The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-03-25 00:00:00

:70 THE EDITOR er THE STATESMAN. •

Sts,l apprehend that the paragraph in your
paper of yesterday, respecting the British Minister
baring left Paris, well informed as it is in general,
mast he erroneous, unless, indeed, it has been re-
„teed by Ministers to keep no terms with France,
and to dissolve, at once, all amicable intercourse
eith her, the policy of which I shall leave to the
people at large to decide upon, since they are likely
#7 become the victims of a decision fraught with
!„nameraide calamities to the nation. I must,
therefore entreat of you to state, for the general
weamation of your numerous Readers, that the Bri-
tish Minister at Paris retrerting, with the fugitive
Monarch, under the extraoulitiary circumstances of
tsrmoment, is not dipluniutic—That in my view of
professional duty he ought to have continued at his
ly;t, because the Government is without the means
well-authenticated official information in the lib.
ritCe of its Envoy, who should remember that he
las, in point of substantial fact, sent to the nation,
and not st,!e!y, exclusively, and tinconditiottally to
indibidual nho happens to exercise the Sovereign
al.tl.otitv. 1 will not enter into the question of how
fq- it vas advisable, in the present temper of France,
to pretit of the accidental and temporary circumstance
0' futtign troops king in possession of her metro-
polis, to force on hue a discarded family, unknown
to half her population by a lapse of 123 years, and
lowan by those who forced that family on her
to be obnoxious to the nation at large.—
!Other, Sir, will 1 trespass on your Paper, by un-
tliscussiog the diitinction between a King
sic burr and a King de facto, any farther than by
ehwrving. that a King de jare, in opposition to the
theidell voice of the nation, is nonsense, and non-
sense of so mischievous a nature that it never ought
to be countenanced, or even articulated.
'shall therefore only observe, Sir, that if Lours
XVIII. has quitted France, he is no longer a Sove-
reigu, nor entitled to have a diplomatic character
front any foreign Power, either to follow his for-
tunes or reside with him. The functions, there.
fore, of Lord F. SOMERSET, as an accredited Agent
hoot Great Britain to Louis XVIII. ceased the in-
stant that ill-fated Prince ceased to reign; but their
ceasing, with respect to that Sovereign, does not
that they ceased with respect to his immediate
successor, whom the language of servility designates
ss an Usurper, with many other scurrilous epithets,
far more disgraceful to the nation than to the
individuals who authorize or make use of them.—
In the event of a demise in this country, the foreign
Ministers would not feel it necessary to leave the
kingdom, or abstain from paying their: respects to the
su;ccssar of the deceased monarch; and I am warranted
assetting it to be the duty of Lord F. SUMLILSET,
as the English Minister, to remain at Paris; not only
as an authorised channel of communicating between
the two nations, but for the purpose of affording pro-
tection to his ;Majesty's subjects actually in France.
P:t• saw:CV of his diplomatic character protects his
I.oltlship. The premises on which he resides, by
the established courtesy of nations, is Briti,li
;,nand, and the prodigality of Ministers have made
it doubly the property of the country, by having
purchased it at the enormous espeace, I believe, of
60,0001. Does Lord CAsTLEILLAGit mean to sa-
crifice this sum, as he seems to hare done the
honour and interests of the Empire, by recalliug the
British Minister from a post at which the extraordi-
nary circumstances of the times most imperiously
require he should remain even at the hazard of his
life? In his place I should feel myself bound to re-
mail, in Paris at all events, and under all circum-
stances, even if a chil war raged in it with uneztin-
gui.hable fury, unless I was ordered by my Govern.
sent to return. In that case the guilt and responsi-
bility- of deliberately insulting the person in whom
the French have invested the supreme power, would,
rest with those Who recalled me. Goo knows the
present Gentlemen in office have enough to answer
for e ithout it, by having exposed us to the danger of
another 20 years' terrific and ruinotsa war.

I am, Sir, your humble servant,
P .-trban-leare, March 23'. REGULUS.

CORONER'S INQUESTS.

r!idns Int/nett mnc held nt the Lord Collineannrl, in
Cloak- Itetl•lial.zreeo, before .lofty WiN, Esq.
'lac '4 the 011-iter,, fir liddleyet, on the body of a anoint',
mune wiLmitte, who way found quite naked and dead in the
Wethle.ilaN morning.
Hunt. of Bell-Thee, Bethnal green, domed, dint
`own tun •,'elokk in the morning he writs pacing in Chiettotoil-
:•tv'e,, di,e:tvered tie body the ileeen.ed king iii the
t• 07. evaie;:ritium it ma; found bent in the knees :out
ne,'k. mil the .kin nay off in aurae parts, us if occasioned by
rnnti-4 it :VA
4 • Parish corroborated the :thrive statement. additv,
thlt t!.° body trots' have been buried ut least uhout via week.
Lion every appearance.
The intoner oh,e'yed, it wn: clew from the evidence pro-
'duce!, nndirnm the ii,forioniiin of a Niedical Gentleman who
..1* the body, 'AA it had been in the Minds of some resurr..c-
-1141",:n. but :Ina it happened to he kit there could not he a..
rertn•ned.

la chi, opinion the Jury coincided, and returned lbeir verdict
'
Tam.day an furriest was hell ;it the Vestry-room, St.
iford,-down. before Mr. JI.IIIXEIT , Cur.oner for Surrey, on
cue boric of dames Fuloolid. landlord of the Ship public-haute,
*4 1.14111 I witenakt; by a cord from h 6 bed• post inu 11100-1.11,
1.11,
.111'1 T.islor, a lodger at the Ship, depo3ed, that about
o'clock on M. uday morning he was coming down Flaws,
."" h sing itai. the ileceawirs bed•room door, which was a
.1111.• open; he looker', MI, nod saw the deceased hongiug from
Led-pO.l ; he puited not a kite :Ind immediately cut bleu
• ',vv. A ser‘roti was sent for, hut hr appeared to nave been
•• I. s one lane. frequent opportunities of
• eying time decense‘s conduct, :mil we ennoy ereasions
him ill a state of derangement. He bad *US altempted
1111 Isis Ihroal.
"Vettlfd—layauity.