Star.
London, England, 1820-11-01 00:00:00

IMPORTANT FRENCH DECREE.

". Loma, by the Grace of Goo, King of France and Navarre.
id To all tb whom these presents may come, greeting
" Frenchmen—At the daumenisehen the law which erarantees
to your suffrages an entire independence, and which secures to
your interests a ;user representation+, is about to be tarried Into
effect for the first time, I am desirous that you should hear my
voice. The circumstances are serious.
" Look at home, look around you, everything speaks to you
of your dangers, your wants, and your dudes.
" Yon have acquired a firm and legitimate liberty—it Is
founded upon laws emanating from my love for my people, and
from my experience of the times in which we live. With these
laws it depends upon yourselves to ensure the tranquillity, the
glory, and the happiness of our common country ; you have the
will, know bow to manifest it by your choke. Liberty is only
preserved by wisdom and fidelity. Erase from the noble func-
tions of Depdties the authors of disturbances, the artisans of die
cord, the propagators of unjust distrust against my Govern-
ment, my family, and •myself ; and if they ask you why you
repulse them, stew them France, so overwhelmed five years
ago, so miraculously restored since, approaching at length the
moment of receiving the price of so many sacrifices, of seeing
her imposts diminished, and all the public charges alleviated;
tell them, that it is not Shen everything flourishes, when every
thing prospers, when everything increases ha your country, that
you will put to the hazard of their ridiculous reveries, or deliver
up to their perfene designs, your arts, your industry, the harvest
of your fields, the lives of your children, the peace of your fami.
lies, that felicity, in fine, which is envied by all the people of
the earth.
" From all quarters a crowd of citizens Wet themselves to
your suffrages, sincere and zealous friends of the Charter,
equally devoted to the Throne and to the Country, equally
enemies of despotism and of anarchy. Choose from amongst
them your Deputies, to consolidate with me that order withuut
which no country can exist, wed I will consolidate with them those
liberties which have always bad .for their asylum the Throne of
my Ancestors, and which I have twice restored to you.
The world expects from you superior lessons, and you owe
them to it so much the more, as you have rendered thou neces-
sary. In offering to nations the spectacle of that liberty in'
which they take so high an interest, you have given to them
the right of demanding from you an account of those snares into
which they may be drawn; teach them therefore, to avoid
the thorns with which your path has been
strewed, and show
to them that it is not upon weeks and ruins, but upon justice
and a respect for rights, that free institution; are founded, and
become firm. It is thus, that taking the lead in civilization,
France, in the midst of the agitations which surround it, should
remain 'aim and confiding. United with its King, its prosperity
is placed above every attack. The spirit of faction alone could
compromise it; should it dare to display itself it shall be re-
pressed—within the Chambers, by the patriotism of the Peers
and of the Deputies—and out of the Chambers, by the Alliance
of the Magistrates, the firmness of all that is armed for the pro-
tection and the maintenance of the public peace, and, above all,
by my unshaken determination.
" Frenchmen—You have given me a recent testimony of the
nobleness and generosity of your sentiments—you have partici-
pated in the consolations which Feminine:l has lately granted
to me and my family. May this pledge of perpetuity which
Maven has given to France, prove the happy pledge of the
union of all who are sincerely desirous of the institutions which
I have given you, and with them, of the order, the peace, and
the happiness of the country.
" Given at the Castle of the Theilleries,
25th of October, 1&20. (Signed) ° LOUTS.
" By the King. (Signed) '• ItICDIFIIBU,
President of the Council of Ministers."

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.
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from his seat. Farnham, Suffolk.
The Highs Hon. Thomas Wallace, ALP. it his house In Ss,
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L.dy Fahamils, at her house In St. Janseersquare, film a
visit to Lady Srayletaa, at her seat in (mbridgeshire.
Bin. Mom and family, at Ilodgaan's Hod, Dover aid,
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James Smart, Esq. and family, at Blake's Hotel, Jermys-
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Captain. WlLespith 'libelee** Greys, from Areuidel; Rev.'
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THE eIiEEN'S TRLf.r..

NOUSE OF LORDS.
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itATTRIAS.
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• Leineser, Dawsay,
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Earl of Cunene% Bolingbrok4
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THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1. 1820..
ALL SAINT'/.—lfo!Mit at the Daub
THE QUEEN.

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• 7.1 e ArTeamm6snaitat; in his reply to the
defense of the Questa, spoke of the acquittal of her
Masseur, by the Public, from the foul and exagge-
rated charges which be bad vented against her, as a
design of a part of the community to deceive ALL
the loyal and well-affected portion of the people.
Aye—let him libel John Bull--honest John Bull—as
much as he will, and that too before the highest tribu-
nal of the country, John's broad shoulders care not
for the weight of any loaf whit's this man can put on
them ; but, with John, •, fir play is a jewel," and
therefore he cannot with indifference see asingk woman
abused. One of the most abominable features of the
whole proceeding has been these weak and bated ar,
tifices to vilify the generous indignation with which
THE PROPLII have interposed their shield against the
attempts to destroy the gozettl—a forlorn woman,
abandoned by her lawful and natural guardians—
nay, even some of these very guardians sitting as
Judges at her trial, and greedily seizing at every
darkening of calumny that seemed for a moment to
orershadow her purity, as if it had been substantial
truth. It would appear that the advocates of oppres-
sion have either themselves no memory, or believe that
the Public have none. Do they thick it has been
forgotten with what grief the friends of the Monarchy
heard of the DOUGLAS plots against the life and
honour of the Quzati, when Princess of Wniss ?
Do they think it is not known that our late venerable
Sovereign, whose virtues, Eke " the Egyptian gum
that kept the dead in everlasting beauty," men after
the death of his reason, still extended their preserving
influence to his ill-fated niece and daughtsubin-law,
was obliged to treat the in-door malice of his own
house with contempt, and to be reviled, it is said,
by some of his own kindred for that kindness ? Do
they think it is not remembered with what loyal
zeal the most degrading reports- were circulated
against a poor, helpless, persecuted old woman, drives)
from her home, and wild, and wandering, with an
aching heart, over the earth, and seeking relief from
her mental pangs in bodily fatigue almost incredible
for her years ? Do they think that we have for-
gotten that the moment the breath had departed
from her only Protector, that she was punished by
the base hirelings of the Church and State, as if
she had been a guilty convict ? Do they delude
themselves with the fancy that it is not known
that every expedient that threats or insults could de-
vise were employed to keep her in banishment? Can
they fora moment imagine, that, as far as the State
was concerned, it is forgotten in what a rejected and
humble manner she was compelled to return to the.
Metropolis inf that umpire over which, by mattiatk
she had a right to share the throne, and by birth may,
in the dispensations of PROVIDIENCR, be called upon
to reign? Do they forget, or think that others forget,
that her Maizarv, by right of blood, is many degrees
nearer the Throne than the Princess SOPHIA was, from
whom the KING has inherited the Crown 2.--Do they
flatter themselves, that the P eople who saw her
forced to throw herself on their generosity, homeless,
homeless, and destitute, forget that they have obtained
for her the wonted military honours due to her rank ;
that they have procured for her a palace, itad the
Civilities due to her station ! Are they so ignorant
of human nature as not to know that it is one of the
characteristics of man to love those to whim be has
been kind—the People love the Quscs because they
know that they have served her in her utimast need!
But why should we refresh the memory of the base,
the dotard, the fraudulent, and the corrupted, who
have such an appetite for guilt that nothing
tresses them so mach as that the Quota cannot be
proved as improbably wicked as the Arrasx zx
'At and his equally worthy coadjuter, would have had
us to believe ? We do not hold the integrity of the Bar
very high, but we do think that there are few mem-
bers of the profession that would have long allowed
their hands to be dirtied with such briefs as Sir Ro-
amer GIFFORD and Sir Joint CON.= have held so
long, to the great degradation of the Royal Family,
and corruption of the moral purity of every family
in the kingdom—not only in the kingdcm, but in
Christendom.

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The traducing Journals are sadly bothered with the
letters.of Baror OMpteda, faithful Minister from the
Kix° of Hexovsa•tb the POP', one who, according
to Cardinal CONSALVI, had so peach the interest of hit
Master at head. is What do they prove," says one
of these calumniators, if but that a letter from Made-
moiselle De Mont to her sister was wished to be se-
curely conveyed to her handar—Amasing sonde-
; scension on the part of this eselted..Minister 1r the

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Pore, to take so much trouble for the sake of a cast-
off Swiss chambermaid, in order to carry a letter
from her to her sister ! " What were the contents or
that letter, so conveyed r Aye, what were the con-
tents ? Merely a kind inquiry after the health of MA-
IINTTE De MONT, we suppose—a sentimental effu-
sion, in the Swiss style—some innocent doable exteudre.
The unsuspecting Baron, to be sure, never troubled
himself about the coutexts, which he was so anxious
the girl should be informed Qr. If he had suspected
this letter endeavoured to seduce the girl from her

duty to her benefactress—that it held out offers of
reward to her for false evidence, he never would have'
consented to be the bearer of it. How should he
have once thought of such things, trained up as he
had been in the moral and upright Court of Cassel,
tinder King JEnous, and selected, no doubt, for his
spotless purity, for so important a mission as that of
Minister to the Pora, by Count MUNSTER ; than
whom, as Lord CASTLIIRRAGH affirmed, a more
honourable Nobleman does not exist (and who so well
entitled to speak on matters of honour as Lord CAS-
TLIREAOH and Lord STEWART, that par nobik fra-
tnon ?)—Kind hearted Baron OMPTEDA
But have the libellers of her MAJESTY been able
to say nothing else about these letters? Oh yes—
" These letters demonstrate the existence of practices
inthe house of her Royal Highness, which made it
necessary to resort to so degrading, so base, so per-
fidious a trick as to intercept and read all the letters
addressed to the servants." Shockingly base, no
doubt. It was very charitable in the BARON to
assume the interception of all such letters ; but we
suppose his own recollection suggested to him some
circumstances from which he reasonably inferred the
existence of suspicion in the QUEEN. If she really
did intercept letters to her servants, this was as base
as if the Commander of a besieged fort should con.
descend to order everything that entered the gates
to be strictly searched for fear of concealed treachery.
But these writers, perhaps, have never heard any
thing of the midnight attacks in which that meritori-
ous servant Majocchi acted so conspicuous a part,
nor of the bribery of the QUEEN'S servants, nor of
the false keys which were made, nor of the picking
her locks, &c. &c. They have never heard of the
confession of Credi, that he was corrupted by the
BARON to betray his mistress. Wonderful, that the
QUEEN, knowing that she had long been beset by
spies—knowing that corruption had been busy, and
but too successful with her household—that some of
them had been honoured with the patronage of Lord
STEW A KT, Colonel BROWN, and Mr. Powv.r., should
be so base as to entertain suspicions !

The Paris Papers of Sunday arrived this fore-
noon. A hundred thousand Copies of the KING'S
Address to the Electors, which we mentioned yester-
day, have been printed and dispatched for circulation
through the Departments. Our Readers will find a
literal translation of it in a preceding column.
The trial of Gravier,Bonlen, and Legendre, accused
of having, during the time of the pregnancy of the
Duchess of BERRY, exploded a petard near her win-
dows, for the alleged purpose of causing premature
labour, is going on at the Assize Court of Paris.—
Gravier admits that he exploded the petard, but de-
nies the criminal inference, and represents the matter
as a piece of innocent pleasantry, devised for the pur-
pose of frightening the timid in the streets. He swears
upon his honour that he did not know the windows of
the chambers occupied by the Duchess, and that he
chanced to place the petard near her windows because
he should be better enabled to escape the observation
of the sentinel on duty. He was induced to dispose
the second petard, which was fortunately discovered
before it had exploded, in the same place, by a per-
son named LEYDE; who told him that his former act
had set people talking, and had given rise to a thou-
sand ridiculous rumours.

Accounts from Madrid state, that the King of
SPAIN has, by the advice of his Privy Council, re-
fused his sanction to the proposition agreed to by
the Cones, for the Suppression of Monastic Orders.
On the 15th ult. the proposition for abolishing Poli-
tical Societies or Clubs, was agreed to in the Cortes
by a majority of le° to VI.
In a postscript to a private letter from Naples,
dated the 10th of October, which appears in the Ga-
2ctte de France, the writer states, that he had that
moment learned that General PEPE had been com-
pelled to evacuate Palermo again on the evening of
the 7th, with the feeble wreck of his army, after a
sanguinary conflict which was fought within the
bely of the city, subsequent to the capitplation.
This intelligence, however, it is observed, requires
cc,T.firmation.

The long talked of meeting between the three Po-
tentates of Austria, Russia, and Prussia, is now de-
finitively appointed to take place at Troppan, on
the 23d, or at the latest, the 24th of this month.
French Five per Cents. Saturday, 75fr. sc.

ANTlctP4trum—The Constitutiowel of Sunday
says, " A rumour is this evening in circulation at
Paris, that a telegrapic dispatch has brought the
news that the Bill against the QUEEN of ENGLAND
has been adopted by the Upper House of the Britith
Parliament. We repeat this news because it is in
circulation, and not because we believe it true."

We announced yesterday the arrival of Lord Bz-
IMPORD, with several British Officers, late in the
Portuguese service. The Papers and Letters received
by the packet which brought his Lorathip from Lis-

Lon, describe particularly the manner in which the
`new Government obtained possession of the diamond/
and specie on board the VIINGSUR: duplicate bills of
'lading came to hand by the Phcenix, two days after,
purporting that the property was to be delivered to
the Treasury, and it was so delivered in consequence.
tt appears that his Lordship was very anxious to
be allowed to land. We think it a v&y happy cir-
cumstance that he was not permitted ; for it is im-
possible to say what events might have followed.—
We do not allude to any counter-revolution that
might be feared, for that we hold to have been im-
possible; but the very attempt—or even the dread of
at—might have occasioned much unnecessary blood-
shed.

New York and other American Papers to the sth
of October, arri►ed this forenoon.

FROM THE VIRGINIA PAPER, OF OCTOBER 1.

HEALTH 07 00111 Crnics,—The fever, which has
lately prevailed at Philadelphia, has greatly subsided.
The deaths in the city and liberties, storing the week
ending 22d ult. were 70, three of which were of the
fever. No new cases have been reported since.—
Providence, in Rhode Island, is restored to health ;
and, indeed, the only cities where ;there appears to
prevail a malignant fever at this time, are Savannah
and New Orleans.
CHARLESTON, SEPTEMBER 27.
Bir three days previous to the 27th September,
no new cases of the fever had been reported : the
weather was cool and favourable. The intercourse
is re-established again between this city and New York.