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London, England, 1817-09-15 00:00:00

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1817.

de Caze, and that infamous system, of which, he is the
abettor. It is in vain to hope for any good result—it
is in vain to look forward to the time when the peace
of the kingdom thall be secured by the loyalty of the
servants of the king, so long as the most worthless of his
subjects shall meet with honours and rewards, and trust
be reposed in men who have never yet been faithful.

We shall close this brief article with a character of
M. Davoust (one of M. de Case's favourites) which
recently appeared in the Macedoine Revolutionaire, and
leave it to our readers to judge, what that government
must be composed of, which cart find no fitter subject
for the exercise of its bounty.
" A great Napoleanist—a great amasser of Wealth,
" a great Levyer of Impositions in foreign countries—
" tormented life his colleague Carnal, with the desire

0. being somebody, and, frith submission to M. Lan-
juinais„ we must add, Cavcant Consules.
" Public rumour, and the voice of the Exchange
at Paris, rank M. Davouso in the class of the most
enormous capitalists, and pia,* him on a level with the
millionaries, Talleyrand and Fondle. The Ham-
burghers and other Hanseatics, swear he must be the
richest man on the whole Continent. (N. B. He has
made a good trade of rebellion : he was a very, very
poor Noble in 1789.) But whether lie be now first,
second, er third, a little nearer or a little farther from
the top of the scale, we won't dispute. The fact is,
his riches are immense, and they are, for the most
part, made up of contributions levied on fureign
nations,

" When the usurper eseai.,::d from the Isle of Elba
to inundate France a secoad time with blood, and
tears, and misery, M. Dawitst was lying under a
grave accusation of plunder and oppression ; and far
from conducting himself so as to remove the supicions
which overshadowed him, he justified them all by
rushing to new scenes of violence, and being the first
to raise the standard of revolt. On the ‘..2 Ist of
March he became Minister of War ; he employed hint-
self; with the modest and mix!erate Carnot, in coldly
calculating the means of massarreing all the National
Guards in the kingdom ; and al: this, to maintain him-
self a few short hours :n the exarcise of a power which
must have had great attractions for both these gentle-
men, since neither of themithought any sacrifice
too great to attain it. Artfultv deceived by the cun-
ning Duke of Otranto, then President of the Pro-
visional Government, Dayoust. in the latter days of
June nevertheless hesitated a long while to open the
negociation which sent his army beyond the Loire.
Brave Macdonald, loyal Oudinut, ornaments of the
French Marshals, you can tell how th is frantic wretch
received you when you went to him in his camp, in
order to save your country and your King from the last
of evils ! Ah ! if the capital, if the descendants of
I-lenry IV did not endure the horrors of a siege, to
you be the thanks! You braved his rage, when he
threatened to have you shot in f'ront of his camp :
' you fru eceded at last in shcwirg him the imminent
danger in which he and ull his party were placed :
you determined him to that r4nuat which circum-
stances so imperiously commanuee.
" I have but one more word to add. The foreign
Powers now impose upon us a ”ontribution of seven
hundred millions of francs, by the same right which
M. Davoust exercised in their enontrics a few years
ago. M. l)avoust in is good li.alth and spirits, and
posesses a large part of those millions which he himself
impowed on the Earigners—and vet that the poorpeasant
of Britainy, the miserable inhabitant of a department
laid waste by the enemy, and the industrious shop-
keeper in the Rue St Denis, should be fbreed to
make up truongst them the money. which M..Pavoust
shall keep safe in his pocket ! Oh this is too bad—
beyond all conception 1"
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The accouchement of the. Trine' us of Wales, k is
said, will take place at Marlborough House. Buck-
inp,hatn House has not been tendered to her Royal
Mghness upon this occasion. _ _ _

There is an expectation that the Duke of Cambridge
will receive the hand of a Princess of Here-Cassel.

A report is circulated. that Liall !livers's beautiful
estate at Straitlichlsay, is about to be purlutsed as a
proper place f.r the residence of his (irate the Dulie of
W elliugtoo.

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