The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-10-19 00:00:00

C b • I' ...4)•,••• . . sFX , i•-% . • llFur THE STATESMAN. THE STATESMAN. LONDON: Y, octocLit 19, I:31 5 : . • r ~~- .... -.....1 walk I to Ow •eli erf reli e irel for having made nar on that As. the Americans had no right to reject George III.; lates the principal articles of the Treaty of feace.— t• lidos a 11 i s ~-rem ? At a Over 'relied Nap: !eon and all his reproaches of this •Gnverement for its ea. Semis aceessary points still remain to be regulated.— . %tug i 11, 111 .t•ipie sor e, a , esteleished religion, with. dea voila to este - lire America are' unjust, If Na. The dislocation of the troops that are to remain in sell. hese • %et, lei Ore ere orstr Oil( on the liberty of oroteott was an Usurper, Mr. Greene i s a British France, their pay, and the time they are to iemain 1 , 41!•4 it ore. er r e rhi Ceyerement made oar against rihject.end 6 mot dislayal one too, and I would . there. I• oresee S ill it fo ue le for religion ! And what, arls'is'e huh toltroare hew Ire tiros ribose% the Cleverer. ' Ocr. 10.—His Majesty the Emperor or Russia then, oes (hie Tel which it fought for ? If for meat of his legitimate Sovereign ; for, I can assure left Dijon, on the 7th, for Basle, whence he will e:ty ieligion at ail it tosst hese been fur that of the him, that this Goreritreent seldom forgets. It h.s make a tour of Switzerland. The Emperor after. liouthoto, of the Noblesse, she Monks, and the trothiog to do but to a s lopt his own doctrine, if he wards goes by way of Basle and Nuremberg to Bees rri..q... It must baie beer tor tt.e. very religious, come her. and re-utter Ills oration, and, the v e ry lin, where the Empress will meet her ;eglect consore• es temb. we forbid oar Klee, to.profess; ugliest which next :Middlesex Sessions, he swings limn the New. ; The Grand Dukes are to leave Dijon the menet:ley to eve snletnnly protest ; to disdains es h-•hef in %hide drop, or secures a pasolort for Botany Bay. !go to Carlsrhue and Frankfort. .. 'we compel ever) merrin whom 'ae lieeled tea ceitende. To return to your " bulwark ;" bow has it been ! His Majesty the Emperor of Austria wets to leave If of airy religion at all,' it eis - it this religion of a bulwark of I eligion and liberty in Spahr ? In Spain, • Dijon on the.7th for Stan, %thence he mill proceed which this Government we.; the !rtr:wark. . . Napoleon had disperied rile Monk', abolished the to Venice. As to litter's, does ;Leto a-toried any nue to hear In q uisition, and called to meet the Itepresentritiies ' AIX-LA.C_IIAPELEE, Oce. 12.—Yesterday, al noon, it said, thert the moment the Fr etch people shook elf of the People. The Ettglisli Govereterient interfered. we had the happiness. to see here for the first time our 'that Crowe:Arent ii hieb, in Exit-nod, had elssaes The majority of the Spaniards joist it. A Cortes is august Sovereign, King Frederick Willient lIL Ilia b.en eleenod tr herrid ts heel, the Goverteeted of called. This body co-operated with the English Gtr- Majesty was received by. the superior Authorities, root same Fitelatel nettle oar upon them ?• Am), vernment ageless the Fiend'. This Cortes formed a the General Corantandeert,• the first President of the though tire Alert sieve r env distiectly wore ed, is it free Constitution for Spain. The French were es- Ilro al Rhine Provinces and of the Grand Duchy of (rot plain, that the wi,h of this Government always - pellet) by the 'miler of E ci fazes and English the Lower Mitre, amidst the acclamations of the ' was to force the (louse of Bourbon hack (Ton a peo- troops. . The King of Spirt was restored. lie re- multitude. After having given audience to the func ple, who had freed themselves from their tyranny? stored the Monks and the inquisition ; he tore the firemen both civil and military, as well as to the Bow, thee, do you justify your al 'reflation ? How free C. , ottiturion to rags ; he pit In death, banished, Clergy, his Majesty visited the Cathedral and what sin you maintain, that this Government has been the imprisotted, or ruined by amerceteents, all those who ever is curious iii 'our city. In the evening there was •bulwark of liberty ? If the Geverement o f the had itistiorguished themselves in the framing of that a fine ball, which it was hoped his Majesty would Bourbons *es not a horrid despotism ; if it was not Constitution. Some of these unhappy men, having have honoured with his presence, but the fatigues of .such a Government as to -make it the l a st d egre e o f sought shelte r i n an English fortress, were Roden- the journey on the road from Brussels hither, leasing baseness for the people to submit to it, the writers tiered to their pursuer.. These are notoriousfaera.— passed the nigh( in lOs carriage, hindered it. In the •and orators of England had been for ages the most lleve you, Sir, the boldness to glen) , them? If evening the whole city was illuminated. This morn , meliciuus of liars. And, if it was such a despotism, you say that they are false, take from your inc very early his M rjesty set nut for Cologne. • could this Government be the Bulwark of Liberty countrymen the rewerd of your impudence : if Beeesees, Ocr. 11.—His Majesty, by a Decree while it was labouring for the re-establish:nett( of that you acktrow ledge teem to be tree, Wroth for of Ote 11, Aug. in steer 300 articles, regulates the :despotism ? You will, though, perhaps, a very cue- your pail folly . ‘Vithout attern t obre, to justify serve-4114er of scientific education in the Northern ning man, find it difficult to escape from this dilem- the motives of Napoleon its seizing upon the Prosinces. Another Decree will be published for the . - • ,ma. But, Sir, are you prepared to say, that the Throne of apein, lam not at all afraid to assume, Southern Provinces. Government of France, civil avid religious, was, that ; had it not been for the interfeeence of England, ._ .. --- under the Bourbons, such as the people ought to Sealer would never agein have seen a Dominican, a Arr. wait,. Dee have submitted to? Ate you prepared to say, that Jesuit, or ass Inquisition; - that she would have had ! I the people of France ought to have continued to a Government comparatively free ; mad that those U teetarat endure the Bartile, Corvires, Seigneurial Oppres- oppressions, against which the people of Spain are , 0 0 • sinus, and the exuctions of the Church, together with now endeavouring to make head, would not have etc- : ____ __ .____ __ _____ . the want of Liberty of Conscience? If you are, you isted. In this case, then, has the English Govern- puce mssTocoo Tuts must be a very unjust and cruel man; you must be meat been the bulwark of Religion and Liberty ? It 'tees ON .destitute of humanity. if you are not, bow can you. might act wisely for its own immediate interest. It 3 , l'e ,.‘ r ZoT t . c rl ,,cd . , •b • t ?,tl justify the calling of those the Bulwark of Liberty, might see great dab rto itself in the annexation of 4 ' 4 ,',., o nes et io ' l7 .who from the first dawning of the Revolution in Spain to Franco. if you - call it the bulwark of the 5 teen Sleet. efts:. See Xi France, showed their hostility to the French people system of sway in England ; agreed; but, as to re -.__o, — and to the change that they were making. • ligion and liberty, it has, in this case, at any rate, And what ; has been the resat( ? Has this Govern- •been any thing but a hal week. • meet %hide boasts of eempitleMpccess,observe,proved . It has, indeed, given a King to the Dutch, which ;... itself the .Bulwark of labodi in France ? By the you will of coot se, say is notoriously favourehle to tp money as Inch it has paid to dean Courts and ar- liberty ; but, are the restoration of the Pope and the i relies, it has been able to carry hack the Hombre's in Jesuits equally favourable to religion ? Come; say 1 'spite of the French people, who haul, lest year, so it ! Congratulate your Presbyterian colleagues in i decidedly cast them out a second time. Ir is quite the Assembly wills the perfect restoration of his An interesting question mey error 'be asked, if eta tr. that the people of France 0410 r the Bourhoes, Holiness to sO his eights, temporal as well as spi. there were any hope et its being satisfactorily an. •cr that the invadess erase been ' sudsy eat nernstroug titu el. Cosigratulete them, make processions, and treachery. The. sigree we have beheld is this: the put up thanksgivings for the rise of the Popedom Am! • veered—ls the Government which is attempting to Bourboir King marolling to Paris over the carcasses the extinction of the Republics of Europe. Cotre; he established in France likely to he peimenent ? of the slereortered people. We seer the English and flout the Devil for •nce. Put him out of countemuwe If the Allied Sovereigns are attereptin; to establish ,Geretran armies occupy ttre capital and great part of by this unparalleled instance of impudence and an'exolic order of things, urei c !, m e et pe r ish the i nn. the countre...They proclaim themselves the friends of hypocrisy. went their artificial aid is eithdrietr, ,they ore in. ,the King. The Soimeigns and-Commanders are ca. If, indeed, you were to style your own general Yessrd by hien. They lay the people of all ranks and Government the bulwark of liberty, you would have deed engaged in a tack as rif:irufnus as it is hopeiris. degrees.ueder heavy contributions. Our Newspapers some ground to proceed on. 'flint Government af- —The nature of their plant is certainly sadly at 1:3. tell us, that they sometims shoot, sometimes f 1 ,,;, the fords au asylum to nll men. It welcomes all, rod dancer with the soil, and (heir way of giving it an French people. Now, either the French people pp. treats ail ;like. It has bed s but flew wars, one to iiti tileianue root in the country and .1 claim to the prove of the King, or they do ant. If they do, this protect its citizens against impressinent, and ilia is wanton cruelly auel m ost foul treactiery, on the other two against those piratical "States, which plun• sopport and favour of its inhabitants, is far from part of those in the ply of England : if tees do vet, der untiffeneling mariners, and ram them to cruel is meeting a hope that the tree of Bourbon autheri. they are now under a G•verument toter-el on them ceptisity. These barbilitors, to Vie shame of Europe, ty will long flourish in France. That nation, with by foreign trayoutos urged en by English motley.— hare, for centuries, committed their robberies null the exception of a very few ignorant and bigoted Take your choice. Swat yourself upon which horn . cruelties with impunity. It is notorious, that this individuals, looks ninon the house of BOURBON:as of the dilemma you please; and thence to your ic- bulwark Gotertialent had it in its power to destroy the Upas, which poisonvall its ha mess and every dignant countrymen repeat, if you are foslish , those nests of barbarous wretches at any time. But, enough, that the English Ministers and their forces instead of this, it _has cultivitted. friendship with branch of it as alike deadly ; and until those quail. arid money are the bulwark of liberty in . Fiance. them, has had Envoys at their Courts, made them : ties are expelled which are destructive of vital health Your countrymen, in 1776, inveighed most bitterly princely presents. Sir Sidney Smith, we are told, an u s dry up all the s o urces of national prospe r ity against this same Government for endeavouring by besought the Alike, at the Congress of Vienna, to and cOntent e oho can expect that France will re feree of arms to hold them in a state of subjection to afford him the means or checking their depredations. s? a Soverejgn under *bosses% ay they had been singer- No. Sir Sldirey is 'no conjuror. But (he Anseriesus P°se under such a shade We hear much of purifi laity prosperous, liappy,and free; under whose sway come across the AtlantiO; seize hold IlOthena; shake , Fallon being the order of the day with the Govere e oppression was unknown ; wider whose sway. your them as a dOg shakes' a rat • comfiels them to sli'se :meat and Chambers—every thing, and name, and country men boasted of their liberty . If this Go- gorge tkeitephowriere to. pay -for-their tnicrOnduct, ro. Character I which is not made up of homage to vernment was, in that case, -the enemy of 'oe ty ; set their captives free, and to promise not to offend if it then merited the reproaches and the cusses be. against America any more. - l'hii is, torleed, being a royalty and fidelity to that blood which France and st awed upon it ; if to employ German armies on that bulwark of liberty. This is to use.power in a pro. virtue have so long disowned, is regarded as taint. occasion deserved your eeecrations, how do you re. per manner. When power is thus used it is just to ed with the pollution of sedition and disloyalty ; coned- it to justice to call it now the Bulwark of Li. , wish it to be increased. _. -I fist we see no sign of purification being eitended to bed) . ?—(lad not the people of France as good a' The plunder which has been committed upon the the sources of all the evils that have long afflicted righOto make altevolutiote as you had ?-11ad they French nation, the requisitions laid upon them, the not a rig' tto dismiss their Sovereign as much as you insults, the floggings; they have undergone, and, per, France, that have hurried her into desperation and had to dismiss your's ?—(lad they not as much right papa, have yet to undergo, are itli richly merited, if crime, that still desolate her, and threaten to rouse i n choosing an Kmperor,or a Consul, or an Assembly, they have preferred slavery to freedom ; and, if they her again to madness, and snake her cause (hat of all as you bad in choosiug a Congress or a President? have not—if they are merely kept. down by force, Europe. Who sees not already what is the object —li tOey were rebels, you were, and are, rebels.— these flogging.; will, before three years have passed, of . he I3ounuoes and their Allies? ' The liberty Your Rerolutioto is poly fourteen year older than have a n excellent e ff e c t. As to the ,plunderiug of t theirs. l'.' the Bourbons have a eight to reign in the Museums and the Galleries, the things theme be- which they said they came to esethlielt is already France, havioe been restored to :lie th r one by force, longed not to the Bourbons. I would dither they proved to be the bitterest, the most oppressive, and there can be no doubt, that the King of England has should all have been consumed by fire than re- degrading slavery—every appearance of freedom and a right to stisdoe von, to reign over you, and to main in their possession.' They will have France independence is taken away—representation is made employ foreieer armies for Ike purpose of his restora. what France ought to be under them ; and, lion, aged also, as in the case of Louis it De s ire, t o w h en F rance i t an y t hi ng e l se , it w ill be theirs no worse than a worthless shadow—it is denied up o n girii-on your towns in order to insure and to perpe. longer. This, instead of a day of modification, is , mere suspicion, nth) the will of a desootie Council tuate your sul.jeceion. - a day of t r iumph, to the Republicans of Franca. of P r i n ces i s se t up in its s t ea d. Noise but the pa. There is an Oration, which I have seen, delivered While they bore sway, all Europe was couching at rashes, the willing slaves of this desiertientOS a r e wi ll a Mr. Greene, at Cliari e ;ton, S ou th Carolina, the feet of their country. Then, who dared to talk misled to the councils of comcnmeiit ; and Ilene ou the Oth of July last, in %bids that Gentle:Alta, of insulting a Frenchman? Then, who did not trem. i n ver y e logue u telan g ue g e, afire branding the Eng. ble if France frowned ? Then, what Sovereign ier tire to call themselves the Representatives and the lish Gorerameot with every e pith e t a n d te r m epees- Europe, was there who did not seek to conciliate the voice of the French nation—the miserable repre. eer y to describe Iy-ornery and fraud, is its courloct Great Nation ? Now, the Bourbons being restored, sp o t :l lio n o f & miserable amid ignorant minority,mearily towards America, ;luring the tw o wars with her, France is the scorn of those whom her republican triumphing in the litdrofavour which its excess of ser rails Napoleon an Usti' per, and seems to lament the legions made fly before them like dust; and French. decamping of the g mod Louis, and to join is itii our men are fl ogge d by th ose , w h o , w he n they were Re- vility . has obtained ! and upon this narrow and rer arivtites in their abuse o f the F r e nc h. There is publicans, would have licked their feet. Such is the the eiallecterto isdom I) • Witty very un . -Atias.like basis, something so unjust its this, that we overlook its change wrought by the restoration of the Bourbons. of Europe is to repose the success of eel! its efforts— folly. Napoleon was without power. He was de- Such is the price which Frenchmen are paying for the security of Lotos's 'throne, which they. have siitate of all means of for. ate hioself upon the peo- that res t ora ti on . • pie of France. lie returned from elite. lI laboured so much to restore, the fabric of France's er was WM. CORBETT. received with acclamations of joy. It was not a' • national happiness, and the peace Red safety of E t e. __ regular arid scrutinized election ; but there is no ; , rope! None but wise men car , discover the wise—tese man oho will seriously pretend, if he has any re. i BRUSSELS PAP ERS. ' wise airdoreat, seldom united, of tour day have mad e Gard for his character, that Napoleon was not the 1 a most notable discovery — they have found out flot choice of a vast m . joritv of the French people.— SWITZERLAND, OCT. 4.—Gen. Kosciusko passe d How, then, does Mr. Greene make hitn out an through Bette , incog . about a fortnight i since, and s the tradcwer the basis on which they are to build th e i r Usurper I—lf he was, so was General Washington; gone to the interior of Switzerland. projected edifice, the more securely will it s t a id . — so h ave all you r Presidents been ; nod so are you, The arrival of the Emperor of Austria at Bade They, no doubt, mean to craw their own toles the c e l l f e s s e e i r y — c b o :t np as c e iv h i a s v w e he h t e s tir o d ne o l f ni e e i t ) s p t g e t ::: v t o fa g b iv ri e cs w t m o v o , leen, the pro . ceeding * a Sir, in the State of Nlaseachoseits, when, though seems to be put o till the 10th inst. you are the Governor, throe were great numbers to The Duchess of Basilan° arrived on the %Slit Sept. vote a s sainst you, and great numbers who now think at Basle, with her family, going to join her husband fall altogether. It will be see,, of the French Legislative Chathltede . ivelrich 'msa ws that no one is you unworthy of your post. But Mr. Greene is at Praone. flagrantly inconsistent with himself; for, if the ledge to be ruled by 800 al influence, FRANKFURT, Oct. signed 9.— f u t s i ii t h he F n ra ig n h c t e) of w t h h i e ch 2d st i i n p s e t : 1 French people had not a right to reject the Betirbons, a Convention k A n T n. ( 7 .1 4 Y 1 . 5 1 - ) 16 " 1 . 5 4)"4 • 'Win Bon& 2 1 p Ezehecrirr Hifi.. 4 p Ouinielm 11 415 Console for Acc. 61i .Lm•lN•lmma..•• 1 welcome, or, in fact, will be permited to sit tie..., who is not devoted to the King, and ready t o op ,. port every measure which emanates, as all meas ure , do, from the Royal authority. The general i n France is known to be very inimical to this at stens of government. The circle which is to surround Lours, end on which his authority is to rest, is, th ere . fore, every day becoming more circumscribed, a n d the pillars of his House fewer in number. if y" ask a Frenchman how long this order of thing s like'y contie oe, he ea! reiriy [the out o f 1 , 1 will do the same, if the enquiry is eXl.n1100), w 4 4 Ynis can tell me how long- the Allies e : ,l main in France, the question may be tasty answered"—and . he will add with an espressina of satisfaction 66 the minority cannot lo ng over the majority in this country." It cannot be denied that it is a minority of the French people who are now represented in the Chambers and compose the Government—a minority whose views le every thing that intimately concerns the peace and hope,. • ness of Fiance, are diametrically opposite to the no. nions of the majority, and to the system which, fora quarter of a century, has been established its that country,—an order of things which cannot b e china.d like a fashion or a Minister, butneilniitiorlau,s,tt be attended with all the consequences cf a peri ne a revolution—it cannot be denied that it is a factions minority who now rule in France. It is eqinn y e ,i. dent that they are the mere instruments of the to. reign Powers, and the slaves of their ow passions —and that the measures which the Gasp e! . ment is pursuing are the very reverse of those which inspire confidence or create love.. Never can any Government expect to create love or respect in the minds of its subjects by oppression, and tahouriva only to complete the ruin of the country. C an l ove err the_King and.his Government be the natural e f. fect of the annihilation of all public liberty, of Ike deatiktion of the national prosperity and honour, of the dissipation of the public feuds, which are seized upon by the foreign oppreisors as the price of invasion—of the total. demolition of the national defences—the carrying off of the magazines and the ammunition of war—of the despoiling of the public monuments—the consumption of the provisions of the peeix/e--_-_aL.enormous-contributions and requsi. iiiivi, - croAry exacted from an already ravaged coon. try—nod of the still more appalling prospect of fa mine, and the already experienced horrors of war? If love *to the King's Government can be created by such means, the Grierrtmettt of Louts must he greatly loved and respected indeed. We are told the Mine hers are rallying reund the King. Who Cookers. these Chambers ?—We have already said, none but the partizans and favourites of despotic _Royalty-. their sentiments and coliduct'erove them to be ail, and the state of public confidence places the fact beyond doubt. Let not then this servile renew°. tation of a very small part of the French peqlein. deed be mistaken for the Representatives if the ma. jerity of the French nation ; and let us hear the French people, with one voice, applauding their conduct before we are told none but a few disbaralr eat military ate dissatisfied. The Paris Papeil of Monday last arrived at a late hiiir this (weapon. They have nothing of interest, except the particolars of the audience given by the King to the Deputatios from the Chamber of Peers, who waited on his Majtsty on Silsday evening with their Address, which, together ssitb the King's reply, we subjoin. The A 'dress is a mere re•echo cf the Royal Speech. The Peers are as loyal and adulatory as a King could wish ; and his .11v.:csl1 l says,. he "kaows his duties,"—that is, he need not be told them. It is well if this is the case. It seems, ! however; admitted, that he has another honourakt: I I peace to obtain... Ilis Majesty " announces painful communications," but a wise aid respectful reserve prescribes silence and patience tilt the whole &Las of the era shall be made known. Tams, OCT. IG.—Yesterday, at eight o'clock in the evening, the King received in the Hall 41 the . Throne the Grand Deputation of the Clamber rt • Peers, charged With presenting to his hisjusty the Address voted by the Chamber. • The-Depetation was conducted to the audience of the King' by• the Grand Master, the 'Master awi • Under Masters of the Ceremonies. • The Chancellor ; as President of the Chandler or Petra, read to his Majesty the Address, cow-titer:ll'. these terms i— • "Staa,—Your faithful subjects, the rev, of France, have been profoundly affected at the words which your Majesty has spoken from the Throne, and which resound still in all hearts. They hasten to deposit at your feet the homage of thrir re4ecrt• . ful and fervent loyalty, that of their commiseradq: , for your sorrows, of their hope from your a isdom, of ilk the senrinienti which rircuMstinres so ilTIP° s " jug 61 :i)lt to elette,.of all the resources which rill love can offer fur your person, our fidelity to )ent Woof!, our iutetukimittte and our country and our King. " Yes, Sire, when Provid4 wishes of the world, in resy of France, when it raised e, of your ancestors, ()sir vatrit the appearance of..yoer 41:Ijk . the peace, • which you• heti as grstulate yourself tliou as AA.k. i ci • li c . i .1 I boundless devotion bo. lence last year I,esul the :ocing yau, to thn 4 10,irf , s °lTlin for you the Info! knotty as much at Pt; 13. 1 A jury was thc . si,ral .. 1 I ae.rnoch reatots to cio- we hailed it with h - • ti,•,;'