The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-05-11 00:00:00

T •' - • to he *toweled f...m a public trial, gave directions to etl the Civil Trihosisli to declare their incompetence I . p roce ed in the enquiry, mi the alleged ground that the purport of the orders could not be explained by those who signed them. Ogi the 18th of March, 1816, Ds MAUBREUIL was liberated from prises by order of Loots XVIII. and the suit against him pronounced to be unjust. On his etelat i tement he a Oaf to St. Germain, where, on the re-eppesrance of BotrAlo%aTl soon after, he was again attested, handcuffed, and ironed. For 28 days he was Ito: t in this painful state of degradation, during which time threat+ and promises were alternately made, to induce Itim to accuse the Bonenotts of hay iv.g been the planners of the intended assassination. With ;Itch a proposition truth and honour would not allow bins to comply, and M. RIAL, before whom he was Pasmined, gave him plainly to understand. that nothing but such a disclosure could prevent him being shot. 0:t 11.«. 18(h of April, De Mattenzum, almost mi raculously escaped from prism), and disguising him self in the hoh;t of a peasant, after encountering many perils, and being severely lamed in the left foot, reached Brussels on the sth of May. Here he met SOULE, the Royal Commissary, one of the party who had urged on the plunder of the Bonsparteen family. This men, with a smile of complacency, and en air of sincere friendship, strongly recommended Da MAU/MEWL to proceed immediately to Ghent, 'and he presented to Loos XVIII. from whom &MALI assured him he would meet with a most gre. cious reception. He went directly to Ghent, when a Council being summoned on his case, his very hu mane, sincere, and honourable friend, Sex %Ls, took the opportunity of hinting, that he was come for the purpose of assassinating the King. This was enough—and De MAUIREVIL was again thrown into a dungeon, from which, after having been confined for three weeks, he was released by order of the Kieg of HoLLAND. The order for his enlarge ment, commanded him directly to repair to Brussels, accompanied with an intimation, that he should be sent to the frontiers of Germany. lie was, how. ever, from weakness and the wound in his foot, enable to proceed, and on the 3d of June was admitted a patient in the hospital of Louvain. e--Statat.sl his worthy friend Seress.s! and M. Astotts, having heard of his unfortunate situation, and fearful he might divulge some tales they had good reason to wish should be kept concealed, caused him to he forcibly taken away from that asylum of humanity at the dead of night, pot into a cart, and in that wretched plight carried to Tirlemont.— Here he remained a week, and at the end of that time was again hurried off to Liege, for the avowed purpose of being consigned to the costody of the Pruotisns, who were to convey him to Russia, that he might afterwards be went to his final destination— &arms ! The orders, however, not being sufficient ly explicit, and Mr. Parte, Chief of the Presidency of Erekail, not being io the secret, that excellent man liberated De Mauaneutc, and on being inform ed of the hardship sod cruelty of hit case, became his real friend and protector. On t he 10th of July, De MAVISREU/L left Frrkall and went to Palk. From that period down to almost the present, the persecution of this unfor tunate man has been unceasing, vexatious, and c r op!. Two parties, the 13ourbonists and Bona. partists, who never could agree its any thing else, cordially united in &voting to destruction DE MAU BREUti., with only this difference, that the object of the first was to compel him to conceal the truth, while that of the latter was to force him to declare a fslseh.bod ; but neither speaking nor silence could please both. The consequences of this combined an. tipathy to Dr. :Amami, were a ten months close implsonmetit in the Conciergerie, at Paris—similar treatment at Rouen—at Douay, from which last pri son he, with marts difficulty, made his escape only on the Ist of last January. No less than 33 de crees absolving him from crime, or declaratory of incompetence in the Court to try—sit hundred and eighty•five days close confinement, with every kind of wanton oppression that power could inflict—are among the frightful features of this melancholy case. And for what has all this rancour and revenge fol lowed a helpless individual ? Why that the knavery, baseness, and cupidity of Ministers, Deputies, Com missaries, and favourites, should be concealed from public view, and buried in oblivion. With some of these men originated the plan of assassinating Boxes. PARTE ; and with others of them, the mean and ra. pacious robbery of the Queen of W erten kLia. To them were delivered the whole contents of the plun der, and they clone can account for i:s distribution. De MatranculL, according to his owes account, had no kind of participation in the guilt, and has there fore, on that score, nothing to answer for, either to his conscience, his country, or his Gorr. AMERICAN PAPERS. • The following is a brief abstract of the corre spondence between Don Ouis, the Spanish Ambassa dor, and the American Secretary of State : the latter, it seems, had received instructions from the Presi dent, to propose to the former the following arrange meet, as an adjustment of all the differences existing between the two countries : ' " 1. Spain to cede all her claims to territory east ward of the Mississippi. " 2. The Colorado, from its mouth to its source, and from thence to the northern limits of Louisiana, to be the western boundary, or to leave that boundary unsettled for future arrangement. " 3. The claims of indemnity for spoliations, whether Spanish or French, within Spanish jurisdic tion, and the suppression of the deposit at New Orleans, to be arbitrated and settled by Commis sioners in the manner agreed upon in the unratified Convention of 1802. " 4. The lands in East Florida and to the Perdida to be made answerable for the amount of the indem cities which may be awarded by the Commissioners finder this arbitration, with an option to the United States to take the lands, and pay the debts, or to sell the lands for the payment of the debts, distributing the amount received 'gully, according to the amount of the respective liquidated claims against the claim ants. No grants of land sebsequent to the 11th of Aug. 1902 to be valid. ' " Spain to be esonerated from the payment of the debts, or any part of them. f~ • -,, Pgrzy a TrITR7 • t. a THE STATESMAN. Theo. proposals do not materially differ from those mad. to Don redo) Covalloa on the nth of May, The President has seen nothing in any milts which have since occurred, nor in the contents yOui Notes, which can afford a reason or a *odes for departing from them. The events which have re cently occurred in apart of the territory which you have informed me the King of Spain is willing.to cede to the United States, make it indispensably necessary, that the ultimate determination of your Government in this Negotiation should be acted upon without delay. (Signed), "JOSEPH ADAMS. " Department of State, Stc: The rot/owing is an extract from the reply of Don Onis, by which it appears that matters are as hostile between the two Governments as ever, as - the pro posals cannot be acceded to by Spain. Don Onis obser•es— " I now proceed to state the most obvious and essential difficulties which render your . three propo sals for the settlement of indemnities inadmissible. observe that, in speaking of them, yoe only men tion the spoliations suffered by American citizens, and omit that which is equally due to Spaniards for spoliations committed on them by citizens and au thorities of this Republic. in violation of the law of nations and casting treaties. I also observe, that you not only omit titis indispensable basis of reci procity and common justice, but propose the imme diate cession of both the Floridas, which two Spanish provinces are to be retained by the United States alt an indemnity, or payment of what may appear to be due by Spain to the American citizens, according to the arbitration of the joist Commivvion. (Signed) " LUIS DE ONIS." The letters received from Nassau (New Provi dence) state, that there had been a public Meeting called to represent to Government the annoyance sustained by the traders of that island from the pirates under the name of Insurgent Privateers. They are represented as paying no respect even to the British flag. WINCH ELSEA.—Such persons as are entitled, by Wilk or servitude. to their FREEDOM in the Borough of W INCH ELSE A. and not admitted 'tithe Elective Feancitise, are rearicsted to call at the WHITE HART INN, BOROUGH. any day in the course of the present moods (San day excepted), betwernthe hours of Ten and Two o'Cluek, as a Professional Gentleman attends there to receive them, and who is instructed to adopt such legal measures as may be necewary to obtain their adratissun to those Eors.ritutiotial and hum) Pri vilege, granted to their ancestors by the original Charter, and at the ame time preserve Menstrual) being disturbed or violated in future. Islay 9, 1818. WHIT hlospe Y.-11..liday at the Public Offices. LONDON: MONDAY, MAY U, 1/118. There is reason to believe that the dissolution of Parliament will take place pretty early in neat month. This at least is said to be the opinion among some Sheriffs of Counties, who by their preparatory move ments appear to hare received some intimations to this effect. The Houses of Parliament having adjourned till Wednesday, we look to Sir ROBERT HERON'S mo tion, intended to be made on Friday, for repealing the Septennial Act, as the most generally interesting and important that will next engage the attention of our present Representatives. The necessity of repealing this Act is a subject that well deserves the attention of the British People. The question is one that in volves considerations and interests of the highest im portance, and the propriety of the object contem plated in the motion is obvious to all but sinister minds; for the People of this country have not now to discover the cause of all their abuses. Their suf ferings have severely instructed them that these have originated in the want of a fair and an equal Elective Franchise, and a shorter duration of Parliaments ; and that a return to the constitutional usage is alsolutely and indispensably necessary for the prosperity of ibis kingdom. It is the only means by which the nation can be restored to happiness and vigour. " When the Septennial Act passed (says a celebrated Historian) the Legislature did, what ap parently, and palpably, they had uo power to do; but they did more than people in general are aware of; they, in effect, disfranchised the whole king dos for four years." By arbitrarily prolopg ing duration of Parliaments from three to seven years, the House of Commons assumed to them selves the first and most obvious right of the People, the right of nominating their own 'Representatives: they, in fact, transferred the right of Election from the Elector to the Elected, from the Creator to the creature. If by any sort of reasoning it can be made manifest, that the House of Commons possessed any just right which could authorise the extension of their continuance to seven years, by precisely the same process may it be demonstrated, that they then possessed and still pos sess, the same just right to extend their continuance to any definitive number of years. or even to the end of their lives.— %Vould not such a proposition appear in the highest degree preposterous ! We have heard enough of Dicta , tors for life, and witnessed enough of the ruinous consequence of stack assumptions. It was under the pretexts and tyranny of such an office that Roman freedom was invaded, and Roman tiberty at length destroyed. Seven years may not be the life of man, but it is too long for corruption to live, and liberty like innocence, has bat a short existence. It is for the People of this country, now that they KM • at length to exercise their privileges _ jedgment" end election, to avail themselves of tie instroc-1 Lion conveyed by the examples they have •-wit• eased--to weigh well the effects of the poiltical measures which their Representati►es have devised and sanctioned, and examine closely into their sno tives and characters. If this Act is not repealed, it may be long before another opportunity occur for the, corrective decision, and who um say their neat vote shall repair the error that may attend the present. Meetings, we perceive, are still held in various parts' of the country to petition for Reform ; this is what ought never to be lost sight of. The People should not cease, till their rightful demand is granted, to 1 protest against the continuance of an Act which may be truly stated to have been the principal cause of that system of profligacy and corruption, which has entailed se much misery and distress upon Eng lishmen of the present day. French Papers to the 9th inst. have arrived. The Session of the Legislative Chambers appears to he drawing to a close. in the Chamber of Deputies, on the 6th instant, the project for completing the Canal of the Ourq, was adopted by a ma jority of 111 to 17. The Committee, charged to ez amine the Project of the Law relative.to the organizi , tion of the Batik of Frasice,have commenced their labours. It is thought that this law wilt he the last subject submitted to the consideration of the Charn ber, and that, in a few days, theSeettion wilt terminate. Several of the Deputies have already left the capital. An account of the public revenue in Fiance, for the first quarter of the present year, compared with the same period of 1817, exhibits an improvement to the amount of 4,161,696 fr. • The report of the Latin Fathers having beets eject ed by the Schismatic Greeks from the Uoly Se pulchre, is confirmed by the arrival of Count Foams, Director of the Royal Museum, from his travels in Egypt, Syria, and Greece. The Greek Fathers, it appears, hail occupied the tomb in pursuance of an order from the Turkish Government, to which they have, most probably, promised a larger share of the contributions from the pilgrims, than had been ob tained from their competitors. One of their first operations was to remove the tombs of Gonraze of Boulogne, and his brother ileums :I. Count Ft:ni sta has brought, fu► the Royal Museum, several re mains of antiquity frees Thebes, in Upper Egypt.— A few days before he sailed for France, a passage had been discovered into the interior of the second pyramid at Gizzeh. The commerce of Marseilles with the Levant is rapidly increasing. From this circum stance, which may be easily accounted for, from the ?ocallty -of the pert, a French Journalist deduces the ►nference that," of all the European nations, France is that which the Orientals treat with the greatest confidence. and friendship." The proreedinaa in the trial et Alhi in these Pa pers, are of considerable interest. amid show that the case is at length drawing to a close. On the 23th and 294 h ult. the Court were occupied in hearing speeches for the defence : on the former day, Bas. tide read a speech, at once so able, and so insulting to the Court, that at the instauce of the Procu reur-General, it was entered on the record for the purpose of further notice; it being generally un derstood that &wide was not the writer of it ; on the 29th ult. Madame M ANION made a long ad dress in general esculpetion of her conduct, which, from its energy of style and delivery, made a great impression. "An act of imprudence had," she said, " brought her to the house of Bars cal, to witness the deed of horror. The blond flowed near her. An assassin appeared before her, reeking and smoking with the blood he had shed. She was preserved—should she accuse her preserver ? No; without him she had been the prey of a tiger." She nest captained how her fears, her weakness, the artifices of the murderers, had made her prevaricate. The auditory was powerfully affected by the force and animation with which Madame Manson deliver. ed her defence. One of Bastille's Counsel, M. Roaticuteacs, despairing of the cause of his Client, from the moment that Madame Manson designated him as the chief of the assassins of Fum.pcs, gave up his brief and renounced his promised fee of 6000 fr and also a balance of 1500 fr. due to him for his pro fessional assistance at the first trial. Yesterday the Lotto CHANcELLnR and the VIcE• CHANCELLuR bad audiences of the PRINCE REGENT. On Friday, at two o'clock, a cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office, which was attended by aIF the Cabinet Ministers. The Council sat till half-past three, when Lord CASTLEREAGH waited upon the PRINCE REGENT. The Duke of KENT is expected to leave London on Wednesday or Thursday, to proceed on his wa y to Germany, for the solea►nization of his marriage • Last week the Messenger, who carried the officil I dispatch of the oiler of marriage from his Royal Highness the Duke of KENT, with the sanction of the PRINCE REGENT in Council, to the Princess Dowager of LINANGers, returned to England from Cobourg, with the assent of the Princess, ratified by the trustees of her Serene Highness—namely, the King of BAVARIA and Duke of BADEN. The marriage of the Duke of CAMBRIDGE is ex pected to have taken place last Thursday. The Royal Sovereign yacht, under the command of Sir E. °wiry, is appointed to fetch his Royal Highness and his Duchess to England, and drops down the River for that purpose from Deptford on Tuesday. Wecen now state, from authentic information, that the marriage of the Duke of CLARIINCE with the Prin. cess Royal of MENINOEN is finally arranged: Tile consent of his Royal Highness in Council, and of her Serene llighness, has undergone no change by the proceeding in the. House of Commons. The Princess is to have the ceremony of a marriage by pretty be- , fore she embark+ for England. The British Minis ter at Stutgard is to be his Royal Ilighuess's proxy. ,~- . '~' .~ , • a , • .-e-tbus.Aet) . c •ft Tim rUitC. -.1.1i...:-- l' Friday morning the Prince of liesse.llo/60 attended by Baron tPNaghten and Count Beit e s arrived at the Crown Hotel, Portsmouth, afterwards, accompanied by Lord Howard of re, ham and Sir Edward Thoriihrough,,p r the Dock-yard, where he was received, st entrance of the Conselissiower'i hawse by Ilia, jl Sir George Grey, !init. end Governor Gifford; of the [Loyal Naval College. His Serene Ilighte,; having partaken of a handsome cold collatio n .• oat Sir George Grey. was conducted by Sir George t , inspect all the various interesting deps i e fnenti r f the Dock-yard, its the course of which his S te i l Highness expressed his perfect astonishmen t high gratification. His. Serene Highness It % embarked from the King's Stairs, ace Admiral Sir Edward• ThorLi _ti rou g h, si r Gail Grey, Sir Archibal4. 3 ,Dickson, Captain At sziol k and Captain Hall, and went on b oar d the t; Qie Charlotte, of 108 guns. Captain Boger , be • 3 / 1 4 the flog of our Naval Commander in Chief. Th . moment his Serene Iligh . loss hail 'wended the thip' t side, en appropriate sal•re was. fired frog s tb elhip, and Capt. Roger pyram i ded to show his Serene Wm, ness every part of that- fine noon of war, in ahicbtr, Serene Highness evinced the must lively ant, inqvisi. tire curiosity-: he deacentjeti t esen to the wagssi nc _. At the nick-hay hit a v ow. ilig 4 "es* (Owl does net speak English) met with a most agreeabletinliskA. ligent Officer, Dr Lizarette, w hose j!erfact k m „. ledge of the French laaguago gatet.hira ow % 'unity (as his Serene lii.oo,e , .sts• freedom and ep , descent/on gave him lilPril ) to contribute lerlrh to the infornsalion ,of his Servos. 111,ihness, t. the internal . arrangements, economy, 6 6 , Ciialine, and order established in our ships of ear— llis.Serene Highness, filly sati.fsed with his tli.omtrerked under a . salute, and wo k; I,ieutenent-Governmeat,heuse to din.. With f ein t lio.ward. Sir Edward Thorntiroottfl, Sir Gen. Cie!, and other distinguished Officers were present. .A 4 half-past eight on Saturday moroing his Sneile 110. ness and suite kW the•Crnw -1 Motet, and e mb e i,d from South-sea-besch, no board the Commissi on e s yacht, which proceeded immediately to laud ta., 6 * the isle of Wight. It is his Serene Ilighnes:'• tion, we understand, to visit such parts of thst roma* . tic and delightful spot as lie in the vicinity of St. lens, Ityde, Cowes, &c. intending to embark *girt in the yacht, and proceed to Southampton, In,' i:leate to Winchester on.. Saturday night. His Serve highness returns to his Royal Consort at the Quail Palace, this day. Lord KINNA/RD• left Brussels on the 2d last. his return to England. - The heirs of the late Marshal Beevntee have be adjUdged by the Cour-Royale of Paris, to paper sum of 11,000 francs, claimed by the lendlord house which was occupied by that Prince in MS. It appeared that be had hired a mansion at Bookie, but after a very short residence, was ordered of to the German campaign, and in the hurry of his de. perture, forgot to discharge his residence, sad the landlord kept it unoccupied for thirty.threersoetho. The Journal des Debats,9om pa res the_seatesee with one parsed by an English Court (by the way, ws • never heard of it), in which a hackney.coachrase re. covered a fare of six months of a Noble Lord, eke hired him, and told him to wait, haring .gone to France without discharging him. IMPORTANT QUESTION Or BURGH REFORM...4i Saturday, at ten "o'clotit, a Committee of the Privy Council assembled at the Cockpit, Whitehall, to take into consideration the petition to the KING is Council, of the late Magistrates of Aberdeen, prayire for the restoration of their ancient eledive franchise, and also of the Petition of the Burgesses, of Guild, and a very numerous and respectable body of de ia. habitants, praying for a new Sett (Constitation)d 1 the Burgh, for regulating the future elections of their Magistrates•nd Town Council.—The Members of Vs Committee who attended, were more than wadi's meroes. They consisted of the following persons:— , The P.:4d of HAR.ROWEIT (President), the Lotto Coate 1 CELLOR, the Earl of Liverteo.tx, Lord hi xtvitt.t, Sir WILLtAss GRANT, Sir WILLIAM SCOTT, the Vim CMANCELLOR, the SOLICITOK-GENERAL,Mr.BOAGG E BATHURST, and the Lotto ADVOCATR of Scotland. Counsel having been ordered to attend on both Pete lions, Mr. WARREN and Mr. Serjeant Come heard on behalf of the Magistrates, end Sir SAMUEL Rostus.x and Mr. NI ONCRIEY for the Burgesses. Is the Course of his speech, Sir SAMUEL iteMILLT that perhaps he could Mot express himself more strong. ly in suwort of the Petition of the Burgewe , and of the nec e ssity of a radical change in the Cvng(lioli" of the Burgh, thau by reading the Declared( n er No. nifesto which the Magistrates themselves, previa , - to their retirement from office in September last, had, after stature deliberation, printed and pt..bishads In that paper, these very Gentlemen, wise now oe• peared as Petitioners fdr the restoratiottlf Me for' :tier mode of election, stated as their decided opielaor " that the present mode of election of the Tow* Council, and management of the town'. affairs, Ire radically defective and improvident, tending to give to any individual or party an excessive and unnatu ral preponderance, and to foster and encourage asys- tern of concealment; that some change oulht to be effected in the manner of electing the Council, and en effectual confront given to the citizens over the es• penditure of the Public Funds, and that to the oh' sence of such checks in the Constitution of the Yolk they ascribed the heavy calamity which has hepatitis it." Mr. WARREN being heard in reply, the Cosa was cleared, bat the result of their Lordships' drlihe' r idols on the Petitions will not be declared till it ha' been communicated to his Royal Hi g hness t hi.P ß iNiCe REGENT. Toe decision will be important, as it trots no doubt, form a precedent in the future determins-. lion of all Petitions 'to his MAJESTY in Council re specting the elections of the Magistrates of the 110) 11 Burgit4 of Scotland. On Saturday a circular letser was sent to betwe'a two and three hundred persons, in tie nsme of wr JOH?! EAMER, requesting them to attend at th e Town-hall, in the Borough, between eleven and ones upon business ef a particular nature. The idiice was crowded 4 ' and the public business con,iderahlf interrupted bi - ate persons who had, received t" letters. THE STATESMAN. _ _