The National Register. — London, England, 1817-09-15 00:00:00

:''' btft POLITICAL DISQUISITION. No. 501.—V0r.. X. ON THE IMPRUDENT POLICY OF THE FRENCH AIINISTRY. WE have for some time back looked with considers ble alarm at the career of the French Ministry, or, we should rather say, of the Minister of Police, for the aspiring genius of M. de Caze has thrown all his col leagues into shade. With a low cunning, eminently fitting him for the duties of a spy, he aspires to the h mour of ruling the nation. Conscious, however, of his own want of talent awl consequence, he is inces santly on the look out for materials wherewith to strengthen himself. He tries the Ultras, the Jacobins, and the Napoleonists in their tarn ; despised by the first, and hated by the . second, he throws himself into the arms of the third. Rather than lose the bold which he has, he will coalesce with the King's worst enemies. If he cannot gain the confidence and sup port of those men who, under every change of fortune hive still " seorn'd the tauntings of the rebel hoarde," and devoted themselves to their king, he will heap honours upon those who have ever shewn themselves ready to betray him. M. de Caze is perhaps not much in the wrong, as it respects himself, but the conse quences must be karful to his country. NV hat is there in this man that should make the noble spirit of Riche lieu stoop before him ? Are hi.; talents of so much va lue that his sovereign should permit him to sacrifice every friend he hag and in their stead place round his person those who have repeatedly betrayed him. All men are agreed, that when .a choice is to be made among conflicting political parties, that party should be chosen which threatens least danger to the state, either by theoretical innovation, orby adherence to : R awson% proved to be injur ions. tin this principle, we acted in this country, when the lamented death of Mr. Perce val made a gap in the administration. The cry' among the people was, that the remnant of his party had not the confidence of the nation ; and with more of conde scension than prudence, an attempt was made to unite men in the service of the state, who were utter strangers to union among themselves ; happily both fur Prince and People, the attempt failed, and those men were continued in their flinctions, whose loyalty and zeal had been repeatedly tried, and never found wanting. Would to GA that the French King bad acted with equal prudence ! we should not now have seen him disgracing his loyal nobility, by the honours which he is heaping upon the despoilers of their property—we should not now have seen M. de Caze assuming the con troul of the administration, and negociating with the traitors of the " hundred days"—we should not now have sect those men whom their enemies have invidiously designated by the title of Ultras, standing aloof, trem bling for the fate of their country, placed, as it is, at the mercy of the friend of the revolutionists, La Fayette, and La Fitte, and the still more contempti ble herd, who, from the dregs, the very lees of so ciety, were raised by Napoleon to " principalities and powers.". NotJeftst among the crimes of this ill-constituted alininiitrttion, is the part which it has taken in the elections... Every where has its influence been used to promo the return of what arc called the " Inde pnulents,' to the exclusion of the royalists. And when: this could not be accomplished by fair means, not the most justifiable have been resorted to. It has ty • been taken us a good omen, that the :71 lt:uires, (a paper in the pay of M. Care) urges the necessity of a full attendance of the electors at the ensuing contest. Phis, indeed, would Isok wad, did we hot know what arts have - been re mit:dm, to inv ‘ :ure a prepaalcrance is favo - ia of M. ationalt itittr+ Our sing, ConOtitution anb atitosS. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1817. de Caze, and that infamous system, of which, he is the abettor. It is in vain to hope for any good result—it is in vain to look forward to the time when the peace of the kingdom thall be secured by the loyalty of the servants of the king, so long as the most worthless of his subjects shall meet with honours and rewards, and trust be reposed in men who have never yet been faithful. We shall close this brief article with a character of M. Davoust (one of M. de Case's favourites) which recently appeared in the Macedoine Revolutionaire, and leave it to our readers to judge, what that government must be composed of, which cart find no fitter subject for the exercise of its bounty. " A great Napoleanist—a great amasser of Wealth, " a great Levyer of Impositions in foreign countries— " tormented life his colleague Carnal, with the desire 0 . being somebody, and, frith submission to M. Lan juinais„ we must add, Cavcant Consules. " Public rumour, and the voice of the Exchange at Paris, rank M. Davouso in the class of the most enormous capitalists, and pia,* him on a level with the millionaries, Talleyrand and Fondle. The Ham burghers and other Hanseatics, swear he must be the richest man on the whole Continent. (N. B. He has made a good trade of rebellion : he was a very, very poor Noble in 1789.) But whether lie be now first, second, er third, a little nearer or a little farther from the top of the scale, we won't dispute. The fact is, his riches are immense, and they are, for the most part, made up of contributions levied on fureign nations, " When the usurper eseai.,::d from the Isle of Elba to inundate France a secoad time with blood, and tears, and misery, M. Dawitst was lying under a grave accusation of plunder and oppression ; and far from conducting himself so as to remove the supicions which overshadowed him, he justified them all by rushing to new scenes of violence, and being the first to raise the standard of revolt. On the ‘..2 Ist of March he became Minister of War ; he employed hint self; with the modest and mix!erate Carnot, in coldly calculating the means of massarreing all the National Guards in the kingdom ; and al: this, to maintain him self a few short hours :n the exarcise of a power which must have had great attractions for both these gentle men, since neither of themithought any sacrifice too great to attain it. Artfultv deceived by the cun ning Duke of Otranto, then President of the Pro visional Government, Dayoust. in the latter days of June nevertheless hesitated a long while to open the negociation which sent his army beyond the Loire. Brave Macdonald, loyal Oudinut, ornaments of the French Marshals, you can tell how th is frantic wretch received you when you went to him in his camp, in order to save your country and your King from the last of evils ! Ah ! if the capital, if the descendants of I - lenry IV did not endure the horrors of a siege, to you be the thanks! You braved his rage, when he threatened to have you shot in f'ront of his camp : ' you fru eceded at last in shcwirg him the imminent danger in which he and ull his party were placed : you determined him to that r4nuat which circum stances so imperiously commanuee. " I have but one more word to add. The foreign Powers now impose upon us a ”ontribution of seven hundred millions of francs, by the same right which M. Davoust exercised in their enontrics a few years ago. M. l)avoust in is good li.alth and spirits, and posesses a large part of those millions which he himself impowed on the Earigners—and vet that the poorpeasant of Britainy, the miserable inhabitant of a department laid waste by the enemy, and the industrious shop keeper in the Rue St Denis, should be fbreed to make up truongst them the money. which M..Pavoust shall keep safe in his pocket ! Oh this is too bad— beyond all conception 1" • The accouchement of the. Trine' us of Wales, k is said, will take place at Marlborough House. Buck inp,hatn House has not been tendered to her Royal Mghness upon this occasion. _ _ _ There is an expectation that the Duke of Cambridge will receive the hand of a Princess of Here-Cassel. A report is circulated. that Liall !livers's beautiful estate at Straitlichlsay, is about to be purlutsed as a proper place f.r the residence of his (irate the Dulie of W elliugtoo. PRICE 90. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. PARTS. SEPT. 6.—The Prevotal of Conrt Pan, assembled Oa the 26th of August, after an investigation which lasted nine hours, concerning the assassination of General Hamel, have acquitted Anglaret,and,having declared that Danssonne and Carriere were the perpetrators of the wounds indicted on Ge neral Hamel, have sentenced them to stand in the pillory for one hour, and afterwards to be imprisoned five years. Yesterday the Court of Cessation rejected the appeal of Messieurs Conde and Dunoyer, from the judgment of the Court Royal. His Excellency the Minister of the Interior has transmitted a silver medal to the courageous woman, who, in the earn. mune of the department of Do Gard, not long since rescued an infant from the devouring jaws ofa ferocious wolf. SErr.7.—Yesterday, at eight o'clock in the morning, the final judgment of the Court of Revision was uotified to Des. • bans and Chayoux, in the prison of the Abbaye, and even the hour they were to suffer at, being six o'clock in the evening, ' was announced. They ate their breakfast with a good ap petite, drinking a bottle of champaigne and a cup of Coffee each. Having sent fur their Counsel, M. Clavean, they ex pressed to him great gratitude for the zeal and ability lie had displayed on their behalf. "We neither ask or hope foe mercy,' said Desbans ; " but we are anxions that our cons rade, Nepveu, may obtain it ; we would implore, on his account, the clemency of the King, that be may be releasA from the three years of imprisonment to which he has been sentenced."—M. Claveau, at their desire, drew up a petition to the King in favour of Nepveu. In the course of the con versation, Chapala recollected his having been (Waded from the Legion of Honour, and immediately tore oil the insignia of it. " It was upon this day, the 6th of Septem ber," exclaimed Chayoux, alluding to the engagement whirls took place between the late Marshal Ney and the Prince Royal of Sweden; " it is the anniversary ola terrible Clay; I was fighting near Berlin, where we lost 1211 pieces of can non. Why WHO I not killed in that battle r' Desbans bad been two days soliciting to be allowed to give the order for tiring to the picket of the Royal Guard who were to teraninaee the existence of himself and (Amy oux. He evinced much satisfaction in has Oig this favour at length granted him. Des. bans and ihilp.lllX both promised their counsel. at patting with him. not to utter a seditious cry, nor even a murmur, at the place of execution. They had two (lays before earl; re quested the attendance of a priest and the Abbe Monies, Al a- of the Couciergerie, assisted them to the last. Viso* their leaving the prison, the gendarmes, who escorted them, were proceeding to fasten their hands, when Dcsbans became agitated to excess; but Chaymix tranquilised bins by sayiug —" We will apply to the Lieutenant ; who will (Mobiles, grant us the favour nut to be bound. " Monsieur," added Chavoux, addressing the officer of the gemlarmerie, " we implore this last favour. We are not dangerous mew; we know that our sentence is just, and we shall submit to it with out a murmur." The Lieutenant now directed that their hands should renn.in free. About five o'clock, the pvisonc rs lat the Abbaye, in two coaches, accompanied each by an ecclesiastic. Escorted by a detachment of gendarmerie, at lialf.past five o'clock they reached the plain of Grenelle. When they had disliked their confessors, they elided a nd embraced each other. Desbans gave the command to tire, as lie had desired. Both tell at once. After this, all the troops, according to military custom, drilled before the place of execution. SEPT. B.—We have already made public the oath taken by the Presidents and Vice Presidents of the Electoral Col leges, and the following is that to be taken by the Electors : —" I swear allegiance to the King, obedience to the Con- Eitutioual Charter, and to the laws of the kingdom." GERMANY. VIENNA, Aco. 22.—Letters from Pest, of the 20th, briag ncronut, that the foir there, where a great deal of Mosinee, is done for Hungary, Tramyll :mho, the Hamm, 6:e. has Iw pm under the most favonrable auspices. There were a rive many buyers of manufactures and colonial productions, aml it may therefore be hoped that trade, which has helm to revive, *lll continne to improve. Our course of exchanis seems to be steady again. The prim.' of corn have fallen considerably. Auo. •o.—We have lately learnt the afflictleg news that the reigning Prince of Staliremberg, being at his castle a Esserdingen, got into a balcony which happened to be in an unlinishrd state, when the balcony gave way tinder him. The Prince had his legs broksu la several parts, und received other serious wounds. FUVARTA. Ayr:. 30.--The Nine has positively refused to ratify the Convention concluded with the Holy See by the Bishop, of Haesselin,ll:s 'Alinister at llorne. A Plenipotentiary from lt.i. aria will repair inimeiliate:y to Row with fresh instruc t for rend.. nig the negoci.itious. Count Xavier de lirrh. berg, .situ had been intruded fur this mission, bar refused to undertake it. ;s) EXTRACT OP A LETTER FROM TRUK, AUG. 19.—" The .;thl` brave Captain General of Catalonia, Castanos, one of the Spanish heroes, has strongly solicited, from the King, mercy - • towards the auldiers condemned by the Council of W.ir es. Remitted At 11 rcelona, fur rarticipating in the conspiracy of Lacy. It is thought he wili succeed in his letineSt. Mea.v. while the criminals arc confinkil at 111oulinich, and trea cc( with much lenity. IA tiers tre2..c4 richly la leii, and 11. i% log on board 1,209,009 piastres, (-voting di' ert from Vera The news which it briggs violin in., the Miele. of JUUn stain (ha eutite paciticaysinot Mt'aiutt. 7r-S ) . 1,,-.7- ,........p/. 5.. ".. _ - _ L . + N.,. ~