Star.
London, England, 1817-01-18 00:00:00

RECEIVED THIS MORNING.

CHAMBER OF PEERS.
SITTING of TIOL 4Til OF JANUARY.

The Order of the Dap called for the discussion of
the Plan of Law upon the Organizationuf tLe Elec-
turah rollers-
In place. of proceeding with that discussion, the
Chamber decided that the Project should be remitted
to the examination ot a Special Comodssion. The
Members named for that Commission were Count
Abrial, Count Clermont Tonnerre, the Duke of Ta-
rentum, the Count and Coma La-
tour-Ma übourg.

'The Chamber adjourned till Saturday the l&b.
CHAMBIR OF DEM nas.
SITTINU 0111 111111 I STII Or JANUAItr. e

The Chamber opened at half-past twelve o'clock.
M. Tar, Reporter of the Commission, charged
with the examination of the Plaa of Law upon
the Liberty of the Press, made the Report of the
Constnissioo, and proposed the adoption of the
Project.
The Report will be printed and distributed, and
the discussion will incceed that upon the Project of
Individual Liberty.
The Order of the Day called for the continuation
of the discussion upon the Law of Individual Liberty.
M. POKSIIIID-..." It is the duty of a Deputy who
has passed the greatest part of his life in prisons, and
in witnessing the Abuses of power, to declare himself
against a la* which violates Individual Liberty.
Ever, one of ns remembers the words of his Ma-
jesty ••• Tranquillity reigns throrghout the Kingdan.'—
The Minister of Finance, in presenting the Budget,
spoke ist the state sense. The Minister of the Interior
would not have proposed the Law upon Elections, if
there had betel any indications of troubles. All is
tranquillity, and yet extraordinary Measures are de-
manded I 'Calera then no tither remedy than that of
retrograding towards despotism ? Shall we not re-
member the resignation with which the French na-
tion has supported her misfortunes ? Sh.lll we pre-
sume evil rather than good, by again deptiving ter a
whole year such a generou; nation of the Charter ?
Instead of alleviating, shall we perpetuate her mai*.
fortunes ?

' 10 Since aII is tranquillity in the kindom.
duel Liberty ought nut to be suspended upon vague
declarations and chimerical tears; to allow such a
measure, there would be need of alarming circum-
stances and imminent peril. The Chaster is not at
our disposition,. we have not the power of changing
it as we please. Let us not deceive ourselves. Let
not the borders of the Seine become to us as the
,sueams of Lethe. %%lost has ever resulted irons such ;
measures? The overthrow of all Constitutions, in.
numerable prisons, and thousands of 4ili-es des cachet,
and moral degradation aniseed at such a pitch, that
the spy boasted of his employ as much as if it had
been one of the twist honourable offices. They boast
of the ameliorations of this new law. What are they;
The individual. who knows only by the warrant that
he is arrested, is to be informed by the Attorney.
General of the motives of that arrest. Delivered up
to a secret interrogator ; taken Irons his parents, his
friends, and his Counsel ; left to himself -to compose
a Memorial ; debarred of his natural Judges, of be•
mg confronted with his .denunciator, and dragged
from prison to prison: and, to complete the whole,
put face to face with a slanderous cAtunniator. As
for Ministerial responsibility, it is always an Mission.—
In consequence of the Law of the bf October,
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1815, 17110. persons were accused of treason and plop.;
and now the very act of their being set at liberty
proves that there was sso foundation for the charges.
Let ns then renounce this violent regime, w 1 ich
makes the ordinary laws fall into disuse, by laws of
exception. A single word from the mouth of out
Sovereign has been able to rally thousands of French-
men. Such is the natural effect of confidence.—
Let us not discourage this universal confidence. I
.vote for the rejection of the• Projyct.n .
M. FIGAROI•46' Since I cannot be found in oppo-

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sition to the true interests of My enttntry, and s'ca
the proposed Project tends to the strengtheeing et
the throne, I will not share in the opinion of that es-
magogue, who said-4 Ler the Colnlet perish rae e,
than a single principle of the Constituion ehenld be
injured: As far me, I think it better to vinlete A
principle than to expose the safety of France. Weed,*
volt desire once mete to encour age uni aithful sttb:ecti?
Do you desire that another 20th of &Lech should
come, and stit in iv. the people of France, sleeping in
the most pernicious security ? It was thes impunity,
it WAS the clemency of our Monarzh which called l' e
factious to raise their heeds ! They did telt dissem-
ble their guilty hypes—France 4:41 en the point if
, being again torn asunder, when the lAve of the e(pi
of October saved her. I anew that the amelioratiee
of the public spirit admits of temperire the rieo-e
of the leve, but not yet to repeal it. Are yetreeee
oppose this law convinced that petty exists no longer
in France ? —that factions are crushed--that sleet
tranquillity can nn tenger be menaced ? And what
moment do you select for your opposition to thelaw?
The moment when our treaties with the Ake;
oblige us to increase the taxes. and when we stand
iteneed of the means of credit; how will yen fir&
these means if you make enemies to the Government,
and sleep while, the factious watch. You ought t •
adopt the project. as the modificatfons offer every
guarantee which can be desired."
M. Seuenteit" All France desires the mainte-
nance of Individual Liberty AS the reward et her sa.
orifices. The repose tit families calk for it. but there
still exist inquietudee Ttue—but must they be made
to ceese by extraordinary measures ? His Majesty's
Ministers say the Government is gfrong. li it is se,
what necessity for this law ? It is weak Gayest.,
meats only that resort to. such laws. The Reporter
has spoken of a neighbouring people which bid often
been obliged to have recourse to the suspension of
the Habeas Corpus Act- But he ought to have told
you with what solemnity tt is wok place, and only
when the security of the State was menecol ; but,
at the 64111 C time, they carefully avo;(1 any res:ric-
tions of the Liberty of the Press, in allowing it every
latitude, even against the Govern:neut. This larr
will destroy the credit which is endeavoured to be
estAbltshed, by persuading foreigners that France is
not tranquil."
M. Fru c DE LA Bouema —" The project of law
does net attack our fundamental law. It is Ina
severe . than that of the 29th of °ocher. It gives
more guarantee. II it is a dread to the bad, it gives
confidence to the good. I concittele for she adoption
of the latieexcept some amendments :which I propose
to submit to the Chamber. This prciject is in the in-
terest cif the King aod of tlo Ct.arter."
' M. Da Vuo.eer..--6' With use std of the disposi-
tions of the temporary law of the 29::i of October,
the Police has become a power erely colossal il
France. To-day it demands the renewel of nree
dispositiens, upon which rests its extraetdinary exie.
ence. Individual Liberty, consecrated by the Cheo
ter. has been suspended in 1815—ea period very ditio
rent from the present. The Allied troops then teel.
pied a part of France—our army was disorganised—
we were at a violent and terrible crisis. Toere then
was need of extraordinary measures ; but now tle
Government has already caused a great number el
the causes of admit to disappear. The camp:nisei
of our situation then with the present one, locos
that this project ought not to be tadoptid."
M. de Vieetea here entered into a refutation of the
:arguments ueed in defence of the Project. '6 What
(said he) is it moderating a law to substitute lode&
:lite expressions which will admit of every interprt ta.
tion ?" Having discussed the other dispositions of
the law, the orates concluded in these words, o I
' vote for the rejection of the IA w : reserving for me-
.self, it the principle is adopted, to propose an amend-
ment proper to lessen the'dangers of its execution."
M. DLIVERGIER DE HAURANNE.—" before the cloth
of March, the respect for individual liberty proceeded
even to imprudence. Passions and old hatreds were
lapin renewed. The law proposed removes all etch
evils. The power of arrest, which had been confided
to 4 crated tit functionaries, will only be confided to
the two Ministers of the King. I vote tor the ado?.
tion ot the Project."
M. CASTEL BAJAC compared the circumstanees in.
which the law ( t the 29th of October was furreee,
wish those of the present time, and euncluded %sell
this comparison, that the proposed law was as uselto
•nd dengerous as the other was us,lul and IIvCCSVIty.
He concluded by voting against the Preject.
M. BLANQUAKT BAIILLEUL &tended tIIC Priett,
sad justified it from the reproaches wh'cli lied ;:eta
adduced. He declared is favour of it on the ground
that its evil consequences were parried by tilt: reseon-
sibility of Ministers. .
The Chamber separated at half-past four.
Adjourned till to morrow.
SITTING OP TUE 14TH J.kwvAttv.
The discussion on the Plan of Law, regereing
dividual Liberty, was resumed.
M. M. BECOPPY, Commissary of Ile King ; CA-
MILLI JOURDAN. Rost? be COLLAUO. And Val ZIN nv
GARTIUIPI spoke in favour of ere plan ; :eel 'el. Nl•
SALASSaar, Joss BOAVVoIo, and Le lioviteoeeete
agaimt it. .
M. BILCQUEE urged many new reasons tor centi-
fusing the suspension laid down in tee Itepert of u.e
Commissioner.

M. CAutt.ut Jouttuaw was lieat.d with great :17.
plause.-0 The King," he said, 64 by die Cli,,r;r,
and the Acts which had confirmed it, had dare :nor:
lot Civil Liberty than all his predece•sors toget!ter.'s
Ftenclimcp," he added, 6. you see the State a
things—you know your King ; give him the romet
ot acting-..permit bias to save you."
M. LA iIOI.IIIDOSNAVEI in opposing the Prejee%
fibunded particularly ou the resells or the previou,
law of 1813. He said that 1700 Persons
arrested, and since released : and of course that ti•Stf
17170 innocent individuals had been arrested on lab'
charges, or 170 t.) guilty had been imptudtutly rt•
stored to ',betty.
The hltrasrea *if roma, in refutation of ele Azle
ment of M. la Buterklonnage, laid on the table it lit
of all tht indilltduals who haJ been arrested ia soft."
ut the law of last year, fawn wliitli it appearesl
their ituntber had never exceeded 35‘).
The discussion was adjourne-d tiil next day.
PARIS, JANUARY is.
A Royal Ordinance has just heel' issued declati,..
that all judicial proceedings which may have
plaice during the three 1110I1L115 ef usurpation,

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