The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-06-09 00:00:00

THE STATVSMAN.

11311 I t mia "
CottnellOrs were implicated by their former conduct,.
he might have been less pompous and more sincere,
and acted rather than wrote. A long list of Generals
hos tseest mado nut to command the army against
France, and in the Madtiti %Var-oflice every thing is
activity, hut in the more essential (palters it is the
reverse. In rushing into a new war, England will
have All opportunity of judging between the exer-
tions of a weak King and those of a constitutional
and popular one, such as Ferdinand might have been
male. We WWI aea what energies Spain will display
on this occasion.

Letter written by Ferdinand, Prince of Asturias,
to the &lipase Napoleon, and dated Oct. 11, 1807:
" SIME,—The fear of troubling your Imperial and
Royal Majesty, in the midst of the great actions and
iffairy by which yen are unceasingly occupied, has
prevented one, till now, from satisfying my entities
desire to manifest in writing the sentiments of re-
spect, esteem, and affection I bear to the greatest
hero that east lived, seat by Proridence to save
Europe froosi.ilio todusion by which it was threaten-
ed, to consolidate vacillating Thrones, and to give to
nations peace end tranquillity. The virtues of your
imperial and Royal Majesty, your moderation and
gaminess even towards your unjust and implacable
enemies, every thing, in short, makes me hope that
the expression of these sentiments will be received as
the effusion of a heart filled with the most sincere
admiration and friendship. The peculiar situation
in which, for a long time back I have been placed,
and which cannot have been hidden from the great
penetration of your Majesty, has till now acted as
another obstacle to restrain my pen, at all times
ready to manifest my wishes. But filled with the
hopes of finding in the magnanimity of your Imperial
Royal itbjerrtythe most powerful protection, I have
resolved not ortly.to testify .the sentiments of my
heart towards your august person, hot -also to de-
posit my inmost secrets in the breast of your Ma.
jesty, as in thit of the most tender father. I am.
extrailiely unhappy is being obliged by particular
clrealltetintees to hide, as if it were a crime, an act
so jags and praise-worthy as this; but such frequenl-
ly teethe fatal consequences of lei **es of good-,
nest eitt In the heat of. Kings. full of reipectend
filial foto for my father, whose beget is most Ac-
ross pod eptlght-, I should' oat dare to disclose bit
to roar Majesty, that which your Majestite:4l,reedr'
knows settee than myself; which Is, that t ,same,
qualities frequently sans as an instronseut cunning
and maliguaat persons to confound thitroth in the
eyes of the Sovereign, however thisvirtue of similar
ihireders be congenial to that of my respectable
father.
" If the persons who surround him here were to
let him fundamentally know the character of yeir
retperial' and Royal Majesty, as I know it, with
*bat anxiety would not my father endeavour to
tighten the bonds which ought to unite our two na.
boas! And of this could any more suitable means
be deviied than my beseeching your Imperial and
Ifteyal Majesty to grant me the honour of receiving
as a spouse, a Princess of your august family'--
This is the unanimous wish of all my father's sub-
iects ; and I have no doubt would be his own, not.
*lthstandiog the efforts of a small number of male-
voleut persons, as soon as he knows the intentions
of your Imperial and Royal Majesty. This is all
my heart desires; but as this is not the case with the
perfidious egotists who surround my father, and who
may surprise him for a moment, I am filled with ap.
prehension! on this bead. Only the respect of your
Imperial and Royal Majesty could disconcert their
plans, by opening the eyes of my good and beloved
parent:, and making them happy, and, at the same
time, the Spanish nation and myself. The whole
world would then daily more and more admire the
goodness of your Imperial and Royal Majesty, who
in me would have a most grateful and affectionate son.
6' I, therefore, with the greatest confidence, im-
plore the paternal protection of your Majesty, not
only that you would be pleased to grant me a Prin-
cess of your family as my spouse, but also remove all
the difficulties and obstacles that may be opposed to
this only object of my desires. This effort of good-
ness on the part of your Majesty is the more neces-
sary for me, as I can take no steps myself, since they
would be interpreted as ass insult to paternal au-
thority; being reduced, as I am, to the only resort
of resisting (which I will do with invincible con-
stancy) my marriage with any other person, whoever
she may be, without the positive consent and appro-
bation of your Majesty, of whom alone I expect the
choice of a spouse for myself.
This is the happiness I trust to obtain from your
Imperial Majesty, whose prelious life I pray God to
preserve many years.. Written_ and signed with my
own hand, and sealed with my own seal, in the Es-
curial, Oct. 11, 1807, &c.
(Sigued)

" FERNAN))O."

FRENCH PAPERS.

ro.--
PARTS. Jtss 5.
CHAMBER OF RF.PRESENTATIVES.

The Sitting of yesterday was opened at nine o'clock.
After the reading of the process-verbal, M. SIBURT,
D.puty of the Department of Seine and Oise, rose to
propose, that no other title than that of Representa-
tive should be given to any Member of that Chamber.
gg We ought not," said he, " to acknowledge two
orders in the State, nor to see Princes, Dukes,
Counts, Barons, and Knights, sitting • on one side,
and those who were formerly denominated tiers-dui,
on the other. Here, above all, we are equal, and the
President himself can only be primes inter pares.—
In vain it may be alleged that titles without privilege
are-v.1;41s that infringe none of our rights—"
[Here M. Sibuet was interrupted by another, Mem-
ber, who remarked, that he was not speaking extem-
pore, and that the Constitution forbade any written
opinion to be delivered in that Chamber.]
This occasioned murmurs, and calls for the pre-
vious question, and the order of the day.
Several voices.—" It is not allowable to read."
It appeared, in fact, that the Speaker had Notes
contented in his hat, and that he thus endeavoured to
Blade the operation of Article 26 of the Constitution.
M. &BUST replied•—" If the assembly deems it
*light to put a literal interpretatiou on the constitu-
tional clause just cited, the consequence will be,
that there will be no speakers here except some dis-
tinguished orators, who have already shone in our
assemblies ; or Imperial Adlocates, who, from their

profession, have acquired a habit of speaking in pub-
lic. That measure, so contrary to liberty, which
condemned the whole national representation to si-
lence, will thus be renewed for three-fourths of our
colleagues. I tinisn with declaring, that for French..
men, in particular, the most odious privilege is that
which tends to humble the many for the advantage of
the few. We ought not, therefore, from the outset,
to acknowledge any other nobility than that of sen-
timents—any other superiority than theta talents—
any other title than that conferred by our constitu-
ents."

The proposal of M. Sibuet was not supported.
The I DENT then announced, that agreeably
to the wish expressed on the preceding day by (he
Chamber, he had communicated its wish to be made
GC lolly acquainted with the names of the Members
composiog the Chamber of Peers, and that he had
received a letter from the Minister of the Interior,
stating, that " by command of the Emperor, the
list of the Members of the Chamber of Peers would
not be made out and published till after the opening
of the Session." The reading of this letter was fol-
lowed by some murmurs.
M. Mei, rose—" If," said he, " as an answer
to the letter just communicated, the Chamber were
to declare that it will not proceed to its definitive
constitution till it has received the list in toes-
tion murmurs.—Severat Members
called for the Order of the Dog.l
M. DUPIN resumed—" Why, Gentlemen, should
you murmur ? Ara we not all kepresentativet ?
Has not each of us a right to deliver his opiniest—
If we would defend the liberty of our constitueuts,
let os begin with being free ourselves."
The Pees' DENT then reminded the Chamber, that
the teal object of that sittjng was the election of a
President, who was then ballotted for, and Count
Lanjuinais was chosen by a great majority,

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batch and Flanders Mails arrived to-day. They
yet announce no event of any interest. The rein-
forcement of the armies, their positions, and the
arrival of the Commanders at their respective posts,
constitute the sum of the Intelligence, and denote the
near approach of the, loneeepeeted shock. From
Brussels we are informed, that the army of-Prince
Ihttcnatt has been reinforced by a corps of WOO
men from the right bank of the Meese, and that Out
troops which he commands make now the finest ►ody
of men that Prussia ever had In arms. Thefird Rus-
sian army, which comes by Nuremberg and Bamberg
to the Upper Maine, Is stated to consist of 90,000 men,
the second of 80,000, is to succeed it in its position
till the arrival of the third, the amount of which is
not stated, but which is said to be in full march from
Poland. These armies are doubtless all very fine and
glittering, as the Brussels writers say, bat the coun-
tries which they occupy seem far from being in a happy
condition. The blessings of the deliverance which the
devouring presence of these vast•hordes is destined to
confer on the provinces they have over.rnn, may, in
some degree, be estimated from an article which we
quote from the Banat, Gaulle, wherein it is stated that
the maintenance of the Russian army alone on the
Rhine requires daily 250,000 portions, and 80,000
rations, the supply of which portions daily falls upon
the inhabitants of the country; and in particular that
of Nassau, with only 300,000 inhabitants, has to i
bear daily no less than 20,000 portions and 8000
rations. In this manner the South of Germany is
assigned to the Austrian army, tkc. and the North
of Germany to the Prussians. Well may the inha-
bitants of these countries wish a speedy termination
to the war, and a quick march back into the North
to their deliverers.

But the French citizens, we are told, are still more
oppressed by their protectors. Whilst the French
garrisons are allowed to be now complete, the towns
are said to be filled with National Guards, whom the
citizens, say the Brussels articles, are obliged to feed
and lodge, and also 66 to give thou daily a som of
money." General VA:granite, say these accounts,
who commands the French about Mezleres, Sedan,
Rocroyland Givet, has turned to the left in order to
be in nearer communication with the Army of the
North, and on the other band a part of the Army of
the Moselle has been posted nearer to the Ardennes.

On the part of the Allies measures of defence seem
still the order of the day. There seems no founda-
tion whatever for the report of Valenciennes having
been taken by them. Lord WELLINGTON'S polity of
not hazarding a blow till he has something like an
assurance that he can do it effectually, forbids a pre-
cipitate advance. At his fortifying. Fite thonsaed
men are employed in strengthening the works, abd
the fortresses, it is expected, will soon be in a for-
midable state of defence. It is affirmed that the
grand Ilead-quarters are. going to be remitted to
Tournay.
Muazx's discomfiture wtts celebrated et the Ut
inst. by discharges of artillery along the whole lime
of the Allied Army.

By the Frankfort Papers we have accounts frogs
Italy, stating, that Ancona still held out; that the
French frigate the Pomona) taken in the Medlin&

ranean, has been curried into Palermo ; and that
Lord StrfriscK set out on the 19th ult. for London.

We have no public Journals from Paris to-clay.—
IWe cannot expect the communication with France to
• continue much longer. Amounts, we are told, were
yesterday received in town, that the Emperor NA.
IJ fitments, after signifying his approbation of Count
LANJUINAIS, so well known for his ability and le-
nence in the National Assembly, as President II
the House of Representatives, and after opening the
Session, had set out for the Northern frontier.—
This we were prepared to expect, and this also has
prepared us for intelligence of some hostile move-
ment of no common interest. But what has be•-
come of the internal disaffection which was to be
manifested in Paris amongst the Representatives of
the people, and throughout France against his Go-
vernment, when the Champ de Alai was held—when
the Deputies from the people should meet for the re-
pose and security of France—when the great military
genius himself and the pillars of his power should be
withdrawn to the extremities of the kingdom ? In
spite of all the puffing and blowing of the Times and
Courier, and the other stirrers up to " loyal insur-
rection," and all the stories we have of the spread-
log of the volcanic eruption, which was again to
heave up the heaven favoured family of the Boca-
anis, the men of divine right, to the rivanacle of
power—in spite of all the denunciations of destruc-
tion fulminated forth against the French nation, how
ealinly reposes the sorface of that empire in the se-
eerily of its own strength—how quietly sleep the
passions which we have been told were, vulture-like,
tearing the breast which contained them—how in-
nosious yet to itself and others, is that spirit of in-
dignant rage, which is, perhaps, yet destined to set
the world in a flame. ft is true that some of the
men nominated by the people to advocate the conso-
lidation of a Government arising out of the Revolu-
tion, the only Government which France can now ,
have, by means bearing the stamp of an adherence to
the principles and characteristics of that Revolution,
seem to have already urged with warmth the
.tlie maintenance of a conformity to these principles
and characteristics ; but does it follow because
the conviction that this is the best method of insuring
safety is strongly expressed by some of the MM..
hers of the Legislature, that the banished Govern-
ment is the mere likely to be recalled ? We see from
the character of the assemblies on which now depend
the pence and interests of France, ,what .sort of Go-
vernment she requires and is to have, and from the po-
pular basis on which it is ?banded, we may infer its
strength. We repeat, that not only France as a na-
tion, In danger of falling under the encroaching '
and mulcting power of foreign dominion, but all the
parties in France seem to require a Government este.
blished on the foundations of her late changes
and improvements, a Government sufficiently strong
to protect them, as well from foreign invasion as from
themselves--and they have all taken refuge under
BONAPARTE% authority.

VIENNA, MAY Majesty the King of
Saxony having signed, on the 20th, the act of ces-
sion to Prussia, with some modifications, two Royal
Commissioners set out yesterday for Dresden, to re-
place the Prussian Provisional Government. His
Majesty intends, after the Sovereigns are gone, to

see what is carious in Vienna; and, then, in about
a fortnight, to return to his dominions. It is still
uncertain what will be poblished respecting the basis
of the new German Constitution, all not Wing yet
agreed upon. To-day will be the last conference on
this subject. The Ministers and Ambassadors of all
the Courts leave Vienna next week, as, with the
departure of Princes Metternich and Usrdenberg,
all negociations here are at an end. The Ambassa-
dors are invited to follow the Sovereigns to the field.

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We have had occasion to state from sources to
which we could well give credit, that FERDINAND of
Spain, who is now joining his iuvective and his
power, soch as it is, to those of the Allies against
BoyarAnte, had frequently importuned Plapor.soN
for a wife from his family—we this day give thesopy
of. Letter from FERDINAND to the French Emperor,
laying his heart's wishes open to him on this subject;
it certainly furnishes a curious contrast to the
late declaration of war which this hopeful youth has
not into the world against the man, with whom he
was so earnest to form the closest alliance.
Whilst we are on this subject we ought to mention
that we. have Letters from Madrid of a late date,
stating the discovery of another plot to overturn the
present Government of Spain, and the consequent
elocution of four of the conspirators.

After the Levee, his Royal Highness gave audi-
ences to Lord GAENTILLE, ViiCOUtit CASTLEREAGH,
&c.

MINORITY
ON SIR JOIN lIRWTORT.S MOTION TOR OMITTING THE
RRSOLUTION IMPOSUi 0 A !I ADDITIO N•L DISTY ON N ENS.

,*P w.
Moore, I'. Mortis, J. Riddell, S,r J. 0,
Boger, F. Dunennnon, Lord Majorihnnkg,
limey. S. - Morognsery,Sir 1.1. Hotlnnd. —.—
Newport. Sir J. Comptoo, Lord TELI.EILII.
Ridley, Sir M. W. Allen, Geo. Rennet, Hon. H. (1.
blanch, Sir C. Illarrynt, J. Gordon, R.
Satin', J. Leferre, C. S.

A poor woman, of the name of MARGARRT Srm,
No. 8, New-street, Chapel.street, Westminster, wife
to a private in the Foot Guards now serving under
the Duke of WELLINGTON, was, en Wednesday,
delivered, ■t intervals, of four children, the two
first of whom are likely to do well, but the other
two were still born.

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the Constitntion American frigate put into Moran.
but oa the 2d of April, and sailed again on the 13th.