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spirits of our Planters. They say they do not want I
money, and as they are certain the prices will ad-
,ance in the spring, they are determined to hold their
produce back until a more brisk demand shall force
the markets up. The fact is, the latter seasons have
been so productive, and every species of produce so
favourably got-in and brought to market, that it has
glade the Planters quite independent and purse-proud."

The Paris Papers of Wednesday, with the excep-
tion cf the Gazette de France and acutidienne, arrived

this forenoon.
The Chamber of Peers met on Tuesday, when the
Special Commission charged with preparing an An-
swer to the Speech, submitted their Report.
After some slight discussion, the form of Adana
proposed by the Commission was adopted, and a
Deputation of twenty Members appointed to present
it to leis Ma rEs•ry.
The Commission appointed for a similar purpose
*lathe Chamber of Deputies was to make its Report
or. Wednesday, on which day a proposition was also
etiected to be made by the Minister of Finance, for
fez enactment of a provisionary Law for the collec-,
tiou of the Revenue during the first months of 1819.
The Tribunal bf First Instance has, •on the report
of MESLIER, Judge of Instruction, sent before the
Cour Royale, Nicolas Canfillon, ex-soldier, as ills-
pate,' of having, on the night of the 10th and 11th
of February last, committed, with premeditation and
secretly, an attempt at murder on the person of the
Duke of s.VELLtsrororr, which attempt was manifest-
ed by exterior Acts, followed with a commencement
of execution, and only failed of effect from fortuitous
circumstances wholly independent of the will of its

author.
The Siear Mariret, who declares himself to be of
no profession, has been also handed over to the Cosr
Royale, as accused of complicity with Cantillon, by
exciting the latter by promises, and giving him in-
structions to commit the crime.
The procedure, it is added, which the Chamber c(
Accusation will have to examine, in order to detex-i
mine whether the accused should be prosecuted before
the Court of Assizes, is extremely voluminous.—
Besides the examinations which have taken place at
Paris, there is a great number of declarations of
witnesses, which have been taken in the Kingdom
of the Netherlands, in virtue of interrogatory Com-
missions.
The Emperor ALZIGANDER and King of SA tor
dt
tai a short interview at Chemnitz, on the Btl
December, after which the Emperor proceede ~,
his way to Vienna, where he is stated to have ankted
on the 12th.
The papers of Vienna announce, that the Arch-
&KIWIS LEOPOLDI NE, spouse of the Prince Royal of,

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Basil, es pregnant..
A case of considerable importance is now before

the Royal Court at Paris. The names of the parties
are not given ; but we are informed that it is a ques-
Ma between a distinguished warrior and Duke (one
el the French Marshals) and his son, seventeen
years of age, as to the legitimacy of the latter., The
Sather was divorced in Italy, then married the young
man's mother ; but he now contends, that the latter
marriage was illegal, and that his first is in full force,
because the divorce was pronounced by the Ambas-
saJor of the French Republic at Milan, who could
hare no.authority to do so in a foreign country. The
case is postponed to a future hearing.
A very lively interest has been excited in Berlin
by the discussion between M. IC tacumsow, the Mi-
nister of Justice, who opposes the introduction of
Jury Trials, and the Chancellor lhma and the
Members of the Commission of Justice for the Pro-
ssges on the left bank of the Rhine, who wisely
support that Palladium of Freedom. The war of
pamphlets is very brisk, and that Institution is at-
tacked with ardour and defended with courage.
Five per Cents. Tuesday, 631 r. 20c.
STOCKHOLM, DKCEMBER a.
On the celebratien"of the solemnity in memory of
Charles XII. at Upsal, the hour of the day was
chosen in which he fell. At the same minute, 6i
P. M. the bells of the Cathedral began to. toll. A
chosen body of vocal performers marched in pet-
cession, by torch light, between the militia of East
and West Got hand, singing the march of Chatks
Xll. at Narva, the grave style of which was so well
adapted to the spirit of the solemnity. In the
Courch the psalm of Gustavus Adolphus at Luzen
was sung— Versage nichts du Kleiner Haufe—(de-
%pond not thou little troop). The Speaker, by a
liaPpy turn, called the mind from the misfortunes of
Fast times to the better prospects of the present ; it
was recollected with transport that Sweden is now
also governed by a Charles, who is adorned not only
liy the splendid qualities of the hero, but by the
milder virtues of peace.
We have to add another to the long list of distin-
Fu;O:ed men whom Sweden has lost this year—Che-
sal',:r Professor Breda, the first historical painter of
an artist of very great merit, died here a
fi.r days no, in the 59th year of his age.
STS; ['GARD, DECEMCKR u.
Yesterday, the King dismissed the President Von
Malchus, with the pension of 4,000 &tins granted
Lim when he was called into office. It is asserted, that
a Special Commission is appointed to examin2 his of-
Ecial conduct Yesterday evening all the papers re-
-14,3 to his office were demanded of him, and a