The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-06-23 00:00:00

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the heterogeneous elements of which this party is
now composed, if we observe the diversity of • viens
and interests which. it includes, it can Ise charoc•
terised as a royalist party only in the sense of its
being an enemy of the Gmerittneut ;,for it has oo
fixed and determinate? ohjoct in, its. ulterior listen.
lions, and consequently no uniform and gon,ral cha-
racter. , • • • •* .
r' It is shis party which .now disturbs internal
tranquillity : it is it which igito.tes Marseilles, Thou-
louse, and Bourdeaurt.; Marseilles,. where the spirit
of sedition animates even the, lowest classes of so-
ciety,, arid where the laws have.beers set at nought ;
Thoulouse, which seems still under the influence of
the revolutionary erianisation which was given to it
some months ago; Bourdeauz, where all the germs
of revolt repose and intensely ferment ; Bounteous,
where the country had foimetly such numerous de-
fenders, where liberty escited.to such generous sacri-
fices ;—Boordeaus no* sends forth the apostles of
civil war! • . . .
" It is this party which, by means of false newts,
False hopes, therlistribution of money, and the em.
ployment of threats, has succeeded in raising the
peaceful cultivators in the whole of the territory in.
1 clpsed between thr Loire, La Vendee, the Ocean,
and Le Tluntet. Arms and ammunition have bee*
landed there. Old names, new men, appear swots
this Moody theatre; the bytes of rebellion airings
up, is ,re-preduced wherever it formerly exercised it;
ravages, and is not put down by our successes at
Esnai, St. Gilles, and Patinae. On the other fide
of the Loire, bands Iny waste Morhihan, some lows
of the departments of the Ille and Vilaine, the Cotes
du Nord, and of the Sarthe ; they for a moment in-
vaded the towns of Aursi, Rhedon, and Memel,
the fields of Mayenne, even to the gates of Laval :
they stop the seamen and the military cajled out ;
they disarm the landholders, increase their number,
with the peasants whom the compel to march, plun-
der the public chests, destroy the documents of the
administration, threaten the fniictionaries, stop the
diligence', seize the couriers, and Intercepted at
. one time the communications of Mans with Augers
1 —Angers with Nantes—Nantes with Rennes--end
1 Rennes with Vannes.
j "On the coast of IA Manche, Dieppe, Havre, have
been agitated by seditious movements. Throughout
Ithe 15th division, the battalions of the national militia
wire riot formed without the greatest difficulty. The
military and the marines refused to answer the calls
made on them, and obeyed only *ben compelled.—
To the measures which circumstances required was
opposed a culpable resistance, oran inert force, more
dangerous and more difficult to tonquer than re-
sistance. Caen has been twice troubled by the
Royalist reactions; and in some district* of The
Onie, bands are formingt as in Btitantty and
Mayenne.
l "In fine, all the writings calculal
I weak men, embolden the factious,
divide the nation, throw contempt .
ment ; all the pamphlets which invert,
of Belgium, or the clandestine priplit
France; all that foreign Journals pub'

all that the writers of the party
tributed, is hawked about, is dist.
punity from the want of repressive
abuse of the liberty of the press.
" Immoveable in the system of mt
you have adopted, your Majesty
duty to await the convocation of t
! order to oppose only legal preca
manoeuvres which ordinary Legible,'
ways punish, and which it could net
prevent.
66 The Reporter then alludes
, taken against similar insurgents in .
I property, prosecute the families of
I could not be reached, to strike in
scribe whole classes under imaginary
to punish the quality tether than
dividuals, are worn-out measures, w
experience has shown their inutilit:
the power of a threat.
66 The times, besides, are changed,
piers which surround us are the same
they haves however, a different cause,
different nature, and public op inior
another manner.
" In the early part of the Revolt
pable of *amnion, because every tht
the people themselves ; the state of
impossibility of resisting the paisiot
rity, excused every thing : but not/
not in a majority wet/ numerical
the universality of the citizens is forcne.l
the calm and enlightened classes of -
Europe. No class of society now
political chimeras which were pursut
of enthusiasm and of error. Even
the party in agitation, we no longer ,
dices and fanaticism which supported
lious : it is civil liberty, and the peaceat
of all their rights, which the immense
French now claim.
66 Besides, your Majesty does nt
the terror of revolutionary measures',
even wish to generalise the employmeni
authority ; you have subjected k to '
which forms the majority in the com,
Police. This ought to be the case,
rare exceptions; for wherever the mi
ii thefirst line, there is no second lit
46 The General of the Army of t[
received extraordinary powers for the ,
surrection, because war must be opposed
" However, among all nations Or-
particular code for periods of crisk.
berty carrot remain the same in all
the State. Every danger of the Star
citcumacription of individual liberty
internal aggression arid of civil broil
citizen to make the momentary sacril
Isis personal security, that the Gayer'
the means of guaranteeing the gene,
There is no free State which, in time
sent, has not beets obliged to mortify
personal liberty of its 4.if izenn. nt
suspended the Habeas Corpus Act,
foreign war ?
The difficulty turns on throe
sonment, the period Nsed within which
to be denounced to the tribunals, and
*maiden.

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shake confidences
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iss from the presses
printing-houses of
publish against vs,
compose, is 'dig. ILL
apersed with hn,
ire laws, and the
moderation which
thought it your
the Chambers, its
ecautions to the
lation cannot el.
either foresee not
to the onsisureil
.1793. To seise
)f the guilty who
3 a mass, to pro,
ry denominations,
the crime of in.
which, now that
ty, have not even
rl, and if the den.
le in appearance,
use, thOy are .of
on judges them its
lotion alt was ca.
hing was done by
'anarchy, and the
ona of the majo.
* the people are
I ; the opinion of
meet upon that of
f France and of
dreams of the
led at the period.
ri in the nooks of
find the prejo.
the first rebel-
,ceab!e enjoyment
se majority of the
lot wish to renew
res; you do not
melt of military
the civil power,
rumissions of high
, saving in a few
military power is
'lnc.
he line has alone
he country in in.
liseti to war.
there must oe a
. Individual
the situations t
the
compels Tate l,
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compels every
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will security...-.
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more or legs the
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even for a mere
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the trial of the
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