The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-02-19 00:00:00

partial Committee.

Another day's Paris Papers (to: the 16th) have
reached up. The Doke of WMUNGTON had been
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visiting the Duke of ANGOULEME, but. no further
elucidation of the attempt upon his Grace's life is
given in the Papers. This silence on the part of the
Paris Journals, on the " atrocious attempt," does
not at all please the Treasury Editors here. They
cannot uuderstand the "utility of this mysterious
silence." There may be'more " utility," however,
in this dumb show, than the alarmists on this side of
the water imagine. We can conceive cases where
silence may be " commendable" in more than "
sleet's tongue dried, and an old maid not vendable."
—The statements which we gave yesterday from Pa-
risian letters, afford a tolerably transparent gloss to
the understanding of this " mysterious" affair. The
result of Count Axuces, the Sub-Prefect's, investi-
gations upon the scite of the attempt, the position of
the assailant, and the finding of the ball in the ceiling
of the gateway, five feet above the carriage, with the
circumstance of the 44 Illustrous Duke" hiving got
his Guard of Honour, may be taken as very good
reasons for not making any further noise about the
matter ; but we must at the same time say, that we
are at all times bound to judge charitably where we
have no real grounds to think otherwise. The pre.
ceedings against the Rouen Dauphin still continue. In
the Sitting of the 1-Ith February several witnesses were
examined, among whom was the sister of M.arriu errs
BuuNaAu, but she was not positive that the Prisoner
was her brother. A witness, named Arsme ROSALIE
SIMON, whom the reporter represents as of the school
of Madame KRUDENEIt, affected much mystery, and
stating that after much enquiry she had given him a
gold watch and ring, she concluded by declaring that
her ideas on the matter should die in her own bosom.
This is another mysterious affair, the " utility" cf
the reports upon which it will be equally difficult for
some persons, not in the seems of I.3uunnorr
to understand.

In the Sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on the
14th, a voluminous Project of Law respecting the
Custom Duties was read. It appears from this that
the Tariffs in general have been lowered, in order
to destroy smuggling. The Custom Duties on Im-
ports have been particularly reduced in the Project.
The account of the bad crops of silk last year has
determined the Minister to propose the Suspension,
until the Ist of August next, of the duties upon fo-
reign silks. 1.-
The Journal des Debuts gives an article from the
Madrid Gazette, dated from Port Mahon, Island of
Miuorcs, which goes to confirm the intelligence frem
Genoa, respecting the conduct of the Dey of A La I
to the Foreign Consuls. The news was conveyed to
Minorca by various vessels from Algiers, all the pas-
sengers of which concurred in the statements already
given. It is added, in one of the French Papers,
that an official account of these outrages bad been
dispatched to the Count DE Prossr, the Sardinian
Minister at the Court of Austria.
The 5 per Cents. were, en Saturday, 66 f. 15c.;
Rank Actions, 1558 f.

Yesterday the Dachess of GLOUCESTEIe spent the
day with the PRINCE REGENT at Cari.on.bouse.
Viscount NI ELTILLE end the Hanoverian Millie?,
had audiences of the l'itlNCE REGENT yesterday at
Carlton-house.