The Sun. — London, England, 1815-04-25 00:00:00

- " i E ~' ~ . l IL JOURNAL, OF LOUIS XVIII. . , We he ve reteived Cle Fit st and Second .Numbers -of the "-Journal £7itivtrsel,: a Pourer published at under the authority of Louis - XVIII.— 'The First Number is dated Friday, April 14-. We g;ve the following extracts ORNNANcEs or . THE KING OP PRANCE. Donis,-by the (Grace of God, King of France N tvaire To all. those who shah see these presents, r:•ct i 1 : • Considering the urgency of circumstances, ithe'diity ohicb they impose on us to exercise in al their extent the rights of our Royal power, eon ,lforrnAly to the 14th Article of the Coustitutiona 'Charter, we have ordained and do ordain as fol• lows : • - Art. 1. It is forbidden to alf our subjects, -who shall find 2theuseives momentarily under the rule of Napoleon. Buona• . loarte, to pay to the Government, called Imperial, any species tax, direct or indirect, under whatever denomination, at - Nehatevt , r "perio,! the tax has been imposed, whetheflegally tie the coutu - rrence of the two Chambers, and of our autho.: -•-yity, or by any other, political body 111cgally assembled, or hy. trot violence .of arbitrary authority, whethercivil or military. 2. li'is - eqmoly, forbidden to all Prrfects, Inspectors of Fi nances, P.eceini:s-gClieral and particular, Collectors, Ma- . . • ungers - of . Catitribtztiwis direct or indirect, of Customs and Registries, and kentrally to all Accountants connected with ,the Finance Department, to pay the funds which they shall -raise or have in hand into the chests called Imperial. The above na,ned agents who, having cognizance or our 'present order, shah -neglect to conform t f) it, shall forfeit the ',securities which they - have furnished, or shall he obliged to pay a second time to one treasury the funds delivered by them 'to Napole , ot Buonapartet and all quittances and receipts -given by : the Authorities of the Government called Imperial - shall" be null and of no•effect, with respect to those agents. • ; 3. The sale of timber and of tha public domains, authorised .'ley the last budget, is suspended in the departments invaded by Napoleon IltionapaTte. Any sales :Dade 'subsequently to the date of thisQidinance are declat e dnall and Void. ' •4. 'ln the provinces whare the treAsob of souse corps of the - army, and the tyranny of Napoleon, 1 3 uorapatte, have not yet put down the agents of the royal authority, they shall f,ilow for the payment of the taxes, the instructions_ of our Finance Minister, dated the 12141 of this month. 5. Oar Ministers, Secretaries of State, oi Finance, and of our Housi-buld, arc charged, each as far as concerns him, wit' the execution of the presnt ortlinanc. Give, at Lill., the 33d day of Match, in the year of grace, Z,1313, awl of our reign the 10t11. (Signed) And lower by the King,' (Signed) BLACAS D!AULPS. LOUIS. Louis, by the Grace of God, King of France and NRvarre—To all who shall see these presents, greeting : - The treason of almost all the corps of the army destined to defend the country, rendering it indis pensable to change ' entirely the measures which we thought it our duty to take ; the vpsw tailamitic3 with which our people are menaced by the presence of Napoleon Btionaparte on the French territory; Considering that the conscription was'abolished by the 12th article of. the Constitutional Charter, and that the recruiting of the army by sea and laud has not yet ..en detennined bylaw- ; , • -.Having reterred to the 1 , ,1th article of the said Charter, wi l ieli puts at our di sposa l all the land ; ..:ottsidering that by the same article of the Charter, it belongs to us to make and-publish,or dinances and tegulations necessary for the safety of•otti• ki;lgtlom ; that Aye have been salemnly in vited by the Chamber of Peers, and the Chamber of the Deputies of the Departments, to make use of this authority in all its extent : Considering-, in tine, that to all the powers with which in ordinary times we are invested by our royal titre, and the Consitutional Charter, are united, in a crisis au perilous, all 'those trhich danger, - confidence, the will of the nation, and the wishes expressed by its representatives, itn pose - on us the dniy of exercising Fur these reasons, we have ordained, and do 6rd:►iu as f'n!lows : Art. I ''• is forbidden to Every Frenchman, whether he h previously belonged to our troops, or has not hitherto secved, tW obey any pretended law of conscription, or re orni:ing, 'or au+• illegal order whatever, which shall ems, nate from *:apoleon Baoaapartt,. from all bodies or au th:wities, political, civil, and which he shall call to getLer orirstabiish, or which shall have obeyed Gin since the Ist of March, 18i5, or shall obey him in fature. f 2 like nivnier forbidden to all G'orrenors and'Ge- ncral o;fieer3 rommanditig in our military divisions, and in the departal::;:.; of our liing,dom, to the Officers of our royal gen d'armeric, and to every individda! gen d'arme, to every cohmel, Major, or Chief of a corps, as also to all our Ad mirals and other °dicers of our Royal Maine, to the mari tire.,Prefects and to the Commanders in our parts and at to alt Prefects:Sub-Pi - erects, Mayors, or Assistants of the Mayor, to execute; or cause to be executed, any of the pre:e:3(l.:(l'lar.-s of conscription or recruiting, or any of the acts or 04z:71.15i-tiers mentioned in the preeediag article. :3. Every Freochman whom they shall attempt to'force to enlist under the banners of Napoleon linonaßartf is autho rised to withdraw himself, even by main force.; 4. Every Governor, or General Officer commanding in obr talilitary diviiions, or in the departments of our kingdom, every Colonel, Major, or Chief of a Corps, every Commander i!1 our . Fortresses, or military positions, every Officer of our jtoya: Corps of Engineers and of Artillery, every Admiral. Viet-Admiral, or other Officer of our Royal Marine, Mari- . time Prefect, and Commander in nor ports and arsenals, who In contempt of the oath which he has give to us, shall have !Whered to the party of Napoleon Buotiaparte, shall bere moved an 3 deprived - of all full or half-pay, unless after having c.rgnizance of our present Ordinance, hointinediately returns to his duty towards us. 5. We discharge by the present.ordinance all officers and soldiers of land and sea forces, who, being seduced by the ehiefs.who havo betrayed us, have participated in the revolt, and hay:: p 43 sf;dixol;letitarily unti.r the cownianti of Naitileoil lluottariertt, 6t of vs aaheren'ts, and the order the sa , ,a, oihcers and soldiers to repair immediately to their hone : . 6. Our Ministers of War and the Interior are charged, each in what:cot - kerns himself, with the execution of On present I:trrlinanCe. • Given at Lille, Or 23(1, of March, id the year. or grace 1315, and of oar reign th s e , 2oth. (signed) And To*er by the King, (Signei!) LOUIS. FRANCON DE JAITCOURT, and the Duke of FELTRE. Then follows the Protest of Mr. Laia, which ha 3 already appeared in 'fuc SUN. • Next is a Declaration from th e same , as f o ll ows : " As the Duke of Otranto, calling himself ;Minister of the Police, outrages toe so far as to tell me that I mav rest in safety at.Bourdeaux, and pursue my professional labours, I declare, that if his master and his odious agents do not re spect me sufficiently to cause roe to die for my country, I des pise theta tno touch to adopt their insulting advice. Let them know that after !timing, on the 20th of. March, read in the Hall of Session, the Proclamation of the King, at the moment when the soldiers of Buonaparte entered Paris, I have arrived at the city which deputed ine : that I am there at my post, tinder the orders of Madame the Duchess d'Angouletne, • occupied it preserving the honottr and liberty of a par! of France, waiting till the rest shall be delivered front the mutt disgraceful tyrannir --- which ever - threat e n e d a grea t peop l e.. No.l will never sul - )atit to Napoleon floonaparte; and he who has been honoured with the quality of chief of the Represen tatives of Fraure, aspires to the lions:int-40f being in his own country the first victim of the enemy of the King,of the coon try,aud of nberty, if, what will not happen, he should be re ducedfo the impotence of contributing to defend them. . (Signed) « LAINE." • The following are extracts from the Observa tions on the Report or BUONAPRRTE'S soi-disant Council of State, on the Declaration 'issued at Vienna on the I th of March Human society has, rejected from its bo s om, and its 'communion, hint to whom life had - been allowed after so - many assassinations, to wh o m treasures after so many spoliations, to wh om even a remnant of Sovereignty after a mass OF such and who, arming himself 'monstrous usurpati ons , with the clemency of Sovereigns and of nations against themselves, would punish them for having spared him, and a second time undertakes the misers- of the world. Branded with the burning mark of this uni versal, proscription, of this final reprobation, the guilty ...lie felt how much his power would be shaken by it, with what eyes be would be regard ed by his victims, his slaves, even his accomplices, and those whom he deceived yesterday, and those whom lie crushes to-day, and those. whom he threatens for to-Morrow, and those too whose aid • he implores with the' intention of ridding himself - of them, when he shall have used them, as they of their part demand from him portions of his power; with the design already formed of build their existence on his destruction. " With reference to the idea, so preposterously indulged by some persons, that Buonaparte's hav ing got possession . of Paris would ind u c e the Al lies to abandon their avowed policy, it is oh. served, " that it is_ mere insanity to suppose that the same Powers who put the enemy of 'the world out Of the law because he meditated the greatest of all crimes, would restore him to the law be 4 cause he had consummated that crime." " The King of France is still on his throne. Far from having renounced the defence of his Crown and of his. Country, he has sworn on the contrary to defend them even to death. He will defend them as soon as loyalty shall restore the . Means which treachery has taken away, and the period of that return to order and justice is not . distant." France has been really invaded by Buonaparte. " Against this invasion the French nation calls ttpdn its King and its Children, its National Guards and its Allks. The French nation calls upon ail'that can s ave i t , avenge i t , restore it ; for at this moment, torn from its King, deprived of its representatives, betrayed by its army, at the mercy of a Corsican adventurer, of Polish lancers and Egyptian Mamelnkes, the French nation is given up without defence to all kinds of disasters., of torments, and of disgrace." " It is much more than' the public trangaillity of 'France, it is the general tranquillity of the world which is disturbed : there is no question here of interference. The phrase of "Foreign Powers" is almost without meanings There are no foreigners in the cause of humanity. All men are fellow -countrymen to fight against a Power whiCh dissolves all 6ountr . ei, and tramples upon all men. Ilorno sun; soch is the rallying cry of all who enlist against universal tyranny." " All Governments must stand or fail with the French Government. It is the stability efall thrones which is connected with the throne of the reigning Family of- France. It is the liberty of all people which Is connected with the preservation of the charter sworn- bet Ween the King of France and the French People." - " What is a throne," said Buonaparte, on that strange morning of ,Tautthry,.lBl-1, in the middle of his torrent of insults on the Legislative Body, before he dissolved then), and after having wished to shoot them -1 " What is a thrtin e ? four planks, and a bit of .velvet."—The material throne is in fact nothing .the,—that we give up to him; but the moral Throne, the national suf frage which gives it, the love of thv people which consecrates it, the legitimate inheritance which transmits it, the right of sitting there to govern men, and the virtues there to be displayed to. Make them happy, —this is the tht•orle. whicit ive tlaint,—this is the throne . of which Louis XVIII. is in', full and uncontested possession, and the throne on which Buonaparte can never sit even as a pretender ! This pretended election to the Empire by four millions of votes, in a country which. has 28 millions of inhabitants ; this juggling of yes and no, which, history will give up to the decision of posterity; these lists of votes ranged in bundles in the home offices, like the packets of an empiric on his shelves, one labelled 20,000 voices for, 17,000 against, another 36,000 for, and 3,000 against, even to the last rhapsody, that which is called by the name of prillciples, by those who are denominated Council of State : what becomes of all this, in comparison with the dethroaement, Pronounced nut merely by the Senate, but by the whole nation? . It was the gen era l sentiment of France which'pronounted the fall of fitionaparte it was that which proclaimed Louis XVIII. on the _shore where he disembarked; it WBS that Which re - conducted biiu every tykere amid s t be nedictions on his person, and mlitledictions against his enemies, has protested against his drparture, and has decreed his return. It is that which has declared all the faithless divisions of the army . guilty'or infamous treason and parricidal tebel- • lion against their King aid eountry.' It is that which" will find ,the.rneans of preventi ng in the centre of Europea'n civilizati on t h e esta bli s h men t of a corps of .Tanizaries, to - dispose of the posses sion of Thrones and theliberty of the people." " I am in full amd uncontested possession," says Buonaparte.—:-Flow ! DOes . _not the King contest it with you ? France, its Representatives, its Peers, all its population, even your accomplices, do not they contest it with you ? Europe, its pOwers, its nations; its Congress—do not they contest it with you ? Those heroes of your old army, who will preserve their titles and their glory, because they have kept their faith ; those Colonels and Officers of all ranks who every day brlng to you their resignation's with a courage so noble ; those sdiliers who, in order to punish y ou for having d ec ei ve d an d disgraced them, break an engagement which you have given them a right to break, and abandon in crowds your standard those Nlngistrates,those Administrators, who with heroic conscience, firmness, and disibtereStedness, have declared to.you that they cannot serve you not all_these contest your possession ? The Victims whom you proscribe in multitudss, do not they contest with you the power to assassinate them ? Are you not in contest even with many of your . comrades ? Has there not 'been . already one who has rejected the por)tolio, - sayin4 to you, " this is not my business ; 1 am not the man to .sign a volume of fitTIS Ney, after having con sommnated his disgraceful treachery, did h e not say, word for word, fo word, 81tonapatte promised us that he would be prudent ; if he is not, we will kill him. I am in a condition already stable and tran quil," says the Usorptie. " Stable —you tviil soon Judge bf that ; tranquil in the midst of proscrip tions ! tranquil, when the doctrine and language of 1793 reappear ! tranquil, • when the te7d.cap Glared to chew itself again on the 7th inst. in the streets of Paris, and escaped with difficulty the fury of the citizens ! In like Manner the -Usurper adds, " It is by disputing my possession that they will bring back calamity and disorder." Really, a commodious doctrine for brigands and robbers ! A baud of plunderers assemble, they go by night, sword and torch in hand; to 'take possession of a farm or a mansion. By their perfidy they have removed all defensive arms. They expel the proprietors who are too feeble to resist them. They fix and fortify themselves there. , Day-light finds them in full possession. The lawful owners, however, ;hew themselves ; the illagiStrate of the place protects them, the neighbouring village lends 'them aid ; tlte besieged robbers cry out,'" We are in posiession., all here is now stable and we will not overleap our bounds, unless you pene trate here ; if you'dispote our possession with us, it will be you who bring.back disorder." , Of Ney, it is justly said, '' that the enormity of his infamy and wiekedness was such that no oue could foresee; anti,, indeed, any one must have. blushed even to suspect . it. This Man,, loaded, during a whole year with distinctions and favours by his Sovereign, ,reirerated to him on every new favour the oath of his fidelity and the expression of his 'gratitude, received all at once the most ho nourable of missions. Ile was scut to save his country,' and reed an invasion. At the moment of his departure, .1;s King, instead of any in structions, said to him, '' I confide myself to you,'' and held out his hand. lie kissed that royal and paternal hand, and said to' the King : ``go to endeavour to t a k e him, and will. bring hint to you in. an iron .cage :" This was more •than the King asked. He wrote while on his route, he wrote wh en h e reac h e d hi s army,v he wrote when he put himself in motion, anti always the same protestations. He pretended to be full of hopes and Of zeal ; he said that his army was iti the best condition, that he was pursuing the enemy, and ready to come up with hint ; he came up with hint in fact, but it was only to sell him self and his troops to that enemy. He was not drawn on by the troops, for they resisted his.trea son ; they were corrupted and delivered up by him. It was this moment which decided the fate of France; it was this criind which consummated the triumph of all the other crimes. Reason Was confounded by it in every way ; BUONAPARTS if; the first enemy of the world, NEY the second. The Rebels 'affect to say, that the King's Go vernment " hail neither basis nor foundation,"- Buonapartc then had an excellent basis of govern ment, in that herd of litotes 'ridiculously called le gislators, who, on trifling questions, or measures already executed, were in, the habit of throwing into an urn which decided nothing, balls whose colour was still marked, by espionage : but thiS same assembly, raised from its abject state' to the digaity of acknowledged representatives and free organs of the Feench people, is too feeble to sup port the fabric .of a GOvernment. Thus, also, Buonaparte, could solidly built) his political edi fice on the foundation of a Conservative Senate, which be never employed, but to destroy. (and to destroy men as well as things !) : But this solid foundation, became a 'worm-eaten prop the liniment the same, senate, purified, increased, invested with the first political magistracy, exer cised the nobte function of balancing and uniting the rights and privileges, the interests'.and affec tions-of prince and people ! Thus, then, he was' not fit to govern,—that King, the , heir of thirty-five princes, of the wisdom of one, the goodness of another, and the rights of all ; that whose virtues issued more pure from the crucible •of adversity, whose understanding was improved by the torch of eqterience, and whose mild humanity was increased by all the emotions of compassionate pity ; who 'esta blished public liberty as the first basis of happi bess who, as the pledge of that liberty, gave 6 charter applauded b y a ll nati O ns ; -who in short, . dining 11 months, never once shewed himself, but his looks, his words - ConreyCd with them that confidence, l ove , coaiadnd religious respec t , w hi ch rebels them se l ves tint help feeling, whether-I mixed with W s great family,- as he called it, he o C c o t o • nutt'rtineVrosne:ll:l:l‘;iiitcilct throne, o l i e l s c ‘ t r v i a n i ttth his chictil affability:liebydiy:e.hislits't:s d ed and► t. expressed the purest sentimetts id the ii(11.11(;eosi• lattvviinerilera W intbeimia e lnere m nati l l : ( s i at destruction hsaavtielr,ritaliieialln;, anti most touching language. Au d a caprice o st f ip fo po rt r i t in t e h t e o twheeigsuhitinontit h o i f s 1 1 10 ; c 0.stivi r ti rl i tg ncrushed the world with it ; who l''' : (1 . of b d : choice ma to he the benefactor or the Scou'" o' l i ° ' of ruin to . safety and conservation, n i t Y , and who preferred the -latter tilie;iiisce' whil efins he had it -in his power to, e ansecr i ate•°i'lls Sinovoerrdeeigrnt,W,ll"eis:l:3l °tiler " r ieff be ie v re, between his nation and t" en himself and the Whole hPll f il e a 11 : who, though the child of victory ► d estr cr ier ' to C" 11 0 pi? wi honour of those who enabled h'ito virtue to was constantly in • search of scribe lo it, and of„,•rime to place it in his e°` c oiiio who, thi making sport of the life of a llInf l : 0 % , own_ institutions, li t . his own remain sacred ; who, in li orl' eri who lighted up oltioo,i. Trib uj ildi e f his) destroy, dashed in his l __ a Senate, and now his Senate for I i , i . 5 , bIO W 31 !/, his constitutional magistrates 1,1 1 ,, ofe t r ; % game ii magistrates ; fed - his people %vitl) kep t r d-1 s v is ie filed his servants with • outrages, 'i c eb t) '' t a e n :_ :( c i t l t i l o ' y ' l a ( o l a thento knowsoie suspended over every-representobvipiri.ri; that s hold enough to utter the least ecia,/flio' n a ' t ul l y ea i s n t his ho A f v u t (ill n eCv ‘ °votaLeitltoirtiirferr pieces, one nheisafterAlici.. Pr linen en famille." 10° 1 4 The same Papers inform us, Under tb e l b Gbent, April 18, that the Kim ' 1 ,2 Col three of his Ministers, the Duke 0 1. f Fe ltr "tf 131 Blacas, and Count Jaueourt. His Al}4l , o li‘ lately caller 4 to his Councils Count LAO` P: dal and M. de Chateaub r i a nd. The 001'65'10d' E gust and B e ll uno were a l so at Ghent- oo IV I ie of - L health was quite r e 4 s t a blished., t P` l ' ° household trps were at Most, unde r fm- of Berri. MAILS. ,water' l ":c, AnalvE9-1 Holland, 1 C o ra m i a , I Dublin , ' Dut—l Lis'oun, t Gotteuburgh, 1 Guernsey n“ So t /P St. MAag..—Holiday at the Bank, Exchegnero and South Sea Mouses. 4, num WATER . A'r LONDON BRIDGF. TO'" 3 t l , °ll :ift e l iCr y ' Morgitig, 43 minut es a f ter S. I E ven i ng , 4 luind Tiii474 sus. BOLEN% QVIS DICERK FALSVM LONDON. rtiEsDdY, APRIL 25, 109' • ser tad The Austrian Declaration, which We ,thltse, day, cont a i ns a cOmplete exposure of t he Isl ' , m et , ness and doubl e dealing of Monsieur 3 11 . 1.- io n n a s t t a t a i p on thatpearecl be ha n ex traordiArto of could blind f our contemporaries to the views of tll $' whose every ac t shewerl the tru ll e na br e e r e sd.tiaijugil 0;l e . B6ONAP ARTE school, and who, by gr i tos'l-P o o °. fession, was ready to espouseny ca"'" into any stipulation which might CO' his usurped thron e . When the Allies o'er% bet b 1 fill,- be informed th em th a t b e was reo Cbrt 'fiSi the 800 APARTS; whets the tide of war so° ". Allies, be was among the most active ill be t 64 buting to what he no doubt hoped W°° d tbe ocer establishment of u n i versa l despotisab ri held thror of every G overnment o r thron e Rh in legitimate tenure. The Allies cross ed to• °C‘ f and threatened Paris. MURAT was i.°( b Y ig l)(° gociate agai n . G ener o us even hi th e libor success, they stoop e d t o trea t with hie s ° c ite" tertns.—MultaT, however, cou ld notb elieg t her e' Bible that the conduct of the Allies % : ra , 9 t r-, 1 ha t snit of any thi ng b ut weakness, .onti tW could at any time he made his dupes. . 13 , 1 e 0 14 , 11 as he thought sure tliat. when he cho se " I ,;ro'' maintain his Throne 4 5 , an a lli a nce ? cc' be conceived he had another o pportto i(Y r c o eb ee' serving it by more congenial means/ 90(1 co rs0 11 ; ously continued to aid -and abet t he Of 1) t re The Allies, however, were perfectlY 6 : ; : t ins' tergiversation, and when, after the ab un-ii i 0 0. , 0 f ci BUONAPARTE, he sought the Ratifieati -° t her ro Treaties which he had basely vi° l ' ated e : ss , te be to - ;:t fused. Admitted however to the C° ll g l.- t op er jo his rights were even recognised, s°l.3l.°,(letils of his occupation of one of the finest K'°o r e'S irLt Europe, be was-not- content to-abi d e 11C t vc en- those nego t i a ti ons , which were cor gi nct, eat to sta 411, itileielapirdinpclipanleso: new R tg erilti o f f i securiito o li t n io l n t s h a a n t 11 0 II 1 quests. S o f ar b ac k as February ;e /3SE) b roov oe t t be impudenc e t o d eman d o f Austr i a a Pass' 0 1 1 j Upper Italy for an army into Frat ic % drog e news of the l an di ng o f the Corsica'''reS tr° ;' tliu mask —sent an Aid-de-Camp Cot t° rile t y~s. N4YARTE 'of his su p port —d ec lared (0 I L 'l s n , 15; Of ROII4C that th e C ause of Nap o- ° •ot' ) bis " own, and d eman d e d a passag e lo r efl ti t ' ) foremost i n th e cause o f i n f a my lie "se be it , '. first to disturb the tranquillity ot t'rl~l Of draw the sword in the cause of U sur?' ' t ileag ° has been the conduct o • • 11 ! Y t c ;10 5 ' t tio7s w°' k cr d tiONAPARTE, an additional fro°t; g c;;Eti:llias r r :l e s e •c l o ' r ' t r l: t x i s ,( • ) i i t l' ho t t i l l t a l t p:u n•l in ° g deir:tti: • ineies f i t Princes of the new French Dyn 3st2 " . 'llo o4 ' . i l° After so complete an exposure of -vi c frig!' n woncier that w e h ear tt?-day 11.-°) • ~-%-~