The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-12-20 00:00:00

Tin STATESMAN.

Tl'" A"'"1141-Cettetal easily showed that the Members of this Chamber abandoned their coon.
prows rerbal %officiously proved the deliberation of Irv, they have .basely fought against it—they
the Court of Assize on the Petition of the accused have as shamefully fled before the national phi-.
motive to the position of the questions. The inser. lenses lit the army of Conde, in Is Vendee, end In
lien of that circurnstance,even its the contest of the every place where they have show(' themselves they
judgment, was therefore superfluous. have teen beaten. They cannot support 'the aspect
It was nut allowable to presume that the suppleant of their conquerors—the sight of the hero who fought
Judge had participated in any deliberation, and the 25 years for his country, makes them even now grow
silence of the Proses Verbal is a sufficient proof of pale,. their shame is satinet' OR his forehead, mod, al.:
that. Whets the President proposed to appoint one ways true I. their character for'cowardice and per.
hippleant Judge and two suppleant Jurors, to re- tidy, they have sworn to destroy this illustrious sic.
place those wisOfit sty surforeseen accident might pre. tim, whose glory teoubles-them, whose high deeds
vent from atteudiug to the whole of the discussions, covers-them with fresh shame and eternal disgrace.—
the accused coosented. But this measure of pre. I will not be a witriess of such ignominy, I leave
caution proved unnecessary, as no alteration had you to consummate the crime which you have resolved
taken place, either in the composition of the Court on." General Collard then withdrew without any
or lb. Jury. If there bud, the Prate: Verbal ,woutil Member baring dared to make the least remit! k; they
have mentioned it, but it is silent. Things then re. kept a.dead siletica for some moments and costinued
main in the stale its which they were at the opening to deliberate.'
of tha Court. I .The day before yesterday (Saturday), in the morn-
The sixth and last objection is answered by the big, an inscription was ((mud written on the wall
same observation. It is pretended that the President opposite. which Marshal Ney was shot, in these
of the Court of Aslize omitted in the summing up to words :—" Here was assassinated the moat heroic of
state to the Jiry the observations favourable to the the defenders of the col:lefty. You Frenchmen,
accused. It is legally proved that the President did who are yet worthy 'of that sme,' swear to avenge
charge the Jury, and his character, knowledge,- and the death of this illoqrious warrior. and let your
long experience, are sufficient pledges that he cannot ' oaths be cemented by the precious blood which
bore neglected any part of his duty. The Attorney. cowards and traitors have itrfamouly shed." This
COMM] COltClUded by moving that the appeal of the inscription was effaced by the agetos of the Police.
Primmer should be rejected. The following are verses which were made on the
After deliberating one hour, the Court pronounced occasion of the speech of the Duke of Richelieu, in
a decree, the grounds of which were stated with great ; the Chamber of Peers :
force and clearness by M. BARRIS, the President.—
Contrary to the must custom, but according to his
particular practice, the President did not read the
inroads of the decree, but delivered an extemporary
statement of them.
The Conn?, in conformity with the motion of the
Adtorney.Ckmersl, rejected the appeal of Marie
Chemins de- Livelette.

bees required to leave it. An explanation took place
between M. de Richelieu and M. de Vaeblanc, this
last confessed that all' that he had done had been
' enmmanded by the Dake d'Angoulerne, who Wished
the place to be given to one of his•creatures. There
the matter rested, need it is not kuown what his
Royal Highness will say of it on his return to Paris.
The Ilideux, that is to say, the companions of
Hyde de Neuville, are at bay since the project of the
Lew of Amnesty; they move Heart-el and earth to
hinder it from passing ; they are supported in their
laudable project by the Duchess d'Aitpuleme, who
has already twice interfered on this occasion. It is
said that the President is somewhat stubborn ; he
tried first to prove the necessity of the I.►w, and then
the impossibility of preventing it from passing. The
liberal party in the Chamber, which at first was only
a small minority, begins to strengthen itself ; they
profit by the absence of the Duke d'Augouleme,
whom the Ilideux expect with the strongest imps.
tience, and on whom they with reason build their
greatest hopes.
The day before yesterday, towards midnight, the
King fell suddenly ill, some one went immediately
to seek Pere Dime., who lodges above the apartments
of the King, but this Esculapius was not to be found.
A valet-de-chambre, who was in his cstandence, ran
to the street Richelieu, where the Pere ►sas found at
the moment when he was about to go to bed.

ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE.

Semi'!Ale nur pn.irviiyears de tins bete. &rich.
pins un diseours Co.nque en tri meg hien idea es,
Ricarli. u diu nor Pairs, gull pretend inspirer,
" Idmicurs je rout arnene un bomme 4 deviate'

(OFFICIAL DOCUNiENTS.)

NOTE FROM VISCOUNT CAgTLF.REAGIf TO PRINCE TAT.
LEYRAND.

Nats, DEC. 15.—The recruitment end organiza-
Vora of the Royal Guard advance daily. Detach-
ments are constantly arriving from all parts of the
kingdom destined to complete the corps which com-
pose it. ''heir clothes and equipments are pressed
fOrward with actitity, and the first division, which is
more advanced than the rest, will probably be ready
for commencing duty in the early part of January.
(The National Guard of Paris will then be relieved
from the painful duty which circumstances have im-
posed upon it.
They write from Bourdeauz :—" On Monday the,
11th inst. 30 persons, accused of the most serious
of-
feneee, and who were commonly designated by the
name of Federates of la Rcok, will be tried by the
Court of Assizes."

In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies yester.
clay, a memorial was presented from the Count de
13eaument, Mayor of Badesol, department of the Gi-
ronde, describing the distressed situation of the great-
er part of the parochial clergy, and praying that the
cutuatesset might be permitted to make some edition
to their salaries. The Committee to whom the.peti-
tion had been referred reported upon it, that it was
certeiuly inspot tent to place the clergy in comfortable
circumstances, but such a benefit could only result
from an let of the legislature. It therefore proposed
the order of the day on the petition. Count Marcel-
la. opposed this, because it was the ardent wish of
the nation, that religion should be restored to all its
dignity, and it was the duty of the representatives of
the nation to express that wish. He, therefore,
moved, that the petition should be sent to the compe-
tent Minister. This amendment was put to the vote,
and`carried.

M. de Boulogne, Bishop of Troyes. will pro-
nounce the funeral oration on Louis XVI. on the
2lst of January, in the Metropolitan Church of Paris.
The day before yesterday, an English *upper, one
of the troops of that nation at Epinay, was hanged
in the plain of St. Dennis, after a trial by Court-Mar-
tial, composed of Eingliih officers, for having run
through the body his Serjeant-Major, whom he had
surprised in bed with his wife.
Twenty-three persons are to stand trial in the se-
cond Sessions of the Paris Court of Assize for this
month ; and we remark with satisfaction., that none
of the offences charged are seditious cries or dis-
course. _

On the Sth inst. at Cambay, several soldiers,
forming part of the Hanseatic troops, who had ar-
rived there the day before, were guilty of reprehen-
sible excesses both at their private iodgings and in
public places. Their officers, assisted by the Na-
tional Guard, succeeded in restoring order, and on
receiving at, account of the mischief that had been
done, they paid the whole amount out of their own
pockets.

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

Paric Dee. 11, 1615.

Ptah, December 16.
There hes long been a Misunderstanding amongst
' the Ministers, which at last, it is said, has been put
an end to. The Doc de Richelieu, M. Barb. Mar-
bolsi and M. Decate, coeld not agree with M. M.
Vaublanc, Dobaochage, and the Doke de Feltre.—
, The tirst wished to preserve some respect for the Con-
! stitutional Charter, the others would not hear of it;
they have at last come to an understanding, and it has
beets agreed to go on together that every one should
cover himself with a constitutional cloak, but that
this should only be the extetior—that is to say, that
they should make u4e of the Constitution as often as
it was necessary, that it should be treated with an
appearance of respect, but that it might be trampled
under foot whenever it was convenient.
The Prefect of Versailles received lately a polite
invitation from M. de Vaublanc to give in his resig-
nation, he answered, that he believed he was still
! useful to the district unless it was made imperative on
him: then the Minister sent the Prefect an emissary,
who proposed to him to change his place for that of a
Councillor of State—the exchange was agreed upon.
M. de Vaublanc went to the Doke of Richelieu, and
told him that the Prefect 'of Versailles tendered his
resignation, and proposed that he should be appointed
Councillor of State. The Prime Mini ter, who knew
the zeal and good services of the Prefect, evinced
some regret, but since he absolutely wished It pro-
mised what was asked. Before doing any thing M.
de Richelieu wrote to the Prefect to engage him to
withdraw his resignation, the latter answered that he
was very well pleased with his place, bat that he had

tacked in several publications and with such effect
as to afford his Majesty this Say, the satisfaction of
following,, without reserve, the dictates of his in-
clination, the more so, since it has been proved, by
enquiries made with the greatest care, that the pro.
sperity of the French Colonies not being compro.
mised by the immediate abolition of the trade, the
said abolition is not contrary to the interests of his.,
subjects, interests which, above all, his Majesty
thought himself bound to consult. This sati,fAction
is increased by the idea, that his Majesty, at the
same time, does what k agreeable to the Govern.
ment and People of Great Britain.—Accept, my
Lord, the as:urance, &c.
(sigiscri) Tale Prince de TALLEYRAND.
Excellency bird ,ant theoletedgle. &e. bce

In the defence of Marshal Ney, before the Court
of Peers, M. Berryer instituted a comparison be-
tween the conduct of Louis XVIII. and that of the
Marshal, in the month of March last. He proved
that the King thought all opposition useless, and
even dangerous, and that the power of events had
obliged him to leave Paris. The Advocate proved,
without difficulty, that Marshal Ney found himself
in just the same situation, and th.it he acted like
Loots XVlll.—that is to say, yielded to circum-
stances. M. Berryer developed at length this argu-
ment, and the consequences which he drew from it
were peremptory. The Police fearing the effect of
the good reasoning of the Advocate, forbade the
Journals to give this part of the speech ; as there
was nothing to reply to this part of the defence it was
not desirable that the public should know it. Such
is the publicity given to the trial of one of the Peers
of France.
When the Court of Peers was in the Saloon of its
deliberations to pronounce definitively on the fate
of Marshal Ney, a small number of Peers were indig-
nant at the passionate conduct of the great majority
of the Chamber—it was easy to perceive that the
illustrious Prisoner was condemned beforehand, and
that it wet a resolution already formed. General
Collard, borne away by the excess of -his indigna-
tion, refused to vote :—being forced to explain the
motives of his refusal, said, ".I thought I had been
here amongst judges, bet I see clearly that there are
mons bet executioners;
.the greatest part of the

NOTE PROM VISCOUNT CASTLEREAGH TO PRINCE TAL.

LLVICAND.
Purls, July ill, 1815.

_ .
The undersigned, his Britannic Majesty's Princi-
pal Secretary of State for Foreign- Affairs, has the
honour to acknowledge Prince Talley ratid's note of
this date, conveying to him the decimion taken by his
Most Christian Maiesty filially -to abolish the Slave
Trade throughout the French dominions.

The undersigned will lose not a moment in trans-
mitting this eommunicntion to his Court, and he ven-
tures, in the Wall time, to assure his Highness, that
the King could not have taken any, determinatioo
more personally grateful to the ?rinse Regent and to
the whole British nation.

The eadersigned,
(Slatted) • - CASTLEREAnfI.
Hu Ifigheeu tike Prince Talleyente,

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THE STATESMAN.

LONDON
.vEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 40, 1815.

'Brussels and Frankfort Papers to late &ilea arrive
this forenoon. From the Hague we have further ac-
counts of the Sittings of the States-General, and of
•
the communication made to them by the King, of the
projected matrimonial alliance between the Prince of.
ORANGE and the Emperor of Russ' t:'s sister. The
political considerations which have induced this match
are thus stated by the Sovereign Prince himself:-_.
" This union has appeared to me equally (imitable its,
ia political point of view ; it must consolidate and
bind more closely the ties of attachment and venera.
lion, which have long since united me with the Ent.
peror Atexoenea ; it offers a new support to tai
interests which the commercial part of the nation
must cultivate in the- North of Europe ; lastly, it
Puri., July 91.1815. guarantees to the whole kingdqm the durable kind.
Tk,riv. Dec. II ) PRINCE,—The Official Order to the Admiralty, netts of a Court, which has so powerfully contlibuttei
In the last days of the trial of Marshal Nay, M. le which I had the honour of transmitting to your High- to the work of its foundation."
Comte Porcher de Richebourg printed an opinion, to :Ile ss
coaste sth,
having suspended hostilities against
The sections to whom this Massage, and the pro.
prove that the Chamber of Peers constituted a Pula:- e of France, and against French ships carry- 1
tical Grand Jury, that consequently it should not ing the White Flag, I have been directed by my ject of the law accompanying it, had been sent for
bind,itself to the application of any law if the Mar- Court, without delay, to call your attention to the deliberation, had not made their report at the date of
shal shouldbe found guilty, and that it had the right . necessity of guarding, under these circumstances, ' the Papers.
to condemn him to such punishment as it should against any possible revival of the Slave Trod,.
f Baussers, DEC. 11—Chevalier Canon, who Sr.
I think fit, without adhering to the dispositions of the The British Government conceive that under the . ,
ve d
in this city flue day before yesterday, set out
Penal Code. The opinion of the Count de Riche. • operation of the Law of France, as it now stands, it rived
bourg is supported by strong and forcible reasons; if is stricer prohibited to French subjects to carry on yesterday for Antwerp,where a part of the monuments
it bad prevailed, the result would have been very a Traffid its Staves; and that nothing but a specific of the Arts were deposited which were taken from
favourable to the Marshal—on that account, with. 1 Ordinance could again revive that commerce : but the States of the Pope, and have been removed from
out doubt, its publicity irritated the Ministers. The whether this be the true construction or not of the the Museum at Paris. These master-pieces will be
Count de Richehourg has just beets denounced by state of the law in a technical sense, they feel per.
embarked next sprung on board of English angels to'
them to the Chamber, of which he is a Member : if this seeded that his Most Christian Majesty will never
affair is not hushed up, it will excite still more noise lend his authority to revive a system of this nature , be conveyed back to Italy.
than that of M. de Lenjuinais. The Government which has been, de facto, abolished. I To-day there has arrived from Paris a convoy of
will not suffer that soy opinions should be held con. ! I have desired Sir Charles Stuart to communicate precious effects belonging to the King of Spain,
trary to its own views, and it is an unpardonable to your nighties, what passed on this subject at . which Joseph Bonaparte had taken at the moment of
offence to have attempted to save Marshal Ney from Ghent ; the assurance the King was at that time
his retreat, The ' vieue of the effects is incalculable;
the sword of the executioner. pleased to give to the British Ambassador entirely
• There have been violent discussions in the Chem- tranquillized the Prince Regent's Ministers on this they are entrusted to Lieut.-Col. Miniussi, en 01B-
ber of Deputies, on the law respecting Preaotai: subject; but now that his Majesty has beets happily cer in the Spanish melee, to accompany them to
Courts, the Committee• of which made the Report, restored to his Throne, they are most anxious to he Antwerp, with a detachment of English cavalty,
yielding to the solicitations of some pyre Royalists enabled at once to relieve the solicitude of the British , where they will be embarked for alpai,,.
(for thus the Gitra.Rssyalists are termed), had pro. nation, by declaring, that the King, relieved by the; Count Real, Councillor of State under
Bonaparte,
posed to revive the gallows and the gibbet, and it was state in which this measure now stands, from those
charged with the second arrondissement of the police-
inserted in the Report. M. Laine was one of the considerations of reserve which before intlaenced his ,
of Great Empire, has been here for some
strongest opposers, he had declared, that if the amend. • conduct, does not hesitate to consider that question the
dais;
roma were adopted, he would give in his resignation. as now for ever closed, in conformity with those be. included in the Royal Ordosmance of the 2lth July.
The modification was rejected. • . nevolent puinciples which are at all timestcongenial he comes, like many others, to seek an asylum in ass
The Minister of Police had conceived the wild idea with the natural feelings of his Majesty's breast. i hospitable country, where liberty, and great and goe''
of making it believed that the Journals are now free I I have the honour to be, AO'. i serous ideas are not mere words.
in France to publish every thing ; to this end he has I (Signed) CISILLItEACiII.
suppressed the Commission of Censorship, and at. .
1 flit E%celtracy Prince Tallesrand, &c. &c. The last column of the 6th Promiatt corps is Sr.
cached to every Journal a responsible Censor ; the -- rived in this city, which concludes the _passage of.
NOTE WROIII:PaINCE TALLEYRAND TO VISCOUNT CAS-
Journals have been ordered to announce the suppres- . those troop.. It seems we shall harwhere It garrison
TLEREAGII.
sion of the Committee, but they have beets forbidden 1 (Translation.) p.„ i,, Ji.iy 11, 1811 : composed of national corps, and that it ..tiould be
to say, that it has been replaced by private Censors. ! My Loen,—l have the honour to acquaint your lodged in barracks.
Far from making the Journals more free, this mes• Excellency that the King, inconsequence of the con. LAUSANNE, Dec. s.—Huningoen looks now like a
sure, on the contrary, fetters them still more, for the versation he has had with Sir Charles Stuart, aud of village surrounded with ruins, and composed of a
old Censors were named by the King, which gave the letter which your Excellency did me the honour'
i few streets, drawn at right angles. It may make an
them a shadow of independence, whereas, at present, to write to me on the 27 inst. has issued directions
they are named by the Minister of Police, and conse- its order that, on the part of France, the traffic in ' agreeable appearance when the ruins and the bar-
quently placed at his discretion. ' slaves may cease from the present time, every where racks are removed. The environs Of Basle are co..
There is its Paris, Rue Therese, No. 1, a kind of and for ever. .
vexed with bricks, and they are continually bringing.
club, where those fiery Royalists, who wish to cover I What had been done in this respect by the Usurper more. The quantity is so great, that all the brick.
France with scaffolds, assemble. Over this club pre- ' was in the first place null and void, as were all his
kilns of Basle have left oil work, and it is nut likely
sides M. Hyde tie Neuritic (one of the heads of the' Decrees, and moreover had been evidently dictated
infernal machine conspiracy of the 3d Nivose), and to him by personal motives of interest, and by
hopes, •
they will begin again for a long time to come.
the Members who compose it are designated by the , which he never would have conceived, had he been Every day new mines are sprung, which is (re-
name of Hideous (Ilideur). It is there that the ' capable of appreciating the British Government and quently attended with fatal accidents. at the 25th,
Anti-French, and Anti-Constitutional propositions, ! people. It had not, therefore, and could not have, I a drummer, who was heating his drum to warn the
which are afterwards carried to the Chamber of De. any weight with his Majesty.
spectators to retire, was thrown down by the coo.
puties, are prepared. It was there that the re- ! Bet it was with regret, that last year his Majesty
establishment of gibbets and the gallows was dreamt ' stipulated the continuance of the traffic for a few cussion of the air. On the 30th, four mines were
of ;it was there that M. Labourdounaye's law of . years. Ile had only doe so, because, on the one sprung in less than two minutes ; the explosion cis
amnesty was tint discussed, and received with en- hand he was aware that on this point there existed in soarioleat that all the houses at iluningwett seemed to
thasissns. The White Jacobins of the street Therese, ' France prejudices, which it wits at that tinse - be
Ifalling; all the windows were broken. EnOr•
are a hundred times worse than the Red Jacobins of , visible to tooth; and that, on the other hand, it was mous stones flew on every side; another Austrian
93. It is said to have been not without intention' not possible to ascertain with precision what length
serjeant was kill 1
-----ed-; an Officer hat his arm hroltra,
that they have chosen for their place of meeting a of time it would require to remove theist.'
street called Thereze. I
Since that period these prejudices have been at and several persons of both sexes were wounded.

Buussus, Dac. 15. It is affirmed that, by I
(loyal Decree, is ltich will shoed) appeal, all pubic
spectacles will be pro!tibited during the holy vie•li,
Oar four grist feoivils in 01" year, and on the Cto-'
pus Christi and A ssumption. Such a regulation has
been long called for, by all tho.e who desired to see
the Catholic Religion surrounded with the respect of
the people.
The Stsiss troops, commanded by 'Colonel Zictzlerr
hate left us, and are gone to liolland.
VIENNA, DEC. s.—By privet. letters f '4ll. Semis
the `2oth November, affairs in that country teat
to take a pacific turn. The fortresses of Se; via
Palanken were occupied by the Turks ; the corps 0(
12,000 Servians near Ostruschniza, V 4 a s dissolved;
and Solimln Pacha, the ancient Governor of Bel'
grade. beheaded near Negotin ; and the Servian os•
lion had engaged to pay annually to the Porte 7000
purses, and, in case of war with a foreign power, to
bring 15,000 men into the field.
FRANKFORT, DEC. 11.—The Elector Of Hew'
Cassel has adopted, respecting the individual.; llama
in the Ordinance of 414th July) the same measures."
the King of Wit Lemberg.

. The Paris Papers of the 15th, which were r0i154
front the series received yesterday, came to hind to•
day. Their cootents are of little interest. We ba's
reads a few eVracts fa orn tbem.