The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-12-28 00:00:00

CHAMBER OF PEERS, Dsc.i.l.

The Order of the Day called for the Report of the
Special Commission, charged to draw up the Project
of an Address, in answer to the King's Speech.
The Project was presented to the Chamber, in the
name of the Commission, by the Marquis de Fonsanes :
after being deliberated upon, agreeably to the sc.
coatomed forms, it was adopted. It will be pre.
seuted to the King by a grand Deputation of the
Chamber, whenever his Majesty may please to re.
olive the same.
Twenty Members were selected ballot to form this
Deputation, which contains, by right, the Members
of the Committee and the drand:Referendary. The
following are the Members :
MM. the Duke de 'UM; Masai& LaseriabswiY4t.
count d'Ambray, Marquis de Fontatses, Marquis de
Raisecourt, Duke de Levis, Marquis de .Tuigne,
Count d'Escars, Count de Suffren.Saiet.Topes,
Count de Contades, Barns) de la Rochefoucautd,
Count de Ssint.Vailier, Count Soules, Duke tie la
Chatre, Count Tucker, Count Roils,' d'Anglas,
Count de Durfort, Duke de la Grohs d'Havre, Couut
Maud, and the Marquis d'Aguesseou.
The Chamber separated at five o'clock, without
any filed adjourngsent.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.
A Project of Law was supported in the Chamber
by M. ROY, for continuing certain tales on their
old footing, till the promulgation of the law otr the
Budget.
Twenty Deputiei were appointed to present the
Addreis of the Chamber to the ling) in answer to his
Majesty's Speech.

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SECOND CHAtdBI
This Sitting w
ticularly by tha,
M. KEMPER, Pe-
titions, observed, , irough: .ord this
one because all the Journals had published it (before
it was distributed to the Members) with en eagerness
which would seem ettraordinary, were it not a well.
known fact that most of the Journals in Belgium are
in the hands of foreigners. The Petitioner had al-
ready addressed their High Mightinesses in the last
Seisinn at the Hague, but his Petition was rejected.
Most of the objections made to the former Petition
are not to be found in the present. Tbe Committee,
it seems, was divided in opinion, but all the Mem•
bets agreed that in form it was insolent. However,
they thought this insolence was not la itself a suffici-
ent reason to reject it. The Committee proposed to
refer it to the Sections for examination.

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LONDON:

MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1818•

Though there scarcely passes a day without a ship
or more bringing us intelligence from America, we
hate yet had no further information from any part
of that quarter of the globe, tending to confirm the
intelligence we gave in our Paper •f Friday last, from
St.Thomab's, with respect to Lord COCURANE having
taken the command of the Venesuelian fleet. We
consider the statement thus given at least as prema.
lure. There has not, we conceive, been time since
the Noble Lord left Europe, to offer such service
and make arrangements for sock important opera-
tions as are spoken of in those accounts ; we have
otherwise no doubt of the Noble Seaman's prompti-
tude and prowess when entering upon action.—
Lord Cocnntsc sailed for Chili in the Rose, and
some weeks ago we stated this vessel had been spoken
with near Cape Horn. Lord C. is said 'to have ar-
rived at Valparaiso about the end of November, and
in the enjoin month it was expected he would pro.
ceed with the nasal forces of Chili on an import-
ant expedition, for which great preparations had
been made.

American Papers to the 27th ult. have reached us.
According to an article from Washington, the nego.
elation between the Spanish Minister and the Ame-
rican Government had been resumed. Accounts
from La Guira state, that the Patriots were again
assembled in the plains of Calabria° in great force,
and that MoanLo, the Royalist Chief, had made a
a requisition in Caraccas of 200,000 dollars, 4,000
men, sad 400 mules.
The private letters from America are dated the 28th
of Nov. They state that the British Authorities had
restored to the Americans the settlement at Columbia
River. The military force at Ohio is estimated at
61,401 men, viz. 60,000 infantry, 1275 cavalry,
and 126 artillery. From Careens it is stated, under
the date Nov. 9, that a dreadful sickness still con-
tinued at that place, the daily average of deaths being
about 30.
The trade of the Colonies is represented to be
most flourishing ; the accounts from Halifax state,
that the wharfs were all bootie with the great traffic
tarrying on with the West India Islands, the conse-
quence of the late Acts of the British Legislature;
at the same time a fear is expressed that the Com-
mercial Treaty in negotiation in Loudon might alter
the present state of the intercourse.

French Papers to the 25th inst. hive arrived since
our last. The King has nearly recovered f. An his
regent attack of the gout. On Wednesday he pre-
sided at a Council of Ministers, which sat from one
tii five o'clock. In the evening he received Depute.
doss from the two Chambers, with Addresses in re-
ply to his Speech at the opening of the Sesiion. They
merely re-echo the sentiments expressed by his Ma-
' jesty, with regard to the external and internal rela-
tions of France. The same day a Project of Law was
presented to the Chamber of Deputies, by the Mi-
nister of Finance, for the levying six-twelfths of the
Land Tax, and the contributions on moveables,
doors, windows, and patents, for the ensuing year,
according to the returns of 1818, and also for con-
tinuing the indirect imposts on their present footing,
until the completion of the measures in train for
carrying into effect the new law relative to the finances.
The Project was ordered to be printed, and discussed
forthwith in the 4 different Bureaux. M. DUTERGIER
DE IlitUßANNS,submitted a proposition
.for uniting,
in certain cases difficulty, the Magistrates of the
Civil Tribunals with the. Commercial Judges ;

e. His Majesty will remain here ten days.—
ere will he military reviews in his honour ; and a
end of these tnanceevres, a gaud banquet at th
mnastic Circus in the Pretert which has for the
rpase been decorated with ompificeuce., . . 1
FLANDERS .4No BRUSSELS PAPERS.
BettiszLi, DEc. 212.—The a 4 it of Messrs. Doh.
d Doncin, Editors of the Jo nal des Deux Flue
re, will come before the Coo of Aisizes at Oh,.
the Sth of February. M. .1 ulna will be Coos
for M. Doncin.
Letters from the frontiers
if o Spain" announce tin
rural regiments in garrison ' the provinces of Ni
rre, Biscay, end ArragOn,4 eve received orders I
itch to the environs of Ma id ; it Is affirmed thi
use troops were to assembles at the Ifistatial, WTI
ivies from Madrid. ii•
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F.COND CHAMBER OF TOE SrATES-GMIERA
Usc. 42.
This Sitting was chiefly occupied on Petitli, pa
cularly by that of M. Cauchois le Moire.
M. KEMPER, Reporter of the Committee of F
tions, observed, that he first brought forward tl