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London, England, 1818-12-21 00:00:00

LONDON.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1818.
THE FUFDS. „
!RICE OF STOCKSTHIS DAY AT TWELVE .O.OLOfIt
2 pet Cent. Reduced 77}/-7-(1 per Cent. Culls. shut
Cons. for Account, 78 if—.si 7er Cent. 86i
4 per Cent. 94i;-5 per .rent. Navy shut
India Bonds 76 78 pre.--om4hun f dis.
EFcliequer Bills 9 15 pre.

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The Paris Papers of Thursday and. Fridiy iude
arrived since our last. ' ' - '• 7
The Chamber of Deputies completed, on Wtdnee.
day morning, the list of five Candidates to be Fe.,
sorted to the KIND, for his choice of President. The
Members who, in addition to M. ItAVEZ • and M. De.
SZARE, have united an absolute majority of suffrages;
are -I,4:l3'Avottn (Reaf-Admiral), Count DUPONT,
it'd Count PLANELLI DE LAVALETTE.
(511 Thursday. the Chamber proceeded to the nomi-
natien,of foto: Vice-Presidents, when the election fell
upon IM. DE COURVOISIER, BLANQTJARt BAILEUL,
BELIGNO r, and BECQUEY.

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The Clamber of Peers were tocontinue adjourned
till Saturday, when they•were to assemble to receive
the Report of the Commission charged with drawing
Up an Address to the. KING, in answer to his Majesty's
Speech from the Throne.
liis MAJESTY continues in a state of convalescence,
on Thursday presided at another long Council
of Ministers, which sat from one till five o'clock.
General Count LosAu, one of the exiles who has
obtained permission to return to France, has arrived
in Paris.

The Funds have, during the two days of which
the accounts are now before us, experienced but little
fluctuation. Wednesday theropened at 69 fr. being
73 c. below the closing price of the preceding day,
fell at one time to 61 fr. 75 c. but rallied, and cloked
at 63 fr. Ou Thursday they kept rising, and closed
at 63 fr. 60 c.

PRIVATE LETTER.

PAus, Dzcznizi 17.

. " The Chambers are occupicd with the usual preliminaries of
forming Committees, &c. ; the President even is not yet named,
but the five persons to be submitted to the KING hays been
chosen, Out of which he will elect one, who will be, we are in-
clined to think, either M. %seta, or M. de Scant, who presided
at the last Session; the former unites many excellent qualities
for a President, but many strongly deprecate the election of a
Councillor of State as President of the Representatives of the
Nation. We might also object to M. de SEMLE fur his Motion
at the beginning of last Session, to send Members to prison for
uttering in their places opinions which dosernmen: might con-
strue as hostile to its views; but justice commands us to add,
that this fault, grave as it is, was in a great measure atoned for
by his constitutional conductor the latter end of the Session.
The choke rests with 'his Moaner, and we are persuaded that
it will be in favour of a sound constitutional Member, who,
strictly passive, will never suffer either passion or party principles
to influence his conducts and who will consider himself simply as
the organ of the Constitution; as a good shepherd, who will not
suffer his flock to stray either to the right or left, but bring
them by gentle means to the fold of the Charter, for out of it
there len° salvation for France.
" All Paris his been on the qui min, as to the remit of differ-
ence of opinion said to exist, and to have been expressed between
the Duke de Itteneutu and the Count de CUES. The Public
has, in fact, made a mountain 8f a mole hill. It would seem;
that the Duke de Rteneueo conceives the possibility of uniting
all parches, and amalgamating the Ultras, the Ministerials, and
the Liberals; and that the Count de Csers, cerieivessuch an
union impossible. The theory of the Minister for Foreign Af-
fairs certainly the most desirable and the nnost excellent; it
springs from a heart overflowing with the milk of human kind-
ness, which only sees in error an aberration of opinion ; but we
apprehend, that no human power can reconcile interests so
jarring and views so diametrically opposite. The Ultras claim,
and insist on, as a sine qua non, the restoration of exploded pri-
Vileges, the re-possession of property confiscated by the nation,
the ancient supremacy of the Clergy, the exclusion of Com-
moners from posts of honour and dignity, and especially that of
military command. In the interest of Forehm Powers we
might wish the latter point to 14e accorded, fur then, France
tw-tteld cease to be forir,liablo as a military nation. Let us but
Wok at her military history for the last 750 years, and.we shall
Pod that during all that titne, Wile% her armies were officered by
the Nubility way, that she never gaineJ.Stut three victories over
glish troops, while ours could count several brilliant ones in
every campaign; and wars betweas England and France during
this period have not been rare, as out of the 750 years there has
been neatly 500 years of was'. It was only when the Revolo-
ttm began, when merit and not favour obtained rank, that the
ro.lich armies became really formidable, even to the best troops
of Europe, and the proof of it is, that since they have
gitintd more brilliant victories than France could count since
the foundation of the Monarchy. Whoever therefore wishes to
re-establish the old system, is as igr.orant as he is stifish, and
lore it not that all Europe hes; thorough contempt for this ri-
diculous party, one roi;;ltt conclude that it received from some
foreign Court the, price of its enmity to the prosperity and glory
of its eaurtry.

A Flanders Mail has brought us to-day Brussels
Papers to the 18th inst. from which we subjoin some
extracts :

BRCSSEES, DECEMBER Is.

It is affirmed that his Majesty•bas, by a Decree,
enjoined his Ministers not to present to him hence-
forward any report, the object of which shall be an
increase of expense. Economy seems to be the order
of the day ; and we most congratulate ourselves on
a measure dictated by the wisdom and the paternal
intentions of the King.
We hear from the Frontiers of France, that all the
fortresses of the 16th Military Division, which had
beer. disarmed during the occupation by the foreign
t.oeps, are going to be placed again on a respectable
foutiva in consequence of measures adopted by tito