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t r k t t t t • • • ./1. , , • I • • • O . . . • • I, , • • • • , 4 •' time, he dispatched a messenger to the Emperor of Russia, to state that he was ready to wait peace ; but the answer Was. that the time was goke be, aad that the very circumstance of his having offered terms and withdrawn them, was a suffis cunt reason for not renewing the negociation.— As to the abolition of the Slave Trade, it was a mere veil to cover his ambitious purposes. The Honour able Gentleman had dwelt much upon it, hilt it was not quite so great a favour, as Bonaparte had always been the most declared enemy to the abolition, nor was he now to be confided in. He trusted that the 'House would not rely on the truth or sincerity of that run who had violated the most solemn treaties and engagements. The Hon. Gentleman hadreferred to the declaration of the allied powers at Vienna, he was per fectly prepared to approve of that declaration, and of tie, conduct of those who had signed it on the part of this country. as A declaration levied against Bo naparte who menaced the tranquillity of Europe. It was necessary that Napoleon should be held up as an object of terror ; alai the Honourable Gentleman would allow him to say, that sentiments had been pro ;minced in that House much more likely to draw down assassination and destruction on sovereigns in alliance with this country, than the measures recom mended to be adopted towards Bonaparte by that Pa per —(Hear, /sear.) We had a full, sufficient, and moral justification of commencing war against Na poleon, if we considered it was wise and right to pur sue it. The Government would act in concert with the Allies, and his Majesty's Ministers were entitled to claims that their responsibility should not be broken in upon by the truisms of the Hon. Gentleman. . Mr. PONSONBy would trouble the House with a very few mit ds. It was certainly always extremely painful for him to differ with his Hon. Friend, but on the present occasion he found it impossible to con cur with him. His • Hon. Friend had said, that the Address was innocent in itself, but dangerous from the speech of the Noble Lord; but that speech had been extremely overstated. The Noble Lord had been represented as recommending immediate War. Am I right (said Mr. P.) in considering the Noble Lord as not having given any opinion on that point ? Lerd CAbTLEREAGH had declared no opinion on that suhj.ct. Mr. PONSQNBY then said, that he could not agree with his Honourable Friend. that he was likely to be duped by the Noble Lord ; he desired to know what there was in the Address that implied war, without Ministei first doing all to secure peace with honour to the Clown, good faith to the Allies, and the suctirity of Europe? If it would justify Ministers in pitait;ing into war, without regard to circumstances upon e hick peace might be maintained, then hr thou 4 lit that the Address, and the conduct of the House in adopting it, were absolute frauds on the Nation. His Honountble Friend must not think him quite so great a fool as not to understand the words of that Address, and the import he had given to them. Tile question w.is then loudly called for, and the House divided. Tor the Amendment, 37—Against it, taq—M.ijority in favour of the original motion, 183. Adjourned at Twelve o'Clock. L1Z.,7 OF MINORITY. Abercronib l .o,Hon J. Fergusson, Sir Roo. North, D. • Brand, Hon. T. Gnrdun, Robert • Osborne, 'Ardis. Bennet, Hon. H. 0. Horner, F. Pign!t, Sir A. • Buren, Hod. P. Lk • Hestkeote, Sir 0. Pierse, H. Burdett', Sir F. • Honshu's, Lord A. Ridley, Sir M. W. Butterworth, J. Kemp, Rom*, sir S. • Barnard, Lord •Losubton, F. 0. Bowden, J. Braltke, C. • Union; Sir W. Smith, J. Campbell, Hon. J. Moore, Peter Tierney, Rt. Hon. G. Calvert, Ctisq. • Martin, H. 'Whitbread, S. • Coke, .I'. W. Manin, J. Wilkins, W. reutrannon, Lord Molyneur, H. Walpole, Hon. G. Dundas, Hon. L. Tei.t.sas—•l.d. Abhorpe and W. Smith. Those market! dins 11 . are County Members. STATE PAPER, REELATIYE TO THE PERSON AND VA3gicy or NAPOLEON BOSAPARTE. (PREStNTID TO PARLIAIIIN F TLSTLIIDAT:) VISCOUNT CASTLEREAGH TO EARL. BATHURST. Paris, April 13, 1814. My LORD-.—l arrived here oil the 10th, in the evening. The great and auspicious events which had inter vened bvtween my last dispatches from Dion, 1 had the satisfaction to find had been regularly transmit ted home by Viscount Cathcart and Sir Charles Stewart. The hurry of a first arrival must excuse me to your Lordship, for adding a little to the mass of impor tant and interesting matter, which you will find de tailed in the vat ions Journals, with respect to the pro. gress of the happy change which has been effected. I shall therefore, on the pre:ent occasion, confine myself to an ex;4lanation of what has passed with Tespect to the future destination and settlements of Napoleon and his gamily. Your Lordship has beer. already informed, by Lord Cathcart, of the act of Abdication which was passed by Bonaparte on the 4th instant, and of the assurance given him by the Emperor of Russia and the Provi sional Government, of a pecuniary provision of six millions of franci, with a safe asylum in the isl.tnd of Elba. The Act in question was deposited in the bands of Monsieur de Caulaincourt and the Marshals Ney and Macdutiald, to 'be given tip upon the due execution of tng..gements on t!e part of the Allies, with respect to the proposed- arrangement. These persons wtre also authorized to agree io an Armis tice, and to settle such a line of demarcation as might be satisfactory to the Allies, and, in the mean time, prevent an unnecessary effusion of blood. • On 'my arrival I found this arrangement en the point of execution. A Convention had been discuised, and wr ul4l Wave, in fac., been signed in the course of the day, by the Russian Minister, h.scl not the ap proach of die Allied Ministers been announced. The motives for accelerating tl.e immediate ennclusion of this Act were the inconvenience, if riot the danger, of Nap leon's remaining at Fontainbleau, surrounded by troops, who Still; in a considerable degree, remained faithful to Milli, the apprehension of intrigues ih the arity and in the Cap cal,' and the importance attached, by 'a considerahle portion of theffficers, to some ar. Fangettient lavdurable to their Chief, in satisfaction of their personal honour, befbre they left him. • • 0 , 1 chi night of my arrival, the Plur ministers ha.) ennieroice with . the PrioCe de Benevent on the sub. jett of thiproposed'CosientiOn,Th Which I stated fly dhjections, desiring, at 'the' same time, to' be tuaer: ittiodies not urging them then, at the hazard 61 the internal tranquillity of Trance, nee le impeachment of what was due, in good faith, to the assurance given under the exigency of the moment, by Russia. The Prince of Benevent admitted the weight of many of the objections stated; but declared he did consider it, on the part of the Provisional Govern ment, as an object of the first importance, to avoid any thing that might assume the character of a civil war, even for the shortest time—that he also found some such measure essential to make the army pass over in a temper to be made use of. Upon these de clarations, and the Count de Nesselrode's, that the Emperor, his master, had felt it necessary, in the ab sence of the Allies, to act far the best in their name as well as his own, I withdrew any further opposi tion to the principle of the measure, suggesting only some alterations in the details. I desired, however, to decline, on the part of my Government, being more than an acceding party to the Treaty, and declared that the Act of Accession on the part of Great Britain shoold not go beyond the territorial arrangements proposed in the Treaty. My objec tions to our being unnecessarily mixed in its forms, especially in the recognition of Napoleon's title under present circumstances, were considered as perfectly reasonable, and I now enclose the Protocol and Note, which will explain the extent to which I have taken upon me to give assurances on the part of my Court. At my suggestion the recognition of the Imperial titles in the Family were limited to their respective lives, for which there was a precedent iu the case of the King of Poland, when he became Elector of Saxony. To the arrangement in favour of the Empress, I felt not only no objection, but considered it due to the distinguished sacrifice of domestic feelings which the Emperor of Austria was making to the cause of Europe. I should have wished to substitute another position in lieu of Elba for the seat of Napoleon's re tirement, but none having the quality of security, on which he insisted, seemed disposable, to which equal objections did not occur ; and I did not feel that I could encourage the alternative, which M. De Cau laincourt assured me Bonaparte repeatedly mention ed, namely, an asylum in England. On the same night the Allied Ministers had a con ference with M. De Caulaincourt and the Marshals, at which I assisted. The Treaty was gone through and agreed to with alterations ; it has been since signed and ratified, and Bonaparte will commence his movement towards the South to-morrow, or the day following. (Signed) CASTLEREAGII. Earl Bathurst, am. (FIRST INCLOnURE IN NO. L)—PROTOCOL. (TRANSLATION.) The Plenipotentiaries of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon and those of the Allied Powers having met this day, have agreed upon the Articles of the Treaty containing the final arrangements with respect to the Emperor Napoleon add his family. Lord Castlereagh, Minister ot Britannic Majesty, declared that England could not become a party to the above l reaty, but engaged to notify, as soon as posAble, the accession of his Court to so much of that Treaty as concerns the free possession and the peaceable enjoyment, in full sovereignty, of the Isle of Elba, .and of the Duchies of Parma, Ptomains, and Guastella. Lord Castlereagh promised likewise, to furnish the necessai y rassports and safe conduct for the voyage. 'I he Plempotetitianes ot his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon having demanded, that her Majesty the Empress Maria Louisa, should be allowed, iti full property, an annual revenue of two millions, for herself and heirs, to be paid out of the funds placed by the Emperor either to the great book, in the Bank ot France, in the actions dr.:fete:s or in any other manner, all which funds his Majesty gives op to the Crown; the Plenipotentiaries of the Allied Courts declared, that, as the Provisional Government ot France bag refused talusT, ot nself,a determination to this affect, the.r Courts engaged to tatploy their good offices with the new Sovereign ct Fiance., to Vint to her Majesty the Empress Maria Louisa such allowance. An aireenient was subsequently made with the Plenipotens tiaries of the Allied Powers, that the Provisional Government of France should deliver to the Plenipotentiaries of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon, a declaration containing their adhesion and their full and entire guarantee to such stipulations of the above Treaty as concern France. Paris, April 10, ISM (SECOND INCLOSURE IN blo. 1.) Lord Castlereagh, in undertaking, on the part of his Govern ment, for an Act of Accession to the Treaty signed this day, so far as the same concerns the possession in sovereignty of the Island of Elba, and also of the Duchies of Parma, Piaceutia, and Guastella, requests it may be understood that the Act in question will, in conformity to the accustomed usage of the British Go• vernment, be an stet binding upon h.s Bri•annic Majesty with respect to his own Acts, but not with respect to the Acts ot third part*. THE EVENING STAR. FRENCH PAPERS OF. WEDNESDAY LAST. We have this day received the Paris Papers of the sth (last Wednesday). The only important article which they contain is an account of Bourdeaux hav ing been entered by General CLausiu, on the '2l instant, at the head of some Imperial troops. There I appears to have been some blood shed on the occa sion. It appears, however, that there is still a Royalist party in some force in the South : the statement that the Government Couriers are there intercepted and robbed of their dispatches by brigands and agitators, is an admission of the fact. Whether they will be , able to make any serious stand against the troops sent to subdue them, will depend on the means they pos sess for resistance. The Monitestr of the sth contains a copy of the observations on the Vienna Declaration, to which we have already alluded, and a decree for disarming all the corps of the Royal Volunteers. The object of the French Papers fur some time has been to impress the people with the idea, that Peace would still he maintained, notwithstanding the ex pulsion of the Royal Family. If we may judge from the price of the French funds, that idea began to dissipate,• as soon as the contents of the V Declaration began to be known. The last prices of the French 5 per cents. quoted in the Paris Papers, is as low as 65 to 66—two days before the price WAS 68 a 69. A Gentleman who left Paris on Wednesday night informs us, that hitherto the English have been well treated upon the whole; that the Government is at great pains to induce a belief that there will be no war ; that the people generally are ry ignorant re specting every thing going on scut of France ; that the utmost force Which BON A PARTE can bring into the field is estimated at NO, or 130,000 men ; and that the Parisians are taught every day to expect the ESIARPS—She was to have art wed on Tuesday—the public were disappointed, but she is coming ! " A Gentleman that left Bourdeaux on the id inst. states, that when he quitted, 10,000 of BONAPARTIA troops had entered that city ; that the British vessels had immediately cut off all communication by water; And that so anxious were the English to leave the place, that 100 guineas were paid for each person's passage to this country. PARIS, APBJI. S. Count Frochet is appointed Prefect of the Depart ment of the Mouths ut the Rhone. The apartments of the Empress in the Thuillerics are being furnished. His Majesty has appointed M. Roland Secretary- General to the Prefecture of Police, instead of Che valier Piis, who is made Archivitte. Several corps of troops set out at midnight !corn Paris. LONDON. SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1815. PRICE OF PHIS DAY Al TWEI.VE O'CLOCK. Reduced 5C ii es. div.-4 per Ct. 821 SS ex. WT. 5 per Ct. Navy taii—Cornols 57i 4—for account 57ii Kind: Sta. ss.prem.—Eschequer 4s. to 4s. prem. We hoped this day to have been able to lay before our Readers the 4. Observations on the Declaration of the Congress at Vienna," published in the Journal de Paris, of which we yesterday gave an abstract, but we are precluded by the length and importance of the Discussions in Parliament last night, on the Addreis upon the PRINCE Reozwr's Message. The debate was conducted with great temper. On the necessity of preparing for defence, and to main tain the rights of the Empire, there was bJt qne opi. nion—and it will be seen from what passed, that both Houses are equally anxious not to commit themselves hastily on the question of war, though it seemed to be the prevailing opinion that from present Circum stances this alternative might, 'ere long, be unavoid able.—ln the commons an Amendment was moved ;by Mr. WIIrpRIAD, praying the PRINCI RILORNT to curt his most strenuous endeavours to maintain Peace as long as may be consistent with the honour of his Majesty's Crown and the security' of the Empire.— The Amendment was negatived on the ground that the Address did not pledge Pas Earnest in any way on the question of Peace or War. Lord Mrivici.E, in the Peers, and Mr. Omen, in the Comnioni, stated that no will had been issued to our ships to seize Frineh l vesiels. The instance or twoihat hid occurred may;therefore, 6e' considered as the' unauthorised acts of the 'Captors. From Paperi relative to the person ' and family of INAPt s )iaort, presented by order ot PatliaMent, it'is put beyond' doubt that BOSIIPARTI repebtedly requested to Wallowed an asjitint knithuuL—Regrets are elwayt;'iinaivitli~~, but certainly it. Would have s leeu • die niseirepOlicy to hare then grauted'his re. o. • • have always defended with energy the honour of t!, e nation and the rights of the people, have been vie. sented to his Majesty, who felicitated the m on d e conduct, and gave them the most fl meting receptio n . General Grouchy his set °A from I.lons with a corps of hoops towards the banks of the ltlioile to disperse the small number of insurgents, who can only excite disturbances by the grossest faLehood., They take care to intercept all the dispatches fit.rn Paris and fabricate false bulletins, according to which, the Emperor is said to have lost a battle at Tararv, ' while the troops from the fortresses iii the No r th have marched upon Paris to support the Bourbons. M n'; minds will be calmed however when ti.e u pith is known ; every thing inclines us to hope d.at at , ap , peal to arms will be unnecessary. General Erceimans has arrived as Lille and Gene. ral Rapp has set out for Colmar. In Fland.rs, r. rarne, and Alsace, the entire p•ipulation eeibits most lively enthusiasm. and if foreigners halo! da presumption to dictate to us laws and to give i;. masters who are rejected by the people and e b. army, there is not au inlia'aitant who m ill not beconv a soldier. to defend the notional honour, th e cut ,,,.. 1 and liberty. POSTSCRIPT TO THE JOURNAL DE I .'ENll'!) •Elciten o'Clock at Night, spri 4. A letter from &gide, dated in die evehiug ~ 1 t:, lit April, which we have this instant rece ved by , estatette, gives the f..llowing details : s , General Cl.tusel, who had arrived at M dispatched an officer to the Fort t t 81,1 ye, whev t! troops immediately hoisted the nAtitatal fi sy, an drove out the emigrant who oomn,anded. On u 31st, when he arrived at Cussac, on thi• right b.“ of the Dordogne, the General found a handf u l men who had been collected by the Duchess •J'A toileme. It was sufficient to send flag of w k . An officer rlon came to announce th,it the 1.),,c1,L had quitted the city. and that the iri-colourtd would be heisted. Our entrance was then made go. without loy obstacle." Anothis letter, dated in the morning of die 2J April. states- 4, We have eieteted Bourdeaux tour battalions of the line whit, had been placed the manifested the most lively enthusiasm, and a. greatest order prevails. All the population of tl country round hate decided fur the Emperor." General Del:sme, who commanded at the Ho of Elba, when the Emperor arrived there, and v.ti on that occasion, issued a Proclamation to the tants of that country, had returned to France at lived on his halt-pay in obscurity, at Versailles. '1! last Government suspected that he was devoted Napoleon, and he was soon arrested. This bra . General is now re-appointed Governor of the Ishii ;. I of Elba, for which place he has set out. • BOURDEAUX, APRIL it. General Clausel arrived on the 31st of March .t St. Andrie de Cabsac. The gets d'Arnies sent tar. Bourdeaur to guard the pass jo.ned him. He wts also joined by the garrison of ttie Fort of Blaye, wl.o hoisted the tricoloured flag. S .me volunteers and national 'guards, who occupied the 'fete-du punt de' St. Vuicent, on the right bank, filed two cannon.sh , t and hastily fled, while General Clausel seised flying bridge. Next day, the Ist of April, the c luntecrs, who had retiied to 13astide, passed the G. wane, and took up a position on the Quay of Bot deaux. General Clausel arrived at noon at Bastie.e During this period the Duchess d'Angouleme rot about every where to excite to resistance. Jfe we from barrack to barrack haranguing the troops of : line, and beseeched them to tight. Has :lig a generalaird positive refusal, she returned qlite t rious to Vie quay, and reviewed the Volunteet., drawn up in battle array opposite 13astide. S I X or dered a volley to be fired against General Oats( , and finding that our troops paid no attention to and hearing nothing around her but murmurs at!. the cries of the people, she disappeared. The Vv. lunteers then, from what cause we know not, firs:. upon each other. Several were wounded, and Captain was killed by his own men. General Clause' did not fire a musket. A flag of truce came over to Mm. Daring try time the Duchess of Angouleme, desperate at tb failure of her efforts, released her partisans from the . oaths, and quitted the city at eight o'clock in tb • evening. She embarked at Pouillac. At the moment of writing (11 A. M. Genera' Clause! is entering the city, amid cries of rice l'Em /whir / A letter has been intercepted from the Duc d'An gouleme, complaining of being no where seconded b; the population. The report now current is, 'hit ht has been obliged to fi r , disguised as a miller. A regiment of the line of the garrison of Paris, and which furnished detachments to various posts, and among others to the guatl-room of the Pont Neuf, the Pont au Change, and the Mint, having re ceived another destination, set off yesterday morning, after calling in its various detachments. Some posts were consequently without any troops for s9me time, and the idle, who swarm in this city, flocked together in various places, and indulged in all kinds of con jectures, until the arrival ot fresh detachments from another regiment of the garrison. Tote communications with Germany, by the way of Frankfort, are interrupted, but they are still open by Manheim and Strasburgh. It is pretended that the Congress of Vienna de clared, on the 13th of March last, on learning that Napoleon had returned to France, that all the Allied Powers were ready to give to the King of France and the French nation, or to any other Government at tacked, the necessary assistance to restore public tranquillity. There is strong reason to think, how ever, that the Allied Powers, who have neither the wish nor the right to interfere in our affairs, on hear ing of the triumphant march of the Emperor through France, his entr.tnce into Lyons, and his reception at • • The embarkations for Belgium are contin u2d witi much sp irit. The first squadron of the 16th Dra Paris with acclamations of joy, will respect our in. goons reached Canterbury on Thursday, and wer. dependence, and change their language ; but if they followed yesterday and to-day by three ()diets. lilt do not, the French army is ready to accept any shah- 7th Hussars are on their march by the coast Iron: lenge.—Gatette de France. Brighton tor their point of embarkatio n at Dover • and' the 10th Hussars, from Romford for Caste: M idame, the wife of Marshal Matsena, Prince bury, are in readiness to embark at Ramsgate, Ira D'Essling, had the honour to dine wish his Majesty whence a detachment of the Royal Waggon Train yesterday. also to be shipped tar a similar destination. The empire has been divided into seven depart. A garrison battalion is ordered to be formed to merit!, with respect to the Police, and seven Lit ute- the men belonging to different regiments, on the coo vulescent list, now in garrison at Chatham . nant-Generals of Police have been appointed. TWo troops of the 6th, or Inniskilling Dragoon s Among the latter are Messrs. csinemer. Thine', marched on Thursday trom Nottingham for Mellor. Henry Lasalle, and Lecointre de Puyraveau. od their route to Northampton. Four more troop! Messrs. Simon, Colonel Jansens, Commandant leave it this day, and the remainder to-niorrow- Or Moreau, Chef de Bataillon ; D:varenne, Chef d'Esca- the ar r ival of the whole at Northampton, they are t %he itispected and to proceed immediately for fo rei g f drop; Moulin, Milcent de Masse, and Pascul, Cep- service: rains; Dupuis and Rousseau, Lieutenants, being a M. —Piaui:tie \has ordered the French ships at sea to wcat deputation from 107 officers ot all ranks, who, on whi t e 11 45 • * OLD ha:tn.—Yesterday came on the trial of 'Wm. Sstrlf: the 20th of March, arrested the chests of silver, and fns the murder of Harriet Uaskitt inLisbon, on the 57th the train of artillery. which followed the Duke de April. 1614.—The prisoner was found guilty, but strontdir outnenentitd to mercy by the Jury. no y t trium. malice 1 4 E 4 Berri, and were the first to hoist the nation.ii flag at been preeste4—objectinos were also made in the prisoners fAvoure the Thuilleries, had the honour to lee ptesented this to tin. loon et the indictment, and the CAW was deferred for opinion of the ft" morning to his Majesty, when they renewed thtir w hi a d s ge y s. etsterday found against the woman fkatr, oaths of fidelity. with endeavouring to poison the family of Mr. Toyota , General Maison arrived at Brussels on the 231 of March. ch isit ah a ' io crf r - 5e 6 4,1 sentenced to transporeation fora fraud, h as ft ceive4 the VILINCE :tic 1.14 r's parlor. They write (corn Limoges that twenty•three horses Lord Ussuurroes ilanderoosly confined with a brain fever. of the suite of tit, Due D'Angouleme have bevis seised in that city. The' Duke of Reggio has arrived at Paris. Yes terday he bad an audience of his Majesty. Messrs. Flaugergues, Bedoch, Raynouard, and other Members of the old Chamber of Deputies, who On Stutday, at Clifton, 11)hiletile sw he had gone tot :lie rec . or his health, , tr Job% stuart, Kinghtot the Bath and Cowl( (- Maids, a Lieutenant-General in the Army, Lieu:enact vovet tu , r of Orrtt‘da, and Colonel ut tile 20th Reg ornt ut LONDON t Primal by Laves. KANT, Pickett Place: pubtlabeltbaie, sad at tbe Star 011its.Temple Bar.