The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-10-23 00:00:00

THE STATES MAN. WWI: ;:car .. 11" ATE CO R RESPOND NCR.. land, in vulgar, low, and disgusting abuse. It was I indeed one of the lit t leee.ses that disg. aced his system Oct. 19, of governmeitt, and one which the par , isans of legiti- There i 4 linll•ing too monstrous for the cred u lity mazy, as it is now •al.ed, were always forward in at. of Henchmen where the subject k B•maparte ; w hat it ibuting to the to-7ress of his origin, and the vulga. could be more imprObable than the re-apposr notorious, this o f rity bf his connect! ots. It was, however, otorious, -s -this personage upou the soil of France ?Yet sects is • that in otivate is spots Ten dilfereetty of our na-- the report of the lest two days—" Ile is come with'tcony and he never disguised the respect which he en...A • powerful army of Saxons, Poles,. and Turks."-w+ i tertained for our swiftest! character. lowleal,his per- This is insist I ss tl y h e li eeet rh y t h e t ower Mosses.. suasten tliat *e were a *genernus people ; was i s curious to observe, the aseener in which.the most 1 motive foi surrendering to the English levy, rather absurd of 01 rumours is treated in its cieculatien— than to his fattier-in-law the Emperor of Austria, or SOraits affetting superior reason, treat it as vhionary, to Alesauder, with whom he was personally cc. but - with that sort of secret hesitating dread which quainted, and from N hoe he had formerly received appears in weak minds, when they disclaim a belief' many and such striking marks of admiration and in the appearance of 'bests ; others implicitly be- j respect. Ile wrote too, long before the battle of here 4t, but are afraid le open their mouths ; whilst i Waterloo, to bit sister the Queen of Naples, recom •ti rd party are iudwatriatyttY laboering to a g it a te mending her, if any greet misfortune occurred, to anal mislead without a cumudtting thethselies ; there surrender herself to the English (car c'est unpeupte e3e even proclamations fn manuscript circulated in geoe're"). She did so, atul the conditions on which thenene of Napoleon, in which he is nude to dis. she capitulated were broken, and the Oflieers who chip any wish to reesceud the throne, but solely to bad shown her the respect due to her sex, her reek, • restore his wife and sou. The report dots not even it'd her misfortunes, have been neglected and dis- NM here, it *goes the length of putting the King a eeentenanced... Second time to flighS . -frons his capital, with great Such has been our comfort to those who resken bombers ef the French Nubility. • Such is still the us liberal and generous !-What, on the other baud, unaccountable ascendattcy of this - Mates name over has been our conduct to those who now revile us for the French, Alit, in'epite of iegradation and defeat, a want of generosity; and who, having called us in. they suppose every thing must yield to his superior to the heart of their own country, upon the hypocri. tenon' ; they will have it, that even the Allies are tical plea of disgust at the ambition of Napoleon, msrehing off post haste, that •the Austrian army Is wish to retain fee themselves the fruits of those sic immediately to join Bonaparte, and that Maria tories to which they nowise contributed? For 20 Louisa and her son escaped several weeks since from year they subsisted on our bounty, soil they are Vienna to Turkey. The sole ground upon which all now restored to their dignities in their native coun these absurdities are sustained is, that Joseph, not try, at the expence of the blond and treasure of the Napoleon Bonaparte, was the person who sur- very people they traduce! At the houses of the Con rendered himself, and was carried off to St. Helene. stitutionalists, and even of the Bonspartists our offi- Joseph, it is said, was so like his brother, that he was cars find much dejection of spirits , occasionally some frequently mistaken for him, anti saluted as the Fn- sullenness and disappointment at the present state of pror by the French troops. Where, they ask, is affairs, but they always experience personal civility Joseph at present, if not at St. Ilelena—why is not ad attention, and in many instances great hospitality, his retreat known like that of the other brothers ? and even kindness : but those whose billets have con- This lithe usual reply, when the probability of Jo. ducted them to the houses of Dukes, Marquises, se;)h's having passed for his brother, is disputed. At and Counts, of the ancient regime, are received with the same time, it is certain that, at this moment, an affected appearance of contempt, and an air of discoveries have been made which have given rise to I mortified national vanity, which they at least haysno ' the most serious alarm. Cernot has been arrested, I pretension to feel, since in the achievements on end brought to Paris; no less than fifteen General l which that vanity was founded, they hold no ship"' Olicers cars also said to have been carried off to p a l whatsoever. The solitary instance .in which they son, in the night, within the last twenty-four hours. evince any national feeling, any motives of patriot- The most rigorous prohibitions have been issued by l lam, is forsooth, in their ingratitude to their benefae the Police against the sale, publicly or privately, of tors—le their base and unwarranted suspicions of any hosts pictures, nr emblems of Bonaparte; yet those to who m the y owe their restoration. To rob, this is the war to make them sought after and , Imprison, persecute, and murder those of their cm). circulated—suppression has no ether effect than that trymen who protected France against her invaders of stimulating the curiosity of the buyer, and the 1 they think would be justice, but to restore to the avarice of the seller; there is scarcely a day that ; eight owners the provinces or the monuments which 'some oat of the minor Papers sold in Paris is not; the exertions of others had obtained for France, they "Appraised; the next morning they appear ander a with equal impudence and folly consider as injurious new aeuse,end with the advantage of having been • to them. the objects of hfilunterial notice. It is quite clear, They say, that " depuls Cenlreement des chevaux that by meal of the press, as far as it is possible, le Roi a prix le mord* aux dents." by the circulation of false rumours, and by seditious Abuse of Wellington is the grand lon at Court, cries in the DOH- places, the spirit of disaffection is and if rumour says true, Wellington himself has ac indlertriously and systematically kept alive. One knowledged, that if be has driven away capacity and avast ion, he has not yet placed good faith or honest MUDS assigned for the zeal of the Ronapertiats at the present moment its, their feeleusy of the Duke of PriliciPles on the three° of France. Os-leans and hie partisans; this Nobleman has take° t some 'herein the debates in the House of Peers, and, as it would seem, with a view to popularity. Re returns immediately to Emits(); there is a provision la the prnject of the law for repressing seditious cries, evidently directed against the possibility of an at tempt to change the succession to the Crown, in his favour. The discussion in the Chamber of Peers on the Address, was extremely warm ; several Members proposed amendments, the object of which was, to pledg . the King to punish those who had any share in the government of Bonaparte. The person against whom Out amendments are supposed to have been directed, is said to be Fouche. It is even re ported that he has been arrested at Brussels. The grand mistake which the friends of the King censure, in the late 114411111afeS, is the appointment of the Peers, and the election of the deputies previous to the change of Ministry. The persons chosen under the influence of the late Administration, constitute a strong, or at least troublesome opposition, particu larly in the Chamber of Peers. No debate of im portance has yet taken place in the Chamber of Deputies ; scarcely any of the persons elected under the influence of Fouche and Talleyrand, have yet taken their seats ; objections have been made to their election, whch it is supposed will exclude them : there is no appearance whatever of the eva cuation of Paris by the Allied troop' ; the different posts are occupied by them as usual, and in some places I have seen Prussian bivouacs at posts before occupied by the National Guard. It is expected that 10,000 British troops will take up their quar ters in the capital to-day or to-morrow. At no time since the room of the King has the presence of the Allies beau more necessary to preserve public quiet. Paris, Oct. 16. Paris, Oct. 111. I should have sent the enclosed sooner, but con cluded you had it*. The manner of the measure has made it most ungracious. In substance, it is not perhaps unjoct. The letter is a sad composition, and unworthy of its author. flow can a man of Wel lington's greatuess condescend to call names, and term the only Captain who can compare with him, " Ihe :real enemy of mankind." Even this mode of courting the legitimates has not screened him from their censures, and the pure Royalist party are as fool mouthed against him, as he Call be against their enemy. His appearance in the King's box (a mere accident resulting from a i 1/1 1 Stlke of the ouvrcusc, but just calculated to excite the indignation of that pitiful race of incorrigible; courtiers, who think that a breach of etiquette is a snore Rapala offence than the spoliation of a capital, . or the tiegieclation of a people), is become a common topic of abuse against him hi all the true emigrant circles. Indeed one of the Bourbon Princes, with equal decency, taste, and gratitude, observed on the Dike of Wellington, that after all he was a mere upstart (qu'apres tout it n'cloit qu'un parvenu). Bonaparte, when at war with England, when the common object of invectives in Parliament and of ca— lumny nut of it, often indulged himself in his public speeches and papers, IN national reflections on Eng- I will relate to you a single fact, upon the authen ticity of which you may rely, and which may serve to give you an accurate idea of the general means employed to influence the late elections. A few days before the elections came on at Dijon, tbe Secretary General of the Prefecture, a man who has filled that office ;there 18 years, and who enjoys universal esteem in that city, 'which elected him to the late House of Representative., was carried off in the middle of the night by an Austrian force and con veyed in chains to Macon. Its remained In the latter town for above a month after the elections, and was at length liberated from prison by the Austrian Com mander and dismissed from his office by the French Minister. The Prince de Colloredo is the Com mander of the Austrian forces in that quarter. I need not add that this act of violence, of which there were numerous instanres at that period, was com mitted at the instigation of the present prevailing party. M measures of this kind could not be applied to the mass of the electors, other means were resorted to, such as exposing them to the vociferation. of a hired multitude, when they came forward to give their votes, and thus deterring them from appearing at the elections. The Address of the House of Deputies to the King was presented yesterday. The words justice and ipuration proposed to be inserted in it, have been the subject of very animated discussion in both Reuses, especially in the Upper, which has evinced on this occasion a more liberal and constitutional spirit than the [loose of Representatives. These two words dis close the whole system of the present Goverqmeut : an universal change throughout all the offices of the State, in order to ensure the accomplishment of far ther views. The chief bakes, of the Deputies fro= all the departments at present in Paris is to denounce to Administration the obnoxious individuals holding offioe in their respective departments, and to recom. mend others to supersede them. The great object of the A, tois faction is to mite, F eu for vengeance sod prosecution—as if any people cuuld be brought to call for vengeance on themselves! . There is not a family that has continued its residence in France, which in some of its ablest and most la losable relatives would not be the victims of such a course of proceeding. But it is the jesuitical design of the purists to give the appearance of this applica tion from the people to the throne for renewing the horrors of inquisitorial persecution. And their agents the priests and bigots, they say, will in the south and west at least procure the most sanguinary addresses to that effect. What a system of paternal Govern. mut! The father is religiously and dutifully called upon by the children to scourge them. In allusion to the Duke of Wellington's conduct relative to the works of art, a caricaturist has pub. lished a very strong likeness of his Grace, under which is written Blucher. • Toe Letter of the Della of Weßlast= to Lord Castlereagh• Lest week Hums BULK MET OWEN, Eq. of Teds mere-hatt, Shropshire, invited his tenants to a dinner of venison, when he informed them, that in conse quence of the depressed value of farming p r od uce he should lower their roots accordingly. _ Die Mails. . Arr. . • 1 Holland.... 0 • 0 Lisbon 1 1 -.... Got feciburl* • •• •• 0 0 .. Ilanehurgli - - I 0 1 • PRICE DV STOCKS TDIS DAY AT - ONE,O'CLOCK. *um 11...w=. Ann. 151 -111 3 per Celt Red. .S9ll India Bee& 43 p '- • . per GM. Coes. 6111 601 Exchequer 1411 1. 2I p - 6 4 per Cent. 7411 Opine' 1411 .6 per Coot. Nary 901 k Gniiiieh fur Arc. 61 .. .. . i 3 . among the peo, le; but they know n o t h os 14in their hopes are on this subject. The Kids for liberly and the•desire for resistance still remai l , b ut the I means of effecting either are, for the pr,s.ot, fakeit away. Tho evil genius of France is tr;umplqint, end a chaotic I) ranny covers that once smiling, once free, and happy land. How long this glnomy state of 1 afrnics may continue remains for time, and the yet re , i . maining energies of mankind, to show. 1 . We shall here observe, en petssant, in regard to I I? 1 linives of the Emperorship, that the Vienna p, i in contradict, in positive terms, the account of th se. t learn renunciation of the title of Empress. aid i ii e i t pretensions to the Croan of France, on the pat. of Iher eon, by the Empress MARIA !MUM, so Cif, cumstantially detailed in the Paris Rivers, Tee Papers .by the Flanders MAO, received r e , day, also contradict the statement of FOUCIIef being arrested. He has set out from Brussels, an his embassy to Dresden. It is again repeated, that the Turks ere arming and fortifying with great actiwity : and their hostil e preparations seem to have excited considerablealann at the Austrian Court. Austria is drawing ba r a r mies together, for the parries of guarding bee ! Hungarian frontier. '- T H I - ST. 4 TOSlVidisr. .~. LONDO : • stomata, orroucit 23, 11315. - , • The Paris Papers to the 20th instant s and various communications through private channels, from the French capital to the same date, have been received. A Flanders Mail also arrived this forenoon, from which we have extracted every thing of Interest, in addition to the contents of ibe Brunetti mod Frank fort Papers, which reached us test night. The affairs of France still attract our liveliest attention, ifor they are stilt the spring of almost all the comnto i tio as that agitate the troubled sea of European poll tics, and cover with alarms, anxiety, and suspense, • VIENNati OCT. B.—A letter from Gannet morn, the vast theatre of political life. Unhappy the nation whose liberties are at the that the Turks are fortifying all the points in the ' mercy of the enemies of all freedom, and whose • Lower. Danube, and are arming irith great act i v i ty. ! King is a slave—unhappy the people who have toiled. As Austria is drawing together its army of reserve, i and bled for liberty, who have called on all nations it will probably receive the destination of guarding to support them, and find at the close of an age ' the Hungarian frontiers. spent in asserting the rights of mankind, all nations The Russia. General Czernichdf is arrived at and states united against them; who, after casting Frankfort. from their necks the yoke of despotic , power, volun. Baussets, OCT. 19.—The .Ex-Minister of the tarily open their gates and their arms to the Princes Police, M. Fouche, who has passed some days in who have so often deceived them,—who startle at this city, set out yesterday with his wife and family domestic fetters, and find themselies in the jaws of for Dresden, where be is appointed Ambassador from a foreign military despotism ! Louis XVIII. Nothing tends so much to show the arbitrary iispne I Merle, Ocr. 17.—The opening of the Sittings of ',Won of Louts's-Government, and the deep hostility the States General, conformably to the 97th Ankle of the people towatde it, as the innumerable measure; of the Constitution, took place yesterday, the third now proposed for investing it with despotic power.— Monday in October. Each Chamber met first spirt In addition to the projet of a law for giving oilcan- i n it s own H a il. M. Van Lynden von Holventakes, stitutional powers to the Government for the more the ancient President, opened the Sitting of the effectual punishment of sedition, which we have Second Chamber at half pest nix o'clock, be acquaint. already noticed, the Papers of Thursday furnish ad the Assembly with his Majesty's decree, naming another projet, the object of which is to authorise C nint--Thiennes s _ n ergaident of the rim Chamber .•. • the deteetio9, without trial, until the etpiration of during the present Session. the law, of persons . .ceased 'of crimes against the Then the second Chamber, on the motion of its R o yal authority or the state, and the placing under the President, sent a message to the bat Chamber to in. inspection of the high Police tbose, , ebe are only sus- , form it that it had colnstitated Itself, and inviting - it pected, or in other words, to organize a complete i to repair to its Hall, in order to form the grottol as. tyranny, for such most be the effect of a law so semhly of the States General, and wait the arrival vague in its definitions, so accommodating to every of his Majesty ; the GA Chamber haring announced interpretation that authority may chugs to give to it. this memege, repaired- to the Common Ball of the 'The consciousness of the tyrannical spirit of this pro- • States Gellert)). Count Thiennes, the Prisident, jet pervades the whole speech of the Mittioter who named a deputation of Members of both Chambers introduced it, whilst he affects to say that it will • to receive his Majesty, and conduct him into the As. ; only be a source of alarm to traitors, but every one scmbly.• who reads it must at once be 'convinced that under the arbitra►y authority, thus tested in the Crown, no person in France can with any safety utter, or git. publicity to a polities' opinion is the slightest tie. gree at variance •.. ilk the dogma. of the ruling Power,. The debates in the Chambers are still secret, but it has transpired that there is much variance in opi nion among the members. It is a curious and an ab solute fact, that in the shall; on the reply to the King's Speech, the Prime Minister, the Duke of IticnEmEn, President of the Council of State, and the Minister of Justice the Count Dc BARRE MAR.. gots, as well as the Duke of ORLEANS, the first Meantime his Majesty lefttherpalace at one o'clock, preceded by the °Grand Master of the Cerenwnier, tad the Ministers. ond-Ceer!i/ors of State, and I. lowed by a numerous ietinits, and repaired, amidst the acclamations of the people, to the list! of the Assembly, when, being seated en his throne, Lis Majesty made the speech which we have already given. His Majesty then retired in the same form as be came, and the deputation having returned into the Hall, the President pronounced a very eloquent discourse, the merit of which was deeply felt. We shall give it of length in our neat, but decline ans. ',sing it, for fear of mutilating it. Prince of the blood, voted in the minority. The 1 Nets, Ocr. 3.—Besides the proposals mole on Doke of OKLEIms on this occasion appeared ashamed the part of Prussia by Prince Hardenberg in the Con ed the title of Prince, and requested to be designated ftrences of the Allied Powers, that the ancient Ger by the title of Per:ra lone. The singular circumstance of man provinces, Lorraine and Alsace, should retina the new Ministry making its commencement by stand. ' to Germany, the Crown Prince of Wiriemberg his ing in the minority in the Parliament upon the most I also made the most urgent representations to the important points, is accounted for by the system of same effect, and with arguments that particularly in. the Court, which is to hide from the people, and seen • I terest him, has clearly proved, that without Ibis from the Ministers whom it employs, its real de s i g ns. union, particularly of Alsace, Germany will ha"' It 13 this secret Ministry, this 66 influence behind the real seeurity for the States which he is one day to 6 4 ' Throne greater than the Throne itself," which pre. vern, but that all Southern Germany, Baden os 4 sided over the composition of the Legislative Chem. Wirtemberg first, remain eiposed to every 110 4 ' berg, and filled them with its agents and partizans; attack of the French. Now •it happens, notoi' h ' ensl it is this .Ministry who are now governing the standing these onit.d exertions, which all German affairs of France, talking of the Constitutional P r i nces an d S tatesmen , h ave , more or less, ssft - Charter, and public and individual liberty, yet taki n g perte d, t h at t h e j ust hll pes o f our coun t r y 5" 11, every step that can insure the destruction of all f u lfill e d, can on l y b e exp l a i ne d b y th e oppositio' ", these, and rivet the chains of slavery on the Frctsch other Great Powers, whose political Sy s t e m w oril . d . nation. The private advices already speak of the not allow France to lose in extent or roger. li resignation of the Duke of Ricnccir.e, who, they th e exert i ons o f Germany had been combiroa by a n say, has refused his signature to the oew Treaty or: ene rge ti c un i on , an d if th e G ermans were used to C onve nti on bet w een Louis and the Allies, as being ' act i n common , t h e a ff a i r wou ld d ou btless have takes too disgraceful for• France. 1 another turn. The Duke of AsGotrixatc has again set out on a I Private letters from Norwayaffirm, thatthe Crown journey to the South. This is an ominous visit for Pr i nce of Sweden is not quite satisf i e d with his jour• the poor Protestants. The Duke's journey posed to hate some relation to the statements of the is 'op- ney in that country. He has not met with " eh marks of affection as in Sweden. The Norwegian s disturbances in the departments which are still do not seem much to desire to return under th e Jo. charged with fostering rebellion. His Grace h a s an i million of Denmark ;.•but they are not, ho verer, effectual way. of suppressing discontent, ag a i ns t hi s good Swedes. In Denmark they still hope in sde" Noose. We may not hear of the application of his quote compensation for Nom try, hot as People d. Cathoticon, but we doubt not that many will f ee l i ts not see where it can be had upon Continent, tore effects. The Police, without waiting for the power persons flatter themselves that it will be found ibe that is about to be given them by th e new l aws, have West Indies, at the expense of France. suppressed the Memorial o f th e P rotestants of n t _ no ._ 1 Nismes, which detailed the persecutions they suf. LOSS OF THE DELHI EAST TNDIANW• bred—an apposite prelude t o t h e renewal, if they The above vessel, Captain GOWEN, i• on 'h ore in have ever ceased, of the re-actionary efforts of Ca. Mount's Bay, and it is feared she will he a t ..nd tholic and Itnyali s t vengeance. T here are articles in loss. The cargo. however, is expecte d to b e ", ej. the French Papers, which strongly demonstrate that We subjoin the following letters, received this mar" . LlesarlatCs name bas not yet lost its influence log at LLeTniti l on the subject :—... I r I 1 • 1 I I I a I • • • • 4 I I I I I 1. t C 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 • • 1,0 t 4." ~. I. ,~-