The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-03-17 00:00:00

PARIS, MARCH 10, 1815.

Friday
it has been proposed to the King to arm Ea
Vendee, and thus secure by one blow 50,000 brave
and devoted soldiers. Louis XVIII., who compic.
bends his own situation and that of France differealy
from any of his advisers, repelled the scheme, as
offensive to the body of the nation.-.-." This is, in
its fitsence," said the King, " a contest for *lie
liberty—you most not narrow it into the quarrel of
the House of Bourbon. The faithful Vendeaus
might pioteet my person, but the French people
shill defend their own cause." Since the loyal
aseastudions of the garrison at yesterday's review,
attempts bare been mode to debauch the troops in
their barracks • a man has been detected in the act
of dispelling tile Proclamations of Bonaparte to the
French soldiery, and led away on the instant to to
shot.

There are now no doubts this plan of invading
Frauce was a long time prepared, and elaborately
combined with machinations in the interior, and with
the organisation of Italy for revolt. The latter
country is represented to be in lames; Mond pro.
claimiug every where the indepepdence of the Italian
people, with the treachery of the Allied Powers to
him and to Genoa--end marching openly upon Rome
and Florence. Genoa, we are assured, is in de-
cided insurrection—and Bonaparte resolved to
establish Xmsolf amongst the nips—to receive his
partisans—whom he expects to pour in to him from
all emote& pf this Gauntry, and to make largo
draughta upon the iniorgeot population of Italy, until
he can swell hie smell hie band into a formidable
army ; and improve the limited enterprises of a par.
tizan, into the element, of 'grand invasion. There
are persons in Paris who foretold his attempt upon
France, from the, moment when he suspended his
imildlogs at HUM; and who were confirmed in theii
first pr as, by•the mission of the majority
Of hie old French guards to different points of the
soulbers coost—a ciroomestance already stated in all
the reliette• Sew *tale assert that lie has cotes
too own, and might to have let thee discontents of
bb femme subjects ripen into tt MOM reviler and
emits WOW* • but he seems to ban feared that
the sittechment o his friends might weer oat, and
the stelleitaliellt of these who were displaced by the
Ailerben might be gradually weakened; and
lillaalmekaaalma 1146.1.14019.4 to Oiled the period of alt
mbeethepossiosiwhich were likely to operate
iwbiaiTourwosbi be "Atli thogr utmost force. Norms
we to sepposethat kle:pardaeme see confined to the
military, who have IMMO checked in their career by
the " ratorattoo ;" Of to the CND Officers who
have lost their employmests. Wa most add a third
class, more powerful thaw either of those—the whole
body of proprietors of confiscated estates, and of
landholders deriving under the Beveletieu. Envy
Sam of these-is persoadedelati the policy ofthe liouse
of Bourbom is ultimately, however cautionly, to oust
them hem .their possessions, and to reinstate the
ancient owners. They are, in a body, for Bona-
parte--es are the non.deseripts of various orders who
bate the ecclesiastics, and fear the return of tithe—
' who fear the revival of ancient privileges and praro.
gatives, and therefore hate the noblesse—or who, is
the enjoyment of revolutionary ribbauds and titles,
feel themselves eclipsed and ridiculed by those of
former ages ;--and therefore would expel every ape.
cies of eminence which did not beloog to the revolu-
tion. For Loots, are the Chiefs Mi the army— the
corps of royalists—the civil erapleyfie-rtite National
Gsmrds, whose general interests kit Owe of tran-
qeillity and commerce—and the few West, enlight.
teed, and virteoos lovers of coastftetional freedom,
whose business is meditation more then action;
whose sphere is the closet, or the mew, not the
field • who can refute and vanquish the, doctrima
of arbitrary Government, or shame away the pans
din of corruption • end therefore prefer the most sr.
deems combat with' Ministers whom they reprobate,
seder a Monarch whom they respect, to the terror
of lying mute and powerless soder the bayonets
of a military despot. Such appears the actual dip
tribalism of Smiling at the present crisis amongst the
poi* of Frans,—and until snots shell move for'.
wail to correct the won of human reasoning, sod
are the ground-works of the hopes and fears which
offer themselves most frequently to my imagleatim.
Cariosity is en the rack to led out how Bonaparte
world amps from the Island, with British Comm"
simmers and British frigates to attend Isim. Inge-
' nutty is still move peinfelly at west, to gess why
be was placed in a spot so dengecout • why its dia•
ger was so dreadfully enhanced by thei abominable
insults injuries, and violations, offered to Italy,
(roes Genoa to Naples; why, who fortune had
:emptied all her treasures, and prodigally outran the
"most romantic wishes of her favourites, by putting j
the. veryeeletence of their terrible enemy at their
own disposal, they thus perverted the overilowiell
of victory into a spring of fresh disaster, making the
successful conclusion of the late war, theengine of
a new and immediate contest, Wattled of the found'
ation of a lasting peace—and gathering no better
fruit from the valour of so many armies, and the or•
obstructed wisdom of se many negocioters, thins
second crop of dangers and political embarrassments,
' which it will cost another Inns of subsidies and ar•
miss to resist; and smother Congress to work of
into the materials of still farther miseries. Between
'thii prospect, and that of your Corn Laws—andyner
rivalship with French manufacture--end your pro
pestablishment of 19 millions, turned into a wareststr
limes& of 30 millions--and your new loans, 10.1
subsidies, and the state of your Sinking Fund, tic
we, Woo hive none of these good things at l'aris,
espect Goa Monsieur Joie Bull a most smiling re•
anklets, by the time Bonaparte shall have handed cj
across thel Channel. If any thing should arrive b,
fote.poit.hoor tomorrow, I will resume my pert.
Satarday,.Twn o'Clack.
We go from bad to worse
. Bonaparte has t•t