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FRENCH PAPERS.

GAZETTE OFFICIEI.I.E, TUF.SDAV, OCT. tt.
LAW.
tours, by the Grace of Goo, King of France and Navarre,
to all to whom these presents may come greeting :
We have proposed, the Chambers hivo adopted,
we have ordained and do ordain as follows
Art. 1. Every individual, of whatever profession, whether
Civil, Military, or any. other, who shall have been arrested ou
suspicion of crimes against ibe person and the authori,y of th.
King, against the persons of the Royal Family, or against the
safety of the State, may he detained until the expiration of the
present law, if before that epoch lie shall nut have been bro4it
before the Tribunals.
2. The mandates against in lividusb suspected of crimes, men-
tioned in the preceding .Vtiele, must be directed roily to the
functionaries, on whom the laws confer the power of eY.eet:ttn2
them, whe are to make their return in tws i-four hoer• to the
Prefect of the department, to be by bins made to the Minister of
General Police, who will refer it to the Council of the I:inct.
The public ow ionary who shall have delivered the mitittate,
will be held bound to give, within twenty-guar hours, intimita •
tion to the Attorney ot the Kit.g, th.: arrondissement, wl.o
will inform the Attorney General, who will instruct the Mitihtts

of Justice.
S. In cases where suspicion shall not be sufficiently serious to
call for arrest, the suspected per,on may be provisionally put
under the surveillance of the accord:ns to Chap. ill.
of the Ist Book of the Penal Code.
4. If the Penal Law is not renewed in the next Session of the
Houses, it will cease altogether to operate. The premgit law (5,-
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kingdom, lands, and countries, under our authority.
Thus given in command to our Crum and ribunal+, Pre-
fects, Administrative, and all other bodies, let tht.m ob erve and
maintain the present, and cause it to be observed and main-
tained, and to make it better known to our tubjects, :hey niust
cause It to be published and registered wherever necessar • ; for
this is our pleasure, and in order that it shall be tirar and 1,11404
for ever, we have put our seal to it.
Given at Paris, the 29:h of October, in the yew of our Lord
1515, and the 22d of our reign. (iigned) Luau.
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.
SITTING OP WEDNESDAY, OLTOISER se.
The discussion recomm,:nced on the remaining ar-
ticles of the law for the punishment of the st.ditioJs.
Some debate took place on the 9th article respect-
ing the fine to be imposed on persons guilty of offences
defined in some of the previous artirWs. The maxi-
mum of the fine was fixed in the law at 3000 francs,
In addition to five 'years imprisonment at the most,
and three months at the least.
It was contended, however, by Nt. VOTSIN de
GARTEMPZ and others, that the maximum of the fine
should be proportioned to the means of individuals;
and after some discussion it was ;speed. that the
minimum of fine should be st) francs, while it was
carried by an immense ni.sjority of votes, that the
maximum of fine should be twenty thousand instead
of three thousand francs.
On that part of the same article which authorised
the tribunal by which an individual was found guilty,
to deprive him of a part, or of the whole of his pen-
sion of retreat or half-pay, some discussion arose.
One Member moved, that he should 'be deprived
of the whole; contendine,-, that if the decision were
left to the Judges, the guilty would find friends and
protectors, and be enabled to evade the law.
M. BELLAUT—We have all but one sentiment that
of hatred to rebels ; but we should not allow this
hatred to carry us too far. If the Judges were not
even worthy of all our confidence, this would be a
reason for leaving them the latitude proposed. In
that case they would probably rather acquit the
guilty at once, than ruin them by the loss of their
means of subsistence. Besides, why should an inno-
cent wife and children be reduced to despair.
Ultimately the paragraph was lett as in the plan
of law, with soma verbal alterations.
The next article which engaged attention was the
fourteenth, declaring that th.: enactments of the pe-
nal code against attempts and conspiracies against
the person of the King should continue to be executed.
M. Eneser, (of the Cot d'Or,) spoke warmly
against the expression #4 continue to be executed."—
Fatal experience must have convinced ts of the im-
portance of these penal la:vs in an age fertile in
crimes. Saxe t!se sacrilegious enterprize of the sth
and 6th of Octo:.er, 1759, down to the fatal day of
the 20th of March, P7;:5, no plot, no conspiracy
against the throne had been punished, nor even re-
pressed. '.'l..tt had been the effects of that impu-
nity ? We had witnessed them in the destruction of
the I;irone, tle• triumph of the most audacious at-
tert..ets, Alit:, the conspirators actually gloried in
their execrable success.—(ieterrupiOn.)
Mr. BItENICI's raising his voice with more force,
repeated the passages where he had been interrupted.
What, continued tie, became of all the ordinances of
the Karig —rf all the penalties meant to tatrily the
guilty, oa the epoch of March last ? Even yet the
Ministry remain inactive. We have a right to de-
mand of them why the penal laws are not executed
We have a right to demand this incessantly, if we do
not wish to see the King, the State, and the country
sink under the danger which threatens to overwhelm
them. Let the Chamber shew a salutary energy,
and our laws will not fall into disuse. He concluded
by moving, that instead of 46 continue to be executed,"
the words should be, shall be executed.
M. PASQUIER acknowledged the force of much that
the previous speaker had said, but still thought that
the wording of the article should be continued. The
amendment would be giving a sort of new creation
to the penal code.
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the credit of our predecessors, we found the deposit
which they left us in a good state. Many things had
been maturely prepared by them; but we have been
obliged profoundly to study them : hence a neces-
sary relaxation has resulted in the march of the Ad-
ministration. In future, that march will be more
rapid and secure. He bad little to say on the present
discussion ; but he would state, that II ie perfect un-
deistanding and harmony which
between the King and the Chamber afforded the
attest means of remedying the past and guaranteeing
the future. He had no doubt that the King would
sanction the various alterations which the Ch amber
had introduced into the law. • - •
The lAiit alteration which was made was
ting that seditious criei 4 d uttere 1 an •y of the Kitig's

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