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London, England, 1830-03-12 00:00:00

FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 12, 1830. Paw 71).

FRENCH PAPERS.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES-SITTINGS OF MARCH 9.

The Chamber, before the opening of the sitting, had a mare ani-
mated appeasance than usual ; numerous groups were formed at the
foot of the Tribune, and very animated conversations took place
among all the deputies. M. Royer Collard, the President, is still ab-
sent, after M. l'Abbey des Pompierea had been long in the chair,—
It was easy to see that the delay in the installation of M. Royer
Collard was a principal subject of conversation.
The long c mversation which took place yesterday between the ve-
nerable President pro tempera, and the actual President, has given
occasion in several journals to different interpretations. It still en-
gages our deputies. We have merely stated the fact, without endea-
vouring to explain it.
The sittingyas opened at a quarter before three o'clock, and the
President pa•ierepore addressed the assembly in the following
tams 5-er. Awe a •
"On leaving the chair to which I was called by the melancholy
advantage of having preceded you in life, permit me to express my
lively gratitude for the indulgence you have granted to my age 1
feel also, in the circumstances in which we are placed, the desire to
express to you my personal sentiments, and my wishes for the hap-
piness of a people who has entrusted to you its dearest interests:
but I must observe on this subject a reserve which is imposed upon
me by the character in which I speak to you (an evident movement
in the left centre,) and the desire to see harmony prevail among you.
I conceive hopes of this on seeing the chair occupied for the third
time by the citizen. (Interruption.)
Voices on the left--Silence, silence !
DI. Jaquemond—Repeat your phrase.
M. L'Abbey des Pompieres--" I conceive the hopes of seeing the
chair occupied for the third time by the citizen where profound
knowledge, and especially his devotion to the constitutional char-
ter--(A new interruption on the right.)
Numerous voices—" Say also devotion to the King."
M. L'Abbey Pompieres continuing, " Whose profound know.
ledge, and especially his devotion to the constitutional charter, have
obtained the votes of his colleagues, and merited the confidence of
the Monarch. In proclaiming their suffrages, permit me to join
in them, and to assure you that these words are sincere expressions
of my sentiments, and not an empty compliment."—(Loud applause
on the left.)
M. Royer Collard, preceded by the ushers, and followed by the
four secretaries, took the chair.
" Gentlemen," said he. " in resuming functions as difficult as
they are honourable, I obey the King and the Chamber. This
thought will supply the place of a confidence which I should not
find in myself. But, gentlemen, your kindness will not forsake me,
and I shall endeavour to preserve it. I propose to the Chamber to
vote thanks to the President, pro rempore."—(Profound silence.)
There is no opposition ; the thanlu are therefore entered on the
journals.
The Chamber is constituted, and will announce this by two meg.
sages to the King and to the Chamber of Peers.
The Chamber will immediately retire to its bureaus to proceed to
the nomination of
Ist. The committee foe the althea.

2d. The committee of petitions.
9d. The committee of accounts of the Chambers.

The deputies retire to their bureaus, and the sitting is suspended.
Committee foe drawing up the address:-Ist bureau, M. le Comte
de Pressae ; 2d bureau, M. Etienne; 9d bureau, M. Keratry ;
dth bureau, Al. Dupont (de l'Eure) ; bth bureau, M. Gautier ;
6th bureau, M. le Comte Sebastian': 7th bureau, M. le Baron Le-
pelletier d'Aulnay ; Bth bureau, M. le Comte de Sede ; 9th bureau,
M. Dupine ainb.
Messrs. Etienne and Delalot, who make part of the same bureau,
have each 22 votes, and age decided between them.

PARIS, Hamm 9.
It was yesterday reported at the Waroffice that there was a
strong notion of adding an English brigade to the army destined for
Africa. If this news be true, we may divine what will be the
consequence—the expense and the danger for us ; the profit for
Messrs. the English.
FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, Mama 9.

Five per Cents. 105 f. 80e. sk. 60c. 65c. 70e.110c. Bk. 80c. Bk.
Four and a half per Cents. 105 f.
Three per Cents. 821. e sc. 20c. Ik. 20c. 15c. 821. 10c. 15c.
Bank Stock, 1,9101.
Neapolitan Renter, 112 f. 65c.
Spanish Ditto, 12f e.
Royal Spanish .oan, 881 I esa
lisytian Loan, 5551. 5301. 5201.
lICIIIANOZ oa LOSOMI.

One month, paper, 25f. 70c.
Three months, money, 25f. 65e.
—Cour: Authenfigut.

FRANCE.

PROCEEDINGS 01 THE CHAMBER OF PEERS ON VOTING
THE ADDRESS, AND SPEECH OF M. DE CH ATEAU-
BRIAND.
From Galignanis Messenger.

The following are the accounts which we have been able to col-
lect relative to the sitting of the chamber of peers yesterday, and
the discussion on the address. The Viscount tie Chateaubriand
approved of the mildress, but judged explanation necessary on certain
points. No reply having been made to the noble peer's speech, the
chamber proceeded to vote the first paragraphs of the address, which,
it is stated, passed without a dissentient voice, except that which
relates to the expedition against Algiers. Admiral Verhuell, in ex-
pressing his opinion on the subject, besought his majesty's ministers
to weigh with attention the dangers of an expedition which, from a
long sojourn at Algiers, he was enabled to pronounce most hazard-
ous, both with regard to the obstacles that would be presented
by the elements and by the inhabitants.-11. Dsbouchage declared
that the privilege of making war or peace, with which the Ring
was invested by the charter, precluded the discussion of such sub.
jccts. This opinion, however, was dissented from by a great
number of peers. The Duke de Broglie, in particular, exposed
its unsoundness, and proved that from the moment the Ring, in his
speech, mentioned an expedition, it became imperative on the
Chamber to pronounce their opinion. The paragraph was then
voted without a division. It is said that it terminates with
a hope, indirectly but clearly expressed, that communications
will he made to the Chamber on the important subject, from
whence it may be inferred that these communications are re-
quisite to enable the peers to form their judgment, and that they
do nut expect that ministers will undertake the expedition until a
vote of the Chambers shall have insured the necessary funds. In
the paragraph relating to Greece, the Chamber congratulates the
new kingdom on the establishment of a monarchical form of govern.
ment, but avoids all mention of the selection of an English prince.
By way of answer to the last phrase of the King's speech, which has
excited so much apprehension that ministers might seek means of
defending the Royal power alone against imaginary dangers, the
address terminates, it is said, by the assurance that France is as
much averse to anarchy as the King to despotism, and that should
culpable manoeuvres throw obstacles in the way of the Ring's go.
vernment, his Majesty might rely upon his faithful subjects the Peers
of France, as well as upon the united effiets of both Chambers. At,
the same time that the Chamber acknowledges the advantages, in a
commercial point of view, to be gained by a definitive arrangement
between the members of the house of Braganza, a hope is expressed
that in the course of these negociations the rights of legitimacy will
be respected. To this address ministers offered no opposition, nor
wan a single objection to the substance made in the Chamber; a few
insignificant verbal alterations were proposed by certain noble peers,
and particularly by the Archbishop of Paris. The address was au-
nimoualy voted at five o'clock by 226 members, a number of peers
having retired before it was put to the vote.
The following i the tenor of the speech of the Viscount de Cha-
teaubriand

Gentlemen,.—lt is not my intention to propose any change in
the adddress, which appears to me to be powerful, moderate, full
of consistency and dignity. I shall take advantage of this oppor- '
tunity to explain the principles which have lately actuated
my conduct. I should not have felt myself Cana upon ado'
so had I not been accused by the command, ee at least, by
the permission of authority, of being a traitor and a resagado. I
dies four thinp for my country s—the religious and altars
of St. Louis ; legitimate possessors of the dims of Henry
IV. and liberty and honour for every Frenchman. That
the ministers of the present day have intended to maintain all

these I did not doubt; but I could not brio fearing (rota the
first, and that trom the very compositiou cf the council, that
the public Interests would be placed in jeopardy. I colic:teed
that, wishing to find ancient France in her present renovated state>
mini- 'era might place reality in daolzer by rtemping. or by eon,.
bating chimeras. Already have they dragged themselves to the
edge of a precipice. With what Wrote and mint must they brie
considered themselves compelled to strike one of those blows whirl.,
after'all, alarm no one. A peer of France, a brave officer, a faith-
ful servant of the crown, the son-tn-law of the late Chancellor Dace:.
bay (M. Donatien de Sesnmisons,) has been smitten, eye., v.iten
the tomb of that President, whose loss we still deplore, was scarcely
closed, and that forsving voted according to his conscience Ac
th ministers bats dictated the speech tram the throne. it core.
s the wholief their system, which I will hastily examiiie.
t commences 'with a succinct exposition of our foreign relations.
Ipend
We are first informedlhat Greece Is about to receive a ruler. The
speech does not name him, but he is well known. The protocol of
London stipulates that the sovereign of Greece shall not be selected
Cram the family of either of the three powers who were parties to
the treaty. The close alliance of Prince Leopold with the house
of Brunswick has not been regarded as a relationship. has enjoy-
ment, by virtue of an act of parliament, of all the honouri of the
royal family, and of an annuity payable by the people, have been con-
sidered as unimportant, and as not coming within the better of the
protocol. Be it so— still it is not the leas true that France has
marched her armies, dispatched her fleets, and expended her ties.
sates, to place the son.in.law of the King of England on the throne of
Greece. In the meantime permit me to ask, what has Great Britai::
done to entitle her to reign by leer own reprpentative over the Greeks
She opposed, as far as was in her power, their restoration to fra-JJ...
--she ex wishes for the success of the oppressors against ti. -.
opp or the victory of the murderers of fathers and the c:
slavers of children. And the liberty of Greece is placed untie. the
protection of the cannon of Corfu, which so ably defended freedo..
at Parga ! Let war again break out in the East, and we shtli
see the garrisons of Gibraltar, Malta, and the lonian I len :s,
occupy the strong places our troops have just quitted. Witat 1...
datum can the crowned Sheriff of the Mores offer to tl.e yeti:in a he
pay him his pension, or to the King whose daughter he married ?
The British fleet will be manned with Cheek sailors, and the coo..
:tierce of the Archipelago and the Mores wilt be engrossed Ly d..:
merchants of London, For us, who have spread through dic East
the renown of our ancient line of Kings, we content ourselves with
the character of illusttious travellers to celebrated shores, and ti.t
gloty of presenting to an English prince a sceptre forged w:th cur
gold and consecrated by cur blood. The story is romantic; but oar
ministers have converted it into history. Was there to be loved 1.0
where io Europe an experienced prince, a true friend to the Cocas,
who would devote himself to their crown ? If so, was there no sot/
of royalty who, under able tutors, might have acquired the lan-
guage of Themistocies, and derived his legitimacy front the beer.,
of Greece ? Let it not, however, be supposed that I acre of opit.e.,
that we ought to violate the treaty. No; a loyal gofers:nom nal,:
hold itself bound by its signature, even though it be found to hate
been inconsiderately affixed. Let Prince Leopold then, rottur.
Sovereign of Greece. Still there is no cause, in this negccia:io:,,
for reproach to England—she has ably played her part. 111thoul
expending a shilling, and without marching a single soldier, sin
has given a Sovereign to Greece. Her policy is less frank, but more
positive, than ours ; we have borne the charges—she has reaped
the benefits. Stium magpie.
"I will now refer to the passage on Portugal. The address pro-
nounces wishes in favour of legitimacy. Don Bliguel is King by
virtue of the choice of the people. Witnesses of the revolution that
subverted the throne of Louis XVI. we ought not to capitulate
easily to the doctrine of the sovereignty of the people. In tratipae •
dons with foreign states, a cabinet, not acting alone, has only to
take the best position presented by circumstances with regard to the
movements of other cabinets ; bat in this case Fear cc fortunee ly
finds its interests in accord with its principles— right coincides arei
fact. England is satisfied that the advantages of her commerce
compel her to unite with Portugal—we must acknowledge that a
connexion with Brazil is equally useful to our trade. In the States
of Don Miguel our importations scarcely exceed 2,000,000 francs,
while in those of Don Pedro they amount to 30,000,000 francs.
" I will confine myself to a very few words on the subject of Al.
glen; it would lead me too far were I to enquire whether the ex-
pedition is undertaken at a seasonable period t whether the troops
are sufficient in numbers ; whether the requisite funds ate to be
asked of the chambers. But, putting aside all these serious con.
siderations, I will declare that I ever shall be of opinion, that atte
insult offered to the lag of Femme should be chastised, whether
from a pirate of from the first potentate in. Europe. But
cwltmetilil4l bear it repeated that we have obtained permission to trans-
port our soldiers into Africa, I cannot forbear demanding whose
permission it is we have to ask. Had the old captains, whom I see
within these walls, occasion twenty years ago to rolicit passports
from the British admiralty to display their victorious flags from one
end of Europe to another? Nor am I aware, on the tither hand,
that we countesaigned the commission of Lord Exmouth when he
sailed for the bombardment of Algiers.
" Having thus adverted to our foreign relations, I will turn to
our Internal concerns. The last words of the speech of the crown,
taking them in the clear sad logical sense they convey, as a threat to
ministers that they will appeal to the people, in case their viewe are
not followed, have filled me with consternation. Superior talents
may excuse, if they cannot fully justify, bold and hazardous enter-
prises. Genius has its dictatorship and its tyranny, and sometimes
they are submitted to ; but blame must inevitably fall on ministers,
who, having never directed the affairs of a great nation, do not fear
by their very first measure to shake the throne, and compromise esta-
blished rights and interests, and every social compact. At the period
immediately preceding the formation of the present cabinet, were ex-
udations to refuse the payment of the taxes heard of? Was them
occasion to complain of the manifestation of certain opinions ? Now
our institutions are threatened, and as every action will produce its
re-action, bring forward principles of despotism and you will be at:.
swered by axioms of democracy.
" To the real partisans of liberty, nothing can be more desirable
than that the first act to which a usurpation, whether republican or
monuchical, is compelled, should be to deprive Prance of the liberty
of the press, and freedom of speech. There is a power of resistance,
of which I haves right to boast, bemuse I do not derive it from my
owes strength, but from the nature of things ; Ist there be but placed
before me a usurpation of any kind, and leave me but the use of my
pen, and I will not ask fors twelvemonth, either to convince my king
or bring myself to a scaffold. Liberty is the best ally of legitimacy,
let them:but remain united, and every ambitious plot may be scorned.
This liberty is also, gentlemen, the best security of your existence as
an aristocracy. The privileges of the other Chambers are the gueran-
' tees of yours. Those who Imagine that an hereditary Chamber may
maintain its ground alone In the middle of the nation, and supply a
rnational representation, are the blindest or most extravagant of men.
Noble Peers I a revolution proceeding from below is in these times
impossible--but it may come from above,— it may spring from a
misguided ministry,ignotant both of its country and the age in which
it exists. But I restrain the expression of my thoughts. Ail that
I refrain from pronouncing here, I prayed to be allowed to lay be.
fore the King, when I solicited the painful permission of resigning
at his feet the benefits he had conferred upon me. Wbo can tell
what effect words dictated by a truly faithful and loyal heart might
have produced ? These words, however, it was not permitted me to
utter.--The concluding sentence of the speech has but too well km.
tified the anticipations that induced me to telinquish a post so con.
formable to my taste and pursuits. It was nut aandontel without
infinite regret.
" Not wishing, gentlemen, to vote against the ex, client address,
roe to separate myself from my noble fkiestds who give it their assent
because they End in it nothing that approves or paime' at the unit
time desirous of not opposing the maority of the tlitaniber ; but,
on the other hand, not being able to divest myself of the conviction,
that the terms of the address are not sufficiently strong, I have come
to the resolution not to give any vote at all—thus endeavouring to
reconcile the consistency of my parlisannatuy mane xions with my
political scruples."

The following notice has been stuck up at Lloyd's,
dated Tangier, Feb. 16 :—" Peace has been made
between the Empires of Morocco and Austria. The treat'
has been sent to Vienna for ratification."

Brussels Papers to the 10th inst. arrived yestaihiy.
Their contents are of little importance. A n artic:e from
Warsaw states that the Ruksian Government i.+ going
to adopt very severe measures against the Jesuits. •
By the Roxburgh Castle, arrived in the Downs from
Bengal, advises from Calcutta to the 6th of Decomlier
have been received. They aro important as explaining
the story circulated here, on the authority of tin American
Captain, of an insurrection having occurred in Canten.
and that all the Company's ships had been compelled to
leave the place. The insurrection turns out to be a pare
fiction. It appears, however, that in consequence of an
attempt on the pert of the select committee at Cantos to
effect a reform in the mode of tmnsacting businees with
the English merchants, the (.'ninpa..) 'a and other ships
had, by direction of the committee, been detained outside
of the toca Tigris, where. they were to remain until u
satisfactory reply should be received to the representation
which had been forwarded to the Viceroy. It is stated
that, on account of the absent* of the Emperor on a tour
to the northern provinces, no answer was to be expected
till January. The dates from Casten are the 22d 9f
October.

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