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those 41(1..4 a.ihle rights sod aeltssouladged ho-
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7111 E STATES :WA N.

LONDON :

wripmEsnA v, NovEmr.Eit 15, 1815.

COUNCIL or WAR ON MARSHAL NLY
DECLARED ITsELE INCOMPETENT.

delay, to the trial of Marshal Ney, accused of high
treason Ind crimes against the Ante.
It shall OW* ye its this trial the settle forms*. are
observed in the proposals for the enactment of laws,
without, 1i0,4 ever, dividing itself into Bureaux. The
President of the Chamber shall interrogate the acs-

cused face to fact, and direct the proceedivi in pub-
lic assembly.

The opinioes shall be (alien according to the forms
eusinmery in the Tribintaii.
The present Ordinance shall be cusrried to the
Chamber of Peers by our Ministers, Secretaries of
State► land our Procurator-OPtieral of.the Boyd
Court of Paris, whom we chatie id support thi in-
dictment end the diacussion.
Civet' at our Chateau of the Thuilieries, 11th
of November, 18!5, and the 22d ) eer of our
reign.
LOUIS.

(Sigurd)

After har•ing heard the above Ordinance read, the
Assembly, upon the motion of one of its Members de-

Roes! Court, wn fhe 2d instant., that 46'1l PROCELDINGS AGAIsT Hot IN TILE (711 AMBER clared, that it received respectfully the communicalidn
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authority proceeds from GOD, and that it is n OF PF.
trot .
i which had just been made twit in the King's name
given to the people to dispute it."—The one
We have received the Paris Papers of Sunday Iwo.. by his Ministers; that it recognized the duties, the
has never been denied, and the other has never .
Their contents are most important. The Council a perferthanee of Which had been confided to it, and
been attempted. la mentioning a puerility war- War appointed to try Marshal NEY, after hearing .that it is ready to fulfil-them by ceeforinieg itself to
thy only of such men as the Abbe BARREUIL and the Ordiroatice of the King.
the documentary evidence against him and the argu- ,
kr. Perriee, end the poppets they support, little
meets of 'l2he Duke .1 Richelieu spoke at length on the
obeli intended than to expose an implied sophism, of his Counsel egaittst the competency,
eutorct of the Ring's motives. We shall give the
1 the Court,. has. declared
. itself incompetent to pro- •
under a verbiage ill-adapted to the cultivated tastefolio o log report of his speech from the Moniteur :
and understanding of the present times. This sentence , ceed in the trial ; and it now remains
of
the
Duke of Ilicitco.tev's s h—" Gentlemen, the
.hi instantly followed by what may be called its expla-1 Chamber of Peers to. decide on the foe° the ac-
Estiattnlitoary Council of War formed to try Mu.
nation—" Our ancestors (you say), who guarded closed Marshal ,—a question highly impoi coo to
shall Nsl has declared its incompetency. We shall met
.ikeir (reechoes, and cherished their liberties (wiser France and interesting to the world. As the Jour-
expose te you all the reasons upon which this deel.
than ere), recognised Mat our Kings reign by Me i nets or Saturday
. are 'wanting, we fire without any
slots is founded. It is sufficient to know, that the
MUCK OP GOD, and not by CONSTITU- I detailed report beyond what we have all ratty given,
Marsloid is accused of higb treason. According to
TIO NS ;" but if your Kings reigned solely by the of the proceedings of the Council of War ou Friday
the Charter it belongs to you to try crimes of this
GRACE OF GOD, independent of the 'people, (the second day), which led to the result of a decla.
nature. It is not accessary, in the exercise of this
what franchises, what liberty, load the latter to ; ratlou of incompetency ; but the Papers of Sunday,
high judicial power, that the Chamber should be
"CHERISH?" What necessity could there be for which make us acquaioteri.with this abrupt vermin- !
organised like a common tribunal, The forms
eneemliasoihem, and what were their means of pro. tion of the labours of the Court, and the siebse. :observed by you, on the proposals for the enact-
tocileti.oem, supposing it possible that those who wet proceedings of the Government against the.•mens of laws,
and for deciding, in some. nsee-
. Y 0044 611 the Grace of Goo could violate or do. Marshal, render th m
is chasm in the detail of less con- suer,
upon their adoption, are doubtless suffi-
- stray them ? 1 will pass over tub blapephonly of your. sequence; .i ciently solemn and satisfactory for the trial of any
1.;
. asserting that such execrable beings as Pinup Le I The trial comes on in the Chamber of Peers in man, whatever may be his rank or situation.. The
Bat, CIRARLES LE BEL, PHILIP YE.; Louis XL., ' consequence of a Royal Order, the King's Procure- Chamber is' therefore competent to try the crlatell(
CHARLES VIII., and that horrible meatier ' tour in the Permanent Council having appealed high treason, of which Marshal Ney has been loot'
Coat:cm IX. (cum multis olds) reigned es- against the decision of incompetency. The conduct accused. No plea can be put in to delay this trial,
the Grace of Goo."--My regret is, that Law- of the trial is therefore still in the bands of the MI- iby reason of there being in the Chamber of Peers
, yen, oho ought to be the defenders of our rights
,'bolero, and it will be seen by the rules laid down •no officer esercisis.g the characterof Procurator-
should voile themselves with an impious, avaricious , for the regulation of the Chamber in its examination) , General. The Charter made no provision for one,
Priesthood, and partake of their iniquitous egaeta to : and the formation of its opinions,that the Government It
,did net contemplate the necessity of one. Per-
leave mankind no other alternative than to be their is most o„„,iio„g to quit its powers of direction, '.haps it ought not to hare done so. For certain
DUPES of VICTIMS. Your time would be far and in fact fears to rely on the unbiassed decision of crimes of high treason the Accuser may be of the
more• honourably gild beneficially employed, were' the Chamber. Some apprehensions seem to have Chamber of Deputies ; for others, it may be the
you to exert your talente mid your credit to re- been eutertained, lest the Peers should also declare Government. The Ministers are the natural organs
strain your Clergy to their proper functions, and of accusation ; and we think we rasher fulfil our,
themselves an hicampetent Court, on account of the
compel teem to bets eitemplary in their conduct u Charter having made no provision for such a
•case dotty than exercise a right in acquitting ourselves of
'the moral precepts of Christianity are pure and un- this public trust. It is not only, Gentlemen, in the
tby vesting it with judicial powers, and giving it the
sullied. I
necessary legal appendages; but this objection
name of the King that we fulfil this duty of our orrice,
Madame de Sevicsor could hare better advised it is in the name of France, so long outraged and
the Ministers and the Peers themselves halve got
you, when you told your auditors that "THE • insulted, and now in such a state of stupefaesion.—
over, and the Chamber has undertaken to perform
MONARCH IS THE IMAGE OF THE DIVI- lt is even in the name of Europe that we come to re.
the duties confided to it. The Minister is most
DUTY." Ins peaking of the sacrilegious attempt of ,
earnest quire, and even conjure you to try Marshal Ney.—
t in his recommendations to the Chamber to en-
that conceited despot LOUIS XIV. to force the Iva.; ea It is .useless, Gentlemen, to follow common Me-
, ter on the trial immediately—he requests itithe name .
nished STUARTS on this country, that Lady very pro- gistenal forms, which enumerate in detail the several
of the King, and entreats and conjureoin that of the
perly observed—" It is not being the IMAGE heads of charges against the accused, for they will
Ministers, that they will immediately tor "Marshal
of the Almighty to support a King expelled arise out of the proofs and evidence which will be sub-
andlNET—for, says he,—and it is a most important de- .
abandoned. No ! h is a far better /M/- mined to you. There exist in all their strength,
TAT/ON of the Divine justice to ptsnish atclaratioto-•••••" The decision of the Council of War is
notwithstanding the question of incompetency, and
FANATIC and expel a DEPOT."—I will scot i the triumph of the factious." " Let their joy be the decision pronounced upon it. The reading
degrade my pen or soil my paper by asking I short," he entreats," lest it. have fatal effects." lie
.of the papers which we shall deposit in your
you, as a well-informed honest man, whether proclaims at once, and in the first Chamber of the pa. Bureau: will make you acquainted with the di&
you consider the despicable wretch who wields the I lion, the sanguinary disposition of the Goverthnent,
' twist charges. Therefore further definition of
sceptre in Spain as the IMAGE of GOD?—Neither i which sees no justice or safety but in vengeance, and the crimes alleged, is unnecessary : they are all
will I (Mete on the enormities of his crime, but 1 ' the utter detestation in which that Government Is
1; to be found in the words traced by that Charter,
will ask yoo, Sir, if you are aware of the, conse- held by its subjects. The decision of the 1 Counciitt which, after the shock the social edifice has received
quences to which these AT I'RIBUTES, which you of War in this ca,r, is indeed a triumph Win France, is now becomes its firmest basis. Won.
have so prodigally, so impiously, and so falsely con- the French military anal the en emies of the Go. i cote before you Marshal Ney of
treason and
ferred upon Kings, must ultimately tend, if per- 'eminent, which they will know how to improve. • crimes against the State; we venture to say, that the
Fisted in ?—The fallacy of the principle you would SOULT has also demanded to be tried. Chamber of Peers owes to the world a signal act of
establish is so evident, even to the meatiest capaci- t.
The Cl b ;am er of Peers ens to enter on the exam'. reparetion, and that it ought to be speedy, for it le
tie', that it is far more likely to excite disgust and nation ef N- y', ca•-'a .ni Monday last. lof consequence to Fines: the indignation which, on
' provoke revolt, than create either esteem or pit) for I all sides bursts forth.
• aos, NOV. i2.-.-Yrct 'ASA El"ling Baron : '
. a family, whom it was baseness in you to have . . • " You will
I Joins tile, Commiotionter. Orlonn-e4e.lii Chief, or not permit an extended impunity to
'received, and a crime in the Allied Sovereignsj
the First Milker.) Diri-ion, di '... •s•d by the meg engender new scourges greater than those we are 1111
ti. have restored. To tell such a poor and can-; as Procureur in the First Perms no. . council of wet,
.deavouring to escape. The Ministers of the King
tansissible being as the Count n'Aerors, who labours 1
' charged with the tlial of Marshal. Ney, „poets; are constrained to toll you that this decision of the
in piams Unison with his no less contemptible see, f
against the decision of the lush, by wfiich Vit -C"licii of War is a triumph of the factious. It int:
the Duke reAecours.mr, to redeem the libertinism
Council declares itself incernivetent. .
I. . ports that their joy should be short, its order that it
of years by a fanaticism as sanguinary as it is ferocious
.Marshal Sault, it is said, has caused a Memorial may not be fatal to them. IVe, therefore, conjure
and hypocritical, that Kings .are not accountable for
to be presented to the Kiiig,• in which be demands you, and in the name of the King we require yen,
their delinquencies to the station, may be music to ,
to be tried. to proceed immediatelf to the trial of Marshal Noy,
such ears, bat to the. great beak of mankind they I i
• and to observe the forms as recommended,
are an insult and a wrong of so atrocious a nature, CHAMBER OF PEERS. No•. 11.
1 66 After this audience you enter on your judicial
as to deserve a chastiement proportioned to' the ills I At five o'clock, the Ministers of the
King, ac' functions. You owe to yourselves, Gentlemen, not
that must inevitably result from doctrines so much companied by the Procurator-General of the Ito I
Ya- to listen to any suggestions which may influence
at variance wills morals and with common sense. In Court of Paris, brought to the Chamber an Orcli.
• your judgment, for or aglitost the accused. Ile Will
my next I will go more folly into this subject, for I , sauce of his Majesty of this day's date, ream- . appear before you on the day and at the hour which
mean to mese your guilty servility to the world, ' mending to the Chamber of Peers to proceed, with. the Chamber shall fix."
end I. shame yes, if possible, into a renunciation of ' out delay, to the tall of Marshal Ney, accused of ' The Chamber
doctrines as criminal as they are ill-founded, end very • high treasou and mimes agiiint ' the safety of the' o'clock, when it will cuter on the examination of the
unworthy of your name, your station, and your State. '
i documentary evidence respecting Marshal Ney.
ceentry.—l hive the howler
,to be, Sir, your moist The Procurator-General afterwards read to pool . • .
•
obedient humble servant, Clramber, first, the decision by which the Permanent; -Pants, Nov. 12.—The Dnke of Otranto artimel
THE GHOST OF WAS/HM.4ON. Council of War of the First Military Division, has !at Dresden on the 26th ultimo, and
art thus Vtli
Lemke, goy. U.
declared its incompetency tai try Marshal Ney ; and: had his first audience of the King of Saxony'. p,o
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Two hundred and fifty of the Coldstream regi. secondly, the Ordinance of the King, esplanatery of I whom he presented hie credentials. •
ment of Guards, six serjeants, with drums and fifes, the motives of his Majeate, to theiollowitig effect : I The Austrian Government is ettiployed upon a
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marched on Monday morning at seven o'clock, from Louis, by the Grace of Gott,- Ate. . ;plan to diminish the paper momsy in circulation, and
the Parade iu St. James's Park, on their route for Bevis% semi the 3311 A i 'We of the Constitutional' they seeek of a tax upon thcproperty of the nobles,
Dover, to embark for Calais, thence to proceed to Charter, and lisisiti bead our we have' who have hithertopaid none an g Ministers, . .
reinforce the Puke of WeetreeToe. They IR, it •
is said, to replace the British troops uhp afeenming decreed, and do &TIPP a S follows :'-'- -The Royal Court of Thottlouse has sentenced to
home in consequence of ill health. a The Chamber of l'ceo, shall proceed, without three mouths imprisonment, and a fine of 100 francs,