The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-04-24 00:00:00

siiii▪
ch he had previously submit
)1 his Ministers Campochiarn
ilroierly announced to the Col
Much. The sudden comment
• i,;ribed to the inconsiden.
.itation of Murat, who did

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no eekjeCt, pt
•ever experience gore diffialty in com-
mination, than on the justice and policy
bout to be undertaken by the Allied
t BONAP IRTE, and, I think I may add,
rench nation. But the papers which
published by the late tyrant of France,
made out so strong a justificatiln of
Ilk conduct, that I am altogether of opinion, that it
will neither be wise nor just in the Allies to attempt
to repair their own misconduct by an appeal to arms.
—ln the first place, they seem to me to have acted
unwisely, as far as regards themselves, in having
treated with 13ov,teaave on equal terms, at a time
when they had him, in my opinion, completely in
their power;' and had they made his life pay the for.,
fait for his numerous crimes, they would have been
justified, by the laws of all civilized nations, in such
a proceeding: but having considered him as an equal
and a Sovereign Prince, and having signed a treaty
with him, in which the interests of his family were
also concerned, they ought to have observed that
treaty most scrupulously, if they meant to defend
themselves on the principles of justice; but if they
looked no further than mere policy, they ought to
have taken good care that he should never be again
itt a cote to claim the throne of France. It seems,
however, that they have done neither of these things;
that they have neither been wise nor honest: that, in
the first place, they left him in a situation to hold
commonication with his partizans in France, and
they afforded him every possible pretext for seeking
to regain his crown; first, by acting directly con-
trary to all those principles of justice towards other
Powers by which they had professed themselves to
be governed; and next, .by violating almost every
article of the treaty they had so solemnly engaged to
observe with NAPOLEON.. Can we wonder, then,
that a man, active, vigorous, and ambitious as he is,
should avail himself of the opportunity afforded him
by the short-sighted, selfish _policy of his enemies?
That he should seek to disturb a monarch in his
throne, who had basely and foolishly neglected to
afford him the means of maintaining his petty sove-
reignty, guaranteed to him by a solemn treaty. I
cmpot blame BONAPARTE; and no man can blame

sport of his Ministers upon
ordered them to lay beff
1,3 t upon the unfavourable cL
to him by the Austrian courier mho had been
immediately took up arms.
by:ltched before,
We are therefore curious to see whether
Muratwill approve of the Convention concluded by
;,;; Plenipotentiaries with the Allies, which seems
more probable, because, notwithstanding the
commencement of hostilities, these Plenipotentiaries
declared on the Gth inst. to Prince Metternich, that
hp would still make common cause with the Allies
;f they would recognise him as King of Naples.—
i:.ese hostilities with Murat do not cause any great
;‘reliensions here, his army not being above 40,000
strong. Our hopes are prepared to give him a good
reception. It is thought in general that he merely
took advintnge of circumstances to compel the Allies
to recognke him. Prince Eugene will reside during
the war at Bnireuth.

litary information of moment. Oar Cotemporaries
of this morning are repeating, on the authority of
private letters from Paris, what we have asserted
weeks ago, that if the Al►ies continue to refuse to
treat with N.sPoLEoN as Emperor, he intends to lay
aside the Imperial dignity, and declare France a Re-
public, retaining for himself the title and office of
Generalissimo of Abge French Armies. Any one
who recollects the' ardour and success of the re-
volutionary armies, and thg dangerous situation in
which the wide dilfusiorof French revolutionary
principles placed crowned heads in general, will ad•
mit that such a step, and such an Empire as Fiance,
with such armies as she now has, marshalled and
fighting under Republican banners, is fraught with
consequences very threatening to the world and to
royalty. CARNOT, LUCIEN BONAPARTE, FOUCRE,
and the Abbe SIEYES, are, in such a case, expected
to take the place of Consuls.

BEKLIN, Arm ls.—Our Papers contain the fol.

PROCLAMATION.
4t When in the time of danger I called my people
to arms, to combat fer the freedom and independence
4if the country, the whole mass of the youth glowing,
a:th emulation, thronged round the standards to bear
with j.,) fel self-denial unusual hardships, and resolved
to brave death itself ; then the best strength of the
people intrepidly joined the ranks of my brave sol-
diers, ind my General led with me into battle a host
of heroes, who have shown themselves worthy of the
nose of their fathers and heirs of their glory. Thus
oe etul our Allies, attended by victory, conquered
the capital of our enemy, our banners waved in

Ills Most Christian Majesty seems to have made the
request to his friends, the Allied Sovereirrns, which
they in their Treaty of the 25th of March, invited him
to make, namely, to lead their armies into France
fur the purpose of desolating that country ; for we are
told the Allied Sovereigns have actually concluded a
Treaty with his Most Christian Majesty since his ar-
rival at Ghent: and it is expected the next arrivals.
will bring the Proclamation of this Monarch to his
faithful saljects, which is destined to precede the en-
try of the Allied armies into France. It has been sug-
gested, that Louis XVII[. would join the Allied So-
vereigns at Frankfort, but private letters inform us
that he will remain some time longer at Ghent. The
Emperors of RUSSIA atid AUSTRIA, and the Ki►% of
Pitussix, were expected to meet at the former place
about the 20th instant. The Duke of WEL-
LINGTON'S army is divided into two corps, one
commanded by the Prince of ORANGE, the other by
Lord HILL. The reserve under Prince FREDEILICK
of ORANGE is nearly complete.

ruffs—Napoleon abdicated his authority—liberty
him-, I should think, for faking advantage of. the
an restored to Germany—security to thrones, and unpopularity which the Congress at Vienna laboured
to the woad the hope of a durable peace. under from its grossly selfish views and short-sighted
" This hope is vanished ; we must again march to policy. What have they done to conciliate those
Ilk combat. A perfidious conspiracy has brought nations who felt themselves in their power? What
have they done which showed a respect either for
beck to France theism who, for 10 years together, the rights of independent Sovereigns, or of hum-
brought down upon the world unutterable miseries. ble individuuls ? Nothing ! Their whole conduct
The rep,' confounded, has not been able to oppose consisted of nothing but professions, which every
his anned adherents, though he himself, while still i subsequent act belied; and yet had they not more
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at the head of a considerable armed force, declared DF.TENI'ION OF ANOTHER FRENCII SHIP BY ! power to do good than any similar number of men
TIIF. ERI DAN US FRIGATE, AND HER INSTANT'
hi! abdication to be a voluntary sacrifice to the hap- ! ever had? If they had been. directed by the principles
1
1 LIBERATION ON COMING 'INTO PLYMOUTH. ,of justice, or a zeal for the good of mankind, could
'linos and repose of France : he now regards this, .
Pcvmouvii. APRIL 22.—Came in yesterday the ] they have songht only for their own aggrandisement ?
like every other Convention, as nothing: he is at French b,... ,
% ,
ns
.; ,;seence, BA allow, Master, from I Could they for a moment have hesitated to repair the
Ills head of perjured soldiers, who desire to reader
blartinique, f.or. 13ourdeaux, detained on
. the 11th `injustice committed by the former Sovereigns of
oar etei nal. Europe is again threatened ; it cannot •
inst. by the Ersdanus frigate; she was instantly i Russia,. Prussia, and Austria, against the unfortu-
ii- ' nate and well-deserving Poles?' What would not
suffer the man to remain on the throne of France, berated on coming into this port, and has sailed to- have been their magnanimity, and • their wisdom, if
who loudly proclaimed universal empire to be the
day for France. f they had restored that fine country to its integrity
object of his continually renewed wars ; who con-
__ and natural boundaries ; if they had made the
focoded all moral principles by his continued breach I The new Treaty of Alliance signed at View. " JUles.usain a. nation, _Willi_ a CLuratlisstioas able so
of faith ; and who can therefore give the world no the 2F•;, of March, it is said, was ratified on Safer., protect their rights, and ensure them perpetuity.
security for his peaceable intentions. IL) afternoon. After the meeting of the Cabinet,, Bases short-sighted, narrow-minded men, how
" Again, therefore, arise to the combat ! Fr,. ice ' Jontesow, the Messenger, was dispatched to Vienna. ' have they squandered away the finest opportu-
itselfj On Saturday the Duke of Oacssris had a long nity for doing good that ever fell to the lot of
wants our aid ; and all Europe is allied with .. . with• r.
I interview the
. vIIANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER three such men ! But instead of acting upon a noble
us. United with your ancient companions in vac- at his house in Downing-street. principle, even of self•interest, they seem to have
tory—reinforced by the accession of new brethren in j Yesterday about eleven o'clock Mr. Deiunxas ar- thought of nothing bat how much they could get for
arms— you go, brave Prussians, to a just war, with rived in town in a chaise and four with dispatches themselves, but never of how much they were likely
or, pith the Princes of my family, with the Gene- . from Brussels, &e. to lose. One was to have a slice of Saxony, an-
rats oho have led you to victory. The justice of The Ramilics, Sir Tuomas HARDY, brought sp.. other was to be indemnified in Italy, and another in
cis to the amount of 50,0001. from Jamaica ; and Germany—and. as a tempting bait to England to
the cause we defend will insure us the victory. I , the' Euryalus, Capt. NAPIER, 100,000 dollars, from wink at all these spoliations, Hanover was to be
have ordered a general arming according to my De- ' Bermuda. . , : erected into a kingdom !'
tree of September 3, 1814, which will be executed Friday a Deputation of the Livery of Londe.; Compared however with this policy, weak and
in all my dominions. waited on the Loan MAYOR with the following ao. • wicked as it was, the policy of the • BOURBONS • ill
" rIP army will be completed, the volunteer corn- quisition : • their Government of France was even more culpable,
TO TIE
RIGHT HONOURABLE
ri.i sof )ngrrs be formed, and the landwehr called m, , •
lona,—sse, the undersigned Liverymen, request your that experience might have taught those who are
togoth•r. The youth of the chief Classes of the Lordship •0 commie a Common Hall upon an early day. to con-
sitter what measures it may be necessary to adopt in order to least accustomed to reflect, that a period of twenty-
eirris, from the age of 20 upwards, are at liberty prevent the Ministers of the Crown from again plunging ibises- two years in such times as those we live in, must
weer join either the lat.,' ehr first called out, or the shi;li:tni.itr,faivei.ol4l,;eirn)cii•eant(rllyaa.edrentrauictoed ivethan andevreuriynodutstemwaprt, iyntilf.a:rt have wrought a great change in men's sentiments, as
sager corps of the regular army. and honottrahle riegociarion, to avert 5,1 dreadful a calamity, to the doctrine of an hereditary right to govern and
shall have proved ineffectual, and to protest against
.the evi- the rights of the people ; but it seems that LOUTS
" Every young man who has completed his seven-
d."` "Pull" and .'")" injustice of "ii attempts to dictate to XVi 11. had not perceived this, and by dating all the
WWI year may, if possessing the recptisite bodily France, or any Auer country, as to the form of its Govern.
mem, the persons %lion] they maw invest with the supreme an- acts of his reign in its 19th year, considered his Crown
strength, join the army at his own choice—l pohlish fatuity. or in any manner to interfere with the internal concerns not as a gift from his people, but an inheritance de-
s particular regulation on this subject. Concerning theArtdof,
And also. to express our abhor of the attempt now rived from his ancestors. This was impolitic, if it was
the formation of single corps, and of the land wehr, a made, in I..fiance of the contempt or politic opinion NO waiver. nqt unjust. Notwithstanding the general mildness
liigmanifested,aidi„arst.ent.
dt is
iinrissiet i
ni upon
thteh
notice will appear iii every province from the co i tist.- sails
ir st Y:tx."trpleonthilint cinoset.un- of his Government, he showed so evident a
tuted authorities. Signed by a number of Liverymen. tendency to the old system of things as must have
I The Lotto MA Volt, in compliance with the above given just cause of alarm to all those who had risen
" Thus, nailed with all Europe in arms, we again i Requisition, has appointed a Common Hall to be or acquired property under the new. On the whole,
enter the lists against Napoleon Bonaparte and his I held on Thursday text, for the purposes therein however, I felt inclined to be content with the state
ttliterents. specified. , of things under the BOURBONS restored, and on-
" Arise then, witn God for your support, for the A Requisition, we understand, is also signing for willing to risk another; yet as that change seems now
repose of the world, for order, for morality, for , a Court of Common Council for the same purpose, most evidently to have been the wish of the people,
land we have no doubt but Petitions will be sent up and as Bosseauve seems disposed to govern on
your King, and your country. from all parts of the country. Several of the princi. principles very different from those of his former
Vita'. Apiil 7. FIIT:DERICK WILLIAM."
pal towns are, we understiud, already calling reign, I think that all the Allies have to do is to hold
I Meetings. ; themselves in a posture of defence, till they see a
' We understand the losses to our army in Look'. " disposition in the present Ruler of the French nation
anti, and upon its coast, independent of what was to disturb the general tranquillity.
sustained in the operations, were occasioned by the: Could I believe that BoNAPARTE had not, from
soldiers being frost-bitten : many have suffered from, motives of prurience at least, changed his conduct;
this cause. The sniveled Sir Put,TcsrY MatcoLm, could I believe that he still meant to tyrannize over
with the troops, is anxiously looked. for.--The 4th, France, to overrun the rest of Europe; I should
21st, '27th, 40th, 44th, and 92d, are the regiments say, that no means used to destroy him would be
expected. unjustifiable ; but as it seems that powerful cir-
Teavccoxo TO AN EXTREME.—The Leeds Rock- cumstances have had a strong influence on his con-
inghnmo„ duct, and that he now places his own happiness and
coach which left Snow-hill, London,
Thursday morning last, at half-past seven o'clock, glory solely on the internal prosperity of France,
._ and
arrived at Doncaster at twelve o'clock the same night, trot on its external glare, we ought to consider him
esti different man, and `-a treat with him accordingly.
being a distance of 162 miles.
Eves supposing that this changedoes not proceed from
—asie—
cons Extesece, APRIL 24.—Very little demand f,,r a radical change of disposition, hut from a mere alters-
w itc..r. and oily that of line quality could be disposed of: (ion ofcircumstances,weeught to consider it a sufficient
pries •anie its no Monday.—Fine Barley snow as Moodily last. ground for treating with him, and averting, if los-
-Maar, and Oats Is. to Is. theaper.—ln otter articles au al-
terutimi. sable, the calamities of war. If, after a few years
Wheat (English) 44 72 Beam
Dino (Foreign) 44 71 Old ditto f•. " 36 probation, and a considerable reduction in the tnili-
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24 ter establishment of France, he should still continue
Rye 3O 96 Tick do.
Harley 26 Sit Old .. . . -• to adhere to hill pacific system, we should then be
New ditto
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Malt 6O 66 Fine ditto . 95 justified in reducing the war establishment, and think
only of reform arad economy. In a few weeks it

BUILIN, APRIL. Is.—The King's two eldest sons,
the Crown Prince and Prince William, and also their
"osia, Prince Louis, mill make the campaign, and
ire busy with the necessary preparations; but they
will stop till the King comes here.
It is noticed as a very probable circumstance, that
in the formation of the Prussian army in the field,
the gotrtisnit of Dresden is taken int a the account.
rho line regiment hussars, raised by the States of
?""eraltia,•pessed on the 9th through Magdeburg.
it Niagdeburg so many young men have offered to
march against France, that it is not possible to clothe
them all immediately.
V4ENNR, Asian. 10.-"-The :somber of cannon that
"re gone from or through Vienna to the army,
arhounts already to 1100.
The plague has broken out a fresh at Belgrade.
Iist.IIIERStADT, APRIL B.—A Proclamation from
I"gee complaint, that a part of this province is a
`1'441441 exception to the zeal shown in other parts of
the Prussian monarchy ; that bodies of young men, two
O :lace hundred in number have fled to Holland;

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