The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-05-11 00:00:00

114 E STATESMAN

Wu Sri isdellird I. the Morning Coot de for the
following origimal polkas geld to be free lba elegise
pea .f tba LORD ADVOCATS:—
Heil\ Diddle Diddle.
The Cat nail she Fiddle,
Lord NIX WIG mass speak, speak, yeah.
F.irra hiaitassaisa laughed
To are nub apart.
Aad to bear such a equal, &peak, wank.
Heigh Diddle Diddle.
The Cat and she Fiddle,
He ham 10111114 his part. part, pan
Fran his Matter Camellia.
This speech has been plaaaiag.
For s soarls, by heart, heart, bait.
Drip Diddle Diddle.
The Cal sad she riddle.
The Dome goes “ omit, tough, euugh."
Nth mie grimaces
fror elm/ ma's graces.
This Lord let at, .r,
Heigh Diddle Diddle.
The Co sad she EL,dle,
The Hone cries i• bar, bars her."
Condon. Q•esiim,
Awl Order is rsecesorao.
Ali Order mar, mar, mar.
Heigh Inddie Diddle.
The Cat awl the riddle,
the House ears •` laugh, laugh, larigh 3"
rar roar Lemiship hi the Dime
fn .it like a moose,
Weald be better by half, MD, half.
Yet Heigh Diddle, Diddle,
The Cat rad we Fiddle,
Too nay be of oar. use, are.
Siore wire taught of old,
That the HOSIBANS held,
Wee said by a geese, gorge, geese.

INSURRICCTION AT LYONS, IN NIG.

The following *renew of the proeyortn:Ts which
are about to be isistiteted against Goiters! Dom:diet:
mid his ocesstplices, for the sanguinary measures
adopted to suppress thiiluserrerti
.on, as is was pnw •
pettily weed by the Fienih Mini•terial Prints of
the day. Is copied free the Cortstaintiowel. It suit
be iotorestiise, we 'aspect, to err 11..40t0r5. it indi-
Mite of the dispositions en 4 practices of that
wretched ferilen of Ultre.Royelists, who sr. @frights
to get power to plans, Fresco. Desist into and
superstition, anti erase the very risme of from
the recollection of her population :—,
We announced in a preceding Number, that
complaint was shout to be preferred before, the Tri-
be:sal of the Seine against Limit. Geneial &toadies
and his accomplices, who ere arcused of assessing.'
lion, committed in the execution of measures direct-
ed hr them, in consequence of the events which took
pisce at Grenoble and its environs, in the night of
4:h and Sits May, 18IG. This complaint will very
shortly he made public. The farts it contains ere of
the most setines ustoi• ; they are closely belted to
the very foundations .4 social order—to the peewee-
tion of the goeranties which the most awed laws
extend to all at-cooed, nil, even to ell guilty
persons, who when Doge they are brought into
the presence of jostles', sight no longer to suf-
fer from the ioasslosio of men, and can oily he
smitten by the sward of the law. These coosidetas
firms Woos us Is ley before our [leaden ea exact
and impartial verse 81 this complaint :
" In the night between the 4th and sth of Mey,
1816, some inhabitouts of the environs of Grenoble,
seduced. &Mole's, by the most perfidious suggestions,
raised the standard of revolt sgsinst the Goma-
ment. Though stilted In its birth, so peel a crime
could not he allowed to puss with inspeoity, and the
Pievotal Court of Grenoble 'seedy elected itself to
foltil the functions which had thus devolved open it.
It alone was competent, in respect of the crime,
since the Ls w of the ?LP h of September, 1815, for the
esiohlishoweot of the Proems! Courts, gives them ea-
elusively the power of jodgine the crime of rebel-
lion, end of attempts to provoke no overthrow of
the Government. It stone was competent, in mpect
of the peones, the accused being all either simple
citlscos or soldiers on half-pay, since a provision of
the same Law submits to the jurisdiction of these •
Courts all soldiers not in IMMO service or on half-
pay. The Promote' Court proceeded with the
st-
mo.t rapidity with this •Ifsir. Two days after
:he prosecetions had commenced, it condemned
to death three individuals, named 81041011, Drs.
vet, and Devitt. The two Grid were executed
she omit de,, the third was recimiesentied to the'
knit'. marry, al. frit:mewed nes acquitted. This
adnibiiftsation of justice doubtless artaeatell so.. mild
mid ton stow in Viscouot t en command-
b:e the 7'h Military Ditision. the chief t .Nn of i
which is Grenoble. Atc.:rdinely, from the Bth of !
the •id no,lllli. of Mu, Wu.* he cootti have receiv-
ed the selegrsphic eislist.:ll, of which we shill speak
below, he ordered a simple Owe. of the Diy, thee I
the ilospilspis of 11:• house ist which the Steer Di-(
di-r, chic( of the 101 l shoo1:1 he fioind, should
Ise atAit Pfeil now in a Nl•loery Gimmi•soin to be shot.
A second attic+. slice, led, that h. who should deli-
ver sip the said dead ..r •tive, should receive
3000 francs ',word But this: military Commsoder
speedily felt thee for the esecution of measures thee
contrary to the laws, he had need of the cooeuir•oce .
of the (':sit Authorities, who, more accustomed to
inspire coofvtence in the chamois, could obtain e more
blind solinossioe from the victims whom it might wish
to immolate.

" If. found unfortunately a co-operator ton zealous
ie the Count de Moest:ivant, then Piefeet of the de.
partmert of the here, new Prefect of the Calvados,
who had already on the day before, promelgated
a Proclamstion, whirls directed that all the.. who, la
tonstyafour hours, should not have carried to their
respective Mayers, all the arms and ammunition,
which in any mean► whatsoever they might have be-
come possessed of, should be considered as mom-
pikes in the sedition, sod be criminally pursued as
such; and that all those should be regarded is the
same situation, who knowing of soy place of dope.
sit of arms or amesenition, should not instantly give
Information of it, and that every porno convicted of
divine refuge to the rebels, shoot(' be considered as
an accomplice, and peei.lied criminally. The neat
day, the same dale as tho order of the day above
spoken of, Viscount Dunedin and the Count de
hiontlivant promulgated, in concert, a Proclaim.
lion in the following terms:—

" 'Tao I,inotonsat•General comistavtding the 7th
Military Division, and the 11).efret of We Isere, wake
known Is the inhshitssts of this departwoot, that a
'l'oley/T.ooe Dispatch his Woven them the follow-
* instructions:—

" 8111 lia,rie o'clock I. the Evestiag.
" The department of the Isere oeght to be re.
serried se in a state of siege. The Civil sad Military
Authorities have a distreilonary power.'
" The following day, the 9th, the Lieutenant.
General (Dowedies) and the Prefect, still acing in
concert. promulgated a new Proclamation, terminated
by an Order which. is sublimer', directed, that every
inhabitant, in whose hoese should be (seed one of
the seditioes, sr any warlike weapon. or any sporting
weapons, pistols, swords. Ike. of which he had not
given information, should be delivered to a Military
Commission, and his house rased to the ground.—
After issuing them dilferrot orders, the authors of
which were evidently usurping the Legislative Au-
thority, the Liestenant•General cosslitated two
pretended tribunals ; the one styled the Military
Commission, compared of See individuals only, was
instituted for eke perpose of esendemning those per-
sonae'. death, who had giver, secretor Of relief to the
fugitive Insorgents, or of rasing to the gloated the
houses of those who had sot given lofonnatiore of
their arms Of ammunition. The other, comp. led of!
eight members, was instituted under the name rd
Permanent Council of %Year, to judge the persons sc.
cased of having taken part in the inserrection. The
elms, day, the 9th May, this pretended Coat el of
Wste, by one sing's act, eordeinnal to death 41 in.
Scarcely was this decision prose.•:ed,
than the innocence of two of the condemned was
rendered so manifest by evidence transmuted tee ire
Coosteil, that It otionlintrosly appended their .are
fios, but whether from forgettable's ist csaimapt ell

human life. without milting say sperm, d►ri•l. In
this ca•e. these two frtims were (..•rr ll*, s lifter trtl•
coldly iminnlstell. Finn these fasts the
ants infer the enmmis•wu tern 141mPa.

" Thn first rumt.ll in the ennrorriing of :n•a•tirn-
aitainst the legiolonve auth..ttry• sail .e+ia•r
cation of the lows, pra flied is, Lientient is n •
Donadiee and th. Cnuni 4e Montiscaro, to ern,• .4
by their awn iinthei!ity renal laws. ind in esishisan.
vatraordinary tribunal.. in eotitempt of
formal prorloions of the Charier, !helloes and musical
of all nor oilier laws.
" The second crime is contained in the tandem.
nation of the pretended C.niricil of War, as sell all
hi she emotion of that frightful its, which cannot
even be called a Je•lielal as•aa•inatinn, twesese that
dehomination wnuld seem at fps., to admit O. id.t
of a toihonal legolly established, which in this card
Cannot be allowed."