The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-04-29 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

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Va. from men who are almost iu the constant pine- further operations of consequence has taken place
li.e.of violating their own engagement, and seeking since the combat at Tenaro, which, we are told, was
to justify their iu6Jelities, not to call them per- !
to discover the extent of King JOACOIN'S force.—
juries, by subterfuge and falsehood. Is it.the men 'rho discovery seems to have been most fatal to the
ho divided Poland and quarrelled for the spoils—
who have nll of them in their turn violated their Austrians, for the Neapolitans are allowed to have
plighted faith to this country, and who recently advanced, without experiencing any further at-
have blown hot and cold towards the King of NAPLES tempt to cheek theut. The reason assigned for this
—acknoeledging publicly his regal title, plotting ia shows the great strength of MURAT'S force,
secret to deprive him of it, and, afterwards, eh en
and the fears which the Austrians entertain for their
their cowardice frightened them back into the justice
own safety. The latter have adopted a p
proach the Emperor of France with violating lan of con.
of ab:diug by their prior engagement dare to ro-
ma centration, or retreat in body, with the view of ten.
treaty. Their Thrones may fence them from the dering it impossible for their opponents to attack any
,
punishment due to their tergiversation', oppressions, corps separately, or cut them off in detail. MtJaAT
Dud breach of compacts, but not from the well.
seems to advance with equal caution.
merited contempt and derision of mankind. ,In my!
The following is from au article, dated Vienna
ibralicy I was taught to reverence Kings, and several ;
the 1.5t6 :
passages in history justified the precept, but modern
history has proved, that they have of late much de- I The Grand Duke of Florence's troops havejoined•
ajenerated, and that no small portion of immorality General Nugent. All the inhabitants of the moan-
-having amalgamated itself with royalty on various tains have taken up arms.
eccasi..ns, has very much diminished its pretensions
Our army, more than sufficiently strong, corn-
to public admiration and respect. Our Throne, I
posed of the flower of the Austrian troops, will soon
hope, will preserve its acknowledged purity, by
pot an nod to King Joachitn's odious attempts.
keeping the Constitation, and the principles on
which it is founded, ever in full view. Its best safe- I When this army received order' to assemble, a
guard will he the recollection, that it was established positiots was assigned to it, which rendered it im.
by the chvice of the people.. and not by a junto of- possible far the enemy to attack any corps separately.
Kings ; that the Frencii„'heYe as clear a right to
Since the glorious combat fought by Field. Marshal
e-.pel the Bove two, ivi; had to expel the STUARTS, I Lleutenant Bianchi at the
arm as decided a right' to chose NAPOLEON, as we ; , passage of the P.
had to receive GEORGE I. GEORGE 111. holds his to discover mere exactly the enemy's
Crown by no other tenure than the voice of the. no further action has taken place, beeaast; 411
people; and those who deny the same right to the corps, according to the orders they ..have
France, are not aware that they endanger the title of received, have fallen back on the main anat.—
the Royal Family of England. i The Neapolitan, on its part, advances with much
t•quare, April '24. REGULUS.
precaution ; it every where sprearla
lions in the most vehemero. and reroluti,.,ry style.
The Neapolitan Generals promise also prosperity
and happiness. 'They have been received as
they merit, as welt as their Proclamations;
hitherto they have been allowed till now to penetrate,
but not a single commune has raised its voice in fa-
vour of the King of Naples; and the provinces occu-
pied or threatened by the enemy, send daily to the
seats of Government addresses, expressing their de-
sire and request to be promptly and surely delivered
from them.
On the Bth Lord Bentinck, Commander of the
English troops in Genoa and Sicily, passed through
Milan on his way to the head-quarters of Baron Fri.
moot, to concert the military operations with him.—
England, as it is known, concluded in January,
1814, an armistice with Murat, both in its own name
and that of Ferdinand, in consequence of the attack
made by the latter on the Allies of England—the
armistice is null, and thus Murat is at war with Eng-
land.

•' Mr. LorEu. having been congratulated by
some unknown Friends on his supposed liberatim
from Prison, in consequence of the late discussion
in the house of Commons, begs leave to acqUaint
them that he has not yet been so fortunate as to
obtain his liberty, but he hopes and trials Me day
is Not for distant when it will be in his power to
annowt;:e that desirable and long looked for event.
Ap,.: 19. 1813,
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:*.;lation of France : it confirms the hopes which the
ofile;dl publications of BUNAPARTe would suffice to
give u:. Sir SIDNEY SMITH has been several days in
this clop" _

The dlecesdon Is the Hedpe of Commons last night,
ea Me'. WatteauAn's motion relative to Peace or'
War, was most interesting. Truf &Santry is piedgild
to war, for Lord GAITLIAZAGIi and the partitioning
Congress have a very bed opinion of Nairomanx 80.
N APA Lae, and the entire of the people of France ap-
pear to have a very good one of him, notwithutatid.
ing all the proscriptions of the Allies. Lord Cisti.c-
REACII thinks an early and decisive effort shoild be
made to put doe n the " Usurper," and sopped
" the order of things so happily established by the
Congress ;" and, therefore, though the attempt has
rather the appearance of being a little late, and does
not quite accord,in the alacrity of its exertion, with the
promptitude of the Paper firing from Vienna— -we
must go early and decisively to work to put down
NArot.tom and his adherents. The object of Mr.
Wntrattrao's motion was to induce Parliament to
address the Crown to prevent the renewal of war for
the establishment of any particular Government In
France. LOll3 CA STLEREAGII opposed thissanisail that
the ear was to be only against BOMARAILT4 admitting,
rather unfortunately, however, that 11 the Preach
people should appose the destruction of his Govern-
ment, that Government which they have so unani-
mously chomp, they, the whole French motion,l
uonld be. timed to the operation of
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In other words, Ms Lordship, in the plenitude of
hi: prerogative, and the " High Aellis" in the equally
proud exercise of theirs, say to the people of France,
" we do not mean to interfere with your choice of a ,
Government, but, by the Lord Ilarry ! you shall
not have that of BONAPARTE!" The French under
stand this, though not quite so plainly spoken, and
thus people know what to do and what to expect.
Truth, though she lies at the bottom of a well, pops
her head out at last. Two hundred and seventy-
three Members of the House of Commons thought it
l advisable to plunge into a war of inconceivable do-
ration for such an object, and seventy-two thought
we should act very unwisely and imprudently if we
did.
Some of the observations of Lord CASTLEREAUU,
used by way of arguments in favour of war with the
French Emperor, have an odd appearance in our
eyes, when compared with the conduct of those who
are marshalling all their powers to,put him down.
" let him," says his Lordship, or the report, " re-
main at peace, and he will speedily become as odious
as the BOURBONS, and add the army to the other
classes in the country, who think his return a rnic
'fortune to France mid the world." Why then nut Ict
him remain at peace, and become as odious as the
Boussoivs? His Lordship thus acknowledges
t-
•4hat the BOURBONS are odious in tke eyes of all
of Frenchmen; and he and his friends the
Allies, we doubt net, will find that the attempt..to'
cram any other Government down the throats of the
, French people, or take from them that which they
have chosen, will be considered in fully as odious a
light is the Boustotts. But "an insult has been
offered to all Europe, (read legitimates) by the re-
turn of BONAPARTE (a plebeian) to power; and al-
though Governments have at various times broken
faith, and violated Treaties,, they were able to gloss
, over the iniquity of the transaction ; but never had
any one appeared who so glorified himself for breach
of faith as BONAPARTE." Here is a pretty admission
of broken faith, and violated engagements, and
glossing of iniquity, at various times, on the part of
IVovernments and Princes, legitimates. we suppose ;
land yet a man is proscribed and doomed to death with
t all his adherents, because he has exceeded a lit tle in this
way, and glorifies himself in so doing—that is, he
scorns to gloss over his iniquity in the usual way, or
has no Minister so able or willing to prosecute the
glossing system as certain double-tongued Ministers
whom we could mention. Lord CASTLEREAGH told
a story in the course of the debate, which he thought
would satisfy every body that BoNapAnee was the
I most double-tongued fellow that ever lived. lite
The Neapolitan Army cantata of about 35,000 story, however, proved nothing against the French-
troops of the line, some of whom are ill-armed Alt) Emperor, except that he had no hand in the meditat-
the fortresses of Upper Italy have garrisons, antrilzard attempt said to have been made to Wits, ef..e.
molt. wi4b..tho•glesteet-eoesposamt else elausalbe get -",r
Witaditeth do: a loop-- holesto oat or, of a pre•
sures of the Neapolitan army. By the last accounts jence to gloss over the violation of their engage..
from Naples, the greatest care was taken to avoid merits. It related to an official letter which his Lord.
letting the public see any probability of a ruptureli.ship said had lately been put into his hands (perhaps
with Englnud and Naples. The people are the less by his official and glossing friend M.DE TALLEYRAND):
disposed to war, as by the inevitable blockade of the !from the Duke of RAMBO, BONAPARTE'S Minister
ports, they would lose all means of indemnifying for Foreign Affairs, to CAULINCOURT, the French
themselves for the expences of the war. negociator at Chatilloal last year. The letter wail
Count Neipperg reached the Atsstrian Army on I written towards the close of the negotiations. In
the Po upon the 6th. The Russian General, Count it CauttNeottat was instructed to conclude a
Twill, who has been some time at Naples, is arrived peace with the Allies, almost upon their own
!at Milan. It is supposed he will remain at the Ans., tams, but to be careful to leave three points in
Irian head-quarters in Italy. the Treaty so worded, as to the execution of
'them,. that the Emperor might use his own judgment
, The Ghent Paper, published under the authority 'thereafter in complying with them, or not ! These
of Louis XVIII., which is received to the date of points were to relate to the proposed occupation by:
Friday, the 21st, imforms us, that Louts is still at the Allies of Antwerp, Mentz, and Alexandria in
that place, and that he held a Council on the Pre' theTy, 'which the Duke of BASSANO calls the three
ceding day, " whose object must be important at
!Oil of France; and the letter was written at the-
the approach of the great events in preparation."
"4 Mossizott," adds this Journal, " has been for time of BONAPARTE'S ma ant from Bar-surr
tlAtha towards the rear Allies ; sethat, "
several days in this city. The Dike of Beim he-
, Olt Treaty had beet(' , he would have had the
fluently comes here to pass some hours." The Bone- I •
'tours t of making an attempt, which might have been
still live iu hope of a " blessed restoration." ,
Ito them, with the certainty of a retreat for him-
Their Gazette says, " Not a day passes without our , len in terms of peace, thus iuteirted to have been
receiving the most satisfactory intelligence as to the
,revf
Tlis

,ocal and to be disobeyed at his pleasure."—
lis the proof of treaehery and broken faith on tiro
of the French Emperor, which is to justify all the
Id in going to war to pot him down. His
lr was wily, and like other Ministers, plotted foc
advantage of his master, who, if the Treaty had
k signed, would of course have broken.it—erge.l
Smcox has broken treaties or may break them,
least, 116-Vforsi, litirri steak to store over the
sufficiently, be put to death without bene-
w or Clergy!!
Carmeac&cu added, he hoped shortly ts.
a &distinct proposition to the House, retativel
to connections with the Allies; and that the
a of the subsidies, intended to be granted,
w Show that England considered herself to be
delig their cause, as well as her own ;—that is,
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we suppose, that the subsidies are to be pretty heavy
eedasinsindng.

A attachment of the 6th dragoons is waiting at
Gravesend and Nortlifteet for embarkation.

A meting of the Magistrates of the County of
Clare has ben called, for the purpose of .having the
CoNatifer.laimed, in consequence of Its disturbed
stalek<F
PAiWoIIAMESTART PAP/MS.—By accoents laid be..
too iM. Rouse of Commons, it appears that the total
eat reiniee for the year ending on the sth of April
marreetosamounts to 65,806,4701. being 2,964,5031.
above*/ revenue ter the year ending the sth of
Aprill 14. The eaten6d debt in Exchequer