Star.
London, England, 1820-12-27 00:00:00

IRAN CE:

FROM OUR PRIVATE CORRESPONDF.Nr.

• " PARIS, DECIENBER 21.
14 The Parliament opened yeiteiday;, and we find;

Roan the formation of the Bureaus in the two Cham.
bers, that nearly all the
.Presidents and Secrttarlit
ate of the Coa Droit. 'this is a matter of pea:
exultation to the Ultras : the Liberals will, on every
occasion, be left in a great minority ; unless, as they
at present have the intention, they vote with the e-
trerne Droit, or the most ultra of the Ultras. By
this means they hope to balance the strength of ti.e
Centre or Ministerial Royalists. But, in doing thi!,
the Liberals will act a part unworthy of thent ; for
they will vote against their own arguments; and we
think few but French Deputies would consent to de;.
fend a cause with their talents, and five the lie to
that defence by their votes. They have a better game
to play, viz. to place themselves on the Charter, and
resist all attacks on it: thus, if even defeated, they
will be honoured. They must not contend for vic-
tory, but truth, which will at length prevail, in spite
of every effort.
" Troubles are brewing in Spain, and Naples i;
not quiet; for though all appears to go on smoothly,
many of those who are most active tinder the rev:
system are undermining it with the Northern P.,1% el •
Naples has her authors of Secret Notes as well a;
France, and Austria longs to take Naples under her
protection. But this England resists, and will resist;
she is already too powerful on the shores of the Me-
diterranean."

The spirit in which the French Covernment is
likely to be administered, has just displayed itself ia
an important accession to the Cabinet Council of
three distinguished public men, Messrs. LAINE, COR-•
BIERES, and VILLELe.—It appears, that immediately
after the returns under the new Election Law had
thrown into the Chamber a decided majority of the
Aristocratic interest, Ministers opened a negotiation
with the body of Royalists, with a view to strengthen,
by official ties, the connexion between them and the
KING'S Government. As, however, the two parties,
the Moderate and Ultra, composing the Royalist
force, had hitherto remained in apparent union, the
pretensions which they exhibited were more than the
Ministry could think of satisfying. hence the treaty
broke off. It was resumed, however, with better
fortune, and, as far as we can judge, in a manner
the most beneficial for the KING'S Government, and
for the country at large. The Moderate, or what
may be called the Liberal Royalists, have thus been
detached from their more extravagant and dangerous
allies. The nation derives from the known character
and principles of the new Ministers a security against
those schemes of desperate re-action imputed to the
extreme of the Cote Droll; and those whom it is
fair to consider as not merely in conjunction with
the other Ministers, -the rational supporter's of Con-
.stitutional Monarchy, but as the personal friends of
the House of BOURBON, will constitute a majority of
six members to five in the Cabinet, as actually son.
posed. The three new Ministers, with M. de SERRE,
combine unquestionably a greater share of talent than
has yet been discovered by an equal number of in-
dividuals, either. in office under the Crown, or in
either Assembly of the Legislature.

Guiana Papers to the 10th ult. Mention the death
of the Lady of John Prince Smith, Esq. second
Fiscal and King's Advocate of Demerara and Esse-
quibo, which took place on the 9th of November.--,
We subjoin the following extract:
_ _

41 GEORGE Toww, Nov. 13, 1820.—0 n the morn-
ing of the 2d inst. the funeral of his Excellency the
Governor of Berbice took place, and the respect of
all ranks of people was conspicuous in their nume-
rous attendance on this melancholy occasion. The
procession, accompanied by she troops of the garri-
son, and the militia of the town (while minute guns
were discharging), moved from the King's House st
eleven o'clock, to the Colonial Churchrwhere a very
excellent and appropriate discourse, taken from
Isaiah, iii. 10, 11, was delivered by the Rev.R.Aussin.
—After the mortal remains of his Excellency were
committed to the I silent earth, beneath the chancel
df the building, three voles were fired by the troops,
and the surrounding multitude then dispersed, evi-
dently much affected at the solemnity of the scene."
Thefollowing is from the Berbice Gazette :—"With
every becoming sentiment of feeling and respect, we
'have this day to record, that his Excellency Henry
William Bentinck, our late Lieutenant-Governor, de-
parted from this transitory state of existence to enter
upon that:of eternal life, on Wednesday night last,
the lit; after long and lingering sufferings, to the ex-
treme grief of his many sincere friends, as well as to
the general regret of almost every 'member of our
little community. The mild and humane character
of this. distinguished individual is too well kno%calt
and too generally acknowledged, to stand in need of
sophisticated panegyric; let it suffice us to say, that
he was a true friend to religion, justice, and hu-
manity ; and we believe that there is scarcely an in-
habitant of this little colony who is not convinced
that' he bath borne his faculties meekly in his great
office,' notwithstanding much violent, though un-
meaning opposition during his administration. ID
Excellency Major Thistlethwayte,' of the 2d (t 1
Queen's), has been sworn in Acting-Governor. Ws
Honour Henry Beard, Esq. President of the Colony
of Berbice, has been reinstated, by Proclamation, in
all the respective offices from which he had been slit-
pended by his Excellency', the late Henry Winiaus
Bentinck, Esq. his Majesty baring been mo,st,griro
ciously pleased to disapprove of such suspension.