The National Register. — 1816-08-11 (London, England)

AUGUST 11.  eighty young ladies paraded the streets of Paris, with lighted tapers in their hands, on Thursday last, to implore the patron Saint of Paris for finer weather ! It is well known that the Parisians are, above all others, lax in  their notions of religion, and that these processions excite their most poignant ridicule. An exception to the substance of a late Royal Ordinance has been published in flivour of Marshal Oudinot. The Ordinance states, that no person shall bear a Commission in the Army and National Guard at the same time. Oudinot is dispensed from this condition, and is called in the French Papers a second Bayard ! The official part of the Moni:eur contains a Royal Ordinance, by which the King has ordered all private persons possessing AV etirons of war to deliver them up to the Mayors of their districts within a month's time. Private letters from Paris state, that the deficit in the French finances is three millions sterling. In consequence of this deficit, it is said, that as soon as the Legislative Bodies meet, in October, some Address will be moved to the King, to intercede with the Allied Powers to withdraw or diminish the number of fiereign troops, and to prolong the period of paying the tribute. We shall not be surprised at such a manoeuvre; on the contrary, we have been, during some time, prepared for it. It will be in the style of French conduct towards all the world ; and it will correspond but too much with the conduct of the greater part of the world towards England. But the continuance of the allied troops in France is rendered necessary by the condition of that country. The military establishments of probably every Power—certainly those of England—are the greater for the habits of aggression so long cherished by the French. Let them, thereffire, pay the expense of the vigilance which they render necessary. The Paris Papers say, that " M. Loisseau pleaded the cause or CarAine Leruth, with much talent, before the Court of Cessation ; but the insufficient grounds of her application were demonstratet by M. Lebau, AdvocateGeneral, and the Court reje-ted her appeal. Thus the sentence of the Court of Assize, which condemned this woman to 10 years solitary confinement aid for having assisted the Sieur —, Adjunct to the :Mayor of Montdidier, in his attempt to commit suicide, is confirmed." Time and security, which soften the vengeance of the law under other Governments, appear to sharpen it in France. Fourteen persons who manifested their dislike to his Majesty on the 26th of June, 1815, at Montpellier, have been tried and lima, guilty. Of these, five have been condemned to death, and suffered punishment. According to a German Paper, one of the resources of the French Government to raise money consists in granting privileges to games of chance. Persons had been up.. pointed to collect this source of revenue in the places occupied by the Allies ; but it is stated, that the Duke of Wellington sent them all back. Is it the religious Go. vernment of France that resorts to such means? While the German Papers continue to speak with the utmost confidence of a meeting of Sovereigns at Carlsbad, in Bohemia, the French Journals employ great industry in contradicting it. From this it is obvilus, that the French Government would look with a suspicious eye at such a meeting, lest these august personages might presume to legislate fin. France again. The pillory seems a favourite mode of punishment in the French code of jurisprudence. Hardly a week passes in Paris without an exhibition of this kind. On Friday se'nnight four females, none of whose ages exceeded 18, were pilloried at the Conciergerie. An article in the Paris Papers from Civita Vecchia, dated the 19th ult. mentions a new and most atrocious outrage, committed off the heights of Cagliari, on the crew of an English vessel by two Algerine ships, one of them commanded by a nephew of the Dey. The English vessel, which is called the Kent, was captured after an obstinate resistance. The Captain, on seeing his ship sink, used some reproaches to the pirate ; which the Bar, barians resented by putting two of the crew to death, and exercising upon the remainder every insult maid outrage which his fury could suggest. If this account be true, there can be only one opinion entertained in this country on the subject and, if our financial difficulties were infinitely greater than they are, yet it would be mean and impolitic to pass over such en act of violence.  Recent letters from Madrid, from undoubted authority, state, that highly important changes are on the eve of taking place in that capital ; but of the nature of the changes alluded to no explanation is given. An order had been issued by the Government for a levy, by ballot, of 60,000 men, to be embodied as a militia. In the opinion of some persons, this measure is adopted with the view of leaving the regular tmops at the disposal of Government, fir the purpose of sending them to &nth America and to Mexico, where their services are much wanted. Others talk of an expedition being intended for West Florida, in the contemplation of a rupture with the United Sta:es. The American Ambassador, it is said, has pro reed to abandon the claims of his Government for seizures made under the Berlin and Milan Decrees, on condition of West Florida being ceded by Spain; but Ferdinand's Ministers declined all negoeiation cm the subject We regret to learn, that the Spanish Government, whilst it continues to impose every mieties of restriction on the tilde with this country, afibrds ever/