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London, England, 1820-06-01 00:00:00

THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1820.

FRENCH PAPERS.

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The Paris Papers of Sunday arrived last night.—
The Debate upon the Election Law, article by article,
continues. On.Satorday the discussion exceeded in
violence any that has yet taken place. M. de Ia
FAYETTE eulogised the Revolution, and
_reiterated
the principles of 1789, wits such undisguised force
and warmth of expression, as to excite dreadful agi-
tation, and to call down upon him imputations of
revolt, rebellion, and insurrection. He had, he said,
been fourteen years a stranger to the Imperial Go-
verr.ment. He was no: less a stranger to that of
1815. He came on the political stage when the
Charter was given to France, and, being thus politi-
cally impartial, he contended that BONAPARTE was
replaced in 1815, not by any party, but by the ge- '
neral alarm felt throughout France, that the feudal
oppressions were returning, and that liberty and
property ware no longer secure. Such an alarm
existed, he said, at present, and a similar result
might he expected from similar combi I nat.sms.—
He ascribed all the evils which had befallen France
to the attempts made by an armed emigration to three
upon her the old despotism, and indignantly repelled
the insulting expressions used in some of the pieced-
in7 debates, with regard to the tricoloured flag—
.. That sign," he said, .4 of emancipation and glory,
which Louis XVI. ha I accepted from the hands of the
Nation; which had received the homage of all the
Powers, and waved, during twenty years, in the midst
of vanquished Europe !"—(Cries on the right, ' This
is dreadful!') " These colours were those of liberty,
equality, ar.d public order"—( Violent uproar and lit- 1
digneion from the Mini4crial and Chia Benches).—
The orator, says the report or the proceedings., coolly
proceeded to the consideration of the first article,
which he termed libel-Heide, and concluded with an
appeal to the enlightened wisdom and "premature
experience" of the youth of France.
M. La Fayette was followed by M. de SNARE,
Keeier of the Seals, who said, that the preceding
~:ator. from generous motives: he believed, had
marched at the head ofa popular mass, which he had
excited to subvert an ancient Monarchy. That epoch
no .v l?elonged to history, and with it history would
judge M. La Fayette, who must have felt horror in
his soul, and the blush of shame on his brow, when
the populace, which he had moved, plunged into
crimes which he could not check and was obliged to 1
follow—( Repeated murmurs and:hauls ?fapprobation).!
The KEEPER of the SEALS next attacked his eulogy
of the tricoloured sta ndaru,which was now the standard
of revolt. He asked, in case this language, thus cri-
minally imprudent, should excite insunection'abroid,
j poll whose head would the Wood, shed by the sword
of ; :hellion, or the sword of justice, tall ?-411us,litss
to M. Ia Fayette as " a man, perhaps, hononrable an
s,,ate respects- —(lhe lei cried out that this Wad per
songs! iii.ult, and mucli• confusion anti interruption
ensued).—M. LA FAYETTE, however, beggeJs hi,
trieads would take no trouble about it, and let the
Mini,ter proceed.
M. BENJAMIN CONSTANT succeeded to the tri-
bune, asid defended the eulogy upon " the national
c010ur.."—(64 The colours of revolt," cried several
voices on the right.)—(.' We are addressed in else lan.
guage of the Revolution," said others.)
M. de HAUTFEIJILLE gloried in being an accom-
pike in the Revolution of 1789—said the nation was
then tired of despotism—and apaarophised the ruins
or the Bastille—(Violent murmurs).
Tie MINISTER of l'onzson AFFAIRS replied, and
defended the law.

After this scene of political fury had continued for
some time further, the sitting was adjourned.
The pi incipal cause of the violence with which the
Liberals express themselves in the Chamber, is pro-
bably the extinction of the free Press. The debates
are the only channels of communication with the
People, and they strive to produce the strongest pos-
sible impulse, by the only weapon left them.
The Frenth Government has made an issue of
100,000,000 francs in Exchequer Bills, to be given
in payment to the Allies, at five per Cent. interest.
But it is confidently said, that the Bank of France
has taken 60,000,000 of these Bills at four per Cent.
and that the remaining 40,000,000 can be easily
kept in France at the same rate, which would save
100.000 net to the Treasury.
An article of the 17th ultimo, from Vienna, con-
firms the account of Att PAcitit's having thrown off
the dominion of the Poare, and been baptised into
the Greek Church, which we stated some time back,
on the authority of a private letter from Venice.

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

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HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY :1.

Counsel were heard in continuation on the Scots Cause,
" Majendle v. Carruthers;" to proceed again to-morrow.
Lard MINT° took the oaths and his seat.
Lord NAPIEJI presented two Petitions from Occupiers of
Land in Berwick, praying for legislative relief..
Lord HILLSBOROUGH presented a similar Petition,
signed by a number of Land Owners resident in the County of
Kildare, Ireland, convened in Pubilc !Sleeting by the
Sheriff. His Lordship stated, that he presented this Petition in
the absence of a Noble Duke (Leinecer) whose habit of residing
on his estate was as honourable to himself as it was useful to
his country. lie observed, that the Petitioners did not pray'
for any pew principle of relief, but complained of the low prices
which agricultural produce brought in the mat kuts, and the im-
perfect execution of the Corn Laws, for which they stated as a
reason, the iu.tdequate manner in which the average prices of
Corn were calculated throughout the country : in praying for
that protection which they felt their situation required, they
did not, however, ask Parliament to consider the subject sepa-
rately from the general interests and public policy of the Em-
pire.—Ordered to lie on the table.

Messrs. FAUX, COOrit, Lut•THER, CAMITILIGHT, MUNDY, and
STUAIT WORTI.IY, severally brought up Private Dills from the
Commons, accompanied by other Members.
Mr. BROCDEN and others returned the Civil List Pill, with
the concumnce of the Commons to their Lordships Amend-
ment.—Acijourra.d.