST MILITARY DIVISION.
„ PARIS, JUNE 11.
" A comids:rable number of Russian, Auvr:an, and Prussia:.
soldiers remain, tit P's:is, in the hospitals. or to wind up th•
affairs of their corps ; Officers are charged by their tespeetiei
Governmears to direct the movements of these men ; these PC
errs have rentined order. not to appear in public except In their •
uotforna. The general commanding in Paris will not do French
soldiers the injustice to believe that they could under any cir-
cumstastees provoke the subjects of Sovereigns with whom the
Icing has signed a Peace, for the happiness of France and of the
world. The army will be no more conquered in loyahy that, ii,
brinery ; and If' sense evil-disposed persons, in the French 1.1,i.
form, should proceed to outraxes or insult, %war& the ARO—,
ttfe General commanding she place recommends all the soldier►
of the Garrison and of the National Guard to apprehend them,
and carry .tlsim befpre jti.y, when be promises to punish them
severely. (Signed) Lieut.-Gen. Count RICARio."

STRALSUND, MAY !S.
Qur Gazette has published the following article .
66 Sweden had ceded Swedish Pomerania to lace
Norway ; bdt the resistance which that kingdom or.
poses, subjects Sweden to the expences of 4ryning,
which reqhires an indemnity. In consequence, Swe.
den will keep Pomerania; but in case it should enter
into the political system of Sweden to have no posses-
sion on the Continent, that province may be united
to the Prusfiiv: monarchy."