The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-08-26 00:00:00

PRUSSIJN PROTECTION.

I'liz Missing letter hiss been just received in Lon.
tlon fo on, en English person long resilient in France,
end an inmate in the family of a Noble Duke that has
sotie,ad mach for his loyalty in the cause of the Bout-
,boo •

" fib, my good Friend !—Dirl yen see this coup.
try at present, net Paris, but the different provinces,
you would be sisrptised at the ravages these four last
rmnths hate produced; and, how all will end, God
alone can tell.
" However nobly, however generously the Eng-
lish and the Ituseissts behave' the Prussians are like
so (Mail torrents which overflow oil all sides, pillage
' and destroy every thing ; and when we remonstrate
with them, their ansoei Go 11110 Prussia and
see what the French have done there, and then corn.
plain if you daro!—l was en e> e w fitness of the
sisits they made at the Duke's. There first came only
four, with their loaded pistols cocked in their hands,
or rather at arms length, in the court-yard of the
castle. The Duke went to meet them, and desired
them to put aside their arms, as they, would be well
received. They their alighted, and asked only to
eat and dark ?—After that they asked for twenty
sacks of oats ? but when they found that the Duke
was acquainted with their General, they seemed to be
aft aid, and said they would not take the corn. They
then asked for some bottles of wine and brandy ?
which they carried away.
" The next day my servant came in a great hurry, •
and told me that about forty Englishmen were ar.
rived, and if I would look out at the window, I
might see them. Alas I did indeed see them, but
not our good countrymen, but Saxons with a Prus-
sian Olficer, who spoke French so as to be perfectly
understood.--. The Duke came out of the castle to
receive them, and said he hoped they would not
treat the house nor country as enemies, but as faith-
ful sihi.,ets to the King.—lle conducted the Officers
into the dining room, and ordered the servants to
set tables under the piazzas which are on each side
of the great court yard for the soldiers. They then
served :limn with meat and drink in abundance,
whilst their chiefs dived in the castle. I must give,
you an idea of their sobriety—thev eat abundantly
of fowl; and ham, anti drank each three full.bottlee
of champagne; they then took each three large
cups of strung coffee, and also asked for beer,
which they drank each a bottle after the coffee.
--They next proceeded to business, which was
the demand of thirty sacks of oats, eighty shirts,
two barrels of wine, each of 340 bottles, two
fat cows, 30 leaves of eight pounds weight, and when
they found that 30 were not sufficient, they asked
for 60 of the same weight, a basket of three dozen of
champagne for the Officers, another of the same quan-
tity of bottled beer, with candles, salt, &c. &c.—
Wl.ea they had put all into a large waggon drawn by
four strong hoists which they had brought with them,
they set out, telling the Duke that they were much
surprised that he lived in his castle at the present
moment, and assuring him that he ought to be very
well contented with their conduct, as the manner they
treated him was very different from what they had re.
quired in the other castles in the neighbourhood.—
They stayed front three till eight o'clock in the
evening. When the Officers were on horseback they
asked for,more champagne, which they drank with-
out ceremony to the Duke's health, out of the bottles
without glasses. Whilst they were in the court-
yard, a poor waggoner with a team of fine horses
pa‘ited before the castle; they seized the poor man,
waggon and all, and obliged him to follow them.
" trey went to a castle about two leagues off and
stripped it of every thing they found, as the master
was not there; they left nothing but the bare walls.
Those who have the courage to stly in their houses
do well, for if they make their visit, what they can-
not take away they hurn and destr'y. In short,
the Dike obtained whit they name a sate-guard, and
they now leave the inhabitants quiet; though since
the visit I have giseri you tee description of, 100
men and 151 horses nit ye been sent to be fed and pin.
sided for at the castle, and every week they demand
something more. They have just given him an order
to send 18 fat cows to the camp ; so thick bow ail
the toilettes will be ruined if this continues.
" At the Duke's hotel in Paris; he has had 30
soldiers and OPicers to feed, and also their horses,
since the 7th of July. A General Officer too, with
his quite is expected, who *Ol not take rip with any
thing less than the best apartments in the lintel, :led
his table must be in prnportina. lor you but a
eery trifling description of the iediseri.neiete nepre.
dations of the Prussians and their swinish voracity."

'FRENCH 111EIV OF TIM BRITISH WARS
lV 1vu1.4.

tracrat re %Vol txt's at Etsvvocrt, Ann. 21.)
It will be seen by a reference to our last Number,
that the English affairs in India are by no weans in
such a flourishios4 way as we were led to suppose;
the cause is not antis►tctorily explained, we only
hear that it S.,verrign Prince is despised by his sub.
jerts, end an inference is immediately drawn from il,
that he ought to he deposed; how far that is just we
wit; not pretend to say, bat we certainly are
astoui►hed to And those very subjects fighting des-,
perately for him ; we allude to the late conquest of
the Kill of Candy.—lf it is considered absolutely
necestrwy,.to ensure the tranquillity of the other
provinces in India, that a Prince, whose example
miiht have bad effecti, should be dethroned, well
and cont.! ; but if any other reasons are in the scale,
we think it extremely dangerous the merely attempt-
ing to effect such an object. Instead of striking
terror into the heart; of the native Princes, it will
rather cause them to lorsk with a jealous eye,—to
wild+ more narrowly the actions of the Europeans ;
we think it is murk better for the English Govern-
ment to pot up with a (ew trilling affronts from them,
than by attacking the hive, one after the other, to
bring down the whole swarm upon them ; we all-
know the temper of those Princes;—the dreadful
scenes at Vellore are still fresh in our remembrance;
—the very Missionaries sent out to teach them
Christianity, are enough to set the whole in com-
motion, they are more attached and more fond of
their marks of cast, than nn Irishman is of his
hengue,-1 Dutchman of his pipc,—or a Lawyer of
a Chaucer) suit (rick the Debates of last =goo).—