Star.
London, England, 1814-10-29 00:00:00

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M'edoeXlay Morning, Sept. 14.
New:, his just arrived, giving the heart-k.heeringin-
tellig-uce of the capture of itOU of, the enemy's rear-
guard.
SEPTEMBER 15.—1 t is said our Commodore intends
to go to the Isle du Moue, to•see Sir George's battery
there. •

G-v:rttor Prevost has 'made a precipitate retreat.
Soule think it a ruse, to draw our men across the it.
bicon, bat I think not.

The Saranac has been a fine place for our militia,
for on its banks was nearly all the execution done.—
Theenemy repeatedly attempted to ford it, but were
repulsed every time but the last, when a few officers
and men got over, but afterwards straggled into the
wands and surrendered to our men. Sir George re-
treating without calling them in. Four lieutenants
are bete on parole. Z bey speak in terms of admira-
tion of the kindness of Macomb, but are very severe
in their remarks on —. They say, bad Wellington,
or even Brisbane (whom they term afre•eater), com-
manded, they would have had Plattsuurgh Forts.—
They say they havp beaten the cleverest soldiers in
the world,latid have now been taken by a rabble.
Their Captain I'urchess, they say, was lulled by
the militia, while holding up his white jacket as a flag.
The Vermont militia are returning, but the New-

York militia are still flocking into Plattsburg, Its there
Me but regulars enough to man the forts. Many de.
serters came into Plattsburg 'yesterday. and many
more are in the worlds. Brooks has greatly distil)•
guished himself at PlattsbUrg.
• ALBANY, SEPTEMBER no.
Letters from Slckett's Harbour, to the 16th, state,
that the army under General hard had arrived, which,
together with the militia, make our force amount to
about 7000 men.
[POSTSCRIPT TO THE BALTIMORE AMERICAN, SEPT. 15 ]
a THE ESZAIT LANDING AGAIN.....AWe have just re•
ceived information, that the British have been land-
ing at Colgate's Creek, on the western or souther*
side of the liver, about nine milts from the City."

PROTEST OF THE P- AR OF ?Alai
iIGiIINST ITS SUPPRESSION.
• .1

We, Princes of the Blood, Dukes and Peers of
France, and We, Councillors of the Parliament of
Paris, forming together the Court of Peers,
" Considering, th:it it appears but too certain that
hii Majesty, penetrated with the ardent desire of
securing the happiness of France, to the throne of
which the love o! his 'people has so glOriously recalkd
him, has been surprised by the amiable, but deceitful,
illusions of a system, called liberal, that delivers into
the hands of the people a co,,siderable portir.n of the
Royal authority, which zgitatOrs are alwais ready to
abuse; •
" Considering, that 'in consequence of this deeek-
fol and melancholy system. his Majesty appears de-
termined nn longer to employ in Fir service and thilt
of his Crown, tither the ParliaMent of Paris, Cr the
Parliaments of the Provioczs, the natural dcletiderS oC
zlinse Provinces ;

Consicierin:;, hcwitv:r, that the first duljr Of ft
King of France, is to maintain and gnard thil eft-
ntficent and exceitent c:titi:r, the no) al Ordeinantes,
the fruit of the wisdom of thirty-two reigns, and at
eight ages of experience, and to maintain also the
franchii.es am! iiherties of the Provinces, fn.
which purpose he takes a solemn oath at his Coro-
nation ;

" That at the same Coronation, the Pe-rs a/
France place the Crown on the head of the King,
because it was those who freely called to the throne
Hugh C. pet, in 9,47, who have tlefelickd tha. Crown,
and hire maintained it in his august Farah irom.
that eplch :or eight hundred years ,and upwnrdq, as
duration, of NVhiCh the history Of 'no Monarchy fur-
ni.liec any eXAmp!e ;
" That they have punished the disturbers of public
or.ler by solemn juAgments, supported by their swards
and those of their vassals ; _

Considering, that the Peerage in France is es.
senrially uni!ed to the Crown ; that in consequence it
cannot by trot be abolished without the throne expe-
riencing the most melancholy effects, simiiir to those
of whizli France and all Europe will still for a long
time feel the deplorable results;
" Considering, that if the right of votlng imposts
and their assessments belongs neither to it nor to
other Parliaments, bring alone the privil.-ge d the
States-General, and there b:Litgs howeverto it, as
well as to other Parliaments, the right of 'freely re.
gist ring, and, in consequence, of examining, ehethei
the ordonnances issued according to the demands of
the States General, affect in any respect the rights of
the Crown, or those of the Provinces, of which the
respective Parliaments are the defenders, the said
PArliaments being no other than the immediate sue.
cecirxrs of the Sovereign Courts of the same Provinces
before their union with the Crown, and whose pre:cr-
y:Won has always been strictly stipulated by the char-
ters of their successive unions ; _ _

" Considering, that in consequence of these prin-
ciples, and because they could not be at once The
makers and the revisers of the laws, it followed that
neither Dukes or Peers, or Councillors of the Parlia-
ments, presented themselves to be elected to the for-
mer States-General—that is to say, to those which
preceded those of 1789, an assembly of which the
convocation was illegal, null, and erroneous sn its
principle, and which overturned the m narchy be-
cause it violated by its convocation the tunoamental
and constitutional law of the equality of the ieetc-
sensation of the three ordets ; _ _

" Considering, that pis Majesty, in his Proclama-
tion of the Ist of Jantiry of the present year, given
in Englund (not verified in any Court, and v.'sicfa
may therefore be revoked, in doubt as to its exigence
or validity, not being countersigned either by the
Chancellor of France, or by any Minister Secre.
tail of btate recognized as such), has isi the excess
of his paternal goodnels, forgotten, that if cl niency
is one of the finest prerogatives of the theme, justice
is its first and most inflexible duty ; that it is crimes,
above all, which the immutable laws of Divine jus-
tice, and those of man, who is its weak im.ttic, prc-
hibit to go unpunished, because they sap tile most
material foundations of social order, for the proierva-
Lion of which Kings have been appointed by the
Divinity, and to whom they must render All account
equally severe and terrible;

64 That these unpardonable crimes are treason
against the Divinity, or the first litimaA chtelf ; •
" That the latter eminently consists in raising a pa-
ricidal hand against the person of the Sovereign ;
46 That in any kingdom, and above ail in F:aace,
the law does not permit the Sovereign to grant a par-
don to regicides;
" That it prohibits in France all tribunals from
confirming them, or paying any regard to theta;
16 That, however, by the suppression of the Parlia-
ments, and particularly by that of the Court of Peels,
the svecial guardian or the rights of the Crowa, the
regicides seem to be protected Crum the undouh.i d in-
flexibility ot the law, and enjoy also a frigiulii invu-
nity, in contempt of the religion ot his Majesty, add
At which all France and Europe are justly indignant ;
46 That it is only, perhaps, to the just tern' r, Ind
spired by the prompt, inflexible, and terrible ju*t!ce*
against the factions with whom France st,ll a!,oundh
that they owe the false insinuations by which their abr.
!Ilion has been obtained from his Majesty ;
46 Considering that nothing can be more easy to his
Majesty than to find in the preservation 01 ine Court
of P"r114124 I'4l'l4=l4s, gtea; means ot rec.iniret,,e
for the persons whose services. he may wish V .
knots/ledge, either bymn.tiurtE to his truly ti
ancient Peerage .the of Franc!, _ilia
personages judged worthy by Mai of lb* '
or iucorporeging with the rah:mem •-••

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they Parlialnents, the best and most:steefted of
,resent Magistrates ;
Considering that the recall of the Parliathents
in ne degree prevent his Majesty trim assemblies
.r the States General, according •o the aileirni
is, or the Legislative Body, whoa new organi-
in is become perfectly legal by the mode of regis-
lg in the said Courts;
That in this case, as in that of ee States-General,
'arliaments would have no other duty to fulfi;
to examine each in what coreerned it, whether
laws agreed upon by his.lsk.nty and the Legis.-
. Body affected of not the riOts of the Crown, or
interests of the Provinces, which it would be their
to defend and protect. Considering besid:s.
.he said Court, in die time of Charles VII. fol-
:d that Prince to Metiers; that under the 'sawn-
of Mayenne and the poignards of Seize, it de-
.ed the only legitimate King of France, lisiiry
de Bourbon, King of Navarre, of the glorious stock
of the augtist reigning House; that this declaration
cost the lives of three of its Members—Lircher, Tar.
dif, and Brisson ; that this noble and grand devotion
entitles the Court to hope, that hie Majesty will never
forget the s rvice rendered by it to the glorious
Henry IV. ancestor of the reigning King, and of
which that great Prince loved to recal the remem-
brance ; saying often, on touching his !socket, in
'which he always carried a copy of that famoue Arid,
I owe my Crown to those square bonnets.'
tit considering that the inculpations by which the
ignorance ot the Ministers, the jealousy of Courtiers,
and the new Philobopliel s, have for many years sought
to weaken the gratitude due to Parliaments, for the
_immortal and innumerable services that they have
rendered the Crown and People, only bear on a smatl
nerither cf facts, falsified or exaggerated by envy or
fear, and, above all, by the phi/mph/on of which the
Sovereign Ceurts have always been the indefatigable
enemies, that it would by easy to prove by their re-
gisters, and by the precicus collection of their remon-
strances, that almost always their resistance has had
for its motive the tanks at the Administration, and
attempts made against the liberty of the subject, the
ordonnances, or agair.st the property of individu4 ;
" That, with respect to this last subject. the Par-
lament; have been specially established their defen-
ders as to taxes, and by the States of Blois, in. ls 4,
who had declared then., Stater on a small andlimitedfool.'
izg, cu:zi;h in the akence of the said glair: ;night reziskr,
modify or refuse the edicts (Poxes ;
" That iu other circumstances, which unfortunately
were too frequent, they have hindered the usurpations
which pet sees in f„venr attempted with respect to
the Crown or its domain.:, which in every age pro.
cured tl:c Parliaments powerful and irreconcilable
eneas;es;
at That this never-failing resistance of the Parlia-
ments to Miniverial enterprises and the surprises of
!favourite:, was precisely what should merit the most
the gratitude of the Sovereigns and people ;
" That they were the moderate, sufficient and un-
armed mediators between the Throne and the enbj. cr ;
"The said Court consider;ng, in short, that by all
these motives their Lord the King, and all Europe,
stay convince themselves of the necessity of prestry
ing carefully in France the institution of Parliaments,
protests sel:mnly at the foot of the throne, in the f ice
of France aed Europe, that the French Revolution
has forced it to arm itself eutircly with the innumera-
ble evils which result anew in France, from the sup-
pression of the said Court and the other Parliaments,
born defenders of the Crown and the Princes ova- the
rights and police of which they have for 800 years
watched with a constancy, promptitude, and inflexi
bility which, in all times have been the tenet- and tits-
pair of the factious ;
" The said Court also protests, as well in its own
name as in the name of the other Parliaments, th..t
neither it n. r they con be. annihilated but by the con-
sent formally, exliress?y, and freely given of all the pm.
'winces of use kingdom, and sanctioned by the Kilt
in a state of perfect and entire liberty;—and Atte
having gravely and deeply weighed the matter hi hi,
Council, with the Princes of his House, the Grea.
Officers of the Crown, the most learned the most
honest, and most notable personages ot his kingdeni.
" In faith of which we have signed as follows t
" The Princes of the BlouJ.
" The Councillor, of Paris.
" Those ot the Provinces.
" By H. FritRAND, Councillor, Clerk or the Great
Chamber ot the Parliament ot Pa.tis."

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