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which was surly to invest the Gavertnneut with that'
authority which was necessary for the well-being and
prosperity of the nation. The unteptintiples applied
,to the agents of the Government in a republic and
in a monarchy. 'While in the exercise of his functions,
the agent ought to support the Government ; bui if
be think fit to oppose it, then morality and public
convenience require him to renounce his office.
Seno GA ukso recognized the liberal character of
the principles put forward by the Deputies who op-
posed this and some of the preceding articles—prin-
ciples which the Committee most highly respected;
but it has become necessary to resort to rigid mea-
sures, for it was needless to pass laws which would
be found ineffectual. Unfortunately many of those
men who agitate the provinces receive money from
the State. The renouncing of emoluments ought not,
therefore, to prevent the operation of the law.
After several other Deputies had spoken, the debate
was ordered to be closed, and the voting to be nomi-
nal. The final question being put, the article was
carried ; the votes in the affirmative being 85, in the
negative 53.
The fifth Article was then proposed in the follow-
ing terms:
" S. On any town or plice being attached by the enemies of
the Constitution, if the pelsons receiving salaries or pensions
from the Government do not present themselves, for the purpose
of repelling and pursuing the factious, and of perforating the
services which the Chiefs or Magistrates may assign to them,
they shall be deprived of two-thirds of their emoluments."

This article was apprpved without any debate.
A discussion arose on the following:

" 6. A town, which, being attacked by a number of fac-
tious, less than one-fourth of its population, does not,clefend it-
self, shall be obliged to maintain the military force which the
General of the Army or Comm,lpdant of the District may des-
tine for its occupation."

Senor ARGUELLES considered this an article which
would deserve approbation if it could be made effec-
tual. But how was it to be ascertained whether a
town was or was not attacked by a force less than
one-fourth of its population ? _

Senor OLIVER observed, that the intention of the
article was to punish criminal neglect ; but the cir-
cumstances under which a town had not opposed the
factions would become a matter of consideration for
the Government. Though the article obliged the
town to maintain the troops sent into it, it did not
compel the General to send any. Whether any should
be sent or not, what the number quartered on the
town should be, or for how long a time, were points
which would depend on the circumstances of the case.
After some further debate, in which the principle
of the article was approved, but the terms in which
it was drawn up objected to, it was referred back to
the Committee to be amended.—Adjourned.

The French Papers of Wednesday have reached
us. They mention an alarm which was excited on
the preceding night in the Castle of the Thuillerie",
occasioned by a loud explosion, that took place about
one o'clock, under one of the pavilions. The Journa 1
des Danis states, that it proceeded from the musket
of a sentinel which had gone off accidentally while
he was asleep. The ball entered the ceiling of one
of the rooms in the Palace, without doing any other
damage. The soldier escaped unhurt. We wonder
a new conspiracy against the Bourbons has" not been
discovered in this accident ; but perhaps the Go'.
vernmeht has plots enough on its hands at present, as
we find that, by an Ordonnance of the 19th ult. the
Tribunal of Saumur has sent before the Chamber of
Accusation of the Court Royal of Angus, Grandme-
nil, Baudrillet, Fournier, and Roseau, the first as a
principal actor, and the three others as accomplices in
a plot to destroy the Government of the King.
Other letters from Saumur state, that on the night
of the 26th or 27th, an attempt was made to assassi-
nate Lieutenant NI/omm, who had arrested BERTON,
as he returned to his house from duty. As he wore a
great coat, the blow was not fatal, and the poniard
penetrated no farther than a little way into his breast
The wound, although it was directed on the side of
the heart, has not been judged mortal. Lieutenant
WOLPEL, on the instant, received all necessary assist-
ance. Every search has been made for the assassin ;
who, there is eves), reason to believe, belongs to the
infernal sect of the Carbonari.

In the first conference at Verona between the Mi-
nisters of Foreign Affairs of the four great Powers of
the Holy Alliance, the Duke of WELLINGTON alone,
,of all the foreign Plenipotentiaries, was admitted.
The accounts from Madrid, in these Papers, are
not of so late a date as those received direct from
Spain. They contain some further particulars relative
to General Moattto, who it appears was residing,
by permission, at a small village called Eligollar,
'some leagues from Madrid. On the 15tha fficer
lof Artillery, at the bead of a detachment, went to
seek him, for the purpose of bringing him to Madrid,
by order of the superior Authorities. The General
had gone out on horseback by permission. The Officer
waited for him in vain twenty-four hours. Seeing
that he did not come back, he returned to Madrid.
This circumstance has given rise to the belief' that
►this General has fled, foreseeing that he would be
imprisoned like M. SAN MARTIN. It was the fiscal
(Attorney-General>, in the process of the 7th July,
who demanded the presence of General Moatt.to at
Madrid. This news is the more important, as this
same
fiscal had prepared in the public prigs some
separate apartments.
It appears that there is organizing at Gibraltar a .