The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-07-17 00:00:00

THE STATESM AN. This morning the Uuke arrived to review the whole NEXT WEDNESDAY TILE GRAND LOTTERY 'BE v! the Natioithl Guards. GINS. ALL THY. TICKSTS DRAW?i THAT DAY mu.r RR PRIZES. AND, MAY INCLUHE THE • General Nlnuton-Duternet, on taking the cont. 7ytLt E CAI I I rims of atIVVO, Z 911,0,10, aid XJOOO. mend lieoe, issued a Pluclamllinn by Ito MP:IIIS Cott. )in the friend: of peace. Ist it lie declares„ that the Representatives, as well as hinsself, hate 'worn never to consent to the return of a Govern• Meld proscribed by our Intatutions. Caution have been placed along the quay of the 1 : 4301Ie a camp id formed at the gates of tae city —. Thai peasants of the vicinity, and even the inhabi. trots of the suburbs, ate flocking into the interior of Lyons with their cattle, furniture, and all they eau carry off. Every thing, in short, announces war, though all the world desite peace. mow. llaWpirgh • 3 0 U . llolland 0 France Arr. PR ICI. or vroutis TUIK 'tam. 3 per re::t Red 5: G i l per en. 5 it 4 per Conn 72 1; 5 ver Nagy, 85 Sl3l DAY AT 'INK O'CLOCh. L-a;. Ann. India Boob` IS I d • Exchequer Hii6 2 5 d thunium 7' Dingo's fatter. 58 .7Si PRIV4TE CORRESPONDENCE. THE ST,ITESM 4N. A letter from Paris contains the following partied. lass Marshal Prince Blucher finding his de =4llth in the way of contribution, to the amount of 100 millions of francs, disregarded, caused a letter to be addressed to M. I.sfitte, M. Tendon, M. Rouge mont, M. de la Serre, N. Shirer, and M. Kock, stating that the contribution required must he forthcoming ; that they, as opulent Bankers, with the credit they possessed, mere competent to produce it; and that unless 33 millions of francs, on the first instalment of one third of the amount, were discharged within tsventy.four.houra, they would be arrested and re tained as hostages for the payment of the whole asst."—ft was, we understand, farther intimated to these Gentlemen, hut not, we believe, in the nape official form, that if any disposition was shon either to avoid the contribution, or procrastinate the liquidation of it, they would be conveyed to Prussia, and .secured in the fortress of Spandau. In this dilemma, the bankers of Paris, with other inhabitants, had addressed themselves to the Em peror Alexander and the King of Prussia, ap pealing to their generosity, and referiug to the military Convention under which Paris was surren. tiered, and to the Decl.ration by which the Confe derate Sovereigns had acquired the affection and confidence of the French people. Up to the latest hour mentioned in the letters, no reply had been ob tained, and the utmost alarm and consternation pre vailed throughout Paris. It may be satisfactory to distinguish one exception in regard to these pecuniary demands. The bother of a Gentleman, a native of England, and settled as a banker in Paris, has been exempted front every fine in respect to the nation to, which be belongs. A letter of the 12th inst. from Paris mentions, that the Duke of Wellington had taken an active part to protect not only the national edifices, but to prevent every kind of extortion.— The party from whom this letter was received stees, that he has but a small establishment, yet it has been thought sufficient to justify the quartering upon him of 11 soldiers; but he adds, 'thank God they are Englishmen, and they will conduct themselves with respect and decency. The forced exactions under the authority of Prince Blucher had not only pro. (laced alarm its Paris, but occasioned a strong sense- • tion in many considerable towns of the country where the presence of the Allied troops could not controol the public feelings, and in such situations dis- LONDON: (AY 17, 1815. The minor Paris Payers of Thursday last, which have hen receiver], and from which we have made co pi ous e x t r acts, have led us to look for the arrival of the Monitettr of that day, which is wanting, and ; the succeeding Journals, with no small degree of curiosity. But this desire has not yet been gratified (we write late in the forenoon), although in all pro. bability we shall have our wish fulfilled in this parti cular before our Paper shall go to Press: The confirmations which these absent Papers are expected to bring are highly important—they are ex ! petted to place beyond doubt the truth of the long i c rculated rumour of BONAPARTE'S capture, the cer t tainty of the statement that the French army of the Loire has placed itself at the disposal of Louts XVIII., iand that the Austrians have taken possession of Lyons, —for all these events, and many more favourable to the Dottiest:or cause, are confidently said to have taken place. Nl'e doubt the accuracy of these highly itrumpeted-forth announcements. As to the first we I have mentioned, we shall observe, en passant, that' j although all things are possible with nsigh;k and I. nothing could be so agreeable to the - Crerined Heads now. in and out of France as having in their hands the fate of a man who has given tome of them crowns, and all not a little trouble, , there is something apparently absurd, and not to be expected even by the ambition of toy !. 'alty, in supposing that the late Emperor of -FRANCE • should be voluntarily surrendered to his enemies and the enemies of his country, whilst his ablest and most faithful adherents continue to direct every act that is done in the name of o,e Government— whilst Follette is Minister of the Interior, and has the direction of the Police, by whose means chiefly we must suppose BONAPARTE would either be dis. I covered or allowed to escape—whilst the fate of France yet hangs in doubtful balance, and a political battle remains to be fought as great, perhaps, in Im. penance as the conflict of Watetloo. The existence of BONAPARTE at the present c f isi f , and the possibi lity of his return to the command of the French ar mies, supposing that may never again happ e n, must ; be of essential advantage even to Lours himself ; for I though that possibility may be made the plea of clip ping down the territorial power of France, it may also have the effect of restraining this clipping dispo sition, so prevalent among Louis's friends, within something like decent bounds, for fear of conse quences, of which the most puissant Powers of the Congress are so apprehensive. It is the policy of weakness to borrow vigour from another's strength —and this we perceive Louis is at last consenting to do. The friends of the nation ought ever to be those of the Monarch ; and his throne is built on sand, his sceptre no better than a distaff, or the in. strument of a tyrant, who seeks to rule apart from the honour, the interests, and the real friends of his country. But the truth seems to be, that Louis has been ut.der the necessity of placing himself under the protection of those who alone could ensure his safety, and give France a hope that she was no t t yet utterly annihilated ; and we err much if the same men who have lent their aid to Louis, could not, and would not as readily extend their protecting influ ence to the fallen Emperor. It may not be an al tvgether absurd supposition, notwithstanding all that has been sr.itl and conjectured on the subject, that the I two rival Alo•larchs of Fiance are lodged not far i distant from one another, and that the French na tion will yet have another opportunity (the Allies, in their gootinesq, will afford it) of deciding beiweeu them—between freedom and slavery. Dispatches are said to have been received from Capt. CocitnANE, offCherburgh, which state that the French Government announced the important fact of IIoNA rAtzor Os arrest on Thursday morning. The ac.) count received at Paris en Wednesday was, that Bow NAPARTE had disembarked from a frigate in Roche- I fort Day (in consequence of three English ships I cruizing in sight) at the Isle of Rhe, where the bat-' teries w-re occupied only by 2or 300 invalids, and consequently were incapable of soy long resistance! if attacked. From the non.arrival of the Moniteur of Thursday, the public have been led to conjecture that its publication was delayed by the insertion 'of an official article, announcing the arrest ; but had I • the circumstance taken place, we think we should I have had it confirmed through other channels before now, particularly as the telegraphs are almost con. stantly in motion, and this is an event which our Ali. nisters would have very great pleasure in announcing. The return of the army of the Loire " to their duty to the King," which has been notified to the .; National Guards of Paris may mean nothing more .u~ ...r than the return of the French troopi towards the capital, where their presence,• and the discharge of ".• their duty to the country," seem to be imperiously necessary for the purpose of *Ding or restraining the rapacity and atrocities of the Prussian soldiers, though their Sovereign is on the scene of their extor t , Lion and depravity. Every one but the advocates of crime and remorseless, uteliitingaishing itthomanity wall read with indignation and disgust the amounts which are given both through public and private chan nels, of the respect paid to individual as well as to Ipublic property by the Prussian soldiers, and their .General of Faro-loving, as well as fighting celebrity. They not merely seem to consider the property of the !Parisians who were so kind ns to atln•it them into their city, in the hope they would pay some respect to the Convention by virtue of which they entered, as their own, and partied by conquest, het as if they alone were the conquerors, as if the victory of Water. I lon, and the subjugation of the military power of France had been entirely accomplished by them ! as if the downful of the man against whom they said they alone made war gave them a rigit to oppress and pillage the country. Blucher is said to have de manded of the Bankers of Paris 33 millions of francs as an instalment of the 100 millions levied on the city of Paris, nod in case of nott•payment has threatened to send three of the principal Bankers to the fortress of Spandau. Here is deliverance,and disin terestedness and magnanimity with a vengeance! The wretches who exclaimed so mach against the exactions of Bomerasere, a* loud lu the praise of thisconduct. It would, however, appear, that this heroic imitation of examples, so much condemned, has not met the approbation of either Lord WELLINGTON, King • Louts, or the Emperor ALEXANDER. It is men tioned to the honour of all these Personages that they have deemed more than remonstrances necessary to curb the lawless excesses of this part of the Allied Army, who have not the provocations to justify them which the base defenders of such atrocities have adduced for this purpose. The private letters say, justly, that the attacks made on the works of public utility, and the levies on private properly, are in direct violation of the Convention, which stipulated 'that public and ptivate property should be respect ed, and that no hostilities should be recommenced without ten days notice being given ; and likewise, that all the remonstrances of the Doke of NVELLING. Tox, by Whom and his brave followers alone the , French were conquered, could not prevail on the Pressian General to desist from his intention, until his Grace planted an English sentinel on the bridge of Jena, and gave formal Dorice that• if an English soldier were either driven from his post, or suffered in the explosion of the bridge, Englund would make his country responsible for the eggressiea. It is said I also, that the unhappy, dependent, Louis X sent him a messy.", desiring to he made acquainted when his preparations for blowing up the bridge were completed, as he was resolved to place him self on the centre arch and perish with ii !-- A A King who could say or do this is not deserving of scorn. But what must be the . feelings of NAPO LEON, the French army, and the French people in general on hearing of the intention which could give rise to such a resolution in the mind of Louis ? • The French Journals concur in saying, and evident pleasure is expressed at the thought, that the Prussiau troops are ahnnt to quit Paris. If the ac counts we have had of their conduct during the short period they have been in that city bestrite,-it is high time they were withdrawn. • • CAIINOT, the able, the intrepid, the consistent CA ItNOT, has been ttv ice offered by Loirti, the con fidential Office of Minister of the !Mellor, and he has as often refused it, doubtless ,because Louis has refused to rule according to the principles of the Constitution framed by the Representatives of the People, and because he forsees any Govirnment not founded upon these will not be permanent in France. But the name of Louis may be here used improperly instead of that of the Allies. We verily beliete that Louis XVIII. is not half so stubborn as he has been represented, and that experience must have taught him what is the most eligible, and the only way of consolidating his Government—but that although he were willing to give the French peo ple such a Constitution as they desire, the only way of securing his throne, his good friends the Al lies would not allow him to do—for eith what face could .some of them grant this to France, and deny to their own subjects, and those whom they have en slaved, the rights and privileges which such a system of Government would gitarantee ?—and thus the world is doomed to ba " fighting still and still de g and the restoration of Louts, as he trus, will signify nothing. • Mr. SILVESVER, the AlevsengeV, arrived on Satur day, about 12 o'clock, aith Dispatches from Lord CASTLEILEAGII. Lady CASTLEREAGII received letters on Saturday from Park, and in consequence her Ladyship is ex pected to leave town this morning, accompanied by Lady MOUNTEDOCGMR, Mr. WILLIAMS, the King's Messenger, and her Ladyship's dotneitics, BRUSSELS PAPERS. DRUSSZLS, JULY 12.--His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange has just sat off to join the army at Phis. We have just received certain intelligence that Maebeop capitulated at four o'clock yesterday aternooe. The communication with Paris is en fittiTreopen. Allied troops who have entered Paris is esti rated at 150 1 000; a great part of them only passed the City to proceed further, for the purpose leg the motions of the French troops that retire &lola the Loire. A great number of soldiers who have recovered of their wounds hasten to join . their corps. There arrive continually in pur port boa's !widen with all kinds of necessaries atta ammu nition, such as bombs, balls, canister shot, immense quantities Of hay and oats, boards and planks for the construction of portable bridges, &c. which are sent from England for the army ; the cargoes which have arrived lately fri , m that country are beyond all con ception. The sacrifices w Lich it has made fur the repose of Europe and the independence of the Low Countries, d serve their eternal gratitude; all these articles are deposited for the present wi . hout the gates, whither they attract numerous spectators. Six 21-pounders have been mounted on their carriages, and two very fine howitzers. Every day part of these articles is forwarded towards the French for tresses. The last accounts from Basle say, that General Frimont has entered 1..) rms. When the overtures of the French Government were read in the Council of the Sovereigns, on corn. log to the art:cle respecting Napoleon's abdication in favour of Napoloon 11. the Emperor of Austria hastened to say, 4 4 that concerns me; I recognise no Napoleon 11. ; let us go forward." BAgEE, JULY .s.—The trenches are opened be fore lloninetien. This (owes; keeps up a pretty brisk bre on the environs of Neudorf and Bourg Li. bre. The desertions from the garrison continue. COLOGNE, JULY s.—The Prince Boyd and Prince Frederick of Prussia have arrived here under, a strict incognito. They visited the Military 1105- pital, and conversed in the most familiar manner with a great number of wounded; they are gone to jolts the third corps of the army in France. The King of Prussia has named M. Justus Gruner, Chief of the Police of the Army, and Governor of the French provinces occupied by his erodes. M. Gruner set out for his post yeoerday. FRANerowr, JULY B.—Prince Ha rdeitherg ar rived here to-Jay, and goes to-morrow to the head- quarters. DatAnter. Acctoxvv.---fAst night, as the loon coach, which runs between Leicester and Co ventry, was on its return to this town, it was un fortunately overturned by running against the post of the turnpike-gate, a short distance from Hinck ley ; and we regret to state, Goff, the coach man, an officer's servant, and another passenger, were killed ; and two or three others severely b r uised. ( I:ices:a Chronicle, July 15. ) A GI:1:11' FIRE. Poore, JULY 15.—Arrived the Abeona, Bottley; from Newfoundland, last from St. John's, in 'l7 days; Capt. B. states that a most alarming and de structive fire hid happened on the west side of Pla centia hay, and that its ravages in the woods had (Wended a course of 15 -leagues ; great distress was anticipated therefrom fur want of fuel. It seents no injury had been sustained in the settlements on the coast, though it had created fearful appreitensio;► ~~;; ~~~~ ; Ittf 7'o THE EDITOR OF THE STATES.II.4y, Sin,—Never was the world at large more rte:' • by a certain special pleading and sophistry th at; : the present momeut.—Never also has there beeti much pains taken to draw men off frorii justly on passing events., ; 11 In the beginning of the French Itevnlutina, t ! „ in T 1 surrounding Potentates armed themselves agaiiistl nation determined to assert her rights, and no ' P l ' to groan under an oppressive and corrupt t ea The motives of these despot. were prq'esserily the restoration of the ancient order of things ; 'he unless it is contended that no nikory endured In people can justify orn resist:lnca to oppression, ti,, fry King of France, and those zcito took his part we n : dr originally THE AGGR ESSO RS—the primary cause of Li in the follow ing consequences. . Many events then succeeded, on both sides, lAA O are not to be justified by either party ;—the farce, th for instance, required to repel such a host of erownel despots, who poured forth their numerous and slavish 1 , 1 subjects to fight their cause, naturally procured for di to France a Military Government under a Military Chief. But still in all this—the agg ressors—the ag. sa gressors I say,—must not be lost sight of. Oa And do we not see, Sir, at this hour, those very men, enforcing the very same principle, which, twentg .4' years ago, they endeavoured to establish ? In short, turn it and twist it as you please, Gr, fr yon will find that the royal confederacy have Defame . of —7'hat no nation shall be allowed the rig he of frtline el a. their legitimate Sovereign to account ,b,. c, VIM 1 • wards that nation what they may.— Ilenre sir, . 4 ti • will of the French nation is laid low, and the b.' 4. bons restored !—Look well to this, my countrywa t —for your turn may come! tv Allow me, now, Sir, to end this by congratulat. ing you on our late glorious successes. .How noble, Sir, is the object attained ! How gratifying tea a. free-born Englishman is the restoration of the Boua. Boss and the return of a peaceable and quiet despot. ism in France ! li July 12, 1615. y. tl N AL IN TE LLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL, JULY 15.—Arrived the Hawthorn, Doyle, from :Bahia, ittss days, and 45 days front Pernambuco: sailed is company with the Lion; 10 • prisoners were put on board each vessel, belonging to his Majesty's late ship Penguin. The Penguin fought 20 minutes, and sunk : she had 35 men Lill- ' ed and wounded, among the former was the Captain. Oil Cape Clear the Hawthorn fell in with his Majes- t ty's ship insolent, and put on beard the Penguin's people.—TheMinerva, Jackson. from Liverpool for Quebec, was lost near Gaspee, atad part of her cargo saved; Thy Saragossa transport was also lost in Quebec harbour, by accident : she had the 57th re- tri tient en boaid—a few lives were lost. Drat, Jesor IG.—Arrived the John (Auto, Taylor, from New-York, in 26 dlys.—Came down from the River the Sir Charles Price, for the South Seas. Hauwten, JULY 16.--Sailed yesterday the EA of Leicester packet, for Holland ; Auckland packet, for Cuahaven, and Albion packet, for Gottetthurgh. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 16.--Arrived yesterday his Majesty's ship Tagus, from Plymouth ; his Mae jesty's ship Grrifon,; from a cruize; and the Lean. - der, Acosta, and Perseus, from Quebec, with * • convoy of about 56 sail .of transports among them .t are the follow ing :—Eliza, Lord Castlereagh, 'I George, Mercury, Resource, Retreat, Charlotte, Nestor, Pilot, Admiral Gambier, Regent, Bri. tannin, Voyager, Spring, Henry, Eurydice, Brit. sus, Northumberland, and -Jonah.—Arrived to.day I his Majesty's ship Valiant, from Plymouth ; Braten and Pandora, from a cruize.—llis Mejeity's ship Clinker, with 36 transports with troops for Ostend, will sail in the evening. PLeateu ray JULY 15.—Came in the French brig Emilie, from Cette for Dunkirk, detained by the Podargus; Trois Frere, from Bourdeaux, detained by the Cyrus. FALMOUTH, JULY 1 I.—Arrived the if'alsinglutes .packet, from Corunna, in seven days. Tuella v, JULY 15.—Arrived and sailed on a . cruize, his Majesty's ship //aeock ; and the .4g. pressor from a cruize, and remains. The Commercial Treaty with the United States is, we learn, short in the form, but comprehensive in the substance. By the first article, the Naiigatir a laws of the two countries are for mutual benefit di,. !messed with, and British vessels trading to Americus ports, and American vessels trading to British ports, ate equal privileges in regard to duties and elver. ' tions with native vessels respectively. This bent fill not only extends to the ships, but to the Cargoei. Thus cotton wool, which nu coming to England British ships from the United States is liable to • duty of only one penny per pound, and if imported" in American vessels, is subject to a charge of threow pence its the pound, will incur the same duty, if con. veyed in the bottoms of either of the two countries. The second article edmits cf free trade to Calcutta, ' and to all the British settlements of the Peninsula of iiimkstrin. With regard to China there is no regulite ' lion, because that trade is exclusively with the liidia Company, and this Company has no power or autho- sky to obstruct the trade:o China; either with /ea.irri to the Americans or any other foreign State. A third article, and not the teat important in the view of the American Government, reirri,7ts the British from -'"• tering into any trade is ith the numerous tribes of le. sliarts occupying-any part of the country within !!:e jerisdiction of the Coked ittltes• _ t I, ~• .. ~' ~~~. ■F K