Star.
London, England, 1815-07-01 00:00:00

CHAMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES. ITTNE 2R.

The bitting was opened at lull pest it:, under LI.,
Presidence of M. LANJUINAP3.

The author of a plan of constitution presents ;
copy of his work to the Chamber; fie regrets th.it
cannot preseot a copy to each Mernher : those s..lic
wished copies %cold find them at the l'alais.ltoy..l—
Murmurs aid lerishttr).
The l'itEsiorvr announces that he had been charg..
hp the Government, to urte the Committee. on t
Constituti art to em, toy thent.elves without delay c.:
the iabJers entrusted to them.
M. OAUCreiMitonsqs dos tritons to deliVer a repo!
in the name of the Committee, charged to wash;
the plan of law relativ to tepti4itions.
Had your Committee, said the Reporter, ci
only its respect for propel ty, it would have rejecter
every idea of requisition ; oat there are moments oi
public danger so imminent, that the moat saciec
rights are ovessarily suspended. To the supply of
our armies and fortresses, every consideration must
' yield. ' Whatever Might be the state of our financts,
it was impossible, in a moment of urgency, to mat
purchases on the spot, for the supply of our fortresses
and armies extended over an immense line of frou.
tiers. All our ntighbours, in the terrible wars which
have latterly desolated Europe, have been comptlleJ
to resort to die system of requisitions; arid, in exist.
ing circumstances, your Committee, as well as Ow
Government, have been compelled to acknowledge
its necessity ; but they have thought it as just as ne.
eessary to secure the repayment of articles placed ill
requisition. The Cotnnlittee felt that they could not
.appropriate the ordinary contributions to this repay.
aunt, without distressing the Government, and tiis.
'ordering every branch of the public service. Tne
presumed amount of these contsibutions is by antici.
pation converted into bills on the Receiver•Generai,
which the Government puts in circulation according
to its wants. The funds destined* to pay these bias
cannot, therefore, have a double destination. Nei.
thtr could they appropriate the produce of the loan
which the Government had proposed, but which was
not yet passed into a law. Your Committee, then-
fore, propose to you to declare that provision shad
be made for paying the requisitions out of the ex-
traordinary resources of the current year. He con.

inatille priest of the articles put in requsition to be bud by
lists.
4. Receipts to be 16 aelosowladgments for the amount.
2 as
S. Provision than be made by a legislative measure. for the
payment of the aclusowledipneou oat of the supplies of the cur.
rent year.

6. Similar prowidon doll he made for requisitions levied since
the Ist of Jannuy, ISIS, and not discharged.
M. Delusioxr announces the assent of G wern.
ment to the amendments made by the Committee.
M. SALVSETE insisted that the acknowledgments
should be received is payment of the direct taxes.
M. PLatioanotics.—l demand that the question be
adjourned, and the plan of law printed. It has un-
dergone various alterations, and is too important to
be understood at a single reading.
A Massaaa.—How far is it, think you, from St.
Quentin to Paris l—(Asitetion).
M. Framosutauss.—lt is useless to press the die-
cussion, since Government has already made requi•
sitions for the supply of the armies, and the distance
of St. Quentin hence is nothing to the purpose.—
Doubtless our deliberation should be active, but they
should be also prudent. Instead of this, we are called
upon to decide without knowing what, and it is
wished to precipitate us into execrable measures. I
demand adjournment.—(Teeirk).
' Messrs. CROCHON and DUMOLARD contended that
the law differed so sligbtly from the plan of the Go.
Ter:lntent, already three days is their hands, that it
did not require longer deliberation.
The adjournment •was set abide by the previous
question. • •
111:Vauarnwrafterdi!xtingon the hiconvenlencic;
Oat •necessarily result from the :Mein of. roquisi-
dons, moved that she acknowledgments should be
sti least receivi;:liXpayment of die taxes for 1616...
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(Crier of.
M. DALCHY was convinced that our financial
system, which admitted only cash in payment; would
be entirely subverted by the admission of other dem.
minations of valbe.
M. Duanuoirr.—The mode of payment ought not
to be• fixed until after the' budget was brought 'for-
ward. To receive the reqnisition ieser in payment of
taxes of every kind would give rise to endless abusei.
M. REGNAULT urged a similar argument. Ever,.
body knew from past experience that thesekass would
be sold to Parisian monied men at a tow pr.ic4. The
consequence would be, that the public to gembr4l.
would be losers, and the gains of the former exorbi.
tint. I demand„ therefore, that all possible means
of securing the payment of these requisitions be adopt.
ed, except that of receiving the acknowledgments its,
payment of taxes.—(Cries of patioa—Tessidl).
Several other Members attempted to speak, int
were silenced by cries of " Question 1"
The question wu then put on the whole of the laws
which was carried by a majority of 419 to 61.
Ti.e Chamber rose at half past four o'clock.
From the Journal de PEntlire.—The caricatnege.
more or less offensive towards the Princes of the
House of Bourbon, which the dealers in pride have
been in the habit of displaying, have now nearly all
disappeared,.

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clujed with proposing the following law as amended
by the Cimunittee :
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' Ism 1 . .1110, rpowkwetwoott. is ,11)4 to
rojoisstioasiitotproirletootog o . ati wl taolr;rtest oet.
H. Goverosneot wtH take pro, ti&:
e—a;utes to preveot abases la
the make of titk power.