The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-09-05 00:00:00

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" That if Nev continoed .to mitt he would give
up Fan to all the horrors eithit war.
" These la. *olds completed the triumph over
the Marshal's nest resoluti 111 l .." •
Alter 'ante attempts to excuse this step/ the Es-
pose pri,eervii
Uwfore repairing to Auxerre, the Marshal drew
.tvp !testily a long series of grievances, which was to
he read to Bonaparte. It began with the severest
trialifirations, end the bitterest reproaches.
" I am not come to join you (said he in substance)
either flow respect or attachment to your person,—
Yen hale been the tyrant of my country : you have I
brought sorrow into all families, and despair into
several: you hale disturbed the Peace of the whole
itc.—Swear, then, since fate has recalled
you, that your sole future study will be to repair the
evils you have inflicted en Francethat you will
render the people happy. I (call upon you to take
.up arms ouly fur the maintenance of•our limits, and
peter more to pass them for the purpose of attempt-
ing useless conquests, &c. On these conditiops,
renounce opposing your projects. I yield in order
to preserve my country from the distractions with
which it is menaced, &c.
46 Bonaparte submitted to every thing demanded
by the Marshal, and even promised much more for
the prosperity of France."
Smut after Bottaparte's return to'Paris, the Mar-
shal retired to his estate, not disgraced, as was said,
but because he was soon undeceived respecting the
false assertions given by Bonaparte of a apeedy corn-
positien .hith the Po eers. •
Fir one moment Marshal Ney conceived the
hnpe of snatching his country from the calamities of
foreign war—his expeention was disappointed on the
Igt 11 JU HP. He immediately returned to Paris. And
in what disvoiitiott ? We may judge by the frank
and vigorous declaration he made in the Chamber of
Peers on tfo. 22t1 June."
66 Bonaparte sent by ens of his Ministers an au-
daciously lying message to the Chamber. But Mar-
shal Noy was there with nit inflexibility of character
—too hottest a man to compound with his conscience
—too much the friend to his country to suffer it to
ho abused by fresh lies. He declares openly that the
18th ..f June has left no other alternative but that
of rh.•riy submi,sion.
64 That if his open proposal had been followed, if
on the (22d June it had been decreed to negociate,
the negociation, confos ma bly to the Treaty signed at
Vienna on the 25th March by all the Powers, would
have restored the King sooner to his people.
66 And who knows if in that case, the French
territory would have been occupied by so many fo-
reigners, and such great evils thus turned aside ?'r
After stating that the public good was always his
guide, the Expt":ll concludes as follows:
" Such, without any disguise, is the conduct of
• Marshal Ney since the month of March, 1815.
Does there result from it, see do not say the prejts.
dice,' that he has committed the odious crime of tree.
son, hut even a reel moral degradation I All crime,'
in the legal acceptation of the word, supposes pre.:
meditation or interest more or less prevai;,:g. The
crime of treason consists of long, successive efforts,
of cowardly and perfidious combinations.
66 An error of the moment, the effect of so on-
• heard-of concurrence of the most strange incidents
—an error of which one sees in the principle a senti..l
Theist praiseworthy its itself, but ill directed—in
short, an error which served the usurper in no.
thing, which profited nothing to the person commit-
tieg it—is such an error any other than a fatal mis-
take P

66 Is it not then allowable far 1111rshel NPy to
call to his suppnrt that judgment protiounc.d by the
Monarch on such of his %objects as were misled'—
Ara not the instigators of the disorder the authors ff
the plot, formed in favour of Bonaparte, those Whom
his Nlijesty first consigned to the vengeance of the
laws ?

66 It is proved that, far from having formed any
conspiracy, Marshal Ney, notwithstanding his fault,
bad entered into none; that he was sincere in his
pgesiseti to the King; that he only ielderl to the
iiresistiltle influence of the safety of the State, which
was in his opinion compromisod h) an impending
civil 'war ; that his hatuk rvoaipoi pure, his charac-
ter independent and iisacce.ithle to 01 the seductions
of persopal interest ; that the first m tnetst it was
repair his error., while thevp 11111 was
eltnger U :;ronnuncing egnisno the aurper, and in
favour of the legitimate Sovo.eigis, the Marshal did
not hesitate t' lay open his ssN..lo anal. and to Cote
that France s.toold adopt the so of snhmig,lnii.
it By what fatal excexion the,. ta Ney
treated as a criminal ? vies cer'4ill4 -tat, from elk.
pecting such ac ...rem e wnril rn tee last lostmice
the place t uoa ohe had retinal! was surrt.utvlo.l.
To have .1 on:fated himself, or to ~11%40 fled. would
hare b. eo tt•y ; hut both these courses were repug•
taunt to his heart. With the cal 43 or a Coil.
sciehre, from which honour was n..ver hanished, the
Ma, Thal offered himself to those charged to secure
his persoo--a last t which completes the appvecl-
mint, of hi. character, and wtsic's attest, hit confi-
dence in tne institutions by which he is to bejudged."

Iftmrttvcnom. Starr. 9..—Last night, about nine
o'clock, a terrille fire broke out at the town of
Snarne, in this county, which, in the course of a few
hours, burnt fourteen dwelling-houses to the ground,
totether with various barns, corn ■nd hay stacks, to
the amount of several thous itid pounds, very little of
which pr•perty was insured. Mr. Martin, a respect.
able farmer, is the greatest sufferer on this melan-
choly occasion. The fire was occasioned by a butcher
of the place over-heating a boiler to scald a hog, the
flame of which communica►ed to the woodwork of
the brew-pause, and spread so rapidly, as to lay the
dwellings, &c. above stated, in ashes in len than
three hours.

On Sunday afternoon, a man's suit of clothes was
found upon a bench, by the side of the riser, be-
tween Lambeth and Vauxhall ; it is supposed that he
went to bathe and was drowned.

We are informed by the Solicitor of Mr. EnwAen
Asitrw, that SAmuct HART, the Guard of the North
Britoil Coach, was not at all implicated in the late
extensive robbery at Grantham. Certified to be
true,

FRED, NEWCOM E.