The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-07-25 00:00:00

r :~ ':i .j { r~ • •ati:1m..4..,....16.1i4.111••••M0 HAGUE, Jct. r 9. PROCLAMATION. ' NM --••••••• f• - *.i4. • ::)111". tgiFy t•iturph cf consilcitig him' of the inutiliV of his -.'\ We nic It&cured, that tio> names of the Alcmhers of thr (;h aw ,t-,, r t f itilirt.qctitaiitc>, mho tuck piv,spot Is at tisturti to their I)oplittai - olis, have beta iu t•cribed iu the Itrgisti.r which is pest; veil in the, (take of the Prefer of the Police.—(..futtivtal dj. Paris.) Madame Ho' tense, ;sire of Louis Bonaparte, and. ; liadame Souza, have received orders to quit France. The Juurnal of the Isere say , , that the Prince of Canino . Ims been apprehended at Burgoin, betiieen , Lyons and Genet)le, and CallYtt ed to Turin. Marshal Jourdan signed, on the 16th of-July, an armistice with the Swiss troops, that occupy part of the frontiers of Franche Comte. LcWI% from Montpelier state, -that on the 12th an aimistire was conclu'lid bet :teen General Fe re‘tier, Condo it.datit rf the atrittnietit of the Ileratitt, and M. de J-sse, commanding 11-.0 corps armed in behalf of the King, and stationed at Re zieres, and other points of the department. Oa the evening of the 171 h, the city of Lyons was at length enabled to give vent to the too long restrained sentiments which animate the majority of its inhabitants. The white flag and cockade were • every where hoisted, amidst reiterated shouts of Pie: 1 Aloi! tl.e 16th the white flag was hoisted on all the puolic edifices of the town of Leon, by command of We Chevalier langeron, Commandant of that place, wrho states that the Minister of .War used these ex pressions:—" The fortress of Laon must be pre served for the King; the Allies must not enter the town !" The !fain Juane did not appear yesterday.— Neither did the ci-devant Patriote de 1789, which assented the title of And du Prince. _ We, William, by the Grace of God, King of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange-Nassau, Grand Duke of Imiwinburg, &c. When the government of Belgium was given into our hands by the high Allied Powers, we had pre viously given our formal adhesion to the conditions of the union . of Belgium with the United Provinces of the Netherlands, which had been agreed upon at London by the Plenipotentiaries of the said Powers, in the month of June, 1811, and of which the fol lowing is the teuour : Art. 1. This Union is to be intimate and com- plete, so that the two countries shall form one and the same State, governed by the Constitution al ready established in Holland, which shall be modi fied by common consent, according to the new state of things. 4. No innovation shall be made in the articles of this Constitution, which insure equal favour and pro tection lo all forms of worship, and guarantee the admission of all citizens to public offices and employ !mots, whatever be their religious creed. 3. The Belgian Provinces shall be duly repre sented in the Assembly of the States General, whose ordinary sittings in time of peace shall be held alternately iu a town in Holland and in a town in Belgium. 4. All the inhabitants of the Netherlands being thus constitutionally assimilated among each other, the several Provinces shall equally enjoy all the commercial and other advantages of which their re. spective situations are susceptible; nor can any ob stacle or restriction be laid upon one to the advantage . of another. 5. Immediately after the union, the provinces and towns of Belgium shall be admitted to the commerce and navigation of the Colonies upon the same foot is-g as the provinces and towns of Holland. 6. As the burdens must be in common as well as the advantages, the debts contracted till the time of the union, by the Dutch provinces on the one hand, and by the Belgic provinces on the other, shall be chargeable to the public treasury of the Netherlands. 7. Conformably to the same principles, the ex pences required for the establishment and preserva tion of the fortresses on the frontier of the new State, shall be borne by the public treasury ; as resulting from an object that interests the safety and indepeu. dente of all the provinces of the whole nation. ft. The expence of forming and keeping up the dykes shall he for the account of the districts more especially interested in this branch of the public ser lice, reserving the obligation of the State in general to furnish aid in case of extraordinary disasters, all exactly as has been hitherto practised in Holland. The Treaty of Vienna having since confirmed upon the , e same principles, the formal cession of the Bel gic Provinces, to form its conjunction with the Visited Provinces of the Netherlands one kingdom, we have - hakiened to appoint R Special Committee to examine what modifieo imts it would be useful or necess:ay to snake in the Cuastitation already established in fiol- I .Citizens distingeished by their knowledge, their patriotism, and their probity, have employed them selves on this important work wills a zeal worthy of the greatest praises. The project which they Lave just laid before us, contains honourable distinctions for the Nobility, in sore: to all forms of n orship equal favour and ps o. tection, and guarauters the admission of all citizens to public offices and employmeuts ; it fi XCS the di; i slim of power upon the basis of protect Log institu tions, which have been at all times dear to the peo ple of Belgium. It recogni , es above all things the independence of the jneicial power; it reconciles the integi ity and the strength of the body politic, with the individual rip,lit of each of its members ; rind last, it contains the elements of every gradual improvement, which experience and further study may show to km necessat 110 waver, before we proceed to introduce the new fundamental law, we desire to convince ourselves of the ascent of our subjects to its principal regula tions. For this purpose, Deputies (Notables) shall be assembled frem every arrondissement, in the pro portion of one for 2000 inhabitants. NVe have or dered that the choice shall be made witli impartiality among the persons most estimable, and most worthy of the confidence of their fellow-citizens. But in order to Se certain that our intentions in this respect have been fulfilled ) and that. those who are going to. ..:.~~ ~ • . , - • • S ~';+~ 77, ~e"!~ ^ ' wr,Prg l ;~` w 7'w • THE STATESMAN. be names! Deputies, are really deserving of the honour of being the oignns of ae general opinion ; we farther order, that the lists shall In' pablishgd and drpeiittod f. fi g ht...glop its the chief. lbw At* the, sesteethet d'estrltits. • • i At Ilse same time registers shall be epene, in Which every inhabitant, who h the Dealt - of a family, may come and inseit n simple vote of rejection of one or more of the. Deputies 1M1114.4 It it according to the result which these registers shall effort!, slat thxHisti will be finally sletern4ned on, sod the Natalia's convoked in each arrsettlisse meet to vote open the plan of the fundamental law which will be laid beispee there. Each of -these as semblages shall send fit braes verbal to Brussels, and shall dephte three.of its Members to attend in a General Meeting 'at the opening of those proccs verbaus (journels.d proceedings), and at the col lecting of the votes of the. Notables. Such, 'Belgians, are the measures which we hare ..;ndged the most proper for the establishment of a l!ompact which is to fix your destinies, and to hasten the moment when your S.,vereign will be surrounded, by a Representation loyally constituted. Happy to reign over a free, brave, and industrious people, we are sure of finding in it that character. for loyalty and frankness which has always so eminently distinguished it. All our efforts will be directed to cement the foundations of its prosperity and glory, and the eitizeus, of all classess, and all the provinces shall have in us a benevolent and im-,, partial protector of. their rights and their welfare. — In particular we guarantee to the Catholic Church its establishment and its liberties, and •we shall not lose sight of the examples of wisdomC and moderation in this respect, which have been left us by our prede cessors,. your ancient Sovereigns, whose memory is so justly revered among you. Given at the Hague, July IS, 1615, and the second bear of our reign. WILLIAM; By the K inz, Fur the Secretary of Stat• in his ahrenro, the. Cabinet Secretary, (Signed) P. DE CIIUMBRUOGE. (A true Copy) The Clerk to the Secretary of Ernie. L. VAN GODIRELSCHROY. THE. SECOND DAY OF HR %WING THE GRAND STATE LOTTERY WILL RE ON THURSDAY NEXT, THE 95 TII OF JULY—WHEEL VONTA INS CAPITAL PRIZES OF X 10,00 . 1. #S ),th O, &c. dm- DRAWING 13f- GINS AT NINE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING PRE CISELY. Art • Mails , Dee O O 1 . Holland O O O Juics.—lhadity a the Plebs Ofices. THE STATESMAN. - .-,-- '\"& j i~it .~~ •:•7 ~ T and barter of human beings, " in full sovereignty and properis. for ever," ts ill indeed 'evince, that nett* the dpi not 11. e system, w hich haVe been so mach tidal Maled or reptiessed by the downfal of 119NAPAIIIT. .What is thh piroperty which it seized 6 full love reignty for ever? Is not the property of the land lawfully possessed by its present owners ? Are nat their goods and chattels their own of right? This property thee which is seized for dominion is the in. Habitants of the soil, men and the opt nioas of mon— lit is the absolute - corttroul of persons and' of litimitt Iwill that is thus denominated tie lawful pro!e•riy of i theEe Sovereigns ;rind the introduction and solid esta.' ! i Ilishment of the despotism of Iles , ia in tho eivilizpd . 1 end free countries of Europe are called by the t .-rms of !.tieliverance and magnanimity ! But, to the fallca deipot I —thank Heaven ! one is down, though . fifty, have rise ; net his ruins. As we have no further intelligence of ItsVoecoses being sent forward, we must revert to the Slane!, frigate, which has brought the news of his arrival. This ship had been sent by Capt. MAITLAND to Plymouth, with the dipatches announcing that BONAPARTE was on board the Bellerophon with a numerous suite. But it etas the intention of Capt. MAITLAND 1111111 SW to proceed to Torbay, and not to land his prisoners until he had received orders from Government. BONAPARTE'S suite consisted of up wards of -Id persons, among whom was - IIEtTRAND, ; SAVIRY, I. 1 LLEMAND, GROGAN, and several Ladies 1 ---He has been allowed to take on board carriages and horses, but admission was denied to about 50 cavalry, for whouv he had required accommoda tions. It is said he had at first wanted to make conditions with Captain bIAITLASin, as to his treat- ment, but the British Officer declared, that he must refer him upon this subject to- his Government.— This of course argues an unconditional surrender;, but notwithstan.ding all the wishes breathed for his, speedy execution, we cannot divest ourselves of a be lief that be has been promised a secuse,'indeeen hit. 1 noorable asyliim either in this or some other country. (It is asserted that NAPOLEON had addressed a letter to the Pirece REGENT, bestowing many compli ments upon his Royal Highness, requesting either an asylum in this country or passports to America. M. Geoetax, one, of his suite, and the bearer of this letter, was ;Mt on board the Stoney, but when that vessel arrived at Plymouth lie was not allowed to land. Capt. Ssterent US, of the Stuney, however, has brought it to town. ,It is slid there is much doubt at political headquarters here whether this letter can be received 1w his Royal Highness the Peince Rs- GENT, and still more, whether its contents can be Implied with ?—BoN'Ap.itert, it is presumed, .ssill retain on board the Bellerophon until this point be settled, and until further communications can be bail from the Head-fin/titers of the Allies. The state ments pot forth respecting the treatment of the Ex- EMPLROR on board the Bellerophon are false, and aught to be contradicted for the honour of the (M -ears of the British Navy. It cannot be doubted that the volunkr.tywurreiier of NAPOLEoL is either a most heroic anctspontaneous leffort on iris own part to save France from a pro :inflation of the horrors into which the whole of that l'eotattfir is now plunged, or a plan of the present Government to effect the same end, and get the Allied Armies withdrawn. Erery means is now taking to effect this, to preserve lbe French territory intact, and to hold the invading Powers to the letter of their declarations and promises. For this pur pose, it is confidently, and with considerable proba bility asserted, that the new Government of France is secretly in correspondence with the armies, and that those of the Loire, joURDAN'S, Suclires, and even the royalists of La Vendee, are ell uniting to give weight to the remonstrances of the Government. The private adsices from Paris indicate a state of most serious alarm. Doubts are ente►tained as to what part Lor►; is disposed to take—whether that of the Allies, or that of DAVOUST and his adherents. The seizure which it is supposed the Allies contem plate of the fortresses on the side of Belgium, is a chief cause of disgust ; but a stil greater source of discontent is probably the large demands the Confe derates have in view, to defray the immense -es. pences of the war, and which, it is said, are' p?o: essively to be discharged by annual instalments for four years. The French armies are evidently:re solved not to allow themselves to be disembodied, as the Allies wish they should be ; and it is certainly the policy of the Goveltimetit to continue to give the amplest development of the force of France under the present circumstances of the country, and almost under any circumstances of disposition on the part of the army No fresh French Papers had arrived at a late hour this forenoon —but a Wick Mail, with Brus-els Journali to the 23d, came to hand. Their conlewts, hone►er, are no farther important than that they show (and that, perhaps, is important enough to inotty) that the bombardment 'of' many of the nem:lt fortresses on the Brabant frontiers is still con tinued, though, likeVincenneq, in the neighbourhood of Paris, they have hoisted the white flag, and offered to capitulate in the name of Louts ! Besides the continued efforts of the King of the NETKPR LANDS to take %lust he can of the furtresses—Lthe Prussians are busily employed at the work of reduction.-- " The Prussian troops ; under General TAUEIZiEN, are preparing to besiege Philip p eellle , Rocroi, and Marienburg !!" No wonder the French Com mandants refuse to surrender. ifigi6a ^7.• 1 iwAmt)Mei ;, :;:ac.; , T ---- 111.7 NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PontsstouTit, • JULY 24.—Sailed his ships Acasta and Forth, the letter basin : : on the Duchess d'Angouleme, for liourileaus3—c,... into harbour his Majesty's ship Pickle. _ TURiIiY, JULY W.—Arrived his Ma . e.t)'s Sioncti, from a cruise, having on board a Frz , ociinr . , of distinction. No communication is sl!owid lc. tweet' the Stoney and the shore, so that to Ira culars is impossible; but the conjecture is that B. naparte is on board. FALMOUTH, JIULT 21—Sailed the Fox pi-k.. with a Mail for Lisbon, and another ou board f„• Surflne. I)EAr., JULY 24.—Arrived the Aurora, .6 , 4/nomin, Cygnet, Amity, .4mphitribf, and serer:; nine transports, haring on board the Royal Sco , i and ;h Regiments from America, last from Pint). mouth, bound for Ostend. Captain Sy aToatus arrived in town yesterday morning before 6 o'clock, with the dispatches front AITLA ND ; finding Lard MELVILLE, G I nisi Lord of the Admiralty, was not in town, lie pro. needed to his Lordship's house at Wimbledon ; he re. turned. to London to see Mr. Butoow, the Secretary to the Admiralty, who was in the country ; the Car, went io the Salt/Irian Coffee-house to breakfast, was. is►g.llll Mr. Banttow came to the Admiralty. Lord M ELVILLE, after receiving the dispatches of Captain Mari - Liam, came to town with all speed, and had so audience of the PRINCE REGENT at Carlton-House, who had returned to town from Windsor on Sunday night, and remained with his Royal highness up. wards of an hour, when his Lordship l roceeded at 12 o'clock to the Foreign.office, where a Cabinet Cauticil continued sitting till between four and fire. At the breaking up of the Council, Mr. • PEGLER, the King's Messenger, was ordered to hold hipiselfh, readiness for a journey, aril the exertions to get him off were so great, that he had started by about six: it was understood that he is gone to Marseilles. The long deliberations of the C 04i:et are said to hare been respecting the disposal of N tPOLEON 80. NAPARTE and his suite. The Earl of LtrEaroot. waited upon the REGENT afterwards, with the result of the deliberations of Ministers in Cabinet. BONAPARTE has written a letter to the PRINCE' REGENT, in which he declares his intention of throw. ing fauna under the protection of the laws of En g . land, and the generosity of the British people. Re calls the REGENT " /C /lII'S puissant, le plus constant, mass le plus gcnereux de mes ennenrit —(the most powerful, the most constant, bat the most generous of my enemies)"—A copy of this letter has bees transtoitted to Mtnist-rs, according to diplornatig i form, to ascertain whether the original will be Tr. celved by the REGENT. It is throughout expressed Its the letter of a private individual addressed nos Sovereign. What determination has been adopted respecting the mere ceremonial of receiving the ori. Otto' is of course unknown. It is generally believed that it nil! not be recuired. Hail BONAPARTE been brought to the Tower, it would t:ot have beets his first visit to Loudon. Wlsikt Ven. PAOLI resided here, Bostaratire, then a very young man, came over from France to solicit the Ce iiical's interest to procure for bins a commission is the British army.. He lodged in a two pair of stairs room at a tailor's, in George-street, York-buildings, in the Strand; and he had at that time en uncle and aunt in trade in one of the streets near Golden-squat?. Authentic information has been received from Paris, that the Ministers of Loop XVIII. •have ad. vised that Monarch to put the submis s ion of the army to the test, by disbanding it universally sad immerlits'ely. Measures for that purpose are at ready taken. Such Officers and soldiers as are thought not to be dan;erous will be taken into the new Royal Army.—lt is understood that LOCH XVIII. refused to accede to this_ measure, till the Allies bad agreed positively on the integrity of the French territory, as the fusidartiestal principle of Ike Treaty of Peace. Hence, we-_b eve, the para. graph :which was allowed to ?ppetir in the Pans Papers of Friday. It is said to be the intention to transfer the seat of his Gore . rnoreut.to Theelouse, and to hold his Chambers in that city, till Paris be evecumed by foreign troops. We observe that tile Courier and the Times hate been silent for the lust two days respecting the neo . Administration of France. Have they received the Instructions ? Are they at length in the secret?— Nothing was more heartily laughed at in Paris than the rage ot' oar Treasury Libellers against the nomi nation of Fouctre, which is now perfectly well known to have been very much promoted by as English Minister, who has a considerable interest is coeteudit.g for oblivion of acts of rigour by those is authority in a province or an island. We lament to hear diet the failures in the North of England have spread great alarm. Several hou-er !have already stopped, and tl:e ten on all the bald , ing-houses is consequently great. Large sums o( money were yesterday sold out by some of the most respectat , te firms, to sup;.ort th"mselves against tte run which terror has created. The house of Alas , nuar and Co. that gave rise to the alarm ' by its stoppage, had n o f ewer t h an 70 s h ops, i n different Tillages in the North, where their notes were issued. The old houses in Newcastle ire perfectly firm, and we trust the terror will soon subside. By a ship which has arrived at Liverpool, we have New York Papers to the date of the 2lst of last month. An article from -Boston mentions, that the - United States' frigate Congress', Cgpiain hlolutt't Pad sailed for Holland with the Honourable Wm! .EttsTis, Ambassador to the Hague, accompanied by his family and suite. There is a report in these PO pets, referring to the unfortunate affair wirer( in seven American prisoners were killed and 67 wounded, 30 of them dangerously, at Dartmoor prison. This state went is deii%ered in on oath, and is signed by a Com mittee r , f ten of the prisoners. It concludes in these • terms : - - - - " Wi• n e e so'ernify over , ant there was DO pre.enneeeted plan to oitentpt brr it!lig toit. iierc cannot be prudured tk leagt Otitilow of ai reos in or indurionseot fur that intention, as pll.oer rail) espeetivg 10 he and to he embarked on bluird cartels for their satin r errati.ry.— And we 1,11.4 a 6(4- lerni.ly :assert, that throe wns nu b termini of resisting, io 11 6 1 coistwer, the autbnrit) of (be drpot.•' This paper will apprar in alt the Journals of 1:u• rope, and it ought not to be allowed to pass sail! Ott some answer that may vindicate the ackuoalit!geii humanity of the British nation, 1 ir...1 • •••• • . . ilre;;. ‘ ks: .~:::. LONDON : .Ito 25, 1815. We expected to have bad to announce in this place that so long and wished-fur event by many, the arriial of NAPOLEON . BONAPARTE as a prisoner in Le British metropolis—bat the once mighty E. rEttott, and now lowly captive, )et terrible to the mightiest in the depth of h:5 captivity, has not yet been broNlit up the Thames-6044h it seems con. firmed that the Bellerophoa, with her illuOrious in. mates, has arrived in Torbay. It is said they are to remain there until further orders, and that all corn. munication between the Bellerophon and the shore is strictly forbidden. The cause of this is simply, that the British Ministers, who have been Cogitating I deeply in full divan upon the subject, now that they I have got the cause of all their trouble in their pos.l session, do not know what to make of him, and have actually sent to the head-quarters of the Allied i Sovereigns for instructions ! In such a dilemma, and when even this important cnpture does not, per ; haps, lessen the difficulty one whit, but rather in creases it, and may have the effect of either entirely defeating projects which had equally ambitious ob jects in view, or of making them appear to the world in their true light and character, who is so wise as to say what is most proper to be done? Law and poli tics are equally confounded as to the neces sary mode of procedure—and, still more unlucky, the responsible Mr. POLE—the pole -star of in. fetior Statesmen, and the wise Mr. CROKER, are not here to give orders, and take responsibility.— • But away with your Pow and CHOKERS—we have to do with a more important Personage —we have got t.im—we have got the disturber of the world in safe keeping at last ! and Lord CASTLEREAGH and the Allied Sovereigns, and last, though not least, the PRINCE REGENT of England, who have (p•rhaps we should say who hws, with refer. puce to the wisdom of the latter) effected all this mighty triumph, will soon dispose of the tar ! bul.nt r pirit iii such a manner as that the would wilt never be disturbed again. If universal tranquillity and happiness were indeed to be the result of sending NAPOLEON BOYA.PARTE to the block, or to the deepest dungeon in St. Ifelena,or any other distant region,n re sult so desirable would be cheaply purchased by any of these methods of disposing of the troublesome little man—but alas ! there are many NAPOLEON BONA. r.tnrss, and the Allies themselves have shown us that his spirit is not confined to one bosom, and that in fact it will be lung before it can be quietly laid in the Red Sea. The words so often used in the long Doi cement which we are giving; styled the just and ise arrangements of the Congress at Vienna,and erg dently published at this critical time by TALLZYKA:Vb and the French Government. to show what are the reel objects of the Confederacy against France — the p er . petually and soul-insulting w or ds, we say, at tb l i close of every notice . Of - 1;1 - o:it:potation of territory .':'s _. w~ _•~ :~ /Loa.- i~:~ts