The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-12-31 00:00:00

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Peels, DEC. cm—The King, after Mass yesterday,
which he heard in hiv apartments, gave audience to
the Ambassadors of Naples end Spain, the Ministers
of State, several Marshals, Lieutenant-Generals, and
a great number of Members of the two Chambers.
This day the King transacted business with the
Doke de Richelieu.—(Muniteur.)
Yesterday at one o'clock the L lug transacted busi-
ness with M. de Richelieu and M. Leine conjointly ;
to-day with M. de Richelieu.—(Journal des &-
bats.)
A Royal Ordinance, dated Dee. 17, declares the
strong places on the northern and eastern frontier
to he no longer in a state of siege.
An Order, dated Dec. IG, from the Secretary to
the Household, states, that the King will receive
company on Thursday, the 31st of December/ in-
stead of Monday, the '2Bth of December.
The Marquis de Perignon, Peer and Marshal of
France, arc. died on Christints-alary Or arapPlreitic
attack ; he will be buried on Wednesday with the
honours due to his rank.

It is announced from Calais that the wind being
contrary, the English Mail of Tuesday had nut
arrived.

The Countess De Saint-Didier gives this season,
as before, two hundred portions of soup daily to
the poor of Ratabouillett till the time of field-work
returns.

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French Funds.—Five per Cents. 63. Bank Stock)
1 185.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, Dec. 26.
The Sitting opened at one o'clock. M. COURVOI-
ssen, Vice-President, occupied the Chair.
Baron Pasquier, the Keeper of the Seals, M. Roy,
Minister of Finance, and Baron Capone, Councillor
of State, occupied the Bench of the Ministers.
Count DUPONT, in the name of the eighth Bureau,
proposed the admission of M. de la Hem Deputy of
the Sarthe.—Adopted.
The Order of the Day on the Report of the Cen.
tral Commission on the Project of Law presented
by the Minister of Finance in the last Sittiog, was
called.

Count BEUGNOT, the Reporter, said, 46 Gentle-
men, this is the fourth year that the Government
proposes to you to grant provisionally a part of the
direct and indirect contributions in waiting till the
new law of finance be passed.

66 For 1819, in particular, the Government de.
mands that the Chamber may vr:e the 6.l2ths of the
personal contribution, of the contribution mobil&
aire, and of the contribution on doors and windows
and patents. The levying of these contributions
shall be made according to the rates of 1818. The
Minister requires likewise the levying of the ;mil.
rect contributions till the new law of finance, and
the opening of a provisional credit of 200,000,000
of francs, for the discharge of current espences.—
The Government cannot give, and does not gr a any
other reason for this than necessity."—The Reporter
here referred to the reasons in support of the law
when first introdoced.

" The Administration of Finance, if well conduct-
ed, as it is believed to be, is always prepared to give
a statement of the receipts and elpendit ore, and its
account at the end of the year is nothing else than a
methodical recapitulation of the daily state of both.
The Commis.:.ion has remarked with regret, that the
accounts are less advantageous this year than on the
preceding year. If these accounts wore not entirely
exempt from imperfection, it was at least more easy
by thesis to avoid defects in future. Nothing of this
kind has occurred in the present year. The change
of the Minister affords uo excuse, because where
there exists institutions, the change of men ought not
to affect the march of affairs. Whatever change is
made or contemplated in the persons of Ministers,
the Chamber must always find a Ministry respori.
Me for the GOTtintliellt. The Wm. Member of this

JiitlCE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT 0N1.4 O'CLOCK.
HMI k Stock i 5 per Cent. Navy
3 per Cent. Refl. 77i .11adot Roads it; p
3 per Cent. Curds Lint; Ann. 9.0 1-16
36 per Cent. 87 F.Tcoeqtter Bill. li 17 p
Lonmils for Are. 791 thaniuga
4 per Cent. 94k
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THI. STATESMAN.

L ONDON:
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1818.

The intelligence from France is as surprising as it
is interesting shoes that the convulsive crisis is
not over. It is a most instructive symptom of the
permanency of that glory, with which the ne&o.
dating Ministers of Aix.la.Chapolle fancied they
had covered themselves, that the Ministry of the Duke
D 2 RICHELIEU should, from its own weakness, have
fallen into disorder and ruin, at the moment whet,
it was expected to reach the height of popular
favour. But this is the usual course and the
end of delusion. It would seem from the intel-
ligence brought by an Express, which left Paris oti
Monday last, that so far from the [Like of Rams
-
man having succeeded in forming a satisfactory
Administration, he bad totally failed in his
efforts to combine the adverse partite, and
please the Conclave by [which he is ruled, and
had himself been compelled to retire. The, statement
now is, that he has been succeeded as Primer Minister
by M. DE CAZE', who, if these rumours can be be-
lieved, is to unite in his own person the Mieistry 'of
the Interior, and the general direction of the Po.
lice. lb. hucount (Foreign Minister), ad inte-
rim, during the absence of Prince TA LLEYRAND, at
Vienna, in 1814, is, according to this intelligence,
to be Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; Admi-
ral TatrouET to succeed to the Administration of the
Marine; M. Row, lately nominated to the Fipance
department, is to remove to the Ministry 4. Jus-
tice ; Baron Louts assumes the management of the
Finances; and Marshal Gocsinx Sr. CY& retorts to
his office of Minister at War. ft Is not stated tba;
the appointment of these several Functionaries has
yet received the sanction of the King; but from the
discretienery power with which M. DE CAM had
been furnished, a confident opinion was entertained
of his recommendations meeting with attentinst from
his Majesty. Some of these names will not tend much to
increase public confidence in the Government. The
recal of DE CAZES appears an expedient In prevent
greater disorder. But it is clear that France, in the
present situation of her finances slid the public mind.
*ill not rest long quietly under the operations of
' such a Government as is above.named. It is
unable to cope with the conflict which is about to en.
sue. The doctrines of the Ultre Royalist, it would
appear, are still sweeter at Court, than the glorious
sentiments of the age and of Nations. But the
People will no longer surrender their rights t,• the
contrast of such Despots. The KIN; bears his fa...