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

THE STATESMAN.

When (er. Nugent advanced towards Florence
the Neapolitans in that city desired to capitulate, and
m anted to remain for the night in Florence, but this

often breaks opt into violent execrations. Her bus-
band has found at Bronn a relation of his Own name,
horn lie sends for daily. He complains bitterly of
his daily expenses there, which amount to six hun-
dred florins; however, he is always served upon
silver. An account of all that' passes in their fa-
mily is laid regularly every week. before Pane Met-
ternich.

wus refused, and they were compelled to march out

in the night.

A division of Austrian troops is marching from the
kingdrim of Italy to Piedmont, after which, it is said,
the General in Chief, Baron Friroont, will follow.
VIZNNA, APRIL 25.—Prince Wrede left this city
yestet day. In the affairs of Germany, the only ones
now unsettled, great activity prevails. To-day there
was another sitting of the Deputies. Great pro.
gress is expected to be made by the end of the month;
we. do not, however, hear that any of the lodgings
for the next month have been given up. The news
from Italy is very good; the Neapolitans retreat
without stopping.
OFFICIAL ARTICLE.

By the Paris Papers of Friday last, which are re-
ceived, we find that the Emperor still continued in
the capital, and that 01l was tranquil in Franci.:—
The same quiet seems to prevail on the frontier,
though the war-cloud darkens 'deeper and deeper
along the extended line of threatened operations.—
By the return of Marshal SUCIIET to Paris, which
we see noticed, it may he presumed that the
entrance to France by the Alsace side, which that

Arum 26.—An address to the inhabitants of the
Duchy of Berg, published by the Governor-General
of that country, has isi.en read here with astonish-
ment. The sentiments which it expresses, the in-
tentions which it announces, are too manifestly op-
posite to the intentions and the sentiments of the
Allies, for any one to be led to doubt of their real
object,—that of removing Bonaparte from the exercise
of power in France. Fifteen years experience has
convinced them, that the peace of Europe and this
power exercised by him are incompatible. The Al-
lied Powers, provoked hy his unjust aggressions, his
perfidies, his insults, occupied, while combating him,
the capital of France, they respected the Independ-
ence and the honour of the nation—the same senti.

General went to inspect, anti which is the most
vulnerable part of the French frontier, is considered in
a slate of security ; and it is certainly so, if the
Swiss have resolved, as we are told they have, to
preserve their neutrality. The work of fortification,
however, coutinues to ;.; on with great activity in
the interior of Franco, particularly on the heights
around Paris, where there are to be works sufficient
to contain 30,000 soldiers, as a garrison. In short,
NAPOLEON seems determined to accomplish his for-
mer prophecy, in case of necessity. "If I fall,"
said he, 46 it shall be known how much the over-
throw of a great mail costs:" and the people of
France, joking him in the resolution, seem to add,'
" And if z.:c fall under the edge of foreign swords,

ments still animate, the same principles still guide
them. Bonaparte, at the head of the French na-
tion, comtatitly threatens Europe ; it is, therefore,
for the safety of all that they were compelled to take
measures, the execution of which may be prevented,

and the galling yoke of foreign dominion, it shall be
legibly shown what a great nation can do, when
united iu support of its existence, its honour, its li-
berties, its independence."
There is a most stopid inference drawn by some

if France follows the dictates of enlightened reason.
The Powers intending merely to deliver Europe
from him who has so long been the author of its mis•
fortunes, they will take care not to imitate him by
signalising themselves by those acts of violence and
fury which have made him an object of seisersal
hatred and detestation. We know that in this re-
spect their intentions are in unison ; and that his Ma-
jesty the King of Prussia is far from approving the
language which may have been dictated to some of
his officers by that just indignation e bleb the return
of Bonaparte has excited in all Europe.
If APRIL 23.—The departure of Prince Wrede
is supposed to have been hitherto delayed by
the protests of Baden and Darmstadt against the
•
1 stipulations of the treaty between Austria and Bara-
ria ; it is, however, to be expected that these two
Courts will not make the general interest of Ger-1

of our Morning cetemporaries, from the circum-
stance of there being no price of Stocks stated in
the Paris Papers of Friday. This circumstance is
considered as remarkable by the Treasury hirelings,
and as " all the French Journals concur in the omis-
sion," it is, of course, a proof that they either
dare not, or are unwilling to show the real state of
the public funds. We have before said the Papers
are published in the morning in Paris, consequently
cannot be expected to give any thing of the day's
occurrences, and the preceding day was Ascension
Day, or Holy Thursday, when no business is done
on the French Exchange.
The French Papers have no fresh intelligence from
Italy. They give a Proclamation to the inhabitants
of the Duchies which were assigned by spacial Treaties
to MAntA LOVISA and her son, confirming the
statement that her father had taken the admittistra-

mnnv suburdioate to a momentary advantage. The
Grand Duke of Baden has also put off his driga
Lure for some days on this account; oo the other
hand, all that belongs to the head-quarters of Priaec.

tion, of these prolintet iatis bit own; htseds, ttfritrri--
pres"Oor so she Is styled, being tenable to perform
the duties eg a Sovereign. This, and the visits which
Austrian troops-are bnis, mating to the Italian.

hwartzenberg sets off for the Rhine the day after
to-morrow. The Prince himself goes first to his
estates in Bohemia, so that he can hardly be upon
the Rhine before the beginning of May.
The departure of our Emperor is put off till the
12th of May, which makes it probable that the uthet,
Sovereigns will Dot go away before that time. By I
accounts from Poland, emissaries of Bonaparte have
been trying to mislead the people there, but in vain.
There is a powerful party there which wishes Poland)
to take the title of a Kingdom instead of a Grand•
Duchy. Alexander is said to have acceded to this
wish, and the necessary steps have been taken in the
Congress to procure the assent of all the Powers.—.l
The Itu%siait troops are advancing by forced parches
through Saxony and Bohemia, bat CGS scarcely bit,
upon the Rhine before the middle of May. The.actl
countsfrom Italy are very good ; even the Neapolitan
army is stated to be greatly dissatisfied with the policy
of the King ; some prisoners say, that before he led
them to the Po, he assured them it was with the con-
sent of England—the Neapolitans have on this ac-
count fought very ill. At Naples itself, where
the Proclamations to .the Italians were read (after
the French fashion) in the theatre of St. Carley
the greater part of the people ire said to
have exclaimed, " Long live King Ferdinand PF.
There is, therefore, little doubt but that if the ex-
pedition, which has been fitting out for those three i
months at Palermo, and to join which Prince Leopold)

States, the people are modestly desired to regard as
proofs of the affection which the House of Austritt"
has always had and shown to Italy ! 0 ! the proofs
of affection which some Sovereigns give to those,
whom fate has placed beneath their power, and whom
they wish to engulph within the Maelstrom of their
authority. ,
We give the copy of a curious docenteat laid on
the table of the House of Commons last night, re.'
girding the policy of annihilating the independence
of small States and merging them into the greater,
whatever the nature of the Governments of the great
States may be, and whatever claims the smaller States
may have to justice inn respect. Such a production
could only come from the pen of a political despot—
it was the production of WitLIAM PITT, and it ex.,'
plains the system he acted upon. We presume it
was submitted by Lord CASTLEREAGH and the rest of i
the men who openly glory in acting upon the
political principles of Pm, as explanatory of " the
.great objects" for which they have been contending,
and have again pledged the country to contend, and
In support, or justification, as they may call it, of the ,
"'stem pursued by the Congress of Vienna. That i
system certainly needs justification ; but even the au.
Ahority of PITT will not weigh much against the evi- 1
font injustice of it, and the lamentable results which i
e have already seen attend the attempt to carry it
Jpto execution. Bet how has this explanatory Pa-
'ir been so long withheld from the woi Id? Why

, .
of Sicily is going by way of Genoa, lanas in Naples,
considerable number will be found in faros'r of ti

yes it not, or some such declaration if the real views,
intentions, and tincere regsrd of Cie Allies for the

Bourbons. Several dietticts of the R•104141* mai Tell liberties and rights of States, allowed to accompany
an States have taken up arms, so that the speedy or supply the place of the Proclamations which they
and happy issue of the war in Italy is not doubtful. ; distributed so liberally, when they were on their
The Wirtemberg General, Von Geismar, lately came ' march to France, and which they have verified so
here from Stutgard ; los is going to Grate, to re-, much by their late conduct ? for this simple reason,
ceive the Countess of Ifartz (the wife of siert)** we suppose,•-:-they were not so ignorant as not to
Bonaparte), who is arrived there, and to accompany know, that had they proclaimed that such were the
her to her own country ; she will reside at Goeppen- principle's they espoused, such were the objects they
gen.—Private letters from Gratz state, that they etol, sought to accomplish,—that they had bargained for
pect there also King Charles of Spain and his Coll- j territory before they set out,--that nothing
sort, and the Prince of Peace ; they are to reside in oTuld move them to the fearful risk, but the hope of
the Imperial Palace; orders have been sent to re- advantage to themselves, and that the smaller
ceive them with the honours due to their rank. , States must be annihilated for that purpose, not
For some time past we hear but little of the Coact one of the inferior States would have joined
of the Archduchess Maria Louirs; she is said to their standard, on the contrary, all who vas
have said lately to those about her, that she would 'sued their existence, and hated despotism, would
never return to France; for this reason, she had' /save united in arrest their career.—Where
missed her Cabinet Councillat, Suly—lklarcaesi • was to be the deliverance, if such was the principle
of action, and such the result? This Paper is only
%she was given her at the beginning of her Repay,
fit for the regions of Russia. There is nothing said
in 1813, -by Bonaparte, in order that he militate-
tern to France as he wished. •
in it of the horrible invasion and pirtition of Poland;
sow could we expect any condemnation of such na-
Accounts from Bruno top, that the abode In that tiunal outrages In a document expressly calculated to
place tiles not much ,le 5? ITe,?sra Baricechi, who justify such a system.