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. ' LONDON GAZETTE EX PRAORDINA RY. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 23, 1815. rOREIGN-OFFICE, NOV. 23. Mr. PLANTA arrived early this morning from Paris. With the several Treaties. and Conventions, for the restoration and niaiatenance of Peace, between his Britannic Mt•je,ry and bis Allies, on-the one par:, and his Most Christian Majesty, on Om other ; siy,, , nd at Paris, on Monday the 20th instant, by Lord Viicount CASTLEREAGH, and Field-Marshal his Grace the Dulce if WELLINGTON, as Plenipoten tiaries of his M.t,in's•ry ; and by the Duke de !Unix met:, as Plenipotentiary of '}bis MOST CHRISTIAN 4JE.'sf V. ;' ft • * •/. • .1 • • ALNCH P.4PCRS. PARIS, NOVEMBAR • There was this day a Cabinet Council at which ' his Majesty and the Princes were present. • At Vuy, between Cambray and Bouchain, the French D4u4niers have seized ahnut four millions of • francs woirh of merchandize, which were hid in a c' ateau. These goods were introduced into France under a Dutch and Ifelgialct escort. ' An order has been issued foi shutting the doors of the House of Peers after the hour of nine o'clock on Tue.day. All rrsons having tickets for Marsh4l Ney's trial, must thciefore present themselves for ad mission before that hour. Tae galhry of the Louvre is ;bout to be again flied with Pictures as preseets fiom several French famelies of distinction. Tae head quarters of Prince Blucher were on the 15th As Namur. • The English troops at Ancona are expected to be relieved immediately by the Austrians. We are assured that the Duchess Dowager of Or leans has bought the hotel of M. Cambaceres for 500M00 francs. • Tbc barracks lately occupied by the Allied troops, in the Luxembourg gardens, have been lately demo. lis!ied. We oinderstand a Gentleman, who was known to have about him a large sum of money, was inviegled by some timortunate woman into a house near the Yalais lt.my:ti, where liquor being ordered, some poi- bon was pot into it, by which he tv.is taken alarmingly ill. The Police interfered, and on searching the house a man w.ts found sleeping in a private apart. int•ot with a poign.itti by his side, who was taken into custody—we hear he has beeu tried and condemned to '2:l years imprisonment. The wornen are secured and the money found. The Gentleman Who hati thi, lot wate escape is recovering. We understand that the Ministers of the Allied Powers and of France have signed a Conventiim; which is annexed to the Treaty of Pe ace, and whirl; peculiarly c-mceras the City if Ilemburgli. One of Genera; ClausePs Aides-de-camp, who had been at rested, has been set at liberty. Front Commercie we learn as follows :—lt is now thought. that the passage of the Prussian troops through the department of the Meuse is terminated . The 4th corps has passed Verdun, but the gates or the place were closed against them. • General Bourinont, whose evidence had been d - nied by Marshal Ney, has insisted on being con. fronted with the accused, in i,rder to repel his iaei n• Eli ins. rinotha dreadful murder bas been perpetrated in , Paris, upon an old gentleman, seventy years of age, by thrusting A poignard six inches info his eye. The house WAS immediately surrounded ; hut the three assassins escaped by the roof. They had not time to rob their victim. FROM SOULT'S MEMORIAL IN JtSTIFICATION OF lIINISELF. It remains tor me to give an account of my con aisict from the 11111 of May to the date of the Ord'. .nance which supposes me culpable. The facts in that period are neither numerous nor susceptible of tont, oversy. , • I was appointed Major-Gineral of the Armies : I • obeyed. In that character L signed an Order of the Day, addressed to the sAdiers, which was the work of the Government which I obeyed. I fought the Prussians and the English at Fleurus and ‘Vaterloo. If these are crimes, I am guilty. But I venture to 1 e!suade myself that there was nothing criminal in niy conduct ; and to be convinced of this, it seems to rrie that it would be lit to examine that c..nduct without prejudice, and without detaching self flow the circumstanc:s in which France was t!.en pLtced. Ei, Ni. , ji-ay had tor a long time been removed frota his kinAdJin. Th.rt retreat, which Always ap. va1....1 to n.e contra! y to the true interests of the had damped ti.t, coinage of the Royalist...* T..e caCvolatioli of the D.mke d'Aiigotilltue deprived t!;i: ia tl.eir Lt:.t hope. The acts 4 r.!sistatire wetc e v, r y wi.gr! 4LlCCeektili by ..:c3 of siihmissiou. A rent,.amber of Freochineu, doehtlo.s, regretted their I.; , :iti.n..te King, :did beh.:l,l die tiovertign with Ltr.)r, !ait to the tayetiollS law of tieces•:ity. A,l FrAlice 'submitted, and the :.±overit iornt 61 [lv: ILtirper was establi s h e d i n Litt. If they: the an incontestible p..tnt, this is without contra one. Things were in this state when the invasion of the foreign Powers became imminent. Numerous Pills.' Ain, English, and Austrian battalions had already rai.ed on nur frontiers the cry of hatred and of yen so:.nce. Tlie foreign Cabinets at first declared that they only tock up arms to reestablish t%e dynasty of the Bourbons ca the throne ; but they soon retracted that wAerlin engagement by a new ckclaration : and besides, has the sequel proved that these promises nugtit to have iiistired a blind confidence ? At the arproach of this torrent, composed of nu merous nations which had long been conquered any trarnplod urn by our armies, and amidst which ditty did WI appear a single hienchman, the only prospect which seenied to present itself to citizens of all opi nions was the rum of France, should she be reduced to see her plains inuadated, and her strong places seized, bra - million of foreigners, impelled by so many motives to her de unction. Surrounded by my family and my friends, I lamen.. • Count de Brow,. with whom a few days before the depar ture of the Court, 1 conversed several times ou the aubjket of the e , itleir which the King ought to pastas in the circumstances iu width hewas placed, can assert wbrilice, in ezpres.i,i g my opi- MO3, l did nut say to hint the same thing .tnu mamma oho', woo to Henry IV. in a situation nearly similar. f Willa situation of my country. when I lemma my nomination to the place of hfajor.General. and re , ceived orders to join the army immediately. I obeyed, not as a creature of Bonaparte would have done, in defence of w power whence he had've ceived or expected fortune. It is well known to the Whole army, that I always had reason to complain of that man, and though I served him with fidelity, no one more sincerely detested his tyranny. I obeyed, not as an enemy of the King would have done. I had received from him only marks of esteem and confidence; and I am incapable of being ungrateful." But as a citizen, as a soldier, I obeyed him who then was at the head of the Government. My heart may have deceived me; but it told me that a French Marshal could not allow his sword to remain in the scabbard when the whole army was taking up arms for the defence of the country. His- tory does not censure Admiral Blake, who, while commanding the English fleet under another usurper, whose power he also detested, did not the less va. liana , / combat in support of the glory and freedom of has. country. He consecrated these words in which he addressed his sailors—" It is our duty to fight for our country, into whatever hands she Go. vernment may tall." But why seek abroad for examples ? During the first years of the Revolution, when France, the vic tim cf the most ferocious usure rs, Languished under. a Government abhorred by the good citizens( and unacknowledged by all foreign Pewers, did public. opinion fix a stain on the names of those braes men who hastened at the call of the Chiefs of the State to' sacrifice their lives in repelling the enemies of thcir 'country ? %Vas it not in speaking of these times, so painful in recollection, that history has already said!,-- French honour toot refoge in the comp If submission to the Government established in France after the 20th of March be regarded as a crime, let it be recollected, that the whole nation must be guilty, for small indeed is the number of those who left the country to place themselves out of the power of the Usurper. . This theory would involve in it another cons.. quence of a very extraordinary nature. According to it the establishment by force of an illegitimate au thority, must cause the total destruction of a people. l'he usurper would not fail to punish those who should refuse to'submit to him. while the legitimate Prince, in his turn, would strike those who had sub mitted to the usurpation. The English Legislature fareseeiag this violent situation, provided for the public safety by a statute passed in the reign of Henry VII. which declares, that no one shall be held guilty for obeying a Sove reign actually reigning. This law, according to Publicists, is founded on these considerations, that a Prince who is reduced by force to leave his States, cannot exact obedience while he is unable to afford protecti,in—that it belongs wit to individuals possess. ing no authority to discuss the title of Sovereigns— and that the most manifest usurpation not less im poses the necessity of obedience than this most mate authority. But why should I say more to prove that in such a case, the cit.zen who submits to the existing,autho. rity, is justified by the circumstances ? Was not this rule, so necessary for the repose of States, fully ac knowledged and consecrated by his Majesty at the moment of his entering his kingdom ? Do we not read in his I'roclamatiou of the 28th of June, that he regarded no Frenchmtn inexcusable excefit the instigator: and author: of the horrible conspiracy. which bad forced him to leave France; but that he wished to throw a veil over all that had passed from the day of hit lea Ting Lille until that of his entering Cambial ? A stranger. as all my conduct proves, to the plot, the authors of which the King has thought himselt bound to punish, and not having served under the illegitimate Government, 'except during the interval elapsed between the two epochs marked by the Pro clamation, on what ground can I be the object of punishment, when my security rests on the highest guarantee—my own innocence and the King's word ? What then is the cruel fatality which arrays against me all the wrath of his Majesty, while his letter of the 13th of March, posterior to my retreat from the Ministry, still assured me of hia favour, and while his . proclamation of Jute 28 excuses the involuntary er rors in which I participated during that interval with so great a number of Frenchmen? Can it be my conduct since that proclamation which has rendered me unworthy of the benefit it guarantees? No, that is impossible; for that conduct, as the army and the capital' Can attest, was such as, of itselrperhaps, ought to suffice to recover for me all the favour of my Sovereign. Can the Ministers have neglected to inform his Majesty, that b.dore the 28th of June, and from the nionient that the abdication of Bonaparte permitted me openly to express my wishes, I neglec ,td no effort, avoided no danger, in endeavouring to r:clil the troops, the citizens, and the difkrent autho rities of the State to our legitimate Princes ? While men's Onds, and all the factions were agi tated with the question on what head the crown of, Frame, regarded as vacant, should be placed, was I found to hesitate a moment in recognising and pro claiming the rights of the Bourbons? Did I not do this in the Chamber of Peers, before the Provisional Commission of Grivetnment, in the presence of all die Generals of the army assembled in a Council of War w deliberate on the defence of Paris?? Is it necessary I should state, that my zeal and frankness in main taining that the honour of France depended on a, 'prompt submission to the King, rendered me suspect. ed by the Government; and caused my recal from the army, the command•ot which was entrusted to Count Grouchy ? Doubtless, I never thought of de manding from the Court the reward of this conduct. I believed I was fulfilling my duty. It was my coun try I considered myself defending. But though I was far from looking for any recompence, ought I to have expected that as the reward of my zeal and dorotedness . te the tense of the King, his Ministers would class me with.t.;lose who. have been signalised as :he most climinal or the most dangerous of his subjects ? Is it hecausei almost alone had the eiM. rage, in those moments of difficulty, to teed to her duty France, thew re•becurse free to follow it, thin my . name ha! bee p irliced at the head.oi, the nu of the proscribed t • . The mere I refl.:et on this strange restat, the'rnore I conipareit with mr;condutt and ale wisdom of the King, the more must I. be. confirmed conv iar Lion, that the mi11,(1..0t his lipicay has been, thrived 'that ray conduct Ito not been mitt . to that, ignorance as calumny can alone have instituted the process against me. I may then hope that his Ma jesty, on being better informed, will himself deign to Correa the fatal error of which I am the victim. For this, his knowledge, bit justice, and his' bounty, are my guarantees. But were I to be so unfortunate as to find that hi( Majesty, considering himself bound by a tint deter mination, should not think fit to employ his own au thority in repairing the injury he has done me, and should entrust to others than himself the examination and appreciation of my conduct, there is at le.tst one act of justice which doubtless I shall not solicit in vain. It is to be sent without further delay before the Judges destined to pronounce on my fare. This act of justice I shall receive as a benefit, since it will furnish me with the surest means of proving my in nocence. This benefit is secured to me by the laws; and I cannot fear the being deprived of a right so sacred, since it is from his Majesty I asint it. Malevolence and ignorance may obtain by surprise from the Sove reign a serious charge against an irreproachable citi zen; but to refuse the accused ,his means of justifica tion, to condemn him without a hearing, would bean act of tyranny.—l may then be tranquil. To conclude, whatever m.iy be the fate which awaits me,. I shall not be less the faithful subject' of the King, and the admirer of his virtues, or less ready again to expose my life, on tha first signal, for my t Prince and my country. Tbe- sentiment of my lose , oor them and my duty, is too deeply rooted in my heart for either nii.fortune or injustice to alter it. It is long since I took for my motto, Do 9our duty, halt pen (Aril mazy. 1 never lost sight of it in the midst of political storms : and my conscience tells me I Ought to continue faithful to rt. (Signed) Marechal Duc de DALMATIA,. St. Ames. the —. ASSASSINATION OF GENERAL. DE LA GARDE, AT NISMLS. (Private Letter.) " SIIMPAY MORNIN6I, Nov. M. Tt is a painful task for my Lj announce to you a crime that has excited the liveliest sensation at Paris, General de la Garde was assassinated on Sunday, the 12ih, at Nismes. I have already apprised you that the Due d'Angoolerne had redeemed the character of the Princes, front the aspersions malevolence had di rected against them, by Ms unqualified approbation of the moderate but firm measures which tam distin guished officer had taken to suppress .the atrocities which were disgracing and desolating the South. 66 Before the ch prune of the Prince, a deputation of the Relormed Religion obtained an Audience, and petitioned for the Illicit). of re-opening their temples. His ROyal Highness nut only acquiesced -in their demand, but expressed his surprise and dissatisfac tion, at the conduct of those who should have so tar mistaken the paternal nat 'Mons and the liberal prin ciples of the Goveretaoit, as to have necessitated their temporat y closure. 66 On leaving the town he comatanded General de la Garde to see hie promises fulfilled. • Oa Sunday morning, in the execution of his duty, and in the moment of haranguing a bigoted mob assembled to oppose hiaa, and which . he had too confidently stir feted to approach, a villain levelled a pistol at him, land shot him through the breast. • • 66 e nie first repot t frurn General Briche reached Paris to-day. General de la Garde was not dead, but slight hopes were entertained of his recovery. His constitution was already Unpaired from die wounds he had received in divers engagements. The cons , er• nat:on at the Thuiheries was great. No man's virtues were better known or more generaliy appre ci.,ted. He possessed a. devoted loyalty. net bliaki and headstrong, but the offspting of reason and cc n ' viction, tempei,d with every liberal noti in that edu cation, the lung and severe lessons of adversity and a generous respect for the rights of his fellow eitizns could inspire. He quitted France in his early youth, at the dawn of the Revolution. Soldier of fortune, be offered his services in Russia, and though without protection, his conduct and talents, which were of the first rate, procured him preferment, and he be came Major General and Chamberlain to his lmpe. riel Majesty. On the restoration of Louis XVIII. be returned to his native country, and with the con currence of Alexander was immediately and success fully employed. He rejoined the King at Ghent, and alter sharing his calamities, re-entered the metropolis with him ; he resided here but a very short time, in the enjoyment of the society of the elder branch of his accomplished and illustrious family, when he was invested with the superior military command at Nismes. He has been long aware of the perils that menaced him. His private letters breathe a spirit which announces' a determination of fulfilling his duty, and a placid resignation to the consequences. •' The execrable assassin of the virtuous de. la Garde, was recur-, by the military force, and in stantly transferred td a place of secrecy, and thence to one of safety. He is now in the prison of Montpel. lier. The dispatches of te-day announce that the General is not dead, but his life is deepened of. • M Ney's memorial has • been most properly an swered and refuted by Count Metternich. The Con vention of 1815 was never ratified by Louis XVIIL • It chalked out the line of conduct to be adhered to by' the respective subsisting Powers; it was personally binding on each of them, but it by no means gave. them, either collectively or individually, a right of interference either with the Tribunals or the subse quent regulations of the King. 46 An unavowed reply to tne explanation was 4rcu lated yesterday evening. 6 lf (says the writer) 'the French army wasin sufficient force to compel the et Hied Powers to treat with and agree to the 6 et - ty 4, f 'hell leaders, k is clear in the opinion of those lee ,it rs..the same articles were obligatory ou the bow b, i.s ; had not such been their persuasion diet cenciuding W similar 'treaty with Chiefs who had Irnaouo-iiien to second their pretensions, they would not have ne• sleeted insisting on them from a goveinment which had no effective force whatever. Notwithstanding this reasoning, the tact after ail is, nu such cOdven ti:in does exist, consequently there cars be nu violation. 48 41adame Ney has presented herself at the hotels of the Russian and Prussian Ministers. ,* It was whispered on SAtusday. that the Countesb St. Leo Oiladstate Louis l3onap4rte) WAS apprehen ded the Right before is the aparcnient of one of het its Paris. Some reason* mike it difficult to crick nimour," - - • .` ' • THE tVENING LONDON. TO-MORROW MORNING, NINE We LAS DAY OF DRAWING THE ispairTli WHIRL IS mATCHLEss t IT cow r eitiZES OF 45u,0u0, IWO PRIZES or FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 23, FRENCH PAPERS* RECEIVED THIS MORN( COLIRT OF ASSIZES AT sirriNgs 'OF THE COURT OF ASSIZt: • TRIAL OF COUNT I.AVALET M. Cs ILET. President. • • M. HIM, AdvomeoGencraS So early as right o'clock in the nal mense crowd besieged the doors : tho ments had been previously made by the National Guards, who guarded the Judges, Counsel, and stranger;, w' ted, had taken their scats by eleven o' The Court was opened at that how accused was then brougl.t in, and the mended his name and sirname. ,4 Marie Charnimt eJunt Lavalette. three orders of the Legion of Hollow The - kaggussr said—You will he, brought against you, as they are state dictment. The Clerk then read the indictmeni the prisoner Ia substance as follows On the 20th of March, at nine in Lavalette repaired to the Post-office, the hall pronounced these words skin of the Posts in the name of the : He afterwards asked whether Conn; Director-General; was sal in the of forming him he had cume to rep! would give him time for removing private property. Lavalette regti from that moment installed,"his first to Bonaparte, who was then at Fun; he had done. It his been learned from a witness on receiving the dispatch, let a smii said—" So ! S,! they expect me at On the same morning, a consider; journals, among which Was the Mot the proclamation of Louis XVIII, the Post-ofSce, to be distributed in M. Lavalette prevented their being mote three circular's and .a private ' own hand, to various Director of all occasions spoke in the name of till The act of accusation resAved itset t. 'flat Lavallette bad usurped public bad no right whatever. 2. That wikeit he assumed those functions, . nattered by M. Ferrand, the ygititnalle.Pcsu-nsaster S. That he was guitty of this is , ,urpatioa . him to assist the rein:Non of the 20th of MIN', 4. 'literature he was an accomplice in that rri-' in overthrowing the regitimato ateboci:y, t'ae penal Oiatie. • Atter tne act of Accusation WA: real General, as public prosecutor, opened The PRIOSIDSNT then put she to;1o► the accused : PROIDENT—You have in your knowledged that you wrote to !Tona l that it was to wish him a happy new quiet. Was not the letter dated the ber ?—Livalette. Yes. Q. Why did you write so lot% year '—A. Because the person to w letter did not quit Paris immediatel , main some time on the road. Count Ferrand was called in. valette's having taken possession of the Post Office on the 20th March.— being in his bedchamber on the 20th the morning, M. Macarel came to M. de Lavalette had suddenly entered . Audience, and taken possession of the administration of the. Posts. 44 I confess," said M. Ferranti, " th'. I did not expect this, otherwise I should have ask M. I)esolle for a detachment of the national gu tr,!. to protect me in my office. I immediately went to tfli Hall of Audience, to get into my cabinet, where the: were papers which 1 wished to remove: 1 saw NI. c. Lavalette, wbo told me I might take my papers which I did." Count Ferrand then demanded post-horses; but when be was about to set out, Chevalier de private Secretary of the Administration of the Posh c ...rte to tell. him that M. de Lavalette had refuvi him a permit ; and Madame Ferrand herself having .demanded this permit, sayhg, that Iler husbanl wished to join the King at Lisle ; she experienced A pasitiee retusal from M. de Lavalette, who woulJ only granta,perstit for M. Ferrand to go to Orli:arr. •to see his family. M. Ferrand .afterwards . admitted that he mei .give no iutormatioli as to any secret understanding which was supposed to exist between Lavalette and the Clerks in the. Post : office, never having witiced it. The accused, it is true, had nominated All tire Clerks And Couriers during his tomer Administration. The accused being now asked what he had to smuay tor himself, obsery'd—is In the fi fist placemust •thus publicly express my gratitude t Ferrand, *who, when. he succeeded me in 1814, obtain ed for ilg CK * rCL o . r T hu li s E ban t ik hs t ile 'TICKETS. TMi t Littrab THRED P teSOOOO, BSC 3, 1815. ING. w 7 PARIS. ZF.i AT IAIIII4 .ET CIL rat. morning an it the best arnt t: rip... *e Officer, the Hill. Ali who were adu lt : o'clock. .ur precisely : t!., he P:ssmo.v. r c:. He Answered—. :." 11.: wure C.': ur. hear the char,—, stated in the h 4 which charge t the morning, M. and on enterin g take posse,. Emperor." )not Ferranti, the office ; and on it:. lace him, said h e g his papers an d trcling himself r. st act was to write ontainbleau, who: Is that Illnapare. ile escape him an : 1 Paris l" erable number ci rositeer, containing :. had been teat tc the Departments. Ing t•nt off. He letter, all with hit the l'ost, and on the Einpe r o r . lelf into tuur heads. functions to which D, km, they wire saw- es-nneter. ion in order to enable MArcAt i tat rebellion, snit aidel to a aim 144 downead, the Advoc.tte• eel the proceedias:. Owing questias to int e rrogatories ac• iaperte at Elam, bet ew year, and to.ls the end of Novo ng before the NI.- whom trusted tine ely, and WAS to to He deposed to LA• f the government at ch.--He said, that 20th of March, in to inform him tha: meted the Hall o. the administration M. Ferrand, 66 thl: should have ask the national gu try. ediately went to the cabinet, where then : move: 1 saw NI. a LAC my Merit Li post-horses ; but :h e v a lier de VAIN tra tion of the Posi , .valette had refused rand herself having eho eenerience.l