Star. — London, England, 1815-08-18 00:00:00

11E EVt;NING lA)NDO.~. ,~.. _ VEST THITMDAY, ALI. TH ft STATE I.OTTER Y L BB Dit AWN. S.:HEME 1,4'1114 ONLY s.pet) I'ICKE CONT INA A GRAND PRIZE OF ,E 3 0,001) EI f VEN MIER CAPITALS, AND 3,000 GUINEAS IN OtILD. FRIDAY. AUGUST 18. 181.5. • !RICE OF CK 4 l'His 1/AY Al EVIIiI.VI I . O'CLOCK: Reduced SA} —Cum. money 561—for see. sq 1 pet Cent 71i—S per Cent. 114}—Boads 4. Sr. es. Omniunt mu be pre.-I*. pay. 6:1 pre. Exchequer Boni W. 29. die. We hare this day received the Paris Papers of ftiesday. The most important article of their con env: is the trial and conviction of LAMIDOYWRg ; but le has announced his intention to appeal. The pro. .ectition was m Awed with much correctness. He vas simply charged with disobedience of orders, in .ct only marching off with his regiment without, but direct opposition to, the orders of his superior Of .cer. The culprit wished to enter into political ilu;sitions in his defence, but the Court would a hear him.. These metaphysical distinctions ; nuld never affect the truth or falsehood of a -Amnia tact laid to his charge. He had to t)provc, if he could. the tact that had been brought ( idle to him by invalidsttnit the testimony of the wit eAts. 'ri.ere c.'n be little doubt of the result of his as the Superior Court has nothing to do with it evidence or the ie.itence, but merely to see that o.ic of cLuiegal corms hare been violated. 'MAL or THE TR A ITOR LABED3VERE. SECOND COUNCIL OF WAR. MONDAY. MIODST 14. At nine o'clock in the morning the Hall was -waded, And among other foreigners of distinction • e Dinkel the Hereditary Prince 'of Orange, the :'rince Royal of Wartemberg. and Prince William Prussia. The tribunal was presided by I\l. bur :er de Sauvigny, Colonel in the Army. At eleven o'clock the hosiness of the day corn rimed. M. Vietti, Captain Reporter (Judge advocate), read, in the absence of the accused, all pipers connected with the trial of Charles Ange -1 cue Hitches de Labedoyere, aged '29. M. Bezon attended as Counsel for the accused. The first paper was an order of Lieutenant-General "cunt Maison, dated Bth August, by which &cur .abedoyere is to be brought before the council War, as being accused of ereaton, rebellion, and • duabn of the troops (einbauehage). It rebults from the first examination which the :cused underwent before M. de Cazes, Prefect of ulice, that he set out from Riom after the submis. s%OI of the corps of Excelling's, wbicsh be joined, I.,.:ikcut, however, doing :any duty with it. On his Prrval at Chartres in a diligence, he took a return ich brought him to Paris, to Madame Fon cTe, a friend of his family. The privet of the accused was at first to LAT re. Ige in America ; he had consequently, on the uly, obtained a letter of credit for 55,000 francs on iltiladelphia. When he was made acquainted with to King') Oidonnance of the 24th July, he perceived nut it would be difficult to embark, or even to pass no Switzerland. He therefore came to Paris to oncert with his family as to his future destination. ' Perhaps," he observed, 44 I should have taken the solution of constituting thyself a prisoner, and ap-' :taring voluntarily before a Council of War." The Prefect asked hint why he did not assume the white cockade, after.the example of General Excel :sans and his troops ? Labedoyere answered, that he travelled as a 'pri ate citizen, otherwise be would have worn the white ockade. When interrogated as to the events of March last, :.t protested that he bad no correspondence whatever with the island of Elba, and that be was never pre .tat at any meeting at which it was proposed to re sU Jn fact, he bad often beard vague sports, and some atressions of discontent; but never _earl of any regular plot. Q. Did yon participate in these discontents ? k. I did, to a certain estent. Personally, I had o ground of complaint; not having obtained any ,ing from the nig, but at the same time not having :one any thing for him. • Q. ma induced you t 6 break yt•ur oaths to the K.ng, and to join Bonaptrte to ove; turn the Govern :eat of his Majesty ? A. This will enter into my !e:ence before the Council of War. I:1 this examination the prisoner was merely called ' r military man." &fore the Judge Advocate lie t:tinv2d the qualities of General Officer, Officer of - e Legion o f H onour , an d Ofii , :er of the Iron .ircsan. I'he following were the principal beads of dr-cument : • Q. Why do you call yourself a General OAicer ?— `•• Eorn the rank which was given me on the 20th M;.reh la , t by the Emperor. I was not acquainted -:tit the Ordormance of the King which related to Orriccrs in the same circumstances with me. • Q. General Devilliers made representations to you the 7th of March to prevent you from ioining 80-13?arte—he 13 ?arte—he reminded you of your family connections the interests of the country ?—A. I was deter. joined by what I considered to be the interests of the :tuntry. in the then position of things. Q• Are you the author of, a iroclamatiou of the tit tegini,nt of the Pre to their brethren in arms As Yes; the 7th and 11th tvpinients At the line, the 4th hussars, 'h.- 4th horse artillery, and the SJ sappers, having made addresses, the Major•oeneral (Ber trand) requested me to make one also. The prisoner, at the end of this examination ) said, gi I shall h Ivo occasion for the testimony of every person who can give accurate intelligence as to the circumstances which paved the way for or followed this act. The law admits of witnesses being called for the verOcatiois of facts s does it not afford a fa. cility for hearing witnesses for or against the legitimacy of the facts ?" After reading the above papers the prisoner was introduced. He then underwent the following eza• minatinn from the President: Q. Who appointed you Colonel oldie 7th regiment r the line ?—ck. I was appointed by the King. Q. Have you not received the Cross of St. Louis ? .. Never. Q. What colohrs did: you receive as Colonel .. A white flag. Q. Did all the officers of the regiment f—A. I lagine they did : I was not present. Q. By whose orders did your regiment march not Grenoble on the 7th of March f—A. By my orders. Q. At what period did you present to your regi. spent the sagte which your servant brought from Chambery?—A.. After leaving the suburbs of Gre :,oble: It was an c igle which was kept in a trunk as a curiosity, because it had figured with honour in the war in Spain. Q. Where did you hear of the landing of Bona parte ?—A. At Charn'oery, where f received orders from Genera ILvilliers to march upon Grenoble with my regimeor. Q. Where was your re meet stationed ?—A. It bivouacqued upon the ramparts. Q. By whose orders was it marched upon Gap where Boaaparte was ?—A. By no orders but mine. Q. What cry did you utter when giving the order to march forward ?—A. Vive 1' Eatspreur 1 Q. Did yon tear your white cockade and pat on a tricoloured one ?—A. No ; I had no white cockade. Q. Did not Central Dnilliers run after you, and employ his authority and persuasion to recall you to your duty Ycs : General Devilliets spoke to me of the connections which I should break through, and of the consequences which might follow. I an swered, that I thought the interests of the country were paramount to every thing. Q. Have you any disclosures to make?—A. None. The prisoner once more insisted that he was en- tided to call witnesses as to the circumstances which led him to adopt an inconsiderate line of conduct, and which would render him excusable. The Council ordered the witnesses to be called to the simple fact of treason and, rebellion. Count Agnult, Colonel of the Garde: du Corps, and Messrs. Bottler, Arkin:, and Vecrony, of Gre. tickle, related. that wi the morning of the 7cll of March, Labedoyere, whose regiment was then on the ramparts, held a very warm conversation with General Marchand. his superior officer, and quitted him in very ill humour. About three o'clock he gave ~ rders to march onward; and scarcely was he out of the town, when he drew his sword and called out rive PEnotrestr, broku open a chest, from which he took a gilt eagle which he put on the end of a branch of willow I and, on the same evening, he re turned to Grenoble in the suite of Bonaparte. General Del/Alien deposed. that having heard that there was an extraordinary rumour on the ramparts he went there: he was told that the 7th regiment, commanded by its Colonel, had abandoned its post .to go to meet Bonaparte. He ran on foot to the road which the regiment had taken, met by chance a horse, mounted it and galloped towardulte deserters. He brought back about a hundred, but when he arrived at the head of the regiment, neither entreaties nor menaces were listened to: he spoke to M. Labe doyere of honour and his country ; he aaswered him that be respected both ; but apparently he did not view these words in the same light with him, and be made nothing of him. Other witnesses stated that Labedoyere broke up a drum after leaving Grenoble, in which tri-coloured cockades were hid, and gave them to the men. M. Viotti, the Judge Advocate, then summed up the evidence in a brilliant speech. "If we are to measure crimes," he observed. 84 by their results, let Coloriel Labedoycre look around him and see our fields occupied by foreign armies—let him look at the miseries he has brought on his country, and judge for himself." The Counsel for the prisoner, M. Bexon, stated that the prisoner would read his own defence. Colonel Labedoyere then began, but it was a poli tical rhapsody, and he was desired to confine himself to a mere disproval of the acts of rebellion laid to his charge. He then turned over several leaves of his defence, in order to read a mean and pitiful eulogium on the Bourbons. He said it h:►d been always his study to teach his soldiers to respect the names of the great warriors of that august race I He concluded by expressing his contrition, and said- 4 I I now see,all promises have been fulfilled— all guarantees consecrated—the Constitution has been perfected—and foreigners will, I trust, still see a great nation in the French rallying round their King. Perhaps I shall not enjoy this spectacle, but I have ,shed tuy blood for my country, and I illittr.f myself with the hope, that my death will be of some utility to it, and that my name -will not be held in ab- Ilottence.°' The prisoner was then withdrawn. The Council having deliberated, declared unanimously that he had been guilty—lst. Of Treason.-2d. Of Rebel lion, but not of seducing the troops. Sinkers of Death —drlmplatios from Mr rani and tiecorationr--and trepans of dm tostaracer of the jerorecu lion, were then pronounced against him. Labedoyere was dressed in a green great coat; and wore no decoration. His dupe is tall, and his phy siognomy fine and agreable. He appeared at filst• embarrassed, but ha soon assumed a firm manner, and his examination commenced. He is allowed 24 hours to appeal to the Court of Revision. He is said to hive made use of the following expressions on Sunday : I shall be tried to-morrow ; I shall appeal, the papers will be sent on Tuesday to the reporter, the Council of Revision will decide on Thursday = tad next d was always told that Friday was an unlucky day V' The Official Journal contains another Ordinance of the KINO, ordering a reduction of the Navy, b.; allowing Officers who have served a certain period or acquired a certain age, to retire on half-pay in the same way as directed in the Ordinance of the pre ceding (la v rt specting the army. The Cli:i.tl Journal; alluding to what it calls un founded statemmts in the other Jonrnals, states that it is not true that the foreign armies now in France, particularly the Russians, continue to rereive daily re. intorcements. The article is a laboured one, and we doubt not is perfectly correct; for the Russian: hal,. ing suffered as kr:, their number is entire, and requires no augmentation—but those armies. which have been reduced below their stipulated number by the casualties of the war, either have been reinforced or arenow reinforcing. In fact every Power is engaged to furnish and maintain a certain contingent—they have done it, or are now sending them forward; but their number is limited and definite. This we take to be the real meaning of the official journal. From the statements in the minor journals it might be inferred that all the Powers were sending their entire armies to live upon France. ..t WI it; .a ZI .c s. •.; 11 COURIER EXTRAORDINARY OP TUESDAY MORNING. It is said that Marshal Ney will arrive at Paris to- IIItWTOW. It is said that General Laborde, who had con cealed himself in the environs of Runnei, has been arrested. Yesterday, at noon, the Emperor Alexander visited the King, and remained with him hall an hour. The Emperor of Austria also paid a visit to the Kiog to-d.ty. Some English troops are expected daily at Calais they are now marching through the Northern depart ments for that place. Frankfort Papers to the 11th and Brussels to the 15th instant, reached us this morning. They contain an (initial notice of the capture of Philipeville ; and announce the advance of a new corps of Prussian troops, under General TANVENZUN, chicly corn posed of new levies made in the lately acquired pus sessiuns of his PaussinN MAJCSTY on the Lower Rhine. 46 These troops," it is remarked, 44 are not fully equipped, but will receive what is memory b Franre 1" The rebels in possession of Heninguen continue to fire upon the city of Bath!. Such a line of conduct , deserves mast exemplary ptsaisliment. They have not now even the pretext of fighting for NAPOLEON ; but with to extort a sum of money as. the price of forbearance. The following are extracts from these papers: CAPTURE OF PHILIPPEVILLE. " Head-Quarters before Philippe/rifle, August 9. I inform you by this letter that the trenches having been opened in the night of the 7th before Philippeville at the distance of 2 or SOG'paces from the walls, the bombardment began yesterday morn ing at four o'clock, and the place surrendered to me towards the evening. The capitulation is the same as those of Maubeuge and Landrecies. To-day one of the gates is occupied'by my troops. Notwithand ing the short duration of the bombardment, the town has suffered considerably, as well by the violence of our cannonade as by a terrible fire which broke out in the place. (Signed) " AUptISTUI, Prince of Prussia.'t , BRUSOL9, AUGUST 13. His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange is ex pected at Spa on the 1&11 of this month. We know from good authority that the day before yesterday a NobLman of this city, well known for his patriotism, having gone to Planchenar: to pur chase the put.lic house of La Belie Alliance, learned that a person was commissioned by a foreigner to offer 100,000 ft ruics, or even more. SWITZERLANP, AUGUST 5. In its sittings of the I!.t. the Diet received from the Council of Lower Undo: Wald a Protest, dated at Stanz, 24th July, against the D.N-.rees of the 17th and 18th. The Government of Lucerne c•:mmuni. cated an Address, which it sent en the 29th to the said Council, to induce the inhabitants of Lower Underwald no longer to Tatum their Accessical to the federal compact of Switzer land. The Archduke John has sent to the Diet the in signia of the Order of L.. , 0p01d, to he presented to Colonel D'Affiy, in the tunic of .the Lnveror of Austria, as an acknnwlei.rnent of the essenti4l seq. vises performed by him when the Austrian tria,bi Listed the Rhine. Tne Bore sus of the Austrian army, which his teen hitherto at Lorrach, paused the R!,ine fo4 , er. day at Basle, to proceed into France, under an escort of 12 or 1503 men, both horse and foot. The batteries of Basle were ag tin violently can nonaded in the night of the 4th. VIENNA, JULY 29. We are daily more and more persuaded that the Tre.tty of Paris will suffer several chatresin favour of the Allies, and that France will lose sev.-ral great prOvinces. The restoration of the three legations to the Pope is considered as a proof of this, since it leads to a suppositlon that Austria will obtain an indem- nity elsewhere. However great our j•sy may be at the glorious successes in France, it is temperA in some measure by the reflnction that the ft tuts of peace will not be the immediate result. As matters now stand, it will probably be long necessas y to hold tl.e sod over France, if we wish to be safe from 3 nre~ at tempt of the French to proceed a7ain to revoiseionAs y measures ; but this makes twiny years' rx‘2l-I;otis ne ressary, which, if the expcnct, principAlly or. France, must, however, in tonic inca3utc asEct our own coun,ry. ARAU, AUGUST .•.. Grnf.r3l Birom Friniont has rerriestrd that Fort Joux shall be occJpied by Swiss trt,u.,s. The Duchess of St. Lea has unJert,tlan a jonrney among the ClAciers in the village of Chanmauny. The Duke of Bassani), who has assumed the r Arne of Prince de Beaugeiim, after Lis estate in Franthe Comte, has gone from Geneva to Lausanne. This morr.in7 we received American Paners to tte 23d ultimo. The alanZian of the 221 cJat.ti.ti the following article: " Thrr YORK, JULY TZ. a Tit MIIDITCRRANIAN FLElT.—Anotlier eyaa.!ro❑ Mill shortly sail to join the American fleet In the Maii:erratiean. Port Mahon, is the island of Minorca, is to be the rentlcav,uz. It will then consist of the following ships :—The Bainbridge, 74; Washington, Chauncey, 74 ; Guerrier, Pecitur , 44; Java, Perry, 44; Macedonian, Jones, 38; Con teliajon , Gordon, 36; Congress, Morris, SO (from Holland ) ; Ontario, ship, Elifott,.lB; Erie, Ritlgeley, II; Epervier brig, Down., Ib ; Fire Fly, Rodgers, 18 ; Boxer, Porter, 16 ; Chippewa, Reed, 16 ; Saranac, Elton, la; Flambeau, Nkholson, 16; Spark, Gamble, 16; Spitfire, Dallas, 14; Torch, Chauncey, 14; and the Lyn*, Storer, 14 guns." THE REGENT'S COURT, &c.—Yesterday a Cabinet Council was held at the early hour of twelve o'clock, in consequence of a Court being summoned to be held at Carlton House at three. The Cabinet sat till past two, when a gentleman belonging to the Seat• tary of State's Office was commissioned to hold him self in readioess to proceed to Naples with dispatches. The Court held at Carlton-house WAS attended br the Archbishop of CaNTEAstray, the Lord Pre.idorit of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the President of the Board of Controul, their Excellencies the Dutch and Neapolitan Ambassadors, &c. The REGmr afterwards held a Privy Council. Prince CACTELCICALA, the Neapolitan Minister, was introduced to his Royal Highness by the 1-A of Livo!trooo, in the absence of the Secretaries of State. The Dutch Ambassador wAs also introduced to-the PRINCE by the Earl of Livrepooo. Their Execlien. cies had audiences of his Royal Highness. The Juoos ADVOCATE had an aud i ence and made his re• l port of the ptereedings of smile Courts Ivlart;al, and. I tookhis Royal Highness's commtmds upon them. The Earls of 17! introway, LIVERPOOL, and Guts. cow, Viscount Mto vim and the Right Honoutab:e W. W. PoLE, had audiences of the l'aisce. MUTING 0// PARLIAMENT.—The meeting of Par liament is farther prorogued for ten weeks, from Thursday the 24. th instant, to Thursday the 2d day of November, which was agreed upon by the PRINCE REGENT in Council, at the Court held at Carlton House yesterday. Yesterday Sir Honsiett Lows transacted business at the Secretary of State's office. A most melancholy accident happened last night, between nine and ten o'clock to two ladies, at present unknown, who were travelling in a post-chaise be longing to Mr. Trehern, of the White Horse Inn, I; z bridge, to Watford. On going over UxbriJge Com mon, at a regular travelling pace, by some means or other, the pole of the chaise dropped out of its regu lar situation, the horses took fright, and galloped off at a furious rates when at the distance of halt a mile the ladies made up their minds to jump out of ttie chaise, which they imprudently did, one out of cm's door, and shocking to relate, one of them was in stantly killed, and the other survived only a few mi nutes. The horses still continued their rapid career, and soon after the post boy was thrown from the bar, OR which he had permission to ride, under the wheels, and hurt in so dreadful a manner that his life is de. spaircd of. The horses, setting out of the road, were at last stopped by running up to a large tree upon the common, without any kind of damage to them selves or to the chaise. FALMOUTH/ A UGUST 15.—Arrived the French brig le Pierre, from Normoutier, in a leaky state, Wen with salt ; Acorn, WILLIAMS. from Shields for Li merick ; and a French chasse marec, lc Pilule, from Normoutier. PLYstotr Aticusr 16.—Came in the Hirondale from Brest, and his Majesty's ship KA:MA:100 irOra a eruize, it ANSOATE, AUGUST I6.—The galliot Johanna Carlotta, VA LLENTIN master, of and from Lubeck, to Oporto, with rye, ran en shore on the Goodwin Sands this morning. The crew are saved, and part of the stores are landed here, bitt it is expected that no more will be saved as the vessel is sunk. Coati EXCHANGE, AUGUST Wheat trade continues as dull as possible, and prices ire nominal, having no buyers. The supply of Oats is large, and sales are exceedingly heavy at a decline of Is. per quarter. lVlaite Peas are very unsaleable. In Grey Peas, Beans, and ether articles, there is no alteration.