The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-12-12 00:00:00

. • lt,N 11 ) ' 1 1 .1 F j Is With the. .ingie exception of that excellent P.ince the Duke of (Means, wish the siwe effective forint as they . 11 . a.4e adopted aid) reguid to tie Dynasty of Candy. When the (nest of Catholic. Emancipation, and the _health of .Mr. Whilnall was psoposed by the Vice-President, Mr. Wuremer.r. spoke as follows : Mr. Virierresideut, the sentimesit which you hare just delivered, and the company have se cordially cannot fad to have recited in the bt'est of every Catholic preeent, the liveliest la/Motions of gra. titude ; and I new tape open me, ie ttw it name, to offer feu, awl all here esti-11110cl, the only recoils, pence witkiu nor power, the tribute of our head felt thanks. S. , ch liberality as is *stowed by this sentiment., roust, at all times, prove alike honourable to those who entertain it, en d agreeable to those for whom it is entertained ; but this your. generous feeling, is at the present period doubly acceptable, by the centrist which it-forms with an opposite dis. l position which hes of late an particularly displayed itself. The enemies of Catholic Emancipation, pro.' balsty ender the ipprehension that the remainder of Nose penal lews, which have so long disgraced our SWOP Book, Ire on the eve of helot repealed by theirisdens of Parliemetit, have,.iu order to prevent the consequences which they erect to dread, sounded the tocsin of alarm, summoned together all their forces, and armed themselves afresh with their well — practised, and too successful weapons of defamation and falsehood. By - means of that powerful engine, the Press, they forge anew the obstinate persever. ••••- once, and increased activity, those,shafts of slander, whose points have been so often broken againit the armour of reason and of truth, and' by the aid of that equally useful an instrument, Me Pulpit, they incessantly discharge them in a quarter, where that shield cannot so effectually Interpose. Or discarding. the use of figurate language, they daily send from the press, newspapers and pamphlets containing charges against Catholics, a thousand times refuted, end from the pulpit, where they cannot so centre. silently be answered, for the advantage of those who have rover been taught, or watt the means, or the leisure, or the inclination, to read, industriously re. peat the tale of slander. By these very means, were those same laws *misted in their birth, nursed in theirinfancy, ripened In their youth, strengthened in their manhood, and now attempted to be bolstered up in the decrepitude of their age. Means perfectly - according with such laws, and laws in every way corresponding with such means. But Ido not, Mr. Vice-President and Gentlemen, meanto apply what I have jest remarked of the enemies of Catholic Sis days Paris Papers, from the 3d to the 10th Emancipation, to the whole, or even the major part Inst. arrived this forenoen. of those who are unfriendly to the concession of OUT I Marshal NlA's trial commenced on ;Monday morn claims.—[Neither do wish to insinuste, that every big, and terminated on Wednesday, by a sentence of Preacher, or every Editor of a Politic Paper, does or pointibly can, lend himself to so vile s practice; condemnation. The decision against him was almost there are many and bright examples to the contrary ; unanimous. Out of 160 Peers only 18 voted in his I need not go abroad in quest of them, for the respect favour. His Counsel urged his claim to protection due to the memory of a deceased friend has alone pee. amid the Treaty from the Capitulation of Paris, vented Ail very meeting from furnishing. me with in. 20th November last, which, by the cession dies na stances of both.) Whilst complaining of the pernicious effects of calumny, it would ill become me to be my- five place to Prussia laced , p Marshal Nee in the si sal/ odometer's. Young and unpractised as , l am, I tuition of a foreigner. Bet these pleas were not ad eat eldeeseexperienced enough to know that io nets mitted. Though Marshal DATOVST and General was, as well as in political concertos, there are many OVILLUNOT, Chief of the Staff, bore the' strongest limiest duties : that as politicians ate not wanting wlte evidence as to the intent with which the t2th Article have suffered themselves to be persuaded that all the measures of the present men in power are the ems. of the Capitulation was foamed and Recreated, poi maidens of legislative wisdom, all the counsels of the tively asserting that its meaning and effect was to in. men In opposition, the dictates of ignorance or die.. sure the safety of persons in particular, and that the affection • that the former have onquattionably ars: - army was in a situation to have enforced this guaran coniplisho:d the safety, whilst the latter week! as in.' evitably have effected the utter ruin of thii country tee, if it bad not been voluntarily granted—these so Protestants are to be found, whO havebeen taught Volute were declared such as could not ha discussed to believe, that whilst their own pure religion quail. in a public assembly ! and the Marshal was •desired yes its professori for the 'exclusive sejoyrise!'t o f li• 'to confiue his defence to the refutation of the facts berty in this life, and happiness in the next, the per- • charged in the indictment ! The Marshal on this de secutingend idolatrous religion of . the Cathelle res.' dies its votaries unworthy to taste the one, and in• sired his Counsel to plead no more, and declared, capable of inheriting the ottier. That as there are that be was tried against the faith of treaties on which eo‘e, who in state affairs entertain so profound a vie•lhe null all France had relied, but which had been mention for the ancient edifice of the Constitution, violated in the face of every solemn pledge and gas seeitreat abhorrence of whatever (night effect the antiquity of its appearance, as neitber to repair it mu "' themselves, nor suffer it to be kepaired by others; I He was, however, found Guilty. say, to those who are anxious to make good the in. I The execution of his sentence was got long de juries and dilapidation, occasioned by negligence, or. payed. On Thursday morning be was conducted the lapse of time, with a sactilegioes wish to over. from the Hall of the I.teembourg to a part in the throw the building altogether; so there are others,) the Garden, where he wav shot. Ile met his fate and strange to say in a great degree the mule indivi. I. duals, who in manse( religion, harbour so utter an is he had borne his trial, with great intrepidity, and &vireo° for the still more antique fabric of the Church, les became his character. so great a thirst for change, as highly to smelled i s Madame Nee and his four children had visited every speculative experiment upon the latter, by him early that morning to take their last farewell. hands however unskilful, and rapturously to hail es , We can only give a very brief minute of the trial, au improvement, any alteration, however moth 'at variance with the style of the original. And here it. but ee add all the particulars of the execution. I may not be improper to observe, in order to place 'Our priv ate advises state, that all the military their strange and inconsistent infetuation in a* force of the capital, and even all (he foreign troops, stronger point of view, that the Constitution being bad been called out as a measure of safety ; but reared by the hands of men, is, like every other ha., t hat all Paris was in a state of uproar and confusion. man institution, from its very nature obnoxious to sleety, and conseq.lently needing repairs; whereas,' They also contradict the Journals so far as to say the Church being of celestial origin, is, according to : that the execution was performed in the most secret the declaration of its Divine founder, an imperish. s i nner , so early as five o'clock in the morn able work, and therefore not requiring such adven.l in. and thee even Marshal NLY'S family knew not teems aids. With such deluded opponents I mean . of it till they were tol d he was no more. not to be angry ; their opposition, arising as I know haloes from prejudices, early and artfully Lava/Xeres case is still before the Court of Ca.- into their minds, by nature liberal, though by edu. • :aeon. cation contracted, excites my' compassion, not my The French Funds have bad an extraordinary resentment. The only indulgence I seek from them is a truce, to afford them an opportunity of diliginerly rite. On Saturday the Five per Cents were 681.50 c. arid dispassionately ascertaining the important' eoint, They had been above 69f. on the preceding day. - whether all that they may have heard, or rmtd; PARIS, Dec, 9. • agaitiet Catirolies, sod their doctrines teem the pal. CHAMBER 01 PERM, Dim. 4. piter the 'rest, which has alone induced them to • ' TRIAL OF AtARSHAL NEY. appear their claims, he founded on fact, or Inisre. The Sitting was opened at half-past ten o'clock. presentation. For this purpose, let them, for the The Ministers of Puttee and Marine, as well as the (lest time, take a calm view of both sides• of the Keeper of the Seals, were present. question, let them hear and read what Catholics, as The CHANCEI.g.OU ordered the Accused to be placeli well• as Protestants,'have to say, or may have written at the bar, and interrogated him again as toles mimeo upon the subject; and then, if they find the former to be the care—if they find the unavoidable enlaces. and quality. ',• -"I stens, imbibed in youth, strengthened by their ob. The Marshal's voice was firm, but his physiognomy sereations of more advanced years, let their oppo. seemed changed since the preceding Sittiegs. He 444 *Men increase In a tenfold degree; but if the latter es before upon a chair between his two • counsels, fa, if - • !PRICE OP tTOCKII TIIIS 13AY AT 01111 O'CLOCK I WAIL ' 1.40 e. Ann. 15.1-16 : 3 per Cent. Red, * India Km& 1 2 0 1 per Lent Cook Kitebenser MIL 2 p 4 per Cent. 746 i Otani.. 11i 15 per Cent Navy Otero!. for Ace. 61fi THE STATESMAN. LONDON: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1815. CONDEMNATION AND EXECUTION OF MARSHAL NEY. should prove to be the fact, . they should find them. seises to heti been all - this time the dupe. of detign log- men, Jet thehs , id the name of renimon jostle', bury their prejudices and their oppositton- in one grave. Bat if I thus solicit a cossatiou of hostilities four smk.ofileors of grenadiers were behind him. The retstrastsT intimated to the defenders of iris accord not to f orget th e obligations which the iar and their profession imposed upon them. There woe TIIE STATESMAN. from thoss who are deceived, I neither ask peace 44 witnesses, tcrwits,sineteen against, andWaseuty nor truce from those who practise the.deception.— one fur the accweed,..ditigned at the relpsest of the toog as they attempt to mislead the public opinion . public Ministry *wan demand of. the Marshal, and upon this point, 1 for one will endeavoer to net it .four • . 1 . egg epow by the Marshell idlttt 4 it tight, because upon public opinion after all, and this our enemies well know, must hinge the ulti. The Cectenannoa then directed- the Secretary • mate success of ,Catholic Emancipatien, and indeed Redacteor to read the indictment, which has already 'of P %pi), other public question.. Nor ia Hint - eat' dif been given.. . *cult, or the prospect cheerless, for the thin(s jon44 ...; It was hatirtwith: calmness by .the accused. tor ignorance are evidently disappearing fast bkore M. BeLLin . r.—The reading of the indictthont eon- Ike spreadieg •light of knowledge., .The hints% le. solutes . . tutes the veal exposi of thecrisees imputed to Mar. .tellect, is on its ,cards,, and . nethim - .cat‘: arrest,'ita progress. ,The intolerant preacher ritiycolivintre to shat Ney, which it would. be needless to repeat. — assert what he cannot prose, end will not publish ; Therefore, he critioned himself to demanding the be may prostitute the p u lpit, if he please,,, t o puha- reading of the three lists of witnesses, which being . ,cal or individual purposes; and mayor may not, by done,.thi . Cmsncct.toa began to interrogate the ae , such acts, work himself into the favour of thole who cas ed as follows : have churchdignities to confer, het he will never by a • I Where were you in the beginning of March ,spch means invalid tie . the now ,generally acknow. ? !edged- justice of our claims, raise himself in the ' Marshal Ney.-1 will answer all the questions esteem .of the truly wise_ and Virtuous, or render put to me, reserving to myself my rights resulting himself more acceptable to Him whom we were all f r om the 12th article of the Capitulation of the 3d of made t o please. Mr. Vice. President, and Gentle. July, as well as from the Treaty of Peeve signed the men, I move, by way of conclusion, that we all 2Qth of last November. express our disapprobation of the intolerant Bigot, • • by toasting Ms very reverse, the Bishop of Norwich. : M. BELLART.—I declare, in the ' name of the ,The speeches of Mr. Casey. Mr. !}pith; and . Dr. Taylor, King's Commissioners, that they do not approve of win be given the earliest opportunity.] , the reservation made by Marshal Ney, his Counsel, however, being at liberty to employ all, the means l which they think necessary to his defence. 'rile CHANCELLOR then interrogated Marshal Ney as to his conduct, from the period of Bonaparte's landing to that of the Marshal's joining hint. The facts thus elicited are such as have already been' amply detailed. Witnesses were then called to de- - pose as to these facts. The examination of witnesses occupied the Coed till half-past five, when the sitting was suspends& till next day. M. Dune (Marshal Ney'a second Counsel).-1-: What were, in your opinion, the meaning and 'testi of the 12th Article of the Capitulation? Did you odt think that no one ought to be molested or smegkt after for functions he had alled t or opinions his • manifested, during the interregnum ? M. %LIAR? opposed this question being ',bad the witness. •~. n Marshal Ney—[with heat).—This capitulation was for the protection of every one—it was morn especially so for me ; and it is upon the fact of tbig capitulation that I hare remained in France, for certainly I should have preferred running the chance of being killed in battle, rather than appear on the criminal's bench, charged with a capital offence. General Guitleminot. As Chief of the Staff, I had to concur in the capitulation. I was charged with stipulating all possible guarantees for public and private property, especially for persons what. ever may have been their employments or opinions, The acceptation of this condition was. sine qua non. We had orders to break off the negotiations if it was not accepted. The battle was ready to begin. Some further details were given on this head, which gsve rise to a thscession and murmurs, which were put an end to by the Chancellor ; and some Peers observing that such discussions were irrelevant and extremely inconvenient, and that such points ought not to be agitated in a public assembly. • • The Procurateur General, in a long speech, en. larged on the offences of hlarshal Ney, and the proofs of his guilt. After which M. Berrier entered on;the defence, the preamble to which lasted fire hours: The prin cipal features in the remaining details ire these M. Dunn brought forward an objection to the competence of the House to try Marshal Ney, owing i to his being born at Serre-louis, which is now ceded' to Priasia, ersd Consequently he is a subject of that Power. 114;4i:inset 'concluded by Saying, that.ac.:' cording to,the• Principles of public law and the law& of nations, as a foreigner, he had a right to object to their jurisrllctino.:-•-•(Violerg sign* of disappruba intWrupted Me Orator:)--arlre Chamber, .will 1 pronounce, but I owe it to mrconscieryce,. t owe it to Ike accused, is r ut forward, dill 'Objection tit kb behalf. - . , , Marshal Ney, rising from his seat with lop e ; . • ' ty, said,— Yes, Gentlemon, lam a Frenchmen, end I will die a Frenchman; hitherto my detente hi ppeared free, but I perceive now there is a desir e to throw obstacles in the May. I thank my generous Defenders fora bat they have done, and for what they gosi l ' would still wish to do for me: I would rather not be defended at all than be hatf defended: I tin tried against the pith of Treaties. They *Wee wreient me (iota invOltitigAtent," hut, like Gea.Maieitai i appeal to Europe-end-to posterity: - r-34*.., -A-----, ... . ' M . Hert.lav den - ted that there were intreboatina ihrtierd' e hr 11is way, that ate the rklaye had. heed g'rented that were necessary, end delay longer.th at i those which were even asked to. prepare his defence; that whatever might be the ultimate resolutions of the accused, the King's Commissioners still persisted in their requisition.' ' .. • . The CHAKCELLOIL—Defenders of the Accused,. ~.. continue to advance what you think useful to y ~tt r ' - cause, by' confining yourselves to the bounds, which are prescribed to you. .. - The Marshal (interrupting him)—And ! f,;rhtl .. my-Advocates to say more, unless they can use alt the means which seem suitable to them for my de: fence. You may, Monseigneur, give such orders ass . 4 you think proper.:--[A profound..silence reigns io • ' the Assembly.] M. Ber.Later—Since the .Marshal persists in his resolution, I shall not saes. word to the pleading, in his behalf. The instruction is terminated the me. ment the defence is concluded. I confine myself to , depositing upon the bureau the requisitio n of t h e King's Commissioners. This requisition was con. forceable to that which follews the indictment, and --, which was in our Paper of the 22d ult. The only Dec & addition made to it by M. Beller, was the test of At ten o'clock the Peers again met, when the eza• several ankles which are therein quoted, and he re. 1 Initiation of 'ritual., was again resumed. quired the application of capital punishment to Mar. M. ileum observed, that it was not upon the steal Ney, and to pay the expences of the trial. facts of the indictment, but upon the act of the 31 Th e phy s i ognom y o f the Ma rs hal did niiiiespos of July, in which he concerted that Marshal D. rience the least alteration during the reediagaitlet roust ought to be beard. Marshal Davoust, Prince requisition, enumerating all the crimes • of *Mir* ' of Eckmatil, was then called. had been accused. Ile was equally unitffl * * ea' M. BELLART.—I could use the declaration made .. u 1 eati 2 ng these words, which concluded '4.0 6 14 Ph • by the Counsel of the accused to oppose the hearing quire that Marshal Ney, Prince of Mositatli e . Ustit of this witness and others, because...it is only Enos I - . sentenced to a capital punishment." •. • the facts of the indictment, that the instructions I The CHANCELLOR.—Accused, have you any oli. have taken place. Iloweier, to shOW the genera. servatiotu to make upon the application of the shy of the accusers, I declare, in the name of the I I. punishment required against yni ? King's Commissioners, that we will throw no obstacle 1 Marshal Ney (rising as if to take a farewell of in the way of heraing these witnesses. - " e the august Assembly)—None at all Monseigneur. The witness (Marshal Davoost ).— ln the tig h t of i The President ordered him to be taken out of the the 2i and 3d of July, when every thing eat r e a dy; Ile - 11: The tribunes and the places, occupied by for a general battle, the Provisional Government the public, were vacated. The Peers remain in the Hall of the Sittings to deliberate in Secret Committee sent M. de Bignor to treat with the Allied. Generale.: The first shots had been fired *lieu I demanded a : upon this grave accusation. suspension of arms to treat. In the instructions to ' At half t .aleven _o'clock the Sitting became public *gain, and tie Chancellor read WO sentence, the Commissioners was on express older to break off the negotiations, if articles nerib refused admigaion by •i , hich Marshal Ney is condemned no the puabish relative to the city of Peris and the inhabitants. This ment or death, by a majority of 142 to IS. Convention was brought to me in the evening and l i . The Sittings broke up at a quarter before twelve. ratified it. .—.—. • M. Hraturea.—What means had you of resisting ? Dcc. - B.—Yesterday, at five o'clock in theaven. I had a tolerably numerous army, in good dispost. ing, whet, Marshal Ney was. reconducted to his 'ions, and a well-served artillery. I bad that confi. chamber, he met one of his Defenders, who was in dente which a General-in-Chief ought to have in greet affliction. He embraced him, .saying, " Whit French soldiers. I would ye wish for, it is not fault—we shall Y' • • .year see each other in another world." When in his Oinks, the Marshal walked about for some mi. autos; his countenance was animated ; his step and his behaviour announced his baring taken a strong resolution, and that be was prepared for every thing. Afterwards be asked for dinner. He eat is until; during his repast, he perceived a knife near him, "which b zed the attention of some '•-mrsons who sal. 'pet., _ rounded him end he threiv it some distance from him, nyieg, 66 I fear not death." After dinner, he asked . for a segar, which he smoked; and then lay down, end slept quietly for two hours. . About one o'clock, his Chamber was entered, and the sentence of the Court of Peers nes read to him: he was expnting it, and heard it tranquilly with out emotion. lie appesred to recollect himself, at intervals.. At the end of half an hour, he asked for the Priest. M. de Pierre, Curate of St. Salpice. who had repaired to the Palace on the news of the condemnation of the Marshal, came to. the ptison.— This respectable ecclesiastic conversed with hits during almost the whole of the night -on. holy sub jects. He 'put him in mind of the great duties of re ligion, and received the confession of the Marshal. The Marshal intspended, for a moment, this conret.sa lion to write two letter % sae to irke - , wife, and the other totis father. At seven o'elock in the morning, Ike, horse GT:- darme. ie and fpnt and,horse National.Utuar4ls, welt) stationed at - the entrances of the Luxembourg. At eight o'clock, a veteran soldier went to Nis a brut upon the place ,St. Michel. At nine_the Marstat leaet.t that every thing was ready ; ,he changed his clothes, put on a black waistcoat, breeches, aa stockings, with.a blue frock. When he came to the carnage,• he took M. de Pierre by the arm, slid .seished him to enter the carriage first. The Cato. !of St. Sulpice occupied . . with the Mar3llol the I,bsbk pert or tilts , carriage s tya Officers of Gl'i" '`lsrliieri*:l44,•ftwate;, ~ Dispottous detachments of " R " el krt!edpkapri. yeoratts, PC' canopied Pad fellesed : air et in s '4.110 ,c l .4P l ' t Orr golden of• the Wanes pd praceailed.,PjaPgri l ' e trier' atentse of the .obserralory. While this W . P 4 passing on,thet Marshal entrusted M. de Pierre Nit' his golden• mfr, bez,.ded.rihg hits, to convey if le - - F'` • _ • '- °V t• .01.1 C EMI . i _~ S Fromm II &Derail lion of of Moat between i •any soul aid 14th Louis le of bit aim sod duke join the e his troops quence - Isa and of an whose ob. mamma, to the triaies pry Articles* • the fat ibe Ist la conseq condeetas of Elcbin, et. France Pim* Alt lia,peest ,lau.4 conformal Ordenaa■ the preset! the accuse Counsel, read and e Recorder, dance of t soma rya' Re was at four I children, feting the her busbas sp. Ile children. It is affi dame Ney, went to till ing, to imj the Duke t to get 'dui shall was o M. Otis lion, is ap lette. Tht awned, is A Flynt has broil& which the take gains as Grand l their dromin and to be ILI Rout, 11 of the crew the Cardin' Sore relativ sod that it their qualiti tary sod Re let the Po the White meat carry bat ip orde lone* which elate, that reK et, The coating st►r sill lao bider •p 7 letabitt of ktv.- . . Halls. use Gottenbargl. I 4 . France , ... 0, . a 1 ' • r 6 . J Oil - ,~ ~ ~.