The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-10-02 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN,

44 I am happy in being charged with so flattering
a commission to your Majesty : nobody can render
purer homage to the valour and discipline of the
Ruisian troops. The Secretary-General of War will
send to the Aid.de•Camp General of your Majesty
the dernratinhs of the Royal and Military Order of
St. Louis and of Merit.
46 I am, with profound respect,
" Sire,
46 Your Majesty's very humble and
very obedient servant,
" The Aliiiisier of War.
izigned) " (lOU V lON ST. CY It.
" Park cep,. _l, 1815."

It is affirmed that the Treaty of Peace was signed
the day before yesterday, and that in the course of
the discussions which took place, the Emperor Alex-
ander displayed as much inAgnanirnity as interest for
his august Ally, the King of France. It appears
thst we are indebted to his mediation and tiff mo-
deration of the Allies, for the obviating of many rigor-
ous conditions, which have been succeeded by others
lowe compatible with the equilibrium of Europe and
the 4,41 understood interests of the Powers which
Fear,' unites by fresh bonds.
The Emperor of Russia left Paris nt 10 o'clock
in the mor:ring. The Emperor of Austria and King
of Prussia had not left at six o'clock in the evening.
It seems certain that the opening of the Session
will be postponed till the 9th inst. no doubt in order
that all the Ministers may by that time he sr their
fists ; M. de Vaublaric, one of them, being at pre-
sent at Marseilles.
Five men and two women were sentenced on the
lPth inst. at 'Toulouse, some to one year's and
others to several months impris., 'merit, for seditious
cries or abuses of the Royal Family.
The Journal of the illeurthe contains an Ordinance
of the Kiog, approving of the arrcij of the provi-
akual Pre feet of this department, which fixes an ex-
traordinary contribution equal to the direct taxes of
1815.

cused of having, on the Ist of last August, raised se-
ditious cries. His defence was a pretended fit of
intoxication, and a course of medicine which he had
undergone in 1811 for mental derangement.
The Jury did not consider his defence as good,
and he was sentenced to five years banishment, and
afterwards to remain for five years under the super-
intendance •f the high police, and to find surety in
300 fr. to keep under this superintenciance.
SettAmine's, Seer. 24.—There are no mere Aus.
Irian troops in front. The fort of Kehl is entirely
demolished ; this set %ice was performed by a Ba-
denese regiment.

The Ma, or of Stt3sburall has resigned.
N.vots, Seri. c.!s.—The P►ussian troops have
entirely left these puts. The Colonel of Artillery,
Governor of -the Castle, has re_u;no.l the command,
and they are bringing trick the matt rial, which on the
approach of the isru•sisius had been transported to
the other si,it of the

BASLE, SEYT 21.—fluninguen nil, he preserved,
and its fortiications, which were being demolished,
. aro to he re-established as speedily as possibly. We
learn that the artillery and ammunition which had
been withdrawn from it will he hi ought back. The
Austrici Genrral Wolkmatin, on a mission at Stras-
burgh, is appointed to the command of Ifuninguen.

' General Lecourbe continues at Mort. The
troops which be commanded ate and as
soon as H is completed, the blockade will be raised.
The blockading force, under General Villard,is esti-
mated at 20,000 men, who are cantotied in the neigh-
, bousi ,g villages.
FRENCH FvNns-5 per Ceres. 61 f. 26 c. 60f. 50 c.

A Flanders Mail has arrived. The P.►pPrs receiv-
ed by this conveyance inform tts that Mnntmedy had
capitulated. According to the articles of the capi-
tulation, the garrison marched out on the 2.2 d, in
the morning, and laid down their arms on the glacis,
upon which they were disbanded. The Governor is
gone to Paris. This garrison was composed of about

General Tauenzien, commanding the 6th corps of 600 men—National Guards, some dt:lachments of
the Prussian army, has issued a Pra ch,niation at troops of the line, and a few &molders. The town
&tines on the 21st inst. relative to the disarming of Nlontniedy is ruined. The Prussian troops, after
of the inhalsitants of that city, and occasioned by laving occupied it, proceeded to other points. The
some terbu:ont symptoms which had manifested alt-ck of Ti.ionville is pushed with the greatest vi.
themselves. Tie delivering up arms was to be corn- gour, the besitged having inundated the environs of
pleted the same day, and i s case this is not done, the fortress by means of the Moselle. Th.• besiegers
domiciliary visits will take ;.iace at every house, and have been obliged to drain eff the inundation in or.
the offenders are threatened wit • all the rigour of der it-mhard the town wi h more facility.
military law. -The National Guards aimed since Lrs believed that Thionville cannot hold out long:
the 27th of lass July a. e excopted from this measure. its garrison is said to be composed of 300 men,
Au Order of the D:.; of the 22d instant, of Count chiefly mov-able National Guards. Ai for Cherie-
de Viomesuil, commanding the 11th Divi- mew, it still holds out. Prince AUGUSTUi of Pius-
site!, directs Fretic;: Meets of all ranks at flour- sia h,s his head-quarters in the Lower Town of
ileaux, where they have obtained permission to Givet.
reside, to appear in public only in unif-rm. Letters from Lel:entburgh stale, that several corps

According to the news from N,;:l.ur, in the Belgic of OW Allied ,; :•
..a see.o, to be proceeding at this
Journals, Thionville is entirely surrounded, and t-e moment tow..;: Metz, which give,. rise to various
sieve has cnoini: nerd. It is also annothieed that conjectures same accounts say. ;rat the re-
Prussian troops are marching upon Verdun with Lie &stance of Longwy was very obstinate. What
int-ntion of attacking it. compelled it to surrender was, that on the night of
If credit is due .o tine Ghent Journal of the 35th Cie 13th, the PruSsiati troops stormed at the point of
: Lisle has already submitted to receive a the 11.1 onet a Innotte, and pushed works as far as
foreix•• bariison. the glai is : on this occasion much blood was spilt ou
Ten waggoes loaded with works of art arrived on both sides.
the 13. t• instant at Berlin, from Paris. , The Prussians remove from the fortresses of which
From some days past, the evil-disposed have they take possession all the artillery stores.
spr ad a report that the Allied Powers were about Every day fresh corps of Prussian troops enter
to seize upon the Molit-de-Piete of Paris, and the France, of the frontier of which they are masters,
effects therein deposited. Notwithstanding its ab- that is, by the Ardennes, Namur, and a part of
vomit), numbers hastened to get their property away Ilaitiault. It is added, under*date of the 26th, that
from it. Orders are issued to discover sod arrest the Charlemont has surrenderd to these troops.
authors of these injurious reports, which have no The capitulation of Longwy is not quite the same
foundation whatever, as that of the other fortresses, not being so favour-

'LIP foreign Monarchs paid yesterday their fare- able to the garrison. They do not keep their arms
well •tcit to the King, which lasted an !Jtur, and no and horses ; they do not take two cannon with
doubt must have been very affecting ; for these them, nor a►e they allowed any cnvered waggons.—
Princes, ov leaving his Majesty, oppcared well sa- The artillery and magazines are wholly given up to
tisfir•l. Before they got into their carriages, they the Prussian army, and the place, instead of being
t m raced. The Emperor of Austria said to the E--- preserved in its present state for the King of France,
peror of Russia—'• Adieu, ire; to D:jon." The is given np without restriction to the disposal of the
I'mpt•rur of flovsia said to the King of Prussia— King of Pressia.
"To Brussels." The Emperor c.f. Austria leaves At Metz peat ft.ars are entertained; they are
to•rlay. The King of Prussia intends, it appears, working without interruption upon the fortifications,
Were hi, departure to review his troops, who, for and the garrison, which is numerous, at least in
nig cutposn are concentrating themselves round National Guards, exercises continually in military
evolutions. As for Longwy and Nlontmedy, these

Faris.

On the 2G,11 inst. in the evening, a considerable
column of 13,11-F.init troops was at Maintenoti, with
more 'hal 410 transport carriages. These troops
troops took up nearly a lesitse in their line of march,
and perm ttotl no carriage tlt,pass.

towns most be almost wholly rebuilt.
His ;Majesty the Emperor of RUSSIA was expected
in Brussels on the 28th, every thing being prepared
for his reception.

This morning, at ten o'clkk, a great number of
Austrian troops &filed upon the Boulevards, and
took the road to Germany.
The Austrians are still on guard at the Museum.
Count Cartiot, in hi. Def•lice, says—" I did not
conspire against the Emperor, neither have I con-
spired against the King. I used the liberty of speech,
hich belongs to every citizen ; but I have, at all
timed, made a point of submitting to the established
Cnv.rnmeitt. Nipoleon knew this. There were
tn.ny con•O•aries ,nder reign against his person,
and 1,j64 ent,t tier.' never omitted me bring concerned
in .hem, t.inking to se, te tits passion by furnishing
him with the means of injuring me; but Bonaparte
himdoif aluays struck my name cif the list, and al.
was .aid that. I nits incap.ihie of treachery."
An invalid of the Itotyital of Gros-Cuillote, called
Pi,;eott, was placed the day before yesterday at the
bar of Ascizts ("Ant of Pads. This man, who, the in
the course of the proceedings, declared that M. avg.
vault-de-St.ile4u-d'Apselly spas his patron) was ac-

We congratulate the Livery of Lond• n on the ju-
dicious choice which they have made of a Chief Ma-
gistrate in the person of the Lord Mayor Elect,
Mr. Alderman Worm ; awl the City of London in
general, on the prospect which it has of increased
honour and advantage in the solid talents and inte-
grity of this independent Patriot and upright Ci-
tizen.

The duties of the Chief Magistrate of the chief
city in the kingdom, have at no period of the history
of Great Britain been of such magnitude, or have
mere imperiously called for a more faithful discharge
and a Statesmanlike watchfulness, than at the pre-
sent eventful crisis: the example of Lundsm
on points and in cases where example is necessary, is
of such paramount importance to the Bt itish Empire,
that it neser ran be contemt.lated but with the deep.
est interest and anxiety ; and we rejoice to think or
the many instances in which, by the independent
spirit of it Chief Magistrate, and the sirtue of its
public bodies) it Lis manifested all those qualities

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which deserve imitation, and ought to characterise
the first city in the nation ; as well as the many and
salutary cifecks which this example has given to the
continual influence of corruption, and the giant
strides of power.

The people of the British nation Lave unhappily
witnessed, by too many signs, and by too many mani-
festations which have been felt where ati additional
wound to comfort could scarcely be inflicted, the
progress of that destructive influence which threatens
theezistence of the last lingering remains of prosperity
and social happiness in this once happy country, and
the daring and equally injurious, unconstitutional ez-
el rise of tl.ut ironer which openly sets at nought, and
ahrs at the subversion of all tights and privileges and
public spirit, which are inimical to its objects, and
set a bar to its extension. They have also re.en this
Influence and this power nobly, constitutionally, and
successfully combated by public virtue, and the ex-
amples sif humble but meritorious men.

In the character of Alderman Wools, in the many
proofs he has given of a heartfelt devotion to the pub-
lic weal, in the sincere warmth with which he has
ever opposed himself to that baneful spirit which is
the enemy of all Reform, and that selfi,h and courtly
servility w hi. h wouldiprostrate principle and charac-
ter, Cie rlghts of the citizen, the interests and honour
of the country at the shrine of power, we have the
surest p', ilge that no one who has filled the Civic
Chair of 'hi: great metropolis will better dkcharge the
high cloth s which appet lain to that olfitle than Al er-
man WOOD.

Mr. Woon, few need be informed, is a friend to
civil and religious liberty, nnd the advocate of rational
and practical reform ; yet no lea attached to that ve-
nerable institution which is the saeeguard, the palla-
dium of all our rights col libertTi4 ; for it is to the
standard of purity which it once could boast that
we are persuaded he detires, and who desires not, to
see our much abused Constitution brought back, and
the affairs of the country administered in con-
forMity to the established laws of the land ? Mr.
Woon is the friend of Parliamentary Reform, be-
cause he is aware of its necessity —of the evil of
the present system, and the advantages whirls a fair
Rept esentntion of the People, their wants and wishes,
and a resolute defence of their rights, would confer
on tie inhabitants of this country. The Livery of
London have now shown, in a signal manner, chat
are their sentiments on this momentous subject, and
the just estimation in which they hold one of their 1,
most tried Patriots; one in whose firmness, imp tr-
tiality, and independence, they may rely, .n.d who
is as exemplary for his private virtue as his public
spirit. IVe lied this event ;'rot :tipus to civil
and the preservation of the c:aintry's dearest
interests. May the City of London never forget what
it owes to its'rlf and the country in the noble stand
it may now be expected to make in the cause of Par-
liamentary Reform, and !Whist the overwhelming
power of corruption. But lerus not forget also to im-
press, that it is not the inhabitants of great cities alone
that are interested in the cause of Parliamentary
Reform. Every peaces paying taxes is d.rectly in-
terested in their reduction—every farmer in that
which would lessen the expence at which he culti.
vales the soil—and Every manufacturer in what
would enable him to appear on equal terms in fo-
reign markets. A redo; titot of the taxes on the ne-
cessaries of life, imposed for the purpose of carry-
iug foreign wars, as those on Salt, Soap, Can-
dles, and Leather, would be beneficially felt through-
out all ranks of society, even by the paupers who
subsist by the bounty of their country. So evident
is this, that no one is to be found of an under.
standing so perverted as to contend, that an ho-
nest Iteprentation of the People is not in itself
essentially gond. Allowance most be made for thus.
whose interest induces them to oppose the measure.
But certainly they are the hest friends of the
country, who have never allowed interest to warp
their judgments or influence their conduct, when a
measure so essentially necessary, and so fraught with
public utility, culled for support. Let us•fut titer say,
in explanation of the objects of those who aid the
cause of Parliamentary Reform, for calumny is ever
busy in misrepresentation, that the chief object of
those who advocate the cause of Reform at the pre-
sent day is, to have a fair Representation of the
People, with Parliaments so short as to prevent the
possibility of undue influence to be exerted OT f•f the
Representative's by Administration ; and, consider-
ing the qnestion abstractedly, it is not to be denied,
that the object is good and laudable. It has hitherto
been opposed, not as unreasonable in itself, hut,
because, were that object effected, a great change
must take place in the patronage of the country,
because Reform in Parliament wool(' do away the
traffic by which the venal acquire wealth and distinc-
tion, due only to meritorious services; and because,
generally speaking, much greater economy would he
introduced into all the Departments of public
expenditure. Sinecures, extravagantly profitable
contracts, and many other sources of emolument
would fail; and it is not to he wondered at, that per-
sonal interest should have its est al influence with
those who would sulTer by the change.—The public
voice firmly expressed will not, however, fail to put
an end to the grievances a hick at present the many la-
bour under fur the advantage of the few, and the right
of petitioning being still in existence, the sense of
the country may, with little eflort, be collected and
laid before the Supreme Court of Parliament. It is
not pretended that Parliamenta.ry Reform is to ren-.
der men perfect; end do away entirely undue Wu.