The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-12-19 00:00:00

THE NEW FRENCH MINISTRY.

M. de Villele is of an ancient family in Languidoc
and entered, when yonng. into the Royal navy o
France. About the age of IS, be embarked fur the
-East Indies, and far near 16 years resided in the 14
of France. On bis.return,to bia native country. he
fixed himself at Toulouse, of which he was afterwaltl,
appointed Mayor, by the King. He came into' ptitilit
life as a legislator, in ISIS, at the age of forty-two...
Lauriston, says The Tine:, whoa' we spoke of yes-
terday as a new Minister, was a metnher of the late
Atitninistration : he observed, when the changes were
in contemplation, that as he wished nothing better,
than to form part of a Royaliq Ministry, he paw no
reason to leave his place. lie is supported by M..de
Villele, with whom he is connected by family ties,
EXTRACT OP A LETTER, tos•rno PARIS. REC. 16.

Of the new appointment?, that of M. Peyronnet to
be Keeper of the Seals bas excited considerable sur-
prise. He is neither known for family honour., for
political influence, or extra,•rdinary talents. He was
originally an advocate at litandeaux of which he is a
native : and by the interest of M. Leine was appointed
Proenrenr-Heneral of the Royal Court of Bourget+, in
the department of l'Ain. The patronage of M. Lain.
and M. Nave;, his townsmen, brought him to Paris,
where he obtained the appointment of King's Procu-
renr at the Court of the Chamber of Peers. In that
rapacity be conducted, last spring, the trial of the al-
leged conspirators of August, I S'2o ; and the trial of
one of them, Mazion, who was condemned about a
month ago. Having thus made his appearance on
Paris political and judicial hoards, he was found' useful
to the late Ministry for his seal; and by their in.
fluence was elected member of the Chamber of De-
pnties for the department of Cher. In the Chamber
he has spoken only once or twice, and without any suc-
cess. His accent, as the Parisians express it, soli&
strongly of the province. He is said, however, to pos-
sess the power of extempore defence. Ile appeared
yesterday on the bench of Ministers without his robes
of office, which, from the suddenness of his appoint-
ment, could not be ready, anti excited a smile in the
Chamber, at the figure he cut in his court-dress with
a sword. .4 See," said one of the Deputies, " Justice,
with the sword, but without the balance !"
It is said that M. de Serre is to be sent as Ambassa-
dor to Berlin, anti that M. tie Chateaubrian I is to be
appointed Master of the University, with a seat in the
Cabinet; but these are mere rumours. M. de Serre
will most probably remain in the Chamber of Deputies,
where his friensls will require his aid.
M. Laine has given in his resignation as Minister of
_ _

Among the rnmonred appointments is that of the
Deputy Benin de Vans to he Prefect of Police.
(young A MINISTERIAL PARER.)
Purina thirty years past we have been so repeatedly
conducted from inconsequence to inconsequenre,
scsi from contradiction to contradiction, that
the absurd has almost constantly predominated.
It may be said, that we have so adopted the
habit of false positions, that a position which is
just and natural seems to us something new, hold, and
somewhat embarrassing. A vague and transitory
state, protracting itself under various modifications,
had become in our eyes a positive and stable condition.
—Repeated exceptions had assumed the place of the
rule.

We have seen the Ministry perilously placed between
two oppositions, whose perpetual shock, whose conti-
one!' collision, could not fail to shake and injure the
administrative machine, which had so much need of a
solid support in the legislative power.
Was it not most IleploraVle to see the zealous friends,
the most ardent defenders, and the most experienced
servants of the King and his cause, placed in the ab-
surd position of opponents to his Majesty's Ministers,
who were thus, hy an error, in which a false-love made
them persevere, deprived of that natural and powerful
assistance of an imposing majority, composed of homo-
geneous elements, and representing in the Chamber
of Deputies the grand and intimate alliance of the na-
tion with the King, of the intervals of the people with
the rights of the Crown ?
Deprived of these noble auxiliaries,' the Ministers,
to whom a majority was a thing to he gained at all ha-
zards, sought to obtain it by th:t most wretched com-
binations, formed, modified, and destroyed in one day ;
and by unsolid alliances, founded anon no just and te-
ciprocalinterest.
The Ministers were condemned to manceuvre pain-
fully between two oppositions, when they could by a
single movement have enlarged their ground, and
strengthened themselves with an immense force,
which, however, they rather chose to fear, brave,
Batter, or combat, according to circumstances.
Those who had this force at their comtnatal did not
put too high a price on their alliance. They merely

LONDON!
'WEDNESDAY EVI.:VING, DECEMBER 19, 1821.

New Brunswick !Inters arrived this morning to the
14th November, but brim,• no:hing of impottance,—
Halifax papers also arrived t.) the 25th November,
•
from which we extract the following :-
(41'ClIEC.—Arrivetl, I.rig 11.trriet, from Jamaica
with limn. She was boarded by two schooners under
Spanish colours off Cape Antonio, which kept possession
of the big five hours, and plundered her of every
thins, with 6,000 dollars.

The Sophia and Sarah left at Kingston brig Union
of Liverpool, to sail next day ; brig Mariner for this
port in five days; brig !lemony had •ailed eight
days before ; schooner Sally, one day ; brig De-
spatch, from St. John's, N. H. •ailed in company ;
brig Beaver do., was beating up from Port Bengal,
when the Sophia and Sarah came out. The Ida spoke
iu the Gulph Stream ;—schooner Mary, Swann, from
Annapolis fur St. Harts, out live days, lost part of
her deck load. The Alert left at Harbadoes, schooner
William, Jewel, of this port, to sail in four days.

EXTRACT OF A LETTEit FROM ST. LOUIS, NOY. /.

-General Atkinson and Major (rFullon (Indian
Agents) arrived its this place on Sunday last front
Council Buffs. The latter gentleman brought down
with bite a deputation consisting of chiefs and bead
men of Seven Lands of the Missouri Indians, in all
six•een men. Their destination is Washington City.
We learn that the various tribes of Indians inhabiting►
the country on the Missouri, as high up as the Great
Bend, whence our trade has been carried by the enter-
prise of the Fur Compauirs, remain friendly towards
the whites. The Ariaras, some 2011 miles above, still
evince a disposition to he troublesome, which nothing
but the sbew of our armed force will quiet. Some
hostility occurred last mummer between the Onsslsa
nation and the tribes of the Sioux. A battle ensued
and the Omahas were driven off the field with the lost
of 13 warriors. It is believed that all the disquiet,as
well as ►he petty warfare, made by one tribe against
another, among the remote Indians, will be silenced
by the sheer of an armed force in the ports of the
Missouri they inhabit, and it will open to our traders
a road to the richest fur trade in the world. Views

to this effect are contemplated by Government, and
will no doubt be speedily accomplished. Ample means
are in the hands of the military at the Council Buffs
fur the fulfilment of this 'rand object.

The Paris papers of Sunday contain the following
Royal Odinance.
" Louts, &c.—On the report of our Minister Secretary
of State for the Home Department.
" Wishing to recompense the zeal which Dr. Bally has
manifested at Barcelona, in devoting himself to the
study and treatment of the contagion which spreads its
ravages there, we have ordered and (loonier as follows

" Art. I. The Sieur Bally, Doctor of Medicine and
Member of the Royal Academy onledicine, is appointed
Knight of the Royal Order of the Begins) of Honour.

" 2. Our Minister Secretary of State fur the Home De-
partment, and the Grand Chancellor of the Legion of
Honour, are charged with the execution of the present
ordinance. (Signed) " Louts.
" Given at the Tuileries, December 5.

(Counter•signedl)

" SI3IICON."

The news contained in these papers is not of much
importance. Before mass, it appears, the Bureau of
the Chamber of Peers, conducted by the Chancellor.
had the honour to present to the King the law project
relative to the sanatory system adopted I.y the Cham-
ber in the sitting of Friday ; and at one o'clock, the
new Ministers, with the exception of the Marquess de
Clermont Tonnere, presented by the Marquess of Lan-
riston, Minister of the Royal lionsehol.l, had the
honour of taking the oaths before the King. Count
de Serre, the late Keeper, brought the Seals to his
Majesty, who delivered them to M. Peyronnet.
An article from Frankfurt, Dec. 10, says the Court
of Vienna continues to maintain silence on the con-
tents of the despatches lately received from C.►nstanti_
apple and Petersburg. The friends of peace augur
nothing favourable from this reserve of the Austrian