The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-11-15 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN. ~~ 7V 3IR. 4'g f, 7 1E ft, 1 , 11;:%1Di.N cp... Tim count AT VA:11:4. n. -- The novelty of a.;esessing yotl through an Voghsh Journal Nould require an apology ) if the subject matter related solely to yourself, or even to the partial interests of your topiary ; hut us it con. rest : : the peace and happiness of society,..thiroughout lho chilized world, the necessity of an apology is AT NINE CYCLACK. 1116MORITOY/ MORWINO ( INV TEA LAASI Y ,BUS I) * LOTTERY FIR A WS. ALL T THOME PIII7. ES. OF X30, , W , 0, T 'OUR • WES 0 AV0,1,111) YE UN ORA MN. An nue _ 1 _. Lisboa 0 . .. .. Fiaishergh tt • U .... ...... .• . Polska 1 1 , 1, t .. "soft - . . jig le, I.; op irnivics , Tint DAV AT O4K (I'M/Gil ... Pant ;,,ene. ban. 15 5-16 ~, .„ 3 I .er rent Ped ft, 1 /flint booth 6 7 p per Gatti. coma. e4ii Piehequee Hits. 2 6 p 4 per Cent. 13.11 taettuta IC,il 5 per Cent. Navy 9'. 0 4 Const.it fur ~rc. 6211 slitiotsetled hy ti magnitude and importance of those 41(1..4 a.ihle rights sod aeltssouladged ho w/vat.; w1t'...11 )(fur doctrines are intended to to tally tibliterate.--t—You will, therefore, perceive, that my leiter meant for the general perusal nutl tOiertion of mankind as well ass personal• ad ourself, for a very gross and culpable elt:tttlure flout libel luu owe not only to your de lwkd sad benildured Sovereign and your fellow. ciiizvita, but to your own character as a gentleman, 41stiett in life. You have thought proper to assert la your 4 Ificial a Address to the Member!, of the 7 1 11 E STATES :WA N. LONDON : wripmEsnA v, NovEmr.Eit 15, 1815. COUNCIL or WAR ON MARSHAL NLY DECLARED ITsELE INCOMPETENT. delay, to the trial of Marshal Ney, accused of high treason Ind crimes against the Ante. It shall OW* ye its this trial the settle forms*. are observed in the proposals for the enactment of laws, without, 1i0 , 4 ever, dividing itself into Bureaux. The President of the Chamber shall interrogate the acs- cused face to fact, and direct the proceedivi in pub lic assembly. The opinioes shall be (alien according to the forms eusinmery in the Tribintaii. The present Ordinance shall be cusrried to the Chamber of Peers by our Ministers, Secretaries of State ► land our Procurator-OPtieral of.the Boyd Court of Paris, whom we chatie id support thi in dictment end the diacussion. Civet' at our Chateau of the Thuilieries, 11th of November, 18!5, and the 22d ) eer of our reign. LOUIS. (Sigurd) After har•ing heard the above Ordinance read, the Assembly, upon the motion of one of its Members de- Roes! Court, wn fhe 2d instant., that 46 ' 1l PROCELDINGS AGAIsT Hot IN TILE (711 AMBER cl ar ed, that it received respectfully the communicalidn • OS E . . authority proceeds from GOD, and that it is n OF PF. trot . i which had just been made twit in the King's name given to the people to dispute it."—The one We have received the Paris Papers of Sunday Iwo. . by his Ministers; that it recognized the duties, the has never been denied, and the other has never . Their contents are most important. The Council a perferthanee of Which had been con fi ded to it, and been attempted. la mentioning a puerility war- War appointed to try Marshal NEY, after hearing .that it is ready to fulfil-them by ceeforinieg itself to thy only of such men as the Abbe BARREUIL and the Ordiroatice of the King. the documentary evidence against him and the argu- , kr. Perriee, end the poppets they support, little meets of 'l2he Duke .1 Richelieu spoke at length on th e obeli intended than to expose an implied sophism, of his Counsel egaittst the competency, eutorct of the Ring's motives. We shall give the 1 the C ourt,. has . d ec l are d . itself incompetent to pro- • under a verbiage ill-adapted to the cultivated tastefolio o log report of his speech from the Moniteur : and understanding of the present times. This sentence , ceed in the trial ; and it now remains of the Duke of Ilicitco.tev's s h—" Gentlemen, the .hi instantly followed by what may be called its expla-1 Chamber of Peers t o . decide on the foe° the ac- Estiattnlitoary Council of War formed to try Mu. nation—" Our ancestors (you say), who guarded closed Marshal ,—a question highly impoi coo to shall Nsl has declared its incompetency. We shall met .ikeir (reechoes, and cherished their liberties (wiser France and interesting to the world. As the Jour expose te you all the reasons upon which this deel. than ere), recognised Mat our Kings reign by Me i nets or Saturday . are 'wanting, we fire without any slots is founded. It is su ffi cient to know, that the MUCK OP GOD, and not by CONSTITU- I detailed report beyond what we have all ratty given, Marsloid is accused of higb treason. According to TIO NS ;" but if your Kings reigned solely by the of the proceedings of the Council of War ou Friday the Charter it belongs to you to try crimes of this GRACE OF GOD, independent of the 'people, (the second day), which led to the result of a decla. nature. It is not accessary, in the exercise of this what franchises, what liberty, load the latter to ; ratlou of incompetency ; but the Papers of Sunday, high judicial power, that the Chamber should be "CHERISH?" What necessity could there be for which make us acquaioteri.with this abrupt vermin- ! organised like a common tribunal, The forms eneemliasoihem, and what were their means of pro. tion of the labours of the Court, and the siebse. : observed by you, on the proposals for the enact tocileti.oem, supposing it possible that those who wet proceedings of the Government against the . • mens of laws, and for deciding, in some. nsee . Y 0 044 611 the Grace of Goo could violate or do. Marshal, render th m is chasm in the detail of less con- suer, upon their adoption, are doubtless suffi - stray them ? 1 will pass over tub bla p ephonly of your. sequence; .i ciently solemn and satisfactory for the trial of any 1.; . asserting that such execrable beings as Pinup Le I The trial comes on in the Chamber of Peers in man, whatever may be his rank or situation.. The Bat, CIRARLES LE BEL, PHILIP YE.; Louis XL., ' consequence of a Royal Order, the King's Procure- Chamber is' therefore competent to try the crlatell( CHARLES VIII., and that horrible meatier ' tour in the Permanent Council having appealed high treason, of which Marshal Ney has been loot' Coat:cm IX. (cum multis olds) reigned es - against the decision of incompetency. The conduct accused. No plea can be put in to delay this trial, the Grace of Goo."--My regret is, that Law- of the trial is therefore still in the bands of the MI- i by reason of there being in the Chamber of Peers , yen, oho ought to be the defenders of our rights ,'bolero, and it will be seen by the rules laid down •no officer esercisis.g the characterof Procurator should voile themselves with an impious, avaricious , for the regulation of the Chamber in its examination) , General. The Charter made no provision for one, Priesthood, and partake of their iniquitous egaeta to : and the formation of its opinions,that the Government It ,did net contemplate the necessity of one. Per leave mankind no other alternative than to be their is most o„„,iio„g to quit its powers of direction, '.haps it ought not to hare done so. For certain DUPES of VICTIMS. Your time would be far and in fact fears to rely on the unbiassed decision of crimes of high treason the Accuser may be of the more • honourably gild beneficially employed, were' the Chamber. Some apprehensions seem to have Chamber of Deputies ; for others, it may be the you to exert your talente mid your credit to re- been eutertained, lest the Peers should also declare Government. The Ministers are the natural organs strain your Clergy to their proper functions, and of accusation ; and we think we rasher fulfil our, themselves an hicampetent Court, on account of the compel teem to bets eitemplary in their conduct u Charter having made no provision for such a •case dotty th an exercise a right in acquitting ourselves of 'the moral precepts of Christianity are pure and un- this public trust. It is not only, Gentlemen, in the t by vesting it with judicial powers, and giving it the sullied. I necessary legal appendages; but this objection name of the King that we ful fi l this duty of our orrice, Madame de Sevicsor could hare better advised it is in the name of France, so long outraged and the Ministers and the Peers themselves halve got you, when you told your auditors that "THE • insulted, and now in such a state of stupefaesion.— over, and the Chamber has undertaken to perform MONARCH IS THE IMAGE OF THE DIVI- lt is even in the name of Europe that we come to re. the duties con fi ded to it. The Minister is most DUTY." In s peaking of the sacrilegious attempt of , earnest quire, and even conjure you to try Marshal Ney.— t in his recommendations to the Chamber to en that conceited despot LOUIS XIV. to force the Iva. ; ea It is .useless, Gentlemen, to follow common Me , ter on the trial immediately—he requests itithe name . nished STUARTS on this country, that Lady very pro- gistenal forms, which enumerate in detail the several of the King, and entreats and conjureoin that of th e perly observed—" It is not being the IMAGE heads of charges against the accused, for they will Ministers, that they will immediately tor "Marshal of the Almighty to support a King expelled ar ise out of the proofs and evidence which will be sub andlNET —for, says he,—and it is a most important de- . abandoned. No ! h is a far better /M/- mined to you. There exist in all their strength, TAT/ON of the Divine justice to ptsnish a tclaratioto-•••••" The decision of the Council of War is notwithstanding the question of incompetency, and FANATIC and expel a DEPOT."—I will scot i the triumph of the factious." " Let their joy be the decision pronounced upon it. The reading degrade my pen or soil my paper by asking I short ," he entreats," lest it. have fatal effects." lie .of the papers which we shall deposit in your you, as a well-informed honest man, whether proclaims at once, and in the first Chamber of the pa. Bureau: will make you acquainted with the di& you consider the despicable wretch who wields the I lion, the sanguinary disposition of the Goverthnent, ' twist charges. Therefore further definition of sceptre in Spain as the IMAGE of GOD?—Neither i which sees no justice or safety but in vengeance, and the crimes alleged, is unnecessary : they are all will I (Mete on the enormities of his crime, but 1 ' the utter detestation in which that Government Is 1; to be found in the words traced by that Charter, will ask yoo, Sir, if you are aware of the, conse- held by its subjects. The decision of the 1 Counciit t which, after the shock the social edifice has received quences to which these AT I'RIBUTES, which you of War in this ca,r, is indeed a triumph Win France, is now becomes its firmest basis. Won. have so prodigally, so impiously, and so falsely con- the French military anal the en emies of the Go. i cote before you Marshal Ney of treason and ferred upon Kings, must ultimately tend, if per- 'eminent, which they will know how to improve. • crimes against the State; we venture to say, that the Fisted in ?—The fallacy of the principle you would SOULT has also demanded to be tried. Chamber of Peers owes to the world a signal act of establish is so evident, even to the meatiest capaci- t . The Cl b ;am er of Peers ens to enter on the exam'. reparetion, and that it ought to be speedy, for it le tie', that it is far more likely to excite disgust and nation ef N- y' , ca•-'a .ni Monday last. lof consequence to Fines: the indignation which, on ' provoke revolt, than create either esteem or pit) for I all sides bursts forth . • aos, NOV. i2.-.-Yrct 'ASA El"ling Baron : ' . a family, whom it was baseness in you to have . . • " You will I Joins tile, Commiotionter . Orlonn- e4 e.lii Chief, o r not permit an extended impunity to 'received, and a crime in the Allied Sovereignsj the First Milker . ) Diri-ion, di '... •s•d by t h e m eg engender new scourges greater than those we are 1111 ti. have restored. To tell such a poor and can-; as Procureur in the First Perms no. . council of w et, . deavouring to escape. The Ministers of the King tansissible being as the Count n'Aerors, who labours 1 ' charged with the tlial of Marshal. Ney, „ poe t s; are constrained to t o ll you th a t t hi s d ec i s i on o f th e in piams Unison with his no less contemptible see, f against the decision of the lush, by wfiich Vit - C" li cii o f War is a triumph of the factious. It int: the Duke reAecours.mr, to redeem the libertinism Council declares itself incernivetent. . I. . ports that their joy should be short, its order that it of years by a fanaticism as sanguinary as it is ferocious .Marshal Sault, it is said, has caused a Memorial may not be fatal to them. IVe, therefore, conjure and hypocritical, that Kings .are not accountable for to be presented to the Kiiig,• in which be demands you, and in the name of the King we require yen, their delinquencies to the station, may be music to , to be tried. to proceed immediatelf to the trial of Marshal Noy, such ears, bat to the . great beak of mankind they I i • and to observe the forms as recommended, are an insult and a wrong of so atrocious a nature, CHAMBER OF PEERS. No•. 11. 1 66 After this audience you enter on your judicial as to deserve a chastiement proportioned to' the ills I At five o'clock, the Ministers of the King, ac' functions. You owe to yourselves, Gentlemen, not that must inevitably result from doctrines so much companie d by the Procurator-General of the Ito I Ya- to listen to any suggestions which may influence at variance wills morals and with common sense. In Court of Paris, brought to the Chamber an Orcli. • your judgment, for or aglitost the accused. Ile Will my next I will go more folly into this subject, for I , sauce of his Majesty of this day's date, ream- . appear before you on the day and at the hour which mean to mese your guilty servility to the world, ' mending to the Chamber of Peers to proceed, with. the Chamber shall fix." end I. shame yes, if possible, into a renunciation of ' out delay, to the tall of Marshal Ney, accused of ' The Chamber doctrines as criminal as they are ill-founded, end very • high treasou and mimes agiiint ' the safety of the' o'clock, when it will cuter on the examination of the unworthy of your name, your station, and your State. ' i documentary evidence respecting Marshal Ney. ceentry.—l hive the howler ,to be, Sir, your moist The Procurator-General afterwards read to pool . • . • obedient humble servant, Clramber, first, the decision by which the Permanent; - Pants, Nov. 12.—The Dnke of Otranto artimel THE GHOST OF WAS/HM.4ON. Council of War of the First Military Division, has !at Dresden on the 26th ultimo, and art thus Vtli Lemke, goy. U. declared its incompetency tai try Marshal Ney ; and : had his first audience of the Ki ng o f Saxony'. p,o —_____ Two hundred and fifty of the Coldstream regi. secondly, the Ordinance of the King, esplanatery of I whom he presented hie credentials. • ment of Guards, six serjeants, with drums and fifes, the motives of his Majeate, to theiollowitig effect : I The Austrian Government is ettiployed upon a ..: marched on Monday morning at seven o'clock, from Louis, by the Grace of Gott,- Ate. . ;plan to diminish the paper momsy in circulation, and the Parade iu St. James's Park, on their route for Bevis% semi the 3311 A i 'We of the Constitutional' they seeek of a tax upon thcproperty of the nobles, Dover, to embark for Calais, thence to proceed to Charter, and lisisiti bead our we have' who have hithertopaid none an g Ministers, . . reinforce the Puke of WeetreeToe. They IR, it • is said, to replace the British troops uhp afeenming decreed, and do &TIPP a S follows :'-'- -The Royal Court of Thottlouse has sentenced to home in consequence of ill health. a The Chamber of l'ceo, shall proceed, without three mouths imprisonment, and a fine of 100 francs, i{ a lady of the name of Estelle, of the comma'', of ;r Ctar, convicted of seditious discourse, of hgvi,, g rut a tri-colotred cockade in her cap, and hav;ng a red and black chessboard in her w n o th e day when this white Ling was hoisted in the col,- mune. The Permanent Council of War of the 16t1t.Aii;;. tar, Division (Lisle) has, by its sentence on th e 2 1 init. ctitidnined is sia months imprisonment a rat, of the name of Raipe, alias Moto', ex-grenadier of the 14th regiment of the line, for bating so! tiovl soug4. it is Witmer! that Peace was deftniti v pt y on Wednet•day the 81h iAllt. and that there is i , i thtk course of 'nest week a Royal Sitting in the Chi l i,. ber of Deputies, in which, prof:6llly, s•mtpcom ai , inications!will•takeh place relative to this Treaty. Au English soldier caittotted nt. Litiville, convicted of Murder, has undergone tr,.4,t severe military p i . nishment. The culprit, himself dug his oon grave before his execution. The Russian troops, which were in the envir ons of Frankfort, are on their march for France, 0, complete the contingent of 39,000 men, which R. I sic is to leave here. The 3000 soldiers, who are cantoned at St. G er . main-en-Laye, fits m the head quarters of a division of the English army. 'fln.y are all posted is the castle, which was formerly a cavalry militaky schod. The (Akers are quartered amosrgst the citizeits.— These troops make 410 exactions upott' the Saha. Wants. The Prussians have made another attempt to get adatission into Arras;'but have met with the same re fusal as before. One General, two Adjutant-Gear. rats, and 14 other Officers of that nation are only permitted admistion into it. By an Ordinance of the Police Minister., directed to tavernAeepers and furnished hotels, they are to keep a register of French and foreign travellers who -pat rip at their houses. This register is to be inirketl and signed by the Commissioner of Police. They are likessise to put up over their doors the professions and trades of their guests in large charatters, and this register is to be signed dally, taboo! bknzk or interlineatioit i by the tavern -keepers, Misters of furnished hotels, and their lOsigests,. , 'Silth their christian and surname', ago, place of abode, and profession of all those who lodge with them, Hit be only for a single night. The fine, in case of non-coseptisnce with dm Orders, is, by the Constitutional Charter, from sic to ten francs, or live days' imprisonment is case of nou-payment. • They ere likewise required to take every (ley to the Commissioner of Police, before aoon l oirtiliA iripy of their registers. , • The inhabitants of Paris are likewise vitiottill to make known to the Commissioner of Police of tarir district, the foreigners who shall lodge in their 111/11n.!.. FRENCU FUNDS-5 per Cents. 56 f. 50c. Sir 11. TOIIIMNS has left town for Paris, in conse• quence of a summons so suddeni that he is said to have known nothing of it in the night preceding hi; departure. Further reinforcements for the briktle, of Guards were ordered out on Saturday; and it i; understood, that every effective man inthe canto/ is to be sent, with all convenient speed, either to Fr ince direct, or to the British depots in Belgium, most convenient for forming a junction with the forces in that cumin'', if occasion should require their aid. 'Chesney under the command of the Duke of WEL LINGTON is thus distributed :—Paris is occupied by the Guards; the second division is cautioned at Ver. sailles; the third at St. Cloud, Sevrei v eid Neuilty; the fourth at Lonjumean ; the fifth: at tdeulan; the sixth at St. Germain and i'assy ; the Ihnoveriansht Limour4 ; the Nassau troops at Ecouen and Luzarches. It is said, the Parx.ce Itrzesres Hussars and ILe 13th Dragoons are to return to England, after ;inv.; uit their horses as a remould to other regiments id France. We understand the country ceded to the Et4l India Company by the late Treaty, is no part of the Nepaul territory, but consists of districts nuclei from the neighbouring Rajahs, by incursions Joni' the last test yells. From New York, we had advises yesterday to th' I Itlis,•atsd from Baotou to the .17th ult. The lam( contain some further account of the mischiefs of late storm.—At New B don!, the tide rose to a" unprecedented height, and so o n over p o wer' alla ' at harts :—tire shipping torn away and dashing Sg,lll‘t each other by the fury of the waves, were pre ri l ,;• toted against the stores, and in a•momeut all h:.; wreck and devastation. The loss to this place is mense. Every wharf and store near the water, 1' dostroyed: A merchant veNsel and four large vs.. had been thrown on the chore. Eaerf vest* of bridge connecting Now Betlifirri with Fairhaven. ‘‘'' swept away soon utter the gale commenced, a• • also the bridge at the head of the river, together 0 home very valuable salt works, and numerous duals were drowned in the dreadful tempr't. i 5..." been as severe in prop/min:l in t h e towns of Fairhaven, IVestport, A:alta, l' 4 ;ve :, liv•letters from Newfoundland we learn. 'Sal fi.her;es old the shore have been unpro:!uctite, t. ll o r the Bank they hate been ;.;uccessfe'. A Notional Intelligencer states, on the au thot;s • of letters from Natchez, dated the IS!Is of that the Slexican l'airiots had Leon sm. esful their late military operations th ro ughoit the .I" of the provinces of their cxten‘tve coun!ry, anti !htt the Royalists are greatly reduced in number. tu.'" ; a starving state. The Generals, it.is said, o^ "' v aide to go on, unless speedils• — furdisbed vollr ' r inforcements. I ,~ iii 2 i t i ) t .. 7 s