The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-12-13 00:00:00

• • • r I I • ■ I. It le t I I I • F e • • liblli "Irrr7 frt4E STATESMAN. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. FRENCH PAPERS. his Majesty will recognise that Marshal Ney has been deceived as !If the true interest of Fftut'e, but M. BERRYER's DEFKNCE OF MARSHAL. NEY. was far from wishing to attempt or eiecuteanySthing M. BEILIMEIt, Advocate of the accused, began his contrary to it. - pleading as follows : M. Berryer, after Ells opetting, proceeded to re.. In spite of the brilliant facility which the eloquent fate the diff , retit charges. flow happened it, 'he organ of the public Ministry yesterday displayed, in said. that Bonaparte, in less than ten days passed definite; the points of view under which he thinks from Cantles to ',yens,. a distntice of 1(X) tangoes, that the present accusation ought to he discussed, it without resistauee, every %here adding to his emu is, unfortunately, impossible for me to circurnscsibe hers, and receiving from the multitude almost phren myself within the circle which he appeared to me to :tied dentonstratioes of the blindest enthusiasm? It trace. was because the minority (if you please), but cer- I propose to myself, not, indeed, to incur the re. utility the active minority, had risen in his favour; prose!' of evincing a spirit of chicane. I have hitherto mobile the indolent majority, which ought to have defended the law, in their uncorrupted text, without :leapt!, etiffe;hd every thing to be acted by others.... chicanery, but I am now to defend the lee from the 0 I sone 'side all was delirious enthusiasm: on the violent application which is wished to be made of it other, etupified silence. beyond its terms, and contrary to its spirit. 1 well The Ailvireate then proceeded to show, that Mar. speak with all the freedom Aside, becomes the duty 081 Ney had every to apprehe;nl from the viotlictive I have undertaken. Sure only of my sentiment.: as a disposition of Bonaparte, whom lie had concerted in Frenchman, I cannot promise that 1 will be equally dethroning in Apt il 1815. Did nut M. Bourmont (lie' sure of all the expressions which I- may employ. I exclaimed) himself say, that be had told the Marshal am not, then, contrary to my custom, subjected to that he had every thing to fear from Bonaparte 's en. trace in writing all that I might have to say upon a mity ? Has he not declared, that the Marshal said subject that requited the greatest reserve and ma- that Bonaparte hated him (Ney), that he would nagement. I will free myself from these chains when never forgive his abdication, that he would cause hit it will be necessary to come to the discussion of the heart to be cut off within' six months? point of right, and to enlighten your opinions on the Hari not, then, the Marshal an immense interest precise enactments of the laws. to prevent the re-estehlisliment of Bonaparte on the I should first of :ill return the most respectful and French Throng. Sint, it is said, :hat, from per. public thanks to his Majesty for permitting the de- sonel views - , the Marshal took part with the invader. fence to be tree, public, and invested with ,such so- " His vanity," it is said, was flattered, his ambi. lemnity. Could his M ajesty declare in it more open tion was awakened, the crime was accepted." • manner his unvarying love to that justice, the reign To what posts of honour more eminent than those of-which he eadeavoura to secure?. Could lie show of Peer of France, of Marshal and Mime, could more his 14isdom and his magnanimity superior to all Bonapa rte elelate him ? the passions which his heart endeavours to suppress The correspondence of the accused with his Royal and extinguish ? I shill likewise pay the tribute Highness Moesiour, with the War Minister, the which I owe to the generous concessions which you Marshals Dukes of Reggio and Albufera, and se hate afforded to the Counsel of Marshal Ney, of a ' vend Generals; in snort, the depositions of the wit delay which was indispensible for his defence. This ' nesses least favourable to the Marshal, fornialied the delay is not 1 sst to justice. We owe to your equi- , Advocate with proof, that, up to the 20th of March, table prolongation of time the seeing of this capital the accused took no measure which was not in hat accusation for high treason disengaged, by the accu- moray with the instructions of his superiors, and sets themselves, of that overwhelming mass of suspi• . with his duties. dolts, even of reproaches, with which Marshal Ney ! Many of these witnesses, continued M. Berryer, had bees loaded in the beginning of this melancholy have told you, that when they repaired to the Mar proceeding. We hear no more of premeditated re- that, they found him surrounded with geographical volt before the 14th of March. charts, consulting the means of employing, in his IRELAND. No, the Marshal has ere been made guilty of any feeble condition, his troops in the most useful . ...11111111.s_ of those fixed meditations which conduct a base and manner. SHOCKING MURDER, false spirit to betray its duties. No, the Marshal, : Ah! it is not the first time that Marshal Ney hes in setting out to engage the enemies of his King, did been so sorprised ! Perpetually occopied with the KILILIEL, Dec. 3.—Arthur Mst.ileoktins who lived mot defile his hands by the acceptance of a shameful military art, the excessive rigour of the Russian winter, within three miles of Kneel, a &coot h on e s t new , salary, nor his lips by the most sacrilegious demon- could-not prevent him, even in the midst of snow, was attacked a few days ago by some persons, on strations. A second advantage, tint leas important, and of a horrible night, from meditating, behind a account of an old grudge respectlnfiland. and is sup- : i which is due to your liberal adjournment of the open• batik formed by the snow, the means of passing the. posed to have been murdered by oh of them, with a ing of the pleadings is, that precious dis:overy of the I/defier, to save the rear guard of the army, and bedpost, or some very dangerous -weapon. The ' sentiments with which all the Allied Uabieett of Eu- with it six thousand individuals unable to continue Jury brought in a verdict of Wilful Murder against i rope have Wien themselves animated on the 20th of their march, and among -whom were many persons a man of the name of Cleary, s u ch his three sons. , i a ast month. illostrlous throughout Europe, who would never On Sonday. the 26th of November, an [ugliest I This is the display, in the face of Europe, of that otherwise have been able to vote for the trial of Mar tens held by J. CYCALLAGUAN and S. BALL, Fogrie l profession of European rash, which reposes with the steal Ney as a traitor to honour, as having compre. —, on the body of Edward Hanlon, who was shot the greatest security upon these disposition, so wise, so mised by treason the safety of his humanity. CHAMBER OF DEPOT' preceeding night in the house of Hugh Wheahe t i ' generous, declared at all times by his Majesty, to put ' Oe the night of the 13th, all the reports received: After some preliminary basituess on the road from Newton Hamilton to Dundalk, an end to the hatreds, divisions, alarms, and discos- by Marshal Ney confirmed the mournful details of through, the President, M. Lain: and about four miles from the f ormer . The verdict tents, inseparable from so many calamities, and to the occupation of Lyons. He teamed that Bona. m a j esty ' s mi n i ster , ha d ,a-• any of the Jury was--" That the deceased came by his recal only the good which mty result from them. pitched openly seized the reins of Government, make to ascend the Tribu ne. death by a shot fired f r om a gun ; that said shot was You perceive, my Lords , that I puts liberal inter. !hart 'issued Decrees and Orders, and that Isis dele. The Duke de RicuELIEU spoke fired by James Johnston; that the firing was an act pretation epos the expressions of the Allied Plenio-igetes were in march to enforce the execution of his tlemen, a great example has just of wilful murder by the said James Jobastois ; and tentiariel. At this toucbiug expression of the Vi istiesiDectelsio, • S' Tribunals are directed to fcillow that John Johnston, sen, and Jaen Johnston, jun. which Europe forms for us, who hare so long tors 1 Ile learned that the ciiiiiihot usurpation, nihilist- ag - i t i n t the persona named by Art. Thomas Johnston, John Henry, J. Mary, and G. pleated her, more than any other, Marshal Ney has :ed at Macon, Chalons, and Autun, had excited tin o f th e 21th of July ; and if there . WParlau, were aiding and abetting James Johnston felt himself on a sudden relieved from one of his i those places the dregs of the people to revolt. withdrawn themselves from its reach, in the commission of' said murder." Those persons most severe sufferings; he has received the most I ills army existed no longer; there were men in it, f o r contumacy shall serve as an czar have been committed for trial by the Magistrates who t soothing and salutary consolation. I but not a single soldier; for the spirit of insurreca chastisement can be inflicted. held the Inquest. It would have cost too dear to that spirit which ' tion was manifest in the highest degree.. I But after the most violent con On Sunday last, during thebours of di% hie service, t always overflowed with compassing for the sufferings ! It was under such circumstances that the Marshal convulsed a State, Government hi a large mob, principally from the County of Tip.. which his arm had been compelled to inflict upon the ;received numerous emissaries ; not two or three indi- take other measures. 'There are, perary, attended by thirty cars, went into the lands enemy, to find that this same enemy, become victors :. viduals arriving secretly at hit house, but his camp of Ballyvara, in the liberties of this city, broke into in their turn, did not think him deserving of pardon :was inundated with them. • dangerous men, who cannot reale country which they have torn, at the house of Mr. Thome' M'Grath, and beat him in the midst of victory, fur advantages now more than i lie yielded to an irresistible influence ;he read to threaten. Public security requires and his family desperately, and attempted to carry compensated; and that they were so intent upon his : his troops the fatal Proclamation. ; autb-ority shall bear heavily upost off, by fbree, all the corn and furniture belonging to ruin, that they demanded aloud his cniolemtiatien be- I Bet the contents of this Proclamation, except the course of the French revolution Id IGrath. Infornintioe being brought to the Rey , fore the French tribunals. Thus, then, the heart. I some phrases in common with the other prociama- examples ; the hist o ry of cations Jos. Crampton, High Constable, he set nut with , rending picture of accusation ceases to be darkened ! Boni distributed, had nothing in it fundamentally Lieutenant Phillips, and a party of the Cavan re. with the hideous 'colours of a crime coldly calculated, I dangerous. It might be compared to a news Pipers that in the States which enjoyed i of liberty there have been periods u gintent, quartered at Atinacotty, who intercepted and with the presence of Europe united to demand i kind of gezetle, a simple Order of the Day.— the people demanded the proscripta (he party on their return, and succeeded in takieg its expiation. l(Murmurs of disapprobation from the whole Asset's- • dividuals.. the two principtils and eight of th ar associates, and i In the development of my means, I shall not for. I My.) I With this view, the Ordinance brought (hens isle this city in the evening, and lodged : get that which the Ministers have proclaimed aloud This reading could not alter the disposition of the !designated thirty-eight persons. 1 them in gaol. 11PGrath lies in a dangerous situation. , within the precincts of this (louse,—that you were a soldiers, i stated that the Chambers shodld —(Liarcrick Chronicle.) ; jury whose consciences could not be subjected to an ! M. de Bourmont, who pretended to have dissented 'those who Were to be delivered op _ ... . ... • i many forms. I shall not relinquish the idea that I • from the reading, did not, however, hesitate to as- bet -you, Gentlemen, have yourself , A few &ye ago, as a Lefty and Gentleman were I . speak before a grand national jury,—before the list at it. What motive does lie give ? Curiosity— ; they (the Chambers) could not he c coming from Henley to Salt-hill, its a post-chaise, choice of the French nobility, convened especially to ; a desire to know the spirit of the troops. Ile said them ; and, consequently, their bet they were stopped, between bee and six "clock, pronounce upon a fact committed in one of • th most I himself, is hit deposition, that the spirit of the troops ,be enforced. near Two-Mile-Brook, by two footpads, who, with violent crises which a Stele ever experienced; that, ' was well known. 1 While some assert that (Isis Ordi horrid imprecations, robbed them of a geld watch, lit a word, you are required to examine a political I General Lecoorbe gives a more plausible reason plete, others consider it as severe, too gold chains and seek, and ,it mot see in notes , event, originating in our civil disorders. Having for the presence of the two Generals, at the reading • both we will answer, that never, sml.cash. They first seized the horses by the heads, ' submitted these matters to the supreme arbiters of of the Proclamation. He said in 'that declaration, that I atrocities, was so mild a measure and, taking the reins f r om the pest-boy, threatened the intention, the enlightened judges of the real which may he considered as his dying testament, — neither just nor politic to punish him with instant destruction if 1 offered to move. causes of the event which we all deplore, to the . 6 6 There was, in fact, danger in doing otherwise, ticipated in that great rebellion. i Each of the r o bbers then wet to opposite doors • loyalty of a French Marshal so strangely compros and the Marshal had sn informed us." point out only some of those who of the chaise, arid obtained I *r booty. One of mised, and I beg likewise to add, to the dignity of i It was, then, a sentiment of personal t"ffitailli- in ii, and a kind of public clamous the men is much above the middle stat u re, the other n the throne and the reigning family, it will remain to ty that induced these Ge n e rals to accom p an y Mar- sou s whose names are inserted in somewhat under. It is yrylgesed they belong to a I th e Couns e l of Marshal Ney to p ro ve , that the shat Ney. !hero was then, a moment when fear pre. Perhaps there are others still more gang, as two men an s weittik this description, were crime of which he is accused was not foreseen by any 'ailed, not only with the Marshal, but existed every public justice is obliged to -wreak s seem in company with two others, in the afternoon of the existing laws. In this second part of the de. where. •so many criminals, those whom she of the same day, in the neighbourhood of Maiden- : fence, you will be convinced, that the deplorable - resign themselves to their fate, events of the mouth of March have been owing to a gement, by examining the fruit which his elect • some f u tu r e time, an alleviation of head. fatality without example ; and which, happily, will could have derived from the defection with which•he of the King. The battalion of the Ist Foot Guards been their I shall then examine, if these was charged. The members of a family which march from Paris, for embarkation on Sunday last, never occur again. events of the month of March, are of a character . They have dared, said be, to carry licentiousness Dimly calamities upon France, hat and will be folloWed by the troops under orders for m atter , as to feud to the. Marshal a Awry ; they must not expect twbe to fall upon Bonaparte, their detestable author, or so far in this Esgland is siecestion of corps. M ars h a l i Ney itermediately uportin particular. i propus ili u n which would tend to compromise his re return to it; and the law ought to •-karipleXT4urrioe•—lt is now clearly ascertained shall examine if Europe, which armed against this spectable companion, in putting- into the mouth of menus to be inflicted on those whr that steam engines of any power may be wrought great criminal, having renounced the right whi c h i t the Marshal complaints which • his wife should•haffe make their appearance in it again. .right and day (Tom nine to twelve months, without had of striking, how Marshal Ney, who is said to ma de to him on the reception which she net with at adherence of the. King to the !awl sloppisig, when ',sappily packed with it. Rosette I I be his accomplice, should be treated with less indol. Court. ,„. lished confiscations, does not al t:fiellass, Esq. of Trigg-lane, Upper Thames-street, I gence ;if any of the circumstances which epecifi ce ny There is evidently here a confusion on th e part of them of the property which they has valuable consideration,. every sentimei. Ors a canine that has run ten months, during which i characterise this moat unexpected political crime, the witness. es rivehe period it went a di s tance of 2516 miles with only J will incur the penalty prottouaced by the penal laws, • Bonaparte, whom the witness perhaps approack- d return,. the wives whi c h they have obtained gratis. p , I x rights , possessions, one priming of this composiVon, and without any • civil or military. ed, said - , •that, in fact, before Isis n( of the . Woe else; slid there is :IQ doubt that this carriage I 1 shalt examine whether to these events i n M arc h of the Marshals bad not been respectfully treated ; 'ion is expreased in the Prujel will go several hundred miles farther with the same there hes not succeeded an order of thing , sufficiently buElite.Marechale Ney, the issue of a family which faithful has no other 'All.these examples, all the other Priming, which did nut cost three-pence. %% r e un- eseoanised to render inipricticable the criminal prose- oue Princes have considered as , &boat to be presented to you. tiPrhtand that some carriages have been known to go cution of Marshal Ney ; end, in sho r t, w h et h er , rec eileitieu than those of acknowledgment, and of may be easy. Ills Mejestes by 111 tu A year and-a-half with one single priming. Anti- from the Conventions between France and the Alli e d- eitspectfa gratida for the reception %hick she ex - Cambiay, has already pub lis h ed at Attrition also preserves polished steel, and all kinds Powers, on the 30th of March, 1814, the sd of •perienced from the House of Bourbon. he is now resolved to extend. The of metal from rust ; and renders boots and shoes July, and 20th of November, 1815, it does net re- flow was the Marshal paid for she part which he especially after rebellions and great water proof, without destroving the beautiful pp- salt 'that all faults arising from errors in judgaieets took on the 14th of March I—By a banishmen t o f tions, is inherent in the S overei g n. pearance of blacking upon (hem; and renders all l should lie pardoned, two months and a half to his estate at Coeds as:. so solemn an occasion, feels a pleat kinds .of leathe r s o ft, pliable, durable, -and hinter- I shall conclude by a respectful appeal to the Afterward, he received an order to repair to great bodies of the State , w h o p a rt i c i p ate limas hi the *et, . goodness of the King, which peewits us to hope that he plains of Belg ium : adorder which at least far; 'in the .ezerciee of the legislatiee A new Comedy was played last night at this The. etre, caned Suedes and Mart. The tile, we Pre. sump, is designed to indicate the marked opposition o f the serious and comic, which characterizes the piece. Mrs. Miles celebrated novel of. " The Fa. Cher and Daughter," seems to have been tlap source' whence the sruthor has derived all the pathos of his plot. Our Readers, who are acquainted with that interesting little novel, will recollect the terrible in = tertst attached to the scene, in which the erring and repentant daughter is recognised by Iran father amidst the horrors of despair ettd insanity. 'Cris. cireum.. owe has been ramified by the author of Smiles and Tear:, into in interesting train of incidents.. The daughter, Cecil, who has been seduced by Delayed, appears at the door of her paternal mansion, for the purpose of soliciting forgiveness; at this moment her. father, whose reason hat been subverted by her mis conduct, rushes before her, pursued by, his keepers, an d with feelings exasperated to agony. Here shn first becomes acqaainted Ith the extent of the plan ity which has result from her errors. The effect of this scene was e dinghy impressive, al i thaogh nearly counterieted t y the ridiculous intro daction of an infantATis long petticoats, which the f.ir Magdalen brier on in her arms. NVe strongly recommend thattliis interesting cherub be left quietly at home in its cradle during the next representation of the piece. The concluding scene eta:bits the re. irritant lady personifying a picture; here she is re. cogiii.ed by her fader, and by leaping out of the frame she r estores him to his reason. Our Readers may prohthly smile at this, as a little too artificial ; but suck li.if ItPeR the author's dramatic dexterity, very considerable sensation was excited, as was evinced by tiro tearful eyes of the major put of the audience. There is an under plot, involving some pleasant equivoeue and innocent intrigue. Mrs. Cu IIILEi Keusxx made hi-r first appearance this scar .n; this lady appears to have revolutionised her style; it is infinitely more moderate and sobdued than heretofor e. YOUNG sustained the character of Fa:harris admirably, as did Miss Fooza that of hi s daughter. The piece was announced for repetition amidst unanimous approbation. The Defender cited the cetebra Vienna, of the 13'h and 25th that tho Allied Powers mule cm, France, and acted in the interest Louis XVIII. Some of the contingents which ed by the different Powers (and exempted from this obligation) others. Their efforts could not but the most active were necessa common interest. Bonaparte having been beaten, Prussian troops a pproached Paris. the Prince of Fekmuhl in his declal _the foreign armies treat ? . - .:~.... ~, ~. -~._ ~__ .. . `.`. J y`-- • 77 ; ~- ~~ ~~.~ - • niched him with an oppnrtunity o( , &hike of the tett itor) as deal. to M Here M. BERRYFAL ioterruptedhit M. Duet i , his colleagtie, dement n ent In tt e nett day. The PKIESIDEST.—The adjournmettl Take•doly au hour's rest. The Ch. tennot prolong the debates indelnitely. 'l•he Sitting was t uspended from thtee o'clobk to half-pelt four. At that hour M. 11cairns' resumed his speech.— Ile retraced the proofs of attachment which the Mar.; shill had given to hit country. The forms of On. vernment had successively changed i a tlefetnler of the territory, he remained the same in thi most violent 'coninintione. Nesertitele4S.Art this eery AMtenthly, end aftEr the battle of •Waterloo, .betteite stymy the veil ;-she disrdpitt4 all the idosinne,--Ive disclosed the losses whiCh the 'national force' bad sustained,—lle unwired that the country ..Was thteatened With a se cond invasion. • It is again this friend of his ccinntry, that yeti find in the severe truths which he puhlisherl in his letter to the Doke of Otranto, on the false miniseries of 'the man svho had su utiltapirily seduced the imagihas (inn of the French. This is the divhdon of the meant of defence which I still have to present to you. I begin by estilblithing that the rrireinal accusation cannot he instituted aglinst Xlarshal Ney, vrithout examining into the wowe of the qualification of climes, because, in admitting than penalty would be remitted. I shall superabundantly establish ' action son no longer be pursued,' whit all F.Jrope has thought f against the great, the only crimit of the greater and OVPlahplmii other euNilkries exercised before the success of the enterprise of sequence, (list the nature of tht sion of climes , in anoters of pnliti no possible application to the col of our criminal lawn ; finally, in our law offers altogether a mixt which render the process impracti • • - pro‘iiig (hat the him. is pleading. tided an atijourh- rot is impossible. camber of Petra elv. nse rprotncation of hat qualification, the lish that the criminal I, in consequence of proper to execute lane ; in consequence Mg influence which e Marshal Ney over ." Bonaparte ; in con- le pretended comthis. 'tient opinion, affinrds common dispositions- in consequence, that more of dispositions Arable. rated Declarations of of Merch, to pour z.ommon cause with Test of his Majesty h were to he furnish. al our King was not ) arrived later than A be simultaneous ; ;wily delegates la a • en, the English and ris. You have beard reloration. how did O rfES, Dec. S. , rtess had been rims it., invited such of his ly communication to ,e as follows (—Gen- esi been given ; tha the course °Nettie, . iwof-olvo Ordinance • 'e be any who have reach, their sentence example till personal onsmotion that ever has deemed it right to , after all revolutions, min in the bosom of a and which they via tea that the hand of n them. It is lint its ion that we shall seek • sufficiently shows, I the greatest degree Is when the safety of iptiun of eminent in. e of the 24th of July s. 'l s hii Ordinance • Id decide respecting up to the Tribunals ; selves declared- that re called upon to try 4 banishment can alone • t Ordinance is incom. e and arbitrary. To " 11 1 ( 1 1 ver, after an many re adopted ; it was all those who par. It was necessary to •-t • o had been engaged r• ur indicated the per. the Ordinance.— , re guilty ; but when k her vengeance on she strikes ought to and thus merit, at it from the clemency' ick has brought so have quitted its ter. .• be ever permitted to to fix the punish. so shall presume to 1. If the religions 4 • by which he abow allow him to strip iro , have acquired for a ttiment combines to ; sessions, and titles, . This determine. see Loi, which is . tl rr classes of citizens ris Proclamation at an amnesty, which le right of amnesty, at political comma , liis Maj,nty, on dare in making the dicipate with him j . 4 power, conger in • • " ~'» `~~ r~:L~ _: x,