The Statesman.
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tJentlemen would authorise one to snake a second apps;.
cation Ito you upon any other form which woald isslua.t
the save propositions. - • •
I have the honour to remain, dear Sir,
Your very humble Servant,
ruaRLISS MoNce.
To Win. Clark, Esq. Benton Huse.
Benton House, 22d Dec.
DWI 811111-1 have this moment received your letter ~f
yesterday's date, requesting, in the name of the Rep: .
sitionists, to he " etude acquainted with the ground,"
&c. &c. on which I declined to call a Connty Mertinp.
In reply (though entertaining the highest respect
for the private worth of a very large proportion of ill..
Noblemen and Hentlesuen whose names the Reqois..
tion bears), I cannot consider myself bound either to
answer the interrogations that are put to me, or explain
the irasons which influence sue in the discharge of my
public duties.
Our sentiments, 011 this occasion, being so unhappily
at variance, I fear we shall alwa)s he at issue on the
points to which you allit•le ; I must, therefore, be yoa
to consider my answers to the Requisition through pa
u anal.

I remain, dear Sir, very respectfully,
Your most oheilieist servant,
WM. CLARK, Sheriff.
To Sir Charles Munch, Bart. Relsay Castle.

FRENCH PAPERS.
The following are extracts from the Paris papers of
Saturday, Sunday, and Monday:—
The King of the Two Siciliea sailed from Naples 6n
the 13th, under the British and French flag, to meet
the Allied Powers at Laybach, or such other places
as should be mutually fixed upan.—(.lfositere.)
Intelligence from Naples, arrived by an extraordi-
nary channel, announces that the King had set ut:
from that capital on the 13th ; that his Neapolitan
Majesty had embarked on board the English ship the
Vengeur, with kis suite on board the French ship,
Duchess of Berry—that nests had arrived of hi,
landing at Leghorn, that the Duke of Campo Ciller°
had been impeached by the Parliament, and succeeded
by the Duke de Gallo. Other accounts assert that all
the Neapolitan Ministers had been impeached, and a
new Ministry formed---and lastly, that the King, at
his departure, had addressed two Proclamations to the
Neapolitan people.—(Conslierlionnel.)
VIENNA, Dec. 10.-1 t is very doubtful whether the
King of the Two Sicilirs will be present at the Confer-
ences with the two Emperors. It has been thought that
his Majesty would embark at )!anfredonia fur Trieste,
and thence proceed to Laybach. lint the unfavourable
season of the year, and the dangers of navigation lit
present in the Adriatic Gulph, render very uncertain
his making a sea-voyage. It is confidently asset:ell
that if the King desired that the interview should
take plate nearer the frontiers of Naples, the Allied
Sovereigns would cowent. The present state of un-
certainty, however, cannot last many days.-- (Gastric
de France.)

A courier extraordinary from Naples has brought
the intelligence that King Ferdinand IV. has accepted
the invitation of the Sovereigns, and that be will go
either to Leybach, or to any other town which shall
be appointed for the new Congress, at which he is ro
assist. The Neapolitan Pal liament, to whom this
determination has been submitted, here given their
consent, and the proposition for causing the King In
be act onipanied by four members of the National Aa-
sembly lies not been adopted.
Intelligence from Frankfort says,“ within these two
days they talk a great deal here of a declaration on the
part of the five great Powers assembled at Troppan,
relative to the resolutions which were to have been
taken with respect to the kingdom of Naples. 7 his
declaration they say has been notified to all the other
Powers."

They write from Bayonne, that a rumour was spread
in that town of the Quern of Spain having died sin:-
artily; letters from Madrid of the date of the Litlt
announce, that on that day a Court was held, and
that their Majesties and their Royal Highnesses were
in go w health.
Narhas, Dac. s.—ln spite of all the reports which
hate been recently circulated, we can assure the pub-
lic that the Austrians have not yet passed the Po, and
that they have not advanced as far as Bologna. We
are assured, at the same time, that a movement of
troops has taken place towards Piacenza.
MADRID, Dec. 18.--Within the last few days, the
sale of the properties belonging to the Jesuits has
been partly ctfec:ed. Four houses of considerable vaine
in Madrid, fetched as much as if they had been patri-
monial property. An individual could not have sold
them to greater advantage. We expect that this
Junta will prove they have entered with zeal
into the discutssioti of the great interests which
are confided to them. it is also expected that
they will proceed, without delay, to the sale of the
property of the Inquisition, and that of the Clergy.
The returns of these goods will considerably strength-
en public credit.
The Minister of Jnstice has addressed a circular to
accelerate the execution of the law on the sappreuion
of Monastic Orders. From the little progress made
hitherto in this affair, his Majesty has decided that
the Archbishops end Bishops ought to second the po-
litical Chiefs in its acc miplishiuent.
It is stated, in an article fmto Vienna, that a cos.
respondence has been seized, relative to the revolution.
of Naples, Lisbon, and the Isle of Leon. It was writ-
ten in mysterious chararters, but these have bees
cyphered. Very little credit can, however, be Finn
to the above vague report.
The French Charm er of Peers assembled on th.:
12d inst. A counninnieation was presented t.i the
Chamber by the Presileht, from the Count de
tending to establish his hereditary right of the
Peerage.
This was referred to a Committee of three men •
hers, who decided neon the validity of the elaim.•••
The Chamber then adjourned.
The Chamber of Deputies met on the 22ti sad 234.
A ferment was excited on the second day by b Aster
of partiality brought by M. Benjamin Coost..ht
against the Prrsisients of Colleges, and other rl •ciio,•
officers in the department of La Sarthe.----'l he t•ltras
have gained cowpl. to poeseesho of Vie liipistrY 11.
the accession of M.ll. Ville!, and Corbirres, and have
openly proclaimed their triumph.
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