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Circulate there, and yet cannot be
French without previous imprit
some just and honourable exceptions
proposed, why not renew the ancient privilege
academies had in France, not only of pul
memoirs, but of authorising by their
-"orks of their own members,
Its, and of the authors who were
fixes ?
Minister declared. in hit di
taken to exempt all writings whose
in their character and situatiof
ficient guarantee," why was it not though(
Batty others an exception made .
eccresiabtics and advocates ? .---Woidd
of tjre Chamber of Peers, or of De.
incillors of Mate. Public Functionaries,
hers of the University, of the Chamber
and many others, be equally enti.
in the number of those who by
or situation presented sufficient gea.

lisorders cf those times. Bit every
It see, that the 'hole spirit of things
Anarchy was publicly was preached
,ry Government showed its wont of
sical force. It had no hold on politic
the same excesses to he ever dreaded
we net now tribunals strong enough—
and may they not be strengthened if
If a fool should be found to put his
on the Government, what ►icenscd
'Ve up his press to him? Woptd not

announce
Chamber
it was
occasion

lotion the
the Char-

Ly year *aorta depend upon JUI
the censorship. • We have examined whether, reject- genre Ind experience to mid me lit rendering my
ing the.psinciple, some temporary modification might i people happy. My Chancellor will more particu-
not be allowed to the exigenciis of the time. We tarty take known to you my intentions."
have decided that the question cannot be proposed, Tkp Chancellor on his knees took the orders of
unless the Minister should lay before us the project Ms *death and after rising signified to all present to
of the law, with its peculiar motives, and that such be seated. He then delivered a short discoUrse, in
project should be attached to the law fully establish- . which) he reminded the Councillors that it was their
ing the Liberty of -Ole Press. The King will see In busineis to make the King's authority loved and re-
our decision, the success of the liberal institutions' spected, Without ewer seeking to extend it; to pre-
to which he has given birth ; and the Nation, con-'serve Ms power•without labouring to eocrease It.—
timed of out fidelity, will be only the more dis- They were not called upon to administer but to en-
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lighten- the admintaration„ *With this ,iew
were formed into:Conansittees of Legislation
prudence Financel•ind Cotherre, for the
m
of preparing the igiptts of laws, and
internal admiuistrifion, the finances, aid
of the kingdom.
The ‘ll.course being Gashed, the
the following form of oatt:— •
66 Y. swear, before God, well
-serve the King in the _
State, and Masters of
,Requ-st s ;
ordinances, and the regleations of b.
keep secret and not to reveal the dellherati,
same, and the affairs which shall be -
:to yon respecting his service; to inform his
of all you shill know regarding Ms honour,
and service; and to do all that an honest
Cached to his King will do, in obedience
science, and for the goad of his Majesty's affairs?,
All the Councillors Tepfied, " swear it ;"
the Chancellor then read the lists of the
Committees.

;hich to
now it is
be per..
orthy to
truth, if
the undertakers of Journals he put under the same ; not by means of the ,oty ,f t, press ? Let it
obligations as the printers? May not sufficient pecu- I exist in France, and be combined with wise laws for
niary security be required of those persons in the first I the repression of its abuses.—The Reporter con-
instance ? This answers ths fines. May we not have , eluded with paying a tribute to the memory of M.
the signature of the licensed proprietor, and this an- Ide Malesherhes, whom he denominated the eloquent
ewer personal convictions? May not a law determine and virtuous Magistrate who long filled the depart.
the suspension or abolition of a Journal, subjecting ; ment of Superintendent of Literature, who knew
1 the proprietors to severe or even capital punishments; how to defend the rights of his country as well as
9, journals and other periodical writ. and wilt they then.expose themselves ? I the person of his Sovereign, and who, by a generous
.to appear asithout the sanction of the I At this moment the establishment of a Journal is !devotion, deserved to be associated in his august
article, so short and incomplete, was only extremely expensive; large sums must be laid out imisfortuties. 64 If Malesherbes were still amongst
harming for the Liberty of the Press. It before the requisite circulation can be procured : , us, he would exhort us to defend those rights which
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been proper to explain, whether it was those great literary speculations are always the work can alone guarantee the charter, and which must se-
apply to the establishment of future of subscriptions, and will the subscribers be likely ;cure the glory and prosperity of France; yes, if he
whether corky morning the journalist were still amongst us. But has not his genius sue-
to compromise their fortune? It is supposed that the i
eget] to deserve a sanction. We should British Governmilit has felt itself in an alarming vived him ? That work which are owe to the elev.-
learned how this sanction was to he oh- state whenever it has found it necessary to suspend cise of the right which we ,indicate—that work , ~.__
. what grounds it might be refused ; the Habeas Corpus Act. But this suspensiop pre- : which he has left as a legacy to his country and pos.. i Prussia. ~ . s s.. s 50:P4t4r4937
.risors or co.editors were to be appointed, judiced the rights of only a few individuals. I terity, will assist you in your meditations; yes, the I COPENHAGEN, JP•
what point, injurious both to public and 1 If the Government abused the measure, the Press' opinions of that wise man have directed our's, and : ceived her. •
, those who shall have the direction of .
I was the safeguard of the people. It is true that the they solicit with us the rejection of the law pro- -- '
4 may exclusively distribute praise and exercise of this right was formerly restrained among j P°lled."
pass judgment on men and things, for I the English. But bywhom, and? First, by I
when The Report of M. Raynouard was -ordered to be
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i astray or putting down pub- : an ordinance of the Star Chamber, And what was . printed, and distributed among the bureaux.
i that Star Chamber? Was it a tribunal establiudied4 • The President announced, that the discussion of it
• ' • ors and printers may demand .by the Kings of Engl eel, to secure the just prem.! would commence in the general sitting of Friday
examination of their works, and if tip- gative of the Crown ? I next ; and he invited the. members who meant to
Oboe and printer are discharged from The limitations of the Star Chamber on the Press, Isepport or oppose, to inscribe their names with the
ity, except towards private individuals ' particularly in 1635, might be actually considered secretary, with that view. The number of members
iju red." ; •
'as attacks on the liberty of toe Nation, and were who did so was nearly equal, about 40 on each side.
larming power does this confer on a probably among the principal causes of disaffection i M. Riviere was them invited to ascend the tribune,
'solo ? In this way the most immoral to Charles I. ,to develop his proposal of the 30th of July, that the
i injurious to every public right or insti. If the Parliament, after having abolished the Star King should be intreated to cause a project of a law
iging even the sacred person of the King Chamber in 1642, restrained for its own objects cere to be presented to the House, " to determine what
' be screened from all future enquiry ! tain of the restrictions, I shall Cot say that the re- : ought to constitute the civil list and the property of
would be freed from all responsibility, nom quarrels or the civil struggles of the English ' the Crown, and to establish riles for the manage.
censors may have accorded their, per-' offered its excuse; but I will say, that the Parlia-Iment of that property." After some introductory-
Ipprobation. But at what period, or i ment in that day of calamity and trouble, wailed observations, M. Rtviene submitted the following
;ry, have Magistrites ever been pro.: itself of that terrible arm of Censorship against the' propositions :—That the sum of 25 millions be
ercise the rights of public justice, 110. - i Royal partisans, as the latter had used it against tee , paid by the Royal Treasury, in monthly instal-
the imprimatur of doctors or censors? : public liberty. Under Cromwell there was no liberty ments, for the expenses of the Kiog and his
retie, declaring that the law shall be of the press. It would probably, have saved the life household. That the Louvre and the Thuilleries ,
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tin three years, announces sufficiently of Charles. When the Royal Family returned, hew be assigned for the habitations of the Kiag. l•bat 9
meant to be temporary, but a definitive fortunate for it would have been that liberty ; its wise the palaces, buildings, lands, farms, woods, and
sides, it has appeared to many, that the ; and generous advice might have saved his family from I forests, composing the domains of Versailles, Mar- ;
%inn was too distant. • ithe catastrophe under the Second James, Even '• ly, St Cloud, Meudon, St. Germain en Laye, Ram-
rnt motives, which have bad more or . James might have escaped his misfortunes, if he bouillet, Compeigne, Feutainbleau, and other pa. '-'-''
pith the Members of the Committee, 'could have been told that his religious and political laces and castles specified in the law of June 1, 1791,1 1111 i -A
Fs kfIiPPFSIIt
toll them to declare unanimously, that despotism alienating the hearts of his I was
t to and in the ienatus Consulta of Jan. 30, 1810, the' .
law, such as it has been proposed, jests. But ette liberty of the press was not in ea- Ist May, 1811, and Apuil 14, 1814, constitute the ' • - , • , .
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opted without somemodifications. The istence to tell him this, and he knew his danger only_ endowment of the Crown, and he furnished and .. ...,EONDON:
arose, whether this plan was easily I when it was too late. . kept in repair by it. That the diamonds, peals, pre. lemons*, RUC/ST 8, 1814. • •. ':.; '
ainendmems, by which it might bet Finakiy, when • e
snEnglish, In Nee, paelishett CIOUS stones, pictures, statues, engraved stones, fi-
lm same time adopting its principal • Declaration of Rights, they did not condescenl brarle4, and other monuments of the art. either in the -
Isis is previetiv censorship.
'stipulate for the Liberty of the Prese, regarding s
King's palaces, or in the museums of the Crown, the 2 h Halifax Papers tie 1t , and Beeton to the 34.-
;lion the Committee decided by a mere form part of this endowment That the royal ma- ult. were received this morning, from which we have
a right innate in every people having a Constitution
.ices, that presious censorship ought and a Representative Legislature . And since the
. nufactories of Sevres, the Gobe ins, 12 Savcomerie, taken the following extracts :
the basis of the law. 4
I true establishment of English liberty, the press has and Beauvais, continue to belong to the Crown, and I FRom SAcKETT's HARROGR, June 19.—1 t Is re-
Raynouard recapitulated a variety of 'never been fettered, and it is by its freedom
-.le urged by the partisans of previous balance of the Constitution has been always sustain• the property forming the endowment of the Crown
if this be true we shall have bloody times at
bark : ,
"that it necessary t •
•uth as,
restrain agitators; that journals and perty shall be exempt from public contributions, and , this place ; we are strongly fortified. The new ship
It has been said that we
• the chief cause of our first calami. ° shall never he burdened with the debts of a deceased called the Mohawk, was launched on Siturdsy ; she
national spirit which ought to precede the liberty of
roubles ; that the same causes wouldmonarch, or with the pensions which he may have will mount 50, some say 56guns, and every exer•
, the press. Let the effect of the press to form one be . . . .
effects ; that the Englkh, when cite granted. That the King may acquire private domains
tried. lion is making to rig her.
prised it, suspended even their Habeas will by donation, succession, or purchase, which shall he !
But the Censorship prevent the 'publication of .• • JULY .—C:c.4. Hawkins has advised the Governor
nil for a long time also the exercise of , . . . . liable to all public euarges and contributions in the!
clandestine libels in foreign countries? lof Georgia, that a British 50 gun ship, convoying
' the Press ; that the law proposed was I same proportion as the property of individuals.—
.Let us be allowed to use the language of a distin. either • transports with troops on board, had lauded 2000
he perpetual," &c. • The King may dispose of his private domains,
uished writer, speaking of the advantages derived .
, however, said M. Raynouard, that g winghis life-time, or by will ; bat if he keeps them ' men at Pensacola ; and it was believed, that they
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! from the freedom of the press in England. ( Vide ; I
'ere by no means sufficient to counter.' . n his hands ten years, or dies without disposing of intended to re-capture Mobile, and take possession
Picture of Great Britain, v. ii.) Such is in fact the • h h h
,hick demanded the rejection of the I , e em, t ey t en become united with the domains of
lof the Floridas.
'fortunate effect of the precedence of publication andt
,vious censorship. , the crown. ---
I. I public discussion, that in, every concern of state, mFROM SAG Hstteotot.—A bomb proof torpedo,
awing observation, he said, be pre. That the sum of, eight millions be paid annually I
i nisters are compelled, however feeble their personal drove from its anchor off Horton's point, and went
The liberty of the press is necessaryout of the public treasury, for the Princes of the ,
understandings, or dark their views, to adopt the , •
petition. The representative leaders, raptl family, to be divided among them by the King, !on shore with its crew; when boats from a frigate
a stated periods. The liberty of the
;course most advantageoui for the State. Their in- 'but
in such a manner, that the portion assigned to one ' and the Sylph sloop of war, set it on and the
freest, as much as their glory, compels them to ga. • fire,
r compensate the dangers of their ab. , single Prince shall never exceed three millions. ' •
infernal machine blew up.
Amid them all the talents of the nation. But ,
censorship, so far from ensuring this . they rt The House unanimously agreed that M. Riiiere's • „,
menace its existence, and with it that t ..
is England the only country that has thus benefitted
t propositions be taken into consideration and printed. IV ASHINGTON, JUNE 21.—Detachments of the
is it unknown how many other countries have , British have landed and burnt the warehouses at
litical liberty. Should the censorshipl or
shared those advantages without the evils that are i m
le opponents of Government : would 1 I MADRID, JULY 25.—Nothing has yet been dis- f Lower Marlborough, Benedict, Coles, and Mtlero•
held ui to us? got must not this censorship carry ,
'ounce,' to the respect due to the Mo- I . covered of the forgeries of the royal order for the ders, containing 4000 blots. of tobacco. Our whole
dit be given to the Minister's disci*. :to foreign presses the employment which would na- • death of Generals Elio, O'Donnell, and Villavi-
-1 turally fall to our's. The trade must be affected. I seacoast seems to have been systematically abandoned,
e this be to abandon ear free institu. cencio. It is very astouishing, that though the dis.
I T 1 and the troops who should protect it, sent to the
:beck rot' the authorities, in short, to , Thus Gentlemen, the censorship is at once un- patches were brought by three couriers, yet no traces
his discretion ? ! just and dangerous. We will now prove it uncoil• have been discovered of these couriers. Caoadas.
would not this be dangerous for ° stitutionel. What is the free publication of our Dpi. i PARIS, AUGUST 3.—The Councillors of State and I RETAIL %W IN PRISONERS RKLEASED.
,selves ? These principles are hard to -Mons, in other words, the Liberty of the Press ? i Masters of Requests, ordinary and exraordinary, ° SALEM, Jim 29.—The English prisoners, 21 in
But, then, we are brought to the " The Liberty of the Press," says Blackstone, i
i Oominated in the ordinance of the 4th of July, this number, who have been for some months confined
:umstances of the time, and are told, that "consists not in exempting poblications from punish.: -11--
only met in the palace of the Thuilleries. They as-
in Fort , Sewell Merblehead, under the retaliatory
censorship were contrary to the charter, ments after they are produced, bat in allowing no sembled in the halt of the throne, where were also
'sett for the objects of secure Govern. restriction on them before." present, the Chancellor, the Prince of Benevente, system, hare been
released from close confinement,
those imsginary dangers to be com- 1 But the Minister himself tells tia this without our Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Abbe de and have arrived in town; the Officers are on parole,
real evils of a censorship? To suspend turning to strangers. The first article allows of the Montesquiou, Minister Of the Interior; Count Du. and the seamen are on board the prison ship. It 1s
the press, is to suspend the Constitu- : unrestrained printing of every work above 30 sheets. I pont, Minister at War; Marshals Moncey and Oudi- expected that they will return to Hilifax in the Ma.
Ircumstances changed, since its liberty : The comment of the Minister is, that to submit all not, Counts Beurnotoville and Dessoles, Ministers of .
trick cartel. They speak in the strongest terms of
•by the King? Doubtless they have, • works to censorship would be to abolish the Liberty State, &c.; who took their appointed stations in .• .
the kind treatment they have received since their
have changed for the better; the public of the Press. Thus the absence of censorship is the the hall. An usher announced the approach of the
rallied with increasing strength round Liberty of the Press. But the Charter has promised King, who entered the hall, preceded by Monsieur confinement in Fort Sewell. •I
'or months together have we not now us that liberty: the question is at once decided. But his brother, and took his seat in the throne in the NEWBURTPORTI JUNE 28.—Tire Chosspeake, the
11t. liberty, nay, the licence of the the letter imeedverse as the spirit of the Charter.— centre. Delaware, and, in short, every inlet to the Smithery,
.at evil has followed ? whit writings To repress Wok- tsv prevent. The latter prohibits the The King being seated and covered, delivered the and Middle States swarm with Bullish cruisers, who #
The public tranquillity ? existence of peewit; the farmer its growth. The law wing address:—• •
been useful in preventing agitation?— which punishes the crime after commission represses: I have assembled all the Members of my coon- begin to make war in earnest. ThetlPatile of Bal•
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limed inferences, even on the present , The Minister says, repressive laws are insufficient order to receive in person their oaths, and to timore and Virginia experience that calamity, which
ought to and must iulluenee our dere- spina' effects of which you cannot punish theautbor, if , re solemnity to a religious ceremoily, which they were so instrumental in producing, very ser4
io4s there have been times, when the till they have become too serious. In subjecting the atomises you to my service and that of the State. ' ously—their tobacco is likely to find a ready market,
pamphlets and journals was danger- Press only to repressive laws, it is plain that the ".Redouble, then, your zeal, Gentlemen; join without tie trouble of shi •Invoice; and fh •
ppshg or
virulence was less the cause than the Constitution has not coriteinplated 'the possibility of
to mine; I your intelli-
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VIENNA, JULY 24.-1 t is generally ,
cur Sovereign will resume his Imperial
Germany, but that the ancient
Germanic empire will be essentially
BANES OF TIIE MEINI, 141L'@5.-
are talked of in the organisation of the Prussian ,
starchy. It is generally believed that • national ,
presentation will be established in iise lifingeoe ,
Prussia.
COPENHAGEN, JUST
ceived here to-day from _
resistance of the new King to the
dom with Sweden.
Several letters announce the
hostilities between the Norwegians and .tbe
and state that the former bad gained some ad,
PAKIS, AUG. 3.—lt is confidently reported,
we know not upon what authority, that the'
corsairs, desirous of possessing the valuable,
petty, said to be impaled into .11;lba from the'
nett', made a descent upon the 'We with a
several hundred, men. They thought to hoe sat.
prised the inhabitants, and seiie the riches in qua-
lion; but the islanders were on their guard
repulsed the marauders, with considerable lose.

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only consolation ls, . Northern .
participate in the dire effects of Southern maduess.
A lltitish schooner, with a flag of truces went into
Annapolis, Maryland, June 22.
The United States ship Independence, 71, late''
launched et Charlesiown, commenced taking in
guns on Thursday, and will be tilted for sea i,nn3P•
diatply.
JULY I.—A letter from Washington, Jane
rays—" Yea may knead upon► ill that the Ada,
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w=iesireammi.
filaro may circ
lated into Fr(
.When some ju
proposed, why
all academies in
their memoirs,
Ration. the woe
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..? *- correspondents,
Li'!...
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petit rs ft r priglf, as the 1
-k 44 care was tak
thors afforded
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to iiitend to
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vi of Perri
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• : not Members 4
*ties, Council
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Of (.' werre,
tied to be in 4,
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4 v • vantee!
4, • -7.-113 y Article 9
11•' hip were not ti
Kitts. This arti.
n, , - the more alarm
•s . .
• would'hirve bet
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only Meant to
Inurntrts, or n
-P-: . would by eblig,
'I . lc. , at least have lei
.- ' • . . tained, or on
whether censor
, . stud op to what
ii.
. private rights,
'4l' . the journals so
blame, or pass
• the purpose of
lie opinion.
' By Art. 10,
. ~ the previous ex
proved. the aul
i , . all responsibilit
who may be inj
. . What an alp
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tittle of pens°
. • boilk, storks it
. tution, outragi
s himself, would
—The author at
because two cei
haps, guilty ar
in what counts
' 1 bibited to exerc
withstanding th
The I.ltl Arti
' reviewed within
• ' that it is not me
A i law; and, besid
period of revisit
These differei
`:. less weight ni
have determined
the plan of the
cannot be adopt
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ttne or a
corrected, at fit
basis. That bai
On this quest
11111.1.0ritv of voi
. . not to serve as t
It Here M. Its
rowans that wet
~. censorship ; su
watch over and
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io pamphlets were
ties and civil tr
'produce similar
• • cumstance, INF
Corpus Act, am
• the Liberty of t
„:'•• not meant to be
..‘. . . It appeared,
- these reasons tt't
balance those.*
*principle of pro
. :. .
* - bet the folio
... . sent, to von. 'l'
. . to the right of I
assemble only al
press can alone
settee. But a a
t liberty, would i
. .
of civil and poll
• be given to the
• ''.' •
:. not this be prep
' - I nsrch ? Should
... .
(ion: would not
....
flees, our checl
abandon all to It
1.,. i Nay, more,
Alinistprs them!
be answered.
peculiar circums
even if the censi
.. it ()tight to exist
, .
11 • - arta., But are
~, v. , . paved to the ret
the liberty of the
(ion. Have circ
was proclaimed
•, but then they ha
, affe,•tions have r
•• r". .... the throne. Fo
" 2 • enjoyed the NI
. el press : and villa
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have troubled 111
Has it not I)Pi
• his it Hot prods
stilject, which (
sine ? D.)uhtless
circular ion of pz
o 1,••• : but their v
• clod of the dis
Frenchman must
hits changed. I
up. A transilot
. moral and 0)41
*'s opinion. Are t
again? Have we
: • . !wind fawn, and
•.. f-o•nel wanting?
a ~.,„.... . . fir,i,„ to a libel i
l; . - ''', laStiter would gip
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THE STATESMAN _ _
be trans- he know his exposure to capital punishments'? and , posed to obey the laws which -weeny hereafter
rimatur! how could this black libel be circulated? Besides, Moo.'
ms were all restraifsts on public Aghts ought to be of a.prl: ,je 1s painful, 4onbiless, to think, and to ann
ge which visional nature. • Bet the yoke of censorship once' disit t fitlit plait of law proposed to the Chi
Wishing fiked on, what can shake it off? la it not notovimos, .asustfbe rejected; but this accident, which i
r appro. that at the first real damp+, we are deternsinev in ear power to prevent, becomes the on
of their:, iprest.Govertiment thooecessary force? Oa .. of *Ol4 to they Monarch end the Natio
are corn- might the welfare of the nation tp be saertked to streagth of our attachment and regret to the
empty terrors ? - = , tors .
liscourse, The Journals are fegred. flow ? The Government WOjutve passed through times, doritig whi
hose au. has !Mien° made *no complaint of those already.. spot& the troth was a daingerous virtue; now
on a suf. established, though they have almost entirely shaken only a simple ditty, as agreeable as easy to bi
ht proper off the yoke of censorship. Does it fear more those formed. The King loves truth, aril is wort
Hie in fa. which are to be established in future? But may not hearit. But how secure this triumph to tru
—Would the undertakers of Journals he put under the same not by means of the liberty of the press ? I

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mud to obey the laws which -weeny hereafter sane- lighten- the adminittration. . With this view,
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loos • r . were formed into Committees of Legislatioe J
jets palatal; doubtless, to think, and to announce prudence, Finances-led, Comherce, for the'perenns
Ilielt tlitf fitst plan of law proposed to the Chamber of preparing the elpne of laws, and reports on'ort • ss
oust file rejected; but this accident, which it was internal admitsietrifion, the finances, and com
Pt in ear power to prevent, becomes the occasion of the kingdom.
if kiwis* to the' Monarch end the Nation the The 411. course being finished, the Chancellor reed
Oretelthof our attachment and reppect to the Char- the following form of reek:— •
Iles• .s.. • " (a Yvan swear, before God, well and faithf II yto
Are have plumed through times, dark! which to -serve the 'King in the capacity -of Cossonients of
sprat the truth was a dittigerous virtue; now it is i State, and Masters of Requests; to observe heardses•
only a simple duty, as agreeable as easy to be perstoreittatsces, and the regressions .of his Conoco, 4,
formed. The King loves truth, aril is worthy to . keep secret and not to reveal the deliberations du; . ft
bear•it. But how secure this triumph to truth, if i same, and the affairs which shall be commas, tot i
not by means of the liberty of the press ? Let it Ito you respecting his service; to inform his Mai_
exist in France, and be combined with wise laws for :of all you shall know regarding his honour, po ,
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the repression of its abuses.—The Reporter con. ! and service; and to do all that an honest tnew,So.,S4
eluded with paying a tribute to the memory of M. I tached to his King will do, in obedience to Ms co,. •
de Malesherhes, whom he denominated the eloquent Iscience, and for the goad of his Majesty's attsirsar
arid virtuous Magistrate who long filled the depart- , All the Councillors -replied, " I swear it ;" and
ment of Superintendent of Literature, who knew i the Chancellor then read the lists of the different
how to defend the rights of his country as well as !Committees.
the person of his Sovereign, and who, by a generous
devotion, deserved to be associated in his august VIENNA, JULY 24.—1 t is generally believed thee •-•
misfortunes. " If Malesherbes were still amongst our Sovereign will resume his Imperial Clasen of
us, he would exhort us to defend those rights which j Germany, but that the ancient Constitution of the ,
can alone guarantee the charter, and which must se- 1 Germanic empire will be essentially changed.
cure the glory and prosperity of France; yes, if he BANKS or THE MEINS7 JULY 85.—Several Omar .
were still amongst us. But has not his genius sue- I are talked of in the orgeniaatiou of the Prussian 0.
witted him ? 'Oust work which we owe to the exer- I narchy. It is generally believed that -o volitional re.
rise of the right whitish we vindicate—that work ] presentation will be established in the kingdom of
which he has left as a legacy to his country and pos. i Prussia. . •
terity, will assist you in your meditations; yes, the i COPENHAGEN, JULY 2'd.—'l Intelligence te.
opinions of that wise man have directed our's, and : ceived here to-day from Norway fatty:confirms the
they solicit with us the rejection of the law pro- . resistance of the new King to the union of khakis&
posed." ' dom with Sweden.
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The Report of M. Raynouard was -ordered to be ! Several letters announce the eommencement'of
printed, and distributed among the bureaux. ! hostilities between the Norwegians and 'the Swaim,
. The President announced, that the discussion of it . and state that the former bad gained some advitihee. , / •
would commence in the general sitting of Fiiday i PARIS, AUG. 3.—lt is confidently reported, toe •
next ; and he invited the. members who meant to we know ERA upon what authority', that thei Barbary
rapport or oppose, to inscribe their names with the corsairs, desirous of possessing the valuable. pre. ...
secretary, with that view. The number of members perty, said to be itnpoeted into .11;lbe from the Coeds
who did so was nearly equal, about 40 on each side.. nets', made a descent upon the Vie with a feree.ef -,
M. itiviere was then invited to ascend the tribune, several hundred, men. They thought to have sm.
4t develop his proposal of the 30th of July, that the ' prised the inhabitants, and -seiie the riches in guts. .*
King should be intreated to cause a project of a law , tion ; but the islanders were on their guard sae :i,
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at be presented to the House, i. to determine what repulsed the marauders, with considerable loss.
might to constitute the civil list and the property of -
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he Crown, and to establish riles for the manage.
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nent of that property." After some introductory-1 1 - •.• 0 s>
thsercations, M. Rtvieste submitted the following 0
)repositions.... opositions :—That the sum of 25 millions be 1 :
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mid by the Royal Treasury, in monthly instal-1 1
nents, for the expenses of the Kiag and his •
trei . en Ice tit NTOCKS THIS DAY AT ON is sCite
tousehold. That the Louvre and the Thuillerres •
'sums tAna. Ann 16; 1546
to assigned for the habitations of' the Kiag. 'craft 9 per (sm.., eels 674; 8
44 'err
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.itti:cosi 6741 India Nueds•lB p •
he palaces, buildings, lands, farms, woods, and Exchequer gill's 5 p
I Omni= Oj I
Orests, composing the domains of Versailles, Mar-
-5 per Cent. loitiviy 964; 1 Couple for Ace. eli
y, St Cloud, Meudon, St. Germain en Laye, Ram- •
iouillet, Compeigne, Fentainbleau, and other pa- --- -- s _._
Ices and castles specified in the law of June 1, 1791,1 TII K STATESMAN .
mi in the Senates Contralto of Jan. 30, 1810, the '
,st May, 1812, and April 14, 1814, constitute the , ' ..,T,., „
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aulowment of the Crown, and he furnished and ' ~- rsIONDON:
;ept in repair by it. That the diamonds, pea•ls, pre. • atottnet, RUC= 8, 1814.
ions stones, pictures, statues, engraved stones, li. • •
made% and other monuments of the arts either in the i
tinges palaces, or in the museums of the Crown, • Halifax Papers tei the 12th, and Boston to the 3tl- . ''
arm part of this endowment That the royal ma- ult. were received this morniogi from Which. we have i
refectories of Sevres, the Gobe'ins, 12 Savortnerie, taken the following extracts :—.. - • ' . '
,nd Beauvais, continue to belong to the Crown, and! FROM SACKETT'S HAMM:Iit, 'lntim 19:—It 1. re- 'S.
re maintained at the expense of the Civil iSst. That ported that 6000 men are at Kingston ready to em.
he property forming the endowment of the Crown
bark : if this be true, we shall have bloody times at
re inalienable, and not to be mortgaged. This pro-
rerty shall be exempt from public contributions, and i this place ;we are strongly fortified. The new ship -
hall never he burdened with the debts of a deceased called the Mohawk, was launched on Saturday ; she , Alf
monarch, or with the pensions which he may have will mount 50, some say 56 guns, and every elm. • •
ranted. That the King may acquire private domain, tion is making to rig her.
y donation, sucression, or purchase, which shall be !
JULY2.—GaI. Hawkins his advised the Governor
iable to all public charges and contributionsin the i
rime proportion as the property of individuals.— i of Georgia, that a British 50 gun ship, convoying
'he King may dispose of his private domains, either ; transports with troops on board, had lauded 2000 '`
uring his life-time, or by will ; bat if he keeps them : men at Pensacola ; rind it was believed, that they
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I his hands ten years, or dies without disposing of intended to re-capture Mobile, and take possession
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nem, they then become united with the domains of •
• of the Floridas. .
he crown.
That the sum of, eight millions be' paid annually Ferrer SAG HARBOUR.—A bomb proof torpedo,.
, drove from its anchor off Horton's point, and went
ut of the public treasury, for the Princes of the
nynl family, to be divided among them by the King, !on shore with its crew ; when boats from a frigate
,t,
ut in such a manner, theft the portion assigned to one : and the Sylph sloop of war, set it on fire, and the 1 '
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inlet* Prince shall never exceed three millions.
,' infernal machine blew up.
The House unanimously agreed that M. Ritiere's . WASHINGTON,
repositions be taken into consideration and printed. JUNE 21.—Detachments of the ...
British have landed and burnt the warehouses at
MADRID, JULY* 25.—Nothing has yet been dis- I Lower Marlborough, Benedict, Coles, and Mottos s
peered of the forgeries of the royal order for the ders, containing 4000 Mids. of tobacco. Our whale ,'''
ersth of Generals Elio, O'Donnell, and Villavi-
seacoast seems to have been systematically abandoned,
encio. It is very astonishing, that though the dis.
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sent to the it
should
protect ,
itches were brought by three couriers, yet no traces and
ave been discovered of these couriers. Caoadas. •
PARIS, AUGUST 3.—The Councillors of State and I ItIiTALI ‘TInN PRISONCRS RKLEASED.
fasters of Requests, ordinary and exraordinary, SALEM, Jim 29.—The English prisoners, 21 in !'
eliminated in the ordinance of the 4th of July, this number, who have been for some months confined
ay met in the palace of the Thuilleries. They as- I .
ambled in the halt of the throne, where were also in Fort Sewell, Merblehead, under the eetaliatorys . t
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resent, the Chancellor, the Prince of Benevente, system, have been released from close confinement,
ecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Abbe de and have arrived in town; the Officers are on parole, .1
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fontesquiou, Minister Of the Interior; Count Du. and the seamen are on board the prison ships It it
ont, Minister at War; Marshals Moncey and Oudi- expected that they will return to Htlifax in the Mt. '
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at, Counts Bearnotiville and Dessoles, Ministers of .Id St a cartel. They speak in the strongest terms .oft.
tate, &c.; who took their appointed stations in
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announced the approach of the me hall. An usher the kind treatment they have received since their
:ing, who entered the hall, preceded by Monsieur confinement in Fort Sewell.
is brother, and took his seat in the throne in the NEWBURTPORTI JUNE 2.B.—Tire Chesapeake, the .
entre. . Delaware, and, in short, every inlet to the Struthers,
The King being seated and covered, delivered the •
wing address:—
I have assembled all the Members of my coon-
order to receive in person their oaths, and to
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Inc and. Middle States, swarm with British cruisers, who
begin to make war in earnest. Thempopie of Bale
timore and Virginia experience that calamity, which
re solemnity to a religious ceremony, which they were so instrumental in producing, very seri.
you to my service and that of the State. ' ously—l heir tobacco is likely to find a ready market, .•
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",Redouble, then, your zeal, Gentlemen; join without tie trouble of shippilig or invoice; and theit
ofoit efforts to mine; I depend upon your intelli- only consolation Is, that the Northern Ste e• het/
mite stud experience to aid me tit rendering my .
eagle happy. My Chancellor will more particu. participate in the dire effects of Southern madness. ,
e ye/lake known to you my intentions." ' A British schooner, with a flag of truce, went int.
TV Chancellor on his knees took tire orders of Annapolis, Maryland, June 22. _
St *death and•after rising signified to all present to The United States ship Independence, 71, Wel
r tented. He thee delivered a short discoUrse, in launched at Char
bich' he reminded the Councillors that it was their leseown, commenced taking in is e
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guns on Thursday, and will be fitted for sea imme. •
ssineis to make the King's authority loved and re- d-iately. ,
wetted, without ever seeking to extend it ;to pre- • et
rre Ms power•without labouring to encrease it.— JULY 1...—A letter from Washington,' isle' es .
hey were not called upon to administer but to en- says—" • You may depend upoo is that the Ada.
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