The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-11-01 00:00:00

'rrn STATESMAN.

Waliost the Pat s issta of Cos-unite much In the. saris. House of Bourbon itself alteg,es pn support of its title
ifsssoiors of :;overssment, is kids the latter, last jeer, to the french crown, bare produced on the pert of
-acre motet its jurisdiction. It is also a circus's. many .members of the. Court the bitt•sreof experts.
1...50r,. or .1 &so., tii.g of note, that one of the -.ledges Pions of reiont meet estaisosi his Grace and the Enc.
Asb, coss,;tose it tra. a py of the French, doling the lish a rosy. I pscsume you have heard the lamenage
i:,tasi, •1 of the Peninsula. ..asuibed to•the Duke of Berri, with respect to the
Tits Decree, i' will be seen even on a slight exa. 'Duke of Widlissj,zion. It was cleverly followed up
anisia'inn, describes as guilty, persons who have not a night sir. tau afterwards by the Koyelisav
been is ; deprives them, in cases w here the Kiser who, iss this part of the *mid, are mpch es'eemed as
sooty so hirer,, of the resource of (weal, which the I„;;iii.,„, of a large cellirre.
.When the Duke went.
. La, of Sloisi ,;-not even to the most csiesitual ; sets- to wait epos) the litischtwe ;PA., who received the
1' nought Ilse ;Periods Which these Was prescribe, in height% of the Gulden Fleece in her apartments, WI
• seder re ivrisnners of their defences and 'saes insulted by the D.scliess de D. arra scarcely roe
exculpatory proots. it being Ikatasil -the -ceivsal curttete.y he her ',dares&
tenses shall be finished within -sir Ices ks or " As to Ilet4isess, I am taught to believe, that the
Russian *Moore cressidered a grand coup • nit the,
months, after they have lasted snore than eighteen
• menthe; anti, in a vs erd, the sentences which the past of ,Akasolar, who, it is believed, has made art
new sito!ees least pronseruce, are preacrileal to them, sirrimittimCsst *under which Antwerp is totegarrisoned
while, io order to impose upon the unwasyeer the by moss,;,,, r,„ops.
ignerase, sense pnmpous quotations of tine laws of 46 i ant sorry to tell you, that we have no hope
the .‘'orr'ssimu Recopiluden are resorted to, which whatever of seeing in England, any one of the pre.
• -laws base. either no relation to the point' in goes. rims; ornaments of 141almaisors..Alexander has
ti ar, or ate diametrically opposite to Ilse measures . seised them all—three beautiful Cossimar—the Paris
- s.slopted. ; Berger—Cupid and Psyche, and Terpsichore, are
One of the things mentioned in the Decree, ca. inimitable. ' Without having absolutely thozhaste.
pal& of irritating even the coolest man, is its talk- nits of the Greek somiels, they ate free from the
• :rag of " combinations which were formed to destroy- Collings, of the Greeks: these were priced in the
• •my -monarchy; openly attacking-the righte of my Ictstatogues. at 10001. each. The Russian Emperor
vosereignty," rlr. Ansl who is it that indulge; in has left only the fine botanical collection 0 Jose-
' suet' expressions ? A King who, 'slide his people phine."
ors re abandoned to the foreign armies of au usurper,
entered into engagements with that usurper, both
at. Beeman*. and Valencay ; and who, while the na-
.• tints wee powerfully assisted by Britain and
the other Allied Powers, was felicitating Napoleon
• on Isis victories. And to whom are these coots-
meliotrs expressions addressed? To patriots, who
set the the first example of Continental resistance to
the usurper ; to patriots, who so energetically co.
• operated in the rause of the•salvation of Europe; to
men, in short, who made such efforts to place hint
. on the throne of Spain which he bad renounced, at •
the same time•stivising the nation to submit to the
usurper. What combivations, what conspiracies are
those so emphatically announced ? Can they have
Any possible existence, when, after eighteen montbst.
investigation, it has been impossible to find the least
Irate of them, notwithstanding that, in cases of thiw
nature, the laws of Spain prescribe, that the &chi.'
• ratios' of a single witness constitutes proof? The
true conspiracy is•fanaticism and the spirit of ven-
geance, vertigo; which possess the Spanish Govern-
ment, and cause it to act in a direction contrary to
justice, and to its true interests.
The Decree in question is as follows
DECO Er.
Its order that the business of my Councils may
sutler no delay from the want of thi Ministers
whom I thought proper to nominate for the Com-
mission of State, created to decide all prosecutions,
grounded on the occurrences of the unfortunate by
past period, I order that the said Ministers who com-
pose it, cease their functions, and that each unite
himself to that Chamber of Council to which he be.
longs ; and I appoint in their stead, as Judges of the
said Commission, the Alc.altles of my household and
• Corset, Duo Francisco Xavier Vazques Verela, and
Den Jose Alonze Valtlenebro, under the Presidency
of my Captain.Gesteral of this Province, exonerating
them from attendnitte its the Chamber of Alcaldes.
during the time they shall remain in this Commis-
- siou. And to give an unequivocal proof of the beni;;-.
pity of my heart towards the unhappy fate of all those
varier trial and their families, notwithstanding the
penalties which they have incurred by Law 2J, tit.
1. lib 3. Law lit, tit. 7, and Law sth, tit. 11. lib.
12, of the Novissinaa Recopilacion ; I order that,
taking into consideration the long imprisonment they
have undergone, they be treated with all the consi-
deration that may be compatible with the due *dote.
nistration of justice, imposing on those who shell ap-
pear really guilty the penalties of bauishment, pri.
Tadao of employments, and fines corresponding to
the quality, weight, and circumstances of the crimes
eud abuses which they may have committed its• their
political conduct ; and if any turn out to be innocent,
that tbey be forthwith set at liberty. I order, in
like manner that, upon those who shall be convicted)
of having been the chief beads of the combinations
which were formed to destroy my monarchy, openly
attacking the rights of my sovereignty,aud wounding
my royal reputation, be inflicted the punishment
which they have incurred by their crimes, according
to the laws of the kingdom; consulting me is; such
cases, through the medium of my Captain-General,
as President, by addressing to me directly, the sen.
fences whirls they shall pronounce, before snaking
them public, fur my sovereign resolution thereon.—
] a like meaner, I order, that upon their meriting my
Royal approlo it ioo, no resort of appeal shall be ed.
witted from it, unless I,tbink fit to determine other-
wise ; and it is also my pleasure that, in order that
It use criminals may not suffer too much, all the pro.
s'easti,siss be flisislsNl wit kin the period of six weeks, or
trcn n•ovflis at the farthest, reckoning from the day
on which the Commisiiao is installed.
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LONDON:
WEDN UDR Y, NOVEMBER 1, 1815.

The Paris Papers of Sunday last reached us this
(nrestoon, but those of vgatelidsy and Friday priced-
ling are still wanting. There are some paragraphs,
however, in the Papers of Sunday, which, with our
private advices, tend to supply the chasm in the de-
tails occasioned by the missing Papers.
The Monitcyr of Sunday contains'a long report of
the Sitting of the Peers oat the 26th, when the project
of tl.e law for the suppression of sedition was pre-
sented to the Upper Chamber. The Report has this
remarkable feature, that the names of "the Speakers
are not given ; the Orators are &scribed as the first,
second, and third Speakers, and an on to the end,'
with the exception of the mention of the Minister
ftisd the President. This is an odd way (it appears
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to be the new official method) of melting the Froode-1
people acquainted with the sentiments of their re-
spective Legislators. The debate on the measures
proposed for general safety was adjourned from the
I lateness of the'hour to the 27th, when, we learn by
the Journal de Paris, and a Note in the Moniieurl
retesting to the Saturday's number of that Paper,'
the project of the law was adopted by a majority of
128 to 29 ! ! A Motion was made fur a Commission
to examine and report on the law and its expediency,
bat this Motion, on being put to the vote, was de- I
cided in the negative. The Duke D'Onozaorttr.x
and Count de Fosrrasrss, made, it is said, eloquent
speeches in favour of the law. &tont LANJUINAIS,
one of the most able lawyors and statesmen in
France, and the venerable President of Ike last
Chamber of Representatives, vehemently attacked
the project, as a system of legislation subversive of
the established laws of the country and of the Con-
stitution itself ehich the King bad presented, and,
as being a twosome of terror as imprudent in the Go-
vernmettt, as its execution would be injurious to the
country. ItaxstrroAts' speech is said to have been
already printed by himself. If the Police do not lay
their hands on it, the sentiments of such a man can. i
not hut make a deep impression on the minds of his
countrymen.

The discussions of the Deputies on Saturday had
still for their subject the same Measures for ensuring
the safety of the Government. Even the mention of
the late Government is regarded as ; ar.i it
has been necessary to re-propose an amendment,
which has at length been etlopted, adding the weitls
ca maliciously, a' with a" rniint to-Overthrow del
Government," to the article against certain crici and
speeches, which are allowed to have great influence
on the public mind. The passing of such laws as
these in question will not lessen the Mamie.'
of the dangerous words so
.proscribed, nor
will they give the French people any very convincing I
or satisfactory pledge that their speeches and fears
respeeting tenths, .feudal rights, reclamation,. of
.na-
tional domains, and the oppressions of. old ty►anni-
cal Governments, are unnecessary and absurd.—
Strange to expect that an agitated nation can he
quieted on such topics of vital interest by fresh op.
pros-ions.

FRANCE..

EXTRACT OF A LETTER r Rom p %Ric, °vv. 23.
6 Your questions ere innunnuerable,—you. ack
some which I cannot 'mossier, from not having access
to she necessary resources, for facts ; hot for such as
I can treat of, upon my own knovrledge, I have uo
hesitation its telling you what I have heart. It i.

undau!►tedly true, that the King sent the sum of 800
francs to each of the principal churches at Paris, to
purchase Masses for the soul of Lihrtloyere. It is
' equally certain, that the English nation are out of
favour at Coml. When Talleyrand and Fouche
asked leave to resign, the King apprized them that
he would refer their application to the Duke of W.
•• and Lard C. and be governed by their opinions. A
day or two afterwards, Talleyrand asked if his Ma-
jesty had made up his mind upon the subject—for it
was still his wish to retire,—" Well," said the

Another important notice is put forth respecting
Mutt tr, tending to confirm the statement we base
made on the authority of Gentlemen recently ar.
rived from Sicily, but with this addition, that poor
Joaettim had experienced the fate of
. Pontsrts..—
" A Journal," says the schoutit, bat It h not said
what Journal, " announces that • hictitAi. who had
disembarked in Calabria, had beets arrested by Vida
whom lie hail excited to revolt, and bun delirered
up to the Neapolitan Government."

King, " I accept your resignation." This was with-
out waiting for the answer of the British arbitrator•,
although his Majesty hnd declared both to them and
to his Ministers, that their decision'shoeld settle his
own.
" The Duke's measures with retort! to the paint-
ings awl monuments, which were resorted to on the
same grounds and principles of public justice, as the

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'the feHOrriqg are all the other particulars deserv-
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iog of attention in the Paris Papers : .• ! M. Pasquier having concluded,- the diKussice, p,,,
PA It IS, Ot v. ¶l9. mote(' to be closed, which was adopte.l.
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. CTIANIBiIt OF Dttitrit:u. der. 2s. 1 The PatestnEnT then resumed with much clearn,„
Ittthslol:.NCY Or t. LAIISNE. ... the Amendments which had been made. Thpy p,,,:
- The Sitting opened at neon. ' doced a long and animated discussion, particularly
That Raussoctry.-1 have the honour of giving no- that which substituted the punishment of demi: f,,,
lice to the Chamber, that the Proces Verbal of the that of banishment.

Sitting of yesterday, will .not be read till treat Mon- This Amendment was put to the vote. The vot.i
day, were doubtful. The discussion was reamed. It w,,
The (litmus:inn is continued upon the project of the again put to the Tote, and negatived by the preriwd
law presented by the Keeper of the Seals, M. Chif- question.
fiet. One of my colleagues bag proposed to add to The seven first articles of the law projPet %et,
the article these words—maliciously and wish an in- adopted, and the se.piel of the discussion
tention to overthrow the Government. This amend- to Monday at noon.

ment hid been already submitted to the examination To-raorrow we will give the result of the concic.
of the Commission ; but, is I am not of the opinion aims of this Sitting.

which has caused its rejectiun, l move that it be

adopted. •
Another of our colleagues has attacked the Ar-
ticle in itself, and proposed the substituting in its
place the law of the lath }lnvoke, in the year 9;
but the object of that law is different from that which
the'projert has in view under discussion. At that
time the object was merely to punish those. who
abused the purchasers of the national domains,
whilst the question is now to repress agitators.—
With these words, purchasers of national domains,
Moths, feudal rights, glen who have founded their
culpable hopes upon public disturbances, have suc-
ceeded in spreading abroad fears and alarms. It is
by the influence of these words that the Usurper
succeeded in re.entering France, and has brought
upon our usitiappy country new,oalamities. What
are the means of destroying .lie 'effect of theist
words P—We must speak uur sentisuntts with frank-
TIPOs. •

Our ohjett is to strengthen the than*, tore-establish
tranquillity, to give to the Goveirrent the force of
whichlt stands in steed, ce re-tministe the people, by
depriving the factious of the pretexts which they
have too much made a bandirsof. Now, the 7th
Article of the project leads et. this end ; I think
the measure it embraces absolutely necessary. I
move, therefore, for the retention of tbis Article
with the•proposed Amendments.
M. Mtcncixr.—Men of an artful address, who
know how to express themselves with fluency in pub-
ik,and who shall have been guilty of the offences spe-
cified ih the project, are they to be punished equally
with those miserable beings of the common class of
people whe- hold forth seditious language iu obscure
pot.houses? I fear lest the former may escape

punishment.
In all. cases, I mays that those who shall have
been acquitted of an Offence by the Juries, shall be
oast before the Tribunals of Correctional Police.
The !Carta of the Smac.4.—The project which I
have presented to the Chamber has been amended by
the Commission. The King has given his consent to
the amendments, &c. The Keeper of the Seals after
some further •bservatione, was for the retention ef
the 7th Article, and that it would not be safe to
adopt the amendments proposed in this Article.
M. DE cif ATEA U ROE x, after observing that amongst
the factioek there were many foreigners, moved, that
they shmoW be placed at the disposal of the Govern.

A number of persons of the Household of the
Duke d'Augouleune set out in post haste for '11,04.
louse.

General Loceurbe died at Befort, in the ~iettor
the 22d or 23d ult. from a retention of urine, st
ige of 55 : an intrepid warrior, a good general,
sincere patriot, he is regretted by his family, by the
brave, men who have served under him, and by et'
Frenchmen who know how to appreciate military
merit; the foreign Generals, against whom lie has
fougit, have a long time since done him ample jus.
lice, and the sictories which he has gained fur ids
country have immortalized his name.
The Duke of Otranto arrived on the 231 ult. is
the morning et Frankfort, from whence he could
continue his journey the follow ingstlay fur Dresden.
A Journal announces that Murat, who bad dis.
embarked in Calabria, has been arrested, elm; by
those whom he had whited to insurrection, amide•
livered up to the Neapolitan Government.

On the 31st of last August, there was arrested is
the Commune of Coats and Buis (Isere), a perm,
called Matthien Fells, ex•soldat of the 31st regi.
ment of light infantry, who assumed the character of
Bonaparte, sad announced the pretended arrival or
many corps d'armes, destined to cat off the Allied
itroops. This person has just been sentenced by the
tribunal of Vienne to six mouths imprisonment, a
fine of 50 fr., and placed, after hating undergo.. his
punishment, at the disposal of Government.
On the 23d of last September, a penoa of tie
name of Francis Favier was arrested in the Com.
mune of Cremieux, in the same department, for ha,.
li
ing distributed pretended Proclamations of Bona.
; parte. He was sent before the Tribunal of Boar•
Aoin, from whence Ise was taken before the Court of

Assizes for immediate trial.
It is• affirmed at Vienna that the Archduke Join
will, iftet his return from London, go to D►esden,
and that it is highly probably he wilt espeese tit
Princess Augusts, the only daughter of the King 1.1
Saxony.
Yesterday, Prussian corps amounting to beteem
eight and ten thomeand men, coming from Versailles,
passed through the capital. The grand movement
which is taking place amongst the troops of an
nation. makes it presumable that they are withdraw-
ing, all at once, by different directions. This day
numerous companies have also passed through the
capital.

ment.to be sent out of the country. Yesterday Miss R—, of an ancient family, st
Other Members spoke in favour of the project, II years, committed suicide with a mesket,
and proposed.a -variety of amendments, which prin. placing her foot upon a trigger.
clpally had for their object the rendering more effi. A long article in the Gazette de France, impatel
en-eines the 7th Article of the Project. the frequency of-seicidee, now-a.days, to the den.
M.. Passim's, the Reporter of the Commission, notation of morals ;and.blames the advocates casette
then spoke ai follows The existing legislation Allison for having inculcated the doctrine of Atheiur,
is.not only strong, but extremely severe. But there which bat been the causes Me thee calls upon Ito
existed a necessity to crush the, first efforts of midi. • great men and the prefoendpoliticians, if they silt
den, .which, though not concert el by a regular or-Ito regenerate France, to skewe the preachers 0
ganization, were nevertheless of the nature of hidden Atheism, and for that purpose to pay more seeress
plots. 'this is the object of the proposed laws to morals than to the mUing of new laws.
46 Almost all the cases pointed out in the Amend. it is tweeted that the Royal Guard trill be can'
meats, which have been proposed to the Chamber, plate by the lit of January.
ate already embraced by our laws. The object of I Rasmus; Ocr. VS.—The King and (Veep of
the Ist Article, when the said provocations shall not Bavaria are corns nuespectedly to theusbal, on a
here been attended Oa any consequences, does away visit to the Emprese* Russia, sister of the (J'°'
with all the objections which'have been made.—(The of Kande, to pass-some days with her, before her,
Reporter endeavoured to demonstrate the inutility of departure for Berlins
which will take place at the
the other proposed Amendments.)—Changes have i end of (hie week.
been proposed," he said," in the 7th Article, becalm We receive very distressing details of the tx'
it: might affect men possessed of the public confidence, ' ceases committed by the rremian troops in the
or enfortunates whose complaints may be very excel. latinate, in their passage through it, which still CO"
ebles sot. beintute. it ,his been.: pretended, that it tinnes4Tbe head.qoarters of Baron de Sackett at^
would add another guarantee to the Constitutional Teenaged from Manbeim tp rranconia. Similar iree
Charter. But this Article only reaches those who it ligence.reaches us from Fraucceria.
seek to trouble the public tranquillity by disseuritrat- Many Russian convoys, having in ettarge ‘25,17C
ing doubts upotr the law for which we are indebted Frets& muskets, arrived at Mahhelm•
is the promises of the Kiag. Who does not know SeIIAVFVIIAUSEN, OCT. 2T.--Mdch artillery pst,,e
that these' reports are circulated by those same men through this place. It is part of the grand pal'':'`
u'bo have done -us so much harm ? This species of Austrian artillery, and that which has been too.
odious calumny is of a kind which has most touched in many cititss of the interior of Frince.
the King's feelings. Never shall the expression of Facun Fester, 68 fr.
the chagrin of the old proprietors be the cause-of I
alarm stet the new ones. Therefore the Amendment l Brussels Papers to the 29thi and Ftsnkfort to et
is eselessio this point of view. 25th alt, arrived today. It is stated from Iles.
" The word maliciously, which has been proposed sets, on the authority of authentic letters, that tS`
11i be added, was according to the principles of the head-quarters of the Duke of WELetecrom soya
'oh/ laws, but it is contrary to those of our present aboet to be tran-ferred to that place. from Frat....
jurisprudence. fort we have a long letter of the Emperor
"" One of the speakers has expressed opinions A ustvniA to Prince SCIIWARTZENBEIIG, t.'
Frebiek I cannot agree with. Ife has thrown a doubt clout promotions, expressive of his satisfaction !•
the stability of our laws. Gentlemen, ideas the conduct of his army, and among these giving
1!11. stabllity see Om most important for the rectifica. General of Cavalry, SA VX.-COLCCRG, /iELart r.a: •
ties of the social edifice. We have occasion to think regiment of Hollins ; consequently, the
that the Hoeft Of Bourbon will reign eternally.... that this regiment hail beea given to tl e you g
Risme lasted many years, because it assumed the Sp. vor.r.ox, Dike of PAKIIIA, is iiirliO6r foodati.'"
iisellation of The Ercriusting City." • These Papers confirm the mital of tho PIA/ LI
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