Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-05-19
From the Paris Journals.
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.
STRINGS or MARCH2l

The order of the day was tic discussion
of the law projet, relative TO the defni
tive adjustment Of tie bud get for the year
1919.
Mr.. Casimer Perrier, in the course OF
speech condemning the system followed
by the ministry, as~ed-" Why does the
mere report of the events in Piedmont
produce on Ministers the same effect as
the trumpets of Israel heretofore did on
the walls of Jerichoo" A great move
ment in the Chamber,] The cause is that
violation of public liberty which every
day takes from the same guarantee
Hence the slightest movement of public
opinion which they repress makes them
tremble because that opinion pursues their
administration as remorse Pursues against
conscience. Much sensation.1
The minister of Finance answered the
objections made to his financial plans he
alluded to the Piedmontese and Neapoii-
tan news, and complained OF false reports
being circulated to repress the funds.
NJ Mechin would not have taken any
part in the debate had it not been for the
observations of the Minister of Finance,
on the reports to which lie had alluded.
The silence imposed on the newspapers,
necessarily gave currency to all the ru-
mors, which the idle, the restless, or the
interested, might fabricate. The impress
sions of those reports could not be remov-
ed by contradictory accounts in the jour
mails, because it was known that every
thing passed through the hands ofthe CEN
sors. In such state of things it was i'm
possible but there should be alarm.
NJ. Casimer Perrier, in reply, observ-
ed, that it was very extra ordinary that a
government which maintained well paid
diplomatic establishment, with abundance
of couriers and lines of photographs, should
not have early information ofevents which
might affect public credit. But when did
the sales take place? At time when no
one was possessed of information but the
ministers. Who else was informed? Fo-
reigners, who learned the facts from their
Ministers. ISeveral cries of 'Rothschild. !
] assert again, that if any evil result from
these reports, Ministers are to blame
By destroying the liberty ofthe press, you
have consecrated the triumph OF false
hood If the truth appears, it is stified
by the censorship and if it by accident
escape the vigilance of the censor, it is re-
garded as an untruth. The nature OF the
influence which the minister OF finance
wished to exercise over the funds, was
proved by his sending notice to the syn
dies and exchange brokers that the Nea-
politans had been defeated. If the minis
ter avows this correspondence, it follows,
that he was DESTROYS of operating on the
funds. We have been told that we are in
good understanding with Nap es but what
was to be thought of this good understand
ing when minister announces victory
over the Neapolitans as piece of good
news?
nj. Pasquier, after noticing the insinua-
ton as to the relations of the government
with foreigners, and of its availing itse,f
of shameful means to lower the funds, an
insinuation which he said the chamber
would repel, said, as to the particularfact
now in question, government received the
official news of the engagement OF the
Austrian and Neapolitan troops. 1t made