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FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, DECEMBER es. • •
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.
SITTING or Tag 24TX or 1/SCLASIta.
M. de POUPIERIS, in the name of the Committee
of Petitions, presented a Report on that of the Lieu-
tenant-General of Artillery, Dedon. It set forth,
that in 1810 he purchaseda national domain in Spain,
the greater part of the price of which be paid in
ready money, and subscribed for the remainder three
pagares, or obligations to the Public Treasury, pay-
able from year to year. He adds, that these obliga-
tions or bills having been given in payment to Con-
tractorp, he found himself on the one hand pursued
at law by the holders of the bills, while on the other
he was dispossessed of his property by the act of the
Government towards which he was bound.
. The R EPORTKR stated, that the Committee had
deemed it their duty to obtain from the Ministry for
Foreign Relations information as to the measures
taken by Government to regulate the interests of
. such Frenchmen as had property in Spain. It ap-
peared from the information given by the Ministry
to the Committee, that the Treaty concluded on the
30th of May, between the King of France and the
Allied Powers, had been adopted by the ling
Spain on the 20th of July last, with two additional
articles, the first of which stipulated, that property
of every kind which Frenchmen possessed in Spain,'
or Spaniards in France, should be restored, and re.
gulates the mode of discussing claims that may exist
between Spaniards and Frenchmen.
After some observations relating to various laws
of guarantee, emanating under similar circumstances,
N. de POMPIERES said, that the Committee, of which
be was the organ, conlenhave wished to propose a
law on this subjeci, if the tediousness of the forms
required by this mode of making a law, the fear that
it aught not be passed this session, and the pressing
situation of General Dedon at this moment before
the tribunal, had not induced them to think that. it
• Would be more expeditious were the proposition to
oome from his Majesty. The Committee therefore
proposed to trensmit General Dedon's petition to
Government, requesting it to present a law, protect-
ipg from legal process such Frenchmen as are dis-
possessed of property in'Spain, until its restoration
to them, and who may have subscribed obligations,
dewing on the face of them that they were contrac-
md in payment of domains of which they are de-
prived the enjoyment.
The Chamber voted that the petition should be
merely sent to Government.
VIENNA, DECEMBER 15.
There is some talk of a war against Turkey; but
the Powers likely to take part in it are not quoted.
Austria is, n the most Lriendly footing with the Porte,
and has not forgotten that the latter Power constantly
rejected the invitations of Bonaparte to attack the
Emperor of Austria in his Southern Provinces, while
the French armies fought him is Germany. Hun,
gary, therefore. Croats.,, and Transylvania, are per.
fectly tranquil ; there is no appearance there of any
active war. If any precautions are taken in these
countries, they are merely dictated by the propriety
of covering their frontiers at a time when serious dis-
turbances have broken out in Bosnia, Servia, and
other Turkish provinces.
NOTIL 'MY THE MEDIATISED PRINCES AND COUNTS
TO THE CONGRESS.
" The houses of the Ponces and Counts of the
Empire, for whom the Undersigned has the honour
to be Agent, have been informed of certain represen-
tations which several States of the Empire, and Ci-
devant Sovereigns of the Confederation of the Rhine,
presented to die Congress on the 16th of November.
As far as these representations have for object to
express their hopes and wishes Jot the general pro.
sperity of 'Germany, as well as gratitude and respect
for the glorious deliverers of the country, the consti-
tuents of the undersigned have anticipated them both
by verbal and written testimonies, of which their
conduct under all circumstances guarantees the sin-
cerity. But if, as it would appear, the alit:me-men-
tioned representations have for object to claim pecu-
liar privileges, the undersigned has been expressly
charged respectfully to observe, that the grounds on
which these privileges may be supported, are still
more incontestable in regard to his constituents :
for in the 6th Article of the Treaty of Paris, the So-
vereigns of the Confederation of the Rhine, then in-
deed dissolved by the victories of the Allies, and
solemnly renounced by its members, are not named,
but the States of Germany iu general are merely
designated.
44 Among his constituents there are several who
were victims of the Confederation of the Rhine, and
whose population is much More considerable than
that of some others, who, during the reign of vio.
lance, were more fortunate in their political relations;
and she mediatised countries altogether containing
population of more than a million, it is impossible to
deny their right to a political representation. The
coortlturtstrof the undersigned could also bring for.
word:claims equally incontestable, derived from the
antiquity and lustre of their houses : but the general
principles of the las; of nations furnish them with
sufficient grounds for tranquillity ; for it is evident
that trestles cannot be perverted to the prejudice of
third parties, who were not heard, and bad never ac-
quiesced in them. It was doubtless in this sense, that
the high allied Powers added with as much equity as
wisdom, the well-known clause, for the good of Ger.
Naas. to the acts by which they acceded to the mili-
tary conventions concluded at Frankfort'.
46 It the Sovereigns of the abolished Rhenish Con-
federation, who only dumineered over their co-estates
is virtue of and for the consolidation of that confede-
ration, mean, in opposition to the equitable and ge-
ner us views of the Allies, to give to the above con-
- ventions an unjust sense prejudicial to the constituents
of the undersigned, die latter think it a duty they owe
.to their subjects and successors, to deliver in by the
undersigned a solemn protest against this attempt.
M reover, tl.e constituents of the undersigned, who,
amidst the severest trials, have placed unshaken con-
fitioace in the deliverers and regenerators of Cer-
ny, have charged their Plenipotentiary to repeat
the expression of these sentiments ire regard to the
establishoo nt of a constitution calculated to feint the
• happintsb'of Germany, ;and of which the chid pillar
mess be a chief ch thed with constitutional authority.
flf therefore to the Sovereigns, members of thp Lite
Cealederation of the Rbiue. the right is grvted of
participating la the
deliberations on that conaltution,

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