The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-12-22 00:00:00

FRENGIi PAIPERS.

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- Lil'Arta,Dtc. 18.—The King is Wei in the same state.
Y 'Yesterday, after hearing Mass in his apartments, his
Majesty received the Ambassadors of Spain and
/klvies. At one o'clock, tile King presided at a
Council of Ministers, which did not break up until

A melancholy catastrophe has jest oecerred in the
• department of the Yonne. M. B--, the husband
of a young and beautiful woman, whom beeraght
$ from Naples. resided in a village in the canton of
• &Imlay. On the 4th inst. he was found dead, with
"f a musket at his feet. Near him was the emhslraed
• body of • dbild, whom •ha lost two years before.—
''His wife, killed in like manner by a musket-abot,
was stretched along the earth, hold* in her
arms a straogled infant. Many conjectures are
• formed as to the cause of this horrible catastrophe.—
• The most probable opinion is that it arose from
de'pair, occasioned by distress.
WednesdAy. there was a numerous meeting at the
• Minister's of Police, and among the persons present
• was the Doke of Richelieu.

' The President of the Chamber of Deputies has up.
0 plied to the Nlinister At the Interior, for the purpose
of taking his Majesty's commands with respect to the
day end hour when the Provi.ional Bureau shall la)
before the King a list of t..e five Candidates for the
Presidency. It is probable it will take place this
' morning.

The Legion of the North is authorised by the Mi-
nister of War to form a Company of Artillery.
Lie,rtenant-General Count Labatt, comprehended
in the second list of the Ordinance of the 24th of
' July, has arrived in Paris.
By accounts from Montpellier, it appears, that
• limey women who were transferred from the prisons
of Rodez and Albi to that city, have made important
discoveries in the affair of Fualdes. It is not yet
known whether these discoveries are favourable or not
to the accessed.
During the Doke of Angooleme's stay at St
Omer's, an officer, not in servece, requested that the
Yrince would permit him to serve as a soldier in the
• Royal Guard, and allow his half-pay to be given to
his mother. This request could wot be acceded to,
according to the existing regulations; but the Prince,
touched with such a proof of filial affection, re-
mitted a gratuity of 200 francs to the mother, and
gave r•easoo to suppose that be would not be forgetful
of the •on.

Frencb Fonds, Dec. 17.—The per Cents 63 f.
60. —Rank Stock 1500 f.

1.10.111
CHAMBER. OF DEPUTIES, DEc. 17.

Yesterday.ilie Chamber preceeded,to the election
of foor Vice-Predente.
The number of voters were 17'3, the absolute ma-
jority 87. The persons elected were MM. de Cour-
voisier, Blowout Batßeal, Beugoot, and Becquey.

Ihmuunun, Dac. 9.—The young men who were
recently arrested here, at the request of the Spanials
Minister, were afterwardstet at liberty. They then
assembled to the number of 800, and proceeded to
the Danish territory, where they effected their em.
• borkatiort without. esperiencing the slightest obstacle.
Lenny, Dec. 4 —Some distorbsoces have broke•
out arn-livit the students of our University, which
was so celebrated for its regularity. During some
lise past two yanks hare beau termed, betweeu

r‘h9llOan,bag- bolero& l apple 4 alit
some rather. wines ectieskes resolteri, wilth
suppressod in their outset. But sbortly
wirrdi the quarrel degenerated. into spew
which at first broke out in the apartment
arms are depesited, and the contest was f
.some instances. as to require the intervention of an
armed force. The culpable have Iwo° osemined, and
it is propsble that the leaders of the fray *ill be ex-
pelled the University.
FRABILIFORT, DEC. 13.—1 t is add. to be certain
that the groat Powers have orldresetpl • note to the
Elector of Hesse, inviting him to mitlyjnote the sales
of domains which took plate sailiV the Prussipsy
Government. .
The Project of Constitution a " at &Mk"
is said to afford all the guarantees frteorktsi
liberty can desire. •
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AMERICAN PAPERS.
New York Papers to tne 18th 011. htiiihtrived,
on which day Congress was to meet.. '
• The following is.au eatract fro• one ot Arm Pa-
pers
• " CHICKASAW TREATY.
" Trent. Grows', Oet. 19.
ss We have just closed a treaty with the Chicka-
saw fudinn•, for all their claims in the States 'Wren-
nessee and Kentucky, contsioing about 7,000,000 of
acres of the best lends in the western toutltty, and
washed by the Tennessee, Ohio, and Missisiiippi 'ri-
vets, for at least 350 milea, for an annuity of 20,000
dollars, for 15 years.
" AN DREW JACKSON."

••• Oar Corrtspondent " !Act/anus" will perceive that we
have no objection to give publicity to his view of Mr.
Owax's scheme for the benefit of the Labouring Classes ;
and, in fact, we think it would be as well for Government
to employ some portion of the Public FOnds is such a be.
uevolent speculation, as in that of building New Churches,
until the old ones are more numerously attended.' Indeed
we expected that Mr. OWZIF would have made known the
result of his interview with the Allied Soveroigas before
Oh dose.

PRICE OF STOCKS TM!
Bank Flock
4 per Cent. Re .774}
3 per Cent Crvt.nls
34 per Gent. 6616
t consuls for. Ire Mt
4 per Cent 9411

atf

DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
5 per Cent. Navy
India 800d576 78p
Long Ann.
Exchequer Dills 9 15 p
°maim 1 dia.

TuE, STATES'S( AN.

LONDON:

TUESDAY* DECEMBER 22, 181 8.

New York Papers to the 17th ult. have been re.
ceived. The Session of Congress was to open on the
16th ult. end preparations were made for receiving the
PRESIDENT'S Message at New York by express.—
It was the general expectation throughout the Union,
that the PRESIDENT would recommend it to Congress,
to recognise the independence of the Government of
Buenos Apes

It seems probable that some change in Adminis-
tration is contemplated, for some change in the sys.
tem has become absolutely necessary. The CHAN•
mama of the Excises's/ea, and Ministers in gene•
ral, find that things cannot go on as they Sr,. The
financial state of the country, like that eflipain,
has approached a crisis, which renders some great
alteration inevitable. The most lavish waste of
blood and exhibitions of horror can no longer
maintain the credit of the Paper Systems, and
the Finance Minister who relies on the aid of
the Threadneedle-street paper and the Jobbers,
and Contractors, and Speculators in debt and money,
finds himself so bewildered that no traveller in the
Black Forest was ever at such a loss to discover a
right path. At the end of the 4th year of peace, we not
only have not begun to pay oft' a shilling of oar debt,
bat we have not been able to bring our expenditure
within oor receipt. We cannot proceed farther in
this state of embarrassment, and we are persuaded,
from the reports we hear in the best political circles,
that Ministers themselves are convinced that the cons.
mon interest of all who are identified with the soli
of Great Britain, demands an immediate recourse to
some operation that shell estricate us from our dif-
ficulties, and re/ive a healthful state of national
haauce.

posed England,
the practicability of introducing Trial by Jury and
tkeiLiberty of the Press, will occasion strong colli-
sions. The Address of the Peereto the King, in re•
ply to his Majesty's Speech, WM; to be presented on
Saturday. The Chamber of flapeties was expected
to take the Address into consideration on Friday,
'on which occasion it gni &limed probable the con-
tending ,
parties would make a display of their rela.
strength. There was but little fluctuation in the
Irma Funds in the close of last week. The Paris
Kpers inform us that on Thursday the price of the
rise per Cents. was 631. 60c: ; and an express re-
exited in the City yesterday( states, that on Saturday
tisey closed at 63f. 80c.
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There seems fob *struggle going forward in the
French Ministry% and, the Ultras are again at their
'hotrigues. The political questibii which is said to
littansealled forth the existing difference, is, accord-
'Nl sip some private 'dykes, the policy of maintain-
ing v. of modifying, if not totally rescinding, the
present Election Law, which Is by no means to the
bide of the advocates of the old system, the No-
blesse of the ancient regime, and the despotic Ul-
tras, as the effect of the Law In question has been
140 t throw a greater portion of popularity into the
ytjections ot the Chamber of Deputies, by reducing
the qualification of an elector. The old Noblesse,
and certain others of the landholders, have lost, in
consequence of this meow', an influence which in
some cases was thought to approach to a monopoly of
the representation. It cannot be supposed therefore
that a recurrence, either direct or circuitous, to the j

former sytem under which the Chamber of 1815 was
elected, could fall to he en object of the most eager
interest to the ancient Noblesse—to those of the
landed proprietors who found themselves weakened
by iii overthrow. By them and by others, who lean
more to the side of the King's Prerogative than of
the Charter, by which he voluntarily restrained it, the
Election Ls w of September, 1816, has always been
stigmatised as of a tendency too democratic. Yet the
number of electors who are qualified under that law
is no more then 110,000, out of nearly 30,000,000
of people; little more perhaps than a tenth of the
Voters of the United Kingdom, whose population
one.cbird less. The qualification of a French elec-
tor is the payment of 300 francs per annum, or 12
guineas in direct taxes, to the Government ; sit Owe
mote than that tom which constitutes the legal income
of a British freeholder. This shows that the Elective
Ftenchise is yet considerably confined in France,
tkough. the illiberal faction would restrict it still fur-
ther. If the Election Law he really the hinge on
which the present party-conflict turns, and the dif.
fereuce cannot he adjusted withoot an ahmehite 046
paration of the component Members of the Cabinet,
it remains to be seen towards which quarter the plea-
sue of the Sovereign will incline.

A Mail from Flanders, with BrOIISPiS Papers to
the 18th, and Journals from Frankfort, have like-
wise arrived. New reductions, it is said, are about
to take place in the Admiralty and War Departments
of the Netherlends; and the King hes given an order,
which we could wish to see isseed by other Sove-
reigns to their Ministers, namely, " not to present
to him henceforward any Report, the object of which
is to increase the expenditure of Government."—
When will the Panne REGENT issue such an order
to his Ministers ? The Report of the Dutch Budget
for 1819, had been made to the Second Chamber of
the States-General, bat no sketch of it is given in
these Papers. Lord LAUDERDALE arrived at Brus•
sell on the 15th inst. Ilia Lordship is said to be the
bearer of dispatches, but from whence, or from
whom, is not added.
The most interesting which the Frankfort Paper.
present is, a communication from Berlin, according
to which the Prussians are on the eve of enjoying the
benefits of a free Representative Constitution. The
Committee of the Council of State, to whom the
task of framing a new system of Government was
confided, are said to have brought their labours to a
I close; and the most confident expectations are en-
tertained, that in its general ontline'the plan which
they have proposed will meet with the approbation of
the majority of the Conseil, though discussions may
arise, leading to some alterations in its details. ft
differs from the British model of Government, in
having only one Legislative Assembly ; but there
may be reasons, of which we are not, at present,
aware, for giving the preference, in Prussia, to such
an arrangement, though not adapted to the habits nor
circumstances of the People of this country. At all
emits, this is a minor consideration, compared with
the great and invaluable privileges which the Pros.
Isian nation will obtain under the new system, if they
I shall ever enjoy the prospect thus hell out to them.
IA military road is, it is said, to be granted to Prus-
sia, for a pecuniary indemnification, through the se-
veral petty States which separate her old territories
from the Grand Duchy of.the Rhine. This is only
whit an ambitines Monarch, like some of the Kings
of PaussiA. wants, •4 give him an inch', and he roil;
take an all." The xtwebbles between the Govern-
merits of she petty Cantons of Srtitzetland and the
Psi at Clergy still continue.

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in that
Debt has increased Ito nearly one !When
Without the Bank Restriction is the yes
would have been impossible to coot inuelhes
out cootinoing that Restriction from year
1815, it would have been impossible to raise
tomb es extent as the world not only him
as the deepest Political Economist could
csicelsted. To this facility, aided by
winter, Europe owes what has Woe
Salvation, end England that glory which
denominated her Prosperity. While t
was in progress the face of Europe w
tionized, but the state of Englund hersel
a more important reroletiou. The middli
small lauded proprietors and farmers,
chants, and small manufacturers, almost di
The taxes swept them front the cuuntry—i
were speedily occupied by two great classy
the great agriculturist and the extensive
turer. On the one hand, scientific ferret
annihilated the peasantry, who, instead sit
tags and few acres, were solely- cons
day-laboorers ; and, on the other, all
master weavers, &c. were compelled ti
to Capital and the Steam Engine—so tit
exception of the shopkeepers its the gr
there is now no intermediate state betwee
wealth and the most squalid poverty. 1
years have thus produced a change in tb
of England, greater than the two prec
tories.

The only mode of supporting this op
Paper Money. It is unfortunately the
by which the Civil Espenditure and the
the Debt can be paid.

The capital of the Bank is said to be
lions. Grant this to be true for do
the argument ; we will go further in
that the Bank might purchase Belli
auroont, and' pay off its Notes. So far
is safe—so far the Holders of the Notes
Stock are secure. But th'e great bulk of
ins Capital of the Country is in Govern'
' and Debentures—that is, in promise, by tI
silent to discharge the Dpbt contracted
war. If the Bank is compelled—or to use d
able term in our Political Nomeociatitella
alloyed to pay in they will fully disc
obligations by paying off thirty millions.
Holders of Government Stock mud Efeberi
while this opervion is in progress, poi
selves of Gold—to this extent--So more.
residue of their Government Paper, amt.
we have seen too some bentiredi of mill
can only get other. Government Pii i i ;
Gold aid NW Atliat the Fame time lac
either the brat must disappear, as lies bee
with the limited Viso° of Sovereigns,
will become inevitably depreciated. It
alternative occurs, and, while the each
against us, occur it must, we shall speedi
(faced either back to paper again, *hie
cons. queuce, be deteriorated, or to a base m
diem, under the name of Tokens, which w
verse. If the other alternative takes pl
must be a frightful diminution in the val
vernment Paper, which can never afterwi
the experiment of a Gold Currency is tried
have failed, be raised to ins former nominal

In this event, a Bankruptcy, whether
general, must be the consequenee.

The PRINCE REGENT returned to Car
yesterday, from Brighton, to preside at a (
which the Duke of WELLINGTON and Lor
REAGII were present.
Yesterday, about half-peat 11 o'clock,
TLERRAGII arrived at the Foreign office,
ward* dined with Lord LIVERPOOL.
Yesterday morning, shout one o'clock,
of WELLINGTON arrived in town. Betw
and one o'clock his Grace rode nut on I
and proceeded to the Foreigo.offiee, in
street, where his Grace had a long inter
Lord CASTLEREAGH; and afterwards I
Duke proceeded to the Colonial. office,
Grace transacted business with Earl CATIII
ab.'ut four o'clock, proceeded to the Coma
Chief's Office, and remained with the MIL
till between five and six o'clock. •
Letters have been received from Mr.
Mr. Jones, the Missionasies to Madagast
It Port Louis, late of France, July 9
where they arrived on the 311 of that mt
Excellency Governor Hall received them
teously, but discouraged their proceedine
criscmr at present, chiefli on account n
Trade, in which almost all the Europeans
cage, notwithstanding the treaty entered int
King of Pon. So little is that treaty regal
4illee the date of it 1,700 slaves had beet
into the M &c.
The standard of copper ore which two
was so low as DOI. was a fortnight since 1
this week 1431. This high rate ;as give'
animation to the spirit of n 61111114 adventurk
It is its contemplation to forts a wet I
Itan II "I) head, for the accommodsti
Liverpool shipping. We are al,o chitin
stand, that a bridge over the river Co:ini
lively decided oat, and that immediate step
to he ad.ipted., The Cheshire innkeepers
alert to obtain the Holyhead mail oil the S
road.

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le 4 l discord; Pails Parrs to the 19th ipst. hose
yceotmbeeetnothresnnds.. tritrOTl
ta, wllith were Millbelliflelll of public importance has °oft il!rtll4e r;rpr he
ll'
1 eniletiri
i_ u ,lor the eel
slwrilY *fief* sited in the Chambers, but it is ezperted that-the .4. 1 Bank tiorighl -'N th''s ti
4 .w
nto open war,
present Session Will be prodictive of discussions on ion Government allow tile stop to v
talent where the e
wee so violent in 1 some momentous points. Among others, it is snp• PelmPittl? For orlP.lind.itipp*lestial
rmonrion of an I nosed that the mission to Eillentl, for ascertaining been without * metallic currency. 'in :Lit