The Daily Advertiser

PARIS, May 19.

The Chatelet, a court of justice of Paris, after sitting almost thirty-six hours, have unanimously agreed to the following arret:

"May 16, 1788.

"This court, deeply affected on seeing repeated acts of authority against the different estates of magistracy of this kingdom, the seat of justice invested by armed troops, the liberty of suffrages wantonly violated by arresting and committing magistrates who could not be personally responsible for deliberations essentially distinct in themselves; magistracy itself debased; and all order overthrown, under a monarch who has declared that he never would reign but according to the tenor of the law, and whose beneficent intentions are the sure pledge of the happiness of his subjects; considering that the edicts and declarations reported by his Majesty's Attorney, have not been deliberated upon by parliament, who have a certain undisputed right acknowledged by the monarch himself, to address their remonstrances to him (a right they cannot possibly make use of at present, on account of the forced suspension of their functions); the court declare unanimously that they cannot, and ought not to proceed to the reading, publishing and registering the said edicts, declarations and orders."

They allude to the arrest in the late Bed of Justice.

The King's officers of justice, after having perused the above arret, having adhered to the contents of it.

Some deputies were sent to Versailles from the Parliament of Brittany, with remonstrances, &c. and they received the following answer from his Majesty:

I will not withdraw my edicts, the law being general for the kingdom. If some objects should be found contrary to the rights, franchises, and liberties of the Provinces, I will receive the representations of the States of Brittany, and pay proper regard to those that shall appear well founded to me. If the number of forty-eight judges is not sufficient, it may be increased. All new impositions that shall be registered by my Plenary Court, shall not be levied in Brittany, without the previous assent of the States, and the lawful registering of the Parliament. All laws regarding particularly the Province of Brittany, shall be registered by its own Parliament as heretofore.