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Fri= the FRENCH :.IN7) DIJTCII PAPER►S. PARIS, FEB. 1 G Thot^glt a. profOund• Filence! reigns here in respeet to 'politics, still we are very, Mr from being „in a state of iipaiviti: Our inde- • fatigable Emperor is now labourirtg as much—in the Cabinet - as he has hitherto done in the Field: This, it is true, is attended with much less danger; but with not less advantage. and glory.; which, appears- from, the various measures lately ; adopted for the - regulatiop - and improvement of 'the; interior; and these ithprovements arc nut without! their importance in respeCt• to' our external-situation. The Aron/tear' of the 17th inst,in;a Note 611 Lord • CASTLERRAGII!S speech upon presenting The Trea ties with Foreign Poweri, contains the following ob servations. The Note refers to . that part of thespeech in which he expresses his anxiety to have the Trea-, ties undergo Parliamentary discussion " Before the discussion 'shall have commenced, the opinion of the Continent will be determined. There wiil - be no occasion for the debates of ;English Parliament, to draw all the consequebces' from this imprudent publication, ofWhiah it is sus ceptible.- • " It results from these Treaties _of Co-operation, AcceSsion, and Coalition, &c. " I.Ttrat the Coalition was decided and concluded the month of April, that ,is to - say, three ;m6iiihs; before the Territory of Genoa had requested to be united to France. That with a 'simple promise of threernillions, intended, according to . Lord CASTLEREAGH, for no other purpose than that of extending the British power,' she armed in her cause Russia and Austria; that as she only disbtried these' three millions by monthly instalments, she acquired the power of overturning. the Continent, of making all its So vereigns at in contradidion to their own interests ; of rendering them subservient to her plans, and .the orders of her Commissaries, without incurring any other expellee than that' of The moderate sum of about one million sterling._ So far England without. doubt had made an excellent calculation. " 3d. That England certalnly bad nbt risqued more than-this Million sterling to effet this powerful diver- sion, , but that in so doing she placed France in a situa tion to conquer Genoa,Vemce, and Naples; that she has Voitred into Vrance upwards of two hundred of livres; in contributions; that she has fully esta.!' blished this principle, ackliowledg - ed for more...than a century throughout Europe—that the Alliance or England has always ended . , in the ruin of those Princes .who were 50 imprudent 'as •to accede --to- it—a principle, the truth of which was con _ firmed not long ago, _by the fate of the Stadtholder and the king of Sardinia, as it i 4 also, at this mo ment, by the misfortunes "of Austria, and the faa of the King of Naples ;_ While, on the contrary, the al-- fiance of Franoe, always favourable for the Princes 1 tvhb engage in it, brings along with it aggrandiZe ,bent and prosperity; witness Bavaria i lVirtemburgh, and Baden: Should England ever excite a fourth Coalition, Austria, who lost Belgium by the first, Italy and the left Baal( of the Rhine by the -second, • • Tyrol, Suabia, and the Venetian territory by the third, may, probably, lose her CrOWn by the fourth. 4tht That the Austrians and Russians, who so itrartnly resisted being in the pay of. England, of haV,- ing:even any connection with her itatposed. upon Europe, that the same man, (141.Ds STA.DIO) who is . at present at the head of the Austrian Councils, had already commenced his Administration in these , scandalous .negotiations ; that Russia did nothing else but resume the part which she had continually supported for the last fifteen years. The three Coa litions took plate under the reigns of three r different Russian SoVereigni. CATHERINE, who possessdd genius, suffered - herself, notwithstanding, to tie cnawn into the first; but' she restricted herself to plans for inciting the other Powers. Like an able and experienced Sovereign; like a Monarch who well understood the extent of the inflUence,and the situ- Oen of her Empire, , she was *dons of engaging herself farther. " When the second coalition took place, PLITT, ordered his Army to march ; but, on the first re verse, he Withdrew his troops ; he acknowledged his error ; he hastened to return to a system in unison vc ith the interests Of his Empire; he renewed his con- ' ne6lion with France, and restored policy to its na tural situation. " ALEXANDER, yount and . inexperienced, fell into all the snares of the English ; allowed himself to be seduced by their declamations and their eulo giums, and scorning the eiample of his predecessor, lie, overturned whatever good had been done by him. Not content with having sent his armies into Ger many, he marched himself. Thus had he. an op portunity of seeing with his OWL) eyeS the destruo.- tion of that phantom, of that colossus of military reputation CATHERINE began to create, but of which she was not the dupe ; fOr she well coMpre lended the difference which existed between the. Russian Soldiers and the'French Feople " 5. That the most extravagant ereclnlify had subscribed to all these Treaties ; that they who dic tated or prepared them supposed that the Emperor NAPOLEON had neither eyes, ears, or judgment that this Army of '500,000 Frenchmen, which all Europe knows could he increased to a million of sol - eliers, was to remain chained on this Side of their 'boundaries ; that their tziple row of fortresses ; which the frontiers of . France are bristled, contain- - . ed inhabitants and garrisons 'for' no other: iirpose . - than to deliver up the keys of the citadels to the first _ Cossacks who should come to demand them ; that all these sublime combinations, all these negetiatioris, so far advanced in the month of April, wduld be con= summated and crowned by great results hi the ninth of becember. In WI, it was in the month of December that all these great consequences took— place ; that the Emperors of 'Russia arid Germany found themselves too happy, the one to obtain, from the Emperor of the French the restoration of Vienna and his States, the other to return to . St. Petersburgh with the feeble remains of his 'Anny: fish, Finally, that there. was but one thing wanting to these Powers--to be insulted by Eng land ; and, in faCI, the English Government has suf ficiently manifested the contempt which he has for: - her Allies, in tlras giving to the world secret 'Prea: ties, the publication of which cannot but be very disagreeable and injurious to the Sovereigns I.tho have had the weakness to aceede to them. Out of ' fourteen articles of these Treaties.; said Lord CAS TLEREAGH, ' Jive_ are of a nature not to.be Fished.' This suppression is. an additional proof of the perfidy of the Cabinet ot Lendon. Aftei hay nig;disedt;tred7s(334laoy. (la evhcfalltsbould concealed forthe' honour of its Alliesi% it is iutwiilin:q_ that the irnaginaf.n shoutti - .halt - 'We 'shall make up for its silence, aril reveal this grand . myst%!ry. The- fbilowing are the stipulationb!cottaitted in thebe five articles:l-- ;‘ Belgium-shall be restored to Holland. The House of-Orange shall b 6 reinstatcd in its dignity of StaClttiolder.• .$ The Fortresses on the Meuse shall be delivered up, as cautionaryl• towns, and garrisoned by Austrians and Russians., ; , Savoy;-acid the County of Nice, shall be united to Piedmont • • • • rirally, if the Success.Should' be equal to what is hOped, the City cf Lyons is .to pass under the domi nions of the King of Sardinia.' • • • _ _ t '1" Must not the British Cabinet, and its Agenti, have possessed extraordinary: ability to .have given -any kttidiof consistence to such illusions ? This is what we will not take upon us to decide ; but how= ever deadly the hate ofPEn4land, in spite of all the influence which she may acquire in rousing the pas .sian.s of avarice and jealousy ; • the prosperity of France will still increase,' and the French Empire, established on its one hundred and eight Depart ' inints, and its -Federative States,' will be full of .youth and itrour, when Great Britain will perish ;through Nt i eakness•and.decay..-: " The influence of the French Empire over the Continent will. produce the happiness' of Europe, for it' .is. it that the Age of civilization, of • science, of • information, and legislation will have commenced !" • Yesterday his Majesty gave a diplomatic audience. The Court was extremely numerous and brilliant, and the Emperor wore his favourite uniform. A Letter from Buenos Ayres, by way of Cadiz; dated Oa. Cs, says, ". We have bad the plea sure of • seeing L'Orient Privateer before Mon tevideo, with three. Frigatea and - a Brig, English Prizes, one of 808 tons. There are nearly 800 Ne groes in these 'Prizes. L'Orient had eight men killed ,and 14-wounded in the conilia. The English had 80 killed and Irounded ; the captured vessels are, the Fiigate Clarendon, of 800:tons, Carrying 18 car- - ronades, 12 pounders, and 80 men; the Frigate. AR - ive, carries 22 guns, 10 pouncleis, 70 men ; the. Frigate Rebeccrt, re guns, 65 men ; and the Brig r slims, li . guns, 35 men, which were all taken upon the coast of - Africa, and in the Straits of Malacca. L'Oriott -carries 'l2. carronades, 24 pounders, 40 twelve pounders, two howitzers, and 270 men." ' _ _ Madame Br.wdnArto, wife to the famous aero- • mut, ascended at BoOrdeaux on the' gth of this month, for the fourth time. She rose with great address, but being carried by the current of the wind towards the river Garonne, she descended with rapidity, and being unable to contend with. the at- , traEtive force of the water she was obliged to follow its impulse. A number Of boats immediately put off to her assistanee, and after a short time, which seemed very tedious to the numerous speaators, they were so fortunate as to save her from the imminent danger with which she was threatened. She was condu&ed to her own house ; but happily received neither fracture nor contusion. . cardinal RUFF°, whose route we have traced to Lyons, - has returned ; it is thought he is gone to Geneva; -where he is to wait stich orders as his Ma jesty may be pleased to issue. General SotturEa, who commanded three Batta lions of Light. Artillery at the Battle of Austerlitz, is arrived from Presburgh at Paris ; but he ,only traverses the capital -to proceed to Italy, to take the command of the Light Artillery destined to od cupy Dalmatia. AUGSBUEOII, FEB. 5. - --The Austrian'Troops are all returning.to their usual quarters, ;with, the ex ception of a few Reginients whose destination is changed. The noble' Hungarian guard has set out from Presburgh for Vienna. Four Battalions of the Corps nnder Gen. CriisTEr,Ba have entered Gratz, of which place they will form the Garrison. . Count PALFYI3S; in a Proclamation addressed to the Hungarians, .requested them to supply provi sions, and other necessary articles, to the inhabitants of Vienna and . Austrian Provinces, where, since the departure of the 'French, the priOe of all articles of foOd is considerably enhanced. The Authorities' of Bavaria, Suabia, and other Districts,. have' caused it to be notified to the inha bitants; that Viennaßank-notes will not be received in the Public TreaSories of those places. STUTGARDT, FEB, g.-.lntelligence has been re: ceivo that the numercius Austrian Prisoners who are in Frande; have .received permission to re- . 4 turn honie. Several of the Austrian Generals who were compelled to.stirrencier to the French, are Under arrest. It is said,. that they have brought the most serious charg e s agahist General MACK, whose fate .will probably be. soon decided upen„ It is said that the . City of Frankfort, and all that part of the Tiandgraviate of Darmstadt, situated 'on the Left Bank of the Mein, will be added to the Dominions, of the Ekaor - ef:nA.tEy, and that the tandgrave of. Darmstadt will be. indemnified in. Westaphalia; that the Electoral Prince of ILtniir will reside in fliture at Manheiw ; that lie will marry a French Princess ; and that 'upon -. his acCiSioti to the GO- VernMent he ,will take the title of KltiG. . Mr. BERRY, the well-known Artist, died on Sub- ;day at his house, in Castle-street, Oxford-road. He. was a man as Conspicuous for his peculiarities as for his talents ; but his character altogether was not unworthy, of respe&. • Died, early ton Sunday mOinint, At his 1161136 in 'Southampton -street; Bloomsbury; WILLiAm Do.L NALDS . 9' . n Essi. _ A FEMALE SWItiriLER.—A YOung,' woman, .abotit years of age; *hose address and • Personal quali fications are suitable to her profession, hais been de- . franding the credulous trades-people of the Metro --pelts of their goOdS, under the assumed name of 'Lady. Penfold, Bliss li"!_mford, and Mrs. liam'cg, tle ! widow, of a .Captain of. the /4avY. The depre dations we are about to speak of have been cotn-: - rnitted wi.thin a fortnight. The: inipositich prhetiied by her was discoVered LiVeryman, who' pro . - vided her with a vehicle and pair of horses, with which she haS deCa*ed from her temporary resi dence at Camden Town. Itkforniation has Veen re ceived of various frauds Committed by her on diffe rent trades-people, :and the Others of Justice arb . I nor in search of her. L 4 11' REPORT. . COURT OI kiNG , s rtz. Tut • V. rssc. Mr. HAliTtiON opened . tills indidtment, which stated, that the Defendant being employed in His Majesty's" Service, in a C o itil and Military station out of Great Britain, to wit, in tbb. Island of Trinidad, did unlawfully, cruelly, and inhumanly •torture Lod- Calderon, under the age of 14 years, by filing a ropeth her wrist,; slinging her up to a cieling, and fastening her hands and feet :on.a spike of :wood, ke. on the 20th of December, in the year 1801 There were other codnt3 for a *common assault which the Defendant pleaded Not Guilty, on. which issue was joined. Mr. GARiOW opened the case on the part. of the Prosecution. He said, that the task of stating the fans which belonged to this most extraordinary and horrid transaction was, originally committed to much abler hands .than his ; but - which now, unfortunately for himself, had devolved on him. 'However,' he. felt some consoliktion on . .retleaing, that this was a case to he tried bdore an English Court 'of Justice, whei-e:no.eloquetice was necessary, and where a plain, statement of the fats was all that would be: required ; and he had to lay before. the Jury that statement, which he should prove to them in a way which would force" from them a re luaant verdia of guilty, and without which proof no such verdi6 ought to be obtained. He would use .the words—a reludant verdi& of Guilty-.—be- cause no person who heard, it, not excepting even himself, whose duty it was to support theprosecu: tion, would not be better pleaSed if the fads. would justify the Jury in recording it, to hear them pro- imun - ce " Nut Guilty." The case which this record , . . presented to them was, that the Representative of His Sovereign, .in one of the Dependencies .of this' _ . _ _ country, hound to protect the subjects of it against ali species ofviolence; had abused his situation, and', degraded the country to which he belonged, by in-' flieting.what in England few had ever heard of, and: had only read of with detestation and horror ; the torture of one of His Majesty's subjects, without the least pretence of law, the least justification, but to gratify, on a helpless female, his tyrannical dis position to oppress. The Island of Trinidad surrendered to His M ajesty's arms, under the great and justly renowned Sir' R. 'Abercrombie, in the year 1797. On that oc casion that great character had taken the Island on certain Articles of Capitulation, 'which - he granted to the People of that Country, and rendered by law the same as.formerly, and the business of Governor devolved on the .Defendant. When Sir R. Aber croMbie left it, the same law was to be continued.as under the. old Spanish Government, until His Ma jesty's pleasiire could be known, therefOre the law WAS the same as that of the' Spanish Islands bet - ore that conquest, and which werc ordered to exist by Sir R.•AbercrOmbie, until His Majesty's pleasure should be knowo,- and which laws were afterwards, continued' by His • Majesty's Royal Proclamation, and by -which the • inhabitants*. of Trinidad were protefted. In the year 1801, it appeared that the • person whose sufferings were now about to be laid before the Jury,- Louisa Calderon, then of the age of about i 0 or 11 years, had been seduced by a per . son of the tiameof Pedro Louis,. with Whom she had lived as his mistress ; that to us in England,' ap •peared most horrible, but in that country young, women became mothers at the age of 12, and those who had not the good fortune to form an honour able connexion, got into a state -of concnbinage at an early age. Thus it was, that 'this young creature lived with this person, Don Pedro Louis ;- and as he had nothing to conceal from the Jury on this occa sion, he should state to them at once, that when she was thus living with this person, Wie was engaged in an intrigue with Carlos Gonzales, who, in the' year 1801, availed himself of the intimacy which subsisted bet Ween him and Louisa Calderon, to- get into the house of Don Pedro Louis, and robbed him of:2000 dollars ; upon which Gonzales was taken into cus tody, and there being reason to sUspeCt that Louisa - was acquainted with his guilt, she 'was also, toge ther with her mother, taken into custody. She was taken before one of the Magistrates, who a&s, iii the first instance, in this Island on such occasions, and examined closely as to the . faas. She denied any knowledge of- the transaction, and the Magi strate felt that, by the Law of Spain, his power with regaid'to'her was at . an end. The young wo man having denied 'knowledge of the filet, whether from her own consciousness of innocence, or froma wish -to screen the young man -With whom slie had been thus criminally intimate, was an inquiry not. worth pursuing, the ma g istrate felt that he had' no' authority to take any coercive means to procure any knowledge from het -of her own - guilt, and he resdrted to the Governor; and he had to state to the Jury that he should produce,' in the -hand-writing. of this Defendarit,•General Piton :he then.Gaver-. nor of the Island of Trinidad, this • bloody sen tence" Inflict the torture on.. Louisa :Calderon Signed with big own hand, " T. PiEton'% The Jury would believe there was no great delay in the executidri of this order: She was taken to ,the - jail for the torture, where she was told; if she would con, fess, all her limb's. would be spared; but if.she'did not, and, Whet limbs were destroyed, (and•to alarm . •her still incite) Whet torture ahould end in death, her errors would fall on her own head and. to , make this' terror irresistible, they b'rau — ght negroe to ;praCliCe npoti to shew het what she- was •to expeCt.; . . thus had „the torture been introduced, for the first time; into -a British Settlement; mid that by a British subjeE, and that subjea the .RepreSetita-: tive of his Snvereign there, -to extort confession from a person under *emotion, 'in .dtdet to make • her rieduse another. The young Woman persisted in her intiocente; and then they proceeded td itt fli& this putilahment upon her; a punishment which, Mr. GARROW said, for want of a freper name is' Balled picketing'; but in which it is Misnamed, for it' . .should he PICTOIONG"—for, he said,:it was a libel on the military pubishment ofoicketing, to resemble it to this horrible aet of torture; in our •picketing. the unhappy sufferer whom it became necessary to* . chaStise for the purpose of preserving subordination Add military discipline ;* had something like rest 3 * but in the torture which had been infliCted' on this poor creative, thbre was nothing in the nature r of rest, but both the hands and feet were so' fastened, that the pressure of the body 'was on a sharp piece of . wood ;. and in this State of torture and torment xi. this devoted young woman kept cot 45 tninup2': ir? a watch held in the hands of_ one of the persolL,i -who attended the horrld &ed. _fp .tho-situ,::tion tiie poor girl accused Gonzales . ,; but . the confession .nbt being considered 'satist . aiStery, she was in less than 24 hours sUbjeaed to.the,Sarne cruelty a second time ; perhaps thk faithful representation ~of .the scene would wOuld give the jary.an ; idea of thereality of tiTe sufferings of its ,ObjeCl—(4lding up a pica; e it which kid been drazonfiw the purpose of representing the appeared to him' that the case which. heliad to lay before the ,miry on the part of the pro.: secution was complete.. His charge against, the Governor was, that he had -abused his situation, and, without probable cause or justification, ..in r fli&cd this Funishrnent on this poor creature ; buz he understood he was robe told that although the highest .Magistrate in that 'Country - could not, do this; yet that Govenior PiEtoti Wls justified in doiug it from _ . the Law of Trinidad. He should however - suppose (subjeft to my Lord's correalon, to w4ich he should implicitly bow), that whatever might have beet tilt; pratlice in. Trinidad,. or, the, opinions of persons iti Trinidad, there could be no exdu . se for - Governor PiCton, for such an a(t of . inhumanity, unless he could prove the imperious and at. , olute necessity of it; unless he could chew that he had no choice that the safety of the Maud dependedupon it, fol ' that otherwiSe he was to remember that ,he was a British Subje6l, representing his Sovereign, bound to enforce no law which. was repugnant to the titell ings of common humanity; that one of the great in- ducements our Enemies have to surrender to the British, is the confidence they have in cur proteetiou when they do, that when they became Subjeas of the British Government, torture was at an end; but lie should go further, and, until corrected by authorlty, contend, that it was not enough for .the Governor .tashew that he might . iuiiia this punishment the Law of Trinidad, but that lie mast make'cLit case 'of absolute necessity for it, before' he tarnished the British name with. so foul a deed. In England torture was not known—it was not to be expelled that we should know it here . ; not because we did not understand it, but on account of its. being so horrible to our feeling ; and in the administration of Justice in England it never had,been and never could be to leratea. History indeed informed us, that in the reign of Henry VI. it was recorded of the, Duke of ..Essex, that something of this sort was attempted, to the infamy, of. bis nanie.for ever; of which we had a good acenunt in Blackstone:s • commentarips, in which it appeared that the Duke attentpted to intro , duce the torture of, the civil law, and .the rnachhle was now in the Towei:, under the title of " tip Duke of Essex's Daug - hter." .Another instance in our history was the case of Fenton; who assassinated Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, when ,it.was prppos ed to put that villain to the.torture put a ques tion had been referred to s the_ Juc,lges, and they all agreed that torture could 4orte„allineed by the Law of England nor could it be imp - ,4ted to Governor ton that he was such a fool as to - suppos.the torture could ever be useful in the discovery oftruth, as had been most ably stated by Mr. ..I,u,tice BLACKSTOZSE to be in its'very nature. that - which would make the 4 unhappy sufferer accuse any body,.or even accuse it self, falsely, from the excess of painand horror 5 and it.had been matter of ealeptation.how Much tOrture a person of a given firmness of •nette could bear before he should begin to say any thing that is asked of him, in-order to Tbe,. relieved.; was therefore a waste .of :time to . discuss the point as to torture being an instrument to procure truth, or to suppose that Governor_ PiEton could be so foolish as to exped . it could produce any such effed; indeed, the absurdity of it was so great, that even, .SpaM itself, and other Countries where it had been, prevalent, had become ashamed of it, and had disused it for many years. BuC said Mr. GAattow, " what 'Will you say is I prove to you, by many -,witnesses, that so far, is torture from being the daily' praCtice in Trinidad, and that the Government there have used it, that - it was never used there by aiiy body but Governor Pidon himself; that he leas the merit of . its introduaion . ; that the instrument, which resembles that which '‘by way of ,infamy is called the " Duke of Essez's Daughter," that is, an instrument of torture, bad - no existence until General Pieton . cursed Trinidad with its presence . ; that it was an instrument never . kno,wa in that country until d-BritiskOovernor introduced ' it—the Representative of the Sovereign of 'lbis mighty. Empire—who. thus sullied the British charaCier; always so famed fur its humanity. British if I present this case to you in this /i j ght by proof, as I am assured -I-shall—if prpve to you that there is. : no such Law as that by which any torture can be infliCted = that there wak. no .instrnment . . by which : torture could have been infliCted until General Pitton brought it. into T.rini dadif I prove that this punishment of torture:has . been• infliEted on this poor helpless. young I ;prove; in the hand-writing of GeneTal PiCton self, the bloody order for its infiidion, I shall lOve :the ,General. absolutely without the shadow of a case to defend him.. Gentlemen, the date I gave you of,this transdellow; reMovecifroM the present time,:and may be said to' be far removed from it, being- :1801.:: h became expedient, in the minds of His Majesty's MinisterS, to entrust certain powers :of investigation-and direetion,to Commissioners ap pointed for. that purpose ;. one o> those was Colonel Fullarton,. 'who took .much ; : trouble to diScovet many evils which required a remedy, and this among .them`. The scene being disclosed tb him, he felt it his duty=- - -a duty he.owed ; to the British charader.and to common humanity—,:to bring it for inquiry, as i it is •now, before you; for which, I think, his country is indebted to him. Gentlemen, I have seen the :un happy brim of this cruelty, 5., I saw her thiS morn in ,'in a room which I entered by mistake, thinking it was one in which a .cousultatiun 'was to be held. '-;--She shall be • presented to you,_ . and you shall hear her . ..tale. . Geutlemen, ; 7 I 7 sha4 hear, with as much patience . and attention, and, with as murch real tAeasure as any man in Court, the -Ad dress which will be delivered' to you on behalf of .the befendaiit, by my excellent and most'eloquent Prien'd,;ll4 - r. DALLAS: lint I slrall state to you with confidence; notwithstandingliny addres that can be Macrd'in you, that I sli.lll obtain your verdict. I ask trot of your passions, bdt of your justice, a vet dia of guilty against this Defendant ; for although, you' must feel, that while you give it you put one bi yotti' felloW Subjeas,- of high rank, in an hOrrible situation, yet you feel' it to be your duty, and there : fore, -whatever the consequence may be to the indi : •-vklual; you will disci - .aige that duty to your Country.' i