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London, England, 1814-08-03 00:00:00

IDAVOUST.

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The Memorial of Marshal Davonst, addressed to
the King, has just been published. It forms a pam-
phlet of 160 pages. Public opinion mates the most
weighty charges against the Marshal. He begins
thos—
e, I have the honour to submit to the jestice of your
Majesty, a detailed account of my conduct, It will
&Littlish a proof that I never made an improper übe of
t. .e authority with which I was invested. I never
abused the power confided to me ; and not a single
act of my government, in the 32c1 military division,
can be deemed arbitrary : every thing was executed
on my part in contormity to orders or decrees, the
originals of which I have in my possession, and of
which I lay copies before your Majesty.
66 In the extensive commands with which I. have
been charged, I may have injured the interest of in-
dividuals, but never rendered the Frelch name odious
Eby any act of my own motion ; and, in the arduous
circumstances under which L was plated, the honour
of France, and the interest of the army, were invaria-
bly my guide.
•
44A heavy responsibility attached tip, me :.I couldd,
have thrown upon the Government the odium of the
ligorous measures of which 1 was the humble instru;
*tent; but I kept silence from a sense of duty and
respect to the sovereign authority, to which that de-
ference appeared to me to be due. Such are the princi-
ples which I have professed and acted upon.
66 Nevertheless, Sire, I owe to France, to the army,
and to myself, the duty, of repelling an accusation,
which might tarnish a name attached to some glorious
recollections.

"I demand an impartial tri I beg that Thy con-
duct may be investigated by the Marshals whom your
Majesty shall be pleased to appoint.
46 Th., Minister of War informs me, that your Ma-
jesty has received heavy complaints .as to the com-
mand which I had at Hamburgh, and has directed
me to defend myself against the charges alleged
against me.

" The principal are-1. For having ordered the cannon to be
fired at the white flag, after having received positive information
of the re-e.tablishment of the Throne of the Bourbons.

" 2. For having abstracted the funds from the Bank of Ham
burgh ; and
" 8. For having committed tyrannical acts. which had a ten-
dency to render the Frenca name odious." •

The Marshal thus endeavours to answer the 2d
charge :

" The charge of hiving carried off the property
of the Bank, it separated from all the circumstances
Which constituted the necessity of that measure, di-
vested of all the forms used in the seizure, and With-
out referring to tfie documents which prove the regu-
larity of the application of the funds, presents at first
sight an act of violence, which nothing could justify.
But the impartial man, the strict and enlightened
Judge, examines facts, weighs,
.the circumstances,
and while he deplores the evils that war occasions,
sees only a necessary evil in the execution of a great
measure, authorised by the laws of war, consecrated
by precedent, and commanded by the most imperi!,
ous of all laws, that of necessity. This charge. Sire,
could not affect me so far as my personal interest is
concerned ;—my character is, too well known in
Trance' in all the places whither the fortune of the
French arms has led me, to admit even the most
hostile of my enemies to raise at stfspicion touching
my morality. This charge can, therefore, only apply
to the motives of the proceeding, the forms observed
in the seizure of the property, and finally to the ap-
plication of the funds.
In the month of September, 1813, the Count de
Chaban, Intendant General of the Finances, made
known to me the difficulties of providing for the ex-'I
penses and services of the month of October and the
end of the year 1813. On the 15th of the same
month, he addressed to me a fresh report, coufirmedl
by a budget, to make me sensible of the absolute
necessity of finding means to meet the expenses of
the last qoarter of that year, and of the first quarter
of the year 1814. He made me take notice, that
" from the end of the month of October, he could
not engage for any thing; and that he was hound
to declare, that for subsistence, for the service of ar-
tillery, engineers, &c. he had no funds to afford any
supply." Ot the war contribution of 48 millions,
only 10 millions had yet been collected, which had
been sent to Dresden, tor the service of the grand
army. The 13th corps could not, therefore, derive
any thing from this contribution, the collection of
which had moreover been rendered impossible by the
flight of she inhubitacts most heavily assessed. -In
order to meet the necessities of the case, I wished at
first to make use of the powers committed to me by
the Emperor, and in conformity with his orders of
the 17th of June, I imposed additional centimes upbn
the three Depart:mews of the 32d military division ;
but I soon tound that there was no return, that our
situation became every day more difficult, and that
the Minister of the Treasury, by ordering 1111- the
receivers to send their funds to Wesel, threw us into
fresh embarrassments, by putting us entirely upon'
our own means.
The Count De Chaban, who, at this time, fur-
nished me .with a statement of the situation of the
funds, in pursuance of,a request of mine, for the pur-
pose of enabling me to judge of our state, made me
observe that 6 he knew not how any longer to meet
the expenditure; that he had exhausted every re-
source; borrowed even upon every particular branch
of revenue, of the customs, and consolidated duties
(droit: minis); that every branch of service was in a
state of starvation, and that things went only by a
kind of magic.' I stated to M. De Chaban, in an-
swer, that the interest of the arm, at a moment
when we were entirely separated fryom France and
from the Emperor Napoleon, required prompt mea-
sures;
that in such a crisis we should be culpable, if
in a town like Hamburgh, the want of funds impeded
the service, where the bank presented great resources,
and the only possible means of saving the army.
as The Decree of the 16th of June, and the expla-
natory letter, had fixed the mode of payment of the
war contribution as follows: thirty millions in ready
mosey; ten millions in paper securities on the town

of Hamburgh ; and ten millions in goods and sup.
'plies of all descriptions. Of the thirty millions reaely
money, ten were to be sent to Dresden for the p f.
went of the grand army and twenty millions were
to be paid in drafts on the Bank of Hamburgh, pay-
able at the rate of two millions per month, from Ist
October, 1813, to Ist August, 1114. These drafts
might be considered as assignments upon the Bank
of Hamburg!). But as nothing short of absolute ne-
cessity could justify such a measure, before ordering
it. I called upon Count de Chaban for a statement of.
our expenses and wants. According to the report
made by M. de Chaban. and authenticated by mr
Decree of the 13th of December, the arrears of st-
penses from the Ist July. 1813, and the sum wanted
for the month of November, amounted to lersetvput
francs. The enormity of this sum, and the ford.
necessity of providing fa the expenses of the Artl..
lery and Engineer Department, and the Hospitals,
did not permit me to hesitate longer, and ky soy a«
cree of the 2d November, I ordered the sevestrat-
lion of the property of the Bank to answer for forty-
eight millions due from the town.
1. I made another effort to avoid this painful mea-
sure, by apprizing the merchants, through the corn•
missioners ordered to put seals on the Bank, that this
measure would not be Carried into effect, it (het
would engage to furnish monthly the stuns at-center,
for the expenses of the army. After a lapse dive
days, two of the Commissioners, M. De Chases u 4
Count Hoggenderp, informed me thaktherrsegdoutent
4erettsoTred not to take any engagement Upon that,
and that no resource remained but tO• take possessioat
of the Bank. It was thus, that after exhausting Ai
other means, and Ailing every effort with the met._
chants to enable them to preserve the B ink, their non:
compliance, and the necessity of the case, compelled
me to go on. I gave to my Government an account
of the proceeding and itc m ,tires. The Commissioners
who made the seizure were ra-n of rank and known
character. They made r gular minittec of every
thing the amount of property in the 13.tilk, and the
branches of expenditure to which it was applied, were
carefully recorded. The services to tvhich those
funds were applied consisted of the hospital depart.
man, subsistence and pay of tile French ironps, and
of the civil adminio rations, and the "contintution of
.the works of the attil.ery and engineer dep lament-0—
wulks which contributed to preserve 25,00 d min to
she counter.

66 To insure the regularity of the app:icatinn of the
money, I gave orders, that under the superinten.iantai
.4 M. Chaban, all the usual forms enjoined by the trea.
stay should be observed, reserving to myself the tight
of opening credits, according to tae clenunds made.
All the payments made at Hamburg!) may be consi-
dered as made in the name and on the account of the
Government, ancFit is for the Commissioners of Fi-
nance, who succeeded M. Chaban, to account for the
employment of the funds seized in the Sank..
Measures were taken to cunvert the bullion into the
coin of the country, which was done in the moat
telligent manner, and with the utmost probity. thi
Commissioners, whenever your Majesty shall call on
them, can give an account of their administration..
When I was under the necessity of seizing on the
Bank of liainburgh, the debt due, including the
month of Noveniber, exceeded twelve millions ; and
when I was superseded in my command by the Ge.
sterol of Division Count Gerard, a part of the arrears
sras paid. .
" I had met all the expenses. of the artillery and
engineers : the pay was assigned to the Ist of Jtnte ;
and I left in the military chest of the army 1,718,254 i
ants, which continued to be applied to the 'same
uses. This summary will give your Majesty an idea
of the economy with which the employment of about
IS millions found in the Bank was regulated, deduct-
ing the stints belonging to the King of Denm ilk, and
the charitable institutions of the town, wine i *ere re.
funded by my orders."
The Chamber of Deputies, it is said; has adopt.
ed, in secret committee, an address to the King,
which will be presented by a deputation.

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BERLIN, JULY Is.

All the booksellers assembled at Leipsie, for the
fair, celebrated by an entertainment the revival of tee
book-trade in Germany, .which, like all the .a.het
branches of commerce, was nearly annihilated by the
murder of the unfortunate Palm, and by the cirectial
stance of Leipsic having been twice the theatre of san-
guinary contest, at the very time of the fair. &atm
London booksellers were at the festsval among others.

ZURICH, JULY SO.
The Helvetic Diet has resumed its sittiags. The
State Council of Neuchatel has informed the President
of the Diet, by letter, that the Kiag of Prussia had
authorized him to mat of the union of Neuchatel
with Switzerland.

MADRID, JULY 19.
His Majesty, desirous of giving a public testimony
of his gratitude to the Captain General Don Fran-
cisco Xavier Castanos, for his services, particularly at
the' battle of Baylen, has appointed him Counsellor of
State.

FLORENCE, JULY 20.
At Arena the most alarming depredations coati.
nue to be committed: the peasants carry their Au-
dacity to such a length, as to appear ia Arms At the
gatecot ribrencle. Thenanibee of eisinor :ironed
pants is estimated at more than 10.000. It is well
known that the Government never could reduce them .
to subjection, and that in the inidstnf their tnArOrts,
forests, and mountains, they strove to establish An in• •
dependence subversive of 41 principles, ....filth calbcd
Leopold to give them for their arms, a horse broker,
loose, without curb or bridle.
VIENNA, JULY 19.
Prince Metternich, our M►nister for Foreign Af.
fairs, has at length arrived ;„ he saw► the E•nPet'''
Alexander at &urinal. Immediately Ater 11lb AL'
rival he went to the Emperor at Driden., .
tiAMITRUM JULY
The English, since the open►ng of our port, haye
inundated us with colonial produce, in tile hope 1.1
converting it immediately into ready mo..ey i but
' they have been deceived. Our mr► dune. specutated
On a fall of price, and on affect succeeded in out.
chasing it cheap. r than it is sula 4siglAnd. Since
then, orders fur goods of this k►nd havu,Arria-d Ira
all parts of the interior of Gel m.iny. awl the, haw
been resold to considerable Advantage Our exc. anger
upon London has so rap►dly. increased, that it i 4 now
at SU, though a fortnight ago it was at 26. •
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WEDNESDAY, AUdUSi' Si 1814.
tß.er . •111C,C4 I'HIS DAY A . TWELVE O'CLQCK
Rectocede 1111.• Can% account 67i—for accou 61 Gli
4 per Ct. N 4 per Cr. Navy 961 97—Omn. -I I pre.
Bank Long 3.161 I 5-16tIts—India Bonds, lea. 19s..pne.
Escheques &Ss Ss. is pre.

We have received Paris Papers of Sunday. 'they
itOntaln the Address of the Chamber of Deputies on the
Xinies Expos/. This is, if possible, a still more sen
bible prsluction that► that of the Chamber of Peers.
The attention of the nation is expressly directed to
agricultural and commercial pursuit;, and not a
iitn,rti is aid on the the truly offensive subject of the
Wit broil French arms. We have subjoined this
docunietit at length.

In the C.lntsuber of Deputies little business was
done on Saturday, on account of their going up with '
the Address. On their return. notice was given by
two Members, to request the KING to permit the es-.
portadou of Grain and Cattle of French origin. The
motions which was favourably received, is to be de-
bated on a subsequent day.
Subjoined are the extracts which we have made
froth the is Papers received today. Ie another
pail Of OPT Papers those taken from yesterday's
riptn.ll,4lll.found.
)ULY 31.
testertiay the king received a deptitatinn from the
Chamber of Deputies, when M. Laine, the Presi-
dent, spoke as follows :

' Sine.—ln presenting to the two Chambers the
Expose of the situation of the Kingdom, and in thus
calling Upon the Representatives of the Nation to
concur in the reparation of so many evils, your Ma-
jesty hat augured well of your people : your faith.
subjects of the Chamber of Deputies, thank you,
'Aire, for not having despaired of the salvation of
kriace. •
Whit picture, afflicting as it is, excited in us
storprise. When all powers were confounded, all
rights mistaken, when every avenue was shut against
• truth, it was from the excess of our evils alone that
we totild eXpett a rentedy.
" Under a just and pacific king, this picture does
tint Inspire us with fears. • Encouiag.d by the gene.
toes teal of your Majesty, scored by institutions,
etre, fruits of your profound wisdom, animated by
• tea* impaitial tenderness for all your children, the
•Innitelt- will signalise themselves by a noble emula-
We of sacrifices, now directed towards the public
hemlines:: Sire, there are no longer in France any
irreparable evils, When the Sovereign; the great pub-
lic bodies of the State, and alf classes of society, ar-
dently
.desire, with a aominob Wish and reciprocal
tonfidence, nothing but the security of the throne
.aild tbrl rbrestablishinent. Of their country. Hence.
.did free and rotting* your subjects viii and,
'tftf tlNlOltift tteirairittetri; tit-eastetrfttirlittlri
tlat Mite: It ss "ClOubtless towards the
smut easeful of the arts, that trtagriculture, that their
efforts and their capitals, will Abe first directed. But
id miss that their rich *bit, otioistened with the sweat
tif their brows, may be the better fertilised and sup.
tily their wants, they bop, that the goodness of your
Majesty vliil facilitate' thole retmirces which ntann•
factnot asd ebnitaered site to a great people.
“. On giving back-to our Colonies, replaced tinder
tottr sceptre, prate and abundance, we shall receive
front them an increase of riches, whith the new Ge-
lling if France will direct towards ameliorations at

home.
'+ The Powers Which surrodnd es, Sire, expect to
..Alaa, eth spirit of the nation directed towards these
grand objects :—they will be entirely at their base'
Aavhen the arms of a warlike people shall be employed
in ettltivating those arts of Peace which connect na-
time with each other. They know that your Majesty,
and France do not seek in those advantages common
to all nations mere than the part marked out to us
huntownanrcz in our geographical position.
.N It is thus that a new fife will be given to labour
in 'eery broads of the public economy, and will
lege aSsenee and a tern for domestic happiness
Grilesball emsolltions of We.
a We happiness. Sire, will be the effect of the
meditations -corfser Majesty, and of the concurrence
of all henchasen.to second "Our paternal intentions.
The Chipmber of Deputies will oeitlwr disappoint the
expectations of the Thrones sky the hopes of the Na-
tion. It dill unite iu etre with *Os, of the Kinibp
tninnikbit*sti iron the rimmosiiturice of oei .1w
-siegteOns.: ' .0004) —ietgag*".rf:ctigikates,
Iris sitars ii,,-1
• a I Tattier, with Itif team, Ate Aggro* ,erilfie
Chamber of. Dottie'. sllir sentintetip with* have
dictated it are those which niaietrale snetibilm. T hive
candidly described she ablOon of ithetitingdem, be,
name it is thew', eaetbollif namMunidnion between
a good father aa& his ctildres: ? 41.1 with great
satisfaction, the unite *bids • eximelattween the
Chamber olDepaaise,the nation, and. self. It it
ly
thus that we than heal the wdboda of State ; and
by encouraging the great sources of pnipaprosperity,
agriculture, commerce, and the acts, witiiihall restor
to France that bappinem which is die-Aires* Obi
of my heart."
Vil$NA, itiLY is.
At length the Minister for Foreign All' ai es, Prince
Metternicb, who was expected with so much anslety,-;
ir has atrived The rrisca ivieked the Reopens Ales: