Star.
London, England, 1819-03-23 00:00:00

SITTING OF 18TH MARCH.

M. M. TOBEZ BOURDEAU and BRUN DE VILLERET
made Reports on different Petitions. Among those
got rid of by the Order of the Day, was one from a
Sieur Tranchart of the moderate length of three thou:
sand pages.
Count BEM NOT brought up the Report of the
Commission to which the Resolution of the Chamber
of Peers respecting the Law of Election was remitted.
The Report recommended the rejection of the Propo-
sition, and proceeded to state the reasons on which
this recommendation was founded. To attack a law

of such importance, it was necessary ,that serious
inconveniences should. be proved to have resulted
from it; but the author of the proposition had not
specified any, although -he had indeed spoken_ of
some which might possibly arise hereafter.
The object, the Report stated, was sufficiently evi-
dent : with the view of attacking the law in all its
provisions, the agitators of the present measure had
begun with indicating some slight changes, in order
that they might successively arrive at others of more
vital importance. The law had been elantinNl and
discussed at the time it was passed with the greatest
care ; all the exceptions which are now brought
against it had then obtained the fullest consideration ;
and nothing had since occurred to give these excep..
Lions greater forte ist 1819 than they laid in 1817.-..

In fine, the Commission had been unable to discover'
anything in the motives on which this proposition
Was founded which could induce them to recommend
a measure that must agitate the pnblic mind, give
birth to divisions, &c. The Law of Elections was
placed by public opinion on the same level with the
Charter, and ought to be equally respected.
The Chamber after some slight discussion resolved,
that the discussion on this Report should be opened
in Secret Committee on Saturday. No less than se-
venty-one Members have inscribed their names to
speak on the question, 59 against the Resolution of
the Peers, and 17 in its favour.

PARIS, MARCH 18. •
The day before yesterday the King presided at a
Council of Ministers. It sat from one o'clock till
near four.

On Saturday the King will give audience to the
Persian Ambassador to the English Court. A splendid
throne has been erected for die purpose in the Gal-
lery of Diana.
French Five per Cents.—Shut price 68 fr. 20 c.—
Saturday, ex div. 66 fr. 65 c.

' MARSEILLES, MARCH 11.
A report is current here that the city of Messina
has been swallowed up by an earthquake, and that
more than forty ships which were% the harbour have
been lost by this disastrous event. It is added, that
the coast of Calabria has suffered much✓—This news
requires confirmation.

Flanders and Hamburgh mails arrived this morn-
ing. The accounts from Ilamburgh are to the 16th.
Exchange on London that day 32. 2. and 33. 5. The
following are extracts :

BRUSSELS, 31.tacu Is.
It is said that several members of the 2d Chamber
intend to present a new projet of a law relative to
the Chase. The Solicitor General observes, that it
was noticed yesterday with regret, that a great num-
ber of the members of the second Chamber were ab-
sent, while the most important subjects are daily dis•
cussing in the Sections. Among these is the law on
the Customs and Excise, respecting which the central
Section will be able to make its report to the Chamber
in a few days.

HANOVER, Maur 12.

It is thought that the Assembly of the States will
have finished the business before it, and will then
adjourn till the Autumn. It is said that the States
have expressed to the Ministry, a wish that corporal
punishments in the Army may be entirely abc-
lished.

Sumptuous Cradles have already arrived here from
England, for the expected accouchement of their
Royal Highnesses the Duchesses of Clarence and
Cambridge. The mother of the Duchess of Cam-
bridge is shortly expected here.

American Papers to the 16th of February have
arrived. In the Charleston Courier of the 14th, there
is a short notice, which we shall subjoin, of the pro-
ceedings respecting the case of Messrs. Aanuruxor
and AMBRISTER, from which it will be seen that the
House of Representatives bas negatived the Report
of the Committee on Military Affairs, which pro-
posed to disapprove the proceedings on the trial of
these Gentlemen. Thus is Great Britain left without
even an apology for the murder of two of her chit-
dren. We shall see by and bye, whether this insult
from the Yankeys is to be quietly pocketed by
John BulL

In the Senate, on the 9th ultimo, a Motion was
made by Mr. Moulin., of New Hampshire, for re-
questing the PRESIDENT to strike from the rolls of
the Army and Navy, all who were directly or indi-
rectly concerned in the late duel between ARMISTEAD
.T. MAsoN and J. M. 11,CAavv, citizens of Virginia.
The Motion was ordered to lie on the table.