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FRENCH PAPERS.

FROM THE MONITIEUR Off TUESDAY, M. 19.
(Kmac nm)
ORDINANCES OF THE KING.
CHARLES, Sec.—Debiting to establish the military le-
gislation on fixed principles, and to subject the organi-
zation of our army to the rectifications which may ap-
pear to us necessary to reconcile what the dignity of
our Kingdom requires with the economy of our finances
—des ring to give to our army a new pledge of our Royal
favour—on the Report of our Minister Secretary of
State for the War Department, we have ordained and
du ordain as follows :
1. A Supreme Council of War shall be formed, of
which our dear Son, the Dauphin, shall be President.
2. The projects of law, ordinances, and regulations
concerning the military organization and legislation,
shall be henceforth discussed .by our Council of War,
before they are laid before us for our apprbation.
S. The Council shall examine the existing laws and
ordinances on the organization and legislation of our
army, to point out the ameliorations of which they may
be susceptible.
4. The Supreme Council of War shall be composed
of the Secretary of State for the War Department, of
three Marshals of France, and of twelve Lieutenant-
Generals. Two Military Intendants shall be %cached
to the Council, with a consultative voice. A. Major
General shall act as Secretary.
5. We shall decide, in the sequel, ob the order of the
proceedings and deliberations of the Council, as well as
its relations with our Minister of War.
A second Ordinance appoints the Members. The three
Marshals are the Dukes of Delimits and Ragusa, and
Count Molitor.

FROM Till JOURNAL 111 DEBAT&
PARIS, Few Is.
Two things are beginning to be clearly seen :-1. Ii
the Ministry have a majority in the Elective Chamber it
is so small that it a ill be almost impossible to go on with
it, and this sorry majority they will lose by the thirty
elections which are about to take place.-2. Which is a
matter as easily discovered, Ministers, instead of gaining
ground in public opinion, have lost considerably. Their
s:eclarations of liberal principles, their honied speeches,
the designs announced to conciliate all persons, to satisfy
both private and public interests, gave them, at first,
some favour ; they obtained some credit ; but when it
was seen that no effect followed their professions, that
their only occupation was reit acting their pledges, that
they belied in the Plonitesti• what they said in the Tri-
bune, and in the Tribune *what they printed in the
siforsiteur, then the confidenie is diem, which was at no
time great, began to be withdraWn.
Plil VATE CORHEISPoNDEkCE.
nous, F. 17.
The choice which the Ministry has just made of M.
Bourdeau for the Director Generalship of the Customs,
or M. Villeneuve, and of M. BAcot de Roman, for two
other directorships, shews that it coquets with the
extttme right, where the latter sits—with the right
centre where . M. de Villenenve is found undistin-
guished from the crowd—and with the left, to which
M. Bourdeau has belonged for some years past. The
left, on its side, mansuvres to rally on its benches a
part of the former counter-opposition, so that without
'hawing any inlerence from certain detached votes, it
may be affirmed that there has been as yet no decided
majority. The election of the President will begin to
giire precise indicinions. The exclusion of M. Raves will
prove that the influence belongs to the left, which would
heneefor war d become very powerful by the ultimate and
approaching accession of 29 Deputies from the depart-
ments left vacant by double elections.
In the meantime, M. de Ville wogs the Chamber
of Peers. We are assured that his party increases a great
deal, and that he has the hope of still playing an im-
portant part: But this party will diminish if the present
Miaistry is consolidated, and if the favour which the
King entertains towards his former Ministry yield to
public opinion.
1 forgot to give you some details respecting our sew
Directors General. M. Bourdeau, Attorney General at
Rennes, under the Ministry of De Cases and Richelieu,
was ditrui:sed for having ex reused in the Chamber
liberal stntiments. kre then threw himself into opposition,
Where he played a certain part. One of his speeches
which ended with these words," You have more Jesuits,
.0

M. de Villeneuve, Prefect of the Department of the
Saone et Loire, belongs to the innumerable Villeneuve*,
pendants of the innumerable Chabrols. The. Ville-
neuve: Bargemont, a very old family of Provence, were
poor. They begin Under the empire to increase their
fortune by Government employments, as they did like-
wise at the Court of Queen Hortensia. Since the re•
.toration, we meet with them everywhere. Four of
them are prefects, another is a Captain of the Navy,
and I do not know how many nephews and cousins of
the Villeneuve: are to be found in different Govern-
ment employments.
M. Bacot de Roman was Subprefect under the Em-
peror. He belongs to a fatuity of merchants ; he has
talent, a facility of speaking, and decision of character.
A zealous Royalist of the extreme right, he went over
to the ranks of the counter-opposition, and carried en
an animated war against the Ministry of Villele. He
is the intimate friend of M. de la Bourdonnaye, who,
on the proposal of a portefcuille which was offered to
him, Always made a condition of his acceptance that M.
Bacot de Roman should have a Director Generalship.
Our young Minister, M. de Vatismenil, chosen ex-
pressly on account of his easy and flowing elocution,
exhibited a complete failure the first time he ascended
the tribune. It would be difficult to conceive any thing
more insipid, more prolix, or more tiresome, than he
sho aed himself, in defending the elections of the de.
partment de (a Manche. This unfortunate essay is a
check difficult to be repaired.
In order to explain the principal cause of the com-
plaints relative to the elections, it is necessary you should
knowthat the prefects are bound ex ?Ai. to inscribe all
thoseon the list of electors to whom they know the right
of being electors belongs. They may doubtless withdraw
from the list those whom they know positively not to
enjoy the legal capacity of being there; but th.n• they
are bound to notify individually their decisions, and it
the elector declares that he appeals, he remains in pos-
sesson of his rights till a definitive judgment. The
former Ministry had founded upon these dispositions the
hope of its success. According to its instructions, the
prefects, without notifying their decisions individually,
without demanding titles 'generally, struck off at the
fatal moment from the list of electors all those who had
not produced these titles, and who relied upon their
official inscription, in terms of the law.

BRUgiELS rAISERS.
rISOM THE ORIENTAL SPECTATOR.
SMYRNA, Du. 29.

For some days past our Pacha has been snaking
military preparations. Large supplies of powder have
arrived from the interior, turd we learn that batteries
are going to be erected along the whole quay which
bounds the Turkish quarter. A park of twenty large
cannon is expected from Constantinople.
It is believed that the measures taken at Constanti-
nople, with respect to idle vagabonds. will be adopted
here by the Consuls; and that the English, French, and
Russian subjects, wh• cannot satisfactorily account for
the means of subsistence, and give security for their con-
duct, will be obliged to leave the city.
It is affirmed that the French and English Ambas-
sadors, before leaving Vourla, resolved that the Con-
sular flag of the two nations should continue to be dis-
played at Alexandris. A ship of war will soon sail to
convey this news. Other ships of war will sail to Salo.
nichi, Cyprus, and Sytia, to inform the English and
French ,Consuls of the departure of the Ambassadors,
and otdeidiem to take down their Rags.
BRUSSELS, Fu 16.
The Gazette des Par Das publishes, in a Supplement
of twelve pages; the Statutes •of the Society of Luzern.
burg, authorisedloy a Royal Decree of 2lst January.
The chief object% to work ill rich.mines in the Grand
Duchy. sr