Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1815-12-09
FRENCH STATE PAPER.

BY the Minerva Smyth, Capt. Al en-, the
Editors of the Mercantile Advertiser have
received regular file CT the London States
man TO the 18Th Of October, inclusive
From that Of the 18th, the following French
State Paper is copied. It is an interesting
document, asd has not hitherto been re-
pub.iahed in the U. States.
From tAe London Morning Chronicle Of
Der. 10.
PARIS, ,tober IL.
send YOU very Curious paper, Note.
addressed to tie King by the late Minis
tiers, On giving in their resignation the
Note WAS read 10 him in Council, at least
SO say persons whom I am persuaded NAV
be relied on
w are still in uncertainty rcgar, ling the
conditions OF the treaty. 1t is very posi-
lively asserted, that besides what we al
ready know, the following demands, have
been made 100000, 900 to discharge the
private debt contracted by the king and
his family-150, 0Oo.0G0 pr annwm for the
maintenance of the foreign troops who are
to occupy the places held as securities
France to furnish with cannon the places
coded to them, and those which they are
to occupy-the restoration ca the annuities
or dividends, belong to the English. which
during the revolution were reduced To a
third--the reimbursement Of contributors
and acquisitions which have been levied in
tore gn countries during the different wars
OF the revolution, every power presenting
their account, even the Swiss, who claim
the sum which they paid to the directory.
his IS, indeed, the ASS kick.
The reservation made by two Of the
peers in taking the oath, as to what concerns
the Catholic religion, bad relation, it is said
to the sale of the property Of the church.
and to the liberation granted to other rgIi
gions. In this view, the phrase used bv
the count d'Artois, in the sitting OF the
chamber otpeers the day before Yesterday,
Is very curious" Circumstances might
soon occur that would place the two mciy,-
bers alluded TO IN a situation to take mart
III tl'e'f CONSIDERATIONS. 1t is easy tO make
comments upon this phrase.
we expect with fmpatience some infor-
nation as TO the sitting of the chamber of
peers of yesterday. The police has not
permitted any publication.
They were occupied yesterday in strip
ping the cabinet OF natural history they
will probably finish by EMBARRASSING all the
houss in Paris; the one would be as iust
as the other.
l-eEEeT Y me ministers E.rilLGi7ivc their
Motives fer Retiring.
S're-Your Majesty deigned to con-
HE to us the administration Of your F.npire
when the whole Of Europe in arms occuDi-
ed the Northern Provinces; when they
menaced these OF the Eas' and the South
and when civil var was kndled and it.
fused over the West. A triumphant facti-
on which was restrained, but not discoura-
ged portions of the population who had
become indifferent from the excess Of their
tears or their sufferings TO any events which
might ensue: equally ready to support al
ternately the tyranny of TIE faction & the
yoke OF foreign arms, until some greater
misfortune should at length unite them a.
galnst their oppressors such has been the
situation of the kingdom since your Maies-
TVS return.
{" The love of our country was no longer
to be found, but under the tri-coloured flag.
The party which called themselves Row
al'sts, prescribed in their projects, both the
laws and the men who did not ENCOURAGE
the subversion Of social order. Were Franc G
buried beneath her own ruins, and your
Majesty relgned only over desert provinces,
TINS party WOULD prefer the destruction of
the glory, the stresgth and the political ex-
iStence OF France, than see her coasol.d
Tor her misfortunss, and regaining her los.
ses under the wise and liberal laws vouch-
sated by your Majesty. This party be-
came hostile in the west, in the South. and
III the North, because it believed itself sun
ported by authority. Good citizens waited
in silence, to hear the voice ofyour Males
ty. at present they are preparing their
arms in Auvergce, in the Ceyennes, in the
Vosges, in Franohe Comte, and in Als9ce.
You cannot, Sire, be ignorant what
was our devotion to your sacred person--we
had partaken Of your dangers, your misfor-
tunes, and your exile; we knew the wish
es and the wants Cf the French people we
expressed them to your Majesty with res
pectlul candour. You seemed to listen Ia
rs; and now that we are quitting vour
councils, we hope YOU will permit us to re-
call them to your recollection.
Successive revolutions have CHANGED
the condition of families, have overthrow
the t.rtunes which they had amasssd, have
closed up the paths they had opened. have
tarnish d the national glory which they had
! exalted; but those revolutions have also
taught the people that there is no happi.
ness for them except under n fixed and
steady government, because that will re-
place the conditions Of families in a state oI
| harmony with existing manners, becauze i
viii consolidate existing fortunes, bccaus,
It wall permit the citizens 20 90 on in thai
career which they have begun, and becaus,
/ It will establish the national honor on tho
| principles Of unalterable justice results G.
the utmost Importance TO the nation, be
cause It will place individuals in that rea