Star. — London, England, 1815-11-24 00:00:00

I • - • clot a pension, but 111 hindsothe salary u a retired oirector•Gcneral. I say also that he did.thii without 7 4 asking i::—it is true I• was piqued at not being I tained as a Councillor of State, but lam not the ess penetrated with gratitude to M. Ferrand.'t - - - ..,avalette then observed—f• I arrived on the 20th f March. I met in the morning, on the Bou- ,v.ndi, M. Sebastiani, in his cabriolet.he told tle the news. I said to him, I have a mind to w the post, and see what is passiag—he mom. all i e d me. We found aM. Macarel ; I asked him 3 a mild tone whether M. Ferrand was there ? He that be was gone out, and I remained walking :he Audience Chamber. It was said, I believe, bat I had presented myself in a commanding atti• j de, saying, I take possession in the name of the :, /r iperor. This is false—l was near the chimney M. Ferrand returned. I advanced to him and 4 ;j, 6 , Sir"— He opened the door of his cabinet 4id►out replying to me, and hence I remained in Question. —What did yon say to Madame Ferrand ilea she asked you for a permit for post horses? Answer—l was in the Audience Hall, when a 1 4, conducted by a gentleman, presented herself efore me: the lady said she wanted a permit to sable her to join the King at Lille. I said to them, nd perhaps with warmth, • that is impossible.'— Wen, Sir,' said she, • it is to go to Orleans to my Madame,' said 1, • I cannot do it: • Well, Sir,' said she, • it is for our secarity.'—At the xrd marity, I no longer resisted: I instantly entered •ni office, took a pen and wrote my name upon a jeer o f paper, adding, as I think, the word Orkais, sod f !gave this paper to Madame Ferrand. Q. You have but just told us that you did not °me to the Post Office expressly to take possession lit : how do you account then for giving this paper o Madame Ferrand'—A. I did not understand her. • thought that a permit would be usetul to her c I lid to myself, however, 44 But M. Ferrand, being )irector-General of the Post Office, might as well ;raw up and sign this permit himself." Q. It seems astonishing that Madame Ferrand, ,aviog her horses in her carriage, should be obliged ogo to ybu to ask this permit there must have eruinly been some obstacle to her departure which caltl only be removed by you ?—A. This is a mis cderstanding, which I think I can explain. Passing to other points, M. Lavalette said, It has beep declared that I formed one of se. Tral criminal assemblages at the Duke de Bassano's, he Duchess of St. Lea's, and Madame Hamelin's" ' never set foot in Madame Harnelin's house. I never ax her at Paris.. I never was intimate with the )..,ke of Bessano. - - ‘ 4 Madame St. Leta (and here, Gentlemen, •t own Ala my heat is wrung at seeing an unhappy woman, rho, on foreign ground, is still pursued by calumny). Madame the Duchess of St. Leu saw none but the Zing's friends; she had been overwhelmed with his sena& ; she-knew Bonaparte would not forgive her for Accepting them. The return of Bonaparte gave ner the severest grief ; she has been miserable from that time. We most not, Sir, add too much faith to public clamour." Q. Why were you concealed in the house of Ma dame Sr. Leu during the last days that preceded the Xing's departure f—A. I retired thither because she was not there. I did not wish to compromise any person, and I did not compromise her, because I was is a separate building, which Ake did not inhabit. Q. If you were a party to no conspiracy, why did you conceal yourself f—A. Because I entertained cer taiu opinions respecting the newly named Ministry. Four months ago I was advised to escape, lest I should be arrested, but I rejected this advice. Four days before my arrest I wrote to M. de Benevent (Talleyrand) the Chief Minister, to assign me judges. I have nothing with which to reproach myself. If I save any regret, it is that Count Ferrand did not eraat me the audience which I requested ; if he had i certainly should not have been here." Here M. Ferrand remarked, that he could not ;rant an audience to M. Lavalette, fur he never asked The PI:•aaJDENT remarked, that there seemed to be :ne inconsissency here, for M. Lavaietts, it was ad :. at i, peripnally gave permission to M. Icrrand to • , :i;:,ve his papers. M. Fernald observed, he could war to the express words used by Lavalette, as ,c) removing his papas; but he could swear that be Levu. asked an audience. 2. (T 0 Lavaktte.)—By whose orders did you go Kst-office ?—A. I did not come with orders, lut with intentions : I wished to have a conversation with M. Fernald, because I was no longer acquainted with the Post.office ; and I thought M. ?errand would gmr me information ; and, as Bonaparte had returned, 't wu quite natural that I should take possession of Aa dice which I bad occupied for thirteen years. 2. You said, on your first examination, that you : I 'M to the Post Office in the spirit of pure bentvo "lce, in order to give your advice at a itionwnt when You thought a little confusion might prevail, bat Surfing the Director-General there, you ought not to rave remained? After M. Ferrand carried the paper. away ruin his cabinet I abiced one of the chief clerks of the of ce if M. Ferrand had given any orders ? He ar '"ered, :he is bewildered and smpified, and 'teals to be taken up with his own departure only. ibePoit Otactirnsuediatery, and did dot' return until one o'clock, when M. Fet rand was gone. Q. But who conferred upon you this adminiAration? A. I took it myself, because I did not.doubt that the Emperor would give me a place which I had held for thirteen years. Q. But you ought to have had no fears as to the Emperor's interests suffering, for there were plenty of Chief Clerks, and there was no immedi.tte occa sion for a Direetor-Geneml. A. The Chief Clerks could not act without an ex press order from a Director-General. If M. Fer- rand had delegated any one to do his duty, or if he had protested against my entering the Post-Office, 1 would not have meddled with the business. Q. Here is a letter, which calls together the Chief Cleiks in your name. A. This letter is the result of a convention which I had with M. —, who thought proper to write that letter ; but I did not preside over them whea they came—l merely rerroached them, with warmth I admit, for having turned out a person whose in terests I had warmly at heart, but this was not exer cising the functions of Directors General. Q. Do you recollect this order, signed by you—' " No Journal shall he permitted to be sent to-day, the 28th March." " None of the Ministerial letters or dis patches of the Prefect nt the Seine shall be sent to-day." —A. I did not c.ill these papers orders, but I cer tainly signed them for the following reasons s The Chief Clerk told me that he wanted many persons for his office. I . said to him 66 then you must delay the Journals until to•morrow " Afterwards he told me, " There are some ministeri4i dispatches in ar- rear—ought we not to have a supplementary mail ?" I said 66 No ; send off-the dispatches in arrears first, and let the others take their turn." The Chick Clerks, who have to-day consciences so delicate. had none on the 20th of March. for they shewed much, deference to 411 I said, and made no objectiint. Had they not taken an oath to the King ? Were they not all decorated? yet they anticipated me in every thing. Q. Here is a Proclamation, or at least a Circular, signed by you--" The Emperor will be at Paris in two hours; the Capital as in the highest state of en thusiasm ; all is tranquil ; whatever is done, there will be no civil war." Do you know this document ? Certainly, it is mine ; but it has been said, that great numbers of it were issued, and this is not correct. Q. Here are three or four ?—A. I defy any one to produce more than a dozen signed by me. Q. But why did you write it at all ?—A. I thought that the Couriers would say on their route that Paris was in flames, and it was the fear of a civil war which induced me to issue this note. Was this a crime in the eyes of a Prince who abhors the shed- ding of blood t Besides, this simple announcement was no where placarded. Another ord..: from M. Lavalette was, Shen read : " The Pii,t4 l•ter is not to give horses to any person tvhts,is not the bearer of an order signed by me, or by the Ministers of the Emperor. (Signed) " LAVA LIU - TU. " March 20th." A. This was written in the morning. Before quit ting the Post Office, I sent for the Post Master, but . not being at the Office when he arrived, he came to Me at my house., I askeJ h►m what was the state of his relays ? He told me his horses were very much fatigued, and that for a tong time they were incapable of performing extraordinary service. I said to him, " This is awkward, but we must manage for a few days." He said to me, I cannot refuse the horses without an order. I gave to him this paper, to which I added the title df Dircetor-General, merely because it was necessary that the paper should have au offi. cial character. The Marquis de Ronde-Ville deposed—That being Prefect of Moulins, on the 22d of March, he was told that a courier had enteftd the town calling-0 Vive l'Empereur ;" and that he had raised a great mob to which he announced the arrival of Bonaparte a Paris. I arrested him and conducted him to my hotel . I thought it best to intimidate him, to get at the real truth, and I told him he should be shot in half an hour if he told me a lie. He then told me it was not true that Bonaparte was at Paris, but that lie had met him at Ville-juif : he gave me two letters, one was sealed, and contained an order signed Lavalette, for the Post• Master to restore the communication be. tween Paris and Lyons, which I had cut off.— The other letter was open, and contained the pro clamation or announcement just read. I remarked particularly the contradiction which resulted from these expressions—" Paris is in the highest state of enthusiasm," and " All is tranquil." 44 I know that the courier read the Paper wherever he stopt, as at Ponilly, Cones, Briare, &c." M. de Lavalette here remarked, that he did not know this Courier, and that be gave him no such, orders : " those who know how a mail bag is made j up, must admit, that it is impossible that a Courier, who is sunk up to the chin in his dispatches, should read a Proclamation, so as to produce a tumult ; and if the Courier read the Note at every stage, be must have done so of his own accord : the tu mult at Moulines was not occasioned by the Cou rier, but by the postillion, who cracked his whip as be entered, and called Five P.Reepreer He repeated that he only signed twelve of these notes, and he dick() with a view to prevent a civil war. General Dessole deposed, that he was desired by Sebastiani, in the name of M. Lavalette, to send a detachment of Nitional Gazrds to the POtt•oflice on the 20th of March. The accused admitted-thlt he di.l djs to preserve the Post-office cash in else I c). tit_rslices. M. Maca!el duposcd, that at Leven o'clock in the morning, being in the Hall of Alidiunce, which was leis bu.ittes.i, he heard an individual strike tipan tb, &Kir with his cane, an .1 spy with a Ifflid voice, , g In the name of the Emperor, I take rss-s -sion of tle. Post. Office." M. I..tvalette then pre sented himself to me, and aced if M. nrrant 4 was visible; The witness thth went to M. I:errand, and returned with him to his private room or office, where he was followed by M. lavelatte, who whispered something ill M. Ferrand's ear. The accused here solemnly denied that he had used the word. ascribed to him about taking posses sion in the name of the Emperor. He added—"" Those who know my mild and sedate character will not believe that I used those expressions. I repeat that I was rather in a state of vesati,:a than of exaltation at the moment." At cis o'clock the Tridl was adjourned until next day. mitts, NOVEMBER 21. We are assured that Marshal Ney, profiting by the privilege granted to him by the Chamber of Peers, has demanded the delay allowed him before the com mencement of the trial. He insists upon having a law of the Chambers to regulate the forms of the proceedings against him. If this request is complied with a delay will necessarily take place, and the trial will thus be put off. Yesterday, after oar Paper was at Press, the arrival of Mr. kLANTA. with the Treaties concluded with Prance, was announced in the short London Gazette Axtraordinary given in the preceding page. 'The entire documents have not yet transpired, but we understand that they embrace some points more consonant with strict equity than was at first reported. The balance due to this country for the maintenance of prisoners, which had been abandoned by the treaty a 1814., is•now to be paid ; the British Creditors are to. be paid the full amouut of their legal claims ; the rills advanced to the KING of FHANCE and the BOURBON PatticEs are also to be liquidated; and the sum of which the Hamburg!' Bank was robbed is to be restored. Lord CASTLEREAGH, who has so happily brought this Treaty to a conclusion, is expected in London to•morrow. Yesterday, els, after this Paper was at Press, we received the Faris Papers of Monday. We have re peated our extracts, with a few additions. The ac counts from the South of France are most afflicting. General DE LA GARDE, who had been sent to Nismcs to assist in surpretsing the lawless riots and persecu- Lions in tl:at (lemur, was shot by one of the assassins. while endeavouring to pertuade a bigotted mob to return to order.—Till the arm of Power shall be pro perly exerted to put down and to punish such atro cities as are now perpetrated against the Protestants' we shall not cease to believe that they have been en couraged, indirectly at least. by those whose duty, and whose real interest, it was to have prevented them. It is not a little G. white washing," through the medium of the French Journals, that can remove suspicion from even some of the Royal Blood.— It ill becOmes those who were fed by the bounty of Protestants during their exile, who have been restored to their country, to their rank, and to high influence, by the bravery and magnanimity of Protestants, to encourage the persecution of Protestants. It is fitting that against persecution for religious opinions the feelings of mankind should be arrayed, and that bigots should be taught that they cannot tyrannize over the minds of others with impunity. We rejoice to find, that to the situation of the perse cuted Protestants in France, an enthusiastic but just attention is at length excited among all the friends to humanity, and to religious freedom. On the same day when the Dissenting Ministers of the Metropolis assembled to consider that subject as announced in this Paper, id the Protestant Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty" was 'all%) convened. As this Society includes many Members of the Established Church, and represents all the Protestant Dissenters in Engltnd and Wales, any expression of their senti ments deserves, and must obtain, much respect. To their exertions the Dissenters were principally in debted for the rejection of the Bill introduced by Lard SIDNIOCTiI—for the repeal of the Conventicle Acts, and for the other advantages titey have recently obtained. We are gratified to perceive that their efforts are not limited to their local and peculiar in terests, but that they have avowed their general at tachment to religious liberty, and their sympathy with the persecuted, in some excellent resolutions which they have published. We trust that the exertions of the friends of religi ous liberty will not cease till a loud and general in dignation is excited against the persecutors of their Protestant brethren in France; nor till they are com. pelted to desist from measures which would have dis. graced even the dark and barbarous ages of supersti• tion. It is surely impossible that in this era of en lightened improvement, gloomy and besotted bigotry can long succeed in trampling upon the rights and privileges of mankind. This morning we received the Paris Papers of Tuesday, from which we hive given ample and interesting extracts, The Trial of LAYALsrzst has commencl.d. flow such a fon!" erml:t ever have been employed by BiisArAitTis is surprising. He ,4.ems to hive exhibited evfty cFspesition to be a corn pl•te viil,rin, but be is either arr idiot, or be believes that every one else is void of all understakding. Brussels and Frankfort Papers came to hand last ni:,ht ; and this morning two Mils arrived from Harolsurgh. A latter from Cdr.), of Sz..emliLr 22, gives the following details of the events that have recently taken place there On the 4th of August a revo lution broke out iu this capital. The troops, not willing to submit to the new discipline which the Viceroy had just introduced, revolted against him.— Whelped !tli Pacha. being attacked so unawares shut himself tip in the citadel, where he valiantly de fended himself with his suite ag tiNst the rebAs.— The latter, not being able to take it, dispersed them selves about the country, where they pillaged the warehouses of the merchants and many private houses. In these ethical circumstances, the former had the presence of mind to order all the boats to ret;rs to the oilier tide cf . the Niie, arid at the same scat to diffe. rent places fur troops that were attached to him. " This measure has partly saved Cairo ; the rebels, wilt that their retreat w. is intercepted, quarrelled among themselves. and the troop , . u l )l;ged them to implore pardon, which the Governor, to avQii blo )d -shed, granted. On the 9th the revolution was finished. The loss sustained by the inhabitants of Cairn is esti mated at 25 millions of d liars. Mehemed Aly Pacha not only restored the effects foimd in the hands of the rebels, but has also partly indemnified the merchants out of his own property." The number of banditti that infest the Roman States begins to diminish. About a hundred have been killed or taken—eight have taken advantage of the Papal Bull, which gives an entire amnesty, on condition of their giving themselves up, and chiag public penance. The King of BRANDICNBURO has ordered that the Officiating Clergy shall be placed, in respect to in. come, in the same situation that they were in before the year 1806. That is, they are in future to be re. lieved from the burdens brought upon them by the war. Great preparations are making at Warmw for the reception of the Emperor of RUSSlA—their new Ki n g. According to the ancient laws of Poland, the King was obliged to profess the Catholic fAith, to which an exception must be made under the present Con stitution. _ _ A Russian corps of 40,000 men returning from France, crossed the Viltula on the 6th ult. at Pulowy, on its return to Russian Poland. We are concerned to notice that the spirit of sw. perstition seems not to have been abated by all the calamities which Europe has suffered. The king of NAPLES has made a present to the Virgin of M o nte Leone, of a diamond necklace, and one of MURAT'S decorations. The other articles in these Journals have 1( a al/ manner of interest by the conclusion of the Treaty with France. They relate to marches and counter. marches of troops, in cons«tuence of the impediments which had retarded the signiag of the Treaty. We may now expect by every Mail for some time to hear of the armies following their respective routes to their own States. The Journal de Paris states, that Divine Service k regularly performed every Sunday, according to the rites of the Church of England, in the Temple of the Oratoire, in Park. The band of the Guards executes the music of the Psalms ; the service is performed with great regularity ; and it is generally attended by the most respectable English families at Paris. A detachment of about 100 men of the 15th Light Dragoons, who embarked at Dover on Tuesday for Ostend, have been disembarked, and this day march. ed for Canterbury. THI FUNDS.—This was the account day in Con. sole; notwithstanding the large account, little or no alteration took place. On Friday next the 3 per Cent. Consols and 5 per Cent. Navy shut for the Dividend. The following were the prices this day a: 12 o'clock ; Reduced 601—Cons. money 60—for aec. 4 per Cent. 7511-5 per Cent. 911j—Bonds 6s. 7s. pr. Onus. 16i pr.—Do. pay. 161 17 pr.—Exch. Bilk 28. to ss. pr. CORN.-EXCIIANGE, Nov. 24.—We had but few fresh arrivals this morning, yet the supply, with what was left, was equal to the demand. Fine Wheat supports its price, but ordinary is not so brisk.— Oars are dull in sale, and Is. per quarter lower. In other kinds of grain there is no material alteration. CONTINUATION OF EXTRAORDINARY LUCK.—file Ticket No. 600. drawn on Thursday I.tst a Prize of 820,000, was Sold at Wana's truly Fortunate Office, No. 17, Ludgate-street, (near St. Paul's) where, it will be recollected, the TWO last 'm(lw Prizes were also Sold in Shares, besides a Variety of 1114ior Capitals in the last Six Months. TO-ralOttaoll,' will be the Third Day's Drawing, and 'tis not toe late to secure some of the three £50,000 or two £20,000 Stock Prizes, which are yet undrawn, and perhaps still on Sale at WEBB'S Office. THE musToL PEDESTRIAN.—Eo sr DAY. Saltford. Nisyymb.or ?S. " Mr. STOKES completed the fiftieth mile precisely at 17 min. 5 sec. p.tst five o'clock, )::•sterti ty ; and this morning . commenced his arduous twd,..rtak ., ig precisely at six o'clock, in good spirits, and at rare minutes after five, this afternoon, also conipkr,:ki another fifty miles." THE BLACK-HEATH PEDESTRIAN --14 I n DAY. (To perform 11,00 miles in succe.sive h00t . ..) EATON is still confident of accomplishing this ar. duous undertaking—he appeared, however, yestc ; - day, somewhat sure-footed —Few bets arc made. ANOTHER PEDESTALIN MAI CH FOR TWELVE HUNDRED MILKS. TUFFER, who failed in his attempt of completing 1000 miles, in 21 days, At the Cossack Field, ait, r having gone 553 miles, is now matched with his son, a boy of 12 years of age, for 100 guineas, to pertonn 1200 miles in 20 days, on a fine piece of growl 1, at the Roebuck Inn, in Maidstone, to commence on Monday, the 4th ofl)ecember, at tont o'clock in the morning. 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