Star. — London, England, 1815-08-24 00:00:00

: k i c king, impatient for the bold and ezperleneed rider who shall mount it and ly with it through the air. The army humbled but not dispersed, full of rage Which they dare not express, stimulated . by many re collections, incapable of supporting peace, still pos. , tssed by their old arrogance, have for a time placed vavoust at their head till a better can be found. over them and under them there is a bold party, long skilled in all arts of intrigue. As the force in which t hey relied has been counteracted by force, they have coolly betaken themselves to cooling. They have chosen Fouche for. heir head, a worthy and dexterous leader, who has begun his career by getting entrusted to his bands the execution of the sentence against the beads of the offending party ; such a clumsy and pinlent piece of jugglery, that it is inconc‘ivable how it ever could he attempted to be played off. T. have free room to a re-action, that it may ob t,iit a bro 'd looting and a sure foundation, forty departments remain unoccupied, and theirtrontiers are guarded by an army, which in appearance is sub ject to the iiing, but which in reality does not belong 10 ;,,m. beside it, under the pretext of forming a counterpoise, a numerous royalist army is organizing in t he West. In the country occupied by us, no one has thought of disarming the people ; if the National Guards are allowed to present arms before us, they may without ditliculty proceed still further. Even the partisans in Lorraine have been allowed to retain their weapons, ;Eat after being strengthened by emissaries from the ar mies, they may, with redoubled fury, turn them against us. The most ordinary prudence would have managed things otherwise; but all this is overlooked, that the republican Vendees, as they are called, which lie scattered like Oases in the Pyrenees and Cevennes, in the Alps, Jura, the Vosges, may serve as rally n, points for insurrection. The best preventative of all this is the possession of the fortresses, which would NAT as a bulwark against possible consequences, and a security of more avail than any that a groping policy can ever give.. Here alone the Prussians make good use of their time, pro bah', greatly against the opinion of the rest, who, as h appears, hope to preserve'what they do not owe to their weapons, by diplomacy, which has already de• prived ua of every thing, but never yet done us any good. THE EVLNING STAR. 1,01 DUN. THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1815. • sr.BAirmonoNtvr.—tioliday at the Bank. To.diy we received Brussels Papers to the 22d Aii;ust The dismemberment of France continues rill to be a favourite tneme with the German politi- Cans. The bombardment of the unfortunate city of in Switzerland, from the French fortress of Iluningueri, is continued from day to day. We are itpitient to see how this business will end—either BALBANEGUE D the Governor, acts under the authority of Louis XVIII. or he does not. If he has no au thority from his legitimate Sovereign, he is out of te pale of society, and the inhabitants of Basle have a right to seize him and put him to instant death y if oa the other hand he can drew ha Royal Master's warrant for this outrage on a defenceless city, we ap prehend that Louts XVIII. has been advised by his Ministers to declare war against the Swiss Cantons. BRUSSELS, AUGUST 20. We have just been honoured with the following Letter : " Head-quarters, at Maubert Fontaine, Aug. 17. " I inform you by the present letter, titat the for tress of Rocroi surrendered yesterday at noon to my army. The day before yesterday, in the evening, the trenches were opened at Coe distance of 300 paces from the fortress. After a bontbardmeut of tour hours the town surrendered, upon the same conditions as were granted to Landrecies and Philippe% was defended by 39 pieces of cannon. 66 AUGUST L'S, Prince of NUSSIA. '; To the Fcli,ir of the 11. de la Belgium." We learn lrom Valenciennes that Prince Frederick, .9110 commands the corps before that forucss, is de. Tart.A fur Paris. BASLE, AUGUST 9. Ihtuingnen has continued for some days past, and =vain this morning, a brisk fire. upon Bourglibre and ':eudorf : B4sle alone has been spared. Our alarms still remain. All brandy, oil, and in general all com :-.tib!es, have been removed from the magazines and the Custom-house. Barbanegre has threatened .13 with a fresh bombardment if our chaueurs do not irk the right bank. Yesterd.ty the Austrians and the Swiss kept up a br.sk tire against Huninguen. Protected by little Vat'lements, our chasseurs killed many of the ene my's People. The French are trying to make a pas sage to communicate between the fortress and the ad vanced redoubts, but this work is continally inter lerruPted. List night the garrison of Huningueff :hide a vigorous sally on the side of Neudorff. This morning the Governor repeated it M much greater force, but was repubied with loss. 'the desertion among the garrison continues. No. r'ces, adroitly thrown to the outposts by the inhabi tants of &mita, are not without effect. The Austrian General Baron Fasching, who has been to urge the advance of the heavy artillery, is tipected this morning. Some pieces are already ar rived, and are going to be mounted on the batteries. The officers affiim that the siege will begin on the 11th. His Imperial Highness the Archduke Jahn has returned from Zurich. We learn that Prince Schwartzenberg and the Duke of Wellington have presented to the King of France an energetic Note upon the bombardment of 4sle. AUGUST 12. .onr uneasiness teCOMMORCig. Gs.' nasal Zarbanegre . has notified, Chit unlen the !none/ which he has demanded be paid hien to-day, before noon, he will bombard the city anew. The heavy artillery and the ammunition continue : t6 arrive.— Some artillerymen from Zurich, and six- df cannon, arrived here this morning. The post from Basle to Befort was Stopped yester• day at the French out-posts t it is even said that General Lecourbe has denounced the armistice, but we do not attach any credit to this report. Our eight battalions before Huninguen are each to send a company for the expedition to Lower Ult.' derwold. Ii a a a t GHENT, AUGUST 20. His Excellency Lieutenant-General Baron Evers arrived here yesterday. We know that he his a high command in the army which is going to be formed in our neighbourhood. The barracks for the cavalry have been very carefully examined, which makes us presume that bodies of these troops are ex pected here. _ LEIPSIC, AUGUST 12. While a report has been widely spread at the same time in England, Holl sod, Italy, and almost all Germany, of a speedy peace with France, fnunded on the integrity of that kingdom according to the , Treaty of Paris ; it continues to be asserted in Aus tria, that a considerable line will be separated from that country, and that this condition was agreed upon before hand, in case it !Mould be necessary to con quer France again by force of arms, which has been done, STUTFOARD, AUGUST is. Our Gazette publishes the following article under the bead of Ulm, Bth August : " Prince Hohenzollern's Light Dragoons departed. yesterday for Elehingen : they were succeeded by that of Guilay. These two corps received orders to return into the Austrian States." We have this moment received from Vienna news that the regiments of Landwehr in Austria, which had been ordered to march, have received counkr orders. We this day lay before our Readers two documents which have made their appearance as State Papers emanating from the French Ministers. The first, a Report to the KING, by Founts, on the situation of France : the second, an Answer by the same Ministers to an Official Note of the Allied Sovereigns. They are both composed with considerable address ; and in both there are large samples of that insolence which used to characterise every act of the French Govern ment, during the revolutionary period, in their inter. course with the agents of those nations whom they were robbing and at the same time insulting. It is amusing to observe the gravity and importance with which FOUCHIL now strings together a parcel of truisms. Can any oae doubt that he who has lost a leg has become a cripple—that a patient in the hands oT the Doctor is more to be pitied than a man In health; that fire; in a few hours, can destroy more than human industry can build in many years; that war is a most dreadful calamity; that robbery and oppression are detestable ? Was not that which is true in its own nature now, equally true a year ago—or twenty years ago ? Could he not foresee when he traitorously joined BONAPARTE, that the Allies, if able, would again visit Paris ? Did he not support the infader. and use all his influence to gain fur him the support of the French people, in the confidence that they would beat the Allies ? Did he net know that if the French should fail in their ef fort, the Allies, upon a second return to Paris, would find it necessary so to manage matters as to firevent -the necessity of a third invasion ? Or did he imagine, on the contrary, that they would again be imposed upon by unmeaning professions ; that they would hold out their faces to a Fouate, a TALLEYKAND, or even a Lows, to have a bandage placed over their eyes like criminals about to be guillotined ? The Allies acted with so much moderation and forbearance on their first conquest ! so differently from what the French would have dune in similar' circumstances, that all the jacobins and BONAPALITISTS laughed at them. They had even the folly to im. pute their conduct not to magnanimity but to fear and dread of the energies and resources of a people who had already shown with how little compunction they could, in quest of revenge, outrage all the feel ings of humanity—all the dictates of justice ! They miscalculated, in consequence, the moral and physi cal powers both of themselves and the Allies. They twee been baffled in the rEsult, and now they have the impudence to attempt to varnish over the neces sary consequences of their own misdeeds under the veil of complaints to the Km that his influence has not been able to perform an impossibility. Foccna's Report is an insult to the KING. Hi: Majesty might with much truth say to him in reply " You, Sir, and your late associates, have produced all the evils which you now affect to bewail. It was you, Sir, not the Allies, who rendered my influence unavailing ! By my influence they were, a year ago, induced to quit Paris and France without levying any fine—not even requiring the restoration of the property you had stolen from them: by your influ ence they were compelled to come back again ! You have destroyed my influence by proving to the Allies that no engagement of mine can idsure their security while such men as you have power to involve them in a new war. Could you not foresee that is the event of their defeating your pro : jests they would take ether :weans for their own se • 'eerie* than 'the tigaginiettit oithe king a a hale's,' and a perjured peopled YOU, 'Sir, and your ussticiatei •intSt Allieshaie brought Upon Frtnietlinevili • Which you would new impute to others as their KM You would now throw the whole blame of thetridies which compelled the Allies to return, upon the fallen tyrant whom you formerly adored. DO yOo that mankind are so easily duped as not to know that but far your trea:in and rebellion he could neVer 'have advanced into the kingdom !" We might enlarge, but it canticle be necessary. The argument may be summed up in few words. Ti!! France shall be restored to perfect order : till justice shall be able to reach the guilty: till neither a Fouctia nor any other leader or exciter of rebellion and war shall have any More power to disturb the peace of the world, a necessity is laid frpod the Allies to maintain large armies. Whether is it most equitable that alt. ) , should be maintained at the expense of their own people on whom so many evils have been inticted by the French people (not the French King), oi in the country, and at the expense of those who, for twenty : five year:, have not suffered them to have one moment's repose 1 The Allies have occupied Paris little more than twenty five day: ! and already the French are tired of thew. This does not surprize us, for wherever an invading army takes up its quarters we may say, with Czsan to the complaining Ganfs, va vials," but even much as we know of the cha racter of Fouczia, we are astonished at his impudence. Yesterday, at one o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office, which was attended by the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Earl of HARROWAY, the Earl of WESTMORELAND, the Earl of Livlilt POOL, the Right Hon. N. VANSITTART, Viscount SIDMoUTH, Earl BATHURST, Earl of BUCKINGAMSHIRE, and the Right Hon. W. W. N H lA. The Cabinet sat till lust three o'clock, when Mr. Cioun, the King's Messenger, was ordered to hold himself in readiness to proceed with dispatches to Viscount CASTLEREAGH, at Yesterday morning the Duke of YORK transacteJ military business with his Secretary at York House ; afterwards his Royal Highness walked to Carlton House to attend his Royal Brother, the ReoEN r ; and from thence he walked to his Office in the thrse Guards, where he remained some tune. A Messenger has arrived in Downing -street, from Paris, with dispatches from the D,ke of WELLING TON, containing the details of, the dastruction of the Barracks in the Bois de Boulogne, occupied . by the British and Hanoverian troops. Government have received dispatches from Lord EXMOUTH, dated from the Bay of Naples, 9tll July. We understand they contain an account of the distri bution and movement of the troops under his cons mand on that station, and of the proceedings against the Algerines. By the Admiral Griffiths we have received letters and papers fiom Buenos Ayres, to 29th May last, which mention the entry of the independ,nt army of the latter into Potosi. This army is conr.anded by General RONDILAU, 1410, it seems, obliged PEZUELA, commanding the Spanish forces in that quarter, to! fly precipitately towards El Desaguadero, leaving behind him all his artillery, baggage, and military stores, which fell into the hands of the Buenos- Ayrists in the important point of Santiago de Cots. gaita. The independents of La Paz, Cochabamba, and Cusco, were previously posted in El Desagua dero, and as this is the main point of regress to Lima, it is possible that PEEUNLA 9 S retreat and sup plies of provisions will have been cut off. Ia the Buenos Ayres Gazettes is a dispatch of Ge neral AarJoAa to the Supreme Government of that place, in which, in his own name, as well as that of his troops, he protests his entire submission and fide-, lity to the same, and expressing the firm resolution of all to die for the liberty and independence of the country. In the same Gazettes is also seen a procla mation of the municipality of Buenos Ayres to the inhabitants, exhorting them to give donations for the increase of forces, as well sea as land, which was car rying into effect, in order to oppose any expedition that might come out from Spain. According to both letters and papers, the most animated enthusiasm every where reigned, a great number of troops were organised, and all were in daily expectation of the threatened expedition, under a hope that one effort' would seal the independence of the country. Extract of a letter from Barbadoes, dated July 13: 44 We are all in a bustle here, fitting an expedi tion against Guadaloupe, and expect that in about it fortnight 6,000 men will proceed from hence. 'There are about 1,100 regulars at Guadaloupe, but it is stated that they are in want of ammunition, uhich they expect in the HIIRMIONE frigate, from New York. It is, however, reparted, that an American pilot boat has got into Point-a-Petra, with 60 barrels of powder on board. Sir JAMES LEITH is to conduct the expedition, and I believe means to make a rossft de-main of it, and soon settle the business. He will carry white troops. Martinique is garrisoned, or will, be, with West India regiments. By an arrival from the Satiates, I learn that the soldiers at Guadaloupe will lay down their arms if they are guaranteed free from English prison. Sir CHARLES SHIPLEY sailed last night in the VENERABLE, with proclamations. The white !lag was hoisted at the Saintes ten days ago; it is garrisoned by 400 of our troops. LIMNS sent BIANCI, a Corsican, express to France in an American pilot-boat, on the 4th instant, to crave reinforcements; but we expect here, and also at Mar tinique, that Napoleon will have been burled from his throne before he arrives, and look forward to a return of peace. Under this impression the planters at Martinique hold their produce for France. The PIGMY schooner arrived at Plymouth from Barbadoei (from whence she sailed on the 16th of IJuly), brings the following additional intelligence:- 4 4 An expedition, on an extensive scale, was fi tting out at Carlisle B ay for the reduction of Guadaloupe. All the men of war on the station, consisting of 16 sail, and also several merchantmen were expected to sail about the 25th. Six thousand men were em barking, the troops at Martinique being withdrawn for the expedition, and the garrison duty performed by the Black troops, under the direction of British . Olken. The expedition was under the command of Sir Jesus LEITH and Admiral DWwAM." The Scakby Castle, Captain HAaass, sailed from Amboy** fee China about the 19th of January, ibiirdir, ArrAzWEKti. MA11.9. ,airs. Woe., 1 'ARC isik. Dublin -•- • 1 0 1 Cvllig -•• ti o 04terford •. II 1 Malta - 0 Co Garage/ and iies, 1 6 France .- - 0 1 Holland •• • 0 1 Hailtimirei -- 0 it Gottenbuilb • 0 1 glanders •. . 0 o !Ashen -- - 0 1 COIIIIIII4 .- - 0 g His Majesty's ships WIER, PACT. LUI, R trastAtr, and ANTELOPZ, are ordered to begot Trudy for tort;,gn service immediately. PLYMOUTH, AUGUST 2?. ' - • Came in the HAUGHTY :led SNAKE brigs of Warp from a cruize; Christian, HAM, .rd:111 Laneily 1:11, from Waterford, and Perseverance., from Cm-L-- 8,61 rd his Majesty ship TIBER for the Eastward. l'!I, AIIGU:iT 23. Arrived his Majesty's ship I - Ltvoc iron's a cruise, and Ranger, Winn, from St. Petersburgli. DEAL, AUGUEI 29. Came down from the River and remains, the Dn. chess of York, MASSINGIIAM I for Burly-. Ares Arrived the DEXTROUS sloop of vrar front Portsmouth. HARWICH. AUGUS 23. Arrived the Lady Nepean packet, with a rn 'il from Cuxhaven. Sailed the Beattfoy packet for Hol land, and Henry Freeling packet for Cuxhaven; both with mails.—Wind West. MILFORD HAVEN. AUGUST 22. Arrived the Speedwell, Diligence, and For, Re venue cutters,. from their respective cruise,; Sand. wich packet, with a mail and pass.ng , rs from Wa terford. Sailed his Majesty's ship Niyart.e, f2O guns, Capt. BINGHAII, OD a crnixe; Hope, Howatio. from Quebec for Liverpool ; Union, Evav-;, Bet bey, RactrAttos, and Nancy, RICHARDS, from Newport tor Cork; Diligence, Naval transport, from hence for Liverpool; Susan and Mary, EVANS, from Liverpool for St. John's, N. wfoundland ; Mary Ann, C itivvyrn, from Bristol for Liverpool; Charles, Hvone., from Neath for Waterford.—Remain the Pito . reczon gun brig. • . BELFAST, AUGUST Monday morning, at hall-past five, the Andrew Savage, of Portaferry, from Antigua, rum ladva, struck on the rock inside the buoy of the Brig , . ; s, below Grnomsport ; the vessel has sustainid cunsi. der.ible damage. Provided the weather coLtinoes mo derate, it is expected the cargo will be safely landcd. . 7HE .1 I? MT. Tuesday, the 21st Regiment left Edinburgh Castle for Stirling. Thursday the head-quarters of eie Royal Ayr. shire Militia were removed from Cavan for Au chincloy. The South Gloucester Regiment of Militia is • or. dered to Plymouth, whither it is now on its route; the Stafford, to Liverpool, to embark for Ireland ; tf:e Berk:, to Reading ; the South is ordered to Chelmsford ; the Glamorgan to Bristol ; and' the Durham was to march this day from Darlingtoo to Newcastle•upon-Tyne. The 97th Regiment has landed at Cork, and pro ceeded to Fermoy. Last week about WO dismounted Hanov !ian cavalry marched into St. Michael's Barracks, Nor wich. The depot of the 2d Dragoon Gu trds is on its route from North Britain to Birmingham. The second battalions of the \ pat And 57th Reg:. ments from Jersey. and the 82d frurn Alderitey. h.rce Arrived at Portsmouth; the two last corps Are to be stationed at Winchester. The West Norfolk regiment of bliliiie have left Norwich Barracks for Ipswich, prep trAtory to their embarkation for Ireland. Courers.Martrial.—Mond.ty senhight the pro. ceedings of the Court. Martial in Limerick, oft Cot net SUTTLEWORTH, of the 4th Dr igoOn GuArds," termi nated—he was tried on four ch. ages, preferred by his Commanding OtEcrr, Colonel SitzithocK, VIZ.: lsr, For being absent Without leave, tram the Bth to the 234 of August, Is t 4. For ditto, from the 161 h to the 24th of February. 1815. 3d, For ditto, faint the. 21th to the 31st of Jelly, 1815 4th, For nut having di.c•:arged a regimental debt fur fact ant spirt, amounting to oell Si. on a yaricular day. On the pAtt of the prosecation, the Colonel and Adjutant RALLET were examined, and after being cross-examined by the prisoner, Counsellor Coopcn, by permission of the Court, addressed the Members in an eloquent and energetic manner, after which the Court adjourned until Wednesday, when Lienten int WGIIF.M3Its of the 84th Regt. was put upon his trial. Yesterday a Curt of Directors was held RI the E is India House, when Major-General Sir HUDSON K.C.B. was Appointed Governor of the island of S— tirlen*. k Wednesday se'nnight, as Mr. KEAN, the actor, writ travelling from Dublin to Cork, in his own carriage, accompanied by Mrs. KeAN, just before they came to Glanmire, as the coach was descending a hill, the dickey, in which were the coachman and a female servant, gave way, when the young woman was t;:rown into the read, by which accident she had her.upper lip and nose split. The coachman was firm', betwecia the horses, and escaped unhut t; the horses being pe-r. wetly manageable stopt, and no further injury was insiained. M. de CIIATEAUNIMP, the eloquent French hist°, and who is already known in this country by his Lives of the most celebrated French Generals %%2x, figured during the Revolution, has :strived in Lon don, in order to publish a Life of lloNa Pam:, in. eluding Portraits of his Generals, Senators, Mini, stets, &c. The first volume, which it written great spirit and elegance, has just appeared at Da- CONCHY'S, in Bond-street r it embraces the early life et BONAPARTE, and his first campaign in Italy.. The second volume, which is in the press, will con tain the expedition to Egypt, the Revolution which made him First Consul, and the second Conquest of Italy. M. CIIATIAUNEUF'S object in coming to Eng. land is obvious: while the French press continues under the controul of FOUCHE and his minions, all of whoa& it will be recollected, were the servile Ministers a . BONAPARTZ'S crimes, no impartial historian dare publish their true character:. in France. 48 I have endeavoured," says M. CHATEAUNIter in his Preface, 44 to write the History of ButiAPARTE, as it will be written fifty years hence. I speak of foreign Courts with great frankness =if great min compl of let them know, that it is at the price o public coo `sure that 1 3 nOVIDYNCII has endowed them with power."