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London, England, 1815-05-17 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

The Jaffna! de Paris of Saturday last contains the
following Report of the Preparitions of the different
Powers arming against France s
RttsstA, they say, has under arms 400,000 men,
but i's force
.k niSt altogether disposable. The Polo-
nese army, which constitutes part of this force, has
manifested sentiments so opposite to the wishes of the
Emile; or Alexander, that he has been obliged to send
them towards the Turkish frontier. It will be neces-
sary to kave in Poland a considerable forte, to keep
down the rising spirit of this brave and generous
people in favour of independence and liberty. The
eNtendcd frontier of Russia dem.inds the presence of
an,-t her tof the R ussian force.
4, The liiug of PitussiA makes a figure on paper of
his lan IvEhr and his /and/kiln but the men wtto
compose these corps. are cultivators, torn from their
Flotlglei—iltell who would defend their country it it
v.r:;e vt.lcked, but who will. not willingly quit their
firesides for a cause foteign to them.
SAXONY, so indignautly treated by ?he C•migress
at Vienna, is in a state of ferment that gives the most
lively apprehensions to the Court of Berlin; and Prus-
sian troops must be employed to watch the Saxons;
mid the Saxon army is itself so discontented, that they
dare not trust it in the ranks.
4. The attention of AUSTRIA is chiefly directed to
the side of Italy. This diversion will prevent her
trim marching any.considerable number of her forces
towards the Kline, where, it she made' any conquests
they woold be altogether for the interest of Prussia,
against herself. The Cabinet of Austria is too know-
ing thus to assist its most formidable enemy.
4, The ENGLISH h.ve at most 30,000 in the Low
Countries. Let iis calculate on 100,000 men from all
the rest of the Confederation, and we are probably
abi,ve the mark.

4. If there were a design in France again to pene-
trate Germany, there is no doubt but the theatre of
the war might be opened on the banks of the Da-
nuhe. The United forces of the Allies could not
prevent it. But this is not the object. It is the plan
of the Allies to enter France, and what will be the
conk qu,:.• ce ?—F.ighty thousand Frenchmen, fatigued
by a disastrous campaign, did keep in check for three
months the combined armies of Europe. At this day
'50,01.10 Frenchmen, well armed and.equipped, fresh
anal full of ardour, wait on our frontiers the signal
of battle. Thus, on our side, die Allies att .ck us
with a torce less than they possessed in 181 S, and we
have to oppose them with an army more than three
times the amount of that which we possessed in that
untvrtnnate moment. These facts are so clear that
roaiice cannot deny them."

BRUSSELS 4NII.FR4SX,fI2RT PAPERS.

fIANC;VInt.MAY .1. '

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A Committee is appointed. muter the immediate
direction of the Cabinet Ministers, to watch over
every ding relative to the internal police for the
safety of the country, particularly in regard to sus-
picious persons, whether natives or foreigners. Mr.
L.inddrost Von Schrader,. and Messrs. Counsellors
Blumenbach and Rumann, are appointed Members
of this Committee. A Consistory of the. Catholic per-
suasion is forming in HiPetheim, with the consent of
the Prince Regent: .
Mr. Palm, who. as 'brought in here list week as a
French spy, was tAken by the Prussians at Paris, and
dismissed indeed ; but, that he might do no harm in
Germany, wilt -to England. At the beginning of
this Year he was released from England nags earnest
entreaty to reign's home.: Instead of that be went to
France, where he remained till lately. The result of
hi; trial is expected with. impatience.

• VIENNA, MAY 2. •
The ihsarian Observer contains the following re.
mai ks upon the letter. of General Villeneuve :

•' It is long since any document has appeared so ex-
traordinary as the letter of General Millet de Ville-
neuve to the Commander in Chief of the Austrian
Army in Italy. It deserves to figure in a distinguished
manner, even in an age so rich as our's in empty
phrases, and may be quoted as a model of revolutio-
nary policy.
6, We can add nothing to the answer of the Au-
strian General ; it contains the best refutation of the
principle s•► often abused by France, in the late wars,
that the tint musket or cannon shot decides on the
commencement of war. Now, as then, the leader of
the enitmy's army designed, under an empty pretext,
to gain would, and to make his adversary fall into a
snare. But never before Were the march of a whole

army into a foleiga territory, assaults upon fortresses
anti tecs.do-pont, and lastly, a proclamation like that
from ltiminis ot the 50th. of March, which invites to
issuneiaion all'the neighbouring states, and even of
otlieis snore remote, represented as actions which
have p.tt the lbr.ioce who his undertaken them of his
own accord, .without any provocation, out of pure
ambition, and who has directed them in person, in a
May ot making the disagreeable discovery, diat he
was bt a mistake at war with the great power which
he has So grievootly offended.
" It is doubtless a sad thing for King Joachim,
that he has fail cd in the attempt to makeuse of the
resources which" he says have been long since offered
him in Italy ; but thaise proposals have certainly not
b 'en inadt him, either by hik .friends or by those a
the :nave people of Italy:
4! The cOnviction which King Joachim bas ac.•
quircd by the communications which he bashad with
Lord &millets, that the hostilities commenced
against him riot not the resolt of a plan, proves to
deenntiStraii'm on which side was the offensive. The
King's:eireir on this point may certainly be attended
with consequenfes of . importance to ; for
relit
negociations with Bentiock cannot have
1 .ft any dotkbt upon his, Mind that the English Gene-
ral considers every voluntary attack upon an ally of
England as an attack upon that_poWer itself; and the
well ktlowptiOyalty of Great Britain will always knov2
bow to diatinguisb between words anti actions.
'the Cabinet of Naples may ,besidereasily Iran.
quili;eltself, When it learns that one of its •agen,t,
named Aindsq who, attempted to repair secretly iron'
Flotence to Pismo his talon into the hauds of. the,
Austrian stony, with. ill the instructions which he had
about him ibst that., none oft deligus and plans
of nca( !‘aa lug unknown to .She of
and
_lbpi (his Court, if it Ipsd peed of
luck a t.!ltarye li able to appreciate at their jun..

'value, even to know, in their full extent, the overtures
which have been made to it by the last associator,
Who was sent back horn Trieste."
Our Court has concluded a treaty with his Ma-
jesty.the King of Sicily, by which this Monarch is to
be reinstated in the Kingdom of Naples.
,The son of the Duke of Ferra Capriole, the Sici-
lian Minister, set out yesterday with this Treaty to
Palermo.
. The fine regiment of Meerfeld's Huhlans passed
through:here to-day.
• The depiarture of the Sovereigns is not yet fixed ;
that of the Grand Duke of Baden and his Ministers
Will take place, it is said, on the 4th of this month.
' His Majesty the King of Saxony is expected to-day
at Loxemburg. This journey gives hopes of an
agreement which,' under present circumstances, would
be 4 very advantageous event for all Germany.
• VIENNA, MAY I.
, When we had nearly finished printing to-day's
rkiper, .we received intelligence that King Joachim is
continuing his retreat from Rimini, %where it was
supposed he would take a. position, with such ta-
pidity that on the 27th he had his head-quarters at
Pesaro. Lieutenant Field Marshal Count Neipperg
arrived on the 28th at Cattolica. His advanced posts
were before Pesaro.
• • The advanced guard of Baron Bianchi entered
Ikiligno on the 27th. By the daily actions with the
re it-guard desertion increases, and the number of
the prisoners is very considerable. The people every
where receive our armies as deliverers, with the
strongest demonstrations of joy.
May 4 —On the 20th of April, the Imperial Pro-
clamation for the erection of the Kingdom of Lops-
bardy and Venice was made public at Milan. At
night all the public buildings and the theatres were
illuminated. Farther ceremonies were deterred till
the arrival of the new Archduke Viceroy.
According to the report of a soldier who accom-
panied Bonaparte from Elba to France, and after-
wards went to Germany, where he was apprehended
through the vigilance of the Prussian police, Bona-
parte assembled his men before he quitted the island,
and harangued them. He told them, that ahe
would lead them to Prance, and thence to Germany;
at Paris they would be joined by all the veteran
troops returned from captivity, as well as by the
people: and he assured them, that if they behaved
well they should have full liberty in Germany, awl be
each rewarded with an mate in that country." How
does this agree with his present pacific declarations ?
The Giornale de Venezia contains the following let-
ter from Lugo of the 19th cf April :
44 At length weare delivered from the banditti.
About 12,000 Neapolitans have cost us here in two
days 40,000 dollars. This is the public charge ; what
private individuals hate Ipst by them is incalculable;
shops were plundered, fields-laid waste, the country
people beaten, and the women treated in • the most
brutal manner. And these are the heroes who
preach up the independence of Italy ! To augment
our misfortunes, they have burnt all the bridges, and
consumed or sunk all the shipping. Of the forced
requisitictis I shall say nothiog—suffice it to observe,
that during the short time they were here we fancied
ourselves to be in hell."
GERA, MAY 1.
We have received the particulars of the march of
the Russian army, which is to leave Kalisch, from the
18th of April to the 7th of June. The Ist brigade
arrives here on the 3d of May, aed the last on the
12th of June. The whole number is 84,000 men,
and 21,000 horses.
FRANKFORT, MAY a.
Yesterday arrived here the 14th Bavarian regiment
of fobt from Aschaffenburg, and are gone to-day to
Kreutznach.
Prince Miran of C.ourland is arrived here. • -
. Marshal Prince Wrede arrived the day before Tee.
terday at M.anbeim.,
MUNSTER, MAY I.
The French Courier who carried Bonaparte's dis.
patches to Copenhagen, and who was destined to
Stockholm, was arrested here the day before yester-
day. Orders had been given by the Government to
arrest him on his passing through Singer ; this order
has been executed 'here on his return.
BRUSSELS, MAY 12.
The spirit of the people of Paris gives Bonaparte
so little confidence, that he thinks he cannot take pre-
cautions enough for his personal safety. lie does not
sleep two nights together in the same bed.
The victim of his mad ambition, he scarcely piae.
sesses the shadow of that power, which, gigantic as
it was, did not content him— he is himself-sensible
that the authority cannot long •remain in his hands;
and he is preparing to embark once more. :He is
sending a quantity of effects to Cherbourg. We may
be sure, that this time the possibility will not be left_
him. Ney, who is become an object of contempt to
his army, has been obliged to declare to Bonaparte
that it refused to obey him. Your presence with
it is indispensable," said he ; a without that I cannot
answer for making it tight."
On the other hand, f'ouche assures him, that the
tranquillity of Paris wholly'depends Upon the stay hp
makes there.
The battalion of Saxon grenadiers of the guard;
who were in garrison at Natour, having made some
difficulties about taking the oath to the King of
Prussia, this battalion was disarmed without the least
resistance, in the presence of the Prussian General
Borstell. The other Saxon corps took no share in
this proceeding of their comrades.
The battalion of the Guards has been conducted
to Tirlemont.
GENOA.
On the 27th of April the Russian General Tully
arrived from the Austrian head-quarters. A ship's
Captain, from Nervi, deposed, at the Office of Health
in Genoa, that he had seen the three•colmired flag
hoisted at Marseilles, on the 11th of April ; but that,
op the next day, the people pulled down the eagles,
and•replaced the emNems with their lilies; that a So-
papartist was thrown intoahe seal he did not knOw
how the matter ended. On passing Toulun he heard
16 cannon fired, and saw two ships of the line orna-
mented with white flags.
swtsfa•EttLAND, MAY 1. •
Lucien Bonaparte, who has hired a country house
*Bellevue, in the bailkiage at Gex, keeps up an
active correspondence with Madame De Steel, at
Copet. The great Council of Berne has accepted the
declaratiOn of the Congress, with 190 voices against
thirty-four." ionr. • - - • a • •• •

FROM TIM JOUR!ML OF LOUIS 17711.

GHENT, MAV s.

The Journal de l'zmtire of the 21 instant gives,
under the heAd of Augsburg, an article from the
Igensein Zeitung, which accuses the Duke of Feltre
of 4. not havoug punished either Drouet or the
brothers Lallemand. ' •

Such an accusation proves nothing but the most
profound ignorance of the enactments of the penal
code of the FrenCh army. The Couri'Martial ap-
pointed to try a General Officer must be convoked in
one of the divisions bordering on that where the mi.
litary offence les been committed. No General
Count d'Erlon commanded the 16th diVision, and
the Generals 1-111emand served under his orders ;
they could, therefore, be triesonly in the • . ist, 2d,
•
or 15th divisions.

The Cilia Martial must be composed of mien
General Officers, all already eniyalqd in the divisiod
selected for the assembling of the Court. Of the
bordering divisions, the firs: was the only one ivhete
there was a sufficient number of General Offioert fdr
forming the Court Martial, in active service : and it:
was resolved that it should be held at La Fere. ".

The necessity of taking the judges from among
the Generals present in the first military
only rendered the selection the more difficult amidst
the allowable suspicions of a period so critical, which
defections already known increased, and which the
event has justified.
Nevertheless, the members to compose the Court
Martial were filed upon, but it could not meet until
the persons who had received the notice shouWhave
assembled at La Fere.

The Duke of Feltre, on the evening of the 13th
of March, received orders to cause Count d'Erlon
to be arrested. On the Ikb he transmitted them by
telegraph and by post, and ordered him to be put in
prison. Why he was merely directed to remain at
home under arrest, is unknown : but this favour fa-
cilitated his escape, and the necessary search in pia-
:nit of him delayed his removal to La Fete, where.
the Lallernands, his accomplices, already were„ and
upon whom the same sentence must have been pro-
nounced.

The rapidity of Bonaparte's march saved them
from the vengeance of the laws. If it be recollected
that Bcinaparte's.entran:e.into Lyons was known. at
Paris on the day when the pcirt-folio of the war de.
pattinent was given to the Duke of Feltre, it must
be obvious that he does not de...erve the repro ich con-
tained in the illlsonrin Zritanz, of having favoured
his progress.
Napoleon, after having abdicated at Fontainblean
a crown, as he then said, to prevent the effusion of
blood, • has just armed against France between four
and .500,(XXf foreigners, . by wishing to lay hold of it
again : is tailed changinz one's nntrd • •
Napoleon, however, IS quite an altered Malt horn
tiliat he has been. He says, and we must believe
him, that he will noragain expel eithe'r the Council
of Five Hundred, or the Tribunate, or the Legisla-
tive Body, as he did up to the Ist of January, 181+,
inclusively ; and that, on the contrary, to use his own
noble expressions at a memorable conjuncture, he
'means to wash his own dirty linen with 20,000 legisla.'
tors in the Champ de Mai. He will become mild,
patient, polite; will acquire a singular affection for
public deliberations, and by this eddying conversion
prove how greatly preferable his reign is to that of a
King who neither imprisoned, exiled, nor shot any
one ; but who did not the less establish despotism
and feudality—at least as Napoleoa affirms, who has
no interest to deceive us.

In fine, Napoleon promises us a just and liberal
government, which is almost equivalent to his having
given it us, since among the number of his new vir-
tues he counts 'that of keeping his word—since his
abdication will be the last engagement he will permit
himself to br..ak—since, in pliying with his oaths, he
will no innper say by way of excuse, This they call
chaskrips one's mine!.
Vth.it Non s, beside, his he not furnished of his
candour, and of his good faith ? On his arrival, he
ordered the apartments of Maria Louisa, and of his,
Sun, to be got ready, although he knew that Austria,
like all the other Powers, had put him out of the pale
of civil And social relations. He said that the decla-
ration of Congress was a forgery of the French lega-
tion at Vienna; and the next day he wrote to Ge-
neral Grouchy, that this declaration authorised him
to treat the Duke d'ingouleme as the powers of
Europe wished to treat him. He caused to bc p lb.
fished in Isis journals, sometimes that:the SoViteigtis
would not care to attack him---sometimes that they.
were collecting numerous armies on. all sides—scapel.
times that their only object was to deprive France,
of the energetic government %Met he was going to
give them, and sometime! that it Was abilrrd
to imagine that they would take,arrnsagainiva stnglf -
man : sometimes that the
..llousboits ,lioiceowledged.
the impossibility Of reigning.in France,and.soillltilneel
that they were rallying all Europe.; sometimes .that,
the foreigners 'Were-going to shed streams-of btniid
for the interest of a single family, and iontetirliws that
'lt wits not the restoration of that-family which tilt.)
proposed to themselves, .but: the hutrtili tiffai sf 44
debasement of .France sometimes, in .shorti ;that
Louis 4CVIII..had, by the mucous soaditioks of , tlx.l
treaty of Paris, sacrificed the honeutpf France; ,and
sometimes that he, the individual Napoleon, content-
ing himself with the same condition!, 'wouldreitore
to France the force and the ascendancy which she had
lost. All these inconsistencies, all these denials,vill•
they surprise those readers who are attentive to the
impartial and bold observations which result from
the new liberty of the press, or which the public acts
and ministerial reports furnish to us ? No: they will
remark that almost always 24 hours elapse before
one of these assertions and that which destroys it;
.and they will confine themselves to saying-6$ this
they call changing one's mind."

Timm TnotNANn POUNDI.—The Ticket, No.
3,869, drawn on Saturday last, a Prize of .steBo,ooo,
was SHARED by Waifs, in U.e Quarter, Two Eighth:,
and Eight Sixteenth:, and SOLD at truly fortunate Office,
I No. 17, Ludgate.street, (near St. Paul's) where the
Holders may receive the value of their respective
Shares, roan, Denusad. This is the Tnunsty-sing Ca-
pital shared and soled by WWII iu little more than
7'eve Tear: • and it will be recollected, that 12,688,
entitled on
he 15A of lot Month to 1,000 Guineas,
and na. 2,502, the last Prize of A 10,900 ever shared,
*re a& sold at Wns's Ofcet-

IMMBURGH MAIL.

VIENNA, APRIL 29.

Eight thousand French prisoners returning from
Russia to France that were in Germany, have re.
veived counter-orders. and will now have to nuke
the long journey back again into the desarts of Rus-
sia.. It is calculated that only 96,000 prisoners have
yet returned from Russia to prance.
MAY I.—The report of Murat's having embar!;:d
at ltiniini, is without foundation.