The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-09-01 00:00:00

Fit q L... 1, "X i . . .4. 4U* 44. t. 4 r :I , :,‘ c• v at. r , . • , 1 - - , :. -*•.t ~' . 1 v.:lnduct and exertions ou efforts have frequently been impoderl by the general situation of alLiirs ; un der other circumstastees IhPy Iso%P r•.coverrd their former ;soil ity Under both sit C alioos gnu have known h 0 ,4 to distiogoi,ll %hat was to he attributed to your uell-wit.liing King, and what to the pressure of circumstances. Toe repose !licit the world now enjoys gives yun secure prospects and advantageous ititereau4Psl and will open new and rich resources to th. country. The occupation of imiuslty ca.toot flourish amid the din of arms . ; peace alone chetishes and k ives them value. Every class of citizen is a link in the chitin which hinds the State together, end by the side of the a‘cord of the warrior the flag of the merchant has a necessary phase as a peaceful symbol of industry." CIIRTqTI“.I, AUG. 9. frig Majesoy the King has been plerwll to app..ose am: confirm the Resolution of the Diet now assembled, (1 , 11.41 the 13rh July, which declares that the King of age when Ile has coalplettli his 18th year. FRB 4 VCII P.tiPE RS. Timm, Atm 28.—1 n pointing nut the importance of the last development which the King has given In a part of the Constitutional Act by his Ordinance for rendering the Peerage hereditary; we announced a wish, on whiciv we did not sufficiently insist, of at fast seeing, as soon as circumstances: should permit, the Constitution fulfilling all our hopes, and operat ing completely as a whole. We cannot be accused of too much eagerness in espressing this wish, since one and the same sentiment now unites the majority of the French to their legitimate Monarch, and since their accordance, on so essential a principle, renders them worthy of all the b , nefits• which the new order of things promotes: besides no wish, which consists of a call for a definitive settlement, can appear pre. tipitate, after 26 years of revolution. If we are not ripe for the destiny which awaits us, when shall we—when can we help@ to be so ? Shall we not be entitled to regard ourselves as still in revolution, while the movement which has so long agitated us does not give place to tbat repose and stability which tan alone result from the full and perfect execution of an invariable system of laws? Dues not the granting the enjoyment of a part of that system, and the denial of another imply that men's minds are sup. posed not to be completely cured of the revolulonary ? Is not this in some measure arbitrarily pro. longing their convalescence ? Is it not sacrificing teal and positive good to a supposition which may be chimerical, and which may be supposed inte rested ? For twenty years we have helm] of nothing but konstitutinns, and for twenty years no constitutional system has been established among us. Malty con stitutions have been formed on paper, but none have been put in practice. The work of the Constituent Assembly was as solo destroyed as made. The Le gislative Assembly laboured only to undermine and overthrow. The Conventittn drew op a constitution which it hastened to deposit in an archive which be. came its tomb, and for which the despotism of its Committees was substitotetl. The Constitution of . the year 3 had scarce begun to make us feel the ad. eant3ges of a cart of regular Government when it WAS annulled by the tyrannical violence of the Di• 'rectory. Bonaparte . seemell only to collect together all the preceding constitutions, and to rest on the boodle thus formed, in order that he might the better annihilate the whole. In fine, it has constantly been the practice to talk to the nation of her rights, and seek far pretexts to rob her of them. One essential basis was doubtless wanting to these edifices, all raised on the same foundation, namely, the legitimacy of the principal authority. Without that beds there is nothing solid, and we cannot there fore be surprieed that constructions in which it did vat exist should so soon fall to pieces, or should not be capable of supporting themse:ves even for a ma. ment. With it every constitution may be pod and durable; but the best composed, the bPst adapted,. ar.d most perfect constitutional act, will only exhibit the inconveniences of a defective Government,, if it be not carried into execution as a whole, and if all its springs do not act together and at the same time. Indeed the more wisely it has been plumed the greater will be the relation of the different parts to each r, and the more therefor* will the defect of liar - any be felt, when the action of some of those parts `'"`is stopped or interrupted. It may be added that the action of the other parts will then be purely illusory, for in the reciprocal dependence which unites them ail and directs them to one common object, that ob- , ject cannot be attained except by a perfect concur rence. The most certain menus of exposing a good constitution to criticism and calumny, the surest scheme for discrediting it would therefore be to make partial experiments on it, to mutilate it in practice, never in show it complete with all its proportions and all its advantages except on paper and in theory,'; and thus to render it in reality law: ° tinder the pen I o f the politic al calculator, it would then be a won ,derfol tnechi - iie, but Ny a false. and deceitful experi ment it would he exposed to the contempt and deri sion of the vulgar. An incomplete execution always resembles the' artifice of a timid policy, which dare neither refuse all nor grant all. It is obvious also that these partial suspensions, *We they compromise the whole of the administrative system, tend also to compromise the very authority which orders them. There is in fact such a force in certain springs of the political machine, .that they cahoot he employed except in conjunction .with those with which they are most immediately •connected. Titus, for example, you suspend the Li -berry of the Press. and you convoke the National Representation. But the connection between these two parts of the Constitutional Actis so intimate, that the activity of the one itecescarity carries with it that of the other; and *e shackles imposed on the Press -will Of necessity be either destroyed or exceedingly relaxed by the mere fact of the meeting of the Cham- Ifthis should not be the result, the other con sequence would he, that these two elements of the Constitution would be'equally paralyzed, in spite of the appearance of action which one of them might possess. This is not the only example which might render the inconveniences of these partial suspensions !palpable, regarded merely with respect to the autho rity of Government, which they always more or law ~~ 6. l ~~ THE STATESMAN. compromise. But we pause here, because we intend , to return to this important subject, persuaded that the more confidence the Government shall display in the nation, so* happy in now possessing her legiti mate King, the more it will r..ceise in return. Gra titude for the benefits of the Monarch will grow in our hearts in proportion as we ap l iear to he con sidered worthy of those benefits.—(hurnal des Debuts.) At a moment when so much •is said of the family of Bonaparte, it is rigor to do justice to one of its members, M. Louis. Ile was King of Holland, and lost his throne because his brother was dissati s fied at his not executing his orders for. enforcing what he 1:alled his Continental System—a scheme at once bar barous and ridiculous,. which did infinite mischief to the countries. ender the domination of Napoleon.— He retired, offer Ms abdication, to Gratz, in Styria, Which he left in 1813, on thb declaration of war by ' Austria against Prance, although the Vienne Papers gave assurances that lie mi.ght remain unmolested at his little estate near Gratz, as his conduct towards all the world hail been prudent and moderate. Louis went then to Home; and did not return to Paris in 1815, althoegh his brother named him of the Cham her of Peers ns a Pointe of the Blood. Louis Bona parte may return without apprehension to Austria, where he may be assured of being well received by all classes. The following is a letter from Dijon, August 24: -`" Yesterday morning, August 23, the Hereditary Prince of Austria,. the Archduke Louis, and the Princess of Saxony, set out from this. They go to aisle, from that they purpose going to Paris, and thence will return here with the Allied Sovereigns toil Princes. A camp of more than 100,000 Aus trian troops will be formed, to execute some grand manceavres before the Emperors and Princes. This camp will, it is said, occupy the plain between Gostfls and 11 ira beau." The following hove been elected Mernbers'ef the Chamber of Dvputieo, by the deportment of the Orne —Lieut..General Ernouf, Lieut.-General the Prince de Broglio, Viscount de Puisaye, Count trOrglande, Delautlayde Cnnterne. THOULOUSE, Aug. 2 I .—Marechal4le- Camp Romel died on the evening of the 17th, of the wounds he had received two days before in the riot, which oc curred in the Place des Carmel. On Friday, the 18th, the General's body was interred with every honour suitable to his *rank. A numerous body of the Clergy, the City Guard, and the other military corps then in Thoulnuse, formed the funeral pomp. An immense crowd, collecting from all quarters d the town, increased the procession. and accompanied it to the grave. On their return every one spoke of the unhappy circumstances of AA event, as 'strolls , . dinary as 'unforeseen, in a city where so profound -a calm previously reigned, and where the public tran. quillity had not been disturbed for a single moment since the day of our deliverance. Count Uicard published yesterday the following • t)tt DER E DAY. " The Uoutenarit-Getteral commanding the 10th dirkion, has seen, with astonishment, that some mi. liter) persons do not wear the white cockade: 'l'hia testifies their discontent. Persuaded, however, that it proceeds rather from negligence than a bad tlispos sititni, he confines himself to ordering all soldiers to decorate themselves with the white cockade : the Chiefs of Corps Are personally responsible for this measure. (Siened) Cyan, RTCAR P. Lirutens ii-G , neva enmnsiousihig the 10th M iliinry Dl vi!.• The Chevalier il'Apigimo hits Resumed some days since the command of the place. Bes.t NcoN, AUG. 23. —The blockade of the town of Besancon not permitting the Electoral Col lege of the department to meet there, the Prefect, by virtue of a Royal Ordinance of the 13th of July, has aplu it to meet at Otnarts. BALE, Auc. 17.—The number of cannon al ready arrived at Basle is estimated at ninety, among which is remarked a mortar, that throws homhs of 160 pounds. His Imperial Highness the Archduke Ferdinand arrived here this morning. ZURICH, Auc. 19.—The Diet has determined on the answers to he made to the notes seta from Berne, the 2d of August, by the Minister of France. The 'twiner to that which requires the departure of the Swiss troops from the country of GPI will be, that the occupation of the country having taken place on the request of the Austrian Generals, the evacuation must be effected in concert with them; and, more over, that these troops are too inconsiderable 'to be a burden to the country. As to the whet- note containing complaints on the eacesses committed in the department of Doubs, the Diet ens% ers that it has ordered an examination into the facts stated in the Note; and respecting the other general and vague complaints, in which there is, un doubtedly, much exaggeration, it observes, that some disorders, inevitable when troops are assembled its a foreign country, may have taken place in the first moment of a precipitate entrance, but that they haver never since been repeated. 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THE STATESMAN. fore they heroically drew their swords NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, how comes it thlt Plums'Art MAJESTY is laying siege to the mit valuable of the fortresses in the aforesaid nee kingdom of the Rhine, and Iles not scrupled I possess himself of several of them at a c,,,•6 1. able @avenue of blood? Is it to restore thpt e ( 1, 017 purchased possessions to the Atcnduke duns f•t Austria? Disititerkited Prince! %Ve think wt , p er , ceive him handing them over with blushing nual9 s ty, without fee or reward, to a House (hat he has hot's* to estinguish, and would glory in seeing ezibig u i,l4 for ever—just as Fiesnaatca Till GREAT team Silesia to the *Me stock from• which he bad intui t by perfidy and violence; and he himself, the F. DERMAL of the present day, magnanimously restored Sazony to its rightful possessiyr. On the other side of the devoted country, H u,* satisfied ai any of his legitimate brethren, ren s! Out for spoil and security, and giving full stio his Pyrenean wolves. the gentle FERolllAlllifi Spain asserts from his [Lira Monies, that •F rsii ought to have no Trans-Alpine possessions,. ai d it Rousillon of right—legitimate right, belongs t o h. —who says that lie is not legitimate, and has s many divine rights as any Prince in Christendom, p e , ng his train of followers are ail divine tog e rs et ?... Also, that the French fortresses on the Spsnisli ought to he garrisoned by Spanish troops. and he has as good reason to insist upon this as the fie f . man Powers have for seizing on the French fortitnd places no the northern frontier, and garrisoning tiles with Allied troops. • LONDON: rtmtv; StrrEMBER 1, 1815. The Paris Papers of Tuesdny last arrived this fore noon; and we have also just received a Flanders Mail, whose contents we shall notice in connection with the substance of the Paris Papers. j The only intimation worthy of observation in the latter is that its which it is stated thnt the foreign troops are repairing to their respective points of re ' view, that the Russians were to leave Paris and its vicinity for the plains of Champaigne on this day (the Ist September) for inspection, and not to return to the French copilot, but to be afterwards marched home as fast as possible ; and that the Austrian armies in France had also received orders to quit that I country and proceed to Ita!y ; where from causes not stated the public tranquillity appears to be dis i torhed in various places. The cause of the retro grade movement of the Russians is sufficiently ac ' counted fur by the intelligence in the Papers brought by the Flanders Mail. Turkey is arming with the greatest activity, and formidable armies are stated to be already in motion against Russia from that quar ter. The Emperor ALEXANDER, it thus appears, has reasons for his magnanimous forbearance towards France. It will not do for him to continue fighting on the Rhine to ohtain kingdoms for Isis ambitious neighbours, the Emperor of AUSTRIA and the King of PaussrA, whilst a formidable power is laying waste his own dominions, and forming plans to ren der his new acquisitions and those of his neighbours of little value. Such seems to be the cordial manner in wi Coalesced Sovereigns are now adjusting the which they mean to build the Fpl'ndirl and fabric of European happiness and tranquillit materials for this fabric are certainly in great Mon at present, and the }toads of some of the tects appear to have come into rather too cl , tact with the scattered remains of a c rain tt antiquity, where things weut suddenly into gi order; bat—we live in an island, and let us the best. Amidst this scattering and disunion of her enemi France may be ezperted to revive. If 1;/; ,, rt justice shall also arise more beautiful th, from amidst the national wreck, we be sorry to behold her regeneration.—lb Indeed, be a very shallow politician wh, riot perceive, that the war nas not again! eca.tox, but against the civil rights of all nu It is in this light only that the contest In fact, we have not for a long time back had-con veyed to us such a picture of * disunion, confusion, and the jarring elements and indubitable symlotoms of war, general war, and " combustion dire" among States that we were led to suppose were settling into the calmness of content within themselves, and the tranquil relations of confidence and amity with one another, than we have very distinctly furnivhed through the medium of the German and Flanders l'apors, contained in this day's Mail. Viewed by reifecting minds capable of disrer , and with hearts, Luna fide, attached general trete eats of their fetlow-creatures. fI is, that we have bewailed the wretched situsti France, a prey to civil discords, and to tht tiuustiess of the military hands dispersed ore unhappy country, exulting in the h,vock of crimes, while their Royal Masters are employ forging chains for the people; and hence it we shall rejoice when Fiance and all other countries similarly oppresbed, shall behold an end to calamities. From the frozen North to the Mediterranean 64 contending passions into war increase." Not one of the Powers from the northern to the southet rr ex tremity of Europe seems satisfied. The masses led forth•by the Confederacy against France are disport ing, but in the bitterness of their disappointment ap pear more disposed to fall upon one another and de luge creation with Mond, than to return to their former hounds, and sulkide like fertilizing rivers that for a moment have been compelled to overflow their banks. Eery one seems now disposed to seize what he can, and act for himself. The game of decep. tion, so soccessfully practised by the great Powers at the Congress of Vienna, is still attempted to be continued ; but it is now too well under stood by the most distant parties to be admired or acquiesced in by any who think they have the means of opposing it. The march of the Danish troops, who are said to be on another destination► o than France, seems to have excited considerable sus picion. Ilis poor DANIS(' Mx.rEsTY has gut no in. demnities for his losses, whilst he sees new kingdoms rking up in every quarter. The scheme of the new " Kingdom of the Rhine," intei.ded as an even age to the Austrian Monarchy, is given in the Chronicle of the European Confederation. It would, says the German schemer (we suppose if .France :could allow it, it is not said it will), bc‘ I.eomposed of the ten Departments of the Upper an.l Lower Rhine, now belonging to France, compre• bending Lorraine, Alsace, French-Compte, and the countries on the left Bank of the Rhine, which form the Department of Mont Tounerre ; the hienrthe, the Moselle, the Daubs, Ste. places, which are actually represented by Deputies in the French Chamber of Representatives.---Is The following are from the French Papers recnted to-day : PARIS, Au°. 28.—A. great number of troops defiled this morning upon the anolevi the North, for the purpose of repairing, it to the plain of Vertus (Marne), where the grand view by the Allied Sovereigns is to take place hogirutittg of September. It seems certain that none of the Russian which are leaving Paris and its environs (or the review, which is to take place in the plains of pagne, sill return to this capital, and that , soldiers of Russia will speedily leave the Preach ritory. The report at Vesoul is, that different Au! corps have received orders to get•ready for a iato Italy. IVltilst the Bishop of Ghent shows himself tolerent in the mandate of which we hare al spoken, yet we observe in the lis► of the Depuos of the ancient Dutch provinces niatty who are (holies (thou4h a minority of the inhabitants; Amotigit others the great banker Guillaume Brienen, late Mayor of Amsterdam, may be who occupied that post when Holland made of France. COURIER EXT R AORDIN A RY, TuMay hiarmnp The King has taken an airing through the vi of Sevres and St. Cloud. this the price of the Emperor FRANCIS'S co-opera. I • Jerome Bonaparte went through Carisruhe, ed Lion against his son-in-law, and in favour o f hi s by a Wirtemberg offi cer . august and well-beloved Ally, Louts XVIII.? And News from Nuremberg state, that a Russian ► are we to pay for the erection and maintenance o f coming from P o l an d, an d arr i ve d at F ran kf or t the Maine on the sth, d est i ne d f or t h e Rhi ne , this kingdom also? What says his PUUSE.LiN MA. bad ceived count e r- or d ers on the 9th inst. to retina JE STI/ to this? Has he given his consent,—h e w h o counts noses with such accuracy, and weighs the P"land• value of province! so well,—has he given his consent r The city of Arras has not yet opened kts gs to this annexation of three millions of Industrious the Allies. Infantry are only permitted to eat inhabitants, and the most fertile and valuable coun. a wicket-gate. tries on the Rhine, to his rival? The King of PRuss,A, The accounts from Corfu state, that there al by the help of Lord CAMICRIAGII and our money, pearatices there threatening interruption to has of late become a very considerable personage, tranquillity. and he is now showing this by every means in his The Marquis tie Motitchenu is said to bo app"' power. But if this arrangement has been determined ed• by the King as Commissioner upon with The 'consent of all the Co n f e d erates, be- bland of St. Ildena. for France r - 411 L, 0 ": 'lint ! : r t • hp m . and bee u pled I, " dearly Jonv al W o p er . mode s ty, as hatp. t InKuishrsi ten o r e IJ f.u.i t he F RE . restored el little t, cellieg scope instals./ •Freeee . and it ts t o hi s id has p [torn, aft tether?— euisb nde and thee the Ge e ., fortified ling this ihich the bASiS on d laatini ify. 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