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MRS. STOCKDALE not being able to procnr•t another Residence, still continues at No. 17S. Piccadilly ; but as the douse lately occupied by her, No. i SO, P,ccadiUY, has been opened as a Bookseller.: shop, Mrs. STOCID ILa pre-saints to request that her Friends will be pleased to give the necessary directions to their Servants, in order to prevent say mistakes being rnatie to her pr-juclice, and against their kind intentions. 17e. Yiecadilly, 4ept. 14. IRI 5. 57'.17: P41118,R. 4 TheEm reror or Au-aria grants an asylum to King Joachim, (Murat) witlin the limits of his dominions, ender the tollowinp, conditions : " Art. 1. The King is to take the tie, of a private individual, the Queen having adopted that (4 the Cottn.e4s of Litiona, it is a..gcested that his Majesty should adopt the corresponding tit:e. " Art. S. The King is at liberty to chuse any ruwo . iii Dube aria, Moravia. or Upper Austria , as the place of his res,.lence. If his Majetty should think proper to lire in the country instead of In towns of the said province, no ()Ejection will be made on the par: of the Emperor. " Art. S. The Kingls to engage on lds honour (parole), in the present-- of his Imperil Majesty, that he will not quit the Aus. trian dominions, without the express consent of Its said nijes:y, and that his mode of life will be suitable only to that of a private person ut rank, and that he will submit to the law. in lone wi:hin the Austrian States. " In the faith of which arrangement, and according VI the established usage, the undercigned has, by the command of the Emperor, subscribed the present Declaration. _ a. Given at Peril, ht September 1815. L. S. (Signed) *, Le Prince de Mzrrnuucu." THE SPANISH INQU7SITION. ZASTER INSTRUCTIONS OF THE HOLY OFFICE TO CONFESSORS. 44 Among the delicate and weighty matters which worthily ocetapy the attention of his Majesty's Council of the Supreme and General Inquisition, it finds that it is preferably called upon to attend to the true, good, and spiritual relief of those persons, who, tbreugh debility and natural weakness, ignorance, malice, or perverseness of heart. ARS CONTAMINATED wunt owe ONE ott stoat Or TITS VISIONS, AND [VLSI HERESICS SELONGING TO ntstrirtau r NATIONS WHICH! HAUL OCCUrIVD TICS SAIL Or Seats. Wheretnre * availing i - .elf of the opportunity of the ap prow him; fulfilment of the Easter precept, aini desirous that all the fa.th!ul should prepare and dispose themselves to comply vti.h this, in a worthy manner, it has resolved to lay down the injunctions of the Holy ()Act . , fur one year only, purporting. that all secular a, d regit'ar Coniessors, approved by the Dio c, -at' Lit.hop, all be informer! in what manner they are to con duct themselves towards their penitents, who may have incurred any exiernal mixed her sy. and m th:- manner and forum tea. birthed and adopted in the Holy Office, with advent - rite to th • tattliful, even though they may have prevaricated whenever they may have acknowledged their cum's, and subject themselves to the fullowing instructions : " Firstly—He shall, whh the grear-m efficacy, persuade the pet tent to accuse hmiaelf to hi. own Confessor, of the errors and heresies into which lie may have fallen, without promising hint the benefi: ut abscaurion under anothrr form ; assuring hini of the ovio:able secrecy he well keep, as well u is kept in the Hon' °bee., and that the leas: hij..ry shalt tita result to him the: sic)! e ; the cont:ary,'lt alma I prevent him from beuig pmi.hel, If he s: tiu!tl be Accus-t1 by any verso/ or the errors and hi:testes it may he proper to nlaitifest ; which if he should not do, he terrains esposek: to the usual penalties. " In the second piers . —li :he said penitent should consent,t l e Confes.or shall take down Ids ti claraiton. under oath, to speak the truth, which shall be beaded in the following manner the town at N. en N. day of the year N. before me, the under signed CoMesser, spooi.i.leoltsly appeared N.' Sec. stating his age, country, and protessiun, &c. and he shall write down in the most specific term ~ all his errors, the circumstances thereof, time Is id place in which the same were committed, seen, or heard; and if any persons were present, they shall be named, awl he shall s pecify . s. I that is known of them. The Confessor shall cause Mni to aigit the declaration, if he knows how so to do; and it not, he Oatl make a cross, and the Contessor shall always slot with hint. " In the t'ditl ! , lace—He shall make hint abjure the heresys and eb rite.; hint, by fa - cocci:ink , hint to the Church; he shall enjoin him sactantemsl.y confess all ht.: errors, and impose tba petiances he may consider :adequate. Wen All has been done, tie sense shall be iorsvardial on to the Tribunal of the Holy 0 dice. " Lastly—lf the most rfficacious persuasions should not be autfictem to overcome the pet/item, on finding him well disposed and Mho need by due detestation, he sha I above hint front the excomotiodcaMin !or the present, explaining this to the penitent tor Ins ...en information and govetitman. When this meanure shall have been adopted by the Coi.feesor, be shall send due notice of :lie seine to the Tribunal. " And that alt the above may have its due effect, the sante is communcitied to you, to the end that through your hands it may pass to the knowledge of the Confessors of your juris diction and district. " Our LORD peewee you many years, &c. (signed) " Dr. D. Fan .CISCO RODRIGUEZ DC VAIIALA. " Dr. D. JOAQUIN DC MIAMI r EVLATL. " Licenciati Jour AtoaiA VALANZUELA. IL By order of the Hoiy Officer, " Bachelor Du JUAN Josef VERDI:IGO, Ser. " Inquisition of Seville, Feb. IS, lista." EA! It.4Cls HOCH THE SUI , EHMSED PA mpiILET, ENTITLED qg DES HE- VoLUTIoNAIHIPs LT DU MINIsTEHE AcTUEL. " (Cootiosiod from; out Piper of rest_vds . y.) The Zing. as noble anti *nitrous as Henry IV. or Louis XIV. could have bees, remained alone, Living no other protection tan the hceour of Bona par: e's ur hlnerty of his administrators. At the same dine all the boods that connected toge ti.er the springs of the Imperial government, which td insitvd scarcely been broken, were repaired by' active and invh.ible hands; they penetrated with ifs caettaila rtipitisty into all the ranks of the army, into all the gradatious of civil office, and it is Voperfluous to add, that they lonild there an almost unanimous. concert of actii.ns inclin along. • • . The rnon.irchical g,,vernnunt, however, came to be organized by a cot stitutionat.charter, the elements or which consisted in t responsible ministry; and two ' l eg islative Assemblies, balancing the royal power, OSICM which here I wish neither to praise nor censure, though 1 mg remark by the bye, that the necessary effect of such a system is to communicate an invin cible force to menar;hical authority, or to weaken it *beyond measure. There is no political constitution where measure;' *pad more upon men than in the new form of go ernment, df which, till our Revolution, England furn?Slied the only example in the history of the world. What shall I say then ? renewing entirely the twir tnambers, and taking spf4cient precautions that thei • should be composed of none but Frenchmen devoted to his cause, the King would have reaped all the ad. Vantages of such a system,—leaving them by fatal et)nriPl almost as they existed in the time of the Usurptr, he derived nothing from them but their embarrassments. Oa the other hand every thing ad. vauced rapidly to a crisis. The army, almost.en tirelys the civil administration in all its branches, were Already in the hands of the etinspirators. ' • The Royalists were pet clown ? =ridiculed, stigma. fixed even uripusly as• the greatest enemies of the Ki n g; the peop'e whom* the had the An to briti:l PY4 #P PiTuFWPaY bar their in4crice, had, as we have said, lost their .ithositsm. sled mlslea dearest hopes, remained from that moment almost indifferent spectators of the new order, to which it had been so easy to _attach them by their most power ful affections, the object wp now to mislead, to se duce, to exasperate the poptlar class of the cities and the country. The impulse was given by the chiefs of the conspiracy, it was felt in the Prefectures, over which they exerted an immediate force, and which, acting in their turn upon the subordinate authorities, communicated the movement slightly received, even to the most obscure villages, and to the lowest agents of power. On the one hand the King was repre sented as a hypocritical and artfel tyrant, who, under colour of it feigned moderation, slowly est:4l)l6llyd his power, that he might at last fall upon his people with the accumulated weight of what they called the ancient "despotism, encircling himself widi an inso lent and privileged order, restoring fewlal rights, tithes, comes, villanage, etc. On the other hand, it they found it too difficult to interpret unfavourably his clemency and his paternal intentions, they min gled with the affected praises which they lavished upon him, perfidious. insinuations with respect to the dispositions of the Princes, whom they represented as incessantly infusing into him dangerous counsels, diverting him from the happiness of his people, and hinted their fears that with him would disappear all that prosperity of which France had only got a fore taste. Shch. were the representations made in the country ; in the cities the partisans of the royal cause overwhelmed with insoles and disgusts, remote from office, often chaced from those posts that they filled, saw with continually increasing alarm the friends of the revolution renewing their ancient meetings, esta blishing in their societies mysterious signs, and vent , ing unconsciously indiscreet threatenings and rebelli. ous cries. • Nevertheless, these same Royalists never abets. doped the righteous cause, although they themselves were entirely abandoned. They never ceased to transmit from all the provinces report* of those in dignities which they witnessed, reports which a singu lar concurrence in all their principal circumstances rendered more alarming, because it afforded an irre- Iragable evidence of their truth. Cries of indigna. tion were every where raised against the Prefects, and these cries reached even the Ministry, who despised them, and whit seemed to brave the public discon tents, which their incredible security every day in creased. How could this Ministry give credit to re ports from a distance, wh at they even seemed re solved against seeing what passed immediately under their own eyes ? All Paris was acquainted with the conspiracy, could point out its chief conductors, de- 1 scribe the regular meetings which they held, the place and the hour of assembling, while the government c:ilier was ignorant, or feigned an ignorance, of the •xistence of any conspiracy. At last every tin.% was arranged with so much qui:mess and regularity, in this work of trouble and disorder, that the most cowardly of men, a man, who in the personal dangers in which he has been in volved, has shewn the most disgraceful pusillanimity, was able to laud with tranquillity in France, followed by a handful .if soldiers, to traverse the kingdom from one extremity to the other, across its most populous provinces, and to arrive by slow marches in its capi tal, where he found the Palace of the Thuilleries impaled for his reception, as if he were returniag from a huntin4 party in the neighbourhood of Paris, or front a ride to Fontainblean. Scarcely bad the legitimate sniereign (pitted his palace, si; cely had he descended from a throne which he doubtless filled with too much clemency and mildness, than those, divisions hitherto suppressed by the piesence of the common money, agent sprung tip among the conspirators. The great Emperor was confOended at finding himself converted into the simple chief of a p a rty, and seeing himself surrounded with republicans, whe insolently apposed to him the rights ot the pe, ple and the liberal maxims by which they are secured, with new conspirators, who, scarcely giving themselves the trouble to conceal their contempt for him, fortified themselves before his face with whatever could weaken him, and raised as high as possible the price of that crown, which had already cost him so many crimes and toils. 0 were I able, in this place, to unfold the subtle plots which were woven in darkness, and the profound machiavelism which connected together their mysterious threads; were it even safe to point out all the traitors; the most dangerous traitors, I might search among that odious gang, and per haps without difficulty unmask a character, who, covered with the most horrible crimes, and pollu ted with the foulest stains of the Revolution, a con summate master in (muting, possessed of all the resources which the union of audacity and bypocrisy can inspire, placed himself at first between all the parties, fluctuating fur some time to the side of each by turns ; beiag initiated into all their secrets, dealing' out in all quarters his insidious promises with more security and success than any one else could have done, because his avowed and known trade. having always corr.istad in deceiving one for the advantage ot another, it was easy for him to infuse .aa equal, contidenc:f iiato all ; exciting at once hopes with re.l yard to the interior and fears from without ; foresee infg the inevitable tall ot Bonaparte at band, and at the tame time that he was planning arrangements to take advantage ot it, making sure of his favour and rewards, if any miraculous event should rescue him from shipwreck ; and it this character, even when he was lending his assistance to push the usurper over the precipice, anu surrendering himself without re• serve to that vivad party, the ascendancy of which daiiy increased, should have sought accomplices in a third party, and found them among those who spewed themselves at that time the most ardpt defenders of the throne, by awakening in them terrors, common to all revc.lutionists; I might proem this dangerous • Proteus as the most striking example of that hatred of legitimate authority, which is 'the (unceasing tor ment of those great criminals, and in a certain sense the only passion which has still preserved within them ail its feroeious energy. 1341 t does such a character really exist ? and can criminality be carried to. excesses which the corrup tion of our unhappy times has not yet witnessed ?— f dare not point'him out, but however trem concealed a re the paths in which he treads, he ought bl e ; tie will be followed, he will be ovettakeu, his Mask will sooner or later be toil from him, l~ar the political mailieuvres of the revoiution are now at mill knoWn at its military tactics. Leaving, therefore, simple conker**, which j *ow out as such, and upon !which I can ground no direcraccusation, I shall endeavour to finish the pic ture which is presented to us in the hundred.days of the interregnums a singular epoch, in which, as in the last act of an opera ballet, where kings, peasants, heroes, valets, princesses, and shepherdesses, are con fusedly mingled together, all the-scenes and chance ten of this hideous revolution were united, anarchy and despotism, honorary decorations ,and red caps, state prisons and unlimited freedom of the press, the antichamber of a despot, and eta assembly of popular tepresentetives,free/y elected; and what is still more incredible, the humble deportment of Bonaparte, and the insolent tone of his senators. Shell I new describe the provisional government, the vociferation' tor Napoleon 11. the proscription of legitimate authority, and the blasphemies uttered against it at the moment when 9.00,000 soldiers en circled Paris, and the King was arriving at St. Denis, through the acclamations of several millions of Frenchmen! I believe that this last paroxysm of ex piring rage was not necessary even to atrarti a super fluity of proof that the Revolutionists have one pas sion which swallows up every other, namely, horror At legitimacy. 1 now arrive at the most difficult part of the la bour, which a deep conviction of our dangers and our misfortunes prompted me to undertake, and I may say with the Latin lyric poet, that here I tread on deceitful ashes : laced, per noes suppatitos cineri der, loso. But I shall endeavour to speak with thee re spectful liberty at which good and just Kings are never offended, andlitarding my language while I have not a thought which my honour or my con science would disavow, I may hope for the indul gence cf such a monarch as Louis XVIII. And in the first place, whatever may have been the motive which has determined the King to make that choice of his ministry, which, as being his choice we must accept, I cannot think that the men whom he has chosen can feel great surprise when I declare that they all, neat least some among them, are not precisely the individuals whom we expected•to see filling the more eminent offices. We do not, however, now live in those times of jealous and chivalrous honour, when, I sl.ail not say crimes, and the most odious of crimes, but the simple suspicion of baseness, that could not be completely removed, carried with it an eaclution from the most insignificant public employment, and even from the intercourse of society. In the inexpressible corrup tion of oar principles and manners, in the profound dejection into which our tee) Ling},oscines have plunged us, the greatest number of us cast upon every thing a look of stupid indifference ; all the means of 1 our salvation are thought equally good, nod it is doubtless on that account that it is so difficult to save us. I hair already desciibed, with as mush force as I could, the unheard of concert which exists between the numerous agents of the Revolution—l have :hewn them forming in the bosom cf the State n dif luau people, subject to particular laws, turning a wonderful hierarchy, either for command or obedi- ence, and as tyrannical in the one as servile ip Ilif ether ; having thus the double organization of a s:-cret society of Muir:in:li. which increases and ac quires strength in concealment ; and of a politi:al power which acts boldly, and in broad day, when and at the very instant it is necessary. :In this cent biaation, :he most infernal that human wickedness ever conceived. so long as the principle of its exist ence is not attacked, the revolutionary essociatian can breve every thing ; and every power which shalt be attempted to be raised against it, while it aims at °vet throwing it only by timid and partial changes, can never enjoy but a trail and transient eikteoce. Yes 1 Where -there is a number of men united, sufficient to have a mayor and a commissioner of police, the revolutionary free masonry is concreted ; every where we hear the cry that F-ance c states in her bosom the germ of inevitable tiest.uction ; every where a voice is raised towards the Sovereign. con juring him to save us, by striking without pity all the traitors, and dispersing the last ut these fitiMars. Oh fatal influence of revolutionary genies! whilst we are raising our suppliant prayers to the throttle, those Mimes that are most polluted appear at lee head of the chief employments in the administration. Traitors who served Bonaparte till the very hour of his abdication are called to superintend those pro vinces in the name of the King. which they have scarcely ceased to desolate; and those factious spi rits, who in the previous month insulted the Sove reign in the tribune of the representatives, preside now over the electoral colleges, and perhaps will soon mount the same tribune under the title of depus ties, changing their sacrilegious abuse into impudent and hypocritical praise. Where are we, Heavens ! the pencil of Tacites never drew times more unhappy, a corruption so frightful. Ye boasted Statesmen, who on other oc casions displayed to us talents which it is difficult . i t h o forget, cannot your genius conceive for the salvation' of 'France other plans than those which have already' almost destroyed it ? What ! you propose concilia. tinni Which are demonstrated to be impossible! you invoke still an indulgence which has proved so fatal to us ! you renew against the servants of the King antiquated objections, as absurd as they are unjust ! Faithful Ministers of the King, every good Freecie man ought to do his endeavours to prevent you from running headlong to your own destruction and to ours. France is divided at present into two parties, doubtless quite opposite to each other, the victims and the executioners. In the smallest town every one who has any reale, education, or fortune, every one who has preserved any sentiment ut prohity or humanity, any idea of divine justice, or the thtf.:relice between'good and evil, has been oppressed, tubbed, assassinated. Then the project is conceived of uniting elements as opposite as Heaven and earth, and this project is pretended to be executed at the moment even when we :;r t e cooling out of a crisis. which has displayed to us the hardened guilt and the incurable t rocity of one side, in doubling the Wrest, the horror, att.' the contempt of the other. ~et es oot hope it—tile hope would be madness. Yes, 1 tepee; it, already conspiracy is begun.— Who will be the chiefs, what wilt be the means and the results of this diumeroos enterprise ? eft the uhiets ; am ignorant; I believe toe party win feet nothing but euilterrassment in the choice of the best out of a §:eat swabs; ; or rather, *as they are IMO' slow in their mctions, I doubt not but the choice already decided. They are owning themselves 1,. the electoral colleges with an intriguing activity. w hi c h s u r pss e s everything wlVich has been for m et h witnessed, and never did the revolutionists displii such ardour to obtain_ in the Chamber of Deputie s a majority. of which they never before stood in suc;. need. At the same time the army is re.organim r with all those fatal prejudices which direct all tof , operations of the Ministry, and, whatever precauti:pi they endeavour to use, to divide it, to change its tm. cure by modifying its ancient structure. All tilP,, precautions taken upon paper cannot, when we ca n , sides its numbers, restrain the necessary entra:.ce ir . I to it of a great part of tnose traitors who, at this moment, spread from the Garonne to the Loire, blaspheme the sacred name ot their King, m;rl ,, lf! menaces with outrage. predict loudly the dowrif the throne, fie its duration, and who will assemble is their cantonments tor the purpose only of waiti;i6 for !tech treasons. Already evidence deserting of credit, and tom. municated by ocular witnesses, assures us, that tern et this lauti army fiocit in great number , Paris, under feigned names, and with passpor:s which falsity their profession; passports which ..I , ct• obtain without difficulty in a number of municipal:. ties, where secret orders are, no doubt, given to pro. tect their journey. A few months hence, and France abandoned to herself, less attended to by the Allies, who, be s id e , ' the belief that there is rto longer the same reason for fear, will likewise entertain the belied that they have not the same interest in savi ng . her. and would Joule. less find it impossible to un ite fur that purpose wii. l the same concert. France, I say, is threatened wa a return to a situation little different in all resisters from that in which she was placed on the first of March last. , Doubtless the recall of Bonaparte from Si.Hclena need not be dreaded, answer those intrepid optimists, who wish at all hazards to preserve the sweet coin, posure of their souls, for the benefit of their bodily health.; and who are resolved •to believe nothing which would prevent them from living quietly and sleeping soundly. I agree with them : L will even go farther, and say, that it Bonaparte were to escape from the powerful hands that hold him, and appear all on a sudden in the midst of the army of the Loire, he would not find a single supporter. It has been for a long time decided in the great revolts. tiranary COIICIAVe, that it was impossible to reap any advantage from employing that enraged madman whom they had entrusted with powers beyond hit means. . I reply thus before hand to the objection which was preparing against me, that the Bonapartist: ate ex cluded with the greatest care from the first posts of administration. Yes, doubtless, I discover in it only a very small number of the mad partizans of the odious mountebank ; but is it possible to !eel a com• pl.ste security in glancing over the list of those men whose choice we owe to the imprudent precipitation of the Ministers ? Here these re-appears a crowd of these systematic revolutionists, who may be called the Alcderit of the Revolution, a species of philosn• phers who have remained impass.ive in the midst d successive ei uprions. who, in weir trilitical scepr.cisra, 1 1 onsidering the State as a metaphysical Wash.-action, end 4.7i,)vernment like a machine et _,esro,cd !c) squat perpetimily, whatever be the hand that moan-ages it, ' twee detached themselves from every thing but their ,places, ex. rcising their offices at. all times with the same van; wh •ther they were crowned with tie bona t reuse ta wete sect 'rated with riooands and e.n. bruidered coats; personaws till now n .noured 2ro. caressed by alt parties, because they are al ways road! I pay View obeisance to him iith4 triumphs, and at• cording to the hippy and naive expression or Derty Duns•disd, provided they cannot merit wed it vie.? King, they will always conduct matters wr 46 to mei n: well. of the kingdom.' These men never inquire what party is the si just, but what party is the most powerful. T:iey have served te It.lsublic, the Directiry, don:you under all his titles, and ;Joins XVIII L a titei party were pointed out to them, waned would reward their attachment with greater advantages, toes ww:ld Instantly join it ; and the white flag woold he laid inside near the tricoloured cockade, to give place to some other sign of loyalty, which might in its turn be again removed to make room for each its prede• cessurs ; vile cameleons, whom we ought to ,detest our greatest scourge on account of the fatal art they possess of preserving an appearance of order in tie midst of confusion, and of preventing the righteous cause from gaining the ascendancy, in saving for the faction which happens to triumph, the insurmountable embarrassment of a change of organization. What then will be our refuge in the midst of tc many evils with which we are loaded, and while greater misfortunes are still prepared for us ? Noble Allies, would you grow weary of a generosity, wile in truth may be considered as the last effort of hit .man virtue ? Would you allow yourselves to be Al misled by the seductions of these traitors; and re ceiving, with your accustomed confidence, the ills pressians which they ,may.choose to give, would yon become a second time, And with the same totality the instruments of their eternal treasons ? Those would deceive you who would persuade lot that the French people are so degraded by their cot ruption, so oustinate in their errors, that it wou:ti hr impossible to establish any solid rel.sti its betxee them and the other European Stales. Since guru? cannot prevent them !root existing, Ditope oqn now to entertain only one thought, that tat discoveiq the means of existing loth them in peace. The distances your unhappy country are tahly connected with the kiisiances of our neighb o' . and the wicked principle to disunite them, At first solemnly rs solved upon, and whica only t.O and selfish view, could all ivi to exist tor a Cloal e ' 1: It ever it shoutu be cif; resumed, would ct eALt• st• a spectacle os the most mesanchmy re-actioilt , 3 ' l the most trigiittul catastrop ,es. Ye attest Sovereigns, was.. are A rhi ers of 17..1 worid, but who owe to severe accou..t d ot truth, condescend to give Mt lavolltat/le he.111./s. good or the evil which you do in it, if I nave t01:1'4,, and to admit the conviction, that as tiit• s aiety seined France is, in he present _wand c iii.juociaa.... • ice of Europe, the most generous icondu.t wile'' r e tote pursue, with regard to her, will. be a t tilt: sAll _ .t tqr yourseaves the most advantageous ads t ile 4* secure. . --~--- ' y . i ~ ,e