The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1815-09-29 00:00:00

lA)N DON,

FRIDAY. SEpTumina 29, 1815.

At a late hour last itizlit we received the Paris
Papers tlif! 3gtlt instant (Monday last). The
list of the new llittistry lately published was sul.
slaw tally correct. They are gwietted
110:e of ItiOwliest, Minister for Foreigu Affairs.
Thr Date de Frltre, Minister of War.
Dubinichinze, Minister of Marine and Colonies.
C. Vanblanc, ltlinister of the I%krior.
And the Sieur CazN, Minister of general
The places ofSters of Justice and Finance
are not yet filled up. The apprehensions of a com-
motion in the capital iir! not directly avowed, but
way he justly inferred from the present papers. Not
only 1-:es ill.teiit:it taken up his head-quarters itt
Paris, hate!! the Prussian troops which had gone into
enitton.sients to the Western Departments are again
tnprniteliitig that eny. It would appear also, that
seriotii disturbatices have broken out in remote
parts rd the country. 11w usual couriers from
Nantes, 13rett, and Valenciennes, had not for seve-
ral days arrived in Paris. This interruption in the
ordinary communication with the capital, must lie
ascribed to violence. It niay, however, hare been
etfected.by u banditti, and therefore dries not neces.
study presume a generally (I.n.turbeii state of the
coisatry. The stoppages of coaches mid couriers by
brigands; has lately become a common otlence iu
Frame.

A Royal Ordinance has fixed the number of the
directors of engineers iu France and in Corsica
consequeace, the number of Colonels-
Directors is reduced to 23. The number of Majors
is also fixed at the same number. They will have
the titles of Lieut.-Colonels.
Another Ordinance determiner the composition
of the Staff of the royal corps of artillery ; the
functions of the general officers ; the superiors and
privates of the Staff of this corps ; and the mode of
nomination and of re-organisation of the persons
employed.
Tile change in the French Ministry, as it is un-
doubtedly the st important political event at
present exhibiting in Europe, has naturally ex-
cited intliis oonlitry the most anxious Colin tudr.
Its canoes and consequences have been nicely ex-
amined and carefully deduced; and every Eng-
lishman, as if willing to exercise las native privi-
lege, discusses the question, not as one or trifling
curiosity, but as implicating his own dearest rights
and interests. Accustiened as we are to regard po-
litical disquisition us appropriated exclusively to
tins country, uo event appears sufficiently foreige
to prevent our investigation ; we seem to pride our-
selves iu entering into the feelings of other coun-
tries. in associating ourselves with their passions,
prejudices, and interests, until fancy deceives it-
self into the semblance of reality ; and we perstraije
ourselves, like true citizens of the world, that out
concerns are intimately blended with thos-, of the
suffering nation. Impressed with these principles,
Fait;land has never ceased to contemplate the oc-
currences ist France with no common attention,
nutuifesting almost as great a variety of opinion
concerning them, its did those persons who were
the object of her contemplation. Fouctli; and his
associates have, in consequence, obtained no few par-
tisans in this country, who lament their fall as the
prelude of a re-actienary spirit of Royalism. The
period, however, is not far distant, since those very
persons who now affect to mourn their dismissal,
warmly deprecated their elevation, and censured the
King of FRANCE fur his infatuated credulity : but
there are some politicians who are consistent only in
their indiscriminate censure ; who cannot commend
the acknowledgment of au error, or see merit in the
11,esire to correct it. If the original nomination of
doubtful friends or avowed enemies were impna-
deist, even their tardy removal deserves souse 'dun-
ratiou ; or if, yielding to circumstances, the King
stooped to flatter the heads of a faction, and tem-
porised to attain an object, the termination of such
a system, disgraceful iu itself and dangemus in its
consequences, should afford no trifling gratification.
Foucne and his associates evidently owed their
ephemeral authority to the temporising weakness of
Louts; their political existence mast. therefore,
have been commensurate with the cause .whence
it 'originated, and have depended on his Majesty's
convenienee. The term perhaps had not quite ex-
pi,ed, hut the circumstances which interrupted it
could hardly be called an anticipation. The exit
of a Minister is seldom unattended by au ion-
pressive flourish, in which his partisans extol his
measures and excuse his downfall. This appeal on•
the part of the French Ministers has not been want-
ing, and it has been urger! with such effect, that
tioT sue represented as martyrs, sidiering in the
of their vountry's honour; they are pictured
as the link which bound justice and moderation to
the thione of their Monarcii ; they were the resting'
place Oil winch the ark of mercy had alighted, the
sole security by which the liberty of triune was
guaranteed, while it is industriously concealed
that these friends of moderation and freedom were

lately the pliant instruments of a military despot's
pleasure. The emit of disinterested patriotism
sounds petultarly grating' from the mouths of
Ftsuctie and Tatt.eiritstit 0, ci•eilulity itrolf could,
horrify surfer it. They struggled long for power.
wade great 'factitive:. to retain it, and at lesixtli
bent beneath the liirce of circumstances ; even.
ingenuity could not fetid this picture one
feldre colouring to hide its disugreeible reality.
The state of the public Mind, however, in France,
is unhappily Nu well prepared to receive injurious
iinpressionts; and the stateinetits of the Ex-Minis-
tent have been but too successful—auger has re-
ceived an additional stimulus, and the general dis-
content further measpernred. The presence of the
Allied unities oil!, perhaps, pievatt any immediate
violence, but the prrioorre of restraint will only ripen
unimosity. Of all 'Jte foreign troops now in France,
the Prussians were uoquestioeuldy -the moot unpo-
pular, while the British troops seemed to enjoy the
greatest favour. Our (leiter:ll too is mid to have
courted popularity—we would ask, with what suc-
cess Could any matt in his senses hope that Eitg-
land could hecoute impular in France—that her
General nod her armies, the primary cause of all
her sufferings, could, by a mild conduct, obliterate
the deep wounds their valour had inflicted Could
they expect, in a few months of triumph on one
part, and iittlitiliatimi oti the other, to turn the tide
of national antintisitj, which; (hiring severtil centu-
ries, bent its strong current ttgatinst their country,
and which; in the List twenty-live years, acquired an
increased velocity ? To this unaccountable fancy
have been sucrificed the comforts of our troops, and
the treasures of our nation ; nor, after the cumpaign,
will we have approached one step nearer this object
of our ambition than► tie Austriuns or Prussians.
England will still he the rival of ["mace; and, as
such, give eceasictu to all those had feelings which
such a character originates. It is, therefore, idle to
endeavour after SO vain a bubble, the difficulty of
olstairritig it would almost iirechttle the hope; but,.
even if successful, it would hardly compensate the
labour of the welch,

We give extracts from Ilan,horgli Papers, which
arrived at a bite hour last night. They state that
16 French fortresses are to be given up to the
Allies for seven years t that QUO,OOO Of the Allied
Troops are to remain in France; and that she is to
pay also a contribution of I,ottu millions by instal-
ments. It is also stated that tie Prussians enforis-
the dicirming of the people of France with such se-
verity, that concealment of arms is, in some
eases, ptiiii•lied with death. If these statemelits
even distantly approach the troth, they iire sufficient
to account for the growing spirit of discontent and
the threatened expiniann in Entttce.
The Prussian Minister, Baron tiARDENnEIies it
IS said, has presented a very energetic note to T*L-
Ia C012111:Y111111g of the attempts made to
screen the principal agents of .IJurcarauTx hots'
punishisient, any such note exist, we presume
it has been caused by the delay in bringing Mar-
shal NET to trial.

Ye4et.lay Coast FUNCII4L had art audience of
the Patrick: REGENT, and took leave of his Royal
Ilighttetiat previous to Ilia leaving' Englund.

Sir HENRY ‘VELLESLEY had an audience of the
PRINCE REGENT, yesterday, sit Curium Idolise.
Mt. BECKET, Under Secretary of state for tiro
I louse Department, sailiA from Weymouth a few
slays ago iu a hired cutter for Guernsey, to meet
the 1.7 t 1111 l issioners appointed by Government to iu-
veldt:4loe and redress numerous grieVillieta to which
his Majesty's subjects in that island are sultieet,
from the partial administration of the laws, and to
resider those laws more just and equitable.
The Marquis mud Marciii tttt es, of IlutiTi.ET,
Lady SUSAN MONTAGUE, Lord MANDEVILLE,
mid General STIRLING, are at- resent residing in
the Ilighligods. The Marquis has erected a sno-
unnueut at Kistrara to the memory of his tate gal-
lant companions in arms, Colonel CAMERON, of
the 9241, Lieuteliant-Coisinel Sir Bonnet itiIACARA,
and to the other officers of the 42d regiment, who
fell on the memorable slay of Waterloo.
Mr. A it 1112'11'V OT, or lite TRIA-ury, and his Lady,
vivre on the field at the review of the. British army
is France, all Friday last. Mrs. ARBUTHNOT was
accompawied by Miss FITZCLARENEE. They were
the only Ladies on 'horseback, amid attracted a very
marked and flattering attention.

The very handsome seat of GEORGE SIMMONS,
Esq, at trioolla, in Cornwall, has
.beett. totally
destroyed tire.
Major CvaTiv who has travelled through
Scotland in advocat hot of the cause of Parliamentary
Reform, gave a lecture in Ed:ruhurgli, on the Kin-
ciples'of the Constitution, on Friday, to IPetween
and 300 of the most respectable cli,saes in that
city. On Saturday he arrived AI the seat of Ail
Duke of Roxsuitnat, near fief-o, where he will
stay n short time on a vitat to that Nobleman, from
whence he purposes to :411 to Newcastle, with a view
to revive the, consideration of that subject, so long
stwptaided by the concerns of war.
A Morning Paper of 11'erluesdav rontradicted the
statement of the death of NIA ay A N N E CL.I6GF., 111
France ; but iit contradictions this Journal seems to
be as uhfortunate as in its original intelligence.—
This n moan has certainly terminated her earthly
career, and her body has been landed at Newhaven
from France, for hetet meidin England.— Times.)
The following is an extract from a Newcastle
Paper (Ike Tyne Mercury) of Tuesday last
The dispute between *the stamen and ship-owners
of this and the neighbouring ports has not yet been
settled. Except as to the stopping of sli:pr, the
sailors conduct theinsOves Perteeably ; and yet the
London Papers received Yesterday state, that all is
• uproar cud coulusipu' in this. eighboorhood!".