The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-10-28 00:00:00

NW I qP"' .~~..~ FRENCH P:4PERS. PAkr., 25.—Sunday afternoon three ainfiliggt whom was a young man between 16 marl. 17, uttered seditious cries in the Garden of the 'rtiolteries ; th..y were immediately arrested. 1 - rs'erday J. Brevaril, residing in l'aiiv, was tried the C our t of Assizes, fur liaviog held seditious sod atrocious conversation, tending directly to es c;te tie citizena.to arm against the !Loyal authority, a•al for having by his speeches provoked to rebellion. lie was found guilty, and c o ndemn e d 'to flue years banishment. In the night between the Ist and 2d, a number of evil-disposed persons, inhabitants of the town •of Seurre and its environs, brought great scandal on the town by seditious cries. The principal movers of • these excesses were several individuals who formed part of the free corps of the Cote d'Or, and who had signalized themselves by their In igandsges in the environs of Besancon.. Ten of them have been ar- , rested and conveyed to the prisons of Dijon: The Ns are immediately to be taken out of the colonade of the Louvre, and to he replaced by the King's cypher, composed of 100 Ls entwined. They w tile flow ussels; the IThh, that M. Fouche, Duke of Otranto, had set out fi orn thence the preceeding day with his wife and fetidly, to plosl ceed to Dresden, - . where he is appointed Ambassador of his Majesty Louis XVII). The Prefect of iL'lbitit Rhin, by an Asrete of the 12th, has ordered the levy of a new extraordinary contribution of oar, of 100 centimes on all the direct Contributions, to provide for the aubsisteuee of the Allied Armies. The contributions to be paid at the rate of fifty centimes immediately ► and fifty in a month. The receivers will .prowd to reenter the fist fifty centimes b) means of military elocution. Rosie, OCT. B.—Lucien Bonaparte, whose arrival here has already has been announced, enjo) s entire liberty, by virtue of a decision of the Allied So vereigns, signed by the Prince de Metternich, Lord Castlereagh, Count Nesseirode, -and, the Prince de /lardenherg. This decision imports that the Allied Powers v. ill not oppose the return of Lucien Bona parte to the States of the Pope, provided his Bolittess compels him and his family to remain there. Dirosi, OCT. 20.—Count Vaublatic, Minister of the Itoetior, wrote to the Count de Choiseul, Pre fect of la Cote d'Or, wide/ date of the 16th, direct lug, that if the orders of the King led pile of the Pt inces of his family into that department, he should be received in the most private manner, and that no, espence should be incurred. 'file object of the Princes in going through France was to know the wishes of the people, and consey them to the foot of the Throne. Yesterday, when this letter was holly known, tie cat ival of the Duke d'Atignulerne was announced, accompanied by the Duke de Guiche, Count Ar mand de Pulignac, and several other petitions of dis tinction. VI Ocr. 13.—There are vague reports here of disturbances that have broke out in the kingdom, of Naples, and which will occasiou the return of. our troops to the South of Italy. CTIANHER OF I)I.PUTIF.S. Om 23. Ellebruseddetuce t e sediiton.] BRUM PASQUICIL—No one, Gentlemen, is more convinced than myself of the necssity of an extraor di I I it is2ntl -- lied for it r TI E STATESMAN. ditvary law. incessantly cm_ , Ni - • ad it been passed at the time when I urged it, great coincidence of opinion with M. Royer Collard. `calamities would have been spared. But a law of M. DE CAZE, Minister of Police.—l divide into this kind should be remarkable for its clearness and two points the difficulties which are presented; the frankness. I must say, however, with regret, that power to he conferred on the King, the guarantee this nhich has been presented, has neither the one to be given to the people. • nor the ether. And first 1 ask, what is meant by a Some say that this power is too great ; others think person charged. No person is charged but when it too confined. he has received a form of process ; prior to this • step We think that this power is sufficiently great, and 1 see only a suspicion. If you declare that he must that it could not be less. be a person charged, he should not only be detained, The Ministers have not feared to take upon them. but placed before the tribunals and tried. These are selves the weight of an immense responsibility. They principles of la w. You wish to deprive dangerous I undoubtedly have more interest than any body else men of the lllFail3 of doing mischief; do not before. in balanci n g this power, so as•to be conformable to hand call them persons charged : that is not the 1 the hater( st of society and of the State. proper expreevion, and flout this error proceed all I That which has been called Ow alarm-cry of the the defects of the renjet. Romans, and which I would call the cry of security lf, hceide,i, it is naked, who are the functionaries (for the law which we propose ism law of security as nho sli:fll at rest those ehorn it. nes) , be deemed fit to well as of public safety); this alarm cry, carcant all chorgeti, Y. telly, that they are not described. consults, did not carry after it, it is said, the same Shall this right belong to the Judges of criminal' consequences as the proposed law. eroce,,? Rot these Magisitates, accustomed to pro- The extraordinary power was not confided except 'cute the ordinary offences of society, are little fa- to the Cosisuls alone and to the Dictator. miliarised with a mote lofty order of ideas. A great But reference must be had to circumstances; the deal has been said of recomposition and putilication ; Ramat' Empire, at the period when it was most ex. but with whatever activity that work may be carried tended, was ail complete in Rome. The superior no, it cannot be finished iu a day. You cannot wait Maeistiates could exercise their authority by them for the purification of the Judges charged with the be I yes. execution of this law, which, if good for any thing, ; It is not the same in France, where the authority should be instantaneous in its operation• will be necessarily delegated ; its exercise therefore If, however, its execution is to be left to the Ad. must be divided and 'speedy. Have you not io your ministration, that power must emanate from the Ali. eyes the example of what took place eight months nistry, and be directed and watched by it. What ago? then would be tie , position ef the Nlinisfry, if the Were not the dttizers so pressing, that in spite of law being cave:is:ea in various ways by a crowd of the eromptitude tie. , measures, nothing could stop • friectiortariec, it had to mph their mistake' or incur the prop ess of the ceittlagratien ? to • responsibility ? • The reject has been reproached with pretended l;pon the whole. I think the law conformable improprieties of expression ; It is wished to subsitute neither to the principles of just legislation, nor to the ward sus;aeion f o r the word arraignment. those of sound policy. its obscurity, its an i te. It is not the Suspected whom we wish to arrest; gaily will leave both the citizens and funotinhatie, it is the real arraigned. aVe say with the Penal Code: es ignorance, of the cases, when it should he a;'- he whom public opinion accuses is really arraigned. plied ; .it dots not define the power w h ich it gives, 'rile 106th article speelts of arraigned persons sus and it cities not place that power where it ought to be 1"."ell iu fiagiant offences. Now these persons are placed. not yet delivered up to justice; they are merely sus • M. Pasquier then presented a plan of law, polio- pe c toe, %That guarantee does the law give ? A moral, ri ing the Ministers to cause to be arrested and s brought before the tribunals, persrins suspected of though not &constitutional responsibility, erLieh will ; State the war- al Ma s weig h o n the heads of Miuisters. attempts against the g aie ty of the r a w ; t o b e given by the Minister of l'olice; the Mi-' eeo 'not fear to as ow it; we. arc ourselves • «~..., . . ..>*; J - ~-~ ~. - epon the objerte of o.e deliberation of the Assembly (sister to beat. Pp , rt.s• 1., delegate the power to Pre- alarmed at the power confided to gas ; that which re. that Lad hi en itlienitte.l to his decision, the solution frets and AttorsiejS:stieral. If, within a filed pe- assures us is a feeling of the good of the State, an& of ""'e "%Ills that had ashen, and the virus of the riod, the Act clef.: oratory of the detention, sig n ed of the safety of the throne. Covettiment Nees certain subjects, w hi c h a s pe e dy by t*o Ministers, tie lost presented to th e p erson That which, "thole all, otteld to reassure us is, the egteemsol of the Sites rendered d es i ra bl e . 'After detained, thee thejsilor should be bound to set him intelligence and wisdom of that aegust s Prince, who, endit'gr Lis Excellency withdrew, not thinking it at liberty under lain of prosecot• for arbitrary himself, nill be (reticently appealed to, whose cows. rnper, that the Minister who will have the honour detention ; its cities where arrest Shall tint be ordered, sets will be always appealed to, to pronounce on the of communicating to the Sovereign the result of the (lien the •iedisidusl suspected may be placed under. decision of the Minister. Ile must necessirily give deliberations of the States should take an immediate sup cu iltonce. us his sanction. pert in . lberii. M. de VAUSITANC Minister of the Inrerior, then What guarantee more strong than that of a Isisg, • sissessure.sw., stele's. President isto be.r.luaastu.. h are t o speak, in order to reply to whose clemency has been so rest,. thrit cloy have not rush:sig.' on• Logsdon Oct. '2O, 33. 4. . !an objection. When Ett g land is q uo t e d i n ma tt er s feared t o calumniate it, to say that it n:l4 worerib - in i of publicist legislation, a greet and deep impression is his duties, greater than his rislits, greater that' jos s sure to he made : Mut the quoted example lice! Tito only persons who would tint feel re must be coffee, and its spittle-slims exact. it is said, assured are those whom I have pointed out, the men that its 1794, the Houses of Parliament did not sus. whom the law ought to attack. pend the 'Hans Corpus till after an enquiry. Let The Minister then discussed the clitferetit amend us recollect the period : England then enjoyed inter. meats that had been proposed,.and foetid them to be not peace which she saw threatened by the contagion unnecessary. He thought, with the Committee. that of principles subversive of social order, which, so to it was hot necessary to express the warrants the speak, crosscut the Channel to bring her disturbance motives of the detentidit. The arruigned person and cruel disseusions. The danger appeared imed. , would al isays be questioned ;he would always knuw midst ; a great Minister felt, that a prompt measure of. what he was suspected. was necessary to repress the seditious, but it was tie. • The close of the debate was then loudly called for.. cessary to know by an enquiry, how the country M. CORRIERI: demainted to he heard. should puss from the ordinary state to one new and The Poestusser.— The tismes of several other unexpected, how the exercise of a common right .Members are inscribed hefore yours ; they will speak should be suspended. in sitesessiun, unless the Assembly close die Oise Here we are asked what is the state of France ; it cussioti. is wished, before voting the law, to know what are M. CORDTERERRiII he wished to speak on the dos the circumstances, what the public dangers that refs- itig of (hi:discussion. 'she urgency, of the law ap. denit necessary. What is the situation of France, pesred to him manifest ; but he wished it to be •Geittlemen ? it is easy to describe it in two words (triton up its more precise language; he had head (here there was the most po.foued silstice). speeches and propositions which deserved to be me. The immense majority of Frenchmen wish for ditated. ‘Ve saw that very enlightened lawyers peace ender the reign of the lilies ; the i.nmense ma- were divided in opinion, even as - to the expressions jority of Frenchmen wish their King.— [Unanimous of the 11:.. The magistrates and citizens must be appiaases interrupt the speaker, the :;hair assemply equally so. Ile moved that the debated be con.' sir s awitht shouts live lc Rut! !he spectators in the galleries follow this mamma:Cl—Yea, Gen- ; . The closing of it was, however, again and gene.. (teasels, the cry which you have just unmet' is the rally demanded. The Chamber decided that the dim natiotit 1 cry, and if a voice was strong enough to cussion ens closed. make itself heard from the one end of the kingdom Tile Pas:sips:NT then summed up the debates to the other, you would hear it repeated through all a hich had taken place on the plan 'of law, and par. France.—[Gencral cries of yes! yes!]—But, by ticulerly brought under view of the Chamber die the side of this immense majority of which you have different amendments proposed. so *lushly become the interpreters, there is a minority; These amendments were put to the vote before the turbulent, feetious ' the enemy of the laws, of re. :articles of the law itself. pose, even of itself. Order is a burthen to it s trail. • On the let article of the law, the motion, Oat the quillity a putiishment. This minority is weak, bet , Members of the two Chambers should be excepted we must not slumber over its projects, and elbow it; from its application, was put aside by a general ex to give itself up to its hopes ? No, Gentlemen, %repression of a negative, on the part of the Chamber. us reflect that good is slow and difficult to be done, i 'rite second amendment tending to substitute the but evil, on the contrary, easy, and is done in a . expression of presumption instead of charge in the moment ; that, let but the majority slumber bet for a! same article, was put to the vote, and rejected by few moments, the minority triumphs and replunges I the previous question. us into an abyss of calamity. Toe Ist article, as presented to the Chamber, was Do you not still fled it such as it was at the epochs then put to the vote, and adopted. of the Revolution ?Is it not the same which labours I The modifications proposed on the 2d article Were with an indefatigable activity towards an infernal • also negatived by the questions. success ? It will reach that success, should you I The PRESIDENT then observed, that various sleep over the public dangers, if sou do not pass a amendments were connected with the principal idea law repressive of the-Maas and plots which threaten ' thrown oat in the course of the diseassiott, : the safety of the State. 4 , that the designation of the public functiousuies on And when I speak of agitators, the law which ; whom the law confers its extraordinary power should we propose will protect even them ; it will prevent • he expressed in a manner more clear and precise.— them from framing their criminal plots; it will ar. ' He therefore proposed, that the Chamber should rest them at the mascot when their criminal designs first come to a vote on this general Wrote ace ready for execution ; but, nothing but this law it proceeded to consider the atueudments which went will arrest them,—nothing, neither morals nor re. mote precisely to designate the functionaries. Vision, nor the sight of their country torn by new This question gave rise to some discussion, and in convulsions: pass then this indispensable law, Gen• reply to certain observations which teli from Buses tlemen, and with it protect not only the majority cC Pasquier, M. BELLART here tit:set bed, that certainly French against the minority, but that minority the Judges of criminal process would not have the against itself. (The warmest acclamations power ofarrest, but merely the officer ofjudisial police. burst forth.) I I fact, the precise object of the law was,to dis. The PRESIDENt—I must smite! the Assembly, t posse with sending persons charged before Judges of that it should take care not to set the example itself criminal process, and bringiog them before the tri of the violation of its orders which forbid applauses. bunals. Here the ordinary march of justice could Some MEMBERS.—Not the cry of rive le Rai! I not be followed ; for the moment that the tribuna:s t The PRESIDENT.--1 meant only to speak of those were in possession of the persons charged, they applause% which we have just heard. could he bound to proceed to their hint, and thus %M. COLOMU, in a short speech supported (lie law. the very object of this measure would be disappointed. The closing of the debate was then demanded, hut I After a short discussion, the previous question M. Citsreerr obtained a hearing for some short ob. l on this head also was demanded, and - put to the serrations, in the course of which he expressed his vote. The first trial was doubtful. The second Itime the Chamber decided by a large majority, that there was no ground for deliberating ou the Amend ments. The PRESIDENT them put another .Amendment, that relative to the interval of detention of persons charged. The Chamber rejected it by the previous ques tion. All the Amendments were thus successively put aside, and the four As tides adopted in the state in . which they were presented by the Minister of Po. lice. In conformity to the Standing Orders, a Call of the House then took place, in order:to proceed to a scru tiny on the p'an of law as a whole. • The number of voters was 350. There were for the adoption of the law 291 votes, and 56 spinst it. The PRESIDENT declared, that the plan of law was . adopted. , The Sitting was then adjourned- till to-morrow, when the Report of the Committee on the plan of law relative to seditious cries will be received. • The annual consumption of grain within the fills o f Mortality amounts to no less titan on e mtllion.one livulred and sixty-Leo themsand one hundred quar. tens, the whole consumption of Great Britain ex ceeds 24,589,200 quarters. Taxsix's benefit at the Opera-house in Paris, on Friday the 20th, was most brilliatit. 11. k said to have surpassed even himself in the character of Ham- ht. lie obtained frequent and enthusiastic applause, , 1 and indeed produced a wonderful effect in the heauti- NI scene in' the fifth act. Mademoiselle Ducat:- Not; had some happy moments in. the part of Ger...! (rude, the principal female character in the I.:Leitch piece ; but, on the whole, was rather inuitotatiouc. The little Comedy of Shakspectre in Lo.7c was ad mirably played, especially by Mademoiselle MARC, who gate, with exquisite grace, the tragic verses which are found in her part.' This sepresentation was attended by as many English as French, so great a favourite is Tar.ttA with our countrymen. The . receipts exceeded 10001. sterling. The crop of . potatoes this season, we rejoice to find, has been unusually abundant all over England, att.' the quality excellent. ..- .., 1 THE CONSTITUTION SUNDAY PAPER, • Price kevenitence. MITE CONSTITUTION is one of the ilrvs . . 1 1 • Papers published, sosit extremely well adapted for :lt whet have nut srn opportunity to peruse the Wily raper,, it flu ri , h. s ?!ie mu , t ioterestio g Foreign tend Domestic Net u" the wy e k, with the Police iltalelligenee, dte. The Ge:rti of 'I a clay and "•;11 rdav are alp, particularly a:tended to, it aitt like.sl* !)1 fOtilid to evintlin one-fourth more to lu lu _ t il• thou ma. .y id' the hii.sday . Pape..s, a filch are sold at pcce, art the Head r may Judge of the quality, as well as yead.i it • of the matter. Cors , ertvoTtow may b • 114.1 of all the News Voider, blau, .t a iil be. fora:a - dm! to WIN part ads/. wined Kin dont Ott Sunday, by traasiiiittitig Orders to the ST sit:Sit. Su. s!. Flee:-st reef " ct to no Tt NEXT TrESDAY. ALL THE 3 PRIZES OF fto,t\ AND THK 4 PRIZES &TIM% IN OOVEN4111,;! srocK. liAIC. BE DRAWN, AND THE 'YALU ItE(74IVEI) IN MONEY pv DEltAxy, _,____„............. Unqs W I I • O 0 LL,bon • 0 •• - . • O • IP • •••• !• • lianslour4q ..., . . ........ ... U 0 . Holltual 0 . ••• •• HaliCor .... • ... ' • ' • . 0 ST. Sr ,4011 & Sr. Joon.— at the rank Olkok ! STAT ESM A N. .LONDON , SATURDAY, octosu 28, 1815. The French Papers of the 2lth an 1 25th bare at rived. Those of the 24th are chiefly occupied wilt the debates of the 23d, on the law for veiling sch. tion. The Chamber of Deputies has granted, b y , large majority, the extraordinary powers, authori, ing unlimited arrests, 'which the Ministers thou;( it necessary to demand. It is thought that the oppo. slam' in the Chamber of Peers will be much stronger, The discussion of the Deputies seems to have bee n warm and animated. Several Members proposed amendments of considerable importance, warm. 'arty that the Public Functionaries, authorized make arrests, should be distinctly specified, that the period of the cessation of the law, eiders expressly renewed, should be clearly stated. None of them, however, were adopted. An orerwhelr ing Royalist majority bore done argument , cries of fire le Roi! and the Constitution which Louis boats so much of having bestowed ea the French people, is already suspended by his own faction. The Marquis D'AncEssom, in the course of the debate, alluded in direct terms to the osassacre of the Protestants in the South; and demanded, that if th reports on this head in circulation were false, the Chamber should be officially informed of the fact,. This excited a tumult of disapprobation. The roy. alists could not for a moment entertain the Sabin(' the massacre of the Protestants as one worthy their attotation, and no information as to the truth or falsehood of the statement., even in the government journals. on this widely interesting topic, was coat tuu.,icated. The Duke of ANtiour.sme, under whose banner the krsecotioh of the Protestants has been earritd on, has arrived at Dijon. The Papers of the 25th, which arrived at a IA oc hour an t li i s riaon f ioiscroer transcript o ho f n e , Planhi h r e in Ago of the the ee a s aa p oswr,t amendedaonfd t a h full e Ce I I tra Id by the Commission: They are fourteen its number, and enact penalties, as our Readers already know, of imprisonment, fine, and transportation against per. sons convicted of sedition, pulling down the white flag, distributing if images baring a sedition: object, dis; laying other alms, cockades, or signs I than those recognised in France, and spreading re ' posts against the Government, calculated to alarm and in:flame the public mind. The law also, as hat j been mentioned, invests all Magistrates and Publi Functionaties with the power of arresting and cons fining for an unlimited period all persons suspected of avy•ef the above crimes. The final discussion was to take place ou Friday. A number of instances are again mentioned of the arrest, the conviction, and punishment of persons fur political offences. It appears that the partizans of the ancient regime are really so infatuated as to be lieve in the possibility of bringing things back Is precisely the same state they were in, before Francs knew what liberty was; and that they hope to en einnplish a revolution in their own favour by tenor and proscriptions.—They might as well trj to roil! back the tide of time. The Fr.tich say, and, an doubt not, truly, that those who are now urea,: lie nation into re-action, will net remain the ma:- Ors of it. Every thing tends to show that the Party %%lin me now labouring, in the name of ills King, to destroy the Constitution, to establish the divine right ref King-, or, in oths.r words, to IniJJ; back at hi: tau tenser. and destrey a ll tib ei si idea , and Institution!:, must fail :n their labour:, Oast.- aided by alt the despot: in Europe. 'lite dogma' " 1 the - French !loyalists and Emigrants, and their Pe 'porters, the Foreign Powers, hit , • already roused a spirit of resistance which must defeat their dings- - efforts, the nature and consequences of whirls n w,t alarm every sober mile!, and is.terest every friend !0 liberty anti humanity. The imprudence of the restored G o vernment 1 1 , ' thrown France into a state of delirium which is rai . . l : ly approaching its crisis, and the dartcer and eaten: J.l Which are perceptible in the preceedings of the Gn• 'eminent itself, which like all grannie: in je(4 ll is leaning Da vengeance when it sho i l'A turn to ark awl rultrt measures of conciliatice. _ ...la - ; 331 1 Newt =titer Tt I to ; pan. Pr' l eer bel a% the 411 eri jq str aaat P er ind eat hvr his i s soi 1 thei Sou 1 0 . M.% per! tint Com Ii Mins ase o, go.:1 ju tii (•• !ar.. .horse by a 311 i. are a n;ht cup' 40- pay. sger. y, been ea ree les c d him Lida. 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