The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-05-15 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN. $ .r 1111.VM royalism recited, but the .re-pnblication of the prow'• sinus of the law. To this report was subjoined the Metre., - which we gait, on fisOuidaY. A rccom A, APRIL 23.—The King of Naples has ob tained signal advantages over the Austrians, and has not experienced a single check. HP has just re. mired from Naples a reinforcement of 12,000 men. all very fine troops. Ile has taken a position in ad vance of Ancona, haring his left supported by columns on the Upper A ppenitte. The Queen has at Naples 18,000 men, independent of the provincial guards : the country is secured from all attack. It is known that the English have no other troops in the Mediterranean than the three thousand men that are Getacm. An affair is soon expected here with the Austrians, and success cannot be doubted ; for the Neapolitan army, which is very numerous and very fine, has heed reinforced by a great number of vete ran soldiers and brave officers of the old Italian army, which do not make much account of the Austrian troops, whom they have often beaten with inferior forces. &Lich it :elates; sistre there wets tin treaties to be med.. ow the bnev dictated by the Coalition. as his Majesty expleineel in Ids ;et ter of (Ise '221 of Februa ry to the Emperor of Austria, awl as did the Dake of Vicenza, ie the declaration Is hich he tratissuitted to (he Congress on Go 15th of Ma rc h. If all the documents relative to the Congress of Prague, Chatilioss , a n d Vienna were printed, and we are enured that it has been proposed they shall bee"they would display in a most striking light to the . eves of all Europe, the respect of the rowers for the PION) of nations ; their principles of equity ; their fidelity to their engagements ; and that spirit rf moderation with which they have constantly been a:situated. These pieces would form a sequel to the correspondence published some years ago on the par tition of Poland. In them we shall see developed the same policy, the same IT:opal of wisdom and of justice; it was, as now, to stifle the germs of dis cord which tribele extend to Etorepe, it was for the defence of social order, that the t•s sere millions of Inhabitants wisicis Poland credained were parcelled out. It was also fur the leippistess of Poland, that its item-eels affairs were interfered in, that a King en: imposed upon her. a horn she did not wish for, ootl that they intermeddled in her Constitutions.-- Our modern diplomatists are plagiarists; they have net the merit of invention. 'rho ancient and brave nation, =titer basing given Kings to all her neigh- - bnurs, bas disappeared from the stage of the world. • Neter and ancient Italy sees, in her turn, all her '- hopes wettish. The same violence has struck the il lustrious House of Saxony and the Republic of Genoa. Time will show whether the French nation' will escape the same proscription, and upon whom , shall burst the stormy clouds which the policy of so many Pn were has accumulated over Europe. • The Mondeere of the 11th of May, contains an article from Vienna, dated the 05th of April, which A Flanders Mail arrived this forenoon. The in. asserts, thut as the late Treaties of Accession with formation which it brings tends to prepare us for a the greater States of Germany being on the same speedy commencement. of warlike operations on the footims with those concluded eith the smaller ones, French frontier. We have it stated from Brussels who, like them, have been voluntary Al lies, t h e of the 10th, that the French have inundated Valen latter consequently ought to be equal partakers of cietenes, the intretsched camp of Feelers, Conde, and flue benefit arising from the subsidies given by Eng. , land, and the other advantages derived from the vie- ; the environs. They employ, say the Brussels ac ' lodes, in proportion to the sacrifices made by them, counts, at this moment a great number of workmen in order that, at the conclusion of the peace, their in finishing the intrenchments and batteries of the just demands may he taken into consideration, and camps at Nlattherge and Famars The French Ge. especially the fixing a certain and permanent frontier nerals beve also' caused abattis to be formed, and for Germany. r. edoubts raised in the forest of Mormal. This to That with regard to the contingents to be coati'''. hated, all that the subscribing parties can do, after so France is a most necessary precaution. In the cam. many sufferings, will be to engage to keep on foot and paign of 1793 the Austrians penetrated by this way maintain the same number of troops as in the last into the department of the North. campaign. In consequence, the Electorate of Hesse The Brussels accounts admit that the Saxon cud offers to contribute 7,509 men ; Brunswick, 3.000 ; Prussian soldiers have been fig htin g with each other; Ilokstein , Oldenburg, 1,600 ; the three Hanseatic but the mutineers" (two regiments of Saxons are cities 5 (X)0 • ('rankfort, 570; half in troops of the lino', suit half in landwehr, reserving to their several so designated) were soon subdued." This does not powers the further augmentation as they may see bunk very much I•ke harmonious co-operation among' prover. The subscribing parties place the greatest the troops. Prince BLUCHER is to command.— concsrlenee In these several contingents being properly " It is remarkable," say the Brussels Papers, " that employed ieul directed, a confidence which has been the Monitcur pre ass account of this tumult some so well justified by the preceding glorious campaign ; " 'bet thivy nevertheless deem it necessary that a cue. days before it happened. rnlConvention should be entered jets) between them, ' The conduct and operations of the belligerent 'concerning the iacorporation Of these contingents Commaeders in Italy, and the views of their respee.l with some particular general army. Cite Courts, receive some elucidation its the articles The undersigned, in recommending these ideas to contained in the German Papers thus received. Bat the exasninatiots of the Allied Sovereigns, and re- it will . be observed that the intelligence in the French questing their *Renting to them, renew their request of a general deliberation being immediately taken on Journals is of a s very different complexion. Accord. • this basis ; ate° take the present opportunity of as. jag to the latter, the King of NAPLES has not sus suring his Highness the Prince of Mettereich, and tallied a single check. He has retreated voluntarily, the Baron of Wessenberg of their high consideration. and in conformity with the declaration in the official '..e.rrhen follow the siessatores.] article which we subjoin. 'lle German Papers .11se Moniteur Coutnins a long Report to the Ern• would give us to understand, that he has been sig -pernr, from Fenche, Duke of Ottawa, Minister of the !slimier, beginning with the state of France flatly defeated, and in a situation of extreme danger when Bonaparte resumed the reigns of Government. and desperation—the French, that he has been great- After a frightful picture of the abuses introduced by ly reinforced. the Bourbons, and under them, he adverts to the 'The following are from the Papers received by the mealtimes accord with which their expulsion, and Ma il : the restoration of Napoleon, were etFecred. A party remained, as its 179'2, but was too insignifi. VI EKN t , MA Y 2.- A courier has brought dis. cent to counteract the general will, or to disturb the patches from General B iron Frimont, dated the 26th general tranquillity, and therefore not worthy of the of April, of which the following is the substance : serious attention of the Government, which even IVhile Count Neipperg executed in so masterly a fr4.(tuently exerted its authority to preserve the Royal. manner the attack upon the Roneo, on the 20th, partizans from popular siolence. which hes already been spoken of, Major Perq ss uet 'c But now, at last," says the Report, cc it ap pears time to put a stop to the maueuvres which are advanced towards Sesenatuo, with Finner's Yagers, practised. Emigrations have commenced; corre. forced the bridge with the Yagers and a detachment spondesices with the exterior are established ; similar of Tuscan Dragoons, and Captain Ifarrucker pene. trains are begun feel circulated in the interior; Com- :rated into the town, and by his brisk attack threw mittees are formed in the towns; and efforts are t he enemy s detachments, which were much stronger, made to spread commotion in the country." into contagion, and caused them a g reat loss in killed The Reporter then makes a fennel excuse for not resorting to the vigorous measures adopted in the b i. and wounded, and took 300 prisoners, among whom miter case at the commencement of the Revolution ; is a Captain of the General Staff. Our loss is one a.aliug, that these severities are scarcely held justi- killed and 47 wounded. Find by the exigency of the case. The report pro- j The enemy having so suddenly abandoned, with. ceeds— ' out waiting for our attack, Isis strong position on the " Bet real disorders appear to have risen from the 'wawa% res that have bee:' noticed. Sevie, which he occupied on the 22d, with about " one commune of the department of Gard, a 20,000 mete retired to Rimini, and had on the 21th m o ts of individuals hoiited the white flab for a rim- his rear near Sairguano. oleo. Some armed baud% have appeased in the de-I Field-Marshal Lieut. Bianchi was with his main vestments of Ninrne and Loire, and its the Lower hotly at Cortona, on the 25th, and expected to be at Lone. So - :se women ill Calvedos tore the tri-co. Faligno on the 28th ; King Joachim has agaiu at leered flag off one Commune. Seditious cries have beets heerd, and some acts of rebellion have takes. tempted to open a negociation, but his overtures place in the department of the North. In that of have been rejected like the preceding ones. the Cotes du Nord, a Mayor has been massacred by i The following is the letter sent by General Millet some old Chonans. These offences spread alarm ; d e Villeneuve, Chief of the Staff of the Neapolitan bat arising from the efforts made for the last year to Army, to the Austrian Commander in Chief, on the re-excite revolutionary rancnurs, they cannot inter fere with the general accord, nor give any apprvhen.. 21st of April, to obtain an Armistice : skis for the safety of the State. They do not even ; " GENERAL,—The King of Naples, in the just tnark a regularly esistine party. hence, no extra- uneasiness respecting the security of his States, which urdioary measures are necessary to be proposed to the negociations at Vienna excited in him, and after yetsr Majesty. The Tribunals, a few months since, the unexpected events which seemed likely to renew eallished the cry of Vive l'Empcurer ! with four the Coalition of the European Sovereigns against s ears exile ; those who cry Ii; le Ref! are suf. . ratice, thought that he ought a g •ain to occupy, and tered to go unpunished. But it beeotues neressiry that he had a right to occupy, the line which he held es recut the provisions of the law on certain points, Asid to put an end to the indecision of theTribunels." doting the last war, in consequence of a formal The Report then concludes with a short aonsescia. Contention, signed by Generals Nugent and Limn, jinn of the armaments of soldiers by the purchasers, which he has not renounced by any later stipule of national domains, of carps of volunteers in Bri- [ ions, and from which the Neapolitan Army retired canny, and of the association in support of the ex merely lit consequence of a conventional arrangement. Guverement in that proviuce, the Nationall ~enG Ills, ke. all affording to the Government a se- ; Illsfia'tered himself that this line would be cmtly which requires no aid in the circumstances of given up to him without difficulty; and perhaps no Mai Is. Fnmee ... Malta Cent , enburgh 1 Lisbon Atf. Wl= MONDAt.—lifilidag at the Public t►lflrre. THE STATESMAN. LONDON: MONDAY, MAT 15, 1315. .. hostilities would have taken place if your Excellency had received the communications and which you have prevented by unforeseen accidents, which have been been too late informed of. As the Austrian troops at Cesena had fired upon the Neap ;litan troops, the King could not but believe that it was by your or ders, and that your Excellency had positively re ceived from your Court instructions to act in a hos tile manner towards him. As soon as his Majesty Paw himself engaged in war against such a great Power, without having intended it, he thought it necessary to make use of all the resources which had long since been offered him in Italy, and the extension of which he did not even further attempt to realize. " The movements of our army towards Bologna, Ferrara, and Modena, are known to your Escellenry : while they were executing, the King saw, by com munications with Lord Bentinck, that the hostilities commenced against him were not the consequence of a settled plan, because the English General stated that he had received no notification on the subject, but at the same lime his Majesty saw that England, with which he desired to remain at peace, might take ■ part in the war if it were continued. This double information excited a wish that a reconciliation with the Austrian court might be possible.—llis Majesty therefore signified to Lord Bentinck his intention of making a retrograde movement, and he would have proposed an armistice to your Excellency, had be not found, that such a proposal might have been con sidered as a means to check the activity of the mili tary dispositions against his army, at the moment 'when it began its retreat. " Now that the King finds himself with his whole force in the line, which he thought fit tX choose— now that he has sofficiertly proved that his move ments were not compelled, slid that he is fully master of them, his Majesty authorises me to ac quaint your Excellency, that he has tequired it Vienna new declarations, and made overtures to your Court, from which he expects a happy result. Meantime his Majesty orders me to prop•, , ,e an ar mistire to your Excellency, to avoid all ::: - .necessary bloodshed. " His Majesty. wishes, General, Oat you may ac cede to this innposal. " The King would then name a General, with full powers to fit with whomsoever your Excellency shall appoint the line which each of the armies shall occupy. (SiAned) 4, MILLET DE VILLENEUVE, Chief of the Staff, &c. day an energetic proclamation, addressed to the diers of the Son corps. It is remarkable that Illunileur gave an account of this tumult some before it took place. BRUS;ELS, MA Y IL—The Dike of Wellincio reviewed to-day the Hanoverian troops in this Gist His Excellency was attended by a numerous am brilliant Staff. The review was in the Grec o Alley, and attracted a crowd of spectators of ii ranks, who, as cell as the military, cried inces , s o lt Vice le Rol! The regiments reviewed corryn se ditision of iiirtittry. Grix.XY, hl Y 9.—The good heaqh constantly PT joy Pd by the king, on whom unhappy. France fnuto the hops of her speedy deliweraore, and whi c h never been interrupted except by a slight intlj p oq , Lion, places in a more odious and ridiculous licht the articles of the Journals of Pails, which say 61 King is dangerously ill, has received the saera merits, &c. We ho re procured the rono.itig circular:— THE SUB-PREFECT OF TIIE ARHONDICSEMEIT OF TO THE MAYOR OP •-•- " Si Majesty orders that no body shall h permitted to leave France, particularly on the what Northern frontier from Donktrk to Landau. " The Emperor likewise commands, that ever individual of the household of the Count de Lill going to Brussels, or returning from it, shall he ar rested ; and that all that seem suspicious, shall arrested on the frontiers. " It is to be expected that disguises will he em ploy ed to escape observation ; the dress of lahoureC will be assumed, but labourers can no more go bark, wards and forwards between foreign countries ant the interior than any other persons. " In general his Majesty desires that no one Is allowed to pass unless he be the bearer of a pauper from the Minister for Foreign Affairs. depend upon your zeal for putting into rxe colon, as promptly as possible, this important mea sure of security. You will• take care that it be on eluded. In concert with the commanders of fortressa and the officers of the gendarmie, you will infcr; me of every arrest in consequence of these order; and of every neglect or impediment opposed to it. " Let me know you have received this letter which you will, of course, not mike public. " Receive, Sir, &c." In spite of all this the French Papers say, est Marshals Grouchy and Brune are sincerely sal Bonapa rte. Sachet has had disputes at Lyons with Rowlett , ' and refused to arrest some persons, as Bonaparte or dered. St. Cyr and Ourtinot are strictly watched The infamous Ney is bald=had to his estates for lanin acted tl:e Republican in his tour. " Head quarters, A pril 21." The Chief of the Staff ef the Austrian Army re turned the following answer:— " GrXERAL,—When his Majesty the King as-1 The latest received French papers ere those sembled his army in the Marches, ns all his p re ' Thursday: N.teottost continues in the capital. Hi I parations announced the plan of a war, the Im. is to be present at the Champ de Mai, the rem' , I penal Austriau Court, which was absolut e ly igno. Lions for which are nearly complete. A tribune if rant of any cause for these armaments, required an front of the military school is to form a throne fo explanation concerning them ; and as they seemed r the Emperor. The French paper', quoting Weill. to be directed against the Legations, which were oc- gene* from Vienna which announces the receipt a cupied by its troops, it added the declaration that any •the Austrian capital of the plan of the campaign siolation of this territory would be considered by It i lay, " It is not believed that the grand operation as iformal act of hostility. " It is not, therefore, a few single musket sh o t s at against France will begin before the end of May, 431 Cesena that decided the question of war ; it is the the beginning of June, as the forces of Austria ant Russia will not be able to unite before that epoch, ' act of his Majesty the King in advancing with hi, Hostilities will then commence by a general earl whole army into the territory of the Legations, oc- upon all copied by the Austrian troops ; it is his P r o c lam a ti on , points." They add, in the mean time, '° !ht Duke of Wellington has forbidden his soldiers, by published at Rimini, on the 30th March. I proclamation, to pot foot upon the French territory, " The views and the sentiments professed i n th a t " Proclamation must serve his Majesty the King a s a ; under pain of death. Thus it appears France expects a storm of no coat. standard to judge of the receptio n that hi s new p ro . mon violence to burst upon her territory. Her pie. posals for an agreement will meet with. parations to swatch are commensurate to the danger " At the same time that, by order of the Corn- T ?• It has struck some persons as matter of' wonder, in mander.in.Chief of the Austrian army in Italy, I been regarded as a proof of the weakness of BONA have the honour to answer the letter which you ad- ; pauTE . a power, that the most celebrated of dressed to him on the 21st April, lam also charged to add, that his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief former generals were not in the list of his declare supporters. The throne of Naeozaott, however, , has received the most positive orders to continue the has lost but few of its props. His old slo operations with vig our ; e n d, th ere f ore , i s no t au . tborised to check their course by an armi s ti ce ; that are now rallying around him. At the head of this it 111arshal Sour.; Duke of Dalmatia, who is 1/0Milla• however he has not delayed a moment to ask orders tea Majo:.General. S E ICIIST (Duke of Albufer , )i from superior authority r e specti ng th e proposa l s con - has set out for Lyons to lake the command of th tamed in your dispatch.—l have the honour. army of the Al?:.LuctErt BONAPA Bag iSelbo t° flend.quarteri, A, ril 24." - i ing his aid to the Councils of N.trottos; rrd DUNKIRK, MAY 6.—Baron !Ruder, Commandant Fouctle and CAR NOT are acting with the signor of this place, has signified to the Mayor, by order of their characters. The Grvetrnmert - of Horornrr t Count Erlon, that Dunkirk is in a state of siege, has seldom subjected itself to the suspicion of weak* that all the i n habit an t s mus t l a y i n p rov i s i ons f or s i x ness —it i s now s h ow i ng th a t i t s moderation sptlnci months, and that those who shall be on or neg. not from imbecility. And certainly if distorboet nc lect to do it, may be obliged to ( pit the to wn .— prevail, if property is ;attacked, and assat.iii!tin"! The Mayor, Baron de Kenny, in making this regu- are committed, shall we wonder ,to see the duties cr lation known, invites the richer citizens to lay in government executed with severity ? Whnt sort of corn or dour for a whole year, that they may be government would that be which would make no car able to assist the poorer closres ; they shall declare tempt to repress the atrocity of such acts ? 10 1114 ' 1 . to the May or what stock they have laid in, and in are persons, the very men who justify the nting o f case of need, what is more that is required for their the military en harmless individuals in the sue. own supply will be delivered to the bakers for who exclaim against the measures which the ready money. minister of Police (Feudist) seems under the hf',^l In eight days every one must prove that he has sity of adopting in some of the d;etant &pia completed his stock, under the penalty prescribed. to prevent the partisans of crime and foreips tin": Bin cr.s, MAY I I.—His Highness the Duke of from disturbing the public peace. If the t r i-cukin' Bruuswick Oels is gone to-day to Lierre, which is flag is torn down, •that is sal e e:rut in the c,rs r the rendezvous of the fine corps which is coming somg persona to justify any atrocity. The rii-re• from his states.—The Prince of Saxe-Weimar arrived loured flag, however, does not se , oi to lis atoc 4 to-day with many offictits. danger, though the women niCavildok 9; rttr 'O hl ' LIEGE, MAY 9.—There have been some disturb. fallen foul of it. Emcirr sive, Oct inrdfi‘ atom here on the occasion of the departure of a bat. finds it necessary to check in the In,d, "I / 1. talion of Saxon grenadier=, who pretended that they the safety of the state. If they did, we tlot,tit still exclusively belonged to the service of their we should hear of flunks marc:iirg to tl•erii-'..Th King. Some Prussian troops soon reduced the muti- districts. This lovers of war and blowidt..to.la!'• ueers to order, nud Prince Blucher published }'ester. d2ubt, sorry ty - cause ttth it: not the caw. 101 1 . , .1 4 . I • • C r If • 1 r s - ~' :., .. f t‘ - t I ! '.. - j I . ' ~: t • " CO d• en Ate vrh ke '1 1i bb 1i ke .A.