The National Register.
London, England, 1816-01-21 00:00:00

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known whether they are official, they are only communi-
cated secretly from hand to hand. An address from the
public functionaries, land owners, and other inhabitants of
the Circles of SaTiark and the Inn, to our King, whom
they beg not to ceJ. them to Austria. seems to be authentic.
•4 S" era! of .our regiments, which have gone into their
garrikons since their return from France, are• to assemble
on the Inn It is said, that others have received orJers to
hold themselves in read:neJs to march. Austria has collected
a force on our frontiers ; nevertheless, it is to be supposed,
that all these TBOVPMetlis :;re mere demonstration!, and that
the tranquillity of Germany will not be disturbed."—Ga-
tette Gen. du Pays bas cologne, Jan. 7.

SIR ROBERT WILSON AND HIS ASSOCIATES.

The arrest. in France, of an
.officer of high rank, like
Sir ROBERT VViesoe, for an offence which in England is,
by the common law, high treason, cannot but excite the
most lively sensation of surprise and regret. What can
have induced this officer to have assisted in the escape of
LAVALETTE ? Was it gallantry—fiolic—money—friend_
ship—or repugnance at the breach of the military con-
vention of Paris in 181.5. Sir R. WiesoN is one of the
personal ne.nies of Buoez tPARTE. le stepped out of the
usual course of his profession to give to the world an ac-
count of the Ma-sacre at Jaffa. lie has withheld his proofs
hitherto from cle-Peacy and for fear of injuring individuals
in the French army, but as that ground is long since re-
moved, we hope that he will no longer ke•ep back the par-
ticulars wh'eh he most certainly possesses. Is it improbable
flea as LAVALLYTE served in Fgypt, Sir It. WILSON kllt•Ns
him there, received some kindnesses, and contracted a
regnrd for him ? It would be strange indeed if a British
Knight, wl:o fought to place the Bourbons on the throne,
should at last be substituted as a victim to enraged royalty,
for the man who wa; eage-r to seize ihe post for the
BUONAPARTF. The Duke of Weeuticrox has
very coldly resi,:neel Sir ROBERT and his'comianions to the
French civil authorities ; but, if Parliament were siting,
we think this would riot so tamely be endured. British
Officers now in France can surely not be subject to the laws
of Fiume They are undertheir.oa Ts General. subject to
niili ary law ale! to the laws of England only. It 1w a
novel question in the Law of Nations to see the conquer-
ing army in. actual possession of the country, submitted by
their Gce•teral to the law of the vanquished. The hituu,
ti6:l of the British is so inconsistent with all former preced-
ent, at once the makers and the servants of the King of
France, his conquerors awl his subjects, that we scarce-
ly know in what light to consider them.
In whatever way Sir ROBLAT and his associates may be
treateei by the French Monarch, LAVALETrE is by their
arrest and the detention of his wife placed in a very em-
barrassing situation. He may provably be induced to give
himself up to the law to save his wife and friends, and this
we suspect is the: hope of the French Court in their pro-
ceeding.. With respect to Madame Lay.m.errue as she
cannot be considered criminal in aiding her husband'i
escape, we hope she will .soon be released. As to the
Englishmen, we kilo w not went to say fur them, and ),•et we
hope- they will ultimately be admonished anti (ItSilliiiSed.
LOWS the 18th canner be ungrateful to i is benefactors,
who for trim at Wat,rluu when his owls
./ilittrcts were'
safe at Ghoit• •LAtALLETTE atutrt be, • however, an
estraurdenary character, foiting steadily. against him) to
Wife crtasted so much interest in his favour.