The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-12-28 00:00:00

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The day before yesterday his Excellency tht;
Minister of Baden was received by the King in a pri-
vate audience. His. Excellency untitled to his Ma.
jesty the death of the Grand Duke of Baden, hi♦
Sovereign. Immediately afterwards its Majesty
, transacted business with Count de Cues, Minister of
General Police.
De-Sarre, Ea-President of the Chamber of De-
puties, has recently quitted the residence be occu-
pied at the Palace Bourbon ; M. Raven takes posses•
sion of it to-day. Ile has given in his resignation of
the functions of Under Secretary of State and of
Justice.
M. Rotte, Secretary to the French Legation to
the United States, is arrived in Paris, agreeably to
leave which has been granted to him.
On announcing the departure of the Doke of
Wellington from Brussels for London, the Oracle
adds, " it is thought that his Lordship will not return
to the Continent for a long time."
The plan of mutual instruction has recently been
adopted at Naples. Besides-the two schools already
established in that town, the King has founded a
third, which will be opened in the ancient Convent
of Sainte Bridget.
By an Ordinance of the Council Chamber, dated
yesterday, the Preliminary Court, on the Report of
NI. Meslier, Joge d'lnstructiou, has sent before the
Royal Court, Nicholas Cantillon, formerly a military
man, accused of having, on the night from the 10th
to the 11th of February last, made, with premedita-
tion, and from a place of concealment, an attempt to
commit homicide on the person of the Duke of Wel-
lington, which attempt has been manifested by ex-
terior acts, fullowed by a commencement of its exe-
cution, and only failed in its effect by fortuitous
circumstances, independent of the will of the author.
The Sieur Marinet, who has• declared himself to
be without any present profession, has been sent by
the same Ordinance before the Royal Court, accused
of being an accomplice with Cantillon, by exciting
the latter by promises, and giving him instructions
in what manner to commit the crime.
The proceedings which the Chamber of Accusation
will have to examine in (order to decide whether the
accused shall take their trials et the Assize Court)
are very voluminous. Besides the interrogatories
and declarations received in Paris, there are very
numerous depositions of witnesses which have beets
taken in the Low Countries.
M. Claveau, Counsel for Cantillon, is occupied
with a second memoir in his behalf.
French Funds, Dec. 22.—Five per Cents. 631.
20 c. ; BE n k Stock, 1510 f.— Dec. 23.—Five per
Cents. 62 f. 40 c. ; Bank Stock, 15001.

M. DOHENGE proposed so pus to' the ()Melia
the Day. The Chamber, by said, had been long
enough occupied with the Petition of last Session,
and the affair had been already decided upon.
M. de Mooa and M. de Jonnue proposed to have
the Petition laid on the table, for the inspection of
the Members ; but M. DotIENGE said. that as it had
'wen distributed to the Member., they were suffi-
ciently acquainted with it.
Mr. RAYPHENS thought, as the Petitioner had
produced no new facts, they
.should abide by their
decision of last year. He opposed its being laid on
the table, and supported the Order of the Day.
The question being put to the vote, the Chamber
passed to the Order of the Day. Some other Peti-
tions were presented, one of which, relative to
the Indirect Taxes, was ordered to be laid on the
table, and a copy of it sent to the Director-General
of the Indirect Taxes, the object of it being of great
importance, and because justice and duty require
that the Chamber should afford the Director every
information at a time when a revision of the laws re-
lative to those taxes is in hand.

BRUSSELS, DEC. 24.—0 n the 18th of this month
died, at the lintel of the Invalids at Le)den, Jean
George Sauer, aged 106. He enlisted on the 7th of
March, 1731, and served continually in Holland till
1795. He was in the campaigns of 1743 on the
Meuse and the Rhine; in 1745 at the battle of
Fnnteooy ; in 1746 at lAnfeld ; in 1737 at the siege
of liergen.op•Znom, where he received many wounds;
in 1794 he was with the troops which defended
Kluttdest, which terminated his military career.—
This respectable veteran enjoyed good health, and
the entire use of his faculties, till the latest moment
of his life.

Not. n‘ra —llolalay at the Public Oakes.

THE STATESMAN.