Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-03-20

is you Mr. Minister the enlightened champion of tho
interests OF commerce, who have already done much
Tor H. tha we take the liberty of addressing ourselves
order to beg you TO become advocate in the Ciam
Der IL is not for the of city alone that
we ask your aid, but for all Franec-yyhosc growing
prosperity Is the envy of her cncmicsthcir criminal
hopes will not be reazcd-peace will not be interrupted
Your opinion cannot fail to great influence in
adiscussion of which await the result with equal i'm.
patience and anxiety.
ltlere the signatures follow.1
, ilns document, published, it is, in the Journal des
Depats, must thence be deemed To have the of
Ministers.
(frou tho san,e)
HE FRENCH QUEsTtoS--We have translated from
the Havre Journalan able and full paper but on Tho
question OF the indemnity hostile us--the report of
tue proceedings IN the bureaux of the Chamber prepa-
ratory to the election of the Committee of nine The
good faith and urgency of the Ministers and their sup.
portcrs, and the kindly feeling aud sense of mutual in
erests involved in the question which were eyinced bv
inc representatives. OF the commercial and manufctur-
ing towns, must be taken, think, us decisive OF the
success OF our claims The following letter makes this
confidence still stronger:
Extract Of letter from member of The CHAMBER of Dc
putieS dated Pans nh Eeb
III no unforeseen intelligence from your side arrives
to modify existing opinions, it is very probable the law
'cH De adopted 6y a cery large majority
" The Resolution of your Senate, and the Report of
MIR Clay, which Is just known, produced very good
effect, and appeased the irritation produced bv the Mics
sage of the President.
.Thc Report will be made here in about fortnight.
ana the law will probably be adopted the end OF
February.
Aer shall have passed the Chamber fDcpu,ies i,
must be concurrcd in by the Peers but there there is
Thursday and Friday, tho 9th and 9th of February
were set apart for the discussion treaty in The
tureaux. On "Wednesday. the lth by way of london
Mr. Clay's Report reached Paris. The Journai des
Dcbats (nistcria under the Paris head of th. 9TH in
giving summary Of and extracts from this Report and
stating That at seemed TO have received the most com
plee appreciation of the Senate who had ordered 20 900
copies oft to be printed says, ave do doubt but
That ON this OCCASION MIR Clay the orean of the inn,
mcnsc majority ofthc American nation
The b"reG"r therefore, went into the discussion with
c knowedgc OF the opinion thus expressed to- and APP
proved by, the Senate On Friday the 9th while the
bureaux were still in deliberations and before the vote
on inc committeeman taken, intelligence of the
unanimous vote in The Senate on MI Clay Renort vo
received and under its influence of removing irritation
and all uncertainty the feeling on this side of the
water, the choice Of the Committee of nine was made
FROM the Journal ia IIayrc of I'll, rFcb1
BUREAUX OF THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
OF THE AMERICAN QUESTION
The constitutional point ofview first considered
II was asked how the ministry could have permitted the
PRESIDENT OF The United States suppose that the con-
currence of the Chambers necessary for the ac
complisment of the treaty; how it happened that he
tween The exchange and the ratification Of the treaty so
long an interval elapsed that Gen Jackson sure of The
adoption of the treaty according to the promises mo
thought right to pass draft upon the French Govern
hent IN execution OF the treaty? Minister'S it was con-
tended had, under these circumstances, compromised
inc h9nor oil the Royal signature and trapled under
loot the prcrogatlves of the Chamber
Passing then to the question of liquidatnu the doh,
complaints made that Ministers had furnished onlv
incomplete and mntilatcd documents that the cores
pondencc between France and the United States hefrc
1881, had not been produced that among the papcrs
there was no Memoir in behalf of the American apents
establishing clearly, the origin and amount of claims
WIN documents and proofs annexed that Ministers had
constituted themselves the advocates of the adversary
instead OF severely scrutinizing the exaggeration
oi ther demands, oSc that reports were handed i'm
rom the ohccrs OF vessels which captured the Ainercan
SHIPS and who must have examined and possessed them
solves of their bills of adino invoices &c: Ina, the
sentences oil prize Courts in regard vessels and mer
chandize seized and conscatcd in France and its de-
pendencIes, were not brought forward so as to Guide
opinions as TO the Legality and extent of the claims now
made.
Ministers, who had designedy presented themselves
IN tner respective bureaux replied that would be inn
possible 10 produce such mass of documents that there
was no objection to submitting them to the examination
OF me Committee, but that to print them would be pro-
ductve both ofexpensc and needless DELAY The answer
was that without requiring all the documents to be pnt
cd they might have been left the reach of the Cham
Der so that ahy deputies, DESTROYS of examining them
Finally going to the bottom of the question. the Mi.
nlsera Deputies laborcd to prove that the Convention
vi ioou between France and the United States which
consecrated the nvolablity and the rights of Neuals
was annihated by the Berlin and Milan DEGREES tbai
e violence Oh the English orders in council did not ex-
cuSe tat oil those decrees, that it impossible not TO
indemnify Americans who had yentured upon the fait,
OF the treaty OF 1900 and who seized and captured
before any knowledge of the prohibitions of those de-
crees that the be said of vessels seized
ned ana burnt at in order conceal the route of
French Squadrons.
The Ministerial Deputies enforced these views b con
sderatons which they pronounced paramount and which
even II the indemnity considered excessive
S,|e the ChdIhDer 10 acquIeScc IN the sacrifice
ihey sad mat as an interest of Government we sould
not ALLEVIATE from us, old and eu friend as A,ne
rica that as Tor the interest of commerce. Lyons for in
stance made Immense exports Of silk America
that all operations from the ports would be cmbar
rasscd by maritime war.
lhe reply OF the Opposition Deputies was that n
system OF peace Mt any rate ds0raceful and would
render us ridiculous in Europe that if after all the
elaborate and expensive efforts made TO render us
producing nation, still obliged TO nay pre.
num- under concealed name, to foreign nations i'm
order TO induce them TO buy effects the whole public
treasury would be insuficentthat il was lust TO pav
what was justly owed-all that due but no more:
that war was preferable TO humaling concessions be-
cause 1t would be unjust war; that the compromises
proposed rested on certain calculations that the com
Inittce oil 1881 after aborous investigation could ne.
yer carry the sum above tlceirc millions and now we
are asked for taoetyrc that the of this differ
cnce was not cxplaned that il known that amono
the claims admitted were American vessels having on
board English property under the American ao that
there were English ships under their own fag; that
there were American vessels prizes English vessels
aud other such cases, which eyinccd the necessity of
fe-examnation of the case, and consequently that of
treating anew.
These excellent availcd nothing agan1st the
Alarm and the precOuceptons ofevery sort OF the min
lstcra deputies They carried their point in every bn
reau We annex details of the nominations:
- ist bureau. nj. Cameron, ministerial, % votes; NJ
Salvere, 81 : ' 49,
I'd Bureau. NJ. Meynard, ministerial, 2G votes; Nj
Lcpccticr d'Aulnay L.
sd Bureau. M. u. Deessert-n member Of the Com
ltlee OF 1911, who having changed his then opinion
received % votes; NJ Matlicu, Z
9TH Bureau. M. Dunont ministerial % votes; M
Bresson, II. 80
9Th Bureau NJ Ducos-of Bordeaux. and consc
gucntly partisan of the indemnity votes M Isam.
bert, 10.
II.