The National Register.
London, England, 1814-10-30 00:00:00

FPANCE.

wha'ever cause it may lie qscribed, this country appears
to be approarhing a state of confusion. The reigning family'
appyar to to eNet4 a power mote than coilitilensuiate
with either their me.ols or their influence. C!artot's
hav•nz been printeA, pry geeutions were ordeted, Ism punish.
meta. have not been inflicted, fur it appears the delinquents
have been di.missed.
61 We Lave lost every thing hut our honour" 1,71-e the
u•lit,ns exclaimed, in ages and •i•uations. Ge;.,erally
srraking, th,y have adhered to a nobility of princirle that
b.i%e given tt,ern a riLht to the use of such Iat,;;;:;ge. It
was a c. uNietton of this hind, that the solemn dechrivion of
nis the 191,h, in Februarv, 19.13, " that the trileunals
prs(itartes of the laws shall prohibit all proset.utions hearing
ri!atiou to 'hoer unhapt:v times, of which it, return (the
Muse of Bow bon) will for ever seal the oblivion."
Let us now reverse the medal, and se:. how this manly de-

clarat 'Am is attempted to be evaded, aod the ridicul,als and
• abFuid sentiments that are promulgated in this extrantdirary
ir.y;ier
" ('on'iatrirg, that it arpears b,*. too certain that his Majesty,
penetrated with tlet ardent desire of ei.tienig Ihe happine•c of l
lirwiec, to tite do-one of xl hie', the love of Lip petnde 11,1. 54) ilorl
tatsly torellll.ll lain, 11:14 been still). iecal by the amiable. but theeit.-
I,:i, illusions of a sA:di ni. called liberal, that d!.ii‘ers into the hatd/s
of 11.. e pe,ple a considerable rcrtion of the Royal authority, which
awsitntors are al..vays ready to abwe;
Considering, that in roust-tine:ice of this deceitful and nielan-
(l"):3' systcm, :Treats determined no longer to enipl,oy
Ir. hi: “.a.,:eg.• and tar of 17r own, either the Parliament of
eir the Proviiir( s, the ttitiisral d. tilitlers of those
l'a °via:: es ; th-at his Majesty, in ha: liroclausatita of U e ist of Ja- •
pan! y of 11,e•ner,ctit yrat, given in En..,lantl, (not Yt titled in any
Court, anal winch rnav therefore he revoked, in doubt as to its ex-
i•:eree or validity. not being comiter.iened either lay the Chan-
or France, or by. any 'linister or Secretary of Si ate reeog-
such), has, in the- exce-s of his paternal goodness, forl:otten,
tat it if (demi 'icy is one the flue:4 prerog itiVes of life throtx•
tiro is it. first and mo•t duty, that it i% crilies, above all,
‘vhieli the inn/tut:ibis. ;aro, of Divioe justice, and those of wan.
who is its meak itnsi e, prohibit to go imvunitlical, be-:•,kuse they sap
t'Je most material foundations o;*social order. for 'tile piT• CI "o at 1011
et. V 4 hicl: lings.l:,:ve bet 0 appointed by the I)ivinity, and to chum
they inu•t render an acentint equally severe and terrible;
'' That these unpardonable eritnes are treason against the 1.);%1-
er the first limit n t hid.;
11,44 t ole la:ter eminently consists in raiing a parieiilal hand
The per•on ttf the Soverci,vai ;
'' That in any king,low. and ai)ove all in France, the law does
Not in•roiit the Sorer. ign to grant a pardon to regicides ;
" That it prohibits in France all tribunals from comfit ming them,
or fraying any rei•ard to then ;
" h tt, boo evi r, by the suppression of the Parliaments, and
pnrtienlaily by tiro of tile (curt of Peers, the Fpecial gitaralian
the izlits of the Crown the regicides seem to be protected from
the undoubted iiitlexibility of the law, and enjoy also n fri2lllllll
inipmai;v, in eentempt of the teligion of his Majesty, and at Is hich
ail France and Europe are justly itadignant ;
'' That it is o:,!y, pettivc, to the just terror. inspired by the
prompt, inflexible, anal terrible justice flat. actioos with
:,:!rim. Vrapee still friTimis, that they owe the false imiimations b.
their abolition has be, a obtained front i.isi MajtAy ;"

SP UN

Still cerm‘ in a sfafe of confusion. She is dispatching rn
expe,.i:',l:in to youth America, to recover Mutlte, Villeo. it is,

ails) said, that Ministers have pwetoed the assent of reicli-
oerupy Louisiana and Flori:la. This is not credible.
as it would b' much better and quite as easy to possess our-
selves of them as territories of the United States. It is; said
that other colonies have declared their Independence of
Ferdinand. One of their first steps (and all will agree that it
is a most powerful one) is to have the Constitutions of the
United States translated for adoptiem nt we hope that relis
gious toletration will not be erased.
The accounts from Spain 'teak of iLsturLances at Ilaaviiaa
anti dilierent parts of Estreniadura. On the other band,
the instill ection of the Minas is !aid to b^ comtiletely sup.
pressed. The two Chiefs of that 'tame hate made their
escape int 9 France, and some letters add, that they have
hen sent under an escort to Paris. The G vernor of Paul-
pelona put aln ice.upon OH,- heads. The accounts f: on*
Madrid state, that King Charles and the (Ineen arc deter-
mined to remain at Rome. Kieg Ferdinand had demanded
of the Pope that the Prince of the Peace sh,:uld he t..livered
up to him to he tried in Spain. King Charles cr,posed the.
demand, and the Pope in consequence (kerne.: com;slk ieg
with it, but offered to detain the Prince at Pesaro, and have
him watched. The Spanish Cove; ntnent have got a loan of
500,000 piastres from this count' y, and our Ambassador has
obtained a postponement for snma months of the prohibition
relative to the introduction of Engli,h merchandise. It is
'aid, also, that the Spanish Government will extend to this
country the same commercial advantages which it has just
given to France.