The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-09-05 00:00:00

LONDON:

TUESI)A SEPTFAILI.It 5, 1815.

The Pads Papers of Saturday last reached us at a
late hour this forenoon.

They do not confirm the report of NEY having
been pardoned• by the King. They observe that
Marshal Jounn.ix is the next on the list of an.
cient Marshals to MONCEY who has refused to sit;
and seem to expect that the trial will go on.
, The example, however, which MorscEy has, set
most be highly favourable to NEv., With what
grace can any other Marshal take his. place,
and pronounce a judgment which must inculpate him-
self and his sgsociateo, and in fact give up to the
vengeance of implacable enemies every military man
and the first characters in France; the authors of her
glory, and the last Lope of the nation's safety ? The
prevailing opinion at Parisi! that NEY will escape, and
that a atop will thus be put to the execution with
`which France %as threatened.

• The justification of NEY, published before his
•
trial, is a most important document, and will, no
I &Uhl, have most important consequences. That it
is published with the concurrence of the Minister of
Police, that is as much as to say the present French,
i Ministry, there is every reason to believe, since we
know %bat nothing can issue from the Press without
Ithe knowledge of Government. The appearance of
this document at so critical a moment is the
more remarkable, as a similar proceeding in the
case of LABEDOYERE was severely punished.
But every budy could pronounce on the transgres- I
sion of LABLDOYERE. The •guilt which con-
demned him was not want of fidelity to the King,
but disobedience to his superior Officers. Nelr
throws the blame of bringing backßONXiawri on
the subalterns, ind say;, that it was on the attach-
ment of these and the soldier's in general, that NA-
rotiox relied for success; but it will be observed,
thit the point on which NEY chiefly relies for his
justification, namely, his patriotic zeal, which over-
came his loyalty, and " triumphed over his best re-
solutions," could, with equal force, have been urged
in favour of LABEDOYERE. There is a wide differ-
ence, says the venerable La.s.lcisrAts, between_ ide-
vity to the King, end zeal for the safety and interests
of the country. What a reproof is conveyed in this!
admirable sentiment to the present occupant of the
French throne, and the Kings who wou!d rule amidst'
the blond and misery of their subjects! There can
he no question that a civil var would I are been the
consequence of resistance to-the enterprise of Napo-
Leos. Bnt there were Princes in France who cared
not. for this—who strained every nerve to get
Frenchmen to turn their arms against one another,
that they might reign. The French knew those
Princes, and the man who was coming to free them
from their yoke; and they refused to spill the blood
of one of their countrymen to preserve the Bourbon
dynasty. This dynasty is re-established on the ruins
of France, arid would now cut off the head of every
min oho lifted err arm in its defence. The treasons
and crimes that have been committed have not, we I
Plispoet, been committed against Louts, but against 1
France, and history will one day show what they
ti
Ire.

Nett denies having been concerned in any political
plot to effect the late revolution. He says he merely
ohe)ed the orders of the Minister at War (Soutr),
who has had his sword restored to him by Louis, as
a mark of his favour. " Are not the instigators of
the disorder the authors of the plot!" says he ; hut
who these authors and instigators are we have yet lo
learn. As it was nobody who framed this much re-
probated plot, we may suppose, according to the old
adage, it aas every hotly ; and therefore it is
the less surprising that so many are concerned in
nv,rting the punishment assigned to it. We cannot
think of the desire now so strongly manifested to inflict
vengeatt-e no the whole French nation without calling
to mind the story of iluccactses traveller, who was
so enraged at the noise of grasshoppers•in his ears
that he " alighted in furious fret," to kill them all ;
nor of the expedient to repress the 46 nation of dis.:
turbers," which the discovery of the utter impossi-
bility of putting them all to death at once, has sug.
gested to " their conquerors," without thinking of
the swaggering little Gentleman mentioned in the
Spectator, who contended that the French were so
addicted to grimace, that unless it was put a stop to,
there would he no peace for Europe, " especially if
they continued masters of the West Indies!" The
cause of grievance on the part of the enemies of
Fnutce, is, indeed, a little, changed ; their grimaces
have now Inst the power to annoy, but their word=
still go like daggers to the hearts of certain great
personages, who are much concerned about the
public trenquiliity apt!,
_Therefore, uteri/log to