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Miles an Hoot, through Ferrybridge, Duacsster, Newark,
Granthutti, and Stamford. This Coach was always. aEowed
to he the roost agreeable and complete Public Conveyance on
the North R..td, and the PrOprietiirs are determined it shall
Lot !use that d aracor. York, Darliegtoti,Newcastle, Durham,
:ttrtlerland, aatl Edit.bmgh New l'osr Coach every day—car fits
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BRniSII AMERICA.

PROVINCIAL PARLIANIEN F OF LOWER CANADA.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Orrice, SATURDAP, MARV% VT, tet3.
• ?this day, at i'tt:e• o'clock, his Excellency the
Gewernor.in.Chief c.imc down in state to the Legis•
:dye Council Chamber, arid being seated on the
Thlone, the Gentleman Usher of the Black hod
was sent to command the presence of the Assembly,
which being come up, his Excellency was pleased to
give the 11:Iyal Assent to the several Bilis.
Atter which his Excellency was pleased to mike
the following Speech to both House;
• Ge•ntleman of the Legislative Council,
Gentlemen of the house of Assembly, •
The nteasuret adoptud by you having provided far the levee-
taut public interests, which required your immediate attention,
iit a manner evincing but!::: just comprehension of the itzigenciest
of the Province, and as:..:!: oui tiesire to promote its prosperity,
DO longer delay to relerse you front these useful public labours,
which have detain:•d yoil from your private caftans. •
I owe it et:Luny to yourselves, and to a sense of justice, to
ezprecs the high satiraeri:sta with which I have viewed your un-
wearied applicatton to matters closely interwoven with the gene-
ra welfare.

Gentlertrn of the House of Assembly,
The liberality with which you have provided for the advance.
nicer of purposes of luthpublic utility, has bulliciently shown,
that you have proceeded upon those patriotic and loyal l'rin •
',ivies which &pity when they actuate the Representatives of a
true people.
' Gentle:nee of the Levislative Council,
Gentlemen of the House dd..l.63eilibly, •
You will have learn: l with satisfaction, that the desire of his
Majesty for the renewal of amity with America, has been met
by a corresponding disposition from the Government of the Uni-
ted States, and that a peace has ensued, which, it may be per-
mitted tab to hope, will, by its ultimate provisioos and its perma-
.nante, 'compensate fur the evils of war, to which it has given a
tertninatior.

have now to inform you, that I have received the comfit:on:a
of his Royal Highness the firing? Regent to return to En,;laiiii,
for the purpose of repelling accusations affecing my military cha-
racter, which have been preferred by the Lye Naval Commander
in Chitf on the takes in -Canada; and while I take my leave of
you with regret, I embrace ttith eagerness the opportunity id-
fantod site of justifying my rel:u7ation.
However torLiit on the rubject which so unexpei.tedly thus
summons my attention, be assured I shall bear with me a lively
recollection of the firm loupport I have ilentittl from you, and I
be gratin:v.! at an tatty yeriod in representing ikiso.ially to
his Royal iiightioni the Prince Regent tbr real and
evinced by every class his Majesty's +objects in Utitish Muth
akinenca doing my adminiitestion, their attachment to hit au-
Vat person and to bit Government, and most particularly, 'be
spirit and devotion manifested by the people of the Caaadas iu
the late contest with the United State* of America.

LETTER FROM FOUCHE TO LOUIS XVIII.

We copy the folloring letter from a Morning Paper
without pledging ourselves to its authenticity.;
EXTRACT OF A LETTRIA,FROIst THE DLIC X OF 0 CRANTO TO
T 1 live° or F.RANCU; DATRD JULY 7, 1815.
" It is not your Majesty who is drea4led ; it has
been seen, during twelve months, that confidence in
your m.,deration and justice sustained France in the
midst of fears which were inspired by the cnterptises
of a party in your Court.
Every one knows that it is neither knowledge nor
experience that your Majesty wants ; you know France
and the present age—yon know the power of opinion,
but your goodness has too often .permitted you to
listen to the wishes of those who followed you in ad-

versify. From that moment there were two people in
Fiance. It w.is, no doubt, painful to your lqajesty to
repel those wis!ies by your own voluntary act--how
often you most have regretted that you could nut cp-
oppose to their applications the nationallaWs.
•, If 'thv same system should be renewed, and•if,
deriving all your power from hereditary right, your
telfjesty should recognise' none of the rights of the
people, except hose which emanate from the conces-
sions of the throne, France, as before, will be Uncer-
tain as to its duty ; it will have to balance between
its love fir the country, and its lore for the Prince,

between its inclination and its increasing knowledge.
Its obedience will have no other basis than its perm.
nal confidence in-yattr Majesty ; aeld though •tfutt
confidence should be sufficient to maintain a du? re-
spect, still it is not thus that dynasties strengthen
themselves and avoid dangers.
4. Sire—Your Majesty has discovered that those
who impel power beyond its limits arc but little fit
to sustain it when shaken,; that authority destroys
itself in the continued struggle which forces it to re-
cede from its own measures ; that 'the fewer rights a
people enjoys, the more their natural distrnst inclines
them to maintain all those which cannot he diSputed
with them, and that it is always thus that lose de-
cays, and revolutions ripen.
We conjure you, Sire, that yon-will deign, on
this occasion, to consult only your own justice and
your own wisdom. Believe that the French people
attach, at present, as much importance to their li-
berty is to their lives: they will never believe them.
selves free if there be not rights equally inviolable
belonging to all ; and had ve not, even under your
dynasty, States General who we:e independent of the
Monarch
" Sire—Your wisdom should net Wait for calami-
tous events before you 'make concessions 'at such a
crisis they might be injurious, and perhaps extensively
so ; at present concessions would conciliate arid give
energy to the royal authority ; if delayed, they might
isidieate oply its weakness; they would be .extorted
by tumuli; and the Wads of Freochmen would still
coutiaue inceuscd."..
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THE EVENING

JADNDON.

SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1815.
?RICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK:
Itelueert 571f—Cons. money S7if--4 per Cent. 741
S per Cent. bsi—Omnium mo. •—Do. pay. 9ji
Bowls Si. die.—Ezebecter biUs 4e. Se. Me.

- The news of the surrender of BONAPARTI to the
British squadron caused yesterday, as may be easily
imagined, an unusual degree of bustle. Every kind
of business seemed to be for a time suspended, and
66 the surrender" occupied, alone, the general con-
versation for the whole day. But, notwithstanding
the various channels through which the intelligence
was received kr the morning, many persons remained
incredulous, till every doubt was removed, about
hall.past three o'clock, by the publication of the lA-
cial communication of the fact, by the Duke of
OTRANTO (FOLICI1R) to Lord CASTLEREAGR, trans-
mitted to Ministers by his Lordship in a dispatch
rfecived in the course of the day. We hastened
to insert the Official Communication in our Third
Edition. and we again-give it place : •

LONDOti GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY,
Sala putokir, JULY 21.
FOREIGN OFFICE, JULY SI.
• A Dispatch, of which the following is an extract,
has been this cloy received from Viscount CASTLV
REAOII, dated Paris, July 17,1815.:
4, Since closing my dispatches of this date, 1 have
received the accompanying communication from this
Government :

(TRANSLATION.)
II I have the honour to acquaint your Lordship,
that NAPOLEON BONAPARTE:, net being able to escape
from the English cruizers, or from the guards kept
upon the coasts has taken the Toolution of going 'on
board the Englisliship BeLLEnoettow, Captain MAST.
LAND.—I have the honour to be. &c.
(Signed) 44 Le Duc D'OTRANTZ.
" To his Excellency Lord Viscount Castiereauk.

No sooner was the truth of this important event
put beyond all manner of doubt by the publication of

the Gazette, than new questions were started, and ar.
gued with a degree of impatience which set all sober
inference at defiance. " Has he arrived ?—" At
what port Has he reached London ?"---44 When
may he be expected r,-.6 Where is he to be kept r
Will he be tried here, or delivered up
_ko Louts
XV 111. ?"..46 Can they do any thing with him, since
they have acknowledged him as an independent So-
vereign ?" with a thousand question; equally sapient,
and all answered in a thousand literati ways.

BONAPARIII. however, is sale, hut a report circu•

fated yesterday and even said to have been announced
by telegraph. that the Bau.aaorunw had reached
Plymouth, is not yet confirmed. He will arrive,
however. in good time. and we doubt not wall

be properly disposed of—some say ig in the stite
rooms in the Tower, which have for %onse time
been preparing for his reception, and where su-
perb carpets have been laid,' with silk curtains
to the windows, and appropriate furniture for so
distinguished a guest." Others have assigned to
him the apartments in Dumbarton Castle which
were occupied by General Le Cutac and other
dishonourable fellows who had broken their parole
and were retaken. Some assert that Sheerness will
be the place of his confinement till his fate be decided
on; and in proof of this is adduced a visit paid to
that place yesterday by five of the Cabinet Ministers,
viz. the Earls of WasTmostataisri, I.4venroor., and
HARROWEY ; Lord Mattu.a, and the Right tio-.
nourable WELLESLEY Pau:, who went down the *River
soon after the receipt of the intelligence of NAPO.
I.ICON'S surrender, and embarked in a yacht: it was
supposed they would proceed to Sheerness. This
place, it must be allowed, is well adapted for such a
trust, being strictly a fortress, and that of small ex-
tent, haring no population within its walls, but the
garrison and its attendants.
The place that may be fixed on for BONAPARTE'S
prison we consider but of trivial import—but not so
the line of procedure that may be adopted by thitk
country, by the Allies generally, and by Lows XVIIL

respecting him, now tik-t—ltis person is secured.
'When, in tbe.yeai 1814, the Allies gained- posses.
sion of Paris, he renounced all pretensions to (he
throne of France, and professed to have retired from
the troubles of general rule to spend the remainder
of his days quietly in the Island of Elba. He ought
to have felt giateful for the mercy which he then ex-
perienced, and any other man, satisfied with the es.
cape whicb lie has made after causing so Much trou•
ble to the Potentates of Europe, so much misery to
their people and to France, would have congratulated
himself on his singular good fortune in escaping a
gibbet—the proper reward of so many murders, and
would have•been catch' never to forfeit, by A fresh
act, the grince which had, ho. imprudently, been ex-
tended to him. •
It is a trite remark that the escape of criminals
freim a merited punishment often hardens them to a
repetition of their crimes. This has been verified in.
the case of BONAPARTE. Instead of remaining quiet
in his retreat, he enters into correspondence with hi;
former associates, foments rebellion and treason, en
tern France at the head of an armed band, and
epeds, vi rt arnah not merely to rob a house or a
vineyard;but to seize.a crown and a kingdom
In such a Cu. it is siogalu to observe bow some

sa cao bewilder themselves with metaphysical di:•
qoisitions, till they artist at ibe conclusion, that to
take another pert m's property is not robbery, and
that killing; or causing the death of men, in viola-
tion of public law, is not murder..
Away with such sophistry I Who or what is Bo.'
NAPAR it that common sense should lose its office and
discrimination l-=that the 'principles of justice should
Change their nature and qualities when he becomr4
the object of discussion ? Yes, who and what is 80.
NAPARTZ ?—An upstart adventurer, elevated by acci-
dent and successful crime, by . Ids associates in ini-
quity, to the usurped throne of an oppressed people.
whose blood I.e has 'made to flow in torrents in the
execution of his criminal attempts to' subjugate the
world to his dominion I

Who is BONAPART6 ?—The same miscreant who,
when driv,in from his wicked pre-eminence, and yet
suffered to.live, fomented sedition, treason, and rebel-
lion against the Monarch whose throne he bad before
occupied. and usurped it a second time. The
same man who justified the act, and by the justi.
fication proclaimed to the world that he can be bound
by, no engagement...that he can be won brim favour,
that he can be bound by no law human or divine that
shall leave him the power of action. Who is BONA-
PART; ? A mean, degraded, contemptible wretch,'
who could lead men to the commission of crimes
as their Captain and Leader, and then leave
them to the mercy of the enemies whom he bas
created and provoked, while he himself, by a flight
five times repeated, endeavours to prolong his own
execrable existence. Bit, 44 he has cast himself on
the generosity and liberality of a great and a magna-.
Wilsons people I He is a fallen enemy ! He can do
no more mischief now ! What would be the use of
carrying matters any farther than by securing his
person, to put it out of his power to do any father
mischief !"

We can hardly notice such nonsense with any de-
gree of patience. Make a merit of surrendering
himself when he had 'lane every mischief in his
power, and when he had no way left to escape ! Is
it a thing uncommon for a highwayman or a thief to
surrrender himself to his pursuers when he finds that
he cannot longer prevent their seizing upon his per-
son ? Is this surrender ever employed as an appeal
to the clemency and magnanimity of a judge or jury
in mitigation of punishment ?
Some men are fond of quoting thel.tw of Nations in
favour of this miserable culprit, but from the lax man-
ner we think they have never studied the code. There
is a law older than any authority they can quote, we
mean the law of common sense which directs men tode
stroy vipers and noxious animals as their best security
Against the injuries wlii-h they ;nay inflict if kept alive.
But let us hear what these admired jurists do actually
lAy down as public law There is, however," says
VATIPEL (b. 111. clt. VIII. § 141.) one case in which
'we may tetuw to spare-the life of an enemy who sur-
renders, or to allow any capitulation toa town reduced
to the last extremiry. It is, when that enemy has been
guilty of some enormous &roach of the law of Meant,
and particularly, whets he has violated she lam of War,
This refusal of quarter ii no natural consequence of,
the war, but a punishment for his crime—a punish-
ment which the injured party has a ,right to inflict.
But,' in order that it.be lustlfinflicted, it must fall
on the guilty."
But what says thelaim of England?—if we may
take the inference.of one of our law yt rs as well drawn,
even the Government has not the power to release
such a culprit, when by any means it has got him
into custody, till he shall have been released in.due
course of law. The Gentleman to whom we now
allude lately placarded the Metropolis, offering a re-
ward of one thousand jaws& far the apprehension of
BONAPAIITS, that he might be brought to trial for the
murder of Captain Miramar. Captain MAITLiSND
will now be entitled to this reward ; for it cannot be
doubted that he will soon deliver him up to the Exe- I
cutive Government of Britain.

A new question may then be started. Should the'
relatives of Captain WRIGHT demand justice on ,the.
murderer, will it be in the power of even the Govern.
,went to evade the demand, shbuld they be.so in•
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dined s? We only put the question, for we pre not
ourselves qualified to answer it ; but shall leave it to
Ito lawyets and casuists to decide.

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There is yet one consideration which should have
great weight in any decision that may be come to
respecting the bad man, of whom it may.truly be
said as of MAHONET—" Lustind ambition Were die
springs of all his actions, whilst without one virtue,
dissimulatilu, like a flattering painter, betle:ks him
with the colouring of them all !" Would it be
politic to embarrass Loma the Eighteenth with
the trial and punishment of a criminal who has
forfeited his life to every State in Europe t * He has
still much to fear from the remains of faction, from
the adherents of the idol of their idolatry—the Mi.
nister to all their Vices ;,but their malignity can do
its no farther injury ; Britain is not reduced to the
necessity of courting the favour or the forbearance of
such miscreants. We cannot lessen their enmity,'
nor cart any act of ours' increase their antipathy.—
While this man is suffered to live, there is no possibi.
lity of 'saying what may happen—especially should
we :O'er him again to put his font on the soil of
Fraoce—even as a criminal carrying to prison or to
the'staffold. There have been such things. as d rescue
in the history of flagitious men. The stake .is too
;rest to be hazarded. The law.ofself-pieservation
is the first law of nature, and that law demands from
our Government, that on no consideration shattver
should they suffer BONAPARTS to escape out of their
hands, tow that they hate hint in their power.