The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-01-28 00:00:00

RUSSIAN EMPIRE.

Peranetsuaott, Dec. 28.—According to the state-
ment jolt published by the Synod (which, however,
Wades only the lireek Church) the number of birtbr,
Lee., in the Russian Empire, iu the year 1819, was as
fullows:

ButTus.--IlotalPS
Feu ales

- 796,426
725,708

Total 1,522,134
Being 98,888 more than in the year 1818.
MATHS.---Males
Females

- 467.668
451,441

Total 919,109
Being 44,182 more in the year ISIS.
The number of births exceeds that of the deaths by
603,025. allatong the deaths were 233,697 males
ender ire years of age. It is worthy of remark, that
if we except the first ten years of infancy. the greatest
mortality takes place at the axe of 60 to 65 years, for
in these years there died 17,745 males—that is, the
2131 b or 27th part of the whole.
Among the deaths of the male sex (the age of the
females is not steed) there were 18,741 above 80;
5.734 above 90; 1,094 above 100 ; 324 above 105 ;
179 above 110 ; 90 above 115 ; 56 above 120 ; 23
above 125; 13 above 130; and two do:extraordinary
age of between 140 and 130.

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LONDON:

MONDAY EVENING. JANUARY 28, 1822.

The Paris papers of Thursday and Friday bring a
report of the continuation of the debate in the Cham-
ber of Deputies on the project of law for repressing
offerers of the press. M. de Housing was first heard.
He contended that the proposed law would have the
eifect of removing that censorship, against which so
many objections had been urged, by introducing a re-
gular system for the repression of abuses of the press,
by entrusting that repression to the assembly of the
two.Chambrrs of a superior tribunal. A free press,
if nut properly- regulated, might introduce evils of
the worst kinds throughout France. The peace, the
religion, the welfare of the country were at stake.—

lie therefore would vote for the project, and for the
amendment of the committee. Ile proposed the fol-
lowing amendment:—" That each journal when first
condemned shall be first subject to a censorship, of a
period of from one to six months; on a second condem•
nation to a censorship of a period of from three to
twelve months; and in case of a third offence, the
censorship was to be indefinite, and the journal might
be put a stop to by an ordonance of the King."
blechin next addressed the Chamber. He as-
gibed the disquietude with which France was at pre-
sent fiikd, to the Government being in the hands of
men of no settled political character; who to-day ab-
jure on the Ministerial bench the principles which
they defended as deputies. He then traced the vicis-
situdes which the liberty of the press had at different
periods under one, and reminded the Chamber, that it
was the subjugation of the press under the reign of
Henry IV. which promoted the success of a society
(the Jesuits) whose re-appearance at present cowl-
toted the terror of all France, and which society had
whetted the poniard which put an end to the existence
of that good King. One of the capital crimes, be
observed, charged against a prodigious man, who
belongs now only to history. and who fell from a
throne erected by innumerable triumphs—one of the
capital crimes against him, in the act of forfeiture,
wss his having subjected to the censorship of the
police the liberty of the press, which had been esta-
blished as a national right. But the violation of a
right so sacred, continued be, which had precipitated
the conqueror from the summit of the Tarpeisn rock,
now made the Ministry ascend to the capitol. lie con-
chided by moving for the rejection of the project.
M. de Pryronnet (Keeper of the Seals) rose next.
lie spoke at considerable length in vindication of that
part of the project which relates to attacks on reli-
gion, and them proceeded to notice the objection, that