The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-11-27 00:00:00

•4 • , TIIE STATFSSIAW. _ _ __ 11:e Empe ror Nape'eon cetiducts to Paris, and that The ((Mewl's* days he employed hi mse lf in es. de m a n ded that th e M ars h a l should he bound to pre. a:sere that he cannot find any where a sai . • he there i n a few doss ; and thee, row hopes citi ng t o Insurrection the whelp contort through sohlt his objectinus accumulatively, in consequence of Tribunal, and hence he denied, se.l our happiness sha:l be realized for ever, Vice *lurch Ire passed, HMI in printing his Pr o clamation : the urgent necessity of bringing to a cenelositie an the Council of War; but does 7 l'E urercur ! there war an edition of it at Dole. affair which was so essentially connected with the can rely upon the magnanimit• •• 1...g0-k•S.uloier, Morels li, ISIS. of his Judges, that. he ou g ht Tinoloth Match, he issued an order of arrest safety of the state. . '• The Morava alike Empire, • r 4 (Siood) •• Prince of MUSK WA." against these of the sveneral Officers cud Magistrates M. liana eft, sen. one of the defenders of the once which he m ay derive from Use may judge of th e e ff ec t s w hi c h were lik e l y to whose opposition had been most marked, an d whom Marshal, contended that a special law was necessary damental laws .; —The Marshal be preduced on the majority of th e So ldi ers f rom such orders coming from a Chi e f that he did not pardon, either for haring ab an d one d him, to complete the oreanization of the Chamber of public rumour. Th e J u d ges oug h t cnedurt, and or fur having resisted his orders • , these were Messrs. Peers as a Court of Justice, and that the proceedings secure to themselves all the legal such the severed. Bourtnent, (Amorist., Dolort, Jerry, Is Genetlety, ought to be postponed until such special law had the truth. The Government, y Surprise might also have produced those bail Durand, Duballin, his Aid-de-Csoip Clone , ' Count been passed. lie grounded his argument on the 33d to tuske a regulation for the de !;coy, and the Commandant of Ausonne. anti 35th Articles of the Constitutional Charter. What ! has the Geverronetit a privets, which there can be en doubt but that other He wrote to the Duke of liassebo, by o r d e r of lie then went on to condemn the attempt made to , • lister of all that is dear to him, means had been taken to prepare. These means, Bonaparte , to sustrend all measures at Paris ; a hich deprive the Marshal of the privileges of his Peerage, I furrow ? — A prompt and decisi , however, had been so far from basil% obtained com- must doubtless be under s t o od of certain measures to which he was undoubtedly entitled, until deprived justice is, sto doubt, necessary • plete soccen, and the troops would have been 10 , w%ich that Usurper bad meditated, had he ezperienc. of them by a legal judgment, awl to arraig n the ' lice where there is tin law. Ft easily kept to that duty, which the hearts of French - k ed any resistance. style of passion in which the accusation lie d been : represented as awaiting ,your 141P11 i ' ITP ' Pa t tie to "rP,7"P' if , 111 ", ,led away,. . 1 1 lie had even the audacity to write to the Marshals brought forward. . I cause France has her eyes upon Ilears.ely, toat, IH-corning to t h e emetic. o f a wit- Dukes of Reggio and Albuferir, in order to transmit Recurring more in detail to his first objection, he is watching your conduct, that loess lo.litte the Celia-Martial (Lieauregard, Chief to them the orders of Bertrand. . observed, that the Chamber had 110 means of trying the utmost regulatity and est et a Squadron), while the soldiers who were nearest lie gave orders to the Commandattt of Autonne to tne case, except by borrowing forms from other tri- berations. You hold ill your I the General, led awry by the ,seluctions of obedi- surrender that town to the troops of Bonaparte ; bonnie; that this was inconsistent with the Consiite. justice. If, iii one of the scales, core, repeated the rebellious et*, which he had ut and, in ponisisment of that Officer's indocility, be ■a t i otsal Charter; mid that before proceeding to ad u- is grave and important. iii the ace( tired, of Vire l 'Emprreur! the soldiers who were few days afterwards inscribed his name in the list of dicate the case, there ought to be a general law made longs to the majesty of the accu , at a greater distance, faithf u l t o th e emot i ons of those whom he ordered to be deprived of their lie ;to serve for all cases and all times. The Chamber of us place the defence of the accut t!teir own hearts, and of French honour, and who bets. . I Peers had in this instance, he contended, been duly : tim d e Charter. , sr -re far from suspecting the exec ra bl e i n t en ti ons or .. constituted a special criminal court, without having ; • The Peers retired to deliherat, !Marshal Ney, cried out Vice le R ol ! Bo Y t we must stop here. . All France, all Euroi e knows, that, posteriorly, legally the power of giiirig i n to these various consi- six they retorned, and the President The departure from duty arse is. fact ses far from Marshal Ni prominently persisted in his rebellion ; :derations, which particularly applied to the case of following judgment : being at first universal, that, according to the same i but all the facts connected with his ulterior conduct, . the afitrshal. *state tritsowel wits distiectly pointed The Chamber, without determining witness, nutty officers and soldiers indignantly left I b e i ng only the consequences of his fist treeseet, iat in the articles of the Charter above *Butted to, soil ring to the preliminary ohiections , the ranks. I scarcely merit detail after that greet act of infidelity, ito such a 'libeled only the Marshal ought to be shah Ney, orders that he 5411 present While ronsternation, according to the evidence : o n e o f the springs of the calamities which a fatal : amenable. The ordontientes giving the Power in this all those which be has in risers( of three witnesses (Viscounts Bourmont, de la Gene- I usurpation brought upon France. ( instance to the Chamber of Peers, was the act only • jaurns to Thursday nest, at ten . dere, and de Grbel), existed in the minds of the 1 Th ese ca l am i t i es t h emse l ves most not b e retrace d , lo f one o f t h e t h ree powers creste d by t h e s t h art i c l e w hi c h time b e s h alt ptopose them, Generals, and a great numbe r o f officers and soldiers,' well calculated though the faithful picture of the m lof the Chatter, in whom the legislative power was Chamber will pass to the manual every Mins was taken to complete the error of the . would be, to excite universal iedignstion against one invested, the Chamber of Peers was en essential part The witnesses are appointed tor troops, to offer them that bait which Was the most •of the men who were the chief producers of them. of the li•eislative power, and ought to have concurred M. BERRYER, see. observed, alluring to men without education,—that of licenti-; We must rather avert our eyes from them, because in its owls organisation. He maintained therefore too short to enable the Marshal oesness, pillage, and intoxication. Under the pre. ; the spectacle is intolerable: we must avert our eves fililt the Otsego* of a law constituting the Peers a ante of his witnesses. text of destroying the signs of Royalty, of which , from them, without however being able to suppres s Court its proper form, was a good objection to the The PRESIDENT to thelldveaste.— Marshal Ney had just proclaimed the extinction, the the cruel reflection, that all the calamities for which proceeding. This position he further illustrated by the order. soldiers were permitted to spread themselves about ' the country mourns are.ascribsble to a handful of referri n g to various articles of the Constitutional To lime Ushers.—Cause !Ileum the town, and to give themselves up to those excesses ' men , w h o , because they are distinguished by some Chatter, according to the true construction of which to withdraw. which ended in depriving them of their reason, and brilliant military exploosiihought that they were en. no change could be made its the establishments of the i This order was executed. confirming them in their faults, by the shame of re- titled to place themselves abase the laws; to sport Courts, but under a new law, contending therefore; CHAMBER OF Pc. tinning to their duty after the faults they had corn- with the most sacred sentiments, even with fidelity to that no arbitrary change could legally be made in the ln one of the Secret Committees milted. 1 ' their King and country ; and to effect with i m p un ity constitution of the tribunals. The Chamber, on. i n t o cons id era ti on t h e propositions This false shame, in spite of the influence of such all the revolutions which their inconsiderate ambi. der its present circumstances, was not, according to Count de la Bourdonnay, Depie- ' a Chief, did not, however, long restrain some ele- lion might advise; persuaded as they seem to have law, either an ordinary or an extraordinary Court. , the Count de Germany, mid de rated minds and pure hearts :it is therefore per.. been, that het-muse they were brave soldie r s, they its forms were vague and undefined, and consonant obtain a general law of amnest' mitten us to believe, that if Marshal Ney had him- ' were entitled to be, in the face of the nation and of to no known forms of justice.—" Messieurs," he individuals who are to be excepts self been faithful, an army in which the whole Europe, traitorous subjects and bad citize n s; slept°. Award, " this affair is discussed in the presence of 1 Each bureau has appointed one . _ _ . .. . . . .. . _ . power of his example found so mach resista n ce, ra bl e . dh ctr i ne , b u t w hi c h i s h app il y t h e doctrine of all France and Europe, it is of the greatest inspor- compose a Colonsitteiio ezemine would, but for his perfidious provocation, hare be. this handful of wickedly ambitious men exclusiv e ly ; lance we call for a law which shall give to the Charter These are Messrs. Bertier, de ' come, by its devotion to the King, the honour of doctrine disavowed by true military honour, and by the force which it wants to be executed. We do not Chiflet, de Corbiere; the Co l France; so that the whole disgrace of its conduct falls, that crowd of brave men, whose eye:, at last unfilm. wish to stop the course of justice, we demand that it Etienne, Fenillant, Daidepier, I in trnth, on that perjured Chief who misled the rea. ed, can no longer recognise glory in those whom they I should be regulated."—lle concluded by requesting livet. son and the instinctive loyalty of his soldiers I ; once beheld in fields of honour, if they do not n o w I deny (if the Chamber decided &pion his objections), A great number of Officers, stupi fi ed at no longer find them in the paths of fidelity to their King and las the act of accusation, and a number of documents ! COURT OF ASSIZES.—TRI 4. OF having a Chief, retired, such as Lieut.-Gen. Delort, country, and if they do not show themselves at once !had only been notified on Saturday. $ Nitta, Nov. 21.—The Court Gen. Jerry, Col. Duballin ' &c. Messrs. Bourmont great citizens as well as great captains, and hottest M. lIELLART, the Procoreur-General, replied to p ast 10 o'clock, and begau by and La Genetiere separated, with a sort of despair, men no less than valiant warriors. the ohjectietts of M. fierryer, nod required that the news in behalf of the acc u sed. , from a General who no longer acted towards his sub. In consequence of all these different facts, Michel advocates of Marshal Ney should present successive. Baron Pasquier deposed, the( ordinates any other part but that of a corruptor. Ney, Marshal of France, Duke of 14:lettingen, Prince ly all which they intended to brill; forward. sonal safety on the arrival of Beim Count de la Genetiere wrote him at the sante time the of the Moskwa, Ex.reer of Foote,. is amused be. M. m _ !)Defy, one of the Advocates of the Marshal, see M. Lavalette, who received i following severe letter, which it is proper to record fore the Chamber of Peers of France by the Ministers contended, that whatever preliminary objections Metres., and assured him that he as a circumstance calculated to diminish the sort of of the King, sold by the Attorney.Genenl of th e 'listed ought to be determined before the trial ; hut In the course of the conversation t disgrace indicted on the troops by a defection, of Royal Court of Paris, Commis.ioners of his M a . to require that we should present at once various ex. tattled ore his word of hosteler to %shier, it is easy to perceive that surprise was one of jesty : i ceptions, which differ totally from each other, is to he had no part in the conspiracy' tie not least effective causes : . "Of having held correspondence with Bonaparte, reduce us to that which is impossible. There does bat•k Bonaparte. ..... ~. , " Incapable of compromising my honour, or of for the purpose of (et-Hinti n g to him and his h an d s not exist any law upon which Marshal Ney can he • M. Sevret, a person empieriti believing . myself disengaged from the solemn pro- entrance upon the French territory, mid of deliver. tried : we require that there should be one according declared that hilt son, who was usises which I made to the King, through Mousieur, ing up to him cities, fortresses, magazines, and to the Charter. This is entirely in the hands of Mi- same Ogee, had enrolled Wessell when he received me as a Knight of St. Louis ; in. arsenals, of furnishing him supplies in men and sod. . eisters. It would not require more time to obtain a 'tremors, and had not been in capable, from principle, of longer Continuing to es. 'tilers, and of weeding the progress of his arms on law, than to frame their successive Ordnenances. that account by M. Lavalette. ercise functions injurious to the interests of my French ground, - particularly by subverting the fide. The Chamber relied for an hour and a half to de- A courier named Boileau, s Prince, I quit the General Staff, and proceed to Be. lity of officers and soldiers : j liberate. At three o'clock they returned, and the twice at Lyons, but never carried sanciin. 1 have lung hod the honour of serving un-! "Of having placed himself at the head of armed accused was again introduced. i sage to him from M. Lavalette. der your orders, !Marshal ; to.day I feel only one re- bands and troops, and exercised command over them, M. Bellart resumed, and argued, at considera ble . M. Jackson, Inspector-General ere—that of 11 . aving executed them for 24 hours. in order to take possesaiott of towns in behalf of Bo- length, the ohjectines which had beets stated by the by his place must hsve know- Should my life be compromised, I sacrifice it to my . marmite, and to make resistance to the public force Advocates of M ars h a l N e y. Th e M ars h a l was f irs t Passed by the couriers, has is duty." i acting against him : brought before a Council of War, and he protested correspondence whatever betwi Such was the esclametion of French honour ! 1 "Of having passed over to the enemy, with a against their competesicy to try him.—lle then de.. Bonaparte, during his residence Such was the conduct which consoles, both for the portion of the troops under his orders : I mended to be tried by the Chamber of Peers; this' Another witness declared, that errors of other officers, and for errors committed ; "Of having by discourses in public places, by favour was granted ;he is brought before us, and at with an important minion by even by those who know bow to repair them so no.' placards, advertisements, and printed writings, di. the moment when he ought to manifest no other ea- afraid of being ill received by M bly and so quickly ! Such are the sentiments which 'wetly excited the citizens to arm against each other ; t gerosess than that of justifying himself from the crime latter never made him the least reveal the views that, amidst our political aberra. i "Of having excited his comrades to pass over to , imputed to him, lie endeavours to create new diifi- count. The same witness, whit tines, actuated the brave men whose courage onlyithe enemy : . culties, and to elude the sentence which is to be pro. Post-Office, refused to give his , looked to their country in the wars in which they I "In fine, of having committed treason against notruced against him. A different conduct might, ' ditional Act, but M. lAvaleti were engaged, and whose glory, in truth, when sc. I the King and the State, and of participating in a perhaps, have been expected from Marshal Ney. It ' assured him of his protection, i companied with such rectitude, must be adopted by ! plot, the object of which was to destroy and cheiteo has beets asked, how the Marshal could be deprived any of his parents, who Wiff in the Monarch, though it was not always acquired in i the Government, and the order of succession to the of his quality as a Peer of France, by a Royal Or. that account. defence of his cause ! I throne ;as also of having excited civil' war, by a r m. donnance ? It was not the,Ordonstance of the King The A.r-rotteey-Gsnotar. m M. de la Genetiere immediately plated himself on. isle, or inducing the citizens and inhabitants to arm, that so deprived hint : it was his own personal act, evidence, and combated the defer der the orders of M. Glenn de la Rochefoucault, :against each other : by accepting a sett in the Ch am b er o f P eer s ca ll e d that he took possession of the plate to pronounce whose name hideoue sufficient to awake ', All which are crimes provided against by Ar. by the Usurper. It was this that lost him his seat in motives of public interest. He said the recollection of his devotedness. tid e s 77, 87, 88, 89, 91, 92, 93, 94, 96, and this august Assembly. The Ministers have been ac- t had determined not ter give up his , Other officers also departed from being under the 102, of the reset Code; and by Articles 1 and 5, cased of vacillation in their proceedings. They talk I last moment, but hail been obliged command of the Marshal. Messrs. Bourment and Tit. I. and by Ankle 1, 'fit. 111. of the law of the of the second Ordoneerice as differing essentially . Lavalette; that the first object Lerourbe reiunted to Paris. 21st Brumaire, year 5." from the first. The public ought to know, that it Worm Bonaparte of what was I Baron Clonet, hi, own Aid.de.Camp, asked leave Dune mood drawn up in our Cabinet, at the Chain. was not at the request of Marshal Ney that the se- Mow his orders; to prevent thi to tulit him, and quitted him accordingly. ber of Peers, this 16th of November, 1815. coed °astinence was issued, but that it was the ' and journals tieing sent into the Bitter lessons these, which were given to a Chief (Signed) RICttELIEU, RARER-MAR:MIS, Coioot Co spontaneous act of the King himself. It was ante. 'to write a circular' letter asserting by his inferiors, and by which he ought to have pro. BAUCH AGE, Dolma FKLTRE.VAIIIII.ANc, nor to the request of the Marshal. The second Or-, ens husia.ra reigned in Paris on account of the" tiled, in order to repair his faults by a prompt retorts COI( CLTTO, Oa CAZIO, 111O.LAR r. doomsore does net antral the first. Yielding to a; of Bonaparte. to the path of honour ! That however, was what The reading of this document being fi n ished, th e f ee li ng o f grandees., which is p er haps excessiv e , th e i i 6 4 Such," said he, 64 a..e the accusations be"; Marshal Ney did not do. lie plunged deeper and I President addressed the Marshal. Monarch issued this Ordonualoce, which only corn. against M. Lavalette. The accused did no t tvl deeper into treason. I You have heard the charges against you read ; y ou lamed that which the Ordonstattce of the 11th had possession of hii place from motives of St`ll%4O l The very day on which he read his proclamation ' are accused of having abused the c omman d o f an b egun. or of public good; he did it in order to serve to his troops, he issued written orders to put the army destined to repel the U sur p er , i n or d er to fit. I now arrive at the g r eat o bj ec t o f discusal • on.-- paste, and he did serve him ;he prepared his 44 whole of them in march, in order to u nite th em w ith y our hi s p ro j ec t s; h av i ng exc i te d , or rouge d to be The Chamber is said to bedeficient e ' n power, and from Forttainbleau to Paris."'those of Bonaparte, excited, by your orders, the defection of the army II ; not leg * y esta bli s h e d,_lf ow d o you ex i st ? To re.: %Viten the Atteroey-Gesieral had finished, M. lA* The - *lit folio- - . . - .. - _. ---•-- • • . night following he sent M. Passinges, Baron de Prechamp, to Bonaparte, to inform him what he had done. The day after, to accomplish the seduction of M. de la Gmometipre, he showed him the letter of Ber. *rand, which he told him contained the assurance that all was agreed upon with the Cabinet Of Vienna. The same day he caused to be printed and placed it the orderly books, the proclamation which he bad read theevening before, that the poison might be pro.' pagated with facility, and extend to those who had been happy enough not to hear it read. From time 11th, the Marshal had wished to corrupt the Marquis de Vaulchier, Prefect of the Jura, amid to engage him to act for Bonaparte. On that faith ful Magistrate testifying to him his horror at such a p r , po ,iti on , h e said to him, that that horror was a piece of follp Its the night of the 14th, he gave him the written order which that Prefect showed to 3f. de Grivel. . . *of having read before your troops ■ 'editing' Pro- ply to this objection, it is only necessary to refer to claatation; of having contained it in orders of the Articles 33 and 31 of the Charter. Admit, for a day ; of hating caused it to be printed and posted moment, the system of the Nlarshol, and see the ep; lastly, of having given the example of a defer. dreadful conserpopoces. If you cannot judge ado, lion which has been so fatal. The crime of which a Peer, without a specific law, what becomes of so. yoo are accused is odious to All good Frenchmen, hut tiety ? A Peer might Commit every species of crime it is not in the Chamber that you have any prejudices with impunity—Society might in vain corn'plaito.— to fear, you will on the contrary •fistd a favourable He could not even be arrested ; there would exi,t, dispositions in the' glorious recollectio n . attacked to therefore, a dais of persons authorised, as it were, your 113/11P. You may speak without fear, explain to do whatever they pleased. the objections which you may have against the charges This view of the question alone destroys the sp. which weigh agait,st you; hut befere.opening Medic. tern of the Marshal. I maintain that there is ton ne cussioos I am to demand of you whether you have cessity for a law. and that it rests exclusively with any 'preliminary objections to propose. yourselves In regulate the manner in whirl' you will The Marshal rose and said, proceed. Marshal Ney is to he tried, he refused. to MoolsconmEuaTotoeitAticso,t.on, AND Wantons, be tried by his Peers its valour and glory ; he has —The Chamber of Peers having decided that 1 may come to the Chambers, whose decision he requires. be permitted to present prclimisoary objections, I de- The Cot sorczto.on.—What have you to reply ? mend that it will please to bear them developed M. Duets, one of the Advocates, contended that before passing to ',soother part of the proceetliags. i. no adequate answer bad been given in detail, for ail The PooCOnkun:GitoottAL ) King's Commissioner ) the objections takeu_vere general. Marshal Noy is I vatette rose, and in a firm toile of voice said, '' Although I have ever felt a great repugnance'" speak of myself, I think it my duty, at the moto•rt that the Jury is about to deride on my fate, to iit } a succinct account of my conduct since 1739. Aft" having received a William education, I was unlined, by the sage councils of M. Loisearr, with an snarls" meat for the august family of the Bourbons, 11 gate a striking proof of this on the fatal lOch c• August. lat that time belonged to the Natio:''l Guard, and went with the Chasseurs in order toe(' fend the Palace of the Thuilleries. The same too" big we were reviewed by the c:ifortunate and did not leave the palace until we had reccived!.o orders to that effect. " I served as racer under Custine, in 17f , ./: terwards in halt-, as Aid.de.Camp to General her. ,;nay d'llilliers, and it is to him I owe my for'""'' - ' Bonaparte, who had heard of roe. named me hi , .%:."; de-Camp, th e d a y a ft er the battle of Arcole, art " I have nerer quitted his person since that time. ly where a more ied, the compel , es it follow he r , , ty and the imp art to renounce the m our ordinary s o d f al is not to be j u d o ought, -beforrs.h awd. mans of ow' it said, l,s ta • B safety of th e h t "g il t In depri„ of his life 3114 deterwinso,, y; but there is i France a n d E ar „ p; Itlgineut. It is you, because at you ought to e ft tectitude- io you r hands the Wa ne , Iles, you pl ate all accusation, all th, f iccu , er, in the oh o :used and the co lo r, rate, at a quart er esident proo f r ead 7" l "ing 'Pon or ions presented by present accufnut i o f re to produce, and , en in the tnorni n4 , lIPM, or in default t illation and disma l: , ► attend. d, that the delay al to obtsia the sue cate.—You bare accused and the FPUTIF.S. tees the Chamber t ssitions made by t Ousts do Grated s Doctrine, wading ny, pointiug out pled. one of its hlewben ine these preposhias &intim, de Vilitt ;mints de Serenissa Pardessas, cud Jo OF M. LA VALETTF rt assembled it hal ty mutinies the wi it fearing for his Ilmsparte, he went is 04 :1110711ri a li141$ham t thilitilick lh whI e nibadst r igh: o isO s a; t eb - 11: 0 1:h 1fi vtga re h.. alto employed in t self in the Hopi t the least molested went to Romps ied any letter or lel of Posts, sod w ril every this( oh% so knowledge of AB teen the accused a at Elba. at having been trot M. Ferranti, he hi. Lavelette, but t reproach on that to is Inspector of d. adhesion to the Ad- etla notwithstandii I and did not dispn. in the same olllce, Pmnir summed Pare of liLousp t leto, thee of Director Eros said that M. Fermi' his place but at th lilted so to do by N. of the latter was t passing, and to r he Royal dispatch' he Isgp‘4thaPtaltihmee7r' id es tett - account of the wits{ accuaations brong t (cased did not till iVe4 of self-latent order to sets., nom- e prepared his 101 ~ .. • ; t t. - 4. •u• .; I 1 4 • its '‘.--•