Star.
London, England, 1817-11-24 00:00:00

MifLTA.

Letters of last month from Malta state, that ap-
plications had been :nide by the Merchants at Malta
to General MAITLAND, which were renewed on his
arrival from Florence. The General said, that the,
determination of his Majesty's Ministers roust be
waited for. Up to the year 1811, the duties levied
at Malta on imports were scarcely sine half per cent.
A new tariff was established, which raised the duties
on exports and imports to one and a half per cent.=
The interior of Milt.' affords a very limited consump-
tion ; it-can only be commercial place in the way
of transit, for which its situation is so advantageous.
Augmentation of duties on the passage of goods, it
it urged, must affect the trade. From such causes`
Malta is ceasing to be the depot which it was expected
to be. Scarcely two small vessels in a year find
lading at Malta for this country. Parliament has
opened the trade of India to Malta ; butt the French,
Americans, and others, supply the Mt:diturraneau
with East India produce.

FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, NOVEMBER 19.

The following is the Address of the Deputies to
the King, which was read to his Majesty yesterday,
by M. de Rene.

" SlMl—Your faithful subjects, the Deputies of
the Departments, bring to the toot of your throne
the homage of their respect and their love.
" We arrived here with our souls penetrated by
the misfortunes that afflict our country; we are grate-
ful to your Alajesty Inr the word of consolation and
hope, which you have caused us to hear.
The exhaustion of long wan, the disasters of
two invasions, the pressure of tributes, the occupa-
tion of our territory, all these evils are aggravated
by a severe scarcity. In the bosom of countries the
most fertile, your people have experienced the mise-
ries of famine.

a This crisis has revealed great private and public
virtues. Your Government, faithful to the prin-
ciples or the administration, have perserved a tree
citculation of prnvisiohs. and carried its assistance to
every place which was menaced with want. Your
personal donations, Sire, and those of your family.
together with the benevolent acts of citizens, have
been incessantly multiplied ; the suffei ings which
could not be healed have been endured with ad-
•thirable resignation; and if in any quarter patience
was not able to conquer distress, the firmness of the
Magistrates, the appearance of the public force,
, • promptly restored the order which was fur a moment
intet re pied.
a The national spirit is strengthened by the expe-
rience of ns•slonune; the bonds which connect the
Monarch with his subjects, and citizen with citizen.
have been rendered more compact. In these dispo-
sitions the nurnernus Electoral Colleges were as-
sembled ; every where order and tranquillity prevail-
ed ; tree and nation '1 elections, proved the union of
' doe people with the King ; they stewed that a sincere
effectioa for your dynasty, for that charter, which
you. hay, given us, has struck the deepest roots into
the hearts of Frenchmen. ,
a Thus are displayed the motives of our security
. the guarantees of our stability, and your Majesty has
azcoedingly thought; that Justice may soon resume
bet accustomed course.
• « The progress of ibings, and the necessity arising
from ear situation, confirm the hopes which we have
received from the mouth of your Majesty. Your
people submitted with grief, bet in 'Ocoee. to the
.Trasies of November, liploi, after baying made the
greatest efforts faithfully to esteem them ; alter ea-
brinitOocyears have infinitely added to the severity of
their explicit conditions, we cannot believe that they
•
conceal.esorbitant consequences, which none of the
couwacing parties could have anticipated. The wis-
dom of your Majesty will be understood and second-
. . . ad bi the enlightened politics which preside over the
'destinies of the other nationeot Europe ; an equitable
. • limit es Übe fixed to enormous sacrifices ; the jieriod
. 'of the ton oppressive occupation of our country will
be diminished l' our territory will he liberated. Then,
;alone. France will taste of pate; her credit will be
ebasolidated, her internal prosperity restored, and
Me boreal( will resumer her rank among nations.'
~ " The spirit of the charter and national honour
(save breathed tbrogbout the communications which
your Majesty bas de pod to make to us upon the in-
*utioas or the law prepared by your order for * re-
gruituunt.of the army. All your subjects, Sire, an-
swer to the voice of a Sovereign who is pre-eminently
French; nothing will be consideredll them as a sa-
crifice which goes to secure to the crown its dignity,
and to the country its independence.
66 The increase of expenditure which the execution
of this law will demand, and the miscellaneous
charges to which the Treasury must be liable, will
be found partly compinsated by- the system of goo.
*nay which your Majesty pursues, and which tem-
_ peony mishatuaeshave rendered more than ever im-
perative upon us. - .
66 The Chamber of Depaties, has constantly parti-
cipated in the zeal of your Majesty for the re•ssta-
blishment of the French Church I already in pre-
aediug &Woes the Chamber has relieved its pressing
,weemsideshy several mos, the wise distribution of
(Idlielailltletwaptaly. its Ministers with an honourable
newsmen, 'The sem lases which your Majesty has
allallonnokfeemalid,, as *fry are upon the charter,
end *Pee the egitleielt kswi of the Ongdom, will este-
blisb perpetual 'haraiony bitwewl .tbe Church and
.State. Under Omit preteMices, aid under the au-1
thotity of a pious nod enlightened Lug, the French
=l:6,stwill slant Ahemeelves, as they did in
.tha
lid r our hiatus the defenders of our
bows and • & distinguished for visiting soactity,
.frith semi* eisil brilliant talent with masnom piety,
' they will' hs mill the honour of France am& the &demi
loon of *o Mistime world.
• •• laws projected is favour of the Religion of
suia will not interfere with the interests of the
ohm uasious foams of waship, whom rights are irre-
yoga. consecrated. .
`;' 66 E the maspecious mean* of religion Will be
' diet of national 'donation and public Num.
ail,
...m.,. eteiffr principles, which will in-
young with five towards their Pieties, web

obedience to their laws, and with fidelity to
social duties, and will prolong to future generations
the benefit of year Majesty', resign.
In the conviction of the good of which the heart
of your Majesty is the source, your Majesty may well
say,* I feel that lam loved by my people.' Happy
the nation whose King can pay to himself this con-
scious mummy with the universal assent of the
people. Yes, Sire, the love of your people surrounds
you. their confidence is increased by every thing which
your Majesty does. This reciprocal co.ifiJrnce be-
coming every day more intimate. will give to our
Government a force superior to that which might
spring from temporary laws rendered sometimes ne-
cessary by circumstances; it will efface even the
traces of our long misfortunes.

" May Heaven, in repairing our losses, soon crown
our wiales with new heirs of your spirit as well as of
your rights, thus granting us new pledges of pros-
perity and glory 1
4‘ One of your children, Sire, so worthy of the
same, has been traversing our provinces. sowing
every where upon his journey the seeds of concord
and peace. Together with the expression of his sa-
tis,action of his King, he receives also that of the na-
tiunal gratitude ; it is the patetnal heart of your Ma-
jesty ; it is the consecutive spirit of our institutions
And our liberties that the French revere and bless in
your August nephew."

His Majesty's answer was in.the following words :
—" I am profoundly touched with the sentiments you
express towards me in the. name of the Chamber of
Deputies. I accept, with delight, the happy presages
tltoy offer. To realize them, I rely upop a unison of
opinions, cf deliberations, and of conduct, which can
alone secure the repose of France."

An affair litio that of M. Fuaides has lately been
before the Assize Court at Rochelle. A Mr. Bal.
longer. a man of very estimable character, residing
near Rochelle, together with his daughter, his son,
and a servant maid, were found assassinated in his
house, on the fith of December last. Some time
passed before any clue was found to the murderers ;
at length they were discovered and convicted upon'
the following strong circumstantial evidence ; they
were two brothers of the name of Brund ; they had
owed some money to Ballanger ; they were proved
to have been absent from their homes on the night
the assassination , was committed, and that they did
not return before day-break ; that they washed their
clothes in water, which being 'bus made bloody, they
poured into the privy ; that they hid in their posses-
sion knives like those, the blades of which were found
in the bodies of the victims ' • that four or five days
hadafter the assassination they paid a number of
their creditors in half-crown pieces, pieces which
Ballenger had received a great quantity of the day
before he was murdered ; that several of the pieces
were found spotted with blood. The brother Bru-
net endeavoured to chew that they bad received those
pieces from persons whom they named, but-in this
they failed. They were found Guilty, and were ex-
etuted on the 13th inst.

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