The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-05-22 00:00:00

Q. The prizes which may have been made by pti-
•steers under our thg, before the publication of this
Decree, shall he imineiliately restored ; saving to the
owners the rieJit of reclaiming fr,,ni Government to
the extent of what th•v ss ore eufitled to.
3. The Austrian merchant flag shall continue to
be received in the ports of our kingdom like those
of all other nations, and shall there enjoy all the pro-
tection of the laws, provided the Neapolitan flag
be equally received into the ports of the A&striau
empire.
4. Our Ministers, each in his department, are
charged with the execution of the present Decree.

(Signed)
(A true env)
Faenza, April 17. 1815.

JOACHIM NAPOLEON.
The C"uut de MOESBURG.

E XTli .4CTS
FROM THE MANIII sTo O 1 TH E KING OF FRANCE.
ADDRESSED TO THE FRENCH NATION.

It begins with epilog, that it had been the first
eaie of the King to instruct hil Ambassadors to re-
present to Foreign Courts the real course of events,
and condition of thingi in France, that " France
might not be calumniated, dishonoured, exposed to
unjust contempt, and unmerited indignation.
" This first care has been -fulfilled. All the
Powers of Europe now know, that the King of France
and the French nation, more than ever united by all
that can drew closer the ties between a good King and
a good people, were suddenly tertetyed by an army,
unfaithful to its Prince and its country, to honour
and its oaths :,thar, however, among the first
Generals of that army, those whose names con-
stituted its glory either rallied under the colours
of the King, or at least abandoned those of the
Usurper : that Chiefs of corps and Officers of all
ranks daily follow this example: that among
the multitude of soldiers drawn in to a defection
unexampled in military annals, there are many
of those whom inexperience had delivered up to se-
diction, who have been led to repentance by reflec-
tion, and whose misleading must he entirely laid to
the charge of their seducers. Europe knows, in fine,
that with the exception of that portion of the army be-
come unworthy of its past glory, and which has ceased
to belong to the French army ; with the exception of
a handful of vnlnntary accomplices, who have furnished
the usurper with men ambition' without merit, and
criminals without remorse, the whole French nation,
the gond citizens of the towns, the good inhabitants of
the country, corps, and individuals of both sexes and
doll ages, have followed and recalled the King with
efl their wishes, have imprinted on all his footsteps a
new h"mage of gratitude and a new oath of fidelity.
Ear, l,e knows that in Paris, in Beauvais, in Abbe-
ville, iii that great and glorious city of Lille, of which
treason occupied the gates, and threatened to en-
sanguine the walls, in the face and under the very
sword of traitors, all arms were extended towards the
King, all eyes offered him the tribute of their tears,
ell voices cried out to him, 4 Return to us ; return to
deliver your subjects.' Europe knows and continues
to learn that these invocalisns are incessantly re-
tie* ed ; that ti.r -. daily reach the King not only
from all point; of that frontier so eminently loyal,
but from all quarters of his kingdom, even the most
distant.

" And, indeed, how could it be otherwise than
that the sentiments with which the King's heart is
animated towards his subjects, should secure to him
a similsr return on their part ? Who shall ?are to
contradict the King when he swears before God and
before his people, that, since the dry when Provi-
dence replaced him on the throne of his fathers, the
constant object of his wishes, his thoughts, his la-
bours, was the happiness of all Frenchmen ; the
restoration of his country, more dear to him than
that of his throne ; the re-establishment of external
orand internal peace; that of religion, justice, laws,
morals, credit, commerce, arts ; the inviolability of
all existing property without any exception; the
employment of all virtues and all talents, with.
out any other distinction ; the present dimi-
nution of thellnost buithensome taxes, until their
approaching suppression ; in fine, the establishment
of public and personal liberty, the institution and
the perpetuity of a Coarrua which guarautees for
ever to the French nation these invaluable blessings?
And if, amidst circumstances of such difficulty, at
the close of storms so violent and so long, amidst so
many calamities to be repaired, so many snares to
be discovered, and opposite interests to be conci-
liated, it was beyond his power to clear all obsta-
cles, to escape all mistakes, to avoid all errors, the
King can atisst flatter himself with the assent of all
just minds, when he says that his greatest error was
one of those which proceed from the heart of good
Princes only, and which tyrants never commit : it
is their power which they oish to be boundless; it
was his clemency which the King wished to be with-
oat bounds."
• The Manifesto concludes with adverting to the
eteilious now going on in France. It says, " doubt-
lees,-if- It were Possible for these elections to be'na-
tienal, the scrusitrlsees faith.fal, and the trokia free,
the new Champ de Mai .vould make ei.e illegality of
its principle disappear 'in the loyalty of its wishes.—
Its first cry would he a new r,0,-cration of that al-
liance sworn nine centuries ago, between the uation
of the Franks and the Royal House of France, and
perpetuated for nine centuries between the posterity
of those Franks and the posterity of their Kings;
the true French ration would never wish either to
perjure its ancestors, nw• perjure itself. But what
can you expect from an Usurper, or from those who
re ensanguined r defiled all that they have ever
ched ; who have male objects of derision or hor.
rtlr every tv7.g that ought to be the object of vene-
ration and love; who would disgrace, were it possi-
bte, even the names of country, liberty, the consti-
tution, laws, honour, and virtue 2"
The above Manifesto was adopted in a Royal
Council of State, presided by his Majesty, on the
report of Count Lally Tollendal, at Ghent, April
'24, 1815.

The elfin-meter of the Alchgasist, its which Mr.
- KEAN is about to appear, is one of the most arduous
114 has undertaken. ft has been rarely attempted by
any performer except Mr. GAnurcx, and he was the
only tttle who was successful in it. Thirty-five years
bare elapsed since it was acted at Drury,lane Theatre.

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