The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-11-01 00:00:00

"1"1" ! k f MN 'rrn STATESMAN. Waliost the Pat s issta of Cos-unite much In the . saris. House of Bourbon itself alteg,es pn support of its title ifs ss oiors o f :;overssment, is kids the latter, last jeer, to the french crown, bare produced on the pert of - acre motet its jurisdiction. It is also a circus's. many .members of the. Court the bitt•sreof experts. 1 ...5 0r ,. or .1 &s o ., ti i . g of note, that one of the -.ledges Pions of reiont meet estaisosi his Grace and the Enc. As b, cos s , ; tose it tra. a py of the French, doling the lish a rosy. I pscsume you have heard the lamenage i : , t a s i, • 1 of the Peninsula. ..asuibed to•the Duke of Berri, with respect to the Tits Decree, i' will be seen even on a slight exa. 'Duke of Widlissj,zion. It was cleverly followed up anisia'inn, describes as guilty, persons who have not a night sir. tau afterwards by the Koyelisav been is ; deprives them, in cases w here the Kiser who, iss this part of the *mid, are mpch es'eemed as sooty so hirer,, of the resource of (weal, whi c h th e I „;;iii.,„, of a large cellirre. .When the D u ke went. . La, o f Sloisi ,;-not even to the most csiesitual ; sets- to wait epos) the litischtwe ;PA., who received the 1' nought Ilse ;Periods Which these Was prescribe, in height% of the Gulden Fleece in her apartments, WI • seder re ivrisnners of their defences and 'saes insulted by the D.scliess de D. arra scarcely roe exculpatory proots. it being Ikatasil -the - ceivsal curttete.y he her ',dares& tenses s h a ll be finished within - sir Ices ks or " As to Ilet 4 isess, I am taught to believe, that the Russian *Moore cressidered a gr and c oup • nit the, months, after they have lasted snore than eighteen • menthe; anti, in a vs erd, the sentences which the p as t of ,Aka so lar, who, it is believed, has made art new sito!ees least pronseruce, are preacrileal to them, sirrimittimCsst * under which Antwerp is totegarrisoned while, io order to impose upon the unwasyeer the by mo ss ,;,,, r,„ ops . ignerase, sense pnmpous quotations of tine laws of 46 i ant sorry to tell you, that we have no hope the .‘'orr'ssimu Recopiluden are resorted to, which whatever of seeing in England, any one of the pre. • -laws base. either no relation to the point' in goes. rims; ornaments of 141almaisors..Alexander has ti ar, or ate diametrically opposite to Ilse measures . seised them all—three beautiful Cossimar—the Paris - s.slopted. ; Berger—Cupid and Psyche, and Terpsichore, are One of the things mentioned in the Decree, ca. i n i m i ta bl e . ' Without having absolutely thozhaste. pal& of irritating even the coolest man, is its talk- nits of the Greek somiels, they ate free from the • :rag of " combinations which were formed to destroy- Collings, of the Greeks: these were priced in the • •my -monarchy; openly attacking-the righte of my I cts t a t ogues. at 1 0 00 1. eac h . The Russian Emperor vosereignty," rlr. Ansl who is it that indulge; in has left only the fine botanical collection 0 Jose ' suet' expressions ? A King who, 'slide his people phine." ors re abandoned to the foreign armies of au usurper, entered into engagements with that usurper, both at. Beeman*. and Valencay ; and who, while the na .• tints wee powerfully assisted by Britain and the other Allied Powers, was felicitating Napoleon • on Isis victories. And to whom are these coots meliotrs expressions addressed? To patriots, who set the the first example of Continental resistance to the usurper ; to patriots, who so energetically co. • operated in the rause of the•salvation of Europe; to men, in short, who made such efforts to place hint . on the throne of Spain which he bad renounced, at • the same time•stivising the nation to submit to the usurper. What combivations, what conspiracies are those so emphatically announced ? Can they have Any possible existence, when, after eighteen montbst . investigation, it has been impossible to find the least Irate of them, notwithstanding that, in cases of thiw nature, the laws of Spain prescribe, that the &chi.' • ratios' of a single witness constitutes proof? The true conspiracy is•fanaticism and the spirit of ven geance, vertigo; which possess the Spanish Govern ment, and cause it to act in a direction contrary to justice, and to its true interests. The Decree in question is as follows DECO Er. Its order that the business of my Councils may sutler no delay from the want of thi Ministers whom I thought proper to nominate for the Com mission of State, created to decide all prosecutions, grounded on the occurrences of the unfortunate by past period, I order that the said Ministers who com pose it, cease their functions, and that each unite himself to that Chamber of Council to which he be. longs ; and I appoint in their stead, as Judges of the said Commission, the Alc.altles of my household and • Corset, Duo Francisco Xavier Vazques Verela, and Den Jose Alonze Valtlenebro, under the Presidency of my Captain.Gesteral of this Province, exonerating them from attendnitte its the Chamber of Alcaldes. during the time they shall remain in this Commis - siou. And to give an unequivocal proof of the beni;;-. pity of my heart towards the unhappy fate of all those varier trial and their families, notwithstanding the penalties which they have incurred by Law 2J, tit. 1. lib 3. Law lit, tit. 7, and Law sth, tit. 11. lib. 12, of the Novissinaa Recopilacion ; I order that, taking into consideration the long imprisonment they have undergone, they be treated with all the consi deration that may be compatible with the due *dote. nistration of justice, imposing on those who shell ap pear really guilty the penalties of bauishment, pri. Tadao of employments, and fines corresponding to the quality, weight, and circumstances of the crimes eud abuses which they may have committed its• their political conduct ; and if any turn out to be innocent, that tbey be forthwith set at liberty. I order, in like manner that, upon those who shall be convicted ) of having been the chief beads of the combinations which were formed to destroy my monarchy, openly attacking the rights of my sovereignty,aud wounding my royal reputation, be inflicted the punishment which they have incurred by their crimes, according to the laws of the kingdom; consulting me is; such cases, through the medium of my Captain-General, as President, by addressing to me directly, the sen. fences whirls they shall pronounce, before snaking them public, fur my sovereign resolution thereon.— ] a like meaner, I order, that upon their meriting my Royal approlo it ioo, no resort of appeal shall be ed. witted from it, unless I,tbink fit to determine other wise ; and it is also my pleasure that, in order that It use criminals may not suffer too much, all the pro. s'easti , siss be flisislsNl wit kin the period of six weeks, or trcn n•ovflis at the farthest, reckoning from the day on which the Commisiiao is installed. stows,. ort. 10, i 5!:). NEXT TUF.SDAY. ALL THE 9 PRIZES OF diti,(lo) AND THE 4 PRIZES &MOW, IN (10YRRNMENT STOCK. MAY BE DRAWN, AND THE VALUE RECEIVED IN MONEY ON DEMAND. • A re . Malik the 0 - • Lisbon ALL. S INTL - flolitiag It the Pink Offices. TILE SreITESNAIV: LONDON: WEDN UDR Y, NOVEMBER 1, 1815. The Paris Papers of Sunday last reached us this (nrestoon, but those of v gatelidsy and Friday priced ling are still wanting. There are some paragraphs, however, in the Papers of Sunday, which, with our private advices, tend to supply the chasm in the de tails occasioned by the missing Papers. The Monitcyr of Sunday contains'a long report of the Sitting of the Peers oat the 26th, when the project of tl.e law for the suppression of sedition was pre sented to the Upper Chamber. The Report has this remarkable feature, that the names of "the Speakers are not given ; the Orators are &scribed as the first, second, and third Speakers, and an on to the end,' with the exception of the mention of the Minister ftisd the President. This is an odd way (it appears -1 to be the new official method) of melting the Froode - 1 people acquainted with the sentiments of their re spective Legislators. The debate on the measures proposed for general safety was adjourned from the I lateness of the'hour to the 27th, when, we learn by the Journal de Paris, and a Note in the Moniieurl retesting to the Saturday's number of that Paper,' the project of the law was adopted by a majority of 128 to 29 ! ! A Motion was made fur a Commission to examine and report on the law and its expediency, bat this Motion, on being put to the vote, was de- I cided in the negative. The Duke D'Onozaorttr.x and Count de Fosrrasrss, made, it is said, eloquent speeches in favour of the law. &tont LANJUINAIS, one of the most able lawyors and statesmen in France, and the venerable President of Ike last Chamber of Representatives, vehemently attacked the project, as a system of legislation subversive of the established laws of the country and of the Con stitution itself ehich the King bad presented, and, as being a twosome of terror as imprudent in the Go vernmettt, as its execution would be injurious to the country. I t axstrroAts' speech is said to have been already printed by himself. If the Police do not lay their hands on it, the sentiments of such a man can. i not hut make a deep impression on the minds of his countrymen. The discussions of the Deputies on Saturday had still for their subject the same Measures for ensuring the safety of the Government. Even the mention of the late Government is regarded as ; ar.i it has been necessary to re-propose an amendment, which has at length been etlopted, adding the weitls ca maliciously, a' with a" rniint to-Overthrow del Government," to the article against certain crici and speeches, which are allowed to have great influence on the public mind. The passing of such laws as these in question will not lessen the Mamie.' of the dangerous words so . proscribed, nor will they give the French people any very convincing I or satisfactory pledge that their speeches and fears respeeting tenths, .feudal rights, reclamation,. of .na tional domains, and the oppressions of. old ty►anni cal Governments, are unnecessary and absurd.— Strange to expect that an agitated nation can he quieted on such topics of vital interest by fresh op. pros-ions. FRANCE.. EXTRACT OF A LETTER r Rom p %Ric, °vv. 23. 6 Your questions ere innunnuerable,—you . ack some which I cannot 'mossier, from not having access to she necessary resources, for facts ; hot for such as I can treat of, upon my own knovrledge, I have uo hesitation its telling you what I have heart. It i. undau!►tedly true, that the King sent the sum of 800 francs to each of the principal churches at Paris, to purchase Masses for the soul of Lihrtloyere. It is ' equally certain, that the English nation are out of favour at Coml. When Talleyrand and Fouche asked leave to resign, the King apprized them that he would refer their application to the Duke of W. •• and Lard C. and be governed by their opinions. A day or two afterwards, Talleyrand asked if his Ma jesty had made up his mind upon the subject—for it was still his wish to retire,—" Well," said the Another important notice is put forth respecting Mutt tr, tending to confirm the statement we base made on the authority of Gentlemen recently ar. rived from Sicily, but with this addition, that poor Joaettim had experienced the fate of . Pontsrts..— " A Journal," says t h e schoutit, bat It h not said what Journal, " announces that • hictitAi. who had disembarked in Calabria, had beets arrested by Vida whom lie hail excited to revolt, and bun delirered up to the Neapolitan Government." King, " I accept your resignation." This was with out waiting for the answer of the British arbitrator•, although his Majesty hnd declared both to them and to his Ministers, that their decision'shoeld settle his own. " The Duke's measures with retort! to the paint ings awl monuments, which were resorted to on the same grounds and principles of public justice, as the ~, • ainvaL 4moiji ,kmA. 1111111 s.. '4l Mk - .. 'the feHOrriqg are all the other particulars deserv- AU the Members--Yea, ye s , y es ! ----~ iog of attention in the Paris Papers : .• ! M. Pasquier having concluded,- the diKussice, p,,, PA It IS, Ot v. ¶l9. mote(' to be closed, which was adopte.l. ' .. .. . CTIANIBiIt OF Dttitrit:u. der. 2s. 1 The PatestnEnT then resumed with much clea rn ,„ Ittthslol:.NCY Or t. LAIISNE. ... the Amendments which had been made. Thpy p,,,: - The Sitting opened at neon. ' doced a long and animated discussion, particularly That Raussoctry.-1 have the honour of giving no - that which substituted the punishment of demi: f,,, lice to the Chamber, that the Proces Verbal of the that of banishment. Sitting of yesterday, will .not be read till treat Mon- This Amendment was put to the vote. The vot. i day, were doubtful. The discussion was reamed. It w ,, The (litmus:inn is continued upon the project of the again put to the Tote, and negatived by the preriw d law presented by the Keeper of the Seals, M. Chif- question. fiet. One of my colleagues bag proposed to add to The seven first articles of the law projPet %et, the article these words—maliciously and wish an in- adopted, and the se.piel of the discussion tention to overthrow the Government. This amend- to Monday at noon. ment hid been already submitted to the examination To-raorrow we will give the result of the concic. of the Commission ; but, is I am not of the opinion aims of this Sitting. which has caused its rejectiun, l move that it be adopted. • Another of our colleagues has attacked the Ar ticle in itself, and proposed the substituting in its place the law of the lath }lnvoke, in the year 9; but the object of that law is different from that which the'projert has in view under discussion. At that time the object was merely to punish those. who abused the purchasers of the national domains, whilst the question is now to repress agitators. — With these words, purchasers of national domains, Moths, feudal rights, glen who have founded their culpable hopes upon public disturbances, have suc ceeded in spreading abroad fears and alarms. It is by the influence of these words that the Usurper succeeded in re.entering France, and has brought upon our usitiappy country new,oalamities. What are the means of destroying .lie 'effect of theist words P—We must speak uur sentisuntts with frank- TIPOs. • Our ohjett is to strengthen the than*, tore-establish tranquillity, to give to the Goveirrent the force of whichlt stands in steed, ce re-tministe the people, by depriving the factious of the pretexts which they have too much made a bandirsof. Now, the 7th Article of the project leads et. this end ; I think the measure it embraces absolutely necessary. I move, therefore, for the retention of tbis Article with the•proposed Amendments. M. Mtcncixr.—Men of an artful address, who know how to express themselves with fluency in pub ik,and who shall have been guilty of the offences spe cified ih the project, are they to be punished equally with those miserable beings of the common class of people whe- hold forth seditious language iu obscure pot.houses? I fear lest the former may escape punishment. In all. cases, I mays tha t those who shall have been acquitted of an Offence by the Juries, shall be oast before the Tribunals of Correctional Police. The !Carta of the Smac.4.—The project which I have presented to the Chamber has been amended by the Commission. The King has given his consent to the amendments, &c. The Keeper of the Seals after some further •bservatione, was for the retention ef the 7th Article, and that it would not be safe to adopt the amendments proposed in this Article. M. DE cif ATEA U ROE x, after observing that amongst the factioek there were many foreigners, moved, that they shmoW be placed at the disposal of the Govern. A number of persons of the Household of the Duke d'Augouleune set out in post haste for '11, 04 . louse. General Loceurbe died at Befort, in the ~iettor the 22d or 23d ult. from a retention of urine, st ige of 55 : an intrepid warrior, a good general, sincere patriot, he is regretted by his family, b y t h e brave , men who have served under him, and by et' Frenchmen who know how to appreciate military merit; the foreign Generals, against whom lie has fougit, have a long time since done him ample jus. lice, and the sictories which he has gained fur ids country have immortalized his name. The Duke of Otranto arrived on the 231 ult. is the morning et Frankfort, from whence he could continue his journey the follow ing s tlay fur Dresden. A Journal announces that Murat, who bad dis. embarked in Calabria, has been arrested, elm; by those whom he had whited to insurrection, amide• livered up to the Neapolitan Government. On the 31st of last August, there was arrested is the Commune of Coats and Buis (Isere), a perm, called Matthien Fells, ex•soldat of the 31st regi. ment of light infantry, who assumed the character of Bonaparte, sad announced the pretended arrival or many corps d'armes, destined to cat off the Allied itroops. This person has just been sentenced by the tribunal of Vienne to six mouths imprisonment, a fine of 50 fr., and placed, after hating undergo.. his punishment, at the disposal of Government. On the 23d of last September, a penoa of tie name of Francis Favier was arrested in the Com. mune of Cremieux, in the same department, for ha,. l i ing distributed pretended Proclamations of Bona. ; parte. He was sent before the Tribunal of Boar• Aoin, from whence Ise was taken before the Court of Assizes for immediate trial. It is• affirmed at Vienna that the Archduke Join will, iftet his return from London, go to D►esden, and that it is highly probably he wilt espeese tit Princess Augusts, the only daughter of the King 1.1 Saxony. Yesterday, Prussian corps amounting to beteem eight and ten thomeand men, coming from Versailles, passed through the capital. The grand movement which is taking place amongst the troops of an nation. makes it presumable that they are withdraw ing, all at once, by different directions. This day numerous companies have also passed through the capital. ment . to be sent out of the country. Yesterday Miss R—, of an ancient family, st Other Members spoke in favour of the project, II years, committed suicide with a mesket, and proposed . a -variety of amendments, which prin. placing her foot upon a trigger. clpally had for their object the rendering more effi. A long article in the Gazette de France, impatel en - eines the 7th Article of the Project. the frequency of - seicidee, now-a.days, to the den. M.. Passim's, the Reporter of the Commission, notation of morals ;and.blames the advocates casette then spoke ai follows The existing legislation Allison for having inculcated the doctrine of Atheiur, is . not only strong, but extremely severe. But there which bat been the causes Me thee calls upon Ito existed a necessity to crush the, first efforts of midi. • great men and the prefoendpoliticians, if they silt den, .which, though not concert el by a regular or-Ito regenerate France, to skewe the preachers 0 ganization, were nevertheless of the nature of hidden Atheism, and for that purpose to pay more seeress plots. 'this is the object of the proposed laws to morals than to the mUing of new laws. 46 Almost all the cases pointed out in the Amend. it is tweeted that the Royal Guard trill be can' meats, which have been proposed to the Chamber, plate by the lit of January. ate already embraced by our laws. The object of I Rasmus; Ocr. VS.—The King and (Veep of the Ist Article, when the said provocations shall not Bavaria are corns nuespectedly to theusbal, on a here been attended Oa any consequences, does away visit to the Emprese* Russia, sister of the (J'°' with all the objections which'have been made.—(The of Kande, to pass - some days with her, before her, Reporter endeavoured to demonstrate the inutility of departure for Berlins which will take place at the the other proposed Amendments.)—Ch a nges ha ve i end of (hie week. been proposed," he said," in the 7th Article, becalm We receive very distressing details of the tx' it: might affect men possessed of the public confidence, ' ceases committed by the rremian troops in the or enfortunates whose complaints may be very excel. latinate, in their passage through it, which still CO" ebles sot. beintute. it ,his been.: prete nded, that it tinnes4Tbe head.qoarters of Baron de Sackett at^ would add another g uaran t ee t o th e Constitutional Teenaged from Manbeim tp rranconia. Similar iree Charter. But this Article only reaches those who i t ligence . reaches us from Fraucceria. seek to trouble the public tranquillity by disseuritrat- Many Russian convoys, having in ettarge ‘ 25,17C ing doubts upotr the law for which we are indebted Frets& muskets, arrived at Mahhelm• is the promises of the Kiag. Who does not know SeIIAVFVIIAUSEN, OCT. 2T.--Mdch artillery pst,,e that these' reports are circulated by those same men through this place. It is part of the grand pal'':'` u'bo have done -us so much harm ? This species of Austrian artillery, and that which has been too. odious calumny is of a kind which has most touched in many cititss of the interior of Frince. the King's feelings. Never shall the expression of Facun Fester, 68 fr. the chagrin of the old proprietors be the cause-of I alarm s tet the new ones. Therefore the Amendment l Brussels Papers to the 29thi and Ftsnkfort to et is eselessio this point of view. 25th alt, arrived today. It is stated from Iles. " The word maliciously, which has been proposed sets, on the authority of authentic letters, that tS` 11i be added, was according to the principles of the head-quarters of the Duke of WELetecrom soya 'oh/ laws, but it is contrary to those of our present aboet to be tran-ferred to that place. from Frat.... jurisprudence. fort we have a long letter of the Emperor "" One of the speakers has expressed opinions A ustvniA to Prince SCIIWARTZENBEIIG, t.' Frebiek I cannot agree with. Ife has thrown a doubt clout promotions, expressive of his satisfaction !• the stability of our laws. Gentlemen, ideas the conduct of his army, and among these giving 1!11. stabllity see Om most important for the rectifica. General of Cavalry, SA VX.-COLCCRG, /iELart r.a: • ties of the social edifice. We have occasion to think regiment of Hollins ; consequently, the that the Hoeft Of Bourbon will reign eternally.... that this regiment hail beea given to tl e you g Risme lasted many years, because it assumed the Sp. vor.r.ox, Dike of PAKIIIA, is iiirliO6r foodati.'" iisellation of The Ercriusting City." • These Papers confirm the mital of tho PIA/ LI • • . Irk mss. `'...,,. NNW . - faalkw.. M mmi - --~, t' F 1 • 1 • 1 : i 1 • • f II a TI I?' I.' • - 0 41; 11