The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-10-31 00:00:00

'TILE eVATVSMAN. A~• r STOcKg Tuts Pam' 3 i•er Cent. Pert 59;1 9 per l'eet t'•.r tit) 4 pet Cent. 5 per Gent. Asir) 54 The projel will be discussed-to.tnorrovr at noon iu the bureau*. The Sitting adjburned at half-Fast three. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. Ort. 76. I have received the letter in which you BA me to send you the names of the persons whu constitute the Secret Cabinet of the Kin; of Fraoce : but I . mule have expressed myself very incorrectly, or you must have misunderstood me, if yeu imposed that I meant a second Cabinet organized like the Ostensible one. I perceive that as a good Englishman, accustomed to plain dealing, in your admirable and excellent country, you cannot e that the erne centre of a Government, which is composed of a Ministry, a Chamber of Peers, and a Chanaber of D. , puties, should be found in a coterie, the number and nature of which vary every day, ►a . ries according to the circumstances of the moment, and which derives, precisely, from this fluctuation, the means of escap ing the notice of the greater part of observers, as well as all legal action and all responsibility. Not withstanding this, however, it tines exist in France, and this coterie forms the Secret Committee in which the real power resides. Unfortunately this practice is not new in France. Weremember the disgusting excess to which it was carried i►t the trips of Louis XV. and Louis XVI. when we beheld the seism of the Government fall successively into the hands of Lottery Agents, of Madame de Pompadour, of Madame do Barry, of the Duehess de Polignac, &c. This shameful irregularity was one of the principal causes of the revolution, for nothing less than a re- volution was suffi.lent to extirpate this pernicious system, and Of Vi voicites‘ of those Princes who had occasioned it, werailragged beneath ire ruins, from _ . the unestasiiu otistioacy - with which they identified themse:res with their Court and separated from the na. lion. But, to - use the words of one of our learned Publicists, and greatest Statesmen, who has justly iharacterised them, " the Princes who, during t 5 . years of misfortune, have forgotten nothing and have keened nothing," no sooner regain that throne from which they seemed to be for ever excluded, than they exert all their power tore-establish those same abases, the existence of which had been one of the principal cause of their fall. ►t is in consequence of that de. plorable infatuation, which Racine has so well de. wilted is/ his Alkalis " Get eruct d'aveitglefuent et errs-ear " De la chew des lb* fileette avant-e..e 'ter," k And they think they behold their safety in that same system and in those same measures which caused their first calamity. In England you have Ministers who govern, who bestow offices, who take them away, who distribute pensions and titles, who propose -laws, and regulate all the great political interest. of the country ; one of these Ministers has a preponderating influence, he is at the head of Administration, all his Col leagues concur with him, slid there is unanimity iu the progress of affsirs. It is not thus in France. The Ministers are only Clerks (cliffs de bureaux), who obey the orders of the Print•es anti Princesses 9f the Royal Family, in sending away those whom they dislike, and intro ducing those of whom they approve. • Public affairs, therefore, in France, are not trans- . acted in the Cabinets of the Ministers, except for • the sake of form. They are previously concerted ttnfl decided upon in the coteries, which consist of those who are intimate with the Princes; and it was this that I meant when I spoke of the secret Cabinet. Each Prince of the Royal Family, beginning with the King, has his first Gentleman-of the Chamber, Captains of the Guard, Masters of the Wardrobe, Grand Steward, end other Officers. The Duchess d'Angculeme has her Dames de Compagssie, her Gentleman Usher, her First Equerry, Sic. All vtese persons have their deputies or dirks, to re gister and make reports of petitions, complaints, and proposals. The first Gentleman of the King's Chamber, and his Ceptain or the Golfed, have reps hi-0 MM taTIIP all Ow Mirsiatess. • • Each Prince, as well as the Duchess d'Angoolense,. has his little circle of favourites, and it is among them he imbibes prejudices, listens to false reports, complaints, and recommendations, or praises, ac carding to the passions of individuals. If you still wish for names. take the Gond Ca lendar of France, and under the head " Household of the King and the . Princes." you will have the list of the Members of the Secret Committee. Hut none are admitted into the circies which compose this grand coterie,escept these whose opinions are known to be conforinahle to those of the Coon party. Now Mese opinions are preeiiely the same as they were '25 • years ago, at the period when emigration commenced. and when they formed themselves into a politic a l Council, the fundamental principle of which MISS, " there is no safety except in emigration." Thcit • also w as established that political catechism, which described Kings as the Representatives of the Disi • pity on earth, which made the people and the nation • • the patrimony of the King, and concentrated all au thority in his person : thus wills the King, sud thus - wills the law ; and which represented as acts of rebel lion and impiety every barrier against that authority, every resistance to coppresbion, or 'even precautions, agaiisst it. 'A „...„- Nan, it is the Snuth—it l•; the *hole natioon who If wish for details respecting this catechism, must 1w a.mblaule.l. My gnu only shared Will. them open your history et the reign of James U. and there :ii4 z.... 1, his entho•itt'ln, his devotion . —tbanks ire pseud% ilia the& word Tor word: iii present Court -due lii the kii, e4 of s pa h,. . bf Frisbee,' like that of the littterts s helloed in •it its iii it , l Nt li'ghtleas then moved the Order of the safety and only Means of retaining the - throne. Can ihy. you Englishmen then 'be elAuniihed that the French Mai voices were heard against this proposition, nation beholds in it its ruin, and Inexhaustible source and it ass demanded that the Speech should be of misery ? rioted. . .„ - . , _ . . A Nlersleer grad, that eat of respert to the brother NEXT TUESDAY. ALI. TIIE 3 IIitIEES tiit £IO.OOJ yr Cie Khui, hie wishes ought to be attended to. I Asa TIIK 4 PRIZES £10.00). IN GOV EltN NI ENT This N., 4sitiss ..a3 maitpossetl. • • ! STOCK. MAY IIII• DItAIVN. AND THE VAIWE Ili, Eacel:..itcy the Minister of Police, presented . RECEIVP.II IN mcretiY ON Dv.itiN D. the prvjb-t of a is.* ultich had been adopted by the Chatahvr.of Dimities. i In the dibrourso whirls his Excellency pronounced smb . the ertiminit, he replied to the principal-objections which had been made against the law. The Clamber ordered that the pride/ sod the dig. ro l a.. bitoo,tl be printed and distributed' in the 'dig: ferrtsl bure.tu‘. Mks • •a • 1 .0 Li.bio DAY AT ONK O'CLOCK Anr.. 15 1-16 !Ala Bun& V 4 p Exchequer %41$b lei 4 p °curtly* 14W . Camels he Ace. 61U • 7'14 S-71.47'ESMAN. A great number Qf Officers are slid toilette been arrested within the .last week, some of whom are Generals. " I hate been told,!. says a letter of the 44th, " that the Colonel who commanded et Boar deaux, and GROUCHY, by whom the of AN nourrsts was made prisoner, have been both arrest ed and in Paris, where they had arrived secretly:— NEY'S trial is no longer spoken of : there is no doubt that his wife has obtained his pardon through 'the Emperor of Russia. When she threw herself at rest, the answer of the latter was, thlrifiiiisiglit be perfectly tratiquil-he had not forgotten that he bad merle her husband a Prince." • . :the King of Wirt-Exult:no and his subjects are still at tarianci, on the subject of their Constitu tion. From Gerrhan Papers recoived'inst night, we And that the Assembly of the States met on the 16th instant, at Stutgard, when. a liescript was de.' livered on behalf of the King, stating, that bit 'newly-acquired StXtes could not, have any claim to the old Constitution, and recommending the States An assist in forming a new one, which should retain, as much of the old as suited wifh present circuits.. titaness. What we hate to piy on the subject of - - ill Illy apply to thO question between LONDON: •losfull,- °crowns 31, Igl S. A Hambutgh Mail is arrived. It brings i decided : ranee K. equally apply c.. qt. • the iVirtembergers and their Sovereign. contradiction °fake rumouts of the Emperor °taus • --nor .sit and - the King of Peessla being et -vssiance.---. The question which the Bourbon faction and the : These Monarchs entered the Prussian capital on the All eel Sovereigns, their supporters, are endeavoer. 140, amidst great rejoicing and the thunder of ar tog to eatablish in France, where it has lately been 'finery.' An offensive and defensive alliance is said most disputed, and consequently to place it beyond to have been concluded between Austria and Prussia.. the danger a being controverted with effect else. The following are all the articles of interest brought ; where, is one which ought to interest every reason by this Mail : ing mind, as much as the nature of thedespotic tars- VIENNA, OCT. 18.—ft, is stated that an offensive sures adopted to enforce acquiescence in" the soul. and defensive alliance has been concluded between enslaving doctrine attempted to be crammed down Austria and Prussia. ; the throats of the French people, and of mankind On the 13th, his Majesty the Emperor of Russia in general, deserves universal reprobation. The arrived at Worlech, the seat of Prince Scheartaen- question is, shall the Ruler's :power be limited or berg, tied received the Prince, who arrived the fol. unlimited ? Shalt Sovereigns be accountable to their lowing day, - as host in his own house. t people for their misdeediil. Shall the legality of the Beetle, Ocr. 24.—T0-day, at one P. M. &rived King's authority erniiist in the 'free consent and here, amidst the thunder of artillery and the singing elective choice of the people, or in the right which ,of bells, his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, ill. birth alone confers, the divine right of Kings as it is company with our King, who had received his au- t called, though Nature and the Divinity have given gost friend at Fredericksfeld. ; them no other merit to . plead. The Bottinows FRANKtOItt, Oct. 22.—Baron Stein has taken a maintain that they are the fountains of the laws and hotel here for three years, which makes us hope that of all legal authority, and - that they have their Char . this distinguished German Patriot will reside here ter of. Right, which admits of no limitation from po. constantly,. as ON Envoy of a great Power to the t pular will and privileges, from GOD! cud the Petters Diet, which is expected to open for certain at the who are assisting them to carry this doctrine into' very beginning of neSt per. effect, seem thereby to be of the same opinion with. IlAsravnntt, Oct. 27.—Letters from Paris, of the regard to their own 'rights. The daring blesphniejr -190, say, that it is settled that the contribution of and preeuteption of such assertions are evident, and 700 millions is to be paid in five years, at the rate of ohallenile enquiry info i material point ofreligious faith 140 millions anneally ; 130 mini o n, more are fined ; and political practice, whether the Powers who are for the support of the 150,000 troops for the first pretentling to rule by Divine authority are regulating three years. In respect to the claim, to which the their conduct by the laws which Goo has established; fourth article of the Prnces Verbal of the - basis of whether they are not overleaping the boundaries by . the peace relate, France has proposed to pay them, which GOD lath stated and confined Magistrates le after the lapse of the above five years, and till that ;she Charter of Nature and Revelation ; and whether time to pay interest at the rate of three per Cent. per t their power and the way in which they ere exercising it, bears any affinity to theii own fa. ' vetrite principle borrowed from Sort losing that all Government is from GOD, cif; in other - words, as the real signification of this phrase should be rendered, from the collected source of f human wisdom,—for the Bouesons, arrogant as i they are, will scarcely presume to assert, Abet the Divinity has written its their Princely &onto, so es that all nations may read—" This is the true legiti mate King of FRANcE, in whom I am well pleased?" Supposing the Bout:Botts are admitted to possess, their Government by this right of divine descent,' how do the premises on which their right is founded tally with the - conclusions, and the only conclusions that can be drawn from their -policy, end-the nature of their Government? Government, in general, as ordained and instituted by GOD, is circumscribed and hushed by him, to be exercised according to the laws of nature, that is, of justice and equity, and for the benefit of mankind. All rulers are confined by the Almighty and Supreme Sovereign to exert their governing power for promoting the welfare and pros. perity of those over whom they are established. Can they promote public welfare by enslaving their people, by imposing civil and religious fetters upon them, by plunging them into the most un christian bigotry and superstition, by arbitrarily disregarding the natural rights and wishes of their subjects, and by prolonging the disorders which have occasioned the shedding of so much blood ?—No matt Of sense can imagine that at the first propagation of mankind there were such Governments as are amongst us now, or that the institution of Magi. st racy and civil Constitutions was for any other pur pose than for the gond of society. Though there might be no previous agreements between rulers and people as to these, yet Princes would be obliged to observe them, forasmuch as they were settled by the law and appointment of the Divine Legislator and! Universal Sovereign. Whoever, therefore, refuses to govern in subordination to these, and for the be tient and .protection of the community, eeasei I to answer the ends for which his . Magistracy I and ali just authority was established over and among men. The Scripture tells us of co. ' tenants between Kings and their People, and fur. niches many examples of Sovereigns, said to have • been appointed by Goo, being rejected and de. throned for acting contrary to the will and the bile.. rests of the people ; and else of these instances of rimier disobedience receiving the .sanction and ap. probation o f the Almighty. The History of 'the annum. We have no arrival of French Papers to-day, but wears enabled to give the substsnee of some Letters from Paris which touch on important points. Ir was yesterday stated, as we noticed, on the au thority of some Gentlemen recently arrived .from Sicily, that the Es-King of NAPLES had passed over to Sicily where, it is said, he has many ad hereof', and raised his standard there.-- But the Paris Correspondents represent him as emu- ! teeing the conduct of N tPOLEON in the South of France. The Journals had announced the taking of Mott VC, but far from this being the case s it pears that on the efith of last month Ire quitted, Csr sica with some troops, and he is said to have dis embarked in Provence; some person') go so far as to say that the Austrians have joined him, and thet.they have made themselves masters of Antibes and Toulon. This may account for the statement which we had the other day by a Flanders Mail, that the Austrians, so late as the • 7th instant, had made an attempt to take Toulon by force. It is said that NIURAT circulates Proclamations in the name of NAPOLEON U. signed Joacettra Munxe, Major-General. If this be true, I a great commotion will necessarily take place; the troops about Lyons, in the Cevennes, and in the neighbourhood of Limoges, are very discontented, and may be expected to join them. These last had i osoalaaasovemerst towards Bourdeeuz, and in that city the precaution had already been taken to cause ail di,. embarkations to be made on the left bank of the Ga. rouse. By the discontent which prevails in the de partments, it appears that a long time will be neces sary before France can be tranquil, and the rigorous measures which are taken to arrive at 'lda end, are only proper to augment •the disorder. The Onion mince of the I 2th inst. which transfers all the army to the Military Council, say the advises, has so in disposed the soldiery, that when M. Recut:mous KT, Commandant of Pariv, went to visit the barracks of the Barriers ')arts, where the leg" of th e d epart . ment of the Seine is or t lanirrri, he was • received by shouts of Pico l'Eropererte!" and found the same words written on the wall. The conduct pursued by the Nlinister of War.has thrown the French Officers, wbo Ore calculated et 30,006 men, into a state of frenzy. When an officer presents himself, the Minister asks Mm, ens he at Waterloo? If he answers )es, he is instantly or . dered to retire. ter i . '1 db;,l • I °,r • ~,;, . ®, ...• ~ t?. , " Ainslie the Ond. " And seem to ittu.ke the spheres, and trembling nations are on the paint ing the few privileges and rlglat4 which left to them and posterity, into the hands whom they themselves have created. Let us further remark on 'his stabjt ant to all, that it remains free and 1. people at their first election and submi. vernment, to prescribe and define the measures and boundaries of the pug unto what rules and standard the Mt be restrained in order to his defending ing the benefit of the society of which the civil and political head. The and to take tiseieCowaritutios from Sr they are already slaves. Rut even Not do away with the rights of nature. Neither force nor conquest give a ji ever a people, by which the Conquerot Magistrate, until they, by some consent or explicit, declare their aubmissim qtaiescerwe in him, upon the best terms ran obtain, and that he is willing to grar Civil Government is lawful, but upon compact and agreement between govern, and those who condeceended to so the articles upon which they first st with the other, become the fundament siwctive Constitutions of Nations, and stripe, added positive laws, are both the ruler's authority, and the measure or .obedience. T. extend the Governor's mstrul, and subject's duty to obey. berm' otte's country, is treason against the Const treachery to the society whereof ne • ' - . -. -' Jews is full of inch events, and all countries, , th d all ages, hare afforded similar examples of on n ki,„l reclaimlog and protecting their tights from 111:. h.tol s of tyranny and the violations of injustice. And i n this the laws of both - Goa nod Nature are oho ) ot t. In fact, we must suppose all mankind infatuate,} if -they should have submitted themselves to the j n . ristliction of Gne who had no antecedent right t o eon ,. mind them, merely in order lo iheir being i n a worse condition than !lief pewvinualy sr i,,, Every one being equally master of "iv - and liberty antecedently to their agreement enother,•and lathe coMpact of the uttirr 1.4161 of the majority with him, or those be clothed with magistracy, can lay dr authority ever the liberty, or preti r i g ht i n and over the property of than what the community conferred voluntarily divert themselves of upon the advantages arising from their liv; and under Magistrates; for, as we have be in a better, not a worse, condition thus surrender a pert of their rights Therefore, seeing the power, event, the Magistrate'aauthority, roust oweiti grant of the people, it is incumbetti Iprove and justify the several degrees authority and prerogative which he And what he cannot derive from some the society must he acknowledged . vested it, the people as their reserved right. And whatever injurious power! exercises ever them, which he cannot render of from themselves to him, his departure from the compact •betlvi ' commusity, by virtue whereof he ts, created their Ruler, but it renders him invasion upon tee rights of the why' upon 'every individual member of it. words, of treason against the State, sad' to be punished by the community. . exempt himself from the obligation .h is I Be let us tell those who build lheir on divine right, that there never was world 'that derived his authority from-pod is an absurdity which nothing but folly deuce could utter. What can be more fora weak mortal, without more, and less physical power than any other arrogate to himself the attributes of What more absurd than to say there sobjettlon due to a Pi ince,-to whom tl nature, and the country have hot givi rify,.as If *Men were as many berth beasts of burthen, made for the Prime's King is•not to rule in conformity with ed laws, and the will of the Prince rule of Government, what security his from daily changes and constant revolt who makes himself 'above all law of the Commonwealth, but a tyrant, no guarantee even for hie own *arm; says Aasemovie, is governed by a r law* le governed by a man and by .. principles of natural and revealed religion who are in authority no power at al' cure them in the possession of that wl ' the laws of the country. Absolute . consistent with civil society, and therefore form of civil government, which is ' medy the inconveniences of the state . Moreover, no man, or society of men, to deliver up their preservation, or the to the absolute will of any man, ar ways-hare a right to preserve what they power to part with. These remarks are peculiarly called sent moment, when royal perogatiee arrogant as to 1 'magi' Were hr . a his own propit r i y Vein/teal With on e universality, o r a } hose who cone to claim hi no fund etend to no mo re 1 the body politic ed upon them a n d ow the prospect of living in societies have said, it is t o is inn that manki n d is and lihertieg,.... 3 'l and Nitride o f it Bite origin to som e bent upon him t o tl !II and measures ( li he pretends to.-- °me concessi on 4 4 to remain atilt . ved privilege a n d vet he Nascen t , a n d of prose their : or . 1 9 argues not only :ween him and Ilut t. nes ordained and p him guilty of an it thole society, and it it—err in pbaneg ad therefore held * a • A King cannot pis own contract. ibeir titie to rain It is any King in the t 1 ine-Pnit alone, It .ai folly 14 imps. at note impin4 thee •el nd genem s ql o ny et • human Debi to sr a the Elteitfi-. li' Pre is an obsolete at r the flys of Goil, given sorb lathe. re reds of cattle, or g' f rinea's use. ifs with the establish. • so P is to be the only of r have the people cli revolutions? He in w is no member yrant, who has to drily. Whoever, of a mon "idiom is by a beset. The religion give ohms tri all, but poly N. un which is theirs by dc e *snatchy is in. lal erefore can be ito CP' is intended to re.. P r ' to of nature...—. fra wt men, have pan the means of it, tut and they will al. Pu they hate not the " try led for at the pee. are re has bezome so the the of Beres, gat of strterlder. the which tyranny has • per hands of depots 0c it It INK', so import. sal Ml entire to lk tits ibmioion to Go- tai e what shall be public good, and ter Magistrate shall I: Y ing and pronto', nil hich he is created tle people are net sit PM the Sovereign, he r Ten slavery des re. end just or legal title , mr rot becomes their oat sent, either tacit its I ion to, and et- he terms which they ove grant. And as no err what is founded he n those closet) to ie to be governed: , stipulate the out , p ot !Male of the rt. ith, nd together with ran the limits (4 0 ^ tam of the sutiiert' et* pr's right to tom. ha. yonil the toes et 3nristitetiort ,l4 it lye e are member': _ F it