The Daily Advertiser

FRANCE.

The following are the heads of the characters of the charges against the late Prime Minister of France, and the Keeper of the Seals, as alleged against them by the Parliament of Paris.

1. The resolution, proved against them, to destroy the constitutional rights of the nation.

2. Their perfidious operations, by which they excited the displeasure of the king against a prince of his blood, and against two magistrates who had been zealous in shewing to his majesty the truth of the principles, and the respect due to the rights of the nation.

3. The establishment of the system of arbitrary will in the sovereign, and the attack made on the liberty of the individual.

4. The abuse of authority to which they have led the king in seizing of M. D'Epremesnil and M. De Montbaron, in the court of peers.

5. The destruction of the constitutional principles at the bed of justice, May 8th; the violation of the provincial capitulations, by persuading the king that they were respected; the attribution of the rights of registering of loans and imposts to a court pleniere, established in a most illegal manner, though the king declared, a short time after, that no court could supply the place of that of the nation: the attack made on the irrevocable establishment of the national tribunals; the contempt of the citizens life in constituting the grand bailliages, courts inconsiderable in themselves, judges of life and death.

6. The falsity of a printed paper, alleging that certain edicts were registered at the request of the attorney general, who had not demanded the registering of any, and who even had opposed the registering of the last.

7. The acts of authority into which they had led the king against the superior courts, and the bad use made of lettres de cachet.

8. Their endeavors to gain the favor of the people by encouraging infamous and seditious papers against the magistrate; and by prohibiting the printing of answers to those calumnies.

9. The error into which they led the king and the public, by affirming that the treasury was in a state to pay all the expences of the year, tho' a very short time afterwards all payments were suspended.

10. The blood of citizens shed for the establishment of new laws.

11. Lastly, for justice, the first debt of the sovereign to his people, refused for more than four months to 24,000,000 of men, by the suspension of the legal judges.

The court having deliberated on these charges ordered the attorney general to proceed to inform himself of the facts.