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THE STATESMAN.

destroy and carry away public property, but pillage and it is to enable Powers with whom we may be at
uithout mercy the prislde individuals; that at Celle, mar the two day to obtain additional means of an-
on the grandroadfrom lovers In Moulin, after • so' atlce th.at the I.lritish nation have squandered so
baring carried away all ilte iron belonging to a mag-
moch of their money and their blood. The never-
l'ificent, but private manufactory for forging lameship's anchors, they sold every eking Os', and paid .ceasing cry of itolerucity is again raised—and even
artificers to destroy the reonaindert, together with the Austria, fearing rivalry, no doubt, as much as some
building. The French are particularlfdown-hearted. ot--btr neighbours dread vengeance, and hungering
—the mass of the people are threatening, the Federes .
u.
after a rst:lce, though the sceptre of an empire was_
conceal their muskets, and mertino are held to
offered her cowardly hand, 19 already calling out
Sod means to got rid of the- Farehtswe• - - -
" When compfeinsare made to the Pressiato Cam. for ruaeitinity for the three Legations irlrich the Holy
(asunder. against 41selv-asklieri. sim.y *elm ef—ts Que Crum-Evoofederacy hate restored to the POPE. Well
kit Francais opreastent a tire imiciAr It is curious may it be :aid and beliesed that peace will not be the
to see the printed orders at the doors of all the pob- immediate result of this termination to the crusade
lie -establishment", directed _solely to the Prossian
. 31ilitary, 66 not to touch, destroy, and rob," par. against BON APAUTE. Let not the war-faction
ticularly at the Museum of the Jurdia de, Plataes. be down hearted. The elements of discord upon

•4 I ~ru present at the review of the IttIISIAII4, and
over the Engirt:yr .and hi; gia. A -few ► Vice
Alexandre!' were hem!, but in general the thing
was dull ; eery dull, and no croul."

whose ebondant produce they fatten are not all.
extinct. Ambition • iernot yet torn op by tl:e
roots from the breasts of Princes and conquerors,
though NAPOLEON, who seated them on thrones, mod
gave them principalities with a better grace than they
wapiti now tender to him the dagger of destruction,
is far from th►•ir sight, and haunts them only in the
vision of their fears. Let the cruel-hearted syco-
phants who prostitute the title of magnanimous and
disinterested on the traffickers in human flesh, the
destroyers of nations, and the tramplers en the li-
berties of independent States, moderate their dissua-
sive eloquence to induce the great Powers to check
the exercise of their virtues, and not allow
themselves to be led away by their excessive
magnanity and the fine sensibilities of their hearts.
It is qui'e unnecessary, Messieurs of the merciless
and blood.stiring quill. The oppressors of Poland,
the partitionists of Saxony, the barterer, of Norway,
Venice, Genoa,—and the friends of the POPE, the
Inquisition, and the FERDINANDS of Spain and Si-
cily, will not fail to afford sefficient grounds of con-
solation to these who tremble for the effects of their
excessive sensibility to the best feelings of men and
the rights of nations.
By the German Papers, which are received along
with the Brussels to-day, to the -11th, we find the
Prussian and• Austrian troops are pouring so fast into
France that there is not time to equip them—they are
to be equipped in France, probably at the expellee of
that country. This shows that matters are considered
as far from. being settled, and proves that neither
the object nor the principle of the war is changed.
Such is the proof given of the sincerity of the Con•
federated Declarations.

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THE STATESMAN.

LONDON:

MOAT, AUGUST 18, 1815.

. ilia Paris Papers of Tuesday last, the 15th, ar-.
rived this forenoon. The principal articles of intel-
ligence which they bring are some particulars of the
trial of Colonel LASEDOTESE, which commenced on
Monday. The case of this brave young officer is ■
oast interesting one. He appears never to have take•
the oath of allegiance to Louts, and had come to Paris
when he was arrested, to consult with his friends as
to the best means of escaping to America from the
consequences of the King's Ordinance, which in-
cluded
him among the proscribed persons. lie has
' been found guilty, first of treasonable defection, se-
condly of rebellion, in aiding the invasion of BODIA
6AUTX, and thirdly of not having profitted of the
eight days allowed by the Ordinance for giving in his
submission to the King. The paoihllioeut is death, 1
but t 4 hours have been allowed for revision. It is
pot supposed that he will be •shot, asithe people %mi.
versally pity him, but that he will merely be stript of 1
his honours and exiled.

PARIS. Aud. 13.
SECOND COUNCIL OF WAR.
TRIAL OF EX-COLONEL LABEDOYERE.
It is not before a Military Commission fqrmerl of
Judges devoted to, and appointed for the esamino-
tion of a single affair, it is before a permanent
Council of War, and before his Peers, that the &-
Colonel Labedoyere has been brought. •

The process having been. terminated on Saturday
last, for bringing him before the Council, by M.
Viotti, Prosecutor to the Second Council of War of
the first Military Division, it assembled onder the
Presidence of the Adjutant Commandant Denier de
Sauvigny.
In military tribunals they do not revise the act of
accusation.

More arrests and trials are mentioned. NET is
, to be brought to Paris for trial, and Gen. 1... s Bonus
is also said to have been arrested in the environs of
Rennes. In the midst of all this show of vengeance
against treason, DAvousr has voluntarily come to
Paris, and appears noway. threatened by the storm
that is boating over the heads of his less fortunate
-companions in arms. Unto sr, we believe, violated
no oath to boon, and tendered his submission.
ft is impossible to reconcile the severe measures
*now adopted by the Government of. France towards
the military instruments of the late Revolution, with
the continuants in the highest offices of the State of
persons who were no less active In bringing it about,
and officially declared it to be " the most just and
necessary of Revolutions." The King appears to be
compelled to adopt measures pregnant with danger to
his very existence, which, if his Ministers do not or
'cannot avert, France and the Throne of Louts must
again speedily suffer the greatest of convulsions.
We are much mistaken if a double game of deceit
is not at present playing in France, which will ter-
minate in that sort of uproar which usually attends
the discovery of the manceovres of one set of cheats
by the other. It appears certain that there are al-
ready great dissensions among the Ministers, and
that from the pretentious put forth by one Power for
territory to swell his kingdom to a proportionate
size—by suother for security against the vi•itings of
retributive justice for the scandalous conduct of his
troops, and by a third for indemnity iii return for
cessions to uphold the POPE, that Lours XVIII. nit!
either be under the necessary of going to war with his
Allies, or of co►npromisinq those interests which it is
his duty to maintain, and the sacrifice of w hich must
be the ruin of his authority.

The Sitting opened conformably to the law, by the
reading of all the documents tending to throw a light
on the charges. _

The' principal documents were the interrogatories
put to the accused by the Prefect of the Police, be.
ore the Prosecator, and afterwards the declarations
of the witnesses•

The accused Labedoyere having been arrested at
Madame Fontery's, a friend of his wife, half an
hour after his arrival at Paris, was interrogated by
the Prefect of Police, as to the circumstances of his
orney. His answers amounted to this, that he
had followed the army of the Loire, without at-
taching himself to any particular corps. Ile was
billetted at Hiom, and was there at the time when
the submission of Gen. Excelmans took place. He
.then prepared to quit the country ; he had already
procured a passport to go, to the United States of
America, and a lett* of credit for 5500 francs upon
Mr. Parish, a Philadelphia merchant. All at once
he was informed of the ordinance of the King of the
24th of July, which sent him before a military tri-
bunal. This event changed his plans : he saw then
no other resource but to come to Paris, and advise
with his family.

'rhe President hating asked the accused if he had
worn the white cockade on his departure from Mom,
he replied, I did not, because I was dressed as a
simple citizen; if I had been in uniform, I should
haso worn it as Gen. Facelmana

He was interrogated as to the names Defter. and
Boner(' which were inscribed on his papers. Ile OM
he did not know bow they came there. The first
was formerly a Chamberlain of Madame Hortense ;
the last he did not know.

Prussia we see, true to policy which wrested
Silecia and Saxony from t lawful Sovereigns, is
determined to profit by the present recession of the
French strength. Brussels Papers to the 15th, re-
ceived to-day, inform us that the fortress of Phi-
lv Lich was pressed so furiously, has sur-
rendered to the Prussian arms, after the town was in
flames by the bombardment; and that the most hor-
rible scenes followed the entry of the Prussians late
that town, acknowledging the Ally of his Prussian
Majesty as its Sovereign. The Treaty of Paris, add
these Papers, is to undergo several changes in•favour
of tie Allies, and France will lose several great Pro-
vinces. Yet., yes, this is what the magnanimous Al-
lies went to war for—it is to obtain these Provinces

For the rest, he refused to explain himself relative
to the events of the month of March, and said that
he should do it before the Council of IVar.

The accuser had him brought before him on the
12th inst. and interrogated him particolarly as to
ohs( passed at Grenoble on Napoleon's arrival
there.

The accused owned that he had disobeyed theposi.
tire orders of the Adjutant.Geweral Devi'tiers, hi.
superior Officer. The latter, who had coma front
Chamberry with his brigade, was struck with sir.
prise ou learning tbat the 7th regiumeat had quitted ha

bivouac—upon-the ramparts, and had been led away
by its Colonel to the cries of Vive I' Einpereur ! The
accused confesses, moreover, that Gen. lievilliers
galloped after him, reminded him of the family con-
nections, and.every interest which could pitrient the
violation of his oaths. 46 I answered," continued
Labedoyere, 46 that the connections of which he
spoke were very dear to me; but that I sacrificed all
to what I regarded as for.tlie good of my country."
At the end of this interrogatory, the accused
asked permission to bring forward witnesses to prove
what he calls the kgilirnoc.y of the motives which in-
duced. him to act in the manner for vilticla he is re-
proached.
The reading of the documents Imitig terminated,
the accused was brought in by gendarmes. lie was
dressed as a citizen, n ithout any decoration : his be-
haviour was calm, his voice firm ; however, a pale-
ness which one is authorised in thinking not natural,
overspread his countenance. Interrogated as to his
Christian and surnames, Its. he said, his name was
Charles-Angelique-Francois Iluche de Labedoyere,
aged twenty-nine years, General-Officer, Officer of
the Legion of•lloouur, and Chevalier of the Legion of
Honour.

The public laterrogataries were nearly as fol-
lows:

What was your rank in the month of March last?
—I was Colonel of the 7th regiment of the line.
Who appointed you?—The King.
Did 3 ou take the oath of fidelity to your colours ?
—I was absent when the colours were restored to the
regiment. I imagine that the oath was taken by the
other Officers.

Were you not a Chevalier of St. Louis ?—No.
By 'Wue of what order did your regiment rejoin
Napoleon ?—By mine alone.

Had you not destroyed the white cockade, and
taken the tri-coloured in going out of the fausbourg ,
—I deny it. The tri-coloured cockade was not
taken till the next day. As to the eagle •f the re-
giment, it was preserved from curiosity, and was de-
posited at Chamherry with my other effects; my do-
mestics conveyed it there with other things.
I repeat, said the accused, my demand of calling
witnesses, as to the motives which governed me in the
circumstances which are the object of my accusation.
The Council of War, after having deliberated up-
on his demand, refused it, and the witnesses against
the Prisoner were successively called.

Count d'Agoult, Major-General of the Garde-du-
corps, deposed, that he was at Grenoble on the 7th
of Nrarcli. He witnessed the defection •f Labe-
doyere, and sew him re-enter the city by forcing the
gates.
Adjutant-General Ik.viiliers confirmed his written
declaration.

Durand, advocate; Courat, proprietor; Gagnon,
a young man, aged 19 ; Docroy, royal Amours,
aged J 7 ; Randon St. Marcel and Masini, deposed
only from hearsay what had passed ou the 7th of
March.

The young Decroy declared that lie had seen the
eagle of the 7th regiment carried at the end of a
branch if ; also, thatiAllstojmokad or-
dered a drum-head to be broken into, in which were
16-coloured cockades, and which he caused to be
distributed to the soldiers.

The examinations having terminated, M. Viotti
spoke as follows : • .
It is to the defection of (he Prisonet (hist we must
impute all the other defectieni: The revolution 'of
the Roth of March, thedefteitt,Of Waterloo, and the
invasion of our provinces. In vain does the accusrl
invoke political and moral considerations; ;they
-must
give way to the necessity of • maintaining !disciriline..
The accused has violated all military laws. What
signified his intentions being pure—have we not
heard of Generals who expiated their disobedience,
by the forfeit of their lives, although this disobedi-
ence was, perhaps, the cause of a brilliant vicfory.
The accused, unfortunately, is not in this predica-
ment. Let him look around him at (he evils which
his defection has produced, and let him judge him-
self ! Generals Marchand and Devi!liers had assigned
him a post, which he ought not to have abandoned I
even at the peril of his life. It was only over his
body that Bonaparte should have entered Grenoble.'
Without the treason of Libetloyere, the 7111 regi.
meat had remained faithful as did the 11th, vrbich
did.not abandon Gen. Devilliers. For these reasons,
the Prosecutor concluded that he should he pro-
nounced guilty of the clime of treason and rebel-
lion, for having aided and assisted the invasion of
Bonaparte.

M. Boxon, the offi,-i:11 defender of Labedoyere,
said, that from the grandeur and nobleness of the
soul of the accused., he thought it best to leave his
defence to

Labedoyere then rose, with a paper in his
hand, and said, that were only his life compromised,
he should distlaiii to make any defence; hut that he
wished at least• to leave his honour untarnished, and
not to bequeathe to his widow and infant son an in-
heritance of infamy. Giving in a few words the
tory of the facts, he then entered into a justification
of his motives. France, said he, beheld the return
of the Bourbons last year with enthusiasm : she hoped
that the paternal Government of Louis !WM.
would heal her wounds ; but through a deplorable
fatality she was mistaken. The intentions of the
King were pure; but the outrageous zeal of faithful
servants had done him much harm. These men,
forming an erroneous opinion of• Franc—
e the President interrnpled the accused; and