The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-12-23 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, Dec. 18 —There•, has hren published at
Inenlau, the following Tether fsoin the Minister of
the Interior, dated Paris, N..v. 26, and addramed
to the Ma) or of that ;open :-
66 you are, doubtless, acquainted with the Treaty

concluded at Paris between the King and the Allied
ruwers. It is the consequence of the criminal con-
spiracy which conducted the Clorper to France.—
,
, However painful its conditions, the King deterniined
to sign h, in order to put a period to the calamities
of eery kind which oit,rwheinied our country. By
; !Ids Treaty, France cedes four fortresses to the Al-
i lks; your city is one of them.
" I fulfil, Sir, a very painful duty in begging you
; to prepare your fellow-citigens for the sad sacrifice
i which they are forced to make. The King orders me
• to tell you what was Ma profound affliction, when he
saw that an imperious necessity compelled hiin to se-
parate you from his greet family. A Witness of Events,
you hate been able to form an opinion on them ; you
have seen the shameful abandonment of the colours
of the country which conducted us to the brink of
an abyss; and you meat !tare foreseen that it could
not be saved without some sacrifices. Of all the
evils with which treason overwhelmed his Al,,j-sty,
there is nose more severe for him then the order
which he hag this day given me. The tie that united
you to Fraoce is broken; but his Majesty's ail*, ction
fnryou will always subsist. Be nal ties or forget
the proofs of fidelity which you hate given hi,r ; hi;
descendants will always retain for you the same in-
terest, and the sad pages of the history of these WI.
fortonnte times, will retrace the recollection of the
profound grief with which your 'operation has pc-

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After the poltlit Sitting of tl
ber of Deputies went into 11
order to discuss the budget
one article of that bidget port
tion. In 1814) the Gh 'tither el
•pensions to some old erayilitA
Body; and, in tee number•
were four of those men who hi
sentence of death on their Kit
having, in the Sitting to *Mel
the tribune, read the ♦otes
Members of the Convention h
•of Louis XVI. 'ftde reading
impression : a shuddering of h
whole Assembly ; from all sid,
to the vole! and the Chamber,
' to decree that the four regicide
I she ►ist of pensioners.
There is no certainty yet wi
oaf M. de Lavalette, bat his fa
some hopes of delay in the
meld.

It is said that the King
cotton to the King of :sal
taining a mitigation of the
valette. It is added that t
interfered in this minion
Privy Council is to be bell
ject.
ft appears that the ftej,
Priced some opposition fa t
of the Central Committee
Informed that there still
the Cote d'Or, a iretit n
techism for the use of all
which a whole chapter is
attachment towattls the
considering that it Is of it
this catechism all that is c,
good. Frenchman and a go
recal odious recollections
d'Or has ordered that tht
the duties towards the per
potent' shall be suppressed
ehism, &c. -shies may be
of po!)lic inetrui4ibit. ftf ti
the Commissaries of Pttlii
With t-spect to the Week
the Cotes at,d Ministers, fe
dreo, the 13;s1:op, or in hi
rat, ate invited to give ord.
to avoid the seilore 4itich
netted topi,?s.

DEC. 19.—Madame
thorning to the Saloon
King she threw
the pardon of her huibai
much moved, did not ac
M. de Lityslette, it
Cnnciergerie, but hos
CPU nes.

The debut of two Baal
yesterday, a great cone 4
Circa.; of the Francooi ;
the expo ctations of the cu'
Yesterd4y General Csi
was conducted to the et
Abhor.

; Orders have been issued,
Allies shall be in Paris on II
orders include Officers of t/
partment, of the Army, ak
The Duke of Luzembourp
Body Guard, is appointed
of Brazil.

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CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. Dim 1E
The Sitting was paned at one o'clock.
The Duke of Richelieu, Minister for Foreign Ar:
fairs, M. de Vaublane' Minister of the interleb M.
de Cues, Minister of Police, and M. Bequey, Cowl".
eillor of State, were introduced.
M. de Vkusr.incareended the tribune, and de.
livered a discourse, which pi effaced the greater erect
from its being extemporary. The Minister held in
his hand only the Constitutional Charter, and send
not es.

M. de VA U tam charged to present to jot*
a plug) of law on elections. It is of the highest its:
portance. The 35th Article of the Constitutional
Charter proves that it is indispensably itecitsaryt
since according ro that artirlo, the organization of
the Electoral Colleges must he determined by late.
The Ciilieges existing at this moment are very nu.
merous : the title of Elector is eltnost become.a fiierl
title. In the lati elections sir. was for
counterpoising, ?y eittraoriliary sittiksno, the. spirit
ouripr the influence of which those. Electoral Colleges'
been &mei. •
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