The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-01-30 00:00:00

THE STATtSMAN.

tarily repaiflatto Lisle, and wrote, immediately on
'his *arrival, a letter to Lieut.• General the Count
s'Est.obt, Commandant of the 16th Military Divi-
sion, and President, of the Court-Martial, which
letter will be found among our extracts from tl►e
French Papers.

The Court-Martial was composed of the most dis-
tinguished Officers of the French army. The Count
n'ERLON, the President, an old opponent of Lard
WELLINGTON, is an Officer not more distinguished
for his skill and bravery than for his high and un-
impeachable honour. The acquittal of General Ex-
CELMANS has enraged the Times almost to madness!
Our Readers will hardly believe it possible, that
language such as the following, could have digraced
the columns of any Journal in any cirilised country
—language as indecent, as it is insulting ! This is the
way in which the Thnes congratulates a brave and in-
dependent Officer on his honourable acquittal from
the Charges which had been preferred against him :
" Ve are sorry to see that ExcELmAss, the fellow
who broke his parole of honour in England, set all
military discipline at defiance in France, and engaged
in a treasonable correspondence with MURAT, has
been unanimously acquitted at Lisle, to which place
he' went to surrender himself for trial, well assured,
no doubt, of the result which awaited him. This,

we must own, is one of the most unpromising circum-
stances, we have observed, in respect to the feelings
and conduct of the French nrmy. This ExcErmaxs,
after all he has done in France and England, has the
audacity to talk of his ' honour ;' awl no doubt. he
will find at Paris a number of worthless partizans,
who will represent him as the object of a tyrannical
persecution ; but the l'ari&ians ought to turn Bark.
to the early pages of their revolution, and there they
will see the consequences of encouraging Military
insubordination, and conferring popularity on
scoundrels."

Now, it is impossible that a greater insult than
this can be imagined to the whole French nation !
The rancorous malignity displayed towards General
EXCELMANS is lost in, the infuriated and wild attack
upon the Members of the Court-Martial, and the
whole French Maly, and this, too, in a Journal
which has been openly charged with being in the pay
of the French Government !—a charge to which the
Times has never 'Orly replied, never expressly de.
nied—only by a sort of side-wind prevarication.—
Now, can any thing be more monstrous than this ?
General ExcEt„mAms is charged with offences 'touch-
ing his life—he is tried by a Court-Alartial, eom•
posed of the most distingoised Officers, selected by
the very Government, nay, by the ♦ery man,
Sours, who preferred the Charges, and by this
Court-Martial he is acquitted ! Yet the Times stig-
matizes its Members as traitors ! And-can it be sup-
posed that SOULT, who organized this Court, would
ha►e placed on it men on whom he had not every re-
liance ? men who, if possible, Would hove strained a
point to oblige the great Leviathan who is at the
head of the French Army ! Bat a still greater
proof of the detestable foulness of this attack is, that
not one syallable of the details of this trial has yet
reached us—nothing but the bare fact of Gene.
ral EXCELMAN'S acquittal ! and yet the Times
dares to charge the Court-Martial with fret'.
son, for having acquitted him!--Why, perhaps
(as is most likely, from the circ.imstance of the
Court being all men who had served under SOULT,
Count.D'EaLos himself having been with that Chief
for several campaigns, but p; .rticularly in that the
North of Spain and South of France), perhaps nut,
a single jot of evidence appeared against General
EXCELMASS, and that he clearly and manifestly
proved the falsehood of the Charges! " Ile is una-
nimously °quitted .' Does not this speak something
too plain to suppose it possible that there could have
been even a shadow of foundation for the charges on
which he was amigneil? And yet he is called a
" scoundrel," and other most degrading epithets are
applied to a roan, who, by the highest Tribunal of his
country, a Tribunal, the Members of which, be it
remembered, were appointed by the very man who
prosecuted him, by this very Tribunal he is unani-
mously acquitted! The-whole British nation should
express its indignation at such dreadful libelling as
this.

But this attack gives rise to considerations of stilt
greater importance than at first meet the.eye. What
will theiteaple of France say to it ? It is well known,
that the rimer is openly patronized by the French
Government, and it has even been asserted, is in its
pay. Will it not be a fair conclusion, that the sen-
timents now expressed are those of the French
Court ? Would the TiMes venture to insert them
if they were not so ? Do we pay our servants (aye,
and well toe) for acting in opposition to our wishes?
What, then, will be the consequence, if, as the
T'imes. would imply, the whole army is indisposed
towards the Sovereign ? Will this most indecent and
most vulgar abuse tend to conciliate any existing
differences ? What will the people say ? But, alas !
the people have never been estimated by the Times,
but merely as humble machines, sent on earth to be
the slaves of 'the " great privileged orders !" but
we know, and the'BouttllONS ought to remember, that
the people have a voice! and they have spoken, too,
in a rr.-ist audible tone. Witt such vile slander as
this draw the bond of amity closer between the So-
vereign and the subject ?
It will be observed that SouLT,' in his Charges
against EXCELMANS, styles Muftaz the enemy. It
appears also that SOULT'S government is .apprehen-
sive of danger from some quarter, or meditates some

ttvlitary enterprize of consequence. -He has recently
given an order for the purchase of horses to a
great extent, and by the description they are
designed to mount the artillery.--We have
also authentic intelligence that there have been
serious and alarming disturbances at Rennes,_
The troops refused to act against the people, who
resisted some demand made for the fetid of the re,
latives of Royalists, and for five days they were itt
possessiontof the place.
A report, that seems nowise entitled to credit, is
• transmitted fromHarnburgh, that an• offensive and
defensive alliance has teen concluded between the
Ottoman Porte and France.

There is also a talk of an iovitation made by sere.
rafgreat Powers to King JO ACHIM to accept the three
legations of kiologoa, Ferrara, and Ravenna, in ex-
change forldie Crown of Naples, which would be
restored to the BouItRONS. It is even said they hare
alleged to King JOACHIM the illustrious example of
the Crov:n Prince of SWEDEN, who, it is said, has
offered to renounce all his rights in case the restora-
tion of the family of GUSTAVE'S should be judged
advantageous to Europe. •

This report ill accords with what we haste hitherto
witnessed on We part of the illustrious CHARLES
John. Ire did not 66 wade through slaughter to a
throne," to give ►t away in this manner..
IThe EvEmpress 114,tntit Louis has presented a •
strong protest to the Cong►ess, demanding her rights,
and those of her son. This was presented at one of
the•last Sittings of the Council, and made a lively

seusation.

Something of consequence seems in agitation re.
specting "Be!gium. The font:Wing article came to
hand %int flesh Dutch Jouruals as our Paper was
going to Press :

" li.tave,J Ax. 22.—A co arier arrived very lately
from Vienna, dispatched by the Ambassador of hit •
Royal ❑ighness the Prince Sovereign at that capital.
Immediately after M. Baron de Copelin set elf for
Vienna upon a special mission."

The followiog was this morning posted at
14coYD'S :—" His Majesty's ships Okathapr,liombay,
Larne, and ',Zephyr sailed ye,terday from Ports.
mouth in search of the American It igates. His Ma-
jesty's ship Centaur, York; Liverpool, and
more, which sailed from Plymouth is search of the
American frigates, were driven hack to that port art
Saturday:last, by contrary winds. Sir G. Cowart
In the L'ander with the Newcastle and Acosta
gates, were of Fayal, ou the 1 lth inst. iod the
Euphrates frigate was at Fayal on the t3th."

We experience the livelie,• satisfaction in directing
the attention of our Readers to the conduct of that
manly and most disinterested friend of his country
and the people's interests and rights, Mr. Wm-
Bat An., at the meeting of the Proprietors of Land in
liedfordsl►ire, held on Saturday se'unight ; the
particulars of ishich are given in this Paper.—

Mr. W., who is verily and truly a patriot of Me soil,
'and has as much interest in what concerns the pro-
sperity of our agriculture a 3 most landlords in the
kingdom, has &dared his opinion against the pro-
priety of petitioning for a Corn Bill, and has sup-
additional argu,,,,lts, which must carry convic-
tion even to minds biassed in favour of such a mea-
sure, showing the inutility and injustice of legis-
lative Interference to keep up the price of cook

Fri(ley evening Mr. Fist's'', the King's Messen•
ger, wns sent with dispatches from the foreign-ofrice,
to Viscount CASTLEREAGH.

The E I and Countess of LiTrapoot, and family,
are expected in town to-day, for the seison.
On Wednesday the of I,llmmoot. will enters
bin all the Cabinet Aliniiters in town, to dinner.

Large orders have lately been given for the Ameri.
can market. One bookseller's house in London has
received an order for 9-0.0001. worth of books.
The daughter or Marshal MASSENA is shortly to
she her hand to the French General Rex', to whom
she brings a fortune of 2,000,000 francs, equal to
about 84,0001. of our money. Indeed it is pretty
well understood, that Victory took peat care of her•
darling, in all pecuniary matters. •
An alarming fire broke out about four o'clock OR
Saturday morning• at the house of Mrs. Watroun,
in Ciniduit.street, which burnt with such furious ra-
pidity, that in less than an hour the whole of the
premises were destroyed. The furniture was very
valuable. The early hour et which the fire was
discovered threatened destruction to part of the family,
if not the %hole, as they were all in a state of repose,
and the flames were rapid in their course. The fe-
male servants, for some time, ware in such a state of
consternation, that they seemed to be stunned with
fear, and could hardly be induced to move from the
spot. In additioti to the loss of the whole of the
property, which was only in part insured, Mrs. W.
has to deplore that of a son 1.5 years of age.

CORN-EXCII A Nine. JAN. 30.—There was hut 01 thin sispil'y
of %%'herst this la. riling, and 5441.► elle, let At na alertwe of
4s. per quarter .11nnd•IN'i. prices.—lVrlev 1.. In 25. dearer.
Ow., Pew", and Beaus ate a ready Dale at to %. dearer.

Wheat ( Lnglislt) . 42 68
Ditto (Foreign) 44 75
RN e 2B 91
Barley 'l4 32
Neu ditto —
Matt ' 6 68
Whit, Peas , .. 96 4‘..!
Ni .w ditto .... ....... _... _

Beans

Old ditto .
Tick do. 26 36
Old
Oat, - 30
Fine ditto

Poland do. ..... 45
Feed ditto 18 211
Fine Flour ..... (Al
Secoudc ..... 5) fra

Ditto linilen 45.
(iley Peas 52 96

SMITIIFIELD SI

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To <it*
R•of Ng. fl.. t'
Multott . 5, Ut. t. ti.. 01:.
Vent 7• Vd. t.
Pork ... 0.. GI .$0 7s. 4'.
Lan,!, oth to t 4.

Alt K VT.—Ja s. 90.
prr shale of Nit..
Head of Cattle this day t
;tempi
StletT ...... • 12,74:0
Calves • . lOO
Pigs 354