The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-10-16 00:00:00

i. ~. ma c=:=: r ~~ THE s'rATEsmA N. his eye on the Tribueeso, and observing them to be me l ee, enquired upon what grounds the public were F ar o, Oct. 10. eectutled from a Sittig, which had for its object a matter of public interest as the verification of 'rep (Mambo!. of Deputiro cemmenced its sittings the e poweredelegeted by the people to their Represeii. egt.!.l'.. The public Here erlinitted only for a few tAises ? .1t was objected it! answer, flak( the House mietutes, hut e I ar to •k placeduring those few minutes not being yet constitut J, public admission to its de gave a very strong impreseinu of the geiteral cletrac ooerations would be pi PlTltUte. ter of a French deliberative assembly. It was like& But if the foreging piles relative to the verificationglimpse of a whirlwind : all was heat, and hurry, slid of the powers of the Deputies. ehat is, whether they. eeerission, upori ;mints of little or uo interest. Vie have teen duly eteeted or tint, a ere gone through French r hat erter s. no where more visibly (lisp's yed ; • withsome lenity, there is one point ripen which it aft ersevete , propositions have bees successively made must be allowed that, infinite stress was laid, and and Tele. led, an Orator rn"un t stb e tr ibune, sd i a ` ts "' s which %Ai iiiyes•igeted with the closest severity; that papers artitlislress, and frrociteds to offer his views, is, the quota of smite ibutions which Should qualify itith a perfect conviction that he is going to set the' an individual to sit in the llo'use, namely, a thousaod noes•ion completely et 'rest : his reception is more francs a year. The result" of the verification of do. etertifi ieg than that of his predecessors, but still he cameos f orthis purpose, made by the reporter, was, is nor embermtsed. Their practice of murmuring • the esclusien of several Members, th r ee of whom sat a;v upon the least difference of opinion, is e_ t he late Arouse of Deputies, the eloquent and po. net or'y entera-y to the general courtesy of French pular Flaugergues being of the number. One Mem. inenners, hut extrenvely unfair and indecorous. 'flieir• her moved that the documents relteive to this point &hates upon subjects where• their passions are 1 11: should be read - aloud hurl extimined publicly, that the t.'n.steci must be a cu r i o " spectacle , contrasted w ith House might form its own judgment of their. validity, the calmness and regularity with which public or pri but the motion was over-ruled, by the consideration tan- deliberations are eneducted in England. There 'of its being illiberal to question the veracity of the teas n considerable degree of disorder amongst them, rePorter. .even in the presence of the King, at the niteoing of Thus the discussion of every important question the Chambers. Greta importance is attached to the was eluded, and the verification of the potiers of nnatificetion which two of the Peers annexed to their nearlytwo-thirds of the new House was dispatched bathe; it has been produetieref much alarm in this 'fettle limits of a couple of hours, to the great saris eilbtitt mind. The 'reservation concerning the Catho faction of Ministers and of the Court, who, from this Mc Heti:rine is u.nderstood to have been made by thefti suspicious beginning, Will probably find as much du. with 'a reference to the restoration of churCh pro- edit,' in this House as Bonaparte ever did in the most perty, Sielrl during the Ile-tont - ion. M. De Polignae, ebieet of id 3 legislative assemblies. one of 'lie Peers who q talified their oaths; is the; Frem the manner of forming this House, it cannot private frieed of the 'Duke or Angouleme, and sop. be surprisieg that a high aristocratic spirit should pre -' poser! to be the otgen.of that Prince's sentiments.-- veil in it. Th•• epeniog of the Chambers has hitherto •tended 'The King, by au Ordinance issued on his return, Much morl'• to agitate than tranquillize the Parisians; assutnieg to himself the constituent power, authorised cries' are more •frequeet in the streets ; every Prefect to add 20 individuals to the Electoral and quarrels, endimg• in bloodshed, between the College of his Department ; these individuals are se riussians and Freech, •are so frequent, than they lected by the Prefect, who is himself uppointed by no longer attract perticuler 'mike. It is said Royal authority. ' 'the Prussians are to . he removed from Paris, and Evert , Depar•rnent, according to its extent and po. to be succeeded by I‘;taglisli troops, for the pur- potation, is disidt'd into three, four, five, or even pose of test - ming public tranquillity. A most ran- si r a rrondisectitsals ; each of the latter elects a tient guitaary conflict took place at one of the barriers, in• ber of caielidates'equal to teat of the Deputies which consequence of the refusal of some Prussian officers the Department sends to tie Legislative Body.— to pay the ditty .nn eine whicu they brought into Thus, if the Department sends four Deputies and Paris; two Prussians and several peasants were contains four arrondissements, 16 candidates are desperately ouci!ed. Another riot took place on elected by the letter. he Electoral College of the the quays on Saturday, immediately after the King's Department (a hich consists of electors named for lire rms rut teem the Clia saber 'of Deputies; several by the Primary Assemblies) then selects two out of c hid ) , rn i;•es , cried Vice r Empereur; 16, and they terminate tine other two from among the petice and Netienel 0, ird lode& stationed along 'such other candidates as may present themselves for the lint' 'where the King es aa to -pass, there was not that purpose. It sufficient force to restrain the Bonaparti.ts, who isle .bled its great numbers near the Place de Greve.' CHAMBER OF PEERS, Ocr. 10. ft suss bete that so much blond had been shed dor.. The Sittige commenced at noon. ins the Revelutine; it is stilt the place where capi- • Tne Peers newly created having assembled with the tai MT-oilers are guilletitted. • There 'is a strong former 'Members in the Chamber, the President di etutess'On of ferocity in the crowds that are 'at reeled them to withdraw until introduced by two all tittles to he seen in this part of the Fans. , Peers, conformably to the regulation. bourg it. Antoine ; they gave free expression to The new Peers complied with this direction, and their feelings whilst the King was passing at some' it was agreed that, in consideration of what had distance, and insulted some Prussians, who with le•ssed at the Roe al Sitting, it would not be necessary aiffico;ty escaped. On tau following day a strong to go through any other formalities previous to taking Prussian force, with three or foe,' pieces of cannon, their seats. iuriseunded this quarter of the town, and summoned i The take de la VAUGUYON moved that an excel,. all the inhabitants to appear before the Commanding tiou be made with respect to the two Peers, Comets Officer ; it was apprehended th a t they would have Jules de Foliose and Labourtlonnals de Blossec, filed upon the houses. The greatest consternation who announced restrictions in taking the oath in the was spread throughout all Paris ; the general cry i Royal Sitting. was that the Allies were going to sack the too n.i After some debate the Chamber resolved that a The troops and the cannot, remained stationed in this • copy should be transmitted to these two Piers, ac twiner, and no person was permitted to retire for; companied with a request for them to sign it. . genie hours. The'Officer who commanded the Pros- I The Duke de Gratienont and Count de roulettes,' siatis at length told them that no injury should then , appointed Commissioners to carry this resolution into he inflicted upon them, but that they should be re- I @lied, and to whom had been joined ex officio the sponsit.le for any disorder committed there in future. Duke de Richelieu, and the former Bishop of Lan- The seve. est threats were held out, no less than the , gres, returned into the Chamber, and reported that demolition of the houses. The troops were then o r - the two Peers persisted in their objection, and had deter' to reties with the cannon. Notwithstanding • withdrawn. this, I saw +hi ee 'temps, two of whom were French; On the invitation of the Chamber the ether Peers sol,!iers, taken MS there the next day for seditious recently cleated entered and took their seats. (" f irs ; even the was instil:ed oe his return from Princes of the Royal Family were at the same the Chamber of Deputies. It is quite clear that the time introduced, accompanied by a Grand Prebendary, met active means are adopted to irritate and Ceetate and preceded by hie Peers. They took their seats the e e ee t e o f Paris ; lampoons and caricatures among the oilier Peers. ree ,;„, i the Ke e , and the (Loyd Family are not only 'l:..' Duke de Is VAUOUYON now proposed that it tirrolated, hot even sold privately in the ships ; they should be an established principle, that a Peer not exer • their :maginations in every possible way to bound by the same oath as his coliesgus, s h ou ld not b e /r,ake the King odious and ridiculous. admitted to a seat in the Ceamber. Count LANJUNAis proposed simply to resolve that the admission of the two Peers was deferred without I expressing the motive, and to declare, that according to the forms of the regulation, the oath to be pro., nouticed in the Royal Sitting should be made the sub ject of the plan of a law, as a law only could re gularly make any disposition with respect to the con dition of a cilizati. Count BettateMetteors was against the proposal of a law, on the ground that his .%lsjesty had al ready inserted in the obligation of obedience in the Charter, and in tee oath prescribed by the last Ordinance of the Royal Court of Pails, and in that lateen by the two Chambers. '!'lie Duke of Itiettereeu said—God forbid that it should ever be interred, from what is stated heti., that ally deliberation of the Chamber tends to in fringe the Roe al Prerogative, and deprive a Peer of being one of its Members ; but the Chamber, as the judge of its own reitileges, may suspead the exer cise of the functions of a Peer. '1 he Abbe doers-es tor repressed the same opinion, and added that in England, silica the passing or the Test Act, there had always been Peers who iefuscd to tahe the oaths, and who preserved their Peerage without the right of sitting and voting. M. de LUZIHNE (the former Bishop of Langres) moved that it should be merely inserted in the Ali outer, 'that the Peers who had taken the oath bud been admitted to it. Count leistreyiese seconded this motion. Count CORNI3 also supported it, observing that the case was too delicate to admit of any other pro ceeding. Count LALLY-TOLENDAL proposed to nulle the two propositions into one, and to make it an article of the regulations of the Chambers, for this purpose he moved a resulutien in these terms:—`' The ad- PRIV.4TE CORRESPONDENCE. Park 9rt. 10. The House of Deputies met yesterday (the 9th of October), and proceeded to the very important busi ness of v.rifyirrg the powers of the Members returned by the late elevtions. The (louse is (hoick(' for this purpose, as well as for the transacti.ni of other mat. tors, into burettlx, or section , , nine in number, each of which has its President; t: , e choice of the latter iris as might be expected, upon characters chrelly tec , ,romenderl Icy the distinctions of rank and .birth, a: well as by their unre.er‘ed devotion to the /Royal cause; such are the P•ince Do Montmorency, Mons. DP Bin611(1, the Alarquis De Frottc, the Count De See), &c. Proceeding in the discharge of such important du ties, it was natural to examine, as a primary point, the in'structions siren by Ministers to the Presidents . o f 11e Electoral Colleges, who were app o inted by ilie King; communication of.these itictructintis nes requested and poremieorily refused. The chief mo 4ive which induced the enquiry for these instructious was, that of their centainit.g one point in particular, which had given general umbrage to the Departments, namely, the committing to the Presidents of the .Electoral Colleges the exclusive charge of scrutit,ising and calling over the votes; the consequence of which arrangement is, that if the President happen to be more influenced by party zeal than by a d•ie sense of the obligations of his true, he mug, on taking up the written votes dictate to the Secrete' ies the name hest suited to his party, then tenting the vote, which is the custom, the impossibility of detection is secured. • The proces•verbalv, or minutes of the proceedings of the Colleges of arrntalissrments were submitted to •the House, but, in consequence of its being observed that it would take up lon muds lime to examine them, they mere not gone into, and thus the due qualifica tions of the candidates were not investigated. . _ 41! The galielies iv her. Arangsrs are admitted. Tribuce, taken in the wugutar, is the plaq Inano which the Nteiaiwi !peaking nrtnie, , e: 'twit low, u, We) ever sktuk tr their Kat.. A Member in the co , tise of the debit haring esti 1 ____,, m i ss i on o f t wo Pe ers , wh o did not purely and simply more exact idea of the p re d om i nant spirit of ti.• take the oath prescribed in the Royal Sitting, is 1 party re-adionnaire, than the desi gest i ou of ilt,: ; suspended." . • , ['Jacobins. It is the same f ee li ngs o f eza,perari„ e The Duke (lit Betterlsupported et length the opi. ; the same hatred of every thing co nnecte d with I;,' ninn of the Bishop of Langres, which, as it merely i Revolution, the same means w hi c h t h ey employ to implied lie suspensive of the rights.of the Peerage, l restore absolute power, which the Jacobi n , 0,,,d to avoided all extrneeous questions. ; overthrow it. They have began by obtainin g pot After a long discussion the proposi'ion of Count 1 se-sion of nll the places in sdmittistiatinn and poll ee . Lilly-T(II(4HW was agreed to, reduced to the form they have th e ir agents eve!), wlte , l. ; their missioaarie' Din resolution and finally adopted. : and their spies; in all the principal cities Cey h a ,: The PecsIDIENT then directe d a copy of the Speech : secret committees, composed of pure royalists, 01 , delivered by his Mijesty to be read, in order that mark nut those persons wham they snsiett, mol ii,. the Chamber might proceed to the consideration of the_same as was (lone by the .1 tcoliiii Clubs, an d Ih . an Address in reply. Cnnimittees of Enquiry. It uas they 1411 9 ur4c) The Duke de la VauGuios mile a speech on the the dish toding of the army of the L o i re , an d raiod state of affairs, the printing of w bleb was ordered. shese loyal corps which they reckon soots to 0. . to Ile concluded by tooting the plan of an Address. in est•cote tbeir 5..-hemes of velwelth-e. lilt it' wit,which were remarked a total silence respecting men. cliii.lly of importance to them t o b Ise the Chinn. sores of rigour end the most touching elusion of t bets on their side. For this purnase th e y con , sentiment on the neces•ity of union and peace amonit aired to obtain no Ortioneance w hi. i t aat h or i ;ed the all Fiettchmen. The latter part of the speech in l'refects to nominate I:clnq cl•clors o f their ozz,, particular was heard with a general feeling of appro. choice, in each electoral assembly, witho u t ro . billion. i tlectieg that these electors, not being chosen 1) The Address was reforrt•d to a Committee, and the Chamber adjourned to Saturday neat. PARIS, Ocr. 11.---1 ryas much surprised to find in one of the Papers of this morning a detailed account of what passed in the Chamber of D..putirs yesteida y. The other Journalists might he accused of negligence, were not the Editor of that Paper guilty of great indis cretion and impropriety. soreral pers ,, us had very improperly introduced themselves into the Tribuifes, but M. Calvet.de Nledellati oho., red, that the Cham ber not being constituted, it was contrary to the regu- Winos of the House to render the sittings public, and tile. President ordered the Trihunes to he cleared. The Ushers in waiting, on requesting the Journalists to retire, particularly desired they should destroy their notes, obserting,' that if the Papers published the Sittings, the offioers charged with the Police of the Chambers would be seriously compromised. AU the Journalists most willioglv complied with the re. quest, the Editor of one Paper excepted, who made use of his notes, and not only gate an account of the Sitting, but of what pissed in the Secret Corn mittee. As the hand shakes, and the memory is treacherous, when one is agitated by the fear of being taken in flagranti &lido, the Editor made a gross mistake. 1k stated that the verification of the powers of Messieurs Michaud and Baert had been adjourned, whilst two Deputies were admitted with out opposition. It is scarcely worth while listening at the door to be so ill informed. I am yet unable to state what is to he the fate of the seven persons taken up the other day, near the Pont Notre Dame, by the Prussians ; whether they will be tried by our Court of Justice, or by the Prus iian Council of War. The Journal des Debuts, which was the only papor that spoke of the affair, had its numbers seized at the Post-Office. • )ir the people, and consequently unconslitutinnal, re s . tiered the validity of the electiens very deobtful.—. But by those means they secured the n, ulinrj,`a of Nobles of puce and ardent Royalists, nod at the same time crushed the popular party a e d the re. volutinitary men. Ilene., there sno great es . peered ftorn thus Chamber of Depeties• arrived, and the agents the Prior. s cored le es into Cometi . lees to Rive them ittstruc•i ins coafo.e. able to their s i 2We. ThP greater part, ..teesioy the Deputies from the South, do not conorial hsi r timenta. They do net ssy that it is tiectrece v s o 4 „. iiihilato the charter, but only to suspend it for a r,. w years, and to give the Kieg tint e..it ;cord p evil% It will only be necessary to get rid of rhos* whose eminently guilty. A pers-n counected e i ) s ,h e Court said, a few days nen, Kat it woull It t e te, cieot to demolish a thou-atel heads in ea, h &put. latent, in order to SeCtre tend c tratiquilli y. I. i s also a plrt of their plait to make the net men of wealth, those of the Revolution, pay the gre,,,,, r part of the contributions, and to suspend the cons stitutional law which aholishes the confiscation of property. You must not be surpriaed if you seethe Journals of the party, viz. the Journal des Watt, the Journal General de France, and thearceidenne, speak this language. These Journals are entirely devoted to them. As it is necessary to force the public opinion, which is not on their side,it isdoubt ful whether the Chambers will re-establish the liberty of the press, though even upon the supposition that they slid, the Opposition Journals would not dare to speak very freely. In spite of ill the manceuvres of the White Jaco. bins, this party does not gain strength. The auks Lions of the country, which weigh mote or less upon all, have already cooled a good many hot heads, 'gee among the nobility, and the annunciation of a disgraceful peace has created a general ferment. The people connect these public evils with the return of the King and the emigrntiti, end the royal cause therefore. does not gain ground. A particular indig nation is felt towards the While Jicohins, who pal. Bate the devastation of our provinces, and the ruin of the people, rejoice at the destruction or removal of our monuments, and solicit the Allies to remain' in France; PI little do they feel themselves supported by treettion ! The conditions of the Treaty of Peace dls i ost every one, and it is wondered how the Kele and his Ministers could sign the degoolaii , e. of France. The Ernpero' of Russia has olea:ned nee mitigetien of them it is said ; he has f rmaey de. lelated himself in favour of France against the Duke of Welliegtott and Lord Castlereagh. and this die; cord may have some consequeures. The stripping of the Gallery, ordered, protected, and executed by the Duke of Wellington, has elicited the whole of Paris against him, and to niched his character in the opinion of men) Englishmen who are here. Though it is well known that England has a greet interest in annihilating the power of Frame, yet it was not expected that -he would, ncourage thedevaso• lions of tee Allied A• rnies: for ceitaioly, England who produced this war, who has paid its en;eiro,, alto will deri se from it the principal advantage, mile have prevented much ev.l, having the right to inter• pose her nuthod y, which would have been Hoene' to. N. one is he dl i e of the police of the Eighths Government. The King has only been the instra. silent of its nmbitioo, It is well kn.», n that if the strong places in the la hth, which are for the King, are taken away, it is oily to have a line of defence in the Netherlands at t, e expeuce of France, and to save England Item the c large which she must other• wise incur in conseqese ce of her Treaties with B'l* gium. It is known ,that it is not for the sake of the Allies she acts; if she supports the Bourbons it is because her interest requires that France should he governed by feeble Priti.es, who will not interfere with }ter. When we compa r e the conduct of the English Goverment with its declarations end pro mises, we can no longer he the dupes of its peril* Vole perceive that our situation is %Arlen ly settled, because instead of trartquillising all parnor the Government awakens and stimulates them. It supposed that a system of terror will strenehen rbe Throne, but it is a great error. o.ilivion of the toe ! end moderation, were the only means of cal:ilea all Frenchmen round the Monarch. The wart of r epose and of peace is universally. felt ; but the Frenel r ifle will not sacrifice their rights and their nor will they submit to lie get ererd pre , c-ablY h! 3" exclusive teethe' who would rerulie de us front all places in the lirrne, in the tribunals, in the administration, ned arroeate to itself privileeei lta miliatiog to the rest of the eatine. Daehiless lie should heitilrl aid) pleasere the 'ramie sarrer:vl col ni:h thou : w t i h m e se sm i a . l ! l eu t t i s ut a n i b i e d r ; ( 1 . 5 ices late tint rd with our history, and if sacrifices must he made to , t .i.t; , e the meets of maintaining their rank reel oats be t•a4er to make tl.eut : hut this ord r things does not reqoire the sbelition of the nee , the penple, a.ol of the (Amite which secures them.. thatsri!! t-v," • It is lint believed the Chamber` Hist' the Liberec of Idle Pries for the party of re-actioa <heals it. It is saia, o tory, that.they still vropose to suppross all the J tads eacept a single onc. They talk of the estaleishment of an ties; for each department to bz confined t 0 t • futt..s ef :he department. One of the Papers had spoken in detail of the se cret sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on Monday. The Reporter did not retire with the other inurvial ists on that day, but hid himself under one of the benches: Ile was watched yesterday, and when the order to retire was iscutd, he was seen to hide him self again under the bench, and was immediately surprised by the messenger. Six persons have been condemned at Sirstsburgh for seditious cries. The wife of a Chef de Battalion of artillery ssss (t iournbiPp. Order is said to have been restored at Montpelier: but the Paper published in that town on Monday gives no details on the subject. No., Ott. 9. Do not imagine that the change rif Ministry has at all ameliorated our political situation. The public were much alarmed at first , because it was said that the Ministers retired only to avoid signing a Treaty of Peace which was Itundliutitig to France (which was not true), and to - prove — by their secession, that the part of re-action predominated in the secret councils of the King. This could not be doubted when the joy was observed which the resignation of the Duke of Otranto occasioned, and the fury with which he was attacked. The reputatiou, however, which he enjoys is so great, that the tieclametions of the Jour taliat•, both English and French, did not prevent him from being considered as the man who was best able to suppart the (Its one of the 13aurbons in tl:e cri tical circumstances of the present moment. There is much wanting to make the new Ministry equally capable of conducting the vessel of the State. But the choice of them was generally approved, because it was expected that they would consist entirely of pure royalists, /den re-actionnair. s; and it Was from motives of prudence only that the patty of White Jacobins admitted any persons of the revolution. Had any other course been adopt ed, there would have been too much alarm ex cited. I will now enable you to know these Ministers. Vaublatic, the Minister of the Interior, is a moderate constitutional man, and •a good admi nistrator. Some astonishment was felt that the oath of haired to [(wally which he took during the revolu tion did not prevent his nomination. De Cases, the Minister of Police, was a Steward of the Household to Madame Letitia ; afterwards a protege of Queen lloriettse, and then Prefect of the Police of Pa.is.— lle is a fine young mall, amiable and lively, but with out experience of affairs, stud one who will be purely passive Limier the henda of the counter-revolutionary pelt). 'Flue Minister of IVar is known; he is sold to the party, and detestettby the di-banded army.— He is not distrusted, although lie served Bounpat to with fidelity. Beebe Marbois is an hottest old man ; a good cal. al ,t or ; formerly President of the Chaat. I ber of Accounts. Ile is thought to be a Constitu tionalist, and no one expected to see him Minister of Justice. Deboucharges, the Minister of Marine. is placed there because that office is at present a sinecure. Any one would have done for the situation ; but he is of the early of the Duchess D'Attgouleme. The I Duke de Richelieu, President of the Council, an I Mi nister for Foreign Affairs, is a good choice. lle did not wish to accept it, because he did not know France; but the Emperor of Russia prevailed upon him. if all the royalists resembled him, the public weal steed not be despaired of. The greater pert of these officers aW not remain long in office, unless they couselit to become the in. strumetits of the party: sshic:i prevails nt Court, and which calls for vengeance. Nothing can give you . r'TPW' A P tt. U p.' ~1 ; 1 ,~ L I i) )