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EUROPE.

FRANCE. The long negociations at Paris, regarding the claims of foreign subjects on the Government of France, have at length, through the mediation of the Duke of Wellington, been brought to a conclusion. By a convention, dated the 25th of April 1818, and signed by the Duc de Richelieu, and the ministers of the four great powers respectively, the French Government is bound to the Allied Powers (Britain not included) in the principal sum of 240,800,000 f.; to provide for which it undertakes to enter in the Great Book of France 12,040,000 of rentes; which are to be placed in the hands of Commissioners appointed by the four Allied Courts, to be by them distributed amongst the individual claimants of their several countries, according to certain principles and regulations referred to in the body of the convention. A twelfth part of the sum due to each power is to be liquidated on the 1st of every month; and the rentes are to commence from the 22d March 1818.

A separate treaty has been concluded with Great Britain, providing for the more speedy discharge of the claims admitted in favour of the subjects of his Britannic Majesty. By this instrument the King of France engages to place at the disposal of the English Commissioners a rente of 3,000,000 francs, equivalent to a capital of 60,000,000; and to liquidate therefrom, by monthly payments, the principal and interest of the British claims. The rights of English subjects touching certain goods warehoused at Bourdeaux in the year 1814, are reserved by a special article from the operation of the present treaty.

The King of France, it appears, 'is resolved to put down the infamous traffic in slaves, which, notwithstanding his former ordinances, continued to disgrace the French colonies and establishments on the coast of Africa. His Majesty has issued an ordinance for maintaining a French cruizing squadron on the coast of Africa, for the purpose of visiting all French vessels that appear within the limits of the French dominions in that part of the world, and for preventing the violation of the previous or-, ders issued by the Government, in conformity with the treaties concluded with Great Britain.

Most of our readers will recollect the extraordinary interest excited in France, and, to a considerable degree, in Britain, by

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the murder of Monsieur Fualdes at Rhodez, in a house of bad fame, on the 19th March last year. The long continued and arduous judicial proceedings which followed upon this case, ended on the 3d of May last, at Albi, in the condemnation to death of five of the murderers, Bastide, Jaussion, Colard, Bach, and the woman Bancal, in whose house the murder was committed. The three former were executed on the 3d June, and the sentences of the two latter were changed to perpetual imprisonment. Anne Benoit, an accomplice, was sentenced to hard labour for life; and Madame Manson, first retained as a witness, but afterwards arraigned and tried as an accomplice, was acquitted and set at liberty. It was the mysterious and dramatic behaviour of this woman, during her examinations, and on the trial,-her faintings, and frequent incoherent exclamations of horror, which gave such an interest to the case; and in nothing, indeed, was ever the levity and frivolity of the French character more clearly displayed,-no event of the highest concern in the moral or political world could have excited a deeper sensation of interest throughout France, than did the murder of M. Fualdes, and the proceedings consequent thereon; as a proof of which, it need only be mentioned, that the keeper of a show in Paris offered Madame Manson a very large sum of money to allow him to exhibit her to the public. This proposal, however, the lady indignantly rejected.

SPAIN. The Paris papers mention an instance of the miserable imbecility of the Spanish Government, in a case of extreme importance to the commercial interests of the country. The King of Spain issued an ordinance some time since for constituting four free ports in his kingdom, a measure, the advantages of which could not be doubted in the present circumstances of the Spanish monarchy; but the ordinance was represented by the favoured merchants of Cadiz as injurious to their interests, and it has been countermanded. Thus the general good of the state has been sacrificed to preserve the monopoly of this single community. The merchants of Cadiz have hitherto assisted the Government in the prosecution of the sanguinary war against the American provinces, and the Government was, no doubt, afraid of displeasing them.

GERMANY. The prospectus of the