The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-06-23 00:00:00

_At...During civil troubles, especially if coeval with
oreift• war, attacks on the security of the State
in •
sittiply imprisonments —a crowd of individuals, if
thi .re not already in the tanks of the rebels, art
read} to join them ; others, united in interest with
Yoris;gt, enemies or with the revolted, aid them with
ill tiler means, or create partizans fur them, a sort
of kld.uction in which tsea,oo is become very skilful.
Terisii•inut writings, are pointed, seldom/I circulated:
illes.e,gpilty maoceuvres must not he left unpunished:
't. heir prfgress must by all menus be arrested.
." If tile business be to denounce them to the Tri-
ttinels, it is no longer enough that the arrests
should have been made only on the most grave pro.
.Iv;l.S'ities. We may he quite certain of having de.
tet!eil h•til citizens, but may not be possessed of the
renfs of their guilt, in regard to the laws which are
to reach them. The law is violated if the accused
arc Init;;er detained in custody ; but if released, they
recruit the ranks of the rebels.
" Bringing them to trial presents another embar.
rassment ; treason has a thousand shades ; a man
may do a great deal of mischief in that infamous
career, even while he avoids the possibility of a
legal accusation. The guilty would to no purpose
be conduCted even under the sword that was to
strike them ; it, would be necessary to acquit them,
because our codeslhave not yet foreseen all the shades
d f..lonious crime ; and while such trials would
only have shown how far treason could proceed with
impunity, what more would they do but embolden the
traitors by tracing to them the course which they
cossill pursue with impunity.
" In England, whenever there are serious grounds
Of suspicion, and when persons accused are set at
liberty, they are alsocempelled to give sufficient se-
curity for their gond behaviour.
" Tho Reporter then proceeds to make a variety
bf observations on the liberty of the press. It is
Important, he adds, that the Legislature employ it.
self on this 'trench of Our laws; the licentiousness
Of the'press is at its height. Ile concludes with oh.
serving; that it is imperialist for the Legislature to
employ itself in the formalisms of laws on the topics
to which the Report wad adverted."
_ . •
In Ole sitting of the 'l7lli of June, M. Regnault
de lit.Jesimi'Aegeity read the B. ;spurt of the Alisiieter
.of General Police. ' A long •road 'eery tumultuous
aehate' ensued,. in which one poorly strongly busted
that the Chamber should propose the tre ',sures Which
bete Celled for by the Report, and the other party
it vehemently urfed, that uadtsr 'listing circus...
irances, the Government should be entrusted with
the first formation of the laws in repress disturb.
knies: After a considerable 'time. the, motion for
frittering the Report to a Committee of the Chamber
•
was negatived by a great majority, and the Order of
the Day was carried,

MINISTRY AT WAR. •
On the 9th inst. (general Rousseau, Commandant
of the Department of Murbitgan, itif,•imed that an
Engli,h frigate was landing arms and ammunition at
the moath of the Vilaino, left Venues with 500 men
to proceed to the Wiley of debarkation.
On arri,ing at Maidlae, he came up with the
enemy : his tirailleurs reached him, and compelled
him to deploy.
The enemy perceiving that General Rousseau had
only a weak column, detached a strong battalion
upon his rear.
The General immediately rallied his tirailleurs, and
after charging this battalion with a platoon of gend-
armes andouaniers, who threw them into disorder,
be threw himself upon them with the remainder of bis
troop, and killed or wounded 250 men.
Among the dead was found M. de Gueri, of
Rennes, who had his pockets full of crosses of St.
Louis, and two other Chiefs, d. corated with the cross
of Malta : M. de Gueri had arrived from Paris the
night before.
After this affair, in which General Rousseau had
ene officer and four soldiers killed and sixteen
wounded, he received an additional force at Vannes,
which he imited to his column.
At the moment of the courier's departure, he was
on his march to come up with the rebels, and to take
from them the arms which it had been possible to land
from the English frigate.
In another quarter the moveable column of Fongere
had encountered and beaten on the 10th the band of
Yilette.

The Mordleur of the 17th contains a very long re-
port on foreign relations by Caulincourt, occupying
above seven columns of thnt Paper.

lIRUNSELS PAPERS.

FIFTH BULLETIN.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange has ar-
rived at Brussels. The valuable life of that hero,
who so greatly contributed to the victory of yester-
day,-and who has just acquired so many new claim;
to our gratitude, has been preserved. However,
about ei,Jit in the evening, his Royal Highness
Vas struck by a bell, which passed through his left
arm at tho shoulder. The wound is not dangerous,
and his Royal Highness's health is not afected.
The battle of yesterday was sanguinary, and the
result btilliatit. The army of Field-Marshal the
i);ike of Wellington covered itself with glory. The
victory was complete. The enemy was Wittily de-
feated and put to the rout. He lost more than 100
caution. Prince Blucher, having joined the Duke
of lellington, their armies are pursuing the enemy
beyond G ens ppe.
• baron de CAPF.I.LEN, Seeretvy of State.
Bruuteli, June 19, in the morning.