The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-05-15 00:00:00

For some days past, a gloomy fermentation has
displayed itself in acts of violence, yesterday espe-
cially, which have afflicted all peaceable citizens and
your Magistrates.
Superior authority is taking measures, prompt,
severe, and of which the success is certain. Pre-
vent their execution, and aid your Magistrates in
preventing their necessity, by inculcating with them
peace, union oblivion of the past, and the hope cit
a happy futurity.
The people of Bourdeaux are good ; they suffered,
without complaint, years of privations, the in-
evitable effect of a long war. What ha►e they now
to fear ? hat have they not to hope : Unite, tken,
to bring them back to their natural sentiments and
/ character. Tell them especially that those who seek
to mislead them, will abandon them in the hour of
danger; that (his was always the conduct of agitators,
and that it is high time to prevent calamities, of
which the idea is dreadful to my heart and to all the
friends of order and the laws.
Bourdeaux, May 5, Ihls. The Mayor, GRAMONT.

MILAN, Aram 26.—Tha Neapolitan army con-
tinues its retreat with a precipitation which prevents
I'tbre pursuing columns of Generals Neipperg and
[Bianchi f;orn coining up with it.
L APRIL 28.—Desertion is so great among the

Neapolitan troops in Tuscany, that Count Noent,
Chief Commandant of the Grand Duchy, has pub.
Piled the following order:—
" The desertion which daily takes place from thu

Neapolitan army is a proof that that army is at last
sensible of the injustice of the cause which it has
been called upon to support. The Civil and Military.
Authorities employed ou the frontiers of the Grand
Duchy are charged to collect these deserters, and to
furnish the unfortunate men who wish to escape from
,an ambitious Tyrant with passports for L?ghurn, and
provide them with rations."
FRANEFORT, MAY "2.—They talk of a brilliant
fete being given in the open air before the departure
of the Sovereigns from Vienna, when will be renew-
ed the oath of fidelity to the Confederation for the
repose and liberty of the world.
VIENNA, APRIL V.—We are assured, that the
Courier sent by Lord 'Wellington has brought the
plan of the campaign against France.
It is not believed that the grand operations against

France will begin before the end of May or the be-
ginning of June, as the forces of Austria and Russia
will not be able to unite before that epoch. llosti-
lities will then commence by a general attack upon
all points.
Tour.ox, MAY —By intelligence from Corsica,
we learn, that thirty thousand uses, of the,Natins s.t
Guards are under arms in that Island. It was on
the 15th of March that the tri-coloured flag was dis-
played there. The city of Bastin was the first that
mounted the cockade. The four regiments which were
on the Island have rallied under the national flag.—
Brusart, the old satellite of Georges, and who had
been appointed Commandant by the Royal Govern-
ment, was the first to make his escape, which lie
effected in the night.
General Simon has taken the command, and .frater.
frater-
nized the columns of Mountaineers to the troops,
whom they joined with cries of rirc l'Empercur:
The 21.1onitcar contains the following Note, on the
assertion in the English Newspaper, that Napoleon,
after his arrival in France, for a long time refused to
suffer Lord Somerset to depart the country, and at
length refused to perniit him to carry away the plate
belonging to the Duke of Wellington.
Note.—to a dispute like she present. every kind of argument
is doubtless permitted, anti it is left in the good s. me of the
reader to appreciate them ; but it is surprising to in an
English Journal impotaiini,s of this nature. On the fact in
tie-tiiin. we appeal in Lord Somerset, and to LorJ IVrllington
huts If.
There is another note on the speech- of Lord Cas-
tlereagh, in which it is said, that the Minister of
Napoleon had orders, in a letter of • the 19th March,
to conclude a Treaty, but retard the execution, not-
withstanding any ratification, taking cave to reserve
Antwerp, which might be called the key of Eng-
land; Mentz, which might be called the key of Ger-
many; and Alexandvia, which might be called the
key of Italy. What better proof can be given of
the character of the mass ?"
NOTE.—AII this scaffolding of imputations goes

for nothing. The pretended letter of the 19th is
false. By whom was it forged ? This, at present,
it is of but little importance to enquire into. We
will confine ourselves to observe, that there were
found among the papers of M. de Micas a great
number of letters relative to the affairs of Congress,
and which were either fabricated or altered in order
to communicate them to different Courts, with inlets.
tentions similar to those which caused the falsification
of the letter of the 19th of March.
We may, besides, add another observation. Who
can suppose that at a time when the couriers had to
pass through so many enemy's posts to reach their
destination, and when they were even ohliged to
further their correspondence by the intervention of
Austrian Generals, the dispatches n cold not hive
been written in cypher? It may be said that the let.
, ter of the 19th may have been decyphered to the
• Minister of Foreign Affairs during the stay of Lorrt
' Castlereagh at Paris ; but we will ask by whom, sort
ender whose influence this could have been done ?
We know who the man was that directed this branch
of the ministry, and who then filled it. Nothing
more is necessary to comprehend how and why (his
decyphering should have been falsified. Being una-
ble to suppose that the English Minister wished to
mislead Parliament, we must heliese; and eee'y por-
, son of sense Must believe with as, that he was de-
: caved. •
Besides, we are authorised to declare, that every
assertion of •this kind is false. It cannot •be true,
neither from its nature nor from the cii

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