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THE STATESVAN.

LONDON:

TUURSPAY, OCTOBER 26, 1815.

This forenoon we received the Paris Papers of
Sunday and. Monday last.
The dehates•in the French Parliament, though the
subjects of discussion are still confined to matters of
Internal policy, are in the prestos! state of things of
deep and manifest consideration. Never did tyran.
ny show its fears plainer than in the instance of the
laws which the Covet-um:lit of Lulls is enacting
for the suppression of treason and sedition.—
In this mirror of its apprehensions we behold
despotism trembling at the echo of its own crime.,
a Government obliged to confess how much it. is
bated, and the very sound of liberty and human
right, shaking a throne supported by all the Powers
of Europe. And such a throne ! so deserving of
love and support, that nothing but its own acts can
bespeak its beneficence and claims to universal ap-
probation ! Reader, look at the measures which it is
submitting to its own packed Chambers of interested
pattizins, to obtain fresh and unheard-of powers
over the liberties and persons of the people, powers
unwarranted by the (institution bestowed by this
.very Monarchy as the charter of the people's privi.
lege% and such as render this boasted gift a nullity ;
let the Reader look at these despotic enactments as
they are officially proposed, and hurried in succee.
lion into practice before they have obtained the
sanction of that shadow which now calls itself tbe
representatives of the French people, bat in the re.
turning of which the French people hare bad as link
to do as the elective stones of our rotten 'boroughs
hate in the return of those Gentlemen who enjoy the
honour of representing them in the British Parliament
—let, we say, the Reader examine these and the
measures of a similar tendency already had_ meant
to by the French Government, and say whether the'
Prince Whom these measures are intended to support
on the throne, is rooted in the affections of the
French- people; whether this Is the Governmeet.
which is desired by the French nation ; whether tide;
system of terror and unlimited rigour is the one best
calculated to restore tranquillity, and secure the
happiness of a great nation accustomed to freedom;
and whether, on the contrary, it is not likely to call
forth a tornado of vengeance from an insulted and
oppressed people, that shall sweep the detested fin.
brie of tyranny. and the secret plotters against pub-
lic right and national justice, from the land. The
arrests under the seditious laws aro already an nume-
rous, that by and hye the prisons will be fall ; yet
new projects for the increase of coercive authority
to an unlimited extent, are still employing the invert-
titre faculties of the Government.
Both the Chambers met on Saturday, when the
law projtcl, investing Government with an associa-
ti of powers unknown to the Constitution, and

P A Rl4, OCT. 22.

ration to prevent public liberty from being entlatt-
gered !!" By this law to secure pubiic liberty,
" The tonment'llie heroic resolution of the brave aaeh Indialaaa--11 " 1". • •`
V IHtg
r4l• I r knownknownill this city, all the inhabitants with offences
against that State may he ttettined in calmly, with-
were preparieit, iPC1)1111 his patriotic designs, and
(Midi with the same enthusiasm which impelled out being bmtight tnitriat, foe the remainder of their
them to resist the armies of Napoleon, during a siege lives, as it prolongs the dray deemed necessary fur
of three years. Nothing was to be seen but (elicits-. the search for proof against them to an indefinite pe.
tines and embracing!, every thing denoted that the rind. A law for the rebuilding of Basalt's in every
minds of the people svelte ready for an explosion.— town end department must he the, measure whiclise
-Unfortunately, a raw hours after the receipt of the
his iidings, the extraordinary express sent down would naturally expect to folio* such all enact-
by Coors with all bate arrived, annotmcinl that trent.
Porlier halt Callen into the hands of his enemies.— Some official information is et last given respecting.
Two daps more would have been suffirient for all the revolt in the army. A Proclamation by Marshal
Spain to have manifested her wishes. Vet oar hopes
111aceoext.o, dated Bourges, the 9th and 11th inste
ere by no fileati4 Inst. This shock has only paralysed
the toe is bich have not had time to decide for admits the disaffection to be serious, and states that
shrilAelses. A 11 .me thus confined cannot fail to the plea of pay is 11 mere pretence.—llis Etrel-
bys.:k wit with greater fury. henry testifies great displeasure at the insurrec-
•• ale asst reel, with oertaio:tv, that Ceram-
tionary movements of the troops, and accuses
gene has eruhtaced the party of the Cartes. To-day
the Colonels, Officeis, and subalterns as partici..
this news is circulating here, accompanied with the
applause% of the inhabitants of this place, and paling in the crime of rebellion. lie makes them
every Oh% announces we shall not be long in fel- responsible for the execution of his orders for secar-
lowing the same impulse. Several other towns also its the guilty, and for every movement which shall
of the Levant are said to have risen in favour g
of the Constitution, inspired by the example of Car- ;in future take place. A Lieutenant and his seem-
thagena. This city is so much devoted to pod in.. plices, authors and abettors of the revolt which took
etitetioes, that even the friars are Liberates. The place the 27th ult. in the regiment of Foot Chasseirs
situation of that place; the excellent stare of its of the Ex-011 Guard, cautoned at Bourganeuf, are
fortifications, and the general odium its inhabitants stated to have been arrested by the Gendarmerie of
• bear to the despodo acts of Ferdinand and his
the Puyde-Donle ; sod it is added that the Quarter-
. Ministers are circumstances which will cause the in- ;
Perfection to take deep root. You may have an idea M"siets LAFONTAVII. of (1w Ist regiment of Horse
of the spirit of the Carthageeiwns, by else manner in Chasseurs, of the Old Guard and some other Chas.
which they relehrated the (Ily of San Fernando, its spurs, have also been a ted for endeavouring to
June last. T e hand-bill which announced the thee. stir tit, their regiments.
trical entertainment was couched in su,4l eptivocal
All these criminals, says the Marshal, are already
terms, that it rather appeared like a satire against the .
King than a compliment in the usual form. Its given up to the Councils of %Vat., who are about
beading was thus-4 In order to celebrate the me- to administer prompt and severe justice. 13. it if such
mory of our mug •st Monarch, the new tragedy will is the state of the army, we much doubt, whe.
be performed of The Tyrant of *Lombardy, which
the Councils of War have the power of reclaiming
will be followed by the farce called The End of the
men who care so little for their decision,. We also sus.
Turkey (which you are aware is fattened and then
Janes his head). the whole to conclude with a general pest from the intelligence we have had subsequent to
Dance of Mc Mad.' " • I thedate of this official information, that no small pro-
portion of the disaffected troops have taken the li-
berty of withdrawing frees the operation of these
energetic councils.

CHA WIER 0— PEERS. OcT. 21.
To-clay was distributed amongst the Members of
the two Chambers the Report which had been made
by Count Mole, in the name of the Special Commi.;-
lion, charged with the revision of the Regnlatioos
relative to the acraut.ts gisen of the proceedings of
the Chambers its the public Journals. which were,
in many instances, incorrect. The article proposed
was as follows

" After each fitting the Prnces Verbal shall be
addressed to and inserted in the Moliileur, by the rare
and under the surveillance of the President and the
hSecretaries of the Chamber."

CH 001111 M fIF IMPUTTTS. OCT. 21.
P111.211/I:NCY ()P M.1,41NF.
At hstf..vast nne, the Members repaired from their
bureaux into the Hall, aed the sitting commenced.
A Secretary read the Proces Verbal of the sitting of
the 18th instant. The Chamber approved of it.
M. lit.u.Atur ascended the Tiibune :

♦6 GENTLEMEN." std he, " I hsve the honour of
submitting to you, in the name of the Commission,
the opinion which it has formed relative to the pro.
Lied of the law respecting the measures of public
safety.
" Amongst the most free people in the worhi, the
Romans, when the spirit of faction menaced the safe-
ty of the State. a simple formula gave the Consuls
all the strength, all the power' necessary to prevent
immediately its erects; it then enjoined to derogate
from the common right of individual liberty. Its a
neighbouring nation, which publicists have cited a
the classic land of liberty, without the appearance of
any interior troubles, and only when threatened by
a foreign enemy, the law which prescribes that no
one shall be detained in custody but after legal
forms, is often suspended.
" However, the social compact of these two mawss
does not admit this measure; hut their Legislator's
have thought, with infinite discernment, that words
are nothing before things when existence is at stake;
that, in order to enjoy liberty, there must be so-
ciety, and that those are only madmen who, adher.
ing faithfully to simple forms, enter into discussions
whether they should defend Slariaaatios agairot 'heir
enemies.

" Our Charter has been more mindful than the
public law of these two countries; it embraces within
itself its means of liberty and safety, whilst a legis.
lotion respecting individUal liberty establishes the
protecting forms of that liberty, by confiding to the
judiciary power alone the tight of disposing of per-
sons. The fourth article of this grind Contract
leaves, however, to the law the right of regulating
every thing which is necessary in urgent circum.
stances, but in no part does the Charter forbid the
law to extend its power as far as the public safety
ir may require it.
fln order to conform to the scruples of the Charter,
to those scruples so legitimate that *eve'sl public
fonctionnries are invested wifh what is C3llllll Judi-
einry Police; they have a right to make search
after, to seize persons accused of every species of
crime; but they are obliged after a short delay to
bring them before the Xeibtfr--talv, who immediately
condemn them or set them at liberty. It is this pre-
liminary delay, which likty .be called a delay for

" On lbss one hand, by a rapid ,examination,
their is a risk of letting a guilty moon escape frs.m
not having had time to convict • him ; on the bthet
hand, a goitfy person who knows so well ho* to
take his Mensurei, that though staggered by the
proofs opinst him, he may contend successfully
against them, and even escape punishment : must
then this dangerous mon be set at liberty, who would
become more so from the impunity he has obtained?
—Alen who do not suffer themselves to be deceived
by words, will not question the necessity there
in certain circumstances, of placing a discretionary
power in the hands of Government, or of risking time
dissolution of society.

" Do these circumsta%ces exi:t ?—That is the
only question to examine.— Is it one for as, Gentle-
men ? Let uc see, let Ds hear, and let v. judge.
Gentlemen, I fear not saying it, they are only the
accompliees of the guilty themselves, who can deny
the necessity of the measures which are proposed to
you. Never did Rome, England, or any other State
find themselves in a more urgent position to proclaim
the formula Careatal consulles.

" The law project embraces an association of
powers, administrative and judiciary. unknown to
other nations ; this associatinn eulranices, in the
highest degree, the peace of society, and furnishes
the means of defending oppressed innocence. In
short, the of t.ct of the law is temporary : it will
cease with the termination of the present Session.—
The Commi.sion has only recognised in this project
a measure of moderation to prevent public liberty
from being endangered."
The reporter then explained tire propositions of
the King's Nlinivers. There was some diterence of
opinion upon them in the Commission. A little
more clearnessitad been desirable in the first article;
but after doe examination it was found to eke rise
to nothing eitriv.tra I. Scruples were also raised as
to the lime of detentions ; however, the conclusion.
was, that the sacrifice which the project required of
individual liberty would be to the benefit of public
liberty, Bcr.
" Many," said the orator in concluding, " many !
will not fail to cry out emphaticaHy against what they
call an attack upon liberty ; they will hypocritically
heap together a number of metaphisical subtleties,
to calumniate a measure whose object 'is the salva-
tion of the country. •We will, answer these de-
claimers, that they are unmasked, and that it is not
amongst thrust that is to be found a sincere friend of
the Charter. Under a Government which is only
occupied with curing our evils, they appear to eiist:
hot to aggravate them ; theft milimwak of liberty
to make it perish if they can; Gild itts to strangle it
that they invoke it."
M. Bellart having finished,

The PACCIDENT announcer!, that the digression
ern the Report which had just been heard would
take place on Monday nest,
There will be no sitting to-morrciw.

POIIRGEI, OCT. It—His Excellency the Dike of
Tarentum, Commander in Chief of the French
troops, is informed, that in contempt of the orders
so often renewed, some soldiers who have been seen
wearing signs of revolt, and others who have ot.
tared seditious cries, have just been arrested.
Escellenry orders that they shall be immediately
broagbt before. the Councils of War Qf the military
disisions in which the offences have been committed,
to he tried and punished according to all the rigour
of the laws.

Every soldier, whatever be his degree. who shall
wear a prescribed signal,and who shill not be decorated
with a white cockade, shall be arrested as a risks%
an abettor and instigator of revolt, and shall be tried
and punished as sorb.
Twenty-four boor► after the rvceipt of the present
General Order, the Officers and Chiefs of corps,
shall he responsible for its non-etecetion, removed,
and sent home under guard.
need quarter!, Suurge4. Org. to.

The insurrectionary movements which have meta-
fested themselves in some regiments of infantry and
cavalry, whose pay is only a pretext, merits the most
exemplary chastisement. His Excellency the Mar-
shal Duke of Tarentum, Commander-in-Chief of the
French troops, animal-he Chiefs of Corps to point
out the instigators and abettors, to have them arrest-
ed and conducted to the elder place of their military
divisou, with the cemplaintsagainst them, and proofs
to support them. His Excellency testifies his lively
displeasure at the Colonels, Officers, and Subaltern
Officers, in which rebellion has the most openly ma-
nifested. itself ; he accuses them of 'their indifference
and coolne,s in searching after and punishing the
guilty ; he makes them responsille for every move-
ment which shall in future take place; and declares,
that they will lose their military rank, and all the
advantages which the Ordonninces of the Kiag pro•
mired them.

liertd-Quur ten, !rouges, Oct. 9.
Lieutenant Rosey awl his accomplices, anthers
and abettors of the revolt which took plea. the. '27th
of September last, its the 2sl reiiimesst of foot,
Chasseura of the Est-0111 Guard, cantoned at Bqur-
gasusuf, have just. been irret.ted by the Gendarmerie
of the Puy-de:Dome, and a detachment of the legion
of the Meuse. !
T.O much praise plonk be given Ihr

gendarmerie of the de-
of pavers unknown to the Constitutson, atut liminary delay, wawa away .or caw,. .. ••w •^y au.
io o mucn pram cannot be given to Melee, and ina"la en the 31"1"erralleani
partments ofthe Creuze and the Puy-‘le-D•nue, and
taokoowledged to he equally unknown to other na. Hera of proof, which the project of 'ho law pro. good conduct of the vague 110111°, and will be discharged
to prolong indefinitely In cases of crimes against
to the Mayors anti inbabilants Et the common '
I ions, was more fully explained and discussed in the poses_ d great expellee will termilme :
k Depot's,. It professes to De " a measure of mode- the State. noisy is to be observed i:: au d
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