Star.
London, England, 1817-03-13 00:00:00

HAMPSHIRE MEETING.

On Tuesday a Meeting of the County of Hants
took place at Winchester, pursuant to a Requisiti.m
to the High Sheriff, signed by forty-five Freeholders
of the highest rank and respectability ; among whom
were the Marquisses of Winchester and Buckingham;
Lords Portsmouth, MalmsSury, Rodney, Northesk,
Fitaharris, and Palmerston ; Sir T. Baring,
Sir C. Ogle, Sir J. W. S. Gardiner, the-Right Hon.
G. Rose, Right Hon. W. Sturges Bourne ; W. Chute,
T. F. Heathcote, Esqrs.the Members for the County,
Bcc. Ste. to agree to an Address to the Prince Regeqt
ou the late atrocious and traitorous outrage upon the
persim of his Royal Highness, on his return from
opening the Session of Parliament. The Address was
moved by Sir C. Ogle, Bart. and seconded by A.
Smythe, Esq.—Mr. Cobbett and Mr. Hunt attempted
to carry an amendment, embodying subjects totally
irrelevant to the object for which the Meeting was
convened, but in ibis they tailed, as there were at
least three to one in Eatonr of the Address, which
was ascertained, not in the usual manner of a show
of hands, but by the two parties separating. Lord.
Cochrane was present, and also addressed the Meet.
log. There were about SOW persons present. The
Meeting commenced at twelve, and terminated at
five, by an unanimous vote of thanks to the Sheriff
for his upright and impartial conduct on the occasion.

It seems that five King's Messengers have been
dispatched to 'cations places, with warrants from thd
Secretary of State for the apprehension of individuals.
They are accompanied by police ofiLers for the
safety of their prisoners. Their several destinations
are kept a profound secret.
Yesterday mottling the Grand Duke NICHOLAS lcfi
town at nine o'clock, for Claremont, to take leave of
their Royal and Serene Highnesses the Princess
Citant.orra and Prince LEOPOLD ; thence his High.
ness proceeded to Windsor to meet the PRINCE Re.
1, tient., and dine with the Queen. A great concourse
of spectators assembled to see his Imperial Highness:
the church bells continued ringing the whole of the
day. TO-morrow morning his Highness and suite
will leave town fur Dover, where they will embark
fur the Continent.

A German Journal gives the following statement
of the actual force of the Austrian army, and pledges
itself for its ac:uracy :

Infantry - • 349,2(0
Light lulantry - - 85,800
Cavalry - 75,000
Artillery - - - 110,003

The stormy weather which has made the tirst week
of March the mast wintry of the season, has obstruc-
ted the progress of the coaches ; and the Landon
mail arrived on Saturday, at Glasgow, five hours
later than usual.

Friday, when within two miles of Winchester, the
Southampton day-coach from London was upset, by
the tore-wheel coming off. There were only one in-
side and two outside passengers. Lieutenant AMA.,
Ist West-India Regiment, who was on the box with
the coachman, was much hurt and cut in the knee :
the other outside passenger was only slightly injured,
and th.: lady inside escaped without the least damage.
The following fatal accident happened on the night
of the 25th ult.—litcon TCRNSR, Esq. of Park Hall,
near Kidderminster, was returning in his carriage
from Dr. Blakiston's, of Belbroughtoo, about eleven
o'clock, and in going down broom Lane, one of the
horses took fright, toned the other upon the bank,
and upset the carriage, when William Ashcroft, the
butler, who was riding by the side of the coachman,
tell from the dickey upon his /wad with the body of
the carriage upon him, and wts-killed on the spot. I
The coachman, (who it appears, was perfectly sober)
was thrown further towards the horses and escapers
unhurt. We are happy also to bear that Mr. Turner
and his family did not receive any material injury.

goAtipARTZ.

LETTER, IT ORDER OF ?HI EMPEROR NAPOLEON, AD-
DRESSED BE OINENAL COUNT MONTHOLON, TO bin
.HUDSON LOWE, BRITISH OOVP.IINOR OF THE ISLAND
_ _

Or ST. HELENA.

" GENERAL—I have received the Treaty of the
3d of August; 1815, concluded between his Britannic
Majesty, the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of
Russia, and the King of Prussia, which accompanied
your letter of the 23i of icily. •
" The Emperor Napoleon protests against the
Contents of that Treaty i he is not the prisoner of
England: After having placed his abdication in the
hands of the Representatives of the MI6 'n, fir the
advantage of the Constitution adopted by till French
People, and in favour of h;.: Son, he repaired volun-
tarily and freely to England, with the view of living
there, its a private individual, under the protection of
the British laws. The violation of every law cannot
constitute a right. The person of the Emperor Na-
poleon is actually in the power of England, but he
neither has been, not is, in the power of Austria,
Russia, and Prussia, either in fact or of right, even
according to the laws and customs of England,
which never included, in the exchange of prisoners,
Russians, Prussians, Austrians, Spaniards, or Portu-
guese, though united to these Powers by treaties of
alliance and making war conjointly with them.
" The Convention of the 2d of Angnst, concluded
fifteen days after the Emperor was in England, can.
not have of right any effect. It exhibits only a spec-
tacle of the coalition of the four greatest Powers of
Europe for the oppression of a single man I—a coali-
tion which the opinion of every nation and all the
principles of sound morality equally disavow.
" The Emperors of Austria and Russia, and the
King of Prussia, having neither in fact nor in right
any claim over the person of the Emperor Napoleon,
could decide nothing respecting him.
Had the Emperor Napoleon been in the power
of the Emperor of Austria, that Prince would have
recollected the relations which religion and nature
have formed between a father and a sen—relations
' which are never violated with impunity.
" He would have recollected that Napoleon had
four times restored to him his throne; viz. at Leo_
ben in 11'97—at Luneville is 1804, whet his armies
were under the walls of Vienna—at Presburgh in
1808—and at Vienna in 1809, when his armies had
possession of the capital and three.frirths of the mo-
I patchy! That Prince would' bait recollected the
'protestations he made to Napoleon at the Nowt in
Moravia in 1806, and at the interview in Dresden
in 1812.

" Had the person of the Emperor Napoleon been
in the power of the Emperor Alexander, he would
have recollected the ties of friendship contracted at
at Etfurth, and during twelve years of daily
correspondence.

" He would have recollected the conduct of the
Emperor Napoleon the day after the battle of Au-
sterlitz, when, though he could have made hint, with
the wreck of his army, prisoner, he contented himself
with taking his parole, and allowed him to operate
his retreat. He would have recollected the dangers
to which the Emperor Napoleon personally exposed
hims. If in order to extinguish the fire at Moscow,
and to preserve that capital for him—assuredly, that
Prince would never have violated the duties of
friendship and gratitude towards a friend in mis-
fortune.

" Had the person of the Emperor Napoleon been
in the power of the King of Prussia, that Sovereign
could not have forgotten that it depended on the
Emperor, after the battle of Friedland. t• place an-
other Prince on the throne of Berlin. He would not
have forgotten, in the presence of a disarmed enemy,
the protestations of attachment and the sentiments of
gratitude which he testified to him in 1812 at the in-
terviews in Dresden.

,‘ It accordingly appears front articles 2 and .5, of
the Treaty of the 2d of August, that these Princes,
being incapable of exercising any influence over the
disposal of the Emperor, who was not in their power,
accede to what may be done thereon by his Britannic
Majesty, who takes upon himself the charge of ful-
filling every obligation. These Princes have re.
proached the Emperor Napoleon with having prefer.
red the protection of the English laws to theirs. The
false ideas which the Emperor Napoleon had formed
of the liberality of the laws of England, and of the
influence of the opinion of a great, generous, and free
people over their Government, decided him to prefer
the protection of these laws to that of a father.in.law
or an old friend.

a The Emperor Napoleon had it in his power to
secure, by a diplomatic treaty, whatever was personal
to himself, by putting himself either at the head of
the army of the Loire, or at the head of the army of
the Gironde, commanded by General Clause! ; but
wising, henceforth, for nothing but retirement and
the protection of the laws of a free State, either
English or American ; all stipulations appeared to
him unnecessary. He conceived that the English
people were more bound by a conduct which was, on
his part; frank, noble, and full of confidence, than
they would have been by the most solemn treaties.—
He has been deceived, but this error will for ever
cause true Britons to blush, and will, in the present
as well as the future generations, be a proof of the
bad faith of the English Administration.

Anstnanand Prussian Commissioners are arrived
at St. Helena. If the object of their minion be the
fulfilment of a part of the duties which the Empe-
rors of Austria and Russia have contracted by the
Treaty 'of the Val of August, and to uke care tha.
the English agents, in -a. small colony, in the raids
of the ocean, do not. fail in the gespe‘t due to •

Prince connected with these Sovereigns by the bonds
I of relationship and so many other ties, proofs of the
character which belong to these two Monarchs will
Ise recognitc :I in this proceeding ; but you, Sir, have
declared that these Commissioners have neither the
ti: ht nor the power of giving any opinion on what
may be paccintt on this rack !

•r The Eorhsll Ministers have caused the Empe-
ror Nap,,lcnn to he transported to Sr. Helena, at the
distance of 2,0c0 leagues from Europe! This rock,
situated within t tropics, and .s(lole.yues from ar.y
Continent, is cubjeet to th? devouring Leafs of these
latitudes. It is cu:•ered clouds and fogs during
three-fourths of the year, ahrl is at once tL•e m st
arid and the most hum:d county in the wuril
a climate is most inim cal to the health the Ern,
peror, and hatred must have dictated the choice of
this resl,..nce. as well as the instructions given by
the English Ministry to the Oflieers commanding in
the Island.

lc They have even been ordered to call the Empe-
ror Napoleon Gentral, as if it were wished ,o oblige
him to consider himself as never hiving reigned in
France.

The reason which determined him not to assume
an incognito name, as he might hare resolved to do
on leaving Frznce, were these : First M igistrate fia-
life of the Republic under the title of First Consll,
he concluded the Preliminaries of London and tae
Treaty of Arnions with the King of Great Britain ;
and received, as Ambassadors, Lord Cornwallis,
Mr. Merry, and Lord Whitworth, who resided is
that quality at his Court.

" He accredited to, the King of Eng] ind, Cunt
Otto and General Andreossi, who resided as Ambas-
sadors at the Court of Windsor. When, after an
exchange of letters between the Ministers for Foreign
Affairs of the two Monarchies, Lord Lauderdale
came to Paris invested with full powers from the
King of England ; he treated with the Plenipoten-
tiaries possessing full powers from the Emperor Na-
poleon, and remained for several months at the Court
of the Thuilleries when Lord Castlereagh after-
wards signed, at Chatil!on, the ultimatum which the
Allied Powers presented to the Plenipotentiaries of
the Emperor N (polecat, he recognized by that the
fourth dynasty, This ultimatum was mute advanta-
geous than .he Treaty of Paris, but in exacting that
France should renounce Belgium and the left bank
of die Rhine, it exacted what was ccr,trary to the
propositions of Fraiiktort, and the Proel,mations of
the Allied Powers—what was contrary to the oath,
by which, at his coronation, the Emperor ssvc rs to
maintain the integrity of the Empire. The Empe-
ror, besides, tliou,:tlit that these n iturrl limits were
necessary, both tur the security of France and to pre-
servtt the equilibrium of Europe; he thought that
the French n-!tion in the situation is which it was.
ought rather rt run the Iriz..rd of all the charters of
war than to depart from that policy : France had
obtained this integrity, and would have preserved it
with honour, it treason bad not arrayed itself in aid
of the Allies.

" The Treaty of the 2d of August, and the Act
of die British Parliament, called the Emperor N.ipo.
leon—Bonaparte, and gave him only the title of
General. The title of General Bonaparte is doubt.
less eminently glorious, the Emperor bore it at Lodi,
at Castiglione, at Rivoli, at Arcule, at Leoben, at
the Pyramids, at Aboukir; hut for seventeen years
he has borne that of First Consul and Emperor,
which proves that he lots been both First Magistrate
of the Republic, and Sovereign of the fourth dy-
nasty. Those who think that nations are Rocks
which belong of divine right to certain families, do
not belong to the age, nor do they participate in the
Spirit of the English Legislature, which has several
times changed the older of its Dynasty, becatis- great
changes had taken place in public (Talons, in which
the reigning Princes not participating, they bee .me
enemies to the welfare of the great ohs:forty of the
nation; for Kings are ohly heieditary Magistrates,
who exist for the welfare of nattoos, and inn nations
for the satistaction of Kings.
" It is in the SAM" hateful spirit that orders have
been given that die Einperor Napoleon shall not be
allowed to write cr receive any letters, unless they
are opened and read by the English Ministers and
the Offices at Helena. They have interdicted to
him the possibility id receiving intelligence hums his
wile, his moaner, hi:, ton, or has brothers ; and when,
in order to avoid the inconvenience of having 'rig let-
' tors mad by subaltern inticers, he wished to send let.
I ices sealed to the Prince Regent, he was odd that the
order could not he departed from, and that the letters
must pass open, such being the instructions of the
Ministry. This conduct needs no observation ; it
(gives rise, however, to strange ideas as to the spirit
of the Administration which could dictate W:l.i(
be disavowed even at Algiers. Letters have :strived
at St. Helena, for the Officers in the suite of the Em.
peror ; they were broke open and trans.nined to you,
but you have not communicated them, because they
did not come through the channel of tiac English
Ministry. Thus they had to go back woo le.sgues;
and these Officers had the grief of iciluv:ias;, that
there was intelligence on the Rock, Ilona theii wives,
their mothers, their chilthen, and th it they could
not know the nature of at for six months—the beam
must solace itselt

" They could not obtain either The elLrning Clirts-
nide. The lihrnivx Peel,ur any rrent.h Journals._
Now and then a few stray numbers of The Yieur
reached Longwood. la consequence of a request
made on board the Norzhumberldnd, some books
were sent, but all those relative to the affairs of late
yeari have been carefully kept back. He wished to
correspond with a Bookseller in London, in rider to
have direct the books which he wanted, and those
relative to the events uf the day—this was prevented.
An English author, having made a tour in
and having published an account of it in Lon,
took the trouble to transmit it to you, in or'
it might be presented to tale Emperor; you
proper not to transmit it, because it swab 1.01
you by the express desire of your Government.
said also, that other books sent by their authors

not been tz.inamitted, btcause some of them

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inscribed to the Emperor Napoleon, and others Oa
Napoleon the Great.
ic The English Ministry is not authorized to order
any of these Vexations; the law, although unique)
by which the British Parliament regards the Emperor
Napoleon as a prisoner of war, has never prohibited
prisoners of war from subscribing to journals, or re-
ceiving printed books—such a prohibition only takes
place in the dungeons of the Inquisition.
41 The Island of S.. Helena is ten leagues in cir-
cumference; it is inaccessible every where; brigs
surround the coast ; posts are stationed on the shore
within sight of each other, which render impracti-
cable any communication whir the sea. There is
only one small town (James Town), where there is
an anchorage, and where vessels touch. To prevent
an individual from quitting the island, it is sufficient,
to guard the shore by land and sea. To lay an in-
terdict on the interior of the island can therefore have
on other object than to deprive him of a promenade
of from eight to ten miles, which it would be pos-
sible to make on horseback, and the privation of
wi•ich will shorten the lite of the Emperor. The
Emperor has been established at Longwood, exposed
to every wind, and where the land is sterile and un-
inhabitable, without water, and not susceptible of
any cultivation. There is a circuit marked out of
about 1,2(X) toises ; at about 11 or 1200 distance, a
camp is established on a hill, and another camp in
an opposite position at the same distance: in short,
in the midst of the heat of the tropic there is nothing
to be seen but camps. Admiral Malcolm having
laarnt the utility which the Emperor would derive
from a tent in vie situation, caused one to be set up
by his sailors, at twenty paces distance in the frost
of the house; it was the only place in which a shade
could be found. Tie Emperor had as much reason
to be satisfied with the spirit that animated the Offs..
cers and soldiers of the brave 53d regiment, as he
bad been with the crew of the Northumberland.
64 The house at Long ts ood was built to serve as a
barn for the Company's farm; the Deputy Governor
of the Island had since built some chambers ; it
served him for a country-house, but it was not in a
proper habitable state ; workmen have been employ.
ed at it for a year, and the Emperor has been con-
tinually subjected to the inconvenience and insalu-
brity of inhabiting a house in the progress of build.
ing. The chamber in which he sleeps is too small
to contain a bed of ordinary dimensions; but every ,
alteration at Longwood prolongs the inconvenience
of having workmen there.
46 'there are, however, in this miserable territory,l
beautiful situations, presenting fine tree* gardens,
and good houses. There is, besides, Plantation
House : but the positive instructions of Government
forbade you from giving up this house. although
'such expense would thereby have been saved to
your Government—an expense incurred in fitting up
at Longwood a hut, cos-red with paper, which is
already unserviceable.
You have interdicted all correspondence between
ns and the inhabitants of the Island—you have in
fact placed the house at Longwood au ant—you
have even prevented any communication with the
Officers of the garrison. I: seems, therefore, to be
your study to deprive us of the little resource which
this miserable tetritory affords, and we are here just
as we should bz on the insulated and uninhabited
tack of Ascension. During the four months that you
bare been at St. Helena, you have, Sir, rendered the
situation of the Emperor much worse. Couut Ber-
trand has observed to you that you violate even the
laws of your Legislature, and that you trample un-
der foot the rights of General Officers. prisoners of
war. You have replied, that you act accord;ng to
the letter of your instructions, and that your conduct
to us is not worse than is dictated by them.
ei I have the honour to be.

66 Your very humble and very obedient servant,
(Signed) 16 Tali CENENAL COUNT La MONTHOLON.
6‘ After I had signed this truer, I received your's
of the 17th of August, in which you subjoin the ac•
count of an annual sum of &WM° sterling, which
you consider indispensible for the support of the ex-
penses of the establishment at Longwood, after
having made all the reductions which you thought
possible. We du not think we, have any thing to du
with the discussion of this point; the table of the
Emperor is scarcely provided with strict necessaries,
and all the provisions are of the worst quality. You
ask of the Emperor a fund of 5t112,000 sterling, as
your Government wili only allow iffB,ooo for all the
expenses. I have already had the honour of inform-
ing you that the Emperor had to funds, that for a
year past he had neither written nor received any let-
ter, and that he is altogether ignorant of what has
passed, or is passing, to Europe. Transported by
force to this rock, without being able to write or to
receive any answer, the Emperor is now entirely at
the mercy of English ageuts. The Emperor has al-
ways desired, and is still desirous, to provide himself
for all his expenses, of whatever nature, and he will
do it as soon as you render it possible by taking off
the inirdiction laid upon the merchants of the island
with regard to his correspondence, and directing that
it should not be subjected to any inquisition on your
put or by any of your agents Thenceforth the
wants of the Emperor would be known in Europe,
and those persons who interested themselves in his
behalf, might send him the funds necessary to pro-
vide for them. _ _

" The letter of Lord Bathurst, which you have
communicated to me, gives birth to strange ideas.
Are your Ministers then ignorant that theigtacle
of a great man in captivity and adversity MOM
sublime spectacle 1 Are they ignorant that Napoleon
at St. Helena, in the midst of persecutions of every
description, to which he opposes nothing but serenity,
is greater, more sacred, and snore venerable than
wLen seated upon the first Throne in the world,
where for scions a time he was the arbiter of Kings?
Those who in such a situation are wanting to Napo-
leon, are blind to their own character and that of the
nation which the, represent. « MONTUOLON."

Yesterday afternoon, a meeting took place between
Panetta= Colonel G—, attended by Mr. F—,
and Mr. Crid—, attended by Major F--, in a
geld near Shooter's Hill. The distance was ten paces;
Mr. 011.-- received his adversary's fire, and then
discharged his pistol in the air, which accersanly pot
vs ad to the afair•

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