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DUTCH AND JMMBURGH [PROM A LETTER.] BOURDEAUX, DECEMBER u The infamous scenes of atrocity at Nimes can. not excise greater indignation and desire sof vengeance in England and Germany than they do here. We must only go to the bottom of the affair. All the j atrocity of these murderous intrigues cannot be known till (if this could be done) all the ringleaders are ; taken, their trials published, and the dreadful secrets of the murderous plot examined : the most ferocious of soldiery, Bonaparte's vampires, are those who con trive the whole, in order, under the hypocritical mask of teligi:n, and the cloak of the Catholic faith, to murder the real and most faithful Royalists, namely, the National Guards, who are there chiefly Prows., tants. Besides this, .the populous Southern Pro. 'ince:: of France are the native country of the wildest end most ardent spirits, which,• after twenty-five years revolution, ars: most easily seized with fanati. cism. Now the Bonapartist murderers well know how, by all kinds of intrigues, to Fain this refuse of the people, and by their help practise these cruelties. For the rest, it is an indisputable truth, that exCept ing Banaparte's soldiery, that curse of the nation, fifteen•sixteenths 01 the better and more enlightened French detest the system of the fallen Corsican, daily thank Gore for being delivered from it s and long but for peace and repose." BRUSSEJ.S, JANUARY 15. All the different corps of British artillery which had remained-at Ypres, Nieuport, and Ostend, are successively embarked to return to England; they are replaced by national artillery. We learn also o that the embarkation at r. alais proceeds with activity, but it is remarked that those corps which have suf fered most return to England, while those who have suffered least remain in France. It seems that the English army which is to remain there by the Treaty of Paris,. will be 30,000 chosen troops. The French, who will have to leave their country to consequence of the Amnesty Law, will receive no permission to remain here, but, as it is affirmed, will be obliged to repair to such places as shall be appointed by the Al lies, there to remain under surveillance. JANUARY 17.—1 f we may give credit to letters from Frankfort, M. Lavalette is arrived at Munich, having taken, to escape from France, the road by Switzerland and the Lake of Constance. ZURICH, JANUARY 6. In consequence of the bloody quarrels on the 7th of January between the ordinary garrison of Basle and the kderal battalion• of the line, under Colonel Blueler, orders have been given to the Quarter- Master-General to replace this battalion by that of Doriaz, and to bring the guilty before a Court Mar tial ; tlle majoi ity of the Cantons have besides already sanctioned the propoaal of the Directorial Govern. silent, to disband the four Red Battalions on the Ist of Much next. AUCSI:URG, JANUARY IL The Gazette of this city has the following article from Virmia 3d January:—Yesterday was celebra ted in the ea ledral Church of St. Stephens, in the rrtszuce of the reigning Duke of Saxe•Coburg, the niarriage of hie trother, Prince Leopold, with the .1;c1 beautiit:l Ctuntess oh Cohary, according to the rites cf the Catholic Church. • BAvarta, IT urteuiberg, and Baden have, according to some accounts, concludesi an alliaace with respect to their pa sent possessions. In the late:. , Austrian Court (Weldor, we found, among others, the following art.cle :—" Maria Ludo• vita, the Eropress•Queen, Archduchess of Kama, &c. marri.,2 Val. March, 1810, to the then Emperor Na• poleon -- offspring, NApokon Francis Joseph Charles, bora 20th March, I811." Under the head of Parma, we find " his Imperial Highness the Archduke of Parma, Napoleon Francis, &c. Grand Cross of the Order of St. Stephen." HAGUE, JANUARY 16. On the 18th, in the evening, their Majesties will receive public congratulations on the approaching mai Lige of his Royal Highness the Prince of Orange. WARSAW, DECEMBER IL The new Polish Constitution which was signed at Warsaw on the 27th of November, on the French ori ginal, by his Majesty the Emperor of Russia and King of Pohlad, consists of 165 articles. The people here are exreinely pleased with it, because it ►s per fectly liberal, according to the wishes of the Polish Nation. ZEALI4ND, JANUARY 2. • Last month twe considerable Morocco merchants arrived at Copenhagen, who are said to be charged with a mission from the Emperor of Morocco to our Court, which, tinder all circumstances, has constantly been on friendly terms with that of Morocco. The two Governments have in former times made presents to each other, as proofs of friendship. Thus there is sliewn, in the Castle of Rosenburg, a mostmaluable piece of art, namely. an artificial vine; the grapes of which are cut out of a single emerald, and which is said to be a present from the Emperor of Morocco. These friendly relations are of great advantage to the Danish commerce in Africa. LINDEN, DECEMBER 30. On the 27th instant the lower country of Lingen, and some Prussian districts in Munster, weresoletnnly given up by the Russian Cornmistioner, Mr. Von GoMed:, to the Hanoverian Commissioners. • HANOV Eft, JANUARY 94 The Royal Lettcr4 Patent: taking possession of the Beilliays of Lit u, Greboldshausen, and Doc!ors tadt, are now publuled by order of the Prince gent. A letter from Bei lin, dated January 10, says.— do Prince Blucher is so much delighted with the eon. duo et Madame LavAlette, that he has tent an ad drcbs of thAska to her." • Letter• from Madrid of the 3d instant state, that the entailed estates of the Spanish refugees, and those swan ire unuer puaisllmetis for their political conduct, hay, been exempted from confiscation, and will pass to the lieu hens, subject to the payment of lawful debts, and to the burdeb of all the existing settle ments. Considerable difficulty is experienced in rain lug the coutributious ordered to be levied in Whoa ft id &thunder, for the subsistence at Count del army. • "JUNCO P4PERS. PARIS, JANUARY 17. COPY OP A NOT/1 ADDEE,SsIED TO THE ENGLISH AM• iIASSADOH IT THE DUC D 6 RICHELIEU. " Paris. January 13, 1816. " It is with the most lively feelings of pain and regret that the undersigned sees himself obliged to make known to his Excellency Sir C:latles Stewart. that several subjects of his Britannic Majesty appear to have taken an active put in culpable manoeuvres directed against the Government of the King,. 4‘ His'Excelleney will see by the letter hereto an nexed, .which the undersigned has just received from the Minister o f Police, that Sir R. Wilson,. Mr. Bruce, and another individual, who is believed to be an English gentleman, are accused of having fa voured the escape of Lavalette. Their trial is going 'to commence; but the undersigned, is announcing it to Sir Charles Stewart, is forward at the same time to give him the assurance, that they will enjoy fully all the facilities which our laws afford for their justi fication; and that the protecting forms of trial will be religiohsly observed towards them. The undersigned, in making this communica don to the English Ambassador, as a consequence of the particular regard which his Court on every oc casion entertains towards the Government of his Britannic Majesty, has the honour to renew, &c." The judicial process relative to the three English men arrested by order of the Minister of Police, is going on with great activity before the Tribunal of the first instance. It is affirmed that proof has al ready been !obtained, that one of them personally assisted in the eacape of Luvalette ; that he supplied him with the uniform of an English General, and a passport from the Ambassador, and escorted him as far as the frontier, wearing himself the distinctive marks of his rank, and being accompanied by an Officer of his nation. It cannot be doubted that the English Government and people will disavow a few individuals, who have violated their duty as much to their country as to France, by committing an act contrary to the political rights of all nations, and to the good understanding that subsists between France and - England. The honour of the English army will, above 01, be offended at learning that the uniform of an English Officer, and the character of an Eng lish Major-General, were employed to ensure the . impunity of a great criminal. This event however, has, by a fortunate and singular accident, thro*n some light upon a fact which had for some days agi tated the public opinion. It appears certain that, among the parrs of one of the prisoners, there was found the original manuscript of a memorial ridicu lously attributed to the Ambassador of a great Power, and publicly circulated with intentions connected with a systematic plan of malevolence, the authors of which are thus unmasked, and delivered up to the examination of the tribunals. The Chamber of Deputies continued to be occu pied yesterday in discu.stug the Budget in the Stand 1111g COW= ittees. The Prevotal Court of the Department of the Seine will be installed next Thursday. The pretended Dauphin of France (or Louis XVII.) who lately made his appearance at Rouen, has been recognized as a lunatic who had long since escaped from his friends. On the 10th of elis month, Fouche, the mock Duke of Otranto, ceased to be the King's Minister at Dresden. liis Majesty has just issued an Ordonnance respect ing tt'e formation and organization of Departmental m panics. Yesterday morning about 1:500 English troops, all infantry, passed u:rough Villette, in the direction of Flanders. The King yesterday gave a dinner of forty covers to the Spanish Ambassador, at the residence of the Duchess d'Escars. The Duke de Richelieu and Prince Talleyrand were present, as well as the Du chess of Feltre and several other Ladies of the Court. PROMTANT SOCIETY OF LONDON.—The ditturb ances in the South, of which the activity of the poli tical passions, and not the difference of religious opi nions, was the principle and source, arc at present totally appeased ; and the return of the Duke of Angouleme to Paris, is the surest pledge of the peace and concord which now reign* those countries which had been momentarily in a state of agitation. The most perfidients malevolence only could have per waded itself, or endeavoured to make others believe, that the mildest and most liberal of Governments bad provoked these dissensions, by a system of into- lerance and persecution as remote from the disposition of our Princes as from their maxims t and there is, doubtless, reason to be surprized that a Society in' London should have listened to 'such insinuations, and participated in prejudices so Absurd. One might even experience a much stronger feeling at seeing the seal of this Society carry it to the length of interest-. ing itself in an effective manner in affairs regarding which it had received cnly false information, and which might have envenomed the indiscretion of an imprudent zeal. This,seal too did not limit its opera. tion to the departments of the South. We have be fore us the copy of the-same circular, addressed to the Consistory of Calvados and the Orne. The sub joined answers, which came so appositely in aid of the Report which his Excellency the Duke of Wel lington thought it his duty to make to the Society of London, must surely have contributed to rectify the very erroneous ideas which, doubtless, have been in spired only by a sentiment, the purity of which could not be equivocal. THE PRESIDENT OF THE REFORMED CONSISTORIAL CHURCH OF TILE UPPER GARONNE, TO THE REV. THOS. MORGAN, LONDON. TooL9ess, Dn. so, ISIS. 6 Sir—With the most lively feelings of acknow ledgment towards the Ministers assembled on the 23d and 28th November, at the Library, Red Cross. street, I received and read some days ago the Circu lar Nhich the Rev. M. Clot tt did me the hon o ur t o address to me in the name of die Committee of those Pastors of which you are the Secretary. I doubt not that those of my colleagues in France who have re ceived the same Circular, experience the same feel ing, and will express it with ill the sensibility it ex. cited ; but, Sir, since the Itev. M. Cloutt invites me, in his Postscript, to give you all the information in my power, I shall devote the remainder of my letter to that point. • •' It would appeik, film your circular, that the reports in the public papers as to the events at Nissan, and the information which has been addressed to you --• _ • . ou that subject, have indtteol Su relieve that' all the Protestants.were persecuted, and have already been almost entitely dispersed. But, Sir, this is an error into which yon have been led, and which, by esciting your charity, has induced your to propagate these false reports, both by the solemnity of your meetings at London, and by your circular. 66 It is true, that at Nismes, the only theatre of some events of this kind, a number of individuals have been sufferers from popular effervescence, and that the Protestant churches were there for some time shut: but besides that these events, though very un fortunate, were not of such magnitude as you repre sent them ; besides, that the churches were only shut as a measure of prudence, in pursuance of a con sistorial resolution, I owe it to truth, justice, and gra titude, to tell you that our Government, both by it self and its delegates, has never ceased to testify its indignation against the excesses which may have been committed, and to oppose them. 46 Never will the Protestants of the South of Frat.ce forget with what force, for instance, his Royal Highness the Duke d'Angouleme, one of our illus trious Princes, spoke in all the towns of the South of our rights as French citizens, and of the 6rm resolu tion of the King, as well as of his august family, to maintain our Constitutional Charter, which grants fulland entire protection to our worship. I' I myself, a few days ago, having had the honour to be admitted to the presence of his Royal Highness, received from his mouth, and relatively to that pro tection, the noblest as well as strongest assurances. I can therefore tell you, my dear Sir, that notwith standing the particular misfortunes which have afflict ed Nismes, there is certainly no country in Europe where more peace, security, and religious liberty are enjoyed, than what, thanks to GOD and the en lightened virtues of our good Monarch, we enjoy here. 46 I think, then, I may conclude from all this— • Ist. That the information which has been given you hitherto as to our situation has not been quite cor rect :-2d. That the intentions of our King, in re gard to us, are so evidently just, Christian, and pa. ternal, that the interference of a foreign power, how. ever worthy of gratitude in its motives, appears to me totally useless. 46 hope, that while you communicate this opinion to your venerable colleagues, and calm by these details their fraternal solicitude, you will also be pleased to express to them the sincere testimony of my very lively gratitude for the touching interest they have condescended to take for us under present circumstances. I am, Sir, most particularly, your very humble servant, (Signed) 66 CHANKAUD." REPLY OF THE CONSISTORY OF CALVADOS AND THE 0201 1 TO THE LETTER OF A PROILSTANT MAILEi AT LONDON. K GENTLEUEN—The Consistory of the Consisteni 4 Church of Calvados and the Orne, slave received the letter which you did them Inc he:nour to wri:e to them. You cannot doubt the sin.:ere feelings of acknowledgment inspired by the interest which you take in the tate of the Protestants of France, and it is solely to testify to you this gratitude that the Con sistory have resolved, in the absence of their Presi• dent, to write to you the present. •• Far from experiencing the slightest persecution, the Protestants of Calvados and Orne have constantly 1 eceived from Government, and the local Authori ties, proofs of the most impartial justice, and the most unequivocal protection. •• We cannot, therefore, form any wishes for the present, and the future is secured to us by the liberal ' Charter which our august and well-beloved Sove. reign has given to us, by the goodness of his heart, I by the infallibility of his promises; in fine, by all the virtues which so eminently 'distinguish both himself' and all the members of his august and cherished family. (Signed) " THE 'Amino OF THE CONSISTORY." If the Society of London did not find sufficient motives of conviction in this correspondence; ii even, what is not very credible ' the report of his Excellency the Duke of Wellington had not been able to remove all their doubts, and to calm all the anxieties of their seal, we should hope that all uncertainty will vanish before the following letter,-written by a Prince whose' good faith, integrity, and candour equal his valour ; who speaks of what he has seen; who relates what he has himself directed, and who expresses his own sentiments as he describes the dispositions and state of the provinces which his presence has recalled to union and tranquillity : " 3013RDEAUX, JAN. 1, 11116. 44 M. Frossard—l have had the pleasure of receiv ing the letter you have written to me, signed by yourself abd all your colleagues. I feel very sensibly the sentiments you express on communicating to me the Circular you have received from England, and on the effect which it has produced upon you. lam well pleased to see that you do perfect justice to the paternal intentions and solicitude of the King on 'your account; sentiments in which we all participate, regarding you only as faithful subjects. We are all Frenchmen, and have but one wish—the happiness of our country. lam confident, that with the help of PROVIDNNCL we shall need no foreign aid in main taining that peace and union towards which all our thoughts and wishes are directed. Be assured. M. Frossard, yourself, and your colleagues, of all my good will.—Your affectionate, &c. • (Signed) a LOUILANTOIN ro 14 A true copy, 14 FROM lAAD• " Montauban, January 6, 1116.* PARIS, JANUARY le. Lavalette set off fine the Rue de Helder, where Sir H. Hutchinson lodged, who conveyed him in his carriage as far as Compiegne. Sir R. Wilson, who, it is said, suggested the idea of the disguise of Lava. lette, was waiting for him at that town: It is re marked that Capt. Hutchinson lodged in the house of M. Dupuis, the judge employed to take examinations relative to the escape. The following facts relative to the arrest of the three English Officers are stated ;—An agent of Po , lice had, it is said, observed, at au hotel to the Rue St. Honore, several equipages, of which no use seem. ed to be made, bot which were kept as if for the purpose of being . employed in a long journey. He . got into communication with the porter of the hotel, who told him that these carriage; had recently left ' and had returned in about 6(ihours : he knew not where they bad been, but said that the valet, of an English General, who lodged at the hotel, could give bin; more mint details. - This domestic was bribed; he discovered that his mast correspondence. He was de nest day this valet produce dressed to a well known,Ci letter contained a (nil ammo The police forthwith made v that among the papers sell there are some proving cent: the escape from the Lie of I We are assured that it n week that Lavalette was abl auistaace of the English Ofl mark, that he was the same Numerous purees traven all last night. There is nothing yet deck General DebeUe will be b 'Marshal ; however, the u The Assize Court of t Meurthe has commenced it pay Officers, hawkers of condemned to five years t was besides stripped of his e We observe from the Bet nier de Saintes, a Member c ber of Representatives, ar King's Ordinance of the 24i a farewell to the inhabitant had taken refuge five of Douay and General Exc dividuals are compelled to order to retire into the Nor decision of the four great farewell address, a model of M. Garnier speaks of the L pretends has been violated i white hairs, to which no re well to recollect. however, ber, 1792, M. Gander den Death against all entigrar age or sex. He made the s a.i enemy of the human rac !leans to rid the earth of hif at the .I.4cobin Club, alwa3 pity. We may add, that I eluded in the Ordinance of voted adherent of Bonapal Article of the Amnesty La be understood, that as oftei of their persecutions, we sl exploits. At the funeral ceremony the ch , frch of St. Sulpice, M. Laroche Jacquelin, all the Royal Grenadiers and crape on their arms. The t tin the crowd whom thin attracted. It is said that the famou big to quit France, to retire . _ An assassiaauon corms Perrin. a man distinguish devotedness. lately gave list the people of the town of d dangerous t-ffects, as the a have bran the result of a p of persons. The Prefect of pared to the town; and it ri.irs, luo.i.ures were taken punishrne• : the guilty. A dente owl tit noes', issued ed mental tranquillity ant° CHAMBER 01 SITTING Or In a Secret Committee tl posed by M. Trinquelague, verbal alterations, and a ] to be present at the ceremo the Address to the King. The conferences on the I morning in the bureaux, a The Siting became put Keeper of the Seals was ins " M. BARRE MARSOIs.—C has manifested itself throu, demands an expiatory festi its regret, and the religious serve in future to the moss memory of a Prince whom affection. The enactment , not derive their origin fro The mourning was in al fatal day when we lost him to make es happy. Let a tival, attest, in all eyed 4 victim so august, so sacred law of which the following Art. I. on the Slat January o the kingdom a E nteral fawning It shall be a day of solemnity. 2. flame shall be ea the mlll churches of &MI& S. in exptauon of the mime o be erected, in the name and at t mamma, of which the mode and 4. There shall also be erected at the ex pen se of the nation, to Qoeon PA Antobseno.aud hi S. There ahW also be erected of the nadoo, a monelneut to th Tbe Prissrrourr—Tboul ready been adopted by the to speak are at liberty so Criei irons all sides of— The plan of law was al clamations, and it was de occasion to vote by wrath The Chamber then or cleared, with a view of goi PRP/A ra gi You will 'have seen Wilson, Captain Hutchir aiding the escape of Laval Journals. The cireutostai Sir Robert, it is alledged, and that from a motive V 1 plain, applied to E—, ment, and to Hutchinson of whom were known to h former plan of the same agreed upon their plan. '1 could reach them. was ti uniform, and to be taken yond the barriers of Pari horses at La Chapelle, thi 141 Compeigne, where E. Mich a travelling carriage,