The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-09-13 00:00:00

), F E .. I' a MI ._ TIE STATESMAN. • tintless by a Certiesgenian privateer, she was Gaffed 64 Place confidence, Sire, in those soldiers with to p.tt into that pro t fnr supplies. The Commander whole )ou should have surrounded a throne which sif the Csranir intended in hose destroyed her, but they hail so inn; and so well defended. What calm • - oil Capt. Corn representing that her loss would he Mitiee would you not have spared yoor country, by •atteoded by his tub. she was buffeted to pursue her 4'0;11 so yaor person those veterans of honour 'Dyne. .* and of victory ? Sink antiquated institutions in Moarrna:ts...lusar 15.—0 n Wednesday afternlen_ nblitinti. Your preesecessors governed slaves, you II must ;Iry elle! thunder storm was eepelienced at gOvern riiizens. Let I:iiv great revolution in social Berthier and its sirinite. The wind stud hail began relations date from yoer reign. Can you. be intlif with sech vieleuce that the inhabit/Lids expected eters , ferent to such glory ? Could you prefer absolute rule moment to be burielle sbe.reins of their dwelliegs,_to a power: gentle and firm, sanctioned aiid ob e y e d • r . lWri 1 houses and many barns were blown down, •by all; which uniting in one common bond the and trees torts op by their roots. ._ .... _Erince . and the Citizen, would diffuse pro rip Jul. v 28.—1 n Gillette the discount on bills on Eng. throughout an estensive country, and d a ily rece i ve land is pitted at 15 per cent. r the benedictions of the oeople. In a moment• o f {holy enthusiasm for all that is great and good, the French nation arose en nursse in 89, for the over throw of feudal tyranny, and in your capacity as a i rreech Prince, you supported their rights—you , liave a splendid example, by preferring the rights of " Ssne.—The events which have occurred during • the people to the usurped privileges of the Nobility. these last fifteen months ire unexampled i n the an. The principles which since pot arms in our hands, tials of history. France, twice invaded by the have survived the revolutionary storm—the sa- Powers of Europe, a man sprung from the Revolts- turssalia of 93 have been unable to disgrace the hel lion raised to empire, banished and recalled by the lowed name of liberty : that dynasty by which it is Hating ; the successor of the Kings of France re- respected, will alone remain unshaken. Those sacred stored, after twenty years exile, to the throne of rights, purchased at the expense of so much blood, his forefathers, and soon after forfeiting that throne are—the sovereignty of the people—national repre through the errors of his family and incapacity of notation by popular election—the imposition of taxes his Ministers; finally, this same successor of Kings, bus ?hose Representatives—the independence of by the Rid of 600,000 foreign troops, invested anew Judges, and trial of Citizens by their Peers— with Rosa! authority; all these circumstances have the equality of all le the eye of the lava—she re completed the calamities of our country. ; sponsibility of Ministers—the liberty of the ilia " For the second time your Majesty is brought vidual—of. prep—and of religious worship— into France, which now fixes upon you her fondest the abolis en/ of confiscations—oblivion of the hopes. Fifteen months since, you stood forward as puss—irretFQcability of the sale of notional pro the deliverer of your country; you came ettentled party, A., •. l'""' with peace, you promised a good Constitution, and " Those are the sacred rights against which all the people loudly testified their gratitude and their human power will be unavailing. The Prince who joy. They were unreserved in their affection, and would violate them, would drew down upon himself thought not of setting bounds to your power. They the hatred of the people, and would perish. No power I adored you as the father of their country, and wor- can withstand the force of public opinion : if this i shipped you as an idol. With this imprudent, but truth has been hitherto unfelt, it must cease to he so. sincere love, mingled itself the incense of servile and Let not Sovereigns, ever jealous of the liberty of corruptive adulation ; men, who during twenty years their subjects, make vain promises, which they would had lived distant from the throne and from the dan- , hope to violate with impunity. The reign of de. gers of their country, usurped the place of citizens, ception and despotism is gone by, it is no longer pos. who, during that period, had exposed their lives in sible to fascinate the public eye with the shadow of its defence, and who alone should have surrounded liberty, and to lead us finally into the abyss of your person for the benefit of all. These Nobles of slavery—the . principles of the nation are unshaken, Gothic ancestry enforced on you the persuasion that ' and you will not disregard them. Your glory, you were the Providence of that nation, of which Sire, nay, even your safety, are coexistent with you were but the first Magistrate ; they set your will their integrity, and remember that that Constitution in the room of the laws, your interests in the room which declares your person sacred, offers an asylum of those of the /slate; all things were referred to your ' on l y to the just administrator of the laws, and not person, and the descendant of Henry the Fourth was . to t h e i r v i o l ator, an d t h at if t h e P r i nce abandon.; the encircled with those futile and ostentatious masks of Constitution to attack the people, the people in deference, reserved to the Courts of Asiatic tyrants; despair may also depart from it, and resort elsewhere Sweaty years adversity had not warned your Majesty for arms of defence. The internal relations of the against the dangers of flattery, and your anti.cham. country once settled by you on a firm and liberal bets were crowded with these antiquated Courtiers. 1 basis, its external relations will assume a more can. Instead of advisers, whom you needed, you were sor. , did and liberal character. Let the shameless wiles of rounded with slaves. Parasites that they were! They diplomacy, s o long mistaken for a science, be ex. taught yea to forget that the state, in which all are • ploded from the Cabinet of Princes ; in times solicitous to serve, is not less monstrous in political , w h en nations were made for thrones, and thrones not institutions than that in which all are ambitious to' f or n a ti on s, whets ambition. caprice, and force de. eommand. They led you to give that charter, sided the fate of the world, deception may have been winch, hardly granted, was violated with impunity ; taken for an art, duplicity for a virtue, violence for a concessions to public opinion were no sooner made right, but its these days, public opinion proclaims than rescinded. You ought to have been the head ot h er principles, throner are raised for the people and of sho whole Froneh people; they preferred &ear- h y t h e peop l e , log you the chief of the Chouane and readeaus•— i 44 The present age has no resemblance with those The liberty of the press was suspended. A Minister, I which have preceded it. Never did reason obtain a no less insolent than absurd, sporting with reason i nohler triumph over prejndice. Fanaticism of every and with the Representatives of the People, suds. kind lies fully exposed to the hatred of mankind, i cloudy asserted at the tribune of that House, that and there is no Frenchman who has not a just sense the modern censorship of a Cheron and Demersans I o f his rights, of his dignity, and of the duty of Kings. would, in Paris, recal to mind the censershin of 44 Become a man of the present age, Sire, mei Cato in Rome. The irrevocability of national pro- often recal to your mind the fine admonition of An. perty was shaken, the equality of rights was no tigonus to his son, ' That Kier should devote them longer bat a name; it was a virtue to have be- selves to the good of their people, that they are in. trayed one's coontry, it was a crime to have stituted to govern and not to dominate, and that served it. Priestly and Ministerial despotism arose! finally the kingly power is only a splendid servi. ready to crush the most sacred rights.--At 1 tude.' " home, the Executive Power, proceeding in direct opposition with the Legislature and public opinion, foreboded a long and bloody anarchy : abroad, France, stink in humiliation, had fallen from the rank to which 20 years of military glory had raised EXTRACT Or A LETTER FROM PARIS. her ; the King of France acknowledging himself the a; The trials of persons for seditious cries still Tamil of a British Regent, the country felt indig. continue; two persons were tried a few days since, want at such an outrage offered to its independence , f or having cried Fire Napoleon ! in the Faubourg and honour • a revolution was ripening, often Napo- S t . A nto i ne , on t h e very day of the King ' s arrival )eon appeare d.: You had neglected the rights of the in Paris. . l'he defence was highly ludicrous. The nation, and the nation deserted you, leaving you to, Advocate urged with great vehemence and gravity, fall from a throne to which she h a d ca ll e d y ou for that the Prisoner , . cried Vine Napoleon! from mere the good of all, and not for the benefit of a few flat- habit—par l'habitude, pas par !'intention. The terms of despotic authority. Your Majesty may King's law olficer replied, with equal gravity, that read lessons for futurity in the vicissitudes of the this could not be, for that the King had entered past. Instruction may be afforded you by the events Paris ' two good hours before.' it came out from of year own life, and even the errors of Napoleon the evidence adduced against them, that the Pau. may supply useful admonition. Your return is bourg St. Antoine was in a state of open insurrection effected by the aid of foreign arms; several of our on the evening of the King's arrival. The Bona- This morning we received the Paris Papers of Provinces are invaded, and the blood a France has partists had obtained • complete ascendency ; they been shed. Amidst the tumultous train which at- notice that Ith white flags were not ' Sunday last. They are miserably deficient in news. gave a regu lar s e ! tended you to the capital, your Majesty, beheld not ta k es' d own f rom t h e w i n d ows i n h a lf an hour, they Marshal NEv was to be tra ns f erre d f rom t h e Con the numerous lands laid waste, nor the orphan claim- , would demolish the houses. The result was that the ciergerie to the prison of the Abbaye " some dry ing a father slaughtered by the enemy's hand ; and order was instantly obeyed. Whole bands of Bona - Inest week, " and his trial would p ro b a bl y t a k e p l ace yet, withip the space of eight days, sixty thousand part i sts para d e d the streets. I t requ i re d a strong mi. , n some way or other soon. REONACJ LT Sr. J ii.AN Citizens bad fallen. and thousands of habitations had !nary force to restore order. The 'King's attorney, —I been destroyed. Deceive not yourself, Sire, the ma- i n allu d ing to the F aubourg S t. A nto i ne, called it n'Axarey - embarked at Havre on the 4th, for New jority and most worthy part of the nation,w hose only 6 the favourite resort of the amateurs of revolution,' : York. •There is no allusion to the rumours in circu nish is the welfare of the country, without having ' ' which created a laugh, but recollecting himself, he l a ti on o f a c h ange i n t h e Mi n i stry ; but the Reports assisted in your return, will still sustain you. You nay the KING, by FOUCKE, are at length no paid thus hi chest compliments to the universal demon- made to be beloved, but our country claims our first love.-- strations of the public joy 'which had taken place . • &iced. It is allowed that they are hawked about, Amidst the shouts of `ire le Roi, are always there on the day of the King'sfete. The result was, • heard the shouts of Vice la Nation ! {Tine la Lt.! a still louder laugh than the first. Nethittg can he and generally att r ib u t e d t o th e D u k e o f O znesreo, bertel* ! Those who wish to unite around your per. conceived more truly French, than the manner in bet the manner in which they are disavowed leaves son are not subjects eager to behold a King, but men which the Orator shrugged up his sh o uld e rs, and ene , little room- to disbelieve their authenticity: " We ate authorised by the Duke of Orgasm' to disavow who could teach the stranger that, bound by one ' t ere d, without the least embarrassment, into anothsto; *to forma I common sentiment, they will never ceasebranch of the case. nation, and in their acclamations, they hail him who it Th e Louvre is every nigght guarded by a cons- (not these identical Report') 9 or the truth of th em ) Is to command respect to their rights. The French . patsy of the National Guard. The apprehension is, but every thing which is not publish e d w i t h hi s coos people whom you once again meet, are filled with that the pictures might be destroyed. The French sent, and signed by him." Still, even in this very warm and generous feelings, but they are not incon- would burn them rather than see them removed.— di savo a su sp icion that the Reports,or something aiderately eethusiastic . The intoxication of glory has The Dying Gladiator IQ. been removed this day : it like t eas, ethem, may have been made, though 44 they van i s hed ; freed from the illusion of that extravagant i s t h e n o y statue of celebrity that has yet been car. &minion of which they have felt the Injustice and the , vied o ff . The celebrated Torso is marked out for re. _ought not to h ave b een published," is seen lurki ng danger, they will die in defence of their country, o f move!. The garden of the Luxembourg has been re- in the writer's mind.' 46 If such reports have been Mot i r liberty, and of the power which they confide to opened to the Public ; several of the trees have been made, they ought never to have been' published an d you, and which you administer for the public weal. injured by the fi res with which the P . russo can only have been distributed 'ass cooked, They require a chief, bet they will never acknow - their victuals. It exhibits a very carious appearance by persons eapabk having falsified ledge a master. 'at present, the beautifully verdant alleys, shaded o f them." But are they falsified ; . ' with orange trees, n o w covered with dirty huts e o n : and for what purpose were the comosed ? Not ' 'is The • eels inflamer is vole vs Rai) famished to behold a y p strutted for mesa and horses. Soldiers and thei r merely to b e s l em b tred flag. This is an allesseo to Henry IY. over by a powerleu epkares wives and children, in a very drsgustrug endless, reposing themselves upon the grass, or washing their raiment in beautiful marble edged reservoirs of we. ter, and hanging it to dry on the statues of Apollo, of Mercury, and of Venus. There is the greatest difference between the encampmeet of British and of the continental troops. The British camp in the Bois de Boulogne, is quite romantic; there is the greatest regard to cleanliness.. The trees are. so. low, and so close to each other, that in many instances a comrott able hut is constructed by interweaving the tops, which still contihue in a state of vegetation, and pre serve their verdure. The freshness and fragrance of the air, in the calm of evening, the music heard on every side at the quarters of the General Officers and Colo nels, the neighing of horses, and the voices of the men heard at a great distance, produce a most pleas ing effect. The troops with their officers are all iu motion at five o'clock in the morning, and continue either marching or manoeuvring for three hours. This is cousidererl necessary for the preservation of their health and discipline. The officers of sub ordinate rank ore delighted with their present life. They all keep horses, ride every day into Paris, and return at night to sleep in camp. This beautiful wood has been 9oniew hat injured, but not permanent ly. The _ trees cut down for fi ring were only of two or three years growth, and in that time will be in a good, if not better, condition that before. The blood road, which runs through the wood, is every day crowded with bands of music, conjurors, done . ing dogs, and every other source of amusement which the poverty and ingenuity-of the French could invent to beguile the English soldiers of their money. It is astonishing with what quickness they communicate n ith each other in mutual ignorance of each' other's language. The l'russian quarters are never frequent ed by any description of French, even to sell trinkets or refreshments. Not a single print of Marshal Blucher is to be seen in any of the windows in Paris, there are very few even of the King of Prussia. Prints of the Prince Regent and the Duke of Wei lsngtoti, are to be seen in every print shop. Most of the prints of the Prince Regent are from portraits 1/dm - executed whilst his Royal Highness was Prince of Wales. Paris was never more crowded with English ; it is amusing to read the invitations to them placard ed on all the walls, in broken English, from rope. dancers, fencers, ventriloquists, and inventors of curious philosophical recreations,' all concludingwith compliments to the great wealth and munificence' of Thu English 'nation." LETTER OF .1 FRENCIIMAN TV THE KING. STATE PAPER. The Emperor of Austria grants en asylum to King Joachim, within the limits of his dominions, under the following conditions : CONDITIONS. Art. 1. The King is to assume the title of a private individual, the Qaeen having adopted that of the Countess of Lipona, it is suggested that his Majesty should adopt the corresponding title. 2. The King is at liberty to chose any town in Bohemia, Moravia, or Upper Austria, as the place of his residence. f his Majesty should think proper to live in the country instead of in towns of the said province, no objection will be made on the part of the Emperor. S. The King is to engage on his honour (parole), in the presence of his Imperial Majesty, that he will not quit the Austrian dominions, without the el., press consent of his said Majesty, and that his mode of life suitable only to that of a private tier.. son of rank, and that he will submit to the laws la force within the Austrian States. In the faith of which arrangement, and according to the established ovege, the undersigned has, by the command of the Emperor, subscribed the present Declaration. Given at Paris Sept. I, 1815. L. S. . (Signed; Le Prince de METTERNICH. Art. alai's. Ilse 1 0 0 1 PRIVATE CORRESPONDENC E. I'RICE OF STOCKS THIS Sails S per Cent. Red. •►ut per Cent. Conk 543 i 4 per Cent. shut per Gent. Nui. 13-In • DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. I.4ne, Ann. shut India Bonds 7 8 ti Exchequer Hill, 4 6 d Oniogum 6i 7 Consols fug Atte. 571 THE STATESMAN. LONDON: W EnNrEsnAY. SEPTEMEEIt 13, 1815. and then thrown into bis escrutoire to rot. 1r • it ' are told by the very Correspondents of the which has denied the authenticity of those docunirtri in this very same, silly, and equivocating m an „, that " the King of FitAxch, alluding to the & Ton i' Report in his Council the other day, eddressed him. self directly to Fouciri, and rem irking upon t h at part which steles that there are but* ten Deparrtap„,, in all France devoted to the BOURBONS, sahl, 6 y ol rely not a little on my desire to learn, and My p t tience to support the truth, since you venture submit so indecorous end equivocal a stat arr ,„ t; .„ end that " from that moment M. Forcrit foresaw L:, dismissal, but was prevented from giving in leis tliSig. nation at once by the advice rf his patty." Ei ther the Courier or its Correspondents have been fibbing , here; and as to the assertions of the Paris Editors, we would beg leave to ask ISem, if the state France is not such as is described in these Relarn, what is the actual situation of that country, i n , t , gard to the important points touched on by (he sister, or those who have taken upon them to im prove his representations ?—Hawked about p a y. ! and read and discussed publicly! ego not the truth or falsehood of the statemem i be easily seen when this is the case ? Dim laminarie, indeed, " that shine like lights in sepulchres," afraid to show the Golgotha by which years set. rounded, we question you in vain. Your allotr a g I task of slavery is your best excuse. T ru th h as eta had to steal her way from beneath the iron sceptyy s g despotism. But. she also has her hear of trial:111A ; and joined with liberty, • Immortal Liberty, with look sublime, I " 131Pnrh the tyrant's cheek in every varyin g c li me ." There is no intelligence to be relied upon from the South. An attempt is snide on very poor authority, which sufficiently indicates the state of ignorancein which the public mind is kept at Paris in regard led. affairs elsewhere,to induce a belief that the assemblag a in arms against th.. King's Government in the Cevennes are not nearly so considerable as has been stated-- In fact, that the transactions, at Nismes and else. where, which have occasioned so much dread, hats been but very trifling affairs indeed. But the former statements in these Papers, from far more rreditab'e sources, and the Proclamations of the Austrian Ge. octal, of the Prefect and Commandant of the De. partment of the Gard, as well as the Ordinances of the French Government itself, will not allow us to attach much belief to these on tilts of anonymcal customers of the Journal de Paris. Nothing further is said in the Journals respectirg the Peace. The state of the Funds, which rends steady at 62f, indicates that considerable confidence it reposed in the statements which have been pot into circulation respecting the Treaty. Indeed, the hopes held out on this subject, and arising from the sp. proaching meeting of the Legislative Chambers, sp. pear to be the chief causes of the present tranquillity, these hopes shall be disappointed, France sad Europe know what they have to expect% The'private letters . speak more positively on the subject of the terms of the Treaty. Some of them assert. that it was signed at Paris on the 27th alt. sid ratified in London on the Ist inst. The integrity of the French territory, they assert, is folly maintain ed ; and the Allies ere only to occupy certain for , tresses until the final pay/emit of the war contrib.- tion, which France is to pay to the Allied Powers is part discharge of the expence occasioned to them by the late rebellion. Of these sums the portion allotted to England is Nine Millions Sterling, not the teeth part of our disbursements during the last twelve months, and very far from authorising the hope test any one tax imposed on account of the war will be speedily removed. The Paris letters further slate, that the Allies at first wished to include Strasborgh, Metz, Lisle, end Besancon among the cautionsry towns ; but upon the urgent remonstrances of the French Government, those places were extunpted from hostile occupation. Much caution, they Flo has been used in drawing up the arrangements for the future residence of the Allied troops in France. They are not to be raised with the French troops of the line; but to do the common garrison duty of tie towns they occupy, jointly with the National Guards. The whole number stationed in France is to be 150,000, viz. 50,000 Austrians, 50,000 Pr °l " tier's, 15,000 British, 15,000 Russian, and 20,00 0 Bavarians, %Virtembergers, &c. Various other sti pulations are agreed on by all parties to secure the future tranquillity of Europe ; and hopes of a surd aria durable peace are, in consequence, entertained, — but not by us, if no other means are to be adopted to remove the cause of all the danger than Armed precaution, brute force, and the oumeliorated I"Y of the BAUM/lONS. The most able and interesting Letter to tl.•e Kin;► ascribed to M. Manual., a Member of the le* Chamber of Representatives, which we this day in sert, and which is one of the publications suppressed by the French Government, though the answer to it is allowed to be sold, would better instruct the Sovereigns of Europ►• a• to the proper and the VII means that can ensure stability to their thrones sal tranquillity to the a orld. We have not room tot ther to remark on the wise and temp•:ate policy rt. ' commended in this . document, which it is crr'i"►dl not to the credit of any Government fo ittror l to stifle. 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