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how the French, . flourishes, (and particinarly Bonaparte's' grandees, who have entered into the preient system with their old dispositions, and have changed nothing but their cockade), take all imaginable pains to decry, to ca lumniate. and to render odious. the Prussian people, and particularly its army, which they have imme diately before their eyes. They go about with this bad lals;itage, not only among themselves and their own ecople t but even try to make diem:elves /timid by tae other foreigners, whom they likewise hate. though in a less degree. The leaders among them boldly till the higher circles, which are corn. posed of various elements, iviththeir criee and com plaints. " Tne Prussians," say they, 44 are a very bad and hard-hearted people, they treat purr France as it they had resolved to make it quite desolate for a tliol:saod years to come. Such scvatrity was hardly sewn by that Barbarian King, who, when the KO ; ,trans atwc hearing his enormous demands, asked What - he then left them, answered—" your lives." r The Prussian armies,":Colltiline they, "consist of 9:idisciplined and untameable hordes; they lay waste the cour)try, and their clemands are insatiable. The soldiers are full of a wild vitilent spirit, whine impels them btyondsall the restraints of order and law. Great care must be taken. lest'this be attended with dreadtal colisequences, by which the repose of Eu rope, so niuch longed for by the peacedoving France in particular, and by ip the other nations,• may be again disturbed." These disciples have well learnt from their lord nd muter, that when one has a mind to give cm. relic:, to an absolute lif t one has only to produce it Srith' itub`.e assurance, and never to be weary of re peating it a hundred and a thousand times.' The grounds of this proceeding are very easy to be ex plained. '1 he domination of Bonaparte, the wicked apish which has got into the world through him, is the tletzseat in which his disciples•and scholarelive ; Whatever eternal form they may for the moment assume, this spirit pervades, and is incorporated with their eaistence. Twice already it has been ennvered and enchained by the lofty spirit that has dzveloped itself in the Prussian people, and has been cunnunnicated fto n etent to all Germany; this lofty spitit it is which threatens to r..ipe also fcr the moire an insVerable L'olweik to their longing,• and their hopes of bringing the systent Boorish again. They usust, thetefore, this th...y ale told if not by suelear perception, yet by a certain natural instinct), endeavour to attack at:id combat this spirit in its inmost elements. litotes. the furious inextinguishable hate to Prussia, which can and may be reconciled as little as Ormuz aftd Arialan, as vii tut and vice Fan unite fur one objet;. 6. He will bruise his heed and tholi wilt br u ise h; s ;" that is- the eternal eeorence *of the psiriuity, which :elevates the two -opposite extremes in the moral order 14 the world. • And syliat complaints ten terse honest Gentlemen allege against Prussia ? Per. Ups that it abuses tit: right of conquest, and makes iinre an t i unjust demands upon them. In deed you Mull have wonderfully short memories, it you have •entirely forgotten how you proceeded on German ground ter seven dreadful years'together. I. was not only the exorbitant euilitary conttibutions eehiJi you extorted from us, not only the endless re qUieitions of every kind, and in which the nobleman, the citizen, the peasant were • overwhemed, nee Merely the countless tobberies practised upon us, on both a large and a small scale -by your Gover nors. your Commissaries; your Commandants with their train, not only the iron yoke you laid upon our commerce and-industry, by which you dried up all our mums ef subagency to their very remotest sources. All thii Was not enough for you ; no, yo.. besides wounded us in the dearest and most sacred feelings of our hearts, in our .exigence as a nation.— Your iniplous hands attempted tomb urof our laws, of our manners, of our language; our lawful Princes you. partly insulted, and expelled, partly dishonoured; you sent scoundrels e ith :whom no horseseatrarao ,would willingly sit at' the same table, and placed upon their head the profaned Royal Diadem. • All this, and infinitely more you have done, your . Bonaparte, and you his faithful followers and ser irnitt, W this very. day. You have done it unpro . stoked, imodended, silvery out of arrogance, and in the wickedness of your hearts: Buren this might be fotgotten, and it is far from us to do evil to you, or to setiive old sevenge. • We will nut infriny,e your in . elependepce, Or your joist frontiers; we will not inter. to your internal concerns. But what sh a ll t a e . Germau nation, to whose ilefelace the Prussian Go. yeinnsent, aioth the others is called ; what shall the "maid and posterity think of this government, if for all the inlibetial 'you have committed up& us, for nil the sacrifices to which you have lately :wan cow es, it sheqld demand in its turn no indemnity from you, if it,did tips Weise that you be confined waliin your natural• homier, and that at least . it should be made chfrsetelt foryou to invent and prac , tice ne w wrongs. Go to Germany and hear the pub he voice, how angrily it complains that you are treated Nth surfs bouuoluss kindite.ss iind favour, and * our Leered lights purchased with Our most precious blend lav :shed a% ay upon you. . , . Do yop complain of the conduct of the Prussian troupe ? recollect, if you please,. you inAocent.oppres. sae!, now you. went on in Germany for so many years. It cannot have wholly slipt your memory how your Cenerelecarried off the silver plate on which they had h. en sere:.'., thieveluableornaments of household fur nit &ay, hich • German simplicity had left unbur ie d, now your soldiers changed whole handfuls of stolen river coin, because it was too heavy for them to car;y, for a few pieces of gold, with your brethren the Jews. Is there not one of you, then, who wed in- 1 16, on the excursion through. Mecklenburg to Lubeck*: ap honest countryman of your's, of whom jou ere !otiworthy, says, while relating the horrors that par,sed there, , s For centuries , to come one must ashamed of the same of Preachtnan."• What nee.us.and d.ofiny.further testimony i• These are all tnutorin iocontrovertible fact s ; an d w h et have yult to reproach. the Prussian soldiers with ? That yotearh obliged to maintain and d fee 4 OM " ' • Ms; Cale* Valets; in ills 'celebrated • Isit& to Madame Farnyektasianisk i upoa the pillar of .14beck. •• - ea •al M. • •46 • • . estiblidra, meetly aseruea repla. warrior may not suffer rant after'his If Ton were 'not obliged to do this, . meek at them as soon as they were hoist that yon had ) put the blockheads • servanti,and fed them with black bread The high road which leads from the Netherlands to your robber's den has suffered much, it is true, and still stews the ruinous image of war which your wickedneis has sa often unchained. This road was first passed by your armies as they ad vanced; they fled when Gnu's lightning had struc k them, aong the same road ; the Allied Armies fol lowed them. That in such rapid military movements, the soldier, exhausted almost to tainting, while no regular order for his subsistence was established (tor that was impossible), should have looked every >ohere to provisions to save himself from starving ; that all could not, on such an occasion, proceed with the insularity and order of a market, is in the nature of man, and of circtintsianCis. But please to inqune More particularly ; the inbhhitaists from Beaumont to Paris will say, " 4th I we could 'have managed with the Prussians well enough, but the French (they do not even say of you, our people) behaVed te4) ill. At present examine in Paris and in the provinces or cupkd by the Prussian troops; every where you will see the individual Prusian soldier and the single in habitants, the military authorities and the native ma gistrates oti a peaceable, friendly footing; you will find a state of calmness and order which scarcely lets you ace a trace of any thing extraordinary and uncommon. • Do be so good as to produce facts, al lege occasions, when and where the Prussian soldiers have robbed, plundered, or committed other exces ses; tell us when, how, and where, they have al lowed themselves any extortion or ill treatment of the inhabitants, without the latter having been able to obtain justice and satisfaction. But the fact is, that your object is not truth ; it is only to raise a laud and general outcry by which you may obscure the truth, and give credit to the lies by which you desire to sow discord between Prussia and its friends, to deprive it of the good opinion of the publi: ; if you could succeed in this it would be as good'as hall a victory; Woullit not? You wouk cramp the resistance which is ready to °Nose the enterprises over which you are already brooding in your hearts with Cunning and malice, though con ceakd under an humble and pious exterior; but yen will nut succeed—Germany and Prustia, as the de leadets of justice and order, would willingly have settled its long 'dispute with you in a legal and we rional'mantmer. It lied offered you the olive of peace; you re jected it. Ni%thing was asked of you but that you should re. nounce sin and acknowledge justice as your Sove reign.; but you would not. You those to persist in the. way of your Lord and Master . Napoleon Bona pane, and maintain and extted his dominion all your lives, though he, the founder, be banished tb another hemisphere. For that season Prussian arms, and Germany with it, and truth and right, and pub rie opinion against you,. if yon should persist in your hardness of heart wilt you be wholly broken. and your kingdom destroyied as Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by the Loma • • Vitost CAM—The honesty and freedom of opi nion which recommend The Rhebish Mercury to the well disposed wherever the German language is sjidten. lead me to entertain a confiil..-nt hope, that in speaking. with a pure and honest pUrpose, though soy language should sail against the current of its present views, 1 shall not be refused admision. I have often seen how much it has cheered and ani mated the well disposed, and teen a terror to those who were in dread of the light. • It is, therefore, with the utmost grief, 1 sec that it now often—misled by views adopted prematurely aed without due exami nation, sometimes from the want of cruces inior ruation, but sometimes also from an impassioned ha ternesefroin which no good ever comes—not only leads the weak astray, but forfeits the resirct and confidence of the better and truly independent de scription of readers, to which its principles and en deavours give it otherwise so good a claim. No ; time Devil is not driven mit (sy Beelzebub, th• Prince of Devils; falsehood and hatred are weapons tumor thy of a good cause, and a hundred combatants io spired by Goo, arc more powerful in his hands than a hundred thousand stained.by avarice, robbery, and uncleanness. An article in The Rhen;:h Mercury from Chartres, of the 13th August, is the occasion of my writing. the Rhenish Allicury, it is true, cannot be answer :hie for all the ariiel,s to which it gives admission, but i•. the case of an anonymous letter do adopted, it 1-n 1.. its authority to the views and sentiments therein oe livered, at least in the eyes et most of its modes.. 1 appeal to The 1'6,04 Mercury itscP 1 appeal to ever j pure and unfettered mind, —ii among brethren it, arms, after a victory pitied by their common ems, such . 4 . quarrelling for the honour of that victory, such a minim/ biciering and reproiching with ttlistikes, is not 'low and indecent? Can any pokiest:misun derstanding justify such a profanation of trophies ? Is it not unworthy of the German—of the Prussian arms ?—ls .it consistent with a noble and 'modest letting of self-respect, to wish to elevate ourselves by lowering and under-rating others ? Is thero really among rations no friendship, no reciprocal fulling of gatitiide and love ? It the general advantage loosens every bond—even that which blood has sealed—then the internal dissensions of Germany, then the pitiful transactions at Vienna, then the most vulgar doings of the most vulgar cabinet policy, are iirrefragably sanctioned. Shall we single out for attack that very General whom Blucher embraced in the feeling of victory on the field of battle of Belle Alliance, and attempt to degrade his military character to heighten our own i Tins is unworthy of the Prussian army.— Bowaing and falsehood shall not disgrace one people and our armf—this was the support on which Napo. !eon reliert, and which occasioned his fail—but to sush arts we shill never recur. We are only strong in truth and virtue. It is not truth, however, when it is stated in another article of the Rhenish Nerency that the discipline of the Prussian army was a model when it is said,. the german Officers allowed them.,l salves patiently, to beqhiulted by French—that every inqult of the military from the inhabitants remained unpunished, but when *poor soldier committeditbe smallest irregularity, the greatest outcry was items& distely made. klowevervoss:atd stupid these false hoUds may .be, they are gut the ..as mischievdni t l as d i la rentiale9t of hatred, .and otwulgar private re .- - • • • . • • % t: :1 - m eat. % i - • ..11111111.1111molagemoteedig- aee o t ahig to ist FR* TIM RHENISH MERCURY. bons, that the ws bluodT . lFOrk. If PARIS, SEPTEMBER IS. how would rop One needs to live but a short time in this eountry, gone, and Wass and to have observed what passes, in order to tee among Your am , how the French, in whose minds onapartism still and water. The . Netherlands to 14 r 5, S' S'• +', j ~. mire 'etas th4Plasesse of the lowest passions of the worst part of our arniy. The inward virtue of the German people is of more worth thin all Tidies and possessions if it is once lint, no extension of territory . will be of owe!' avail to ps: The French ‘yere the nearest to theii fall when they posiessed the half of Europe, for their structure did not rest on the solid foundation of truth. Hence all to whom Gon has given the power—hence Us Rlstnis4 mffpry al4o, as it has often already done, should continue incessantly to labour to prevent thc germs, the roots of which Germany has minuted pith the blood of her children, from shooting tip into rankness, insteail i" , f yielding a rich harvest. ' That this gix)d may take place, you ou nht to estirp•ite weeds wherever you tind theist , 6ithout re , pect of persons ; you sfewlif, however, be no Ft :Adler up of hared, but be a preacher Op of love, as our . . Master WAS. AN OfFICIIII OF TIIE PRUNSIAN Milli' I. Flt ANC& These words breathe an honest purpose, but the writer is pee haps too deeply; offended with a deviation froin moderation and a middle course which may admit of justification. Such discourses and gnat rel -IMg for pre-eminence and superiority after a victory, have ,always been customary among soldiers, and mi. 4 not he censured with too much severity. An excessive Modesty, not from moderation, which how ever may be carried too far, but from a natural bash. fulness, has always been a detect of the Germans, and it can do theth no harm if in fume they shall better learn to feel their • own value. In the'attiele from Chartres above alluded to, neither the English nor their General is attacked, it is n:ercly a refutation of too exclusive an 'expression of the Minister. — Moreover, in a public paper the current of opinion must always be allowed a vermin latitude, within Which discussion may move With due freedom ; the' due middle, however, is merely a geometrical line' which has only vile direction, and therefote in real life it cannot at once be straightly drawn, hot niust be obtained by the ilppositi.n of several extremes. — By weighing all that is said for or against any soli ject, the public opinion bccomes experienced; and learns of itself to =Se the necetssry allowances, so that it seldom happens that the language of extra vagance leads to any bad consespiehces. However die !loom able intention of the author of the above at title ik always deserving of thanks.—Tuts Enitott. EVENINIi SiAtt. LONDON 4 SATUILDAV, OCTOBER 14, 1815. SPAIN. That the Spaniards, who, as a nation, behaved with such loyalty and bravery as not only to succeed in cm mcipating their own country, but in contribu tin largely to the overthrow of French tyranny throughout Europe, regret the circumstances into which they have been brought by the folly of their beloved FatnistnNn, and that many sigh for an op. purtunity to break their present fetters, is proved by every dung that transpires respecting the real state of Spain. The subjoined letter from Madrid, though not so recent as other accounts from that capital already before our Readet.s, will be read with much interest. We are concerned to aeld, however, that ripe as the general feeling among rational' men seems to be for :veil a change as m.iy better the general condition of the kingdom, we are not wtthunt apprehension that PORLIER'S attetapt has failed ! In the Parts Pa. pers . which we have received tint morning, there are estrum limn the Madrid qpial Caulk, announ cing the Insurrection at Cutuuna, ai.d stating in vague terms the arrest of PunidEn. But, even now, have not entirely given up our hope that the ;seople will emancipate thernsaves, and punish the ti4d men who act as the advisers of FERDINAND ; fur the accounts to whi..ll we allude, and which we &nal subjoin, are from die seat of the Government— pLlce of nu .nufatture of die statements intended for the public eye ; and we are still without any ac counts direct from Corunna, St. Jago, or any neigh bottling port---. 4 circumstance hardly to be accounted inr uut, tin the suppustion that things have not re tuttwd to their forint:. state in that quarter of Spain. kaIVA I'Z LETTER. 66 atapatu, SyII4IIIER 22. 66 I avail myself of no common opportimity of writing to you by a safe hand, what I could never, venture to trust by post, for really this cannot now be trusted: Foreign letters here are much neglected. or unfaithfully served. Correspondence is received late, yeti uncertainly, or is totally suppressed. Some letters bear evident signs of haring been opened, bthers arit really open; for which reason no one dares to write his mind ; and I request you to be cautious, for two words are :Adept tn.ruin an innocent family. Such, I can assure you, is the state of things. 48 Ferdinand is always the saute; I say Ferdinand 'siniplt„ because I scruple to call hibi Kitig, :Ince I am convinced thkt he reigns against the will of the King, his father; it is clear he reigns against the will of his people, and, we•have just learnt, against the wishes of ,the Allied Sovereigns. The Allied Princes have written to hit a Note, in which they loudly deilare to him their sovereign displeasure for the manner in which he conducts himself towards his people since his return to Spain. This is a document that really doe; honour to the noble sentiments with which the Allies appear to be animated. In it they describe as obnoxious and disgrac'eful to all crowned heads, the conduct of Ferdinand, treat it as the most suited to render .his rbyal dignity Wines, to implicate Sove. reigns with their people, and - RS opposed to the pre. .sent enlightened state of the nationi of Europe ; they besides express to-him, in the most vehement terms, the universal scandal caused by the ingratitude and cruelty wil; which he ueats Spanish Patriots. L1,,i•1 ,,i•I 4- • • • .. - whose heroic efforts rerdipand himself, as weli other Allied Princes, have been Seated on their thi in consequence of the constancy with whi c h t h ey up the war. tilt the general usurper of cro wn , sceptres was cast down. IS Yesterday. it appears. Ferdinand answerm meritorious comtpuninatioo, and (I am sure r be astonished) he treats each Sovereign respe c : in as absolute a manner as he does his ow n vassals, telling them in sttlJstance, th4t as s r . / Lord, as he is of Spain, by the Giac;! of G,, can do whatever he choose; withclt g;s:ing count of his conduct but tu Go., and lis en v and that no one has a right to i:ter:ere sloes. We shall novr ye what tlx of him. intimate Ally of Ferdinand, ard we may siy he has an offensive and deters:re is the Pope, cut whose (spiritual) mop. ; ; presumes he can rely, .1: order to face all ti e of EFope, 24 well as to subject the :;pattiart! favourite Ally, in the second degree, 'appe, the Duke D'Angouleme, and the general here, among those who l;utve any, is, tha t of our troops into France (after th^ d:resi French troops had been known) was more i 7 with D'Angouleme than Louis XVIII. *ril troops have now returned extremely d;ssati: in France, at least, they had bread to es!, Spai,s they have not even shelter over thei; Some have even been obliged to live on t ' ;.:! convents distribute daily to the poor. This 3is , general, especially iti o!Donnel's ( Abishar where there are serious disturbances. In ,inces t alsci, disgust is not wanting. • (;c at • are levied in the most rigorous manner, bi knows what becomes of the money. No on , but those who surround the throne. This must soon create some dreadful erplosiott king time buck rumours are flying , ibiut I tems for insurrections in the provinces. In and all the kingdom of Arragon, much about calling to the throne one of the Prim Rouse of Atistria. You already are aware veterate hatred ('the Catalans tovards the The courtiers, in order to stifle these rumit abroad that the Spanish Iloiirbrin lira•icti is be united with the HinvlC of elitstria, by eisge of Ferdinand with Liopoldint, silt ex-spouse of Napoleon. This 'cirtnlaly real misfortune, and on the part of Austria • no other than to cast her Infatitas to the • OFFICIAL ARTICL E.. PROM Tit MADRID GAZUITC cristAcnc:\ MADRID, sEP ;bat! Some troops of the garrison of Caitlin, by the Mareschal de Camp Don ion Dia! (known by the name of Afar ,rift,) rose don, on the morning of the 19th. arainst mate Authorities, publishing seditiously ri tuition of the self-styled Ex:mord:al:l 0 arresting the Captain-General and hien-hint the people of the f resaid city having taken in these acts. In order !make his detests! succeed, and to keep no his usurpei sue !AMC Pother circulated seditiouspmclatt.:ta fa; Irem producing any bad effti.t, Idled th habitants with indignation.—The succ. ss mensurate with the enterprir. ; for the lire rection was scarcely well lighted when i: thered, as appgas from the subjoined edict, addressed to Don Pedro Cevallos; FIRST LET rut. Cunann3. 211 " EIkrILLENCY.--rilil of joy at the sig people who are celebrating the victcry of thi and of justice, I have the honour to announce the agreeable intelligence that the scenes which were prepared for this loyal people, Juan Diaz Porlier, are happily terminated. Joan sec out from this city in the night heti 21st and 22d, with a ssuAll ntsmher of troops. he thought most faithful to his eausr, and by some pieces of artillery ; they directed their upon St. lago, whence I received intelligence was abandoned by the greater past of his and completely routed by the faithful iro-. awaited him, ai.d who were, it is s.iid, cr by the Marechal de Camp Don Pedro d'il , " Upon this intelligence, the soldiers the garrison of this place marched out, or flight, tp Avoid the fury of the people, ittliM even a sentinel behind them. We hope ev to see the legitimate Authorities restored+ enjoy that peace which a single man had d I can assure your Excellency, that T have the greatest pleasure all the Authorities employes of all classes testify, in tLe tn• manner, their love tor their Sovereign. " P. S. The General has left the Castle , SECOND LETTER. " Comma, esd 44 . EXCELLENCY—I 'have kept the Com ler past eleven, in order that the C.trt. ;, , Ceuta communicate to his Majesty hishcing set the restoration of tranquillity in this city. flight of General Porlier and his partisans , cording to the news brou 4 ht by an Officrr tanws,`•has been taken and carried into th a t Non OF rite FRVNCII • Em rou.— P' respondent adds the following details t—' WAS arrested in a village two or three lea;;'St. Jago, iibere he was taking some r e p & subaltern officers (sargentos) having , it ti li A; t thrnn hey k, wne tred t i if% 5. 'ect;ve', §patii a t f . Gqu i 41 11. what ;ivs les 4 . arm s he Pots, stls. 1, mar_ to it cpiti t the ev . * eat of ir.erpr,,, 11Zie ' 4!, al's' are '• • ;nu but n one is /1,; II erthit, Fa (,) rep h is 14 inces of t re ot c I;(.ttrso , lur:, is 017 )y the sister to! world tr 'is would Ai:IP: n 4 , sell( )iaz t in ilsimt ct the 1 1; the C.t.; Cow's, s kint, st• ken -..ny table tett sorority. t.c: s, the !3y4i. ss ssrss cm. 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