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LONDON

S.ITI;EWAy. NOVLII3Ei: 18, 1815.

*I bier days' Paris Papers are now due. Their
tion-ari isalis att,ibnted to the state of the wind.—'
We nevertheless expect an arrital every moment.
Government, we understand, are not In possession
of later itidellitteaCe from Paris than Sunday everiing,
when Mr. PLANTA, who is expected to bring the re-
tified Convention, had not left the French capital.
A Most Important point has been gained by the
Peerage of BGNAPARTS, and those whom Louis has
attempted to degrade from their rank and stations
by his arbitrary and proscribing decrees, in the deci-
sion of the Council of War, anti the admission which
has been wrong from the Government, that NEI('
is a Peer, who could not be degraded by the orders
of the King simply, and that he has a right to be
tried by the Chamber of Peers. It is a triumph over
despotiqm, and a sentence solemnly 'pronounced by
a high tribunal, declaring two most important acts
of the King to be illegal, viz. his Proclamation of the
6th of May, and his Ottlintuice of the 24th of
July, which, with a matchless stretch of Royal
authority arid equal indiscretion, denounced as cri-
minal and deserving of punishment all who had held
offices under the late Government, and fired the,
stigma of disgrace on ail whom the nation had ho-
noured. It seems now established that the King
could not do this. In what a state of degradation
must a country be sunk, if a King could exercise
such a power with approbation or impunity ! What

safeguard could men have for their lives, and all that
,• . renders life valuable. were such power admitted to
reside in .the mere breath of loyalty ? The King
confers honour •for some veal or supposed services
-r laved to the state by the individuals so honoured;
ioila
li h
‘.: is essential for the maintenance of Constitu-
t - !thirty, individual right, and public justice,
:that thiltoxyer of taking away thi‘se dignities slivuld
. tot bp IndetttOtety entrusted to the King alone.—
Tbo /wind tivnlqtntion of France, which the
. amain; to restore, cootorred
rto4oett ilapretni
• was remit-red for the weak Government of Louts
X V111.,t0 asserniftriviteges, and exercise a despotic
.authority amidst a nation burning for liberty, which
Pone of his preOeceSsors. not •even the last and
greatest, ever dia.(' to claim. No wonder the po.
pular mind in France is wrought up to ferment, '
and rejoices in every check which •leil presumption
receives. It ti.ll its+ from the de is n of incompe-
tency, thit al the other persons a,... are considered
1)g Ike King as having abdicated the Peerage, were
Peers also at the period of Nsy's alleged crime, con-
voy' fitly are so still, the King's individual power
to degrade them being denied; and it is believed
that Star will demand that his trial shall take placebe.
fore them. This is an awkward labyrinth into which
the French Government has got. It is also said that
the trial will be dela)ed until a law shall he passed,
giving the Chamber of Peers the attributes of a high
Ccurt of Jorice. But thisappeara unnecessary, if the
Charter is to be abided by. M. BOURDONNAIei
plan of a genoral amnesty is unquestionably the only
and the best means of extricating the Government of
Louts from the danger and. perplexity in which it
has involved itself by its thirst for vengeance. What
good could be derived (tom the punishment of Nt:y
now ? What good effects have resulted from the sa-
il crifice of LAREDO Y ERE ?

A ilitriburgh Mail arrived this forenoon. The
only article of interest which it brings is the fol-
lowing :

[ia►stem, Nov. 6.—We have received from Paris
some interesting documents respecting the payments
to be mule by France, the evacuation of that country,
'the organization of the army that is to remain there,
and the departure of the other troops.

1. It is laid down as a principle, that in the three
first years from the Ist of December, 1815, France
is not to pay above 270 millions annually.
2. Of these 270 millions 110 are to be in part of
the indemnity of 700 mitlin s, so that this sum will
be paid in five years. The 130 millions are to serve
under the following conditions fur the sopport of the
occupying array.

3. Though France engages itself to the complete
support of this army, the Allied Powers, in order to
afford that kingdom some relief, wilt, if circum-
stances allow, lessen the number of Irqops from year
to yealr, in order that in this manner these L3O mil-
lions may be equal to the expences of maintaining
• the whole force, which will amount to 150,000.

4. Of this, should this diminution not be possible,
France will have to ply the difference between 130
snillions and the reol moues of maintaining the