Star.
London, England, 1821-12-19 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

PARTS, DECEMBER 16.
nOlbtiktiiint NANCE.
" Loess, atc.—On the report of our Minister Secretary of
State for the Home Department,
" Wishing to recompense the zeal which Dr. Sally has mani-
fested at Barcelona, in devoting himself to the study and treat-
ment of the contagion which spreads its ravages there, we have
ordered and do order as follows :
Art. 1. The Sieur Bally, Doctor of Medicine and Member of
the Royal Academy of Medicine, Is appointed Knight of the
Royal Order of the Legion-of Honour.
" Art. 2. Our Minister Secretary of State fur the Home De-
partment, and the Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour,
are charged with the execution of the present ordinance.
irce:
Oasuiter-sigutd) " LOUIS.
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" SIMEON.
" Given at the • December S.*

" During thirty years past we have been so repeat-
edly conducted from inconsequence to inconsequence,
and from contradiction to contradiction, that the
absurd has almost constantly predominated. It may
be said that we have so adopted the habit of false
positions, that a position which is just and natural
seems to us something new, bold, and somewhat em-
barrassing. A vague and transitory state, protracting
itself under various modifications, had become in our
eyes a positive and stable condition. Repeated excep-
tions had assumed the place of the rule.
" We have seen the Ministry perilously placed be-
tween two oppositions, whose perpetual shock, whose
continued collision, could not fail to shake and injure
the administrative machine, which had so much need
of a solid support in the legislative power.
" Was it not most deplorable to see the zealous
friends, the unost ardent defenders, and the most ex-
perienced servants of the King and his cause, placed
in the absurd position of opponents to his Majesty's'
Ministe;-, who were thus, by an error, in which a
false self-love made them persevere, deprived of that
natural and powerful assistance of an imposing majo-
rity, composed of homogeneous elements, and repre-
senting in the Chamber of Deputies the grand and
• intimate alliance of the nation with the King, of the
interests of the people with the rights of the Crown ?
" Deprived of these noble auxiliaries, the Ministers,
to whom a majority was a thing to be gained at all
hazards, sought to obtain it by, the most wretched
combinations, formed, modified, and destroyed in one
day ; and by unsolid alliances, founded upon no just
and reciprocal interest.
48 The Ministers were condemned to manoeuvre
painfully between two oppositions, wheA they could
by a single movement have enlarged their ground,
and strengthened themselves with an immense force,
which, however, they richer chose to fear, brave, flat-
ter, or combat, according to circumstances.
" Those who had this force at their command did
not put too high a price on their alliance. They
merely required that the Ministers of the Monarch
should march at their head in a monarchical direc-
tion—that the Royalists should no longer be regarded
and treated as the enemies of Royalty ; and, in fine,
that it should be acknowledged that neither the prin-
ciples nor the men that overturned the Throne could
be capable of consolidating it. These conditions
. were so reasonable, that it is astonishing they were
not accepted.
" The choice which his Majesty has made of the
personages composing the new Ministry, is a certain
guarantee that there will henceforth be a perfect ana-
logy and consequence between the regulating princi-
ples of a legitimate Monarchy, and the acts of the
Government and the Administration. Royalists, all
equally devoted todegitimacy, and ready to combat
its enemies, the slight shades of opinion, which dis-
tinguish without dividis them, are lost and con-
founded in the union of all sentiments and all
wishes."—Drapeast Blame.
Before Mass, the Bureau of the Chamber of Peers,
conducted by the Chancellor, had the honour to pre-'
sent to the King the Law Project relative to the sa-1
natory system adopted by the Chamber in the Sitting
of Friday.
At one o'clock, the new Ministers, with the excep-
tion of the Marquis de Clermont-Tonuerre, presented
by the Marquis of Laoristoo, Minister of the Royal
Household, had the honour of taking the oaths be-
fine the King. Count de Serre, the late Keeper,
brought the Seals to his Majesty, who delivered them
to M. Peyronnet.
M. de Berenger has abandoned the intention of
appealing against his sentence, and surrendered him-
self a prisoner, in execution of the decree of the Court.
Extract from a letter written by M. Pariset to Dr.
Robert, Physician of the Lazaretto of Marseilles,
dated Montelegre, November 27 :—" A Spanish Phy-,
sician said to us, 4 To deny the contagion is to deny
GOD; and he was right. It is, in fact, to deny the
light—to deny evidence as striking as day. We should
be culpable to leave the field free for errors so per.
nicious; and I caunot conceive a more painful situa-
tion than that is which the physicians of Barcelona
are placed who have taken and consorts for
their guide and authority. Their own act confounds
them ; the cry of so many victims overwhelms them;
they are ashamed to live on the grave into which they
have precipitated so many unfortunate beings. A mo-
ment of since+ sty, a slight sacrifice of self-love, a shade
of distrust in themselves, would have spared Catalonia
from a load of evils, and themselves from endless op-
probrium and regret! They hope to escape from opi-
nion, but opinion overtakes and judges them, and
oven the vulgar, who had exalted them, now con-
demn them."

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letter of recent date from Frankton, which confirms
the report that Lord Strangfoid his no looger the
same influence with the Divan, and that he has now

ry seldom conferences with the Grand Vizir.
From Petersburgh we learn that Baron Debitch,
Adjutant-General to the Emperor, and Chief of the
Staff of the first Army, arrived on the 48th October
at Tschernigow, where he reviewed the troops. He
then proceeded by the route of Kiew to his ulterior
destination.
Considerable purchases are now making in the
North, of wood for ship-building, on account of the
French Navy.

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