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London, England, 1815-09-07 00:00:00

MilD NOVSLL.

• .ISETHLEM HOSPITAL.
ILICTAACTII Mk THE InTIMINCE GIVEN A 11011.
SUTTEE orTsta ItnUSE OF COMMONS.
Continuation of he evidence of Mr. John liculain, Apo.
checarro Me ibulsitaL
What are the disldvantages ymi, conceive attend•
ink; on the use of a strait waistcoat ?—The hands are
completely seemed if the strait-waistcoat be tied
tightly. respiration is prevented or impeded, and it is
always at the. mercy of the keeper how tight he
chnnses to tie the waistcoat. It the patient be irritat-
ed by itchirm in any part, he is unable to administer
the relict by scratching, or if troubled with flies in
hot weather, it is a painful incumbrance, and if not
changed is liable to absorb a great deal of perspira-
tion, which renders sometimes the skin excoriated.
He cannot wipe his noir, and he becomes a driveller
in c ,nserpience ; he cannot possess personal cleanli-
ness as long as the strait.waistcoat is applied. Then
there is another very curious effect that has resulted
keeping on the strait-waistcoat for a consider-
able time ; in every human hand accustomed to use
the organ of touch, the sentient air palpitating extre-
snitieh or taugent extremities are deaduied as to their
sensibility from want of use, the nails are pinched
up, and I have seen same instances where patients
have been long kept in the strait-waistcoat, where
the nail has resembled the claw of an animal; so
-that I can pretty nearly judge by the look of the
bani of a lunatic, if I do not see his fic.e, whether
he has been the subject of a strait-waistcoat a long
while.
How long has it been left off ?—They were used
When I came there, but we have left them off by de.
glees, and now we have got but one patient in a
strait-waistcoat.

How long his she been in a strait-waistcoat?—
This morning I found she hid wished to have it ; I
spoke of the inconvenience, and recommended the
manacles ; she said, she was jumping out of hersrlf,
she was afraid of doing mischief, and she said, hav-
ing so long been accustomed to the thing, and it
wool,' rot last long, as het paroxysms were of short
duratico, she would prefer it.

Do you think that cases can often occur, in which
it can be necessary to confine a person either in ma-
stades or in a sttait-waistcoat till such effects shall
have been produced ?—Yes, if the necessity contitiu-
ed ; 1 have seen a patient •continue with unabated
ferocity for more than twelve years, with unabated
ma.evolence, and where the necessity for coercion
Of isted the whole of the time.

Sufficient to require either the manacles or the
strait-waistcoat ? —Suficient to require that sort of
coercion that should prevent his doing mischief.
Is that degree of insanity which requires such a
degree of coercion as has been usually applied by the
strait-waistcoat, known often to last for such a period
as that when the strait waistcoat is applied, such
effects as you have described are known to occur ?
Ceitainly .t does not frequently occur.
Have you any objection to mention the name of
the person to whom you alluded as having been
under restraint for twelve years ?—His name was
Norris.
Do you know of many other instances of the same
nature ?-1I feel great difficulty in recollecting the
names of all the patients who have been in our house
for 20 years.
Dc you recollect other. persons having been in that'
situation ?—We had a man in our house for many
years, of the name of Abbott, who had murdered
three or four people in one morning, and he was con-
fined by the chain round one arm, and a hole made
through from the other cell, by which, when he be-
came furious, he could be drawn dovsn until the
lt;teper came to apply the hand-cuffs ; but in general
be was at liberty, only this chain round his hand al-
ways ready, as he was a man of extreme power.
Did Norris remain in that state of ferocity and
consequent confinement till the period of his death ?
—No, he was released some weeks previously to his
death.
Can you recollect about what time that was ?—I
think he died in February.
Do you recollect at what period he was released
from his confinement ?—I would say, on guessing at
the thing, three weeks or a month before his death.
Are you vim certain it was not longer than that?
It might be longer, I will not be sure; the sum total
I recollect very well of every thing, but I cannot
ci-4,ge my memory with particular names.
WAS the release in coosequence of may alteration
in his mini ?- He was weaker in his body, and he
prrmised to behave veil.
He died of a decline I—Yes, and an affection of
the lungs..
What age was he 1-4 should presume fifty-seven
or fifty-eight.
What do you mean by released I—He was suffered
to walk about the gallery.
-Without chains He requested first of all to have
pair of hand-cuffa 4n to walk about ; it was a se-
of his own.
Did his less degree of dangerousness arise from
any atteratioa in WC state of Phis mind, or frrini his
:Liy irairii,g become infirm believe more from
the feebleness of l is body. .
y.;;1 brlieve that the degree of restraint 'that
Morris was in, was less painful and disagreeable to
hien than a strait-waistcoat would have been
Mush more easy ; a strait-waistcoat would not hAre
been efficient.
Was the order for the release of Norris, so signed
by yr.'', given prior to those gentlemen visiting Bvtb-
)em who drew the picture of Norris, and who found
him in the situation in which he was 1-4 never saw
any pic ure, or knew of any picture being drawn;
nor did i know of any visitation having been made
when this spoai:o.us or restraint was taken from him;
he was coutititd 19 a chain round the neck, and a
cord affixed to .s stivion, which is an iron bar. •
In comequence Oa whose report was it that the or-
der wa.ori4.ioady ltiveh confine Norris in that man-
ner I—When lie 114 committed various acts of des-
- Ixration, I stig;;ested that ha should be confined in a
_ double cell; that thla man, being perhaps the most
mischievous patient that eve.; I saw, should have two
tells, a door communicating between them, so that
11 should !lave a sitting-loom and a bed-room; he
Potod Ao into his tied-room without his clothes, that
would %stable the keel to clean out the sittinropm

.

had tb eatable daily his pockets. to sot that he had
no offensive weapon or any thing with which he
could do mischiet ; that when he retired from his bed
room into the other room the keeper would be ena-
bled to ventilate and sweep the bed-rooms this was
my proposition, and this forms part of the report al-
'laded to ; this was over.rnled, and the present 'appa-
-1
Titus, by whom contrived I do not know, was exhi-
bited, and its imposition agreed on.
This was the advice you gave to the then Com.
atittee ?—Yes ; and that forms a part of the report
itlluded to.
By whom was th at advice of yours over ruled ?
I"cannot* say that it was overruled : they did not
consent to k.
It was overruled iy the Governors ? By some
existing Committee at that time, to whom it was
proposed. •
It was over•ruled by the Committee to whom it
was proposed ?—Certainly.
Who composed the Committee to whom that ad-
vice was given by you ?—I cannot tell, after a lapse
of fifteen years.
How many Governors ? It was an open Commit-
tee ; and stimetiines it is one hall-dozen, and sow-
times another.
As this was a very remarkable case, did not it'
make any impression on you ; did not the circum•
stance oi. his' case coming before the Committee make
a greater impression upon your mind than the case of
any ordinary patient ?—Certainly, and therefore I
proposed additional security, which was what I had
the honour to submit to the Committee, ot his hav-
ing two cent..
And that propcsal was over-ruled by the Commit-
tee : of whom was thai. Committee composed ?—That
I cannot tell. .
Will it appear upon the minutes of whom the Com-
mittee was composed in which Norris's case WAS dis-
cussed ?—I cannot say whether the clerk made a mi-
nute of that. When this apparatus WAS fixed on him
I took care that a minute should be made, that I
might know who was present.
Do you know by whom the plan of confinement
was devised to which he was afterwards subjected ?
Nut certainly : but I did hear, as a matter of report,
that they had some dangeross man in Newgate for
whom this iron had been made, and this was brought
from there; but it is mere report.
Did you aplrove of that mode .of confinement ?
-My other proposition beir.g ever-ruled ; this, for
reasons which ought to be explained, and that form
a part of the report, that it met with the concurrence
of Dr. Munro, and the medical offiters.
. Among whom was Mr. Ilaslant ?—Certaittly.
Then you mean to say, that the plan of confine=
ment by two cells, being disapproved by the com-
mittee, no other or bettef mode of counting the pa-
tient than that which was adopted, was recommended
by the medical officers, but that they consented to
and approved the adoption of that which has been
already .alluded to ?—I have no greit genius myself
for any contrivance of this kind. It is recorded in
the minute that the physicians and the medical of .
cers approved of it. I presume that is-correct.
They approved specificallybof this mode ?—The
apparatus was brought into the committee-room and
exhibited.
Will you give your own description of what that
mode ot confinement was i—There wes a sort of
frame. through which the arms went.
What Sat of frame was it ?--Iron.

There was an iron frame which went round his
body, and to which his arms were confined ; was
there not ?—His arms went through some part of
this contrivance ; -but the machine is particularly de-
scribed in the Report of the Committee.
Have you any thing to say explanatory of the rea-'
sons on account of which the medical officers agreed
to this mode of confinement ?—I have ; Norrs's
wrists were so consti ucted that handcuffs or manacles
were of no 'wry ice,.the bones of his hands were smaller
than his wrists ; and on many and repeated occasions
where • the manacles had been imposed, he slipped
them off and converted them into weapons of Offence;
so that the ordinary mode, the ultirnatum of restraint
to which we had hitherto resorted, was unavailing in
Norris's case; and that was the reason for further
means of coercion.
Do you know whether he was capable of slipping
his feet out of the footlocks ?—Certainly he was not.
Was not confined by an iron collar round his
neck, exclusively of that which went round his body,
which has been already alluded to, and which neck
collar was fastened by a chain to an uptight bar be-
hind his bed ?—Yes.
What was the reason for this additional confine-
ment of the neck-collar and chain ? —He was inclined
to dart forward, and be would not have been secure
in his bed-place.
Is it your opinion, that if this man had been confined
in footkicks, with manacle: on his wrists,' aod his arms
fastened behind him, that he would have been able to
have darted forwards, and done the olisehinf that
items to have been apprehended ?—I have previously
stated, that•handcaffs or manacles were nor/ailing,
from repea:ed experience.
Is there not in the books of 13eililem a minute, en-
tered by the Governors, and signed by some of them,
in whi:b there is a narrative of the case of Norris ?
There was, after the case of Norris had made some
noise, a Committee assembled, convened by die Pre-
,sident and 'treasurer of our hospital, inviting all
those Members sof the Lords aed Commons who
were Governors of our hospital to, the investigation
of the case of Norris, and the subject was gone into
by them, ar.d a report prepared thereon.
Was that report made ?-*That fepOrt is in exis-
tence, in the books at Bridewell.
When did that investigation take place ?—I think
it was last June.
You say that was about the time that a noise was
made about the case of Norris public papers
abounded wit!, it. 1""

Is there not a minute entered in that book of the'
luisiiital some years back, in which the reasons that
were supposed to warrant the nature of the confine-
ment 14 Norris are entered ?—That minute is therein
recorded, speaking of the report.
That is to say, the report that you
.suppose was
made last June contains within it the minute to which
Ilse Committee allude does.
There would bt no objection to prodnee a copy of
it ?—I should conceive, not the slightest objection,—
tilftc i$ Aothinis to ;vigil', a assmotia liecrecy,

S

rint DUI2I CP 11214INGANI.

.
The appellation of lie Seeioor of Swops has more
than once been applied to our illustrious hero from
the higheit authorities : our Readers will not be dis-
pleased to learn, perhaps. that a bumble individual,
and that individual an honest Bruise Tar, has likewise
a claim to a share in this dignified title. to the year
1806 the Duke of WILLLINOTON, (then Sir ARTHUR
Wat.cesutv) after totally routing the Indian Chief
HOLKAR, on the plains of Laswaree. took his passage
for England, on board the Company's ship Lady
Jane Diindas. When the anchor was dropped at St.
Helena two boats put off from the drip, as usual,
crouded with passengers de,imus of viewing the
island. The boat which conveyed the illustrious
Alrat.i.m6Torr, when about a hundred yards from the
those, was upset by one of those sudden squally
blowing from the vallies, which are quite common at
St. Helena—two men and 'a boy were instantly
drowned—the rest. among whom was our hero, kept
struggling with the waves.
The moment the accident happened, the boat in
company made towards the scene of distress: Sir
litut sten WecLesurv, unable to swim, had been once
or to ice under water: a seaman instantly leapt into
the sea and swam towards the sinking Hero, whom
he bore in triumph to the shore on Isis left arm and
shoulder. The generous tar was totally ignorant at
the time of. the rank of the person whom be thus
saved : he merely svlected him from the rest of the
sufferers because he thought I,:ss danger was the most
imminent ; the others, with the exception of the two
men and the boy above mentioned, were picked up
by the other beat, On landing his exhausted charge,
Jack was rewarded by a cordial shake of the hand
Irom the illustrious Hero, six bottles of rum, and a
warm invitation to come and see him in England. a
visit which the hontst tar was too modest and units-
suming to pays
The Duke's deliverer has now retired from a sea-
faring life, and is settled in Rotiserlsithe. His friends
banter him with the appellation of " the saviour of
Europe," which he takes is good part, but he never
hoists of his achievement: indeed it is very rarely
that he can be induced to tell. his own story, and when
it is wrung from him, it is adorned •witls all the graces
of truth and modesty. In this respect he is Lollard
'Trim himself.-

A letter from Paris, dated August 31, says—There
are several regiments here in daily expectation of an
order to move, particularly those.of the Gth division,
which returned from America. The fate of some regi-
ments of this gallant corp., has been somewhat sin.
gular ; they served with great distinction for the but
six years in Spain, Portugal, and France ; they
were ordered to America last year. and returned
just two days too late to be at the battle of Waterloo.
They are thus excluded from the einlluments as well
as the honours conierred opal those who gai!ied that
memorable battle."
Little seems now to be thought in Paris about
NAPAATE% personal lite.. He is. however, by this.
time well on his way to St. Helena. We hair: 1. irnt
that on the 19th ult. a Captain Rostatt:., of the Sal-
vador, a Sicilian vessel, fell in off ,Li,lionvtith a Sri-
that ship, by which he was infornud that the man of
war then in sight was the NORTHUMBERLAND, and lb
BONAPA UTE was on board.her as a
sity to see the fallen Tyrant, led the S.ci!. an if) dirt
his CORM toward the NORTHUMBERLAND t and when
he came near her BONAPARTE haplientia to be Lyon
deck. The wind was then
.fair for St. Helena : *ad
the NORTIIUMPUHLAND was making the best of her
way thither. It may be Supposed that the crew of a
merchant vessel coming fr,.m a uistant port in the
Mediterranean, and ignorant till then, of the battle
• of Waterloo, would be not a littlesurprised at met-
ing the soi-dimat Emperor on such a destination ; but
the mystery was cleared up, when they learnt toe
oc-
Currences and ec,ntequencea or that toemorabte day.

Among the many causes which isincaPawre will
leave behiud him fur posterity to curse ills memory,
is the total demoratzation of France. At present not
the smallest respect tor honour of r!•ligion is found
among the inhabitants—but wish the profession of
brigandism tlw7 Lave auopted all the 'licentious and
bark asees manners of a country without law; or, if
there tau, be any thing more profligate, that of com-
mitting barbarities under the nan►e of religion.

The allied troops in France have been amo'tgst the
most strenuous supporters of the Corn Bill. They will
take sufficient care that there snail be no importa•
tom of corn from France during the ensuing year, to
hut t.the agricultural interests of England.
The joy of a ,Frenchman is the happiest and
easiest th;ng imaginabk. Hi rejoices when a King
is tented out, and lie rejoices when he comes back—
he re-jokes when he devoun the good dings of other
countries, and he rejoices when she inhabitants of
other countries devour him.
B iron IYUKLANSKIIII TRAVELS through POLAND,
AthitiU/19 BAVARIA. SAXONY, and the TYROL, will
be published in it few days.
A Mu Age.—When Mrs. Rontsm published bet
44 S wiho and Phaon," she wrote to Mr. Bonnets, the
Newspaper Editor, in the following minis : 44 Mrs.
R. would thank her friend Bonne): for a dosenpidi
fur &mho and Phase." By mktake of the penny
post, this note was delivered th Mr. BOWDEN, the
.isartrycoois in the Strand, who sent hex this answer :
" Me. BOWDEN'S respectful compliments to Mrs. R.
:hall be. vert happy to serve her ; but as Mrs. R. is
not a constant customer, he cannot send the ftuj
for the.tetarg fa& without first reviving the money."
His present MAJESTY once said to Sir J. lstwitr, a
celebrated ion vivant, " They tell me. Sir John, that.
you love a //au of wine."-46 Those, Sire, who have
so reported me to your Majesty,P answered hes bow-
ing profoundly, 64 have done me great injustice—
they should have said a bottle."
Fleet-street, Ludgate•hill, St. Paul's Church-yard.
and other western parts of the City. were 04 Tuesday
night involved in EA.yptiari darkness, by we sudden
disappearance of the gas-lights, owing, we under.
stand to the. impetuous rustling of a large body of
wirier into .the principal gass.tmeter ; this instanta-
neous shange of comparatively meridian light to the
extreme of nocturnal darkness, gave rise to several;
ludicroni scenes, a well in the shops as in the streets;
nor did the pickpockets fail to turn the event to their
advantage, at cite expense of the unthinking pedes-
trians on their way to and from Bartholomew Fair.
The cause. however. being speedily rebored. the
streets resumed their yawed appeiraoce.

Hews= the

STATE PAPERS.

TREATY or AOREP.MENT
indersigned.G,itorai Prince of CAIIA's, AA le

Camp of Ms Majesty the King of Naples, on the one pat, L„
ROBIRT CAIIIPILLL, Esq. °distal& of his Majesty's 114 Tie
mentions, and Senior °facer of his Britannia Majesty's di.,
and venal. in Naples Bay, on the other.

It has been expressed and agreed upon as fo
lows, via. Commodore Campbell, on the %tit 0
April, 1815, having appeared in the Gulf of Naplc
with two line of battle ships 'and two frigates, he. sc:
under his orders, has declared that, agreeable to v;
instructions trona the Government, he was to graph
all the means in his power to act holilely avaia,
Naples, has declared, at the same time, tliAt
avoid useless bloodshed ; and. moreover. to
large capital from the disasters that hcbstilities migi
produce, that he should. feel disposed to conclude„
arrangement which mwght conciliate the views of e.
Government with those which must animate tl,c
vernment nt Naples for the tranquillity of its c.•kit..
His propositions were as follows, vii.

" Ist. That the ships of war ►hall be delivered up to !.:. B.
taunts Majesty's ships under his command, in their pre 'lf 42..
the slate, to be di.posed of as the respective Govezme.4nt. 1.1
hereafter determine.

" 2d. That the naval arsenal should be &tic re,i up,
Commissioners appointed to take an inventory of an the
'taw. Ste. to be disposed of in like manner.
14 Listly, This 'furry is (of course) meirit
elude the line of battle ship wit!! afi
rtals requisite for her completio.i, her ,:tiety 1;
guaranteed by 'the Neipolitan Governamit, t.,
made over to the British Naval Commander
demanded, and when the respective Govetnr:tx
determine on the whole.
64 On these conditions the Commodore not 01,
gave the assurance that no hostilities shonld
place against Naples, its Bay and !lands, but
offered to the Queen Regent the prote:ton of ti.
British flag to her private property, and v) those
favotir of whom she might dim it, as as ere;
facility to the passage of a Negociator that her M.
jests wishes to send to England, or the Commode,.
in-Calla in the Al:diter rane.m.
64 The following arrangements will prove to 11 -
C,ommochre the desire which the Neapolitan C
verntnent and the Qn:en Regent have always mu_ •
tested toward., maintaining the best undastc.ii:.
with the British Governinent, via.
• 66 lst. To avoid all hostilities between the Bri:i
,end Neapolitan forces, the ships of war in 6.,
and harbour of Naples shall be given up and trp,
sited in the hands of Commodore Campbell, can-.
minding the British squadron before Naples.
" 21 These ships shall receive on board an La:,
'Ash crew,• but it Chill be permitted to the Neapi,l4,l
Government in leave three or four Olcers on un-I
each ship, t look %suit the conservaticn of all t
objects therein.
" ad. These ships shall kave Naples within ion
eight hours front the subscription of the arrant
aunt.

.4th. An Eng!4h and Neapolitan Clmmiit4-7
shall take .n inve.:tory of all the objects in the rsa
time arse, a, btionging to the ships war. L.
objects ~tall remain deposited properties fn.
which the British Government *establishes its rt-
'4l the Convention between the two Courts and
Neapolitan Government shall guarantee their
serration. •
4# 5 h. The aforesaid Article shall be ertenl4
the line of battle ship on the stock; at Castletaa-
and .o all the materials %kstined to her building.
" 6th. The ships of commerce shall ue received
before, and treated with the same favour. It is .
Glared that the Queen will avail herself, if necem -
of the offers and favours proposed by Commod
Campbell.
" 7th. By the ezecution of these Articles, (.7,.
modore Campbell engages to prevent any host&
from the part of his Britannic Majesty's ships cc
his command against Naples, its Day, and Liana;
tith. As part of the Royal Family are at t.
moment at Gayeta. the ship-. of his Britannic Mir
shall oppose no obstacle to the communication
tweets the port of Naples and that of Gayeta, pro.
Ivideci neither military stores or provision. for the Fi7.
rison are carried.
" 9th. Every Wilk), shall be granted to a
nista- of-the Queen, who might be sent to Lord
mouth, and to London, there to treat in the Kai
name.
66 10th. The present arrangement shall be sent
mediately to Lord Exmouth for his sanction 2t hi
probation, and when obtained, Commodore C4r
bell engages speedily to notify it to the Nerpoli:
Government.
66 Signed and ratified by us, on board his Britt
Majesty's ship Tremendous, in Naples 1;
this 13th day of May, 1815.
(Sigaed) 44 Li P. DC CARIATI.
11.0dEla CAMPBELL.
4° Her Majesty the Queen Regent baying Ai);
tod that one of his Britannic Mai sty's snips
remain at the anchorage before the city of Ni
for its better security,. Commodore Campbell
to the above wtsh of her Majesty, agreeable to :1--
6th Article. (Signed) 6' LE P. DR C A RIATI.
66 MOSIAT CAMPIIeLL.

EXTRACT FROM OnPT OF LORD BURGRERsHI3
• DATED !tuba, MAY lfi, 1815. •
4 He (Captain Campbell) returned on the litf
with his squadron. consistirg of his own
Tremendous, the Alcmene frigate, and the Pallid/
sloop of war. By a lefty from the Duke de
he was requested not. to proceed against they T'
Prince Cariati was sent by Madame Murat, tortz
ciate for the surrender of the ships. and Ca
Campbell dictated the following terms which r
agreed to.
44 Ist. The ships the line in the bay to be 006 r:f.'
• " 2d. .iisenal of Naples to be deliverei
and Commissioners appointed to take an invents:"
its actual state.
46 Sd. The ship of the line on the stocks, W4ll 'l2
the materials for its completion, to be also ;Ircr' JP
and guaranteed.
" These captures to be at the joint disrsi_ Jur
the Gomm:tient of England, and of ftrthilao
Fourth ot Naples. te
ln return Captain Campbell engaged
Ya
agti u$ the %MVP of Narks.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1815. ,
PRICE OF s rocKs THIS DAY A I'WELVR O'CLOCK:
Reduced ehut—Conn money 6b{—for sec. S6jl
4 per Cent abut-5 per Cent. 84H—Boads MAIN dis.
Onsidum 6.1 pree—Do. pay. di—Fatettequer ss. db.

The subjoined private letter is in perfect unison
with many lately received from Paris. We give it
more to shew the state of the public mind, than from
a belief that all the rumours that are circulated may
be relied upon as truths. Their very currency
shews that France is indeed in a most distracted
state : the KING'S authority is almost every where
despised, and the bayonets of the Allies alone enforce
obedience to the necessary requisitions. It must,
however, be a question with politicians whether the
evils resulting from the continuance of the Allied
Troops in France are to be ascribed to the ill judged
clemency and tardy justice of the KING to the rebels
of WAterloo, or to any serious intention in the Allied
Cabinets to dismember France.

When we find, as at Nismes for example, an out-
lawed General, with the most perfect impunity, head•
ing an insurrection against the lawful Sovereign, qto
firing not only upon the Austrians, but upon his own-
countrymen, the Royal troops, we do say that the
personal safety of Louts XVIII. and the French
Prlnces themselves, demand the continuance of the
Allied troops until they bring their own army 'into
proper subjection. The Ex-General GMT, whose
achievements we mentioned yesterday, doubtless
counts upon the KING'S clemency. Let us hope he
has reckoned without his host :

" PARIS,

" The following fact is not withopt interest, and
comes from a very authentic source. On the day
of Sr. Louis, the Allied Sovereigns having visited the
King, experienced a reception which they little
tiought of. His Majesty, after having listened to
the;; compliments and having answered very drily,
added that the best proof which they could give him
cf their good sentiments, would be to quit France as'
speedily as possible. The Allied Princes looked at
each other with astonishment, merely bowed to the
King by way cf answer, and withdrew.
41 From that moment it appears that projects
ruinous to France have been agitated in the Cabinets
of clic Allied Sovereigns, and those who enjoy their
confidence now make no secret of the matter.
45 All this, as you will observe, tallies perfectly
with the Report of Fouche on the State of France,
of which the English Journals have lately given a
translation, and which is but too authentic. Even
this disavowal of the English Journals devoted to
the system of the Allies, aud which the French Jour-
nals have quoted with eagerness, only coa6llllll us bs
this opinion, and gives us a just idea of the situation
is which the King is placed with respect to the Al-

lied Sovereigns.
“ The entrance of the Spaniards into France is
another fact with which you are perhaps already ac-
quainted. Perpignan was surrendered to them by
orders from the Duc d'Angouleme s they had de-
mandtd rations at Montauban for 40,000 men, which
is their number.

“ What passed at Nisnies is known to you : free
companies, formed under the auspices of the Duc
d'Angouleme, have demolished sixty houses, after
haviug pillaged and massacred the inhabitants.
La Vendee is also completely agitated; the
King draws no revenue from it: the douaniers and
agents of the Fisc, the gendarmerie, and every in-
strument of political authority, are there umnercifully
persecuted.

" The troubles at Caen were provoked ►y acts of
violence on the part of the Prussians the public
authorities have been driven out of Orleans by the
Ltrarians."

Oa the authority of the Continental Journals we
stated some time age, that a consi;erable portion of
the property of Madame MURAT (the late Queen of
Naples) had been confiscated by the Austrians. The
correctness of this statement is questioned by some as
being contrary to the spirit of the Treaty by which
the Neapolitan ships, ace. were surrendered to the
; by others its truth is admitted, and the fact
Is urged in proof of bad faith on the part of all or some
of the Allies. Without pretending to enter into the
meths of the question, we insert in our columns, for the
information ofour Readers, an entire copy of the treaty.
—By this Treaty the Quat was to enjoy the prow-
tion of the British flag to her private property. The
landing of the Qum at Trieste, and the subsequent
seizure of that property, are the facts alleged to have
been violations of the Treaty. If the Queen was
conveyed to Trieste by her own desire, it is plain that
the violation of the Treaty, if any has taken place,
was not the act of our Government ; but we have
not a sufficient number of facts before us to enable
us to corm a correct opiaion how far, or whether any,
evasion of the letter of the Treaty has taken place.

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The Duke of YORK transacted business yesterday
at his 01lice, and afterwards went out in his can iage
for the first time since his accident. His Royal High.
Hess proceeded at a slow pace through the Parks, the
New-road, to Highgate, and honoured Mr. Courre
with his con:pany to dinner.
The Ream= or Loenotv has had an accident
and broke his collar bone, which, it is feared, will
prevent his attendance at the ensuing Sessions at the
did Dailey.