The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-05-12 00:00:00

Pr". itY THE STATESMAN. Loma - 10000141 election, whereby the PRI/I'IICP of those con te,ts mac increased to an extravagant amount. Whe ther the period was three months, nue month, or cm, a fortnight, it would answer the purpose %bid! be I•ad in view. been offered to the French nation and to its G?. "FINAL DECLAILITION OF LOUIS XVIII. Tents our entering into any comment on their con. vernment. It is .ntill offered. It-may nobly de- ---em.--- - tents, which we submit in the following estracts : , . cline this assistancli, , it rejecting from its .bosom • n If , ',OHS by the Grace of G;odi King of France [wONITEUR, MAY 9.] the prieciple of the war. It cannot. do without ind Navarre. , it, as long , at it ,shall bear the yoke of a man ', cc ..v. T , .. LTEGE, MA'S I.—The Saxons here continue to force the Prussians to drink success to Napoleon. The who seeks .to dishonour it, by making it . o ALL 'min. SUBJECTS GREETTNo,—rrahee, anoment he appears he will find here 20,1)00 active of a twofold perjury. A compact united it with its free and respected, was enjoying, by our care, the 3Overeign. A treaty hid reconciled it with Europe. peace and prosperity which had been restored to it, when the escape of Napoleon Bonaparte from the partizans. We are surrounded by tialollS and Rel. Bonaparte, in arrogating to himself the supreme Island of Elba, and his appearance on the French glans, all equally eager to throw' off the y o k e . A power, has made it violate both. lie replunges it territory, seduced to revolt tile greatest part of the Belgian Officer has declared openly, that his w h o l e ;,.to the horror: of civil war, anarchy, end military arm y. regiment wits for France, and they would Awn, despotism. Is it possible that he dares to promise Supported by this illegal force, he has made France liberal institutions, and the empire of the usurpation and tyranny succeed to the equitable em pire of the laws. .. ', s' MAT 2, AT oreirr.—Thi s morning the Saxon re. ....• ~ ' , laws? hit possible that this same man con have ac shot it. ~ . the effrowery to promise to foreign nations, that he The efforts and the indignation of our subjects, the Majesty of the Throne, and Mat of the National girnents here, received orders to be iiicorporeted oath will respect treaties, and not interfere in their at- Representation, biro yielded to the violence of a • the Prussians ; the consequence was a perfect meti.,, ; fair? Is it lie who pretends . to make the lode- mutinous soldiery cries were heard..in all directiou4 of Long li re th e purulence of the French respected ? His leaving the whoM treacherous and perjured i leaders have iidticed by deceitful hopes. island of Ellen,—his arrival in France,—the titles CC King of Saxony . 1 Long live Napoleon! he i n , surrection was complete.. At the motne:4 w •il e I am with which he dares to invest himself—the authority Thin c r imi n al success having excited in Europe he has seized upon.—the delusions (prestiges) with jest alarms, formidable armies have been pot in march towards Franie, and all the Powers have.decreed the writing the Saxons are chasing the Prussia n s i n a l l which he surrounds it, those which he is preparing destruction of the Tyrant. . quarters , calling them thieves' and cowards! Thi s .. to support it ; —all these crimes, if legitimated by 6 ' Our first care, as our first duty 'has been to night will no doubt produce serious events. Al,,, a d y the anent of the, European Powers, would threaten cause a just and necessar y has a Saxon O ffi cer killed one of the Prussilel o n . social order with complete destruction, and nations distinction to he recognised between the disturber of the peace and the oppressed rnandants. All the inhabitants are disposed, to join with the yoke from which they have just been tie- livered. French nation. . . ccFaithful to the principles which have always the French. No ;no experience has been lost for Europe, e guided them, th e Sovereigns. oar Allies, have de- M av• 3, AT NIGHT.—This evening the Saxons s r. after so many year's of suffering and calamity ; none !dared their intention 'to respect the independence of tacked the houses of the Pressian Generals Bluch er will be lost for France herself-;-she knows the count- , Fream, and to gnarantee the integrity of its terra- and Ruse!. Not finding them there, the) contented less evils which the monstrous despotism• themselves with breaking the windowsand d estroy. man caused to weigh upon her as upon the rest- of the of a single l eory. They have given us the most solemn asserances i that they will not , interfere in the internal govern- log the furniture. At midnight an order arrived for universe, and which made nations feel what they d • ' th ' e ditions that . we have re . ment, an it is on . cse on owed to their dignity as Members of the European , the Saxon Hovel Greeadiers to march—they refused solved to accept their generous assisiance. family, and to their internal prosperity as individual I " The Usurper has in vain attempted to sow die- to obey it i but several Prussian regiments msrchiug sates. This sentiment having become common to all sensions among them, and by a feigned moderation upon then,,they were obliged to comply. towpath% people and all Governments, created . a new moral to disarm their just resentment.' His whole life has eternal attachment to Napoleon, whom they asserted force in political combinations, which alone made . for ever deprived him of the power of imposing upon they had never betra y ed , calling the Prussians l the Grand Alliance prosper, and enabled it to con-p ea. s good faith., Despairing of the success of his artifices, quer the general peace even at the gates of Paris.— decors of their King, &c.. lie seeks, for the second time, to precipitate with • This force exists. It is indestructible , because it is' This morning the order for the dereture of the himself into the abyss, the nation over which he • • composed of the most powerful springs of action, causes terror to reign. He renews all the depart- Saxons, for an unknown destioation, ens renewed. and of the dearest eentiments-ethose of religion, , ments of administration, in order to fill them wholly The insurrection again broke out—loud cries re; patriotism, and national honour. i with men sold to his tyrannical projects; be ditor- sounded of " Long live thl - .King of Saxony, the The treaty of the 30th of May laid down the basis canises the National Gnard,. whose bleed he intends of the restoration of the public law of Europe, and ' Emperor Nepoleoll,'.' & c. AI last, they were pro to lavish in a sacrilegious war ; he feigns to abolish . it established by its consequences a happy condord m i xed , that Coll+ should not be incorporated with the rights which have beer. Intrg - 'since abolished ; he con. between the progress of the spirit of the age, and•the vokes a pretended Field of • May to multiply the as- Prussians, but should be united to the ge”aiSaxon perfecting of the institutions calculated to guarantee complices of his usurpation ;he promises to proclaim Guards. This idea alone trinqnplisecl them—" take to each people the enjoyments of its glory and its there, in the midst of bayonets, a.derisdry imitation _care gots do'ndt deceive us," said they, " we have liberty. ThiTongress of Vienna was ciWthe evetot of that Constitutinn.m high, after 26 .y o f diner-- a r ms, • and we know - hoW to usethent." • . completing the work of the re-construction of the dens and calamities, had fer the fi rst time founded on political system of Europe. The same Congress, by It is .clear that the Conlilion cannot melon on the a solid basis the liberty and the happiness of France. . .. • . the line of conduct which it has followed, proves " Finally, he has consummated thetreatest of all rotes Saxon at fine and nume 'sly. .... that ,all interests have been maturely weighed, and NisitisW,. MAY. 6 .!" A.lt-romentniestion with Ghent crimes towards our subjects, ti) attempting to sou" - its labours afford the consolatory result which in- parate them from their Sovereign—to tear- them has-ceased ; the diligences g0',..n0 farther than this i sures to nations the inalienability of their itelepend. away from our family, whose existence, which for place. Troops are in constant motion, bet all is so A V mice. It is no longer the will of the strongest so many ages has been identified with that of 'the a sn. I which stifles the voice of troth, and crushes the most tranquit.that the Belgians think there. will be no war. • . nation itself, is still at this moment the only thing , ,e este.; legitimate resistance. It is the rights of each — it Is Ihe report is circulated that Austria is indisposed to. that can guarantee the stability of the regitimacy the East ! the general interest—it is justice and political rea- wards the Coalition. of 'the Government, .the rights and the liberty of son (raison d'etat)—no longer armies which decide.. the people, the mutual interests •of France and of ' Europe desires peace ; she has. doubtless .need of Europe. - ..- . . it : but she will not think she has obtained it, till it " In these circutristances'we rely with entire con. shall be founded on the immutable principles lithe- fidence on the sentiments of our subjects, who can rent in each State, and oil the erminea interests of all not fail to perceive the dangers and the miseries tri to maintain it. She is resolved tot to be reduced to which they are exposed by it map whom assembled place it under the perpetual safeguard gf armies.--.- s e. ..urope has devoted to publid.itengeanee. All the She caunnt do this without being.tienseralised. . • i .., a:pwers know the dispositions of France. We are Bet can this France represented by arldresses;"l bi t r ifasured of Weir amicable' views, and of their sup. France governed by a man, whom perjury and-Ahe mtst. infraction of all treaties have conducted to flit. r" cc !— Seize the means of deliverance' thrnoe, can this France, as long as this man shall which are offered to your Cou,rage.. Rally round speak in her name, pretend to inspire that confidence your King, your Father, the defender of all your which is the first basis of political transactions ? rights; hasten to him, to assist him in saving'you, to It is with States as with individuals, their credit end to revolt the p I ti on ' of which . put an results only from their actions. Europe has declared war against Bomtparte. might become fatal to our country, - and, by the pus, enters se l wartgeove.r, _• ,_ o f t he au th or of nisntnent - . France can and ought to prove to Europe that she 'of War,. Striiist.bed pts gained --- Me the era of a general reconciliation. sufficiently feels her own dignity, net to choose the and obtained co"' sovereignty of this man. . 1 ." Given at Cheat, the 2d day of the mouth of May, i n t he year of our Lord 1815, anti 40th year of our Reign. ' the mop- The French nation is powerful and free. Her li e l • (Signed) 1 ' LOUIS."' _ herty and her greatness repose in herself, and are , . re.cessars to the balance of Europe. The Peace of Paris, and the Congress of Vienna, have proved it. ! It is in this intention. anti in this hope, that the Declaration of the 13th of March has been made.l If this Art is founded on a supposition, it is solely 1 that which is derived from the esteem which Europe has justly given to the French. nation. It hasjodgedl her : it knows that she is too enlightened in respect to her true interests, too full of the principles of ho.l nour, to think her subjected to the will of an indivi. deal, whose power is composed of the elements • wl ieh bring 'on the ruin of States. We repeat it: PRICE OF STOCKS THIS 'DAY kr omit (pcLoca ISIIIII ' . tame. ann..142-jl6 France has but to free herself from her oppressor, 1 per Cent Red 5611 laden Bonds li vs.,' 4 has but to return to the principles on which social , err cep. one '54 S 'cheque! 4ivi. 5.2 e. . order is founded, in order to be at peace with. 4 per Cfn ll 7 1 H thallium . 7:: • 4 per Cent Navy Ffifi • •Coosola fur Ace- 5R* a Europe, AUGSBURGII, Aram 29.—Private accounts from Upper Italy state, that . the brave army of the Com mander in Chief, Baron. Frimont, being numerous enough to pursue the beaten and dispersed remains of the Neapolitan Army, all the reinforcement of troops, 40,000 in number, which were.already on the march to the South •of Italy, have -received orz. ders to proceed by forced marches to Savvy and , _ nt. Piedmo We expect, therefore, soon to hear Of . • VIENNA, AvarL26. military operations on the southern frontiers of France.• P' OFFICIAL ARTICLE. Letters from Bergamo, of the 19t h , affirm. that • COURIER. r" The Declaration of rite 13th of March is known in a revolution has broken out in Naples against M ur a t ' . Gene ' France, as is proved by the article inserted in the .cd un- • - his wif e, and his party, and that the arragarit and - ; Intrnal de Paris% of the sth of April. This Deela- v, t.;abinet M; Wit:dais deliverer of Italy, if he could reach his ca n ; ration is the unanimous expression of the wishes and n i ts!. wou ld only meet his destructidn there. ' ' ' ..ettberate on'' suff I iages of naticns. The article which pretends to r VIENVA, Aram 26.—The declaration of the Env y( fute it presents us with the most scandalous abuse i oeroc of Russia as King of Poland, had been long a g.I.EINGTON t. that ever has been made of the faculty of speech and • . ' . subject of deliberation at the Con gress, particularly ~ ith, frothof human reason among at. enlightened people. of the Courts of Vienna and St. Petersburgh, but it 'The development of the principles which dictated , , . s ew with r oepenued on the course of affairs Ital y. s soon in A the act of the Congress of the 13th of. March e ill de-whether ll as Austria declared the inde p endence of the kingdom l monstrate to the French nation, that it has not ; G of Poland I d 'd I—eac of Lombardy , that spoken, that it never will speak, the sacrilegious was dependent on the other. The business is now I tn.:tinge which its oppressor attributes to it, bet will settled, and all the hopes of exciting disorders in Poe erlinte its cause from leis, preserve to the nation its land, of which report has spoken, will now vanish of Taal dignity, arid open to it a prompt and honourable • v.av still to rally to the rest of EnEurope. themsepes. ' The Congress has irk deliberated upon •supposi- t; ens ;it has proscellied'Haliaparte. This man can- . On Monday night is squadron sailed from Ports • tint, and ought riot to' •find any farther asylum mouth at the shortest notice, in consequence of orders ie,neg civilised nations, still •less can ho govern received fiom London by express. The squidron - ti.em. Such is the principle of the act of proserip- censisted of the Amphion, Euphrates, Prometheus, 1;o4 denounced against him : it is founded upon end Cordelia. They went to sea in an hour after the • justice, es well ss ',port the legitimate interest of MI. 11/6cceflpi arrived. 'lt is fu apt they are only gone Burn; it is therefore irrevocable. Assistance has to the French coast. Mr. Tr ERNEY said the proposed measnre being MIP W:IICh would deprive persons who had a Per fect right from exercising it during a certain time, Nas sach a partial disfranchisement, and could not beiustifi Ode, unless a strong case were made out. Nlr. ROSE said a few words iu favour of the mews fro. :Mr., W,ETHERELL thought, the Gill could not 1 , -?. rendered justifiable by any particalar Case of in convenience. • Sir 11. RiDILEY disapproved of the measure. CALCRAFT said, that the Bill woulddis forschise many of his constituents, and ether voters, vsho l r ere sea-faring men, nod therefore had often no opportunity to take nut their' freedom before the time of election, although on that accouot there caudal). no reasonable objection to their votes. ;Air:WYNNE gave no opinion on the measure bet r' the House. hut thmight thatthe great source of the expense and criminality at contested elections arose from the non-resident voters, with respect to s% horn some measure should he adopted. Sir J. NEwpoaT thought , that some measure rrtc nce.scary to put it nut of the power of the Mayor to act partially with respect to the admission freeineo, It was now in the porter of the Major io many plaetes to refuse to admit a freeman at a par- Costar time, by declining to call a Court for his ad. n e tssinn. • Lease was given, and the Bill being brought in, seas reads . first ; time to be read a second time this day fortnight. Mr. BEISINgI - 1' moved, 'fled an Address be pre. sented to the 'Prince Regent, for an account of expence incurred in the erecting in Windsor Park, with an estimate of the probable amount of the! some which would be . requisite to complete them.- 7 - Ordered. • The Hir:ort of the Committee of Ways and Means ' on the new Taxes was postponed to to-morrowsen-1 night. Itstoswer to a qUestion by Mr. Ti . RANEY. The CHANCELLOR of the , iCX(II.QUER .I ro 1. . . • .rt. that th e Increase on the 4•..;rori . Duties would not .b• • regular per centage,. but that -gm amount of increase on such articles would be seen by corn- Raring the new table with that affixed to the Act of 1808. Mr. LOCKHARTSuggested the prr;priety of ex empting local country stores from the increase of duty; mid •also some measure for faCilituting the re. nuttrknoes of country bankers to Loot. n The CHANCELLOR. of the E CIIEQUBII. gave notice, that to-Morrow se'nnight he should sub mirea.nsotiow tattle Holm, no the subject of the este bliibment of a Packet.:communication with die East l'orges. The House resolved itself into . a Committee on the trich Malt Duties Hill. sir J. `; EWPOAT thought the measure of in ito-ting eq. duties on Malt was objectionable, as t'-htlit;g to incseate the consumption of spirituous li. ,01•-•.•• . MIMISTRY OF .W AR. " As the presence of every soldier at his post is now necessary, noisy., let his rank be what it may, can quit it to be — present at the ensuing assembly in — MTV/temp 7k Mai, except the regular deputations. • " The Marshal 'Janice D'ECKMI.7IIL. " Paris, May 8." (p3ors. • Jp e. Vi rITZfiItRAID said, that the tax was the least oijractintothip o' any which Mold he pro. i l pac,t, and it would therefore be necessary to resort to b in the present state of the I ri•h fioaoces. The !Inuit resumed, and the Report was ordered. to he brootht up to-morrow. &red. on the moti n of Mr.SPrjaant ONCLOW,. that a Co...millet. slieuld'he a. .pointed to inips4t . the Journals of the Wow of Lord., Kith retard to rh, rroreedings upon the sohjoct of the MI for better sec 'riot the Lioerts of the Suhiect; The I.ish Asaessect 'rises Bill , theirisb Assaults Rill. anti the I ish Jails Bill, were severally com mit terl.-0i tiered to be rop• , rted to.morrow. The 11.1 i t. Arnentl.opot Bill oas reported, and orlered to be read n third time to-morrow. The Report of the Contmi!ie upon the subject of "% Wight: and Measures Arts brought up.--Agreed to, and a Bill ord.-red. -- . [GAZsTTE DE TRANCE, MAT 9.) VrtNNA, Aram 20.—According to letten from Pest, the Hungarian. ccrntiugent is definitively settled ; it•will amount to 10,000 men in addition to those al ready in the field. Hungary wilt also furnish seven millions measures of wheat. • Prittee SCbwarteenberg liiii ! arrested ;Commissary ;of War,. Who had gained access to the Aulic Coancil, and obtained copifi of Papers. relitive to the army, the movemeati . of troops, &c. and had revealed then. A courier of'Lord Wellington's arrived here on the 19th, and the Allied Sovereigns had linmediately 's inn peisonal conference. -The matt tool coarse Gianni: The ataxy of riefiblepejinitimited bete et ilatltill.../Pte944l4+o44ll2,ll4lelreasmseia,•ln the The tsniktiit' . V4%444011 4 i 1.1 r oilli i from ..,./:. .._ ~ 8 .. go hence on the . l2lli..Of litai• .- • .- 4 The Wirtembeti-General, De Oteidiei, is here : from Stutgard, ori- thorned to Gratz; in Styria, for ! : tleg purpose of con.iefieg the wife of Jerome Ilona. iparfe to the States of the King her father. : • The little town of Goppenger Is 'allotted to her as a residence. King Charles of Spain, his Queen, and the Prince of Peace Are also expected at Gratz, where they will reside in the Imperial Palace. Zcvercn, Aram 30.—The Sitting of the Diet of the 27th was opened by a communication from the Congress, which announced that the King of Sardinia bad ceded to the. Allies, and . the Allies to Switzer -Med; a district -in Savoy. The Government. of St. .Gall has announced the acceptation of the Declara tion of Vienna. • TO - MORROW ALL THE LOTTERY MDS . T SE DRAWN. ONLY FIVE THOUSAND TICK VMS.- IRTY THOUSAND POUND PRIZE:4THREE THOUSAND GUINEAS IN GOLD. • • A • • A 11Ps%-ge from the Lord , : ctoteo their Loidships' 11 :Sent to the Propeety Tett Br I, the FateSecluer Fund ing Bill, the South Sea Cotnputy Bill, the CroWn 10'1'4'. Rill, owl the Aiivis • An. . 1 0.... 0,. ... .. ...• Malta " ' - • 1 O O .4 . liamhsrgb ~..' - 2 O 1 • Flanders „ - ~. .:.-. O . - 4).11, 011..111, The India Ci•mpank Gratuity read a se cond lime, and (*.committed to-morrow. In a Committee upon the India Judges' Pension Act. a Resolution was agreed Po, upon' the propo. Sitioil of Mr: WALLACE, that it was expedient to allow suet Judges to resign on pension, after seven int; service.—House resumed--Report to-morrow. The Reports of the two Committers upon the Act with respect to the Import •of Silk flandker and also with regard to certain Drawbacks on Foreign Wines, were brought up.—Agreed 'to, and Bills oriiered. THE STATESM4V. The Farming Stock Bill %as read a third time, and pissed.—Adjourned. LONDON: yip . )4/. MAT . 12, 1813. Y,! a~ ~ FRANKFORT PAPERS. Dispatches were received this morning at Lord CasTccesAott'S Office, in Downing-street, from his Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON.—A Messenger also arrived express from Ostend. The information received through both these channels is deemed un usually important.—A Council of the Cabinet Mi nisters has been summoned to deliberate on the con tents of these advices. PARIS, MAY 9. COURIER EXTRAORDI N ARY, Tuesday Moreinr• Getters] Lecourbe has his heatl-quirters at Mort. Lucien Bonaparte ( Prince De Canino) arrived this day at Paris. Prince Joseph was engaged all day with 111* Ern perpc. • • The Duke of WELLINGTON had returned to Bras.: sets on the 7th, from Ghent, after having had an interview with Lours XVIII. We do not know whether the dispatches announce the departs re of his Grace for the army, or any pressing necessity for it, but a crisis appears to he approaching. it was rumoured, this day on 'Change, that the Coalition against France has been dissolved, and that NAPOLEON, taking advantage of circumstances, had ordered off 30 1 090 Tatty, taken from. the vomited Gens &Armee, to the Belgic frontiers : — The former part of this statement is opposed by the official intelligence we communicate from Vienna. • The Paris Papers of Tuesday' it. arrived. The attention which we have paid to other subjects, pre . News from Milan, of the 26th, announce that the Awstrian army has advanced to Ancona, and that Bing Joachim continues to retreat. . The Duke of Wellington and General Blucher had an intertiow at Tirlemont. It appetite certain that there is an interchange at Couriers between the Thuilleries and Vienna. It iN asserted that the Emperor said to Carnot, " I stil l hope that peace will continue." M. De Monneral, Sgretary to Maria Louise, will. leave Vienna on the 26th of April to r eturn lo France. LETTER FROM CIREOT, It MISTER OF THE IRTERION TO Mt PIM PCT S OT TIIR'IMPARTRENT S. I am informed that in some parts of Vie Empire. ;~ , pp r s I. f I, Q EL • Ire F. Lo abs x at J Ai. 1 ftf $ll6 gee disc erbe Lad lihii and 117 w . .