The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-12-15 00:00:00

TIIE fiTA'rEShLIN.

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Titre Air' at my and the city of Paris on the one we find the follawingArticle, which is the 11th, of the
pail, awl ..r,.:‘ General% for all he alliance on the Treaty of Peace of the 30th of May, 1811; and the
other ;tan, hid tho right to sTipulate and grant ail the final
.Art oT the Ctonctrafb of Viehni, fir the slith Noe;
clause. of the Clorctiti.ot of Pn•lv. 1815, ate eenfictrieci, sad shall' be smcintaitied in ell
Wall it be %aid that this Convention was made with tlyir parts. which Shill'not have been modified by jhe
rebels If to, it a oul,l tint be the less a 'Treaty, a c%use's ottheptesent Treaty. -
faith sworn. and an obligatory Convention. lot vs It results from hence, that Art. 16 of the Trerty
hear what Vottel says eta the subject.—" The must of Paris is confirmed an 4 maintained...! Now it-highly;;
certain mesas of appeaaieg seditions, and at the came consecrates the Amouesty, and we will quote the teall
time tlia omits just, i, that of giving satisfaction to the more willingly, iienrciatc It has., with Art. 14;
of-
tdse prwaple, and if They have risen without a cause, the Convention 'tithe 3.1 July, an etiology of coops'.
whrch, perhaps, to acr happened, we ought still, as sitinn, which clearly proves that the Convention, as
eribevit obset v.ll, grant an Amtcp,ty to the great well es the Treaty itself, had in view to extingnisti
uurebetr.• As coma as the Amstesty is published and all hatred, in preventing till re.actieus.
accepted, all the past ought to be buried in oblivion ; Tansy of Pails, 30th of 'May, 1811, Art, 16.
int one ought to be troubled for what he had done "- The High Contracting Panic's, Wishing to "cousigu
velativis to the teettbles. And in general the Prince, to entire oblivion the -divisions' which 'have agitate!!
a religious observer of his' word, ought to keepell he Europe,- declare and promise, that in all the comas,
has -eien to the- rebels, hy whoa*, under. triei restored or celled by the present Treaty, no-iss.
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revolted mittimat reason or ay. dividualf of whatever class or cotitiitino be may be

iihipted

gffortl them

stanil, those w!_ilel,
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cbssity. . If his profanes are not inviolable there will shalt be prosecuted, ,
disturbed, or troubled in 6 ' '
- '9-: tl measures necessary to be ethyl to a:
be "1 linger "Y safely 'foe AO' eseela -iiw'llrealine • person or in his property, under Hey pretext, or on relief. This Meeting eat mist important ..
t to the
with Mint. As nen as 'hotline &ma the sward account of his conduct or political opinion, or for cease of truth, liberty, and humanity. The base
they um •t throw away the shoathr• as an old author his attachment either to any.or the Contracting Par, hirelings of the Ministerial Press, and the advocates
observed. The Prince will' e wastiwg its the gentlest ties or to the Governments o bids have ceased to of intolerance in this .country, hare denied the
lewd most salutary means of •ppessisig a revolt, mull rani!, or on any other account, except for debts ,
there will only be left to him-to pat it down, to es- • contracted towards individuals, or for acts posterior i eitsieace of the'outrages which the peofeisors of the
teratioate the revolters. Despair sill render them to the present 'freely.' . , Rrotestant Religion in the Southern Provinces of
formidable, ownjuissiou will • procore them aid, in*, atatairposeist cannot be maietaitied on the latter ittance have been doomed to endure, and stritenr•
crease their port", and the State will find itself in , part of this Attack, to conclude that the facts alp :b' every, means in their power, to weaken the
glamor. What would have becomes of France if the leged against Marshal Isle j' tieing posterior to the' credibility
of the intelligence which has reached
Linguers had not been able to confide is the pro. 30th May, he cannot avail himitelf of it, for this Ar. 1 ,
miles of Fleury the Great ?"—lfititet, Book 111. ch. tide 16 being confirmed and maintained by the Trenity.l; Ws ma. Peeling these horrible persecutions.—Un.
18, sect. 201. lof the 30th November, Art. 11, it is the same thing :happily for the poor sufferers, the informs.'
..• •Wilfit still .be said that Art. 12 is out of the ordi- as if the Article itself had been textually inserted.—;lion of their miseries and their fate is but
lire terms of a capitulation ? Vide Vattel, hook 4,•ch. 2, sect. 23. I too true. The documents produced, and the cis-
' ,We reply no, because the pieties only capitulate ' Now let us suppose that Art, 16 of the Treaty of i
:cumstatices stated at this Meeting, established, i
to save their lives and *betty, and it would not be the 30th May had been textually inserted, or as
:beyond all doubt, that our Protestant brethren in '
Saving them. es(haneing the chance of a cannon ball Vettel has it, transcribed word for word, in the
for theospectition of the gallows'; to' stipulate for a Treaty of 20th November, it would result there.; France are labouring under all the horrors of a mer-1
partial and temporary Amnesty of use to-day, and from that all acts anterior to the 201 k November last Iciless and sanguinary persecution. The General
of no valise to.ruitrrow, binding on the Allies, from are comprised in the Amnesty. •
! Meeting of English Protestants of all denomina-
whom they bad nothiag to fear, and without effect, I It is impossible to give it any other interprotatioNl : 1
limns, has published a Report on the subject of these
as to the King-of France, wito alone had the right of unless we would preserve only.the terms of the Aril.
punishing .legally. i cle, in depriving it of its effects, which is contrary I persecutions, in which arc embodied the details
•in the:second place we reply, that" if it happen :to all the rules of interpretation of Conventions its 1 which Stave been received from the most credible
In. the. eonfereneos for a capitulation that one of the • general (Vide Cods Ciaik, Arts' 1157), and of ! sources, and upon the least doubtful authority, from va-
Conimantia ist• insists on conditions which the other Treaties in particular.—Vide Vattel, book 2, cb. 17a rious provinces and cities its France. Extracts from this
does nor think it in his power to grant, they have one sect. 283.
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step to take, which is to agree on a suspension of 1 . What proves, ,besides' that in making the Treat Report were read, from which it appears, that, with
term, &trim; which ell *lugs shall remain' in their of the 20th November, the High Powers wished, al I the exception-of occasional and treacherous intervals
present state until superior orders are received."-- on the 30th May, 1814, to cast in entire oblivion 'of seeming tranquillity, the whole of southern France
ridiel, Book 111. ch. IS. sect.-263: Now twil'l"g ' the divisions' which have agitated Europe, is the flak:firm the period of the King's restoration, been
of this kind was done, because the Allied -Gene s
' Jai- Note, which bears the same date as that of the I
a scene of proscription and conflagration, in which
knew well that 'they had full powers from the &iog Treaty, having expressed their wishes that the trati.l , .atatits had been exposed to a general pil-
the I role
of France 'to save his capital, even at the price of his ' „linty of France may not be spin disturbed,
Ign.• ;W.. fr., •,, t.•‘: i the Plenipotentiaries of the four great Powers lege, to obscene assault!i and brutal menaces. It
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' Thus whes his Majesty entAred Paris amidst the have added as follows:—" The Allied Cabinets was computed, that six hundred persons had been
liver acclamations of a people intoxicated with the fiod the first guarantee of this hope in the en- ! assassitietrd, and that above sixteen thousand persons
hap, ..,,,,.. ;It ~...o.g .in again, he did net disavow the lightened principles, the magnanimous sentiments, ' were rained in their p„p„ty, and deprived of all
Convention of the 3•1 Jnly, which, it is to be presum. and the personal virtues of: hi? Most Christian Ma.l
ed, his Majesty would. nut have (ailed to ha'e done, jest-.
y His Majesty has recognised with them, that natural protection ! Statements like there are, in. '
if- his intention had not been its. profiting by the be. in a Snitidlstracted for a quarter 'of a century by re- deed, enough to 44 warm' with red resentment the
nests of the Convention. to allefullY maintain all'. volationary convulsions, it is not force alone it hirh wan cheek." How worthily the power of the Pro-
the stipointines. 44 We have shown," says Vattel, ea„ hrt„g back calm to men's spirits, confidence in testant Allies, who keep Loves on his throne,
" that the State cannot be bound by an agreement their minds, and an equilibrium iii the different and have reserved to themselves the right of
made witiiout. its order, and' wiittout authority oil its parts of the social body, that wisdom ought to be , :
p * : bet is it absolutely tioneni to nothing, tbat is united with vigour, and moderation with firmness, schooling,"eg him in the affairs of Government,
what we have to examine ? If the things still remain to operate these happy changes. Far from fearing has been exerted to protect Protestant interests, the
in stairs quo, the State or the Sovereign two simply that his Most Christian Majesty will lend an ear to Protestant, faith, and to enforce the • observance
disavow the Treaty, which falls In the ground by ' imprudent or passionate counsels, tending to nourish .of tb. Is
lel Charter, uhich pretends to guarantee
this avowal, and is perfectly as if it had not been discontent to renew Blaring, to re-animate hatreds
made ; but the Sovereign ought to manifest his wilt and divisions, the Allied Sovereign% are perfectly freedom of religions opinion ! The British Govern. I
as soon as the Treaty comes to Ilia knowledge ; not, assured, that by the diepositiosts, as wile as gene- went hail recognized the existence of most atrocious
In fact, Haat his silence can give force to a Contest.. ~,,,s, which the King has announced at every period evils, destructive of individual happiness hod public
lion which ought to have none without his approba. of his reign, mild particularly that of his return after ' peace, in the provinces of France alluded to ; and
thou, but there would be bad faith in leaving the the late criminal attempt, they know that his Ma- m• •
misters tell the Public that they are using their
time to the other party to execute on hill part an jesty will oppose to all the enemies of the public J
agreement not its tended to be ratified."—Vatte, Book weal, and the tranquillity of the kingdom, under best efforts to arrest the progress of these crimes. •
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11. chap. 16, sect. 212. ! whatever form they may present themselves, leis at- ' What ore these efforts ? Alas ! they are not like
. Now, the fact is, that his Mrjeaty bias not die- tachment to the Constitutional laws, promulgated those which were exerted to restore the banished I
avowed the Convention of the 3d July, after being - under his own auspices, his determination, explicitly Government. ' His the Duke of Wer.atirovos; been .
made aequainted . with it. In fact, how could so pronon need, to be the father of all his subjects, without
ordered to send a few thousand of his troops into
good a King disapprove a Cuirventiou which spared . distinction of class or religion, to efface even the re. p
him the sorrow of finding, in the place of his gond metubrance of the evils they have suffered, and to the disturbed provinces ? But, we forget—the
City of Penh, nothing but rain's and universal preserve only of the times past the good which Pro. Duke needs no such instructions—he has. discre-
ntournittg ? Is be not the grandson, the heir of the vidence has brought forth nom the bosom even of tionary powers. And we are informed that-the Duke'
blood, and the rights, of that Henry IV. whose me- public calamities."• ._.
!of WELLINGTON thinks (lint this is a business ;him-
miry is so
Iradea who, in laying siege to Paris in • Europe has joined the example to the precept.— belongs entirely
to the French Government. 404
1594, said, " ould prefer havitif no Paris to the Bonaparte was the enemy of the human race, he had
accioA ti ruined and desolate by the death of so many in succession ravaged all the States of [scope. In
Duke of WELLINGTON is said to have antionneedae
persons." Nut only his Majesty has not disavowed the Secretaries of the Protestant Society, " That the
the first emotions of indignation that his return ex.
the Convention of the 3sl July, but it may be said cited, he wns placed out of the law of nations, Government of France is resolved to employ all the
that his Government suffered and procured its cxc- • and yet the nations have exercised clemency towards means in its power to terminate the evils in the South
titian in what concerned the retreat of the army be. him.
Mud the Loire, and remitting the arms of Paris ; of France, and to take under their protrction all the
Anil those who were his seduced agents, and fol. •
and Vincennes; that he has claimed Its execution subjects of the King, conformable to the promise
lowed the torrent, are to perish as the accomplices of .
in the iuterest of the monuments, whose preserve. . which he had made in his Royal Charter, and to guis-
e crime, of which he was the detestable author.
firm was stipulated for to the ?runt of the City of port them in the exercise of their religious duties,
Paris, 'lc. 8:c. . I Ni, so much severity- is not its our manners, it
Will it be objected that these partial emotions do cannot enter into the paternal intentions of our good whatever might be their persuasion, and in the enjoy..
not hear on Art.-12 ? We reply with equity, that kin& mein of their civil privilegesr whatever might be their
Conventions are indivisible; that we cannot rescind : flu morn:mime Henri q.i'll rotaraspk la vie religious sentiments."
the diposi tines, or reject one end retain another, I De. glen put sc year, il cu perm' triune. . . All very fore promises, and quite in the style of
because they altogether form the. general condition ! DUNN.
Pads, Der. 2.1615. 13EttitYER, Pere. modern Coitus. But how long is it since the French
under which the contract was made, and without
which, it-could hot have been made. . _ - _.. -- ---- Government came to this virtuous and energetic re:
If the AilleciGenerals had not granted Art. 12, ' TO CORItIItrONDENTIL solution? It it to employ all its means to insure to
we should have fougln, 250,000 men would have We are compelled to poopooe the insertion of Mr. Loser's its subjects the enjoymNit of their civil and religion ..;
lost their lives, end Paris would have ended its being Letter, promised yesterday, until To-morrow. privileges. It will be wontletful if it does; but iiii
token, pillaged, burnt, and destroyed. It treating i
all these miseries are spared, and if, to avoid them it ; err Math, 1),,e the mean time that part of its subjects who arc I
oCustrenbereh
the name of Protestants are slauhtered
has been ntscessary to subscribe to an Amnesty,' 0 ....
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which, at t e Int.st could enly,benelit a few iudivi.l 0
duals, we mae easily console ourselves; on reflecting l 1
Lisboa
on all the callinitlets which line rejection of Art. 12
reign of " the best of Monarchs," and the very
Would inevitably Rave produced.
' llitlCti 011 STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONK O'CLOCK protecting wings of the 44 deliverer, df &tram s! ••
.It would seem, besides, that the question is now ... •
resolved by the Treaty of the e2thh ult. in a manner so lank
per cent
Red.
fin)}
,9I twat. Aso 15 1-16
ladle Bends 3 2 ss In the face of these declared retoletions of the
a.: toieave not the &Atilt:Mt. . 3 per Gcat coos. Exchequer Hills 1 p Government of France and' its Allies, we find that'
•44 At, Amnesty," rats Vatted, '4 is s perfee Ali. 4 per Cent 74ii . Osmium 14t this
a tyranny of superstitious Priests and fanatical
er
Ann of the p-,st, antrlis: 'pears. is destined to A 'ION5. 11.. Cent. Navy Consols for act. 614 devotees, remains unsuppressed, and the dreadful
late all ite subjects of diseord, this ought to be the ..„...______". _____________ _. .. . --•
44 /Witte of the Treaty;rn this account it is Bever 1 THE STAIIESMAN. therefore, necessary for its suppression. Public •
Wanting its' modern Treaties, but when evon the' opt.
Treaty shall not have expressed the word, the Am- ' - --- Ilion mutt- supply this, The French Government,
nasty is gecesairity comprised in it, from the Very • LONDON: - . and every Government whatever, must be taught that
nature of peace."—Bnek 4, ch. 2, sub. 20.
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• ankind havwrights over which they bare no power,
For it to be otherwise it would require a clause, ulnae, 1164E11116K 15, 1815. that 44 the value of religions freedom is
noes correctly
excepting the Amnesty, but this clause would bet .—...--. understood, and.tbit the nineteenth
century is not
contrary to all principle, it would be cruel, and con- The meritorious example of the Protestant Society the period i.
tfery to pence, it wouhrtend to subs.titute the war of for the recomineocement of the age of re-
for the Protection of Religious Liberty, and of the 1' •
ioilleiduals for thit of natiods. illiotil persecution.
Disseutieg Ministers of the Metropolis, in landing It
Thus the Treaty of . the 20th November does not
..was with no small satisfaction, that wa observed
' exceptions 'of this kind; on the conirsry, for ward to advocate *the Faun of the persetatid tile utmost
contain any soanimity pervade tbe Asiesobly met yes-
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essomia
Protestants in France, and to rouse the feelings of terday to give effect to the expresilen of opinions
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every nue its breast all segard.-to the ciell,..ttruly British and honourable. All political piny
(1 reqiiiinuclibeities of mank4.o" waft n lutittrt, feeling was buried, and the sentiments which
—attalon. intoierance, clothisd ,wit eapotic -41.111ted the Court, are such as must insure them re.
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'isetfiority; hid begun, by its fiiOurite In trument sPect• They were embodied in an Address to the
PRINCE Iltoxer, and express the strongest abhor.
of religious tyranny, by persecution and by en.
fence of perseeutionf and attachment to the great
"mina the human mind, to prepare it for the
reader of eiery civil right—has,principles of religious freedom.
we are happy to . .
aay, had an awakening effect on tke mind. of the
Btitiih•nation and the Government, which we trust
will be attended with the most benehcial cense.
tieetices. The Common Council of the City of
Loudon held a Sleeting yesterday, for the vurpose
o taking into coniideration the ,situation of the
imillartunate French Protestants, the facts and evi.
(levee of the persecutions ettercised upon them, and
tie -

We this forenoon received the Paris Papers of
Tuesday laht, the 12th inst., Brussels Papers to the
same date, and Frankfort to the Bth. Our extiaos
will sho* tlia nature of their contents.

PA (HQ, Dec. 1:0.
.CFUNIIII It OF OLPUTIES, 9cc. It.

M. de BAR tNIE made a Report, in the name of
Committee, upon the law Project, concefning tla
payment of fun r.tv elfths of the impositions of !gm
The first Article i-mpoiting that the direct ennui.,
butions for 1816, shall be recovered upon the lisp
of 1815, appeared the most simple and practicable to
the Conymission.

By the second Atticle, those who are accountable
hieing to fie specially looked after, the Cornmiviou
sees that this Article affords time for the div4ioa
upon' an exact and equitable scale.
The third Article gave rke to same oblrrnoisok
The law of the Bth December, 1814, regulated the
mode of collecting ; after his return, the Usurper
adopted in its place a composition which opened the
door to arbitrary measures.

The Commission considered this mode as incoo.
venient, and proposed the foMosring amendment is
the article :

" The impositions Audi be collected in 1816, tia
cording to the rules laid down id the Session of 1814,
for 1815."
Tho Project was then ordered foie prinoed, sad
the discussion upon it to take place to-motrew.
M. neva:vox made a report upon the law project,
relative to the creation and inscription he the great
book of the public debt of sixteen millions of an-
nuities, a hick should form a guarantee for the ply.
meat of the war contribution, filed by the Contention
concluded the 20th of November, between France
and the Allied Powers.

Iu order to observe the Treaties with a religion
fidelity, said the Orator, we shall have a heavy her.
then to support ; but we have still grrat resources,
and this burtheu is not above our courage. Doubt-
less, in creating new annuities, the Minister will
take care that the credit of the old ones shall not
suffer:. Your Commission then proposes to adopt
the law project, but in the strong persuasion that
the Minister will render, In 1816, a satisfactory ac.
count of the employment of the arrears of created
annuities. Thus, Gentlemen, we shall fiud the
means of executing the Treaty, end at the same
time we shall encrease the confidence of foreigners in
French fidelity. With this fidelity, the oblisioe et
regentment, and the sincere union of all Freefl,en,
there are no- c:dbmities which we Cilllllot
no reverses which we cannot repair. 111 this si,..edy
guarantee which she will give tar lV fiilh of Tree:
ties, France shell prove, that Is .recovering her
King she has recovered botanciont virtue.
The printing of the ftelmitt MIS ordered, and the
discussion upon the law project will late place to
morrow.

The Order of the Day Ives a discussion upon 16
law project, relative to the deferring of the debts
of the Colonists, which was adoptot by a majority el
265 to 3.—The Sitting then broke up.
Marshal Ney had written a letter to M. Camon,
.his brother-in-law. On going from his chamber for
the place of execution he recollected that be had left
it upon the table. Ile desired one of the officers,
who accompanied him, to go and look for it; he
brought it to the Marshal, who begged the Curate of
St. Sulpice to forward it to its address.
A woman, 71 years of age, a panper in the hospi!ll
of la Salpetriere, has been sentenced by the Court nr
Assist's of Paris, to sit months imprisonment, for
having shouted sedition in a pot-house !
The Prefect of Centel has just ordered a search
for all pious books which contain prayers for the
Usurper, and the leaves to be torn out on which
they are printed.

Lately four Noviciates made their vows-, slid I
fifth has taken the religious habit in the House of (Et
D.:minican Ladies of Langres, who educate youth.
There is a report in Germany that a marriage ;slit
take place between the Archdvchesg of Austria, Lfe-
poltline, and the King of Spain, Ferdinand VII.
It is certain that the Duchess of Saint Leu hat
permission to repair with Swiss passports to Con-
stance; in the Grand Duchy of Balta.* She uW re-
side there till her fate is decided. ". • •

A Deputation of the Chamber of Deputies waited
! upon his Majesty to thank him for the law project of
an amnesty presented by the Ministers.
Letters from Nismes state, that the wounds of
Gen. Lagarde give him much pain, and are alarming;
hopes, however, are entertained of his recovery.
From Abbeville to Amiens there ere many E"g•
lisp troops, who are marching for Montreuil and
Boulogne.
Prayers are made for 40 hours at the chapel of 0 s
Thuilleries; by order of the Vicars-General of tie
Diocese of Paris, by direction of his Majesty,
make, successively, in all chUrches, prayers for
hours duffing the Session of the Chambers.
The English regiments, which were contorted in ll°
suburbs of Suez and Boort:la-Reim passed thr"C
the capital yesterday for the sea-cosst't•