The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-09-05 00:00:00

4 •Z • . , s : - ..0 . _ ': ap.', • PIigILIMIGFA ' ' a ►. kIPOSR ~ - :'; ...•. A , It 11141111 i ' rhae.gw that . the to Ney. . 66 What ... place in opi, ~ • f" Down • - •i• • ' tritons hy 25 . . t•-• etpioitn. wl• - mkt of lero • • all ailotryd ' = ,as bravery a .‘ . The Rep( Rallies . he h i `k ~.;-,,,-, ' wish- which ' l4 ' ."' ' "..-• thet he had 4-- 4. ,'• . 1 :•• twit—that I JINNI at much . . " 66 When ••.. , ately fltettbel ~ 1 . a conferences, vs Wheie , • - -1, eneapecied lantling ? “ It was ' the convents the Capital, Chateautlrui he. lived qui fir communi • .. •combination quite unacqi " On the esent a letter ' • ibishich was 1 ''' Minister orc • • *"'' le the sixth .ir- . which was el 24 " The M . .the cause of -, apecting II Officer, wl • versed with I • J •16 0-1111' 66 !maid I 1 Marshal con • • Be passed landing of I 7th of Mar , 'Arm, and i 14' .o.,Department, --- *that he coul t• e tak ing 1 4 . leave 1 i', . depart wills( .. .. i rewilved to s • lay by sacril it waiting u admitted to . is Why t • es has betel )' ' bis Majesty ' nnpartr, ' its it: active , . . Abe Mistime' , . • ifid not cam • .'' *llia called 6, A t li lt , y .t whose traits lie , ; by the dam pleasM to I fOliel•wle wl :r 4 pied. 'rhos soul, and II i . ieg ii, neve' gem in thi • to the King • Could duple , cents. It wo i 66 Tub is calumgy (lit il ( view of for • " It h s I. t • l tinn in publi I i ed him a sun • i . cording to n francs, to set " !NS is Ring nr my , . either 50'.),(41 • . 4 • print he too, l. 1 t h e tegti,t.ont 0 . ii N 1 ., r1 i 4 s , on ha, Stith . . , - i• 0 , , lei, 4, k his flMil ) if , r held at the II) and set not I • Gone, a 1 MTh , . no idea and '1 with nnv en, The Expo b . , Besnovin q \ladle, on P'• .1 • 'e troops At Gf 610 that the tho llth. I 13 guiltier. I I' li i . nate Bonepa contiited or i *- piece of aril i - positions ho not to haste' eve of a grey evil by the 1 I r,IL, • !Ls nirance• • Lions the tt $ ; I.•self in the Y 1 • alienated fri vented their i i ... eI. , "On the • of I;nonpart 4 in great agit trembling fn .4 letter from I l', , " lionspa 4 ;Austria, the • I " I.:nem " Nlurst I 1 to *saint his , fit Th. Sri distant quay " Prussia 4. . ... • • • , - - thiotbam, Au;. 91. , • 'lt " That if Nev continoed .to mitt he would give up Fan to all the horrors eithit war. " These la. *olds completed the triumph over the Marshal's nest resoluti 111 l .." • Alter 'ante attempts to excuse this step / the Es pose pri , eervii Uwfore repairing to Auxerre, the Marshal drew . tvp !testily a long series of grievances, which was to he read to Bonaparte. It began with the severest trialifirations, end the bitterest reproaches. " I am not come to join you (said he in substance) either flow respect or attachment to your person,— Yen hale been the tyrant of my country : you have I brought sorrow into all families, and despair into several: you hale disturbed the Peace of the whole itc.—Swear, then, since fate has recalled you, that your sole future study will be to repair the evils you have inflicted en Francethat you will render the people happy. I (call upon you to take .up arms ouly fur the maintenance of•our limits, and peter more to pass them for the purpose of attempt ing useless conquests, &c. On these conditiops, renounce opposing your projects. I yield in order to preserve my country from the distractions with which it is menaced, &c. 46 Bonaparte submitted to every thing demanded by the Marshal, and even promised much more for the prosperity of France." Smut after Bottaparte's return to'Paris, the Mar shal retired to his estate, not disgraced, as was said, but because he was soon undeceived respecting the false assertions given by Bonaparte of a apeedy corn positien .hith the Po eers. • Fir one moment Marshal Ney conceived the hnpe of snatching his country from the calamities of foreign war—his expeention was disappointed on the Igt 11 JU HP. He immediately returned to Paris. And in what disvoiitiott ? We may judge by the frank and vigorous declaration he made in the Chamber of Peers on tfo. 22t1 June." 66 Bonaparte sent by ens of his Ministers an au daciously lying message to the Chamber. But Mar shal Noy was there with nit inflexibility of character —too hottest a man to compound with his conscience —too much the friend to his country to su ff er it to ho abused by fresh lies. He declares openly that the 18th ..f June has left no other alternative but that of rh.•riy submi , sion. 64 That if his open proposal had been followed, if on the (22d June it had been decreed to negociate, the negociation, confos ma bly to the Treaty signed at Vienna on the 25th March by all the Powers, would have restored the King sooner to his people. 6 6 And who knows if in that case, the French territory would have been occupied by so many fo reigners, and such great evils thus turned aside ?'r After stating that the public good was always his guide, the Expt":ll concludes as follows: " Such, without any disguise, is the conduct of • Marshal Ney since the month of March, 1815. Does there result from it, see do not say the prejts. dice,' that he has committed the odious crime of tree. son, hut even a reel moral degradation I All crime,' in the legal acceptation of the word, supposes pre.: meditation or interest more or less prevai;,:g. The crime of treason consists of long, successive efforts, of cowardly and perfidious combinations. 6 6 An error of the moment, the effect of so on- • heard-of concurrence of the most strange incidents —an error of which one sees in the principle a senti..l Theist praiseworthy its itself, but ill directed—in short, an error which served the usurper in no. thing, which profited nothing to the person commit tieg it—is such an error any other than a fatal mis take P 66 Is it not then allowable far 1111rshel NPy to call to his suppnrt that judgment protiounc.d by the Monarch on such of his %objects as were misled'— Ara not the instigators of the disorder the authors ff the plot, formed in favour of Bonaparte, those Whom his Nlijesty first consigned to the vengeance of the laws ? 66 It is proved that, far from having formed any conspiracy, Marshal Ney, notwithstanding his fault, bad entered into none; that he was sincere in his pgesiseti to the King; that he only ielderl to the iiresistiltle influence of the safety of the State, which was in his opinion compromisod h ) an impending civil 'war ; that his hatuk rvoaipoi pure, his charac ter independent and iisacce.ithle to 01 the seductions of persopal interest ; that the first m tnetst it was repair his error., while thevp 11111 was eltnger U :;ronnuncing egnisno the aurper, and in favour of the legitimate Sovo.eigis, the Marshal did not hesitate t' lay open his ssN..lo anal. and t o Co te that France s.toold adopt the so o f sn h m i g ,l nii . it By what fatal excexion the , . ta Ney treated as a criminal ? vies cer'4ill4 - tat, from el k . pecting such ac ...rem e w nril rn tee last l o st mice the place t uoa ohe had retinal! was surrt.utvlo.l. To have .1 on:fated himself, or to ~ 1 1%40 fled. would hare b. eo tt•y ; hut both these courses were repug• taunt to his heart. With the cal 4 3 or a Coil. sciehre, from which honour was n..ver hanished, the Ma, Thal offered himself to those charged to secure his persoo--a last t which completes the appvecl mint, of hi. character, and wtsic's attest, hit confi dence in tne institutions by which he is to bejudged." Iftmrttvcnom. Starr. 9..—Last night, about nine o'clock, a terrille fire broke out at the town of Snarne, in this county, which, in the course of a few hours, burnt fourteen dwelling-houses to the ground, totether with various barns, corn ■nd hay stacks, to the amount of several thous itid pounds, very little of which pr•perty was insured. Mr. Martin, a respect. able farmer, is the greatest sufferer on this melan choly occasion. The fire was occasioned by a butcher of the place over-heating a boiler to scald a hog, the flame of which communica►ed to the woodwork of the brew-pause, and spread so rapidly, as to lay the dwellings, &c. above stated, in ashes in len than three hours. On S unday afternoon, a man's suit of clothes was found upon a bench, by the side of the riser, be tween Lambeth and Vauxhall ; it is supposed that he went to bathe and was drowned. We are informed by the Solicitor of Mr. EnwAen Asitrw, that SAmuct HART, the Guard of the North Britoil Coach, was not at all implicated in the late extensive robbery at Grantham. Certified to b e true, FRED, NEWCOM E. JUSDIPICATIF POCK Lt M4RE- C 1.1.4.1, NEY. is nitli expressing some vronapr at the has taken place in public opinion Teta.' sudden and terrible change has token opinion with respect to Marshal Ney ! to March lifith, his nut n Tendon ti illus. .5 years of eminent services and brilliant 33 dear to the country. The ene- Arice admired in him the `real Captain— hint as much gonerosit) in his sentiments and skill at the head of armies." pow then proceeds to blot, the Dumber of has heon emirernod iu, an'( the humanity hi Moats conducted himself—to bbon 14' isit , the for engaging in any compi -4 bed reseloql the highest dignities, and icA iii.opetty as he wanted. one spesks of conwiraey . one 'ets with it meetings of iiirlitidualc, secret' midnight mystoties. e,as Marshal Ney long before the no Mss .arrived at Pads of lionapasto's • it's more than a month, since, fatigued by illiatiatis kept op in the drawing-rooms of 11, he had retired to his estate near In, thirty leaves from . Paris. There he tit* isolated, without any correspondence .nlcation that associated hid) with political ions with which it is well known he was 4uainted. the 6th of March he received in ' :s roire- fromihe War Minister, tiat , d the brought bim by an Aid-d«.-Camp. The /tiered the Marshal to plot -Pee in ell li.,ste tb Military D4ision, the Government of I entrusted to Pd;nliter enteird into no explanalion on of that order ; not a word was said re- Bonaparte, or his re.appeevsnce. The rho •himself knew nothing of it, con the Marshal only on the pleasures of the losidiately on the receipt of thts order, the commenced his journey for his de•tinatinn. through Paris, where he learned the Bonaparte. Kirly on the morning of the irch the Marshal called on the Duc de _ afterwards on the Minister for the War mem. B o th gave him reason to apprehend )Id not possibly obtain an opportunity of re of vie King. They advised him to 'lout loss of time. The Marshal, however, compensate for one or two hours of de. ificiog so much of his rest, and persisted until he could have the honour of being his Majesty. this earnestness? It rertainly was not, breu'reported, for the purpose of asking from ♦ employment in the mtprditinn against or to solicit a command. The Marshal __..we service, and urged even by the letter of Minister to proceed to his po.t. The Mti►shal came to offer himself; he obeyed the ciders caged him. the august aspect of the Monarch. all of a breathe bounty, the Marshal, electrified liattering words in which his Majesty was address him, warmly participated in the Atli which all minds seemed to be ecru. 'toe who koow the ardour of his liberal the promptitude of his language in second. rer would mistake for falsehood or strata. ling in which the Marshal may have said ing even In language boldly figurati►e.—. plicity have induced Mm to utter such sc. vould have led bona Advantage. is the place for decidedly iontrodicting a Irected against Marshal Noy, with the ever discrediting him. been in , entecl and circulated with affects. lie, 141 nit 6i. departu►e the King order. IM, according to some of 500,000, and ar. other., of from 6 to 7, and even 1100,000 secure Ili far as poshibla his fidelity. a fslsphood. It is not true the the iv of his Ministers ordered Marshal Ney WO francs, or any sum whatever. On this cokes with the most respectful confidence ty of his Miesty. Ilseleas this false and injurious bulimia. bort° been gene:ally credited. tying the King, the Marshal repeated to Ind his friends the same language he had Thudlevies. lie mounted his carriage, for B.sancon. All the Marshals, all the icers were already at their posts. Ii . hid no opportunity for forming a concert hP." 10-e procPeds to state, that Ney found tuite hare of troops; that the Duke de the llth March, informed him of the _,renoble having gone over to Bonaparte, he latter might he able to enter Lyons on Ih (Sey) respites to repair to Lons-le. He writes to Sachet, that it w,s II fifortu )arie had not been attacked. N. v's force sly of roar regiments, without a single The Exposé then ctates the Ilk. . . . and the letter he wrote to Oudi rn arrival of troops—" we are on the -eat ►evolution, it is only by cutting up the roots th.rt we shall hope to avoid it."— !ed gu till passed over to Bonaparte. At troops remained inactive. lie found him centre of insurrection. His army was rum hi o , and threatened him if he pre 'r gnin,• over to Bonaparte. sight of the 13U► of March, the emissaries .rte rune to the Marshal, whom they found I ,tation, accessible to all impressions, and for the fate of France. They brought a Bertrand, who told him that tparte had concerted his enterprise with Tough the Austtiare General Kohler. Id had fetnored his escape. idvancerl rapidly to the North of Italy brnther-in.la w. -onp4 of Russia had returned to their rters. could riot contend alone •gainit France. • ~: F ,;.. ~ r .~-,.~ • I • Plr" Wl' 'ATESMASI. Arr. • k calls. .. • Due 1 ...1 , Holland . ' 10••••/•••• 8 1 0 Golieatiurgh ...1....r. ' . I I ' Lieboa 11 4 ' 1 PRII - CE OF STOCKS TUTS , talt 3 pzr Cent Red. sri6i _ per Cent. o n! . Lc3 4 per Cent 721 per Cent. Navy 5443 5 DAY AT WIN U'CLAWIL ng. Ana lathe '3 nub 6 / Exchequer Hill. 5 2 d Osamu,. si t Cunsol. fur Ace. F.Cti THE STATESM_IN. LONDON: TUESI)A SEPTFAILI.It 5, 1815. The Pads Papers of Saturday last reached us at a late hour this forenoon. They do not confirm the report of NEY having been pardoned• by the King. They observe that Marshal Jounn.ix is the next on the list of an. cient Marshals to MONCEY who has refused to sit; and seem to expect that the trial will go on. , The example, however, which MorscEy has , set most be highly favourable to NEv., With what grace can any other Marshal take his. place, and pronounce a judgment which must inculpate him self an d his sgsociateo, and in fact give up to the vengeance of implacable enemies every military man and the first characters in France; the authors of her glory, and the last Lope of the nation's safety ? The prevailing opinion at Parisi! that NEY will escape, and that a atop will thus be put to the execution with `which France %as threatened. • The justification of NEY, published before his • trial, is a most important document, and will, no I &Uhl, have most important consequences. That it is published with the concurrence of the Minister of Police, that is as much as to say the present French, i Ministry, there is every reason to believe, since we know %bat nothing can issue from the Press without Ithe knowledge of Government. The appearance of this document at so critical a moment is the more remarkable, as a similar proceeding in the case of LABEDOYERE was severely punished. But every budy could pronounce on the transgres- I sion of LABLDOYERE. The •guilt which con demned him was not want of fidelity to the King, but disobedience to his superior Officers. Nelr throws the blame of bringing backßONXiawri on the subalterns, ind say ;, that it was on the attach ment of these and the soldier's in general, that NA rotiox relied for success; but it will be observed, thit the point on which NEY chiefly relies for his justification, namely, his patriotic zeal, which over came his loyalty, and " triumphed over his best re solutions," could, with equal force, have been urged in favour of LABEDOYERE. There is a wide differ ence, says the venerable La.s.lcisrAts, between_ ide vity to the King, end zeal for the safety and interests of the country. What a reproof is conveyed in this! admirable sentiment to the present occupant of the French throne, and the Kings who wou!d rule amidst' the blond and misery of their subjects! There can he no question that a civil var would I are been the consequence of resistance to-the enterprise of Napo- Leos. Bnt there were Princes in France who cared not. for this—who strained every nerve to get Frenchmen to turn their arms against one another, that they might reign. The French knew those Princes, and the man who was coming to free them from their yoke; and they refused to spill the blood of one of their countrymen to preserve the Bourbon dynasty. This dynasty is re-established on the ruins of France, arid would now cut off the head of every min oho lifted err arm in its defence. The treasons and crimes that have been committed have not, we I Plispoet, been committed against Louts, but against 1 France, and history will one day show what they ti Ire. Nett denies having been concerned in any political plot to effect the late revolution. He says he merely ohe)ed the orders of the Minister at War (Soutr), who has had his sword restored to him by Louis, as a mark of his favour. " Are not the instigators o f the disorder the authors of the plot!" says he ; hut who these authors and instigators are we have yet lo learn. As it was nobody who framed this much re probated plot, we may suppose, according to the old adage, it aas every hotly ; and therefore it is the less surprising that so many are concerned in nv , rting the punishment assigned to it. We cannot think of the desire now so strongly manifested to inflict vengeatt-e no the whole French nation without calling to mind the story of iluccactses traveller, who was so enraged at the noise of grasshoppers•in his ears that he " alighted in furious fret," to kill them all ; nor of the expedient to repress the 46 nation of dis.: turbers," which the discovery of the utter impossi bility of putting them all to death at once, has sug. gested to " their conquerors," without thinking of the swaggering little Gentleman mentioned in the Spectator, who contended that the French were so addicted to grimace, that unless it was put a stop to, there would he no peace for Europe, " especially if they continued masters of the West Indies!" The cause of grievance on the part of the enemies of Fnutce, is, indeed, a little, changed ; their grimaces have now Inst the power to annoy, but their word = still go like daggers to the hearts of certain great personages, who are much concerned about the public trenquiliity apt!, _Therefore, uteri/log to ~.• their view of the matter, there will AR walking the streets in quietness, French nation are either made deaf a► Kittg of PausstA and the Dutch ST the best part of their fortresses! but admire this sort of argument; bat a little to heighten the irnpressh, is to find the King of FRANCE.Of the —A Dutch Mail, just come to us that the fortenet of Sedan ha• been x j, the Prussians by orri.r of King I. seems reason to believe that thouth it is not the only place that has been erl by the one Ally to the other wh, his fortresses ! The brave garrison have capitulated, and are to be march, of r!le Loire. Auxerre has also Verdun and Thionvi!re still hold out and the red flag of defiance. The arrival of a courier, bearing GENT's rmificitiou of the Treaty of ed at Paris, but we suspect on no go , is added that orders have been afread i but French authorities stall be obe) , Lions. An Ordinance in tho Gazette 0 ,confirm the melancholy accounts wk the Southern Prosinces, and actoall .part of France to the Gi.ternment of bigotry and fanaticism have been the the disorder:—" oar worthy and w phew, the Duke of A NGOULEIIII. 'Royal Address to the Vick e rs, in will talks of how profuendly..be is the new proof of the mercy of restoring him to his dominions, and Meted at the excesses committed Holy Religion st.. the Catholic the Revolution." What , wonderfr ling out the memory of discords, and gioos and political opinions ! It is real friends to declare this old King " h rity." It is curious to perceive Pri supporting 'this new revolution of religh to place the Catholic above all other nent,and give new vigour and extension of the Pose, the Jesuits, and the Inquisition [oAzerea °mon., sue, PROCLAMATION OP THE Louis, tkc. We have learnt with pain that in of the South, many of our 'objects the greatest excesses; that under a pretence public justice they have only aimgd at own hatrul and their particoler vengeance, the blood of their fellow-citiaens, even that our own authority was universal? and acknowledged throughout the king* Certainly greet crimet and infamous been committed, and . have plunged an abyss of misfortunes---atrocious have taken place against those of our jects, who following the standard beloved nephew, have tried courageous! to save France; but the punishment ought to be national, solemn, and guilty ought to fill under the sword not through the means of private vr would be an offence to justice, the . Crating discord, and opening the road disorders. It would be overturning fice, if men must he at awe the judges , Cotters of offences which hail been cow them, er even for the attempts spine son. Our intentions and ourordesa hasp ciciently public,that the nation should: it upon the authors of these misforti the indulgence granted to error, shoal tended to the guilty, whose crimes without causing alarm to the mass who doubtless obeyed the time of cii We hope that this odious enterptiv action of the laws and of our authoril ceased; it would be a crime against France, and however painful would flints, nothing should be spared offences. Our worthy nephew, for henceforth connected with the sew and devotion which our provinces of manifested, who, by his character conciliation, and strength, has preset.. still preserves them, from the evils qualified to be our mandatory, to civil discord, and to keep down and who would abuse our authority and doubtless, the noble connection Isl. place between him and the inhabitants will not be broken by the culpable foil thusiastics, who are greedy of vengea, sion. It is in this confidence and in we have given precise orders to our Magistrates to cause the laws to be ed, and not to exercise either indulg , ness ill the prosecution of those wilt them, and who would continue still being well convinced that our voice wi in vain In a country where we have recei proofs of fidelity and affection. Given at P3ris, Sept. 1, 18 reign the 21st. Nened) fi) the King, (Signed) I be no s uc h unless th e „ : „ ,14 ' and dumb , , 4 inTIIOLD ER We really cati."o: ; and who tend, ion Vitas creo di the same opi n i s4. o hand, Tutor been gi ven up to ,ours; and h„; it this is th„ fpr ti thus sr rreudet: Ito %as hes e i g i fit , n of litittingerre ched to the b a „k i Capitulated; bq at under the obi ts the PRINc t Pewee, is re m . ;nod authority, k dy give 'h e t „ iv )ed u to reqiii. ),/jicklle tpnch h , e have had i ftei Ily • gives op ! hi of the man ma % le thi.f welt heia,id s , There is 4 4, 4 tick the Moite re b penetrated sith (rott, shows i s I how much Iteie egnintt religion) during rut woy of blot. IN/ tell. really time for his a dale of xis.. rotestant Princes .oligicut, which is ✓ on the Cunti. stem Pt tht Fowl, equisition!! T. 2.1 • KING. the depettmeoft hue committal pretence of deing it satisfying Hair .anct, by spilling en from theliat Ily re.ostablitked Ingdont. Poe treasons but r ed France into out persertnioat our faithful wt. .d of our meth woolly with him of these crime; aid g.egular—it I of the law, oat rengeance. Tb means of pelf& ad to a thosstoi I the social edh es and the eters. committed opos Ist oar own pee- estsande it mill I hetejusticedow attunes, and that inuld not beet. were notarial, ; of the people, circumstances. — te to prevent tit rity, has airedy us, and ivied d be our west to punish Ike* whose name it !nal - neut. of low if the South kite for obedience, treed them, and of invasion, save them foie nd punish dot his own; but, rhich has taken its of the South oily of some .once and confa - n this hope dot ar Ministers and strictly roped . Igence or "e' l " Ito hare tiela'ed to violate Olen' , will not he hew' tceiveti so maul ;15, and of rot ' I ()Vl'. PAsQt ll SII2IW, 14 j“. 1.0.