The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-10-26 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN. 1 OCT. 6. v - y I . r t • A , Valli Du • • 1 • • 4 8 Gem nhetrith U. • Haab's rgh 4 • Cleft 111. Pip!: Ankrioig. —.Monday •t lA. Pah& Offices. THE STATESVAN. LONDON: TUURSPAY, OCTOBER 26, 1815. This forenoon we received the Paris Papers of Sunday and. Monday last. The dehates•in the French Parliament, though the subjects of discussion are still confined to matters of Internal policy, are in the prestos! state of things of deep and manifest consideration. Never did tyran. ny show its fears plainer than in the instance of the laws which the Covet - um:lit of Lulls is enacting for the suppression of treason and sedition.— In this mirror of its apprehensions we behold despotism trembling at the echo of its own crime., a Government obliged to confess how much it. is bated, and the very sound of liberty and human right, shaking a throne supported by all the Powers of Europe. And such a throne ! so deserving of love and support, that nothing but its own acts can bespeak its beneficence and claims to universal ap probation ! Reader, look at the measures which it is submitting to its own packed Chambers of interested pattizins, to obtain fresh and unheard-of powers over the liberties and persons of the people, powers unwarranted by the (institution bestowed by this . very Monarchy as the charter of the people's privi. lege% and such as render this boasted gift a nullity ; let the Reader look at these despotic enactments as they are officially proposed, and hurried in succee. lion into practice before they have obtained the sanction of that shadow which now calls itself tbe representatives of the French people, bat in the re. turning of which the French people hare bad as link to do as the elective stones of our rotten 'boroughs hate in the return of those Gentlemen who enjoy the honour of representing them in the British Parliament —let, we say, the Reader examine these and the measures of a similar tendency already had_ meant to by the French Government, and say whether the' Prince Whom these measures are intended to support on the throne, is rooted in the affections of the French- people; whether this Is the Governmeet . which is desired by the French nation ; whether tide; system of terror and unlimited rigour is the one best calculated to restore tranquillity, and secure the happiness of a great nation accustomed to freedom; and whether, on the contrary, it is not likely to call forth a tornado of vengeance from an insulted and oppressed people, that shall sweep the detested fin. brie of tyranny. and the secret plotters against pub lic right and national justice, from the land. The arrests under the seditious laws aro already an nume rous, that by and hye the prisons will be fall ; yet new projects for the increase of coercive authority to an unlimited extent, are still employing the invert titre faculties of the Government. Both the Chambers met on Saturday, when the law projtcl, investing Government with an associa ti of powers unknown to the Constitution, and P A Rl 4 , OCT. 22. ration to prevent public liberty from being entlatt gered !!" By this law to secure pubiic liberty, " The tonment'llie heroic resolution of the brave a a e h I n di a laaa--11 " 1". • •` V I Htg r4l• I r knownknown ill this city, a ll the i n h a bit ants with offences against that State may he ttettined in calmly, with were preparie i t, iPC1)1111 his patriotic designs, and (Midi with the same enthusiasm which impelled out being bmtight tnitriat, foe the remainder of their them to resist the armies of Napoleon, during a siege lives, as it prolongs the dray deemed necessary fur of three years. Nothing was to be seen but (elicits-. the search for proof against them to an indefinite pe. tines and embracing!, every thing denoted that the rind. A law for the rebuilding of Basalt's in every minds of the people svelte ready for an explosion.— town end department must he the, measure whiclise -Unfortunately, a raw hours after the receipt of the his iidings, the extraordinary express sent down would naturally expect to folio* such all enact by Coors with all bate arrived, annotmcinl that trent. Porlier halt Callen into the hands of his enemies.— Some official information is et last given respecting . Two daps more would have been suffirient for all the revolt in the army. A Proclamation by Marshal Spain to have manifested her wishes. Vet oar hopes 111aceoext.o, dated Bourges, the 9th and 11th inste ere by no fileati4 Inst. This shock has only paralysed the toe is bich have not had time to decide for admits the disaffection to be serious, and states that shrilAelses. A 11 .me thus confined cannot fail to the plea of pay is 11 mere pretence.—llis Etrel bys.:k wit with greater fury. henry testifies great displeasure at the insurrec •• a l e asst reel, with oertaio:tv, that Ceram tionary movements of the troops, and accuses gene has eruhtaced the party of the Cartes. To-day the Colonels, Officeis, and subalterns as partici.. this news is circulating here, accompanied with the applause% of the inhabitants of this place, and paling in the crime of rebellion. lie makes them every Oh% announces we shall not be long in fel- responsible for the execution of his orders for secar lowing the same impulse. Several other towns also its the guilty, and for every mo vement which shall of the Levant are said to have risen in favour g of the Constitution, inspired by the example of Car- ;in future take place. A Lieutenant and his seem thagena. This city is so much devoted to po d in .. plices, authors and abettors of the revolt which took etitetioes, that even the friars are Liberates. The place the 27th ult. in the regiment of Foot Chasseirs situation of that place; the excellent stare of its of the Ex-011 Guard, cautoned at Bourganeuf, are fortifications, and the general odium its inhabitants stated to have been arrested by the Gendarmerie of • bear to the despodo acts of Ferdinand and his the Puyde-Donle ; sod it is added that the Quarter . Ministers are circumstances which will cause the in- ; Perfection to take deep root. You may have an idea M"siets LAFONTAVII. of (1w Ist regiment of Horse of the spirit of the Carthageeiwns, by else manner in Chasseurs, of the Old Guard and some other Chas. which they relehrated the ( Ily of Sa n Fernando, its spurs, have also been a ted for endeavouring to June last. T e hand-bill which announced the thee. stir tit , their re g iments . trical entertainment was couched in su , 4l eptivocal All these criminals, says the Marshal, are already terms, that it rather appeared like a satire against th e . King than a compliment in the usual form. Its given up to the Councils of %Vat., who are about beading was thus- 4 In order to celebrate the me- to administer prompt and severe justice. 13. it if such mory of our mug •st Monarch, the new tragedy will is the state of the army, we much doubt, whe. be performed of The Tyrant of * Lombardy, which the Councils of War have the power of reclaiming will be followed by the farce called The End of the men who care so little for their decision,. We also sus. Turkey (which you are aware is fattened and then Janes his head). the whole to conclude with a general pest from the intelligence we have had subsequent to Dance of Mc Mad.' " • I thedate of this official information, that no small pro portion of the disaffected troops have taken the li berty of withdrawing frees the operation of these energetic councils. CHA WIER 0 — PEERS. OcT. 21. To-clay was distributed amongst the Members of the two Chambers the Report which had been made by Count Mole, in the name of the Special Commi.;- lion, charged with the revision of the Regnlatioos relative to the acraut.ts gisen of the proceedings of the Chambers its the public Journals. which were, in many instances, incorrect. The article proposed was as follows " After each fitting the Prnces Verbal shall be addressed to and inserted in the Moliileur, by the rare and under the surveillance of the President and the hSecretaries of the Chamber." CH 0 01111 M fIF IMPUTTTS. OCT. 21. P111.211/I:NCY ()P M.1,41NF. At hstf.. v ast nne, the Members repaired from their bureaux into the Hall, aed the sitting commenced. A Secretary read the Proces Verbal of the sitting of the 18th instant. The Chamber approved of it. M. lit.u.Atur ascended the Tiibune : ♦6 GENTLEMEN." std he, " I hsve the honour of submitting to you, in the name of the Commission, the opinion which it has formed relative to the pro. Lied of the law respecting the measures of public safety. " Amongst the most free people in the worhi, the Romans, when the spirit of faction menaced the safe ty of the State. a simple formula gave the Consuls all the strength, all the power' necessary to prevent immediately its erects; it then enjoined to derogate from the common right of individual liberty. Its a neighbouring nation, which publicists have cited a the classic land of liberty, without the appearance of any interior troubles, and only when threatened by a foreign enemy, the law which prescribes that no one shall be detained in custody but after legal forms, is often suspended. " However, the social compact of these two mawss does not admit this measure; hut their Legislator's have thought, with infinite discernment, that words are nothing before things when existence is at stake; that, in order to enjoy liberty, there must be so ciety, and that those are only madmen who, adher. ing faithfully to simple forms, enter into discussions whether they should defend Slariaaatios agairot 'heir enemies. " Our Charter has been more mindful than the public law of these two countries; it embraces within itself its means of liberty and safety, whilst a legis. lotion respecting individUal liberty establishes the protecting forms of that liberty, by confiding to the judiciary power alone the tight of disposing of per sons. The fourth article of this grind Contract leaves, however, to the law the right of regulating every thing which is necessary in urgent circum. stances, but in no part does the Charter forbid the law to extend its power as far as the public safety i r may require it. fln order to conform to the scruples of the Charter, to those scruples so legitimate that *eve'sl public fonctionnries are invested wifh what is C3lll ll l Judi einry Police; they have a right to make search after, to seize persons accused of every species of crime; but they are obliged after a short delay to bring them before the Xeibtfr -- talv, who immediately condemn them or set them at liberty. It is this pre liminary delay, which likty .be called a delay for " On lbss one hand, by a rapid , examination, their is a risk of letting a guilty moon escape frs.m not having had time to convict • him ; on the bthet hand, a goitfy person who knows so well ho* to take his Mensurei, that though staggered by the proofs opinst him, he may contend successfully against them, and even escape punishment : must then this dangerous mon be set at liberty, who would become more so from the impunity he has obtained? —Alen who do not suffer themselves to be deceived by words, will not question the necessity there in certain circumstances, of placing a discretionary power in the hands of Government, or of risking time dissolution of society. " Do these circumsta%ces exi:t ?—That is the only question to examine.— Is it one for as, Gentle men ? Let uc see, let Ds hear, and let v. judge. Gentlemen, I fear not saying it, they are only the accompliees of the guilty themselves, who can deny the necessity of the measures which are proposed to you. Never did Rome, England, or any other State find themselves in a more urgent position to proclaim the formula Careatal consulles. " The law project embraces an association of powers, administrative and judiciary. unknown to other nations ; this associatinn eulranices, in the highest degree, the peace of society, and furnishes the means of defending oppressed innocence. In short, the of t.ct of the law is temporary : it will cease with the termination of the present Session.— The Commi.sion has only recognised in this project a measure of moderation to prevent public liberty from being endangered." The reporter then explained tire propositions of the King's Nlinivers. There was some diterence of opinion upon them in t h e Commission. A little more clearnessitad been desirable in the first article; but after doe examination it was found to eke rise to nothing eitriv.tra I. Scruples were also raised as to the lime of detentions ; however, the conclusion. was, that the sacrifice which the project required of individual liberty would be to the benefit of public liberty, Bcr. " Many," said the orator in concluding, " many ! will not fail to cry out emphaticaHy against what they call an attack upon liberty ; they will hypocritically heap together a number of metaphisical subtleties, to calumniate a measure whose object 'is the salva tion of the country. •We will, answer these de claimers, that they are unmasked, and that it is not amongst thrust that is to be found a sincere friend of the Charter. Under a Government which is only occupied with curing our evils, they appear to eiist: hot to aggravate them ; theft milimwak of liberty to make it perish if they can; Gild itts to strangle it that they invoke it." M. Bellart having finished, The PACCIDENT announcer!, that the digression ern the Report which had just been heard would take place on Monday nest, There will be no sitting to-morrciw. POIIRGEI, OCT. It—His Excellency the Dike of Tarentum, Commander in Chief of the French troops, is informed, that in contempt of the orders so often renewed, some soldiers who have been seen wearing signs of revolt, and others who have ot. tared seditious cries, have just been arrested. Escellenry orders that they shall be immediately broagbt before. the Councils of War Qf the military disisions in which the offences have been committed, to he tried and punished according to all the rigour of the laws. Every soldier, whatever be his degree. who shall wear a prescribed signal,and who shill not be decorated with a white cockade, shall be arrested as a risks% an abettor and instigator of revolt, and shall be tried and punished as sorb. Twenty-four boor► after the rvceipt of the present General Order, the Officers and Chiefs of corps, shall he responsible for its non-etecetion, removed, and sent home under guard. need quarter!, Suurge4. Org. to. The insurrectionary movements which have meta fested t h emse l ve s in some regiments of infantry and cavalry, whose pay is only a pretext, merits the most exemplary chastisement. His Excellency the Mar shal Duke of Tarentum, Commander-in-Chief of the French troops, animal-he Chiefs of Corps to point out the instigators and abettors, to have them arrest ed and conducted to the elder place of their military divisou, with the cemplaintsagainst them, and proofs to support them. His Excellency testifies his lively displeasure at the Colonels, Officers, and Subaltern Officers, in which rebellion has the most openly ma nifested. itself ; he accuses them of 'their indifference and coolne , s in searching after and punishing the guilty ; he makes them responsille for every move ment which shall in future take place; and declares, that they will lose their military rank, and all the advantages which the Ordonninces of the Kiag pro• mired them. liertd-Quur ten, !rouges, Oct. 9. Lieutenant Rosey awl his accomplices, anthers and abettors of the revolt which took plea. the. '27th of September last, its the 2sl reiiimesst of foot, Chasseura of the Est-0111 Guard, cantoned at Bqur gasusuf, have just. been irret.ted by the Gendarmerie of the Puy-de:Dome, and a detachment of the legion of the Meuse. ! T.O much praise plonk be given Ihr gendarmerie of the d e- of pavers unknown to the Constitutson, atut liminary delay, wawa away .or caw , . .. ••w •^y au. io o mucn pram cannot be given to Melee, and ina"la en the 31"1"erralleani partments ofthe Creuze and the Puy-‘le-D•nue, and taokoowledged to he equally unknown to other na. H era of proof, which the project of ' h o law pro. good conduct of the vague 110111°, and will be discharged to pro l ong indefinitely In cases of crimes against to the Mayors anti inbabilants Et the common ' I ions, was more fully explained and discussed in the poses_ d great expellee will termilme : k Depot's,. It professes to De " a measure of mode- the State. noisy is to be observed i:: au d ' es an the! vernment '. , • . • - - ' • : - .1 P mr - s - • ... . . .• , . . .... ...... . . . \• •• - 1 • t IN• . . •• ... • .' ..... ' ' I. . ' ,•-•'... 44 26•11"4.•; , ....iir' ' -- "*-1,-..A. .......-.,_ •- . - ..... _ .. 6. , • ... ••' . _ • . 1 . ' , ... t • • - ' ..;sat alli 1 ' ill ktall ' .llalikiliAlonAlL...:-. - . - • •••11111111.11C. . , air neighbourhood where they were arrested, awe seconded the gendarmes with all their powe r , The Quarter•Mester, Lafontaine, of the 14 , e4 i . went of horse Chasseurs of the Es-Guard, sod som e other chasseurs w►ho tried to stir up their regiment, have likewise been arrested. All these criminals ate already given op .to th e Councils of War, Who are about to aileitnister prompt and severe justice. (Signed) llcad-cunrier., 8 erget, 00.11. MACDONALS. Brussels Papers to the 23d, and Frankfort to 19th inst. arrived this forenoon. They corroni m i ea . ;but few pirticulars of interest. The Emperor Russ! v passed through Ulm on the 13Th , 'on his ! turn to St. Peterahurgb. The Russians were as.iet e . alittg at Itastadt to be reviewed by the Greed Duke CoNST.\\TIxx. • • The Prussians were still . plondering• th e F reed' fortresses of all that they could carry swop ' materiel at Montraedy has been entirely removed, and preparations were making to hlow op the fortii. cations erected after the designs of Vault vst. OOP of the first blessings which the King of t Netherlands is .boot to confer ou his new subje c t a load of taxes and a state debt. The projects of law for this purpose has been submitted to the Silt General, before their address of loyalty to rise K. has cooled in their hands—the best timer:o,l4lMb for such a proposal. ibis is another Mo w , Parliaments bossing called together by Rapti Audi. rity for no other purpose than to employ time se . stroments of taxation. The Hague Paper of the 206 inst. says, It Th e Second Chamber of the States General, after luring yevierday formed a secret Committee to hear the Report upon the Address proposed to be presented to the King, received i . its public Sitting his Excel. .lency the Minister et the Finances, accompanir!, two Members of the' Coned! of State. Ills Excel. leat7 the Minister Six Von &Meek, then read.' project of a law to reser the deticieucy ocasi oef d by she extraordinary tapences of this year, aid provide the means sit so doing. The Chamber solved to have the Project printed is both tangy get, and distributed to all the Members. The deficiency is estimated at 40 minims' of florins, to b. cowered, without increasing the National Debt, by issuing,' equal sum in bonds, bearing interest at 5 per rent. to be redeemed gradually, helpmate* Jan. Ist, 181! so that the whole will be eseemied ea or Were 3114 December", 11111/. • ••• To meet this apace, ea addition of 15 t cent. is to be, made to all the direct taxes, to this. II upon servants, &c. bye. (answeriog to the English Assessed taxes) ; to all indirect taxes, witimet ception, and some others; and lastly on the impost on all foreign productions, as well as on the Customs. All persons liable to pay these taxes (lee coalribw ables) were to advance a sum upon those bonds, equal to the whole of the amount of certain tam which they have paid this year, under the title of , war tax, this advance to be in ready money, and paid in five equal monthly instalments, beginning i in Novemher Iteht, end ending ,in March Ittl6 ; cause the receipt of the direct Mei for the nest jest does not begin till the month of April, ke. Adtirlec from Melte up so the 26th ult. are rerein ed in To n via Paris. 'rho E.Eirotas frig tie had r. rived there with the French Generals LALLEav and S•tVAnt, end several other officers beloning, BON 'kr twrs's suite. LALLSMAND and SALIM( hal been landed. It is rewortrd in letters from Cadiz, that an epitle. mic disorder has broken out there, and that the CI; lain-Genera' had died of it. By letters from Shields yesterday, it appears tilt the number of piisoners made of the refractory set man, amounts to more than has been stated. be less than fifty have been taken, thirty are oa boot the vessels in the river, and twenty are in the priori at Shields. The Master of .S't. John the Baptist, a ship ofino tons, which left Engtoted for Cad z, writes, tlist hit vessel has been engaged, or rather seized, by the Ga. vernment, to be employed as a transport far troops to South America. A number of other Spanish ship have been compelled to undertake the gas. voYsie ocular-the liko-artdrraty cfriumsta neva, bat we bait understand that they are in a condition immedittrly to put to sea, and we learn that a quantity of used which were sent expressly to obtain an advantsgervi price as auxiliary to such armaments, 'twisted' unsold. GIIIKALTA It, OCT 5.—A squadron, consislidg of threes frigaws, four sloops and a brig, parsed these Straits to the westward yesterday. They showed no colours; arid kept close to the Barbary shore." There can be little doubt, however, but dry art Algerines, and intended hostilities against Danish ar'd other Nor tio•rn 1h Ks. . His Royal Iliglure , s the P R y cz R EG O', sit' tended by General IlLooraricia, honoured Doll' lane Theatre with his presence last night. to "i i ; ties: Mrs. Mattnyn's admirable pet formance 'Mina Manderilk, and the popular Farce of Tit' Muoir. The Archdukes Jon?" sod L ouis . w lththeirsuites , rode out yesterday in tan of the L'lrtect IifGENT t open carriages, through the Parks and in &Om.: parts of the Metropolis. The Court-Martial on Lord Ctoner Crutter, of the Neircus/12 frigate, is still sitting tit 4:heerriess It is expected to terminate in a feu da c. The transports which have been some timer"' played in the Mediterranean, are ordered W row' the s ervice, b$ vtic' ; the moo rigid cc " &Furl:Jun(l under 611' :,,•~=~ tufo to 0,1. ; r4 114-0.0 ror ItS FP. IS4pcp. Duke • 'reach • • I The be . no voc t Lett P oni6. fro of the Isl. fact I °fa 13. State s 1 soil trial, pM Nee elsei Lutlta as bpi r the aided ' , thy loin wise his Id tM • to a tiosed Att. a hi hill re. pose , II go, the I sant , •wncy to el vend, stint In 4 Ia state! pub! 1817, terth Ojai e the snail with! I per senti thus, held *ash Conti It LAW es. ease, opine an be 'omg. days ribs. again owls, /Wit taus Omsk of a twos of mg and fared It is I be. the ns 'est three' On lard On Tete with 1 1 at. Sleets' esss him I ng tr sees bsJ PRA,s ling of pick. set tet Cy• gold, days i that to ins ly wol No At the ore, dress, tort That trrials '4no womb( t hit Con, tie re; Dept bip , fisted Yge Comm 'wet most d lily had he wNI The pelts, 11 0111 men lc Tertime f at pugns ese the fll4 no An evilest sat the s a t pit% u ki der, it st• be disu ty- absodo l it Bench • solemn rbc This is lion we sire RI/ the p u t e..: Ileelesst Yestt of Ifnose 1 It of Asa At ob i ro• delivem If I Ikea to I CI Yeste Ulf lot • evens it coasigoi , • ... -~ .~.-, 0 ' A