Star.
London, England, 1821-12-31 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

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CHAMBER OP DEPUTIES, DECEMBER ss.
The Sitting openeu at hail past one o'clock. The
Keeper of the Seals and the Minister of the Interior
were on the Ministerial bench,
The Count de BERN'S, the Repotter of the Corn-
xisittee of Petitions, called the attention of the Cham-
ber to one which prayed for a tax of the tenth part of
a franc on, landed and personal property, for the re-
lief of the poor who were unable to gain their liveli-
hood by labour. lle stated, that the Committee
bad authorised him to move the Order of the Day
on this Petition.

M. DUIIAMEL, in seconding the motion for the re-
jection of this Petition, observed, that experience had
already shewn the evil of such a tax in England ; it
had led to the production of vagrancy and crime. It
ought to be rejected immediately. He lamented the
alarming increase of beggars throughout France, and
proposed that beggars should be registered ; and that
the license or (certificate) of begging should not he
granted with such facility as it was at present.—Order
of the Day.
A Petition from the Olive-growers of the De. ail-
ment of the Var, amounting to 56,000, was then no-
ticed: it prayed relief from the tax inipo•ed on that
branch of cultivation, on account of the heavy
sustained !loin the frosts of the yea! 1820. The Pe-
tition was referred to the Minister of Fir,a,we.

The REPORTER.—The Sieur Item', merchant of
Paris, complaini of the fatal consequences of the pas-
sion for gaming, and the evils which the • •pen houses
cause to persons addicted to that vice. He dim of re
prays.that those houses may be shut up, and severe
penalties inflicted on all persons attending any of the
kind. The Committee shares the senti . ,ent sof the Pe-
titioner, but refraining from assuming an initiative
which does not belong to it, has directed me to pro-
pose, that this Petition should be referred to the Mi-
nister of Finance.

The Reporter said that the• Petition might be re-
ferred to both Ministers.

The question was put, on the reference to the Mi-
nister of the Interior, and carried. _ _ _

A call wa, then made for also referring the Peti-
tion to the Committee on the Budget; but the ques-
tion being pat on this reference, it was negatived.
M. Chabrol de Crouzol was elected fourth Vice-
President of the Chamber. He had 164 votes, and
the other candidate, M. Delalot, 130.

CORRECTIONAL POLICE.
The Seventh Chamber of First Instance has pro-
nounced judgment in the affair of Viscount de Mon-
telegier and Colonel Barbier Dufay. Here follows
the sentence, with the grounds on which it is passed:
" In regard to the complaint of Gen. de Montelegier:
" Seeing that it results Iron: the instruction of the
process, that towards the middle of the month of
July ia- c, Colonel Dufay caused to be printed and
diFtrib .ted, a writing containing a letter dated May
20, addressed by him to General Montelegier:
" D.J. in the said letter he accuses General Mon-
telegiei having calumniated him in the most odious
and wicks.. manner, before the first Court of the
kingdom, and before all France ; adding, that the
declaration of the General, the sole author of that
fiction and of many others, is an impudent falsehood,
and that he degrades himself too much in corre-
ponding with a being so base and so demoralized ;
that, in fine, he therein provoked him to a combat a
out mice, in the most gross and most insulting terms:
" That the said letter was written on the 20th of
May, three days .after the General had given his
deposition in the Court of Peers, which happened on
the 17th May :

That allthe journals of the 18th, one only ex-
cepted, the Journal des Debuts, in reporting this de-
position, cited the name of Colonel Tabvier, and nut
that of Dufay ; that Dufay could not, and ought not
to have been ignorant of this fact before writing that
letter, in which he states, that on that day the Journal
des Debals of the 18th had accidentally fallen into
his hands:

That accordingly, from that moment, he could
have no doubt that the Journal des Debuts had com-
mitted an error, and that General Montelegier really
had not mentioned him in his deposition before the
Chamber cf Peers:

" That afterwards, he could as little doubt that the
answer to the said letter, which he has also published,
emanating from General Montelegier, and dated on
the same day, states that Dufay had never been men-
tioned either to or by him : _ _ _

"That it is, therefore, knowingly and wickedly,
and with the design of compelling the said General
Montelegier to meet him for a combat a outrance,
that Colonel Dufay printed and distributed the said
defamatory writing
" Seeing that on the 26th of July last Colonel Du-
fay caused to be yrinted and circulated a second
writing, in which he stated, in speaking of General
Montelegier, that it would not be easy for the Tri-
bunals to pronounce the innocence of the author of
the end of General Bon ; and farther on, that being
present on the 23d of January, in the house of Gene-
ral Mcntelegier, the said General presented a pistol
to his (Dufay's) breast, and drew the trigger, but
that the priming did not take fire ; and that these de.
famatory and calumnious facts are contradies!cl by
the persons who were present, and by an Ordinance i
of the Chamber of Council, dated August 18 :—That
Dula), is therefore guilty of the crimes provided
*phut by Articles 13, 14, 18, and 19 of the Law of
May 17, 1819.
" With regard to the complaint. of Colonel Dufay
against General Montelegier
" Seeing that General Montelegier, instead of de-
spising the belme-mentioned insults and calumnies,,
or of proceeding legally against them, caused to be
printed and distributed a letter, addressed by him to
Colonel Dufay, in which he says, 4 A wretch covered
with infamy, who has been condemned to the gallies,
imposed in the pillory, and implicated in the crime
of Louvel, has no right to claim an affair of honour,
nor even to speak of it :'
" That General Montelegier, notwithstanding his
having been insulted, calumniated, and provoked in
the most outiageous manner, is, nevertheless, repre-
hensible for taking justice into his own hands, by
publishing the said letter.
" In pursuance, therefore, of Articles 13, 14, 18,E
and la of the Law of the 17a1 of May, 1819,
" The Tribunal condemns Colonel Mk to an

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prisonment of one month, 506 francs fine, and to the
payment of five-sixths of the expenses.
" And General Montelegier to 25 francs of fine,
and one-sixth-of the expenses.
" The Tribunal also orders the suppression' of the
three writings in question. With regard to the other
requests and conclusions of the parses, they are put
out of the cause." Dufay has entered an appeal.

TIIE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 81, 1821. • 1
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STOCK EXCHANGE., ONE O'CLOCK.
Our Funds have fallen this morning 9/s from the
Saturday's closing prices, but have since recovered,
and Consols are now 77%. This depression is attri-
buted to the reported fall of the French Funds. An'
Express is said to have brought the price of the
French Funds on Saturday at 82 f. 20 c. but we
have some doubt as to this being correct. A
vari ty of reports are in circulation as to the failure,
cf a number of French Brokers, and that a consider-
able House in Paris has been compelled to sell out a
large quantity of Siock to meet its engagements.

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