66] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1814. 



the public debt, the interest up to 

 Jan. 1, 1816, to be paid out of the 

 civil list, and after that date to be 

 provided for in the budget. This 

 law being discussed in the Chamber 

 on December 15, an amendment 

 proposed by the Central Commit- 

 tee, was taken into consideration, 

 namely, that it would not be pro- 

 per to accept his Majesty's gene- 

 rous offer of paying the interest of 

 the debt for 1815 out of the civil 

 list ; and the law thus amended 

 passed with only a single negative. 

 The law for the restoration of 

 the unsold estates of emigrants, 

 passed the Chamber of Peers on 

 December 3, by the majority of 



100 votes out of 103. At the same 

 time the Duke of Tarentum (Mar- 

 shal Macdonald) in a much ap- 

 plauded speech, announced his in- 

 tention of proposing a law for. 

 granting life-annuities to those 

 emigrants, the sale of whose estates 

 had left them without provision. 

 The Duke made his proposal re- 

 lative to this measure on Decem- 

 ber 10, in a speech full of calcula- 

 tion, which it is not necessary here 

 to specify, and to verify which, 

 would obviously require much in- 

 vestigation. Nothing more ap- 

 pears to have been done on this: 

 subject during the remainder of 

 the year. 



