11 JULY 1829, Page 1

The present French Ministers appear to entertain a foolish fear

of the press. The Keeper of- the Seals has addressed to the Procureurs Generals a circular on the subject of newspapers, which gravely al- leges, that the declamations of the journals against the taxes have instigated Frenchmen to refuse payment of them! Long and loud might all the newspapers in England declaim, before such an effect could be dreaded amongst us.

The debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the Navy 'Estimates was remarkable for the rhodomontade indulged in by M. Hyde Neuyille and M. B. Constant on the subject of English superiority. M. de Nenville is indignant at the supposition that France can never be a great maritime power, and that it is impossible she can contend in that respect with En‘eland. "Ali, gentlemen," says the honourable Secretary, " our fathers knew, and I hope we know, that the word

impossible' 2.8 Wthi/OWil in our language." M. Constant deals in h mysterious. " Navieeition by sienna conceals the secret of the deliver., mace of Europe." The neat- invasion of merry England, therefor- is to be one of steam-boats, not flat-bottomed boats. The Ent lish, M. Constant says, fled at Hondscoote, the Helder, the Zuiderze-, and Quibcron ; Waterloo was gained by the Prussians, and Take era b./ the Guerillas. This is the mere peevi,Imess of age : the e-rein ma or at any rate all the enlightened portion of the community in ewer kingdom, we believe, behold each other with anything rather than distrust or hostility.