Star.
London, England, 1815-04-11 00:00:00

query would take into consideration the propriety of
having a Committee up stairs. If the charges were
unlounded, it would only serve to clear the Commis-
saries from the imputations thrown out against them.
When, however, the fact was known that Commis-
saries had made large ostentatious fortunes, it might
be considered as a proof that the Commissariat had
not been conducted as it should he.
Mr. N ENArNIAM said he most fully concurred in
what had fallen from the Honourable Gentleman
who spoke last, and unaccustomed to address the
House, he only begged leave to add such representa-
tions had gline abroad respecting the Commissariat
in the Peninsula, that he hoped a Committee would
be appointed agre:atly to the suggestions that had
heen proposed. He should not have engaged the
tLne of the House, but from a sense of duty to his
country at this momentous period, and, in so doing,
he was fully convinced the Government would con-
sult the best interests of the Crown.
The Resolution was then put and agreed to.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
after moving rhis second grant of six millions, con-
tended that the appointment of a Committee up
stairs, to examine the Transude= of,the Commies*.
riat, would throw great difficulties in the way of au-
diting the accounts. It was not liltely that a better
system could be suggested than that which had al-
ready occurred.
Mr. BARING did not mean to bring a charge
against any individuals. He thought, however, that
the general system of the Commissariat shoujd be
examined before a Committee of that Rouse; and
be should, at some future time, move for such Com-
suittee.
Mr. TIERNEY could see no ground for coming
to so large a vote at present, unless the Right Ho-
nourable Gentleman thought, that as the House bad
just voted 21 millions, they were now is ivied for
voting six millions more. As a great part of this,
however, was for past services, be thought the ac-
count should be presented, before the House was
called on to vote so large a sum.
The CHANCELLOR. of the VCCHEQUER
said, that the House had not voted 21 millions, but
four millions. He had no objection, however, to take
three millions now on account of the Mir =Mardi-
varies, and tit postpone the other three millions until
the account was presented.
The Resolution was then put for grating three
millions on account of army estraordittatiee, and the
Report was order ed to be received tomorrow.
The second reading of the Assessed Taxes Bill was
postp ned till Monday week.
Tice other orders et the day were then disposed of.
Adjourned.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

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LOTTERY DRAWS NIEX FATURbAY MORNING,
AT NINR O'CLOCK, I HREE PRIZES OF £30,000
Tliak.k THOUSAND GUINEAS IN GOLD IMME-
DIATELY.
TUESDAY, APikTrlll; rtii E. •
PRICE OF SToLlts THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK'
Reduced sr}}-4 per 1:t. 731,-5 per Ct. Navy
Consols 47D—for account sni—Boads 3s. is. prem.
Tischequesldis Sa. to is. psv.th.

A Gentleman who left Pails on Friday., the date
of the last Papers, informs us that every thing is as
•tranquil there as if nothing had occurred to threaten
a new war—only a little bustle with military reviews
as was always the case under BONAPARTE. In con-
fortuity with the system to which -we yesterday al-
luded, freedorq of conversation is allowed to be in-
dulged in, in public assemblies, as mash as in Eng.
land, and oar countrymen are allowed to pass and
repass without the least molestation. The deception
of the expected arrival of the•EMPRESS from Vienna
is still kept up, and the Thuilleries are daily crowded
with people expecting to witness hetrentialtee,
NAP&RTS has only shewn himself twice in public since
his arrival : he was attended 14y a great number of
military Officers. lie rises at four o'clock every
morning, and attends to business closely till late at
night. Though the Nets say nothing of military
preparations, the different war departments are all
known t • be very busy—Belgium is looked to as the
first probable scene of conflict, and to that quarter
the principal bodies of military which pass through
Pari•.!nest their march.
N nwiilistatiding th,!- occupation of Bourdeaux by
NaeuLeos's troops, the communication between that
c: ; and Parisi known : be much interrupted by
'parties of royalists, who st. p the Cprers, and take
their dispatches. The Parisians are aware that the
Allie; are colle,...ing large armies; and are in momen-
tary expectation of a large demand for money, but
they take matters very lightly.
Private kite's from Paris state, that the Duchess
Dowager of ORLEANS and the Duchess of BOURBON
remain Ai Paris, and Bou.‘emtra,has settled on them
pensions for life of 300,000 livres per annum ; that
letters had been received by BONAPARTE from the
Emeness on Thursday last, in which she speaks of
the obstacles that were set to her return, but which
she was resolved overcome. It is also reported at
Paris thatTALLewaAND has made his-peace with Na.-
roteoN, and that the latter is in poss9sion of all the
Notes and Minutes of ail the Ministers at the Congress.
The present is cetiainly a most singular crisis.
When any great rt volution takes place in the affairs
of Nations, we naturally recollect some event simi-
lar to it in history ;—but history does not furnish
a parallel, nor any thing resembling the revolu-
tion in the French Government that has lately
astonished and now fixes the ansimir, concern of the
worlds it is a spectacle entirely new. Europe,
combined in arias!, drives the Llitprper from the
throve of France, stnd restores the ancient line of
419. hereditary Monarchs; the Confederates retire;
the dethroned and exiled adventurer, aq alien, re-

appears on the French territory, proceeds amidst the'
population and armies of France, that had just"
sworn allegiance to Louis XVIII. to Paris, seats
himself in the royal palace of the Thuilleries, and
resumes, without the smallest resistance, the reins
of Govci nment.—The Parisians, who had so recently
rent the sky with cries of Five k Roi, and ezecra•
dons of the Tyrant, join unanimously, at least amine
contradicente, in the cry of Five le Biqa/reser I.—The
descendants of LouisXll. and HENRY IV. the rival of
the virtues, though not of the talents of these great
Monarchs, is obliged again to quit the Kingdom.
The character given by JULIUS CESAR of the
Gauls, has often—uniformly indeed and always been,
recognized in the modern French. The Franks
were Germans ingrafted on the Gauls ; but the na'
cure of the original crab seems still to predominate.
CESAR tells us that they were very fond of novelty,
fickle, and prodigiously addicted to cabals and

factions.
FREDERICK the Great of Prussia says of the French
nation, that they have quick parts, but that they
do not think in a train, and that they are the most
immethodical, inconsistent, and desultory people in
Europe. Such, he says, they appear throughout the
whole of their history, “ elle a kareartt d'espries ai
point de mite dam la ideas" Ste. Stc.
The reign of democracy, or rdther vulgarity, and
jacobinism in France was speedily marked by an ex.
change of French gallantry and politeness, for gross
sensuality and a ferocious and undisguised selfishness.
They are at. present the most corrupt people in the
world ; without any regard to oaths, or even, what
was too often considered under the Monarchy as MOM
sacred, honour—yet it is not to be forgotten, nor
passed by without due notice, that many of the
French, chiefly among the Noblesse and Clergy, have
displayed, in the depths of adversity and under the
severest trials, the highest degree of virtue—sym.
pathy with their fellow-men, fidelity to the King,
ani a regard to their own dignity and honour. But
it must be owned that this pure stream is but as a
drop in the bucket, when compared to the putrid and
fetid mass of the French nation.
Yet, perhaps, the apathy with which the French Go.
vernment witnessed the distress and the retreat of the
Royal Family, ought not to be considettd as any
great discouragement to ari effort for restoring them.
It they were not Willing to take up arms for the
Kra°, they will, beyond a doubt, be as unwilling to
take up arms against him. The truth is, that the
mass of the nation wish for nothing so much as
tranquillity : a fixed, stable, and undisturbed go.
vernment of any kind.—lt is with the Army of Bo-
NAPARTIE alone that the Allies, if they go to sea.eilli
have to contend.—The voice of the Nation, though
only a small still voice, like that of Conscience, it
may be presumed, is for the BOURBONS. bit, in
truth, the favour or disfavour of so degenerate and
base a people, ready to kiss the rod of every Con-
queror, is of no manner of consequence.
The best feelings of human nature call loudly for
vengeance on BONAPARTE and his banditti ; but, on 11
reflection, many will pause respecting the policy of
plunging afresh into war, without trying the effect
of a ncgociation for peace. BONAPARTE says he is
willing to. abide by the Treaty of Paris : but, it is said,
bow long will he abide by it ? Only till he has bad
time to prepare for war. Be it so, peace is as good
.for the Allies, while it lasts, as for him. They will
have an eye on his movements, and if he prepares for
war, they also can prepare—they will strengthen their
frontier—and the new King of the Netherlands, in
particular, will have time to establish himself in his
new dominions, Jot it be recollected, that with the
troops BoNaraavz already has at his command, he
can soon organize an army to any numbers.—
What be is most in want of is officers and
draught horses. He will make officers, no doubt,
of some of the veteran soldiers among his returned
prisoners : and be has sent orders to all the
Prefects to give Committions to ascertain the number
of young men in their respective departments, such
as they shall, think most proper. He will have them
instructed, speedily, in military tactics ; and if the
tihr be continued beyond one campaign, they will
acquire skill by experience.
Let us not shut our eyes against the truth; that
succesa in war depends more on the genius of the
Commander of an army, than on numbers, valour,
money, or any other circumstance: It is to be con-
sidered maturely whether it has yet been fully proved
that the Confederates have a General so able and so
fertile in resources as BONAPARTE ? Ills exertions
and even his skill in his last, were never surpassed,
perhaps not equalled, in any of his most fortunate
campaigns. He had succeeded in his plan for cutting
off the Allies from their magazines on the Rhine.....
The easy reduction of Paris was owing partly to
accidents—to contingencies not foreseen by the Cow
federates.
If BONAPARTE be wise he will do well, to weigh
the powers of our General in as fair and .equal a ba-
lance as we have now weighed his; an 4 if he does he,
will hesitate to urge a contest, should the other
Powers after due deliberation manifest a disposition
to preset ve peace ; for he must be tensible that though
no one of the Commanders of the Allies has been
placed in the same circunutaneel as himself, some of
them have manifested powers mul qualities which
leave to him no right to coscrtxtle that they will nit
.e found equal to any cirfamitances in which 11)4
can b; placed. He will !weft be ihie tp questio


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