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London, England, 1820-03-01 00:00:00

Cit.-17.:8ER OF PEERS.

• - CULLETIN OF THE 2GIII FEBRUARY.
• Chaml?er met at one o'clock.
The order of the day called for tl:e discus-ion, in
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:..g.cOral. assembly, of the Project of Lai/ for suspend-
• kit, during live years,.thellidefinite liberty possessed
by:apurnals devoted in laule or iu part to political
Matters..

• Fifteen names were inscribed on the list of speakers,
rourfor the Project,. seven upon it, and four against k.
The Duke de DOtDEAUVZLLE was first. heard in,
support of the-Project. •
Count GERMAIN thought, that the remedy for the
eil experienced should consist in a more severe law
:•:-- the abuse of the Press, and until such law was
prepared, he was willing to accord a provisional
suspension until the end of the present Session.
The Duke de BROGLIO conceiveti that the prin-
ciple of the evil was to be found less in theihsuffi-
ciency of the law than in the negligence of its exe-
cution. He would, nevertheless, support a supple-
mentary law, which would enforce the dispositions
Of the existing laws, but he resisted, as useless and
dangerous, any previsional measure.
The Marquis de Ia Toutt-nw-Pts, distinguishing
in the question between principles and circumstances,
thought that the circumstances in which cheNation is
at present placed, are so imperious, that they ought in
command principles. He was consequently favour-
able to a Censorship, exercised under the authority of
Ministers, and the duration of which should not ex-
tend beyond the next Session of the Chambers.
The Duke (I,e LEVIR was of the same opinion. It
appeared to him imroSsible to refwe to Government
the law which they demanded. •
• Count di SAINT ROMAN declared, that in his eyes
the pretended advantages of the Liberty of the Press
could not balance the dangers by which it has at all
'tittles been ; there could be no doubt of the
evil,
.and the law proposed appeared to him proper
to remedy it.

Marquis de CLZRMONT ToNNEftßEendeavouted
'to establish, by a history of the misfortunes of France,
.that the Liberty of the Press had never had other
than ruinous results in that country ; he imputed to
these excesses the downfall of so many Governments
during dr.! last thirty years, and deduced from the
whole the necessity of opposing', some barrier :o the
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licentiousness of the Press, by adopting at least the
pinciplc of the law proposed.
The Ci:anther crdcied these different opinions to
be printet?, and adjourned .he farther discussion of
ti:e tine:,tion till Monday.

Scinvrll!N, I'ZP,P.I.7ARY 12.

The Grand 1) :k, has i —tted an Ordinance, in
concert with the Grand Duke of Mecklenhurgb
Strelitz, aLolishing personal servitude throu,shout

Lk terriluics.

.111crATIY 10.

The irnpoita:lt cinlnge in our Ministry, so long
talked of, toa place on the sth of this month.—
racl:?. has been deposed. He has been al-'
lowed to retain the tranquil possession of all his pro•
perty, :And to retire to Gallipoli, as the place of his
feture residence. The new Grand N'izier is Esseid
Ali Pacha, formerly Pacha of Moiea, and afterwards
of Brussa : lie is not yet forty years of age. The
hattischerif cf the Grand Seignior, published on this
occasion, is conceived in these terms:
es Dervis Pacha havin3. no longer the energy of

soul or body necessary to hold with firmness the reins
of a vast Empire, r have chosen thee, Esseid
• from :among my Viziers, to confide to thee the first
di:::%,•lv of the Empire, knowing thy zeal for the
Believers, and being satisfied with the conduct
till hast shewn in the • different Pachalicks which I
have confided to thee. May thy virtues justify my

choke ; and may the 'Ministers and the Rajahs pray
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GOD fer-my preervatiott..
TheAtipreme comeinentler:pf True Believers, Sovereign
Emperor of the Sublime PJrte. " MAMMOUD.r.

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