London, Monday, June 14, ...
WVe have received the Paris papers of Thursday and Friday. They contain almost nothing but the speculations of the respective journalists on the recent change in the French Mlinistry. It is ra. ther singular that Eo great a number of the journals which sup. ported the French Mlinistry as lately constituted, should have de. serted those members of it who were regarded as men of the greatest talent and most commanding influence. The Journal des Debats, for instance, wlhich his the greatest weight and most extensive cir; culation in France, has taken the side of .M1. de CHOATEAUB RIAND, and declared open war against his late colleagues and present antagonists. Every successive number of that journal con. tains some new charge against the present possessors of power, or sonme new encomium on the member whose disgrace they had pro- voked. The disclosures of which this ministerial quarrel has been productive are as curious as the quarrel itself. ?'ublic opinion in France had been accustomed to extend over the whole Cabinet the censure of theabominablemeansresortedtobyofficial agents andpri. vate menaces of influencing the elections in favour of the 31inistry3 M1. de VILLELE had denied any knowledge of, or any participation in, these manceuvres. The late ministerial organ nowlays the saddle on the right horse; andstatesM-AI.de ConBiEkE as the authorof thecircu_ lars which had given such general ofrence and excited such aniversal alarm.We learn from the same source,that A. deCHgrEATUBRIAND is the exclusive aathor of the project of a septennial Cbamber of De- puties; and as a hint is given of his negotiations regarAing the East, probably he is the inventor of the Russian plan for the retention of Greece under the Turkish yoke. The mystery that is extended by his friends over his exertions in favour of Spanish dominion in Ame rica, liax no tendency to endear his ministry either to the friends of genetal freedom or partisans of English interests. We strongly sus- pect that M1. de CIIATEAUBRtAND had no system of politics what- ever, and that whatever he did or intended to do, was the re*nlt of inconsiderate passion or silly intrigap. Independently of the stupid clamour or intercsted lamentation which will be made by the Royal. ists of the Ultra party, or the personal friends of Al. de CHATAA1T- BtrAND, we believe there will not be a voice raised in his bebalf. lire do not, however, approve of the steps taken by his adversaries to disgrace him. Al. de VI LLEL E is declared by the friends of 51. de CHATEAURIUAND a man " of insatiable ambition," and all his actions are criticised and censured with the utmost fteedoni. It is even said, that the ex-Minister has carried with him all the CI moral "force of the Ministry, while M. de VItLELE is left with only *the physical force of a majority."' The French as well as the Eng. lish pablic will, probably, form a difcrent estimate of this squabble. FRE:vCEI F,yS;Ds, PARIs, June 11.-Five per centL. opened at 162. 5. ; closed at 102. 40.,; lan of 1823, 15. Bank Stock, 1,955. Neapolitan five per cents. in ducats, .89k. . de JWiZa ; Rente d'Espagne, 18 ; Royal Spanish loan, 1823, 63. Exchange on Lon- don, one mnontb, 25. 40. ; three months, 25. 25.-CoLursAthenztiq;te. LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1824. qu--