The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-09-15 00:00:00

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MR. LANCASTER'S RIXEPTION IN PP.R.THo
%ye find, by a letter from himself, recei►ed this
morning. does great honour to every class of the
community. The hlagistrates in Council, with the
cordial approbation of the Established Clergy► per.
• milted hid► to Lecture in St. Paul's Church.

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oscine( Iwo** a tolerable proficient in his own learn- i FOLIC HE'S REPO KT.
dog, witbout requiring the skill and habits requisite+ a ' •-• --seiso- ' *- '
in a schoolmaster," for of the monitors it may be said , ANIIieF.R OF THIlt A bl.tlB •TO THR PRETENDED
that, 4
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" Tearlii•ig they•leaffi, and giving they relator •
the airths of intellect, and growth of thought." is %ID TO BE werrrest BY BARON in STEIN.]
Accordingly, lads under,ls years of age, are now -.; Sere the revolutionary war, the devastation of
euccessfully.cpnduetipg establishments for the educe.' most Continental Staves by Frenchmen, has been
lion of the prior; on the Lancasterian plan, in different ranch 'more ruinous than the devastation France now.
:partsof the kiugsioin. After all we home stated, is_in her turn sutfets, from much-injured and provoked
seems utinectsrary to my mom in reeommendisbg the invaders. In France, as has been the case in Italy,
lanes-simian System; we tltemsfore hasten to lay be- Slain, C•esmany, Nettie', and Russia, every thing
foreour Readers the sehollsed ' is not 'villa, wastes.4‘end destroyed ; witness the
' NARRATIVE OF TII:1 rotaN IS F. lti RECENT LA-
splendour awl security of Paris, and of those depart-
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BOURS, PROOEI:I33SIoS, ANO SVCC ESA. moots + ccupied by the Allies. • France suffers, at
present, more from Frenchmen than from foreigner!.
In Ireland, Mr. Isaticaver's reeent labium were
France will obtain peace when France proves herself
errs% used with the highest suceese;.ln the short space
pacific. Guilty Frenchmen alone ily at the approach
of eight months he cleared his way from the Cabin
offoreigu ioldiers, whose discipline is
_strict when it
gyhoots, e Ids ii he suited, to the Vice-Regal Palace.
fo-
compared is with the discipline of Frenchmen in'Welcomed by all,. Lecturing in Protestant Churches,
reign countries. No forests are filled with the inno-
Cathoii,csaapels, Presha tetian and Dissenting Meet-
cent and loyal, but with French anarchists, free corps,
imp lltwalea, esteeming -every place as consecrated
round where he could do an ood—a: cementin and other banditti. The foreign soldiers aseist the
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husbandman to gather the crolis ; not like French.
influence attended his whole careger, and by his eve r-
men abroad, for their own use, but for the use of the
tions personsof all denominations, who rarely met on
owners of the ground. If this war should assume
any other occasion, were associated la the greatest
harmony. the same barbarous character as the war of French.
At it Meeting of above 2000 *persons, held in the
men has every where done, it is solely to be attri-
butte) to perfidious Frenchmen not listening to the
Rotunda, Dublin, attended by many noble, eminent, •
and distinguished characters, he read a public Repisrt voice of any authority. It is a bold and undeserved
Allied P owers, to allow any doubt of
of progress, amidst universal acclamations, the Duke insult to the
their magnanimity. They have never, like French.
of Leinster being Chairman, stud the Earl of. Meath
second Chairman. men, derived any advantage from useless evils ; and
.When be came to Scotland, be was on his way to it is not the fault of France, especially of the prim.
London,, intending to stay but a fe cipal Ministers of the King, if the usual bonds of
'ir days in this
country. In the cootie of that time,' the warm-
connection between the nations of Europe have not
hearted reception he met with, and the prospects of long ago ceased; and that the reconciliation of
extensive nsefulnesS, operated as an embargo,
and i France ss ith Europe was impossible as well as imprac-
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not only detained him in the south of Scotland, lint vocable. To these Counsellors of his Majesty, andl
their accomplices or instruments in the provinces,
brought him up to Inverness, intending to go farther
North.
ought exclusively to be imputed the instability of his
lie speaks in the highest terms of the generous re-
I govern nent,that his authority is compromised,andthat
option he has met from the Teachers of oar public 1 his t over is impotent and even odious. They want to
i ttee with or•without a King. When the Allies conde.
many other places, a line of conduct consistent with i
schools in Inverness, Forges, Elgin., Aberdeen, and
scended to permit Louis_ XVII[. (then vacillating on
'his throne) to sign, as an Ally, the Treaty of the
the character of intelligent and scientific men, and
highly to their honour. In Aberdeen his Lectures
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hhireaurcs andh,he had indeed admitted Into his councils
predicate men, but no regicide had
were attended by many hundred persons. lie has 1 dangerous
: as yet been noted by his Majesty at his council table,
lectured to above 20,000 persons since be landed in
much less admitted into his closet. The Influence of
Scotland, and travelled near 1000 miles. We have
the pleasure of finding, that in consequence of his such men is a severer punishment on good French-
Lectures, me
a meeting was held in Marischal College, n than any bad ones can suffer from the Allies.—
Aberdeen, Principal Brown, whose eminence in lite-
They are now punished by the same unfeeling inhu-
Mum does credit to our country was called to the : inanity of nearly the same unfeeling men, who have,
Maw, since 1789, overwhelmed France and Europe with
chair,- by a very respectable assembly.
formed themselves into of so many calamities. They talk of the ambition of
those present unanimously
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46 the Aberdeen Lancasterian Institution,"
and .one man ‘Vltat could he hive effected without
their suggestions and support ; their Reports, Me-
opeued a liberal subscription. We may now say,
morials, and Setiatus Consultitm ? They were never
that not only Ireland loves end thanks Mr. Latices.
ter, hut Scotland extends her open hand, and joists victims; but Mures 5 his accomplices; sharers
sts
both of his patrol' anti of his spoils. It was at MOs.
the thistle with the rose and shamrock,' to do that
cow and at Leipzig, and not at Paris or in 'France,
justice to his disinterested labours, which 0 ill open
the way for yet more extensive usefulness. that terror troubled the usurper's repose. ‘Vere
We quote with pleasure the Aberdeen Resolution not these wars national, that were undertaken ac.
of Thanks. cording to the decrees of the first constituted French
46 Resolved unanimously, That the Thanks of this Authorities, and supported •by nearly a million of
French soldiers ? As all these wars were notori- :
Meeting be given to Mr. Joseph Lancaster, for his
crusty unjust, their approvers and their supporters
unwearied attention to the best interests of the youth
cannot properly be called the instruments, but the
of the British Empire, and particularly for the di -
accomplices of their criminal Chief. An up:tart ty.
initiation which he has given to his mode of educe-
tion during his present visit to this city."
rant would never lind seflicient force in the multi-
The Magistrates of Elgin, among many
rude, without slit h artful deceivers and unprincipled
ethers, ' accomplices. Nn subsequont reverses of such a
'were anxious to aid his good works, and cheer him
guilt in power, rut compensate the injured for their
on his way. They invited him to visit the public
• schools, and were much gratified with his Lecture to • sufferings by its horrid excesses.—Nolhiug proves
'mote the e alit of all humane, honest, and Patriotic
their.youth. After it was over, they deliberated on
. sentiments, than the miscrip!ion decrees of (heap
the best mode of paying him some mark of respect,
and unanimously agreed to
accomplices, who sacrificed even their own children
freedom of that respectable town. Their Burgess
present hi"' with the ;to their ambition anti cupidity, though by it they rivet.
! tell the galling iron fel ter, oi. their countrymen. To
Act bears, after the customary introduction, that he
was created a Freeman,
, them alone the mourning and calamities of Earope '
44 In testimony of the high esteem and regard
!most be imputed, and they dare to speak of re.
: prom:lies—reproaches to convicted robbers and mut-
- they entertain towards him, not only as the Founder
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of the Royal Lsncasterian System. but also for hiserersl—repreaches to regicides ! What a berefaced
nn;versal benevolence and unremitting exertions in impudence I. —A decree of the King has disbanded
the propagation of knowledge, and more particu. • the army ; it, nevertheles exists in defiance of his Mn.
jetty's orders, but in obedience to the plans of his
lady for the kind interest he took in developing the
worthless Counsellors, to rule their King by the terrtsr
objects of his valuable Plan to the Youth of the !
I, of their army. flow this army is attached to peace and
Academy of Elgin.
public tranquillity, theee, by its ravaged departments,
(signed) " PAT. DUFF, Recorder." '
The Provost, Recorder, and a number of respect-
; have more than once proclaimed. Its existence and
able Burgesses, convened a Special Meeting, to pre.
. re-union are real evils to France, and incompatible
sent this mark of respect, and as True Friends
pith the safety of other States. As long as the Al-
(Quakers)never take oaths, they cheerfully dispensed lies remain in France, the reture of the soldiers into
with the Burgess oath, in regard to his feelings. This the bur-'m of the people would be attended with no
action altogether does them great credit, and was ho. •, danger, ns the presence of the victorious strangers
poured in Elgin by the general approbation of she would sons ohlige them to resume their former oe.
whole town. : captions and habits ; but after their absence, when
Edinburgh, Glasgow, Paisley, Dumfries, Ayr, no one has power to extinguish fermentation and to
Greenock, Part Glasgow, Perth, Dundee, Arbroath, cstablich obedience, the mingling the soldiers with
Montrose,_ Abordeen, Elgin, Fortes, Nairn, have alt the citizens would be only throning new inflamma.
received Mr. Lancaster's visits with much approba. hie matter into the same flames that have so often I
lion, and with many other places had the benefit of menaced to consume the liberty and prosperity of !
his Lectures. A number of new Lancasterian Europe. It is indeed grievous to think, that the
Schools are daily rising up, and the Founder of actual state of things originates from the mistaken
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the System renders every aid he can, by constant lenity of the Allies in 1814, and from their er-
I-Anemic belief that the morals of France resembled
correspondence, not only to these Islands, but to
remote. parts of the world, and alio takes measures the morals of the rest of Europe. The 'past, and
to secure teachers, slates, lessons, and the articles
especially the recent events, show that the fulfil-
client of their desires, "the safely and quid of Ea-
indispensable to the success of schools, on his Sys-
tem—and for this, his recent improvements, made in rope," depends on other measures than those grant.
his System by himself, and his great experience, well et' in 1814; and that the means of avoiding new
qualifies him : . •••nd greater calamities, are only found in rendering
" New, free to all, the tree of knowledge grows, France impotent to Wirt them. Such is the
Tae orphan child no interdiction knows, disposition, such the wish and interest of every
Thr•axh climes remote iii yielding boughs shall shoot, one of the Allied Sovereigns. But if, on the
Aud N dare's rudcstrhildren pluck its fruit." S. W. : other hand, they should wish the obtaining of
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more than adequate means to enforce their wishes.—
The blind obedience of Frenchmen to the lowest and
worst of tyrannies, that of Robespierre; of Herres,
and of Bonaparte, shows the Powers, that there
can be no danger in concealing designs which policy
may yet requir-o to he secret. It is, however, well
known, that they only *ant indemnity for tke post
We are happy to find, that not the least accident and security fur the future; and should loyal
,occurred at the Royal Circus on Monday night, al- Frenchmen not know what idea they ought to enter-
though the pressure of the crowd exceeded any thing fain of his Majesty's " Gorcniment and authority,
we have witnessed for.some time, owing to the great' and the
,future," the ignorance comes from the hi-
novelty of the Balloon, from which weredistribut- fluence of -bad men near the•Throur.. It cannot do
tut to the audience Ten Shares of Tickets, with nu- otherwise than inspire atitiety. and suspicion, mod,
mer..tas mottoes, illustrative of the Three grand render every thing a subject of terror. What criisdr
Prizes '41350,000, and the Four Pt ices of 4320,000, feelings can emanate from this influence of perverse.
In the present novel Lottery, which will begin draw- terrorists in the State? All the measures of the
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date the power Or the King, and the trentiaillity of mother). Francis was so much affected that i:ie
lira nett and Europe. Theit generous conduct is tears ran from his eye 4, and he was oblige() t,;t
evident, and wants no explanation. In due time down. ll' said to these young girls, (;that: t. 0.,.
all their demands, as so many Conditions of the (he tranquil). Several of the Indies then shewm
repose of nations, will be brought forward, and him a sort of scapular, which they wore, and n„the concession of France to their views will make which a rose was embroidered, having in the middle
part of a reciprocal treaty. The Sovereigns bestow - a portrait of the young Napoleon. Erery one talks
attention to their own interest only so far as it is about this event in Paris in his own way.
connected with the -general interest of Europe ; and The French Journals still assert that the Allied
as long as their soldiers assist and protect the culti. troops are about to quit France, hut in the meat,
rotors, they mast find means of subsistence, which, time the suprior Olcers of the English army hl,,
besides, the dispersion of their troops will ensure.— hired hotels at Paris for a year.
All arms will be taken away iii Franca by the Allies, • It was said yesterday for the (north time that IL..
as they were always by Frenchmen in foreign coon- -Anstritris, by a cottp•de-netrin, Is ,d seized e 1,,„
tries.; and death awl military rsecutiun shall imme. Toulon. _
diately follow every murdetous deed. As relatively' A person who has arrived from Lisle has seen ti
nothing has been destroyed by their soldiers, the sitar. Ca.ittiotieers by the side of their guns, with the:.:
like contributions can easily be paid ; they are no 'Matches lighted, ready to repel the foreign tronis
sacrifices, bat merely a t, iII i lig atonement for the im- i who wish- tweeter that town.
mense extortion of Frenchmen in all States, where

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their armies have penetrated. Notwithstanding thu
perilous example set by France, the victories of the
Allies have not relaxed the discipline of the troops,
who will return to their native lands uncorrupted even
by Gallic seductions. This war is distinguished in
every respect from the wars of France. It has in view
the happiness, not the misery of mankind. It was tie-
Icessity and philanthropy, and not a vain glory, that
armed the Aliies ; though as yet none of the just
Idesires have been accomplished without obstacles
from those they had vanquished, who represent and
'I complain when they ought to submit and obey. Who
I are those that dare to mention a contrast between
I the conduct and the promises of the Allies ?—Grand
criminals, s.ith whom nothing was ever sacred, and
from whose perfidy Europe has endured as much as
from their cruelty. At no period of the civilized
world have more atrocities. been perpetrated, or
mankind been more oppressed, than since Gallic —ma—
' sophists and hypocrites proclaimed their pretended The Paris Papers of Tuesday last reached es tilt
liberal ideas, their age of reason, and their rights of forenoon. They contain some important statemeae.
man. The public opinion that could approve of It is affirmed, on the authority of letters frostsuch fallacies, and of their consequence, such enor-
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' mities ought not to be tolerated, much less respected Italy, that Lyme Bouaeastax s wife has been sc.
'by Princes armed in defence of the cause of legiti- Ilatainated• The date of this informatioa is not given.
mscy and of morality. They cannot be satisfied with An article from Turin, of the 20th alt. in the
the punishment of a single individual, as long as his Brussels Oracle of the 12th inst. (the date of the
accomplices in the sporting with the calamities of
French Papers in which ' this anponce is made),
' nations are at large and in influence to execute new
violence, and their habitual inhumanity. Had -the . _ , •
states, that LtacUra had requested permission to go
King's authority been duly respected, and had to Rome to visit his wife, who was dangerously ill;
Frenchmen been dutiful and quiet, the entry of the , but this permission he could not receive, though he
Allied Sovereigns into Paris might have put an cud t offered to go as a prisoner of war, under escort, on-
to the war. But the degradation of the MonarCh I
: • t tit the. Allied SurereigOs were consulted I
by the criminals who forced themselves into Ills
Counci;‘, and clissamirustel confusion and anarchy The inlet ligenew from Paris is of a strangely mixed
to keep their usurperplaces, rendered some se-
in
-it is said the Prussia.' Guard which remained
verity necessary. as long as Pore was unsafe.— in Paris/ had received orders to bold themselves in
Besides, the evils inflicted by France on others l'
er adiness to leave that capital ; that considerable
were much greater, and of such a dark character,
that they could be inflicted by Frenchmen alone.— . everts of the Austrians are now leaving France for
. They took place in the midst of peace, often in the eltaly; and that 300,000 troops of different nation:
countries of the friends of France, or of neutrals, rail! have left France •by the 20th of this month.—
without combats and. withnnt resistance : and when yet we are told at the same time, that a great rum.
the use of arms had no other object than the gratifi-
'her of the Allied troops have returned to Paris—that
cation of French vanity nud cupidity. Tire. Allies
• are, therefore, far from imitating what they pro- o, __uszasa arrived in that capital on
the_ Emperor f A
' perly impute to Frenchmen as a crime. It is indeed Monday last, and the Emperoralf RUSSIA was to es,
ton well known, awl it will Indeed he long remem- torn on Wednesday. His brother the Grand Duke
bered, that the want not only of moderation, but of c ONSTANTINE is also expected at Paris from War.
every sentiment of honour and humanity of Gallic
invaders, humblest and crushed both the North and saw. Lord CATHCART has left the French recast,
the South, both the East and the West, and that such but it is not said whither he has gone.
barbarous provocations called forth the dormant but, . " Yesterday," say the Papers, "different corps if
not extinct spirit of patriotism, of the oppressed.—
1 the Allies entered Paris. • A corp of Belgians by the
Their few and momentary acts of retaliation cannot
be called a vengeance for rears of unheard-of cals.. Faubourg St. Denis, and strong detachments of Aso
mities—calamities that had for object to make them Wan and Prussian cavalry by the barrier of Cathy."
assent to being erased from thejlist of nations, and to .In the midst of this we find " trains of Freocb at.
render all Europe France, and thus to prove that no- tillery," and troops that '6 every body" was glad to
tions may die in modern as well a; in ancient times.
see and to hail, defiling in the Boulevards of the
They were, however, quiet. until, thanks to French
arms and policy, they had no longer any thing to North ! Has the return of any body of the French
preserve—not even the hope of maintaining their army, or the disturbances in the capital (for riots
• names as nations ; but no sooner had they lost al. have again begun, produced by quarrels betweenthe
most every thing, and their ruin was nearly con. •
. citizen, and the Prussian soldiers) occasioned this re.
firmed, than a new order. of thing., a new series of
("sews arose. An ardent patriotism took the place visiting of the Allies, and strengthening of their
of resignation ; and France, respecting uo Govern-
guard-corps. Or have new difficulties started in the
ment, and renouncing all obedience, felt in her turn ' way of the negociations ? Will net Lours discard
some of the evils of war and of conquest, though
the steps of her invaders were markeilleith no other ' those Ministers who stickle for the integrity of
'and will France: ll not heard they command theGovera•
blood than that of a resisting, undisciplined soldiery'
and of other armed rebels. i ors of the fortresses who pertinaciously hold out to
if France wishes to destroy herself; if •the victims lay open the country to every Power that may base
of La Vendee unite teems' lces with their assassins of .a• wish to invade it, and to raze those barriers fic
the rebel army ; if the King removm, and his lune. lever that have so long been the security of Fnace!
tionaries quit their pleies, the Allies will thee, be 1
by a military rule, to prevenea catastrophe ' this i : • :—and
Will nut FOUCHE Stu: TALLETRAND do t obliged,
mere fatal to France than to • themselves. ' But wile I will the Ally of the generous Sovereigns, in (11.941
then to the evil advisers of hill IViajest) ! Woe then of all their disinterested representations, continue
to those • men of blood, with whom orleioate such
to
uncommon wreacheilliess! They then shall feel the keep such men as his Ministers ? It appears this
is really the fact. Difficulties have arisen in Pori!,
whole weight of the wrath of the aictort, and mitre-
roes gibbets all over France, shall prove that the reaPectinX the ("Ilk' ; and now that it"sis 131
vanquished and the vanquishers do not lie together in declared fur the integrity of the French territoe,
the same gave. and the cation is determined to maintain it flair,
the rest of the Continental Members of the Confede-
.. racy , mast either sit down short of their aim, or re
wew the struggle in the best way they can. la ft.~'
mean time they seem disposed to profit as much as
'possible, by the hold they have got. We have some
interesting information on this subject, communicate!
.byllamburgh, Dutch, and Flanders Mails (no los
'than three of the former), which arrived this fnr,-
. noon. One of the Brussels Papers of the 9th sags,
--.44 'While the French Papers affirm daily, that the
Allied Armies are on the point of leaving France,
!.we on this side see no appearance of peace, but nu-
t onerous corps every day marching to join the arm's
of the Duke of
.W ELLII4 °TON and Prince Brxcura.
—Siece the beginning of this month, many column'
hare passed through Cambrny to Picardy and the ea-
r
shoos of Paris. On the other side numerous Prus-
' sian regiments have crossed the Sambre, and take"
the way to Avesnes and Rocroy. The landing of
troops, horses, and military stores is unremitiol ;301
all these troops as they arrive from England, r"ce.."l
without delay to Franc.,. It is affirmed that if the
difficulties, which have arisen in rids in respect to tic

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Sic transit. gloria munili. The joy of the Recli-
lignes has been 4:f very short duration with, respect to
the retirement of Epoch,. This Minister had made
!very prepnrrifino to go to America, but the King
peremptorily desired that he should remain in office,
and this particularly at the solicitation of an English
personage of the highest consideration, whose name
cannot he mentioned, for fear of causing dew reirets
to certain Joornalists.of London. That the retire.
ment of Fouche is regarded at Paris in a very different
light to what it is by certain London Newspapers,
evident from this circumstance, that the public funds,
which fell when his dismission was talked of, have
iisen, now It is known he remains in office.
The Ett.Empress Maria Louisa having reque;ted
Ler father to visit the orphan daughters of the Mem-
hers of the Legion of •Honoor, who are in Its Maison
tl'Ecouen, the 'Empercir Francis went a few• days
since. As soon as the ladies were apprized of the
presence of the RmPerorthey passed before him in
procession, and presented him with a veiled picture.
The Emperor having tethered the veil recognized the
portrait of his daughter. The ladies then began to
cry oat) Rendes nous nem mere (restore us our

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