Star.
London, England, 1815-12-29 00:00:00

JA ittif Ia a.

Omani 2l.—Tbesday atterr.oon, at four o'clock,
the Honourable House of Assembly met, agreeably
to the Proclamation of his Grace the Governor, when
a Committee was appointed to acquaint him there.
with ; upon which he desired their immediate at-
tendance in the Council Chamber, and was pleased
to opec the Session with the following Speech
" Gentlemen of the Council.
" Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Assembly,
" I have called you together at an earlier period than usual, its
compliance with what I understood to be the general wish, and
' with a view of affording you ample time for the cans:defame of
such business as may require your attention.
• Since our last meeting the calm, which the Continent of
Europe had begun to espy, has been again interrupted, and all
the miseries of war experienced, through the desperate enterprise
of the deposed Ruler of France, and the treasonable defection of
its army. happily, however, the prompt and determined coo-
duct of the Allied Powers, and the decisive victory at Waterloo,
have arrested the career of! his usurpation, annihilated that army
which was his only support, and Snaily compelled him to place
his person at the disposal of the Prince Regent.
• Whilst we most ever deplore the great and inestimable loss
sustained hi a c•villict the most sanguinary, though the most gin.
riwas and importsmt in its cosisequeuces, of any which history re-
cords, we must reflect with pride and almiratton on the weeders
ful exertions of those great Commanders, by whose conoinferate
skill and unconquerable valour Europe has been mice moot
rescued from tymuny and desolation. Let as hope too that t:.e
French nation, worn out and exhausted by a su:cessien of such
°fere/Miming calamities, may at last return to a state of order
and tranquillity, awl cultivate the relations of, peace wades the,
add aad equitable Government or their lawful Sovereign.
" Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Assembly, - • •
" Your zeal for his Majesty's service, end your regird for the
interest of your Constituents, will, I aid persuaded, iiiad yea to
grant such supplies as the public exigenclas may require.
" Gentlemen of the Council,
Nir. Speaker, and Genticaten of the Asienthly,
" My experience et fear unwearied filtplicatioo to rout duty
memo see that all year measures vein, be calculated to advent.:
the general welfare; and ic will be turista/ ples,ing to me, if
I jam hie Instrumenral In promoting so di Prat,' an ohjecs.".
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THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 99, 1811

A Dutch Mail arrived this morning with the fol.

lowing intelligence:
BRUSSELS, DECEMBER 20.
The French Government is now raising in great
haste an extraoriinary contribution in the part of Pi-
cardy which has least suffered from the passage of
the troops, in order to provide for the support of the
allied troops ;hat remain in France. By the Com-
missioners on both sides, all the necessary arrange,
meats are made for the giving up of the fortresses.
but the time when it will take place is not yet know.n.
Our national troops are in motion in all directions.
Several battalions, it is said, are going to Loom-
burg, to form part of the garrison of that important
fortress. Marienburg, Fhtlippeville, Nieuplrt, and
Ypres, are to be garrisoned by our troops.
The Commissioners named by his Majesty to draw
up regulations for the organisation of the Public In.
unction in the Southern Provinces, labours with
great diligence in order to accomplish this important
task, and lay the regulations befote his Majesty as
um as possible.
• BOIS I.E DUC, DECEMBER ts.
We understand that a Swiss regiment is expected
here on the 22d, to remain in garrison, and at the
sante• time two battalions of Nassau.
From Breda they write on the 17th t—es We arc
here overburdened with, troops of the Netherlands
coming front France and the Southern Provinces,
partly to remain, partly to halt for a day and night.
In oar whole neighbourhood the march of the turps
has been, for some days past, stopped by the ice LI
the rivers and they are quartered in the villages."
PTRECHT, DECEMBER 21.
We learn that the head-quarters of the troops
his Majesty the King of Deqmark, with the litst cc
Intan of 30 Olken, 190 men, and 200 horses, 4r•
rind yesterday at Amersfort. The whole corps Will
arrive in seven nr eight small columns, by the 'l7 Lb
Or VIM, tallith* br aU of 250 Officers, 4,585 woe
cad low horses. •

HAT;ul,.Dlguthasalt *l. •
The atato of the water mid ice in the rivet!, :it'
cording to the accounts that us have received, begin'
to assume a wore alarming appeaiance, on ACCOUIIi
of the 2010inged stoppage of the lower. rivers ; and
L die Mere Wagiuls observed in the river Wash lc

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Via* "Win Rhiberie 7tlsie aestw'of-tbiegs, mar
titus tbelower.rivetsWitai'llboVe their althes,Avhich.l
would be in the*gibitest.fiiiiiidrsOf atiring way. •Wii
skin therefore Cansisfer our iiidatioe.inthjs respect as
6404 ; and to bring it to a happy result, we sliest
exert ourselves to the inmost,' and neglect no means
of defence, no measutes of precaution which may
contribute to it t every endeavour is In fact using for
tWs purpose, in the hope and confidence that it will
please the ALMIGHTY to crown our exertions with the
desired success. •

HAODr., DECEMBER 22.
Since yesterday, by the accounts that have been te•
(*red. some increase of the water has been remarked.
The dykes were all in good condition astfar as the
accounts are.

• MOND CHAIIIIER. • . .
Report of the Central Section on the projett of
the law for decreeing a mark of national• gratitude to
his Royal Highness the Prince of Orange :
" High and Mighty Lords—Your High Mightinesses hod
pressed to his Majesty in the lat extraordinary Session; the desire
of giving to his Royal Highness the Prince of Orange, an osten-
sible mark of the sentiments of the nation towards him. Your
Nigh Mightiness,., as representatives of the nation, expressed
that it would be agreeable to it, to am the gratitude .and love
• commemorated in.a. wirtisT manner, with which i< is a:dilated
towage's a Prieto whose brave and obstinate defence of the ins..
Foram post of Quatre Bras prepared the memorable victery.of
Waterloo, and who signalised *himself among all the heroes of
that immortal day, by the most brilliant courage and the most
distinguished talents.
" His Majesty has acceded to the truly patriotic wish expressed
by your High Mightinesses. The manner in winch his Majesty
bed thought fit to comply with this desire, adds new motives in
favour of the projet of toe law. It is in the neighbourhood of
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be theatre of the warl.ke expllits of the Prince of Orange, and
where he bad the good fortune to •.lied ha blood for the country,
ti:at it is proposed to your High Mightinesses to offer him a pa-
'.ace and a suitable domain.
" Such a project of a law is of a nature not only to receive
general assent, but to be welcomed with uuiversel joy. The
Chamber of the Central Sectio:i leave bad occasion to convince
themselves of it in the different Sections ; and they do not doubt
but that will adopt the proposed law."

We have received the Paris Papers of Sunday,
Monday, and Tuesd..y. The Budget came on on
Saturdays but we cannot possibly enter into the
detail, as it occup►es four columns of the Moutteur of
Sunday.

The eicape of LAVALZTTh gave rise to a spirited
debate in the Chamber of Deputies, which term'.
rated in the appointment of a Committee 10 inquire
and report. • LAVALICTTIL himself has not been taken.
Madame LAVALICIT4 who is still a prisoner, has
been examined, but nothing .has transpitei.
The Aissnesty Bill, which was to have come on
en Monday, was deferred till Tue.ittay.

The proposal made by. Member of the Chamber
ter deptiring manied ecclesiastics of. their livings.
hisldt tet cohlef dada' n0%11(11116 an
insmotal question
.be 'entertained for a rnfiment, it
isaffiriaisti ¢ iad "pi4gage-of the miseries that are yet

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PARIS, DECEMBER 24.

It is said that Lavalette, in order the more securely
to elude all pursuit, has put on a foreign uniform,
and, under this disguise, he will endeavour to get out
of France.
Some of the clerks in the Post-office will be dis-
missed—among those are Mons. Courrejol, who was
a witness on the trial of Lavalette, and Messrs. Dan.
court, fatherand ion.

They write from St. Maloes, that an adventurer
who called himself the Dauphin of France, has been
mrestedby the Police.
. M. Dupuis, the Judge of Instruction, yesterday
commenced proceedings against those who have fad i.
litated the escape of Lavalette. The first esasnina-
tion lasted from eight iu the evening until two o'clock
iu the morning.

CHAMBER OF•DEPUTlES.—Pitotestotwoo •r SATURDAY.
AYNAIIt 01 LAVALSTIII. ' • • .
The Order of the Day having called up M. de
SestaaisOof• to develope his proposition relative to M.
Lavaleue's escape, that Gentleman spoke as follows :
....#46 The want of necessary iaformation which ought
To be transmitted, to which are superadded motives
of the highest interest and of the utnier4 importance,
determine me to adjourn my proposition until next
Tuesday. I therefore ask leave to speak again ou
hat day."
. M. EUENNE FEITILLANIgi As it is very interest.-
i:,g to the Chamber to be made acquainted with the
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circumstances of Lavalette's escape, I think we may
take up Cie matter at present. The Chamber is
Fay wet to take into consideration the motion of
M. de Sesmaisons. I appeal to your standing orders
la support of my motion. When we arrived, France
.vas in consternation, your attitude, your saints:l
tliergy revived her. I regret that circumstances still
t list to compel you to display those qualities. I
adopt not only M. de fsesmaisone motion, but I insist
upon the discussion commencing instantly."

A debate then ensued on the question. whether a
discussion could be entered upon if the Member pro-
plsing it should decline to move for it ? M. de Ses.
maiwas put an end to die dispute by formally making
1,3 motion. " Gen down," be observed. ".a great
C3ademned criminal Isai_escaped..from punishment.
We must, without delay. penetrate into the political
cause of it : an enquiry is indispensable: we mast
know if the conspiracy of the 40th of March bas still
213, peitinfOt prinOCIINIR GOD forbid that I should
asplicase toy perm } but; Ate 'me* knew -if. it be

Ilittk ,t pt hirhekii
'oisjOssiraffettion MOM •
41 When the bites of steers jostiet were foinid to
over-rule all feelingi of tleinency, why was this con.
spiratdr illbwed time and means to escape so easily t
There are coincidences which must strike All men t a
long time elapsed between the seutence and the day
of eiecntibn. Wherefore this delay Was the. flight
of tavaletie the consequence or the effect of a plot ?
Were all. Recesiaty precautions taken ? Why was the
execution so long delayed ? According to the laws,
the gaoler ought to have laid his bands on the cri.
mina!, and never quitted hipi day nor night. Did
Lavalette obtain from Royal authority or from jus.
tice, so long a time to prepare for death ? When
France expected his punishment, when a Marshal of
France had forfeited his life for his treason, ought we
not to accuse the fatality which saved his accomplice
It is the interest of France herself that we should be
amply informed on this subject. Let us ask infor-
mation from the Ministers themselves, and their re.
sponsibility will thus be shewn.
M. de Bouviu.p.—" Every -thing concurs to in.
' duce us to regard this escape as the effect of a plot.
A state criminal is_the subject of our debate, and a
criminal not thought worthy of the Royal clemency.
.Ptristio vengeance awaited him:: He was almost up.
sdet the very superintendency of two of the King's
Ministers; yet they would make us believe that he
escapecl by one of those coarse and vulgar tricks
which would not deceive an intant f It is well known
that the Conciergerie is the securest of prisons. In
order .tO go out or in, it is necessity to pais the
gaolers, turnkeys, and to lower one's head, in passing
through several of the wickt.is. Tins short, fat man,
then, Whited in the dress of a delicat and slender
female, how could he avoid the looks of
the attendants, without corpulent ,!...tt:ting their
notice, and his sobbing* I, •trayit Lis voice ?
:And yet a solitary turnkey is suip,%:ted! It is im-
'possible tot to see in the-whole ho*i:...ss the execution
014 premedi:atee plan for , If we after-
wards take a view of the circumstances outside of the
'prison; this man must have "art so many accom-
plices that they are to be dreaded, since they were
powerful enough t 6 effect his es.: ipe. I now come to
the circumstances which are ti.e basi, of iheinotion
about to be made. the name of Layalette was to
the first hat the °Onus:lance of the 21.tii of July--
he was in proion-..he ought to have been immediately
tried. This was not 41 ae—six weeks elapsed-he
was taken from the Council ..f War, to be tried at the
Court of Assize. H13..q peJI is rejected by the Coon
of Cassation, and the ju:i!;zneut ought to have been
executed within twenty.f. r outs.

" The whole procedure. ought not to have taken op
twenv days, and fie: it lasted eleven days more.—
Wa•arv- assured that this procedure was kept in the
office of the tdihister of Justice much longer than it
ought to have been. This system of delay is unac-
countable. The fact relative to his being kept in
custody ought to be examined with attention. An
ihscure criminal escaped the night before, and the
gaoler was neither arrested nor changed: nay, to this
very man the custody of Lavalette is entrusted.
" The precautions taken with respect tohiarshal
Ney may be regarded as having been even super-
fluous. He was at least as great a conspirator as La-
valette,nay, in my npinion,the firmer was the greater.
le Who are the authors of' this plot, then ? The
veil must be stripped off. The Miniiters ought to
desire it, as will as we ourselves, for their own sakes.

•4 I demand that• the Chamber shall appoint a
Committee to enquire fully into every circumstance
connected with Lavalette's escape."
M. BELLAUT defended himself and colleagues from
the charge of delay. He said that it was impossible
to proceed more quickly, from the somber and im.
portance of the pleas put in by the prisoner.
M. JOLLivAT contended that the Chamber bad no
right to interfere with the Ministers, and that it rested
with the King only to punish his servants for re.
miuness.

14. KERGORLAY supported the motion of M.
de SOUtiIiSON.
M. de VAUBLANC supported M. Bellart's arguments,
and called for the Order of the Day.

M. de BOURDZAVX thought the Chamber had no
righno interfere, as the whale was a matter of police.
After a sisarp debate the ihotionof M. de Sesmii•
sous was adopted.

PARIS, DECEMBER RS.
His Majesty, we are sorry to say, has at present a
vary bad cold.

Yesterday his Majesty chewed himself at the bal-
-00149 attended by the Count d'Artois ; the most
lively acclamations minded his appearance, and the
shoots of Pitts k Ro ! Phu,: les Bourion: I were a

thousand times repeated. His Majesiy afterwards
held a Privy Council, which broke up at two o'clock.
when his Majesty took an airing in his carriage till
four. The midnight mass was celebrated in the
Chapel Royal at the Palace according to the ancient
•
usage.
The Procurear.General has examined Madame
Lavaktte several times.
Madame Lavalette is confined in the Arne cham-
ber at the Conciergerie which her husband tied:pied.
The keeper and heed turnkey of the prison ate still
ditained at the prefecthre of the Police.
Several chines are shoot to take place is the ge-
spa' ashaisistratits st the posts.. •
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Assistata Strishoingl 4;44 a.beAti pivot
of the toleranee.of Gammen; and of the protizetloo
iheist M rellgloll.
The health of General Lart4e is now list 'PI:
establishing at Misuse's
Part •of the Duke of Wellington's Staff have al-
-ready arrived at Camlsray: it is very difficult to find
lodgings theta bn actimixt of the 'number required by
the troops .
The headquarters or the Austrian General, Fria
month are expected to be at Calmat on the Ist of
Jattuaty.
The he'ad•quarters of the Russian troops are about
to be transferred to Maubeuge.
Letters from Cologne say, that the Wife of die late
Spanish General Porlier has become deranged, and
that the General's sine* has died through gtief at his
death.
The Austrians have evacuated Lyons.
The mail and several private carriages have beeno
robbed by brigands on the road to Roquefort. Se-
veral perscias have bean arressed on suspicion.

A superb monument is to be erected to the she.
mory of Louis XVI. in the cemetery of La Made-
leine.

The Count du Vaublanc is Muth occupied in
makingimportant arrangernepts in the department
of the Ministry of tte Interior.
It is said the Journal, enticed the rid& Asei do
Roi, has been suppressed tot printing two different
editions.

A new work in two volumes, entitled, " Histoiy
of the Process against Marshal Ney," has been
seized by the Police the moment it was published.
'rbe Duke of Wellington is expected to pass a few
ay' at Brussels early in the ensuing month, from
Whence he will proceed to London to pay hiS respects
to the Prince Regent, and arrange some private af-
fairs, and return to his head-quarters at Cambray be-
fore the Ist of February.
The English general head-quarters will beat Cam-
bray, the Russian at Maubeuge, the Austrian at Cole-
-mart, the Bavarian at Nancy, the Wurtemburg at
Wissembourg, and the Prussian head-quarters most
probably between Maubeuge and Nancy.
The daughter *hi servant of Madame Lavalette
arc detained in the prison of Madelonettes.

A great number of factious persons are daily at-
rested at Guadeloupe.
The andie UAW& of yesterday contains several
dispositions relative to the regulations for the Prevo.
tal Courts.

We hear great part or the British armyfeave Paris
for Cambray on ruesday next.

PARIS, DECEMBER QC

The budget has at length been submitted to the
Chambers ; it did not create much discussion, bot'
!rats adopted without any of that financial
which generally precedes the adoption of such a mo.
don in England. The budget for 1816 is fixed at
800 millions for the receipts and expenses in full.
That for 1815 has been 814 millions receipts, and
945 millions expenses. We rather think the demand
upon the nation has been something less than was
expected: we hope the Minister will not have to ask
for more before the end of the year; the estimated
expenses are frequently exceeded.

The Duke of Wellington gave yesterday a grand
dinner to about sixty Noblemen and Gentlemen : the
party did not break up till an early hour.
The disbanding of the Ex-Guard is now wholly
terminated; these troops have conducted themselves
in the best manner during the whole of the proceeding.
The National Guard of Nantes is now completely
organized, they have been reviewed, and have taken,
the oath of fidelity to the King.
Most of the Brunswick troops are now at Brussels.
A Protestant Church has been established at Ge.
neva by the English.
Many of tub divisions of German troops are ins-
peded in their march, by reason of the ice. The
Meuse is impassable.
Marshal Soult and General Vandamme are Said
to be at Brussels, waiting for an opportunity of pass-
ing over to the United States. What a delectable
set of men are about to become worthy citizens.
A dreadful explosion of a magazine of powder took
place at DAnszic on the Bth instant ; a great part of
the city is laid in ruins, and upwards of-SOO persons
were killed, the wounded must amount to four times
that number.

His Majesty held a grand levee yesterday, which
!vise attended by all the Foreigners of distinction now,
in. Paris.
The barriers of Lille, that were shut to prevent
the passage of the Allied troops through the city.,
have been thrown open.
A man has been an ested at Avignon, accused of
being the author of several disturbances : the mob at-
tempted to set him at liberty in defiance of the orders
of the Prefect, who was so justly incensed against
them that he lelt the city ; however a deputation has
since waited upon him to request that he would again
take them under his protection, and giving the
strongest assurances of an implicit obedience to his
commands.
Near the bridge of Serino at Lyons, the ice, by the
force of the current, has destroyed vessels and pro-
perty to the amount of 150,000 francs. Is there no
way of guarding against such accidents?

The arrival of the Austrian Archdukes Joint and
Lawis, on Tuesday night at Brighton, was the com•
roencement of the Christmas festivities at tie Pavi-
lion, with an invitation to several distinguished per-
sons to dinner.

Every thing ,was in readiness at Windsor the be.
ginning of this week, to receive the Paincass C/iAa•
LOTTa, who was expected from Weymouth, when
an account was received that she WAS indisposed—
Dr. BAILLIa was immediately dispatched t 9 attend
=her 4,14 Highness. •

tAtAA R. .

This stablishdeat la, we find, in a greater slat:
of fotwarddess that'. we imagined, when we noticed
it•in.onr Columns yesterday. In our front page is a
Notice Wm the Landlord, announcing that the
B itaar is about to he ripened. We have already .
state our opinion that such an Establishment cannot
fail, under proper management, to confer an essen-
tial benefit on a numerous prirtion of the ennunimitys
To ti great encouragement of female and domestic
industry, by the singular accommodatiotts which such
an arrangement affords, immense ambers are ena-
bled ed Aisemble under the same roof. to sell on their
own account, and to acres agents for per sons at a
distance, whose united stock must form an attractSse
' display of great variety, however small 40e share
each individual may contribute to the whole ;—and
their combined and separate efforts to Wain the fa-
milial the public and their respective must
create a powerful patronage--Advant;:ges which all
equally enjoy, and such as wit' afford the if.dus.rions,
even of the slenderest means, a re.lsonAbi.r nape to
thrive; reduced tradesmen to rectv.er their er.dit
and connt-sions ; beginners to farm Irk .1, and ha-
'bits before they venture upon more e z tens' ve spe.:tt-
lations ; and artists, affirms, and em-
ployed at hot*, though infirm and tesident i!, :he
countty, securely and beneficially ti vend the ;no-
, duce of their labour by proxy. Amongs this class
of persona. probably May he found the widows and
orphans of many who have fallen in the service of,
their country ; and (he fainilies of others, whose ships
'are paid off, or whose regiments are reduced, who
may thus be enabled to employ their talents and in.
dustry to their honour—finding in the facilities affnr.
ded by the Bazaar a source of lasting comfort ;—aint
even means to enable them to lay a foundation for
the future independence of their families.
We hate said that, under proper management,
such an Establishment cannot tail to confer essential
benefits. We may on this head premise ourselVes
much ; for we observe that the Notice referred to is.
issued from No. 5, Soho-square. Of course we have
a right to conclude that the public are not only in-
debted to Mr. TROTTEIt fer contriving and ~reanOlg
the Bazaar, but that it will be carried on under his
own eye. It needs nothing else to give it stability,
and to insure its proving a source sof incalculable be-
nefits, as a new lever in the engine of British Politi-
cal economy.