The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-09-06 00:00:00

f I ~.• . ~..~ • • c tremble: he at last found in the midst of his Court and in his Cannella; ,men of courage, who, a i:liost tli4retirct to the Ninnarth s at least braved the Dc spot. Supposing 'even they had suffered more pa. tientl) hi+ t, rattily, ran the same suhmiskiint he now exported ? if be had exchingrd lilwrty for military glory, still there was nothing to fe.sr under his reign, either from the Clergy, the Nobles, or the. Emi grants. It is now intended to make a compromise, and wrest from us some of nor All the re. trossreee oflusittie opinion are really to deform] them. ...C.4ergeauluatioA4 a torrent which most . now • either renvoient or descend, according to the direction given • TZFR tt'T or A LVITER FROM PARIS. We are in appearance tranquil here, but in fact, in 6ur opininits and oeistiments, extremely at variance and agitated. France nay lee said to be divided into 1%: o pArties —the Censtitutianalists, who wish to maintain the Gies i:ution as now established; and the Anti-Cutistitutiontilists, who wish to overthrow it, and restore the ancieer order of things. The first p.rty consists of the King, his Ministers. the Pa ti (he a hit h, we suppose, Is meant the ancient Repoblicans), those who were formerly Bonapartism, a:id all the partisan's of rational liberty. At the head of :he other party are the Doke and Duchess of Annuli:me. to whom are united most of the Erni *emits, ill the pure Royalists, and the greater part of ate ancient Nobility. It was this party which had organized in the Smith a Government, which it may be said was independent of the King.— It rai'ed legions of Marie Therese (so named after . the Duchess of Augnuleme), which have corn edited the greatest excesses in the South and West of France. Th's patty vows the most implacable revenge against all the adherents - 'to Bonaparte, and all the eatly partizans of the , Itevolutien. The King has happily revoked the powers he gave to the Commissioners sent by him into the provinces on his anise' in Patio, disbanded the legions of Royalists, and has just forbidden , those charged with the care of the Newspapers, to print any article tending to excite or encourage what is called re-action. What has been done by the King, being attributed to Feuche and Talleyrand, has drawn on them the implacable resentment of all the Atli-constitutionalists. Those two persons, they know, oppose every idea, of re-action and vengeance, and wish to rally round a Throne still tottering, a perfect union of all parties; convinced that it can only be supported and upheld by extreme prudence and moderation, and by for ever stifling the spirit of persecution ; in fact, by burying the past in the most absolute oblivion. The Allies have given up, to those authorised by the King, the charge of most of the different Departments; but in those oc cupied by the PrusAaits and Bavarians, they still otttinue to levy contributions, and to examine and controul the measures of the Prefects anti Sub-Pre fects, though those acts are to the utmost degree ar bitrary, and direc.iy contrary to the Resolutions of the Congress. Several Prefects, for having refused to obey the orders of the Nuptial, Military Com mandant, have been sent prisoners to Aix-la-Cha pelle, or put under attest till they complied with what was demanded, and paid for being set at li berty. t- I.:if! that a Prussian Officer iu attempt iovo violate a young `vouna)was Lilted by her; the * !irry'rvvo 7 Mgyrrete - •* -44,1 e, ardei ed the girl to be shot. The inhabitants rose to rescue her, and a number of persons on both sides were killed and wounded. The greatest anxiety and distrust prevails in every part of Fiance; because the Allies have as yet constantly refused to explain their intentions, nor can any one divine how or when this state of things will be terminated. We look to the meeting of the Representative Bodies with awe and apprehension. If they act with prudence, firmness, and adhere to the Constitution, we may yet be saved ; but if they do otherwise, if they adopt a spirit of re-action, if they attempt to attack wh..t ?.as been established, we shall he thrown back into those scenes of anarchy and diseerd that merktel the early periods of toe revolution. ‘\'e look to their meeting, as I have s..id, with fear, bee,' use Memo all the Nobles, these who remained and those e ho emigiated,and are come back, have united their influence to procure the eke ' titan of these who are termed pure royalists, that is of men who ale animated with a wish to see the Mo narchy restored such as it was thirty years ago, and seem to be ignorant .of what has happened since, and of the present state of things. The Royalists are divided into two parties, that of the King, and that of the Duke d'Attgouleme, but what cannot he sufficiently regretted is, the idea that prevails, that some of the Allied Powers are more disposed to support the latter party than that of the King. At the beginning every thin 4 was in the power of the Allies, had they at once declared the resolution of supporting the Constitutional Monarchy, and dis avowed any intention of dismembering France, the King would have been firmly established on his throne, and France in tranquility. 'rite mysterious silence they have preserved on these two important points, and the excesses committed by some of the troops, have excited a spirit that will not easily be quelled ; to these circumstances may be ascribed the duration of the resistance of some of the military, and die obstinato defence of the fortresses. We do tent, however, mean Entirely to exculpate those corn- Menders, their conduct was alike culpable uttil ; they might at once to here ackennleilged their lawful Sovereign, and to have displeyed his 44isigits ; hail they been attacked afterwards, it must have been by declaring war against him, and the nation then to a man would have rallied to defend him. As things now lure, end unless they soon change, Fiiince, owl perhaps 17:rope, rely hare to regret the interferetire of the Allies, and wish they hail left us to ourselves. There is one of your coun trymen, however, to whom I, in coletion with every Man of sense and honour, will ever be' most ready to do justice, I mean the Duke of Wellington. Vain as we were of our past military glory we universally adtnire him as it izarrior, while we honour and re spect him as a man. Mr. Timm 14 STUART, gunner of the Te7teraire, idiot himself on the morning of Wednesday last, in th e o lliy of that skip. A pound note was found ow hint, ttrjtteti gm the back—" a Iriplcy for my servant bny." Verdict —Lunacy. THE STATESMAN. TA CORRESPONDENTS. Ca Pr. L Lorres rummunicuii m •hall appear I,uniorroW. , ! A • Mai 4 Dile • I . i France U 0.. . ). ... ... • • .., . ...• .... Ilain b il rgh ....... - - 1 , • 0 PRICE MCSTO4:4II 111114 taut 3 pet Cent Red. p.r ( rot C .•41 4 pPr Cont 71 *4 5 per Cent. \ay% F 414 DAY AT ON tiCLUVA, L.ne. Ann. Will Ikeda 7 8 4 Ktelsequpr 4148. 5 9 d Cesies4. fur ACC. 54 T Sl' SMA N. LONDON: WEDNES.) AT I SEPTEMBER 6, 1815. . The Paris Papers of Sunday last have just come to hand. They are extremely barren of Milli- genre. It appemis that Marshal Momcvv's refusal to sit on the trial of NEY is regarded as a very high offence by the Government, and that it is deemed necessary to provide strongly egainst its consequences, and what may be the result of toe sentence pissed on his dis obedience. He has been rent to the fortress of Bitche, the most horrible of French prisons. The Council of War is now to be composed of three Marshals and three Genorals, namely, Msg.. studs JOURDAV, VICTOR, and NI RMONT ; and Ge nerals MvisoN, CL II'AREDE, and Ptc. It is not slid whets it is to assemble. It was not till after a bombardment of twenty-four hours that Auxonne surrendered. The troops that defended it obtained honourable terms, and are to join their brethren of the Loire. For what purpose the whole of the French force is thus congregating in one part of the kingdom remains to he seen. The Russians are evacuating the provinces over which they were diffused, and repairing to the camp at Vertus. The Ring of PRUSSIA has been indulging in a parade of his force, and distributing flags to his regiments, in the peesence of the Emperors of Russia and Aunt:fa. All the foreign armies seem about to take new positions, whether from choice or necessity is not easy to conjecture. They have the appearance of measures of precaution ratite( •than voluntary abandonments. The Russians, It k still slated, are not to remain in France after their re view. If this be the case, the Prussians and Aus trians will have enough to do to retain their footing in the country. - It is observed, that ' under the present circum stances of France it is not likely that the Chambers of the Legislature will meet before the 20th inst.— They will, indeed, meet under very humiliating cir cumstances, if they assemble in the presence of fo reign force. The late Parliament separated because it cisubl wit ‘l.4iberate freely in the midst of foreign bayonets. ‘Vhat will be the conduct of the new As sembly ? Will they ask the Sovereign if this be the liberty Le is to confer on the country ; if this be the fulfilment of the promises which he and his Allies have made to the French nation, and in virtue of which, more than by the strength of their arms, they base been permitted to occupy the capital ? Will they not call on the king to free them from the menaces of the drawn swords that are suspended over their deliberations, and exhibit alone the iron sway of otbitrary power end military law, where the Ropresentatives of the People and the Consti tution should regulate the Government ?-- If the Prince who claims the sovereignty of France wider that Constitution, is unable to confer that freedom on his people, and proves to be only an instrument in the hands of their enemies to accomplish their subjection, and increase their op pressions, will they not call upon him by alt the vir tues and patriotic feelings he professes to possess, to remove himself, and allow the nation to exert its un divided energies to expel the invaders, and free the land from the plagues that now devour it ? We be. lieve with the Private Correspondent, whose interest- I ing Letter from Paris we give in another column, that if the Representative Bodies shall act with firm ness and prudence, and shall adhere to the Consti tution which France has prepared with such wisdom, and shed so much of her blood to preserve, as the • oniy rule of her government, tinder which her institu tions, her rights, and liberties, and the fabric of her social happiness, can exist, Fiance mny yet be saved, and the cause of human liberty will not have sue. tained such a vital injury as there is reason to fear it I has. But if those bodies who ought to act this dig- tii,led part, and 44 stand between the livits4 and the dead, that the plague may he staid," shall fail to ve rify this expectation, if they shall be content to be- I come so many more rods in the hands of the op pressor, and exhibit that collective mass of depra_ city which is so earnestly deprecated by a French wilier by the name of a 44 mere machine for l i decrees," and a seal to oppression and iniquity,— adien to the hope of tranquillity to France and peace to the world. Though bodies may he found so cor rupt and embecile as to sanction ally thing, even the misery and degradation of their own country, na tiotts ere nut so destitute of feeling altogether, If , sunk in ignorance, and so powerless, when justice and nature arm them in defence of their rights, as to acquiesce in the mean submission which would blot out the rely remetobrati:e of them for ever t aqd plunge them headlong into the gulph of slavery. We have before said, and we repeat it now, for it is equally applicable to other countries as to France, that as to the supposed danger of yielding to the desires of the'peop!e, v<e can only say, -. 4hat we are lynch more strongly impressed with the danger of thwart ing them. The people have far more wealth and far more intelligence now thin grey had in former times ; and therefore they . ought to have, and they must have, more political power.- The daeger is not in yielding to this swell, but in endeavouring to resist it. If properly watched and managed, it n only beer the vessel of the State more proudly and steadily : along; if neglected, or rashly opposed, it will dal:h her on the rocks and shoals of a sanguinary revolu tion. There does not seem to he any good ground for believing the report put forth of changes in the French Ministry. If it were intended to hasten the explosion that SoPMS to he apprehended, no better signal could be given than the dismissal or resigna tion of the liberal .party in the Government. We perceive by the Gazelle de Prance of Sunday, that M. BIAC44', who was the Prime Minister in the Royal Government before, is not to return' to France. But he is hovering about in Belgium, with avowed intentions of going to Naples, probably in expectation of a call. Is the notification we allude to, inperted to calm any apprehensions that may be entertained of his return to power ? The French Papers are now venturing to he more diffuse in their details of the rebellions and outrages in the S outh. We quote an article from Nimes on the subject, %%hie'', added to the King's Proclama tion which we gate yesterday, and the private accounts we insert to-day, will give the render an idea of the state of affairs in one part of and the re-actions that are going on. Among the rallying cries now in use 44 NAPOLEON TIIE tiCONI) is allowed to be one," and 44 Union and forca"• is added generally, with characteristic ve hemence and ondicriced signification. But tho mixture o,` religious animosity with political differences, which the fanatical zeal of the Duke and Duchess of ANGOIJIIIME and 'the rest of the interested and Emigrants, have so much tended to foment, has done the most mischief, and this has, in. deed. been serious. The following are the few articles worthy of at tention in the Papers received to-day : EPROM THE GAZETTE DE FRAVCE, SEPT. 31 Lord Stewart arrived on the 3ath ult. from Lon don, bringing, it is said, the signature to the 'Plenty of Peace, or important Preliminaries, signed by the Prince Regent. It is thought that the opening of the Chambers will not take plare, owing to a variety of causes, before the 20th of September. It appears that the head-quarters of Prince Blucher will continue at Alencon, and will not be trans ferred to Caen, as has keen reported. it appeals certain that Jerome Bonaparte will re side at the Castle of Ellevangen, in Wirtemberg. COUIttER EXTRAORDINARY, Sunhav morninE,,. This day the King of Prussia will give flags to the regiments of his army who had not received any before; the Emperors of Russia and Austria will assist at this ceremony. The Rusvian troops who were at Provins, and at Nangis, have just left those cities for the camp of Vertus. It is said that the Es-Marshal bloncey is to he confined at Birdie, in the department of the Moselle, aid it is reported that he is about to set out fur that place. N. do Blacas does not return to France ; he is at present in Belgium, and will go to Naples. The Council of War to preside over Marshal Ney will he composed of Marshals Jourdan, Victor, and Marmont ; Generals Maison, Clypercae, and , Pic. Ntsmcs, At:G. 26.—For some days the fcrmenta lion has been excessive ; the partizans of Napoleon of a malignant joy, tit!:l circulated reports of I new triumph. Some c.f them even bad the ands city to cry cut Vive Napoleon IL! The police ar rested some of the disturbers, and others were sacri ficed to the fury of the people. News had come that symp oms of rebellion had appeared in la Vautotge and la Gardonnenque, and that meetings of the rensants of the country, of the Chiefs of the factions, and the Federates of this city, had taken refuge there. However we did not n;yre hend in !hr.e symptoms the plan of a combined re. volt ; the events of yesterday and to-day have de feated their projects by a premature development of them. An Austrian column has been here since the 24th, nod the necessity of procuring it quarters in the barracks, hail caused a regiment of Royal horse Chasseuis, oho ►►ere in garrison, to leave it ; its ad. vanced guard was at :Vats, a Tillage a league from Nismes, and was there when its Commander, Eugene de Csbrieres, followed by the individual who gave him this information, thought it his duly to proceed, without distrust, against this avemblage, in order to reresent that Isis regiment had no hostile views against the country, and that by superior orders he put himself into garrison at Alas ; immediately two eentinels fired. Perieux. the Mayor, was killed, and M. de Cabrieres was wounded : ► the arm, and he withdrew with his company with the loss of ono man, who was killed by a fire from the houses of the vil. m ' 4 * *a ft lage. The regiment suspended its march, and i t ,. formed the authority of the department of wh a t u f s o t u ri n a d na im se p t edz t in to its join march i; b i; taken place. Yesterda wc which 800 theyA t r l e ie gim rele ei t it l ' s ; the Austrian Commander sent to then ' to throw down their arms and to disperse; dared to propose a capitulation, which it was imp ort Bible to reconcile with the submis,ion due to rk, Government. The Commander declared that 14 would not capitulate with rebels, arid upon saver being received they tenessed their fire: font Austrians were killed and nine wounded. Tey marched upon them, and after a battle of two hoots, in which they left sixty men killed and three p r i. tmers, subdued them. One of the latter was a fw e . rate of Nimes, aho with his two comrat!es has be en shot by the order of the Austrian General Stahreala berg. Another Austrian column departed about tw o [ hours ago, and is to be followed by a esrlsiri ero bl e [ detachment of our National Guard. The &ie. of [ this expedition is to disarm the disaffected pa r t of the department. It is said the Er-General Gilly, and a lAwye t had organised this insurrection, whose ramibealiehr appear to extend to the Cevennes; it is even , a id that proclamations are spread in that neiglibuarho.4 for the purpose of exciting the inhabitants to I re. volt. Moreover, according to the best information, General Gilly has not sufficient regular fore" (9 make heed against all the danger which is in bis is for that reason that he intrigued and did al that he possibly could with the peasants who were able to bear arms—these wretches thus expose thee. selves to parish at the despotism of a General OL cer, who seems to have in view to sell his life dear to sire himself from ihe consequences of the Royal Ordonnance of the 2IN July. It is said that be carries on this war in the name of Bonaparte as rebel and a partizan. There are now 7000 Austria' troops in the department do Gard, and moons reinforcements are expected to arrive. Brussels Papers to the . 4th inst. and Frankfort to the 31st ult. arrived to-day, and brought the follow ing nrticles BRUiSEL4, SEPT. 2.—There still continue tomb* 'daily on our canal, vessels loaded with artillery, ammunition of all kinds, and military stores, coming from England, and a great quantity more is still ea ! petted. The quays of the canal are covered wilt !wary artillery, carronades, howitzers, mortars, and a quantity of balls, &c. It it said, that large maga. ziises of these articles will be formed here. 1 The Friedland, of 80 guns, built at Antwerp,sa. der the Government of Bonaparte, arrived en tli 25th of August, at Flushing. This bne vessel is now to be called the Retains:. FRANK FORT, A UG. 28.—Preparations are already i beginning to be made for the reception of the Diet of the Empire which is to he opened here an the It of November next. It is pretended that several modifications of the Compact of the Conf•deration of Germany, which are particularly desired by &Waal, will be itroposed to it, and that the articles of tie general peace s which will not he concluded till that time, sill he communicated to it. Baron Albini will preside in the name of the Ea. peror of Anstria, as head of the Confederation. STRASIURG, AUG. 21.—We learn that the Priam of Hohenzollern has fallen ill, and that Lieutenant. General Vacquant is daily expected hick, who %sill bring instructions concerni•ig the new posi:ious Is be taken by the Austrian and Bavarian army. Batus , rt.s, Sire. 2.—They write from Leiptie, that the lencds of the Prussian treasury have 1001 experienced a considerable rise. The finances et that kingdom prosper, and public credit imprers daily. VirKNl, ACG. 2e.-0 , 1 the (Rh of this month, the Conttni , sionors of his :Majesty solemnly took possession of the districts of Z o,•Low, Brum+. Tarnopol, and Zdesczyk, in East Galli:ir, which was ser:unto': from it by the Treaty of Vienna. is 11.1119, and were ceded back again by Russia to A' tria by a Treaty cutic'uded on the 3d of May, ai year, between the two Courts. They write from Preshurgh that the Dinuhe lot overflowed its banks in many places near that city, and done great damage. In the county of Neutra, the inundation of river Wag has been still more disastrous, whole til• 'ages have been st% ept away, and many people ail large quantities of ca!tle have perished. EXTRACT OP A LETTER. FROM AM OFFICER 0% woo OP HIS SLIJESTY's SHIP WAH.RIOH, DATED MOOTII, SEPT. 5: " The WarriGr man of war sailed from Jatraio company with the Electra gun-brig, and PO cad merchantmen under convoy, on the 10th of Ju lt On the 9th of August, at four I'. M. near the 11 4.1 '` of Newfoundland, it began to blow hard from 1 14 south-east, with very thick weather; at a (tar" past four chipped a heavy , 01,which carried awl" iee quarter, boat, qu trter-deek, gangway, and le• castle bulwark, also our boats, five is ottmhors tFrt were stowed on th.. , bonnie, a.mid,h W,- th4a observed a ship en the lee-bow, about ICO far t from US : at Oils Montelar *IP broke OW tiller 3 P I e:lrriPll away our rudder-head, and soon after (1 hoard the George merchantman, where we Is, 4.41° lime besting each other to pieces. Thecorie's "`it's 1 d • E 3 r I ra hf lij ‘ r, n ra; ft; h by of