The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-10-16 00:00:00

THE s'rATEsmA N.

his eye on the Tribueeso, and observing them to be
melee, enquired upon what grounds the public were
Faro, Oct. 10. eectutled from a Sittig, which had for its object a
matter of public interest as the verification of
'rep (Mambo!. of Deputiro cemmenced its sittings the
e poweredelegeted by the people to their Represeii.
egt.!.l'.. The public Here erlinitted only for a few tAises ?
.1t was objected it! answer, flak( the House
mietutes, hut e I ar to •k placeduring those few minutes
not being yet constitut J, public admission to its de-
gave a very strong impreseinu of the geiteral cletrac-
ooerations would be pi PlTltUte.
ter of a French deliberative assembly. It was like&
But if the foreging piles relative to the verificationglimpse of a whirlwind : all was heat, and hurry, slid
of the powers of the Deputies. ehat is, whether they.
eeerission, upori ;mints of little or uo interest. Vie have
teen duly eteeted or tint, a ere gone through
French r hat erter s. no where more visibly (lisp's yed ; •
withsome lenity, there is one point ripen which it
aft ersevete, propositions have bees successively made
must be allowed that, infinite stress was laid, and
and Tele. led, an Orator rn"untstbe tribune, sdia`ts"'s which %Ai iiiyes•igeted with the closest severity; that
papers artitlislress, and frrociteds to offer his views, is, the
quota of
smite ibutions which Should qualify
itith a perfect conviction that he is going to set the'
an individual to sit in the llo'use, namely, a thousaod
noes•ion completely et 'rest : his reception is more
francs a year. The result" of the verification of do.
etertifi ieg than that of his predecessors, but still he cameos f
orthis purpose, made by the reporter, was,
is nor embermtsed. Their practice of murmuring•
the esclusien of several Members, three of whom sat
a;v upon the least difference of opinion, is e_ the late Arouse of Deputies, the eloquent and po.
net or'y entera-y to the general courtesy of French
pular Flaugergues being of the number. One Mem.
inenners, hut extrenvely unfair and indecorous. 'flieir•
her moved that the documents relteive to this point
&hates upon subjects where• their passions are 111:
should be read -aloud hurl extimined publicly, that the
t.'n.steci must be a curio" spectacle, contrasted with House might form its own judgment of their. validity,
the calmness and regularity with which public or pri-
but the motion was over-ruled, by the consideration
tan- deliberations are eneducted in England. There 'of its being illiberal to question the veracity of the
teas n considerable degree of disorder amongst them, rePorter.
.even in the presence of the King, at the niteoing of
Thus the discussion of every important question
the Chambers. Greta importance is attached to the was eluded, and the verification of the potiers of
nnatificetion which two of the Peers annexed to their nearlytwo-thirds of the new House was dispatched
bathe; it has been produetieref much alarm in this
'fettle limits of a couple of hours, to the great saris-
eilbtitt mind. The 'reservation concerning the Catho-
faction of Ministers and of the Court, who, from this
Mc Heti:rine is u.nderstood to have been made by thefti
suspicious beginning, Will probably find as much du.
with 'a reference to the restoration of churCh pro- edit,' in this House as Bonaparte ever did in the most
perty, Sielrl during the Ile-tont-ion. M. De Polignae, ebieet
of id 3 legislative
assemblies.
one of 'lie Peers who q talified their oaths; is the; Frem the manner of forming this House, it cannot
private frieed of the 'Duke or Angouleme, and sop.
be surprisieg that a high aristocratic spirit should pre-
-' poser! to be the otgen.of that Prince's sentiments.-- veil in it.
Th•• epeniog of the Chambers has hitherto •tended 'The King, by au Ordinance issued on his return,
Much morl'• to agitate than tranquillize the Parisians; assutnieg to himself the constituent power, authorised
cries' are more •frequeet in the streets ; every Prefect to add 20 individuals to the Electoral
and quarrels, endimg• in bloodshed, between the College of his Department ; these individuals are se-
riussians and Freech, •are so frequent, than they lected by the Prefect, who is himself uppointed by
no longer attract perticuler 'mike. It is said Royal authority. '
'the Prussians are to. he removed from Paris, and Evert, Depar•rnent, according to its extent and po.
to be succeeded by I‘;taglisli troops, for the pur- potation, is disidt'd into three, four, five, or even
pose of test-ming public tranquillity. A most ran- sir a rrondisectitsals ; each of the latter elects a tient-
guitaary conflict took place at one of the barriers, in• ber of caielidates'equal to teat of the Deputies which
consequence of the refusal of some Prussian officers the Department sends to tie Legislative Body.—
to pay the ditty .nn eine whicu they brought into Thus, if the Department sends four Deputies and
Paris; two Prussians and several peasants were contains four arrondissements, 16 candidates are
desperately ouci!ed. Another riot took place on elected by the letter. he Electoral College of the
the quays on Saturday, immediately after the King's Department (a hich consists of electors named for lire
rms rut teem the Clia saber 'of Deputies; several by the Primary Assemblies) then selects two out of
chid), rni;•es , cried Vice r Empereur; 16, and they terminate tine other two from among
the petice and Netienel 0, ird lode& stationed along 'such other candidates as may present themselves for
the lint' 'where the King es aa to -pass, there was not that purpose.
It sufficient force to restrain the Bonaparti.ts, who
isle .bled its great numbers near the Place de Greve.' CHAMBER OF PEERS, Ocr. 10.
ft suss bete that so much blond had been shed dor.. The Sittige commenced at noon.
ins the Revelutine; it is stilt the place where capi- • Tne Peers newly created having assembled with the
tai MT-oilers are guilletitted. • There 'is a strong former 'Members in the Chamber, the President di-
etutess'On of ferocity in the crowds that are 'at reeled them to withdraw until introduced by two
all tittles to he seen in this part of the Fans., Peers, conformably to the regulation.
bourg it. Antoine ; they gave free expression to The new Peers complied with this direction, and
their feelings whilst the King was passing at some' it was agreed that, in consideration of what had
distance, and insulted some Prussians, who with le•ssed at the Roe al Sitting, it would not be necessary
aiffico;ty escaped. On tau following day a strong to go through any other formalities previous to taking
Prussian force, with three or foe,' pieces of cannon, their seats.
iuriseunded this quarter of the town, and summoned i The take de la VAUGUYON moved that an excel,.
all the inhabitants to appear before the Commanding tiou be made with respect to the two Peers, Comets
Officer ; it was apprehended that they would have Jules de Foliose and Labourtlonnals de Blossec,
filed upon the houses. The greatest consternation who announced restrictions in taking the oath in the
was spread throughout all Paris ; the general cry i Royal Sitting.
was that the Allies were going to sack the too n.i After some debate the Chamber resolved that a
The troops and the cannot, remained stationed in this • copy should be transmitted to these two Piers, ac-
twiner, and no person was permitted to retire for; companied with a request for them to sign it. .
genie hours. The'Officer who commanded the Pros- I The Duke de Gratienont and Count de roulettes,'
siatis at length told them that no injury should then , appointed Commissioners to carry this resolution into
he inflicted upon them, but that they should be re- I @lied, and to whom had been joined ex officio the
sponsit.le for any disorder committed there in future. Duke de Richelieu, and the former Bishop of Lan-
The seve. est threats were held out, no less than the , gres, returned into the Chamber, and reported that
demolition of the houses. The troops were then or- the two Peers persisted in their objection, and had
deter' to reties with the cannon. Notwithstanding • withdrawn.
this, I saw +hi ee 'temps, two of whom were French; On the invitation of the Chamber the ether Peers
sol,!iers, taken MS there the next day for seditious recently cleated entered and took their seats.
("firs ; even the was instil:ed oe his return from Princes of the Royal Family were at the same
the Chamber of Deputies. It is quite clear that the time introduced, accompanied by a Grand Prebendary,
met active means are adopted to irritate and Ceetate and preceded by hie Peers. They took their seats
the eeeete of Paris ; lampoons and caricatures among the oilier Peers.
ree,;„,i the Kee, and the (Loyd Family are not only 'l:..' Duke de Is VAUOUYON now proposed that it
tirrolated, hot even sold privately in the ships ; they should be an established principle, that a Peer not
exer • their :maginations in every possible way to bound by the same oath as his coliesgus, should not be
/r,ake the King odious and ridiculous. admitted to a seat in the Ceamber.
Count LANJUNAis proposed simply to resolve that
the admission of the two Peers was deferred without I
expressing the motive, and to declare, that according
to the forms of the regulation, the oath to be pro.,
nouticed in the Royal Sitting should be made the sub-
ject of the plan of a law, as a law only could re-
gularly make any disposition with respect to the con-
dition of a cilizati.
Count BettateMetteors was against the proposal
of a law, on the ground that his .%lsjesty had al-
ready inserted in the obligation of obedience in the
Charter, and in tee oath prescribed by the last
Ordinance of the Royal Court of Pails, and in that
lateen by the two Chambers.
'!'lie Duke of Itiettereeu said—God forbid that it
should ever be interred, from what is stated heti.,
that ally deliberation of the Chamber tends to in-
fringe the Roe al Prerogative, and deprive a Peer of
being one of its Members ; but the Chamber, as the
judge of its own reitileges, may suspead the exer-
cise of the functions of a Peer.
'1 he Abbe doers-es tor repressed the same
opinion, and added that in England, silica the passing
or the Test Act, there had always been Peers who
iefuscd to tahe the oaths, and who preserved their
Peerage without the right of sitting and voting.
M. de LUZIHNE (the former Bishop of Langres)
moved that it should be merely inserted in the Ali-
outer, 'that the Peers who had taken the oath bud
been admitted to it.
Count leistreyiese seconded this motion.
Count CORNI3 also supported it, observing that
the case was too delicate to admit of any other pro-
ceeding.
Count LALLY-TOLENDAL proposed to nulle the
two propositions into one, and to make it an article
of the regulations of the Chambers, for this purpose
he moved a resulutien in these terms:—`' The ad-

PRIV.4TE CORRESPONDENCE.

Park 9rt. 10.

The House of Deputies met yesterday (the 9th of
October), and proceeded to the very important busi-
ness of v.rifyirrg the powers of the Members returned
by the late elevtions. The (louse is (hoick(' for this
purpose, as well as for the transacti.ni of other mat.
tors, into burettlx, or section,, nine in number, each
of which has its President; t:,e choice of the latter
iris as might be expected, upon characters
chrelly tec,,romenderl Icy the distinctions of rank and
.birth, a: well as by their unre.er‘ed devotion to the
/Royal cause; such are the P•ince Do Montmorency,
Mons. DP Bin611(1, the Alarquis De Frottc, the
Count De See), &c.

Proceeding in the discharge of such important du-
ties, it was natural to examine, as a primary point,
the in'structions siren by Ministers to the Presidents
.of 11e Electoral Colleges, who were appointed by
ilie King; communication of.these itictructintis nes
requested and poremieorily refused. The chief mo-
4ive which induced the enquiry for these instructious
was, that of their centainit.g one point in particular,
which had given general umbrage to the Departments,
namely, the committing to the Presidents of the
.Electoral Colleges the exclusive charge of scrutit,ising
and calling over the votes; the consequence of which
arrangement is, that if the President happen to be
more influenced by party zeal than by a d•ie sense of
the obligations of his true, he mug, on taking up the
written votes dictate to the Secrete' ies the name hest
suited to his party, then tenting the vote, which is
the custom, the impossibility of detection is secured.
• The proces•verbalv, or minutes of the proceedings
of the Colleges of arrntalissrments were submitted to
•the House, but, in consequence of its being observed
that it would take up lon muds lime to examine them,
they mere not gone into, and thus the due qualifica-
tions of the candidates were not investigated.

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41! The galielies iv her. Arangsrs are admitted. Tribuce, taken
in the wugutar, is the plaq Inano which the Nteiaiwi !peaking
nrtnie,,e: 'twit low, u, We) ever sktuk tr their
Kat..

A Member in the co,tise of the debit haring esti

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mission of two Peers, who did not purely and simply more exact idea of the predominant spirit
of ti.•
take the oath prescribed in the Royal Sitting, is 1 party re-adionnaire, than the desigestiou of ilt,:;
suspended." . • , ['Jacobins. It is the same feelings of eza,perari„ e
The Duke (lit Betterlsupported et length the opi. ; the same hatred of every thing connected with I;,'
ninn of the Bishop of Langres, which, as it merely i Revolution, the same means which they employ to
implied lie suspensive of the rights.of the Peerage, l restore absolute power, which the Jacobin, 0,,,d to
avoided all extrneeous questions. ; overthrow it. They have began by obtaining pot
After a long discussion the proposi'ion of Count 1 se-sion of nll the places in sdmittistiatinn and pollee.
Lilly-T(II(4HW was agreed to, reduced to the form they have their agents eve!), wlte,l. ; their missioaarie'
Din resolution and finally adopted. : and their spies; in all the principal cities Cey ha,:
The PecsIDIENT then directed a copy of the Speech : secret committees, composed of pure royalists, 01,
delivered by his Mijesty to be read, in order that mark nut those persons wham they snsiett, mol
ii,.
the Chamber might proceed to the consideration of the_same as was (lone by the .1 tcoliiii Clubs, and Ih.
an Address in reply. Cnnimittees of Enquiry. It uas they 14119 ur4c)
The Duke de la VauGuios mile a speech on the the dish toding of the army of the Loire, and raiod
state of affairs, the printing of w bleb was ordered. shese loyal corps which they reckon soots to 0..
to
Ile concluded by tooting the plan of an Address. in est•cote tbeir 5..-hemes of velwelth-e. lilt it' wit,which were remarked a total silence respecting men. cliii.lly of importance to them to b Ise the Chinn.
sores of rigour end the most touching elusion oft bets on their side. For this purnase they con,
sentiment on the neces•ity of union and peace amonit aired to obtain no Ortioneance w hi. it aathori;ed the
all Fiettchmen. The latter part of the speech in l'refects to nominate I:clnq cl•clors of their ozz,,
particular was heard with a general feeling of appro. choice, in each electoral assembly, without ro.
billion. i tlectieg that these electors, not being chosen 1)

The Address was reforrt•d to a Committee, and the
Chamber adjourned to Saturday neat.

PARIS, Ocr. 11.---1 ryas much surprised to find in
one of the Papers of this morning a detailed account
of what passed in the Chamber of D..putirs yesteida y.
The other Journalists might he accused of negligence,
were not the Editor of that Paper guilty of great indis-
cretion and impropriety. soreral pers,,us had very
improperly introduced themselves into the Tribuifes,
but M. Calvet.de Nledellati oho., red, that the Cham-
ber not being constituted, it was contrary to the regu-
Winos of the House to render the sittings public,
and tile. President ordered the Trihunes to he cleared.
The Ushers in waiting, on requesting the Journalists
to retire, particularly desired they should destroy
their notes, obserting,' that if the Papers published
the Sittings, the offioers charged with the Police of
the Chambers would be seriously compromised. AU
the Journalists most willioglv complied with the re.
quest, the Editor of one Paper excepted, who made
use of his notes, and not only gate an account of
the Sitting, but of what pissed in the Secret Corn-
mittee. As the hand shakes, and the memory is
treacherous, when one is agitated by the fear of being
taken in flagranti &lido, the Editor made a gross
mistake. 1k stated that the verification of the
powers of Messieurs Michaud and Baert had been
adjourned, whilst two Deputies were admitted with-
out opposition. It is scarcely worth while listening
at the door to be so ill informed.

I am yet unable to state what is to he the fate of
the seven persons taken up the other day, near the
Pont Notre Dame, by the Prussians ; whether they
will be tried by our Court of Justice, or by the Prus-
iian Council of War. The Journal des Debuts,
which was the only papor that spoke of the affair,
had its numbers seized at the Post-Office. •

)ir
the people, and consequently unconslitutinnal, res.
tiered the validity of the electiens very deobtful.—.
But by those means they secured the n, ulinrj,`a of
Nobles of puce and ardent Royalists, nod at the
same time crushed the popular party aed the re.
volutinitary men. Ilene., there sno great es.
peered ftorn thus Chamber of Depeties•
arrived, and the agents the Prior. s cored lees
into Cometi.lees to Rive them ittstruc•i ins coafo.e.
able to their s i 2We. ThP greater part, ..teesioy the
Deputies from the South, do not conorial hsir
timenta. They do net ssy that it is tiectrecev so 4„.
iiihilato the charter, but only to suspend it for a r,.w
years, and to give the Kieg tint e..it ;cord p evil% It
will only be necessary to get rid of rhos* whose
eminently guilty. A pers-n counected ei)s ,he
Court said, a few days nen, Kat it woull It tete,
cieot to demolish a thou-atel heads in ea, h &put.
latent, in order to SeCtre tend c tratiquilli y. I. is
also a plrt of their plait to make the net men of
wealth, those of the Revolution, pay the gre,,,,,r
part of the contributions, and to suspend the cons
stitutional law which aholishes the confiscation of
property. You must not be surpriaed if you seethe
Journals of the party, viz. the Journal des Watt,
the Journal General de France, and thearceidenne,
speak this language. These Journals are entirely
devoted to them. As it is necessary to force the
public opinion, which is not on their side,it isdoubt-
ful whether the Chambers will re-establish the liberty
of the press, though even upon the supposition that
they slid, the Opposition Journals would not dare to
speak very freely.
In spite of ill the manceuvres of the White Jaco.
bins, this party does not gain strength. The auks
Lions of the country, which weigh mote or less upon
all, have already cooled a good many hot heads,
'gee among the nobility, and the annunciation of a
disgraceful peace has created a general ferment. The
people connect these public evils with the return of
the King and the emigrntiti, end the royal cause
therefore. does not gain ground. A particular indig-
nation is felt towards the While Jicohins, who pal.
Bate the devastation of our provinces, and the ruin
of the people, rejoice at the destruction or removal
of our monuments, and solicit the Allies to remain'
in France; PI little do they feel themselves supported
by treettion ! The conditions of the Treaty of Peace
dlsiost every one, and it is wondered how the Kele
and his Ministers could sign the degoolaii,e. of
France. The Ernpero' of Russia has olea:ned nee
mitigetien of them it is said ; he has f rmaey de.
lelated himself in favour of France against the Duke
of Welliegtott and Lord Castlereagh. and this die;
cord may have some consequeures. The stripping of
the Gallery, ordered, protected, and executed by
the Duke of Wellington, has elicited the whole of
Paris against him, and to niched his character in the
opinion of men) Englishmen who are here.
Though it is well known that England has a greet
interest in annihilating the power of Frame, yet it
was not expected that -he would, ncourage thedevaso•
lions of tee Allied A• rnies: for ceitaioly, England
who produced this war, who has paid its en;eiro,,
alto will deri se from it the principal advantage, mile
have prevented much ev.l, having the right to inter•
pose her nuthod y, which would have been Hoene'
to. N. one is he dlie of the police of the Eighths
Government. The King has only been the instra.
silent of its nmbitioo, It is well kn.», n that if the
strong places in the la hth, which are for the King,
are taken away, it is oily to have a line of defence
in the Netherlands at t, e expeuce of France, and to
save England Item the c large which she must other•
wise incur in conseqese ce of her Treaties with B'l*
gium. It is known,that it is not for the sake of the
Allies she acts; if she supports the Bourbons it is
because her interest requires that France should he
governed by feeble Priti.es, who will not interfere
with }ter. When we compare the conduct of the
English Goverment with its declarations end pro-
mises, we can no longer he the dupes of its peril*
Vole perceive that our situation is %Arlen ly
settled, because instead of trartquillising all parnor
the Government awakens and stimulates them. It
supposed that a system of terror will strenehen
rbe
Throne, but it is a great error. o.ilivion of the toe!
end moderation, were the only means of cal:ilea all
Frenchmen round the Monarch. The wart of repose
and of peace is universally. felt ; but the Frenel r-
ifle will not sacrifice their rights and their
nor will they submit to lie get ererd pre,c-ablY h! 3"
exclusive teethe' who would rerulie de us front
all places in the lirrne, in the tribunals, in the
administration, ned arroeate to itself privileeei
lta-
miliatiog to the rest of the eatine. Daehiless lie
should heitilrl aid) pleasere the 'ramie sarrer:vl
col ni:h thou :
wtihmesesmia.l!leuttisutanibiedr ;(1.5
ices late tint rd with
our history, and if sacrifices must he made to ,t.i.t;,e
the meets of maintaining their rank reel
oats be t•a4er to make tl.eut : hut this ord r
things does not reqoire the sbelition of the nee,
the penple, a.ol of the (Amite which secures them..
thatsri!! t-v,"
•
It is lint believed the Chamber`
Hist' the Liberec of Idle Pries for the
party of re-actioa <heals it. It is saia, o
tory, that.they still vropose to suppross all the J
tads eacept a single onc.
They talk of the estaleishment of an
ties; for each department to bz confined t 0 t •
futt..s ef :he department.

One of the Papers had spoken in detail of the se-
cret sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on Monday.
The Reporter did not retire with the other inurvial-
ists on that day, but hid himself under one of the
benches: Ile was watched yesterday, and when the
order to retire was iscutd, he was seen to hide him-
self again under the bench, and was immediately
surprised by the messenger.
Six persons have been condemned at Sirstsburgh
for seditious cries. The wife of a Chef de Battalion
of artillery ssss (t iournbiPp.
Order is said to have been restored at Montpelier:
but the Paper published in that town on Monday
gives no details on the subject.

No., Ott. 9.

Do not imagine that the change rif Ministry has at
all ameliorated our political situation. The public
were much alarmed at first, because it was said that
the Ministers retired only to avoid signing a Treaty
of Peace which was Itundliutitig to France (which was
not true), and to- prove—by their secession, that the
part of re-action predominated in the secret councils
of the King. This could not be doubted when the
joy was observed which the resignation of the Duke
of Otranto occasioned, and the fury with which he
was attacked. The reputatiou, however, which he
enjoys is so great, that the tieclametions of the Jour-
taliat•, both English and French, did not prevent him
from being considered as the man who was best able
to suppart the (Its one of the 13aurbons in tl:e cri-
tical circumstances of the present moment. There
is much wanting to make the new Ministry equally
capable of conducting the vessel of the State. But the
choice of them was generally approved, because it
was expected that they would consist entirely of
pure royalists, /den re-actionnair. s; and it Was
from motives of prudence only that the patty of
White Jacobins admitted any persons of the
revolution. Had any other course been adopt-
ed, there would have been too much alarm ex-
cited. I will now enable you to know these
Ministers. Vaublatic, the Minister of the Interior,
is a moderate constitutional man, and •a good admi-
nistrator. Some astonishment was felt that the oath
of haired to [(wally which he took during the revolu-
tion did not prevent his nomination. De Cases, the
Minister of Police, was a Steward of the Household
to Madame Letitia ; afterwards a protege of Queen
lloriettse, and then Prefect of the Police of Pa.is.—
lle is a fine young mall, amiable and lively, but with-
out experience of affairs, stud one who will be purely
passive Limier the henda of the counter-revolutionary
pelt). 'Flue Minister of IVar is known; he is sold
to the party, and detestettby the di-banded army.—
He is not distrusted, although lie served Bounpatto
with fidelity. Beebe Marbois is an hottest old man ;
a good cal. al ,t or ; formerly President of the Chaat. I
ber of Accounts. Ile is thought to be a Constitu-
tionalist, and no one expected to see him Minister of
Justice. Deboucharges, the Minister of Marine. is
placed there because that office is at present a sinecure.
Any one would have done for the situation ; but he
is of the early of the Duchess D'Attgouleme. The I
Duke de Richelieu, President of the Council, an I Mi-
nister for Foreign Affairs, is a good choice. lle did
not wish to accept it, because he did not know France;
but the Emperor of Russia prevailed upon him. if
all the royalists resembled him, the public weal steed
not be despaired of.

The greater pert of these officers aW not remain
long in office, unless they couselit to become the in.
strumetits of the party: sshic:i prevails nt Court, and
which calls for vengeance. Nothing can give you