Star.
London, England, 1816-12-07 00:00:00

fU TIIE EDITOR OF THE STAR. •

ins :4 Street-Walker—don't be alArrneji—r
mean th.. r I am it person who, not being enabled by
Follow. to keep my carriage, am cor.strailied, when
I have occasion to pass Item one part of the town to
the other, to make use of the ten toed machine which
I)emitir liulgradery speaks of as being in much re.
guest among the Haymakers in Ireland.—ln the
course of my perambulations I have observed upon
various walls tl2e letters 1....8. placarded—l shall be
much favoured if any of your Correspondents will in-
form me what these said letters mean.
I am, Sir, yours, ate.

B. L.

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FRENCH PAPERS. •
We have received the Paris Papers of Tuesday
and Wednesday. The Peers have rejected, by a
large majority, a proposition for.preventing.Members
from reading their speeches : this augurs badly for
the quantum of talent which that body possesses.—
An English reader, accustomed to the brilliancy of
an extemporary debate in our Houses of Parliament,
may easily conceive how cold and lifeless, in compa•
risen, must be the manner of a mawkish drawling
Freedman of the *idle cow., while mattering over
some arguments which have been strung together for
bim;perhaps, by some garreteer, in the pay of the
Minister or the opposition !
The kleniteur of Wednesday formally announces
the appointment of CAMILLE JORDAN, as Counsellor
of State : this distinction is similar to that of our
Privy Council, with the difference that the French-
man is handsomely paid for his services at the Board
of Council :he has also more to do. The appoint.
ment of Casur.LE JuEDAN, who is a most estimable
character, and whose name is not to be found in the
French dictionary of weather-cocks, atones in some
measure tor the illiberality with which his predecessor.
M. blow, nas been treated. The latter was dis-
missed from his of of Counsellor of State on ac-
count of the part he took in favour of the liberty of
the Press and of the subject,' in the cause of the Peti-
tion of the oppressed family of the RoBERTS.
It do.. really seem to us from this and similar acts,
that the new Ministers are quite as much Ultras in
their measures, as their Royalist predecessors—they
persecute their opponents with a rigour beyond the
letter of the.law, and thereby they incur the risk of
being charged with feelings personally rancorous ;
they. will probably bring about their own dismissal
by this unaccommodating spirit.
The appointment of CAMILLE JORDAN in all proba-
bility, flows from the King himself, without any
Ministerial recommendation; in this case it does his
MAJESTY Still more honour. CAMILLE JoRDAN always
hebnged to the most moderate and enlightened part
of the early revolutionists—they ought, in fact, to be
distinguished from the latter by the more intelligible
appellation of Reformists.
To this party the KING himself, when Count DE
PuoveNcE, was known to belong, and for this he bas
been frequently much blamed, as having once coun-
tenanced, by the patronage of Royalty, men whose
true characters• were afterwards developed by the
commission of the most horrid atrocities. At the
commencement of the Revolution CAMILLII JORDAN
was an Advocate at Lyons, and by his cautious and ,
steady conduct, secured his personal safety, and that
of many of his friends, who would have otherwise
fallen a prey to the horrors of which that City was
the theatre. In 1797 he was elected Deputy from
the Rhone to the Council of 500. His principal
speeches were made in favour of as universal spirit of
toleration of religious worship, and against the Jaco-
bin factions which menaced the Government, and of
which BONAPARTE was then the secret leader...-.
He was ordered to be transported to Cayenne, but
he contrived to escape, and returned to France in
18(X) ; at first he was imprisoned at Grenoble, where
be had the hardihood, in 180$, to publish a pam-
phlet against conferring the Consulate for life on
BONAPARTE,. We obtained his liberty some time af-
terwards, on pron4sing to retire from public life,
and, in 1814, he was found by the Royalists, at
Lyons, in great obscurity. He joined them, on ob-
taining a pledge that a free Constitution would be
given to Isis Country, which we have no doubt be
will vigorously support. He is a most eloquent
speaker, and able debater.
Ten Protestants have publicly abjured their heresy
in the Church of St. Charles, at Nismes, and been
baptised as Catholics.
A. letter from Frankfort, dated September 26, says, 1
" The Constitution of the Kingdom of Wurtemberg
is nearly arranged. The States renounce several of
their pretensions, for Instance'-1. That of adminis•
tering a fund by. their own secret disposal, without
being accountable either to the Kim or the people—
•l
That of having permanent Secret Committees—S.
The right of electing themselves, to the exclusion of
dte 4tion, Deputies in the room of those vacating.
Lastly, they desist from their refusal to consent to the
establishosest of two Chambers. The King..who in.