The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-07-19 00:00:00

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wemorpumr, JULY Ifs Ijs.
The French Palms. of SOday toniebed es We tbif

morning. They toisfine the .repertelksubmission of
the Army of the Leldle the Klee, and repeat the
statement .thet'Lyons mat to be occupied on the 13th
.by the Austrian traits under General Ferstowr..
The French army seeips to anticipate that its see.
ekes will he necessary for the country under. the
Kisc ; and in its address to his MAJLer, sr, notifying
its submission, talks with •corifiderme of *recovering
its glory, and asserting the honour and independence
of France.
A Colonel LAZEDOYERE has been arrested.—The
brave officer of that name, wile has distinguished
himself loy his attachment to BUORAPARTE, is a ge.
ucral officer, and was a Welber of the Chamber of
Peers.
.AS to PONAPARTE:II4II4If, fie is eery where and
no where at the same time. A.mystelious person
has been found at Poictiers (secreted in theliouse of
a public functionary, the Prefect) and this must
needs be him, or somebody waiting for him ; but
there is really no believing anyof.the stories pot
forth relative to this personage, whoosp or down, is
equallg an object of dread to patsy, and curiosity to
•
ill.
Immense bodies of foreign troops continue to
press around the French Capital, where their num,
bees are already :such as most speedily exhaust the
country, doubtless the chief object they have in
view. Lord CASTLEREAGH is President of the Com-
mission for regulating the requisitions fur the supply
of the foreign armies.
King Louis is acting the part of an English Vice.
gerent, in a way that shows he relies more on pleasing
Our brave countrymen who have certainly made him
King of FRANCE, than the favourable opinion of his
own subjects. The Duke of WELLINGTON and 300
of his Officers were on Saturday presented to his
Majesty, who wore the Order of the Garter upon the
occasion, and addressed them in English, plaits Eng-
lish, telling them how much he was obliged to them
—we know very well for what, and as Britons can
ascribe the glory of his restoration, and the benefits
of .which it may be productive.to our gallant coun-
trymen--but we apprehend the French People will
be apt to ask, what ore the great blessings conferred
on the aul jects of Louts, for which he is thus so
•sarmly that king and doing homage to a foreign
;on ?
Butt a more important announcement than pay of
terse is made, and though the fact cannot but be
west alarming to all France, a single sentence is
ill 1110 we have on the subject. " The Emperor
f Rolm% has appointed M. A Lorena Governor of
,raine."-,-The Emperor of Ruists has done this
—the,hmperoe of Rus.tA has seized Lorraine ! !
-F one' is to be dismomhered. Though the shadow
'tt•Kieg has been set up, and marched with the in-
armies—though the French people have been
solemnly assured it was to restore that King to his
kingulnm and his kingdom to him that war was made
Moon their country, the fate of Saxony rind Poland is
to be the fate of France. The Allied Powers seem
not only dee.. !Motel to imitate the example of Bo-
w %PARTE, but to selify his very words. We shall
hear of the rest of the seizures by and bye, by the,ao-
pointment of the Pro-Consuls. We shall see the bene-
fits which liberty and mankind are to receive from
the Grand Confederacy formed to support them by
and bye. In the meantime we perceive from this,
and the'dullest must perceive it and some of its cnn.
sequences, what kind of deliverance the French
nationt and mankind: its, general, hove to expect

from the Sovereign Coalition—what are lie real oh-

_ jects and views of the Allied Powers. We. do not
suppose that the Emperor of R ushtA is to keen bor.
leaving thing in our situation is. the N. . •
I-ohm—great as his power has lately become, it may
{if* the I.lilleitt : all the hories have
he doubted whether he could do this—whether he
reonetbe field., and the peasants are
could so suddenly establish the despot rule of
. .„
10:—Tho D ke of Alhureto re- Rus.ia in the very centre of civilized ,Eorope— -no.
fortunate Europe if it were so! but a eery little po-
re gsord yesterday ill IA Place Bel.
et ft/lived on tie seine flay. and lite • .
ral retrospection will discover what are the views
0
by the
his presence in Governor an
this cd Prefect, to
is
no, ALEX % NDER the magnanimous, disinterested
. Of ity. H
Merl them ghat hews. pas,iug through A LE‘ANDER —4l thus seizing Lorraime. it is ob.
I to Se. ier..rlated. vi,,os that be has appropriated. this part of the spoil
le Alistriults are at Vil'eurhane, to himself, not with 'the view of keeping it at
,• fr •01 feels place. olf hoop. RTe preqent, because that might at least alarm even
~,,,i sin re e heights of Lyons. We Lord CAsTe.cat:Autt, and the King of Pnussr.s,
le fpe of musketry and artillery the
and the Peince of the NrrtuaLarros. but be.
..111,..et to ho attacked in rho courser
' ale PITT
cause he is determined to prove school
(;,,,in .I Gemmaudaut seetus to be
rend the place. , right in their suppositioup that such great men

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