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EXETER, (N.H.) MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1810.
Mr. Sturt apologizes for the ill ar
rangement and confusion of his pamph
let. "To elegance of style, or even
to correctness," says he, '' I renounce
all claim—but I claim credit for the
truth of my statements." "I have
seen the misery and distress I describe
with my own eyes." He proceeds to
exhibit the weakness of the Corsican
hero: but these we pass, as founded
on the inductions of reasoning, and as
presenting nothing new. We also
pass Mr. S's exposal of the French ex
poses ; the false boasts of the progress
of works at the ports, &c. because the
" American," in our last number, suf
ficiently confutes whatever the minis
ter of finances has vented on those
subjects; yet we cannot help record,
ing the fate of fort Napoleon, at Cher,
bourg. "Two years ago it was over
whelmed by a tempest, which swept
away the whole garrison, consisting of
about five hundred souls, who all per
ished in sight of their families and coun
trymen." Nevertheless, another fort
is building on the same spot!
We proceed, without further intro
duction, to the assertions of Mr. S. on
the present state of France.
"The complete stagnation of com
merce in every city, town, and village,
the serious augmentation of every ne
cessary of life; the vast increase in the
wages of labour, the oppressive & vex
atious effects of the droits reunis; thf
dreadful conscriptions pursued with
unrelenting severity ; have given rise
to'such a general discontent, that the
death of Bonaparte is devoutly wished
for; his name is feared and abhorred
by every reflecting Frenchman, by all
who are hot enjoying pensions or lu
crative employments under his tyran
nical power. The severe and arbitrary
restrictions'laid on the little commerce
that remains, the overbearing insolence
and extortion of his numerous custom
house officers, paralize all the efforts
of trade in the interior of France.
"In some few districts the agricul
ture appears to be improving; but by
far the greater proportion of France,
shows a poverty and a negligence in the
general cultivation of the lands, that
strongly marks the weak state of com
merce, and the great want of capital.
Still there are a few merchants, who,
jn consequence of their political senti-
undertaking. Mr. Byerly, we pre
sume, resided at Pais ; and we have
little doubt but in th;t licentious and
degraded capital the emperor and king
is popular enough. This has been the
object of all his labours : his buildings,
his alterations, necesary and unneces
sary. He has' by these means, a body
of the labouring people always in his
pay, of course in his interest: and
these controul,as they long have done,
the sentiments and he conduct of the
very few better instructed citizens of
Paris. On the contrary, we do not per
ceive that Mr. Sturt has been at Paris ;
or if he has, he formed no connexions
there, which couldgive him information
on the principles that govern the policy
of the Great Man. His observations
ire restricted (as We guess) to the prov
inces ; and these, as we know, are far
enough from enjoying those golden
rimes which soi-distant philosophers
promised them without let, hindrance,
or molestation.
THE CRUEL GOVERNMENT
OF FRANCE!
(Extracted from the Select Reviews.)
but the nation at large abhors both his
g c 4 ernment and his crimes. Opinions
so diametrically opposite, we shall not
attempt to reconcile; yet we think
that a consideration if the places vis
ited by these gentlemen, respectively,
would afford a hint ofassistance in that
Mr. Byerly says " Bonaparte is ador
ed," Mr. Sturt says '• he is detested."
A few who prosper by the system of
favouritism may applaud his measures,
FROM THE LITERARY PANORAMA.
The Real State of France, in the
year 1809; with an Account of the
Treatment of Prisoners of War,
and Persons otherwise detained in
France. By Charles Sturt, Esq.
late M. P. for Bridport. Resident
in France before the War, and de
tained nearly seveh years as a
Hostage.
NOTHING could be more appro
aos to meet the eulogia of Mr. Byer
ly, on Bonaparte, than this publication
of Mr. Sturt. It was proper that
this " Real State of France" should
be authenticated by the writer, and
thus we have testimony against testi
mony, and witness against witness.
“ In the villages, scarcely a cottage
can you enter, without beholding th<
fathers and mothers of families bewail
ing the loss of a beloved child, drag
ged to the armies. Several assured mt
they had lost 3,4, or 5 children, ot
the age of seventeen or eighteen, and
after all, some had at last an only child
wrested from them by the conscrip
tion. As for the cultivated fields,
there the sturdy youth is not to be
seen, but old and infirm men, with old
women scarcely able to support the
fatigue of ploughing, tilling, and reap,
ing their lands, perform all the labours
of agriculture. For hundreds of
leagues, that population formerly so
remarkable in France, has disappeared.
You may travel through her villages,
through her towns even, and see a vast
defalcation, and in the field scarcely a
peasant "
The incessant conscriptions have
produced this. We have repeatedly
described some of the evils attendant
on that scourge of humanity. Mr. S
affirms that " hundreds of conscript'
have had recourse to the desperate
measure of destroying the organs of
hearing, or of sight"—we have known
them purposely injured, to avoid serv
ing ; but we affirm no further. T<
such a pitch had this arisen, says Mr
Sturt—
" The medical men, often in eas,
circumstances, sold a powder to these
brave youths, that produced a tempor
ary blindness if applied to the eye,
and if applied to any open wound, an
inflammation and swelling of the limb,
that often endangered the life of the
wretched lad, and notwithstanding
heavy fines and severe imprisonment,
in some instances for life, the govern,
ment cannot stop it. These are facts,
many of which come within my knowl
edge.
'' When the unfortunate young men
are collected together, they are sen<
chained by the neck and hands, and
'driven like criminals to the different
places of rendezvous.
66 If any thing further were necessa
ry to prove the wretched situation ot
the French people, her decrease of
population, and ha rwant of commerce.
it would be sufficient to allude to what
is seen at her churches, her fairs, her
public fetes, and the numerous amuse
ments in which jhe lower classes used
to indulge. You meet there with
scarcely any thing but old age and in
firmity ; at their Trivolis where they
dance, and which are always conduct
ed with great decorum, no youths are
to be seen, excepting a few, who,
through bribery, may have escaped the
conscription. Ask the women where
the young men are? They one and all
answer, gone to be butchered.* This
is no secret; this is no untruth ; they
speak feelingly, for many are parents
sisters or lovers of those absent youths
dragged to the armies. In their fetes,
the absence of young men is strikingly
conspicuous, and there is always a pro
digious disproportion of females to the
males. —This is too evident to escape
the notice of the most careless ob
server.
'"lf the finances of France are so
flourishing ; if her internal commerce
is so rapidly improving, why are her
numerous workssuspended? IfFrance
fail not in population, why are the
prisoners of war obliged to labour op
these works at a price not sufficient to
support them, and how does it happen
that the moment they are exchanged,
all these labours are suspended? This
* This expression is more literally true,
than either the speaker or Mr. S. intends.
We have spared our readers the pain ofper
using accounts of this nature, that have
reached us from the highest authority. We
shall only mention two; one of themrelated
the slaughter of three hundred French con
scripts in the bloom oflife and manhood, led
in pairs to tlie slaughter-house, where cat
tle were usually slain, and treated in a like
manner: the other was of no less than seven
hundred French conducted to a similar
death on a much later occasion. Humani
ty shudders at these facts ; and what says
policy to the loss of the rising generation, in
the mad pursuits of insatiably ambition?
however, is the case, with 4hc excep
tion of a few maimed men, who are
compelled to wait for months before
they can obtain their pitiful wages.
The injury and injustice they suffer
may be easily described ; for they are
compelled to have credit for the bread
their families consume from small and
ments, meet with great support frorr
the usurper, and are permitted to car.
ry on a considerable commerce, not
withstanding his senseless decrees ol
Milan and Berlin.—
" One of the most formidable en
gines of tyranny in France is the mill,
tary police, called Gend'armes. The,
excite the dread and hatred of the
whole nation. Their employment is to
search for murderers, thieves, con.,
scripts, and they are also employed to
execute the dreadful orders of Bona,
parte. This increases that fear, ha
tred and contempt so universally felt ;
unprincipled in general, of course cor
rupt and treacherous, they accept
your bribe, and betray you afterwards
however, their establishment is too im
portant for the safety of the tyrant's
power to be put down, for it is chiefly
this honourable corps that secures him
on his usurped throne. In every town,
city,village,or commune throughout the
departments, these instrunfents of ty
ranny are established, and being, in
general, artful men, and very poor,
they exercise a tyranny equal to their
ruler. To every coffee bouse, and
every place of public amusement, the,
have access, under the pretence of pre
serving peace and order. They es
tablish idle and worthless people, im
every public house and hotel, as spies,,
who make their reports, often fror^
pique and malice, or to prove their z%l±
The same system is established by se
ducing the servants of every family to
report what is said at table, of wh?&
ever nature. These reports true cr
false, are sent to the minister of p ofce,
who, without notice, and even without
inquiry, sends an "order to arrest the
whole family, often it the dead of ther
night. This dreadful tyranny is exer
cised so instantaneously that the unhap
py people are never aware of the blow
until it is struck. If any observations
have been made on Bonaparte or his
government; or on his favourites, the,
never see the light again, nor can
friend trace them out.'
" Another discription of police
more terrible even than the Gend'ar
merie, is employed by Fouche, minister
of police, whose sanguinary deeds are J
stillfresh in the memory of all those
who have read the events of the revo
lution. These men travel through ever,
city, town, and village of a department,.
and are supplied with money, that the,
may attend public places, being men
better dressed, better educated, aud oL
" The little commerce they had on
the continent, as well as with England,
received such a check by these absurd
measures, that failures took place in
'very great eommercral town, and ma
ny of the great houses were forced to
apply to the government for aid.
The manufactories are equally distress
'd. The price of labour, owing to the
&ant of hands and the prodigous ex
pense at which the raw materials are
procured, has occasioned such enor
mous augmentation in the price of the
nanufactured article itself, that none
out the very rich can purchase it.
Numbers of the new cotton manufac
tories have failed. The machinary col
lected from England at a great expense
and introduced into France by many
who call themselves patriots and friends
to their country are on sale."
Many other particulars, such as the
immense glut of wheat; the payment
of taxes in money, whether or not it
can be obtained ; the imprisoned state
of literature, and the falsifications of
'he press [even the translation of Mr.
Fox's work was falsified] the devasta
tions committed by the French armies,
&c. we pass as not new to our readers ;
but we believe that we have not hither
to presented them with a portrait of
the Gensd'armes, which are the pres
ent real rulers of France. Let Mr. S
draw this picture for us.
'' Nothing is more visible in all the
towns of France, than the failure of
commerce; the coffee-houses are emp
ty, restaurateurs are unable to keep
up their establishments, as travellers
are few in number, and compelled to
>e rigidly economical.—The very ex
pense of fire is scarce covered by their
receipts, As to the best kinds of wine,
the price is so increased that few
Frenchmen indulge themselves in drink
ing them. Sugar and coffee are not
within the reach of the public, who suf
fer endless privations from the want of
commerce.
miserable shops, who cannot from their
poverty give long credit. The sad con
seqences of this state of things the poor
man soon feels, by his property being
sold, and himself driven into the army,
if he be fit for that service. If not,
tie and his family must seek a refuge
in one of the wreched poor-houses,
vhere they soon become victims of
disease.
[No. 24.