Star.
London, England, 1815-12-27 00:00:00

PR; VATE LETT.ERS.

•• PARD, DECEMBER 20.
" The Due de Raguse has been long the friend to
Lavalette. I inf firmed you in a previous communi.
cation, of his efforts in his behalf. He save yester-
day another, perhaps indiscreet proof of his attach-
ment, but which generous minds will readily find an
s•xcuse for. An order was given to the gardes du
corps, since the affirmative judgment pronoUnced by
•h: Cour de Cassation, not to suffer Madame Lava.
.ette to penetrate into the interior of the Thateries.
The Due de Raguse presented himself yesterday at
the grand stair-case, with the unfortunate Lady. The
sentinels informed him of their confirm. He en.l
treated—they were inexorable. • Well; said the
Due, • I take all the consequences on myself; I may
he wrong, but my brave camaradrs d'armer can never
be inhuman.' Madame Lavaletre was fainting on
his arm. The Duc was their Captain, their hearts
were melted, and they suffered them to pass. It
was thus they reached the private cabinet of his Ma-
jesty, and both threw themselves at his feet.
.• The Doc declared that this favour, this act of
Royal clemency, would he the noblest and should be
the sole compensation he would ever require for all
his past services, and the mute grief tit Madame de
Lavalette was more heart-rending and eloquent than
even the animated supplications of friendship. Judge
of the distressing position the King was placed in, to
be thus taken un.iwares ; judge how deeply he must
have been afflicted at his ministerial engagements
preventing him giving way to the !mural impulsions
of his benevolent feelings—engagements which placed
him in the impossibility of complying with the re-
quest of a faithful warrior and a despairing wile."
•' PAR% DECEMBER 21.

" A strong cry of disapprobation is heard among
*he Purr Royalism against the Doc de Raguse, for
having presumed, to force the sentinels when be con-
ducted in his Majesty's presence the wretched Ma-
dame de Lavalette. It is asserted he spoke with a
soldier's (rankness, reminded the Monarch of his past
services, services which had test hisn far more than his
life to perform, and claimed for all recompet.ce the
pardon of his friend. His disgrace is prognosticated
and clamorously called for-a-a military arrest, the
most favourable chance he has to expect.
a Madame Lavalette is in the.most deplorable state.
She was delivered of a dead child about the early
period of her husband's detention. This. added
to a feverish anxiety of mind, to an unabating per-
severance in those affectionate clans which no ob-
stacles could discourage, has so preyed on her intel-
lectnal faculties, that should the dire event which is
now universally apprehended take place, it is pro.
bible exhausted nature will be capable of enduring
no greater measure of suffering.
44 It was observed that his Majesty did not utter a
word for a full quarter of an hour after the departure
of Madame Lavalette. His first exclamation was
—' Mon DiL u I J'ai passe par de bien rudes epreuves,
anis de ma vie, je n'ai cu le mar plus cruellement
froisse My God ! I have been exposed to many
severe trials in my life, but never was my heart so,
cruelly assailed.'"
PARIS, DECEMBER 22.
The Ministry have completely fail, d in the no-
mination of the Reporter of the Central Commi-sion
on the Amnesty Bill. This is already of ominous pre-
sage.— He represents the Central Commission of
nine, chosen by the nine Bureaux, which cempre.
bend the whole body of Deputies. The individual
in question is a M Corbiere, a wordy, if not an elo-
quent lawyer, bold and subtle, an important person
in the groupe dee exaserls. On Tuesday the Duc de
Richelieu attended the Committee, and when he
found, that in defiance of all his exertions, a majo-
rity of five against four, bad agreed to modify and
extend the law, he withdrew in using these very
words :—Since, Gentlemen, your resolution is un-
alterable, it is useless for me to remain longer among,
you; but while I express my disappointment and
regret, I will frankly declare to you my determina-
tion of never consenting to the amendments proposed.
—Moreover. I am authorised to acquaint you, mat
the 'King would view with pain any mention of Re-
giciiles, because his conscience will not suffer his
sanctioning severer measures, which are alike sub-
versive of his brother's will, and his own royal and
solemn promises.
" One amendment proposed and carried in the
Commission is, that instead of the exile of the 58,
the King may, if he choose, use such a power. I will
not waste a word on this jeer de mks which appears to
have no other object, in its hostility to the proposition
of Government, than that of transferring the odium
from the Chamber to the Crown. The incoherences
and contradictions were never more revoking. The
coosciences and patriotic feelings, forsooth, of these
gentry, are too pure to condemn 38 traitors to banish-
ment without trial; but they make no scruple in in-
vesting the King with this selfsame power in all its
plenitude.
a They wash their own hands of the guilt and se-
verity of the measure—they take special care that
not a murmur shall be heard at their expense—while
his Majesty, with their free concurrence and advice,
is to become the most unpopular man in the realm.
Why 1 were they the open enemies of the King I
- . To this Iv ;mous

EVENING-STAR.

. LONDON:

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27. 1815.

Sr. Jostt'• Dot.—Holiday at the Bank.

Three days French Papers are now due: in the
mean time we have inserted in our columns some ex-
tracts from private letters, which are not void of in-
terest. The latest letters are dated Thursday night,
eleven o'clock, at which time nothing had been heard
of LAVALETTZ. It appears that the different parties
are not idle—there has already been a good deal of
manoeuvring respecting the proposed act of amnesty.
It would be so ungracious directly to oppose it (though
many are its enemies) that any party which would do
so would incur universal hatred. It is therefore at.
tempted so to modity•the law that the odium of any
exclusions may fall upon the KING. That is, the Court
has been outvoted in the preliminary steps. A little
time will throw more light on the views of the dif.
terent parties, and their relative strength.

A Mail from Hani•ourgh arrived this morning.
The Papers brought by it contain the following in.
telligeuce:

COPENHAGEN, DECEMBER ii.

His Highness Prince Christian Frederick of Den-
mark and his Consort took leave of the Court this
evening. On the 13th they set out for Augusten-
burg, where they will remain till the beginning of
January, and then go to their residence at Odense.
In the island of Sprogoe, in the Great Belt, an im-
mense quantity of rats, of a new species, being varie-
gated in colour, have lately appeared, and do very
great damage.

particular attention. A priest of Italy dares to tell
priests, the natural-born subjects of the King of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, that
the power claimed by their Sovereign, ei of revising
and sanctioning, or rejecting, Rewires from Rome,
addressed to the Catholic Hierarchy within these
realms," is 44 inadmissible, even as a matter of dis.
cussion ! !"—and that even though it is a power
claimed and exercised by certain Catholic Sovereigns!
If this be a power claimed and exercised by Catho-
lic Sovereigns, an Protestant Sovereign should allow
it to be made 44 even a matter of discussion :" on the
contrary, they should simply declare their will on
this point t arid as to the sanction of his HOLINESS,
let that be settled as all State questions come ulti.
mately Co be settled, Let the Porno be told, that if
he do not give up this and every point that may be
required of him, he shall be driven from his throne !
Is this a period in which Governments should
truckle to Priests, or allow a Foreign Potentate,
on any pretext whatever, to niggle about the terms
of intercourse between himself and their subjects ?
Away with such nonsense.—Let Catholics and Pro-
testants, Churchmen and Dissenters, be all put upon
one footing. There will then be an end put to all
the questions about oaths—excepting, perhaps, a com-
mon oath of allegiance administrable to all. An
end would then at once be put to all the Catholic
quibbles. Subjected to the same laws, and enjoying
every privilege enjoyed by every other subject, they
could have no claim to other, or greater, or dif-
ferent rights. As to the Pore we say, once more,
that he should be told his duty in that firm way in
which other Sovereigns are taught to respect the
rights of every independent Sovereign.