The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-04-12 00:00:00

CH'iMBER OF DEPUTIE9. Asert.6.

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A Ritort was nude nn the Petition of the Slone
Valais', of Paris, soliciting the abolition of the
pain of death in the case of (furls; and required,
that ethos- messes,' might be adopted to suppress
them. The Commission dill not consider, that it
would be useful to society to abolish the capital po.
nishment. With respect to duellists, they acknow-
ledged it was u►gent that some meatuses should be
adopted to suppress abases so prejedicial as well to
society as to families. The Commission, therefore,
proposed the Order of the Day on the first pen of
the Petition, and that the second pert should be re.
fetred to the Keeper of the Seals.—Adopted.
M. SIMEON, i■ the name of the Committee;
charged to verify the qualifications of M. Brojamis
Constant, who bet been returned for the Depart..
ment of the Senile, stated, that M. Benjamin Coo.
slant had pined, in the two Sections of the College
of the Sarthe, GG7 votes, and the voters amounting
to 1051, he had the required majority in his fatonr.
—lle had proved the payment of 1050 frolics tales;
he therefore paid the sum stipulated by law; and
having been born at Lausanoe, In the year 1767, its
had consequently reached the age (40) determined
by law.

But a goestien had arum relative le the plate of
his birth. He was born at Lausanne, sod the geese
lion was, whether he was a Frenchman ? Ilse gen-
tian had been examined; thedoeuments produced had
been verified,end the affirmative was arknots !edged eta
two grounds:—The first was, possession trete& In
the year 8, M. Benjamin Constant was a Member of
t'te Tribonste ; he therefore made part of the Login.
!stirs eor ps of France, end was accordingly interined
on the national list. It would be recJilecierl, that
the Constitution of the year 8 ordained the formation
of thou" lists : one enineensl, another departmental,
and a third national ; ell three devined to determine
oho conditions of eligibility to commute', depart.
mental. and nationel public functions. M. Benjamin
Constant being inscribed on the netinnal lin, 1141
therefore in possession of the title of Frenchman ; and
it was in censequeoer of that, that he was admitted
to a seat in the Tribunate.

To this possession d'elal was edam' the claim
grounded upon the law of the 231 Seat., 1790.
The 2'Z4l Art. of that Lsw ordains, that " all
(persons oho, born in a foreign rountry, ate de.
+vended, in any degree whatever, from • Frenchman
nr Frenchwomen, expatriated on account of religi-
ose opinions, shall be declared natural French sob.
Intl, and enjoy the rights attached to this quality,
if, on rota gto Fiance, they fix their residence
in the Fiench territory, and Wie the civic oath."
This form ear complied with in 1791, by the father
of M. Benjamin Constant. The Committee, the...
f9re, innno.eti In the Chamber to declare the admit,.
sin., of Al. llonjuniti Constant, as Ovaly of the
Ibirittment of the Seethe.
opposition being mode, 11 Benjamin Coo-
rant took the oath, aril the Preitid nit proclaimed
him a Member of the Chamber of De p
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LONDON:

11011rDlY. AFOUL 12, 1819.

The ►eported conspiracy against the life of lb.
Emperor of AUSTRIA will, no doubt, tenths.. to oc.
copy the attention of Coart.writers, at least for some
time to tome. The fact,lowevor, being ewascertain•
ed, and, probably, invested as so episode to the his-
tory of the assassination of Kouraut, we shall say
no more of it at present, bet that ono of oar own
phrenitic assailants of every thing which feuds in the
most remote manner, even to ;voila oat the necosaity
of s Reform, or that contains the sour', Freedom in
political metiers, affirms, titiat the deed Is very likely
to have been conceived by the Carbonstri ; for that,
in fact, liberal ideas of the present day are marked
in their progress by a ready propensity to massacre
and igation!! Now, is it not a pity that such
infuriated enemies to public freedom were ever taught
to write? While they lament the death of one me.'
gads to Liberty, they would behold with complacency
the evecotion of a dozen generous and over ardent
friends to their Country, who should follow the in-
trepid path of nor Ilameorms or Russmas! ! ?
Bat an estraordinary circumstance connected with
t'., above writer and his invective', is, that no sooner
Las h. expatiated upon the crime of drawing resent•
'tient on the head of a pseudo-patriet, sod thereby
countenancing assassioation, hot he falls withnat
mercy upon an elevated isidivisiusl by nine in.!
• See, the corlided.in Minister of the king of
litamcc, declariog that he has for the last throe
years paid with the public money of the FrenA mi-
litia, traitors sad aiturssts to corropt public nidni..n
in France and other coentries, so that no Sovereign's
life will be safe for three years, unless his (the Ui•
iiister's) midget be denounced and crualreil.—
Now this diatribe has been so often repeated, that
we de think the accused eight at once to put the as.
eerier to the peer or recastation. These accusa-
tions are Ilk, throwing ordure I■ the fair path of
reel oat and iod•prodeoco of seotimeoto and which

►t to be cleared •say by tho fool bands of those
who commit the dirty offence.

We take the following from an Irish Journal, the
writer of which does honour to the United Riogdenis
for the liberality of his seroiments on all political
occasions, and for this good senile with which be has
penned this article:—

" Kotzebue, though by no means at the bred of
the German dramatist., web better known as a
dromatic author in England, and, indeed in every
part of Europe, Aso any of them. Author of the
ONIGINAL Pizarro, of Lover's Voles, sad of the
Stranger, there were few men more applauded en
the stage, or more ■based in the closet. It is prin.
tipsily, if not solely, to the influence of this writer
that the British stage has been Germanised—that
highway robbery lies been made amiable—and
adultery, for the first time, rendered venial. Ilis
influence extended beyond himself, for his writings
gave lbw stage a bias from w hick it has not yet reco-
vered. hle/o Drente, • hich consists in violent eon.
tract, and in pantomimic effect, may be traced up
to the period in which his Plays became fashionable.
We had aentimestal Comedies before, but it was
this other who justified, sentimentally, .11 ihr abet.
rations from moral conduct. Bet it 'isnot to Comedy
alone she consequences were confined. It spread its
devastatitsg influence into Trag►dy. It is to the vile
original save in trace the llertrams, and the shock-
ing snowier. that have so long continued to diapers
the stage, arid to indirt such serious woaods upon
the morality and taste of the Public.

" it was not, however, by his dramatic writings
alone, that hi. KOMI= become celebrated. In the
beginning of the French Revolution, be was a red•
hot Jacobin. The Editor of The New Times was
not a greater fri►nd of iluassettaitc, DANTOX, and
MARAT, than Accurrus Von Koczcays—nay, we
question whether Mr. SourittY himself, the Loyal
Laymen or Mr. CoLaminae, the Sepra•Loyal Lec-
turer, wets et this time so eager and sealoes Ramolu.
tionists as the German Apostle.—lt is ackoo•ledged,
that he has done ostensive injury, sot only to the
morals het to the political feelings of the German
People. A rapid and fascinating writer—he devoted
Disabilities to the propagation of Jacobioism in politics
—and to the unsettling the moral feeling of the youth
of Germany. That be has been too succession the
melancholy circumstances of his death bear ample

testimony.
" When the power of France began to be curtailed
and that the stir of NAPOLCON was no longer the
ascendant, KOTZENUE, like many of our Home Ma-
nufacturers of Literates., cheated his hand and
checked his pride.' fle became the violent opposer
of those principles end persons he had advocated with
such unfortunate success in the sully pert of his
career. Nay, it is said that he had become the lite-
rary and political caterer of the Emperor ALIZ.
A "MEN, and that he was in the habit of transmitting to
oat Monarch, articles, by no opens palatable to the
Princes or People of Germany. The correspendanre
was detected, and broeght considershlediograce on the
head of the untortessate Letter Writer, bit hefted pre-
viously rendered himself obooairses by his writings, and
from being a popular writer among the young,
whose principles he bad contrived to unsettle, he
became odious. Wise as be was in worldly affairs,
and naturally rain, be seems to have attributed too
little power to his own writings. 11. had sown the
dragon's teeth, end he was one of the first who fell
a victim to the harvest of death which they proctored.
He died by the bend of an *gamin, wbo doubtless
compared himself to llntres, and thought he was
doing • meritorious action. Sects a defector wield
have been, beyond ell doubt, a dramatic hematite of
KOTZASUE—he would have presented him as en
amiable enthusiast, sod as a meritorious sufferer in
the f liberty.

" It is not, however, the murder of this man,
shocking as it undoubtedly is, that appears to es of
sn much impatience, as thee:ample which is thee af.
forded of the present state of political feeling in Ger.
many. It is tree, it was only a youth who committed
the crime; bet from the particulars which we collect
from the last Foreign Papers, it will be collected that
so Association exists in Germany, somewhat equiva-
lent to that of the Fare KNIGHTS who flourished in
the fifteenth century, and whose instruments wrath,
cord and dagger. Thet Association made all the
Princes in Germany tremble. There was no swop-
isqg a sentence once pronounced. Detection nes
impossible. The mind of Germany at preeent, it
is acknowledged en all hands, Is in a slate et the,
utmost fettnentatinn. Disappointed in the pro.
mises of Constitutions, or amused with the pretences
of liberty, they are eaeoperated to madness.—
There are no People
.so enthusiastic, nr so con.
*tont end perorating in their enthusiasm. They
feel that they or& to be a great People—that they
ought to be united—that the interests of all, well I
en derstood (and they appear to understand them
now), are the interests of each, and that they
should not be parcelled out like so many docks
and herds between the shepherd*, who shear them
at their pleasure, and is ho kill them when their am.
biting' prompts. They perceive that their Princes
have no ieterest in common with the People; and,
indeed, how can they, seeing that their territories
are so much divided, end that a transfer has been
mode *huh almost deprive, n Geri:tea ham basting al
country. The mind is up, and no physical farm can i
pat It demo. It is coacctird that Germauy is al this