The Northern star, and constitutionalist. [volume] (Warren, R.I.) 1834-1837, 1835-05-30
IMPORTANT FIR ON
FRANCE.
THE INDEMNITY Bill PASSED

THE MDE.MVITY BILL PASSED.
BY the steamboat mail from New York yester-
day morning, says the Journal Of Thursday, we
received the papers of that city of Tuesday morn
ing and evening, bringing US the welcome intelli-
gence Of the passage Of the indemnity bill by the
French Chamber Of Deputies by a majority ofI52,
greatly exceeding the most sanguine expectations
OF the Ministers The information is brought by
the packet ship Napoleon, from Liverpool, whence
she sailed April 26. The bill was passed on Sat
urday, the 18th ofApr, and covers the whole u
mount due under the treaty y-condiiionaiiy, how
ever. Of an amicable explanation in relation to the
Presidents message.
The New York Evening Star remarks
1t is probable that Mr.. Livingston will
return home with all possible expedition.
The question is now settled, and we con-
gratulate the people of the United States
that the course pursued by the opponents
Of the present administration has saved
this country from the horrors, the evils,
and the privations ofwar, and that, too,
with an ancient ally always dear to the
freemen of this republic, from the blood
and treasure she expended to aid US in
our revolutionary struggle. We say the
opponents the present administration has
saved this country for, had the Senate
allowed Jackson and Van Buren, the use
of the three millions of Dollars which they
violently and abusive;y demanded, the
treaty would never have been ratified by
France, aud war would have swept cur
commerce from the ocean, involved all
Europe in bloody contest, and thrown
US back full twenty years from those
bright prospects which now every where
open upon US.
Nor can we, in duty to ourselves, for
bear calling public attention to the course
of the Evening Star in reference to this
question, from its very origin. We have
repelled the threats Of the President con-
tanned in the Message-laid bare the Sc
cret objects of Kitchen Cabinet dispu-
ted, inch BY inch, every .attenwt OF the
administration to involve US in a war
recommended measures which have been
adopted-ahd never (altered one moment,
in our assurances that France would full
fill the obligations of the treaty, and that
the amicable relations between the two
countries would not be interrupted. In
this course, we have had to encounter
strong opposition from certain Wing pres
ses, whose opinions are entitled to weight.
Our information, which was always from
authentic and confidential sources, was
disputed and questioned and the Nation
al Intelligencer is almost the only paper
which pursued uniform and steady
course through the gloom of the question.
Even the able-probably the most able OF
men-John Quincy Adams came near
strengthening the plans of the Kitchen 10
entail the miseries of third term OF
Jackson's administration upon us, by
means of war with France. But it is all
over. Thank God, bloodshed has been
aveited (! Averted, too, by great skill
and perseverance. The President we
know, was determined upon it. This
shors oh0t The .trmness Of sound anc
honest Senate can accomplish
We copy the following proceedings o
the French Chamber Of Deputies from
the New York Commercial Advertiser
which gives a succinct account of thei
proceedings from the 9th to the of tn,
bill.
THE AMERICAN INDEMNITY.
1t will be seen by tho next account O
the proceedings Of the Chamber OF Dupu
ties, that that body has pronounced iudp
ment upon the sophestIy Of m. Berrycr
on the subject Of the American Indernni
ty, by IL vote in its favor, carried by the
overwhelming majority of l52, in an as
semby OF 426 membcrs-the majorit,
being upwards Of an hundred more thar
ministers had at first ventured TO coun
upon. In the Commercial Of yesterday
the debates Of the Chambers were brouyb,
down the close Of the sitting on the 6,l
OF April. On the 18th, Nj. Mauguin
whose political principles have latel, be.
come question with tho Parisians, wa.
the principal speaker against claims, and
he prodnced little sensation in the
Chamber, by the following statement -
"a person writes to M. Mauguin, tina,
If he will examine the original papers pro-
ducsd In support Of the American claims
It will be easy for him 10 discover in it q
ialslhcalion, for there is in the texture o
the paper itself date subsequent to the
date Of the statement. Ii was tins strange
discovery which induced m. do Polgnac
TO reject claim which was evideatly
stamped with lrasd.
The journal des Debates holds the following
language in reference 10 The passage the vote, re.