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fay before you the Pr jet d. LA %WA you shall now
hear read :"

PRENeII PIPERS.

CHAMBER OF IhßPUTlES.—Dseessats e. •
After some preliminary business had been gone
through, the President, M. LAINE, invited such of
his Majesty's Minister, as had any communication to
make to ascend the Tribune.
The Duke de Rresteuzu spoke as follows !
" Gentlemen, a great etatnple has just been giden.
The Tribunals are directed to follow the course of
justice against the persons named in Article I of the
Ordinance of the 24th of July; and if there be any
who have withdrawn themselves from its reach, their
sentence for contumacy shall serve as an example till
personal.chatisement can be inflitted.
But after the most violent commotion that ever
convulsed a State, Government has &eased it right
to take other measures.
66 There are, after all revolutions, dangerous men,
oho cannot remain in the bosom of a country which
they have torn, and which they still threaten. Pub-
lic security requires that the band of authority shall
bear heavily upon them. It is not in the caurse of
the French Revolution that we shall seek examples :
the history of nations sufficiently spews, that in the
States which enjoyed the greatest degree of liberty,
there ;lave been periods when the safety of the people
demanded the proscription of eminent individuals.—
With this view, the Ordinance of the '...4th of July
designated thirty-eight persons. This Ordinance
stated, that the Chambers should decide respecting
those who were to be tielivered up to the Tribunals j
but you, Gentlemen, have yourselves declared, that
they (the Chambers) could not be called upon to try
them ; and, consequently, their banishment can alone
be entorced.
While some assert that this Ordinance is inCOM-
pletC, others consider it as severe and arbitrary. To
both we will answer, that never, after so many atro-
cities,arias so mild a measure adapted. It was nei.
ther just nor politic to punish all those who partici-
pated in that great rebellion t it was necessary to
point out only some of those who had been engaged
in it ; and a kind of public clamour indicated the
pers!als whose names are inserted in the Ordinance.
Perhaps tlol-e are others still more guilty ; but when
public justice i of lied to wreak her vengeance on
so many ci 'initials, those whom she strikes ought to
resign themselves to their fate, and thus met it, at
some future time, an alleviation of it from the ck-
:seemly at the King.
66 The Members of a family which has brought so
many cal:Unities urn France, have quitted its teed-
tory. They must not expect to be ever permitted to
return to it ; and the law ought to fix the punish-
Menu to be inflicted on those *lio shall presume to
make their appearance kilt again.
61 If the religioui adherence of the King to the
law by which he abolithed confiscation does not allow
him to strip them of the property which they have
acquired for a valuable consideration, every send-
meat combines to deprive them of the rights, posses-
sians, and titles, which they have obtained gratis:
this determination is expressed in the Projet de Lei,
which is absent to be presented to you.
•' After these examples, all the other classeaof ei.
tiers may be easy. H's Majesty, by his Ptoclatasa-
don at Cambrar, has already published au amnesty;
which he ts now resolved to extend. 'rite right at
amnesty, t speci..l.ly after rebellions and great pollti.
cal commotions, is inherent in the Sovereign. His
Majesty, on so solemn an occasion, feels a pleasure
in making the great bodies of the :AMC, who partici-
pate with him in the exercise or the legislative power, i
concur in this measure. His clemency seems more
comprehensive from his calling, as it were. the whble
nation to proclaim with him the pardon which he'
grants. It it were necessary to seek other motives
for his mercy, we might urge, that the laws which
have recently been enacted invest the Gavernment
with a power capable of repressing, in future, public
disorders, and stifling conspiracies in their birth.—
The King congratulates himself that part of the
power which the new laws confer on him ii but tern-
pantry ; he will exercise it with justice, but with se-
verity against those whom clemency itself cannot
amend, and whom nothing can reconcile. Vigilance
and rigour towards those who Shalt dare to hatch
fresh plots will be the more just, as the mercy of the
King has been immense.
" The misled army has been decimated in the con-
Diet of Waterloo; some of its leaders have since recei-
ved a death which they would rather have found in the
field of battle. Obedient to the will of the King, to
the wishes of France, the army has been disbanded.
The soldiers, dispersed among 0.1,4 families, ate
again beconting citizens : they will soon be sensible
that it is impossible to separate the King front the
country, and their affections for both will become
stronger by their union.
66 it is time, Gentlemen. for the French to rally,
and firm, as the King some time since observed to
your President, one siagle bundle, for the purpose of
retrieving our misfortunes.
" The burden that oppresses France is sufficiently
heavy : let us not seek to add to its weight. The
Treaty which has been communicated to you requires
for its necution the concurrence of all wills and of
all efforts. France, hitherto formidable by her arms,
will recommend herself by her fidelity, and hi her
very adversity she will exalt herself by her constancy
and good faith.
66 The public burdens are certainly heavy, and we
have long sought the means of throwing them upon
the authors of our sufferings ; but whatever might be
their number, an extraordinary part in their contri-
butions would have produced but a moderate re-
source, and it would have been very difficult to avoid
what is arbitrary, and to restrain the passions.
" The observance of the laws will revive confi-
dence ; industry Kill be more freely exercised; and
commerce encouraged, will embark in useful specu-
lations. All the French will be set at case when they
' henceforth see public offices bestowed on men of tried
itegrity, abilities; and, above all, attachment to their
King and country.
66. 'The King, Gentlemen, has caused an account
of your different proposals and your useful delibern.
dons to be laid before him. The last will of Louis
XVI. is always present to his mind;, and his sacred
word, in maintaining one of the important disposi-
lions of the Charter, makes the nation, easy respecting
all the others. Deeply impressed with what is re-
quired by the welfare of the State, and by the public
voice, anal full of the hope of reviving a general and
reciprocal confidialscep U.
—icing leas directed us to

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PROJC.: DE 1/)1.
Louts, by the Grace at GOD, King of France and
Navarre, to all present and to come, gr,xting, &c.
Art. 1. Tull and complete amnesty is gNated to all those
who, either directly or indh cooly, have taken part in the rebel-
, lion and notrpation of Napoleon Lionapat t.ft, wi.h the wade/own-

done,' exceptions.
2. The Ordinance of the 24th July shall cqntinuc to be event-
ed in retard to the persons comprehended m the ht. .1.1;cle

that Orainance.•
8. The per,uas indented in Article t! t t.f the said Ord:nsnce
shall quit France in the two months wh.rh shall tile pi:)•
mitigation of the presort law. They shall riot be at i:berty
n.
teturn without the express permission est the guig, the whole
upon pain of transportation.
4. All the klenibers of, or persons allied to the fam!iy of Bo-
naparte, and their de.eentlants, to the degree of (that and
n.iphew, inclusively, are excluded for ever item the %ingtloni,
and are required to leave It within one mouth, under 11w penalty
decreed by Art. 91 wt tke Penal Code.
'they shall be incapacitated (rain enjoying any civil right there,
or possessing any property, Wks, annuities, or pensions, granted
to them gratuitously in that country; a.td they Shall be required
to sell within six mouths the property of ua kinds which they
shall have obtained tar a taluable consideration.
5. The present amnesty is not applicable to all the persons
against whom proteediugs have been Inuit tired or sentences
passed, prior to the promulgation of the present law the pro-
ceediiip shall be continued, and the sentences executed woe-
ably to the
O. '1 he present amnesty does not extend to the crimes or of-
fences &galas: irtdivi.lualy .0 whatever period they inay have
been conesoitted—:he persons who have beide guilty of them
shall be Balite to be prosecuted aecordirg to i he laws.
Given at Paris, at the Palace of tat. the 7th day
of the month of December, iu ti“: year a Gre.-e :dl5,
and of our reign the 21st.
(Signed)
By the King,
(Signed) &Scotism.
• The brothers Lailemand, Drour, ITErlon, Lefrvre Des
noteettes, Anted, Brayer, Gully, Mouton Huvernet, Grouchy,
Mosel, Laborde, Berisaud, Casement, Lavalette, and
Ruvigo.
f Souls, Mix, Excelmans, Basun° IVT.e4,nt. Felix Lepellet-
tier, Bou!ay (de la Meurthe), Mehse, l'ressiner, Tbibaudeate,
Carnot, Vaniamme. Lainarque (Urns ral), Harris rim,
Barrere, Arnault, liegnaud (de ot. Jean trAugrley), Pommtis.
rt ul, Arrighi (of Padua), Dejean, jun. Oarrais, Real, Bouvier-
Dumonlard, Mersin (of 1:otta;:), tonbach, Divat, Defermont,
Dory St. Vincent, Felix Dr.voi:e4 Garnet tie Saitttes,
Hull n, Cluye. Courtin, Forbin Anson, the eldest son, and Le
Lbrque Didevitte.
Atter the reading of this Projet, M. de Richelieu
added, "The measure propowd to you, (;eritlemen,
is not new in our annals. Henry IV. whose anernory
we cherish with such filet! tint, pubiished in 1591 a
similar act of amnesty, and Franc:. was .s.tved --."
Scarcely had the .Mini-ter uttered the concluding
.cords, when a Spontdneolis and un.:nimous shout of
66 Vive le Rot," burst from all 'mots of the H4ll and
the tribunes. The Depuiks rose and waved their
hats in the air, repeating the same at.clanations with
the most lively enthusi isin.
Silence being restored, and the Assembly again
stated. the President, in the name ut the Chanti:er,
acknowledged the receipt of dr! communk-ativn just
made; he announced that the Speech of the Minister
and the /wrier de isit Shall be ptintcd,and distributed,
and that the latter should be sent for the examination
of the Bureaux.
The l'Ainicers theft retired, and were conducted
out of the Hall with the accustomed ceremonies.
'rite President announced tb.tt the Deputies were
about to withdraw to their bureaux ; that on the mor-
row the Cisamber would forns itseit, at twelve o'clock,
into a Secret Committee, and afterwards meet in the
bureaus.

Louis.

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PARIS, DECEMDZR 9.
PnEVOTAL enoe•ra=l'he law for establishing Pre.
vdtal Courts has unJurgone repeated, long, and stormy
discussions. The Duke de Forltre announced on the

4th, that the King het adopted the amendments pro-
posed by the commission. lii Duplesis spoke against
the law, though he had insctilied his name on the
fist to speak for it ; he moved several amendments,
which were rejected. On the sth, the law passed by
a majority of 300 votes to ten.
The Minister of Finance has presented tts the
Chambbr of Deputies two projects of laws; the first,
creating annuities upoi the Treasury. as a security
for the execution of the articles of the 'fireaty of Peace
relative to the indemnities to be paid to the Allies;
the second, thzt the tour first twelfths of the contri-
butions on persons and chattels, and of the contribu.
Lion on doors and windows of 11316, shall be reco-
vered upon the parts of 1815.
A man, named John Btutsls Benoit, a cuirassier,
was tried at the C.oirt of Assize to-day, on a charge

of utteiing sedition.; cries, as was also Raymrind
Morel, a soldier of the line. They were accused of
crying out Vire l'Empercur !" and singing songs
against Goretnmeat. They had been cited before
a Council of kVar, who declared itsrlt incompetent
to try them, and sent them to the Court of Assize.
They said they had been taken prisoners at the battle
of Waterloo, and were intoxicated when they sung
the songs in question. Their inebriety at the time
was proved by a witness. The Jury found them
guilty of uttering the name of the Usurper, and
attempting to weaken the respect due to the Govern-
ment, by outrageous discourse ; but they acquitted
them as to any intent of destroying or overthrowing
the Government. They were sentenced to six months
imprisonment, to a fine of 50 francs, to the loss of
their half-pay for a year, and to find security to the
amount of 100 francs for their good behaviour during
a twelvemonth.
At Semur, two soldiers presented themselves be-
fore the Board of Examination without any white
cockade that was visible, and they pretended that it
would be found under the hood which covered their
:Autos! It appeared, however, that under this en-
velope was nothing but tri.coloured Cockades turned.
They wire sent to prison, notwithstanding their de.
durations, and which were probably true, that they
had acted without any bad intentions. Their fate is
to be determined by the Sub-Prefect, and the Preen-
reur of the King.
PIIENCH FUNDS—Dec. 5, 3 per Cents. 530.-6th,
.5 per Cents. 51f. 10c.-7th, 5 per Cents. 56t.-Bth,
5 per Cents. 5711.-9th, 5 per Cents. 59tf. 58f. Ate.
BOURDEAUXI DECEMBER 4.
John Bogance, an artisan, has been condemned to
two years' imprisonment and a fine of 100 trancsy
for uttering seditious cries and spreading a report
that the Usurper was returned. A painter at Tours,
named Francis Legpmd, was found guilty on the 4th
of December of a similar offence, and condemned
to six, months imprisonment with a fine of 100 francs,
and to be three years under the inspecticin of the
Police.