Star.
London, England, 1817-08-06 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR.

ONDON.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1817.'
PRICE OF KIOCK, THIS DAY Al TWID ATE O'CLOCK I
Reduced 50,4-omsolb 79i Bit--Con►nt. for Acct. SOH
4 per Cent Stilt —5 per Cent. Navy, mi 105
India Bonds Ili I IS pr.—F.:aligner Bob 334.355. pr.

The Paris Papers of Sunday arrived this morning.

The accounts from every part of Trance of the
progress of the harvest continue to .i;e io the highest
degree gratifying. The labours of the husband men
Lave been favoured by excellent weather, and never,
it is affirmed, were they.more abundantly rewarded.
The intelligence from Spain in these Papers is of

snore than usual interest. The Plan of Finance, pro-
jected by M. GARAY, has met, as might have born
expected, with great opposition, from the vast swum
of Monks and Priests, who have so long latten•td on
the wealth of the country, and have now by this plan
been called upon, for the first time, to coats ibute in
equal proporeon with their fellow citizens to the dis-
charge of the public burdens. The KINn. bigot ted as
he is supposed to be, has bad good sense and firmness
enough to withstand all their clamour, and to enforce
by his authority the prudent legislation of his Minister.
The Monks of the Monastery of the Escurial, one of
the Royal resi..lences, having supplicated his MAJESTY
to dispense with their paying the new impost, it► con-
sideration of the gt,:at privileges accorded to them in
former times, by his predecessors—(a pretty beg.
gni), plea. inieed)—the KLNG, far from granting
their reque,r,g tve dirt ctions that the impost should be
immediately levied from them Is ith the utmost strict-

iiCSS. One of the fraternity, who made himself rather
obuc zioui on the subject, has been banished from
Madrid; and another, who at Vallath)lid thought
proper to make the pulpit the vehicle a a great deal
Of picas abuse against the impost, has been arrested
and thrown into prison. The Gentlemen of the
craft w is expected, take eour.sel from these in
stances, and no longer oppose a contribution which

public necessity, and public justice, concur alike in
enforcing, as most just and equitable. The triumph
which- has thus been gained over clerical privilege

and ascendency, is not the only good which has re-
sulted from M. Can Ax's scheme of finance. The
wants of the State being such, that credit to some
event is indispensably necessary, and credit being
only to be obtained by the re-establishment of the
public confidence in the Government, M. GARAY
very wisely submitted to bis Ma'am that no mea-
sure Could be better calculated to restore that confi-
denee,•tbaa to grant a general amnesty he fawner of
all persons who may have compromised themselves
by their political opinions, or attachments, during the
troubles which have of late years agitated the country.
4—The KING, having referred this proposition to the
Supreme Council of Finances, the latter, penetrated
with the same enlightened views which l ave guided
the Minister, delivered an opinion upon it so ex-
tremely favourable, as to leave no doubt of it: adop.
tioa: 4t The amnesty," they say most justly, " ought
to be an absolute oblivion of all political faults corn-
shitted chiring the late convulsions of the kingdom.
To make it otherwise, would be to perpetuate revo-
lutions, to nourish individual hatreds rendered already
too active by the shock of opinions, to cause discon-
tent among the people, to give room to machinations
sybich would protract the re-establishment of public

order, and plunge the State Into all the honors of
anarcby and fury of civil dissention. During corn.'
m %dons severity is indispens,ible ; bot when danger
exists no longer, all persecution •ought to cease, all
errors ought to be forgotten, and all ought to unite in
repairing the evils which the State has suffered.
se A cor.duct, not conformable to these principles
will," it is added, with no less truth, ee deprive the
unfortunate individuals comprehended in the severe

Edicts now in force, of all hope of reconciliation, and
much will be to be feared from men reduced to the
desperate alternative of either renouncing their coun-
try, their families, and their estates ; or attempting
the overthrow of the Government which oppresses
them."---.4 Never," it is concluded, 46 was there a

time when public opinion was more favourable to
such measure, nor a time when the interests of the.oa-
lion more .m, e iovsly demanded it. To rely upon a se.
cority not founded on the union of all the subjects of
the Sate, will render any thing like Reform in the
Public Administration wholly impracticable, and
lead only to ultimate ruin."
• -The Council conclude their very able report by
suggesting, that the day of the approaching delivery
of the Qatta.v, shouldbe telected (or the publication
of the proposed amnesty. and should be designated
"The happy Day of Benediction and of Joy, destined
.by Divims PROVIDEACS to the Fsternal Reconciliation
of the Great Spanish Family."
On the wisdom and necessity, of this measure, we
need add nothing. No stepNcould.be.,more obviously,;
or more effectually calculated to raw. Spain to,
that internal order and peace,' tte absence of which
has so long tendered it a reproach among the nations'
:ed Europe.
French Funds, 2d August-68 fr. 30c.

The celebrated Madame Gerais is stated, in the
French Papers, to have catered into the Sisterhood of
Cat Takes. '
A Patent Head Brush produced much witty re.
nark yesterday in the Court of Chancery, on which
occasinti•thi Counsel displayed a &dm/ ingenuity in
Jinja/a; laird