Star. — London, England, 1816-01-13 00:00:00

TO OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY. WILLIAM SHAND respectfully inform;theee gallant Defenders of their Country who have lose a Lhub in the service, that they may have the loss by.m . invention. whit* he humbly conceives will, on be , found to be the ne plus ultra of human ingenuity. Having tbeatisdoseame to loos his lag, W. Shaba has devoted many yams of his life to the perfecdon of a mechealeal substitute, in wig& be Ku completely Imseceeded. W. nand has submitted his is. - Tendon to thq Royal College of &nom% from the Members Of which, bosh individually and col ' re;2 , be bas received the most flattering testinsonials.—W. exhibits sod explains the functions of his Invention in his own person, and will satisfy any Gentleman who does him the honour to call upon him, that he can not only walk but ascend and descend a Staircase with as stssetrcdarit as if no accident bad occurred. Mr. Shand may be consulted at No. 10. Villiers-street, Strand, any day from ten to two o'clock, or he will cheerfully wait ow any Gentleman who may vrish to nobles at his own reshlinear AMIVESI'I The following article is extracted from the Gaulle & France : • " The -present Law of Amnesty is the most. serious and important which can be submitted to a public deliberation, inasmuch as it • affects the fortune; ho nour, and even life of a class of citizens. We may even rise to higher considerations, and discern in the measure an object which essentially regards the con firmation of the throne, and consequently the.safety of the country, from Which it is inseparable.' 46 Opinions• are unanimous on the necessity of an Amnesty: it is the natural effect of this principle"; equally avowed by policy and humanity, that after long dissentions, after terrific convulsions which have given birth to a crowd of guilt and crime, it would be dangerous, nay impossible, to punish all; and that the supreme authority, whose most sacred duty is to consolidate the...social edifice, violently shaken by re volution, should hasten to impose silence on the spirit oflictions by throwing the veil of forgetfulness over the past, and restricting itself zo the punishment of the great culprits. . 64 But in proportion as l there exists an uniformity of - sentiment respecting the necessity of the measure in itself, there may also be remarked a disagreement on the manner of applying it. Nothing is less sur prising. The question may be viewed under diffe rent aspects, without our ceasing to be good citizens, real friends of the King and Country. it is this that encourages us to express our sentiments freely upon this subject. 66 it is keyond a doubt that a Law of Amnesty ought to be a mixture of indulgence and severity: without this happy combination, it would be at once a source of disgrace and danger ; it would become a warrant of universal impunity, which could never enter into the thoughts of any legislator, or a monu ment of rigorous justice, absolutely coatrary to the essence of an Amnesty, and fit only for Penal Laws. We are at first struck with the extraordinary clemen cy manifested in the Projet presented by the Ministers. 66 The pardon is gen:ral : all the rnanceuvres, all the criminal actions which preceded and toilowed the enterprize, the success of which has been so fatal to the country, are buried in oblivion by a paternal hand. Amnesty, full and entire, is granted to all those who, directly or indirectly, took part iu the rebellion. " However, if the Monarch be too noble to retain the memory of offences committed against his per son and his authority, he is also too just to present with a disgraceful impunity those men who, by their rank in society, by the eminent stations they occu pied, by the favours that were heaped on them, by the destructive talents they have so constantly deve loped to the ruin of the State, are a thousand times more guilty than the obscure crowd, whom they pos. semi so many means to seduce. 66 The King has declared, he desired • every thing emit will save France :' he ought necessarily to avenge bey of those conspirators and traitors who have en dangered her existence. To pardon such crimes, would be to reward them ; and it is not when jus tice the most pure is seated on the throne, that the friends of justice should have to dread a scandal so revolting. 66 It must be acknowledged, when we mount to the origin of this faction, the enemy of every thing moral, which, under different denominations, for so ling a time wielded the ensanguined sceptre f crime, and wished not long since again to assume it, when we remark among the most servile accomplices of the late tyranny the chiefs of the Rey( lutionai y Government, wh is we see the unpropitious meteors of 1793 renew their terrific appearance in 181 i, we are tempted to yield to the opinion of those who, reasonably dread ing the return of those disastrous scenes which we have witnessed, and desiring, like all friends of the Monarchy, that the factions thus incorrigible should, at length, be reduced to absolute inability to injure, can discern no other means of obtaining this object but exemplary vigour. 66 But the involuntary and natural horror expo-. rienced at the sight of these cruel authors ca lamities might, it too much listened to, exercise a dangerous influence over the measures (.1 public safety„ which alone should dictate a wise and moderate policy. This powerful consideration ought to affect the King's Ministers, who, partaking the sentiments that animate good Frenchmen, placed in a different sphere from the rest of the nation, the immediate or. gaps of the best of Princes, confident of his ineffable goodness, they ought to view men and things ; they ought to draw from an august source the wisdom fit th enlighten their progress in circumstances the most difficult that can be presented. . . o A Royal Ordinance had been published—this' Ordinance began to be executed—it was necessary that the new Projet should he in unison with it; there was nothing to oppose it, since it had already conse crated the great principle of a law of Amnesty, and by designating Vine great criminals, tacitly promise oblivion to- the rest. This, then, is the ;lose why' the live of Amnesty is founded on the Ordinance of the 24th of.4tily, of which it becomes the completion, The sem e reservations subsist t. the sending a certain I:amber of individuals before the Councils of Wai is eepeated ; the exile of many In* is pronounced, as also the exclusion from the kingdomi in perpetuity, of the family of the Vsurper; the. continuance of the Prollet,utiOne that had commenced,' an 4 the execution of judgments delivered before the Amnesty, and the exciptiou of crimes and rniadennannara con initt . ed aping. Private persons. 4t aPPes4 l Oa; thelt9A4 4114. go >awch faFt.heS.,49 l g TRumof - 41 e *4 ag e. . tating and reviving palates, and, above all, of con tiaVening a sacred word, and gerope aewis that Mr rargefamichas posited "Wiwi is vats. 0 Different impireant amendments have, however, boa proposed in die Chamber .of Deputies. With out forgetting the respect dasto an assembly, whose intentions, well . known, could not be more pure, we think that as the Projet is still susceptible of Modifi cations, it should be permitted to discuss it even in a Journal s it is one of the most precious advancer of the Representative Government which• the v has given use •I "These amendments consist, principally, in ex cepting from the Amnesty, besides the names enrol led in the Ordinance of the .24th of July, some other classes of individuals, designated by the rank or em ployment they occhpied, or by the nature of the crime of which they had been guilty—to empower the royal treasury to exact indemnities from the con. demned ; and to extend the measure of perpetual ex clusion from the kingdom to those of the regicides who served the Usurper since his return, or voted for the Ado rtaitionel. " On considering the ordinary rules only, it would not be difficult to demonstrate the justice of these exceptions ; but it cannot be ton often repeated, that in times of revolutions, after long political convul sions,. when few are found wholly exempt front re proach, that it is not possible to listen always to jtl; Resible justice., . 44, We will add nothing to what we have already said on the danger of extending the list prepared by the King's order, and which w re formally declared closed—we will only observe that, without designat ing personally any other individuils for punishment, the object proposed by the first amendment is the same, although it purports to attack crimes, not men. Much inconvenience likewise exists in the measure, relative to the indemnities to be paid by the con demned into the public treasure. 44 It is not to be doubted, that the peat criminals ought to support a very considerable part of the im mense load that they have brought on us ; but every thing must yield to principles. The Charter having abolished confiscation, could the King's Ministers reproduce it under another name ? Let us deplore the misfortunes attached to our situation, while we p reserve this character of good faith, which was our fairest title to glory in ancient times, and which it was worthy the Bourbons to revive in the midst of a ow rupted age. " As for the men who, in contempt of a clemency without bands, accepted employments from the Usurper, and by that proved themselves the irrecon cileable enemies of France and legitimate Govern. ment, their audacity and ingratitude merited its proper chastisement—far be it ftom our thoughts to deny it ! We, however, feel ourselves once more compeiled to invoke other principles than those of absolute justice. These men are great criminals, hut were they nut so ill 1814 ? Was their first crime b;.yond the reach of a humane pardon ? The King having his eyes tiled on the immortal will of his brother, pardoned them. More interested than any other to revenge the blood of his brother, he imitated his divine goodness. Let us avoid assuming the initiative in an act which affects so nearly the highest prerogative of the Sovereign. Who would dare, ac. cording to the Wappy expression which fell from the lips of a distinguished orator, to place himself be tween the Mini•ir:h and the guilty, to intercept Mt Royal pardon I" We are still without any account of what has be come of Lavalette. The very affecting heroism of Madame Lavalette, who, to save his life, endangered her own, is the theme of universal admiration, and has excited for him in all ranks of society a sympathy of which he was otherwise unworthy. What a noble instance it is of the great services which female: can perform for the objects of their regard. Perhaps some of our readers will, on Valentine's Day, have to thank onoeher female for Sterling favours of a diffe rent kind—we mean Lady Fortune, who will reward her favourites very soon with Two Prizes of Twenty five Thousand Golden Guineas Two . more of. Twenty Thousand Pounds, &c. &c. the whole of which must fall to the present. purchasers of Tickets, and there are not Two Blanks to a Prise. • A German Paper says, that the individuals com prised in the Ordinance of the fLtth July, and who may, according to arrangements with the Allied So vereigns, be permittcd to cuter their States, will have only permission to reside in certain parts, viz. Those who retire to Austria, will be sent to Bavaria ; to Russia, in the - Meridional Province, near Moscow ; and to Prussia, in Silesia. These arrangements are ex tremely politic, and must give satisfaction to every one. RXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM PARIS, RATIO JAN. 8. " Both parties affect to be delighted with the deci sion on the Amnesty Bill. The Constitsdionafirt:, who have triumphed over the Categories and Confiscation Project, and the Ultra Royalists who have succeeded in passing the Regicide Article. It is yet_ possible, H that the Bill may Be rejected in the Upper ouse;trt4 that his Majesty may refuse his assent. The Count de, Bethisy, who made the speech in favour of the Re gicide Article, waked yesterday morniog upon the Duchess d'Aogooleme, who received him with tears of sensibility. He afterwards breakfasted with the Duke de Berri. The Duchess's reception of 161. Bethisy is the talk of the Court. Elk fail Epoque. I understand, that alter this cordial reception from the Princess, he presented himself to the King,who turned his back upon him. There are still two more impor-, tant and interesting subjects upon which the Commit. tees of the Chamber have to make a report : the one s in regard to Layalette, and the other on the Elections,.{ I; is said that Madame Lavalette is set at liberty perhaps this is premature, though it would.have been Cruel to punish hcr. Some other trials will soon come on, and General Cambrennes among the rest. The .garde royale, Who have taken the duty live, are a One body of men. There are a great many of the gallant Vendeans among them, and. I believe the oft. cers are all true to a man. There was a review of two regiments of ihe fOot, ;nd one legion of National Guards ' yesterday, by Monsieur, and Marshal Vic-, for ;it was admirabli. The w hole •had a most sot. dierfike appearance, and the mancenvres were accu rt rate and just.-. This is to be continued every Sunday,' till the Whole is , gone through. IR t; few days, there will be 24 . .000 of the guaidie and i round . Paris, apd i; is said, the Duke ot Wellington will immodiately region his head-Tunas tv CohliS" • - TRENCH PAPERS. • , . :RECEIVED THIS MORD4ING. PARIS, JANUARY 7. BilMll Vincent, the Austrian Minister, it is expect ed; will be appointed Ambassador to the Court of Russia. His Majesty has given the sum of 320,000 francs for the benefit of the poor of Paris this Christmas. • Great retrenchments are taking place in every de. pa:talent of the Ministry. The 2d and sth Regiments of Cuirassiers have been disbanded. . The Institute had a sitting yesterday, ' when the prises accorded to Mademoiselle Sophie St.Cermain, M. Cauchy, and M. Mathieu, were severally pre sented. Three personages are yet at Brussels, who are comprised in the Ordinance of ,du ly last, viz. Counts Merlin and Gautier, and General Excelmans. A man has been found drowned near Pasty he remains at the Morgue to be owned. About one hundred wounded French prisoners, taken at Waterloo, landed at Havre, from England, sr few days back. Two thousand five hued red Saxons passed through Chalons on the 34 inst. on their march to Rheims. A detachment of 600 Russians was at Laon on the 3d instant, . . The Chamber of Deputies are now occupied with the new Budget. The proceedings are private. M. Jourdenil has been arrested ; he is accused of having signed the famous circular letter to the Com munes of Paris, in Septismber, 1792. General Debelle will be tried before General Drouot ; the trial of the forma commences en the 2Jth instant. M. Fouche, Duke d'Orrant:, was, still at Dresden on the '24th ult. The news of his dismissal is fully confirmed ! The report of M. I.avalette having been seen to •isit a distinguished Officer at Brussels, is wholly un founded. Sixteen decorations of the Legion of Honour have been distributed amongst the Officers of each Legion of the National Gu.►rds of Paris, in consequence of their excellent conduct. On Twt:11111-day the whole of the Royal Fans;ly in Paris dined with his Majesty ; the amusing ceremony of drawing for King anti Q fern was observed —the Prince of Conde was King. and chose the Duchess d'Angouleme for Queen ; his Majesty rose and drank with much goad humour to the health of the cak e King and Queen ; the evening passed off in the most agreeable runner. Sunday morning part of the National Guard, and ' t ome of the Royal GuarJ, were ingpecteul by Mon sieur and the Duke de Beni, in the Court. of the Thuilleries. Their Royal Highnesses expressed them selves much satisfied with their excellent discipline. We hear from Hanover, : that Count !Munster is about to take a journey to London; this is very soon after his late accident. One of the Journals states, that the King has re fused to accept of the felicitations of the Members of the Institute, on the occasion of the New Year. His Majesty yesterday rode out at his usual hour: we have noticed that his Majesty is now escurt.d by nearly double the number of troops; formerly the Guards du Chirps did that service only. PARIS, JANUARY e. At length the Sittings of the Chamber upon the Law of Amnesty have terminated, and the Law is adopted with the amendments, as given in one of our former Numbers. We have not observed any new arguments produced by the orators during the whole debate; a few general opinions were all that were produced, and a long train of compliments to his Ma jesty, and sentiments of devotion to the Royal cause. Pray Heaven that the conduct of the Deputies may accord with their expressions! France and her King will then be happy, Europelwill long remain at peace, and this great nation will recover from the shocks she has received by her late convulsions. It is remarkable that the votes of the Conventional* which condemned the unfortunate Louis XVI. to the Icaffold were 366, and the Chamber of Deputies by 966 voices has condemned, on the day of the King's fete, all the Regicides to banishment. Theirit body .was composed of rarmadorter, the last of the richest and most learned men of the country. What a contrast; how terrible to the guilty mind 1 and how proudly hOtourable to the just one ! *The Marquis de Saisseval has received permission to enter the King's private cabinet at pleasure. • A polytechinc school is about to be founded at Tatum by order of the Emperor of Austria, ups., • similar plan as the establishment in Paris. His Ma jesty has ordered a sum of 8000 florins to defray the caprices. The Grand Mute of Tuscany has issued an Ordi nance, prohibiting mEndicity in his States ;—we hops at the same time he will prevent the cause of it.. Perhaps be is charitable. - The epoch • for opening the Congress of Frankfort is not yet pesisively fixed. • From Munich we hear,• that the negociations be tween A u stria and . ,Bavaria, to regulate their respec tive territories, go,on but slowly. It seems the Em peror of has accelerated it all be can on his ear t. The +rch-Duchies i btatia Louisa is to reside per ;t ere*, in Pais* . she vet t h ere to meet her . 'agog parents, 'without ber son. fixed on for her departure. At the request of the General . the central depot of Police at Berne, have ordered the Authorities may be found, Marie Ch4mans escaped from prison. it seems the King of the ;to allow any of the persons comprised 'Ordinance of the 24th JOT . his territories. Prince Metternich arrived Milan. Lord Stewart. the Brt, Count Stockelberg k the Russian few days before. Conformably' to the intention. funereal festival of the 21st of Sunday, will be celebrated preceding. VARIS, JANtT, Today the sentence of the' Marie Chamans Lavalette to executed par conlumace. Agi Place de Greve, in the common To this gibbet was affited, b; containing the name, xirnarce, culprit, and the cause of his tion, which was seperinteaded two . hours, The Court of Assizes this year's imprisonment an Engli! aged (41. Thi4 swat, who family of Londoo, was accu: spoon from a Restaurateur's of having concealed it in his , found, and of having unlaw: the Legion of Honour. Forty his person on searching him, freedhim from the charge of tal intention to appropriate it to ' guilty, however, of the second ceived sentence accordingly. Another EngliLliman, na was convicted of robbery by , condemned to five years hard . CHAMBER QF DEPUTIES. The object of the meeting - continue the• examination of This law consists of three dik Budget of 1816, a new system and a new tarif of donanes nominate tht;ee commissioners. At two o'clock there was which they renewed, by ballot, CHAMBER Of SITTINGS OF THE 9TH At twoAr'elock the Chamber for Foreign Affairs, of Justice the Marine, and of Qte3eral After the adoption of ►he de RICHZLIICU I President of ascended the tribune : Messieurs," he said, 66 the Chamber of Deputies to which has just been passed, to present to jou the project tains it. His Majesty, in the 4 which took place in the Charm tented to two amendments ; that Chamber, at the end of portant addition to the projec 66 This addition consists : France men who, in spite of without hounds, did not hesii time the instruments ot an withstaaing this criminal , goodnesx of his Majesty, inspired martyred King, rejected the cause from that ot other or led astray of late. But _ add the unanimous wish, which Assembly composed of the does not admit of a doubt , is conform to that which has who are charged more especial!' the King the sentiments and ...Nothing less was want' a Dation. and of. its *lastes t overtollot heart of the most generous of Sovereigns Tieldki At length to the general cry which rose on all sidetl his Majesty directed the additional clause, fortail l the 7th, to be introduced into the Law. Whey tio first body in the State shall have confirmed the ttgl expressed by the Deputies of France, his IdejegY withdraw the band which he had stretched out 056 subjects so guilty, and they shall be abandoned their destiny. One thing makes his Majesty belle" that Divine Justice has made itself be heard throes! the voice of his People ; this is, that the exproge of the wishes has been in the Chamber of DePPe l the signal of cocord, and from that moment *llOl all dissensions of opinion cease. 66 As witnesses of the exultation of all. beats the Sittings of the 6th of January, we think it nglii to say, d at on that day. the Chamber_ of. Dept presented a spectacle worthy of the best days of do. Monarch y. Let us hope that the concert ot the DO .Chambeas with the Government of his Majesty not be itfercupted, and that we shall march baad.i 'hold to the common objects of all, viz. the. 0 1114 of the Throne, and the repose of France. 66 We have called your attentico, Gentlemen , u this adttional dams the kw, only be OO ur , ton. The 1 4 , L . ''" kw si t o Mg .6nerb Police o f y bon • Berne, in sll.' to arrest, wk. ns Lawalett e , v et t on ; tt t , de Tetherlands • . tomprised in they The b last. to semi:de d k ishpbe on the 25th yid I . fl edia Iritish Ambasead ue , e it s e tiara Minister, • . " tk bd ions of his '94aje tt l , tv" F January, which is% iR lnn Saturday the Cs' Vie VARY 9. 1 . 1 18 Court which • , • • the pains of deed; gibbet was erected 01 'sea l n place of ez ezo — " via ly the hangman, a . me, and qualities e l . s sentence. The e , d by gem d'annes,4 . ; day condemned to e lishman named J. .T fie belongs to a used of stealing a 61 1 1 at the Palais. Roya d pantaloons where it • wfully worn the Cross' rty francs were fOllll4 • , m, and this circonast sob taking the spoon w . himself. He was . lb • cond acmsation, and arced aged means of false keys, 7cl labour and the TIES. JANUARY 6. GI of the Bureau:. F the law on the fi distinct projects, viz. , em of indirect imposi' s : the Bureaus vs. a Secret Committee, ' 14 lot, the nine Bareatua Re 3F 'PEERS. ' 4 9tez JANUARY. 'beg- mot. The. ' 1 ce and of the Interior, ; sa Police,' were press*. • Prates Verbal, the Dia • ;he Council of Miriam \ g after having called wpm to concur in the Anneal , the King has directed. ct of the law which cur se course of the &aim amber of Deputies, con - ; but there was made b if the deliberation, antis iect of the law. in expelling for ever hts )f the first act of clement) esitate to become a seccof odious usurpation. Nat relapse, the inexhaustible 'spired by the wishes of thf he idea of separating their Frenchmen a;tual:y : the energetic, and we ma) which has burst forth Mat t Deputies of the Kingdoi that the wish Cfall Franc as been manifested by thou pecially to make knows S Ind wants of his people' acing than the concertos lelegates, to °Term"( lb, INimmiImINNEMMINNINIIIMiIIi