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I . ' NO I'ICE 1.0 COLIN I'RY BANKERS. LOST OR MISLAID, fr • ABILL for £1 , 834. 17s. 6J. drawn by BELL and WI INI NS.IN on, and accepted by, TKOS SI AC LING Dav in', and palable at MtSblit. Sroottrat'P, at two IMlcntfla Sue zot4 of Auptr next. Ic Wrettue.ted, that should any one atttnipt•to put the above itsto circolation. tko.r :nay be stopped, and information given to Measra. bell and Co. IN 'Change-alley. TO THE TRADE AND, TOWN OF•LEED AND ,eiry OP YORK. 1111 E PROPRIET 0 ItS ef the ROCKINGHAM LEEDs uctt POST COACH, tnthe SARACCN'S iicma INN, 3.:0w-Inl!, Condon, have agreed, from the request , . ‘ , l the lahat‘ttants of Leeds and Halifax, that the ROCKING HAM LFEDS WACII shall in future leave the Saracen's !t, ad Inn, Snow-hil, at Fight every Mot ning, and travel only Miles an Hoot, through Ferrybridge, Duacsster, Newark, Granthutti, and Stamford. This Coach was always. aEowed to he the roost agreeable and complete Public Conveyance on the North R..td, and the PrOprietiirs are determined it shall Lot !use that d aracor. York, Darliegtoti,Newcastle, Durham, :ttrtlerland, aatl Edit.bmgh New l'osr Coach every day—car fits tve in•ides ; a favourite Coach with the North Britons. Coaches t•vitt the Sarac , n's Head, Snow•hill, to Liverpool, Dover, Deal, Weymouth, Exeter, and all parts of the Kingdom. • BRniSII AMERICA. PROVINCIAL PARLIANIEN F OF LOWER CANADA. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. Orrice, SATURDAP, MARV% VT, tet3. • ?this day, at i ' tt:e• o'clock, his Excellency the Gewernor.in.Chief c.imc down in state to the Legis• :dye Council Chamber, arid being seated on the Thlone, the Gentleman Usher of the Black hod was sent to command the presence of the Assembly, which being come up, his Excellency was pleased to give the 11:Iyal Assent to the several Bilis. Atter which his Excellency was pleased to mike the following Speech to both House; • Ge•ntleman of the Legislative Council, Gentlemen of the house of Assembly, • The nteasuret adoptud by you having provided far the levee taut public interests, which required your immediate attention, iit a manner evincing but!::: just comprehension of the itzigenciest of the Province, and as:..:!: oui tiesire to promote its prosperity, DO longer delay to relerse you front these useful public labours, which have detain:•d yoil from your private caftans. • I owe it et:Luny to yourselves, and to a sense of justice, to ezprecs the high satiraeri:sta with which I have viewed your un wearied applicatton to matters closely interwoven with the gene ra welfare. Gentlertrn of the House of Assembly, The liberality with which you have provided for the advance. nicer of purposes of luthpublic utility, has bulliciently shown, that you have proceeded upon those patriotic and loyal l'rin • ' , ivies which &pity when they actuate the Representatives of a true people. ' Gentle:nee of the Levislative Council, Gentlemen of the House dd . .l.63eilibly, • You will have learn: l with satisfaction, that the desire of his Majesty for the renewal of amity with America, has been met by a corresponding disposition from the Government of the Uni ted States, and that a peace has ensued, which, it may be per mitted tab to hope, will, by its ultimate provisioos and its perma .nante, 'compensate fur the evils of war, to which it has given a tertninatior. have now to inform you, that I have received the comfit:on:a of his Royal Highness the firing? Regent to return to En,;laiiii, for the purpose of repelling accusations affecing my military cha racter, which have been preferred by the Lye Naval Commander in Chitf on the takes in - Canada; and while I take my leave of you with regret, I embrace ttith eagerness the opportunity id fantod site of justifying my rel:u7ation. However torLiit on the rubject which so unexpei.tedly thus summons my attention, be assured I shall bear with me a lively recollection of the firm loupport I have ilentittl from you, and I be gratin:v.! at an tatty yeriod in representing ikiso.ially to his Royal iiightioni the Prince Regent tbr real and evinced by every class his Majesty's +objects in Utitish Muth akinenca doing my adminiitestion, their attachment to hit au- Vat person and to bit Government, and most particularly, 'be spirit and devotion manifested by the people of the Caaadas iu the late contest with the United State* of America. LETTER FROM FOUCHE TO LOUIS XVIII. We copy the folloring letter from a Morning Paper without pledging ourselves to its authenticity . ; EXTRACT OF A LETTRIA,FROIst THE DLIC X OF 0 CRANTO TO T 1 live° or F.RANCU; DATRD JULY 7, 1815. " It is not your Majesty who is drea4led ; it has been seen, during twelve months, that confidence in your m.,deration and justice sustained France in the midst of fears which were inspired by the cnterptises of a party in your Court. Every one knows that it is neither knowledge nor experience that your Majesty wants ; you know France and the present age—yon know the power of opinion, but your goodness has too often .permitted you to listen to the wishes of those who followed you in ad- versify. From that moment there were two people in Fiance. It w.is, no doubt, painful to your lqajesty to repel those wis!ies by your own voluntary act--how often you most have regretted that you could nut cp oppose to their applications the nationallaWs. •, If 'thv same system should be renewed, and•if, deriving all your power from hereditary right, your telfjesty should recognise' none of the rights of the people, except hose which emanate from the conces sions of the throne, France, as before, will be Uncer tain as to its duty ; it will have to balance between its love fir the country, and its lore for the Prince, between its inclination and its increasing knowledge. Its obedience will have no other basis than its perm. nal confidence in-yattr Majesty ; aeld though •tfutt confidence should be sufficient to maintain a du? re spect, still it is not thus that dynasties strengthen themselves and avoid dangers. 4. Sire—Your Majesty has discovered that those who impel power beyond its limits arc but little fit to sustain it when shaken,; that authority destroys itself in the continued struggle which forces it to re cede from its own measures ; that 'the fewer rights a people enjoys, the more their natural distrnst inclines them to maintain all those which cannot he diSputed with them, and that it is always thus that lose de cays, and revolutions ripen. We conjure you, Sire, that yon-will deign, on this occasion, to consult only your own justice and your own wisdom. Believe that the French people attach, at present, as much importance to their li berty is to their lives: they will never believe them. selves free if there be not rights equally inviolable belonging to all ; and had ve not, even under your dynasty, States General who we:e independent of the Monarch " Sire—Your wisdom should net Wait for calami tous events before you 'make concessions 'at such a crisis they might be injurious, and perhaps extensively so ; at present concessions would conciliate arid give energy to the royal authority ; if delayed, they might isidieate oply its weakness; they would be . extorted by tumuli; and the Wads of Freochmen would still c outiaue inceuscd.".. • THE EVENING JADNDON. SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1815. ?RICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK: Itelueert 571f—Cons. money S7if--4 per Cent. 741 S per Cent. bsi—Omnium mo. •—Do. pay. 9ji Bowls Si. die.—Ezebecter biUs 4e. Se. Me. - The news of the surrender of BONAPARTI to the British squadron caused yesterday, as may be easily imagined, an unusual degree of bustle. Every kind of business seemed to be for a time suspended, and 66 the surrender" occupied, alone, the general con versation for the whole day. But, notwithstanding the various channels through which the intelligence was received kr the morning, many persons remained incredulous, till every doubt was removed, about hall.past three o'clock, by the publication of the lA cial communication of the fact, by the Duke of OTRANTO (FOLICI1R) to Lord CASTLEREAGR, trans mitted to Ministers by his Lordship in a dispatch rfecived in the course of the day. We hastened to insert the Official Communication in our Third Edition. and we again - give it place : • LONDOti GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, Sala putokir, JULY 21. FOREIGN OFFICE, JULY SI. • A Dispatch, of which the following is an extract, has been this cloy received from Viscount CASTLV REAOII, dated Paris, July 17,1815 . : 4, Since closing my dispatches of this date, 1 have received the accompanying communication from this Government : (TRANSLATION.) II I have the honour to acquaint your Lordship, that NAPOLEON BONAPARTE:, net being able to escape from the English cruizers, or from the guards kept upon the coasts has taken the Toolution of going 'on board the Englisliship BeLLEnoettow, Captain MAST. LAND.—I have the honour to be. &c. (Signed) 4 4 Le Duc D'OTRANTZ. " To his Excellency Lord Viscount Castiereauk. No sooner was the truth of this important event put beyond all manner of doubt by the publication of the Gazette, than new questions were started, and ar. gued with a degree of impatience which set all sober inference at defiance. " Has he arrived ?—" At what port Has he reached London ?"---44 When may he be expected r , -.6 Where is he to be kept r Will he be tried here, or delivered up _ko Louts XV 111. ?"..46 Can they do any thing with him, since they have acknowledged him as an independent So vereign ?" with a thousand question; equally sapient, and all answered in a thousand literati ways. BONAPARIII. however, is sale, hut a report circu• fated yesterday and even said to have been announced by telegraph. that the Bau.aaorunw had reached Plymouth, is not yet confirmed. He will arrive, however. in good time. and we doubt not wall be properly disposed of—some say ig in the stite rooms in the Tower, which have for %onse time been preparing for his reception, and where su perb carpets have been laid,' with silk curtains to the windows, and appropriate furniture for so distinguished a guest." Others have assigned to him the apartments in Dumbarton Castle which were occupied by General Le Cutac and other dishonourable fellows who had broken their parole and were retaken. Some assert that Sheerness will be the place of his confinement till his fate be decided on; and in proof of this is adduced a visit paid to that place yesterday by five of the Cabinet Ministers, viz. the Earls of WasTmostataisri, I.4venroor., and HARROWEY ; Lord Mattu.a, and the Right tio-. nourable WELLESLEY Pau:, who went down the * River soon after the receipt of the intelligence of NAPO. I.ICON'S surrender, and embarked in a yacht: it was supposed they would proceed to Sheerness. This place, it must be allowed, is well adapted for such a trust, being strictly a fortress, and that of small ex tent, haring no population within its walls, but the garrison and its attendants. The place that may be fixed on for BONAPARTE'S prison we consider but of trivial import—but not so the line of procedure that may be adopted by thit k country, by the Allies generally, and by Lows XVIIL respecting him, now tik-t—ltis person is secured. 'When, in tbe . yeai 1814, the Allies gained- posses. sion of Paris, he renounced all pretensions to (he throne of France, and professed to have retired from the troubles of general rule to spend the remainder of his days quietly in the Island of Elba. He ought to have felt giateful for the mercy which he then ex perienced, and any other man, satisfied with the es. cape whicb lie has made after causing so Much trou• ble to the Potentates of Europe, so much misery to their people and to France, would have congratulated himself on his singular good fortune in escaping a gibbet—the proper reward of so many murders, and would have•been catch' never to forfeit, by A fresh act, the gr i nce which had, ho. imprudently, been ex tended to him. • It is a trite remark that the escape of criminals freim a merited punishment often hardens them to a repetition of their crimes. This has been verified in. the case of BONAPARTE. Instead of remaining quiet in his retreat, he enters into correspondence with hi; former associates, foments rebellion and treason, en tern France at the head of an armed band, and epeds, vi rt arnah not merely to rob a house or a vineyard;but to seize.a crown and a kingdom In such a Cu. it is siogalu to observe bow some sa cao bewilder themselves with metaphysical di:• qoisitions, till they artist at ibe conclusion, that to take another pert m's property is not robbery, and that killing; or causing the death of men, in viola tion of public law, is not murder.. Away with such sophistry I Who or what is Bo.' NAPAR it that common sense should lose its office and discrimination l-=that the 'principles of justice should Change their nature and qualities when he becomr4 the object of discussion ? Yes, who and what is 80. NAPARTZ ?—An upstart adventurer, elevated by acci- dent and successful crime, by . Ids associates in ini quity, to the usurped throne of an oppressed people. whose blood I.e has 'made to flow in torrents in the execution of his criminal attempts to' subjugate the world to his dominion I Who is BONAPART6 ?—The same miscreant who, when driv,in from his wicked pre-eminence, and yet suffered to.live, fomented sedition, treason, and rebel lion against the Monarch whose throne he bad before occupied. and usurped it a second time. The same man who justified the act, and by the justi. fication proclaimed to the world that he can be bound by, no engagement...that he can be won brim favour, that he can be bound by no law human or divine that shall leave him the power of action. Who is BONA PART; ? A mean, degraded, contemptible wretch,' who could lead men to the commission of crimes as their Captain and Leader, and then leave them to the mercy of the enemies whom he bas created and provoked, while he himself, by a flight five times repeated, endeavours to prolong his own execrable existence. Bit, 44 he has cast himself on the generosity and liberality of a great and a magna-. Wilsons people I He is a fallen enemy ! He can do no more mischief now ! What would be the use of carrying matters any farther than by securing his person, to put it out of his power to do any father mischief !" We can hardly notice such nonsense with any de gree of patience. Make a merit of surrendering himself when he had 'lane every mischief in his power, and when he had no way left to escape ! Is it a thing uncommon for a highwayman or a thief to surrrender himself to his pursuers when he finds that he cannot longer prevent their seizing upon his per son ? Is this surrender ever employed as an appeal to the clemency and magnanimity of a judge or jury in mitigation of punishment ? Some men are fond of quoting thel.tw of Nations in favour of this miserable culprit, but from the lax man ner we think they have never studied the code. There is a law older than any authority they can quote, we mean the law of common sense which directs men tode stroy vipers and noxious animals as their best security Against the injuries wlii-h they ;nay inflict if kept alive. But let us hear what these admired jurists do actually lAy down as public law There is, however," says VATIPEL (b. 111. clt. VIII. § 141.) one case in which 'we may tetuw to spare-the life of an enemy who sur renders, or to allow any capitulation toa town reduced to the last extremiry. It is, when that enemy has been guilty of some enormous &roach of the law of Meant, and particularly, whets he has violated she lam of War, This refusal of quarter ii no natural consequence o f , the war, but a punishment for his crime—a punish ment which the injured party has a ,right to inflict. But,' in order that it.be lustlfinflicted, it must fall on the guilty." But what says thelaim of England?—if we may take the inference.of one of our law yt rs as well drawn, even the Government has not the power to release such a culprit, when by any means it has got him into custody, till he shall have been released in.due course of law. The Gentleman to whom we now allude lately placarded the Metropolis, offering a re ward of one thousand jaws& far the apprehension of BONAPAIITS, that he might be brought to trial for the murder of Captain Miramar. Captain MAITLiSND will now be entitled to this reward ; for it cannot be doubted that he will soon deliver him up to the Exe- I cutive Government of Britain. A new question may then be started. Should the' relatives of Captain WRIGHT demand justice on , the . murderer, will it be in the power of even the Govern. ,went to evade the demand, shbuld they be.so in• . dined s? We only put the question, for we pre not ourselves qualified to answer it ; but shall leave it to Ito lawyets and casuists to decide. • There is yet one consideration which should have great weight in any decision that may be come to respecting the bad man, of whom it may.truly be said as of MAHONET—" Lustind ambition Were die springs of all his actions, whilst without one virtue, dissimulatilu, like a flattering painter, betle:ks him with the colouring of them all !" Would it be politic to embarrass Loma the Eighteenth with the trial and punishment of a criminal who has forfeited his life to every State in Europe t * He has still much to fear from the remains of faction, from the adherents of the idol o f their idolatry—the Mi. nister to all their Vices ;,but their malignity can do its no farther injury ; Britain is not reduced to the necessity of courting the favour or the forbearance of such miscreants. We cannot lessen their enmity,' nor cart any act of ours' increase their antipathy.— While this man is suffered to live, there is no possibi. lity of 'saying what may happen—especially should we :O'er him again to put his font on the soil of Fraoce—even as a criminal carrying to prison or to the'staffold. There have been such things. as d rescue in the history of flagitious men. The stake .is too ;rest to be hazarded. The law.ofself-pieservation is the first law of nature, and that law demands from our Government, that on no consideration shattver should they suffer BONAPARTS to escape out of their hands, tow that they hate hint in their power. . + I. L sk; *a Its . I NO AiMg= SECOND EDITION. STAR OFFICE. THREE O'CLOCK. We have this instant received the Paris Papers•of Wednesday last, being one day lacer than those re. ceiecci yesterday. Haviag neither room net time fur comments, we hasten to lay the following eztracts before our Readers : PA RM. JULY 19. FROM TIIC (MISSIVE 1U: FRANCE. In nor article of yesterday we announced that riqo naparte left Rochefort ou 12th instant to ea:bark on board the Bellerophon. He did not sail, however. till the 14th, it haying required two days to embart his suite and baggage. The Minister. of Marine received last Right the official account of the departure of Bonaparte and of the persons who accompanied him; The faillowiog particulars are interesting : Oo•the Bth Comic de Grogan went on board the Saale, to announce that the Emperor would embark on the following day ; but his departure was hastened by a courier. At tour iu the afteranon.Bonaparte left Rochefott, and proceeded In a boat to Foutas„ where hi embarked. Tile sea was high, sad the fri.- gate nt anchor. On the approach of the boat, the crew gave three cheers of a , Vive l'Empereur !" He commanded si. lence. He continued some time on deck, walking to and fro with his hands "behind him (wearing a - green coat without any decoration) ; he then went below and visited the decks. On the following day, the 9th, the Maritime Pre• feet cane on board, and after having saluted the Em. !mos., he lacked himself in with General Beker and the Commander of the frigate. It was noticed that - oft his departure be did not take leave of Bonaparte. After the Prefect had left the frigate, M. M. Ber• trand and Rovig9 went on board an English ship of war, and remained there for some hours. On Mond.ty morning, the 10th, an English line. ot.battle ship anchored near the frigates. She was still at ancilor when this accnunt left Rocbefott, and the frigates could not make a movement without being perceived. Nothing announces either their de• partpreor their bving disarmed. Bonaparte wss the only one of his family em. bat ked. The Trench troops are setting 'out this moment s and take the three following directions: Moatbzison. Roanne, and le Puy. The artillery proceeds to Va. leace. Counts Chabrol and de Fugues repair to the headquarters of Marshal Suchet. Pons and Tests have departed. Several young men who had beta imprisoned as royalists have been liberated. It is said that Marshal Suchot was exasperated a not being able to restrain his troops. • PARIS, JUI.Y O. Yesterday, at seven o'clock in the eyening, parties were formed in the Boulevard du Teak. several in. dividuals, of a shabby aprearance, bad in their mouths or in their button-holes red pink. They were all dispersed by eight o'clock. On the 17th great disturbances took place in the Boulevard du Temple between several private persons dressed in the uniform of prek•dr-cortes, and others who carried a large bunch of red 'tisk in their band. Seditious cries were heard. Respectable citizens, bearing the white cockade or the lily, were struck and insulted by these prisons, who were in great numbers. Several National Guards were wounded in this con. Hirt ; however, redoubling their zeal and activity, they at last restored tranquillity. C I OURIER LITAAORDINARY OF WEDNEWAt WORMING, By intelligence from London, we learn that Bona. parte is in. the Tower of London. All his portfolios and papers have been taken from him. The garrison of Valenciennes surrendered to the King on the 15th inst. We expect immediately a new Declaration from the 41lied Sovereigns. The Hetman of the Cossacks. Platte, had a long audience of the King yesterday. We are assnred•that the members of Bonaparte's filthily will be distribmed as follow% :—Jnseph will b$ sent to Russia; Jerouie to Pntssia ; Lucien to gb_ind Lpuii to Austria; Madame Letitia to Mope; and blidatne Hortense to Switzerland. In addition to those of Ney and Davoust, the per. trait of Marshal Murat has boa removed kola do Hall of the Marshals. Foods from 60 to 61. -, • • Her M'AJesi-e still continues seemly indisposed at Windsor C istle. Yesterday morning his Excellency the French Am bassador received an express from Paris, informing hins,of the surrender of ISONAPARTP. In consequence of this joyful news, which spread with great celerity, his Excellency received she congratulatory visits of all the foreigners of distinction in the west end of the town. Yesterday morning, as soon as thenews of the stir. render of B.INAPARTE reached his Excellency the French Ambassador, his Excellency sent .en express I to the Duchess of Asioouutur., at her house at Bat- tersea, when her Highness immediately repaired to his Excellency's house in Portrnan•square, where she received the congratulations of a numerous party of Nobility and Gentry. -EXPEDITIOUS TRAVELLING.—.A Gentleman left Leeds yesterday morning at seven o'clock, and as.• rived, tsy the Rockingham Coach, at the Saracen's Head, Snow Hill, London, before three o'clock this i nterning-200 smiles ill less' that 20 hours.