Star.
London, England, 1819-01-04 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, DECEMBF.II 31.
Yesterday, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, the
Countess of Gotliland (the Queen of Sweden) paid a
visit to his Majesty.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, all the Ministers
met in Council at the Thuilleries. Before the Sit-
tings, their Excellencies the Marquis Dessolles, M. de
Serre, and M. Baron Louis, took the oath of fidelity
in the presence of his Majesty, in their new quality of
Ministers. The Council sat, under the presidency of
the King, till four o'clock.
The Duke of Richelieu's health was yesterday
much improved.
It will be seen by the quotation of prices on the
Exchange yesterday, that our Funds are rising. A
new proof of the increase of put4ic conffilence.—
Journal de Paris.

The same Journal, after giving on. the 30th the list
of the new Ministers, adds--“ Since the day before
yesterday, these nominations had acquired a conside-
rable degree of probability, and they had an auspi-
cious influence upon the Public Funds. Yesterday
their improvement continued, and enabled us to judge
still further, by this thermometer, of the confidente
inspired by the above intelligence.
General Ali:, included in the second list of the
Ordinance of the 2,4 th of July, has obtained peraa-
sion to return to, France.

We are assured, that in accepting the resignation.
of M. Baron Pasquier, his Majesty testifiesi to him;
in the most flattering manner, his satisfaction with
his services. M. Baron Pasquier is already a Mem-
ber of the Privy Council, and Grand Cordon of the
Legion of Honour.—Moniteir.
After the King had heard Mass on Tuesday, his
Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, accompa•
nied by Sir Charles Stewart, was presented to his
Majesty.
A short time ago, General Pozzo di Borgo, the
Russian Ambassador, had a private audience of the
King. His Excellency was introduced with the usual
ceremonies.

Thel)uke of Glouc ester visited the different branches
of the Royal Family.
The funeral of M. le Mancha' Count Perisnon,
Peer of France, took place yesterday with all the ho-
Inours due to his rank.

The King of Saxony will celebrate, on the l7th of
this month, the fiftieth anniversary of his marriage.
day. The ceremony is called in Germany, the Golden
Marriage.
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.
BULLETIN OF THE 23Tra.

M. LAING de Villeveque, developed the proposi-
tions which he had submitted a few aays.ago. He
explained the several coises which diminish the mass

LONDON.

MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1819.

TILE FUN I).S.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE OCLCOIC:
per Cent. Ileduced 78 781.,--‘1 per Cent. Cons. shut
Cons. for Account, 79; t-4i per Cent. 8611
4 per Cent. 951i-5 per Cent. Navy shut
India Bonds 85 90 pre.—Omuium 3 pre.
Exchequer Bills 17 19 pre.

The Paris Papers of Thursday arrived in the course
of yesterday, and in a preceding column we have
given extracts from them. We have also this fore-
noon received those of Friday, from which some ad-
ditional notices will he found subjoined.
From these and from our Private Letters it ap-
pears, that the Appointment of the new Ministry has
gismo very general .confidence to the nation. The
Funds have risen, and a Provisional Budget, to the
amount which Government required, has been sanc-
tioned, after some debate, by both Chambers—and
measures are already put in train for the sale of the
National Domains, towards the liquidation of the
Public Debt.

The more we reflect on the recent proceedings in
France, the more we see causefor rejoicing at the turn
which things have taken in that country. The cause
of order and constitutional freedom may now be con.

sidered as placed almost beyond danger. The late
unsuccessful attempt of the Ultras to regain their as-
cendency, is, we trust, the last effort of that contemp-
tible patty to plunge the nation into confusion. We
hope they will at length benefit from the lessons of
experience, and see that it is only by making a part
of the nation, and not by separating themselves from
it, and endeavouring to confine all power and honour
to their own Caste, that they can ever hope to be
any thing, By claiming all, they will only deprive
themselves of their fair share. The French are oil.
ling to acknowledge the honours of those men, whom
their SOVEREIGN has, under the Charter, invested with
the Peerage; but they will no longer brook an order
in the State, who consider themselves from Latta alone
entitled to engross all honours and advantages, civil
and military, and the rest of the nation as merely born
to toil for their advantage. The Revolution has
emancipated the people, we trust for ever, from this
galling bondage, and put an end to all influence but .
t!ltht which talents and property must necessarily give
in every society.

PARIS, JANUARY 1.

Count gesselrode, Minister of Foreign Affairs to
the Emperor of Russia, had yesterday his audience
of leave.

The Duke of Richelieu continues to get better and
better.

At the Sitting of the Chamber of Peers on Wed-
nesday, the Marquis de Lilly Tollendal submitted
to the Assembly a proposition for an Address to his
Majesty, praying that he mould present to the Cham-
ber a Law, assigning to the Duke of Richelieu first
'Author, next to the King, of the liberation (of Prance,
an hereditary recompence, at once honourable and be-
neficial, proportioned to the eminence of his services,
and to the excess of his disiaterestedness, equally
woolly of the satisfaction of a Great King, and the
gratitude of a Great Nation. The Chamber resolved
that the proposition should be takseviato consideration.

The Chamber of Peers had also a meeting on the
31st, for the purpose of receiving a communication
tiont Government. Baron Louis, Minister of Finances,
charged with making this Nnunuttication, presontnil

to the Chamber a Project of Law adopted ley f.e
Chamber of Deputies, which authorized the provi-
sional collection of the first•six-twelfths of the Cur.-
tributions of 1819. The Project, being remitted
the Bureaus, underwent an examination there, ;Iftvr
which it was opened for discussion ; and no objectio
being made, the articles were put to the• vote, and
provisionally adopted. The vote was then Fut fu.
the definitive adoption of the whole Project, wilco
there appeared fur it, out of 105 votes, •a rualusil
of 103. •

The Chamber of Deputies met in.Secrettom-
mittee on Thursday, when Baron DliLb:44lkiit i;1041K4
for leave to present an Address to hts*Mafesty, to the
same effect as that moved in the chatabet cif &VI it '4
by the Marquis 4e LALLY TuL4Nowi.,mit:ll resiirit
to the granting of a national recompense to the Dear
of gICIIELII:th—•-TA•uve was grairred accordingly, ah.l
the discussion of the Project appointed fur Monday.
Five per Cents. Thursday, 6.1 fr..
PRIVATE LUTTlial. •
PAlthl/2 DECEMDFR 20.
" Tranquillity has At length, ticen restored in the
political world here; the intrigues of parties carte
too violent to be lasting, the struggle was tbr:refi.:e
severe and short.. Poor M. 'Mor.r., the Minister ef
Marine, made a prodigious fuss; he would for once
be of importanoe, and send•his enemies to Siberia, bat

' Pdrturiunt mouses sasevtat ridiersho nest • .
and M. Mot. F., instead of pet forming the mighty feats
• he proposed, has ended by getting turned out hitrrt
and sinking to his native nothingness. The compo-
sition of the new Ministry is attributed by some to
M. DE CA ZES, by others t General Dessoues. Peer
of Fiance ; to the latter opinion we incline, thonsia
perhaps the truth may prove to be that the choice
emanated from a higher source thail either of them.
The repugnance of •M. Dm CAsses to retrain as Mi-
nister is well known ;.and report states That it was
only in obedience to the positive commands of his
MA lE.STY that he agreed to accept of office. The
new Ministry is composed of General the Marquis
Dessot,Les, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Presidera
of the Cabinet Council ; Marshal GouvtoN Sr. Cvs
remains Minister of IVar ; the Baron Lows replaces
M. goy, as Minister of Finance ; DE Seine :e_
places M. PasoutEn, as- Minister of Justice ; M. I.)s
CA;gs becomes Minister of the Interior with a pc:-
tion of the 'Police (which ceases to be a
united ; and M. PORTAL replaces M. Mots, as Mi-
nister of ` Marine.

• ". T.thenas a whole, the new Ministry appea:s to
be favoutable to constitutional liberty."

We have received by private accounts to-day.frnni
IParis, very gloomy accoJuts.of the suite of Con:m.r-
ci•il Credit in that Capital. 'No less than twelve
houses of the first respectability, after answering all
demands upon them up to the 30th ultimo, ones-
peetedly stopped payment ort •the • 31st. WW' have
obtained a list uf the names of these houses, but Air fear
of any possible error, think it as well to defer po-
lishing it for the present. The Funds had, notwitl.-
gandint, risen ou Saturday to fib fr. 75 c.

A Gentleman just arrived from St. Helena gives
the following particulars of the late attempt to effect
the escape of BONAPARTE from that Island :
" An American vessel, apparently dismasted, and
otherwise injured, but purposely damaged to avoid
suspicion, made her appearance off St. Helena. Tie
necessary repairs were entered on with the greatest
activity, whilst other schemes were prosecuting with •
industry in the interior. It had for some time pre-
viously been deemed expedient to have'a daily view
of BONAPARTE by a person appointed fOrlhat
parti-
cular Linty. His medical attendant, however, now
caused it to be notified, that the precarious state of
the Ex-Emperor's health was such, as to render it
necessary that he should remain perfectly quiet at
home, unannoyed by any personal inspection. In this
feigned state of indisposition the wily NaroLeots
secretly quitted his bed-wove about midnight. By i°
means the most artful he actually passed the guard.
and eluding the vigilance of no less than seven (Cc-
tine's, succeeded-in reaching the beach. This was a
juncture of high isterest indeed! The means uf
escape which the Ex-,Emperor was led so cvnfidently
to.expect were, however, not yet perfected. It had
been concerted that a certain signal shoald be lives
by on his arrival at the beach. The signal maw
duly given, by hoisting a lantern at the end of a
stick ; bus she boat which was to receive him nct
having yet sufficiently approached the shore, a single
'sentinel (of whose station on the beach BONAPARIZ
had not been apprised) on peteeiving the light, came •
up, and with a fidelity equal to his resolution, seirid
'the once Great Captain, whose very name had beer
tip terror of millions. He instantly forced hint to
Ita guard-house, from whence he was conveyed back
to Longwood ; where, it is scarce necessary to add, ie
has ever since been watched with increased vigilarax,
though not treated personally with the slightest de-
gree of rigoer."

A Dutch Mail arrived yesterday, from which ire
have given some extracts in another column; Ali
'this morning w•e received German Papers to a ate
date, hut their contents are unintere4ting.

A singular correspondence between Mr. Cnasynt
and Sir Fnnuis BURDETT appeared in a Sunday
Paper, which we shall lay before our Readers, t.r
morrow, if possible. Its "great length prevent* :4
appearnaca in Our colutnus