The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-12-06 00:00:00

s~r•~ ; ~ f i 'firs ~,ti .. 1 4 .1.. : 0 '''' t.- 4:::• i 41 7 ..: i . . ,:•:., f .... . 1 i ... t - ' i 1 1 , sz , . I .* 7 1 : t 1 ...7, . -- t 4?" F'~ ~'r - tarsa. 11-f)T1? IDE-LIVIRCD IN DV VISCOUNT CASTLIREA,GII TO Tar. ALLIED MIsINTLItg, AMU ErON 1111.11 t Tr.OftiCoL.—t•Auti, Sn'TCM , IIEIt lITU, 1815. Ilepresentatioims haring been laid helot e the Minis. ters of the Allird Powers from time Pope, time Gland Duke of Tuscany, the King of the sod slyer Sovereigns, claiming through time interseoti.or Af tie high Allisd Powers, time restoration or the sta• ' rues, pimuiPai, and other works of nit, whim . ' their- re-p►clise States hive beets suctesiiely Hml N) S. tematically stripped 6, the lute rebto.otiomer) (;evero , input of France, coot clay to eser) ptiacipie of jus tice, slid to the usages of modern starfd:e, and the rime having been referred for the cotsbiaoration of Coort, the entlers . voNl trceired the cote moods of Itw fl.g t oot to .uhtnil, for the eon. intention of his Milks, the following remarks upfin this interesting subj Pct : It is' now the second tie.e, illat the Powers of Eu rope have been compelled, in vindication of their o•tt liberties, and for the settlement of the world, to in vade France, and twice their armies hare posseped themselves of the capital of the Slate, its which these, the spoil of the greater part of Europe, are accumu lated. The legitimate Sovereign of France has, as often, under the protection of those armies, been enabled to resume his throne, and to mediate for his people a ,peace with the Allies, to the marked indulgencies of of which neither their conduct to their own monarch, nor towards other States, had given them just pre tensions to aspire. That the purest sentiments of regard for Louis XVIII. deference for his ancient and illustrious House, and respect for his misfortunes, have guided invariably the Allied Councils, has been proved be ywnd a question, by their having last year framed the Treaty of Paris, expressly on the basis of preserving to France its complete integrity, and still more, after their late disappointment, by the endeavours they are again making, ultimately to combine the substantial integrity of France, %sills such an ade quate system of temporary precaution as may sa tisfy what they owe to the security of their own subjects. But it would be the height of weakness as well as of injustice, and in its effects much more likely to mislead than to bring back the people of France to moral and peaceful habits, if the Allied Sovereigns, to whom the world is anxiously looking up for pro tection and repose, were to deny that in inciple of in tegrity in its just and liberal Replication to other nations, their Allies (more especially to the feeble and to the helpless), which they are about, for she second time, to concede to a nation against %horn they hare had occasion so long to contend in war. Upon what principle can France, at the close of such a war, expect to sit down with the same extent Of possessions which she held before the Revolution, and desire, at the same time, to retain the orna mented spoils of all other countries ? Is it that there can exist a doubt of the issue of the contest, or of the power of the Allies to effectuate what jus tice and policy require ? If not, upon what prin ciple deprive France of her late territorial acqui sitions, and preserve to her the spoliation, apper taining to those territories, which all modern con querors have invariably respected, as inseparable from the country to which they belonged? Thu Allied Sosereisss have, perhaps, something to atone for to Europe, in consequence of the course pursued by them when at Paris daring the last year. It is true, they never did so far make themselves parties in the criminality of this mass of plunder, as to ,auction it by any stipulation in their Treaties ; such a recognition has been on their part uniformly refused; but they certainly did use their influence to repress, at that moment, any agitation of their claims, in the hope, that France, not less subdued by their generosity than by their arms, might be dis posed to reserve inviolate a peace which had been studiously framed to serve as a bond of reconcilia. ' Lion, between the Nation and the King. They had also reason to expect that his Majesty would be ad-' vised voluntarily to restore a considerable proportion at least of these spoils, to their lawful owners. But the question is • very different one now, and to pursue the same coarse under circumstances so es sentially altered, would he, in the judgment of the Prince Regent, equally unwise towards France, and unjust towards our Allies, who have a direct interest in this question. His Royal Highness, io stating this opinion, feels it necessary to guard against the possibility of misre presentation. Whilst he deems it to be the duty of the Allied Sovereigns not out, not to obstruct, but to facilitate, upon the present occasions, the return of these ob jects to the places from whence they were torn, it seems not less consistent nith their delicacy, 'rot to suffer the position of their armies in France, or the removal of these works from the Louvre, to become the means, either directly or indirectly, of bringing wi:lsin :heir own dominions a single article which did not of sight, at the period of their conquest, be long either to their respective family collections, or to the countries over which they now actually reiga. Whatever value the Prince Regent might attach to such sequisite specimens of the tine arts, if other a ise acquired, he has en mists to become possessed of them at the c xpence of France, or rather of the countries to which they of right belong, more especially by follow ing up a principle in war which be considers as a reproach to the nation by which it has been adopted, and so far from wishing to take advantage of the uCcaion to purchase from the rightful owners any articles they nsielst, from pecuniary consistent' , be disposed to part with, his Royal Highness would, en the contrary, be disposed rather to afford the means of rPpiacing them in those very temples and galleries of which they were so long the ornaments. Were it possible that his Royal Highness's senti mesas towards the person and cause of Louis X VIII. could be brought into doubt, or that the position of his Most Christian Majesty would be injured in the eyes of his own people, the Prince Regent would not come to this conclusion without the most painful reluctance; but, on the contrary, his Royal High ness really believes that his Majesty will rise in the levee aud respect of his own subjects, in proportion as he separates himielf from these vernensbranccs of' revolutionary warfare. These spoils, which impede S'I'MA'ESMAN. a moral reconciliation between France and the coon. I want no favour from them, nor to he treated tries sloe itiverled, are not necessary to record the with more than the common civility due to an eapleits r f ler a r mies, which , notwithstandiog the English Gentleman; but as I do trot much covet .ae te i,, e hick liaPy were achieved, must ever mak*, such a mode hf reception, I AA not go near t!re benrtr of the oation respected abroad. Hat .vi hilts . them again: When I march away the British troops, I lir ye r.Ljerts remain .at Paris, conteitttling, as it i they will begin to recover their senses." Seme hint sieve, the Hrie deeds of thecoantries which have beers of this conversation got wind in Paris, and reached giver, up, the septimente of re-uniting those couteries the circle of the Thuillet ire. A courtir r was dis. Perin to France, will never be altogether extinct; patched to soften his Grace, who was not to be Si it.. genius of the French people ever corn- easily mystified, but repeated nearly the same senti e 8- soriate itael‘f with lbw more limited (ast- ' meets, in nearly the same terms. lie was their sent ' mice assigned to the stagiest under the Boerlions. 1 for by the K. himself, aho tried to talk him erer.-- Neither is this / OMA N given with any disposition The D. was courteous and respectful—but perfectly on the pact of the Prince Regimt to slum:hate the unmoved. And how do you think ih:s iater‘iew ea; French Nation. Ilk Royal Ilighneas's general polie reported to the inmates of the Palace ?--" Eh bien! 'ey, the demeaursor of his troops in France, his having Le Duc de IV. a rte iii. 11 m'a ,fait l'amende ho -1 Weed the first moment of 1.3-otaparte's surreirder to ?zombie, et je lui ai pin - donne tout have learned restore to Fiance the freedom of her commerce, and, these particulars from no mean authority ; and - you above all, the desire he has recently evinced to pre. cannot, therefore, be murk surpii.ed at my deprecat. serve ultimately to France her territor;al integrity, Ina, on the part of our gilloot countryman, the ac-, with certain modification , ' essential to the security of cep/erica. of such an atonement as a foreign ritentud, neighbouring State, are the best proofs that,.consi. : which will surely be re ckoned up to him as an racer. . deration of justice to others, a desire to heal the whelming obligation, frem the varier wheece he is ' reminds inflicted by the Revolution,- and not any Mi. said to have received it. bend sentiment towards France, have alone dictated Swift, in speaking of himself to a friend, assured this decision. him that he felt too proud lu be ruin; the converse, I The whole question resolves itself into this :—Are trust, of that acute remark, need not be asserted of the Powers of Europe now forming iti sincerity a the Doke of W —n. Bart you tell us that the gift permanent settlement with the Kiee?—Aed if so of the estate of Grosbois has been superadded to the triton what principles shall it be concluded ? honour of the cordon bleu. In the ararne of wonder, Shall :t be upon the conservation or the abatelonment by what' recent confiscation of property, has this of revolotionary spoliatioes ? demesne fallen in to the crown of France? Of the Con the King feel his own dignity eanPerl, or his estate of Grosbois the papers have given nut imperfect i title improved, in being surrounded by monuments , history, and one which does some injustice Rota. lof sit, which records not less the sutfarings of his Moreau was not paid the value of Grosbois, Illustrious House, that, of the other nations of V 'tot Napoleon, who was to blame.— rope ?—lf the French people be desirous of toe' u's exile it became the property of hack their steps, cat' they rationally desire r I it is the first time I ever yet heard SP! % e this source of arrimcsity bet ween there of personal dishonour. In the other natious ; and, if they are not, k was the business of the Emigres fl titer their vanity, and tt' keep seii• which the contemplatimi these_ trnid culated to excite? Can even the arm) desire it ? The recollection of their cam. never peil.'i. They are recmlled in tht annals of Europ. Tt,ey are enotilazottei public monuments of their nwn country : necessary to associate their glory in the fiel. system of plunder, by the adoption of which, its trkrention of the laws of modern war, the Chief that led them to battle, in fact, tarnished the lustre of their arms? If we are really to return to peace and to ancient masims, it cannot be %sise to preserve just so much of the abuses of the past ; nor can the King desire, out of the wrecks of the Revolutioo, of which his family has been 011 P of the chief victims, to perpe. tuate in his House this odious monopoly of the arts. The splendid cellectiou which France possessed pre. pious to the Revolution, augmented by the Borghcse collection, which has siuce been purchased (one of the finest in the 'A - mid), *ill afford to the King ample means of ortmmentitte . , in its fair proportion, the capital of his empire : und his Majesty may slivest himself of this landed nurce of distinction, withov prejudice to the due cultivation of the arts in Frans In applying n remedy to this offensive evil, it di not appear that a,:y middle line can be adopts hich does not go to recognize a variety of spoliation, under the cover of treaties, if possible more flagrant •tl Ir -ter than the acts of undisguised rapine, scheme of an absolute restitution lands. To this effect, a variety cd off in the public Journals. A said to have been complimented woprietors in one of the South th a return of the title deeds had purchased the extensive .amily. This whole report was a ....I—but no newspaper dared to contradict a story that held out to the other national purchasers, " so touching and devoted" an example. It was likowive pompously announced in the Journal des Deems, that Mar/ilia! l3erthier had thrown himself at the King's feet, and tendered to his Majesty the ti tle deeds of Groshois ; u on which Louis XVIII. at his return from Mass, had graciously restored them to the Marshal !" Every one exclaimed, What a beautiful anecdote ! but no editor hut courage to call it by its real name. The effect of such statements was extremely mischievous to the Court ; first', because, a• - engine in the hands of •••KI .without the when the was obsti ►t purposes am apt to rd In Grois ., -IV. still more iris ; by holding him the Royal Family,—ss meror, affecting French iu their cliatac ,guy wt. by 'which these remains were in general brought to gether. The principle of property regulated by the claims of the territories from whence these works were taken, is the sorest and oil► guide to justice : and perhaps there is nothing whic!: would more tend In settle the public mind of Europe nt tbis day, than such an homage, on the pert of the King of France, to a principle of virtue, conciliation, and peace. (Signed) CISTLEREAtiII. .8, COlll tiV t:'• 'J . ... . •'• vs ..ig ornaments, and avaricious of F r ench gift.. Can his M. he absolutely blind to the humiliating attitude in which the House of Bourbon is placed by these ma. naeuares ? 1 see it suggested in yesterday's courier, that Russia has attained to the highest point 'Gf favour with the Court, and of popularity with the French nation. flow this has come about, and what may be Its consequences, depend upon it, the English States. man cannot consider too deeply. • 1 am , Sir , &c. TIIE DUKE OF IVELLIIVGTON AND HIS NEW HONOURS FROM TUE BOURBONS. TO THE EDITOR._ _ _ London, Dee. 5. 1813. - sitt,—The Papers having given us, under the bead of intelligence from Paris, that Louis XVIII. has in vested his Grace the Duke of AVellington, with the Order of the St. E , prit, and bes'owed upon him the beautiful estate of Gresbois, [ cannot help expressing my sincere regret that the British General should think of accepting the first of these two favours, and ! my utter disbelief that the second has been offered to him by the King. I arrived in London only yesterday from Paris, where the following was the conversation of the best informed circles. It has long beets thoroughly un rlerstood, that the Duke is no.fa►ourite at the French Court,— England, indeed, seems in be the object of hatred there, in proportion to the benefits she, and she alone, has cotiferred upon the Royal party.— Any show of deference w Hell they have thought ne cessary on some occasions to the Duke, either us Am. bassador, or Commander-in-Chief of our armies, has had pretty much the same source as the worship which the Indians pay to the devil ; but ever since he recommended to his Majesty Fouche and Tat leyrand for his Ministers, and .favoured the depre &Jim* of the Museum, every opportunity has been taken, by certain Grand Personages, of evincing to his Grace just so much of their dislike as would hurt his feelings, without provoking his serious re sentment. I am told, that when the order of the Golden Fleece was sent by Ferdinand to the flake de Berri, the Duke of W., amongst the other Knights of the Order, was asked to attend his investiture. — On the Duke's entrance his M. merely said, " Bon jour, ; Vous n'avez pas nos decorations *IA fortheiih turned aw-4y from him. The courtiers, we need not add, were in the same spirit, and hiS Grace u.s treated cuiversally *Ns the most pointed neg lect. The Duke had too much dignity of mind to complain of this rudeness; but after it had became the lulls of Paris, wh o se gossips begot, to chuckle at the supposed mortification of the Englishman, a gentleman connected with the British Government, asked the Duke of AV. whether report said true?— " Why, how did you come to hear this," replied his Grace ; " I am sure I never spoke of it."—" No." says the other, but it is all shout the town." " Well," answered his Grace, 46 since you put the question to me, I tell you, it is true enough; tbey have every thing but openly insulted me; NEW CAPITAL LOTTERY WITH TWO GRAND PRIZI S OF FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS, AND ONLY FIVE THOUSAND TICKETS, MUST ALL BE DRAWN TO-MORROW, 11:11RATUX.—In Mr. BURDON'S Letter of yesterday, instead o Things, in the first line, read Kings are either constituted by themselves or by the people, dec. Att. Uaih. Gotteabori,-h rrlncp ...... Ilaintptrgb PRICE OF STOCKS THIS 4aht S per Cent. Red 59 S per Cent. C.. 4 per Cent. Tin b per Cent, Ponry DAY AT ONit O'CLOCK LAng. Aim 16 1-16 i India 13 , ,nd0 3 4 p Exchequer P.Ol l 1 5 p ()annum 111 Drawls fur elcc. 61ii I'HE STA7'ESITA N. LONDO N : WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1815. A Hamburg!' Mail arrived this morning, and a Dutch Mill late last night. The Hamburg!' Papers furnish some curious parti culars relative to the accounts that have been in circulations of conspiracies against the Crown Prince of SWEDES. It would appear that there is a strong party, chiefly composed of the old Nobility, hostile to Cnaaccs Joust, and that there have been attempts made to take away his life. On one ince. sion he was attempted to be poisoned in a cup of tea —on another he was nearly shot, at a review, by a soldier who wits bribed, but who only killed the horse on which the Prince rode. These circum stances, however, are stated not to be of recent oc currence; and the in - duence of the Nobility, the Prince's enemies, is said to be declining, from pvverty in themselves, and the rising wealth of the merchants, with whom they are trying to maintain themselves by forming alliances. The policy of CIIAIII.CI Joust has certititily been such es greatly to aggrandise Swe den; and consequently such as-ought to attach the nation to him and his family ; but notwilliztanding I)re ~~ these grounds for nvionsl attachment there reason to suppose that the scepf le of Sweden retimin tong in the hands of a BERNAD TT those which now possess it shall becomt-, inca nielding it. 'Great rejoicings base taken place at W. areot.nt of the artiral of the Entrer..r of R uss i t, who has been taking great pains to concH.te 'ha Poles. ills Imperil! Majesty was expected to s'.t oot on the '25.1t ult. for it.-14ter,horgio. Froas Copenhagen we learn that the alliol is deterniiited- to keep posse.sion of Laueohirg't. t as been itacorpotated with Holstein, by the name et II o'sirin.Farucuburgh. The riaelp tion of the 114!,i c . rott“tio: open, though on some dayv k freezos at fire or six of it v stsviun : the Sera is, however, free from ice.—At Croustadt, merchant ships strive and derirt thlity.. This eat 350 ships hare sailed from Archangel. The Commissioners appointed to receive posses. sion o f t h e p r i n cip a lity of Ens , Frie,land, for 1119 0 . yen, and the county of Linen, viz. Crnitit II trt. ISENBERG, Mr. RICHMEISTEIt, and Mr. were to proceed thither in the beginning of the month. The Prussian Commissioner, Mr. Goco. SEEK, 11:111 already arrives! at Minden. His Excel. lens.) , the . Minister of State, Count MUNSTER, has had the misfortune to fall from his horse and break his left arm. • The Mitch Mail contains some interesting inteni. Bence respecting the outrages committed upon th e Protestants at %ismes. The article which we gist from the Leyden Paper confirms what we have re. rend,' stated to have taken place at Nimes, and af. firms that the troubles which have agitated the South of France since the return of Lucia XVIII. and the visits of the Duke of ANGOULEME, have not ceased, but have rather assumed a more serious character titan ever. The conduct of the Duke 47Antoomatz is viewed in this Journal in the same light with refer ence to these transactions, as that in which vrehavehm. sidered it; and it receives a still stronger illustration from the fact mentioned of the Duke'having refused the request of the Protestant Deputation.to. issue Proclamation in favour of toleration, and toeshort the Catholics to desist (torn persecution. • This re. fusel ► added to his joining in the Catholic processi• as. in the manner he is described to loose done ► there can be 110 doubt, greatly added to the furious bigotry of the persecutors of the Protestants. It is rather singular, that we are yet without s-" arrival of French Papers. As NEV'S trial was •commence on Monday, our curiosity is now swat for intelligence from Paris. The neat Journals may probably put us in possession of some part of the particulars of the WO. fr: the mean dose, we refer to a Letter in our Paper of to-day, copied from the Tunes of this morning, for a view of the real situation of the Duke of WELLtsivrost, in regard to the Court, and the new honours and possessions o hick are said to have been couferred upna his Grace by his grateful friends she Bovattoto. The view, we believe, is a correct one; as should like to be made equally acquainted with the estimation in w hich the character, and services ii favour of Bettneo44 authority, of Lord CASTLW It EAGII are held by the same gritefel Court; and whether that Noble Lord' has had the honour of re fusing an oder of any of the restored estates, the Cordon Bleu, or the Order of the Holy Ghost. [MtOM THE HAMBURG/1 CORRMPORDEVr, NOY• +i•j Some Pub!ic Prints speak of a firmtntatron which they sly prevails in Sweden, and of .a. coospirvy that Irts been formed against the Crow% Prince. o:ie of the Senators, say they,,,rnixed poison in a cup of tea intended for the Prince, hut which was drank Isysnmeloody else in the company, st Ito soon after Farther, an Oillcer had, by brilliant promisei, induced a s•rldier to shoot the Prince at a review, hut the soldier, in his c ,, nfusion, shot, ittslead of the Prince, the horse on which he rude. All these stories are old, and date from last June, as may he seen in the Political Journal, of October, lsr. which we take following authentic accoun•3 front Sweden:— " The whole conduct of the Crown Prince of Sweden was prescribed by the necrsiity of prom:4o4 for the loss of Finland, which Sweden felt thof..4 ref sibly, an indemnity, and for himself a firmly.estab lisliert consideration, since the pride of many great families of the aristocratic Fersen Piper party, which had wished to see the morderediCouset Axel Ferrel' on the throne; might oppose the elevation of a fo reigner. At the head of this party was a person of high distinction, but who, from suspicion cf harie4 had a share in poisoning the late Crown Prince raise Axel Fersen to . the Throne, real. no hated lif the nation, that in the beginning this person was on: secure from ill treatment, except in the company of the new Crown Prince, and ender his - proteciictf• At the sortie time 11. at the Prince **route Cott-, had to solve this difficult problem, whlth -could oclyr ho tlore by the long-desired conquest of Norway. or the eecovery of Finland, no matter whether Iff attained the end by the aid of France or of Rev's and probably decided for the lest, that he might by joining in the. Continental system, rob Cored'', alrently impovetished, of all means of recovering" prosperity —in the still more difficult problem bow " emit) this rid without any co iderahle sacrifice or the naticual troops, for ai the C' otitution orrn`cd o h 'Il b ti 1 ti w i is tro:ch mil( ant 1 TL, after apable of I USIRW Ott • . .. • • F '.. I f Ea -> F ~~ t't I f ' F:. 74