The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-09-30 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

rho Duchess of Parma went is the evening to
Vienna, and sopped *kb the Archduel,eas Beatrixj
at the Palace of the Fauxbourg.

The Police has jest submitted to a rigorous Cen-
sorship Newspapers coming from abroad, —whose
opinions, satirical tone, and general complexion are
irreconcileable to tranquillity—Le M rcure du Rhin,
for example, is notorious for its imprudencies.
The l'olice has likewise been tooking after foreign
caricatures, come of which are droll enough, but
more daturrous on that acconnt. They are rnanufar-
tured in the North of Geraiaoy, and Itaraburgh, it
seems, is skilled in this species or production.

FRENCH FUNDS-5 per (PIISS. Js f. 90 C.

A Dutch M.il has arrived, end among other arti-
cles. has brought us the following:—We ask in
vain how it is, end what end it can answer, to sit.
crifice the lives of brave soldiers, and to reduce the
inhabitants of French towns, drew!y so unfortunate,
to despair, by laying their hoses in a.dies, if the
Treaty of Peace with Louts XVIII is concluded,
and the integrity of Frauce gtE:ranteed.
BItt:S,ELS, Seer. 22.—The inn of La Mille Al-
liance, which his acquired stich celebrity by the
battle of the 18th of June, ss..l, sold on the 16th of
this month for the considerabh., sum of 12,009
francs.

SErr. A 1 —lVhile we in this country see one
fesoival follow atio•her, and tl:p Monarchy of the
N .'l.pdasidc fixed upon the most solid and durable
foundation. slip n,:ghtiourior, frontier departments
of France are in ati daplorab!e condition.

I,ongwy, , which the Prussians entered on the 181 b,
is wholly reduced t.) ashes; and if the upper town
of Moutmedy (1..e4 not I,Cry cow❑ capitulate, not one
stone will be left upon another. On the other hand,
n,,maroul hands of smugglers are collected, who
oppose, by open force, the re-establishment of the
iino of Custotn.bouses. The French Authorities
have been frequently obliged to leave recourse to the
assistanceof the Allies to chock these disorders.

Continual reinforcement% of English troops, ca.
salry, infantry, and artillery , arrive at Osten,f, and
procee,iiminediately to France.

To raz EDITYM or ruz STATESMAN.

Sin,--In viewing the late arrangements of the
itish Government, in giving the Subaltern Depart-
ments and Soldiers ef the Army two years rank ns a
reward for their conduct in the action of ‘Vaterloo
(a circumstance which has no such prior instance for
its example), it cannot but appearlo every disin-
terested person that such a masked distinction in the
ackuesledeinent of the merits of that army, when
compared with the recant equally highly appre-
ciated services of the Peninsular Army, is a dis-
tinction as unmerited as it is impolitic, and cal-
culeted to cause and increase all that dissatis-
fat lion which is now so justly and severely
felt by those of the latter army, who were not also
at Waterloo. For, however gallantly the army may
have behaved in that action, which has proved so
thoroughly derisive in its consequences—however in-
lc ined the Govertoment may haie been to appreciate
highly services which have been crowned with 'such
' brilliant results—l cannot, Mr. Forron, forbear
observing, that the measure adopted of attsching.pecu-
liar honours and rewards to the army of Waterlo,-,
hes caused a great degree of jealousy and dissatisfac-
tion to exist, among those whom by the acknOw-
ledgmetots of their country, has so eminently distin-
' geislood themselves, during a series of arduous cam-
paigns, occupying a period of nearly seven years.—
Let rely 'ensemble man ask' himself—Do the deci-
sive kat results of an action enhance the merits of
the agents? Not at all ; had they tailed (as was neatly
the case), their exertions would have been adorn% leolg
ed, a Ithootoglo not rewarded. Put the case in +moth,:
light, and suppose those rewn!ds to have been
foireded on I' e strong terms of sate-farlion made use
of in the Disl•vcio of the D ke of Wrt.r.teneov, I
isliese it a ill be found that his apptobation'of the
conduct of his army et the Mae of the Pyrenees;
( Pr no pel ells ). is expressed in much et miler language.
What are men to think who have (might the betties
of Albuere, Salamanca, Thorelouse, the storming of
Badajns and Ciudad Rodrigo, and a series of actions
itifieitels ton numerous to he mentioned, and inasmucl
more glorifies' as the obstacles to he encountered were
greater ? That those events were frequently both
preceded and followed by circumstances of prise-1
Linn. climate, end diffLoolty, which. required the
greatest stresogth of mind and body to support. I
repeat, what are men who have served thus eminent.
ly in such arduous campaigns to imagine, when they
find rewards heaped on many, whir have perhaps
been in that only action, and that, under such cir-
cumstances of comfort, with respect to proximity of
good quarier.• &c. as though one shou'd say—
" We will break up from our quarters in Westmin-
glee, and light the battle of Vauxhall ?" On exami-
nation I believe we shall find, the army which sailed
for America was composed of the strongest regi-
ments, and those whose services had been eminently
conspicuous in the Peninsula campaign, and it is on
those regiments that the case falls particularly severe,
to find on their return from an arduous service, that
ninny who had been junior to themselves in the.
army, are now become senior to them, from the re-
sult of a single action ! lam ceraitoly of opinion, it
never can have been the intention of his Ito) al
ilighness the PitINCE Renv:ser to wound the feelings
of the subaltern departments and soldiers of the.
army of the Peninsula, by eating so apparent nn
odium on their long and painful services, as that
has manifested in this particular insolence. I cannot
but suppose he was hurried away into immediaW,
steps of reward by the warmth and sincerity of his
acknowledgment of merit; and I sincerely hope he
will, ere this, have concurred in the necessity:of
making arrangements for the reward of 111(0:e alread)
acknowledged, long, and important services of the
Peninsula army, as particularly relating to the subal-
tern officers sod soldiers, as there are a large pro-
portion of them in the army whose career, begin-
ning, perhaps. nearly at the same period as those
'campaigns, have tint arrived at that promotion,
• which every other more fortunate (less have enjoyed;
and, at the same time, that -the duties of the former
have been infinitely more subject to the difficulties of
fatigue and hardship than those of any other rank.
AN IMPARTIAL OBSERVER.