Star.
London, England, 1819-03-08 00:00:00

PLANDMS, AWL•

- - -
• mint, nsittriipt . ,
r The officers who have been.* tong, imptisojeed,
land whtiware implicated in thetougamcy of Lacy,
Renovates, and Porlier, crib at last -be brought to
trial, which they have constantly solicited, but have
not till now been able to obmin. Among' them are
several brave officers, who haie more, than once shed
their blood in the field of honour, in defence of their
country. There is reason to hope that this conside-
ration, and the long
.confinement which they have
suffered, even supposing that their coUdnct has not
been free from reproach, will have great•weight with
tbe tribunals before which they will be tried.
As for the plot at Valencia, we learn that several in-
dividuals who were arrested at the beginning have
been set at liberty, but that there is still a considera-
ble number in the prisons of that city. The Govern-
ment continues to observe a profound silence on the',
situation of our Colonies ; we no more know what is]
passing in Peru, Chili, and Mexico, what General
Morino is doing, than if those vast and rich coun-
tries hid no connection with the Mother Country.
Even The commercial letters are rare and insignifi-
cant ; in the last of them there is a tone of uneasiness
little- calculated to inspire confidence. We have the
cruel certainty that several vessels laden with troops
and arms for America, and others coming to Europe
with rich cargoes, have been captured. Thus the
merchants suffer enormous losses, and are in conti-
nual anarchy.

VIENNA, FEBRUARY 0.
Field-Marshal Baron Koller, who accompania
Napoleon from Fontainebleau to Elba,, has arrived
here flow Italy. .
Accounts from Rome say, that by virtue of a com-
mission which Cardinal Fesch has received from St.
Helena, Madame Letitia Bonaparte has sent thither
a complete set of plate, and other" ornaments neces-
sary fur a chapel, the vaitm of v.litcrl is estimated at
many thousand scucli. Two Ecclesiastics, one of
whom is invested with the dignity of a Bishop, as
well as a cook, and another servant, are also said to
hare departed to St. Helena. It is Added, all this is,
done w►tth the approbation of the rope.

I
aristyrisiessi receded, by several days) • the
Abe spisosea in this House:

; •

CHAT itbk bP DEPUTIES.

SITTIPO OP THE SD. •
The Chamber for Med itself into a Secret Commit-
tee on the proposition of M. Lafitte.
M. LAPITTB being called to the tribune, developed'
his proposition for an Address to the King, praying
him not to offer any, Project affecting the Law .elf
Elections. He spoke of the alarms which the prop,r
sition made In the Chamber of Peeri had excited;
throughout France, and the injurious effect whichit
had on public credit. Already petitions were poured'
in against it from'all the departments; their number,
is multiplying, and public opinion is loudly pro.
nounced. The orator did justice to the frank and
open conduct of the Ministry, in shewing their una-
nimous opposition to the proposition. Nothing re-
mained to be required of them, but that the opinime
of the Chamber should be declared to all France.
The resolution passed yestestlay in the Chamber of;
Peers cannot be combated in the Chamber of Depu-
ties till after formalities which create delay. Let as
not, therefore, wait these formalities ; there would be
too great danger in the delay ; and since the Govern-
ment has done its duty, let the Deputies do theirs.
The Keeper of the Seals applauded the intentions
of Honourable Mover, but thought his proposi-,
tion premature and unseasonable. It was, he said,
more than ever necessary to observe constitutional
forms in a case like the present. The Resolution of
thesChamber of Peers could not be submitted to that
of the Deputies, by the 20th Article of the Charter,
till after the lapse of ten days. Could the Chamber
then anticipate unconstitutionally this delay, and.
pronounce on a questiOn before it could legally come
under its discussion? The Honourable Mover and
the Chamber ought moreover to be fully satisfied
with the solemn assurance of their hostility to this
proposition, given the first moment it was presented
to the Chamber of Peers.
M. La 'NE, in a brilliant speech, entirely extempore,
insisted first on the freedom which belongs to the
Members both of the I len:ditary and Representative
Ch:amber, to make all the propositions which in their
'judgment would tend to the improvement of the
laws. At a time when there was such talk of the
Freedom of Petitions and the Rights of Petitioners,
was it not strange that an attempt should be made
to deprive either of the Legislative liodies of the
right of expressing its opinions? The alarms which
were spoken of were vain, and the fall in the Public
Funds had nothing to do with the propositiorr before
the Chamber. " A nation r icher than we (said he)
has seen failures multiply, and has experienced a
great depression in its funds, and it is impossible that
the blow should not be felt lwre in Paris as well as in
other commercial cities. I should be the first de-
fender of the Law of Elections (added he), if it were
attacked in its essence: but cannot changes be intro-
duced into it which circumstances have rendered ne-
cessary. and of which experience has shewn us the
want. without affecting its fundimental piinciple?
It was said lately in this Tritiune, that we ought to
make a distinction in the Charter itself, between
those dispositions which are fundamental and immu-'
,table in their nature, and those provision; of regula-
tion which thus might be modified bythe concert of
the three Powers. This distinction applies a fortiori
to the provisions of an organic law."
" Even the full and entire execution of the funda-
mental article of the Law of Elections tends to assure
the proposition introduced into the Chamber of Peers."
Here M. Lame took a view of the modifications of
which the law in question was susceptible. These
were, 1. Not to consider 300 francs of direct contri-
bution as a qualifiCation for voting, unless the con-
tribution had been paid for a year before the Elec-
tion. 2. To make the place of Election more coir-
senient for the Electors, by taking the votes nearer
their domiciles. But (said the enemies of these mo-
difications) do not interfere, for you create an alarm
ever the whole of France ; Petitions daily arrive,
Petitions are preparing, and thousands of citizens
hasten to offer them their signature; they are awakened
to the perfidious combinations of those who, having
lost power in December last, wish to reseize it, and
to continue their fatal projects on popular Elections.'
These are Petitions then, say you! Well, what of
thet ? If they are decent and legal, we shall'receive
them ; we shall perhaps take them into considera-
tion: but this is one reason for not refusing to a De.
puty the right of presenting a Petition to the King,
to pray him for such modifications in the Law of
Elections as may be thOught expedient. Prayers, wel
are told, come from the conquered ; they are the
language of weakness against the designs of force.—
, Well, tnen, there would be no generosity in refusing
to listen to the supplications of vanquished weak-
zees sighing out propositiont. There are .often in the
:sighs of the dying the accents of truth, which the cur-
, rivers, if they are wise, should turn to their advan-
tage. As to the charge of perfidious combinations,
'I know. them not. I have defended, and,l shall de-
fend, true liberty under the shield of the Royal au-
thority ; and nothing shall impose silence upon me,
,or compel me to refrain from expressing what the
charter and my constituents have given me the right
to propose, for the good of :the .throne and of my
country: He opposed the proposition of M. Lafitte.
M. a
DUPONT (de l'Aure) said, "Listen to the cry
natters which arises from alnarts of France against
the proposed change.--see with what force and una-
nitnitypublic opinion declares against it-,--ask your
.own consciences, if it it not true that the immense
majority of the.nation supports the law of elections
as it stands ; if they de not confound that law with
the charter, because they find in them both the prin.
'cjple of a, representation truly national, the guarani
itaasif our best institutions and our dearest liberties."
!He supported the proposition of M. Lafitte.
lfi. Swann said, that in his opinion no change
should take place in the law of elections.
, M. Mamma. directed his speech principally against
that of M. Laine. Some of the observations of the

EIgirtNING STAR,

LONDON.

MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1819.
TUB FUNDS.
TRIM Of STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE o'ctecK:
Bank Stock shut—Bank Long Anns. shut.
S per Ct. Red. auk—Cons. 741 i 74}
Cons. for Ace. 74;1} 2er Cent. shut.
4 vier Cent. shut-5 der Cent. Navy 104 i 10iti
Exchequer Bills (2d.) 12 dis.

• Since our last we have received the
of Thursday (the 4th instant), from whi:-.7lit .
that the struggle between the Ministers
tras is hastening to a crisis. M. LArttri6 rrnosi
tion to address the KING, prayiag that no a:te.-,;.1,1
may be permitted in the Law of Electior,
cussed in the Chamber of Deputies on Wechwil
where it was rejected', as being p:mature, by 41/21'
majority, even the Ministets vot:%,
the Order of the Day. This decision does nat,
ever, imply that this Chamber is favourable to t!,
proposition, which has ben thrice carried is
Chamber of Peers ; but only rllat it is coasiderNill
constitutional to take up a Ties:km originating
the Peers, till brought regularly before them, wli(
it must be within ten days.

Among the speeches is the Peers, w4icli
the Moniteur days after they have been

7.7rit

that of Count LANJUINAIS, who oppos2d the
tion, deserves particular notice:
" As to the facts," said he, "which have prethtc.d th,
tack, if it be Lue that all is at peace on the side of th
tutionalists, all is of dear in the West on the slde of the ..rn
secret armies of the ( tarter. In the departs., nu of *h it IrePil
day bah! scret assumhlies, aui! have secret ormi.vsoilk opadio
cuctade—(Cpies of (Mier.) That army which olio' l d.th
ments, which saws itself in SN nods and highways, is ognial
paid and inyected„ ar.d psd on ditty any doer, in certain bone
Its materit I con si-t • i 0,C,e0 muskcts. M..
rulki
in that part of the klrgskm have preceded by several &,,s
proposal now made to this Chamber."—" If the necri..ary

are neglected, the 3linistry must he chan?ed."—" Mena-HI en.,
new elections in the sense of the oligarchy; the reizera:«
of a Chamber divided into catenates : the total downfall
Representative Government ; measures of exccp:ion, which ri
be made to appear excusable—ind the rex; recdts ceill be. tr.i
versal discontent, the awaking of the nation, perhaps cr4
foreign wars; on all sides incalculable dangers will t 7

liberty, the throne, the altar, the dynasty, and ycnicularly tl
present peerages, nay, perhaps, ail garages. In a wcrd, it,
shall have absolute Despotism or Freedom, fcr the th'rel
too dearly purchased!"

On the best means for setting the present ques•i^nl
at rest the opinions in Paris are much opposed
each other. A dissolution of the Chamber of Depu.
ties, and a new Election, which had been strerg:7l

recommended as a means to secure such a Ilmse -.5
would strenuously oppose all encroachments e
Ultras, seems to have been ahandoned. Otl.e ;s
will be seen from a private letter which we sub;
were even for dissolving the Peers in the same
iter as was done with the Institute, to purge out cer•
Min individuals who should never have been ad-
mitted to the honours of the Peerage; but, if we
may credit the Journal des Debats, the only paper
flat states the fact, the clumsy recourse of adding 45
any Members to the Peerage has been adopted-23
by creation, and the others by recalling those who
were deprived of their seats by the Ordonnance of
24th July, 1815. Our Readers will find the names
In a preceding column, with other' proceedings.

Since writing the above we have received the Par 4
Papers of Friday, which not only confirm the intel-
ligence of the addition made to the House of Peers,
but furnish some other important facts.
, The Ministers have, upon another
-question,
distinct from that of the Election Law, been left, in
the Chamber of Peers, in a minority of 39; it was
on the Project of Law for altering the term of the
financial year, which lately passed the Chamber of
Deputies. The Committee of Peers to whom it NV2S
:remitted, made a Report on Thursday. recommending
the rejection of the law. The Report was ordered to
be printed, and had the course usually followed been
adopted, a future day would have been appointed fcr
the discussion; but the Opposition, in a hurry app
ready to obtain one triumph more for their superior
numbers, before events could arise to put an end to their
preppnderance, resolved that the Chamber should go
into the discussion immediately. Several Members
were then heard for and against the project ; an ad-
journment was moved but negatived ; a motion for
the provisionary adoption of the law was nest tried,
but also rejected; and at last the definitive quesvo
'on the project was put to the vote. The number :t
Members present was 147, of whom there voted v.:
it 54, against it 93.
The second defeat which Ministers have thns
.ceived, so close on the heels of their first discsr:-.;••
tore, and on a measure of a character so peenli.,.7
connected with the machinery of Administration, si
that of the regulation of the financial year, rd:ell
clearly the czistence, in the Chamber 9f Peers, of 21
organized opposition against them, determined to
at nothing Jihort of driving them out of otter.
intention. being obvious, and *the means reser:J.3
being calculated to impede entirely the Govern.
12t machine, as the speediest, though perhafs net
.best remedy, that mtght have been resortri
it was resolved at.once to create a majority in the
inAPP-A a new election wea,3
*I have applied a r9netly to a systematic oppo,iticj

THE EVENING STAR,
LONDON.
MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1819.
TIM FUNDS.
TRIGS Of STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE o'ctnex.
Bank Stock shut—Bank Long Anns. shut. it
S per Ct. Red. shut—Cons. 741 i 74}
Cons. for Ace. 74111*-3i 2er Cent, shut.
4 ever Cent. shut-5 Rr Cent. Navy 104 i 10it.
Exchequer Bills (2d.) 12 dis.
Since
r ss(dturuarygl(gathstl
eelb‘'4.eetthwhiennersnte reatnhtec),ei\ii:o:n tit
xelre•lis f
tofha
tras is hastening to a crisis. M. Larrrris
tion to address the KING, pray iiig that no a'..l;
may be permitted in the Law of Electior,
cussed in the Chamber of Deputies on Wechwi
where it was rejected; as being rrcrlatute, by al:.
Majnt:t.y, even the Ministers t:-.erns ices vca:L,
the Order of the Day. This d.xiiion does nat,lc.;
ever, imply that this Charnber is favourable to ;?
proposition, which has b7en thrice carried is t
Chamber of Peers ; but only right it is coasider-..1.•
constitutional to take up a qaestion nriginatii7 v.:.
the Peers, till brought regularly before them, wif
it must be within ten days.
Among the speeches in the Peers, ...lien arriti
the Moniteur days after they have been
that of Count LA NJUI N A IS, who opposed du; F
Lion, deserves particular notice:
" As to the facts," said he, "which have preduc.l.l the
tacit, if it be t; ue that all is at peace on the side of the C.lrr'
tutionalitts, alt is of weir in the Wl* on the s..ie of the ..t.azn
secret monies of the ( :tarter. In the departi.. cut ol.t r•
day bah! sent asstAnhlies, arc! ha*: secret ormi." wixk a 1,,,,:i.
euctade—(Coies of tinier.) That army which esios in dtr
ments, which slicws itatlf in Moods and highway,, is o:clr
paid and inyected, ar.d put on dory an:velar, in certain 41. .rte
Its inaterit I con si •t• c.l 0 ,C,CO English muskets. Scent -.
in that part of the kingklmn have preceded by several
proposal now made to this Chamber."—" If the necei,;aey m
are neglected, the 3linistry must he clua?ed."—" Then will ea.
new elections in the sense of the oligarchy; the rrizera:'
of a Chamber divided into catenates : the total downfall (d• d.
Representative Government ; measures of exccp:ion, Mich sr
be made to appear excusable—ind the next rectlts will be. :r'
versa! discontent, the awaking of the nation, perhaps civil 77.
foreign wars; on all sides incalculable dangers will ti .
liberty, the throne, the altar, the dynasty, and rtrticelsrly t.
present peerages, nay, perhaps, all Int-rages. In a acrd, r.
shall have absolute Despotism or Freedom, fcr the th'.rd
too dearly purchased!"
On the best means for setting the present quee.in
at rest the opinions in Paris are much opposed to
each other. A dissolution of the Chamber of Depu•
ties, and a new Election, which had been strerg:y
recommended as a means to secure such a ilmse
would strenuously oppose all encroachments of e
Ultras, seems to have been ahandoned. Othe :.s
will be seen from a private letter which we subjoin.
were even for dissolving the Peers in the same maa-
aer as was done with the Institute, to purge out cer-
tain individuals who should never have been ad-
mitted to the honours of the Peerage; but, if we
may credit the Journal des Debate, the only paper
that states the fact, the clumsy recourse of adding 45
new Members to the Peerage has been adopted-23
by creation, and the others by recalling those who
were deprived of their seats by 'the Ordonnance of
?4th July, 181.5. Our Readers will find the names
in a preceding column, with other' proceedings.
Since writing the above we have received the Paris
Papers of Friday, which not only confirm the intel-
ig•ence of the addition made to the House of Pecs,
rut furnish some other important facts.
The Ministers have, upon another. question, wholly
listinct from that of the Election Law, been left, is
he Chamber of Peers, in a minority of 39; it WaS
m the Project of Law for altering the term of the
inancial year, which lately passed the Chamber of
Deputies. The Committee of Peers to whom it was
emitted, made a Report on Thursday, recommending
he rejection of the law. The Report was ordered to
ie printed, and had the course usually followed been
tclopted, a future day would have been appointed for
he discussion; but the Opposition, in a hurry nprl-
ently to obtain one triumph more for their superi,o
Lumbers, before events could arise to put an end to
ireppnderance, resolved that the Chamber should go
nto the discussion immediately. Several 31eniters
were then heard for and against the project ; an ae•
comment was moved but negatived ; a motion tar
provisionaryhe
andadop attion of thethe law
definitive
mthe project was put to the vote. The number
Members present was 147, of whom there voted f.:
t 54, against it 93.
The second defeat which Ministers have dins
dni was
nee
t quest:"tr.7a;
also rejected;
:eived, so close on the heels of their first
ure, and on a measure of a character so pecnlizot
:onnected with the machinery of Administration,
sa
hat of th. roboulaticyn of the financial year,