The National Register. — London, England, 1815-09-10 00:00:00

•dva'b' Calf MARSHAL NEY An Expose has been published at Paris, in Ney's lion, 1)% his advocate, M. Berrier. The excuses amount to little more than Falstaff's translation of the defence in the play of qenry rebellion lay in his way, and he found it." Ve Expose says, that Ney had retired to his estate near Chateaudrun, thirty leagues from Paris, where he lived 4 ` quite isolated, without any cortespondence or communi. cation that associated him with political combinations, with which it is well known he was quite unacquainted." On the 6th of March he received in his retirement a letter from the War Ministei, brought to him by an aide-de-campe, or dering the 111aishal to proceed in all haste to the sixth mili tary division, the government of which was entrusted to The Marshal instantly obeyed the order; and on pass im: thiough Paris, where he first learned the landing of Buonaparte, obtained an interview with the King: At the augus' aspect of the Monarch, all of whose traits breathe bounty, the Marshal, electrified by the flattering words in which his Majesty was pleased to address him, warml% participated in the solicitude with which all minds seemed to be occupied. Those who know the ardour of his liberal soul, and the promptitude of his language in second ing it, never would mistake for falsehood or stratagem any thiog which the Marshal may have said to the King, even in language boldly figurative. Could duplicity have induced him to utter such accents, it would have led to no advant age." After contradicting. the report that the King ordered a sum in be given . to Nev to secure as far as possible his fide lity, and appealing to the King for its falsehood, the Expose proceed- to state, that Ney found Besancon quite bare of trooos ; that the Duke de Maille on the 11th of March in fru med him of the troops at Grenoble having gone over to Buonaparte, and that the latter might be able to enter Lyons on the 11th. He (Ney) resolves to repair to Sons-le- Saulnier. He writes to Suchet, that it was unfortunate Bun raparte had not been attacked. Ney's force consisted only of four tegiments, without a single piece of artillery. The Expose then states the dispositions he made, and the letter he wrote to Oudinot to hasten the arrival of troops : " we are on the eve of a great revolution, it is only by cutting up the evil by the roots that we shall hope to avoid it." His advanted guard passed over to Buonaparte. At Lyons the troops remained inactive—He found himself in the centre of insurrection. His army was alienated from him ; and threatened him, if he prevented their going over to Buts staparte, 0. On the night of the 13th of March, the emissaries of nuonaparte came to the Marshal, whom they found in great agitation, inaccessible to all impressions, and trembling for the fate of France. They brought a letter from Bertrand, vl) told him that Buonaparte had concerted his enterprise with Austria, through the Austrian General Kohler: that England had Favoured his escape: that Murat advanced ra pidly to the north of Italy to assist his brother-in-law ; that Vie troops 6f Russia had returned to their distant quarte.s; Prus-i could not conten,„A alone against France; and 114 at if tity cotltiuurti to resist flit wQUId siyp uji Prance to A 4. war. These last LarshaPs best resolutions." ex i cuse this step. the Expose pro- Jarabal drew up hastily a long series was tole read to Buonaparte; and on future study would be to repair the Trance, Ney renounced opposing r Buonaparte's return to Paris, the COll state ; not disgraced, as was said, but because he was soon undeceived respecting the false asser tions given by Buonaparle of a speedy settlement with the Powers. After stating that the public good was always his guide, the gxpose concludes as follows: " Such, without any disguise, is the conduct of Marshal Ney since the month of March 1815. Does there result from it, we will not say the-prejudice, that he has committed the odious crime of treason, but even a moral d. gradation ? All crime, in 4.lie legal acceptation of the word, supposes premeditation or interest more or less prevailing. The clime of treason consists of long, successive efforts, of cowardly and perfidious combinations. An error of the moment, the effect of an unheard of concurrence of the most strange in cidents—an error ; of which one sees in the principle a sen timent praiseworthy in itself, but ill directed ; in short, an error which served the Usurper in nothi.g, which profited nothing to the person committing it—is such an error any other than afatgl mistake? " Far from having formed airy conspiracy, Marshal Ney, notwithstanding his fault, had entered into none; that he was sincere in his promises to the king; that be only yielded to the irresistible influence of the safety of the State, which was in his opinion compromised by an impending civil war; that his hands remained pure, his character independent, and inaccessible to all the seductions of personal interest : that rite first moment it was possible to repair his error, while there still was. danger in pronouncing a i ;ainst the Usurper, and in favour of the legitimate Sovereign, the Marshal did not hesitate to lay open his whole soul, and to vote that France should adopt the course of submission." . bst THE NATIoNikr, Ittalspk. - advaninge •of general civilisation ;an able direction of the peblic edu- all the horn of a 6111 can.l. Will So.ni nitaiii this important object ; manners *ill resume the triumph er the Mai also their 4uft empire; the lure of country mill revive at the fitst aspect After some te mpts to - PL .. of a new prosperity ; the necessity of union will arise out of our misfor- tunes, and the necessity of relieving them. It is to this union. It is to ceeds to statfiluat the ht the good it will produce, that we shall owe a new public spirit. of grievanceit i irwhich was his swearing that his sole ..... ,: ..-• l'i Arl ' ' 1 evils he had izflicted on M L '' o ". ARSHA HEY, ;' ,0;:,1:34 1 m t -i u s projects. 4 4 §00n after —m.-- . . " Marshal retirod to his est. letia a MURDER OF CAPTAIN ORM= Mr. Lewis Goldsmith, well known as Editor of the Argus, in Paris, during the reign of iluonaparte l says, in a letter to a Morning Paper, " I am now willing to make oath, that Real, Counsellor of State and Director of the Police for the Departments, and Desrnarets, Chief of the Secret Police at the time Captain Wright was murdered, told me that the unfortunate man hod certainly been dispatched a la Pichegru —that is, - tortured and murdered. Fouche was 11finister of the Police at that time." Mr. Goldsmith's evidence is further corroborated by the following extract from a work published last year in Paris i , entitled, " The General History of the Prisons under the I reign of Napoleon Bnonaparte.-6 , Captain Wright, who ccun triarided an English ship of war, arrested for landing men on the coast of France, played a conspicuous part also in the proceedings against Moreau; attempts were made to make him give evidence with respect to the connections of per sons whom he had put on shore; but he entrenched himself in absolute ignorance of what was passing, alledging that he was acquainted with nothing beyond the orders of his Go vernment, which had charged him to land different persons, put on board his ship for that purpose, After that he was shot up in the Temple, he was, put to the toiture, in order to extort confessions, The soles of his feet were burned, lay : Ara greasing them ' 44414 en attlying Hates of, net ko