The National Register. — London, England, 1815-11-19 00:00:00

TUE NATIONAL REGISTErt. (itary question, but an affair of State ; and the Court, efter hearing Counsel upon the subject, declared itself incompetent, the prisoner being a Peer, and as such entitled to be tried by the Chamber of Peers. In con sequence of this decision, an Ordinance from the King was immediately sent to the Chamber of Peers, re quiring them to proceed without delay in the trial of the accused ; and in their sitting of Saturday last, the Duke of Richelieu explained the motives of this Or dinance to the House. His Grace displayed much indignatio i on the occasion, and while he admitted the fact of the conduct of the Court Martial having proved a triimplt for the factious, observed that they would not suff:r a longer impunity to engender fresh scourges, grev ter perhaps than those from which they were trying to escape. The speech of his Grace was followed by an order of the House for proceeding without loss of time to the trial of the traitor, and Monday last was fixed for that purpose.—The Government seems most actively engaged in measures for the prevention of out rage and insurrection. All military men at Paris, no matter is hat their rank, are ordered, within eight days, to quit the capital, unless permitted to remain by the specific sanction of the Commander in Chief of the Division. The keepers of hotels and !edging houses are orclered strictly to return the names of their guests al d lc dgers ; two of the national guard of Paris have been puLlicly dismissed for using seditious expressions ; and a variety of circumstances, in short, prove the ferment that exists, and the apprehension of the Go vernmerit. The army under the command of the Duke of Wel ling'on is thus distributed :—Paris is occupied by the Guards ; the second division is cantoned at Versailles ; the third at St. Cloud, Sovres, and Neuilly; the fourth at Loiljuwan : the fifth at Meulan; the sixth at St. G.rmaio and Pasty ; the lianoverians at Limours ; the Nassau troops at Ecoucn and Luzarches. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PARIS PAPERS. PARIS, Nov. 11. COUNCIL OF WAR. TRIAL OF MARSHAL NEY. Note. 10. —Yesterday, in the Council room, Marshal Massena pre sented to his colleagues his motives for desiring to be excused from airline, founded on the p-rsonal animosity of which he might be ac cused against Marshal Key, on account of quarrels which had cc cum d between them during the war in Spain Marshal Masiena withdrew, whilst his colleagues deliberated, with dosed doors, upon tltis excu , e, which they decided to be insufficient. This day, at the opening of the sitting, the Reporter announced that he shntild cont;;:ue the reading of the documents, and first corn .olne 'ites ofd irations,which, as they have not the stamp O r ju%icial an:hority, can only he admitted as mere hints. M. Walther, Lieutenant of the 65.1 regiment of the line, deposed, tl;at lieia•g in Escii:on at Me:z, in A pril la t, Marshal Ney said to the ~j~ NIONINOMMUmi NOV. 10. Colonel of the 63J r-gitnent, " Have you in your cores any votti geurs of Louis XVIII.? If you have, you must drier them away as ycu would the plague. The conversion that haA ju , t heen aceom. plished has been brought ab iut by the head of the columns. Napoleon is the greatest man ()fills time. The King told us it was glorious to com mand our nation, but we had no intention of serving him The other Generals and myself went to pay our court at theThuilleries. only that we might deceive him the better. Marshal Ney has spoken of the Duke of Berri in particular in the most opprobrious terms." M. Curd and other officers were indignant at this conduct, and this outrageous language. The Reporter then announced a note sent to the Keeper of the 'zeals by a Public Functionary of Judicial Order at Dijon. but without sig. nature. The President declared that the reading of a paper which was not signed was inadmissible. The Reporter—" My duty is to read all the papers—even they are only to serve as hints." Marshal Mortier—" I should think that anonymous denunciations ought not to be read." M. joinvil le, Attorney of the King.—" We require that the paper may not be read, since, as it is not signed, it cannot have any influ ence on the proceedings." The Council decided that the paper should not be read; and another anonymous paper was, for the same reason, put asif!., M. Curet, Lieutenant of the regiment of the crown, deposed to the same facts as M. Walther, and said that the prisoner launched out into invectives against the King and the Nobility, whom he styled CANAILLS. M. Fauttier, who gave an account of the same circumstances, said—" I was so exasperated at this language, that I was on the point of replying to it, but was restrained by the idea that I should ruin myself, without any benefit to the Royal cause." M. Beauregard, chef d'escadron of gendarmerie, sent a note in support of his deposition, of which we.have already given an analysis. He states, that on the 14th of March, at the moment when the Mar. shal was exciting the troops to shout " Vive l'Empereur !" part of them being at a distance cried " Vive le Roi !" on which Marshal Ncy went sharply towards that part of the line, calling ititit—" That is not right ; cry Vive l'Empereur !" M. Bousquet, printer at Beziers, has addressed to the Minister of Justice a letter, in which he states language which he has heard as. cribed to the Marshal, and is ready to mention the Lieutenant Colonel from whom he received it. Marshal Ney being with General Lecourbe and the Lieutenant Colonel in question, read to them a dispatch from Puonaparte, and pronounced a most animated address to induce them to join the ranks of the usurper. He concluded with corn. plaining that his wife had been vilified at court. M. Belney deposed, betore the Prefect of the Upper Saone, that Marshal Ney about the end of March, that Maria Louisa and her son would arrive there very soon ; that there would be no occasion to fire a single shot, as the left bank of the Rhine would be recovered with a single stroke of the pen. Messrs. de St. Geron and Casse, officers of the garrison of Conde, relate what passed in the month of April, at the time of the Mar shal's visit. He said to the officers—" Has any of you seen me at the Thuilleries with the King ? I went to caress him, but it was cnly to deceive him the more completely. He would have given me twenty times the value of the Thuilleries, but 1 should not have liked him the better, as Napoleon will always be engraved on my heart." M. Gapelle, Deputy to the King's Attorney at Bethune, writes to the Keeper of the Seals, that he had heard it said by some person who received the information from a cousin of the Marshal's— (l.aughter)—that when he left Paris, on the 7th of March, his travel- ling carriage was full of proclamations. M. Favr, late a Commissary, sends a declaration directly contrary to the preceding. He says, that after the return of Buonaparte, he went to the Thuilleries, to transact business with Marshal Bertrand. Through a mistake he fell into conversation with Marshal Ney. M. YAM did not conceAl his itttachnient• to the Bourbons, upon which the