The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-12-30 00:00:00

LONDON:

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, IS qt. * •

Boston and other American Papers to the 4th inst.
reached as this morning. They are chiedy occupied
with the documents submitted to Congress along with,
the PRESIDENT'S Message. Their latest notice of the
proceedings of Congress is from the Washifition
Gv.tete of the 26th November. This is only to the
same date as the details we bate received throogh the
medium of the other Papers, whose contents me flare
given. There is no news from South America. ft
Is noticed that the Secretary of State of the Repablic
of iisyti, has issued an order esplanetory of the
Decrees imposing duties on imposts, from which It
appears that all merchandise of British mencfseture,
imported in British vessels. h admitted at b per *cent.
import duty, and all other goods, or British goods
in vessels of any other nation, pay a duty of 10 pot,
cent. Accounts from Ana Cayes represent the
trade
• whit shims People as exceedingly unpromising and
precarious. The produce of the country is scarce,
anti 'hi coast is infested faith pirates.

We have for some time suspected (rem the Stake el'
the French Funds, and other circumstance', that some'
important political changes were expected. They
have now taken place. The whole frame of the
French Ministry has fallen to pieces, awl, " quick,
Presto, begone," M. DC CATF.II and all the instru-
ments end puppets of foreign power, who held the
reins of Government in France for her oppressors,
have vanished into political inanity. The divisions
of Louts's Cabinet having led to a general rupture,
nn Thursday last (Christmas-eve) all the Ministers
gave in their resignations, and the King accepted of
them all, with the exception of the Duke of RIcIsE-
LIEU, who immediately exerted himself to All op the
vacancies, end formed a new Ministry, thespecifica.
tion of which was as follows:-
66 M. CUTIER (the great naturalist, wire was lately
in FAglantl), the new Miniater of the Interior; M.
MOLLIEN (formerly Minister of the Treasury during
the reign of BONAPARTE, a place which he oczepied
also daring the hundred days), .Minister of Finance;
M. St bison (Member of the Chamber of Deputies, who
had been Councillor of Softie under BONAPARTE,
and Minister of Justice in the kingdom of West pha.
lie), Minister of Justice; M. nu VILLELE (Member
of the Chamber of Deputies), Minister of Marine.:
and Count .I.,tw DC I.4untrrow (Peer of France,
Ald-deXamp of BONAPARTE, sod his Ambassador
at the Coirt of Peteraborgh daring the years 1811
and 1812), Minister of War.
The principal cause of this esiraordinery event,
appears to have been the apprehended consequence'
of annulling the Election Law, for the Recruiting
Project is a subor'dinate consideration. The
' real cause, however, of the change may be found
in the. characters of the late Ministers, and the
timidity and indecision of the King in a c. Isis of such
national importance as France is about to be in.
volved.—The same timidity induced his Maks.
Iy to give to the Doke nu Ricnst.two uGarte4lanche
for the formation of a responsible Ministry, which
the situation of the Monarch and the eircumstanies
of the country now more than ever require.
France demands a free Constitution—the People of
that Mussed country still require a more general
voice in the election of their Representatives, end
the Ultra-enemies of individual and national liberty
would still withhold that right from the mass of so.
'levy. Without the exercise of this right, boa ever,.
the peace and government of society cannot be as.'
sired, and all the boasted establishments and crier--
cive plans of the Powers of Europe will go for
nothing. It is impossible to calculate the result of
this crisis 1n French affair!, though we think it

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