London, Saturday, Decembe...
We have received the Btoile of' Thursday last, with the French NjING' speech at the opening of the legislative session. His Majesty begins with a descriptionof his grief for the event which raised him to the throne of France. He then runs through the ordinary succession of topics, foreign and domestic. -Hc gives assurances that the general peace will be pre; served, and informs the Legislature, that, as one measure towards maintaining it, he has agreed to leave a portion of the conquering army of his son, the DAUPHIN, in posses- sion of the Spauish territory. King CHARLEB then promises a number of improve- inents, adopted-lst, with a view to the interests of " reli- gion" (qu. the priesthood ?)-2d, for the sake of the emi- grants, whose indemnity is to heal the last wounds of the revolution, and is to be provided without any new tax upon the people, or any diversion of the existing funds from the necessary objects of the public service. His Majesty winds .p in a manner which must have been irresistible to French sirs, by promisinig the ladies and gentlemen preselit the glorious spectacle of a coronation. We may just remark, in passing, that while CHAnLEs X. is delighting every body with the prospect of such a brilliant show,his Majesty does not suffer the main chance to be forgotten. He takes special care of " legitimacy" in all its branches. He will swear to preserve the institutions granted to France (octroqys) by King Louis XVIII.: not a word of the national right to demand a constitution from the Sovereigu! A few such speeclies will go a long way in diminishing the popularity of the new Monarch : indeed, the fickle Parisians have already begun to be indifferent about their " most amiable Sovereign ;" for on Tuesday, at Notre Dame, the attendance was remarkably thin ; and the populace, on his Way to and from the Cathedral, did not utter one accla- mation. LONDON, SATURDAY, D2CBMBER 25,1824.