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London, England, 1815-10-14 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

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'Clic Pali rapers of Tuesday mid Wednesday con-
lin the proceedings of the Two Chambers in the
;,i!tings of the 9th and 10th inst. The sittings of the
;).I.uties arc carried on with closed doors, but only
the Kirin shall have nominated the President.
~onie particulars of their proceedings have been com-
municated to the Journalists, and are subjoined.
It is stated in Galignani's Messenger, which pays
~..eat attention to every thing respecting the French
I,iuseum, that the Sleeping Venni and Gl/4frid of Con-
and his 114 y Family, the St. Mi:haci of Ra.
ri ILL, and the celebrated St. Ceti/Li, still remain in
I;vr places; and that sonic of them will not be
t,„,:l„l—Wliat! Have these pictures no proper
is now ascertained that the Venue de Me.
is Vog to Florence.
01:ielle of Wednesday contains the
o:Jon:lances :

App ilit:ug the Duke of Rsocto (Marshal
OLUINCT) Gcnet al in Chief of the National Guards
!i-Parijj Ji:d the Duke de MORTEMART Chief of the
i:aIF Appointing two new Prefects.—
Ji. An Ordonnance suppressing the Board
sreAted fo:. the liquidation of arrears of the public
libtusments, and assigning pensions and half•pay
the I:rip

Ci4AMBER OF PEERS.
!:TI Uri: or rat 9Tu OF vc roam

11.2 Ciantellor prraided at the first Sitting of the

cf Peers ; the Duke of Levi and Count
'l,:otit resumed their functions of Secretaries; the
..f the Blcod Royal were present. The As-
:n;bly waF remarkably full, there being 181 Peers
rho vott%l. The Address to his Majesty was ordered
:o be ruriewcd by a Committee appointed for the
-.:7posc the nett Sitting is fixed for the 14th instant.
CHAMBER OF DEPUI !ZS.
SIT Of Tilt 10111 0P OCTulltn.

The ChAnther on its meeting resolved itself into a
Sr art Committee for the purpose of continuing the
ritication of the powers of the Members; this busi•
uill occiTird them at four o'clock yesterday
c;zrncon, and there was no indication of the meeting

thrown rpm.
At I.lcven o'clock the Members met with closed
.ars, M. Cochard, the oldest Mesn'oer, acting as
President.

We have been favoured with the following details
dative to this Meeting

"Tie verification of powers was completed.
It was put to the vote whether the Sittings should,
ut mach: F IMF:, and decided in the negative until the
Bing had nominated the President.
A scrutiny for the Candidates for the Office then
'oak place. The number of Members present was
316. The majority required was 170. On the first
M. Laine had :;€..'S votcs, and was proclaimed one of
the Candidates.

The Prince of Tremnuille had 170 ; M. de Gros-
-1`.:5 ; M. de I.t Rigaudie 125 ; NI. dr:Clermont,
Mount St. John, 125 ; M. Ktget de Ilaure 96.
':one of these Deputiei having ebnained an absolute
majority, the second scrutiny was ordered 'tin to.
Grrow.

At sa,)n zs the Chamber shall be legally formed,
is stated that the first decision will be to vote an
Aliress to be presented by a Deputation to the King.
The Mem'oers adjourned at a quarter past five.
PARIS, OCTOBER i I.

it was yesterday stated in one of the Journals. that
admissinn of Mtn. Michaud and BAert was post-
poned. It is certain. however. that they have been
proc:aimed Members.

lVe understand that in their sitting of Monday last,
Chamber of Peers invited two of its Members,
Messieurs de 14 Bourdonnaie anB ,pules de Polignac
0 explain the reason of their restrictions on taking
Le Lath as Peers on Saturday last ; these Gentlemen
,trerrll7 declared that their object WAS simply the
qttfests of religion. Upon this the Chamber unani-
mously deci4red that if Messieurs de la Bourdonnaie
end Jules de Polignac persisted in their. restrictions,'
ni did not confine themselves to the pure and sim.
Pit oath taken by their colleagues, they would cease
'scorns a an of its Members, as having refused to
Idtamit to an obligation imposed on thefts by the
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..,Intuttgicn4l Chun r.
The Duke of Reggio is nominated Commandant-
..
'erten) cf the National Guards, in the room of
Dessole.

&ultra' Maison has resumed the Government of
Psis,

It is generally believed that English troops will
!,,rthwith relieve the Prussians in the several military
duties of the capital.
11 number of illustrious Personages hare lately
'used through Rr me, on their way to Milan. Cardi-
Gonsalvi is expected. The Police ate very visi-
tant with respect to strangers.
We are concerned to learn that accounts from
Montpellier notice sonic temporary di,turbances
tco,k place hi that city, in consequence of the
igistrdie of the Piiice having refused to anthorice
of a song on the stage of llonyellia,

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which hid not been milk:mixed in the btlis : the
currenFe in queidon wat bn ;he - 25th. ukiiieo, ihd on
the 504, We Perceive that the Baron de trice, Com-
mandant of the 9th Military Division, had deemed
it necessity to issue a strong proclamation, directing
measures the best calculated to ensure the immediate
restoration of ttanquillity.
Letters from Lucques are said to Mention, that
M. Lucien Bonaparte had stopped at that city, and
had visited the Celebrated Zampierian gallery. •
On tlonday his Majesty took his usual airing at
four o'ctick.

litng of Denmark is entirely recovered frcnn
his I yr alarming indisposition.
Tibe Duchess of Parma and her young son arrived
at Schoenbrunn on the 21st of September; the latter
has been much indisposed. but appears to have reco-
vered : since the Count de Dietrichtein has been ap.
pointed his Governor, nom but German attendants
have been admitted about his person.

Advices from Dijon, pf the Gth instant state, that
the preparatory works fbr the demolition of Ole for-
tiications of Auxonne had been latterly suspended.
Preparations are making at Clermont, at Beauvais,
and in all the towns through %%hick the military roads
pass in the Department of the Oisp, for the mainte-
nance of 150,000 men, which are expected to traverse
those places on their passage to the frontiers.

We undtntand that a general review of the Eng-
lish troops is to take place at an early hour this
morning, in the Plain of Versus.
Colonel de Champeaux was yesterday acquitted of
the charges aflegtd against him, and for which he
has been submitted to a trial by the second perma-
nent Council of War of the first Military Division :
the Colonel made his own defence, in which he very
ably enumerated his former services..

The camp of Dijon is raised : the Austrians de-
ploy upon Noyon, :lens, Bar.sur-Seine, Troyes, and
other cities.

The second brigade of the Swedish army quitted,
on the 2tl instant, the city of Pontarlier, where they
had been stationed since the '2sth July ; the local
authorities hastened on this occasion to testify satis-
faction at the constant good conduct of these troops.
L2dy Castlereagh rides out almost every day on!
horseback, either in the Champs-Elysees or on the
Boulevards. Her Ladyship's health continues unin-
terrupted. His Lordship is perfectly recovered from
the effects of his late accident:

The reaolzrzionary costume of the Scotch soldiery
(donnas and sans-culottes) hardly excited more the cu-
riosity of the Parisians, than two of their bonny lasses
did yesterday. *bo clattered round the Palais:ltoyal
in musses -
Yesterday an excellent race took place in the plain
between Clichy and Neuilly, for a silver cup ; it was
well contested, and caused much amusement to the
spectators. Another takes place for a. cup worth
400 francs on Saturday.
Sir Charles Stewart gave last night an elegant ball
and supper, which was attended by all the rank and
fashion in Paris. •

The Hercules, the Fawn, and the Cupid stringing
his bow, were packed up yesterday by the Austrians.
The British troops mounted guard at the Louvre, it
being their turn, but none of the statues or pictures
passed through their hands ; in the Gallery we yet
find the St. Cecilia, St. Michael, and several Corre.
gios, &c. some of which, we understand, will not be
unloved.

The arniAble and interesting Grand Duchess Ca-
therine of Oldenberg, who won the hearts of all the
English, during her late visit to them, is now com-
mitting, equAl savages in the b•isonis of the unoffend-
ing inhabitants of I:rackfort, where she arrived on
the 14:11 ult. It is said a ci.rtain young and brave
Prince proposes to meet her there, and take revenge
for the cruelties exercised in the above manner, by
winning her himself !
The country-house of Madame Eliza Bacciochi, at
Lucques, has been repaired, and fnnished most luxu-
riantly ; she has received permission to reside there.
Two French Ladies who were in her suite have re-
ceived orders to quit the country they have conse-
quently set off Icr Venice.
Accounts from Vienna state, that the Empress of
Anstria is making a tour on the frontiers of Hungary,
and has invited upwards of 400 persons of distinction
to meet her at the Chateau of Schloshoff, where her
Imperial M.jesty will remain some time, giving a
succession of Ictes.and balls. .

Coniiderable magazines are preparing at Vienna to
provision the troops returning from France. It is said
the Emperor is expected there before he visits Italy,
but that news wants coarmation. As soon as the
Archduke Palatine returns with his young bride all
the Court will remove to Sclice.ibrunn.
The new name to be given to Italy (Venetian Lom-
bardy) does not appear to satisfy every one ; the
Ensperor of Russia, when he took possession of Po-
land. suffered it to retain its name, and called him-
self King of Poland j by a reciprocal measure, the
Emperor of Austria should assume the title of King
of Italy. Yet a mere name cannot endanger the loss
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of the country.

The most perfect tranquillity continues to reign,at
Parisi and the slight appearances of disturbance which
were there manifested some months ago, have entirely
disappeared. These appeal...inces were even totally
illusory ; for we cannot consider the clamours of some
nudmen. but as the unavoidable dissonances in the ge-
neral concert of all sentiments 'and all opinions. it is

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.iiipbskible bit ihatitheie should be Stie bitempeiate
heads in so large a city : it is impossible but Chat their
should be quarrels and disputes in some corner 0.
other of a city so jooptilour and so large ; these guar
eels and inevitable jars, which almost alwaYs arise in
the coffee•housei and wine-houses, end in tuithing,
and serve in no respect whatever as a ground for ap-
preciating the dispositions of the mass of the people
to what may b.? 'called public spirit: besides, they
make no impression. and attract much less attention
of themselves, than by the means of repression which
they necessitate.

The measures wiliich the Police employs to arrest
a disorder can never be exactly proportioned to this
disorder; they make it always appear greater than it
is in fact, because they must not only repress it, but
impose awe and tenor on all around if we were to
judge from what passed in the quarter of Li Greve
two days ago,
.by the display of the military force
which the prudence of the foreign Commanders
thought necessary, we should be very far from de-
ciding truly. If a judgment was even to be. formed
from the succinct Expose which Las been given in
this Journal, still might mistaken notions ha enter-
tained : for What strikes and seizes en the mind is the
idea of an imposing apparatus of armed Isyce : now
let us suppose the full extent of the evil which it vita
requisite to remedy by thii large force, ar.d the ima-
gination will immediately magnify it far beyond the
truth. The fact is, that in three-fotarths and a half
of Paris. the people only knew next day, and through
the medium of the journals, what had taken place
in La Greve : the public tranquillity in short was
never disturbed, and the disorder was very partial
and circumscribed: an hour was sufficient to calm it.

M. Domingoa de Broussac, Deputy from the Tarn
and Garonne, who wished to take the oath of alle-
giance under certain reservations, is not a Protestant,
as erroneously stated, but a Catholic.

It is not true that the Venus de Medicis or any
other statues were broken in the removal, as some
Journals invidiously stated. While so many persons
grumble at the loss of these chip d'auvrer, is it not
diggracelul that casts have not been taken of any of
them, for the sake of our artists.

u CHEN r, OCTOBER to, tuts.
• (PRIVATE LETTER.)
" After spending some time in France, I have,
for the preient, taken up my residence in this city.—
Tne Treaty of Peace is now the general subject of
conversation. It is believed that the treaty either is,
or will be signed immediately. When made, will it
last ?is the question. All that I have seen and heard
in France, lur more than two maths, compels me
to believe it will not. The French have a more in-
veterate hatred of the English than is; perhaps, gene-
rally imagined. They are full of expressions of re-
spect for them, and never fail to speak in praise of
the English army for their good behaviour ; but they
know, and they feel it too, that but for the English
they would not have had retorted on them by the
Prussians the evils which they inflicted on Prussia
with an unsparing hand. Some few well-meaning
Englishmen blame the conduct of the Prussians, and
I am sorry for the innocent sufferers; but how, in a
nation of thieves, can the few good be discriminated
from the general mass of bad ?
" Nations can only be puni►hed as nations. I have
often been amused to hear the French talk-of the
Prussians: their whining lamentations always re-
mind me of a thief crying because he has lost his
booty. The demoralized state of France has never
been exaggerated in England. Having seen with
my own eyes what this state is, I am nu longer un-
der any difficulty to account for the conduct of the
French Marshals and soldiery on the return of that
monster BoNAPARTE. It is a mistake to suppose
that he was a military despot, or that his return was
contrary to the wishes of the French Nation. Had
he succeeded, the end would, in the estimation of the
majority of the French, have sanctified the means
BONAPARTE, nevertheless, has done much fur France;
and had his hands not been embrued in blood, he
would, as a monarch, have been a blessing to France,
' and perhaps to the world ; but a monster he must
be pronounced, when one thinks of the blood he has
shed ! !

" It is generally thought that the Allies will leave
FrAlice enure as they entered her, or sooner or later
restore her again to that state: if so, they will have
done but little. Nothing will form a barrier to this
restless nation but the annexation of French Flanders
to Belgium. With this acquisition, the Low Conn.
tries would be formidable, as every one who has seen
the lint. of fortresses knows ; but without it, the
French will hold their neighbours in contempt.—
When the Allies are all snug by their fire sides, we
shall see this.

" A word or two on Belgium. Things here are
not as they ought to be. Why ? The old story—
religious superstition. The pretensions of the Priests,
as you will have seen by the Address of the Belgian
Bishops to the KINGI; are boundless. In a prie►t-
ridden country. I need not tell you, their influence
is extensive. Nevertheless light shines in on the
people, and many begin to discover that the claim cf
these men is a trick, to enable the clergy to obtain
power and riches at their expense. The Government
have adopted a wise course. The freedom of the
press haiing been established, it has left to the press
to answer the claims of the Flanders Priests. At
Brussels there is a periodical *Work published, called
The Oherter, ip which the Priests are not spared. I

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cfspr. oot only in
men•will, ere long, t:li
judge for Arm. rivet.
thesNerttsateivirs
" the things which belntlg agaL_
-laims of a treasonable and rebellious set of priests,
I know not. When BONAPARTE was opposed.. by
them, he put the Archbishop of Grim. in Prhon,
and sent a Bishop of Al: own coining to fill his place.
The Clergy would not receive him, because he was
not clothed with ofiostolic authority—that is, with a
licence from the Pore. BobraPattrc made short work
of it. lie arrested every Priest he could hunt out in
this city, to the number of two htindred and seventy-
three, stripped them of their holy g itments, lint se/-
diet.: deaths On Stem, and slot them to the army, or to
work at the fortifications at Antwerp ! No wonder
then that the Clergy, in their Address to the KING,
call DoNaranre the enemy of all telini-n. After
this capture, a Priest was aihamed, and even afraid
to she r<• his sacred Lice in the street. They have of
late, hawever, had momentary repose—they have re-
gained their influence in a degree—and have become
proptneonably insolent. The Belgians do not rel:sh
their being obliged to pay their proportion of the
debts of Holland.

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