The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-02-02 00:00:00

THE STAT

FRENCH PA PM'.
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• CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. Jab.. 24.
?tie &secedes* to the Recruitment Project was It.
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Ow mod. - • -:- .
M. AiLltifT, tVeliffir Secretary of State In the
War Department, Ceetslitsiaire do Rol, replied to thie
objections which had been urged against the Project. '
The Count it'Amettuossc, the Reporter of the
Committee, summed op the discussion, and argued
in favour of the Amendments Proposed by the Com-
mittee.
Marshal the Count Govivios' ST. Cu., Minister
of War, in a speech of great length, noticed the
objections, and defended the Project, contending
that the conscription was nothing bet a form of re-
cieiting, and it was this form which the Charter had
abolished, and not Reendtment itself, without which
there cotOd be no army. Had the Charterlutended
to abolish the principle of ballot it would have been
expressly stipotated, as it bad been in the Great
Charter of England, that the army should only be
recruited by voluntary enlistment. He went onto
observe, that voluntary enlistment had been found
insufficient, and he deprecated the idea that Fiance
should be rendered powerless by means of the Char.
,ter.—This speech was received with greet applause.
The Chamber- adjourned till to.morrow, when
the discussion on tho Project, article by ankle, Will
commence.

CAIRO, JAW, 27,—1n commemoration of the 21st of
January, letters of pardon hate been granted by the
111,.itigto bis condemoyde persons.
The price of bread has fallen in Paris; and letters
from the departments ennoutme a siMilar fall in that
article. • .
M.Scbeffer has appealed to the Cour Royal against
the svmence passed upon him by the Correctional
Police. ; ,
The Royal Alnieriaek for 1818 present" a blank
reaching from page G 2 ti 78. Thii shodld be filled
up with a Litt of the Clergy of. France, bet which is
not to be printed 11th after the 4004
respecting the Concordat.

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CIIA NIBER OF PEERS, tAw.t7. • '"4
The discussion was opened on the Resclutiow
adopted by the Chamber of Deputies respecting the
age requisite in persons elected Deputies.
After hearing some speakers, the Resalution was
referred to a Committee of Three.
Adjourned.—No day fitted for the nest Sitting.

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•CIIASIBER OF DEPUTIES. JAL 27.
On reading the Proces Verbal of the Sitting of yes-
terday, the Baron Torrence De Cute objected to
the applause manifested during the speech of the
Minister of War, as being contrary to the rules of
the Chamber.

The PaMIDENT said, the applause began amongst
the Deputies, and he recommended them to recollect
that, by the Orders of the ciaaniber, every sign of up.
probation was prohibited.
The discussion was opened on the Articles of tbs
Recruitment Project.
The Patsy:tern summed up the discussion on tk•
Project, and referred to the several amendments.
The first It mendment'conaidered was that proposed
by the Count D'AIIaBRUGEAC, Reporter of the Com-
mittee, for new modelling the Ist Article,to the effect
that the French army shall be recruited by voluntary
enlistment, and irise of that failing, by ballot.
This was supported by M. Da Boum and the Couni
DUrONT.

After a Conversation about some points of form,l
the Army was, on the ingestion of the Coont n'A as.
IiaIIGEAC, substituted for the French Army. The'
Article, as proposed by him, was then adopted by an
immense majority, only from 15 to 20 Members, on
the right, voting against it.
An amendment in the second Article, to elided'
foreigners from enlisting, Was got rid'of •by the pm
violas question.
M. BEuGNoT moved an amendment, that no intll..
'ideal should be elloWed to enlist before the ego ert
twenty, without the writtea consent of • his father Ste
guardiso.
After some discussieri, this itsendment was. vtiliet."
ed on the sppel nomieuit 13011 i lit
• • Saibiasii' tC. • -.
The discussion op tlialtiersinsist Project was vim.
tossed. • •
•Tise amendment proposed by the Committee in Ar-
tide 5 (fiest of this Title), was first token, kiting the
peerceliribliehment of the army at 240,000 men.
'Sf. Da Vvilitt'desianded a priority for the die-
Cession on•the question of an annual vote of the
•oltite military force.
nit Was negatived. and the priority gives to the
;mended. Article proposed by the Committee, which
was unioimoualy agreed to. •
The second pert .of the Article was then taken into
f'onsideration, Wog tire amount of the annual levy
ist 40;000 aims, and .also the amendatents.proposed
by M. M. de Bondi and de Clieuvelin,- to the erect
ihat there should be au aniteal.vote as to the netnber.
'to be recruited.
After some discussion, the previous question get-
-Itiag rid of the proposition for avrennual vote, was
tarried almost unanimously, only It or 15 Members
on the left opposing it. •

•
tome adventurers in an Euglish vessel were seen
the 3d November last, in the passage from Lisbon,
going, they said, to the Acores, and from therms to
the South Sea, to seek theirfurtene, in consequence
of the war having ceased in Europe.—Their mysteri-
ous answers, howriver, threw no great light upon
the object of their voyage.
Sir George Murray has arrived here, and also
the Adjutant-General of the British Army in. France.
The Sieur Gadois, author of the Count,- tie Chant-
bres, and the Sieor Esneaui, author of the work en.
titled Reftexions on the trial of M. &heifer, are, to-
gether with the Printers of those works, cited to ap.
pear before the tribunal of the Correctional Police
on Saturday neat.