The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-08-29 00:00:00

T •. S:~ . • lug to the Federal. Compact, the Burgomaster Von AV ,ss n, de Nn es 01:4'/It ?peed), of which the fol -I,:wiog s the 50b.0 r ,,,... ; Ile ti:sr .4.•tches a rat:itl picture of the unhappy state of S.sitzerland after the Frerioli invasion at the lwgioniell; of the itprolutiolt, the subjugation of the coin:try, the dreadful battle fought on Swiss ground bet w.veo the armies of the most powerful nations, the inte,tive dis,ensions inflamed by lake ideas of H. Per!) . and equality, the change of constitutions, the rage of factions, and lastly the act of mediation, he observes that they spent II peaceful years, in w hist', though sobject to the will of a de. — That, acre, however, better off than in the pe rim! hillne.lioely preceding. "At length," says he, •‘lh..4},CfPd war,against the claims to the sovereignty of th.• brought to us, as well as to the rest of !•;,,rope, liberty and independence. The heroic ef f t, fso many united nations were directed by tl:rce Nionarchs, .whose names will be ever illustri- • ',ls 111001 . V. ‘Yilh reverential gratitude Europe bfossos their:friendship, blikses their union with that ilow ,, rtol nation, the especial friend of Switzerland, summand the seas, and which has so lone contended with invincible fortitude for the li berty of this quarter.of the globe." He then mentions the fivour they have shown to Switzerland, and the prospect of a happy state of • things. " But before this wholesome work was wholly perfected, when suffering humanity had scarcely dried op its bitterest tears, an unparalleled event again filled Europe with a.tossi,hment, and laid new burdens upon the exhausted Staten ; she formidable Usurper, banish-41 to the rocks of Elba, broke the peas.-of the world, and, in intelligence with a band of great traitors, landed as a rebel on the French soil ; • his former ride companions in arms thirsting for corn bait, forgetting their oaths to their lawful King, flocked so the eagles, which promised fresit spoil and dominion; the nation, terrified and defenceless, for sook its old royal family, and in a few days Na poleon again sat on the profaned throne of the lino rumor." He now notices the renewed alliance of the Sove reigns, the I) , chration of the 13th of March, the immensf armies sent spinet France, the accession of the .4%si-s to the Alliance, the noble conduct of the Swiss troops, in France, the Treaty of the `iWtl► of Ma). &c. At length, far from our frontiers, began the dreadful and bloody contest. Two immortal heroes, armed by the hand of God with the sword of venge ance, annihilated with their brave armies, in tour. derous and gigantic battles, the main force of the Usurp r, and cpeedily took the capital of the em. pile. Important prorinces are already in the hands of the Allies. Meantime the noble King, tried in the .chool of adversity, has, for its safety and deli verance, mounted, for the second time, the long altak•ut terone of his fathers. To put a happy end to tee boumlless confasion of his kingdom, is the in finileiy difficult object of his uncommon wisdom and ton ! , cation. Switzerland also honours in him the august successor of its ancient Allies, who had al rfad. shared with the Allied Monarchs the care of our welfare. May the loyalty acrd gratitude of a numerous people, who owe to him a second deliver ance, and w ho have been, for centuries, our friends, rewwrd the gencrouc P r im:cr.') _ _ . fie then commends the behaviour of the Swiss in the resent crisis, thanks the Representatives of the Al led Sovereigns, and concludes by imploring the Di hie blessing upon the renewed swiss Code:fere tidn. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. Estract of a letter from Paris, dated August IR.— " If you wish to learn the real situation of things here, you must not look fur it to the Tunc• or Courier. I will put you in possession of real facts, from which you will draw your own conclusions.— The patriotic party who are for a Constitutional Alooalchy, and the independence of France, is irre sistibly strong. Est.!' in the presence of the Allies they have already Os erthrown the party of rc.nclion, which is ten times more insolent than it was last year. not, however, believe that this patriot party is B mapartist. There are no longer any partizans of the author of our ruin. The patriots have rallied round the Kind, not from an attachment for the t , ortrms, hut Irons the -waist of peace. Whoever u' I gire us a chance for repose would be received . r a warm welcome. conduct of the Allies surpasses belief.— letter of the King, remonstrating against the outrages of their troops, was the consequence of a Report made to him by the Duke of Otranto. That Report has made a great sensation, and is verified by facts. Why do the Allies besiege the cities that are for the King? Why have they called for the dis bandiog of the army ? Why do they disarm the in habitants of the provinces and the National Guards, taking from us our cannon and our fusils ? NVlry do fl-y d..stroy our manufactories of arms ? Why eves rh.se pretended fr iend. of the King disarm the army of In Vendte ? Wity spread their troops over the tranquil provinces of France! Why are they marching new armies into France? Why govern oar provinces by their own proper authority, with out even the King'* name ? And why, when pressed to explain their views, and the object of all this, do they keep a profound silence? They presented themselves as the friends of the King of France, and they treat as as ellellileS and conquerors.• They carry off from us every thing that is valuable—not merely those monuments of arts which we took from other countries (and for %%inch there would he some vicuie), hut even the collections, on which our ion attivs have laboured for the last hundred years, such as that ndr:-Iraide collection of all our Ports and Fort reises in relief, of an inestimable valut. They threaten us with dismemberment—with the demo 'lion of our fortresses; and, in short, we are in a date the most convoked. Talleyrand and f"ouche are two men of consum. sate ability. They are strongly supported by pub opinion, but they are embarrassed by the Allies • The:46 113. n rope: c.iliection of Modnhi d i/ A il the a ina g ohtcri. of Ft1111(e, which, to nor tapir, w .1114 he rinnidered xf if,„„tl. v . hot w'hirb the ro•nch •'towed .. s, ilte,tiemblr ,incr , of art. 011 the'" thiv beile i, and se a to , o , to u•:,14. • ' r '4 ,i" but 141 ISt +I tic Ili 1 11 1 Pio tea V " tt k• J. • THE STATESMAN. on one side, and by the Princes and exalted Royal ists on the other. There is a great deal of intrigue carrying nu . in the Elections. The Princes and the Emigrants are exerting themselves in every way to obtain a majority of their partizans ; and if they succeed,-there is an end of the Cuostitution, of li• berty, and of France. We shall (ail under absolute power ; for the ancient Noblesse look only to power, to places, to privileges, to the keeping down of the canaille (as they denominate the peo ple), and they found all their rights on their parch ments—for they are enmity des ganaches who do not know France as it is. But if I may give credit to what I hear, they will be disappointed in the issue of the Elections. The people do not wish for iti'les esalijs on either side. Believe this, liberal ideas are so univeriey spread, even among the lowest class of society, that they cannot be extinguished. If they are suppressed by the bayonets of the Foreigners for the moment, they wiß assuredly rise on their de parture. The Bourbons ran only succeed by taking the nation as it is, and not by attempting to subject it to a party of No!ti!•e. against whom they have fought for 25 years past." To such a height have the elements of discord al ready been worked up, that a renewal of the war seems inevitable. The Allied troops cannot much longer remain in France; yet there seems no diminution of their warlike preparations. There is to be a Prus sian Review neit week, when no fewer than one ' hundred and eidity thousand troops will be assem bled, evidently to display the power which the Prus. sians have to carry their objects, whatever they may he, into effect. And there is a talk of the Sovereign of the NETIIERL %Nos and his l'ausslAN MAJrirY uniting the interests of their Ilouses by closer lies than mere political 'Nutlet.. lint their efforts at so li. aggrandisement will be of little avail, if the period has arrived at which the Coalition have discovered the impracticability of that nstern which they wished to carry into the very heart of Fiance, and which has so much endangered their own safety. PARIS, AUG, is said that a Council com posed of French Marshals is convoked for the pur pose of trying Marshal Ney. Marshals Massena and Augereau are already mentioned as appointed to this Council. Prince Talleyrand gave a grand dinner yesterday, which was attended by the Ambassadors of the fo reign Powers. The barbers and hair-dressers have St. Louis for their patron. They bad a solemn Mass in music Ce lebrated yesterday in the church of St. Eustache. The Electoral College of la Seine Inferieur eopened its sittings on the 22d inst. after the celebration of a Mass to the Holy Ghost ! M. Dammartin is appointed In suceeed M. Auger, 'who gave in Iris resignation as Member of the Com mission of Journals. An address to the King from the Department of la Cote-d'Or has the•fullow big passage:— " Row delightful it would be for us only to have to present to your Majesty the expressions of our • joy, and the homage of our respect, love, and ' fidelity ! and how painful it is to afflict your pater nal heart with the picture of misfortunes in this de partment which is occspied every where by foreign! troops ! " The Council General, in order to meet the de- t, mends of the armies, and to insure at the same time the tranquillity of . the people, has been under the ne. cessity of increasing one-third tf,o taxes of the year 1815. After this indispensible measure, and per- I haps after all insufficient, the contributions are at this moment almost doubled, in a country without', commerce, and nearly exhausted by the first inva sion. It is to the Throne that we bring these sad nit.l melancholy truths, in the two-fold hope, Site, that your Mtjesty, by your powerful influence with the Allied Sovereigns of Europe, shall procure the re moval of a part of their armies, and that you will deign to take into your serious consideration the si tuation of the department of Cotc-d'Or." The Archduke. Ferdinand, Commander of the Due A rr, . Mails. Lisboa honenharß4 I lam ha WI HoMod Fruiter 1 PRICE OE StOulltS :111IS Anna per Cent. Red. 551; 4 per Ce , sit C..ns 4 per Cent , per Cent. Navy 83 DAY AT WV,. .' CIA)l.h. Lane. Ann 14 1-16 India Bu ul. 4 5 d lizeheciapr Hill. d par ()minim 5. Cmitioh. foe Ace. sfif T H !i; STA T IN. LONDON: TL ESDAY, ArdusT 29, 1315. The Paris Papers of Saturday last arrived this morning. The Gazette Officicllc contains the names of the new Councillors of State, and Ordinances regulating their salaries. The Councillors on ordinary service are to receive 16,000 francs per annum, and the extraordinary 6000. Some of the names in this list of Privy Councillors, chosen by Lours, will give an additional shock to the sensitive nerves of those who style themselves the King's friends, and will doubtless draw down on hi; Government augmented discharges of abuse from the hired railers in this country, who have so much of that ornamental article at hand, for their friends ac well as their enemies. The names s.f MOLL, D'llAUTlEctlit, LAvotterr, and others who are mentioned as having been honoured with offices in the State, must he familiar to many In this country, Were it from no other cause than the disgraceful epithets which that daily vehicle of the foulest slander and the coarsest malignity, Ike Times, is continually attaching to them, and the no less rankling I►atred of thee other Ministerial Journals. But Foccux and TA 'Ley aiNn clo not seem disposed to take council of these wise men of Gotham. Their policy appears to be a little more comprehensire, though it cannot yet be compre hended in all its parts. Nay is to have hi., wish. lie is to be tried by a Council of French Marshals. M.tssENA and AuGE RI.II; are mentioned as hating been nominated to form part of the Council. If a parity of conduct may be supposed to beget a parity of sentiment, and " a fellow-feeling makes us wondernus kind," there is hope in this for Mons. NEY. It seems to be una nirrtcasly .greed, that it is not convenient at present to fhb:lose the plot which has brought so much disaster on France. It will not be so easy to prove the guilt of Nlafshal Nry in this particular, without ma ki n g 4lb:insures that :nay be dangerous to others, as the partial farts which doomed I.Anc- DOYERE to a death of sacrifice ; and hence, glar ing as was the defection of Nav from the royal cause, rendered doubly so no doubt by the Papers then published under the authority of the BOURBONS, which gore the particulars, his friends are no ways despondent. The truth, we believe, will be found to be, that the plan for the restoration of the Im- perial Government was settled at the very time that Ilos% P trti s first abdication was resolved upon,when N and the other Alarshals conducted the negocis. lions for that arrangement. corps de reserve of the Austrian army, cantoned io the department of Burgundy, learning that several of the inhabitants, led astray by the factious, had committed serious crimes against individual soldiers of the Allied army, published a Proclamation on the IRh, at Dijon, purporting that every commune its which an assassination shall hate taken [duce, shall be fined 10,000 francs ; the perpetrators and all those who aid and abet shall be arrested, tiled by a. Military Commission, and punished with death. The Mayor of a Commune, at whose house *ere found arms, after being informed of this Proclama tion, end en inhabitant of another commune, both of the department of the Yonne, who bad taken arni with the manifest intention of killing a soldier of the Allied troops, without being able to carry his intention into effect, have been arrested, and con demned to be sent into Germany. The following persons have been appointed Mem bers of the Chamber of Deputies : By the Electoral College of the Department of the Seine and Oise, M. Bismoud and M. Haudry de Souny. By the College of the Seine and Marne, the Duke of Otranto. By the Co!leg* of the Oise, Alexis de Nnailles ; iittuery, Mayor of Cnnipeigne; Kergorlay, Heti cart de Thury, and Biyard de Plainville. An Oidinattce hi the Gazette ()Iliadic, among Never was intrigue so busy as it now is in others ten long for us to translate at present, Pads. Th e Councils of Louts may be greatly.di. s t a tes, thlt in order to harmonize, enlarge, and cider!, but it appears no less certain that the Allies consolidate the Government, the King has ap• ate as ill .greed as to the manner in which they are pointed the following Persons Members of the to close their campaign sf glory. The object of Lind Council of State. The articles for the organisation Srtsw vn . c's retort , is to suhniit 81 , 1 expoi- on the of the Councils, state the salaries attached to the dif ctlbjeCt to the Government here, and a Cabinet ferent gradat'otts, as briefly noticed above. Council sat. on Lid dispatches yesterday. The pri- i C.HINCILLORs Or STATE roR THE ORDINARY scoriae. vate accounts from falls assert that the Emperor v A r, Il i e ' u it iw , s ibl d "!" r v i lli t e i r'' , B i r. ( l"e% l : D :67."u".litii.mi i , C ist:B ' " re - Ai.LaAN n ER has declared - plainly that 46 he %rut), De Saint-Cri e r ' . Ctivi.-r, Degeraitdiv, Delarrille. moinn, will Lot concur in the disnienarrment of France. Dawita, Durand. Viurr, trlitottcrive, Lattnuitterie, ftt a le. r .. -- At the same time, that it made no part of hole, mt.unier, P o rt a l, Po r t 4 1i., It e i n lisiod, Royer Coll ai d, . &menu. the Ic. , .tgue of Soverei.zns to force any particular dy courictatems or STATE FOR THE ciTßacutourAar tasty on the French."—The party of pure RUNilliStS; i IERV ICC. as they tall themselvoi, ....-retty i n t r igue for setting I. Dottretn,mt, ',A wes ,. n uncio!' de verrieres, creosol de •.ree.y, Lamhert Aloe, Laporte Lalimie, Disponi de Seizioni i up th e Dulie cf ANGout Imt , because the King is Diittourblaiir, Lau:nand, Dr l a Bourd 11111 l aie de 81,...a . ; Chrol de Cioasol, V au bl itor, Devalsitze- o ty, De War:tote, Dr Talley rand, Decaze 4 . too placable to the fodeto , tidents to serve their Tierra; J. .urd an, It •iiro;ii de raos=ty. neraoa, Cltabrol de V o l s i e , , and it is said that the Austrioas, finding that they , Segieier. Julien, ao cannot succeed in separating Alsace and part 1 F r : a 1.:3 , 7 1. .. 0m l I ) 3 e ,, :: i r e o....bz e i p: :, 11))omzi.r,r..re Fd'olutio:antiv:i..cDor. HONORARY COUNCILLORS OF lITATR. of Lorraine from Ft.toce, to colstitusq a king that if c; 7 .,., 1 L i d ii ,1 dom for the A!cliticke CHARLES, say ' d'Orfeuil, B i ii: is to be tier, Ditoitornac Bertrand, Barr:limn, Dufreme de S.iint- Le on , the direct line of the Iktuneorr d) nasty departed from, the claims of NAPOLEON 11. are 1 1 , ) a r d C .G 4 ::::: i n i t e , , Il i ti ), C . 1 . 7r ze . , le 4 ltz i kerort. Roujil e ii de evevrouri, D'Ofvillierst ^ I .. ad o Plarattl , , F..rt:cr i f laris Dr Capella. . • veer that, those of the Duke of ANGQI: L L M E . mown A further arrival of D..tch and Germa n by Flanders and Hamburgh Mails just meek., us to infer that it has been found ironoibi e dude Peace at Paris. It is given out in thee, on the authority of letters from the F , Pael l that the Allied Sovereigns will showy leas and go to Frankfort on the Maine. if the: of I dols are true their Majesties have good re , this removal. The letters speak of a which held its secret meeting: in the Ma retau, and which must hate been voly f oi The explosion was to have taben lace on inst. and a part of the pFan was to seiz the of all the S,verei t ois and CommLinfleit_i n .ci is not said how it was discov,reil, or olio COftcpirator::. The notice.: of the military opo Minn; on tiers are still interesting. There is a lon g , 1 the Prince Sovereign of the Ni.rttr.ttLAyin s States General, in st hich : e c•spr ,, ses very well pleased at such of his le,al subjer+ expressed themselves not over well satisfied Constitution which he and the Congress ni have been graciously pleased to give them, at lukewarmness of others who have not come and signified how much they hare been of him for it. We cannot find room for any thi from this document than the following extras " We have learnt. with sorrow, that coot tours have been mistaken or misunderstoo,l, for reasons which most afflict every good lender, the measure we commanded has nol result which we expected from it. " Almost a sixth part of the persons si have not appeared in the assemblies; and their absence may be considered as a proof are satisfied with the proposed Constitution, have been more agreeable to us, if nobody had ed the opportunity offered him of freely et his sentiments on the highest interest of the " Of the 796 Notables, by whom the Pi rejected, 126 hare expressly declared, tin on account of some Articles relating to ' Worship; Articles which, agreeing with subsisting legislation founded upon Treaties, unison wall the principles which the most Sovereigns hare introduced into the Europeai tical system, could not be omitted in the Consti of the Netherlands without risking the Psi! (he Monarchy, and without weakening the of the rights even of (hose whom these Mil lisle the most alarmed. " If this truth had not been observed men, from whom society ought, on the cool have expected the example of ei angelic chi toleration, the abore-mentioned votes woi joined the 5 - 27 Notnhies ssl.o have apps Project. 6 6 The States-General have also comn►uni us their approbation, nide( is the more re( as being unanimously given in a very num, sembly, it must be considered as the des, pressed opinion of all the inhabitants of the Provinces.--And since this communica , comparivon of the votes respectively given, he no doubt of the sentiments and wishes of majority of all our subjects, and that the this majority is evident, we do not hesitate our obligation by formally sanctioning the which has been communicated by us to the General and the Notables, and by declaring declare by these presents, that the disposit taiocd in it form, from this moment, the Con+ of the kingdom of the Netherlands. We sl cced illiont delay to the measures necet execute these dipositions ; and it is our pal resolution, by a speelly convocation of Chambers, to enable the States-General to the Legislative power." 13auscri.s, Ave. 21.—The Reserve Arm: to form on the banks of the Scheldt ; the he; lets are already filed at Chent, and On corps of infantry and cavalry which will cot are arriving from a:I ,ides. This almy, vatic! mated at 22,(X)) Melt, is under the carat General Tindal ; should circumstances r e• will proceed to the French frontier. ')'hey v% rite from Lortemberg, that Ihe Com of 'lltionville has lirmo sonio;oned for the and has been at the same time informed, tit rersi , ts in his defence, he shall be in.rst.i sponsible for all the evil consequer.ces nh result from this ob,rioncy. Verdun has hoisted the white flag, het ri admit the Allies. The Prussian corps and the heavy artith stationed upon the Meuse, have received cr. mrdiately to proceed into France, mid be places that still hold nut. Ptisate letters from Paris say that the A. vereigns will shortly leave Pais, and go to fort on the Maine. In this latter city, not i Peace, as these letters stve, will France, and the fate of tht kiegdom be dal , fixed. ii M 1117 nc it, Act:. 22. Plicate letters fro; state that their Nloje,ties the Emperor of Ku. the King of Prussia will return in six r. Bei lin, by way of Frankfort. The Empero , ender will then go to Warsaw. From Berlin we learn, that the King's Cu! expected back there in October. The beat' lace of Prince Reuss, et Berlin has been pL: ter Noce Bl uc h er . s red, le t o P are p, ficco k . rraso9(4. Ifni"! 1 co. r e per% *ey e t • the fr-y. 'Peed e . ;!, mselr !!' is L.„, Kith 1 4 r vip t , and IN, rtirx ;l l bligq Wog yr, ' set : yr ersltt. allil thlt I Nether. ot had the tantrono•l id though tint the, tI I, it ireylll it had yi a expresi l State, l'rojest hat it ou ReliOtey t I the et, ;tidily tl religion peen Is ns(itutiiie 1, istence security .1 ipulativor I by some • rosary, to tarill and twirl late roved the Iticated to L.mat Wit nerati leo rly es. Northers Ition am! there at r (he great • assent of e to fulfil • e project, le StateK. ; it, as yre ition nstitutil o shall pro. essary to pat ticui•ir the two o execute me hr:itt earl.tpist• le sem tmpose ch is e:1•• maid of quire, it nmandskr last I,:yr if Ie rf• hici! ref tilt; fa !ere slit! ,rulers •;11...1 • a Fri • it: finc,tr.) is • - lVt'Pk 4 .or usrds :I;fdi pt. awn. AC= I