The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-05-04 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

)1a Report respecting certain pi isons ; an answer was to serve for a model, and
,to hectrand norm*" school,
ordered by the Mess.euger of the House.l to form primary teachers.
Mr. ROSE defended the Committee of regular "3. After satisfactory results shall have been ob-
Captain,: of packet-boats, who had enquired into the Wiled from this school of experiment, our Minister
case of the Montague and Pelham. lie had nothing of the Interior shall propose to us the measures cal.
to say against Mr. Perring, who was merely put into culeted to enable all the Departments to enjoy all the
command by another person, and was not employed advantages of the new methods whickshall have been
by the Post-Office, but who had taken to the sea for adopted.
Lis own amusement for about twenty years. The (Sigced) " NAPOLEON."
Montague lost seventeen men out of twenty-eight in Carnot, in his above-meutioned report, states, that
the action ; and the Pelham had but one man wound- ; there are in France two millions of children who re,
pd, though she was said to fight.haff an hoer longer.' quire primary education,. and yet of these two mil-
Looking carefully at the evidence throughout, though lions some are educated very imperfectly, and others
it involved many contradictions, he thought that the have uo education at all.
colours of the Montague were shot away, and not ' -
taken down. If there was any slight irregularity,
it was in Mr. IVatkitis not being tried before his ap-
pointment to the Montague; but this was no injury'
to an impeachment of Mr. Perring. He was, how.
ever, stated to have been guilty of an error in the
business which argued unskilfulness and want of
judgment. Both Messrs. Perring and Watkins were
wrong in chasing the privateer, which was contrary
to orders issued towards the close of the American
war, by which packets were to make their voyage.as
quick as they could. The mail appeared to have
been thrown overboard the Montague, on a second
attempt being made to board her. Never was a case
less requili•ig Parliamentary interposition. •
Mr. J. P. GRANT, and another Member, thought'
Mr..Perring not so well used as be might have beau.
Lord NUGENT replied.—The comparative loss
of the two packets was no fair criterion of the merits
of the Commanders. Part of the less of the Ame-
rican vessel migist be owing to the Pelham.
The motion was negatived without a division.
Mr. PEELE obtained leave to bring in a Bill to i
explain en Act respecting Irish Inland Navigation, I
and another to amend an Act respecting Contracts
for Prisons in Ireland.—Both were brought in, and
rend a first time.
On the CHANCELLOR. of the EXCHEQUER'.
niotian for the further consideration of the Property
Tax Bill, the amendments were read a second time,
and ordered to be read a third time on Friday.
The Cnpyhold Estates Bill, the Exmoor Trust
Bill, the South Sea Trade Bill, and the Scotch Ped-
lars' Bill, were read a third time, and passed.
The Muriatic Acid Bill went through the Commit-
tee: Report to-morrow.
The Greenwich Hospital Bill went through the
Committee: Report to-morrow.
The Scotch Game and Fishery Bill was committed
for Friday next.
The second reading of the Post-Office Bill was
postponed to Monday.--.Adjettrued.

MuLuAus'EN, Arm 21.—The arrival of foreign I
troops on the right bank is announced for the 25th ; I
13,000 carriages have been put in requisition in the
upper part of the Duchy, in order to take up troop.'
at Stockac.h,, and convey them to the line between
~Friboorgh and Krintzach.
Letters from Milan state, that the King of Naples
made a halt, on learning that the English had declar.
ed war against him.
STRASBURGII, APRIL 25.—Military preparations
are at this moment very active in Prussia ; the young
people answer with great zeal to the appeal which
has been made to them ; but beads less liable to en-
thusiasm presage no good from this new contest.
Aran, 24.—The numbes of troops who were in
the Duchy of Baden has diminished. A corps of
16,000 Austrians, commanded by a Prince Collo-
redo, who were to have repaired to the frontiers of
the Grand Duchy, has received orders to march to
Italy.

" Strasburgh, April2s, IEIS.
" ORDER OF THE. DAY.

" iiis Excellency General-in-Chief Count Rapp,
pursuant to the orders of his Government, and in
retaliation for the measures taken abroad to detain
French prisoners who were to return under the.faith
of Treaties, orders, throughout the sth Military
division, that all foreign prisoners arriving to return
home, shall not be allowed to proceed until further
orders.
" On the whole line of the Rhine and the fron-
tiers, the Commanders of troops and of advanced
posts, shall take for the rule of their conduct that of
the foreign troops and advanced posts, to permit or
prevent communication, the passage of men, car-
riages, provisions, and merchandises, according as
they shall permit or prevent them, with relation to
us. The Lieutenant-Ceneral Commandant of the
Military Division is invited particularly to inspect the
execution of this measure.
(signed)

" Could RAPP."

In the Noniteur, of April 30, a very long accoontl
is given, coder the head of Rennes, of the formation r'
of a Confederation of the five Departments of Bois i
tatty, in imitation of that w hich Britany signed, in
1790, at Pontivy. The Compact of this Confedera- ,
don was debated and determined on at Rennes, on
the 23d ult. by the inhabitants of that town, and
Deputies from Nantes and Vannes. The object of
the Confederation is 'thus described, in the second ar-
ticle of the proposed Compact :
" To consecrate all its means to the propagation
of liberal principles, to oppose truth to imposture—
to ex!eini information to misinformed men—to sup-
port the public spirit during the present ctisis—to
oppose all disorder—to maintain public security in
the interior—to employ all its influence and credit
• to keep each man within the line of his duties to his
!ilium and his country—to bear succour effectively
aini promptly to the first requisition of the public
authority—every where that need shall be to defend
i the cities, towns, and villages threatened with attack
—to defeat all plots against liberty, our constitutions
I and the Emperor—in short, to lend one another
mutual assistance and protection, according to events.
I "3. All the Confederates are specially bound to'
! conform to the Decree of the 10th of this month, re-
. lating to the arming of the citizens.
I "4. The Confederation exercises no political au- I
thority, but a moral police, persuaded that the great-
' est punishment that can be inflicted on one of its
Members is to declare him unworthy to form a part
of it, if he forfeits his honour.
" 5. Every citizen, of what rank or station so-
ever, may form part of it. There are no grounds of
exclusion but misconduct or bad morals."
The title of the Federation is Confederation of
Britanny (Confederation Bretonne). The Members
necessarily form part of the National Guard.—
The Commissioners of the Federation will meet at
IRennes. Intermediary Commissioners will meet
,
at tue chief towns of arrondissements. Some rural
Communes have given their adhesion to the proposed
compact, which is signed by 3000 persons. This
Confederation is, of course, very important, as the
• first attempt to organize the adherents to the present
l state of things in France in support of Napoleon.

FRENCH PAPERS.
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Nuts, Arum 29.—T0-day, at eight o'clock
in the wonting, his Majesty reviewed two divi-
sions of ii.fantry and of cavalry, and a large train
of artillery of the corps of reserve. After the
parade these troopS left Paris to proceed to the fron-
tiers.
Ills Majesty held a Council of Finance.
A pair. 30.—T0-day, after Mass, the Emperor, at
the Palace of the Thuilleries, held a Cont►cil of Mi-
nisters.

COURIER ExTe AORDLN iRY, Soadav
The Emperor, it is said. will visit the whole line
from Huninguen to Dunkirk.
Letters from Warsaw announce, that the Em-
peror of Russia has taken the title of King of Po-
land.
The late King of Sweden is still in Switzer-
land.
The National Guard yesterday resumed the service
of the different stations of the capital.
A l'rus.iatt corps of 25;000 men was to cross the
Rhine et Wesel on the tOtti of April.
Losers from St. Petersburgh announce that the
Senate of Russia has called upon the Emperor
Aleionder in the most pressing manner to return
to his capita!, and not to involve Russia in a new
Mar.

We learn from Ghent, that the Count de Lille,
on bearing of the arrest of the Duke d'Augou-
lerne, had an attack of the gout, which endangered
his life.

MONDAY I:1/41011Ni NU.—The Piethnontese Gazette
announces, that they !save published at Parma Rll act,
by which the Archduchess Nlaria Louisa, basing re-
gard to existio2 circumstances, appeared to renounce,
favour of her august father, the sovereignty of the
est.'tes of Parma and Placentia. _

The ru•nour gains ground that the Emperor of
Austria refuses in sign the Manifesto against France.
Marshal Brune arrived on the 21th inst. at Mar-
svilles.
They write from Strasburgh that twenty soldiers
of Baden have plundered the village of Morkol-
helm.

Letters from Valenciennes say, that there are
every day quarrels between the English and Prus-
s;.l.s.

The Moniteur of the Ist of May contains a De-
cree for the immediate election of Deputies to the
Chamber of Representatives, which is prefaced as
follows :

Letters from the North state, that there are be. I
tween Lille and Civet not less than 90,000 troops ;
the corps of General Reille alone amounts to 35,000
men. All the troops are animated with the best
spirit.
The Moniteur of the 29th contains a report from.
Carnot, recommending the establishment of schools i
in France on the model of the systems of Bell and..
Lancaster, which is followed by the following De-
cree :

" In convoking the Electors of Colleges to meet
in the Champ de Mai, we reckoned upon forming
the whole into separate bureaux, cud then composing I
a Committee common to the whole, and in the space
of a few months attaining the great object of our
thoughts. We thought we had then time and lei-
sure for this purpose, fer it being our intention to
maintain peace with our neighbours, we had made
up our mind to subscribe to all the sacrifices which
ba►e already weighed heavy on France.
44 Scarce was the civil war in the south ended,
when we became certain of the hostile disposition of
foreign Powers, and from that time it was necessary
to foresee and to be prepared for war.
46 Under these uew occurrences, we had only the
alternative of prolonging the dictatorship with which
11 we were invested by circumstances and the confi-
dence of the people, or to abridge the forms which
we had intended to follow fur the arrangement of
the Constitutional Act. The interest of France pre-
sented to us the adoption of the second course. We
• have presented to the acceptance of the people en
Act which at onte guarantees their liberties and
rights, and secures the monarchy from all danger of
subvession; This it,t determines the mode of le-
gislation, and therefore cotitnios within itself the
principle of all reform which shall be suitable to the

" Elysce Palau, April V. 1815.

" NAPOLI:ON, Emperor of the French, &c.
" Considering the importance of education for
improving the state of society; considering that the
methods hitherto used in France have not attained
that degree of perfection which it is possible to reach,
and desiring to place this branch of our institutions
on a footing with the intelligence of the age, we have
decreed, and do decree as follows
" Art. 1. Our Minister of the Interior shall in-
vite smash: him the persons who deserve to be con-
sulted as to the -best methods of primary educa-
tion ; he shall examine and decide on those methods,
and direct the expeviment of such as he shall deem
preferable.
" ‘..!. There shall bk opened at Paris, an experi-
ucrf al school of prima education, so organised as

wags of the nation : forbidding, however, all dis-
cussion on a certain number of fundamental decided
points, which are irrevocably fixed.
" We should have wished, therefore, to have
waited for the acceptance of the people, before ee
ordered the assembling of the Colleges, and directed
them to proceed to the nomination of Deputies; but
equally controlled by circumstance, the highest in-
terests of the State make it imperious that we should
surround ourselves as quickly as possible with the
national bodies."
lie then goes on to decree, that four days after
its publication, the electors of Dmartments shall
assemble in the capital of each Department, and
forthwith proceed to the election of Deputies for the
Chamber of Representatives. By Art. V. "The De-
puties thus appointed shall repair to Paris, to assist at
I the Assembly of the Chomp de 31a1, and to be able to
form the Chamber of Representatives which we pro-
-1 pose to assemble after the acceptance of the constitu-
tional act is proclaimed."

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sand men was to pass the Rhine at Wesel, on Vie
20th ult. But if they had pushed into Fra•it.,,
we should have heard of it before now. Th >fel; *
statement in the French Papers, which, if true, i;
net calculated to strengthen the hopes arid cause of
the Allies. Letters, say they, from. Vienna, an.
nounce that the Emperor of RUSSIA is recalled' to his
capital by important reasons.. What these important
reasons are for so important a personage as the Em.
peror of Bassta's retiring to his own country, at
the . present critical Moment, when France lila be
invaded and bowed into submission by the weight 11
Crowned Heads and arms, may be better guesser', I hp.i
specified. Ilia IMPERIAL MAJESTY has got a-iothrr
Crown nearer home, and he must keep it—if he can,
He has, according to accounts from AVarsaw, in the
Paris Journals, assumed the title of King of Poland,
and he may have gone home to govern the Poles is
Lord CASTLEREAGIeSpoIor style of governing,fiedieg,
perhaps, his presence no longer quite agreeable in
Vienna, where some people May be apt to think La
Ibas got too much and Austria too little. The French
tell us also that the Emperor of A usTnia has refused
to sign the Manifesto against France, adding a re.
',port that the Archduchess MARIA LUISA had re-
Bounced the Sovereignty of Parma and Placentia in
favour of her father, that he may not be altogether
c.leottsed out of his indemnities. The Chronicle cj
the Congress, on the contrary, affirms that the 11,.
li Mention of War, against France, was signed by the
146 High Allies" on the 11th, and that all communi.
' cation between Germany end France had been stopt
by a regulation of the Allied Powers.
As to the war in Italy, the most recent and into.,
' resting accounts of its progress will be found in the
articles which we subjoin, from the Brussels and
Frankfort Papers, which we received this forenoon,
front the 27th to the Ist inst, The first point that
should be attended to when news is announced, is
to enquire by what channel it comes. A little attention
to this and the relaii re bearings of inclinations will tend
to facilitate the formation of accurate judgments, ant
moderate tnisconception as much as any consideration
we itteeir..**The German Papers thus received, give
. • .
us to unnerstand that Italy. is almost already over•
run by Croats, and that 20,000 of these polite per-
sons have landed at Ravenna. They confirm the ac-
count in the French Papers of another action haring
taken place between the Neapolitans and Austrim,
hut state the result to have been very different from
the representation in the Paris accounts. The (Biers
from Italy, in the Paris Papers, state that Myr. vs
had defeated the Austrians who were marching to cue
off his retreat at Ceserina. 46 This affair, they say,
is reported to have been very-brilliant, and has coit
the Neapolitans very little. Their enemies have Itist
1700 killed and wounded, 3500 prisoners, and alf
their artillery." The German statement is, 4' that
after the first battle the Neapolitans have again been
completely beaten, and pursued for five days." It'
added, " this news may be considered as authentic.'
Ceseritie, the scene of the action, is about IA miles
south of Raventta. If 20,000 Croats have lauded
thereand if it be also true, as stated in the Brass
sell articles, that a Sicilian and English army has
landed on the coasts of the kingdom of Naples, it :
by no means improbable that MURAT should have
retired, for he seems to have acted as yet with his
own forces only. There is little reason, however,
to believe that " the war in Italy will be wholr.
i finished in a month," for thee measures which King
j Joacnim has taken to rouse the people of Italy and
make them sensible of their situation, are soeil es
are likely to give a character to the war and the
Constitution of the country, which must disappoint
the expectation of a speedy termination to the cer•
tentions reigning there. It is said he has issued
a Proclamation, declaring the country in danger,
and has fixed an Italian Champ de Aloi, to he
held at Rome on the 18th of this month, when
I
1 new Constitution, upon the new French plan, an!
be submitted for 'the acceptance of the pencil(
—Hiving accomplished what appears to have been
i his chief object, that of spreading, by his advance
. to the Po, such an alarm as prevented any step hot
being, taken to pour a force into the South of France
` to cheek the progress of NAPOLEON, he. has no'
descended into the Papal territories to imitate the
t
example of the French Eatesnott in consolidating hi
police by making the people parties with him in (he
1 objecti for which he is contending. It appears,
says a letter from Placentia, and the inference is
rational one, that his Maieseir would not act till
the cities were able to furnish the army of indepc4,
ence with the number of men necessary for opprsi:g
the Austrians with effect. This army is now asters,
bling with all possible alacrity, but Italy itiv. lrer
•sadly drained of its resources. 64 Our country
(adds the Placentia article) is ruined. The deist
•
the city of Placentia alone, amounts to rii;otenn r
lions of the money of the country, for Supt,lit, ' '
&shed to the Austrians. Our commerce is abso:cii.
. nothing. The navigation of the Po is unsafe."
1 . The statement that a Sicilian and English force! -.
,I made a descent on Naples, is, we suspec , a site..
l tion of a former rumour. We do not think thsto!
1 English force can be spared from Sicily-for ugh
!ispurpose. It. will not surprise us to find, jatlO
! from the present colour of affairs. hat llostPt3'
• is preparing, in concert with Mutual., to strike'.
i•lmportint blow in the South, as well as in the Se!'.
i
An explosion is evidently at hand.
l• A report is in circulation, on the authority of I'
i rate letters, that the Empress MAaIA Loosi
i reached Faris.

We are assured that a corps of observation h col-
lecting at Laon. A division of infantry, commanded
by General Teste, and a division of cavalry under
the orders of General Pire, have set off for this des-
tination.
We have no news of the war in Italy, excel.t
from the Austrian and Sardinian reports. Private
letters, however, announce, that the King of Naples
beat the Austrian army at Ceserina, that be took
more than 3000 prisoners, and that be possessed
himself of all their artillery. It appears that it was
General Campana who contributed the most to this
brilliant affair.
. We learn from. Perigueux that M. de la Roche
Aymon has been arrested and sent to Paris. His 1,
conduct in the Department of the Dordogne, since
the resumption of authority by the Emperor, deter-
mined the Military Commandant of the 2.oth divi-
sion to take this step.
Count Lacepede has not accepted the office of
Grand Master of the University.
We are assured that the English Journal called
the courier has received 500,000 francs from the
bankers of M. de Blacas to write against France.—
At first 10,000- Louis were offered to the journalist :
but he was seriously angry, and protested that he
was not a man to allow himself to be corrupted for
such a trifle.
SIENNA, Amur. I9.—Yesterday 5700 Neapolitan
troops arrived here on their retreat from Forli ; and
another corps, nearly 7000, have halted at Perngia.
The Austrians have. re-occupied Florence. The
King of Naples as yet has only employed his own
troops. The independeut army, hastily let ied, is
not yet folly prepared for action ; and the reinforce-
ments which the Austrians receive nppear only to in-
crease the ardour of the Italians.
It is reported that Murat has issued a new Proclaf
maticn to all the Italians, stating that the country is its
danger, and convoking Deputies from all the cities
in Italy to assemble at Rome, on the 18th of May,
as a National Convention, of which his Majesty will
open the Session.

1%,* Mr. Lor ELI, having been congratulated by
some unknown Friends on his supposed liberation
from Prison, in consequence of the late discussion
in the House of Commons, begs leave to acquaint
them that he has not yet been so fortunate as to
obtain his liberty, but he hopes and tisusts the day
is not far distant when it will be in his power to
announce that desirable and long looked for event.-
Newgnte, May 4, 1815,
lo the Fifth Year of his Imprisonment.

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THE STATESMAN.

LONDON:

TIIUIt3DAY, MAY 4, 1815.

The Paris Papers of Sunday and Monday last have
been received. There is no truth in the report that
the Emperor NAPOLEON had secretly left the capital
for the South of France. He held a Council of Mi-1
nisters at the Thoilleries on Sunday, preparatory to
his setting out for the northern frontier. The Ga.
:cite de France, of the Ist inst. says, his departure ,
was fixed for yesterday or to-day. Ile will inspect',
the whole line of the frontier from lluninguen to
Dunkirk. The accounts in the French Papers from
the North, represent the force assembled in that quer-
te-, for the defence of France, as formidable indeed. ;
They assert that between Lisle and Givet (where
late accounts said there had been some skirmishing)
there are at least 90,000 French troops. The single
Corps d'Armee of General REILLE, is stated to
amount to 35,000 meth We are not inclined to
place implicit belief in the statements in the French
Papers, any more than in the veritable accounts in'
the Brussels Journals ; but we suspect the assertion
in the former, that the best spirit of friendship and
cordial union does not subsist among the Allies, is
not altogether unfounded. The French say there'
are quarrels between the English and Prussians every
day. it h..s become lamentably esicUnt, in spite of all:
the pains taken to conceal it, that there have been
serious quarrels between our countrymen and the
Belgians. We have already explained the mystery
in which the affair of the wounded Dutch and Belgic
soldiers, who were bloc ;tit into Brussels in waggons,
has been involved, and sincerely do we wish that we
may have no more statements of the kind to make.—
The Allies do not seem inclitied to enter France in
haste. The obstacles to their projectappear •alio to
increase with the delay. It is stied, in the Paris
news; that a Prussian corps of twenty-five thou..