The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-07-08 00:00:00

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NATIONAL GUARD OF PARIS.
TO THE LDITOR 01 THE XONlTtilli.

fuse to acknowledge the rights of the nation, and to
consecrate them by a solemn compact. The Con•
stitutionid (Nuirt is•d+nwn up ; end if the force of
nuns should succeed in temporarily imposing upon us
a ►nas►ur—if the destinies of a great nation are again
to •ha delivered up to the caprice oud the artiltrary
will of a small number of privileged persons, then,
in yielding to force, the National Representation will
protest in the face of the whole world in *upport of
the oppressed French people.

" your Representatives will appeal to the energy
of the present and future generations to renew their
claim both to national independence and the rights of
civil liherty. For these rights they now appeal to
the justice end the reason of all civilized nations."
The above Address was adopted amidst loud ap.
plause, and ordered to Iss sent to the Chamber of
Peers.

bITT/NO OF THE 3D OF JULY.
(In continuation.)
The PRESIDENT.—AImost all the Committees have
finished their labours on the Constitution. The
Cen-
~tral Commission labours without intermission. There
being no other Order of the Day, I propose to the
Assembly to form itself into Committee.
M. Fad' DESFOUTES.—I demand to be heard:
disquieting rumours are in circulation.
The formation of Committee was called for.--M.
Felix Desportes insisted.
M.Sren ET demanded to be heard on the steps taken
to accelerate the work of the Constitution.
A number of Members called for the formation
into Committee.
M. Partnrm.—How, Gentlemen, one of your col.
lenlues wishes to discourse with you on the public
safety, and you refuse to hear him 1
The PRESIDENT.—The public safety consists in the
speediest completion of the Constitution.
The Chamber resolved that M. Desportes should
not be heard.
The PRESIDENT proposed to the Chamber to go
into Committee, and wait a message from the Go-
vernment.
M. SIBUET insisted upon an hearing on the course
of the deliberation.. After some general remarks,

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44 Let us not conceal, Gentlemen what would be !be spoke of the arrangement of a plan of a Con.
the situation of France, if they succeeded in imposing stitution relative to the Peerage sod Hereditary Sue.
upon you the Bourbon family. The head of that :ceesion.
,family, however willing to do good, could not even i All sides called for the going into the Committee.
effect it ; the multitude of creatures who accompany 'l'be PRESIDENT.—The Committee has received se.
him would necessary hold hark his hand. Promises veral amendments on the subject which M. Sibuet
would be given you, hut would not be kept. All wishes to discuss: it is employed about them : they
who for these 25 years have fought for liberty, those will be the object of its first report. A Constitu.
in particular who have combated' latterly, would be tion ought to be a whole, whose separate parts are
considered as rebels ; their success, their misfortunes co-ordinate. Every part of it ought to be essentially
would be passports to proscription. The purchasers correlative.
of national property, forming so large a mass of the M. BERENGER, and other Members, insisted on
nation, would be violently despoiled. The peasants the hearing.
would tie oppressed by the petty lords. Do our ette- i The Chamber determined to go into Committee,
mies suppose, then, that the men of the Revolution and wait the message from Government.
are c d warts ? They have placed their hopes in Royal ' At five o'clock the sitting was resumed.
Vedoiees, and they do not cousider that there will be The PRESIDENT-11 come from a conference with
patriotic Veudees. Do they suppose that the latter the Commission of Government, of three quarters
can he kept down by the presence of foreign troops? fan bow. An interesting message will be ad.
Alt, Gelitlemen, those who like ourselves were gar.. dressed to you. Affairs are not yes regulated.: they
nisaire, in Spain, know that the presence of the best will presently be in order. I propose to the Chaise
garrisons is insufficient to subjugate a people." ! her to meet this evening at half-past seven o'clock. '
He concluded wit:t moving, that five Representa. ' A great number of voices.—No, no, a permanent
tives be co:istantly with the armies, not to interfere I sitting.
with the military ndorementa, but that the world M. Camnoe demanded that it should be first ascer-
tained whether they were in sufficient numbers to de.
might see that they knew nothing more glorious than
to die for the country. d liberate.
The PRESIDENT renewed the assurance which he
04 the motion of M. GOR KEE, the above speech
Was ordered to be printed, sent to the departments had given relative to the expected message from Go.
and ariiii,s, and posted in Paris. 1 vernment.
I The Chamber suspended its sitting till half-past
M. iscover theta appeared at the tribune, in the
name of the Committee charged to draw up an ad- ' on"•
dress to the French Fooople. He stated, that the' At eight the sitting was resumed.
Committee unanimously adopted the following : I The PRESIDENT.—There is yet nothing definitive,
s'— Fneecnmar,The Foreign Powers proclaimed in there is nothing determined.
the te-ii of Kurope, that they were only armed against Several Memtvers demanded to be heard.
Napoleon; that they wished to respect our lode. The Pacsrearr.—Several Members have made me
pendmice, and the right which belongs to every na. ; observe that a great number of strangers have in-
(ion to choose the Government suitable to its man. j truded into the hail, and have taken their seats
oars and its interests. 'among the Representatives of the People. I order
" Napoleon in no longer the Chief of the State; them instantly to depart : the persons who shall be
he has renauticed the throne, and his abdication has found not to belong to the Assembly shall be colt-
Tow, Representatives. tie is re- i ducted to the guard-house.
bees' accepted by
moved from us. Its son is called to the empire by t A long disturbance prevailed in the Assembly.—
ttes Constitutions of the State. The coalesced So. The ushers passed along the lines of the benches.
The PRESIDENT.—There is one certain method of
verei4its koow that. The war ought then to be ter-
raiwi ted, if the promises of Kings be not vain. determining that there shall be no strangers among
•' I Instover, while Plenipotentiaries have been as : I call upon the whole Assembly to go oat from
Sent to the Allied l'nwers to treat for peace in the their seats: nobody shall enter except en showing to
smote of Fiance, the Generalise two of those Powers the ushers the medal of 1815.
have refuse,' any suspeosion of arms. Their troops I This arrangement was adopted, and immediately
have hastmeel their. mirth, under the favour of a pot into execution.
moment of trouble and hesitation. They are at the All the Members of the Assembly having re-en.
gates of the cApi.al without any communication tared and resumed their places,
having informed us for what object the war is con. The PRESIDENT announced the arrival •of a teei..
tinurd. . sage from the Government, who demanded that it
" Our Plenipotentiaries will soon declare whether l should not be laid before the Chamber any more than
we must renounce peace. In the mean time resist- j the documents which accompanied it, except in secret
ance is as necessary as legitimate ; and humanity, in'. Committee.
requiting an account of the blood uselessly shed, The PRESIDENT called upon the spectators tc with.
will not accuse those brave men who only combat to. draw from the galleries.
repel from their home the scourges of war, murder, ' The Chamber went into secret Cowhides: this
and pillage—to defend with their lives the cause of Committee did not rise till two o'clockl seerosug.
his •
liberty, told of that independence, theimprescriptibhe The result has net been made public.
right of which has been guaranteed to them even by
the manifestoes of their enemies.
. " Amidst these grave circumstances, your Repre-'
'Putative, cannot forget that they were not chosen to
stipulate for the interests of any party whatever, but
for the whole nation. Every act of weakness, while
dishonouring them, would only serve to compromise,
during a tong period, the future tranquillity of
France. In the mean time, then, that the Govern.
Meta is employing all the means for obtaining a solid
peace, what mote advantageous to the patios, can be
done, than to collect and establish the fundamental
rules of a monarchical and Representative Govern-
ment, destined to secure to all citizens the free en-
joyment of these sacred rights which sacrifices so nu-
merous and so great have purchased; and to rally
for ever, under the national colours, that great body
Of Frenchmen, who have tto other interest, and no
other wish, than to enjoy an honpurable repose and
a just independence.
is Meanwhile, the Chambers conceive that their
duty and their dignity require them to declare, that
they will never acknowledge as legitimate Chief of
the State, he who, on sseending the throne, shall re-

Patio. hl y 3. I
Mr. Eurrou,—Pamphlets and addressee; without
signature, attributed to the Natioael Gefirdt hive f
been spread abroad with pofesion for son&
days. The agitators, no doubt, hoped, that by ta-
lumnieting its intentions they should located k j
stroying the estimation which it has acquired, Iliad
which keeps them in awe.
But it is in vain that they have flattered tinunsekes
with success in this culpable design. A stranger, to
all parties, essentially interested in the ntaintenance,
of order and public tranqaillity, the National Guard
of Paris will constantly fulat the object of its itisti. '
tution, and will never show itself factious.
I call upon you, therefore, Mr. Btlitor, to make
tbr

known by means of your Journal,
disavows all such productions.
Accept, Mr. Editor, the assurance of my distill.-
guished consideration.

lat it formally

The 3lnj"r•Gen., ClOcf of the Staff; Bares DE BORELLI.

and must learn to bear the fate or a vanquished
pie. Where then is the necessity of setting
King among them ? But whether the French
fact subdued, and are benefits d rather than disgi
by having a Sovereign imposed upon iheni, it is,
that they do not Yet Wok upon themselves
either of these situations. It would indeed be
derful if twenty-six millions of jieople shoal
knowledge themselves vanquished by one 01
hundred thousand, and by a single blow. Frai
certainly at present in an extraordinary site
which belies all ideas behead entertain.
her valour and elasticity of spirit. The cal
this is doubtless in the Government, and the ft
u heel are distracting its operations and divide
public mind. The present Representatives seem
ly united in etpissioss with the military, thougi
debates are frequently tumultuous; and though
lions and tumults prevail, that the major,
the people are with them, is pretlfr eel&
from there being no popular attempt to interrup'
dissolve them, particularly now that the militas
withdrawn, and a foreign force, inimical to their
vernment, at hand to favour the adoption of a
ant kind of authority. The report to the Chem,
Representatives of BORT ne Sr. VrxceNT, with
copy, regarding the visit of himself and colleag,
the army, is moat interesting. The situation in 1
the Allied Sovereigns have placed themselves.
their Declaration against BostePA RTE, and him r
The Duke of WELLINGTON being now in posses- is one, perhaps, of equal difficulty with ti
stun of Paris, and the star friendly to peace and the which we at present perceive the Fiench pere
establishment of social relations between men hiving Every thing will depend upon the reply
obtained the ascendant, it is reasonable to expect a the foreign Powers, particularly Austria and
free communication between this country and the, sia, shall give to the Ambassadors charged
French capital as one of almost the immediate results mind them of the words they so solemnly ,
of such a happy state of things. But this freedom of I when they commenced the war. The object of
communication has not yet been restored. We have armistices which have been agreed upon,
no arrivals from Paris to-day, at least there was none afford time for this explanation; and the Represent
at a late hour this morning. The inference from this , tives and the French people are earnestly eat,
is, that the Public Authorities on the line of the road, by the Executive Government to await the reset,
and at the ports whence communication might be ex- II these negotiations. Paris is not without ream
pected, still adhere to the Provisional Governments blamed for the part which it took in the change
and that matters are far from being considered 1814. The conduct of the capital upon that
as settled. The Convention by which the Al. sin is said to have led to the imposing of a
lied troops took possession of Paris does not, in- 1 vernment upon France, which Russia and At
deed, pretend to adjust any other disputed point did not think of ; and it la said, perhaps
than the occupation of that city, and the attainment without probability, that Russia and Austria
of this object has certainly the appearance of a greet 1 still pronounce for France. Certain it is that
advantage—a wide field is thus opened for the exer- Emperor of RUSSIA has no idea of assisting
rise of pacific wisdom, and for giving effect to the .1 Prince to a thrOne who is ashamed to acknowr
advantages already gainetl,—but those who re. 1 that it is to his bayonets he ones it, sod
collect the Cintra Convention, -and are (rem- neither he nor the Emperor of AUSTRIA
blingly alive to the probable consequences of declared that they were fighting for the Bouas.
such Treaties, dread the very sound of the words A Congress—for every thing is now settled
Military Convention; and it is, perhaps, in conse- Congress—is to be held on this new state of th.
gueuce of some such impressions and recollections, ' and it t to this assembly that the British Cabinet
more than from the existence of any just ground to be transferred. Will Louis be allowed to
foe apprehension, that a very general feeling of dis- this august Sceance, and decide upon his
appointment, instead of exultation, has been created claims. i or have the Cabinets of Prussia
in the public mind by the terms upon which the Al- , England undertaken to place him without ceremon'
lied Generals have taken possession of the French on a throne of their making, in the midst of his
Capital. Lord WELLINGTON gives law from Mont. tile subjects, and called a, Council of his sit
I smite, Paris trembles under him, and the French Allies to decide upon the propriety of so doing;
armies have abandoned the half of France; and the the necessity of keeping him up without his arm;
I fortresses which constitute the chief pert of its We must leave time to solve this question.
' strength, are either falling into the hands of Louis' We apprehend NAPOLEON it Min in the midst
or the Prince of ORANGE—What has Lord Wes.. his military associates, but there is a great eon'
ensofoN to fear ? Lord CASTLEREAGH, Mr. Caottee, riety of rumours about him. One, on the at
IMessrs. Pent and FITZGERALD, and the Duchess of rity of a letter from Rotten of the 3d, assigns
! A NGOULENE, have set out to adjust all the political to the safe custody of the Allies, by asserting
points—where is the just ground for apprehension ? apprehension at Rouen,fwhen endeavouring to
,
Is not the path of the Bouasox family to the throne Havre, where a vessel is said to have been prepared
of France as clear as the sword can make it ? And, : convey him to America. Mr. CROILER has, perhat
will not the dreadful denunciations of " the best of set out with a roving commission in search of
Kings" be now all fulfilled upon his disobedient chil.! It is affirmed that the vigilant Secretary of the
!drew? Had he not Cambray entirely given over 1 miralty has placed no less than tea British vessel!
Ito .him? Were not the victorious Generals pro. on the Havre station, for the purpose of intercer
claiming hies Xing as they went, and is it ; him. We are not so wise as Mr. CROKER, but
' not stated that the Count de CUARTRE has re- take leave to say, we are humbly of opini
ceived advice that Louis XVIII. lies actually en- ! that it is not likely the Ex-Emperor would
tered Paris ? It may be so—it is so stated ; but, bark at a harbour so far up the Channel,
i alas I upon what a stormy sea does he enter! upon that he would make such a clatter with coaches
1 what a precarious Throne are his friends attempting and luggage, as some accounts say he did, in '
to place him ! " What perils still environ" even . way to embarkation. The preparation of a I.;
I those victorious men who have obtained the submis- at Havre would be a good feint to deceive the
sion of the French Capital. Let the Reader look at lance of England, while a southern port would t
the reports and documents which we quote in ampler him a more unmolested egress to his new retreat The Dover letters this morning are very specific
detail from the Paris Papers last received— repeating the report of Bowaraufe's capture. '
, let him conceive the ferment among those mil. say he was taken by Mr. SMITH, Master of a
' lions of Frenchmen, who, though not yet in venue cutter.
It will be seen by nor Stock List that the Ff
arms, may be roused to resistance, and amidst
1 have fallen considerably since the last Dispat
whom the small number of their conquerors are
from hord WecetucToe. The reason assigned
placed, and say, if possible, how the tempestuous it is the favourable conditions granted to the F,
elements of so much discord, hate, jealousy, and in the Capitulation of Paris. The rise in the Fi
revenge, are to be composed into calmness and tran. Funds may be attributed to the same cause.
quillity. Will the Government of the banished fami. ' i
lies conciliate all views and passions,—" hush the It will he seen by our Port Letter of this
storm and sooth to peace?" We doubt it much.— that Dunkirk hoisted the white flag on Thin
There is no ground afforded either to us or the French last, at noon, and fired a royal salute on the occi
people to believe it. It is well asked of the delibe., The Duchess o, A NGOULEME was expect(Portsmouth yesterday to embark for Bourdeate
native bodies by the heads of the military, what gun.: blinisters had several meetings yesterday, but
rantee can Louis XVIII. give to France for the ' in a regular Cabinet; it was, however, arranged
maintenance of her national rights and liberties, and send off Lord Claire on a special mission. His
pablic peace and individual safety. He brings her ship was expected to leave town at a late hoar
none.--he cuts himself off from the possession of any :
1 At the Council which was held on the arrival
s.
such power or assurance by his denunciations of the last dispatches from the Duke of Weeeteoro
whole of the present military strength of the coon. 1 night.
, was deemed necessary that some Gentlemen contiectea
try; and whilst he has no solid guarantees to , with Government should leave town without
offer to his own people for what they have for Paris. The Right Hove R. Pe ELE, the Ri
so long contended for, his disinterested Allies will lion. Wm. Vesee Frrzusita co, and Jour Wt
take all possible securities, and very prudentially, CliOK ER Esq. have beet selected for this impor,
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from him and from France for their own safety I
mission. They left town this morning for Dote
or : „hick port directions were sent late last aisle
immunity, and for what they call preserving the : prepare a vessel for their reception, and proceed'
peace of Europe. But the Fiench are congneied, ' Caries, and from thence, if thecae(' is open) to

GENERAL ORDER.

j Immediately after the arrangement, under which
Paris %al's surrendered, the following was issued :-
1 "1. The Field-Marshal has great satisfaction in
announcing to the troops under his command, that he
has, in concert with Field-Mersin:l Prince Bluchcr,
concluded a Military Convention with the Commander
its Chief of the French army, near Paris, by which
the enemy is to evacuate St. Denis, St. Ouen,
and Neuilly, this day at noon ; the heights of Mont-
martre to-morrow at noon, and Paris next day.
" 2. The Field-Marshal congratulates the Army
upon this molt of their glorious victory. HP de-
; sires that the troops may employ the leisure of this
day and to-morrow to clean their alma, clothes, and
appointments, as it is his intention that they should
. pass him in review.
I "3. Major-General Sir Manley Power, K. C. B.
is appointed to the Staff of this Army.
(Signed) " J. WATERi, Li ut.-Col. A. A.G."

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THE STATESMAN.

LONDON:
sATuRnAy. JuLy 8, 1815.

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i who for these 25 years have fought for liberty, those wilt oe me oojecr a
in particular who have combated' latterly, would be tion ought to be a w
I i. considered as rebels ; their success, their misfortunes co-ordinate. Every
would be passports to proscription. The purchasers correlative.
: . of national property, forming so large a mass of the M. BERENGER, at
nation, would be violently despoiled. The peasants the hearing.
would he oppressed by the petty lords. Do our elle- i The Chamber dete
mies suppose, then, that the men of the Revolution and wait the messagi
are c , wants ? They have placed their hopes in Royal ' At five o'clock the
V....mires, and they do not cousider that there will be The PeCSIDit4T--
1 patriotic Veudees. Do they suppose that the latter the Commission of
can be kept down by the presence of foreign troops? of an hour. An i
Alt, Gentlemen, those who like ourselves were gar- dressed to you. Al
I, nisaire, in Spain, know that the presence of the best Will Presently hem o
if garrisons is insufficient to subjugate a people." I her to meet this even
He concluded wit:t moving, that five itopresente. ' A great number of
tives he co:istatitly with the armies, not to interfere I sitting.
V with the military movements, but that the world M. Comore demur
r. might see that they knew nothing more glorious than twined whether they v
d to die for the country. d liberate.
d, On the motion of M. Gonave, the above speech / The PRE-410E4T re
f ' was ordered to be printed, sent to the departments had given relative to
t and armies, and posted in Paris. 1 vernment.
I
if
I'M. Jscovor thett appeared at the tribune, in the The Chamber sus;
na me of the Committee charged to draw up an ad-' seven.
dress to the French people. Ile stated, that the I At eight the sittin;
s i Committee unanimously adopted the following : I The PaT'lo"l.
"FRENCH3IOI,—The Foreign Powers proclaimed in there is nothing deter
1, the tr.-di of Kurope, that they were only armed against Several Memiters el
i t
d V Napoleon; that they wished to respect our indev The PayssOLlVT.
peitilmice, am' the right which belongs to every na. , observe that a great
r (ion to choose the Government suitable to its Mea• j traded into the hal
4 t . rears and its interests. I among the Represent
" Napoleon is Ito longer the Chief of the State; them instantly to dep
he has renounced the throne, and his abdication has found not to belong t
beet' accepted by your Representatives. lie is re, ducted to the guard.!
moved from us. His son is called to the empire by A long disturbance
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th:. Constitutions of the State. The coalesced So. The ushers passed al(
kk i
. verei4its know that. The war ought then to be ter. The PRESIDENT.—
roiwi ted, if the promises of Kings be not vain. determining that ther
" tiostover, while Plenipotentiaries have been us : I call upon the v
J k *ace in the their seats: nobody I
. it sent to she Allied Powers to treat for ;
sinew of Fiance, the Generals of two of those Powers the ushers the medal
t Ls" refused any sospeosien of arms. Their troops This arrangement
•
:, • have hasteedd *sic mere+, under the favour of a pot into execution.
, moment of trouble and hesitation. They are at the All the Members
gates of the capi.al without any communication tared and resumed th
,'!
having informed us for what object the war is con. The PRESIDENT an
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1. 'turd.. sage from the Gave
ts " Our Plenipotentiaries will toon declare whether I should not be laid bel
TlThe Chamber we
from thegalleri
' we must renounce peace. In the mean time resist. the documents which
ance is as necessary as legitimate ; and humanity, in Committee.
requiting an account of the blood uselessly shed, The PRESIDENT cal
draw will not accuse those brave men who only combat to.
repel from their home the scourges of war, murder,
and pillage—to defend with their lives the cause of
. *; Committee did not rit
liberty, mid of that independence, theimprescriptible, Tba result has net be
right of which has been guaranteed to them even by.
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the manifestoes of their enemies. NATIOSAI
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. ss Amidst these grave circumstances, your Repre-'
imitative, cannot forget that they were not chosen to
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stipulate for the interests any party whatever, but bi
r. EDITOR,—Pa
for the whole station.- Every act of weakness, while
signa , ture attributed
dishonouring them, would only serve to compromise,
en spread
.abroat
during a tong period, the future tranquillity of
days. The agitators
France. In the mean time, then, that the Govern-
lumni.ating its intend
(; meta is employing all the means for obtaining a solid
stroying the estimati
.1 peace, what inoie advantageous to the nation can be •
.1 which keeps them in
done than to collect and establish the fundamental
But it is in vain tt
rules of a monarchical and Representative Govern-
with success in this c
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ment, destined to secure to all citizens the free en-
all parties, essential'
id joyment of these sacred rights which sacrifices so no-
d i 1 rnerous and so great have purchased; and to rally
for ever, under the national colours, that great body of orderr, and
.. public
of
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will net
tutson, and will nay
of Frenchmen, who have no other interest, and no
other wish, than to enjoy an honpurable repose and I call upon you,
a just independence. known by means of
)4, " Meanwhile, the Chambers conceive that their disavows all such pr
ts, duty and their dignity require them to declare, that Accept, Mr. Edi'
)1. they will never acknowledge as legitimate Chief of guished consideratio
i ' the State, he who, on ascending the throne, shall re- The 3lnj"r•Gen., CI
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