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ADDRESSE'D ET .COOVi JUI.FS 11E POLIGNAC TO
- THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

44 Aram 3, 1816.
44 MT LORD DUKR-,-T can no long''r endure that •
the visit Which I had the hr noun of making you abont
'three weeks ago should give occasion to. the absurd
reports which now circulate in this capital, and which
the Eoglish piers have Collected, -adding details
equ illy destitute of foundation as the rumours which
gave them blrt!‘. In fact, The Courier and Morning
Oronicle report a pretended conversation which I am
supposed to have has with your Grace; fuethe pur-
pose of conferring with you! on a change of Ministry
in France, and in which I am represented as having
.appeared in an official character, which you did not
think fit to recognise.
" You know, my Lord Duke, &iv: false the state.
:twits in such articles of these papers are, in every
thing 'respecting the pretended conversation which
they relate. The report of your approaching depar-
ture being circul lied at Paris about three weeks ago,
I presented myself at the Elysee Bourdon to have the
honour of seeing you ; and I conoratnlated myself
the more on finding you there, as in my priceding
visits 1 had not had that good fortune.
" Paying respect to your numerous occupations, I
thought it rglit to remain only for a few moments,
clarinet which you had the goodness to converse with
me, in the first place, on the recollection which you
preserve of the inhabitants of Thoulouse, who, under
your eyes, in the month of April 1814, gave proofs
of their live for the King. which were so nobly ap-
preciated by you; and finally, on the satisfaction you
experienced from the punctuality with which the
paymrnts stipulated in the last Treaty were made by
the F ench Government. To which I replied, first,
that almost all Fiance participates in the sentiments
which animatrd the people of Thoulonse ; and
secondly, that it was the sincere desire of France to
prove to Europe that the engagements entered into
by the King: were held sacred; and I added, that the
Chamber of Deputies, so worthy of representing
France, would won give a touching example of this
truth.
Stich, my Lord Duke, were the only points on
which the conversation which occupied the time of
my short visit turned, and in which no political affair
was treated upon, nor any minion announced on my
part. I doubt not, therefore, my Lord Duke, that
you will contribute on your part, as I have on mine,
to contradict the false reports to which the visit I had
the honour of making you has_ given rise, and to
which I should never have thought- it necessary to
call your attention, had I. not been assured that grove
personages (douts•less involuntarily) have given cre-
dit to them, and had not, from the manner in which
these reports hate been stated in the English papers,
that error on their part become injurious to the
Prince to whom I have the imitator to be attached, and
whose nobleness of character and love for all his du-
ties are known to your Grace. I have the honour to
be, my Lord Duke, your most humble and most obe.
dun! servant, .4 The Count JULIES DE Potomac."
The Noble Duke replied to the above letters, 4, that
be had been no less astonished than. the Count de
Po!ignae at the interpretati,4 which the journals had.
Om to a visit of mere politeness, and that he would
see the die.teowAl of it with the greatest satisfactiml."

T.114,-.4V4NING STAR.

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MONDAY, APRIL 13. 1816.
ZealVas MdStDay....Holidsy st tb• Baca:

This morning we received the P.►ris Papers d
TSuridAy. It will be seen by tlle subjoined extracts.
that the pnpular question respecting the Electoral
Ci►lleges been carried against the Ministers, by a
great majority. It remains to be seen whether any
Court intrigues will be put in motion. to counteract
this expression of the sentiments of the National Rer
presentatives. !Like Court party wishes to maintain
harmony. and resto►•e repose and unanimity to France.

it will not only acquiesoe, but heartily cooperate to

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give efficacy to this determination ; but perhaps this
is ratim to be desired than hoped for, from some of
the individuals who compose that party.
Et is reported, that the French Government having
been dilatory in the payment of the sums stipulated
for the maintenance of our troops, four regiments of
horse have been ordered home from France, and may
be daily expected. Report also adds, that Ministers,
convinced of the necessity of economy and retrench-
ment in the present circumstances of the country,
have caused it to be notified to the French awern-
meet, that the rest of the British troops will shortly
be alio withdrawn from the French frontier, if pay-
ments be not regularly made, according to the Con-
vention. We have no doubt that the French will,
ere long, furnish the opportunity atforkird by non-
payment for withdrawing the reoldinder.
CHAMBER OF DEVIITIES.
SITTING OF WEDNESDAY.

M. de BooltA.s, President.
Count Vaublanc, Minister of the Interior; M. de
Cams, Minister of Police ; Count Dubouchage, Mi-
nister of the Marine ; and M. Becquey, Counsellor
of State, were on the Ministerial bench.
The order of the day for the discussion of the pro-
visory law relating to elections was called.
M. Becouri, King's Commissioner, then roses
if I shall endeavour to be short on a subject simple in
its intention, but which has been complicated V the
Committee, in submitting to your deliberation, not
amendments, but additions which do not enter into
the object of the law, at the same time that they arc
contrary to the priaciples of the Charter and the in
dependence of the Crown. The convenience and the
siility of the law are not contested. Who, in fact,
can complain against the intention of giving provi-
sionally a legal character to the Ordonnaaces of the
ring, in the medc and form of elections, and the.

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Itretted thist the three brand*, a-the legissilatAteW
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not 'nnanimousior the adoption of a monists moo
definitive law oa this important subject. It ismseesh
nary to supply this deficiency. Ninth me, first of
all, to rebut the erroneous 'opinion in the report, that
the Chamber of Deputies has a more particular inte-
rest than the Chamber of Peers in defending the in-
I,terests of the nation. There results from the ar-
rangements of the Charter a perfect equality between
the elective and hereditary Chambers, in their parti-
cipation of the legislative power.
" The first amendment of the Committee tends to
add to the project of Government the provisory
Maintenance of Article 14 of the Ordonnance, which
enacts that 14 Articles of the Charter shall be sub-
mitted to the revision of the legislative power in thi
next Session of the Chamber. Do You participate in
'the opinion of your Committee which supposes that
, we cannot confirm in an insulated manner one part
of the Ordonnance, but that we must convert the
whole of it into a law! I am not of that opinion.
The silt:lice of the King oo Article 14, announces to
you that his Majesty does not wish you to make it
the subject of your deliberations. You will not con-
sent, therefore, to take an unconstitutional initiative
on one part of the Charter.—(Manarn.)—You can-
not wish to do so, because the initiative belongs to
the King : You will not lose sight of the circum-
stance that the King himself and the Chamber of
Peers have already announced their intention of
maintaining the execution of Article S 7, which forms
part of those which the Ordonnance bad submitted
to revision.

" Wherefore should 14 Articles of the Charter be
necessarily compretended within the same category I
What right has the Chamber to proncAnce it ? They
are neither inherent nor dependent one with the
other. The Ordennance has not called for their revi-
sion : it Merely announced the intention of provoking
it. The first amendment ought to be rejected. The
motives given by the reporter to justify the second
amendment, are in that part of his discourse where
be declares, that it is not for the interest of our cotm-
try that a law. Which might to influence in a manner
so decisive with that for elections on the establish.
meat of the Repretentativ. Chamber, should be ad-
journed and cdnfitled to other Deputies than those
who have been called by the King, and who have
been named by the departments to fulfil this special
mission.

« Every thing tends to sheer, that but for the mis.i
fortunes of the 20th of March, the old Chamber of
'Depudes would have voted on this proposition ; but
it it impossible to conceive how the Electoral Col
leges, which have sufficient powers for an entire•re-
newal, should not have powers for a partial renewal."
(The Electoral Colleges are provisionally main-
tained. They have a regular character, and from
this instant they may act simultaneously, or in an in-
sulated manner).
M. BECQUET *en concluded for the adopti"n of
the Project of Ministers, and the rejection of the
Amendments of the Committee.

M. DS CASTILIAJAC spoke against the Project of
the Ministers and in favour of the Amendments pro.
posed by the Committee.
M. de CAM. Minister of Police, rebutted the argu-
ments of M. de Csistelbajsc. He considered the
amendments of the Committee as expressly trenching
upon the royal prerogative—of initiating all laws.

M. de VAUBLANC. Minister of the Interior.—" The
speech of the Repeater contains an accusation against
the Minister, and particularly against me, since I was
the organ of the Ministers..— (Several ♦oices—
/VO, Ns.)
" I do not complain of these accusations. I accept
cheerfully, in their full extent. the personal inconve-
niences which the Representative Government may
inflict on the depositories of the Royal Authority. I
know well that the Representative Government was
not formed for the repose of the Ministers, nor, are
they, in their turn, interested for the repose of the
factious.

11 Gentlemen, you will soon return to Tear depart.'
ments ; you will examine the progress of the psblic
mind ; you will interrogate your fellow citizens, your
friends, your relations* the Administrators, and 1
have no alarms as t►► the judgment which you will
then Eorin. The Reporter has quoted that part of
my speech in which I spoke of the dependence of the
electoral power; but have you not youiselves recog-
nised the necessity of the influence of the-Govern-
ment on elections, by adding to the colleges of the'
department one-tenth of the electors to be nominated
by the King ? Witb respect to the question of re.
newing the Chamber, although obliged officially to
vote with my colleagues, the Ministers, for oner6fth
being renewed, yet my private opinion has always
been fur a complete renovation."
M. de C.OIIIIIMII (in the absence of M. de Villek,
the Reporter of the Committee) replied to all the,
arguments against their proposed amendments, which
were then put to the vote, and adopted by a very large
majority, 206 against 116.
A Project of a Law has therefore been voted in
the following terms t
66 Article 1. The Ordoananess of the lath and !Ist of hdy,
sboli have the fora of a law provisionally in aY disk orrosio.
ascots.

s. The Mewed Caws, es sss*bed by these *edam.
Ranee, dal be aublealited; without new addithwe until they

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