Star.
London, England, 1817-01-08 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, JANUARY
Notwithstanding the- measures which have been
taken on our frontiers to prevent the exportation of
ern to France, we are informed that cupidity daily
finis means to elude them. It would be desirable
that a cordon of troops should reinforce the line of
custom-house officers, particularly towards the fron-
tiers of Hainault, to secure the strict execution of the
impositions adopted by the Government upon that

sub' t.
ft is said that the King will not go to Luxemburg,
in which there is a Prussian ganison, but that he will
stop at Arlon, a little town tour leagues distant from
it. His Majesty's journey to that province is abbo-
Intel/ relative to the unhappy state of that country
I in respect of subsistence.
In the Sitting of the two Chambers on the Sd, the
Law relative to the rights of Authors was passed
susasimously, without a debate.
A discussion was then commenced upon the Pro-
jet of the Law relative to Patents for new Inventions.
'Baron Liens disapproved of Patents, as being apt
to degenerate into exclusive privileges, and would
prefer that Government should give suitable rewards
for discoveries of public utility.
M. Gownsman was of the same opinion.
M. Remelts observed, that more efficacious means
might, perhaps, be found for the encouragement of
manufactures; but he thought that 'the works for
which Patents were granted, being the products of
genius, ought to•be placed in the same rank as the
rights of authors, which tad just been guaranteed by
the adoption of the law on the subject.
The Law was, after some further debate put to
the vote, and passed by a majority of 66 votes to 2.

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PUELIC FEELING IN FIANCE —Extract of a Letter
from Paris, dated January '2.—" I was yesterday
night at the Theatre Francais, at the representation of
Nanlst. When Nerceste, who arrived from England,"
observes—
" nit Island where primps eves now plots are about to pro-
duce trod& and great cloves"—
there was a cry of wit sal l test wrai : and shortly
after, when Claudius, dissuading Rank: from the
analogy he is willing to establish between the regicide
lithe two countries, exclaims—
" Leave we to England bet aseuralog and ber miss
" England was too often Inlaid in crimes"—
the pit unanimously rose, and drowned the actor's
voice with cries of approbation, which lasted several
minutes. They demanded the repetition of the vase,
but the actor prudently declined acquiescing."
STATIC OF riOPIIITY lti FIANCE.....-SOMC portions
of the speech of M. Benoist on the Election Law
throws considerable light on the great subdivision of
property. He states in the first instance, the produce
of the land tax, and the tax on persoisals and move-
ables, all of which attach to property, at 243,785,675
francs. Official documents laid bets re the Chamber
spew the repartition of this sum to be nearly as follows,
71,503impayers of from SOO to 1,000 fr. each pay 46,729,3410 ft,
ISASS tan-paysnot Irvin I,poo f. and upwards pay LOW:OX°
ToVtbet

Hence N. Benoist concludes that the tax-payers
wog: 300 tr. wham it is proposed to exclude from
having a vote in the elections, must pay 167,876,876
Ir. the sum necessary to complete the estimated pro-
duce of the three taxes.—M. Benoist then proceeds:
~ It may therefore be admitted, that in the 75 de-
partments of France, the contributors of from SOO to
1,001) fr. possess a fifth, or six-thirti'edis, of the prc-
perry ; that those who pay a tbousand Ir. and above,
possess a sixth or five thirtieths; between them
eleven-thirtieths; and that those under SOO tr. possess
nineteen thirtieths. Such at the present day is the
state of property in France. Such has it been made
by equal divisions. revolutions, and confiscations of
every kind." He then argues against depriving 60
many proprietors of the right of voting. es the law
proposed to do. He remarks, that it independilice,
tranquillity, easy cimunsuanees. virtue, exist n:
where. it is among the class of small proprietors in
the country, devoted to thecultivatioa of their bumble
fields, to labour. order, and economy : factious men
are not likely to be Imind in such a class s they mix
net mot s. mes wbo do eoerupt, Wit dwell among
things which corrupt not!