The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-05-22 00:00:00

Q. The prizes which may have been made by pti •steers under our thg, before the publication of this Decree, shall he imineiliately restored ; saving to the owners the rieJit of reclaiming fr, , ni Government to the extent of what th•v ss ore eufitled to. 3. The Austrian merchant flag shall continue to be received in the ports of our kingdom like those of all other nations, and shall there enjoy all the pro tection of the laws, provided the Neapolitan flag be equally received into the ports of the A&striau empire. 4. Our Ministers, each in his department, are charged with the execution of the present Decree. (Signed) (A true env) Faenza, April 17. 1815. JOACHIM NAPOLEON. The C"uut de MOESBURG. E XTli .4CTS FROM THE MANIII sTo O 1 TH E KING OF FRANCE. ADDRESSED TO THE FRENCH NATION. It begins with epilog, that it had been the first eaie of the King to instruct hil Ambassadors to re present to Foreign Courts the real course of events, and condition of thingi in France, that " France might not be calumniated, dishonoured, exposed to unjust contempt, and unmerited indignation. " This first care has been -fulfilled. All the Powers of Europe now know, that the King of France and the French nation, more than ever united by all that can drew closer the ties between a good King and a good people, were suddenly tertetyed by an army, unfaithful to its Prince and its country, to honour and its oaths :,thar, however, among the first Generals of that army, those whose names con stituted its glory either rallied under the colours of the King, or at least abandoned those of the Usurper : that Chiefs of corps and Officers of all ranks daily follow this example: that among the multitude of soldiers drawn in to a defection unexampled in military annals, there are many of those whom inexperience had delivered up to se diction, who have been led to repentance by reflec tion, and whose misleading must he entirely laid to the charge of their seducers. Europe knows, in fine, that with the exception of that portion of the army be come unworthy of its past glory, and which has ceased to belong to the French army ; with the exception of a handful of vnlnntary accomplices, who have furnished the usurper with men ambition' without merit, and criminals without remorse, the whole French nation, the gond citizens of the towns, the good inhabitants of the country, corps, and individuals of both sexes and doll ages, have followed and recalled the King with efl their wishes, have imprinted on all his footsteps a new h"mage of gratitude and a new oath of fidelity. Ear , l ,e knows that in Paris, in Beauvais, in Abbe ville, iii that great and glorious city of Lille, of which treason occupied the gates, and threatened to en sanguine the walls, in the face and under the very sword of traitors, all arms were extended towards the King, all eyes offered him the tribute of their tears, ell voices cried out to him, 4 Return to us ; return to deliver your subjects.' Europe knows and continues to learn that these invocalisns are incessantly re tie* ed ; that ti.r -. daily reach the King not only from all point; of that frontier so eminently loyal, but from all quarters of his kingdom, even the most distant. " And, indeed, how could it be otherwise than that the sentiments with which the King's heart is animated towards his subjects, should secure to him a similsr return on their part ? Who shall ?are to contradict the King when he swears before God and before his people, that, since the dry when Provi dence replaced him on the throne of his fathers, the constant object of his wishes, his thoughts, his la bours, was the happiness of all Frenchmen ; the restoration of his country, more dear to him than that of his throne ; the re-establishment of external orand internal peace; that of religion, justice, laws, morals, credit, commerce, arts ; the inviolability of all existing property without any exception; the employment of all virtues and all talents, with. out any other distinction ; the present dimi nution of thellnost buithensome taxes, until their approaching suppression ; in fine, the establishment of public and personal liberty, the institution and the perpetuity of a Coarrua which guarautees for ever to the French nation these invaluable blessings? And if, amidst circumstances of such difficulty, at the close of storms so violent and so long, amidst so many calamities to be repaired, so many snares to be discovered, and opposite interests to be conci liated, it was beyond his power to clear all obsta cles, to escape all mistakes, to avoid all errors, the King can atisst flatter himself with the assent of all just minds, when he says that his greatest error was one of those which proceed from the heart of good Princes only, and which tyrants never commit : it is their power which they oish to be boundless; it was his clemency which the King wished to be with oat bounds." • The Manifesto concludes with adverting to the eteilious now going on in France. It says, " doubt lees,-if- It were Possible for these elections to be'na tienal, the scrusitrlsees faith.fal, and the trokia free, the new Champ de Mai .vould make ei.e illegality of its principle disappear 'in the loyalty of its wishes. — Its first cry would he a new r,0, - cration of that al liance sworn nine centuries ago, between the uation of the Franks and the Royal House of France, and perpetuated for nine centuries between the posterity of those Franks and the posterity of their Kings; the true French ration would never wish either to perjure its ancestors, nw• perjure itself. But what can you expect from an Usurper, or from those who re ensanguined r defiled all that they have ever ched ; who have male objects of derision or hor. rtlr every tv7.g that ought to be the object of vene ration and love; who would disgrace, were it possi bte, even the names of country, liberty, the consti tution, laws, honour, and virtue 2" The above Manifesto was adopted in a Royal Council of State, presided by his Majesty, on the report of Count Lally Tollendal, at Ghent, April '24, 1815. The elfin-meter of the Alchgasist, its which Mr. - KEAN is about to appear, is one of the most arduous 114 has undertaken. ft has been rarely attempted by any performer except Mr. GAnurcx, and he was the only tttle who was successful in it. Thirty-five years bare elapsed since it was acted at Drury,lane Theatre. • '44 ~' ~ • ' , THE STATESMAN. M►t. LOVELL'S LIBERATION. After an imprisonment of Four Years and a half in ?his Majesty's Gaol of Neagate, in consequence of Er-ollicio informations, for what has been termed Libel, Mr. LOV ELL informs his Friends, with the feelings which may be supposed to animate the breast of a man inthis situation, that he has been this day liberated . from the scene of his long con finement, and of his many severe afflictions, and is now returned to the discharge of those duties in public life, which, at the present extraordinary crisis, so pregnant with events of vital importance to the liberties of Mankind, are more than ever vecessary to be fulfilled, and which he assures his Readers and Friends he shall strive to perform to the best of his ability. •He trusts it will not be considered egotism to state, that h alth, as may well be supposed, has suf fered MIR from the continued rigour of his fate; bitt his are, as they have ever been, un broken; a i opts he need not say how grateful is his heart support which he has received from the Fri sll e of Liberty and Justice under his bag and accumulated afflictions. Stntemah Office. May It). 1813. Arr. Malls. Des 0 .... ...... .... Malta 2 1 0 2 PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAT AT ONE trCLOCK. Sane 1...ne. Ann. 141 7-16 3 per Ceot. Red. 5711 Indin Bonds 10.12 p 3 per Cent. Gonr, 580 Exchequer BUN $ 5 p 4 per Comte. 72 lj Omniur 4 per Cent. Ratty WO Coniok for Ace. 561111 THE STATESMAN. LONDON: MONDAY, MAY 22,r,1815. Yesterday and to-day have brought us Paris Pa pers from the 17th to the 20th. Their contents are interesting, though they announce no event of deci sive importance. NAPOLEON has not yet left his capital, for there appears no necessity for his pre sence elsewhere. lie is actively employed in hold ing Councils of State, reviewing armies, sending off troops to their various destinations on the frontiers, and in organising or giving countenance to the or ganizations of the federative unions of the people, which are forming everywhere for the support of the national independence. The numberless inhabitants of the Fauxbourgs St. Denis, St. Martin, and of the Temple, are federating after the example of the other Fauxbourgs ; and we are told 100,000 men, per fectly armed and equipped, are now ready for the de fence of Paris. IVltether jacobinical or not, these vo lunteer unions present a very dismaying prospect to tae Powers who have been flattering themselves with the idea of en easy march to Paris. Allowing they are all not quite agreed as to the point of having NAPO. LtON BONAPARTE as a Sovereign, will they, Jaco bins as they are styled, unanimously ♦ote the Crown to a Prince of the House of BOURBON, a House which has cost France so muds blood, and which the whole nation has made such exertions to expel ? But these confederations, say our Treasury fulminators, are only the rabble—so much the worse for the hopes of those who would raise a standard in France inimical to that rabble. The rabble are the public, and let us ask what constitutes the strength of any State ? who are the defences of the country ? who are the first to take up arms, when their native land is threatened ? who are the support of thrones, and the guardians and assertors of public liberty and individual safety ? but the rubbk, as men are termed when they will not vo luntarily bend their necks to slavery, and dare to maintain their own unalienable privilege spinet So vereign authority. He must needs be strong who has the rabble with him, and when that rabble com prehends the whole of the people of such a nation as France. The news in the French Papers from the frontiers, announces a movement on the rill of the Prussian army to its right, in consequence of the movement to the rear of the Austrians. Some people will not ir ,, ow what to make of this. The leading article in our Paper of Wednesday last will tend to explain it. We there stated that the Austrians had shown symp toms of unwillingness to advance against France, Lord awl that Lord ct.tscrom and the Prussian Com manders had movements of concentration and precaution nec nary in consequence. The army of Gvn.BLuculit is any thing but complete, saytheFrench 'Journals; and whoever has read the accounts even in that vehicle of truth, the Brussels Oracle, of the disposition of the Saxon troops constituting a part of the army under the Prussian Commander, will be. lieve that any thing but unanimity prevails in his ranks. . . Private letters from Soigniers state,. that Lard I lIILL's division had their head-quarters at that town on the 15th ; their advance towards the Freud' (roe tier was occasioned by a movement of Count D'EaLon (Drouet) upon his right, with a view to cut off their communication with the Prussians. And Sweden too—she is lukewarm. We fear our prediction is about to be realized. It is said the Allies are so much offended T his that rilectance mu. I nifestcd by the Crown Prince of SWribitx is mareb against France and give up Pomerania to the King of DENMARK, that they are about to declare war against him. This, however, is a French statement. It is still difficult to find nut the real situation of Munvr. He is certaiuly not in a prosperous way, and appears endeavouring to secure his retreat by difficult roads along the eastern coast. It is saii!, he still preserves Ancona, in which he has placed a gar rison of 3000 men. It is stated from Genoa, that British ships of war had received orders to capture, burn, and destroy all vessels that they find under the Neapolitan flag. Couriers are constant!) arriving at Paris from enna. The Secretary of the household of the Em press MARIA LocisA arrived ou Wednesday last. This muct have been with the concurrence of the Ca binet of Vienna. PAnis, MAY 18.—Deputations of the Grenadiers and Chasseurs of the Old Guard were yesterday presented to the Emperor, and delivered an Address, expressing their devotion and attachment. Five hun dred grenadiers, and the same number of chasseurs, have constructed a crown work on the fortifications of Charonne. The inundation works at St. Denis will be completed on the 10th of June. Fifty thou sand muskets have been removed from the magazine of Vincennes to a depot for the use of the confede rates, and 40,000 for the National Guards of Paris. This morning the Emperor reviewed the 31st regi ment of infantry. It was this regiment which re fused to obey the orders of the Duchess d'Angouleme to attack "Clause!. The name of the person who presented the Em peror with the 'vim of 25,000 f. is still unknown. Marshal Grouchy is arrived at Paris. lie is ap pointed to the command of the cavalry of the Army of the North. VIENNA, MAY 3.—One hundred florins in cash will produce 388 in paper. Our Government has concluded a treaty with Ferdinand IV. of Naples, who has agreed' to place 30,000 men under the com mand of General Nugent. The Allied Sovereigns certainly go on the 20th. The King of Saxony is gone to the Palace of Lux emburgis, near Vienna. The Empress will visit him to-morrow. it %I'm); MAY B.—The Archduke Charles is still without an t trective employment. It is said, that .6c Allies are much offended with Sweden for its lukewarmness in the cause against France. A De. claratien against that Power is spoken of. .1.. - ;sauttnn, MAY B.—They write from Vienna that the Deputies of the German Princes, of the second and third rank, have been convoked in an ex traordinary assembly. The Austrian, Russian, and Procian Commissariei have communicated to them the decisions of Congress relative to the future sys tem of military provisionment and transport. News from Florence states, that General Na. gent arrived on the 27th April at Rome, when, after having had an interview with Cardinal Sommaglia t he returned by Viterbo to his army. It is said that the King of Naples has placed at Ancona a garrison of 3000 men, and that General Bianchi is marching upon Aquila. lavx, MAY 3.—They talk of the formation of two armies of 30,000 men each—it appears that we are about to enter into the Coalition of the North. Our Governlint is occupied in arranging the colours of the caps which people may be permitted to wear. None but the Clergy are allowed to wear black silk. HANOVER, MAY s.—lt is understood that the King of Denmark has declared expressly to the Coa lition, that he will not move until he has obtained a full indemnity for Norway. Sweden ought to Lave given up Pomerania, and to have paid a large sum besides; but it has evaded doing so under various pretexts—it is therefore probable that Denmark will preserve its neutrality. BERLIN, MAY 3.—The army of General Blucher kali) , thing but complete. Many corps which are to join it are not yet even in march. A great ferment exists in Poland, and very serious consequences are apprehended. BASLE, MAY 11.—Since the Declaration of the Swiss neutrality, a perfect tranquillity exists here. Count Rapp was here yesterday, and communicated the agreeable news that France will respect our neu trality. The minor French Papers are full of the trial of one St. Clair, a Captain of Grenadiers of the 321 regiment, convicted of the murder of a girl named Kersmaker, known generally as the pretty Dutch woman. lie was sentenced to degradation and to perpetual imprisonment. As soon as his sentence was pronounced, he declared again his innocence, and stabbed himself to the heart, in presence of the whole court. COURIER EXTRAORDINARY. Friday Morn;ng. There will be a review next Sunday at the Thuil leries. A new Parisian Federation will be presented to the Emperor. The departure of the Sovereigns from Vienna is bled for the 20th. All the news from the interior states, that the roads are covered with soldiers and military equip ments. News from the frontiers announces, that the Prus sian army has made a movement to its right, in con sequenee of the moverneuts to the rear of the Aus trians. • FRENCH FUNDS. 6 per Ceuta. 5111. 75 o.—Bank Bonds £25. Brussels Papers to the 19th, and Frankfurt 15th May, arrived this forenoon. They contin , :e the unofficial details of MURAT'S disasters. It ~ stated from Nuremberg, of the 111 h inst. that t.e.. s had arrived there from Vienna, announcing that NI t •, RAT has embarked at Ancona with his family, t h at L k army was surrounded, and that but a small p at e could escape b) flying through the mountains. The arrival of Prince SCUM litTZ UNSER° at Nu.. remberg is also announced. CASSEL, MAY 10.—The equipages of Gep. Tel, tenboro are arrived here. Loutsauwa, MAY 10.—Prince. Schwartznnhrrg, ii expected to-day at Heilbron, where he will Ex headquarters. The second corps of the Auct army, under Nome Hohenzollern, is cantonerl the environs of Stocksch, !lounge's, &c. The head. quarters are at Stock:tell. CARlAltellt, MAY 10.—Thp Prince Royal of Wirtemberg arrived here yeiterday from his head. quarters at. Bucharest, and set out this mottling on the road to Kehl. • FRANKFORT ) MAY It—The Archduke Charles arrived here yesterday: We have received from Italy the following news :—The people of Gihbio were preparing to massacre several persons known to be. lung to the party of Murat ; but the respectable Bishop of that town succeeded in saving them from the rage of the people; he could not, however, pre. vent the Sub-Prefect, and one of his clerks, (rem being shot. I.EIGE,• MAY 15.—The ringing of the bells an. flounced yesterday, the great event which gives us a. good King and a country. This memorable day was terminated by a general Illumination. NOTICE. " The High Allied Powers had decided at the Congress the fate of our-city, and of the countries on the right bank of the Meuse, and had ceded them to his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, there re. mained only to put the last hand to this cession to which our future prosperity is attached, by the deli. vering up of the countries ceded, which was done oa the 12th of this month. " This delivery, and the taking possession, in the name of his Majesty the King of the United Nether. lands, have been proclaimed to-day, at the Town-hall to the sound or trumpets, and amidst the acclama tions of the people, by Mr. Knaeps-Kenor, Pre sident of the Municipal Committee. " May 14." VIENNA, MAT 7.—The labours of the Congress upon the German Constitution are much advanced.— The Treaties of Alliance with the Prieces of the second order, and the free Cities, were ratified a few days ago: The departure of the Sovereigns,' what. ever may he said to the contrary, is not fixed, nor perhaps can it, since it depends on the labours of the Congress, the end of which cannot be precisely assigned. Nothing can equal the rage of the people in Italy, particularly the Tuscans, against the adherents of Murat, against the French, and those who a'e bus pected of being their partizans ; this animosity give rise to tumultuous scenes at Leghorn, which the mi litary force alone could oppose. Two Neapolitan ships from Capri entered the port of Leghorn on the 17th of April, thinking it still in the possession of the Neapolitans. They had on board a number of an cient French Custom-house officers, who were imme diately arrested and conducted to the prisons in the fortress. GHENT, MAY 16.—An authentic letter, received from Vienna this morning, informs us, that all Italy is delivered, and that Murat has embarked. • PARIS, MAY 13.—Opinions are still much di vided in this country ; In some places they hare changed, but not in favour of Bonaparte. The in stability of the people, like a wave, drives in all di. rections the white and the tri-coloured cockade; in Franche-Comte all is on foot, not against the fo reigners who threaten to invade France, but against the conscription, and the embodying of the National Guard, which does not intend to march. Troubles have also broken out at Grenoble, and it has been necessary to send thither the garrison of Chambery. The Constitution and the despondency of the Ly onnese surpasses all conception. Ali business is at a stand in that immense city ; there reigns in it that gloomy silence which is usually the precurser of an approaching and terrible explosion. In many other places, even those where the partizans of Bonaparte appeared to have the most decisive superiority, the wind has certainly changed ; peopie's eyes are opened, and the ant:lent illusion in respect to Bonaparte is wholly dispelled ; the people declare not only against the revolutionary measures that are adopted, hut even the acceptance of the new Constitutional Act will not have the success that the Government promised it self front it; and it is still uncertain, not withstanding all the stage trick with which Bonaparte, according to his custom, surrounds this vain formality, w hether it will be favourably received in a single place in France ; every where men of sense louldly oppose the adoption of it ; and they are not content with inscribing on the Registers their votes on this sub ject, bat they add to them the declaration of I ir motives, and with a frankness and holdne-s that things are prodigiously changed f o r R onspai te, su d that his power is now nothing more that nominal. BRUSSELS, hIAT desertion among t!;(' French troops continues without interruption ; ett'l day there arrive at the frontiers Officers of all rinks. subalterns, and soldiers, who forsake the stolid ird poratiarte to place thecpselves under that of Oa P I M V 8 is al