The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-11-22 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

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To THE EDITOR or• ru 57',1TE5.11.4.V.

:e that authority which has so.justly incensed the and what will become of these wretched inhabitants DISCRIMINATIVE PRINCIPLE
~„pie agrees. it. His Grace of WELLINGTON as- in the winter ? BETWEEN ,
rt.. perhaps truly, and therefore it is the more 1 CIVIL AND MILITARY COGNIZANCE. .-.. •
SIR,-1 am not accustomed 10WrIc t,!Pg for le blic
COURIER EXTRAORDINARY, Sancta), Morning. .
, br :simeic..ti that he has not meddled, and has no --.41111P.
A letter of Marshal Ney's to the Ambassadors ie in . inspection, cointequently stntit tangs)* st.i'Elile fp
• 01,111 to interfere with the acts of the Keg's .TO THE EDITOR OF 'DIE STATESMAN.
', yothe following suhjert, which, should you think
circulation, in which he implores their
protection.—
SlR,—Cesterrrevtos Se Principles have not lost
;avertiment ; but can it be said that the King
We do not know whether it be authentic. all their hold in Fe asce. The declaration of the worthy of a place in your isivatualde Pepert yf u
Will oblige me by correcting the y , and inserting
,f FRANCE has beets placed in the situation
The English did not occupy the post of the Mu- M_Aesiiess of (heir incompetency to try Marsha!' 6l le
t. at, independent Sovereign ? It is essentialit in that forcible latrgirage for w Well Lour Paper is
seem this morning, which service is now only per- NEY, Prince or MosKwA, is a proof of this. Ile
0 observe, says a note to NET'S letter, that. so universally admired. -a
formed by the National Guard. will, at least, now be tried by the only proper ierts- .t., , ...
1.• city of Paris has never been restored to the . , . •
i [renumber ef committals anti Willi we :dm. st wily
It is asserted that Paris will by to-morrow no diction—the Chamber of Psetts of FRANCE, for the
ens; that it is now in the military occupation of
trial of a Member of that 13ndy on this high charge.
longer be occupied by foreign troops. The military read of in the in::):ic prints f.ir II ..;v aiy, as also for
se allies, and that no person can proceed beyond' nullity of marriage iliegally cotitn.c.ed, is a grievancn
posts will be given up to the troops of the Ist mill. Whether a crime be a military crime, does not de- •
ri environs without a passport, countersigned by the
tary ditisien. 'Fhis will, it is said, lie done in the Pend upon whether (Le arson charged with it be in which calls toothy for retires:. and yet the abettors
leitary Commandant of the Allies. When this is therein are still soldered to continue in that course
presence of the Governor by the Duke of Welling. arms, and an Offi;:er or s. idler or not. If it dill, the
is, timation of the Monarch and the capital, under with impunity. Ought not that ilesc.) man elle so.
Lou,Commander-in-Chief of the Allied troops. general Law and Constirution of the Country, in its
otiose authority are we to say public acts are dictated , terrorizes
a nrarriege contrary to the. pr'eacrilred law;
• The Allied troops clinkered in the environs of h'ghest object, and where it is most important, that it
to be rendered incapable of repeating ;the eritre?—
nd executed ? One of the censequences already re.
Valenciennes and Bouchnin have, within the last few should be independent and inviolate, %souk, be made
irtting from NEY'S appeal and representations shows • The daughter of a friend and iteig ,
in hhour of mine days, been much encreased. subordinate to the Military. A military charge is
le, force of his arguments, and the predicament MO to which a Military Court is peculiarly adapted : who has not yet attained her sixteenth year, was, ag
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which the Allies have been placed by the violent 1 FRENCH FUNDS-50 f. 20 C. few days since, discovered to be iii the way in %steel%
Cowardice, Neglect of Posts, Misconduct in Lour. „
measures of the French Government. It is announced ; •
--enlles—. all ladies wish to be who love their herds." An
mond, Breach of Orders. If it be said any of these
in a Courier Extraordinary of Sunday morning, that ! Our Readers will learn with pleasure, that the,Dis. might apply to the case in question, as Breach of enquiry was naturally made to discover the outfox
01)&4% •ill, by to-morrow, he no longer occupied senting Ministers of L Orders for itislance, these subordinate points in the
London held a meeting Jester- of ;he mischief; when it came out that she bad been
by foreign troops." The military posts are to be day to consider the state of the persecuted Protest- some months married to my sass, a boy of seventeen,
principal Charge, that of 'l'lux:oN and the General
given up to the troops of the First Division ; and ants in France. The result was a cordial Resolution Law, having the cognizance of the End imputed, •
in presence unly of the clenga man, clerk, an:d a girl
the ceremony of delivering up the city was, it is to take every measure which the circutnstances of the of her on n age, in a parb.li (lint: h et the other pouf
the Treason takes cognizance of the means; not in a
tail, to be done in the presence of the Governor case will allow, to obtain for their brethren in tha military view, but as breaches of General La
of the metropolis from that itt which I reside. The
w.
by the Duke of W
..restiturroat, as Commander in miserable country protection and security. We hopeyoung lady's connections and e‘;;echtions being in
.Flagrante Bello, in the height and confusion of in-
Chief of for Allied Armies. This is an anticipation, that all the friends of Rellgious Freedom will follow I 4 . every respect equal to my sou's, th,,re could have,
areal war, Treason must come under military cog. • been no objection to the tant,t•lt. but the tliider aot
se think, not likely to be so speedily realized. But their most laudable example.
niztuce ; the interruption ceasing, it falls into its
if this event shall have taken place, we can scarcely . of the parties ; consoquently, as I do :rot wish to bare
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terse it is in consequence of the conclusion ; I a progeny of Wei... Notate grand children ',bout me /
A Meeting was held yesterday evening at the The act done is Treasona or not Treason, accord- ' ' a
shall, with the consent of the yowl:: hid\ 's father;
.f the Treaty of Peace, for by the understood Crown and Anchor Tavern, to take into considers-
ing to the law which binds the Citizen and the 31(1,1 ;
Pans of that compact. Paris is to continue, lion such measures as may be hest calculated to afford , hoe them married again as soon as the peloirreion
o.exis_s with that law, or is contrary to it. LS .
as it c • t
for a length of time in the possession of the Allies ; relief to the numerous and infant Family of the late .of the bans will admit thereof, in the church of the
Mr. JOHN M •
c oR row, printer and proprietor of the Generalit Treason ? is the question : And that b.:longs to the
sad we have yet nothing to convince us that any parish in a hich they both reside, Ilit tumor inarri,ge
Sunday Review Newspaper. Law of the country. After the Rebellion of . .
ties; like a Treaty of Peace has been concluded.— being in tan resp.-^ls illegal :—First, from the tender
Mr. BROUGHAM, the Chairman, opened to the 1715 was supprest, Lord Resume°, or Lord
's eorial is said to have made a strong ime t• Wed s KILMARNOCK, might as well have been tried by a
mee mg the business for which they were assem age of the parties without the consent or kiln% le•:go
No Mm
of their p,tents ; and secondly, from its not being
r,sion in the Marshal's favour on the minds of se.. and stated with peculiar force, the claim of the family Court Martial, and not by the Peers, as Marshal
veral Members of the Chamber of Peers. if of the late Mr. Morton on the public for relief. This r solemnized agreeable to the prescribed law, of a task
Nee at present.
it be not combated more efficiently by the Royal . Gentleman had for 20 years conducted a Sunday I give you an extract.—r• And, if the persons to he
I say nothing, one way or the other, of the merits
. Paper, which, during all that time had been the de-
Commissioners than by his Grace of Wee- . . •• . . married dwell in divers parishes, the balls must be
'ermined supporter of civil and religinus liberty, and of his case ; I speak only of the Charge, the civil
asked • both in parishes, and the curate of the one
erst.tom ; and if NET can succeed in detaching having fallen into pecuniary distress, had died by dis- quality of the accused, and the tribunal to which .
the Foreign Powers from his persecutors, his case • ease brought on by mental anxiety, leaving in no these two considerations necessarily referred the . hshall parts not solemnize milldams), between them;
is, iu our opinion, far from being so desperate helpless state a widow and six children. Though he of France. 1 without a certificate of the bans being thrice asked
Peers of
as some imagine.—
—Withwhat grace or appear- trial—that of the Chamber
had no private knowledge of Mr. Morton, this he .. . . ' from the curate of the other parish." In the present
If it be said, of what consequence is it to us,
race of justice can the Allied Powers support the ! was enabled to state confidently from his experience : case, neither of the parties ever slept in the parish in
of the. .paper, that Mr. Morton had never inflicted
whether Marshal NaY be tried by a right or a wrong
vindictive measures of a Government which appears . which they were married ; and my sort assures me
that pansy oil the press, a more severe injury than tribunal; I answer much, from the close analogy of
to have no wish but vengeance, and is daily forfeit- its p • that he was not asked, either by the clergyman or
nerones br their utmost tnalice could inflict —the the two Constitutions of ENGLAND and FRANCE;
clerk whether he resided in thearish or not or if
ing any degree of esteem which may have been cleated ; making that great inigatt of public information and since the immortal labour, genius, and perseverance , p ,
is its ravels? . illumination, that bane of misrule and terror of the . he was known to any person in that parish; and yet
of Neiroseost prepared for I. ranee a Constitution
corropt, subsersient to the gratification of private or the clergyman, when publishing the bans, solemnly
and tiei
in ado
she
hhi was happy adopting, Laws, which ! mercenary ny.lignity. lie looped, therefore, that the andnformed the congregation that they were both of that
• case of the stilt Aed family of Mr. Morton would mako ought never to forget; and whether as an intellectual
parish.
due impression on the meeting, and through that exertion, or a primary political object very similar to Much
might be, and too much cannot he, said on
meeting on the friends of the Press and the benevolent our own, or on motives of philanthropy, thepeinciples this which I
subject, trust from the hands in whirl t
at large, and draw forth that relief which the family and application of criminal taw, whether here or
of a zealous and independent servant of the public I now place it, will be sent forth in such a point of
,across the Channel, or elsewhere, cannot but be a .
amply merited.-1 Applause.) view as to call the attention of the Irearls,,of the
epy The eporttin ao
Mr. LANE said, that although it was almost unne.study delworthy attention.of d
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Church to an evil of the greatest magnitude, wlliclt
cessary to add any thing to the impressive speech of and some other recent circumstances in their conduct,'
is daily increasing to the injury not only of indi.
the Learned Chairman, from a personal acquaintance will also prove that Ministers, at least, have much '
'Weals but to the cointnunity at large..
with Mr. Morton he could add, that whatever name still to learn in the Elements of Criminal Jurispru.
might have been given to the disease of that Gentle- thence. A CONSTANT READER OF THE STATESMAN.
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man by the Physicians, it Was evident to his friends Your's, sincerely, Jr 17
that he died of a broken heart. Though naturally a CAPEL LOFFT. . —...._ • -
robust man, from the lime when the docket of bank. Trasion-hall, Nov. 17. 1815. I An article from Versailles sat. s.—" The misfor.
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ruptcy was sti•uck against Itim,lie continually di oop._______ • tunes of the Protestants io the South have not been
led, and sone died, leasing a widow and six children, ; NAVAL I N7'E LI.ICE NC E. • listened to with inditteunce liv the Allied Snvereiaits.
four of whom were of very tender years. Although : —am— , i While the King of Prises! a *mese!! in Paris, Nl. DE
Mr. Morton had not suffered imprisonment or any per. ' DEAL. Nov. 22.—Arrived the Minstrel sloop of , (711 ATEAURRI AN D attempted to suff• us the picture its
ese (..sorr.ers
sonal infliction, yet was it nothing that for 20 years ' from Portsmouth i sailed
war, ,am for the to
the sword of the Attorney-General was suspended to political opinions rather then to religious •tottntas.
be
over his head, as it were by a hair—that the influence paid off.—Sailed the Rosario stoop of war, to" You are wrong, Sir," replied his Majecav :i• i ti,...e
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of the GoVerninelit was exerted to stop the circulation Portsmouth. : crimes cannot be covered. li..t. the Prr.tr st:.n's have
of his Paper, and to diminish his advertisements and PLYMOUTH, Nov. 20.—Came in the Progress, boon friends of the Revolution :it gave theta righ.s
the sources of his profit? Ile could add, that Mr. Bunter, from Prince Edwards's Island; Vines,' which they scarcely had any idea or, and they, per.
Morton was, in his private character, an honourable Fosse, Master, for Portsmouth ; Hydra transport, haps. saw but lino clearly e hat tiler were threatened
and upright man ; and during the 20 years for which f ss • with by the fanaticism of some incendiaries."
Portsmouth ; and the Primrose sloop of war, •
lie had !wed the Sunday Review, had steadily orCOTT:NT.GA RDEN.—G AR RICK'S dramatic Romance
from Scotland.—Sailed the William, Ponors, for'
arid undeviatingly maintained the principles of libertyof cyrn,,o, was on Mend .y night revived at this
and the Constituti . Cork ; all the outward-hound to the W,.staard ; .
rheatre air h great spleodour and elferr. There are
i The several Resolutions were then put and adopted. and the Newcastle, to New York.— The David several fievrty.painted sceires, upon which the artists
1 Mr. Ilitooxs was appointed Treasurer; after which Shaw, —.—, is about to unload to repair her have ogliati•ned their skill ; and the whole properties
46 subscription wax instituted. damages, of the Pi.,ce, as they are call,' l, are miner's. ~ikilt:,
Mr. Bitovenass forcibly recommended.immediate t,OItTaaIOUTH, Nov. oh—Arrived the Flora, Ma-
and
Ippropftime. Mi-r•STEellVis played Salvia, and
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contribution, remarking, that the old adage was par- this delightful warbler, timbal's, never some; to more
d the Ca il S l
Arctrollsaege.—ae pe packet, for
t titularly applicable to the present case—that he gives jor,advantage. She was etiCorill in 31.tinst every one of
: twice who gives quickly. the Cape of Gore! Unite. her songs, as well as its a duet or two with air.
; Monday the bayonet exercise was honoured with FALMouTIt, Nov. 19.—Arrived the Swifterrre, 11
....I.TRU.ET, who appeared as 1r.,:yR104. Mr. Deeuset
the critical inspection of Sir ll.snny CALVERT, the r with a Mail from Gibraltar, in II days ; also arrived improves wonderfully ;—there is a chasteness of liar.
I Adjutant-General. This very ireeltigent Officer is a brig from Plymouth, for Newfoundland (game un- mony in his style of execution which is felt and ap.
completely and balmily conversant in the priticiples k
_sidled . preciated. lie shared with Miss STEPHENS fhP liberal
I with the loss of her maintop-mast.
of the science of defence, and in the just application known)
and applause of an overflowing house. Of Miss
of the powers of the lever ; and had no hesitstion in the Freeling packet, with a Mail for New York
livenes, in Urganda, we must speak with the qua.
the expression of his satisfac • to the author of the j Halifax. lification which we have heretofore made; her sing.
exercise, and to his nephew, who exercised the men IlsitelCH, Nov. 21.-Arrived the Earl of Lei- ing appears to be the m..re mechanical exercise of an
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for the Adjutant-General. cester packet, with a Mail from Holland. organ, which, though tutored to a considerable ex-
r The Combination have the modesty to continue ..,
iEIGNMOUTH, Nov. 20.—The Good Intent, Da-
teut, fritters away the pathos and charm of music iii
their weekly Aseze only two-pence per Quarter n an of of science. We have not room to
vies, of and for Islymouth, in attempting to go over i .
Loaf above what the Corn and Flour Returns war-t enter into the other performances, and can only
rant ! !! this bar, drove on the rocks and is bilged—cargo add, that from the style in which this Piece is pro-
; All the British Officers that were severely wound. saved. duced it cannot fail to reward the Theatre with a con-
ed at the battle of Waterloo, have received leave of GLASGOW, Nev. 17.—Arrived the Akina, Anted. siilerable run. .
absence for six months, to return to Engine(' and can smuggler, captured by the Warwick revenue The remains of the gallant Colonel CAMERON,
Ireland. The folloo log infantry regiments, who had, previous
colter ,in the Sound of Mull. She to who closed his glorious military career in the arms of
sustained the greatest loss on the memorable 16th
and
victory at Quatre-fltas, on the 16th of June last,
capture, landed 500 bales of tobacco on the west
18111 of Jane, are reported to he under orders for her arrived in triers on Saturday, from Brussels, on
Great Britain, viz. :-3d battalion Ist foot, 28th,' coast of Ireland, and hadwen board when taken 700 their way to Scotland, where a mouumeist is to lie
301 h, 32d, -12 d, 4311. '2,1 battalion, 4-Ith, 73d, 79:leend i more. erected to his memory.
Ist battalion 95th. The 2d battalion, 25th and 37th, ------_____ -- The following remarkable change is observed to
at present in Holland, are also expected to embark It affords us much satisfaction to announce that have taken pl rce last week its the state of the weft_
for England. All regiments that are not 700 Wee- the speceiations in which some of the newspapers ther :—Oil Monday morning the therinomwer was
five are to leave France for Belgium, where they mule relative to the Bishoprick of Dunn cat, may at 52 ; on ‘Verbtestlay morning at 33; acid on Fci.
are to remain for the present. cease. We have to state, that his Lordship arrived day morning at I.G.
THE BLACKHEATH PEDESTRIAM—FAtton coati. in London on Saturday last, in perfect
health,
and Costrimuselos Or IatitIOI4OINAILY LUCK.--Tho
need his task yesteicley, having walked 261 miles we hope it will be long before a removal from that Ticker, No. GQO, drawn o s 1.'1,11%.!•ty last a Prize of
at a quarter past eleven in the morning. He does I see will take place. .00,00 d, was sold at Wecn's truly Fertuterisr Of-
not appear in the least fatigued. I We observe that the Committee, to whom the mat. five, No. 17, Ludsate.st (POI (clear St. F 4,11%), where
Yesterday afternoon, as a labouring man was ter was referred) have decided that there 14 trot solli- it will be recollected the Ton last 12.30,(Y,0 Prizes
Saturday will
crossing from the end of Fleet-market, Holborn- cleat ground
to think that. the plan suggested by Mr. were also sold in Shares, hesides A.\3110,y of mirror
'store Capitals, in the last six
bridge, he was knockesl down by the pole of a RYAN, is applicable to the coal miss mis in this di , .
.hird Day s Dri. .an. months. Nett
ac, and it is not too late
hackney-coach, and the wheels passing over his We are, however, happy to hear, that Sir 11. Dtvy , 7be the
head, fractured his skull in a dreadful manner. He in analysing the inflammable gas of our coal mines, to secure some of tine 'I true £50.000, or Two
the most benea. 2'20,000 Stuck Prizes, which are yet audrawn, and
was conveyed to the Hospital, without hopes of re- has made discoveries which promise
Cover,. Icial results.—(Nexcabtle Paper.)
perhaps still on Sale at Weas's Office.

PARIS, N0v.19.
CllA7..!if.;!t OF PEER s. Nov. 17.

The Ministers of t ,• King and the Attorney-Ce-
nor'!, in the name of ti.e Commissioners, read to
Cie Chamber the indictment drawn up by them, from
documents which hare been communicated to them,
conformably to the llth article of the King's Ordi-
nance of the ITth inst.

They deposited upon the Bureau with this act, a
request to oblnin,—

I. An Ordinance for the taking into custody
1113r511il N.'y.

2. The commencement of the trial as loon as pos-
sible, ruing lo the accused the bringing forward
In) objrctions he may have.

3. The tinnerition of the indictment and the re•
quest t the Minute of the Decree.
l'..c Commissioners and the Secretary.
K. 'r of the it..coid4 then withdrew.

ThP Chamber, after havltig deliberated, received
the intliet moot and the request, and ordered both to
be annexed to the Minute of its Decree.

And in consideration of the charges resulting from
the prncess against Nlichel Ney, Marshal of France,
arc,ssed of the crime of High Treason, and of an
attempt against she safely or the state, defined by
the law, it has issued against him a 'outdate of ar-
rest.

The Chamber fixed by the same D'cree the open-
ing of the ptoceedings for Tuesday, the 21st inst.,
re,erving to the accused the liberty of making his
objertions.

One hundred and fifty'.nine Peers were present,
and signed the Decree after the President.

CIIAMBER OF DEPUTIES, Nov.lB.

The Members of the Chamber assenshied in their
Bureaux to occupy themselves with the project of the
law respecting Prevotal Courts.

On Monday the Chamber will go into Secret Corn.
alittee at noon.

Between the 28th Sept. and 27th Oct. last, the
Tribunal of Correctional Police of Rouen, sen-
tenced, for seditious language, 27 persons, chiefly
workmen and vagabonds. However, one of the
!lumber was a Commissioner of Police at Darnels'.

11.tstautsatt, Nov. 8.---The commercial English
houses, which had formed establishments here, are
disappearing, after great losses, and encumbering us
With English manufactures. There is great stagna-
tion in our commerce ; the bookselling branch is
brick. There is more printing at this moment here
than in some neighbouring kingdoms.
Btsr.c, Nov. B.—A regiment of Esterhaty's Aus-
trian cavalry passed through here, the Mb regiment of
the Archduke Palatine's infantry,hussars, and another
Wintry regiment. Several of these corps suffer( d
considerably in the last campaign. The kistrians
reckon this year the number of their soldiers
killed and 'sounded at 6000.

The eight of the misery which actually reigns
amongst the people of Alsace in our neighbourhood
14 truly distressing. The Austrian Commanders do
tbey tau to elle►iete it; bit whit can they do,

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