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

BRUSSELS PAPERS.

Blttlstl.t, JAN. 23.-I.ieuteriant-General Count
Excelmans, after having escaped from his house
where he was guartlctl by gens-d'armes, had engaged
in writing to surrender himself ns soon as he should
be le!,,tlfy summoned before a competent tribunal.
Though two of the charges against him have the
pc-laity of death affixed to them, he has punctually
fulfillud his promise. On the I Ith, he repaired vo-
luntarily to Lis-le, where the Court-Martial is to
inset and wrote to Lieutenant-General Count Er-
Inn, Commandant of the 16th military division, Pre-
sident of the Court-Martial, the following letter :
" lisle, Jan. 14

'4 The measures taken against me about the mid-
dle of last month, having appeared to me to be illegal,
1 thought it allowable to withdraw from their effects.
However, when I got out of the hands of those who
had constituted themselves my keepers, it was my
duty to engage, and, hi fact, I did engage volun-
tarily to Present myself as soon as the tribunal
formed to decide upon my conduct should be known.
" The fulfilment of this obligation which the ne-
cessity of defending my honour prescribed me, did
not then giv". me any fear, because I was convinced
that no criminal act could he justly imputed to me,
and because I was too well assured of the purity of
my intentions in all I have said or written, to fear
the consequences under a Prince whose justice 1 al,
sways admired.
" now ccquainted with the Members of the
Court-Martial who are to judge of my conduct, full
of confidence in their justice nod enlightened senti-
ments, I come to declaro to you, Count, that L am
seady to appear before them, and that I entrust to
them with the greatest tranquillity my honour and my
person.—Please to accept, &c.
;en. Count EXCELM ANS "
After the delivery of this letter, Count Excelmans
surrendered hinis •If prisoner at the citadel of the
town ; it was not till then that the charges against
him were made known to his Counsel. They are laid
dos in the report made to the King by Marshal
Soul!, Nliiiiiter at War, on the 29th of December
last. Toe Minister expresses himself as follows:

act, of which Lieutenant-General Count
F.scrlmatts has been guilty are of a nature infinitely
800 ions. _ _ •

' 64 I. UP has kept up a correspondence with the i the master hands have been completing at Vienna,—
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en(lnly without n permission in writing from his st. i this happy fulfilment of the magnificent promises of
per:ors, while he was employed in the character of ,
Ins'pector.General of the cavalry in the first military , the Allied Sovereigns, we are given to understand,
division ; J say with .the enemy, because your Ma. I is the complexion of the great Treaty 'which -has
jesty. has not recoznised Joachim Murat as King of i given the finish to the princely work of Europa's
Naples ; and even if he had written to a Prince w Ito • redemption, and to which the Duke of WELLINGTON,
was a friend or ally of your Majesty's, his conduct
would Irive bmit reprehewil4e. . ,
among the rest of the liberators, has gone to set his
" '2. AI 1014 commit„ an ad of es lona n. d and lise,, . . ~.stra_ 104 his country. If there're any more
•lOt;-4146..
wrilitie to Joachim M urar, that ' * thoniands of cheering light-lila this great exhibition of Royal latent
.hiare officers, formed is his sch. al, and under his and liberality,weareyet onabletodiscover them. Lord
ergo, ‘s pu:tl irtv.2 been re'atk at his call, if things had CASTLEREAGII may be able to show (another show-
not taken such a facourabl,' turn for hi.-n.' I wan i‘ ill certainly be wanted) where the beauty and
'.• 3. Ile has wri,teit things otlenske htttli to the . .
, rch j are to be found. The great Unionist, who is
perstiii and the power or your Alajesty.
c, 4. Ile has disobeyed the orders given him from all submission and acquiescence abroad, is, however,
your Mejesly by the M ini4er t.f War.

" 5. 'lle viola. r! the (ath which he took 'Alien
be res.-nived the It.t.r al and Military Order of St.
Louis."

sorry trouble, as it has done with his Colleagues, to
get it out of him. We hear, notwithstanding, that Jest
his Lordship should not•he ail/enough to stand the
pointed quPstions of Mr. WIIITCREAD,ancI such other
friends of general liberty and universal justice in the
Lower House as may feel disposed to call this all-suffi •
cient iJ inister to an account, it is positively determined,
to remove his Lordship out of the way of such
weipOdy artillery. He is to be called to the Upper
; and Mr. CA, NINO, whose brows, it is pre-
sumed are by this time sufficiently fenced with diplo-
matic ,laurels of Portuguese growth, and so power-
ful by his late draughts on the Treasury, that he can
stand any thing, is to have the lead which he so much
wished, with the Secretary of Stateship for the Fo-
reign Department. Whilst we are on this topic we
shall add the other arrangements_ that are reported
as determined upon, for an immediate change is con-
fidently anticipated, Mr. Husitissom will replace
Mr. VA NSITTART, as Chancellor of the Exchequer;
Mr. A naorr, the Speaker, is to have a Peerage, and
to be succeeded in die Chair of the House of Com-
mons by Mr. MANNERS SUTTON, the Judge Advocate.
Marquis WELLESLEY certritily comes into the Cabi-
net; and it is reported with no less probability that
Mr. Cnoamt is to 1, removed from the office of
Secretary to the AdmisWitit_litt whether he will be
appointed to any °Mee -in another department, or
Will be paid of)' " for his great services" with some
of the Grand Crosses which lave been so plenti.
fully dispensed during his Administration, is uncer-
tain.

The Court-Martial which sat at Lisle on the '2:,d
inst. unanimously acquitted Lieut..-Gencral Count
Excolmaus.

171 E NCI! P PERS.

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frx"..r.4cr OF A ritivATE
Mt onto, J ts. hasten to inform you of
the changes we are on the eve of witnessing in the
measures hitherto taken against the Li"erales and the
...(fiancesa(ros. The new Minister, Don Cmullos,
cm:winced of the fatal effects likely to result from the
system of persecution, has presented to the King an
energetic Memorial, advising him to put an end to!
the arrest and peroecution of the Liberates, and to
grant a full amnesty to all his subjects expatriated
for political opinions of whatever kind. It is said'
that his Majesty very favourably received these re-
pro,eutalions.
England says she is dissatisfied with us. Mr. Can-
ning, who continuos to reside at Lisbon, affords food
for conjecture to a small number of politicians, who
combine obstinately to think that Spain has a part
to play beyond her natural limits. Certain it is, that
the preserve of an Ambassador (hitherto engaged in
tb' weightiest affairs of England) at a Court without
a Sovereign, and dopentlent on the dispatches to be
received from the Brazils, is a phenomenon calcu-
lated to excite the cuniosity of politicinus.
NAPLES, JAN. ..,.—Last Saturday the Princess of
Wilis lave a grand fete to King Joachim. The
Queen, the Court. the Ministers, and all the fo-
-reigners of distinction were present.
Among the foreigners presented to the King on
Now Year's Day were the following Englishmen :
lotid Grenville Somerset, Lord Stanhope, and Sir
Fit:gibbon.

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General EXCELM ANS has been tried at Lisle and
unanimously acquitted! Our Readers will remem-
ber that when he withdrew from Paris he solemnly
pledged himself to surrender, as soon as he should
be legally summot.ed before a eompetent Tribunal.—
Though two of the Charges against him would, if
proved, have subjected him to the penalty of death,
yet be redeemed his pledge. On the l Ith he volua-

A reward of 401. is offered in Saturday night's
Cozen., for the discovery of the person who twice
flied a pi,tol at Mr. IL Wr.s.r, of Sydenha.n Com-
icon, in the ovenirn; of the 4/ h inst., with a promise
. f n'frre pardon to any utcomplice making such•dis-
I u ry.