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THE PAMPHLETEER, NO. XVII.
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IL A TRICATISZ 011tivaLYLIOUNOS. Uy Sir RD. CLAYTON,

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The order of tliedey summoned to the traome the
Reptoter of the Committee on Personal Liberty.
M. DE 5EEEE......" We pre ent you with the result
of the ex.tmin.t4iaq made by yourcentral Commetee
of the plan of Law relative to Personal Liberty.
" Nations the most free have recognised the neceee
sky of a temporary suspension, in certain cases, of
the course of the common laws, either by creating
extraordieary Magistre:eo or by confiding to the
ordinary Magistrates extraordinary powers.
" Ot all Or remedies to which k is possible to
have recourse in tines Of difficulty, that which the
experience of a neighbouring people has proved to
be the least datieeretis to public liberty, the least sus-
ceptible of degener..ting into tyreeny, is eithour con-
tradiction the suspension of those judicial forms which
protect personal liberty.
" At the first sight this assertion might :wear
paradoxical, it is 110 notiirel to be alarmed whatever
personal liberty (the mast important of necessities,.
and in favoter of which every kind of liberty seems to
have been stipulated) becomes endangered. But
when we consider that this measure leaves untouched
ail the other guarantees granted by a Constitutional
earivisaironesiteethee its object is limited to tilosestlS-
pected of those greit aunts that messes, to mooe
at the very heart of the while seciety ; that its ere-
cation is confided to responsible Ministers—to Mini-
sters who could not abuse it without fiefeiting the
confidence of the station and the Chambers ; when
we consider this, we may conclude on the practica-
bility of securing the safety of all by violating the
liberty of a few, and that a partial Abuse of these
laws must be extremely rare—a general abuse inv.'
possible. It is not that we &bile, in appreciating its
effects, to lessen in your eyes the sacrifices requited
of you. The sacrifice is great, and weighty reasons
alone ought to influence your decision. The Royal
Legislator who tounded our liberties has made re-
"vet for personal liberty one of the first articles of
that Charter of which you are the coneeituted guar-
dians. In his goodness he has emoted the nnticipa-
Lion of erg case wherein the suspension of this gua-
rantee might become necessary. But if a people,
whose analogous institutions are consecrated by time
—whose Government has not for a century and a
half experienced any internal disturbance; if this
people has frequently perceived the necessity of re-
curring to this suspension, could we reasonably hope
—we who have hardly escaped so many storms—we
who are only giving birth to liberty;—could we
flatter ourselves to be spared this necessity which our
neighbour. had frequently anticipated ? Events, too
distressing, have decided this question, and the law
of the 29th of October, 1815, that suspended the
judicial farms that protect personal liberty, anticipat-
ed its own renewal. This renewal is now required
of you, but with some important limitations, and in-
disputable ameliorations in the proposed law.
to Alter ehat I have now said, I migio shew, that
the question, how far necessity commands, or pru-
dence suggests, this law for strengthening the throne,
and securing. the safety of France, is no longer a
question of principle, but of tact, for the enlightened
friends of the King and country:
Here, Gentlemen, it is permitted us to stop, to
allow each of you to probe the grievoes wounds of
the country, to weigh in the calm of his consciences
or on his own responsibility, the measure of our
sacrifices. At least you will comprehend, that we
hesitate, between the duty of not weakening the just
opinion of a real amelioration in the condition of the
State, and om tear of delivering you up to a security
that might compromise that amelioration itself. In
confining ourselves to pointing out the motives of
our determination, you must not forget, that we in-1
trust their developement to your own meditations
and your patriotism.
" In 1814, the King caused a legal and mild Go.
vernment to succeed to a severe, civil, and military
despotism. Franco received the double blessing of'
the Charter and peace with the most lively gratitude.'
But the Charter and peace, equally necessary to put
an end to our deplorable revolutions, were insoffi.
ciens, by their unAssilled influence, to efface alrthe
'traces of them, or to prevent for ever their return.
" The people, long agitated and oppressed, re-

extraordinary mean's. These means acre 7,4 en to
it by the Chambers; and since that meet; it !.as heed
able te struggle against obtacles, to Infiniti. to re-
establish order its the diEerent derritnents of the
skate. For same months past particularly, its mare%
more firm, has made security to re-enter people's
minds; has placed t!,ete a principle of confidence;
sentiments of stability: The happy conc,rd which
daily establishes itself Sewn and make, between Cie
Government and the Chambers, Will sensibly itierease
these happy resolts:
" But is ail done Is the whole consolidated?
Will every thing be, In the course of this Session, in
a state to triable to wit' iraw from the Govern-
ment any of the means which have contributed to
the preservation of the common weal, to place it in
a better situation d It is difficult to affirm it. In fact,
can we alrea..ty tr.-lieve, at the end of 18113, in the
° disappearance of those elements of (milks and dis-
lotders which were so menacing at the end of 1914-
so active, so violent in 1815: CM we already be-
lieve in the return, in the presence of those moral
powers, of those virtuous habits which render so
easy the task of Go/eminent ? Has the Government
at its own disposal all tint legal authority, all the
nieans of mention which, in tranquil times, the other
Governments of Europe possess ?
" Notwithstanding the powerful examples of the
Monarch and of his family, religion, like all faith, but
slowly resumes its emplre : revolutionary doctrine'
are, to a certain degree, blasted in public opinion.
This is great deal, but the sound doctrines scarcely
re-established are not yet actredited. Men's minds;
shaking and floating, bale not yet a rein to restrain
them. Our Courts, out Tribunals, are only in part
organized. The su'pensinn of the Im,iness of this
department keeps tnet:Lole in a state of unccitainty
and discouragement. It expects from the law, which
no doubt will be pr,....et0e.1 to re, firmness, consi-
deration, and authority.
" Tht Prevntal Courts, establishlner.ts of the
moment, present less str..nieth that h lye lay*
expected from them. P.:,:iaordinary tribunals take
bai,ly in Ts ar:ce. The ,overt iitti justice, it.lscendest
into inferior se•tis, has lost there some of its dignity—
'tts jtist severity.
" The army, reorganised and flitlfol. is by no
means nutiter.,os. A constant vigilance nititt fief
it clear of into who would lead it astray,. The Go-
eel nment ass been en•if;led to 010050 alley/ its akents ;
but its choices have appeared to be too exclusive &
and the sprit of party, of which our Constitutions
favours tlve play, has "often car=ted its.aAiniastrstors
away froth the of wisdom which the Government
bad traced nut for them.

" In all the public services, the reduction of ter-
ritory, the necessity t,f eccnnmy, pnlitichl canes,
have toc4ght about numernus discharg,n. A At:at
number of persons remain without employment. :sod
consequently discontented. This nisconteitt and ne-
cessary preferences !oment Oa leaven of disctrd,
which has prerred muong us the many changes that
have happened within these five-anal-twenty years.
They reanimate those ardent pasait na which foreign
war no longer occupies abroad ; which an non scsyt:e
no longer restrains at home.
In Fite, two weighty circumstances complicate
and embarrass our siznatien in an afflicting manner.
The first is the result of the arrangements the
Treaty of the 20th November. The Second is the
failure of a great part of the harvest of the year, from
the intemperature of tic season. The Allied rowers
have proved by their actions. even more than by tin it
words, their serious intention to secure the internal
repose of France, and thus unite its destioies with the
common interest of Europe. They had calculated,
no down, upon the abundance and the riches o,t the
Qtoduce of owr soil, upon the revival of our coin.
meter!, upon the growth of our industry, such as we
had seen it at the end of 1814; and if these calcula-
tions had been realised, it is certain it would have
been painful, but possible, for France, by au increase
of imposts. by alienation of domains, to meet an an-
nual augmentation of :300 millions of expenses—
V12,500,00(9
" Events have cruelly disappointed these calcula-
tions. French industry and commerce, like that of
Europe, ate in a state of langour and stagnation.
Our richest productions have absolutely failed, or are
of reduced value; and the products of the first neces-
sity are in a state of mediocrity.
" The cares of Government, and particul irly the
activity of commerce, will certainly provide against
all want, but will not obviate the dearness.
" So far as these conjunctures deprive a Govern.
meet of its natural strength, so far they furnish ali-
ment and pretences for injustice and malevolence. It
is in the midst of these difficulties, it is to surmount
'them the Government still wishes for the assistance
of a fore? of extraordinary police.
Bet we must not indulge in allusion. All police
is impotent and vain, if tardy,. if it be not vested with
an arbitrary power -
whoever would

g, These reasons,
pointed out to
the great majoril
the suspension
liberty, was, in
cessary evil at
“ It may be
the same, that

found our opinion

power which menaces at the moment 1
d conspire against the State.
sons, Oentlemen, which we have only
you, have in whole or part (It t•rt),•l,•ct 1
why of your Committee to think that
of the forms which protect personal
it truth, at all times an evil, Lut a ne-
this moment to prevent greater evil .
e objected, perhaps, and we have sail
t a part of the reasons upon which we ~
lion is of a nature to exist beyond the
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balm fixed for the duration of the law propos-A, and
*fluid thus furnish cause for its ulterior prnmulgation.
" We cannot catnpletely answer this Oleos n ;
for should tt e law taf suspension be toriher in t• soapy
for a year, it w .111.1 be Iv) reason why it should not
be now adopted. ll:iwever, as it is ceriain that in
1816 there have heen some steps towards improve-
ment, we are fotu.:ed in hoping gr-ate: still in 1817.
';hie nature of our constitution will be every day
better tinders', rid, its benefi.s better appreciate) by
the nation. The laws to which you will co-operate
will gradu illy place our institutions, tow manners, in
harmony with the r.liresewative Nino:achy. The
C;oveinmeht will arroach !Wafer to its pet fection, to
that nn'ty of pi incipks, ol plan, and of action, which
is the coruliiiim (.1 its exi-oence.
" In a hole time, should a merciful llonvva grant
us in 1817 a better harvest, and favourable itei,locia-
tions lighten our ton heal y burdens, we may hope
that conlid.ence, credit, intrroal peace. and national
independence, will have acquired sure guarantees;
and we shall owe to our prudence, our sacriticep,
that plenitude of constitutional lib-sty which would
be evidently endangered by too liveiy ass impatience
to enjoy it.
44 Your Committee next occupied itself with the
enactments in detail of the plan of law. Iu com-
paring it with the law of the 29th of October, 1815,1
it has recognized die following restrictions and
amendments. In the first place, the law of 1815
smbraces in its disposions crimes and offences. This
might hive been necessary then, but at the presient
dal it is only the prevention of great crimes that can
famish cause for a detention not followed by imme-
diate process before the tribunals. This is the enact-
ment of Article la of the plan of law ; but as the
nreehination, used in that article, is vague and
not legal in the acceptation given to it, your Com-
mittee proposes to substitute the word attempt.
44 Secondly. The law of 1815 gave in less serious
eases the power of placing ea surveillance, which was
f evently a real exile, a mean more susceptible of
abuse, although at first Wash it appears less rigorous.
The same motive which excludes simple crimes from
the plan of the lag, also rejects from it the placing
in surveillance. The person charged with conspiracy
should not be exiled bin seized. Individuals sent
away from their homes will return to them ; but the
new law apprises them, that if they return only to
renew ti.cir plots against the State, the hand of Go.
vtrnm.nr will be open them.
" Thirdly. The p iwtr of granting an order of
arrest is exclusively seserved, by the plan, to the Mi-
nister of General Police, whose signature ought
also to be accompanied by that of the President of the
Council. This implies, that the Council itselt will
have approved of the grounds of arrest. The great
number of functionaries on whr.m thus power of ar-
rest and detention was conferred by the law of 1815 i
had excited the most lively representations against
. that law ; and experience has proved how great must
be the danger of investing with this extraordinary
power, men too far removed from the Central Go.
arernmens, and too near the persons charged. An
arbitrary arrest, even when it is permitted by law,
ought to be solely a measure of High Police t that
is, die law ought not to confide such a power to any
but responsible agents, who, under the immediate di.
section of the King, are placed over the general con-,
duet of the affairs of State.
'1 If a power to dangerous must thus never fall
into the bands of subaltern agents, whom confined'
views, hateful sentiments, or the spirit of party,
*might too easily lead astray, we regard this ameliora-
tion of the plan of law as the greatest of all—as that
which tends the most effectually to diminish the dan-
gers, and avoid the errors inseparable, perhaps, from
such a measure.
44 Your Committee, desirous of admitting every
amendment not militating against the principle of the
law. have thought it of advantage, that the order of
arrest should specify, that it is granted by virtue of
the present law, for reminding those invested with
this right of arrest, or who concur in the execution of
it, that they ought 'carefully to confine themselves
within the extent of the enactments of the law. We
therefore propose to you this amendment, in conti.
mutation of the Ist artiele.--' The order of arrest shall
always specify, that it is granted by virtue of the
resent law'
" Fourihty. Art. 2 of the plan of law better orga-
nizes a mode of appeal than the preceding one. The
most natural fear of the arrested man, who is con-
scious of his innocence, and to tabom all resort to the
tribunals is closed, is that of not being interrogated.
This article is calculated to reassure him. But, to
reassure him still more, the Committee have thought
that the hearing of the person -detained by the King's
Attorney should be matter of Oficial duty. withdut
being called for t y the application of the accused.
The Committee have deemed likewise, that the law
should impose on the Minister of Justice the obliga-
tion of apprising the prisoner of the decision if the
King's Council, on his reclamation. They, therefore,
t ropose two amendments to Article the '2d, the first
of which is the erasure of the words, If he should
require at.' The second, the addicon of these words
"Mt the end of the article, "rhe Minister of Justice
shall in every case apprise the prisoner of the decision
of the Council.' third Article appears to us to
be a wisely graduated transition to the new law from
that of 1815.
41 The fourth mid last article limits the duration of
the law to the Ist of January, 1818. • Fat from being
enabled to express-our Atm couviction that the law
will be no longer wacessary, we, however, think that
the strongest guarantee againif the abuse of such oc-
casionaliaws, is to grant them only for a short space
of time; so that the Mining, even when they enforce
them, may be aware of the amount which they must
speedily render. It is with them amendments that
your Committee 'recommends the• adoption of the
law that has been proposed to you."
No sooner had the Reporter pronounced these last
words, than both sides of the Hall rushed to the tri-
bune to inscribe their names for the discussion.
Fourteen have enrolled their names against the
pint among wnoni arc MM. de Villeins Castelbajae,
d'Argeoson,
Cornet d'lnconrt, Corbiere, and Mac_
earthy Twelve have inscribed their names in sup-
port of the messes: among them are M. Camille
. Jaunty' and Royer 'Collar d.
The ississusiTasis •Tbe Report shall be printed

nd distributed on Saturday, and the discussion be
cpened on Monday."
Several voices—" That is too soon—Tuesday."

The vsiDENT-41 The discussion cannot be ter-
minated in one day. It must commence on Monday."
The Chamber finally determined that the discus -
,ion should commence un Monday.

PARIS, JANUARY 10.
ROYAL. ORDINANCE.

4, Lolls, by the Grace of GOD, se.
s. Willing in preserve to the Order of St. Michael
the splendour it enjoyed under the Kings, our prede-
cessors, we have decreed, and do decree, as follows :
" Art. 1. The Order of St. Michael is specially destined to
serve as a reconipence and encouragement to those of our sub-

jests who shall be distinguished In Literature, &letter, and the
Arts, or by discoveries, works, and enterprises useful to the
State.

" 2. The nomter of Knights is limited to loo."

A secntid Ordinance contains the names of thirty-
four ,1
persons admitted to this honour ; among whom
are physiciai,s, merchant', advocates, bankers, pain-
ters, architects, fits.
A third ordinance founds a Royal chapter of canons
at St. Dellis, to include the old. titutir bishops, and
•after eccle%iastrcs, in all Si,. The duties of these
canons will h: to perform nine massrs for the dead
daily, viz. three fer each of the three dynasties of the
Fr nch monarchy. They will also daily say vespers
tor the dead, and the service to be read will be con-
-ecrateci exclusively to prayers for the souls of all the
illustrious dead, whose rem.iins are deposited in that
church. The suit of 150,000 francs ont•atAxe funds
of the Minister of the Interior, destine,' VI elk ex='
penses of the clergy, shall be annually appropriated
to its maintenance ; and 60,000 francs for the expenses
of its first establishment. But, in consideration of
existing financial difficulties, the sum c.f 75,000 francs
is only to be appropriated for the year 1817. •
Yesterday morring the bureau of the Chamber of
Deputies, x‘ith M. and their President at the r
head, presented ti the King the plan of Law relative
to Elections, adoptcd by the Chamber.

Letters from Cadiz btille, 111.41 the merchants of that
city had, at their own expense, fitted out the Esau.-
raida, King's frigate, ani a brig, to truize against
the Ansi:titan privateers which infest that coast.

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