The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-09-08 00:00:00

Tilt STATES] N. ettCONts INPOire or .... ... . Ing to 'revert to the * *Wrigley., -and' eternity II i fib A stop has been put to glaring Awes and whom MR DUKZ OF OrR,4NIIO TO TIM KING, part who are heartily devoted to legitimate authority. privileged, sage prineiplei bate been conseera___ l ied dud itEOAROINCI THE inTitntfon Of TOMlttnanon. This will not prevent the great majority from sob. Jag barrier, Opposed -to a 00,20 whidtlea* me --omee--., ' milting decerely to your Majesty in your capacity of restraint bet its Own discretioe.- - it is mot alder this Stec,—l have laid before youriblidesty the sits*. Chief of the Slate. Thee submission will be last. point of flew that we are in opposition *ith Etr: li o n of yonr kinlidom, as it roger& foreign armies. leg; ilt the coarse of time it will even *seem the rope.--e , -Whet a Revolution would not have pro the disorders to which I bad the banner of calling chaise:ter of love and eoulidelece, if France be con- duced woeld have been obtained by the progress of your attention are temporary; resignation moderates steoffe-govereed by liberal ideas, eminently consti. knowledge alone. Now that. Prance is acquaint. them, time will repair them; their cause is kts.wn, endow's% and completely national. ed with her rights, hew.cin'shi .be made to re but there are others more serious, a picture of which 011 eke seppesideet 40 dell war, the Royalists trograde t.----It mast be first in the power of it is my duty to brim; under your view. France is would reign ahatature In con departments; in 15 man to destroy end forget his own ideas, to create at n or with herself; we are threatened with all the others thr parties wooldbeitaLancek- and in all the for-himself Other truths and another kind of eel. calamities that can wire from the rousing of passion, rest of France only a few haedifele of Royalists Bence. . • . an d the conflict of opinion . I would he found opposed to the greet Mass of the ! . The Cloostitutlonalists revere.aho the principles of The many political tempests that have agitated penple. There would be sufficient otetils of forming legitimacy. 'two Monarchical Constitutioes. have of for 25 hears have scattered us pith their violence 1 a Royal army, bet how long would resistance be beetrionted in France since 178 e—both have con.. into cniztending p ar ti es; s o many public and private maintained, or even the fidelity of that army pre. . secreted. the. principle of . a beterlitary Throne ; disputes, such a concordance in actions, wishes, and served, *hick had been so much reckoned epee ? i bet Women. both gives the right, to. succeed to the fearihase'been the consequence, that it is now im- 'These are besides a sufficient number of ancient No- I Throne, me we conclude that it transmits a power ro isittle to rally desires, unless at the same time opi. bias, or of partisans of the Capri in every depart‘ .1 without limits ? Does it perpetuate the maus t er of I mints are also rallied, by setting the heart at rest, meet, to establish there an appearance of public opi- governing because it perpetuates the . dynasty?-- and insuring tranquillity to all interests. - Mon, and even a certain majority in the Electoral And is there not A distinction to be made between All is danger or obstacle in the element by which Colleges. It must be inferred that the party of- the the designation Of the Noce and the nature of biy 'we ate r;rrounded. The majority of men of e n e rg y Noblesse is still of some importance, when the pub- authority ,? The first is, sisitlOubtedly regulated 17 I who live combated and overthrown the last power, , lic functionaries employ all the efforts of Government birth; bet the second cep only ,be regulated by na. oseght only to put en end to tyranny. Every arhi- Ito support them ; is it deprived of that support, the tional law,. Such ece . tbe p r in c ipl e s o f th e C oos tit u . tnry Goyelltment would surround them again with population absorbs it : mottle serious errors on this dotted:4, their enemies. It is not merely for the Struggle of; 'object might circulate round the Throw, and for 'Chit' party, boiever v anti I bunt sot be die- 1 two Government", but forlhe difference of. principles . this reason fondness',. to excite attention to them. serobied,- this party, strbeesk k '4 4 4 . not hesitate ! that war has mein burst forth in La Vendee • they I I shall have other occasions to characterise the public to ettbnaii, has neeer cmtiod dean a ta ' eliemottth to by dawn their. ere's. hot war is not ended :an feeling; I oughtirst to speak of the army. . he in soppositiou fp the lllpesAnintment.. In 1814 oponsition of the senile kind agitates and disunites all Various motives bale produced the sobniiattion eif - It was cbietly the CoastltutiOnalists who ecnsured..l classes of eitillims, even to the members of every the army ; in some this submission is a listen* *turn'. violently, attacked liseeSeently the *pet (If the mea . family. its babitatien is in the most ardent pas. ito their duty to the King; in many ethers it le the, SAMS and 14111 of aothority ; and when such a grow siting, ill theelesire as well as in the fear of witness- effect of necessity ;in the greater member it .is a sa.. ,gle has once.hegott ) whenstke .cilitilbode take * part i icg the I tleespb rf old opinion. . I crifice made to the repose of France. .It is new. in it, * neolutiou it not f ilm .of. This opposition ! Public esinetities have served only to augment our , wounded and humiliated at beholdieg Its dismember- hroughtoot a number . of_pattles who had never be.. disorders; tlietwo parties either aggravate each other ; went and dismissal. That army has howl employed Wet shown lheuseelved. k.ivasigerterelly aid that by their reproaches and their threats of re.aetion; or 1 it , invasion and conquest ; repose I, repugoette to it : thP•veign strike BOurbonkivotild Rut be of long du., are thPOISMVPS by their hopes. Alt will submit to amOiep unbounded b' fortune had .....fed it en- ration, that a drills was approaching either from, the Klee, all sit Past will have /be. litheage of Sub. terprasore, and though it bad'n,. lobgeint Its bead es *NO eaterprile of.the Court, or.n MilieMellt of the, mission, but the one o ill &mead GI dill ( . 4011411k'; Of Geoaral t:.at warlike Chief of the State, it emekl not peep* Sonde *pike et ;hat time of calling a foreign their fidelity the maintenance of the *his of the but lug reel aibor its ancient standards. Ought we. Prince to eite,throne, others, declared themselves in people, while the other, on the coiffure". wish to I to strive to plode it on hsrawsniups•terms with the famwar of the %kit wt Oritlwits,. It gteeter number retrograde. that every 111;9( should be put in dispute, ; other - armies of E•srope ii) oiling it modest notions, still for ,dee ILlgeNt;, it rimed tint esort Of moral, In skort;thet the present should deride all tlw put in their farrier. isidePd, it would tie n. , w said. on a view of Unship of public %Antos,. that France con. tains two nations coutending against eactrother ; one degree mew of fury is only necessary to dissolve tim enci.l compete, sod • few false measures on the pave of Governinent, are only required to produce a gene. tal contla.:ration. On a ties of the state of public opinion, and of the couflict of passions, there are found dis , inguish. log shades between the various departments, between the citizens and the armies, and between the parties and the factions. Minds are more calm in the ceetre of France; there obedience Mill brimore prompt; but the Capi..; tal must be considered a di; inct class. It is not, and can no longer be the rule and example of the provinces& since a factitious opinion there so quickly takes the place of a real opinion, each party there Ands auxiliaries and accomplices in a momentary Sri. nmph; every thing is 1.6 be apprehenved from ite l slightest agitations, while what appears its most per fect repose can give but a feeble set- , rity. The North has evinced moderation. and your MS.", jesty bas inlayed some proofs of a.tachinent; thi clv•racter of its inhabitants renters it susi.eriblepf di, t u reauce ; a -ronatfttitinual regione-,utvler the Go,: •rrc•nent of the would gratify the wishes o the dt.;: , trtment of the North. The West presents a frightful centrists- a great numhef Of persons in La Vendee. in Ligessiti and Porcion, are devoted to the King t , bet either from terror or from passion, for the lest twenty years, they have confounded the cause of the ancient re. gime with the cause of royalty. Peelleps an hope.' d+ rat seal would consider it no advantagi• to calculate on this aimed populatiol., oil these credulous, simple, and ;enfant peasants, made soldiers by a long civil ear. and obeying their chiefs eith the most blind sidimissiow. !loch an Pi for ought to rinks the alter. tints of your Maj. dy. The employment of these soldiere, the stip i i..rt of Serb an army mould Imo the Royal cause without terlemptien, beams, they see there the evident p, 41.11 of plating the gaunter. revelutior -- It is- - Tertiotast no the tilt OUP. AI is, MIMI not to be belittled that opinion would be easaintous in these departments. Armed federations have been there formed ; one port id the towns la opposed to the country. and those who gain would resist who ever should attempt to dispossess them. Rvalisme of the south breaks oat in at. ,tempts; aimed bands penetrate into the towns sod overrun the country. Assapinatinus and robberies multiply ; justice is every where sheet; the Masi oistratiov very whet e • inartise; the ,rassions that agitate, .peak end are listened to. The ne cessity ler terminating these disorders is urgent, for Coon the resistance provoked by such excesses would be as much applauded as the aggres•iou. The lower (mhos, the pester !Lilt of the cultivators, a iportiou td n inhabitants of the small towns, the whole Piotestant populatio• , and those of the Reformed Religion, are into ot..d. The depaitinents of the Pyrenees wish for neither freebies nor re.actions.--. Auter4ne, although submissive, is of a constitutional Lewiment and at Lyons two parties prevail. Towards the Eastern frontier, Alsace, Lorraine, the three Itishoprii•ks, Arde , ires, Chnrapagne, Bur gundy, Franclie Comte, and Dauphiny, present a Anger of a different kiml. A tumid opposition to don : a reign could not be .ong condismoce it it bad only this mioority in its favour, since even the support of the majority would still allow the strong. est resistance to be kept up ; on the ooe side the sa crifice of their opinions will be davit!, and on the other impossible. ft remains, therefore, hot to choose rightly, and to make reason. end jogilite friar:ph over old passions and ancient prejodices.--- Sinsitar contrarities doubtless exist in lite other States of f orope, bet they do not refer to such mighty in., totes: nor smite themselves in so many other app..; • Alter this danger conies that of parties, without' ealcuatting the Royalists, who are found in the year 1813 to be what they were in 1789. Amore the o ,i parties the Repoblieeits and tharenstito. tionalis's still subsist : If the Republisane have net been undeceived with regard to all their priaciplea t they have at least discovered the imputability of en. plying went to a great state. • Haring thus ceesed to' be dangeous to the power of Monarchy, they be., cams so to Bonaparte only on account of his tyran. lay, end, with a very few exceptions, Bonapartist, woold be found in the ranks of the.Reptiblicans...e' This would be to commit a great *firer; they are gui less opposed to the Government of the. King, Whit the gum,. went of the Royal Dynasty is there some difficulty hi believing dot a dynasty that has nearly gem rui. Twice invaded by foreigners, these angered so much by the Revolution, and which hue departments have selTered move than the rest ; they struggled so long, cart prevail spots itself either t o ,halt lathe r g4,;,,Eal than lost by the Continental corn- pardon, to forget, or to deny its ancient doct r ig i e s , therte ; the ektmlit Of their national domains made by giving sufficient guarantees for public liberty... ft—, them still more dread the presentations of the anticitt j This motive alone hos recently induced them to tithe' uossessors. f t was also in these provinces that some la part in all the measures that hid fot object the es. erinis of the-fernier Ministers of the King, being i petition of the Bourbons; that an impassable berried Judged with previpitation, ehi.lly excited alarm. It is raised between the past and the present; th a t 11.1% there that tle. war was most isationat. public, liberty should-be established on en immutable 13 this view 1 have only inserted the most prevail- basis. With these conditions there. is nothing to ill opini o ns, S t me of which are not without mix- be apprehended from the Republicans ; they would, .turf. The Nobtexse and the Clergy, La Vendee ex- even become the firmest supporters of the Govern ceptod, have no where any party. All France re. meet. volts at toe excesses co.ninitted in the South, by The Couslitelionalists are only a party to this ex those bawls that exclusively call themselves Royal : ception, in as much as they are opposed to the Roy. even their exiitence is a state of reberion, Fatiati- 'lists, and defend the rights of the people agiinst cum, e,vil way, and the counter-revolutionary send. them, as they were established during the Revolu- Pent esel.e horror every where, .Srarcely a tenth i lion, for every thing in the last 25 years has not been , uf, the Iteuch nation can be tottud who are will- llusiou or cilia. l and the Clergy o the ancient posseesers ~ f national I estates, the Xmigrants, the old ft. , ) slip., mid all 1 that remains of the o ld Parlierhents—etilighteird eien i who sincerely, because they have learned hothitig for ' 26 . years, cannot comptehend how their oil knew: ledge should be deficient; a tettain gentler also who ,cestent pardon what they have abhorred j or who Inez fir their repose to wry thing, and have i'n hope of regaining it Die; in the old regime ; lastly, empassionz. ed *titers, and ihdielduals Whom a spirit of Moved impels always to violent meseureste ex , reinitivi In the other party is almost the whole of Franc •;= the Constitutionalists and the Ftentiblie:tne l i h. ket o si Army and the People, all the divent,t..ntett chid .4/ and even a multitude of good Frenche.en, ' , lst 144 ! enlightened than attached to the King--but wise are Ir.conitinced that every attempt of coositet-revoltitino i land even it simple tendency to the old regime. *oak, become the signal of in explosion similar to that of 1789, and would have the same result. It is no longer a question of mere opinionstiitt of the two factions is in motion—hoothitiescommoore -, 11.a Vendee is organised—troops ere rai,ing In the South, with colours Which ire not Piet' rept i and already bands:have made their ippearincii in Lenges. doc . and the Provence. They seek also to influence opinioits. Even in the capital these whit are desirous of a'dolutet-revoluliony say . so openly, Which is d manner of prepiting the minds. At a :veinier dis tance, the high-flown Royalist spread, his docttitsesj and does not dissemble his propctai The other faction, which looks oh the eierotion of these projects as impossible, does not yet att. Bet will this inaction continue long ? and whet will hap. pen if the combat commences ? Undet such pimp circuintitaeci4, it becomes my duty to express my ulto digitised opinion to your Maje:ty. Re long eit Franc, shall be occupies'. iiy foreign troops, Omit pre. stk. may'contillii, to a certain point, the popular Party : the royal authorities may also, by theirligia lance, retard the danger; but the Moment would Come when all the obstacles would be borne down t a citil war, when the cause of the King is the pretest s may last a little irt , ger, hut at length the Mass alb, peoplel'would be tiiumpllmot. .... moral and monarchical point of honour, a sort of • Resonation had alfrtMd j inbeoplece in the minds and 'No person lettiore convinced then plat Males". religion for legitimacy 2 Or indeed was it indispen.,l hearts, and this ciiremstailet r atified to the treachety, l that it is impossible to return to the cid &ell hew of sibly necessary to disbandlitem 'fills question ought explains only ton well th ! le c iliky with . which Bona. I the Monarchy. 'All the elementi of the old regieta not to be decided by the laws of : rigorous justice, we I Perlo replaced himself oa the throne,' end the int- I have disappered. There was then' no national i• shoold r.• nor consult the art of governing the future possiltil.iy in which the Court then was of defending 'estates recognized—power was modified by the wand t Old the reason of state. f themselves. 1111 another moment less decisive, that, ners—lt was regulated,• as it Were, tnd restralued i The fewer old (Arm and soldiers there remain in i where Bonaparte gave in his abdidation, the same by habits and assets. If there were no lied laws# the new corps about to be formed, the moradiscen. opposition tort'? King's Geverinnent gas Manifested, ' , tete were moth= of government ben. *seam its' tent and sedition will be found in the midst of the ;in the Constitutional party with still More.foree than violable code of moderation, of mildne.s, of Aoki . people. It will require a long time before the object the former time. Why can rooftleOld these arid orbanity--no passion wee CM lover-s4tety tiers is acoomplished of estranging a new army from the details before your Slaiestyl • Naito* is it poSpi,le son was formed for his situation, of supported it' Interests of. the old. The civil disturoasices will be. to are the Monarchy, jf •tve_ ire net thoroughly ac.. iithoat regret. A single remark new some to streir• cote e much more serious in more stoney element', .quaint.sl with the evil, witti very danger?— the difference between - that time cud oats. Aft , ma and if the clash of tee various factions be aurvised, There is not a, foreign Prince whom at this moment port, more or less, the% constituted the repetition every ,hing will be in a state of !inspiration for a civil • the party iu questiot, would have preferred obtaining of an Intendant, the glory of a Minister, the vele. war! ander the most favouta..ie supposition, the or receiving from the hands of the Allied Powers.—, of a reign. Will it be said that France was only thee: disl.4l , ling EC the a. -ty will have the effect of recruit. The. prepossession had reached such a heighth that More happy ?* It will remain to he esplsined thew het .ri4ands, •,1 it is impossible not to discover there was but one ezelosion ;—that of the family of how the Revolution happened to-beprepated its these a cause of term ~ r in the mere fact of throwing upon our apcient Kings. Your Majesty cannot help con. • hippy times—but to what perpose these discuminnaif an electric p- air rdy so much disturbed, Offering as a seditious act, the Dielaretion of the The old regime cannot bore-established. The gteetese 2.00,000 et. ...inflected with so many fsmilies, wlin Chamber of Representatives, which timded to regu._; fault which Governments can commit is not to dip!. •ro thus 1 le.-ed in ominsition to the Government. late the Royal power before the throne was filled.—: tinguish between what is possible andwhlit N • se.thorits r.wld withstand Both an immense coati. The truth is, however, that a multilude of French.' fti be at war during a whole reign, is not reignitit... lion of loured, passion, and of chattered men participate in the same blindness soli the sainel To catboat nothing owttris gilded had( 'our and tlistordat:t.inteteatti. • , reaiaaassew.,-beewoairtlttrylairthi - lime fears. Evert , jesty,'l• will still add that no pertiouler conspiraey Another tivnant %SI ache friiiii'Apsit ippo &ion of one demanded conditions, every one thea4itire.ac. i Menaces you at the present moment: Oer deniers tint political opitti ,, ,s of abe parties and factions. tious and stengeances.; they wished gvareetetta,' ilei!Proceed only from our situation ; . bet *e may eori4 There are draw-harks .9 rho match of ages earl i.e against your Majesty, whose Wisdom and moderetical teive its tlionght a conspiracy, if which the tweets the progress of civi.ixacim ; the understanding h. were known, but against the pretensions so wolf` would be infallible, and of which the designs could self has its detractors. Ansel when they lead to tun ksiown,Loud so often announced, of those who froeklieithet he prevented nor foreseen. It would he that precipitate and ostensive c'eoges it gives rise to re- their access to the throne, may one day have the, of a Ministry or a party at Court, who from the tastiest.e and continued' agitatiena. The great sting. opportunity and perhaps the potrek of inaklncihton • grossest error, or the most blind devotion to the ght of the Revolution is not yet finished by twenty. triumph. Royal cau4e, should counsel or favour a plan of lee years of subversion ; each of the ancient roc. ; What obstacles will, not ibis fatal disposition . 4E counter-revolution. livery Plan of this nature would awls was not completely twine' when the invasion minds produce? I have only entered into suckpain. overturn the throne again with crash, anti destroy, of the usurper revived the parties, disclosed new fol details to arrive at this censeetlect•—Thaects of perhaps, even our list hope of the dynasty of um* ones, and made-a full discovery of- the eateut of the r the Government will be again attacked ; they are so i factions. • , :' ,1 **.t. ,. •• • already ; and this centres!, with respectlo ' A false remark has often been • Made on the Feb , To itittaleOli:theilfiret piece, only- of the simple passes for a right, and even for a defy, when it jilject of the old* regime, namely, that the French who • dilferina of onlitibstl If this differmsee• be extreme. exempt from bad intentions,. Political doctrines are hate supported the tyranny of Bonaparte, would ty wide; l ll it . Prodocee sort of rupture in the State, In the present day so generally dffejted in France s I . repport m'ecti more easily the whole estent of the it WIC 'rain for' authority to goners le the sense that the-people imagine themselves cOmPltent to de..; Royal power. They are here mistaken, in many wiriest It believes prevalent ;_ another opinion comes tide •on them. A deml.liberty, partial conditions iespeels, because the position of Bonaparte has never across it which also pretends to be the public °PL. appear is insupportable as the most abitlote;pitivers; been knows to foreigners ; his tytenny was nut Inte nt, -Auld v -of lot testa elicit. '-‘4litir • \Viotti ! ' Work but that of it was the Sovereigns who --they wain" e*cite the same commotinna. ..ust tork. but .urope •' .. hove already said of the public spirit of 'the Deport. consolidated his power by their treaties, 'limit al meets, hes shown, that in Some proviu' cei the Con. 'lances, and even by their friendships ; and even if stitutlonal. party prevails more or less. This genie *Slued resisted him, the' other nations would tolsit party attracts also more and more notice among we., ranged themselves ender his eagles, or humbled then* Van classes of citizens. The old rich families are in' solves before him; " Aiwa?* more afraid of the Ina general more devoted to . the . King: it is, the semi in' tenor than foreign countries he knew well that if the vribuoels, among people of the lan and he had armies 81;811.'0 the Kings, he bad no posy,* the higher eoMMehial classes; on the other, hand, against politic (pinion. It urns by foreign elm. 'it is the greet majority of flue inferior 'citizens clience that he endeavoured to bend us utudot the [(prat beasriegise), retailers end petty Proprietors, yoke. lie ins marched to more that, one *Hoe?, e• mho are Constitutional, because they have toad the bliss in additional means of re.ecting on France,* soetest share ie the Hr volution. Tbepurehasers of A Coerpourot • without, be was unquiet within... national estates, and the families of soldiers, add a every public assembly made him tremble. lArly i Vint fame to that party ; but what' gives "it more there were always in the midst of hie Court, and in , especially an irresistible preponderance, is the mats his Coimcils. men of courage, who, without dis. peosantry,, who are at present very enlightened, ' obeying the Monarch, at least braved the &Tots. — and in easy circumstances, irrecoocilahle enemies of "opposing even that his tyranny had been mi.re pis the Nobles and Clergy, whose situation has been tiently supported than it WIN eon the same subunis.. meliorated by the Revolution. Position calculates 'ion be now expected ?-11e contrived to make es utile amength of partleidiferently, stud arrives in fact forget liberty, by soh.titating glory in its stoevi.-4 it ether results. 1.4 such calculetions the people We had' nothing to dread trud.ur has reigo, wither pass for nothing.' . • from the Clergy, nor the Nobles, nor flue Emigrants. . Ido not logiude the Bonapartist' in the number of If he succeeded in depriving us of several *.f our tr—Alße are none—there cab no longer be any rights, for that very season the public opining' is ht, Wept in a small portion of th e army. more strongly bent on now datentlieg the.us. Your . . - . . whet has take It is not4olls attachment for the man of this party. M tjesty may joule of thee front Khan taken it Is still less from fidelity, that in the month of place within the la fifteen months. Thou•ands Of March a part of France was seen to associate thorn. men- have perished t., retdid the fall of the old Salves for ail moment with his destinies; he owed his' reginte--it woaitt cause still greater evils t• re-esta. naccess entirely to our discords, which' made him be bli‘h it. warded by some as a libeiater, by others as an Our state of inss.ion is a new Bootee of dive ' s. instrument; and this instrument gave us mach greater dangers, femme in part cralcern the Sovereigns, Wenns for fear than for hope. Titre can be no other. at this moment. .;sake the power of the Kiig. party wittiest a chief. Bonaparte has only had The revaj.es are multiplv itvg. the means of f.o.b. three months of . a new existence by events which sistence are ealesuvtiog ; under ini4 point of view cannot again be renewed. AU 'the remains of the public trattgoillity has but a very uncertain demotic. Donapartists are therefore confounded in- thir ranks The no,d invo.4u.i• applies • to , every thing.. There the Conatitudonalists and ttepublier tt., • are bounds to all evils which *mom be removed, the Come 'to the factions.-Lit is prittetolly ender •••istrihu;ions being dried up or vusuentierl. she es. Ibis point of view that the :tittles; Jou of your Majesty pelmet: there gm, nit longer he stet. This will he a is attended withlianger. It iy evident that there are new a •Orre divottler. Will they recur to le two great faction, in the State. Then one defends the conttiln.tions ?—llow and by shorn can they enact principles of the revelation, and the other aims at a them ? The innv .4 the persetot sullyet to cowrie counter-resolution. The force of 'the two factions bun , o hare already lost ti•vir h•hit ui.onS-6-it will re+ may be measured. In the one there are 'the Nobles quire an armed force to compiete the spoil of this . I .~ '{,~•