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

THE STATESMAM

instructions, have remitted to the fortress with orders cote. The Prussians converted sewed' the
to delisei it op to the Po ussian troops. These 01. charade in Paris into barracks, and even stables.
cers have had the honour to dine with Prince Augus- happened a few days ago to pees by the Ceiebreted
sus dl Prussia, at his headquarters. church of the Sorbonne ; upon entering, I found it
The trench garrison of Charlenient consisls of full of Prussians and their harsesi almost buried in
18U0 men, partly troops of the line, partly sietional dirt. Their last visit to France will be long remem-
aguards. There are either in the plate fur its defence beted.
t io the arsenal, 280 pieces of cannon end abund.
ante of military stores etid ammunition of every
kind. Chailemont will be occupied on the l6fli of
this month in the morning, by the Prussian troops
under Prince Augustus, whose head-quarters are at
Petit Giro.
STU FIGARO, OCT. 26.—People's minds here be-
come snore (tempi,. The enlightened men whom
the King has charged to negotiate with the States,
inspire general confidence; there ate among them
Mr. Federb,ich, the Learned Publiciste, and the
Councillor of State, M. Watigerheitn, author of a
judicious essay on the ancient Constitution of WO-
temberg. The agachment of the States to this an.
cient Constitution, consecrated by tlie experience of
centuries, must do honour in the eyes of Europe to
.these wise and faithful Representatiresof thenation ;
but the desire of making some changes in it, cannot h
attributed to despotism, since his Majesty has for-
mally declared, that his only object is to adapt this
''old Constitution to the new Proviiices, which base a
right to as favourable a Constitution es the ancient
doraioionv; however, as the King observes to the
Slate% unity in the forms of Government is necessary
to the well-being of the kingdom. The Deputies
had printed out of the kingdom the 'extract of the
' Register of their Proceedings ; the King has bad the
wisdom to allow it to circulate freely. Setetal other
circumstances announce a conciliation of the opinions
' of the people and the Government, which alone can
insure real liberty. The happy result is chiefly due
to the intervention of the Mince Royal.
Faysetrostv, Nov. 2.—The Austrian Observer,
of the '27th October, publishes the Proces Verbal of
' the Conference of the II October, which is enough
I to confirm its authenticity ; it adds, '• The labours
mentioned in articles 2(1 and :id are ended, and the
Proces Verbal of the Conferences on this was signed
the 16th. Thus the principal Treaty is now draw.
nog up, and the Subsidiary Convention, and may soon
i be signed."

Paris. Nov. 6.
The repressive laws lately enacted by our Cham-
bers are excellent in theory, but will not he easily re-
duced into practice. In fact, in the present stale of
things, little more than decnotistrations can be made.
The spirit of parties is far from being subdued. It
is less perceivable by foreigners, owing to the silence
of our press, but it is not on that account the less for-
midable to our Government. It was fondly imagined,.
that the mere legal denouncement of vengeance against
the disaffected and the serliiiaus would strike them
dumb with terror, and restore that tranquillity alone
compatible with the recovery of our internal prosperity
and the security of the Throne. These expectations
still remain unrealised. Instead of being appalled
and shrinking from threatened punishments, the Ja-
cobins (for all the Anti- Bourbonists are now classed
under that appellati ) seem to have increased
in boldness. They openly set our new laws at
defiance, and many of them have appeared in the
Thuilleries with wafers on their lips, in deri-
sion of the constitutional Decrees framed to seal their
lips, and repress the improprieties of their conduct.
This is a new mode of offending, which eludes the
penalties of the law, and is not less mischievous than
their former clamours. Our legions are forming
again, but notwithstanding the • ardent wish of
Government to employ none but loyal Tell, the
population has been too dreadfully thinned by our
mournful victories and reverses, to allow of the
army being entirely new created. Commissions are
necessarily given to Officers known to have espoused
the cause of Bonaparte since his return in March,
and whose fidelity, notwithstanding the new honours
conferred upon them, must always remain problems.
tical. Regiments are formed lit a new mode, but
not of new soldiers. The men are collected from
different corps, so that but little acquaintance can
exist among them. It is thus hoped to prevent fresh
cotaspiraciest but although the men may be onac-
quainted with each miler, the same spirit prevails
amongst them, and will easily prove a bond of union,
in any plan of revolt. In fine, all we are now doing
is, 1 fear, little more then smoothing the ashes which
cover the mouth of a volcano, not extinguishing its
dames or disarming its fury.

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

Paris, 'Nay. 3.
The greatest vigilance and activity prevail among
the British troops, since their occupation of the ca-
pital and its environs. From the general orders of

the Duke of Wellington, it would appear that the
French are not expected to remain quiet. The mili.
tary precautions which his Grace has ordered to be

obseried, are much more strict than whilst the troops
were in camp ; the officers cannot Absent themselves,
under any pretence, from their quarters during the
night ; but the most marked circumstance is, that
alarm posts are assigned to every regiment, to which

they are to repair instantly in case of attack. Mont.
Martre is occupied by the 4 4th Regiment, and Patis
by several battalions of the Guards.
Fresh measures have been taken to oblige French
utficers to leave Paris; a considerable number of
them was arrested (luting the week for appearing in

public, without permission to reside in the capital.—
Upon_ being questioned why they caw 4o Puri*, they
declare that it is the only place in which their lives
are safe; that in the departments they are perpetually
exposed to assassination ; the probability, however,

LONDON:

LATIJR;)AY, NOVEMBER 11, 1815.

is,' that their lose of gamsli rig is she great incitement ;
the great majority of the disbanded officers have no ,
We have received the Paris Papers of Tuesday lest,
other means of subsistence than the gaming table.— !
The gaming-houses in the Patois Royal are u public with private advices from the French capital to the
as the taverns or coffee-houses. At least nine-tenths
Same date.
of the Frenchmen engaged in play, wear the deco. I
The brief notices of occurrences which the Jour.
ration of the Legion of Honour. Scarcely a night
nals sufficiently demonstrate that the spirit of
passes witSout 4ceaes of extravagance end horror.— afford,
The number of French officers in Paris, who are disaffection to the Government and the feeling of
irritated by disappointed ambition, or by distress, hostility against the Allies, are cherished and mini.
minim: fail far .no: of twenty thousand. They are rested by the people of the Northern Departments,
to be seen in uniform, and in coloured clothes (the hitherto accounted the most loyal, with as much zeal
few who can afford ii), in all the places of public re+
and resentment as by the inhabitants of any of the
sort. 'These men express their discontent with little
qualification. 1 walled the day before yesterday Southern Provinces. The arrests at Caen and
with a Frcnch Gentleman through the Faubourg St. Nantes, for wearing the symbols of the late Govern.
Antoine; he obsessed to me, as we passed along ment, and indulging in seditious speeches (all remarks
the streets, that almost every 'min who walked alone
in disapprobation of the measures of the ruling
talked to himself with great earnestness of tone and
gesture; this, he said, was a sure sign that some party are so denominated), are stated to be very
mischief was at hand, and had always been regarded numerous. Private communications hid informed us,
as an almost certain sj mptom of en approaching ia. that there had been some serious affray. between the
correction during the Revolution. His observation
French and the Prussian troops cantoned at Reims
was certainly tree as to the fact ; but how far his rea.
and that much blood had been shed in these tumults.
sassing upon it was cos rect, is not very easy to
judge. There appeared something very extraordinary The Journals do not admit that any disturbance*
in the numbers of persons, who talked to them- had taken place, but slate that the whole of the
selves quite loud ; but we had not gone far before Prussian troops had left Rouen for Neufchatel. Their
my companion, who is a very zealous Royalist, Ise.
silence on the cause of this is not calms.
gan to conduct himself its precisely the same man. movement,
laced to lessen our confidence in the authenticity of
ner ; at almost every step, he esclaimed to himself, re.
fertioq to the persons who psss.ed us in the streets, the private statements.
Ah! le coquin, le trait, c ; comme it case avec The Parisian Journals are desirous of inducing a
lui ;none; airflow fl r expire Is revolution." The belief that his Prussian Majesty is reducing his mid.
French are easily excited ; they are capable of an act tary establishments. They say he has ordered all
of courage, even to desperation ; all depends upon
the first impulse, but that impulse is just as liable to the regiments of the Land wehr of the Grand Duchy
be a sentiment of fear. The inhabitants bordering of the Lower Rhine to be disbanded. This by no 1
on the British camp were on Month) throe it into the means agrees with the information in the Brussels
greatest consternation ; they took it Seto their heads and
Frankfort rapers, which states, that &mite /
that the English were going to burn the town. The
is about to remove his head quarters to Aix.la-Cha.
cause of the alarm was the appearance of some of the
camp huts on fire. The troops, in the fulness of their pelle, and that a Prussian force of one hundred
joy at going into wittier quarters, set fire to almost thousand men is to be kept on the alert, as a check
every thing combustible, which they left behind them. upon the turbulent and refractory spirit of France.
The French are not at all disposed to afford comfort. 4,
A los force will be disposed in four lines, extending
able accommodation to the British Officers billeted in
from Paris to a station behind the Rhine, with the
their houses; the Duke of Wellington has, in cause.
queisce, issued a rery strong order, that if an apart. means of promptly uniting with each other in case of
meat is not opened, at the request of an Officer, pro. necessity. The French towns and fortress of Cherie.
vided it be necessary for his accommodation, in a moat in which there are 280 pieces of cannon, with
suitable manner, the. door k to be forced open ; in ,
au abundance of Military store? and ammunition,
general they have been (numl very reluctant. Many
individuals have left their houses quite empty, sacra .are to be taken possession of in the morning of the
gone to reside in other parts of the country, in con. 16th inst. by Prussian•troops, 'under Prince Auotas.
sAuence of having bad Prussian troops billeted upon TUS, whose headquarters art at Petjt Givet.
them. The villages about NH! are all in this state;
two.thlrdotuf the houses have ti,.:e cone left than the The charge of Paris, and consequently the chief,
shale of the danger and the burden of maintaining
naked welts, so that the Faiglisir Officers -clustered
in them are obliged to provide themselves wish fermi. tranquillity in the interior of France, Is, it seems,
tore, and every other articles( necessity or ranveui. still to fall upon the British. The English troops