The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-01-22 00:00:00

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LONDON:
SATURDAY, JANUARY I% IMO.
We have received Paris Papers to the 19di
instant.

The liberals seem to be triing every exertion to'
realer nagatory the small majority obtained by tie
Illuistert, on the question of the petitions relative is
the Election Law. The fall of the present Ministry
their own ultimate trininph are deemed inevitable.
A Bulletin of the 17th instant, says, " there will bs
so sitting tomorrow; probably the Chamber of Delo.
ties will omerable on Wednesday, to hear a repairsa
the petitions, by 31. Riviere, and to name a depntatio
to &Alit at the funeral service on the 21st of Jansary."
It is asserted that the health of the King ism fir
restored, that he is now able to walk without madame.
Tim cold has been so excessive throughout France,tho
seen is the latitnde of Bourdeant, the (4aronne has his
completely frozen over, a circumstance which hadat
occurred since 1788. At four o'clock P. n. on the LK
the wind changed suddenly at Paris from the northme
to the south-west, and the thermometer rose from I
degrees, and 8 8-10ths, to one degree below the fret*
point, and at eleven et night the thaw began in&
midst of a shish fog which covered the capital. •
The "Memorial Dearmais" of the lOtb instant w
tains the following article :—" Many foreigners he
been arrested at Otitis : the Spanish lioversoseM •
taking measures to prevent a second revolt. nano
ditios of the fleet of the Expedition is most delphinia
It appears that its destination is changed, and that.*
a small part of it will leave the port of Cadiz."
The Emperor .1 lexander, the grand Doke
and the Brand Duchess Alexandra, are expestalif
Berlin during the Carnival.
Noce the 13th instant the port of Ostend bathe
completely blocked up with the ice.
The operations of the Congress of Vienna aresisr
eotered by an impenetrable veil. The moderates d
the Commission of Inquiry at elayrom it is sag Is

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is some strassre calmed the public wind. au&
bassi so the tranquillity of Germany; It is bl

Oat lia Comer iltttbaistbe isterier oftlikee
M inirred.
Notre■ Iremos.—Pise rr Cents.. ;It r ISe.
A etioirt, 1.123 f.

It will he soon what a very small majority lb
tasters obtained (only fire) oo the question wit
ther that material part of the French Cash,
which regards the elections or Deputies to theta,
gislative Body, shall be changed, to give magi
finance, as it is openly avowed, to the Ariafang
or France, by taking so much from that of thli
mocracy. This is the case in every Govern**
in all countries--at one time the ifonarayer,
eroaches upon both the other orders, then them!'
in rank upon the third or lowest, till at lest dr
mocracy weighs very light in the scale; sad,
short, the people -became gradually enslaved. nil
is one of the evils arising from making Firer,
the chief base on which representation is halt

There is no easy method, but marsh km a FP.
maneot one known, of preventing this bees ig
freedom from going out of the order 0( i/WP
Can we wonder, then, that reflecting aresilbees
look with an unfavourable eye upon ell snail PIP
sessions as stand in the way of political j"..1.-114
Till some further discovery-be made in tbM Inilv
wadel part of the science of Government, hP
venting the inconvenience &tit, and so lb*
evinced in the early institution of the teesllii
Government of Prance, let it be the WNW itPrance,
every honest man,- in that and other cellitrilik*
do all he can to stop the extension of a deft*
to which the best and most beautifully eesuPPO*
social compacts are liable to give rise. We PO'
suns., and hope, that this trifling majority WO*
considered by the Ministers as a defeat, W, it
reason, it can be no other ; and that they volli
the question rest for the present: we wpm 1110'
ever, and fear, that the next time the Frani 01'
Most brings the consideration forward, it will IP
metre suecessfully managed by the envious @fide
men's rights and liberties. In England, detail*.
administration of Lord Nowrn, a inajork of r
was abosidered by that Minister as a mined*

There are many people either to la— M
the dangers of the country, or se eastwonsi
whether any measures are taken 0* their inerisk
that it Is difficult at all times to some their AO
or their aid in the public service. Ithay, isk bIIP
lag pampered in their atereautiks-4beir IN.
censer= in general, fee{ disinclined se )41* of
shore is the political affairs of their sem•y; og
Wowing or rOlectiog that it is the ./
political institutions which can aloe*iiii •
. al
‘ose

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