Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-07-16

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sure, which removes all necessity of
exercising influence in the choice Of
Members of the Diet and upon deli
berations, proves the part l take in the
consolidation of your constitutional
compact. This is the sole object that
/ proposed to accomplish in adopting
this measure, and the Poles, l have
the fullest confidence, will know how
to appreciate the object and the means
l have employed for its accomplish
ment.
"My Minister of the Interior will
lay before you the picture of the situ-
alton Of the kingdom, as well as the
administrative measures that have been
pursued during four years. You will
have the satisfaction of seeing the ra-
pid progress of industry, and to find
that if the general prosperity has not
yet attained the degree of perfection
to which my wishes and the efforts of
the government seek to carry it, the
cause must be looked for in nothing
else than the almost stagnation of trade
in agricultural produce. In other re-
spects the most advantageous results
have been obtained. The National Debt
approaches to its complete acquittal.
"Two Conventions have fixed the
part Of this Debt that Austria and
Prussia have to support. In a short
time new Finance Law will regulate
the revenue and expenditure OF the
State. A ruinous deficit had compro-
missed your dearest interests. 1t, has
disappeared. The excess of the re-
ceipts must be applied scrupulously
to the extinction Of the National debt.
"The negotiations entered upon with
the Court of Berlin to settle the affairs
ofcommerce between Poland and Prus-
sia, have been crowned with the most
happy success, by means Of a series of
regulations, of frank and amicable ma
ture, which serve as the basis of my
relations with my faithful allies. The
Convention which | have ratified af-
fords easy openings to your commerce
abroad. That which you have with
Russia acquires daily greater activity
and extent. The facilities that have
been granted to it are doubly advanta-
geous, both by the mutual welfare OF
which they favor the progress, and by
the new ties which draw the two ma
tons together.
"The debts with which private pro-
perty is burdened, have, in particular,
excited my closest attention. A pro-
ject for forming an association, in Soii-
do, of the land owners, will be laid be-
fore you. 1t is the result of opinions
which hsye undergone long discus
sion in your Council of the Palatines.
"Religion, that source of every vir-
tue, that indispensable base of all hui
man institutions, appears to command
revision of part Of your Civil Code.
A Commission, chosen from among
yourselves, has undertaken this i'm
portant labor, and the project of the
first hook, which it has already discuss
ed, will be communicated to you.
"My thoughts will &c Company you
in the discharge OF your functions, and
you will find me ever ready to adopt
the ameliorations which may be pro-
posed TO me, but at the same resolved
to reject every species of concession
that may be prejudical to your pros
perity.
Representatives of the kingdom Of
Poland, may you, being free from all in
Auence, proceed in your deliberations
with calmness The futurity of your
country is in your hands. Consider
nothing but its welfare, its real advan-
tage. Render to it all the services
that it expects from your assembly to-
gether, and second me in the accom-
plishment Of the wishes which l have
never ceased to form for it,"
'The article here referred to, is that by
which the publicity of the Debates of the Die,
is prohibited.
HOUSE OF COMMONS, JUNE 3.
Upon the payment Of SLAVES taken from the U
States Of .4meriea, during the late ,car. :,
Mr.. Bernal wished for some accurate
information upon this subject. He had
heard that this sum was to be given in
lieu of certain slaves taken during the
late war; some of whom had been sent
to Sierra Leone, and others to Trini'
dad.
Mr.. Herries said the information Of
the Honorable member was, so far
perfectly correct.
Mr.. Bernal said, he had also heard
that these slaves were employed at
what was called free labor. The sum
paid by government for them was Isl
each. This was large sum, and he
wished to know what these liberated
negroes had done, in the way of labor,
| to reimburse US for our expenses. He
also wished to know what became OF
them.
Mr. Canning said he would rive the