The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-10-14 00:00:00

°ME STATESMAN.

nour that exhibition of loyalty with her presence.—
The Nimes of the Blood assisted at the Sitting in
which the refractory Members were expelled ; and
thus we see ender what sort of Constitution and in-
fluence the new Peers are disposed to act, together
with the degree of freedom which is to be allowed in
matters of opinion in the Higher Chamber. All op-
position to the Royal will, the will of the French
Princes and the Allies, is to be silenced by the strong
hand of authority. This is, of course, intended in the
first place to deter objections on a still more import-
' ant point, the terms of the Treaty of Peace, which
have still to he enforced at the point of the bayonet.
The Chamber of Peers is not expected to resume its
Sittings till the 14th.

Both Chambers &liberated with closed doors,
which accounts for the very meagre report we have
of their proceedings.
The next intelligence will most probably commu-
nicate the debates relative to the articles of the
Treaty. T'•e belief generally prevalent in Paris, that
the King of FRANCE is unwilling to execute the con-
ditions, is expected to have a considerable influence
on the discussions ; it is even asserted, that at the•j
private meetings of the Deputies, sentiments decided-
ly hostile to what is generally considered the degra-
dation of France, ■re loudly and energetically ex- •
Pressed. During the last fortnight irri•iatory debates
frequently took place, and it is reported that on
Sunday last a general sketch of the terms of the
Treaty with the Allies was, by the Kieg's order,
communicated to a private meeting of the Depu-
ties, and that such a .sensatien was produced as to
create a belief that they would with difficulty be
induced to give their approbation to the Treaty.—
Such a circumstance is by no means improbable, and
in such a case it may be interesting to conjecture what
would be the consequence. It is true, that the power
of peace or war is vested constitutionally, as in
England, with the Executive Authority, but it rests
with the Chambers to impose the taxes, to liquidate,
the contributions. In case then of their refusal, can
the Allies, consistently with their own declarations,
their repeated premises, resort to military measures
of exaction ? Can they, after having attained the
alleged object of their hostility, in►olve France
and themselves, or rather the inhabitants of their
respective countries, in miseries, the extent and ter•
Initiation of which are incalculable? But we talk
of promises and declarations that have already bees:
shamefully violated, and of miseries that ar4jtaa
garded, though they are every day more deeply felt,
and assuming a more frightful appearance.

The pu!dic Journals occasionally allude to Ile
disturbances occasioned by seditions"atrempts lo
inAtme the public mind, and the punishment of th*
agitators ; but the extent of these disturbances is far
from being accurately described. The terms of the
TrPaty, which Louts is said to have concluded, has
enforiated his enemies still more, and given serious
ocrpore to many pure itopli4s. The most public
notices are held out, that NArot.ton H. is consider.
ed as the legitimate Sovereign, and the Buuncusts
as mere intruders and usurpers, identified with the
dtvailation of France, and the Powers who are now
tyrannizing over her.

NEY !Its demanded to be tried by a Council of
Pees. If he de.ires to have his fate decided by such
Weis a: have pa.sed sentence on BLOSSAC and Po.

LIGNAC, he may have occasion to lament his having
made such a chilice.

An article from Madrid, purporting to be racial,
of the date of the 27th September (three days later
than the articles from Corunria, which communicated
the unpleasing tidings of Foam ER'S defeat), announces
the disastrous termination of shat Goneral's attempt.
The account is similar to what has already been com-
municated. Two letters from Coronna are stated to
hare been received, addressed to Don Pena° Cc-
VALLos, the first of which describes the Marquisito's
march upon Si. Jago, with the few troops which he
thought were to be depended upon, and of their
hese desertion (we call it so) of their Chief, and of a
Cause so honourable to him, which might have opened
the thou of liberty, knowledge, and happiness to a
priest-ridden and benighted nation.
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We have noticed that the date of the official art--
de, containing the confirmation of the Corunna
news, is of the 27th Sept. but these letter., on
which this official information is founded, are of (he
same date as our own letters, and we suspect are
nothing more than a translation of them, purposely
disseminated by the Spanish Government, and en-
titled to a like degree of credit.

A prostcript announces that the Captain-General
has left the castle. The other letter states that Pon.
mr.it and his suite were taken and brought into Co.

l'Ulltl2.

The Madrid Gazette Extraordinary adds, in a
linle, that its private correspondence states, that
1'01;1.11..1i was arrested two or three leagues from St.
Jaques, where he was taking his repose.—Two
subaltern Officers are the persons mentioned, as
bribed by large sums of money received from the
l'riests and Nobility, who took him hi bed.

PARIS, Ocr.ll.
CIIA MBER OF DEPUTIES, Oct. 9.

•
The Sitting was opened at eleven o'clock, and im•
mediately formed itself into a secret Committee.
At noon, the Members went into their bureaus
for the veriacatiou of their powers.

At half past two, they re-entered the hall of their
Sittings, and the Chamber again formed itself into a
Secret Committee, in order to hear different reports
upon the same subject.

Ocrosiot 10.

At 11 o'clock the Members met with closed doors,
under the presidency of M. Coetard, the senior

Member.

The following particulars respecting this Sitting
have been communicated to us. The verification of
the powers was concluded.
'The question was then agitated, whether the gal-
lery should be opeilet. I to the publie?
It was decided that these should be no public
sittings till the King had appointed the President of
the Chamber.

The Assembly afterwards proceeded to the SeTUii-
Hy for the nomination of candidates to the Presidency.
The number of Members present was 316 ; the ma-
jority consequently was to be 170. On the first
scrutiny M. ',sine had 128 rotes,aml was proclaimkd
a candidate. The Prince de la Ttemouille hpd 170;
M. de Grosbois, 1`15; NI. Bellatil, 124; NI. de la
Kigandie, 125; M. de Clereroont dc. Mont St. Jean,
123; NI. Net de Biure, 96. None of these a.-
polies having obtained the absolute majority the
second scrutiny was put off' till to-morrow. Wien
the Chamber shall he legally constituted, the first ob-
ject, it is said. will be to ante an Address for a De-
putation to the King. The sitting broke up at a
quarter past five.

The Chamber of Peers has shown a remarkable
proof of its attachment to the Constitutional Char-
ter, by the expolsinn of M. M. de la Bourdonnaie
de Blossac and Jules de Polignac, because of t;:eir
persisting.to qualify the oath which they took on the
day of the Royal sitting.
The Princes of the Blood assisted at this sitting.
It is thought that the Chamber of Peers will not pin
assemble till the 14th. It has voted an Address to
the King, and appointed a Committee to revise it.

• A Decree of the King appoints Marshal the Duke
of Reggio, General-in-Chief of the National Guard
of Paris. Two others are of minor importance.
The cause of Colonel Champeauz, Mjutant-Com-
maudant of the Royal Legion, was yesterday brought
again before the 2d Council of War. The result of
Wit enamlnations upon this affair was, that in March
last, when criminal defections prepared the success'
of an enterprise, the issue of which has been so fatal,
good Frenchmen, still entertaining some hopes,
wished to assemble around them the heroes of their
county>, and make a first effort against the usurper.
Superior Officers applied to raise volunteer corps.—
In order not to run the risk of danger, they found it
necessary to conceal their motive, anti- therefore, in
order to serve the legitimate cause, they assumed the
language of rebellion. Such mentaOreservations anti
wily precautions might necessarily he attended with
great errors, Which has actually been the case.—
M. de Chrimpeausshad in those day* no commission
from the King—his authority was given by Marshal
Davoust, Minister of War, but the Colonel loon
had an understanding with the Duke de Feltre—he
collected a great number of soldiers devoted to the
King's cause—their principal objek was to seize up-
on the person of Bonaparte at Malmaison, and to
dissolve the Chamber of Representatives. M. -de
Cifittnpeaux had caused white uniform+ to be made
the legion amounted to 1000 moo. On the Bth of
July, this corps, in uniform, marched to give the
King the meeting at the barrier of St. Denis; it was
disbanded after his Majesty's return, and M de
Champeauz was arrested.

M. Viotti, the King's Commissioner, concluded
his speech with the following words—" Every means
of defence advanced will never de away the dangerous
tendency of such proceeding., and should it not be
sufficiently serious for the law to take cognizance of,
still M. de Champlin' has to blame himself for the
mistake of which he complains, that he himself has
contributed to the change of authority respecting his
intentions, and that, in fine, be only is to be blamed
for the loss of his liberty and for being brought be-
fore this Tribunal."

Ile concluded by moving, that the accused should
be acquitted. The Council pronounced him not
guilty of having given commissions to Officers to
form a Royal Lec,ion without authority, and ac-
quitted him of the charge brought again:t him.—
It ordered him to be immediately set at liberty and
re-instated in his functions. M. de Champeaux had
been in prison 78 days.
Six individuals of different professions have just
been sentenced, by Tribunals of the Dopartment of
Upper Garonne, to different periods of imprison.
went, for seditious discourse and songs.
Yesterday a Journalist took the liberty of giving
an account of the debates which took piece in the
Secret Committee on the evening of the 9tit. What
must be the consequence of this indiscretion of ap-
pearing better informed than his fellow labourers?—
Like eave-droppers this man has acted ; giving his
Readers on almost imaginary article and full of
mistakes. In the first place, he says, that the sit-
, ting of the two (louses was public, when it was with
closed doors. lie then announces that the admission
of M. M. Michaud and Bert was put off, and yet
these Gentlemen were proclaimed Members of the
,Chamber. It is affirmed that measures are taking
to . prevent like indiscretions on the pert of our
brother scribes. .

ST. PETERSBURGII) SEM 13.--An ()Metal list has

been published here of all the manufacturing cos
blisholents in this Empire, which appear to bn il.
very flourishing condition.

VIENNA, SEPT. 28.—Magazines are est,withing
in Mo!dada and Wallachia for the troop retarak.
from France, which has Caused a great rise in the
price of provisions of the first necessity.
The Illyrian provinces are to pay 311 extraottlintry
contribution of 2,500,000 florins.

Bilis of the Sinking Fund are at a discount fur
ready money of above ROO per cent.

CO LOGNOct% 2.—The Russian troops, ward.
ing to letters from ltatisbon, µho were returaiac,
their own count' y,!ia‘ e received connicr.orderc, f, ern
%hid) an lid-etc.:ice is drawn that the misursderbtaidk
ings with Turkey are about to be accvmmutlated.

FitENCII FUNDS, .58 f. 25e.

111 ;twisters, it se'ms, are at last determined to not
a stop to the riotous conduct of the .he
North. The Thresher sloop of war, sai:vd from ;i,e
Downs yesterday, for SLields, full of troops. And
other King's ships, with troops, are expected imme.
diately to follow her.

The letter of the Doke of %VI:LT.l,l=ov confirms
the report that 1401,14 X ViEf. hnd pii,itively
sewed to she remora:iv r of the ‘Voks of Ait
Gio•rit, and yet he raised dolicult:e• to
1•01 •1”,.
mice of his solemn engagement. Mi., "such Jr"
would have been in hi., Vojeow ro 1,41
avowed his promise on the great public pritic;pl.', (NA
the fine Arts were not legitimate i,hj,•cts of mad-
bution in war, and that the civilized rules of war
demonded their restoration to the right owners.
In like manner we understand that it was not
without his k..ow ledge and consent that the imegrity
of France was to be violated. He caonot Weld i
norance of the intentions of the Allies ; and this may
account for the vague and unintellit.ible terms is
which he announced their loss of fortresses and of
territory to the two Chambers.
Much bustle was experienced on the Stock Es-
change. yesterday morning, in consequence of the
great rise in Stocks, and the money market is now
the centre of attraction for all the great speculators.
A French house, of the first respectability, on
Thursday, purchased 700,0001. Consols for them-
selves, and (heir various Correspondents on the Con.
tinent. Yesterday morning Omniurn opened at 12,
141, In—Consols were 60i, 611, for money--
61 account.
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By the Dublin Papers received yesterday morning
we learn, that the Special Session under the Insur-
rection Act, had comn►enced at Clonmel, before Mr.
Serjeant MOORE. Three men were convicted of
those crimes which have so long afflicted and scowls-
lised the country ; and they hod, immediately after
conviction, the sentence of the law pronounced
azanst them, and carried forthwith into esecorion.
They were taken from the dock, under a miit'ry
.'scort, to be conveyed to the prison ship, at Cork,
from whence they are to be transported to Botany
for seven years.
The following appeal case came before the Lnrds
of Justiciary, nt the Circuit Court, held at Glasgow,
on the 30th ultimo :—" An Officer (the Adjutant of
a regiment quartered in Glasgow, and acting Major
of Biigede in garrison) having had occasion, in May
last, to ride from the barracks to the magazineguard
to correct some irregularity, went by the direct road
though the town, but returned by the north side of
the town, and coming to the toll-bar at the town
head, was stopped by the keeper of the gate aod
forced to pay toll, on pretence that he was Bat then
on duty, but taking a ride for pleasure, the tell-rnao
alleging, that the road which the Officer had used
in returning was not the direct road between the bar-
racks and the magazine guard. The Officer com-
plained to the Justices of the Peace for Lanarkshire
against the toll keeper, for an illegal exaction of tie
toll, and the Justices sustained the complaint, aid
found the toll-man liable in 21. 10s. sterling of da-
mages and expences. Of this sentence the toll-nou
complaiir•d, by appeal, to the Circuit Court, when
the Lords affirmed the sentence, and found the Ap-
pellant liable in full costs."