The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-10-21 00:00:00

VIM - 4 - • ware. in the present case, under the considerminu of Chan :VT. COl/111 Ihuar. M mots replied, first the recom menrtition evidently applied to persons accused, and who %vole already under cogniz ince of the law, and insisted nit the omission. The Duke of Iticott.tro supported the motion, and expressed a wish, if it should he thought proper to retain the clause, that the recommendation of ittstice should not apply to the punt, but only to the blare. Ti. D. ke of BROGLIE spoke to the same effect. The Bishop of LANGRES opposcd the change. He thought that Judges might, with propriety ; recommend the exercise of justice, provided they make no mention of the criminals. - Baron Slcutra, in support of this doctrine, re ferred to the celebrated affair of the Duke d'Aguillon, in which the Parliament claimed its violated compe. tense. The Duke de Bnoct.rt observed, that the compe. fence of the Chamber was not disputed. M. de LALLY-TOLLEN D 4 L defended the new draft of the Address with regard to the pa tin question. It appeared to him to contain onto general expressions and the most perfect moderation. ' The Duke de BROGLIE voted for the omission, pre. ciselv on the ground of the cautious mistier in which the chose appeared to be expressed. It is proper to declare pfaittly what we mean. The phrase signifies something or nothing; but what is deducted from it in appearance is added to it in reality. If, as the Duke of Richelieu understands it, only future offences are referred to, let that be fratikly stared; if it he not, the objection mutt remain, however much the hit gunge may he softened. It is to the substance of the Idea the public will look, under whatever form ) ott may present it to them. I more the suppression of the whole paragraph after the words, tutelary throne become the altar of the country. Count CASTELLANE supported the Amendment for inserting the words in future. Ile observed that the Climber of Deputies, which did nut try the crime of high treason, might pith less impropriety solicit from the King, or recommend to him, the exercise of jut- tire. Count 11l orivtr.r.t declared. that he hi been serock with the silence observed by A Majesty respecting the acts of rigour which it was wished to recommend to Tim ; and also respecting that purity of administration which he did not understand, and of which the King Lod said nothing. 1( you do not suppr vs the para. giaph in question ) on will deteriorste, by the influ ence you are attempting to exercise, that independence in ss hich the distinct powers of the Government ought to exist. Count MOLE, on the reading of the passage in the .Address. which expresses an eulogium on the measure adopted by the King for augmenting the national re presentation, proposed its omission, unless the same motive which was assigned for the measure by his Ma jesty was added, namely, the imperious circumstances in which the tin one is placed. Count NONTESQUIOU 11191/Pd its total omission, as a question of so much importance ought not be pre judged. The Duke of ORLEANS proposed the Amendment, whit h was finary ltloitted in the following terms: — The Chamber tecognizcs the heneficPut intentions of his 'Majesty in the mngmentation of the number of Deputies. GERMAN PAPERS. Maltz, Oct. 16.—The opening of the Session of the States•Ceneral took place this morning. His Al 'jest,' the Kiug made the following speech:— " In the course of the Session which I this day open according to the Constitution, important inte rests will be submitted to your deliberations. " Since spring extraordinary effects have been pre. scribed by events which it was impossible to foresee. Every Belgian loves to turn his eyes upon this pe. tint!, which is that of the establiAment of the na. Clonal independence, 81111 a sentiment so general will lighten the saciifices which it shall judge indispen. sildy necessary to require. Treasures have been ne cessary to arm, in n short space of time, whole lines of fortresses, to double the national army, and to maintain the still more numerous armies of your Allies. You will he informed of all that has been done on those different heads, as well as of the con siderable burdens they have caused to our finances. In these circumstances justice requires more than ever, that the State should acquit itself towards its creditors; a great number of them belong to the "ct:untries which hive directly felt the evils attend ant upon war. However, in combining the ma sur,:s relative to this subject, I have most care fully the means of my faithful subjects. I have applied mys If to alleviate the burden, and to tender it equal, by r'istributing; it over several and among cl uses of society, so that I Hatter ni)self that (lase measures will he found wholly .worthy of the approhation of the States-Generel.— Th.. estimates of the espenecs o f th e f o ll ow i ng year, oid of the inextis of meeting them, will be an equally serious sulj-ct of deiiheration for your High Mighti iiesse.s. But I persuade myself that the result will be salutary in et cry respect, and that a prudent in troduction of tases of the same kind, will put an end to the constraints which the mutual communica tions of some parts of the kingdom, render esprit hire for a mom Nit. Among the laws already in force for some of our provinces, and which, under certain modifications, it will he proper to make applicable to all, that on the National Militia deserves to be ; our Common aim will doubtless be to make the execution of it uniform for all the Belgians, according to the principles of the Union, and even though this institution may remain for years stiscep tihle of progressive improveniont, no trial can ap pear to us too difficult, no effort ton great, when the point in question is to establish the firmest buls work of the general security. " However, your Mightn't...4es •^.ay indulge the hope that the next year, less stormy than this has w ill not requite unforeseen or exorbitant sa crifices. It is probable that I shall speedily have to communicate to you a general Treaty of the Sow.. reigns at present in arms, which will gi►e new guarantees for the ti a sivillity of Europe.--,Thus we shall at length l.ehold the time alien the Legislator, rcztorctl to his true destination, will employ all his 1 THE STATESMAN. faculties in the amelioration of morals, as the en couragement ofi public instruction, in a wise reform of the establishments for the pour. " Already have peace and the confidence it in spires revived several branches of ancient indOtry.— . Commerce will find new aliment, not only in the Cblonies which tl.e Low Countries have recovered, • and for the occupation of which very expensive pre parations have just been completed, hut also in those i which I was obliged to cede last year. " The %;iupplerneettary Coriveotion on this head, with Great B Pain, will he doubly agreeable to you, as confirming the loyal and heneti..eist dispositions of this powerful Ally, as well as the care with which watch, on every kide, over the commercial interests , of my kingdom. With the aid of Divine Providence, I mesa to persevere, without remission, and without deviating from impartial justice towards all, in the exercise of the duties imposed on me. Your co , operation in the general measures renders you wit nesses, and as one may say guarantees, of the purity of the views of the Govettiment. Employ the in fluence wb4ch your virtues and knowledge insure you, and which will be confirmed by frank and unsitimous application, to the interests' of the country, in confirming or reviving in people's minds ca l mness an d security. Let the time soon come, when every one of our countrymen shall indulge with full confidence in his Representatives and hi , - in the peaceful enjoyment of the rights which the Co istitutinn secures to all the Citizens, in a manner equally clear and irrevocable." lI‘NAU, OCT. ll.—We have just been shown a letter from Saarbruck of the St h, which lam that the Deputies of Saarbruck returned the day before from Paris. with the news that the two towns, SAar. bruck and St. John, with the neighbouring 5 tar Louis, a part of German Lorraine as far as deli, and some ! other districts, are to come under the protection of Prussia. The source from which this statement comes, we have hitherto had reason to depend upon. LowErt Rum, Ocr. 3. At Aix-la•Clutpelle there is a Freud' Statesman, formerly Ambassador, who is going to his estates on the Rhine. Accord ' ing to wh it he says, most of the higher Officers of State in France will withdraw from public business for a time, Chet the French nation may not reproach them with having approved the unfavourable condi tioos of tto. pra,ent Treaty of Peace. Fii‘NnroßT, Ocr. L.—The share in the French contribution that conies to us is about 123,000 francs, and our share in the English subsidies 42,000. — Though these sums cannot be considered as an indent nit , whicti no reasonable mats would require, for the evpe•sees of 25 years of war, it is, however, a pleasure to see how cot►scienrinusly the higher Powers discliarae the duty of guardians to the very smallest Stole'. Toe Hessian Commissioners sent t o Paris to receive back the p;ctures, &c. from Cassel, have returned highly satisfied ; the few pieces that were missing have been supplied by others of at least equal value. VIENINA, OCT. 4.—A plan is now its hand, and great pains- are employed to perfect it, to effect a union of all the States of Itvly, at a Congress at Milan ; the Emperor of Austria is to be the head of the union, and take the title of King of Italy. The Kings and Princes of Italy will repair in person to Aldan, in order to complete this great work. It is probable they will not meet till the spring, and the Coronation of the Emperor Francis be deferred till that time. The numerous Italian emigrants who have been living for some years in the Austrian Swett, have now for the most part returned to their own country. CoNcItNTINON.E,SETr. 9.—The festival of Bai ram, which fell on the sth of this month, was celebrated with the usual solemnities. Notwithstanding the heavy rain, the Sultan, with his suite, went in full pomp to the Mosque of Sultan Achmet. The changes made in the public °likes ou this occasion are of small importance. The afiairs of Servia have suddenly taken a tarn, which promises a speedy termination of the troubles in that Province. Deputies from the nation ate here, and others in the camp of the Turkish Com manders sent against them, who implore pardon, and in the name of the whole Province most solemnly promised unlimited obedience to their lawful Sove reign. As it is wished to settle this affair in an ami cable way as soon as possible, there is every proba bility that this proper submission of the S.rvialui, if their repentance is sincere and not merely designed to gain time, will not be rejected by this Government. The Captain Pasha is constantly employed in clearing the Archipelago of the pirates, and is ex pected to return soon here. Other unpleasant news yesterday arrived here from Cairo, by way of Smyr na, that the troops of Mehemet' Aly Pasha of Egypt, dissatisfied at the resolution taken by him, to form out of them a regular troop ; and,inade more bold by the march of several corps of them into Upper Egypt, had revolted, anti committed, nt Cairo, murder, nil- Inge, and excesses of every kind. The Governor himself is stated to have lied into the citadel, where he waits the arrival of other troops on whose fidelity he thinks he can depend, in order to attack the re b e l s with effect, and put an end to these disorders. .1 news has been received in several concurrent ndvices fiom some distinguished pilgrims to Mecca, who were present in Cairo at the time, to their families at Smyrna. The Government has, however, not yet published any thing on the subject. What letters front Leghorn have said of a pretended insurrection at Smyrna against the Porte, is certainly without foundation. The cases of plague here unhappily become more numerous on account of the concourse of people of all ranks at the festival of Bairam. The Sultan's Court Chaplain is among those who have been carried off by the contagion within these few days. His Sublimity, struck by this event, as it seems, has caused in the principal Mosques the Nlussulmatt people to be re minded of the following sentence from the liarliss Sherif, or tradition of the sD► ings of Mahomet, " Let the sick hare no communication rcith persnny without, and let the healthy refrain front mingling ::illy the sick," a measure which gives room to hope that the Porte may in time adopt more enlightened principles respecting the plague. T English Physician who had got himself appointed to attend the great Greek hospital in the Seven Towers, in order to apply him self to the cure of this di striictive contagion, is un happily himself attacked by it. Sastitm, San.. 25.—The 1200 Turks who came from Romelia to the neighbourhood of Belgrade, un der the command of Kinja NOR, who is onder Bourne' Valessy, are now reinforced ht , ,800 men. Sotiman Pasha, the Governor still maintains himself in the fortress, and will not surrender on any terms.— Hitherto no oppeartnees are observed of any iuten tion to storm it. Kiaja Parka seems to into to starve it. The Serrians go about in the city armed as well as the Turks. We ran see the the `:serviass camp before Belgrade on the right, ass(' that of the 'rusks on the left. • • Kiaja Poch' is in constant negociation with the Setrians, concerning the new order of things, and the possibility of collertistg the tribute which has heels in arrears since 1801, which Splinter; Pacha al ready tried to accomplish, hut allowed himself at the game time to commit the most shameful excesses and cruelties against the will of the Porte. The fifteen senior Deputies sent to Constantinople, to make excuses about the new troubles, and to seek help for the nation in its distressed sitoation, are now returned. Notwithstanding the arrival of Kiaja Pectin, and commencement of the amicable arrangements, the Servians have had to maintain up to the middle of this month, to which perHd oe hare accounts of some very uhstinate comb-its with the Turks of NVidden and Bosnia, who have made several incursions into Sert is, bat have all happily been driven back within their own frontiers. TO CORRESPONDENTS. ProVedinEt of 111 P Niee hug no Lilinburgh. no the %object of Parlimenciry Reform, on Monday. if pn,sih:e. ALL TUE NNE IN CONSOLS ABOVE 56, WILL. BELONG TO THE HOLDERS OF TICKETS OR %RES OF THE STOCK PRIZES IN THIS LOT TERY, WHO WII.I. RE PAID THEIR VALUE IN MONEY, IF PRI FI.RREU. ALL THE CAPITALS AIAY RE DRAWN ON TUESDAY, THE 7TH OF NOVEMBER. Air. ti ~ 11~, Liibun (riven high 1 llamhurga France PRICE OF STOCKS THIS ~ a nk 3 per Coat. Red. 59/1 per Gear ltmvs 61i i 4 per Ont. 749 5 Ilef Cent. Isastio 909 DAY AT ONK u•CI.(ICK: 1...ng. Ann. 15 14 15-16 B&•od. 3 4 n Eichnquer 1 3114 25 p Onninin Uji Coutola r n.cr. 6lii T E STATES MA N. INse more especially giving to the Government the punishing persons uttering seditious cries or speeder using calumnious or injurious words, eithet assns, 14 King, or any member of the Royal Fornli s . ; c ., eh. deavouring by any object or expressi. s I n r , t or weaken the Royal authority. Tile putil-hme tt , flounced against those who may be such climes, is imprisonment propnrtioned t,, ill? • offence—surveillance, under the authority of t i,„ High Police—privation of the right , . of vArl itz, eligibility of qualification for public and admi st ; sha. live fent lions—and of bearing arms. The Propossi e f this low was prefaced by a speech from the 11!-,i; l „ ( 11, t „ liE m Attunes), in which are stated:Cie existence of a serious esil, the necessity of applying a speedy remedy, and the inadequacy of the present las s t o foltil that object. This speech acknowledges aim the French Government . has long laboured to conceal, that " extraordinary circumstances inter r upt the order and accustomed proceedings of the Goveratri ettt _ that the rebels endeavour, by means of audacity, to recover their lost advantages : they are enccootiaersid by impunity —they have their signs arid rall ) k g points—and their proceedings distort) s oc i a l or d pr. i t This is a too-convincing proof of the eve n t an d energy of the party hostile to the existing tnewt—a humiliating confession for the adherents of the BOURBONS. Is this the " devoted k it e „f Louis's children towards their father a n d l eg i t i mate Sovereign, which mourned in his at:sluice, and hailed with unanimous joy his •rest oration ? Is this tie loyalty of the French proplo, momentarily con strained by military violence, but ardent to display its purity and ardour at last ? This speaks a lan guage, which even the COMM(' its of the M ib i, e , himself cannot render unintelligible. Re affects to designate the faction as week and contemptible— why then the necessity of all this correction, this penal infliction, and the 66 vigour beyrgd the law," which foreign bayonets supply, if the exer• tines of re-hellion only manifest its insignificance?— But it is unnecessary to dwell on this proof of Louts's popularity and the wisdom of his Ministers. We cannot, however, help observing in this place, that there appears something elem.& guy absurd and inconsistent in this proceeding of the French Go vernment, if we advert to what may be a material cause of the dissatisfaction here denounced ail erimi. nal, and the conduct of Louts and the Chambers themselves, in regard to the regret expressed on the disadvantageous terms of the Convention, or as some call if, the Treaty of Peace. What has been disclosed on this subject bas excited true + dis content in minds otherwise favourably disposed to. wards the existing authority ; and the King himself, LONDON: SI %TURD 4Y, OCTOBER ( 21, 1815. The Paris Papers of Tuesday arrived this fore noon ; and we have also some most interesting pri vate communications from the French capital, to the date of the Journals received. Kith both Chambers, hone expresso(' comitletstillt These arrivals, like every !Wide of intelligence %Mel' we have received from France for some time grief and dissatisfaction on this head ; yet the peo. pie are to be punished fur giving way to the es. psst, afford the most convincing proofs that the new pression of, perhaps, settees-regrets and opinions! Government, and the Powers who support it, are la- • bowing in satin to rebuild the fabric of abominable t But these are not all the proofs of elver which Louis and his Council of Royals, and parasites of despotism which public indignation had overthrown, and that contempt and abhorrence, and a more ge- Royal Despots, are giving. The wiser and less sin. natal and determined hostility to the oppressive and guittary part of the Deputies recommended in the execrated system sought to be established, are the um- discussion on the above law, that punishment (oral results of their policy, instead of that gratis should not apply to the past, but to the future; tude, respect, confidence, and tranquillity, which but the King's Ordinances are more comprehensive, are the fruits of humane end liberal government, and have a retrospective as well as prospective effect. gi Tise fonds have fallen to 56, a striking proof of the We ve copies of some furnished by she Getelle Ofliciet!e, which show that his Msjeste's memory his state of public confhlenoss: and this at. a time when . not failed him as to the devotion evinced towards him it is proclaimed that Peace has been concluded, eine' by the late army, livid that Bossascee Princes, as any the Government is putting forth all its strength ! The cannot forget such things, neither can they forgive Government is, indeed, doing what it can to repress them. One of these Ordinances is for dismissive, MI the growing spirit of hostility to its views ; but the Officers employed under BONAPARTE, and stop• what can a Government, so weak in itself, end so ping their pensions ! This Ordinance was signed so hr generally disliked, effect ? The germs of hatred are back as the '2oth September, though not promulgated multiplied ten-fold by every act of severity which it till now. The old army is therefore now extrrtni• inflicts. It cannot, even with all the aid of the hon. nated, and it must be admitted, that Louts and er deeds of thousands of foreign mercenaries, who are Councillors have played a very deep game in areor• exerting themselves to give it stability and the means plishing its annihilation, though all the effects of the of commanding respect, lessen, in the smallest degree, p o li c y for Franc.. remain to be seen. This measere the mere signs of that dissatisfaction and contempt alone must evidently increase the hostility tweeds which are so widely cherished, and those wishes fur the Government to a very great and dangerout its dowtsfal, which are so ornly and universally degree. As the slavery in which the French Press expressed. The measure', ineffectual es they are is sunk, does not permit any clear ideas of tie proved to be, which Louis and his Ministers arc state of the public mind and passel; events to teas now adopting, and their own public declarations, • spire through the Joureals, we s all here, preen , . suffscientiv irelheite the strong and general hostility to entering on their contents, subjoin the fellook of the public mind toward, the restored Government, interesting commeeiceion from a Gentleman of hie. political consideration its France, friendly to the and that they seem to apprehend the speedy bursting of a popular storm that threatens to spread rebellion through the land. It is already discovered that the nose Chambers are by no means what France de sired and espected to see vested with the defence of its rights nod the preservation of its institutions ; and that although the unanimity so anxiously sought co use of theBouRBON! o Pad:, 0(07. " Our principal hope now is, that the antiou,y expected unanimity in the Chambers ail' so" th ' King and our country. The silence of our 1 ) 1. , v must give us abroad an appearance of tranquillity, /I"' reality of which we do not let enjoy. The Boel partists and the Jacobins have renewed their together, since the doss dal of the patron of the lit ter, M. Fouche. They now cle a ih ern selies more activity than ever to escite rebellion three::: • not the In::d ; and their audacity would be i!ic , "" ceivable were not the mildness of ou r G ave rwi better known. Their place of re-union is in 1 ) :11••• the house of Madame ll—n, the fashionable beau'' of the da), who welcomes all those whose sereinteel, are hostile to the Bourbons. The licence at d bele. ness of the language uiteleil a ;thin tbo.e unlisi;""" I walls, and afterwards circulated amongst the peal t ' cannot be surpassed. It is there openly reid in two months our good King ,rill be murdered, • I that as the Duke of Orleans con!in..es to refuse Crown ; the abdicati:m of Lionopv:e io favour 21'4 in support of the throne could be effected Hod pre- served, but which, royalist as the Chambers are, is far from being manifested on any point that is nigl. fated, the Legislative Bodies want the power to save either the Kina or the Country. No laws have yet been found atonable to allay irritation, or repress cli:turbance, though every day's Papers for a con siderable time have announced the punishment of .a number of pet , ettc for political offences. Sint lows upon hies are enacted, and ()Moonlit:re follows or- dotinasic , I . 4ir the peuishrvent of sedition and at. tempts at rebellion. In the Chamber of Deputies on m„„day, the Ren t er of the 5.4115, by order of his Majekty,ltnitted a Into, nI rh tenth more then any thing dot di.clocett to demonstrate the general inytessivit aeaiu,t tLe Curet:meta. 'Fbeiaw was for i' P 1 I •