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PROCLAMATION. . . TRJSI THL TRJNIDAD COURANT AND COMILICIAL GALLTTL, OF SATURDAY, YERRUARY 11,1815. TRINIDAD. ...... 14 By Ms Royil Highness the Pa tY ct of WALes, Itteettr of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the Dank and on the behalf of his hlAit 31*Y : " A PROCLAMA PION. "Whereas doubts have arirt•n, and may in future arise respect • ing the nature and extent of the Jurisdictian, Civil as well as Criminal, to which all Persons serving in his Majesty's Regular Army, and stationed in our Island of Trinidad, are amenable and liable, for the removal of the same, and the evil conse quences arising therefrom: we having taken those circumstances Lao qur considemdon, at a Court held at Carlton-House, on the ;its., cosh day of VecvniSer, in the year of our LORD One Thou sand Eight linntirett and Fourteen, have thought it rap divot, in the mire and on the ht•hslf of his Majesty, and by and with ..1‘ to- of Ilk Mojesty's Privy Council, to order, pro,:laim, and .I. , clare, as ;t is hereby ordered, proclaimed, and Cciared : toa: from .at.! after the promulgation of this our Proclamation. tie c•y::i±ancc of al Civil Acts, Action% Contracts, inlitti taoc,s, \Vats, inventories, Okkgations, and all other Civil Acts, (Nees:ell, made, and entered into by all or any such Person or Persons, sq serving and stationed as aformid, or in whica they shall ht' in any wt*e interested or concerned, shall belong and appertain to the several Tribunals of Ordivary Itteisdiction now established in our said Island of Triaidad ; and that in all and every ruc•h cases, the said Persons are to be deemed cud taken, and are hereby declared to be amenable and answeralilF for the same. " And we do hereby further order, rotlaitn, and declare, that the cognizance of all Criminal QlYem.•e% not provided for or made punts!. able by the several Mteiny Act=, passed, sad ty be hereafter passed by the Patlia►neot of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, at and with which any Perstat serving and stationed as aforesaid shall he charged and accka.t d, or susreciLd, shall iu future exclu.ively belong told appemin the Tribunal of our Governor and Commander-in-Chief of th• said Wand of 'Trinidad, for the time being, or LieuteGatit-Go vernor of the same, accompauled by his Assessor, and to no ot!u r TribunaL " And we do hereby further order, proclaim, and declare, that the several exceptions created and made by the Spanish Law, iu stic'i Criminal Cases as aforesaid, whereby they become cog nizable by the Civil Jurisdiction , be, as the same are hereby de clared to be, henceforth repeated and annulled. " And we do hereby fi.rther order, proclaim, and declare, that these our Presents he, in virtue of our Proclamation of the Eighteenth day of December, One Thousand Eight Hundred and I but en, enrolled and registered in the Books of Record tk.t a:e thereby directed to be kept by our Governor, and by the ;clop-rive Judges of our several Courts or Tribunals, esra d ~ n d in force ' or to be hereafter established and in force wt hit) cur said islan d of Trinidad. " And, lastly. we do hereby, in the name and on the behalt of his Majesty, will artl require, and strictly charge and cont sna!:d otinGoveinor for the time being, or Lieu!enant.Governor, a: d the Otli:er that may now or at any time hereafter have the d of Lis 'Majesty's Troops, in Garrison in our said I:l4cd, ludgi.i of all our Courts and Trilituials thereof, tbs. Quarter% at.d all our Officers Civil and Mili tary, and ail other his hiajery's loving Subjects, within the said t. 3 obey and observe these Presents, and to govern t le. s ace.. ir 'hag I y. " bis Excellency Sir RALPH JAMES WOODFORD, Part. our Governor and Commander-in-Chiet in and over the S.Hti Ward of Trinidad, at the Town of Port of Spain; and given under the Great Seal of our said Island, this Ninth day of Febri..iri. in the year of our Loan One Thoueand Eight Hundred ar.d Fitt:en, and in the Fifty-fifth year of his Majesty's Reign. signed) " 'ULNA JahigS WOUDIVIL/). " By his Bacellencrs Command, (Signed) " P. RCINAGLI, Sec. " GOD UM rum yam." km I eI 0I 0 14.. 01-: r. >r.,- .•, „ ~ ~. • I TO THE EDITOR OF MR STAR. London, May 9, 1915. Sin—The above inclosed printed copy of a Pro clamation issued n the name of his Royal Highness the •Prince Regent, by his Excellency Sir Ralph James Woodford, Bart. Governor of Trinidad, has just reaci.ed me ; and, though it appears to be some what obscure and unintelligible In an English reader, yet, as the British army is immediately and necessa riy concerned in its promulgation, I trust you wilt give it publicity, through the medium of your Paper. Libel ality is more generally admired than despised. ficnce it is not my intention to characterize one act lif indiscretion, by the indignity of another.—But my sole object is ui apprize the British Army, in ge r.eisl, of the foreign municipal law to which' they will become amenable, and by which they are now to be governed, in point of moral duties, on being eatintled at Trinidad. This foreign municipal law is na other than the immaculate Spanish Code, which avith the Mutiny Bi►l and the Articles of War, will. for to a pretty voluminous, if not a very useful wade mecum for the British soldiery. Many of the Officers of the British Army, and :tome of the flower of that army in which the name of the Commander of the Forces on the Leeward LI Ind station, stands highly distinguished, have had opportunities of ,witnessing Spanish manners and Spanish customs These Officers will, therefore, perhaps be enabled to duly appreciate the advantages which are likely to result to their brave companions in arms, from the Spanish Code, which has so long and so unhappily distracted, and, as I ant informed, nearly completed the total ruin of the unfortuaate island of Trinidad. To the consideration of the ra-.' tional aad enlightened part of that army, the follow ing observations are therefore respectfully submitted. By the Mutiny Bill, and by that Bill only, which is annually passed in Parliament, his Majesty is au thorized “ to ftirm, make, and establish, Articles of War, for the better government of his Majesty's forces, which Articles shall be judicially taken no tice of by all Judges, and in all Courts whatsoever." Sect. 33. In exercise of this power, his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, was pleased to order, by a clause in the g4th section of the Articles pf War, (011814), that notwithstanding its being directed si in the 11th sec tion of these our rules and articles, that every Com manding Officer shall deliver up., to the Civil Magi:- hate, all persons under his command, who shall be accused of any crimes which are punishable by the inown laws if the land ; yet, in our garrison of Gi braltar, and the island of Malta, or in any place le yond the sea:, where our forces now are or may be employed, where (here is noform of our CIVIL judicature in force, the General, Governor, or other Officer Commanding in Chief, for the time being, is to ap point General Courts Martial as occasion may re quire, for the trial of any such persons under his command, accused of any wilful murder, theft, rob bery, rape, coining, or clipping the coin of Great Britain or Ireland, or any foreign coin current in the garrison or place under his command, or of having used violate, or committed any offence against the person or property of our subjects, or of any others entitled to our protection, &c." 4nd by the Proclamation accompanying this letter, his Royal Highness has been pleased, for the. reascns ;herein eyed, to annul the provisions of that clause at Iwo 1 is 9 *CAA ll) ordain ; 4 , that the cognizance of all criminal offences, not provided For, or made punishable by the several Mutiny Acts" (though there is but one in force at the same time) " shall, in future, belong to the tribunal of his Ala. jetty's Governor and Commander in Chief of the said island, accompanied byhis Assessor, and to no other," under the criminal law of Spain ; though I am in formed, that the Spanish laws expressly provide and enact, that the military shall only be tried by their own peculiar fuero or tribunal,—a Court Martial. Upon this a considerable doubt occurs to me; and that doubt is, whether the expression. " where there no form of our civil jsurscature in force," is to b:: taken in a confined or in an enlarged sense; that is to say, whether 4. our civil jai:satyrs" do nut, by necessary and rational implication, with relation to the 33d clause of the Mutiny Bill, mean and refer to that form of civil judicature, where British laws are in force ?—Or may this expression of his Royal High- • ness, emanating from the authority of an act of the British Legislature, be carried so far as to extend to such foreign law as may happen to be in force,‘ in a cot:et:coal dominion of the King ? As I am no lawyer, perhaps I may have an erro neous view of the subject; but it strikes me, that the exceptive words, 44 where there is no form of our civil judicature in force," ought, to be understood in a li teral and legal sense, to mean such courts of justice .is are not consonant to the laws and constitution of England. For suppose these exceptive words had been used in the body of the. Mutiny Act, instead of in the Ankles of War, would anyone infer, that the Legislature meant, or contemplated, a Spanish or . any other foreign tribunal ? And, on the other hand, can it be said that they exclude the Courts of Jamaica, where, thank GOD, British laws have so long prevailed, from exercising jurisdiction over such public offences as might be committed there by mill tar men ? The 14th section of the Mutiny Bill pro vides, " that nothing in this Act contained, shall exempt any officer or soldier, from being proceeded against by the ordinary course of law ;" and the 15tli section says, " that if any Officer, Non-commissioned °dicer, or Soldier, shall be accused 9f any capital crime, or of any violence or offence, against the vers-a, estate, or property of any of his Majesty's subjects, *filch is punishable by the known laws cf the land, the person so accused shall be delivered over to die Civil Magistrate." Sorely then, no one will, as it would seem idle to contend that the ordinary course of law, or the known ! ran of the land, or the Civil Magistrate, sa designated it , a statute of the United Kingdom, can have any :elation to di •fir,•ign possessions of his Majesty under foreign kw: ! Not is it altogether immaterial to re collect, that the military do not go to Trinidad as citizens of their own tree will, but as soldiers in the service, and by the command of his Majesty.— Hence, if I 2M right in my premises, the jurisdic tion which Courts Martial have over such offences as come within the letter and meaning of the '24th section of the Articles of War, does not seem to be naked away by the Proclamation; which, probably, will be productive of-as much confusion as remedial good. But, as this is a new and nice, if not a great po liticatquestien, 1 confess my inability to pursue tt any farther ; and, therefore, I must leave it to the wise heads and big wigs to be determined— ,' On lex incerta, ibi tea nulls." Of all known judiciary Codes, however, I have been credibly informed by gentlemen who have long resided in the Spanish dominions, that the Spanish Criminal Law is the most deficient, imperfect, and dilatory, if not one of the worst and most disgusting, criminal codes in the {town world, favouring only life, without the slightest regard to liberty. Indeed, I feel myself authorised to say, there is scarcely a' well informed Spaniard in the Spanish dominions who does not decry the criminal law of Spain and her Indies, as a chimera to the attainesent and ends of public justice ! Perhaps, on this subject, tli • present Chief Judge of Trinidad might be capable of inruiabing a great deal of confirmatory information, if his judicial situation did not preclude him from openly avowing it. But whether the criminal law of Spain be suitable, or well or adapted, to the character and genius of the Spani . .h nation, it is not my province particularly to enquire. AU I wish to ask, and all I put is—Can a soldier, serving in the Brisish Army at Trinidad, be legally and constitutionally iticd and punished there, by the Spanish, or any other foreign criminal law ? It the affirmative of t!:is question be insisted upon by anyone, I beg leave, as a British subject, to enter my humble, but solemn protest, against it.— And, as to the expediency of the measure, that might be answered in this way : The Spanish laws are conceived, penned, and pro. i mulgated in the Spanish language. The British sol diery, in general, speak and understand no other laa guage but their mother-tongue, whether it be Lag. lisle Irish, Scotch, or Welch. They may be capable of reading and understanding the pl.sin language of the Mutiny Bill, and the Articles of War ; but, if you were to put a Greek lexicon, or the Hebrew bible into their hands, would they be able to find out the • word for obey ? This is plain and analagous reason ing to the understanding of the British soldiery ; and, it you wish them to perform that which they are ca pable of, do not place them in the darkness of a su perstitious dungeoq, andahen punish them, by Spa. nine law, for not seeing cliarly at Trinidad. But, if it is your intention to turn their bayonets into brief:, and mike them Spanish lawyers, then 64 comes the tug of war." In that case it will be in cumbent on the Imperial Parliament of the United Kingdom, to enact, or for his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, to order and proclaim, so long as Trinidad continues to be governed by Spanish laws, • that the Officers and soldiers of the British army shall, as a previous and indispensable qualification, not only learn, but make themselves masters of the ' Spanish language, before they be permitted to serve • his Majesty at that Island. • But, if this should be neither practicable nor con stitutional, it will then be expedient, for the purposes of material justice, to nominate a Learned Doctor of the Civil Law, who understands the Spanish lan ! gone, or a Spanish Advocate, who understands the English language, as the professional and legal de fender of the pour veteran British soldier at Trinidad; for while the Governor of that colony has occasion 14r, and constint recourse to, the assistance and ad vice of- a•tipaniili•Assessor*, it is but fair, all circum- • Don Amcmio Gomez, who was AISCSIIer of the Captain Ga. nerd Montevertle, at the time the last revolutionary war broke out at Caraecae, from a viulatioa s ai has beta all, ot . tke Si fitulatJun spade with Mira*. stances being considered, that..the poor soldier should have an efficient legal adviser assigned him, in the same way, and for the same obvious purposes of legal defence, ad f i rectunt videndi. And, perhaps, this is the more necessary, because I understand the Assessor of the Governor of Trini dad is the same as an Auditor with the Spaniards, to whose opinion and advice the Governor, or Cap tain General, in the Spanish dominions, is obliged im plicitly to conform, according to the Spanish law.— These may, at least, be said to be circumstances de serving of serious consideration ; and, to a mind habi tuated to logical reflection, they may, perhaps, be considered as worthy of some attention. Although lam a stranger to Spanish jurispru dence, yet, from the information I have received, I have no hesitation in saying, that much practical knowledge is necessary to the due understanding, and much more to the due administration, of the Spanish law. Taking this, therefore, as my motto on the present occasion, it is not reasonably to be expected that even the scientific genius of a Wellington, and much less that the uninformed, and perhaps unlettered pri vate soldier, should be capable of storming the phan toms and legal sophisms, of an abstruse or antiquated Spanish law, whether it be of the sapient Alfonso, of the noted Philip the Second, or, in more modern days, one of Charles the Frurth of Spain ? To say rsiore on this subject would be a waste of time, and a de parture from common sense. It is, therefore, devoutly to be hoped, that his Ma jesty's Ministers will consider themselves responsible for the consequences of their own act, agreeably to tha comprehension of, Tug Sounza'a num). PARLIAMEiV7wRr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY 12. In Walker v. Beatte, j.selgtr.vot of the Court below reversed.-- In Craigie v. Maelt.fiizie, affirmed. In Robertson c.. Duke of Athol (inuor-buriting), ailirm.:d in substance. In Davidson v. Robert sun, partly reversed mud partly remitted. I'lie Royal Assent was given by commission to the Property Tax Bill, the Exchequer Bills Entitling Bill, the Copprr Impor tation Bill, the South Sea Bill, the Critn nal+ Returns Oil!, the Glebe Houses Exchange Bill, the Gaol Fees Bill, the County Rates Bill, the Alien / DU, the four's Expenses Retut us UM, the: Greenwich Hospital BiU, and the Fire•arms Bill, and several Road and other private Bills. Cotnmi.a•ioAcr4—Lords ELDON.. SRAITSSURT, MI Duke of Muxrr.u.,c, BANKRUPT LAWS. Earl STANHOPE presented a petition from John Duliesne, merchant, praying relief. The petition stated, that tile petitioner had been for three years coutiaed in the King's Bench pii.on. in consequence of a commission of ba n k ru ptcy having issued against him. He was, as we collected, a merchant or manu facturer in some place in Yorkshire, and a docket had been struck against him in his absence by a pre tended creditor in Landon; that he had petitioned the Chancellor for a supersedeas, on the ground of I some irregularity in stokieg the docket, or issuing the commission ; that the LnrJ Chancellor's opinion being against him on that ground, he presented ano ther petition, ',raying for a supersedeas, on the ground that there was uu proper petitioning creditor's debt, but that a supersedeas had still been iefused, and that lie had applied to the Lord Chancellor to be brought up to the Court, to plead his own cause ; and, that the Laid Chancellor tied sent him a letter in return, stating his doubt whether he had any power to order up a person in custody, under his circumstances, to the Court of Chancery, to plead his cause, and he had heard nothing further on the subject. 'l . he peti tion prayed, that the Bankrupt Laws might be amend ed in as far as they permitted a docktt to be struck, and a commission to be taken, on oath of any one pretending to be a creditor, without an opportunity to the patty against whom the application was made to be heard in his defence; and it also prayed that the Chancellor might be empowered to bring up persons in custody, to plead their own causes it they thought fit. Earl S I'ANHOPE said, that it was rather too late in the ses:ion to begin the ameiohnent of the Bank rupt Laws generally, and it would be a bold thing iii him to attempt it, and therefore he wished that some other more competent person would take it up ; but as to that part of the petition which related to the bringing up parties when iu custody, to plead their own causes it they wished it, he thought that might be easily provided for by a short bill, if the Noble and Learned Len' on the Woolsack had still enter tained any doubt on the subject. For his own part he had no doubt about the matter, and his reason was this :—Every one had a right to plead his own cause if he chose, and therefore every Court must have the power of ordering up a person in custody to plead his own cause depending in that Court, hecause otherwise, the right of the subject might be nugatory in those cases where it might be most desirable that it should be in full force. He, therefore, would again call their Lordships' attention to the point next Thurs. day, or sena* day soon- atter, and in the mean time he moved, that the petition be laid on the table. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that he took it to be admitted in the Courts, that a party Might, it he chose it, plead his own cause; and he took tura be a principle likewise, that a man should wholly plead his own cause, or leave it wholly to his Coun sel, and that be could not be heard both ways. With respect to the striking a docket, and issuing a com mission merely on oath of the petitioning creditor, if that was a detect , it must be remedied by the Legis lature, f or it was a matter of right, as the law stood, which the Chancellor could not refuse. As far as he could recollect this case, the petitioner had, as he stated, applied to him for a supersedeas on the ground of some irregularity in striking the docket, and though perhaps the party might not be satisfied with the decision which he had thought himself bound to give, yet he believed no professional man could think that under the circumstances of the case, and the law as applicable to it, he COuld have properly given any other than that decision. The petitioner might think that there was some unnece s s ar y d e l a y i n t h e h ear i ng of his petition; but he thought it due to himself as well as to others, to state that in cases of petitions by persons in custody in this way, it was a rule with him to bear the parties on the subject as soon as they chose. The petitioner then applied by another peti tion for a supersedeas, on the ground that there was no sufficient petitioning creditor's debt; and though the petitioner -might perhapir think that his Counsel had not done him justice, he must say this at least— that the Counsel was one whO was not apt to give up a Cause or a point when any thing could be made of 'fit; and yet that Counsel was fully satisfied that all be could ask was—that an issue should be directed t t , try whether there was a good petitioning creditor' s debt or not? There the matter remained for that time, and afterwards he received from the p et i t i oner a well written paper, stating the circumstances of his own case ; and arguing upon them. This paper he had read attentively, together with the affidavits, and after arguing the case for the Pet;. tioner as strongly as if he had been his Counsel, the very utmost length he could go WAS to grant th l issue. The petitioner, it appeared, still tlorglit the was some mistake or. tl:e part of the Juk e , anti wished to be brought up to be heard f(ir If the Noble Earl were to bring in a Bill on the suit jest, there were many other cases of custody, w i n d, would be found a.i much in need of such a power to grant the sort of relief prayed for in this instance. E.ul STANHOPE sAid, the Petitioner (cm: plained that :he alleged c etht n• had taken his g0n.1.! in execution tion)ore tliaa the amount of his deli., and that instc.id of being really a creditor, he wa . . debtor. The i',:titon was then laid on the tAble. The further cur.. idf ration of the Report on F.arl of Rewherry's Divorce was postponed t. Thursday, and tt die report cu Fowles's Divorce Bill till Friday.--A ijourecd ull Taur:,lty next. 110U:ih OF COMMON:, The Royal Aswf it wa: frca Ly canlt.liswili to Ole p: Tax and caber 81114. Mr. EGERTON pretentot a t..e Stockport agaloq the I weihr-bt I 11. Lt Prir. SHAW pt eceoted a I .twun Il.mt Vt. • si , " 1 1.! !• - - - . Traders of Ireland, praying t .r a-rut _ buppression of Mock Auctioug. The Oak Bark Bill was cot:miles!: rer.grt on Cla t: l t .,, ! Nlllttia An:et:Went BM wag teue. 1 :El Liric Sir OLOR(:E n•tvg-,1 that Cog:. zcJ:ch t-; ri-h 13.11 bt:utgl Mr lIORNER otserved, that i• tuts 41e Ale to see eauict brusght up which ts:iress..(l gmilest•rt view, t 0..., Hon .ut ekle Members as to the 1:,%; tticatig g I '• !IA game. For hie own part, he corssidi red that cite t;a:in 7 Lea., were already administered with sath..ieut rigour in icoti-us:, ... that tb6re existed no necessity for arming th.- Mogistracy se::*l additional arbitrary powers. lie believed th.st there es es e (CI tb , o rintol.ferot mature more hostile to each other a justice• of tl4 peace and a poacher —(.f lati!‘h The report was then ordered tube received on I hLrsday v.rt, and to be printed. In the Committee of Ways at:l Means, the Cu c t Last a the Excuitauxa submitted his new Resolutiiui tor tue of Exchequer Bills; and Mr. FLTZOLIAI D proposed additional mamp Duties, and a.i equalization of the ilt t u rd Hop Duties in Ireland; winch, after a feu words from N CwrOCT, were agreed to, and the repettt °Net t-d to be rectived on •I huraday. Sir 1. NEWPORT moved for an account of the number and amount of FL..., e..ilecteu 10 tilt &ferret etiolates of lrela .1 to: the offence of illicit elistiltat.on, virs,e cue year 1813--sp‘cuytog when and where incurred, and by whom toilette& Lord CAS ILERF.AGH, on moving that the douse should, at les rising, adjourn till Thursday nest, gave not cc of Ins in tention to move, on Thursday, for leave to 10.4 in a hill to enable his Majesty to.c all cur eh- services of all ur any pert the Militia. Mr. BANKES suggested to an Hon. Barun-t (Sri H. Parnll) eutt 111 r tffrelUtof the Hoe se was.ob•ut.to Eaireittut quence of the unportant to which he had given it might materially favour thy convenience of sec!. Members se might ariiieliOiti taistlia farts Of Meet tuntry, to deter that die cussfort till Tuesday tortnight. Sir H. PARNELI. having signified his assent, the call tit :lie House was definitively fixed for that day. Mr. H. ADDINGTON gave wanes of his intention to more for a Bill to renew and amend the Tr.nsportatisio Act. Mr. CORDON moved fir the Copy at a Proclamation issued by Chsvernor Alasile, in I)ominie4, on or shoat use 15th 01 Oc• tuber, 1815. Mr. HORNER enquired *hat steps had been taken with re. spect to the case of that tientlernar.l Mr. GOULBURN replied, that It was not yet completely is• imitated. hir R. HERON said, he should move no Thursday next certain papers, in justification in the conduct of GoeernorAiu.re, who anticipated with sstietoriuti the opportunity of vim:series his character from the aspersicns which it Lad !oar laboured. On the motion of NI:. ADDING :O!', the Local 11 , 1111:it Bill was read a second time, Lord Sins.t.tv trserving his otec tions till the Bill should bi. commute!. _ The reports of t:I.. frisk Milt they a d Assessed Taxes Bilk were received, and the Bills tirdt.red to be. read a third time en Thursday next. 'The Wine Drawbacli and 'Weights and Measures Bills were brought in and severally read a best time. Mr. BANKEs gave vatice that he alati , -;1 on an cagy day move for the papers relative to the new 1 rAnsport Office. General THORNTON gave putice teat cal ThursZay be should move for leave to bring in a 1.1;l1 hr the more effectual prevention of tumults in plabliC places, azd the mote ' nisbment of rioters. The East India Gratuities and India Judges Salaries BiEs were retorted, and.orderod to be road a third ume. The Scotch Commissary Courts Cotni•rns.tiva ELI Was real a third time. Mr. WYNNE moved, that the Private Committees should continue to sit, notwithstanding the adjourunicit.—Aoi,Amled. FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, MAY 9. THZ MINISTER OW Mk INTLItIOR TO TUE PREFECTS Or TEE DEPARTMENT. am informed that in several parts of the Empire the •errocy of correspondence has been violated by agents el administration. Who can have autborieed suck measures f Will their authors ay that they wished to serve the government, and di , cever ru blis thoughts. introduce such proceethings in to the administrati on, is not to serve, but to calumniate the Emperor. tie decc n ut re quire, he rejects the homage of a service disavowed by the laws. And have not the laws, since 170, concurred in declaring tae • secrecy of letters Inviolable? All our misfortunes, at different periods of che revolution, have proceeded trout breaches of prin. ciple;.it.is tinter.° renounce such practices. You will therefore, prosecute with the utmost rigear of the law, those iniractious ei the most sacred rights of man in society. rile thntliihts of a French citizen, ought to be as free as his person. (igned) CAR! 07. WAR DEPARTMEN r.—Nortc c. No military person iu active service, whatever may be bii rank, except sucli as may belong to deputati,en from cores, can quit his post to attend the Champ de Al,al; their absence could only be injurious to the service. (Signed) Paris, May B. Marshal the Prince.ot ECKNICHis LIEGE, MAY 1. The Saxons continue to insist on the Prnsciani drinking the health of the King of Saxony Emperor Napoleon, and on their refusal ?rocxi to force them sword in hand. It is cvnain ,hat it IL Emperor were to appear here, he would find `20,0 0 . partisans ready to take up arms for him ; the mania: is favourable, as we are surrounded only by Skixoi% and Belgians who are as impatient as ourselves shake off the yoke. MAY 2.—The Saxon regiments in pirrison 11 ' ; ` were ordered to appear in the square this augunTs in . order to be incorporated with the Prussians. lhcf did not come to the appointed place until thy' at,c.: noon, and when the incorporation was annoiinc.J ,to them they left their ranks in the greatest disorder. crying, Live the Kin; of 4axony ! and the Emperor of the k rent.* I ' Most of the Officers followed tile el• ample of the soldiers, and the, confusion was coal: plete. The Saxons are now running thr ugh streets with their swords drawn in quest of krussiow• V