The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-09-09 00:00:00

THE STAz tAt4L

DEPOKTATION TO ST. HELENA. re was most imminent and extreine. And
—a.— ' such turns, resulting from causes far by oliti oal
TO THE EMTOIt 01 THE STATESMAN. means of tracing them, have therefore beds, eisroilel.-
Ste,—ln the lung i"I""I previous to the meeting ously and vaguely referred to the Fortune of fries4l
of Parliament. there will he abundantly too long a And this country has found that, successful beyOssi,
sp:lce for Ministers to consider what it is to send its utmost expectation, it has never bets farther
any man into exile and permanent imprisonment, from any beneficial result of its success to itself and
il„,i„i pieaaure, on the risk of its legality. Of its others, than at present. But the glory of returning
illegality I have now additional and high authority a generous confidence with its like, would have bee*
that 4carcely any lawyer can doubt it. One
for sayilitr, personal, pure, and undivided to the Patrice; tie
of the greatest of lawyers, who is a distinguished General, no Army, no Fleet, or Minister, no l'ab-4
camber of Parliament, and is recognized as one of tic Body or Individual, would have been partaker is
the hest of men, has said, he thinks that of if, ille• it : it would have been as perfect sod appropriate as
guilty no person can doubt. : it would have been singular in its kind, great in its
11.1 t in caw it were unhappily received as law, it principle, and in all its circumstances independent
i, material to reflect what the operation of such an of events, and of a lustre unfading to the most dis 4
crumpk would he likely to have on the future state of titer posterity.
Carfare; which does not appear likely to be less As it is, this will be recollected.—Ministers made
frequent than it is has been. ! their determination when they might have kept Pao

it is votes considering whether wars are meant to Bement assembled ; expecting, as they did, the cap-
be waged according to the precedent which has been lure, though not the voluntary coming of this so
now attempted to be made, respecting the head of great individual. They persevered in their determi.
the tuition with whom we have been at war, how. nation when they might have convened Parliament on
suever he may come within Our power : whether as the day of Prorogation ; and they have still further
an enemy or se a friend ; whether in couflict with prorogued it toe late day ;by which time, or nearly,
our arms, or having a just ett;.ectation, honourable the Northumberland may arrive at its remote desti-
to us and to him, that he should find au asylum nation.
with us. 1 They hnve publicly and officially announced their
There is also another precedent to he made :—that
determination, some days after they had carried it in
of nation' most widely differing in !...s, Coestitu-
effect : thinking it sufficient to speak of it as the re.
lion, national eh tracter. and manne, v, ,::aiming a
suit of events in Europe, in consequence of which
plat disposal of the person of such a distinguished in-
it has been deemed expedient and determined, in con-
iliridual ; and the natian to whom he has exciastrely
junction with the Allied Sovereigns, that the Island
soil voluntarily resorted, front his opinion of their
of
St. Helena shall be allotted for the future real-
ise's anti motional character, recognizing this Claim of
dence. of General NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. And
the rest ; iii peejutlice to them, and to that opinion,
at the same time, for the perfect security of his per.
and to one hither'" received usage of nations at war.
son whom they thus designate, they have announced,
spool' this dreadful experiment establish itself
that /mule vessels shall be excluded from all cern.
(*lnch (trust it casino* it will concern Kings in
muttication and approach to that island, during such
general ,t, look to its effect its future as it concerns time as it shall continue to be the place of his resi-
themselves.
1 hi . dente.
ft 114.4 rot thus that NAPOLEON conducted m-
-1 Such is the communication from the Office of the
self to. yds tho beads of those Continental Powers
Foreign Secretary of State, 26th Aug. 1815, to
eansferleta.4 against him; not thus against the Duke , ,
wrkucnthe name of Lord BATHURVE appears : Till
o'Atto"ui rmt and Louts himself, who:" Pr"'"." then no name, no official announcement, claimed the
thins ~..r. ~:int.:l him. It is easy to see On which
merit, er encountered the responsibility of this pro.
side the g iie,irus a.ul forbearing conduct has been.—
eec disig :---
And a:so will imags,,p, that notwithstanding his ex- •
Flew: e.t irsienis Gloria Farti :
prrieme fir onm la:il ~.ar and their Proclamation of I hire sent woes pram( vuturrequisquam.
the 13th of Mare" —is, hid any of the Continental We have learnt in classic studies the figure called
Confederate Sovereigns fallen into his power, that Euphemism, which expresses the harshest and the
'ley would have received such treatment from NA- most chocking circumstance in the most agreeable
rottom as he has fro.n them, and with what feelings terms ; we have heard of the Eastern Courts and
I compelled by the facts to add, from us. ! their silken bow.string. Assuredly, no Court Vo.
Saco an example as is now afforded would cabulary upon earth could supply softer terms for this
• us much farther back in time, than any con. or any proceeding.
to matt would be•disposed to go for example; Ii Not the golden frog of the garden of the Mope-
. it would transfer us in space to regions fro"- „west...woo suitga44 t. the ogaeace
of its pr..
which we do not seek the rules of civilized warfare.: letting dragon in milder words. But the reality, not
And having gone thus far in search of analogies for the language in which it is veiled, will befell by the
the caercise of mere power over those who have been 1 soberer; and should be regarded by every English
unfortunate in war, we might be led on farther, to . understanding, by every human heart.
ices of those countries„ more disgusting to the i Deys, however, and weeks, take their flight, and,
tad imagination, but perhaps not essentially at last, Parliament must he assembled.—Atel who.
wounding to right feelings than this of ours. 1
they Ministers venture to come for a Ratffication
But, unhappily, what is exhibited at once to the end Indemnity, inn a case where there is nothing ca.
erikes us far otherwise than the long and linger-
'table of being ratified, nothing, therefor., to offer ass
g injuries of which we hear at a distance. Such,
ground of indemnity, and undoing to have prevented
sever, is not the measure by which Executive Go.
the Northumberland or the Bellerophon, with their
Its or Legislators, Philosophers, Moralists,
illustrious charge, remaining in the Channel till
Christians,—if they are worthy of any of these
Parliament had met, had not Ministers preferred
qatlations,—will direct their conduct. I taking the whole upon themselves; this I do say,
Is is not so long back,—there may be, and there that whether they at last do resort to Parliament, or
re, mobably, soldiers now living, who were in whether they rest on their mill and pleasure, at all
`engsgpme,:% when the then header the Houma events, the question of the treatment of the Ex-Em-
!4°""" king of
G "AT BRIWN/ 68blings all yew NAPOLEPEN great and [linguistr as it is, will1
Alen eith the gallantry habitual to his Om)", ' be brought forward when Parliament shall meet.—,
alt hare been a prisoner. What should we haft' And a graver, higher, more affecting que. • or of
ight of I. ts deportation to a remote bland, prison's more soucera to the Laws, and Constjtu s.aed
life? What would Europe, what would the' Ream, nail's pgODLN of ENGLAND, no Pergiment
Id—the civilized world,—have thoughti has eves bad to consider.
If it he observed, that it h.: useless to roles to game And then, when that tins* arrives, Thether we
' suppositions respecting those who were &Anew- I regard the most sacred of our laws, and most essen.
legitimate Sovereigns, the answer may be, that fiat Is the freedom of our Constitution and its pro.
eciines, as in the war respecting the Spanish at+ ' t live pouter, and to.the security of all who are
1, and in various other instances, opposite I placed by birth, or who place. themselves under its
.ern may maintain opposite claims of sovereignty ; hospitable avis (tend to suet' foreign visitants, the
licit, consequently, cannot both, be legitimate.... :arts, the scienees, the literature, the manufactures,
id the farther, that many hundreds of myriads in and commerce of this country, have, in former days,
ante (and in every country resides the exclusive : been most deeply indebted); whether we respect the
liege to determine in whom the legitimate tight ,s/tioalrous courtesy of darker, or the more refined
to talmiiiister its sovereignty), many hundreds of sentiments sod policy of times near to our own, by
riads have regarded the Throne and succession of which the stern and Amnions features of war had,
Lentos a; established on the only legitimate to a considerable degree, been softened, so as to
indation, the will and choice of ?Hz PE".I-.6•-••• partake of the divine image of humanity and justice;
id as far as it can appear to other nations it may . whether we feet for the British Navy and its gene.
II be doubted whose throne ever was legitimate if rout unaffected disposition when an enemy ceases to
it were nor. i be such, and are anima; to remove the impression
But in this discussion BONAPARTE has been contd. ' which this RCP) service, thus invented for it, must
(to meet this adverse argument as fair upon its produce ; or whether we revere the sciences, litera-
•n ground as might be) as a Prisoner. I have al. tare, and the arts,--the glory of arms and of liberal
iys objected to his being so considered : I have al- : legislation, and are desirous of paying a testimony
1)1 urged that it became this nation to consider him to them, all in the person of Naratscon-Whtss coat-
he considered himself ;—as voluntarily coming to ing, thus confiding himself to us; or whether we
'in asylum with us ; and with the same liberal consider the great mass of the community who bare
~, as it was sought, to have given it. In read, or who have heard, or who have seen, or who
firm, animated, and pathetic Protest he had have personally contributed to the fame of England,
indent cense for saying, that 66
he had expected to by generosity, after the severest struggles, no Imo.
for the Pastier REGENT the most glorious than bravery in them. All who, in any manner, by,i
.of his reign." Other glories have been chequer. their talents, their exertions, their perils end merle
with various alternations of defeat and victory, Ws, in war or in peace, have had their share lei
acquisition: they have been ascribable to the adding some portion to that fame,—there is not t
~ the condor', and the success of others. And public body, there is not a class or profession, theta
Ipe none have been more sudden and more is not an intelligent and well.dispesed individual, eke'
this when the Instant before the dau. has not a right that sach.atoileseuto. is Mil feel*.
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bie, be slide for the depth of darkness which has
town thrown over this colititry, and will continue
Id blatant it to the latest times, if this otherwite
irietlareble disgrace be not, to the utmolt which Is.
ssestisinisible to effect, done away, by the manifes-
bition of the contrary judgment and feelisig of the
Legislature and of Tug !hoeing itself ; for while
this disgrace' still presses upon us with all its weight,
a man wild feels for his country will &Imola he
ashamed to think upon any other subject.

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