The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-05-08 00:00:00

FRE.VCII RRVOLUTION.

STATE OF TOE PURL IC MIND IN FRANCE, IN
THE YEARS ire; AND VHS.
goading had never beam so fashionable in France as
at this period. The increased demand for tinny cele-
brated French, works, particularly of RottasEso, had
occasioned the re-printing new editions of all prices,
among which were some very low, for the wormed*.
'inn of the less 'fluent. His Social Geared was in
the hands of almost every one, who couceiverl his po.
litical situation daseiving concern. Travellers of
oruditioN resorted to Paris in greater serubtis than
Issas!, whither they wire drawn by the rumours of
Philosopel being about to take up arms in defence of
Troth. The wooing parties of the mess of fashion
were spent, mot as they are in ether easeotries, in
gaming sod drioltiog, bat in discussing political ab-
stract questions. Diversity of opinions, and contra-
dictions in reasoning, only served to sharpen the desire
to renew argument. Tha Doke of ORLEANS, OS he
was then called, corameolcated, by meats, of his
wealth, a powerful impoision to the growing spirit
of ti.e tim.s. lio gave dimes, he gate suppers to
the new refersom; be collected at his table all that
was I d, all that was isperienced io the polity of
nations; and this be did, perhaps, not wholly from a
love of tho priori* 'bat had pat oil this in motion,
bat partly from ew htstred he bed to the Court ; an
hatred rendered thWessire inveterate from a reprimand
he had received fries the King for certain irsegula-
ritistemmousiMed too emir the view of the palace.
Beside* rime pasties formed in tho rival* rooms
of the Drlwiew,thobritaitated a Clash ef Smarts, into
which tho Ia jp of any neiloo might be introduced
by two blitrobr This Club every day increased in
siumbers ; sties acomlows took place in it, as occa-
sioned the Pig to wee an egress order for its dis-
continsaoce, Sidle leis of royal dlspl . The
Duke found it tooirthe to redo, be therefore with-
drew, and the gigmbers wholly dispersed. This may
be considered a greet weft* of arbitrary power at
such mperied, especially as the Club was held in a
private room, et a house under the colonnade of the
Valais Regale, open his own estate; sod where, by
the roles drawn up by the lemberit, no gaming was
allowed. The comp's), in the colfee.h talked
politics loader than ever had been known before ;
theso lspotants were not to ho Checked, although
senatherds as they were called, were planted
in ill the Nest considerable places of public resort,
to noel, and report to their employers what they had
beard and seen.

Tit PARLIAMEtirs.
The otTairs of 'Le sostioie. or oath,. the holiness of
tasatiwi, was nets referred so lioto Parliament ; the
ton f tales had been di-..u500l in detail by the
Notables, and all the Court had to do with the Per-
Hamra' wig to indece it to ClareeiStir them, without
which they cosh' not hare the form ore law to operate
as one. Orr tiro doonissust ..f CALU3,IIs, the Archbishop
of Inotmoutta twits called to Ail has rise, as finau.
net. lie had constolerahle credit with his country
for tale, .s and honesty ; as it turned out, however,
his count., men hail deeeised themselves in their oz•
pectinous, for he gave no evidence of talents, end as
to honesty, he peeved the rankest parasite to royal
favour, that bad been minimised for a long time.—
During his !Piga, ha enjoyed 'nicotiism% fawns, of
his Royal Master. Ifs told the King, that 'wising was
wanted to pet the nation into the stale his Majesty
desired to see it, but a temporary relief to its present
necessities ; that she e•rears once provided for the
public creditors, the only dissati.fird persons, as the
Archbishop belieted, er pretended to believe, would
be rendered easy, and a'l fermentation would cease.
Me craftily hinted to the Monarch, that in England
the busier's of imposing rases had (OMB on much
more smoothly since the two olSre‘ of Chancellor of
the Eaehequee and Lord of the Tteasery burl been
onilod its the same person. That in this junction
there would be no rivalry, no jealousy in the Cot
offices ; the inflame of the ono facilitated the opera.
'ions of the other. The Kiog listened to the remark.
which, :t most be confessed. was specious enough, and
it would appear (hit he thought it deserved attention,
for soon after the Archbishop bad the additional
app, intment of PRINI 'disarm. 'rhos armed with
plenipoteulisry powers, the twoifold Miniver mitered
1 is Master that be steroid loon manage the Pediments.
With very little ceremony, therefore, the dignified
ecclesiastic laid before them the two ?diets for the
two tales to be enregisteted. as proposed by the
Court, and, as the Minister affirmed, recensmendcd
to them by the Notables.
The Parliament of Paris stood, as might be im-
pacted, the first in order to receive the edicts and the
commands of the Minister, without waiting for the
opinion or decision of the other Parliaments of the
kingdom. This, however, threw coot the edicts, with
• kind of reproof In the Minister, for expecting abgt
the Parliament could consent to Icy farther tales on
she "needy nverborthenvil People. This conduct of
the Paris Parliament threw the Court at care into
disappointment and rage. A royal seandote was
issued for bringlng the Parlisment before the King at
rersitiller, where a Belief Justice, as it was called,
was VW, and at which the two edicts were intro.
doted, end the clerk compulsively mad* to enregiater
them by aft Order of Sluts. Wish (beetroot impres-
sion of this insult upon the mind of each Member,
the Pa:lime,' sideseed to Paris, renewed in the
usual form the Seetties, entering upon their J la
all that hart passed at Versailles, and declaring the
whole proceeding I. be as aged as it was violent.—
In this state of she rase. the Court was enable to pro-
ver'. any decency In 114 comfort towards the Perlis.
meet. Letres de Cachet were ionised against every
on, of the Members, sod they were esiled to Troyes,
übere it *Was corojecteieJ they would retleci
•t
Itislllll., repent of what they had done,
and promise to behave better in rote re.-
1. sit did trot torn out II) be the casii ; for through the
ambers were scrolled sari resumed their fructioo.,
hey remained more intleailtle than erer, since, add.
eti to the duly to themselves and their country, they
bad now • proemial resentment against their in.
grillers an& uppresiors. The Count n'Arecris on,
&nook to present to them onto more the two oh.
natio," decrees, hating eternal a fine speech frit the
✓enation, end prepared a grand cavalcade of Officers
and followers to attend him. Processional pomp
had lest much of its accustomed elect upon the

French People; they were wow mere occupied about
their rights then on any other consideration—a/wady
show of this Were slid bet prove to them,that they were
tight in their conjecture concerning !because of their
miseries sad their went.. The prologee of what was
to follow sneered nothing favourable ; the Cotest
hod no sonnet alighted from his carriage, thee be
was insetted with hisses and groans; he was premed
upon by the crowd, so that be pet his head on his
sword hilt. Ti is was observed by a Genets' Officer
in his train, whit ordered the guards which bad sc.
ennspanied him, Immediately to form • semi-circle to
keep off the crowd, and protect the brother of their
King. Several Members of the Parliament who had
overheard the cry of to eras! to arms! signified as
much as if they were all in danger, which created
much noise and confusion for a short time; when
the herald et length ennoenced the approaching en.
trance of the Count D'ARTOII on the part of the King.
He began his oration with the preparatory titles of
his Majesty, which be styled " our Sovereign Lord
and blaster ;" one of the Members started up mad
said, that could not be allowed, for that the Parlia-
ment was the organ of the law, and the tare tans no
master. The Prinre was pet se much oat of rose-
lemon at this interruption, that he hastily sad an-
grily ran over the rest of the address, and followed it
op with again presenting the two razes to enregister.
If the Members of the Parliament wrote but indisposed
to the business before, they were now violently set
against enregittering the edicts ; they even entered in
a note open the Journals, that although the Parlia-
ment bad, from complaisance, heretofore enregister-
rd edicts for the imposition of tams prescribed by
the Court, yet the custom was founded in error ;
for that of sight the STATES-G . alone could im-
pose lazes, cud the business of the Parliament was to
watch over their duration; that they hail power to
annul the operation of a tag already laid, bet that no
other power inferior to the States.Generel could lay
on new ones. This must be allowed spirited in Par.
/lament sten who purchased their place by approba.
tier,' of the King. Few other countries, where the
Members of Parliament purchase their sesta, can be I
so jestly complimented. lhe Count o'Arrots
entered his cursiage in great agitztion sad rage;
for when he desired to hare the definitiee an- I
seer from the President, that lie might report I
to his brother what hail passed, he was told
that the Parliament had given it in their answer to I
biro, end that they bed resolved not to take op the I
consideration of the tales again, whatever kind of I
(compulsion might be suggested or esseyed. Notwith.
standing the power of the King bad that been publicly
set at defiance, yet his biare.ty was not willing to
Proceed to extremities; he soot a message to the Par.
fitment, that h•• would meet them on the Thursday
follow leg, without signifying what would be the
hosine's be should bring forward. Zs came to Paris
rally on the day appointed, mid wish less state and I
parade than his brother, lie hoped his presence
would soften the rigour of the Parliament's resolves ;
but it did no good whatever. fie now saw phinly,
that nothing could mote the Members to compliance,
and expecting now resolutions alight be entered on
their Journals,which would further embroil his stairs,
be took his leave, assuring them, that as they con.
coired the constitution demanded so much, he would
issue orders for telling II STATILS-GsszaAL.
[To be continued.]

LABOVIt AND BULAD.--We make 11,e following
extract from the Leeds Mercury of last Saturday :

" Severe' nom assemblages of t ce unem.
ployed swot keen ha this town and iseighbou,hmtd,hate
taken place since our last poblicstion, and the pies-
sure of distress his not, we fear, been at all diminish-
-1 ed. The crowfeet of these unfortunate mete, ass are
happy to soy, bee net hitherto exhibited any ay asp-
toms of riot or insuberdinatino. We see much tb
applaud, end little to censure in their bebasiaer. At
their Meeting on Wednesd.s, • Depogaiinn from
their body wes sent to the Morn, with • letter, In
which they described in homely, hut moving terms,
the distress.of themselves and their families, and im-
plored the Magistrates to ns a Meeting of the
mere impotent inhibition, for the purpose of taint
their deplorable use into consideration, and tidos'.
nistering to them such relief and assistance, as the
`exigency of their case required. In this letter they
I disclaimed any disposition to disturb the public tein•
guiltily, labour and breed being all they required.
" The Meyer, with his usual humanity sod good
sense, expressed his readiness to afford them all the
assistance in his power, end appointed Friday, in the
forenoon, to meet the person who presented the letter.
At the appointed tir..e, the Deputatiou spin waited
upon the Mayer, who very properly apprised them
of the danger to which they exposed both themselves
and the public peace, by meeting in large bodies, and
woggle recommended them to discontinue that prac-
tice. Ile farther recommended, that those who be.
legged to the township of Leeds, should mike their
wants known le the parish.ofGeers, sod those who
belooged to other towns should also apply, to their
parishes. The present went of employment, be said,
be hoped and believed would only be temporary, end
is the meantime if the parishes did not afford that
relief which was necessary, the applleauts must apply
to the Mightutes for their interference.
" Mayer then enquired if they had any plan
themselves to propose for the mitigation of their dis-
tress? To this they replied, that their objection to
work with machinery, or at ensellinety, which had
once bees so strove/ felt by the Croppers, now no
longer existed, sad that they had seen their error,
and woeld be glad to correct it. A plan bed been
adopted. they said, by a respectable mereantile
house in this town, that would, generally acted
upon by those who d d cloth by machinery. ef.
ford effectoel relief to a considerable number of the
Cruppers. The house alluded In wit that of Messrs.
Vona sod SHEEPSHANKS, and the plan they had
arinpted was to employ Croppere only, in the work.'
lug of their machinery, and to dress certain kinds of
cloth by hand, thereby soiling the two advantages
.of manual and machine dressing In this nay they
were enabled to employ more workmen than could
otherwise be kept, and the advantage of the system,
they thought woold be found in the superior ilresoing
of their cloth. lite bites vie w ended by the Mayor
re.issating them that the inhabitants e the men
felt for their situation, and Icy advising them en zb.
stein firm all kinds of tuattltuotio procetdino." I

L4W INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S RETCH, MAY 7.

The Court was engaged daring the whale day In
hearing argument ou special cases, which allfortied
no public interest.

COURT OF KING'S MACH. DUBLIN. MAT I.

CPIMINAL INFORMATION

Mr. thorrcotr. owed, on the pert of Alderman
Warner, for a conditional order for a Criminal In.
formaileo igitiast Mr. Carrick, the Proprietor of the
Morning Poe. The application was Grounded on
an alleged libel whittle:Tinted in the Morning Pon,
respecting Ike Griot of Coosciener, and Alderman
Weiner, its president. The publicetiou complained
of consisted pertly of a peersl attack upon the Cor.
portliest of DebUn;
_bet the thing objected to was
the representation of ,a transaction at the Court of
Conscience, In dhicli Mr. Charles Ors one of the
parties, and the comments thereon. TVs ceoditioual
order was greattell.

Mr. Da-110b114. then moved for a similar order
'Oust Mr. Magee, Ilia Proprietor of the Dublin
Kvenisig Post. He read bat one paragraph from
that paper, in •hicb this question occers—g6 Why
does not the Corporation shale that nokanoe, the
Court of Conscience?" The Coon `rioted the con-
ditional order in this cam also.