Star.
London, England, 1818-12-19 00:00:00

1-1 PAPA

PARIS, DECEMBER 15.
The King yesterday heard Mass in his apat tments,
on account of his indispositides which prevented him
from going to the Chapel. The Duke of Welling-
ton departed from Paris yesterday at six o'clock in
the morning; tkie-ILcradnei jeetkloordqeieteeeegjka
noon. for the same destination.
The supper of the rat ice of Receivers-General
is talkedof. "it is said, did the orgascizatiotrof the
National.Gtured is next.year to undergo considerable
modification: The 'limber of those who compose iv
will be •ieductd, only citizens in easy, cirourn-
stances.;vill to enter into the service; Ac-
cording to "this aeiatieemeet there will be only two
battalions, instead of Tour, to every, Legion; and the
posts of aeivice. for, the 'National Guard will .be re-
duced to.twO; the Thuillierfeilancrtlld Prilfertge. •
The Police has seized, it" altnrk entitled the " Six-
teenth Century in 1817," by the Author of the "Pea-
sant and the Gentle /ate • • .
'To-day, a the end of the Sitting of the Chamber
of Demnies,,. the. kresident said, he had just received
a packet containing. " n Memorial addressed to tbe
Representatives of the French Nation," with x request
that it should be read in the same Sitting, Thal:eager
petitioner is called Leonard Barre. He commences
his memoir by the following words :—,"'l have the
honour of informing you very humbly, that ist the
15th year ofrhe Republic, I composed •the true sys-
tem of gqverninent for the body politic and general
economy, which I transmitted by the stage-coach to
'the ei-devant Serrate." Happily the Chamber refused
to hear this pleasant memoir; which would have oc-
cupied the whole Sitting, and referred it to the Com-
mittee on Petitions, which will give an account of
this true system of government.
CHAMBER OF PEERS.
SITTINGS ON THE 14TH OF'DECESISITR.
In the Royal Sittings of the 10th of this month,
the eh incellor of France, in the name of the King,
invited each Chamber to re assemble on Monday, the
14th, at the ordinary place of sitting, in order to re-
sume there the course of their labours.
The Chamber of Peers assembled in consequence
this day at noon, in the Palace of Luxembourg, where
the Chancellor presided.
According to a Resolution passed in 1816, the
Provisional Bureau of the Chamber was formed of
the four youngest Peers present, possessing a deli-
berative voice.
Tee President laid before the Chambers the ex-
cuse, of many Peers, who were prevented by various
causes, from attending the opening of the Session.
The attention ef the Chamber was next engaged in
forming the Definitive Bureau. The Duke de Dou-
deauville, the Marquis de Pastoret, the Marquis de
Verac, and the Marshal Duke de Bellune, who were
pronounced, on the scrutiny, to have the greatest
number of citXrages, were declared Secretaries of the
Chamber for the Session of 1818. Their nomination
will be made to the King by a deputation, and will
be notified to the Chamber of Deputies.
The Chamber, in the 'same manner, proceeded to
nominate a' Commission of Five Members, for the
purpose of preparing a draft of an Address, in an-
swer to the. Speech of the King. This Commission
consists of the Marquis de Fontanes, the Marquis de
Castres, Viscount de. Montmorency, the Marquis d.`
Talaru,• and of Viscount Pelletier de Rosambo. ;
The remainder of the Sitting was occupied net As
formation and organization tt. the Bureaus, asitis
the nomination of a Committee of Petitions.
The Chamber then adjourned, without having ap-
pointed the time of the next Meeting. • It will be
convoked, as sqon as the draft of the Address is pre.
pared to be laid before it. The following is a
,List
of the Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Secretaries, and
Vice-Secretaries:
let. Bureau.—President, the Marquis de Babe Mattols;
Vise-President, the Duke de Dumas; Secretary, Count de St.
Bataan ; Vice-Secretary, the 'Marquis de Laplace.
sd.—Prevident, the Duke d'Avaray ; Vice-President, the
Duke de St. Allman; Secretary, Count de Not ; Vice-Secrs
tary, the Duke de Mama.
ed.—:'resident, Marshal de Vlomesnll; Vice-President, the
Marquis de Pentanes • Secretary, the Marquis de Nun; Vice.
Secretary, Viscount Em. Dambrey.
4th.—President, the Duke de la Vauguyon; Vice-President,
Marshal' Maed'ornad ; Secretary, the Doke de Crillon ; Vice-
Secretary, the Mcrquis de Clermont Tonnerre.
ult.—President, Count de Pere; Vice-President, Count du
Muy ; Secretaryr the Duke de Chevreuse; Vice-Secretary, the
Duke de Choiseul.
ath.—President, the Duke d'UsEs; Vice-President, the Duke
d'Havre ; Secretary, Count Cumpans ; Vice-Secretary, Marc
quis de Vence.
C.ousstrme or Ps/moss—The Marquis de Laplace, the
Duke de St. Aignan, the Marquis d'llerbouville, the Marquis
de Lilly, the Duke de Choiseul, and the Marquis de Talaru.
CFIAMBER OF DEPUTIES.
P/AtUDINCY or M. ATMUI.B.—SITIO4O OF THIt 14511 Dec.
The duties of Provisional Secretaries were per-
formed by the four youngest Members of the Assem-
bly, Messieurs Bogne de F aye,„cie Wendel, de Saint.
Aulaire et Hernoux. •
The Sitting was opened at one o'clock, and the
Chamber proceeded to the formation of the nine Bu-
reaus out of all the Members.
The PRESIDENT—I have just received a letter with
the following Address :—" To the Representatives
of the French 'Nation." This letter is signed Leonard
Barre, and the author desires that it be read to the
Assembly during the present Sitting.—EA great
number of Members—" No, No !"—M. de Chalabre,
de Chabriant, and several others—" We are not the
Representatives of the French nation." " The Order'
of the Day."—Other Members—" The Chamber is
not properly constituted—Refer it to the Committee
of Petitions."]
It was then decided by acclamation, that it should
be referred to the Committee of Petitions.
The President invited the Members to withdraw to
the respective Bureaus in order to proceed to their
verification ; and the Chamber adjourned until to-
morrow to receive the Reports in a public Sitting.
The following is the list of Presidents and Secre-
taries nominated by the respective Bureaus :
Ist Bltreau.—Baron de Salts, President ; N. Breton, Secretary.
Sd.-Couot Simeon, President ; M. Saulnier, Secretary.
sd. Count Dumanaie, President; M. Birdie la Bastide, Sr.&
4th. Count Beugnot, President; Baron Bianquart-BailleuLSec.
eth. Gen. Count La Grange, President; Count Daugier, Sec.
6th. Baron Barairon. President ; M. Mestacher, ecretary.
',ch. M. Deserts, President; M. Free de la BoulaySe, Secretary,
6th. Count Dupont, President; Count de Saint-Aulaire, Sec.
llth. M. de Villele, President •. M. Bourdeau, Secretary.
The greatest part of the Members of the right and
left sides occupied the same places as last year. M.
de la Fayette sat at the extremity of the bench oe the
lel., near M. cr Argesson and M..Dclessart.

•REACII-07-STOGNATIIf; DAT AT TWELVE O.DLO:K :
3 per Cent. Reduced 770-3 per Cent. Cfms. shut
Cow. fonficcount, 786 —Si per Cent. 88's
4 pet Cent. 9411-5 per Cent. Navy-shut
India Bonds 76 78 pre.—Omnium par.
lachequer Bill's 9 15 pm.
he .Paris Papers of Tuesday arrived at a late
hour last night, and in a preceding column we have
extracted from them a full account of the first day's
proceedings in the two Clambers of Peers and Depu-
lies. • The Funds are again looking up.- On Mon-
day they opened at 66 fr. and closed at 65 fr. 50 c.

We have also received, at a late hour this forenoon,
the Papers &Wednesday.
The Tunds appear not to have sustained the eleva-
tion which they attained on Monday. They opened
on Tuesday at 65 fr. but fell almost immediately to
64 fr. and finally closed at 63 fr. 75 c.
The KING has recovered considerably from his
late attack of the gout. On Tuesday after Mass he
received a Deputation from the Chamber of Peers,
announcing its installation, and afterwards gave au..
diences to the Foreign,Ambsissadors and Ministers.
The Minister of War has nominated 260 Officers,
who according to a Royal Ordinance, are to be at-
tached to the Corps of the Eiat-Major. A great
number of these Officers were among those placed
on half-pay for their conduct in 1815 ; and their
present restoration to active duty is stated to have
been in consequence of an enquiry into their services,
made by a commission named for that purpose.
Count CORVETTO, the late Minister of Finance,
hal received from his Majesty the Grad Cordon of
the Legion of Honour.
The Chamber of Deputies, in their sitting on Tues-
day, were chiefly occupied with the verification of
the returns of the new Deputies. Some difficulty was
made as to the powers of M. Casm,te JOURDAN, on
the ground that though he had produced a certificate
of his paying the requisite amount of taxes for the
Department of the Rhone, he had not done so for
that of the Aine, for which he has been returned ;
and his admission has been for the present adjourned:
The Chamber afterwards proceeded to the formation
of a list of five Candidates, out of which the
Paesi-
dent is to be named. •

The total number of Members present was 179,1
and in absolute majority of this number, namely 90,
was required to entitle any nominee to be placed.on
the list of Candidates. The only Members who ob-
tained this absolute majority at this days voting were
M. RAvaz and Me DI Start, the former having 97,
and the latter 93 votes. The other suffrages were
divided as follows :
H. Plsetlli de Lavalatte, 06 M. Dtmoneilde L'Eure) 40
Count D'Augier . 50 Royer Collard 59
Camille Jourdan 64 Simeon 59
Count Dupont 48 Bellart 56
Prince de Broglio 47 Latta 37
De Courvoisier 42 Beugnot SS
Catdonnel 41

We have .received to-day, by Mails from Ham-
burgh and Holland, Papers from the former to the
ISth, and from the latter to the I6th instant.
An article under the head of Hanover states, that
it is reported that her Majesty the late Quinn; has
bequeathed jewels to a great amount to the House
of Brunswick. It is also stated that these, and the
jewels bequeathed by her MAJESTY to the Crown of
Hanover, are the same which her MAJeSTY received
upon her marriage from these two Royal Houses.
Prince CoNsTAirrtwe an ived at Warsaw on the 3d
instant. The November fair at that Capital is-said
to have turned out very well, a great deal of business
having been done.
A Spanish transport, with about 200 Russians on
board, belonging to the three last frigates given by
Russia to Spain, has been stranded near Skragen.—
The people are saved, with the exception of two offi-
cers and six men.

The weather appears to have continued as mild on,
some parts of the Continent as it has been with us.—
At COpenbagen on the Bth inst. many flowers grow-
ing in the open air were in blossom, and .oats that
were sown in August were then actually in ear.
Munburgh Exchange on London:—DecemberBth,
32.3.-32. 6. December 11th, 32. 9.-33. 1.

The state of affairs in Spain continues to be the
subject of anxious expectation. That'some effort to
shake off the black and grievous burden witich now
presses them to destruction, has been made by the
Spanish People, we have no doubt. We have heard
that letters were received in town yesterday from
Spain, by the French Mail, which state, that a Re-
volution had been actually brought about in that un-
happy country, and that the Insurgents were in force
within a few leagues of Madrid. Much has been'
lately said of the arrival at Madrid of a Foreign
Nobleman from Aix-la-Chapelle. It is understood
that he was the bearer Ilan admonition to the Kw°,
urging him to change his measures, and seek a recon-,
ciliation with his people. It is reported that thin
news had produced a most electric effect among the
people, and the hotel of the Nobleman alluded
,tp
was continually surrounded by an immense concourse

_dig him, and the SOverefkifvflizi seof
libeerators and saviours of their cotintry,
devtit benedictions upon their Heads. As,
great deal of demur and dilemma had
' at Court, end somo apprehensions were
that the Krxo and his advisers would
treat the, application with contempt, and persist in
*lir old systems, it is added, that a secret associa-
tion had been formed to support a change of /ma-
ences,and that the persons thus pledged to each other
In the capital, amounted to 40,000.
. The following Letter from Spain has been sent to
• contemporary Paper by a person who declines
giving his name, because, as he states, he is on the
Igoe of visiting a Spanish Commercial City, and also
because, as he alleges, there ate now in London, two
Agents of the infernal Inquisition of Spain, to whom
the knowledge of his name might be a source of
savage satisfaction, and his visit to Spain be render-
ed to him one of dreadful peril. The Letter is said
to be dated from One of the towns in the neighbour-
hood of Madrid :

“ ..----, November 26, 11118.

" his no longer possible to inhabit tbis country, on every
side crumbling under the weight of the most revolting fanati-
aim. Don Francisco deV---y C—a was carried off on the
17th of this month, front the bosom of his family, by Familiars
of the Holy Office, and he has since disappeared, no one knows
where. The School of Artillery, formerly so flourishing, is
almost annihilated; the pupils desert it en masse, the Jesuits
wishing to take upon them more power than their Officers and
Professors. The roads are infested with robbers and armed
brigands, who hinder the communications with the Castile' and

the kingdom of Leon. .commerce has entirely disappeared—in
a word, our perspective- is frightful. The Grand Inquisitor
sends us orders of the day, like the Generals who commanded
us when we were fighting and shedding our blood to defend
the rights of the Tyrant who covers Spain with mourning and
desolation."

Some farther information on the state of the public
mind in Spain will be found in the following Letter
from Bourdeaux, dated December 10 :
" It is whispered here, that matters have cane to a crisis at
Madrid, but I have not been able to learn any facts which I
might communicate to you as such; I only know, that lately
the letters, especially those from England, have been opened as
they entered the Spanish frontiers; and this, together with the
measure which throws the Police into the hands of the Inquisi-
tion, ptcreestbat the fears of Government have greatly Increased.
• Every sensible man has for some time expected a Revolution
at Madrid, but it is difficult to say when, how, and by whom it
will be brought about r it is much to be apprehended that the
Liberales have not the influence at Court, nor in the Nation at
large, to act successfully. If the Grandees, degraded and de-
based as they are by their being long rivetted in golden chains
within the immediate circuit of the; Conn, were to attempt a
ohange, it would resolve itself into a mere intrigue, to replace
else Set of advisers by &pother, equally worthless perhaps.. The
great MOIL of the nation, the peasantry., lower classes, and people,
residing in the provincial tosens.ars averse to every innovation,
and blindly devoted to the guldanoe of the Clergy and Friars,'
who will uphold the King to the last. I therefore must leave
you to Paige what insurrection is likely to succeed.
" The news of the Mutiny on board the Trinidad transport,
bound for Ltma, and carried into Buenos-Ayres, has made a
great s►nsation in Spain, especially amongst the officers. The
example certainly is very dangerous. You will probably have'
beard that Count Abisbal, who formerly wag named Viceroy of
Buenas-Ayres, is now to be appoiniesl to the same dignity at
Lima; which, of course, includes the supreme command in Chili.
" Easy as it may be to bestow these titles, yet they seem to
'indicate, that the grand expedition to the River Plate, if ever
it was seriously entertained, is now abandoned, and that a 'atelier
one to the Scuth Sea is In contemplation ; 'but although it may
be limited to a military force of a few thousand men, yet the
naval part of the expedition must be more respectable, and I
cannot see how.even the means for that can be raised. It is be-
sides late In the seasoh to secure a summer* passage round Cape
Horn, and all circumstances combine to render any attempt

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