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THE STATESMAN.

LONDON:

SATUR9AY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1815.

We have received the Paris Papers of Wednesday
last. One would think to look into these Journals,
that France must be as tranquil as a summer sea,
agitated only by the fanning breath of loyalty, and
that the ravages of the late tremendous storm had al.
ready been forgotten. But this is far from being the
case; nor is it reconcilable with common sense, to be-
lieve it possible that the condition of France should
so suddenly have changed from what it so lately was,
to the undisiurbPd state of grateful repose in which
it is now said to be by those who have had assigned
to them, amidst the gloom of the ruins of their
country, and the reproof; of truth and a plundered
and insulted land, the task of creating imaginary
scenes of happiness and ebullitions of loyalty, where
the reality does not exist, and circumstances show
that the very reverse is and must be the case.
his stated, under the head of a Courier Extraordi-
nary, that " Dispatches have been received, calculated
to calm all uneasiness." These dispatches, no doubt,
relate to peace; but no lasting Treaty can be con.
eluded under the present circumstances of France.—
A treaty with Louts alone will signify nothing; and
no arrangement will " calm all uneasiness" which
does not recognize the integrity of France, and free
her from the pressure of the for ign armies who
now desolate her provinces. The Papers thus al-
low that great uneasiness prevails. We can add
with truth, that to such a violent state of fermenta.!
tion has the public mind throughout France bees
worked up, that the Allies are now beginning
to tremble for their own safety, and that France
never exhibited more signs of a general convulsion.
It has been to hide the plots that have been forming,
the dangers and the discontents that lurk beneath,
and are now ready to explode, that the surface has
been represented as profoundly tranquil, and that
the ready tools of authority have been ordered to
rover the pitfalls for political blindness with flowers.
We have always found in the recent history of
France, and perhaps the remark may be extended to
other countries, the most profound apparent tran-
quillity was the most certain precursor and indica.
tion of a great approaching convulsion. There is al-
ways this advantage at least in an unshackled press—

dom and relief. The existence of these divisions
cannot now be denied.. Not only is it repeated with
confidence, and the appearance of every thing to
warrant it, that the Russians have received orders to
quit France, both on account of the designs of the
PORTE, and the unwillingness of the F.mperor ALEX•
ANDER to assist to aggrandise Germany at the expenre
of France; but it is asserted in the German Papers that
Funcne has gained over Austria to his views by the
disclosures he has made; and that in factoshilst the G-
overnment Papers of this country are representing this
Minister's influence on the decline, and heaping all
manner of abuse on him and his Sovereign for not

'Aster shall retire or receive his dismissal, and those
who regard his continuance in office as a pledge of
I security aud respect to their rights, shall not perceive
his place sappli. d by one in whom they can repose
lan equal degree of confidence, new plots may be
pected to develops themselves, and France may
I expect to be whelmed in fresh convulsions. The
French have no such confidence to place in TALLEY•
RAND. But there is yet no seeing bow the great and
complicated problems of these Ministers' conduct,
and that of all the Confederates together, are to be
solved. Time alone must determine. ,
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The following are from the French Papers of
IVednesday :
PARts, Arm 29.—The garrison of Besancon,
being disbanded according to his Majesty's Ordi.
Dance, General Montrichard expressed to the Na.
lions! Guard his wish, that they should redouhle
their. zeal for the support of order, while it had
that duty to perform.
Marshal the Duke d'Albofera, has published at
Valence, the following Older of the Day :
" The Austrian General, Coont Dolma, Governor
of Lyons, has ordered' to depart within three days
all French soldiers who have left their corps, and
who have stopped beyond their time of leave. . All
those disobeying this order shall be transported to ,
Hungary. The Colonels are to make known these s
presents to all deserters. Colonel Brujard, of the
14th of the line, has been authorised to give a month's i
time to those who have deserted their colours, in a
moment of error, to return to their duty.—This per- .
mission is extended to all the corps constituting the
Army of the Alpo." 1

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that it gives warning of the discontents that exist,
and of the cammotions consequent from those dis-
contents, unless they be removed with the grievances
whence they flow ; but the suppression of this nate.
rat and wholesome vent drives dissatisfaction to the
necessity of working in the dark, by mines which
explode and destroy, while the undisturbed surface
above them is trodden upon without suspicion of the
danger lurking below.
In proportion as the French accredited channels
of information are stripped of their interest, those
which- supply their defects are rendered the more ac-
ceptable and important. The Dutch and German
Papers, which are happily not quite so much re.
stricted, are therefore increasing in those features
of interest which the French are not allowed to pos.
sess. We have, by a Dutch Mail just come to hand,
a variety of accounts, which tend to threw consi4.
:able light on passing events, on the plots and in-
tripes carrying on in France, and the movements
and intentions of the great l'owers in whom events
have their spring.
It is there stated, that the Ministers of a great
Power (meaning Russia, no doubt) have declared iu
favour of the integrity of France; and that so corn.
plicated have political matters become, so little are
they likely to he settled to his taste, and so appalling
are the general appearances in France, that Prince
RLucitEa has solicited from his Sovereign his dis-
charge ! We have it stated through ot her channels, that
Lord WELLINGTON has been secrets( times fired at, and
that he has hitherto happily escaped by a sort of
miracle. The greater part of the late army of the
Loire, has returned secretly to Paris, and mixed I
with the inhabitants. The telegraphs are said to be
constantly at work without the Allies knowing for
what cod, and another sign of a wide conspiracy has
been discovered. The pink has given place to a
straw, which is carried in the mouth) or otherwise
exhibited. This is an old symbol of association and
destruction. It denotes fire. We gave in our Paper
of tho 22J of August, a curious and interesting ac-
count of the manner in which the Parisians delivered

The Editor of the Gazette dc France says he is
eager to publish the following important circum-
stance:" A grenadier of the Old Guard met a
soldier without a cockade; he said, you have cer-
tainly forgotten it ; and taking his own, divided it

into two parts, one of which he gave to the soldier
and kept the other for himself."
The Horeditary Prince of Nassau-Usingen k gone
to his principality. A report having prevailed of a
marriage between one of his sisters, 17 years of age,
and the Archduke Charles, the brother of the Em-
peror of Germany, it is thought that the object of
his journey is to assist at the celebration of the nup-
tials.
M. Defermont, who has been some time at his
country-house at Courbevoye, set out this day for
Brittany, where he his obtained permission to reside
upon one of his estates.
Prince Blucher, who was expected on the 20th
inst. at Alencnn, arrived there only on the 2Gth, ac-
companied by a numerous Staff.
It is said that the Emperor Alexander will review,
his troops to-morrow, the 31st inst. and that they-will
extend from the Punt do Neuilly to the square of
Louis Xv. 1
The report is repeated that none of the Russian
troop., who are to be at the grand review on thel
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plains of Champagne, will return to the capita!, but
that they will altogether quit France.
An Austrian camp of 160,0011 men, it is said, is
going to be farmed three leagues from Dijon. It is
thought the Emperor of Austria will review them on
his way to Italy.

The Courier dc flresl has been prolibionally ses_
pended by superior orders.

their city from the allied troops, under the Prince of
CoNot:, in the year 1652, when cottaagration was
themeans, and a straw was the symbnl of the con.
spirators. The recollection of the miseries which
the French then inflicted on themselves and their
enemies, not exceeded even by any thing in their
most eventful history since, and the possibility of
their recurrence, have created the most painful
alarm, for which there appears to be but too much
foundation.

COURIER F.XTRAORDINARY, Wednezday Sl..r .ing.
it is insinuated that a courier brought dispatches
yesterday calculated to calm all uneasiness.

Letters from Toulon state, that a person has been
arrested there, who distinguished himself by fre-
quent skits to the island of Elba last year.
They write from Ai:-la-Chapelltp, under date of
the ritl Aug. that the day before yesterday Charles
Schulineister, a famous spy of Napoleon's, passed
through this place as prisoner, destined for Wesel.
Ile was arrested at Paris by the order of M. Tagus
Grauer, General of the General Police.

But it is chiefly from the divisions among the-Allies
'that the French are now deriving their hope of-free-

Yesterday, at two o'clock, his .Majesty's'4
of Justice was with the King in his Cabinet, and ro.
mained with him three quarters of in hour.

The Count de Maces, one of the Peers of France,
appointed by the King's Ordonnance of the 17th of
August, has left Good.in for D 'Ter.

[Dino' )(Am RECEIVED THIS MORNING.]
D'SEEqI AuG. V.—The Geller 'ls commanlieg
the Army of Reserve upon the S heldt, the org,„
nitatiote of which is prosecuted with unabaiing ,e.
tivity, continually review the diff.rent corps which
compose it, and are highly satisCed with the apron,.
sure and discipline of the troops. Since the French
prostrating their country at the feet of foreign power,
army
has been disbanded a , great many Belgidn,
and ruining it for ever, this very FU I;C:1 E has suc-
who remained in it last year, come here to onti:t
ceeded in gaining all parties to his vices, aye, even
in the service of their Sovereign.
England itself—all but Prussia and lkucticii, and At Valenciennes there is not a soldier of the line
remaining ; they are disbanded with reserve; the
such others as France cares sery little for. 'I'ALLEY-
ft.deres and free corps are also dimmer!, and sent
RAND seems to hove shrunk into insignificance.
Fouctie and he are represented as not on very good home, with passports. The General Stag of 0,1
terms. The policy of Louis in attaching himself so place is dissolved by the King's order, and coo,
much to FOUCIIE has been much condemned in this ma pled to leave the fortress, the duty of isflich
country. It is unquestionably the wisest policy th left entirely to the Urban Guard, which is sat
which Louts could pursue with regard to himselfAtimerous; so that this fortress is as good u in t 4
In beholding that Minister at the helm of affairs, the hands of the Allies. The same is the rase nil
French nation hava pledge, that in its internal concerns Conde ; the Governor of the fortress and those eh
at least, a system different from that which he has so were concerned in the murder of Colonel Gordon
long assisted to uphold will not be rudely and suddenly have fled. It is, however, affirmed, that manor,.
forced upon them. Foixtie knows the value of his po- are taken to arrest and convey them to Pans, it
polarity in this respect too well rashly to forfeit what order to be tried by a Court. Martial.
is his own safety and protection. When this The garrison of Bouchain is not yet disarmt,L
Mi.

NVithin three or four days two divisions of caisbos4,
loaded with money, end under military escort, pae...d
through here on their way from Paris to Berlin. The
I; first division consisted of VI, the second of sews
I waggons.
A tx-i. t-CnAPELLE, Auo. 17.—Some days sines
Baron von Stein arrived here very unexpectedly,
and proceeded immediately to Paris. It is hoped
that his presence there will have important come.
quences, the Ministers of a great Power having de.
dared it is said for the integrity of France to the dis-
tadvantage of Germany. A private letters which
I however certainly wants Confirm ition, says, flit
they expected at Paris that would not
maintain himself its his poet much longer; be is at
variance with F—, who has contrived to gain all
, parties. Bonaparte, says the above letter, had at.
tempted in May last to excite the Turks to act
against the Russians, while the armies of the !suer
were proceeding towards France, and F. bag disclosed
this plan to the Russian Cabinet ; Ressis is, there.
fore. in his favour; F. likewise Contrived Bonaparte's
journey to Rochefort, and his rapture by the
English, by this he has galued England. To the
I Austrian Court he is stated to have discovered T.'s
plans during the Congress at Vienna; Austria is,
therefore, well disposed towards. bias. The liner
oontinues to say, " he has the-least iulleenite on the
Prim-hilts, because he comae the ridiculous proposal
Colt the King should take the Crown of franca, at
Bonaparte was ruined, and the. Bourbon family ge-
nerally hated. Frederick only laughed at this.—
F. still at this moment is aciing towards all the par-
ties an equivocal and most dangerous part. Rehm
pointed out_ many adherents of Bonaparte's, who,

when they come to Paris, are cow:fated and protected
by him, that he may employ or give them up as Its
finds convenient. The sign of the discontented,
formerly a red pink, is now a straw carried In tiro
mouth."

Another letter says,—" Our contributions go ors
slowly since the Monarchs are here ; Prussia was to
have the civil administration in eleven Departments,
but Talleyrand is said to have evaded this. Oar
Officers (of the Police, &c.) are idle. Thousands if
this Army of the Loire come daily to Pori., openly
or secretly, and the whole population is against sf.
IThe telegraphs are frequently at work, without our
i knowing for what end. Prince Blucher, who is
tired of all this, is said to have asked his discharge,
which he has not however obtained. All is in a stele
,
of violent fermentation ; one cannot see how the
great and complicated problems can be solved. The
French universally hang upon the Emperor Alessi'.
der as• their deliverer from the dismembering Cr
limiting of France by the other Powers, and yet this
dismemberment seems unavoidably necessary.—Ths
situation of kiug Louis is the worst of all, *he
stands in the most painful dilemma between the IP
terest of his dynasty and that of the Allied Sol"
reigns, his protectors."