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London, England, 1816-04-08 00:00:00

HAMBURWI MAIL.

HAMBURGH, APRIL 2.
lIIITRACDPIP A irr-res !SON ST. PRTSRSSUROH, ISAICIII a.
Saturday an express arrived from St. Peters-
hurt+, with the news that his Majesty the Emperor
has si:ened the New Tait, by which the importation
of refi:,el sugars into Russia is again permitted.
Upon ie..ceipt of this joyful intelligence, a great deal
of hnsiness was immediately done in sugar, and the
prices have been rising from Saturday to this day.
Silk manufactures and cloth c m likewise be imported,
. but in the latter article a difference is made between
black and other colours. Rum apd printed cottons
remain prohibited. With the next post we expect the
particulars of these important regulations."
ST. PETERSBURCH, MARCH 13.
*His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Wirtens-
. lx*r7.o with leis Consort the Grand Duchess Catherine,
duparted to-day fur Stutgard, by the way of Warsaw
and Berlin. The two young Princes of Oldenburg,
the Grand Duchess's sons by her first marriage, fol-
low her in a few days. The Prince of Orange and
the Herediury Prince of Saxe-Weimar will probably
remain here till June.
T!'e King of Denmark has been ;leased to order a
mat reduction of the land taxes in the kingdom of
Denmark. The tax upon hearths in the country,
impesed in 1812, is abolished ; and the corn tax, im-
. posed in 1813, of 612,000 tons in kind, are reduced ,
to 100,000 tons.

FRENCH PAPERS.

ROME, MARCH en.
We are assured that the affairs of Ireland are very
far advanced towards an amicable arrangement with
the Papal See. Several Englishmen have recently
been admitted to pay their court to his Holiress, who
conferred the order of the Spur and the title of Chi.
valier of the Holy Empire, on Sir Francis Berthurei.
PARIS, APRIL 4.
We learn from Naples, that on the Ist of March,
in a private and'erice, the Count de Blacas, Ambas.
sador Extraordinary, and Count de Narbonne Pelet,
Ambassador from his Majesty-Louis XVIII. ad-
dressed to the King of Naples the solemn demand of
the hind of the Princess Caroline for the Duke de
Beni. Two frigates had sailed for Palermo, to con-
vey to Naples the Hereditary Prince and his august
Daughter. It is supposed that on the 18th of April,
the Count de Blacas, as representing the Duke de
Berri, will espouse the Princess Gasoline by proxy;
and that her Royal Highness will proceed by sea to
some port of France, on board the French frigate
Galatee, now in the bay of Naples.
A curious trial is, it is laid, about to take place
before the Tribunals. Miss Paterson means to try to
CAahlish her rights as lawful wife of an ex Kieg who
has left pretty considerable property in France.
In the Chamber of Peers yesterday, the plan of
law on the subject of. Election; was rejected by a ma-
jority of 89 to 57.
On the Ist instant, the eagles, stamps, seals, and
other objects emblematic of the Government of the
Usurper, which Lad been collected in the Depart.
metes composing the Ist Division, weredestreyed in
the space fronting the Hotel of the General Staff at
Paris, arn:dst cries of " Yw le Rol."
The King is better, and begins to walk, though
with considerable pain.
The 1.; 11 •'I P. tel de Morvon. formerly Officer of
!lie io ,t z'rsof the ex.old Guard, bas been ar-
nr,:;.-a re •1‘ •T. s, and breueht to Paris.
of moderate talent, on Monday received
7. 3( e, purporting that Le was elected a Member of
tile It a; al Academy ; elated at the elevation, he
dressed himself with care, and after calling tieon two
or thr.4 friends to receive their congratulations, he
waited, in high glee, •upen the President ; when
alas! upon presenting the note which he had received,
and perceiving by the grave countenance of the Pre-
sident that all was not right, his eye glued upon the
date, and he quickly discovered that it was the Ist of
April!
Or. the subject of the Lancastrrian mode of edu-
cation, attempted to be introduced into France, the
Mrmitr ur of the 4th contains the following notice :
gg By a letter of the 3.1 of February, the Grand I
Almoner leas acquainted the Prefect of the Seine,
that having made known to the King the alarms of
the Catholics, the reclamation' of the Clergy, and
the nieniorialof the Wears-General of Paris, on the
subject of the new schools for the Catholics, on the
plan of Bell and Lancaster, his Majesty had charged
lifm to communicate the same to the Prefect, and at
the same time to inform him that, without Wishing
to decide on the new method, his Majesty was de.
sirous that it should be laid down as a principle, both
for establishments alreidy made, and future ones—
a J. That the Catholic, Apostolic, and 'Roman religion shall
be taught in the slew Schools, to the exclusion of every other.
66 a. That every tracker who does not'prufess the Catholic
faith shall he naiades' from these Schools.
. '44 3. That regulations for thew Schools shall be drawn up in
concert with the diocesan aathority.
" 4. That the Rectors shall be authorised to visit the Schools
established hi their parishes, and take care that the Catholic reli-
gion shall be there costa; taught.
" S. In fitiertbat the establishment of the new schools shall is
ro respect trench upon those of the brothers of the Christian
sclools and that in the places or yarithes where the latter shall
Live been already establiand In sufficient number, new eetwoh
shall no: be admitted to come In competition with them.*
These articles were sanctioned by his Majesty's
signature; and, in consequence of their communi-
cation, those of the Clergy of Paris who were Mem-
bers of the Committee of Primary Instruction, have
no longer refused to act.
_ °manta EXTRAORDINARY OF THURSDAY SCORNING.
The Officers and soldiers of the 10th regiment of
the line were admitted yesterday morning to an au-
ii mete (.1 the Duke of Angouleme, on the occasion
ot the ar.nivetsary of the affair of the Bridge over the
brorn last yeara Tbe Prince received them with
extreme affability and goodness.
It is said that the Commission of Public Instruc-
tion has suppressed the.Ecerromes of the Royal Colleges.
The Cour Royale, at the solemn audience of Satur.
day, will register the letterset commutation of punish.
meet which the King has granted General Debille.
In 1815 there were in the department of the
stwo
Sevres, 1828 marriages, 83,247 births, and 6*37.9
deaths.

Gtneral.Travot has been transferred from Rennet
to the Castle of Ham, in Picardy.
A JAAntAI of Belgium announces that M. Camba•

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cores has received • directions to proceed uPoit his
destination.
It has been announced hi. the departments that the
Officers on half-pay, and all other soldiers who have
returned home, must not trairel with fluilles Je route,
nnlesrthey are called into activity; and they must in
future, like the other Citizens, provide themselves
with passports delivered by the Civil Authority.
PRIVATE LETTER.
“ Paris, April'4, IBM
el The accusation against our cf:untryrnen, as I
informed you, is now limited to the escape of M.
Lavaiette, and the three Gentlemen stand accused of
having facilitated and consummated the escape of
that pt honer.. They received a copy of their indict-
ment last night. The offence is now what you call
.in England, a misdemeanour. But the Procureur
.General has thought fit to prefix. to-it an exordium
of a most • extraordinary nature. It is false, base,
and calumniating. I translate it for your informa-
tion verbalize :
" Lavalette on quitting the Conciergerle obtained a retreat,
where he rettuined concealed more than fifteen days, notwith-
standing the vigilance of the Pollee; he felt, however; that be
could not escape the search, of which he was the object, but by
placing between the Police and him the barrier of the capital and
the frontier of Emote. The step was hazardous, hr bad to find
able guides, collations,. sure, able and experienced. He did not
chuse them amongst persons who were unirtd to him by the ties
of,hlood, 'the bonds of triendship, or the duties of gratitude, he •
did not obtain more active assistance front the spirit of party,
and it was amongst the enemies of the King that he sought for
deliverers.

" 1 here were at Paris a crowd of foreigners, and amongst
them some men imbued with those antisocialSocrrines which
agitated Europe fur half a century, and which have produced
such bitter fruits to France, enemies from principle to every idea
of 'order and legitimacy—enemies to the power of Kings and
the repose of nations—enenilta of justice, which is the basis of
both. Such men, a: war with their own Goverment, could
not respect ours. They thus showed themselves the never ceas-
ing censurers, or rather the pertinacious detractors-of ev. ry mea-
sure that justice arid the welfare of the State dictared to the King's
(.;bvermuent. They did not dissemble their hatred to the dy-
nast) of the Bourbon,, still less the hope of seeing new tempes:r
agitate Europe ; and, hi order to co-operate in the great work of
general emancipation, they began by niAting champions of all
the great criminals prosecuted is France, and the acrenetlker e. the
.fieteens free all canneries.
" Amongst them was distinguished Michael Bruce, an Eng-
lish Gentlentaii, who had already signalized himself by an ardent
zeal t,.r Marshal Ney ; and Robert flitonas Wilson, an English
Genet's! ()Dicer uncoil:toyed, who had shown the same predilec-
tion for the Marshal, and who subscqueutly transferred his in-
terest to Lavalette, because it appears there was a system well
understood to protect, to collect with care, and sedulously pre-
serve all the instruments of licentiousness aoll disorder. It waste
the protection of thew foreigners that Lavalette had recourse.
Sc Su that they are accused of being the enemies of
civil order--et justice—of the power of Kings—and.
of the repose of the world I ! It must eicite the in-
dignation 4,f the British Government to km, that
subjects of leis Majesty can have inch loose and extra-
vagant charges brought against them—particUlarly
as the French prosecutor in this preface violates the
law of his own land. For Art. 271 of the Penal Code
expressly says,
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" TheProCureur General shall prosecute either by himself or
his substitute all persons accused accorling to the forms pre-
scribed in Chapter I. of the present 1 itie . He shall not make
to the Court Cl 7 other accusation on tails nullity, and if there k
reaJon, of o:i.cr penetics.
" Tile meaning of which is, that he can only bring
forward the charges which were exhibited by the
Chamber of Accusation—and that if •he does other.
wise, he shall be subject to penalties by an action
against himself."

The felln,wing Memorial has been drawn up ;A fa-
vour of Sir Rkil3L/ti WILSON, and Messrs. Bauce and.
HUTCHINSOI4

Deprived of the assistance of a communication of the doco-
metes re:at:ye to the.r case, which they ace unceasingly solicited
Sit7Ce the COnirn_nct mem of t: e roceedings undertaken against
them, and which ha, Intl co--tahtly refused, on pre•ence that
such cr.mniu..ication might • danger the success of the p-oseco-
don, by aftord:og then: the means of justifying themselves; :dr
Robert tit it-on, ble•sra. Bruce and Hutchinson, will venture,
however, r,. enter upon a d.‘cussiun of the 111001/1:3 of the Ordon-
I &ince of tha A l March, 1416.
It v. sts?.. , in this Orclunnance, that the named Wilson, by his
own •( and from his owo correspondence, In which he
manifest) t pinions highly anoleumable and subversive of all social
order, stapes accused of having concerted and filed upon, with
his correlinndents and accompl•ces, a resolution, and come•
quently a plot directed " generally against the political system
of Europe, and having for its special object to destroy or change
the French Government =I to ratite the people to take up Arm,
against the authority of ;he King. That he is equally charged
with having attempted to carry this plot into execution, by en-
detvhut Ins to re..cue by stratagem or by violence, from a prose-
, cation conunandeel by the King, some of the individuals included
In the Ist 11 ride of the. Ordunnance of the 24th July last, and
principally by concerting, agreeing upon, and tunsununating the
escape and concealment of Lavalette, condemned for the crime
of high treaion, and that these crimes are provided for by the
Articles 87, Stt, and 89, el the Penal Code, and may incur a
punishment ...Meting and degrading.
" That the nwned Bruce and Hutchinson are charged with
having linnwingiy aided and assisted WilsOn ha the acts which
prepared, facilitated, and consummated this same plot, and of
having co-opt acrd in its execution, viz. Bruce by ccncerting with
Wilson the Bight of Lavalette, in participating in the measures
taken to conceal hint in Hutchinson 's apartment, and by leading
hie cabriolet to effect the departure' of the said Lavalette • and
Hutchinson, by receiv;ug and concealing in his house 1.0.441ette
and escorting him to Compiegne ; that these crimes are provided
for by the Articles 59, 60, $l7, and 89, 21U and 248 of the Penal
Code, and may equally incur an affitcnve and degrading punish-1
menu." Such is the text of the. Indictment, which, if it were
proved,would entail the pain of death num theacemed. Under
there circumstances, the duty of the Judges is (according to the
Article Xel of the,Code of Criminal instruc ion) " to examine
whether there exist against the accused evidence or indications
of an act denominated a crime by the law ; and whether this evi-
dence or these indications are sufficiently serious to require the
case to be brought to a trial." This examination is precLely what
Sir Robert Wilson, Messrs. Bruce and blutchiuson, at the risk of
endangering the success or the prosecution, will immediately un-
dertake.

'lle charge brought against Siritobert Wilson comprehends
three distinct heads—tst. Having attempted to destroy the po-
litical system of Europe.-21. Having attempted to destroy or
change the French Government.. 3d. Having consummated the
escape of Lavairtte.—The first of these charges strikes the hind
immediately whit astonishment. What, says one to one's self, bir
Robert Wilson has conceived a project of overtunung the po
cal system of all the States of Europe! it is .not possible. Bona-
parte at the bead of 600,000 soldiers was unable to street that
design, and Sir Robert Wilson has ventured spun the attempt
with the sole assistance of his two friends ! hit. Robert Wilson
must be bereft of his reason ! One then naturally ands, were it
true. tfiat so gigantic a conception had entered his m nd, it dyes
not belong to a French tribunal, to the Chamber of Council of
the Civil Tribunal of first instance of Paris, to take cognizance of
the fact. For, it is an established rube, that a, government cannot
extend Its interter;uce to matters which do rat concern itself,
that it has no right to punish crimes conuni.tesi against Foreign.
Governments. • 1
It would, therefore, be necessary, in order to try Sir Robert
Wilson, to assemble a fresh Congress! liut, without further Fur-
' suing such a chimera, let us revert to the principle Laid dowe;
' by the 23 let Article, namely, "That an accused individual cannot
be brought to trial, unless there exist'evidence or indications of
an act denonshated a crime by the law." But there exists no
' law in France, which ranks among crimes punishable by French
tribunals, plots directed against thepoliticat system of Europe,
-of Asia Africa, or America. Whence it follows, that in the
fiesta instances pretended plot with which Bit Robert

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charged, cabnot warrant his being brought to a trial. Let us
pdd, in his defence that this plot is nothing but a mere phantom,
which has visited the imagination of the first Judges, since there
.exists a 'evidence of Sir Robert's having, in fact, tnachinated
any thing of the. kind:
The Oitionnance speaks of his confessions, a singular evi-
dence indeed; in a capital charge, where it is an invariabl-
maxim, that the confessions of the accused can n•fver be titride to
operate towards his condemnation! independently of thi., it is
false, wholly fake that Sir Robert ever confessed himself the
author of a plot directed against the political system of Europe.
That Monsieur, the Juge d'instruction, may have made him
r undergo a kind of examination upon his political tenets ;—ti.3t
Sir -Robert any have spoken with more or-less candour and
conadenee;—that he may have occasionally remarked to this
Judge, that his judicial curiosity went for;—chat, notwithstand-
ing that he may have professed before that Magistrate the same
liberal principles with which every true Englishman is actuated,
which every Member of Parliament, every Citizen even has a
right to express in England upon the political affairs of his coon-
try and those of neighbouring nations. That he may have pro-
fessed the doctrine of Plato, or that of Aristotle—that of Mably,

I or that of Rousseau, of Locke or of Bacon—that he may Lair
shown himself an Utopian—that he may have agreed In opinion
with the Abbe de Pradt, or with any other Publicist—what con-
nection
has that with the matter in que.tion ? He has eitercited
that right which every Englisbnian has, and which every man
should have, of thinking with freedom; the law does not take
cognisance of thoughts. but of actions. kis, therefore, not upon
the political opinions of Sir Robert Wilson that a bill Of indict-
ment can be tdunded. It would undoubtedly be different if he lad
frunit:d a plot, whose special object bad been to destroy or change
the French Goternmeut.
But there is not more reality in this plot than in the former;
and of that, demonstration may be early obtained, by
over the fragments of his rorrespoudence, on which the firs:
Judges have founded their accu,a,ion.—(lb be continued.)
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THE, EVEN ING STAR.

LONDON.

MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1816.
PRICE OF srocks THIS DAY Al"( WELVE O'CLOClif
Reduced 59a ex. div.—Cons. mo. 61 a—for ace. 6164
4 per Cent. 74 f—s per Cent 904 t —non& 4s. ss. pr. •
Own. pay. 161 i —Exch. Bills par, 41. pr.

Since our last we have received the Paris Papers to
Thursday inclusive. On the authority of the Moniteur,
we announce, that the Schools established in l'aris
upon the Lancasterian System have been destroyed,
on the pretext of improving them. The article al-
luded to will be found among our extract!. In fact,
bigotry seems to be again the Order of the Day in
France—a plain proof that the present order of things
is not destined to be long-lived. Mankind are some.
times willing, even in an enlightened age, to tolerate
the continuance of institutions which they execrate,
for fear of the shock which their removal might oc-
casion ; but the positive and permanent creation, or
even the revival, of institutions founded on bigotry
and injustice, cannot .possibly be followed by success,
in the present age of the world, even when supported
by the blind zeal of a 4, beloved FERDINAND," the
mistaken piety of a Lotus, the craft and cunning of
the Jesuits, or the infallibility of a Roman Pontiff.—
When will the Rulers of the Earth learn wisdom
Some of them appear to us to belong to the class of
incurables.

Two Hamburgh Mails also arrived last night.-1
Trade has experienced a revival, in the North parti-
cularly, by the issue of a new Tariff by the Emperor
ALEXANDER. The disputes betwe en the KING and
the Statis of Wirtemberg still continue. The KING
maintains, that so long as 46 the proviiiond state"
continues, the claims of the States to co-operate in
matters of taxation or revenue must be illegal—that
only a dffinitive Condit:di= can give them this right.
On the other hand, the States, by it Remonstrance
of the 12th ult. have declared the levying of taxes,
without their concurrence, to be illegal.

A Mail from Flanders arrived this morning. The
following are the only articles of interest which the
Brussels Papers contain t

BRUSSELS, APRIL 2.

For some time past the journals both of this coun-
try and foreign ore full of inaccuracies, and even of
news wholly false.
In the Memorial of the 21st March, under the
head of Paris, we read that 46 his Majesty the King
of the Netherlands grants many Patents of Nobility
to subjects of his Kirgdom who are judged worthy of
this honourable distinction," &c.
If the French Papers contain such erroneous ac-
counts from our country, in return one of our papers
which is used to speak to us of France, with the same
precision as if it were talking of Japan. gave us, the
day before ye.,-...rday. a most improper letter gd /eure
Nur inconvestarde), under the name of the Duke of
Wellingtoa.
How can any one dare, while Brussels is fell of
English, to ascribe to their illustrious Countryman
phrases' full of rhodomontade and of boasting—a
language entirely opposed to the character of a hero ?
This letter displays the manner and the opinion of
some Es-Frenchman, and not those of the noble-
minded conqueror of Bonaparte. May we not pre-
sume that the article in which Count Jules de Polig-
nac is brought upon the stage, is from the same
manufactory

We have this morning received .Tamaica Papers to
the 11th of February. The following are extracts:

CURALVA, FEBRUARY Q.
The long-expected arrivaLof troops from Holland to take pos-
session of this colony; was realized on Saturday last. About six
o'clock in the teeth's of that day, the Dutch ship Prins von
Orange, b 4 guns, Captain Van Edward Lowe, arrived here ;
and shortly after, on the samcevening, the armed schooner 1)c
Kray,Captain Van Henrick de Quarttll, also entered the har
boar. The night belneso far advanced, no salutation took place ;
but in the morning, at nine o'clock, a royal salute wa► fired from
the Prins von Ovule, which was immediately returuedtrom the
Warerport.
His.Excellany Vice Admiral Alben Vrieualt, accompanied
by the principal Officers of his suite, left the Prins von Orange at
ten o'clock, under s salute from the ports, witch was returned
front that ship, and vs ere received at their landing place by his
Honour Major-General John k Couteur,. Lieutenant Governor
and Cosinnanderls-Chief and suite, and the Honourable the
Members of his Majesty's Counctl—tbe 7th West-India Regi-
ment having been previotisly drawn up on each side of the broad
street, presented arms, the hand playing " Gad save the King."
—Between three and four hundred troops have arrived, but
we cannot state the precise period when a change of flags will
take place here. The warrant for the restitution of the. Colony,
which was deLiered font the office a the &attar), of State to

the Dutch Ambassador, on the nth of Wernther, rot L.
yet arrived; and besides, there
sbeind nu transports here ou
off the Lritiolt troops. _ _

Jamaica Gazette of the 1O "nerd". a the eaVini
Primrose for Curacoa, for the purpose of taking on
Governor of that Island and the !knish troops.
l'he rpat:ish f igate Sabina was to sail shorir frmn La
Cruz for Cadiz with 19 intrilenre,ci,m of iruni:y v:hisfa hr
sent room Mexico to La Vera Cruz on as:count of the
thAternnivol.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
FALMOLITII, APRIL 5.
No arrivals.—Sailed his I\l4icsty's ships
HEWN, JASPER, And WIIITMG. cn Y mite.

LIVERPOCLi APRIL 5.
Arrived the Wyl.,m, ROW NSON, f1(.711 Pin ;
the 2d February : on ihe 31 ct ft Ttr,e3r,
run on board of by the Mary, .lact:soN, fro„, th;l
port for Alexandria, which vessel carrisd .opay
bowsprit, and received oificr
The Wylam sprung her foteniast, and darnavd L„r
larboard bow.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 7.
Arrived his Majesty's ehi,, Anutonx,freen the me:
diterranean ; Dwat figrn Plymouth, witlr troops•
and the North Star, from Atneiica—tlie
Duncan, 1-I,lund, Bs itiih hie, and Harper trans.
ports, from Gnetmey, :mirk troops; the Anna trans-
port, from the Mediterranean, under qrmr,ntitte;
Speedwell, 1-1/m,:ts:crn,t, from Waterford, uith joss
of both her topinaLts, and other damage,

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