The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-04-13 00:00:00

complete sktisfactiois, and a more thorough convic tion of doing his politic duty. than he should feel that nig.lit in lopporiing the motion of his Noble rrierid. The E;rl of BUCKDIGIIANISHIRE defended the conduct of Mitlisler4. _ _ _ The Earl of ROSiLYN reprobated the neglect of his Majesty's Ministers to provide soma means against the return to the Continent of a person whom they t hetnselves characterised as the greatest enemy of he peace of the world. A small force would have been sufficient (or that purpose ; for the question had not been argued fairly. It was a very different ope. ration to prevent an individual from crossing over in an open boat, and to prevent the passage of an armed expedition. Nothing could be more futile than the attempt made by the Noble Earl who had just spoken, to justify the conduct of the British Govern. :neat, by asserting that that of Fiance was as much or more interested in the subject. Whether the Bourbons het! the same meal: a..d the same facilities as ourselves, was not the question. Our Govern. merit had a distinct duty to perform; they neglected it, and if their Lordships refused to call for the Pa. pers moved for by his Noble Friend, they would, in his opiuion, abandon their duty. :heir Lordships then divided : Contents 21; Non-conteuts 53—Mujerit! 32.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMNIONq. The. LORD ADV OCATE ..1 scoT 1, NJ 11. bovine!, obtain ed braughT three Rill'. Th.• for the better ar. raneengeod •if the Judicial Rec. , r4s ..-utlond. The I•ecnrirl, for the beurr reSul. u , n of M hat roomy. The third wog for abolishing the Inferior Coruinii,ioriers' Courts in Se Of and. 'I hr Two Millions Irish F.c• hequer Bills Hill w.ki Tyne! it first time. arid ordered to be read s secoad lime to.morrow. SCOTCH JURY COURTS WILL. The order having been read for the House to resolve itself into a Committee on this Bill, Sir S. ROMI LIM did not rise to oppose the pin. grass of this Bill. He thought, on the contrary, that it was a Bill which would confer the most important benefits on Scotland. He could by no means consi der this Bill as a mere experiment, but as an immediate remedy for a great practical evil. From his own ex perience in Appeal Cases from Scotland, he knew that the greater part of them turned upon mere matters of fact. The mode of trying those questions now in Scotland was enormously expensive as well as dila. tory. A case which in England might be disposed of by a Jury five or six weeks after the action was brought, was often pending in Scotland for seven or eight years. There was another great advantage, in the Trial by Jury, that the countenance, the deport ment. sod tone of voice of the witness, was a sort of Whig commentars on the value of his testimony.— This was an advantage that trials taken open written depositions could not have. He certainly valued highly the conscientious scruples of those Petitioners, who supposed, that after taking the Juror's oath, they could tint give up their opinion to their fellow Jurors so as to agree upon a verdict. In this coon. try, however, where the trial by Jury had existed for many ceil.aries, a matt would be supposed to have a , very perverted understanding, if lie could imagine i thut,aftet having advanced all the arguments he could in support of hi.. impressions, he would be perjured in filially acquiescing with the opinions of the ma. , jority, and finding a verdict. He must also observe, that he thought this Bill might be a precedent for im. portant amelioration in a pa: t of the English law.— In our Ecclesiastical Courts, the proceedings (which als. , went on written depositions) were enormously expensive and dilaters . lie hoped that when the • attention of the lionse ivas called to the advantages of 'Eris! by Jury in Sc.,:hinci, they would also see the propriety of a similar mode of trial in many of the., ciso before our Fcclesiasiical Courts. Mr. W. I)UNI)A: stated, that he had introduced Amendments into the Bill ; and note of them was, that' that if the Jury should not agree in twelve hours, they should he dismissed. • The House theta resolved itself into a Committee. Upon the Cisme for the Commissioners being, on every fnture occasion, appointed from the Practi tioners at the Scotch bar, Mr. ABERCROMBIE disapproved of this clause. He paid a high compliment to the talents and fitness of the gentleman whom he understood now to be ap. pointed (Mr. Adam), and considered it u one of the most important parts of the Bill, that there should be some one Commissioner at least, well acquainted with the rules of evidence in this country, upon Trials by Ju►y. He thought it too much to tie up the hands of the Executive Power from appointing any such person, in case of the death of the gentle man now appointed. Mr. HORNER supported the clause. He thought that a mere English barrister would be no morecom petent to try causes according to the law of Scotland, than a Barrister who had only practised in Scotland would be to sit at Guildhall and try cases according to the law of England. He conceived that the law of evidence in Scotland would be improved by the Trial by Jury; hut it must be, after all, by the Scotch law of evidence, and not by the English law, that those trials must be decided. If there was any attempt to transplant at once the English law of evi dence into Scotland, he wnc sure that k would The LORD ADVOCATE also supported the clause. M r. A BERCROM B 1 E and Mr. CROK ER said a few words. Several clauses being gone through, a very long conversation tcok place betsveen Mr. IVilberforce, Mr. W. Smith, Mt. C. Grant, Lord Binning, Mr. J. P. Grant, Sir J. Mackintosh, Mr. Horner, Mr. Elliott, Sir H. MI otgomery, &c. on a clause for re quiring twelve hours' cuni•ideralion of the Jury ; af ter which time, if, not tgreein; unanimously in their verdict, the Jury to be discharged.—Agreed to, with amendments. The other clauses went through the Committee.— Report to be received a-morrow.—Adjourned at a ginner past eight. We understand, that the applications to the Com mander in Chief from General ()Seen, to be em. ployed in the Netherlands were so numerous, and made under such coollicting interests, that it was judged expedient to send the Military Secretary to the Duke of WELLzeorow, in order that a final ar rangement might take place ander his own immediate cognizance. - THE STATESMAN. FRENCH PAPERS. • FARM Aron. DEPARTINF,NT FOR FOREIGN AFFAI"II. CIRCULAR ADI►REtsEO TO AMBASSADORS, MINISTERS, AND OTHER AGENIN OF FRANCE AIDOAD. Pans. March 50, 1815. SlR,—The wishes of the French nation never ceased to recal the Sovereign of its choice, the only Prince who can guarantee to it the conservation of its liberty and independence. The Emperor appear ed, and the Royal Government no longer exists. —At the sight of the universal movement which carried both the people and the army: towards their legitimate Monarch, the family of the Bour bons perceived that there remained no other course for them but to take refuge in a foreign coun try. They have quitted the French soil, without a single musket having been fired, or a drop of blood shed in their defence. The military household which accompanied them has collected at Bethune, where it declared its submission to the orders of the Emperor. It has given up its horses and arms: more than half of it has entered our ranks; the rest, few in number, are retiring to their homes, happy to find an asylum in the generosity of his Imperial Ma jesty. The most profound tranquillity reigns throogh out the whole extent of the empire. Every where the same cry is heard ; never did a nation present the spectacle of mope complete unanimi♦;y in the ex pression of its happiness and joy. This great change has been only the work of a few days. It is the finest triumph of the confidence of a Monarch in the love of his people ; it is. at the same time, the most extraordinary act of the will of a nation which knows its rights and its true duties. the functions entrusted to you by the Royal Go- Ornment have terminated ; and I am about to take, without delay, the orders of his Majesty the Em. peror, in order to accredit a new legation. You must immediately, Sir, assume the tri-coloured cockade, and cause it to be taken by the Frenchmen who are about you. If, at the moment of quitting the Court where you reside, you have occasion to see the Minister for Foreign Affairs, you will inform him that the Em peror bas nothing more at heart than the maintenance of peace; that his Majesty has renounced the plant of greatness which he might have anteriorly formed ; and that the system of his Cabinet, as well as the whole of the direction of affairs in France, is upon a totally different principle. I cannot doubt, Sir, that you will consider it as a duty to make known to the'Frenchmen about you, the new situation of France, and that in which, ac cording to our law., they find themselves placed. (Signed) CA ULINCOURT, Mite of Vireasa. The Monitcur also cootains a report from Giulio court, relative to the Swiss regiments in the ser►ice of France. It states, that at the moment of the Emperor's return to Paris, the officers of these regiments thought it their duty to apply for orders to the Swiss Diet. Toe Diet returned for answer, that it required them to return to their country. Caulincourt complains of the whole proceeding as an irregulur act, inconsistent with the capi tulations of 1802 and 1812, which had not been abrogated by any succeeding stipulations. By these capitulations, Co °Hilton' t contends that the Swiss re giments could only have been recalled by a formal application to the French Government, stating, that Switzerland was in danger of invasion. Or at any rate, it is added, if the Diet tuck this resolution from motives of prudence, and to guard against events, the same measure should have been extended to all countries which have Swiss troops in their pay. Then follows a decree, dated the 2d of April, dis banding all the Swiss regiments in the ser►ice of France, and ordering the Minister at War to take charge of their arms, magazines, stores, &c. fur the interests of the Treasury. By another article, the Swiss officers and soldiers who had formerly served under Bonaparte are permitted to volonteer into a regiment to be created and organized for that pur pose. Art, Otte Holland . 1 0 lGottenburgh 1 1 1 THE STAT. 'SMA N. LONDON: THUILIDAY. APRIL 13, 1815. Brussels Papers to the 11th, and Frankfort to the 7th instant, 'robed this forenoon. Thom were also arrivals last night of Brussels GaZ4Ollll, . Paris Papers to the 'llth, and Malls tram lissabargke— They furnish a mass of information, which we can only give in substance. It is chiefly composed of accounts of the preparations which are every where making for war. As we hear that our Government are anxiously waiting for the determination of the Austrian Cabinet, and to see what may be the conduct of the Powers who continue to pro long their deliberation in the Austrian capital, we still eagerly torn to the advices from Vienna. Though it is evident from these that the Allied So vereigns have been issuing their Declarations of hostility against NAPOLEON', in utter ignorance of the circumstances under. which lie has ascended the Throne of France : the preparations which they are making to soppOr .. e their Declarations, leave no doubt that war will take place—the issue of that war is rather more doubtful.—The So vereigns composing the Congress bad not given up their conferences, in which they were inces santly employed, on the 30th ; but their abode at Vienna was not expected to be prolonged another week. The news of NAPOLEON'S entrance into Paris bad had an astounding effect at Vienna, where the public mind had been kept in great ignorance of the real state of public affairs, particularly in France. As if by magic, however, all had been changed within a very few days: the silence of the Cabinet had been succeeded by the din of arms, and war and NAPOLEON was again the universal subject. Austria deems it necessary to arm with the rest of the Allied Powers, but it is very uncertain how she will act, now that affairs are so much changed since the proscribing Declaration was issued. We do not find in the Papers received to-day any confirmation of the statement that the Allies had de clared that they would not 'evade France. Very large bodies of troops, it is said, continually pass through Vienna. On the 27th, it is computed that 50,000 men were quartered in that city and neigh. bourhood. Artillery continues also to be sent off to the army, a great part of which is destined for Italy. The King of PRUSSIA was to set out imme diately for his army on the Rhine. The Duke of WELLINGTON had returned on the 9th to Brussels, from Ghent, where his Grace had met the Prince of ORANGE. The French Royal Family were moving to Malian. It is stated that emissaries of BONA-. PARTE are very busy among the Dutch troops ; and insurrections in favour t NAPOLEON are appre hended in Poland. GHENT, Aram 6.—111 s Royal Highness the Prince of Orange is expected here ; his horses ar. rived yesterday at Alost. The Duke of Beret is gone te.day to Most with the King's household troops, whence it is said they will go to Malines. Among them are 100 students of law, who had taken arms for the King, and were made prisoners by the rebellious garrison of Bethune; but these brave young met' have found means to escape, and join the faithful French here. Thirty three of the 100 Swiss, who were prisoners at Be thune, have likewise joined the King's troops. Bitussets, Aram o.—Some squadrons of the fine regiment of Belgian Carahiniers set off this morning for Nivelles. Several battalions •f our national troops are also on the march to join the Army of Reserve. The Duke of Wellington returned this morning from Ghent. In the last 24 hours a great number of couriers have passed through this city from Vienna to Ghent and London, and others from London to Vienna and Hanover. Lot/VAIN, Amts. 7.—To-day there arrived here four hundred men of the first regiment of Dutch carabiniers, from Amsterdam, on their way to the frontiers ; to-morrow 300 more are expected —this fine regiment is almost wholly composed of veterans. An emissary, sent to seduce the troops to Bonaparte, has been taken and sent to the prison in this city—this agent cried continually, " Vive Napoleon!" He had been pursued from Maseyck, where he had excited some soldiers to join him. A courier, sent by Napoleon to Vienna, has been stopped in Wirtemberg, and not permitted to pro ceed, except with an escort. IketiN, Aram l.—Official accounts from Neuf chatel state, that three of Bonaparte's emissaries have been taken by the peasants, and immediately hanged upon trees. Some days ago a French General, who was like wise a spy of Napoleon's, was seized here ; and three days ago a French Captains The latter had papers tending to excite insurrection in Poland. Three other French spies have been taken at Magde burg. The discussions in the House of Lords last night, on the subject of the Treaty of Fontainbleau, and BONAPARTeII escape from Elba, are exceedingly in terestiog. Marquis WELLRSLEY made his Motion for Copies of cectain Instroctiq,ns and Communica tions relltting to it, which were refused — for the best of ell Oossible reasons, because none had been given, and none were to give. The Noble Mar quis, in reviewing the conduct of Ministers in relation to the conclusion of the war, and the defenceless way in which they had left the peace of Europe, after the intervention of lb may favours from Heaven, and sn many opportunities of securing it, emphatically observed, that Ministers had by this conduct, and voluntarily shutting their eyes to its probable result, exhibited the greatest proof of incapacity that ever had been shown by any Administration. The systole of defame which Mi. nisters have cow adopted, is redo* Dowd oo their part—it it a oonfoomina of their own weakness. Any likeift one who compares the admissions which they l i e now obliged to make by way of justification, with the pompous boastings which they made when Lorf 1 , LIVERPOOL, in the letters of light placed In front of his house, at the time of the illuminations in honour of the peace, gave thepublic to understand, that the glorious termination of the war was the result of his and his colleagues' perseverance —any one who compares these and the past and present situation of the world must experience emotion? very little flattering to the pride of Englishmen. " Soldiers," said IV tPoLcox. when he started from the couch of indolence, in tile' vigour of his renewed strength, 66 we were not con. quered"—and our Ministers now admit this to b e the fact. The situation of the Allies, when the Treaty of Fontainhleau was concluded, is allowed to have been extremely critical. Ministers can now give us a list of risks which they and the Allies would have ten had they not allowed NAPOLEON to dictate his own terms.—" At that period,"says L or d LIVERPOOL, " except the force for the protection of Paris, under Marshal MARMONT, no portion of th e French military had deserted the standard of 80. NAPARTE. At Fontainbleau he retained a large body of forces ; and the armies of Svcnur and Sour were still faithful to him. Another most material circumstance was, that he retained possession of every fortified town in France and Rolland, and a great number of those in Germany. The entire of the fortified places on the Rhine and Elbe were is his possession, and all the fortified towns in Italy were occupied by his forces." His Lordship also re. collects the army of Italy, " on which," he says, 66 NAPOLEON might have implicitly relied, and which was, in its qualities and appointments, more formidable than any other which be could have brought into tie field,"—and he adds with great cousideration,"gen. der such circumstances, the Treaty had been rejected, and if a failure, on the part of the Allies, afterearsis took place, the result would have been fatal, not merely to France, but to Europe.. What would this country, what would Europe have said, if, is consequence of a determination nut to treat Wilk BONAPARTE, a revulsion had been occasioned!" And what, we may exclaim, must this country sod Europe say, if, in consequence of a daterminatioa not to treat with BONAPARTE again, now that Jte is stronger than ever, and it is officially admitted that 300,000 of the bravest troops haaa.keen,atided to his power, a more terrible revulsion shalt take plea; and t lie Continent shall again be inundated with blood and slaughter ! After also it is so publicly ilechrai by the Ministers who guaranteed to NAPOLEON lie freedom of action, and an independent Sovereignty, that we bad no controls' ever Mm, why Pe the wretched and infuriated took of that Ad. ministration allowed, as the Times of yesterday did, to malign the character of British Mart, and accuse them of treachery, of neglect of the most important duties, and of receiving bribes fro the Emperor NAPOLEON, to allow him to mops when they had no power or instructions to prey such an event ? Lord HA RROWSY, Mr. WELLESLEY Pott, end Co. have returned from Broguelv. or Ghent, having, we are told, brae Ministerial Prints, accomplish the object of their missies, which appears to hal been to confer with the Blake et WELLINGTON is the other Personages there, oh the conduct advi able and necessary to be pursued in the Rena. crisis. We understand the Pertotteges were ►ery glad to find that It was our Mat-0%the.41141 that we had sent ever to them, sod money! money ! was all the talk and the want. Hoe much of this has been granted •r promised ift know not. Two reports are in circulation as to the result of these conferences.--According to est story, war is resolved on by the Allies; by the other, it is said, that the Allies stated their necessi ties to be so great, that they could not move eilM out subsidies, so enormous as to alarm the Earl of !IA RAO% BY ; and that the consequence is, the Dub of WELLINGTON is gone to Vienna to hold far. ther communications with the Emperors sod Kills, while Lord ihattowsir is returned to report pro. _ grew to kis Colleagues at home. Prussia is trying to raise a loan. She will or tainly find great exertions necessary to keep her ne' acquisitions. Vigorous hostilities are expected ti commence almost immediately on the Lower Rhine and it is reported that they have already commence in Italy: this, however, we do not believe. M RG %TR, APRIL 12.—Arrived the Venus parks Claw', from Ostend, which place she left yesterds] about noon ; the Captain brings teal intelligence moment from thence, except tt isai reported that to privateers had put to sea from Dunkirk; he state that on his passage across, he heard a very hear firing in the direction of Dunkirk yesterday en noon. The packet, after landing Ler passeni proceeded to Ramsgate Pier to take on board In to Ostend. MIURY-LANE.—Mr. BRO.TLEY, who, we ballet was some seasons ago an actor on these boards. 1 appeared last night in the arduous character of Faisal We confess we were very agreeably surprised by exhibition : it is the best personation of tae human , Knight that. we have ever seen. Mr. BiIItSLEY seem to know what no other representative of that part see' to be aware of, that Falstaff is as much distinguish , by his intellectasby his waggery ;and, consequent ] that buffoon gesticulations, vulgar grimaces, and tones, would but poorly pourtray the man gih" Sitastsecans has gifted with all those combing's, of fancy and line sens e, as well as gaiety, which most justify the Infatuated attachment of the nobil minded Prince. Mr. BARTLEY gave to the chants its full power of entertainment, and at the same to redeemed it from the contempt which foolish sc . o l have made foolish spectators feel for it by that'll over it an air of good sense and knowledge . 1 world. The Hotspur of Mr. S. PENLSY wu 4'l ably spirited. ON DON Prirtmi sod Published • Itty D. Lovgic Ir . 41 , ATaituar Orrice, Si nowt". FRENCH ARMY. Parie<, Wirth 29. 1515. Napoleon, Emperor of the French, &c. We have decreed, ■nd do decree as follows: • Article 1. The Fanicertir buttimaat all the suhalterm and sol diers *Mr have quitted the tinny for any reasen Whatever, to rejoin their corps, and he gives them a special pronsi.e, that as swat as the caking peace shill have been tornotlidated, those who shall re-enter in consequence of the present decree shall be the find tar receive their di-charge. 2- All the sub:therm and soldiers of the Old Guard most re join their corps to Paris. Those of other regiments at places that a ill he specified. 3. Sit rerjabents of shcirp-shooters, and siv of voltigeurs. of the Young Imperial Guard, sitall be organised at Paris by Ge neral Count 11roaet, Articles 4. 5. and 6, direct the completion of the various wenws s.r intatory and cavalry without delay. by tilling up the tat and t:1 battalions by the 3d; amid the three 11r-1 squadrons of each regiment of cavalry by the 4th. The Sd battalions and the 4th stmadrons are then to be completed front the men recalled to service by articles I and Y. The surplus of men thus recalled are to forma 4th battalion, of *hid the skeletons are to be in. VlSlttly•ltalred. A set of °Seen are also to be farmed for a bits battalion. The 3d, 4th „_and sth battalions are to remain In thee nolo* Theist and 2d are alone plated on LOTTERY DRAWS NEXT SATURDAY M AT NINE 01:I.00R. THRER PRIZES Orn TIMEX THOUSAND GUINRAS N COW DIATELY. till far o% ice. DAT AT ONK O'CLOCK PRICE OF STOCKS THIN Maur L'Mg. kan.l4 11-114 8 per Cent. Red. 556;1 India Boob 4 6 8 p I per Cent. Cans 5631 Escheriaor Mils 4 $ p 4 per Cents. 786: I nataiuni 4 per Cent. Navy 8764 Consols for Ace. 876 661 1 - . i ',15~% .~.- r - re t 4 Sr A$ Bus Ituy Bto,, Huy Puy Su l it E:t rt Val iti g h I. I rill t 4 S'i ol 1 11 1 I,"ial Nte7„ . e .triii i orni 144 brit beret 'Tai 4 N. 8, r A Iry