The Sun. — London, England, 1815-08-12 00:00:00

AdniA FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. STATE. PAPER. SPEECH OF THE KING OF THE NETI:IERLANIA QN THE OPENING OF THE STATES-GENEIZAI. nAGUZ, AUG. B.—Yesterdly his Excellency die Secretary of State for the. Home neiikrtment dosed the extraordinary Meeting of : the States General, in the name of his Majesty. doy his Majesty solemnly opened the Assem bly of the States General of the United Nether lands. Ws Majesty went to the Assembly in great pomp, in a coach drawn by eight horses, at half-past one o'clock. Ms Majesty was attended by a brilliant suite, and both when going and re turning, the cannon fired a royal salute. The following is the Speech addressed by his Majesty to the States General on this important occasion : " High and Mighty ;.ords,, " A few months ago T announced tri'!the States _General the union of all the Netherlands under the Royal sceptre. Bat that this union maybe perma nent and beneficial, it is not enough that all the inhabitants be united - und'er one-Sovereign. They must, besides, be most intimately bound together by the same laws and the same institutions ; the party Walls raised tinder other circumstances must be removed, and they must mutually regard each other as inhabitants of one house,. and children of one family. • " Your High Mightinesies know that Such are also the views of the United Powers of Europe in establishing the new monarchy. " Faithful to the principle of every where main , - taining and preserving the already established re lit ions, they have especially required that our constitution shall be maintained, and only alma in so far as the change of circumstances should, upon common deliberation, appear to. demand. —My own wishes coincide this determina -1 bare chosen for the revision of the riot'. Constitution those measures which appears to me most adapted• to the end proposed. Alen assembled from. all the provinces of the King dom, without any other• end in view than the welfare and the glory of their country men, have fulfilled the important task-, and in their dispassionate, concordant, and coafidential deliberations, 1 have seen with joy a new and flat tering presage of the fraternal union of all mi rtbjcets. " These deliberations still continued, when the tnnuilt of war, um-Averted-and , with unusual rage, but God be thanked, for a short time only,' sur prised our territory. The danger. though short was - urgent"; but the courage of our warriors was superior to the danger. No consideration, no examples of a nei.,;libouring country, could even make one doubt a mom-ent of the se curity of engagements voluntarily taken by the Netherlanders ; and now that in a period of danger united under the banners of independence, •and the side of our generous Allies, they have confirmed their vows by deeds, I flatter myself that the nation And all Europe partake my convic tion and my confidence. History shall one (lay chew, in the battles of Qtiatre bras and tiraterloo, two illustrious pillars of the new State of the 'Netherlan , ls and hafpy the fathers are to whose s ' , ns the lot has fallery raise these pillars with their arias, and" to dye them with thcjr blood; the plait which is to be considered in this Assent , - bly shoed not - be offered fon by tne, since in the rsriew of the fundamental law scarcely one arti cl.;e was laid aside, by which the dearest-rights of our nation were secured.' " But every care has been taken. to extend these rights. as much as possible, and to , define more clearly, that the new political union may -have the stamp of nu enlightened eye, and of the national character: The inviolability of the Jo authority remains irrevocable ; and liberty of conscience is guaranteed to the filksi extent. No property can be declared confiscated; no' opi:- /lion or thought checked in its course ; the meanest citizen is at. liberty•to make his voice beard eVen at the Throne. The people retain their representation—the Provincial Assemblies a suit abk degree of power ; time burdens of the State ate freely vi)ted and equally borne. '' The revenues, to be accounted for according to hued rules-, can be employeol in the hands of the King to no other ends than to the payment of services useful to the State, to the public instito tions, to time defence of the colintry and in genet al the Royal power is great enough to secure the fare of the community, but insuaicient to oppress or iiure a single subject. If these ob'servaoons Are jnst, We may, under the direction of the new Constitution, With in 4 creased ability and With confidence in the future, mtinue and compkte, what under the Divine blessing is already begun, designed, or.. prtpared f tlt.lion9urAod the welfare of the Netheriandg; To you, High l i htiucsses, is confided the soled tion of thlq questiOit t.ick Of Imes ,• _ high importance of Ills ana each of you ..• - will strive to acquit hiluscil k c f itioth that zeal which Vrdat al! times, blit 'to tirieslike these, owe to our dear couurry." ~ • This speech was ansWered by Mr. Von 4.ifogen ziorp, who, as President of the late As , 3eMbly, officiated as President in the Present incr‘itig Of the Statei General, iu a 'discourse which•We shalt cominunicate in our next. The Sacmaity being finished, the King retniii ed to his Palate hi the same manneras,he came. The Assentltly then proceeding to . nominate a President, the three following Gentlemen were proposed :—Steengracht Van Oster, Van Zuiten, and Aylva. The first was nominated by his Ma jesty as President of Me States General during their present Session. • PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. " OSTEND, Juty 30 " The Governor, Major-General DE Vuttnn, having received from , England official tidings firm the person of BUONAPARTE was secured on board of a British ship of %ear, assembled this morning, 'at ten o'clock, the garrison in line on the Strand, and, reviewed the troops. Seven gilllS were after • wards fire' firm the ramparts, and a feu de joye by the troops, which were three times repeated, accompanied by joyful exclamations: and huzzas. The troops having then marched into t o w n to the Place d'Armes, and been formed into a square, the Governor - addressed diem both in English and German, in the follawhig speech ; afttr which theY filed off before him, and at night the \‘'hole to;wn was illuminated : " SoLotens I—The glorious days of the 16:11 and 18th of June, 1815, kill be ever celebrated in the world—the battles. of Waterroo,, Mlle Al- Alliance, and Quatry Bras, fought by the Allied Armies, have immortalised their Leaders. " To the gallant conduct of his Grace the Dike Of WELLINGTON, Prince BLucuFa, the Priace of ORANGE, and the brave troops- they commanded, we ate indebted for these memorable victories over a , superior and boasting enemy. " The important victory of the I:6th of June has decided the political state of Europe. Tile- Usurper of the French throne has flea. " This ambitious man, who for the fifth time bas deserted hit army when beaten, and who has not the courage to die like a soldier, bas sarren. tiered himself, at' discretion, to a thiti:rb ship o f w ar. . '' This disturber of the general . -trunluillity..of nations is now secured, and will no longer trouble the void. " The brave troops - that lolve so tong fought to re-establish- order, envet from their So vereigns that reward rchich their bravery and co - natter has so well merited. " Soldiers ! although you were not present at these great battles, you bave nevertheless a claim to partake of their glory ; all cannot be present; they who slim their zeal in th© performance of their duty in a fortress, as you have done to my . - utmost satisfactiota, deserve equal praise aril ap probation." The following extracts from a letter from Paris, dated August 6, throws additional light on the present state of afFairs in the French Capital t— " Yon may naturally suppose that my first ob ject .has been to ascertain the state of the public opinion in this great city. Before I left England, had conceived' that the greater part of the Pari sians were decidedly in favour of Buonaparte ; not so much on account of their attaainent to that odious tyrant, as from their dislike of thellour bons ;. hut I am happy to find that the more sober and .reflecting inhabitants have at length taken a comparative view of the merits of both p ar ti es , and are now as unaninions and loud in pr a i s e o f the latter as they were accustomed to he in that of the former. At that time, however, their eyes were blinded, and they walked . in darkness ; liber ty and glory were the words which perpetually flowed frdm their lips, but they never reflected bow little of either they really enjoyed. For in what, as they now inquire, did their liberty con sist ? Was it in the eighteen police establishments ? in the conscription laws ? in the right of dis posing in marriage all ladies posses.,-ed of a certain income, as a measure of rewarding the services of military officers.? Or was it in the forced 10-;„;us Which entirely destroyed the rights of private property? No ; they are now convinced that the domination of Buonaparte was not the reign of liberty. And then, with respect to their national glory, now that the Allied Armies are a second time in possession of their capital, and-they have experienced something more of the horrors and miseries of war, - they begin to consider what. con stir met the real glory of a nation. It is not,.as many of them have said to me, in the invasion of other countries; it is not in the destruction of innocent but less powerful people it is not in the plunder of publid monuments for tl.e sake of enriching their own collections ; nor in the extension of their territory beyond its natural bounds.," The name of glory, may, indeed, be given• to the aceom -plishment of such. actions, but it is only a name true glory consists in the preserva t ion l t o e f ak againsttheir otvti independence, and i n as si s ting the the tyranny -and oppression of the stron, As to ce • Buonaparte himself, no man can be more heartily detested by the mass of the inhabitants of • . No pain, tlicrerort - ,ll:is been tell .b them, Dti rea:ll- - -* lag that. he is now in the custody of the itAngirsa `and that Le -is to-m(l4l,in a 'prisoner in tliteit/; Liaadt k • with the simple appellation of General. " -- t'aris is now as tranytil. as :if , nothing (lectured. The streets are paraded in the usual etaauner by ntercliaats and traders, - who it►attifes"_ - no whatever for the tate of Bnonaparte; aad theabeatres are Idled in the evening 'by thou- Sands of persons, who are anxiou', on the est occasion, to testify their respect and esteem for the King. I should deceive you,' however, it 1 omitted to mention, that atten;pts ate occa sionally made to agitate the publ.e mind. But I hive succeeded in tracing the cause to its source, add the developewent rtiill slew you to what wretched arid contemptible expedients-the tnalcon, tents are obligei s t to re Sort. Last evening a man was arrested in the Palais Royale, for raising a cry of " Vive l'Emperetir I" I was not present at the time, but in passing'down the rue- St. Houor6 to. my lodgings, 1 overheard a conversation between some women, who were discoursing on the sub ject. " What a shame," said one of them, " that an individual should be taken into custody for expressing. his opinions." Why, he was paid for it," replied anothe.. At this. moment I advaneLd„ and said, " do they pay people to excite tumults ?" "Oh yes," answered this WOntan, " several francs were offered to me this utorniag fur the saute purpose, but I refused to accept them." Such,. Sir, are the despi cable and wicked arts to Which some of the Barmapartists this city are no.w driven and if tt had not been for the employment of ni6.- ney in this way, I am persuaded that the entry into Paris of the hero of Moscow, of Leip.sic„ and of Beresina, %vault! not have been welcomed by many acelainations. Whatever applause he received on that occasion, he owed to , tile sti- , pendiary rubble who wotdd as readily have shouted for his- ex,eetition„ if they had but been amply re paid for their exertions. It is -true, that his sa tellites joimed in the cry; Gut as they were go verned by the vilest interests, Obeir voice must he accounted as worse than nothing. Those cries of revolt Which had been long forgotten, eXeited the astonishment and indignat ism of the peaceable inhabitants, and violent tootrrels ensued but the number of those tvlio, had been pre-engaged in' this hose conspiracy, overcame the loyal citizens, and the royal standard was thvil di , ipktecd , for the pasquinade of the tri-coloured flag " You will have seen by the Journals, that La hedoyere has heels arrested, and conveyed to pri 7 soft;, atter an examivation of neatly four hours, before the Prefect of Police. The day of his trial is not yet f:xed, hut his crimes ate too nOtorions to leave us in any doubt ,as to the nazine of ttie charges to be elhibited against him. It is , gent:- ran -I understood that many other equally inerito rious .elv2racters mai speedily be nrongiit lice ;. and the only subject of complaiut anti reret is, that Ney, whose very mom: is•anotfier word for infamy, has' been suffered to escape. Ile is now in Switzerland ; but- eolnenipt and execra tion-will not fail to pursue him : %elide tlis tm it ConSeleace will- become his internal ex,;.Tutioner. " i have heard that there, live inanv Euglth, in Paris bd4t it 1 . 1113 y judge tram th . w,e whmn met in public, I should 'colic:tide th-at their number is not very cousidcraide. They•are prin cipally the wives-and•tamilics of the to litary. I Lave only time to add., tilat t 1.13 is Sunday, and the shops at , e AI open."' • (Extract ea Letter from Paris, 7.) `` According to the,letters which I have receiv ed,--the Sontlr-*ppears to he in *state of anarchy. General Gt Lid !Ws besieged ,Nfontpt'liier, and turn— ed the guns of the eitadelagninst the town. T,„he I‘l3lor of Avignon- resisted for IS. days the efforts of the partizans of I3uosArAtrra, vthilst -GOO- Pro testants were Illa'SSacred at Nnnes', and upwards (4 . GO of their houses were. pillaged. and bona. The inuvein'en4 began hy Blionaoartists against the Roy.iiists.--liie Government ((t Paliti has uotiting to go% ern. The Minister at War is without an ahiy ; the Minister 4 Finance wi.hont money ; the Minister fur Foreign Affairs without Ambas sadors ; and the Minister of the Interior with out Prefects. The agents of the Allied arnries empty all the chests, and give.to eat the. Mayors the orders for revisitionS. 'They In , :ve -begun to cat down the forests. The inhabitants of twenty eight towns and villages in the Loiret 'nue taken de luge in the forest of Orleans." T 1-1 E ARMY. The R.oyalirag,gno Train, at Croydon, baye re ceived orders to hold thenis.elves in readiness - for foreign service. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased, in - the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, to approve of the Royal South Glou cester Militia being appointed, clothed, equipped, and exercised as a corps of Light loffantry. • The first division of the 6LII Dragoon Guards arrived in Belfast on Thursday. ott their way to Donaghadee, to embark for Scotland. Monday morning, a division of the City of Li merick Regiment of Militia marched trout Lime rick for Rathkeal, Tarheyt, and Listowel, under the command of Captain NAsn, where they are to be stationed until farther orders—and a party from t h e sa m e _Re g im e nt, under the command of Lieut. Tomkins, proceeded to Newcastle, in the County of Limerick. The detachment of the 88th Regiment, lately quartered in Ennis,- has been relieve►i by the Clare Militia, which are now doing duty there. • The Tipperafy Regime►►t of 'Militia arrived itt Tralce and Killarney on Monday and Tuesday last fro►n Pantry. We have oblerv:d, that the celebrated Dr; COOPER, Of Charlotte-ho u se, Ela , .;litriar's, drives. in his chariot, a , pair of beautiful Arabian dun horses. They were bred by the King of Spain (one was his favourite charger), and arc estiinated at 500 guineas. We congratulate the le.irned poet - Or on Rosses3ing such animals, and hope, as a Philanthropist, he will never suffer such valtta-* bic creatures to fall into die hands of nta unfeeling. motet. 1,1 ,1 5- L J-1 .4 • Grottvillg l,4* • T& • 13 0 ‘N t:ike , fr6l') . Lost a:;,1 S u et!, *:•ra f ly " - "*. , xt".;TEI.7: n(31% tui utcs after l'i%'-cning . ; 3 2 u li ' att-es‘ • trrl ECSF Er:Cif q 1. 2 A•litgrtlatil ....... . ... .. .. , ..... • c 2 , . '34 „ F- Pitt ci, at Sight .. .. ~, ... - , ........ '. . ii) 12. . ..:Sai,•-t,erkiara . ~ .. - , ... 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Letnonstrations. and' tlever Ili a ibc '.e ~r le 3 e rs . lit teal I . . . c Imaeter oft the Sovereignl.7'4``" ( ko 0 the r • • - - - it i. IJa.eful tribute of ack.liatttle4l9v3 - 1 L:' "itt t j thepeople. I lint xve %via not'ivicla oti r 'V ell 1 ‘v it 10 1 ' 1an ,, n.0 -: C b < ..L U. It O101;yr j;, ‘t,l2efl: tVe ttv. 1 , r o i 1 , ove'' Ore. hull t• ' •: . i 1 .it!tril Or flattery, nilopt t''' -. ' % • 11 0 0c diction Of the Author of the plibhc3ti°" ): slici!.. we called the attention of the c o imtrY (':/ ~.a i g nesday !Ist (t)iisriv,'-i.ons on the PaVic cod r'' . ~, LifJof Iris I?f.fry :a Ili rh , wss. the l'r i3ce- Regol)' '',c,i It Wolk Which told . . ..' 2"1 ele''''' nt o truly 13:ritts.1 < .OO E i and preptii ,v• tone, the sentimenti;,ot 13-titain tovvo‘j3 Ste ' trionl-Chiet IVE•a.4is;rate. ,,P , '' - n()V6 • ) " These 4,llil•r7ftG,llS rsiPTS the Writer) roos ~,,.. ell t-nt. th(•ir subjk et. is not exhausted. If rine.plle '' „ 3 0r* l''');'"age*lr the lii'ltl4, there miqht still betcw'ra f " 1. r 0 3 w itho l. gene, coPioziti.ao nebie. Posterity will ry I n() pen shall. worthily Spc:.k of oat:' ;10,1011:4 titlV , , 0 , 2,05 () rgt.t rucntion of aim, to ;Those firaqiess it' 51(7r:' deeply due. • . ' It 0 5 be r" b. " I uric but slight notice of private slander. ~--- a: - -y alid calumnious, but it has been litcd tigal"' jf d ‘ % ‘ v l e l fi l: i e : (l iStl' i i :: i rel s 'i l ig :: : A. "7: i f f li eE( li i: 4 l:: i l i a ; : I 'cil ,11:i;:.1:7k;set11:::0:t''lle''':11t'llr;e1.;b.,)''',.ct-i''':9"ttlq"..': 1 . crote''' a , ..iiste . •rin. , ,r, the law with impartial justice, rc'e we 3 0: "' Bert)',. guiding the. State front trimnßh to trintroPh, ' ~. of ~ „ td other pledge for his qualities :—if we 'Sind the le"1110,094 Pe4e , tike Homer's hers, ready for the calf that sun v.. 0.0,1 i him to sustain the battle of his country, w e 6 ' l that :t) 05 tli .e an ungrateful and worthless curio'sity, which: uri c ` ~, . 0 ,1 1 0 I throw hack the curtains of his tent, and examiac ‘` .l : l ,:f por ulnquet he r,tlaxed his strength, or with whilt vrtgufrolLoor• . pie and'gold he covered hi. 4 limbs. divested of the ir ' "_ .t ~f tlw " But at th'is d'a'r cannot estimate die w hole To' 001) , t i}e , delieerar.ze. We are too Ck,l4, lip:ill it,, Are r! t ' ee l line 3 ' 4 narrow horizon in whose centre we are prfl,lte(t• 0 , ;t ot i " distance. mast be" glren for full knowileclge• I'll'',"'tei. " ing on a planet, our vision tt,,:cs it in 041 y in ".:10,411' must be lifted beyond the orbit, to see it a 9 i t i' ' . z ' :I'4 t' v. grandeur, its giant reyolutio-n, its broad and' aj e lic e), " .6 lii"nce To feel the epoch throuttls which we , b : lv oit ist i' t° ; mlst enter into the feelings of the unhorti, It . .1 00' 3r , gine ourselves among the fiance gerte r3li°3. ' 'll)ea'oci tri''"lP.; told of on: history I —The whole display of battle t and c o;tii si" , ling out before their eye, the l' l g nif i lce :s tilil' o , 3 : l' preparative, Etirwpe malting in arro, vit" -- , i 'i., 311 0 I' : Prince.; at its head,-the tribes from the motto" t oil t be t, liesart rushing down like currents of the tenil'eso'er o f th 3 met in one centre of irresistible strength, the th u e 3, 030 01 1 " - i'iity elliValry. the furious strttggles of JesPerl,,t, o a 11°P;fr,' the t'yiumph, beforewhich the glories of G ree ' - ei l.o llP Frow rile, following dangers surpassing the Jec t j of romance. • tc A•res ?nay d es l it'6 oars . '„ the . pass before they see a any of cirissitu coivr, 11;,, a'tiisgireat necromancer, seated Wal! security', ,intr, sumnionin;'isurep all that was stroncfand snbtle ir),,bi,1'e10.,4 whose mai;:l front " the Inig!,t. an the obcCtire.t.i i'_e ans unknown, t , i laat essences had•till then floatea, il l . . 111 , ). 3 , 1 44. ties, .and 1 .".1102 the world; casting- the eartl), tor" a d th• I'Vat'l 21 nudl"g, in inexoral)le chaias, the I'Dble II dis , ,'e loyal and the brare.:,—...tnd, in artrontent, 3' tb; whole 4.:1 ifl.. 5,,,t through with tbe rnys of the ' irlir:4;terf bnumi:air'id,e shattered, the prisoner.s tonseo, t• e ar ' i. 3fo s g i l .t a ll-: , ":l ' l': ' ,; e (ii t tf a : t t l.! 0 1 evilas l t . l l l lll' a i i s : Pr:_oind " !eul)re,,ion o f his clorsoter, and the 117:30 ~, r,,,_0,1,_ have n ut wa ltrd fort he slow with of t.he g.t'be:rit, offered d -li them with ingtatittide. A testim o ny' In° P_.l ne4 front tliV Legtslature, to the conduct of the fEri Na Administration. It must, be followed and nn istration. aiiii o„ answerahlo. ,roof of hotange. The delay `villa_t:v ;.J. 'LI r, 14 ay ably supply strongyrgroun:ls for tllcu, by ever) too%ti 0,11:t I