Star.
London, England, 1816-12-24 00:00:00

FR EPIC!! PeIPER&•

PARTS, DECEMBER 20.
His Majesty has no longer any attack of the gout,
and there i \ every reasop to hope, that by the Ist of
Jaauary he will receive the homage of his Court and
of the Authorities.
Yesterciasy the Duke de Richelieu tta; sa .t
;less with his Majesty.
Yesterday his Majesty heard Mass in his apart-
ments, and afterwards received the Spanish Attibas-

sador.
Yesterday being the anniversary of the birth of the
Duchess d'Angonleme, several Ambassadors, Minis-
ters, Marshals of France, and other great personages,
paid their respects to her Royal Highness. The mar-
ket-women of Paris and Versailles presented nosegays
to the Princess, which she condescended to receive
wi,h much kindness.
The 19th of December has also been the Anni-
versary of the dt..parture of this august Princess horn
the Tower of the Temple. in which she bad been
confined.
'Several Journals have announced the departure of
M. de Talleyrand for Valengay ; we can positively
state that this news is without foundation.
On Tuesday next the second Council of War will
try the ex• General Savuy, Duke of Rovigo, for con.
tumacy. . . •
The Russian Army having caused some injury to
the inhabitants in the district of Avesnes, during the
time of their late manoeuvres, General W. ronzow
1..1s given orders fur ascertaining the amount of the
damag and indemnifying the offerers.
One of the brigands who stopped the mail on the
road to Rambouillet is in the hands of justice, and the
police is in pursuit 44 the others.
The diligence from Rennes to Paris, with property
for the Royal Treasure, was stopped near Verneuill
on the night of the 7th by several armed men ; but
another mail that was behind coming up at the time,
the robbers mistook it for an escort of gendarmerie.l
and betook themselves to flight. Next day several of
these malefactors were taken.
The ship Ernest, from the Isle of Bourbon to
Havre, on the Ist of December, fell in with, about
twenty leagues from the Island of Tercera, a sloop
in a dismantled and abandoned state. She seemed
tb have been laden with rum. On her stern was the
Ilibernia of Portonoug:.
• CHAMBER OF PEERS.
BULLETIN o}' THE 19TH DECESIBER.

At two o'clock the Chamber m.rt.
The Minister of Finance, accompanied by Baron
pudon, State Counsellor, presented to the Chamber
the project of the law adopted yesterday by the Cham-
ber of Deputies, relative to the provisareal receipt of
the four-twelfths of the contributions of 11U 7.
The project was sent to be examined by the bureaux,
and the Chamber, at the demand of several Members,
ordered that it should take the measure into its con-
sideration after the examination.
The preject h wing been examined, the discussion
was opened, and the prrjra having experienced no
objection, it was adopted by 125 votes out of 130.
Repents on the laws relative to the effects of divorce,
and to the separations'of persons, were respectively
made by Count Abrial and M. Deseee, and ordered
to be printed and distributed.
The Chamber then adjourned to Tuesday next.
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIE,.
SITTING OF THE 19TH DECEMBER.
The Sitting opened at half-past twelve, and the
process verbal of the preceding day being read,
M. REVIRRE, the Reporter, addressed the Chamber.
—"The Central Committee which you have com-
manded to examine the project of the lass, enabling
our Ecclesiastical establishments to receive donations,
bate charged inc to present to you the result of our
observations.
64 The task thus imposed on me would intimidate
my inexperience, it I presented myself at this tribune,
to .develope the principles which demonstrate the
benefits of this law for the interests of our country;
but it was even here, it was before you, Gentlemen,
that these principles have been explored. Here was
opened the prolific fountain of that wisdom which has'
dissipated so many errors and vanquished so many
prejudices.
" Could we fear after that that you would not be
disposed to invest the most useful establishments with
the power claimed in their favour ?
64 No, Gentlemen, and if the direct means are
wanting whereby you could endow them properly, we
are confident that you will hasten to render them ca-
pable of receiving the gifts of piety.
" We do not dissemble the effects which the change
of our laws in this respect will produce on certain
minds. They apprehend, as the consequence of this,
capability that is now required, a new birth of the
ancient order of the clergy, with all its prerogatives,
the patrimony of families invaded, and that an acti-
vity altogether temporal will succeed the religious
zeal of our pastors ; they fear that these men of Goa
will become men of the world, that they will sally
abuse their fortune, and excite among their neigh-
bours ruinous disputes.
" The reproach of exaggeration is not the only
one that might be made to these vain terrors ; they
absolutely' ant foundation, and prove that such ter-
rors could arise only by not separating the past from
the present, and by neglecting to appreciate the in-
fluence of the present on the future. We art no
longer in 1788. New institutions, which we derive
from the Charter, oppose the resurrection of ancient
abuses.
44 Must we be alarmed at the invasions with which
we are menaced, and which are said to be the infalli-
ble result of priestcraft ? The affections of families,
and the spirit of the age, will alone answer such an
objection. And will not the indispensable necessity
of the King's permission for every species of dona-
tion, he sufficient to inspire us with perfect confidence ?
44 Are we to exclude our Ecclesiastical Establish-
ments from the power of acquiring property, under
pretext of their zeal becoming cold ? Let us not
stop at this strangely anticipated picture of the inte-
rests of fortune which do not exist. Their opulence
has an adversary in the principles of selfishness more
formidable than our laws; and if some souls, hap-
pily preserved from the general contagion, still open
their hearts to the misfortunes of the Ministers of oar
Altars, we have not to dread the influence on their
morals of the gifts which shall result from them ;
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