Star.
London, England, 1815-10-21 00:00:00

HAGUE, OCTOBER ie.

. ,

The opening of the Session f the States-General
took place this morning. His MAjzsty the King made
the following Speech:

" Iri the coui.se ot the titsiion, which I this day open according
to the Constautton, impurtatit interests will be submitted to your

‘, Sind tae Siring, erraorainary efforts have been prescribed,
La Lvealt, it was in:possible to foresee. Every Belgian
Live, to n his ever upon this period, which is that of the este-
-I.lio.tr.t:t of he i.atifitiai fulepeticletice ; and a sentiment. so ge.
bet v.i:l the sactificcs winch it •,hall judge indispensibiy
ni.ces4:iry to require. Trtar•ures have been necessary to arm, in
a • !%,.rc spnce of III:1e, INIAe lines of fortresses„ to doubt.- the
411(1 to maintain the still nsore numerous Armies of
out

" c. will be inrormed of all that has been done on these
dif-
ye:%at !av a; ai of the consitleriible burthens they luv?
cau,(l to our flit,tares. In thesz circum•tances, justice requires
tr.( r< thAir ;:vcr tl:ac tbo .tate should acriart itself towards
ditorv; nrvat tur.ml.er• at them being to the countries which
hay: of ti oly fei! the evils aveneant upon war. However, in
them: aiurt a relative to aissubject, I have mom c:!re-
fel y c,4:aulteti he merits of toy faithful subjects. I have ap;died
attys. It to allevute the burt!.en,ind to render it equal, by tiiitii-
butiog it over several years, And among all Classes of society ; so
that # Satter myself that. these measures will be found wholly
ortity of the approbation of the titat es-Gen...rat.
4 i he estimates of the expenses of the following year. and of
the tueati,of meeting them, will be an equally serious subject of
fleisberation for your High ktghtinesses ; but I persuade myself
that the result will be salutary, in every respect, and that a prit-
deo, introduction of taxes of the same kind will enable us to put
an end to the constraints which the mutual communications of
some patts of the kingdom render expensive for a moment.
to Amon; th lawsloresdr furs! for lope Qf our ruvincesk

and which, under certain modification., It will be proper •t 6
make applicable to all, that on the national militia deserves-to
be distinct ; our common aim will, without doubt,,be to make
the execution of it uniform for all the Belgian:, according to the
principles of the union; And even though this institution may
remain for years susceptible of progreitive improvement, no
trial can appear to us too difficult, no effort too great, when
the point in question is to establish the firmest bulwark of the
general security.
" However your High Mightinesses may indulge the hope
that the next year, less stormy than this has been, will not re-
quire unforeseen or exorbitant sacrifices, it is probable that I
shall speedily have to communicate to you a General .Treaty of
the Sovereigns at present in arms, which will give new guarantees
for the tranquillity of Europe. Thus we shall at length behold
the time, when the Legislator, restored to his true destination,
will employ all his tacubies in the amelioration of iwera Is, as the
encourage mem of public instruction, in a wise reform of the
establishmeeits for the poor.
" Already have peace, and the confidence It Inspires, revived
several brandies of ancVnt industry. Commerce will find new
alnuent, not only in the colonies which the Low Countries have
tcolverre.l, and fur the oeclipatioti of which very expensive pre-
parations ha-.:e just beta completed, but also in those which I
was oMige.l to cede last year.
" The Supplementary Convention, on this head, with Great
Britain, will be doubly agreeable to you, as confirming
mid beneficent dispositions of this powerful Ally, ax well as ht.
" care with wbleh I watch on every side over the commercial In
terests of my kingdom.
.4 With the aid of Divine Peovinmece I mean to preserve,
without remission, and without deviating, impartial justice to-
ward* Al, in the exercise of the defies imposed on me. Your
co-operation In the general measures renders you witnesses.
and, as one may say, guarani. es of the purity of the views of
the Government. Employ the influence which your virtues and
knowledge insure you, until which will be confirmed by frank
and unanimous appLcation to the interest of the country, in
confirming or reviving .in peoples minds calmness and security.
Let the tinw soon come when every one of our countrymen
shad iiidislge with full confidence in his Representatives and his
King. in the prate:tut enjoyment of the rights which the Con-
' stitution secures to all the Citizens, in a manner equally clear
and irrevocable."

PRANCE.

PARIS, OCTOBER 17.

CHAMBER OF DEP(' CIES.

The Sitting of yesterday was opened at noon,
under the Presidency of M. Laine.
The President, after announcing that his Excel.
lency the Keeper of the Seals had communicatiom to
make to the Chamber, requested him to ascend the
tribune. The Keeper of the Seals read the Speech,
w:ocie is subjoined, and the following Plan of a Law
was read by a Secretary :

sPLEcH OF THE KEEPER OF THE SEALS.
" Gault:men—The King has ordered us to lay
before you a plan et law for the suppression of sedi-
tir us cries and provocations to rebellion. Our old
and noiv hws contain sufficient regulations for the
str'Tteslifln of these crimes in titles of tranquillity,
and %elicit no extraordinary circumstance interrupts
the order and aaartistomed proceedings of the Go-
vernment. But if great crimes have been commit.
ted—if the laws have been disregarded—if a peace-
able
and disarmed multitude his been force-d to yield
to violence and arms—if, fur his own preservation,
the citizen who was slibject to the laws, has been
forc:.(l to remain motionless berme seditious bands,
without ditciirline or coetroul, Ass.:mbled as the last
support of a desperate faction--.f iniquity has for a
Liigth of tine enjoyed its lutal triumphs, calamities
are still prolonged, even when these events are inter-
rupted. Rebel, then endeavour by meats of audacity
to n caaer their lost advantages. The seditious nut
tuAlly, instigate each other, and make efforts to be
riceived in all places, avd at every hour, as if eel--
cf a new victory should they succeed in inspiring
terror. They receive into their society all whom the
armies have rejected with indignation, and all those
criminale who, through obscurity, have evaded ate'
action of the law. Should the public force arrest the
progress of their designs, still they do not renounce
them ; they have recourse to injurious speeches and
calumnious writings; they have their signs and rah
lying words, and the weaker their nurnbt.rs ate, the
more powerful they wish to appear by means of noise
and tumult. They are encouraged by impunity--
several
shew themselves openly—and though their
indiscretion betrays their weakness, it is, nevejtheles',
certain that their practices disturb sacial order; and
the public interest requires that their turbulent designs
and detestable enterprises should be efficaciously ie-
pressed. There are men whose moral conduct doi
pends solely on the fear of punishment. It is against
these criminals, who form the greater portion of the
specks, that our present laws are in many respects
unavailing. The penal code does not express itself
in a manner sufficiently precise on the subject of se-
ditious cries and speeches, tending to instigate crimes
against the internal safety of the State. That code
could pot foresee the attacks which might be directed
against the Constitutional Charter, since the latter
did not exist when the code was framed. Calumnious
imputations, insults, and outrageous expressions,
publicly offered to the Monarch, or the members of
his family, were nut ranked amongst crimes. The
law only took cognizance of outrages and violence
directed against the depesitaries of the public autho-
rity, and insults and calumnies directed against pri.
vale individuals: But to the necessity of a positive
law on these matters, is joined that of a speedy pur-
suit and punishment, 'Which to wive as an effectual
example, must be inflicted promptly titter the crime.
Offences so frequent that it is necessary to charace.
tense them, may be pursued ccirrectionally ; flow,
pursuit in a correctional manner, is in its nature very
speedy, and the judges are in general very near the
spot in which the crime has been committed. ' The
plan of law which we lay before you, Gentlemen,
has for its object different sorts of seditious actions,
nut noticed in the penal code ; cries, speeches, writ-
ings which excite rebellion, calumnious imputations,
insults and outrageous expressions against the King
and his family, and the plan proposes to determine
the punishments due to these crimes. . We think it
&Imes them with precision. Cries, speeches, caltun-
nits, cannot be punished but in the case of their pub.
; writings which reproduce, or, as it may be
said, multiply these tifiences under another form, acts
trhich attack publicly and wickedly the respectaLlo
ensigns of the Royal authotity, ought to be equally
puteislied. The same observation applies to dittercut
acts and speeches which derive their principal Offen-
sive characti r from present circumstances, and which
tend to shake the confidence which is due to the pus-
rnises of the King, and to the Constitutional Charter.
Without doubt we should have considered the King
and his august House as too highly elevated to be
reached by calumny, insult, or injury, did notes long
and grievous experience teach us that these proceed.
ings form the prelude of revolution and treason, and
th4t they tend! by destroying respecte to undermine

the dwells*, and to diminish the_veneration and love
due by so many claims to the Monarch, for the pur-
pose of weakening his authority. Insults directed
agalast him are offered to the State. They compro-
mise the dignity and safety of the nation. A system
followed by calumnies
sand insults, insensibly pre-
pares minds for the devolvement of the mou abo-
minable designs; and at last, by means of spreading
the'opinion that an event cannot be avoided, it be-
comes inevitable. The punishments in the law pro-
posed to you, are imprisonment, surveillance unde-
the authority of the High Police of the State,
.privation of the rights of voting, election, and 1
eligibility, and qualification fur public and ad-'
ministrative functions, or bearing arms. The
eunishments ase correctional, because it is be-
lieved that tlivir immediate application, without be-
ing injurious to justice, w;11 be still more effectual
than their extent. We have codeavoure.l to propor-
tion these punishments to the nature of illeir crimes.
Tons, we have supposed, that he who shall endeavour
Ito excite tumult in the State, cannot justly pretend
to exerci-c his p,,liticol
,rights ; that he who di,,turbs
the public order should h.r excluded, at least for a
time, from exorcising public luaction; ; that he who
threatens, by indirect provocations, public and pri-
vate safety, clnnor, without endangering the tran-
quility of the citizens, obtain the privilege of bear-
ing ems. We intend, Gentlemen, to read to you
the proposed LAW. .It has been meditated by the
King. The iinowledge and experience of the Chain-
bets will give to it the necessary authority."

THE PROPOSED LAW.

ig Loma, by the Grace of GOD, King of France
and NAvarre, &r. • _ _

" We have ordered that the proposed Law, the
tenor of winch follows, shall be presented in our name
to the ChAmbur of Deputws of the DepArtments by
(ow Keeper of. the Se. 11, Pe: r France, and Cuont
c,,onsellor in our Comma of State, to whom
we consign the charge of czpl.tining its motives And
sustaining the discussion thereon :

" Are. 1. Ale 'c cln w! seditious al cries, all speeches, utterekl
in etitilic piaci', or buch as are ailotteil to the habitual meeting
of the cirsens ; al! prtnte d cr such not baying been printed,
which shall have is-en vetted sip, sold, distributed, sr delivered
to the ere,, shall caterers the nteeece of an attack
tqtrittra the life, the person, Se ice authority of the King, or the
1:ve;of the persons of the Members oF the KEIJI !Tamil), ; which
may be iejuriotis or ea:enter:pus to-Arm...Witte King or use Mems-
lxts his Fani:l7 ; which *bars rxcaa 1,1 the taking up arms
:1g:till:It the Itoyai authori!y, :o disohelte.ter of the Censiitu
trona) Charter, and tilt lays s, dlsrtllarti of the authority of the
Magistrates or A6ersts of the Guyer 1111 l to, Virally constituted, er
to the disturbance of public tranquil l: y by ac s cif vsolvisee towards
persons and property ; by which shall be invoked the name of a
usurper, or of an indivit:ual of his family, by wive], sh.t!l he pto-
vacs), directly or indirectly, eitheethe overthrow of the Govein-
ment, or a change of the order of succession to the throne.
" An. 2. Ihe speeches or writings mentioned in the brit elapse
of the preceding article, whether containing indirect prov-caii-ins
to the offences described in the said article, or wickedly an-
nouncing that crimes or offences of that nwure should or ought to
be committtd, or manifesting an isoeution to commit them, are 1,
equally declated
" Art. 3. Are g,.ilty of seditious rc:g, all persons who shall cir-
culate or countecance, either alarms concerning tls ineinAality
of the property aided national, or repui ts of a pretended nor stab-
lichment of tithes, or teudal rights, or accosts tending to alarm
the citizens respecting the indinteitance of the legion:ate autho-
rities, or to shake their fidelity.
" itrt. 4. Are declared seditious acts, the removal or degra-
dation of :lie white flag, el die arms of to ance, and other 5i3...; of
the Rural authority; of placar,:s el saws or public regulations,-
the erecttoti of airy flag, or the seta: tug of any cock:ale, or any
other silo fur railyniz orercu rot authorised by the
King.
" Art. S. AU persons guilty of the aforesaid speeches, tries,
or acts—all authors, printers, and distributors of the seditious
writings detined by cue present law, shall be punished by an
iniprisennistit of tt :eaNt t;,rev moliths, and not clew:ding five
years. Ihe persons thus convicted •KOI further rental, atter
the expiration of their punislamesit, under the sup, rintendance of
Ili- High oilier:, for a space of time, which shall be determined
by the aettt.t lice, an•t which shall not exceed tore years, the whole
sonformahly to the thud Chapter of " thr Ist Look of the Penal
Code, wit iluut Frt judice to the criminal prosecution and applica-
ti(li of the mole serioneputuslinirets prescribed by the Penal
cede, in case of the seditious cries, speeches, writings, and ma,
bays, certain a!rect. The repetition of the offence shall be psi
t.i shed cositorniably to the stlth Article of the Penal Lode.

" Ar t. 6. The 1 ribunals of C”rtectianal Poi:ce stall take cog.
tnzance of the offences utentitnted In the pressnt iJW.
" Att. 7. I.be disposal:Al.; at the C.'o,2e of Criminal Process,
and of the Penal Code, 201.111 continue to be eittcutetl in all casts
iii which it is nut superseded by the ellactnients.
`• Lucia.
(Counter•ived) " LARBIL M*aaots.
" Given .t Paris, at the Thuilleties, oc:utter 19."

The Chamber ordered that the proposed Law should
be printed, in order that it might be distributed and
discussed in the Bureaux on the first sitting.
The President read to the Chamber a letter from
the President of the Chamber of Peers, informing
him of .the nomination of Messrs. Pastoret, Deseze,
Chateaubriand, and Choisseul, as Secretaries of that
Chamber.

. At the request of the President, M Maine de Biran
ascended the Tribune,' and asked permission to be
heard at the next Sitting, on a motion relative.to the
regulation of the Chamber.
On the motion of M. Gonicourt, M. Blondel d'Au.
hers was declared a Member of the Chamber.

The Sitting then rose, and adjourned until to•mor
row at noon, for the discussion of the proposed LAW
in the IrureAux. _

The debates in the Chamber of Peer, have hitherto
been much more important than those in the other
Chamber. The Address ot the Peers presented to
the King the night before last, was not adopted with-
out much discussion and great difference ot opinion.
There were many alterations in the one originally
proposed by Lally Tollendal.
For instance, instead of soliciting from the King,
justice, the retribution of rewards for fidelity, punish-
meat of the guilty, and finally, purifications, he is
j asked for a just retribution of rewards and punish
ments, and for the purity of ado.intstrations. In
addition to these alterations, the fillowing words
were inserted—to cause the adiniiiisiratioa ot justice
to flourish according to the existing laws.
In this discussion, M. DE Tnteinevit.t.a proposed
to omit the words existing luau, because, according
to his opinion, c.xtraordinary means ought to be
as:opted.
Count BARBE Maatmis opposed the clause which
j asked from the King justice and the reti el
puni,liitienis, He appealed to the ancient and mo-
dern laws which agree in regarding a Judge as chal-
lengeable- it he have made any recommendation or
solicitation in an affair on which he is called to
I decide. Public opinion would apply this principle to
the Chamber ot Peers in the situation in which it
stood,- wilether regarded as to its constitutional com-
petency, or to its knowledge bt the lists already pub-
lished. He moved the omission Of the clause.
4 Peer remarkAs that only aerwral observations

were, in the present case, under the consideralip,a
the Charnb2r.
Count BARRE lkiAnnors r^plied, that the pet,
nit-ndAtion evidently applied to persni accit,e!, ai
who were
on a
thelready under recogniz tnce of the 1.0.4„...a
/
insisted oni i,,ion.

The Duke of Iticumnu supported the ler
and expressed a wish, if it shnolJ he thrust:lA pr•
to re:ain the clause, that the recommemla,i-in (.: •
Lice should not apply to the p4st. but
future.
The Duke of Bloot.te. spoke to the same rR c.
The Bislif pof Lo Nellie; opposed die cli.:11,„ ;•,
tlinu7ht that the Judges might with y
mend the exercise of ju,tice, providAl
mention of the criminals.

B4ton Sim:turn, in support of t11:-.
tO the celebrated adttir of the ,
which the Parliament us c
tense.

The Doke de BitoGLIII: et.:;,2rvad, t} 1:,,
tt!nce of the Chamb.-r was not
M. de LALLY TI,LLExDAI. (I,!'e ,and
of the Address with re7ari to the pm; ,
It appearei to hi:n t,) coat AL: 0 .ily get:cr.:l t
lianti the most per:ect in id qat
The Duke tif gat>ol.lY. Vr;:ed
cisely ou the ground of the cal!,
the clause appeared to be expressed. 1.. is
declare plainly what we mean. pl:•
soimthing, or nothing ; but w:tat is ,!:
it in appearance, is added to it in re.:iity. li
Duke of Richelieu unchnstandi it, °nil
fences are referred to, let be tank:y • ,
be. Iva, the objection must remain, J.V.v.*:.:
the language may be so'tenetl. It is to t
lof the idea the public will lo •k, under v :
y..tt roar present it to them. 1 move the
of the whole p.nagraph atter the WOrd3,tel./.. 3
become the aildr
•the twittiry.
Count CASTLLLA::C siippn:Zed the amenlti...-•
it:serti.ig the words its future. Ike
Chamber of Deputies, which thd not try it,.
of 1-li, !14 Treason, ntight witjt less improvi:.•y
from tne King or recommend to him the ett...:st •
. _

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jus:ire.
C,unt MoNvirt.c ,!oclared, that 1:? ha.? btu,
with the silence Gas,i veil by his Ma,•..sly,
the acts ot 'tlr which it w.is t. t.ht d t,.
to hj;ri ; and aii,) re,oecti;i.; that ptir;!y at' •
tratiott, which he did not nid, t r.
tae King had said n3thing. It you ,!u
.„,t
ths: p tragr 'ph i i qu stiln, you will dciliatAL,,
the Until( ac., you are attenipting to elereh•.,
dependence in which the distinct powcrs
vernment ought to exist.
' Count MnLE, ou the readin7 rf riv,c,?.e
address, which vzpresses an etiliygilitu ~0 ;•,e n„
sure adopted by the King for a tl;!.nient:ll, t r
nal reprc,:t:tation, I roposed its , 1-.
lama mot.v.: which was Nsc a-
his Majc•sty was addeJ, :Le
ctimstances is which the thr.-1:- phs.:e

Count MuNTE3Qtiot; rtgoveil iti 2
a question ()I G.ig:,t nut to
-prejudged.
Duke oaf ORLEANI prop-c;c! the Atnenettlr!
which wti. fi laity in ttoll %itt, tctin:
Ch44.ber recog lizfS the Uetu f.cent intent-
his Majesty in tii uginentAtion IL:
Deputies.

FRENCH P4P1.8.5.

REMOVED Tiiti N1014.:\1N.3.
PARIS, OCTOL;ER 1:.

The King yectorday gave midi :►ce to the 1:11c7
from the Sublime Pune, and alsq Depu y t.!
City of Hamburgh.

Monsieur and the Princos received yetteci.::-;:i.
civil and military functionaries..
An English garrison is at Abheviii.e.
A Prussian corps entered liretcuil on the 11..1.
The English are about to evaci:az%. 13c::evai5: t.CI
will be replac d by a Prussian };:u.ri:,')n.

The Prince Imperial of Ausztia
very freq.iently in the neighheur;:o,4l
The Bavarians evacuated Orlean,, on La; :5:11,:a3
are marching towards Paris.
The whole route from Arpajen to Paris is ccv:l.,
with Prussian troops.

All the country from Lyons to Roanne is cc
ted by the Austrians. .I'h. only ri ACP, :zz'
rison are Palisse, Moulins, N.:vcr,, Cone, La
and Montargis.
A corps of Prussian troops,"ahout 6000 strm:,,
tered Caen on the 12th.

The operations for the orr,anizalion 0; the J. 711:
mental legion at N.isttcs ate proceeding tae
most activity.
Aly,ut eleven yesterday, ab ire 4,;0 pert Wer
waiting' in the apartments of the Ducht:o
lane, to pay their hotnage to net.
Yestcrday several Prussian rep:Lents, both
and cavalry, left Fatis.
it is said that' M. Liveran, General and M
iti
Agent of Madame Murat, has obt.c nett Frans,:
the King to enter France.
The Prince of Hohenzollern, with the 0' I;
Stair. lett Molshiem on the 13th, tat I.s o.:tir;;
Gem many.
General Thielin in, C. mmandant tft' e :
in Paris, lett town yesterday.
Yesterdai, about nine O'clock, all the lit:V
stanuing under the walls of the Tor., e, t
Isom the Thuilleries to the Place L XV.
put in requisition, for the rit-pnse of
Prussians ; each was escot ted by a ;:Cll L!' 4117.•

• PARIS, Oil OBER Is.
They write from Castel-Gan,:olo), in lta:y.
date the 3d of October, that about b,x tlinas4ha
V
trians have embarked 4t Ancona, to b.: tr.l.. • •'i

to Naples,
Letters from Tunis announce Cie arr;vai
the Consul General of Lou's XVI I I. %%here e
receisid with
the houours due to his M.ijesty',ll.g:

ore Moe, the rlenr•de-tts, saluted him on landing,
The fit was equally displayed at Tripoli: Every
announced that the relations of France with the
tei.te„cio, would be established on its ancient looting.
rho Li, ot-nant-General,
entmu'indini; in Chief
the first amps of the Prussian *any, has written it
letter of thanks to the Mayor of Evreux, for his at•
tention to the troops during their stay in the depart.
ri.nt of Lure; and the Baron of Sepmunville (the
itlayor) has in reply acknowledged the excellent dis-
t;riine maintained by the troops.
A corps of Prussians again occupies the barracks
i,, the garden of the Luxembourg, which have re.
Jlir undergone considerable repairs : the garden is
ftheless open to the public.

(in Sunday, his Royal Highness Monsieur paid a
r;„. ite visa to the Duke of Wellington.
Preparations are making at the Hotel de h Reg.
r:ae, tor the reception of the Duchess of Welling.
whn is daily expected in France.
011 Monday, Prince Talleyrand and the Duke of
Wellington dined together at the Jonchere, a country
ruse in the neighbourhood of Malmaison.
It is stated that the head.crtarters of Prince
Scliw.arzeillistig will be fixed at Bale during the
wi.h '25 or 30,000 men of the. Allied Armies
in the neighbourhood.

j..,1 want of means of overturning and elestroying
eras- some of those men who cannot exist
dis rder, have spread the most ridiculous and
abominable lies. I'u hear them, one would think
t:;,t all vrance was an accomplice of their infamous
projects, and disposed to_rise to make their fortunes,
pa preset tie to them whet they had made, by lay-
irg waste their own Count, y, or pillaging Europe.
Thoie who know the spirit of the Departments ad-
joining the Loire, know that it is not there that the
partisans of Bonaparte and of anarchy will find a
peg number of dupes. The banks of the Loire are
in 1 ener,l peopled with tich Proprietors, Farmers in
rag circumstances, whiss2 passions are mild, and
w:ose sritit more willingly agrees with g,iod sense
sad ru ration, than with exaggeration and extrava-
unce. [t is n t such man that will be easily per.
waded that Bonaparte will return to France at the
bead of an .army of 200,001) Turks, Tartars, KAI-
-
macs, and Ahicans. How mightily would not such
sn expediti..n please those men who loudly accuse
13 ntbons of havieg entered France with the aid
the civilized nations of Europe.
la fact, these who have so long wrought upon and
iatlertnined our revenues stnd cur population, have
g!Lat contempt for the poor French nation, whose
tHiness, they pretend, is now their only wish. After
exhausting all the res, Aims of their genius, they en-
!favour to make the people believe, w hom they de-
.uthe as so enlightened, absurdities which would nrt
u swallowed by the most savage. the most coarse,
the most stupid nations of the earth.— AurnalJes
1.1;:yr.

The Generals K ho are designated as the Comma!).
lets in Chief of the allied_corps d'armee, which, to
'le number of 130,000 men, are to remain in France,
:re:—For Austria, Baron Frimont ; Russia, Count
'toronzow ; England, the puke of Wellington;
Prussia, Count Gneisenau. The first corps d'armie,,
:cmmanded by General Ziethen, and the sixth corps
l'armee, commanded by General Tauenzien and
Count Wittemberg, will form the Prussian contingent.
The Russian army is composed of five divisions, the
eeakest being 30,000 infantry and 7000 horses, will
•emain in France under the orders-of Count Woron-
tow- All these corps will, it is said, be under the so.
,neme command of the Duke of Wellington, and
•aill be in their respective cantonments about the end
the month. Pari► will be occupied by 10 or
'i,ooo English troops, but they will be all put into
urracks.

On the 14th fifty persons were buried at Soissons,
file perished in consequence of the explosion of the
ivicicr magazine. Several bombs did not burst until
lit), were half a league from the town, and made
rrgiful ravages.
MANIA Ney has sent to each Member of the
r of Peers two copies of a Memoir, in which,
quality of Peer of France, named by the King,
• e declilit‘ the jurisdiction of all Councils of War as

competent to try him.
The Duke ct Bedford arrived here yesterday iron)
•ft,e Duchess is expected to-day from
,thy.

Several articles of the Convention relative to the
?eau, upon which there had been still some grounes
diuussion, were settled yesterday : these articles.
:late to tl,e mode and the periods of the payment ..f
'e contributions. It appears certain that before the
%I of the week, the whole of the Articles will be
u'oliovely signed.
The Bavarian troops who were in garrison at
'deans are expected in Paris.
A disagreeable circumstance bas occurred in die
`lllage of Arnel, in the department of the Meuse.—
the beginning a October, four foreign soldiers
presented themselves at Arne), and demanded re-
eshmeats from an individual who probably did nit
:f:derstand them ; he had, therefore, recourse to a
•lifed French Officer : the latter entered into expla.
itmlls, but soon a violent quarrel arose, and one •1-
4'eforeign scaitrs had two fingers cut off. This
'arrel brought out the inhabitants, and the fo.
r aces fled. The same day, Allied troops stir•
uo&d. the village : the Mayor, the Adpmet, and

• thirteen ater persons of titer, We difttett atirits.•
At Luxembourg they will be tried, and the inhabi-
tants of Amel have disappeared. Hessian troops.
occupy the village.
The f€,llowiag are some additional details.respect-
ing the melancholp catastrophe at Soissons, as given
in a letter from the Sub-Prefect The first and
second magazine, containing 12,000 pounds weight
of powder, many howitzers, bombs, bullets, &e. blew
up. at half•loast one; the third, which is much larger,
is situated unditneath the two others, and will give
great inquietude for a long time. Six houses and all.
their inhabitaats are totally annihilated ; thirty others
are demolished, and fifty are uninhabitable. In gene- i
r4l, every house has bad its windows, doors. Ste.
; as yec we only know for certain of thirty
killed, but there are many wounded. The public
seminary is in ruins, and five pupils were killed, and'
others wounded. The Cathedral is mutilated, as far
as concerns its windows, doors, ornaments, ace. The
public chests are saved, although the house in which
they were deposited was destroyed. A million of
'francs will not repair the damages. The streets are,
still strewed with killed and wounded."

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.
SITTING or TIM 17TH °crusts.

The Chamber was occupied to-day in its Bureaux
in terms of the Constitutional Charter, with a discus•
sion on the project for the law respecting seditious
provocations and alarming reports.
After having heard the observations of the Mem-
bers who compose it, each Bureau named a Commis-
siont.r. Among these nine Deputies, therefore, the
prtiject for the law will be again examined and de-
bated: The report of the Commission will soon be
presented in a public Sitting through the medium of
a Reporter.

To-morrow M. Maine de Biran's project will be
taken up relative to certain forms of proceeding and
perhaps also the Chamber will enter upon a summary
analysis of various petitioos.

NMI TUE GAZETTX OFFICIELLZ nr oCTODER 18.
ROYAL ORDONNANCE.
" Louts, by the Um@ at Coo, &e,

" We have ordained as s•'ll•.ws :

" Att. 1. 1 here shall be torte. d a Commisson pre.:dcd by a
Muskat ot France and composed of two ietnenants•Genrral, a
Marrchal de Camp, au tmpcctor or t-iih•lnTectot ot Reviews,
and a Cornmis,Ary Otilonnateur. I lie tenet nits td Secretary
shall be perl.brtned by a supettor Officer.
" Tic l'reideiit and Member% ot that Commission, u well as
the Secretary, 'hall bk appointed tre; IN on the proposition of the
Minister of War.

" V. el his Commission 1.1141 be charged to examine the con
duct of the Oaten of all rauks who hays served during the la e
usureat ion.

" 3. Our Minister of War will submit to us the result of die
labours of the (..untruitision, and add his suggestions thereto.
" 4. No (Aker alluslgd to to Article tt„ shall bold an employ-
ment, .s ems. a •6666.• 6- r. 66666 6616•0•••••••• r _..n •••• • 11. •A6a. •
wined his conduct and espressed a'favourable opinion.

" 5. The Secretary at War is charged with the execution of
this Ordonnance. (Signed) " Loom

"October 12, ISIS."
REPORT TO THE KING.
Octoberl2, ISIS.

•1 have the honour to designate to your
Majesty. in order to compose the Commission created
by your Ordonnance of this 6147, in order to examine
the conduct of the Officers, of all ranks, who have
served during the usurpation :
" The Duke of BeUuno, President.

" Licutenaut-General Count Lauriston;

Lieutenant-General Couot Dordesoult ;
" Mareehal de Camp Prince Broglio;
Sub-Inspector of Reviews, Duperreux;
" Commissary Ordonaaseur, Chef:de-SW%

" Adjutaot•Comm tudant, Chevalier de Querelle..

(iigned)

" Duc de FILTRIC:'

,THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

ALL THE RISE IN CONSOLs, ABOVE se, WILL
BELONG To TI lE HOLDERS OF FICKEES OR SHARE•
OF THE STOCK PRIZES IN THN Lat FERY, WHO
WILL BE PAID 'THEIR VALUE IN MONF.Y, IF IRE.
FERRED. ALI. THE CAPITALS MAY BE DRAWN
TUESDAY, 7 NOVEMBER.

. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1815.
PRICE OF S TOCIZS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK:
Reduced .59:—Coni. money 61-t—for atc.
4 per Cent. 7.0;-5 per Cott. INJ if —Bowl. 35. 4s. pr.
Omn. IS; pr.—Do.p4y.lst pr.—Exch. Balls 4s. ;h. pro.

To-day w^ receive: the Paris Papers of Tuesday
and Wednesday. The Chambers are busily occu-
pied with a law for pOtting down seditious and riot.
ous proceediiigs. Oar Iteiders will find their debates
given at considerable length.
Marshal Niy has resented a Mansoir to the Peers.,
in which he disclaims being tried by a Council of
War, and pleads his rivilege as a peer.
A R.,yal Or:b.:oat-ice has appeared, calculated to
purity the French army still further: a Conusiiiision
has been appointed to inquire into the conduct of all
the French ()dicers wilt') served during Boanemera's
usurpation, and if C.:e repqrt is unfavourable, they
rc nit to expect employment iti the new army. The
Members of die Commission are all Royalists.

German, Dutch, and Flemish papers arrived last
night. The KINO of the NITHERLANDS opened the
Session of the States-GeuerAl at the H*gue, on the
16th. His speech on the occasion is given among
our extracts..

A letter from Vienna, states, that p plan had'been
in contemplation at the Austrian Court, to assemble
all the StAt.3 of Italy into one Congress, At Milan,
and to propose a Confederation among them, of

which the tsiintioi TnAircis Was to he the proice•
►or, with the title of Ktrio of ITALY. The several
Italian Princes are expected td meet for that pur-
pose early nett spring, till wliich tifi.e, it is said, the
coronation of the Emperor will be postponed.
The accounts from the East of Europe give some
hopes that the sanguinary contests which Lave so hog:
existed between the Setrirts and 'rinks, were likely
to come to an amicable conclusion: Several Deputies
had gone from Se:via to C•)rstantittop:c, to appease
the anger of the Pours, by implaring ,pardon in the
name of the Servians. If a poi see should be con.
eluded between them, it will be seen whethet the sole
view of the Pours in raising the immense forces which
lately appeared on his frontiers, was to qniet the
Servian insurrection or to extend his arms into the
Russian dominions.

. The plague still continues to make gre't ravages
io Constantinople. We regret to state that lir.
M'Leau, whose exertions !limes-LA been directed
to find some remedy for this tertiote diiorder. has
himself been infected with it. FM was ill when the
last accounts came away.

Brussels Papers to the 19th inst int reached us this
day : the only ar.icle of interrst Ivey con, in is (sae
in which they detail 'the operatilois of an expedition
fined out by the Algcrines against Elba. The latter
effected a landing, as it aprais, and alarmed the
inhabitants greatly—they shre7ed off, however, after
committing some depiudatiow. We regret the cir-
cumstance did not occur dining the Sovereignty of
BuNAPAIITE, as it woold havr given him an opportu-
nity of displaying his pctsonal bravery, a quality in
which he has burn long suspected to be deficient.