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T" QUA.RTERLY REVIEW, N XXVI. will he jiublisheit on the FIRST Of DIMS RER. Prisltrit for 1. Murray. Albemarle-an..et. On the 5111 of i)ectimlser will he published, In Throe Voluinvii, Svcs. Pr. Xit. IY.. hd. in THE GREEK T`ESrAMENT; t neW E.liiion, from t7.strat wcit% Test—Containing ropii . itis titres front lititov. tit AMUSE., KYCKE, SCWIKUSNKR, ROSEN HULL'', Stc. in familiar Latin t sn i vther with para!lel from the Claqtirs, and with set, tenets to Vivra* for Idiom, sni Hos for Ellipses. By the Rev. E. VALPY, A few Copie. ate printed on large Paper. prier Printed by A. J. Valpy, and sold by l.aw and Whittaker, Long- Istan and Co. Baldwin an& Co. and all other bookwllers. FOR SCIMOI.S. This clay w.a. rabbeted price As. boards, CICERO DE 0 FIC 1.1 S I with ENG- Liss Noes, Critical and Explanatory. The Text of the Hayssuotas is followed. Printed by A. 1. Valpy ; and sold by Messrs. Law and taker ; Longman and Co ; Parker, Oxford; Nicholson, Casa. bridge; and all other Booksellers. " We congratulate the Editor of this Treatise on the utility and execution a his design. To Schools, the present Edition will-prove particularly acceptable; considerable information and snuck useful elucidation will be found in the ad-cttittous matter. —We coosider this Prblirai lon as a valuable add.tiuu to scllolastic bterAture."—Craical Revicur, Oct. 1815. THL STMT ES OF IYUR7I:MBI.; NEW ADDRESS TO THE KING. AUGSBURG. The Algenteine Zeitutez contains in three Supple. ments to the 4th, 7th, and 9th of November, the new Address of the States of Wurtemberg to the Ring, resolved upon in their sittings of the 20th, 23d, 24th, and 26th of October, and delivered to the Ministry an the '2Bth. This piece is extremely long, but the following abstract will give a general idea of its principal contents. (N.B. The passages given in 'nil Are marked by clitramions). They begin by thanking his Majesty for the re a(serii.oling of the States ;_they had deliberated upon liis Rescript /4 the 16th October, with the attention due to the importance of the subject, which had de., Lied their declaration. This Rescript has excited very mixed sensations in them. They obierve, that his Majesty acknowledges that only a common and tree agreement can fix the relations between the So vereign am; the Country ; that the rights of the dif. ferent Provinces shall be respected as far as is con. sistent with their union with Wurtemberg. His Ma. josty, indeed, does not give the old Constitution of Wuriemberg such a tavourable testimony as in for. sner times ; but his Majesty's declaration, that if the question concerned only Old Wurtemberg, he would r..sidily consent to the re-establishment of the former Constitution, with some modifications proceeding Inn) the States themselves, is an acknowledgment that it can have nothing contrary to the principles of a wise Government nay, his Majesty even says, th it in the Constitution now to be formed for the whole kitiolotn, every thing shall be retained from the old Constitution, which can be adapted to present circumstances. Though all this would incline them to hope, that I tl;y were approaching the attainment of their wishes, and to indulge in feelings of the protoundest Pratt. tude to his Majesty, yet. on the other hand, they find many things winch almost destroy their hopes, and render it impossible for them immediately to consent to the reopening of the Negotiations for an an 1 angement. They then proceed to analyze the Reseripts. They quote, first, the passage which says—" You seem to think that the principle of the legal claims of Old and New Wurtemberg to the ancient Constitution must be first acknowledged when an agreement is in question ; the establishment of this principle would render an agreement impossible, since what was to be settled by negociations would be granted without discussion, and we should declare ourself bound to apply to New Wurtemberg, what we consider as un suitable for Old Wurtemberg." Upon this they make several observations. Ist. A people cannot be deprived, against its will, of a Con stitution inherited from its ancestors, and sworn to by all its Soveieigns, (the Sta:es here and elsewhere unitornsly employ the word Regent, or person go. teaming, Sovereign being in German expressive of too much power to be applied to the former Princes of Wuttemherg ; Sovereign is therefore to be under. stood in ails restricted sense). 2d. The recognition elf this principle is sn far from making an agreement impossible, that none cap be made without it, or at leait no success coold be ex pected from the negociations. An arrangement or compromise (in German Vergleich) is a convention of (Venus) by which the differences upon an uncertain right are removed by mutual concession. Such an indisputable claim as that of a nation to its Constitution, can never be the subject of an arrangement. Such is not the com mission which the undersigned have received from the people, to introduce a new system of rights by mutual concession, in the way of compromise, but to restore to life the Constitution which has been de facto destroyed, but never legally abolished, and to adapt it to the altered situation of things. How the Constitution is to be restored, what changes it most undergo—this is the sole object rf the commission they have received Irani the people, and can alone be the subject of common negociations." The States acknowledge that this is a most im portant subject, but think they ought to be agreed upon the first principles. In the preceding negocia.' :ions, the Commissioners from the States declared tie principle on winch they went ; the Royal Com mission, rs tried to evade it, and turned the negocia. lions upon single points. They hope no better result knits succeeding negociationsi• till b-alt panties are :greed upon the principles. His Majesty, they say, knows the melancholy situation of the whok king. goal ; tie knows that a great part of his subjects ate struggling with despair. Nothing can be more urgent than spfedily to restore to the subjects the en joyment of their ancient rights, to tranquillize their ponds, re-establish the credit of the State, which is most necessary, on account of the mai 'inability of many to pay their lazes. Tliey observe, that a new onstitution, however go-id, cannot afford any speetl y ; that the un happy trials of new Constitutions within these '4.5 years, and the misery they Piave Weed over Eurupe, excite just mistrust of Oral n ew . atteiapt . : a nd b e . Sies, a new agreement ilia pave nevbeitir gu a ra n t ee th - 4,41 the plea= observance 'Of the =saw ow. it the Constitution, which Ms Majesty had solemnly sworn to, scold be abolished on the 30th of Decem• ber, 1805, while the Constitution still existed, and before the union of the different provinces, and if this fact is to be a reason why Wurtemburg shall for feit its ancient rights, and at the most have no fur ther claim than a new Constitution, how could the country believe this new Constitution inviolable ? They would willingly convince themselves that fo reign force compelled the change, but this foreign force is now vanished, and the dignity of the Throne itself requires that the ancient sacred relations be tween Sovereign and People be re-established, and on this ground also they cannot avoid requiting the ncegnition of the principle of the old l'onstitution. On his Majesty's remark that the principle would bind him to apply to New Wurtemberg, what he " considered as not suitable to Old Wurtemberg." That this is denying the obligatory force of the posi tive constitutional law of the old territories, except as far as it may riot be defective, in his Majesty's opinion, a point on which they say his Majesty and the States may very likely di ff er. 11. They adduce several arguments against the assertion of the Rescript, that 66 the ancient Colo i• tuition was intimately connected with tire Cins..itti don of the Empire, and was properly wooded upon it." They ask, if in any of the dixtewnts,, even in his Majesty's confirmation of the privileges of the country, one syllable is said of the dependence of the Sovereign on the Emperor and the Empire ? Or that the conscientious observance of the laws of the country is assured only as long as external relations remain unchanged ? How can it be imagined for a moment, that the ceasing of the obligations to the Empire should be a reason for dissolving the whole constitution of the country ? 111. They remark on that passage of the Rescript which says, it cannot he expected that each of the different provinces composing the kingdom, can have an administration adapted to their several very diffe rent former Constitutions, &c. They observe the Deputies from Old Wurtemberg, have as much re spect for the rights of the new provinces, as the Re presentatives of those Provinces themselves ; they are convinced that there only is and can be one Wur temburg, but neither of them can allow the inference which seems to be deduced from these premises, that the rights of the old country are at an end, and that a new Constitution must be made for the whole king dom. They proceed then to shew, that these rew acquisitions were made by the King, not as a private person, but as head of the State ; and with the means furnished by the Old States of Wurtem berg ; they are conquests made by Wurtemberg ; when can they merely demand their incorporation with itself ? They adduce the examples of territo ries of Germany destined for indemnities in 1809, which all shared the same fate as the country with which they were united, if the Prussian acquisitions which were assimilated to the Prussian States, not only in equality of duties but equality of rights, and even of the countries forcibly incorporated with France, which obtained all the rights which were partly of great consideration enjoyed by that coun try. What can be more just, than- that a people which is joined to another, obeys the same Ruler, and bears the same buidens, should also participate in the same rights? Tiie question, however, is nut whether the different Provinces shall be incorporated; this is already (Pule. His Majesty declared such to be his intention in his speech from the throne on t!.O 15th of March ; and in the Rescript of October 16, he declares it absolutely necessary for the geed of the whole. The question is, whet influence cen this union have on the state of the rights of the different provinces ? After numerous arguments they observe, that supposing the newly-acquired provinces to have had originally more limited rights than the old dorn;- nions, this can be no reason for depriving the latter of their inherent privileges. But they observe, it may Le proved, that these Piovinces could not recover t:;eir former happy situation even by being fully adMitted to the old Constitution ; they would not think then). selves fully indemnified, and shall they by a new constitution see their rights still more limited ? This would be unjust, and still more unjust towards the old country. " Does it not consent to every thing that the change of circumstances demands? Is its situation Lettered in any one respect ? Has it fewer burdens to bear than formerly ? Has it not bled al most to death fur these new conquests ? And is it not sinking under the weight of the burdens which are imposed on it ? It is strange, at a time the ne cessity of continued intolerable burdens is represented as a consequence of the political changes of their country, to demand, at the same time, on account of the advantages resulting from this change, the sacri fice of a part of their rights, in which alone they can hope for welfare and deliverance. They give up what is inconsistent with the union of all the parts of the kingdom, but no more. His Majesty,' when these new acquisitions were declared subject to Wurtemberg, immediately de prived them of all their peculiar rights, and subjected them unconditionally to every , burden and obliga tion to which the mother country was liable, de claring this to be a consequence of the incorporation; unless this incorporation is to consist in a mere vio lent deprivation of hereditary rights without indem nity, it must necessarily include a participation in the rights as well as the duties of the old States. They further observe, that every increase of territory, every exchange, must render it necessary to give the mother country a new Constitution ; such a principle must endanger the love of the people for their country, arid all public virtues. ' 6 The people of Wurtemberg have done themselves by nothing so.much honour, as by their love to the Constitution, and by their grief at its loss. This Constitution consecrates the rights, not of individuals, but of the people ; hence the people are so fondly attached to it ; hence even the mention of its name has for them a magic charm. May your Majesty not destroy the love of the Constitution 1 At the sane time with that must be destroyed the love of the Country, the noblest seeds of all public virtues ; nay, even the fidelity to the august reigning family, for whose leippine.,s they never yet found any sacri fice too great." Proceeding then to various other arguments in sup port of what they have adduced, referring to the - joy of the nation et the first convoking of ;he States, to their disappointment at the result, and to, the danger of penevering in the present system, they conclude, by requesting his Majesty to declare --Al tat hbe ni; • I • • • • knowledge. the old Constitutios land for the whole 1 kingdom. with the reierve of such modifications as both parties shall judge necessary or proper. When they have received this declaration, they will do every thing to bring the negociation to a happy conclusion, to tranquillize the people, and re►tore the good un derstanding between King and People." Dated Stuttgardt, Oct. 56, 1515. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. NEXT SATURDAY MORNING. NINE O'CI.OOK. THE LASE DAY OF DRAWING THE 15,003 TICKE I S. TUE WHEEL IS MATCHLESS: IT CONTAINS THREE PRIZES OP Aso,ove, TWO PRIZES OF ,ezupoo, &c. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21. 1815. I / • • • ••• • •F ••• W. IF t• • • • • • 4 T.' 7.• •.. • F• • • • • • • FRENCH JOURNALS. The Paris Papers of Saturday have come to hand. it appears that the refusal of certain Peers to sit upon NlA's trial arose from a sense of delicacy and pro. priety. Those who refused are the individuals who, in the capacity of Ministers, were his official accusers. The Peers had a secret sitting on Friday, which continual from tun in tie morning till seven in the evening. Thte Public Accuser was heard against NLY I and it is understood that the Chamber decided th it he should be put upon his trial. They adjourned till this day, when it is thought that the criminal will make his first appearance. In the mean time it has been officially announced that Prussian troops which were about to quit France, have, owing to sonic unforeseen difficulties, been suddenly halted. This fact seen,: to corroborate the opinion we have hazarded in former Papers, that the Allied Powers are determined not to look quietly on and see the powers of justice set at defiance by the chicanery of the Jacobins. One of the minor journals mentions, chat ten thou. sand of the Russian troops have arrived In Paris, to join the British in that capital. With these and other troops marching to Paris, it is impossible that the disaffected can contend with any hope of success; and the probability now is, that the perturbators seeing the means employed to preserve public cyder , will not venture to attempt the execution of any pro ject they may have formed. One of the Journals announces that the Treaty of Peace with the Allies was signed on Friday. For our own parts we believe that what Et ded yester. day will prove correct, namely, that some of the Nave's have resolved to delay their signature till they see at least a rational prospect that the Peace will be maintained when it is signed : PAIW, NOVEMBER It Yesterday at twelve o'clock, the C-lutals and principal Officers of the National Guards, accom panied by th. Duke de Reggio and a brilliant Staff. attended at the Tf u ►illeries, to pre►ent their respectful congratulations to his Majesty ;.it being r'..e anniver sary of his birth-day. His Majesty received them in a! most gracious manner and kindly thanked them for their attention. The Governor of Valenciennes still refuses to admit the Prussians into that ci;y. A Council of Ministers was held yesterday, w!lich was presided by his Majesty. A slight respite is now given to those 'aim were out of breath in enquiring after the proc:redings of the Chamber against Marshal Nay :—it is said that he will be formally brought up for trial some time in the beginning of the ensuing week; in the mean time the private examination of witnesses continues, to which none are admitted but those am illy concern. ed in the process: we do not hear that he has him self teen interrogated any further, but that a hvissier is appointed to make known to him every step taken, to the end, we should suppose, that he may have every just and fair means to make his defence—that will no doubt be long, but being of such an impor. tent nature, we shall be particularly careful in trans lating the whole of it. The hereditary Prince of the Netherlands is ex pected at Brussels from the waters of Spa : it is supposed that be will immediately set off for Saint Petersburgh. The Emperor of Russia has sent the Order of St. Waldinair to the Count Stanislaus de Girardin, an cient Prefect of the Seine lnferieure, for his attention to the Russian troops that were cantoned in his department. A new camp of 20,000 men is about to be formed at Denain, between Valenciennes and Bouchain, composed of 8000 Prussians, 8000 Hanoverians, and 4/000 Belgians. A great number of the Chasseurs and Dragoons of the Guard are about to be incorporated with the Royal Grenadiers. The Sd Regiment of Hussars is still at Behan, where they wait to be disbanded. The 10th Regiment of the Line, that Wct , .2 iu 11).! South with the Duke d'Angouleme, is now niar,liwg for Paris. The Officers who remained at Strasburg after being dish.mded, have at length been sent to their respec tive departments. The Prussians cantoned at pray, Gournay, and their environs, have as yet made no prepar:ttiot►s 1(1- their departure. According to fresh orders, Gener.4l Huflirt is to remain under special surveillance, at a country house belonging to his family, on the borders of the Allier. A Number of french vessels are now in the port of Blurdeanr, ready to sail the moment the new treaty is made public. On Thursday the President of the Chamber of D' pities gave a grand dinner, in the salon of the Prt sidency. The new administration of the Museum will consist of one Principal, who is accountable for every thin?, four Counsellors, one Keeper of the Pictures, on. Antiquarian, and one Secretary-General. It is supposed that copies of the Conveatit:n were sent by all the Foreign Ministers to their respce.tist !nuns at the beginning of the week. Yesterday several waggons, carrying the sick a,, ; wounded Prussian soldiers, kit Paris by the 134rt.tt de Pantin. A great number of French are now at ennaant. nople, who have fiftd there in consequence of the k even' 5. At Berney and at Montrouge travellers are stopp e j and their passports scrupulously examined. Ve soul has a detachment of Austrian dragoons. A great quantity of forage is to be c fleeted a , Verney for the use of the Prussians cantoned in i 3 environs. Ligny, Bar, St. Dizier, and Vitry, still hare R im si.►n garrisons. _ . The garrison at Amiens is 6000 strong. The departure of 24 Jesuits from Rome to 4 4 4 4 has caused the most lively debates in the congr tga Lion of the Cardinal Bishops. Cardinal Mattel pro tects this order, against which several other prelate profess the strongest enmity. At the Sitting of the Chamber of Deputies yetter. day the Duke of Feltre took the lead : there was nc debate, it being only propositions laid by him befit. the Chamber, relative to the adoption of a law, t regulate the competence of the Prevotal Courts, tc judge crimes attributed to Special Courts, by Code of criminal instruction. Yesterday, his Excellency Lord Castlereagh gall A grand dinner at his house in the Faubourg St. IL note, to all the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, a% Ministers now in Paris : this we understan 1 to h.ie been in consequence of the larepler having b e e• added to the new Convention. Every thing s:!; tends to c - infirm what we asserted on Fr:day, vz that the Document is now on its way to Lon,:,•:', : we cannot yet assert it as a fact ; but every one nits be rejoiced to see the first diplom ttic cti tracters • the world united together as a s cial and ptivat party—there being but one general in!',:renc to 't drawn from it, which is, how plainly it proves :it during the execution of their public d the understanding most have existed hettvt.en them.— The Count Pozzo de 13 wgo and I,f,rd Csstlereag' are said to he on the most friendly we hear any further particulars, we be eAr:y giving theca. We have not heard that any were present, it being a pure diplornwic Mearenger ). Ten thousand Russians have arrived at Para, t replace the same number of English, who are abcz . to quit the capital. EFROM THE GAZETTE OFF:CIELLFI .‘ MINISTRY OF WAR. " The movement of evacuation of the Prussia! armies having been for an instant retarded by urN pected difficulties, there has resulted a conceratria. of considerable masses on a very circumscribed slue of territory, in which every thing N' as well prepare. for t!.:eir passage, out not for their ea:min:led rei dente. This burden and these unforeseen ties, which press in a particular winner on the ,it partments of the North, the Moselle and the Meurtr.i, put once more to the proof the zeal of the Prefest: and the devotion of the inhabitants, who deserve, many accounts, to see an end to their privations. 11 Ministers have communicated the situation of then Departments to his Majesty, who has been plc foundly affected thereby, and who has ordered thee to neglect nothing which depends upon theta, tt abridge the duration of a state of things, which, al though momentary, is nevertheless painful. " A considerable quantity of prohibited merchas dize has been introduced into France through thi northern departments, with the assistance of an, under the protection of some foreign soldiers, seduce , unknown to their Officers, into this illicit tradir Prince Frederick of the Low Countries, informed t. these facts, has given orders that the French s1:1. niers may freely exercise their twictions en this line and starch for prohibited goods. Part bac been in 611 environs of Bouchain and conveyed to V.' lencienucs." FROM THE GAZETTE DS FRANCE OF SATURDAY. The conditions of Peace were definitively stole, and signed yesterday. According to evei y littoral lion which we have been able to obtain, it Aiwa' certain that front the 2d of October all the bases wet. admitted, but there remained some additional At: titles on which all parties were not entirely !,• and the discussion of which necessarily ri tarded t!.. definitive signature which all Europe expectid. things in particular, it is said, retarded this signature these were, in the fist place, some e lucida:ions subject of the subsidies promised by Englan,i Llatsurd by the Cabinet of Berlin ; and secor.Jli, tk demand made upon France by the Cabinet of t. , !: JelnltS'S to guarantee the intisri:y of the proprrlY helongtog to English subjects, and who, to th e p rc scut moment, had not brew comprehended within liquidation of the pulnic dew. some conteren :e; ere su ff ic i ent (0 b ri n g a bo.tt an ituderst.indiag these two points, and it is not thought that these a% Ot T. ee rt• It tot Yt Jl Ig- r it GI sir zior. reC rtr.t. ra) hes. pto hen r, tr r al han I tilt at), UCCL Adic d Ira( ) Irriu ped. wet. .I. iture It ri:l ) crly pr 11:e; e