The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-12-25 00:00:00

N t J' For some days they Wye been speaking of the nodget f. .r the h ear 181 G, hirlt wi!l be prevented on *ittiuritity to the Chamber of Deputies. Ve are assured tont the table of our espesoliture and receipt will he mope es.couraging than cireullistanees seemed to pr , mist". Brume persons pretend to know. that al lite annual expellee, compli-ing the war-charges, will not amount In BGO millions, and that a sot cessive dictinutiots will take place esery future year. Captain Vacri, who left Nantes rot the 29th of last OClailier, his j..ar as • belt is. Ilse harbour of Mar. SeillPg. Ile was sent fro the 160 of November to Li.- boo, a here he wag well let:rived. The Portuguese, in general, appeared to be touch attached to the Finch. EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LITTER. " VIENNA, ()►c. 9.—M. de Sturmi, the sou of the Wet nuncio, has left this for Constantinople: he is the hearer of she treaties sig:sed at l'aris an the '2oth November. The treaty of alliance between the great Powers way spoon to tranquillise the Divan with re. gartl to the hostit:• views which it appears to ascribe to iles44. It it even stated that the Russian army pis ier amittigsrn, on the banks of the Dniester and the Ps uth, will be dissolved thr.mgh the intervention of the Courts of London and Vienna." FitAuceoev, Dec. IG.—A detailed account of the Prussian arm) Nes beets publitheil. It appears to be composed of 160 regiments of infantry and cavalry, without counting Ow battalions sad squadrons in to-erve, the artillery, the garrison battalions, and the corps of invalids. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. THE STATESMAN. Paris, Dec. 18. 1815. DREADFUL OUTRAGE COMMITTED B TWO SOL DIERS OF THE 95TIt REGIMENT, NEAR PARIS. The British Army had acquired an excellent chtt. teeter for discipline and gond conduct, hut recently Bete;Av.!, Dec. 18.--The garrison of Cambray, these qualities have entirely disappeared, scarcely a where the head-quarters of the Doke of Wellington bight has passed for severe weeks without some rob- will be fixed at the Pod of this month, will consist bery Of art of atrocity being co mm itt e d by th em . A of Bor 10,000 men. Colonel was robbetthy men ofhis own regiment; an- If we may credit the current reports, a change Mh er British offi cer h as stepped i n th e i n r eef .by hail been mule in the disposition of the Allied troops, four Englith soldiers, who robbed and 'maltreated so that not the Prussians, but the Russians , will be Lim ; and ail Englivb Gentleman who bad been .to ' nest the left wing of the English army, and occupy take a farewell dinner with some Olfieers"at •lkonta Charlemous, Itncrny, &c. The chain of Allied tnartre, was stopped on his return, robbed.of three troops from Alsace to Conde will be formed in such Napoleons, and had his 'coat torn off - big back. a manner, that at all times a very considerable force These, however, are hut trifles to what happened et may be collected at certain points within 48 hours. Tavernv, a tillage 15 miles from Paris; brl' 'Monday I In the sitting of the Second Chamber of the States. last. The 95th regiment. Marching from" Cambrty, General, a message from his Majesty was read, on account of (he roads beillg too much encumbered stating that to the Convention concluded bttween the by troops, halted at Tavern)? on Saturday sod Sunday Emperor of Austria and this kingricus. with which week ;on the Monday evening,,betmeen nine and ten I I the State-General are already acquainted, a secret o'clock, two of the soldiets tiamet-of Walker article wa added, which the ratifirwions being now and Neale attempted to steal a pig from a Collage j estchanged, it is proper now to publish. This secret Situated 200 yards from the v ith ig p , o ,, cap i e d, -b y a irticle stiptilated that the debts of Austria securetii poor man named Laurence Qtiedor, his 'telftt . and upon Belgium to the amount of 31,466,679 florins, daughter; they were in bed, andintaringa itei.e, the' are to be to the charge of the kingdom of the Ape. man got up, and on opistiing•lif'door,receismi a ; Ayr audit, the interest to be paid from the Ist of sabre wound on hit head, he ran back intn November this year by the last power. the house, followed by the mein, who met the wife, gave her a sitvere cut on the side of the head, and the gliding down cut off the right ear; the daughter was in bed, and the villains thought to dispatch her Where she by, but only wounded her slightly, being in the lark. The old Man's business- beiteg•Garde cham retre of the Commune, he possessed a gun, which he Arad, and shot one of the villains through the breast, the other attacked him, and laid his head open in two plates, and cut his arm severely, which he had raised to ward off the blows. The poor people were fol. lowed out of the house by the savages, and the woman had inevitably been killed if she had not evaded a blow, which missing her, cut a stake nearly in two. The report of the gun fortunately brought one DUTCH MAIL. Art. *Ails Dile O .... ...... ... Hainburgh I . Holland 4 O .... 0 CU*MINAS DAY.—lfistiday at the Public Ogi.rs. LONDON: MONDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1815. ?nth and ilst, Wefines. esterday, to4ether with and this forenoon we and other Con. the most interesting.— given an extraordinary lent spirit of itstiopend. 'he legislature of France. ie independence of the Chamber of Peers on previously passed by If Derwin, annulling .. • • • • P•srie. Dees N. •It its further said, that the escape wale a current and justice; take away your exactions from m l trig now reported, that bivalents has succeded rumour in the French capital, entLhad been publish- people, saith the LORD GOD." obteieing a commiltetion of big sentonre ; the greatest su. aid in the Thursday evening Pepers. We have at. Iv sierei ons made to•se re ,him. Clarke; War tot- e challenge any man to produce any scriptu m nister, hail beet, his early friend, and is said to have ready observed, that we here received the Thursday that allows Kings, Pri n ce., G overnors, or Ms. used all his.boduence in his favour with the King.— morning Papers, which have no mentor's of any such gistrates, absolute authority ; and where there is no The Duke of Richelieu is mentioned as being dere- event; and know nothing of the Paris evening Pa absolute authority justly vested, there can be node dedly favourable to the extension of the Royal mercy, pe a . . t . • and a Privy Coun c il, it is supposed, will (W 4 solute subjection due. finally de- . cide hii fiv - -niorrrive. rkike, the Minister of War, the French funds had risen on the lOth to 63 , St. PAUL has been scandalously expaond e d on the Duke subject of absolute s u b m i se i on . St. PAUL, tho ug h became acq u ai n ted with L eva l e tt e i n th e t en t o f B o - but they fell the next day to 62. oaPir'a, then simply o Frefich Gen t rßi. The pre. ' l ' he Flanders Papers mention that the Du lie had no laws to p'ead i n f avour o f t h e d octrine he sent Duke or Feltre st as thee an ernplo g e i n the Ws:Lem:nom is expected to pass a few day sat Bros reached, stood up manf u lly f or hi s own r i ghts.— %Val. Department, and upon some chilies,. ~t politic s eels, i n t h e course o f next month, an d then to come P w""le"°""re'll° the Direrr"rYa altrf la hllg*dt° fl , ' to to London, whence, after making a short stay, his ,When the chi e f C a pt a i n cominali d es i h i ll to h. It sate his was 644 camp, astsi ere° the Grace will repair to the head-rpiarters of the Allied ? scourged, he said in the Centuri on , "I s it lassfel for tent of Itseimparte, their ie the opeiiiiigof kir mile. ou to scour e a Roman uncondeinned ?" It i s m ty vary career, that Clarke took refuge, ; n il r e ma i ne d Army at Cambray. g , t concealed until a new change of parties e t iatiled him The marriage of the Prince of ORANGE with the the doctrine of the G os p e l or o f J esus C URI3T to reappear with security. Layalette was then mie Grand Duchess. Aosta Peueowtsa, was solemnly make men slaves. So far from enslaving toe or direr'. of Iletsparte't Aid-de-Camps, and thus, it is said, I claimed at toe ',ague, on the 171 h inst. „„it received b y ing us of those rights and privileges which we have commenced an acquaintance to which, at p re ‘ ent, the public with Warm acclamations. A powder ma- already, it encourages us to procure more lib er . he is likely to be in pert indebted • for: his life.— si ties and franchises, if we can ra-ef i I y an d honest- General Clausel, it is believed, •has effected his te escape from F i ance. I h ave bee rs . assure d by a the loss of many lives, and a lire has done extensive ly obtain them. Fur this see Ist C o r. c h ap. v ii . ter. French Officer Who was stationed in the neightmer- mischief in hielchin, a little town in the principality 21 , 22 1 23. The Christian Religion is that o f hood of Bou;deitue at the time it .was taken by of Miister. Reports coutieue in circulation of en peace and happiness, and enjoins rulers to consult Clausen, that notwithstanding the boasted zeal of the approaching war between Russia and the Porte. • their people's welfare, as much as it calls on subjects people of that town, they had opened their gates Ito obey their rulers. only to about 7() or WO. gene d'artne. This was the Ott a day when the Christian world is rejoicing in' . It is the most fatal error into which zeal can fall, whole of Clausel's force when he approached it, and gratitude to (leaven for the unapeekeble bleisings of this force he had obtained in a way still more extra-when mankind persecute one another for religion's 'ordinary ; they had been dispatched by the Royal the birth of a Saviour, end the considation of the , sake. It was the misery of most of the Protestants Government to arrest him ; he hail set out for lois Divine precepts which he taught, we may he per- in other countries, as well as those in Germany, in Government without single Math ACCOUIIta are misted to examine a little the relation which the doe-It - he beginning of their Reformation to fall under op. received of the arrival of Grouchy in. America. trine of theGesepel her, Or ought In have, with the po. pression, particularly the French, Scotch,and Dutch; litical conduct of men and their Governments. The and it is well known that they ell defended them. strong efforts now making in almost every kitieorn selves. In Scotland the opposition to oppression n Europe, to feeder Rs ligion a state instrument of i ended in an Established Reformation of the Pro. oppression, and the violence which the Protestants testant Religion. In Holland it terminated in an In France are coffering in their civil rights and the absolute freedom both from the Popish and the native liberty of their consciences, seem to point out ; Spanish yoke. In France it produced for a time to the necessity of an enquiry whether the doctrine of ! the Protestants the free exercise of their religion; Jesus CURIST requires absolute obedience to arbitrary but this was interrupted by the preponderance of the oppressions and unjust laws. We will here premise Popish faith and its fI eq firm t auts Mary, miPsacre ; and b the weakness of the , y that it is one thing for men wantonly and without just cause to oppose the esisting Authorities, and an encouragement to almost every tyranny, bet another to defend their rights and properties from which wants the power more than the wilt, we peo. , !SWIM violence and spoliation. Whoever, either sume, to protect ifs subjects, the poor French Pro. ruler or subject, goes about to invade the testauts are again suffering all the horrors o f a re li. rights of either Prince, or People, and lays the gious persecution, joined to the destructi ve e ff ects o f a vindictive and sanguinary political hate ; nor are foursdation for overturning the Constitution and they likely to enjoy the rights of nature and re li g i on , frame of any just Government, is guilty d. the until they commend them from thei r persecutors. We greatest crime a man can be capable o f, hawin g t o will not censure the co n d uc t o f th e F renc h P rotest . answer for all those miserie s of blood, rapine, and desolation which the destruction of G o ve rv ense n te ants ' for consenting to forego the ex erc i se o f th ose • privileges for' which so many have di e d— we p i ty brings one country. But, as Bishop Bizocne, in hit them too much for their multipli e d a ffli ct i ons , le d book r‘ On the trots difference between Christian ' iihjection and Unchristian Rebellio n , deditated deprecate the appearance of c i v il war i n any country • with too trembling an ardency, not to desire to give to Queen ELIZABETH, in defence of the Protestants • credit to the statements we have of tranquillity being of France, against the unjust oppressions of their restored to the places where the professors of the King," says, 66 Cases may fall out in Christian Protestant faith were in most danger ; hot we take kingdoms where people may plead their' rights again" leave to add, that he who lets any person what. the Prince, and not be charged with rebellion. If a ever destroy him, contrary to law, when it is Prince should go about to subject ' biti 'kingdom to in his power to preserve his life by defending a foreign realm, to change the form of •the Common. himself, tacitly consents to his own death, wealth from empire to tyranny, or neglect the laws which he is obliged to defend by the laws of na. established by common consent of Prince and People ; lure, and therefore is guilty of his own blond, as to execute Ms own pleasure—in these and other cases ' much as he that destroys him ; whereas by defending which might be named, if the people join together to himself there can be but one guilty, who is the in. defend their ancient and accustomed liberty, they may • elder and whose blood, if he falls, lies at his ova not be accounted rebels." It is unjust and unreason. door. But may that religion, for the establishment able to assert absolute obedience is due to any but of which some are so zealous in these enlightened the lows of Con, and to the laws of the land, which ; days, as to shed the blood of their friends and neigh. is most certainly due, and no otherwise. Govern- boars, teach such men that the spirit of persecution ment in general, as ordained and instituted by Con, is not that on which Divine Providence can smile, is circumscribed and limited by him to be exercised and impress on the hearts of indolent Princes that according to the laws of nature, in subserviency to , 66 he who allows oppression shares the crime." his own glory and the benefit of mankind. All I Rulers are confined by the Almighty and Supreme Sovereign to exert their governing powers for pro moting the safety, welfare, and prosperity of those over whom they are established. Whoever refuses to govern for these purposes ceases to answer the end fur which his authority was instituted. "His children and servants ye are whose work ye do." Ile therefore, be servant of GOD who does the work toed King has acknowledged that the him—even the Roman Emperors Gr and the same principle and notion ins obtained an atoisg in civilized ?rent doctrine, however, is spring and all who oppose the Diiine ass to give what constitutions and to their subjects, nay, even to lord sciences, are pronounced rebels. It , w men, not naturally food of mintain maxims so pernicious to for if this doctrine had always oh lyted all men to its belief, we and Id have been miserable under ty. sit, and oppression, to this day.— ing needs not an army to ruin and The folly or indifference of man (or him. mantled the yoke of subjection to II of Princes, 'ids strange that rpliets, ELIsIIA or ELL/ AU, nor Inn with his folleoers, nor the Arlo, some of whom were not the imitive Christians, after their re fished by laws,—nor any of the the Reformed Churches, should of this command. The truth is, misgovernment have ever bees. dc. s vengeance. " Thus said) the suffice ye, 0 Princes of Israel , nd spoil, and execute judgrneut By advice, from Milan of the 6th instant, we !earn the extreme impolicy of the Court of Austria, in at tempting a total revolatinu in the judicial proceedings throughout the whole of her Italian dominions. The Code in the native language 1;:t , been aboiished,autl German Code is to be substituted fur it. The t *elf; Italia!: Judges have been removed, without pension of provision, and all equal number of German Juri)tv have been nominated to previde in the Tribunals.-- During the protracted usurpation of NAPOLCON, no thing of (his species of devpotism was introduerd into Italy, and it has occasioned a very disadvantage ous comp trison of French and Austr authorit y, which, i n th e prevent state of Istiou ledge and im provement, will be deeply felt, and loudly dechli°J. As the manner of executing criminals in France co f.trongly revembles midnight murders, no notice he• ing given of time and place, av is usual iu this cow,- try, it is imposhible to speak es to the fat.• of Lar.t• :Arm His daughtor iv married to Sii Gi:o. Pao corr, uncle of Mr. PRESCOTT, bankor, of this me tropolis. Cn►at. Cox. ix HIGH Ulm —Au elopement 1 4 4 recently taken place, which, we bitHerit to say, WO itivaleed in deep dirreas several noble and highly honourable families . The Eddy is young, beaulit . " l l the mother of several children, and wife of a di,- anguished officer. The galle:►t is old enough to h" her grandfather, a married man, bigh in the Peersr, and of lug. fortune. His fortune con' he no eh jert to the Ledy--of his person she could not enamoured. By what charms or what spells 1.0 Lordship has been able to accomplish his vile purpose, remains to be explained. At an early hour on Wednesday morning last, 6 , 0 was discovered in the new Exchange Buildings, und.t the staircase, adjoining the Underwriters' r oam• Fortunately it was extinguished without any mate• tin, injury. %%ben we reflect upon the impnrtsno and Pk tent of Ibis tiob:e pile of buildings, of' ' hui! ' der at the idea of the dreadful comequences might hare ensued, had it not been for the eitedimo of som e hulk - 00;11%; and of ouPin particular, Whilt" name we forbear to mention, a; we should mil speak from hearsay.—(Livrrpool Mercury.) . nee de of the Others to the spot, who arreved - the two not be accounted Men ; and the one is now in irons, and the other !able to assert aim is not expected to recover from the wound. I The Paris Papers, of the 20th and etst, w the lows of Cron ° saw the poor people yesterday, they are both most d a y a n d Th urs d a y, arr i ve d yes t er d ay, toget h er w i t h is most certainly by dreno adfu means considered out acked about the head and arms The Officers ; they are Dutch and Flanders Mails ; and this forenoon we : mitt in general, of have received the Rhine 31crcuries, a n d o the r C on - , ' is circumscribed a of the regiment have behaved very k i n dl y to them, given them money, and seen they have surgical aid; tinental Papers to a late date. I according to the I ! and it iv hoped, while a severe example is made of The French affairs are still the most interesting.—' his own glory at the ruffians, that the poor creatures will receive some The Chamber of Peers has given an extraordinary Rulers are confirh , etermatient relief, ordered by the Duke of Welling. proof of the existence of a latent spirit of Woven& Sovereign to exer ton. The shirts of the Man and woman are covered with blood, as if they had been steeped in a pail of ence in, at least, one part of the legislatu r e o f F r a n ce. ' mating the safety, question re l at i ve to t h e independence of the it, and both the house and yard testify the savage The over whom they a ferocity of the soldiers. The regiment is much scan. Judges was discussed in the Chamber of Peers on to govern for chess clalized at the event, for it enjoyed the best repute- the 19 th, and the resolution previously passed by for which his 'nth 14 Lion of any regiment in Paris. the obsequious Chanther of Deputies, annulli n g ' ' e. The Deputies are at open war with the Govern. that independence, by making the Ju dges and servants ye art removable and he only, is the ment, they have refased to lend themselves to pro- t the pleasure of the Crown, ant rejected b y a ma- . jects bearing the semblance of moderation, hut con. i a . of more than two to one. This is a most sea. o f Gnu. Every go. 1 sealing the most violent vengeance. The fate of :Vey 1.1 6 '4 has i n spired great interest. it is complained that all ; saimitik diva to the rapid course of that infatuated laws were above h esta b l i s h e d f orms were v i o l a t e d. rust, the Chart disposition which would pl ace a ll t h ose secur i t i es on knowledge(' this ; confessed by the King himself; second, the amnesty , ' which depend the li ve s, lib ert i es , propert i es, and of Gove r nm e nt h r solemnly engird by the Duke of Wellington, and . happiness of a nation. a t th e f ee t o f despotism, and nations. A differ shuffled off by his Grace for reasons not difficult to fa- invite destruction to every thing that is enlightened tug up in our dap thorn ; thirdly, the Chamber of Peers refused to listen of Sovere , established, and free. 5 Right igt to his legal means of defence; and lastly,in his eitecu- lion, vengeance could tint 'wait from midnight till ' The Chamber of Deputies have not yet made their laws they please to Amnesty as proposed by th e break of day to inform him of hip sentence, and in- . Report on the Law of it over their conscii stead of a public execution he was shot just as he Duke of RICIILLILU. is wonderful hoe I wou ld have been assassinated, in a large plain, with A curious report was brought yesterday from tm eye tn witness it, save those appointed to carry . , Brignton respecting Lav %LETTS. It was positisely slavery, should ms the sentence into execution ; lied here too the forms human society,—fo of law were violated to gratify private vengeance.— asserted b y p assen g er s ar r iv ed i n the Duke of Wellin.• tai" erl and prosely The duty of military execution devolves nit the Gen. ton packet, from Dieppe, that Lava LETTE had made hi all Europe should darmes or veterans, on this o c cas i on s o ldie r s of the escape. Thepersons who brought this report left Pa- minty , sup erstition regiment of La Roche Jacqueline were brought el- r i s on Friday, and state the particulars of the escape At t his rate, a Kit presslv to Paris to glut their vengeance in the blood t hus: the wife of LAVALETTE had, on Tuesday,through en s l ave his people. of a Marshal of trance. the interest of the Duchess of ANGOULEME, been ad- The King issued a coinage of '2O and 40 franc kind will effect it fa milted to an audience of the king, who f oun d hi m - If G oo hat) snort will pieces, its which he refused to base the name of the the tyrannical engraver, Tioller, on the esergue : but all his 1111- self compelled to reject her prayer for mercy. She thority will n ot make them current; and they are obtained, however, the permission to see her hos- neither of the Pre ' now oloti4etl to he called i and the fact acknow- n, band unreservedly, and without witnesses. She went A Z Ant %11, nor D A ' I !edged that they are not a legal tender I --7 ill conse neeice en Tuesday and NVednesda several i q Y Jews under their Ki t 1 , 46 ,, Dm 19. times to visit him, and each time in a different dress. best,—nor th e prix A most extraordinary order has been given here On the last occasion of her going site induced LAVA. HO" Will establis i relative to the s h u tting u p o f th e G ar d e ns of the /ATTE to escape in a female dress, and herself re. ancient Fathe rs , or .. ' I. oxembourg and of the Thui "ies—the excuse i s, mained behind in the prison. A'onut an hour after. net have known of bad weather; but we had bad weather in the time of . wards the scheme was discovered, but though the that oppressio n and t . . Roi se spiorre and Bonaparte, and still these gardens strictest search was instituted, and the passports of flounced by divine were slot closed front the public. The fact is, the • ' police is afraid of an) considerable number of persons all Persons leaving Paris were minutely examined, it L oan Coo, let it s is said that LAVALE ITS was uot found. I remove i ~. meeting or assembling together. voleuce am ~. 1 -:... , . ..... , - • - • -0 right ath, begil na. pow as widen !ing the g Go era red!, lent us re by w tied this ; gh• poosi ioa ; A ile a Wok bat SOO .a mat mph el- and t cease) actin! I it to tit Iv; go wi or rent, ,:4 Powe whicl been litany e. 46 saw, out f . tancei to rei e• posse one h 46 t• s. Auer t• to w i n sequin Gore' peopli error Y silent they c 66 I COMP I lighter in a di atituti4 Put th, on the all hia have 6 enlight we enter philosc On Mica lotion Dftetes THE STA 7IESZtfaIN. • I tM MI 1)11 trot brig Ho Noi Sail for will Wa seer last The but phi!