Star.
London, England, 1820-02-21 00:00:00

PARIS, FEBRUARY 17.

The Municipal Body and the different Courts yes-
terday presented Addresses of Condolence to the King.
The Duchess of Berry was yesterday better.
Preparations have been made with great celerity
at the Louvre, for the lying in State of the remains
of the Duke of Berry, which will take place this day.
The embalming of the body was finished yesterday
evening.
The Theatres will, it is believed, not be opened till
Tuesday next.
It is understood that all the Prefects who were at
Paris on leave, received orders yesterday morning to
proceed immediately to their respective departments.
Five per Cents. Tuesday, 72f.90c.—Wedn. 72f.25c.

• LONDON.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1820.
THE FUNDS.
TRIO! OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT Obit OCLOCK :
Bank Stock 223%
3 per Cent. Reduced s l4
3 per Cent. Consols 68 Y 8 54
31 per Cent. 77%
4 per Cent. 87% 3's
5 per Cent. Nary 10314 1/4.
Bank Long Annuities 18 3-16
India Bonds 14s. 15s. pr.
Exchequer Bills (2d.) Is. 3s. Is. pr.
Consols for Acct. 6878 3/s.

The Paris Papers of Thursday arrived yesterday
afternoon ; and in a preceding part, our Readers will
find an abstract cf their leading contents.
We have also, to-day, received those of Friday.

On Thursday, after Mass, the Foreign Ambassa-
dors and Ministers were admitted, to present to the''
king their compliments of condolence on the late
melancholy catastrophe. The rest of the Royal Fa-
mily not being, at the present cruel moment, in a
condition to give audience, his Nfajesty also received
for them the compliments of the Diplomatic Body.
Addresses of condolence werkon the same day pre-
sented to his Majesty, from the Chapter and Clergy
of the Diocese of Paris, the Officers of the National
Guard of Paris, the Consistary of the Confession of
Aagsburgh, and the Chamber of Commerce of Paris.
The proceedings against the assassin Louvel are,
in full progress. A Committee of the Peers went
on Thursday to the Conciergerie, to interrogate the'
prisoner, and on their return to their Cabinet in the
Palace of the Court of Peers, commenced the exa-'
urination of witnesses.

A Magistrate who interrogated the assassin on
Wednesday. said to him, " Wietch, know you that
the Prince whom you have assassinated, carried his
goodness so far as to ask pardon of the King for his
murderer ?"—" I knew it not," answered Louvel,
shedding some tears. " Well," pursued the Magis-
trate, " you arc moved with this proof of such noble
and sublime goodness. Doubtless, if for the good
fortune of France this excellent Prince could revive,
you would not again attempt a similar crime."—
" Yes, indeed," Louvel coldly replied, wiping away
his tears, "I would again attempt it." They wished
at one time to persuade him that his blow had failed.
" Oh I" replied he, " I am well satisfied he will die
before me ; and if you wish that I shall die, cause
me to be executed before twenty-four hours are ex-
pired, for you know not what may happen."—From
these and some other expressions used by the assas-
sin, the Royalist Journals labour to prove that this
crime is not the isolated act of a single unexcited or
unsupported fanatic ; but that it must be the result
of a party in France.
The assassin k held in the most secret and rigor-
ous confinement in the Conciergerie. The room in
which he is shut up is shewn by a reflecting mirror
placed in the Corridor in front of a grated and glazed
door, so that he cannot move without being seen by
the guard. He is perfectly tranquil, and does not
refuse to enter into conversation with his keepers.
At first he refused food, but now he takes the prison
allowance.

M. CLAUZEL DE COUSSERGUES, who so daringly
accused M. DE CAZE, in the Chamber of Deputies,
of being an accomplice in the assassination, has ac-
tually deposited a formal accusation to that effect.—
It remains with the Bureaus to determine whether it
is of a nature to be Presented at a Public Sitting of
the Chamber.

M. DE CAZE has, in the meantime, addressed the
following Letter to the Attorney-General of the
Royal Court of Paris : '

" Paris, 'February 15, Is2o.

" have hitherto held in contempt, as I ought,
the outrages of which libels have rendered me the object, and
of which the cause and principle honoured me too much to per-
mit me to think that I ought to complain of them. Now, the
interest of society commands me not to leave unpunished an in-
famous calumny, of which the Sieur blartainvWe has just incur-
red the guilt in this lay's number of his Journal, which he dates
to call Le Drapeau Janne. Base accusations insult the public
grief much more than they insult myself; and it is in the same
of society, much more than my own, that I denounce them to
you, and that I demand from justice a striking reparation.
" I subjoin to my letter the number of the Journal that I de-
nounce to you, declaring that my complaint refers to the hor-
rible defamations contained in the article commencing with the
word ' hemas,' and ending with these, ' A. Martaineille: and is
that commencing with the words is daioureue and concluding
with these, canon ; and more especially in the last line but
one, and the last line of the fifth paragraph of the first of these
articles, and the fourth before the last paragraph of the second.

" Accept, Alonsieur Attorney-General, the assurance of my
most distinguished regard. " The Count DECAZE.S."

The charge against the Drapeau Blanc, is for hay-
ing renewed, in unqualified terms, the inculpation of
M. CLAUZEL DE COUSSERGUES, and published in large
characters, Oui, M. Decaxe, c'est vow qui ava tue k
Duc do Berri!

In consequence of the preceding complaint of the
Minister, the Number of the raper complained of
has been seized, in ♦irtue of a warrant of the Attor-
ney-General.

The extraordinary laws of restriction which have
been introduced by Ministers into the Chamber, ap-
pear to be very generally reprobated by such of th,

Journals as choose to exp. s an opinion. reiro,
them. We quote the following from the C:.
tutionnel :

" It is at a moment when the most profound
well-grounded affliction has seized upon all he
land pre-occupies every mind—it is in the mid,
tisis general grief; which absorbs other sentimf
and concentrates on a single object the meditati
of all—it is at such an epoch that the Ministey-
chosen to preseptsto the Chambers two Laws of
ception ; and a third, which subjects to the ban,
power our whole electoral system. These.laNs, wl
ought to be maturely discussed, and tranquilly
cided upon, are mixed with the mourning of
country, and seem destined to forth part of the f
ral procession of a Prince, whose deplorable de,
excites the regret of every one, as if our liber
were to descend with him to the tomb. One circi
stance alone affords us any hope, namely, that a
nister Pasquier) has declared that these la
these extraordinary measures, have been propose;
the King, that their adoption can only be attribti
to the councils of the Ministry ; and thus, it the
ligion of the Monarch, acted upon by the first el
tions of his paternal grief, has been taken by surpi
it will necessarily be enlightened by a more con
knowledge of facts, and by the discussions in
Chambers.

" The whole of this scaffolding of laws of except
rests upon a single idea, and that idea an errone(•
one, an insult to reason. M. Pasquier has trail
from the Tribune--' The crime which we has'
deplore is the result of those pernicious ideas v
which the minds of the people are infected, an,
which they fancy themselves justified in giving ti:
tho title of opinions. We would say, in our t!
to M. Pasquier—" The crime of which you sp.
was conceived in the brain of a fanatic, at a pei
when opinions, chained down by a despotic C,en,
ship, had, as you know, no vent for their transmissik
For five years the execrable Louvel contemplated
horrible catastrophe, which was the object of
constant meditations, and that the more truly to
way to them, he estranged himself from social o
munications, and lived alone, if we may so say, wt
the idea of his crime. For five years no one col,
write without the permission of a Censorship—t
what a Censorship 1 The Press has been free for
than a year. The fanaticism of Lowvel is not, tin
fore, the product of that constitutional liberty.
that right granted to all Frenchmen of express
their opinions, without having to answer for them
an arbitrary authority, but only to the law.
know these things as well as we, M. Pasquier, an,
is on an error in fact, or an absurd relation, or
forgetfulness of a sacred right, or calumny, that
found the despotism of your extraordinary measm
Such manouvres may be pardoned as au efff
of party spirit ; but they cannot be pardoner
Statesmen."

The Projet for changing the Election Law,
which we had only time to advert very general!:
Saturday, consists of six heads, or titles. The
regards the number of Deputies. They are to
sist of 430 Members ; 258 of whom are to be chosen
by the Colleges of Arrondissement, and 172 by
Departmental Colleges. The Departments are
vided into Electoral Anondissements, each of wi.
has a College composed of Members residing with!
the Arrondissement. The Departmental Colli
are composed of a number of Electors, of w 1
600 is the maximum, and the sniniutrm 100, nal
by the Colleges of Arrondissement. There is th
Representation within a Representation, quoad
of the Deputies to the Chamber. Every Elector
the Departmental Colleges must pay one thousand
francs per annum of direct contributions (411.135.
We should extend this article too fir, if we entered
much detail upon the subsequent divisions of the Projet.
The second relates to the quotas, or contributions
the Electors, and of the eligible; the third to the
mation of the Bureau, or Presidency of the Cone)
all Presidents being named by the KING. The foul
head prescribes the form of voting, which is
writing the name on slips of paper, the scrutiny
maining open five days. The fifth title presents some
general dispositions, of which the most striking seem,
to be, that, in case of a dissolution of the eharnbe,
all the Deputies, after being newly elected, _
hold their seats for five years—so that the renewal
by fifths (which is preserved in the Projef) shall
commence until after the expiration of theffih year•
thus one-fifth of the body of the Chamber will reta,
their seats for nine years : this surely cannot
without a trial of strength by the democratic part;
The 6th head contains what are termed " transitory
dispositions," or such as provide for the manner •
which the new Prcdet shall affect the composir
and duration of the existing Chamber. The
Members wanting to complete the 430 are tr
chosen by the Departmental Colleges, between
present and the ensuing Session.

MEWS FROM SPAIN.
MADRID, FEBRUARY 7.
In the nights of the 3d and 4th, M. Loam
Torres, Ex. Minister of Justice, M. Ugane, Treast
to the Trans-atlantic Expedition, and M.Villarfrom
Administrator of the Commanderies of the Inf•
were apprehended at their residences, by orderol
Captain-General of Madrid, and sent off in exit
Coronna, to Segovia, and to Tarragona. M,
Torres imagined that they had sent for him to
hint of new in the Ministry, and le presented

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house to arre't him, in a gala dress, With all his Or-
ders. M. De Torres, it is well known, enjoyed for a
very long time.the confidence of his Sovereign, and
had survived all the changes .of Ministry-which took
place riming the three last years; whence he had
been cared the Spanish Decaze.
The famous Melchior has been hung and quartered.
No news of importance from Cadiz: the head-
quarters of the regular army are at Puerto-Real
(in sight of the Isle of Leon, which is not more than
r.•o leagues distant). The Insurgents are beset on
all the points of the Isle of Leon. Admiral Mau-
relic has captured one of their gun-boats, with two
officers and twenty-eight men. •

- Our Gazettes continue silent on the events of An-
cf which they have ntt as yet said one word.
French 5 per cents. Thursday, 71 fr.

FROM OCR rnivATE CORRESPONDENT.
" PARIS, Fr.. I'.

it No farther particulars of importance have tran-
spired relative to the assassin //nrcd: he had no ac-
corn:lices, but the Com t is so dreadfully alarmed,
that the severest measures arc adopted : in a word,
individual liberty, and ti.e liberty of the press, arc
ttspended, to guard, as Li; Majesty expresses it,
ainst treason, which he is but too plainly warned of.
I am persuaded there is no danger whatever, and I
do not ',link the laws will pass : the /0 will vote
against them of course, and I understand the Ultras
v: iil ,:k1 sc tco ; because, say they, when you had the
s of exce2tien before, you oppressed us, and
c,-,:nicd cur zeal fanaticism. Yet more powerful
C. a idc:-a:isms mny induce the Ultra.; to vote for these
I.,:,_s;.res, which, as it mere, accuse all France ai
pa:;:cii-..ntinl, in the crime.

any one party has to regret the horrid deed
me: e than another, it is tie Lib,:rals; for it destroys
the labanr ci years, leaves them as far from ob-
t.‘inin:2; r really Cen,tituti Government as in
w4nt no cl.ange--tk.ey have every thing
secured •-• then: ; a coumter-revolution only can shake
their and proce!ty. Let us Loi.e, that after
t*e tin-t Failie, and Ix hca it is discovered that the
a.sas,in had no lecom.pices, that the measures :Alb-
vuriise ofliherty will be abandoned. The Funds arc
; for,i•::ers are selling aid leaving the
capital ; but all this will come mandin a short time.

The infameus accuso.tions agi-tinst the llinistcr of
Intcrior, ate the topics of general conversation;
all kilow them to be false ; they :tie countenanced by
tie because they know i.e is the enemy of

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The letters by the French Mail of this morning
live an claiming staLernent of the feelings of the
j.:Opic hi that Capital. The Funds, that fell 11h per
cn the first info:Tr.:4tion of the assassination of
the Duke de Beast, r:-,se almost instantly again,
mar the impr2sion the object of the assassin
was merely for indi-..i2nal wrongs; but on an-exami-
nation into the aC.::r, such serious combinations, of
a political nature, are p-etended to have been dis-
covered, that the al:ani has seized the `.lonied In-
terest, and the Funds have consequently fallen Pouu
per cent. they were rezer:iy done at 74 f. 10c. bat
the last accounts state they were at 70 1. 10 c. and
the market in a very gloomy state. The exchange
Inas consequently risen in favour of this country one
per cent.

A Dutch Mail arrived this forenoon, with Papers
to the 19th instant.

The KING Of the NETHERLANDS has appointed a
Committee, for the purpose of drawing up a plan to
determine the manner of remedying the damage
lone by the late inundations. Besides the Governors
of the several provinces which have suffered, several
persons of distinction is those provinces are named
as members of this Committee, which is to hold its
sittings at the Hague. The subscriptions for the re-
lief of the unfortunate sufferers by the late calamitous
inundations, continue to bring in large sums for this
cllaritable purpose.
The following article from Berlin, of the 10th
llbruary, contains a melancholy picture of Royalty.
\Ve think we could point out to his Prussian .Ma:esty
an easy. way to get rid of his hypochondria—.Lrt him
Ei-:e his subjects the Constitution which he promised t;:em:
The King appears, from time to time, extremely
rnelancholy, and his countemtnce seldom bears the
expression of gaiety. His Maiesty speaks to only a
few persons, and M. Albrecht, his private secretary,
refers to M. Hardenburg the Petitions addressed to
tl.e Sovereign. It is asserted, that at times the mind
of the King is so overpowered with melancholy, that
Ls tears are ready to flow. He would wi,,h that
every body should be happy, and he cannot help
rt that his rcople are far from being so. He
limited, as much as possible, the expenses of hi.,
t. :.sehQld. The table of a rich banker is ,erved with
luxury than his, and he has recommended a
c,:orionly even in the least important particulars.

" He thinks to contribute to heal the wounds cf the
I.::tis setting the example of rigid econerny.
reuld to Goo that the table of the Soveicin
• served with ptofusion, and that the depositaries
• over would sticw, in the administration of the
Sote, the ect•nurn) which ti;e King sinews in the ma-
✓ 01 his huuselic.id.

(g. the Ni, Household, including
of hi!. numerous 1.1111:1), d 9 not exceed two mil-
.tr.d ;Wit of dolhtrb; L.:t the Budget of Aio-

unlit which formerly was only 40. millions, is now
fixed at fil millions, and this at a time when all the
Communes are so burthened by the war that their cre-
dit is nothing; when most of the estates of the Nobility
have been transferred to other hands (or some of the
ancient provinces, for instance, Silesia, into those of
the Jews); at a moment whea so many citizens sacri-
ficed their fortunes on the altar of the country, that
the restoration of the Monarchy might be possible.

Charleston Papers arrived this morning to the
16th January. The following is an Extract of a
Letter from Savannah :

" 1 wrote you ,yesteMay, giving you an account of
the dreadful calamity which has befallen this City'
which will retard iis improvement for many years.
The melancholy scene which this City presents, hun-
dreds of persons being without homes, and destitute
of every comfort, calls loudly for relief on the dif-
ferent Cities of the Union. The destruction of houses
and property of every kind, is prodigiously great.
It is reported that the loss sustained is upwards of
one million and a half of dollars. The Phoenix
Company, of London, are in for 168,000; and the
Marine and Fire Insurance Company here, whose
building is burnt, 70,000."

Yesterday Divine Service was performed at the
King's Palace, in Pall-Mall, by the Rev. F. W. BLoNt-
BERG and the Rev. Dr. STAMM CLARKE.

The Duke of YORK visited the KING on Saturday.
Thursday, the Duke of YORK accompanied tke
Princess Sonwt to London from Windsor, to her
Royal Highness's new residence at Cambridge House,
where the Duke has visited hit Royal Sister several
times since. Friday And Saturday the Duchess of
GLOUCESTER visited the Princess SOPHIA.

Saturday the 1) icheis of CLARENCE visited the
Dochess of Loco :s-rrn, at Gloucester House.
Yesterd.iy, the Duchess of GLOUCESTER visited
the KING.

Saturday, the LORD CHANCELLOR and Viscount
CA STLEREAGH h id audiences of his MAJESTY at his
Palace, in Pall-Nlall.
The LORD CH ANCLLLOR had an audience of his
MAJESTY yester Jay.
We are concerned to say, that the Duchess of YORK
continues confin: 3by indisposition. It was said yes-
terday, that her Royal Highness was a little better.
Sir HENRY HA LFORD has attended her Royal High-
ness every day since yesterday se'nnight, except Sa-

urLiv

Yesterday the Duke of YORK left town for aid ands.

I ler Royal Highness the Duchess of YORK has en-
joyed but a very indifferent state of health lately.
On rt iday ma: sing last, she was so much worse,
that an express was sent off to Carlton Palace, where
the Roy al Physicians have had a table prepared for
them, ever since his MLJEsTy's indisposition. The
messenger arrived at the Palace just as the Physi-
cians «e+e sitting down to dinner; but the urgency
of the letter he brought was such, that Sir HENRY
HALFOHD immediately rose from table, and in less
than five minutes he set out for Oatiands in a chaise
and four, the drivers being directed not to lose an in-'
stant on the read. We are glad to know, however,
that the paroxysm by which her Royal Highness was
attacked had in a great measure subsided. before his
arrival. Sir HENRY remained at Oatlands during
the night, and it was announced on Saturday that
her Royal highness was much better.
The establishment at Windsor Castle ceases this day.
The following is a copy of the Form of Prayer and
Thailks:,.;iving to A LMIWITI GOD, for his MAJESTY'S
Recovery from his late dangerous sickness, and which
is ordered to be read in all Churches and Chapels
throughout his MAJESTY's dominions:
Accept, we beseech thee, ALMIGHTY Gon, the praises and
thanksgivings of our Sovereign Lord the King, for thy great
twrcics recently vouzlisafed to him.
" In the hotir of sickness, and under the severest domestic
Ali:dons, his tru a was in thee, 0 GOD, and thou had helpeci him.
" Let thy protecting hand, we implore thee, ever be over
him! Let thy limit Suitor ever be with him ! And so lengthen
his days, 0 Goo, that they may bring down upon him and his
pt-cple the abundance of thy blessings and mercies, through
J LSI:3 CHRIST our Lona; to whom, with Thee, and the HeLv
G HOST, be all honour and glory, now and for ever. Amen."

Every preparation has been making at the apart-
ments in Cumberland House, St. James's Palace, Er
some time, in expectation of the arrival of its illustri-
ous inmates from the Continent; and letters were re-
ceived there on Friday last, announcing his Royal
Highness's intention of being in town at the begin-
ning of this week.
The Marchioness of LANSDOWN and family ar-
rived on Saturday, at Lansdewn House, Berkeley-
square, for the season, from their seat, Ilowood
Park, Wilts.

Upwards of four tons of dollars and as many tons
of bars of silver, which an ived this morning at the
House of Messrs. Roirllscuttp and Co. were sent in
the forenoon to the Bullion-office, at the Bank.

A numerous and respectable meeting of freehold-
ers and others, friends of Mr. BROUGHAM, was held
on Saturday evening at the City of London Tavern,
when a series of Resolutions were entered into for the
purpose of securing his election for the County of
West moreland.

On the niglrt of the 10th, her Royal Highness the
Princes ANNA ELIZABETH LOUISA, widow of his
Royal Highness Prince YEnDINAID of Prussia, died
at Berlin.

The late KtsG, about the beginning of the last
year, aEked General Tiomon whether Air. 'Misr was
living ? and upon being informed that' he was, " I
ish," said his MArcs-ry, " that you would see him,
and tell him, that I inquired after his health." Some
v ccl.s afterWatds, the KING asked the General whe-
ther he had seen Mr. IVEsT as he tequeited? The
General begged his MAJESTY'S pardon, the circum-
stance having escared his recollection; but added,
that he would make it his business to go to town on
purpose the next day. I wish you would," said the
KIM?, " for that man's ‘Sorks have given me great
pleasure and delight. Pray tell him, that I kindly
inquired after him, and that I wish him health." The
General the nest day waited upon Mr. WEST.
During Saturday night and yesterday, there has
been a very heavy tall of snow generally throughout
the country. In many places to the westward it lies
nearly four feet deep, and on this side of Wansford,
the road is in many places almost impassable.

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