The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-08-02 00:00:00

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--,,Mitsfsters have received dispatches • from Lord
CASTLEREAGH at Paris, it is supposed conveying the
in it resolution of the Jury of King, and Ministers
it Paris as to the residence and trarstment of Nano-
LEON BONAPARTE; and we understand a Council is
to be held to-day to deliberate -tin the best manner of
carrying that resolution into o.ifect. We thought all
these points had been 'herded before, for we have
been told that Admiral %Byrn, as Admiral on the
station, had officially gotified to the French Emperor
the determination a the British Cabinet respecting
him, and that Sir licsraT BoNsuitir, Under Secre-
tary for the War Department, who had gone down
to Plymouth osi this matter, is expected in town to-
day, with a remonstrance from the Ex-Emperor
against being sent to St. Helena. Bat our modest
and unassuming Ministers in this country, may have
been-belied in this respect, and may have been all
this while—during which the man who has puzzled
them and all the Powers of Europe se much, has
been rocking about on our shores,—in as utter igno.
ranee as to what was proper to be done in regard to
him, as the veriest and most bewildered speculator on
the subject. But Lord CASTLEREAGH, and the Con-
gress whom we have paid so well to enrich themselves,
to tear the jewels of Empire from the Crown of Ni.
*OLSON, and place them on their own brows, have
instructed Great Britain how to act towards this ter-
r r of arbitrary Sovereigns !—they have meted out
the quantum of generosity to which the proudest and
most humane nation of the earth is to show to a fallen
foe who has thrown himself on the justice and mercy

of Engtand That England, which dares not take
tim into her hallowed sanctuary even as a prisoner,

though he has declared his political life to be termi-
nated, but is, as report says, to gratify the un-
quenchable revenge and ambition of the enemies of a
fallen man, by conve)ing him to a desert island in
the midst of the Pacific Quail, and there making free
wets prisoners also by watching over this devoted
victim !-0 land of freedom, and of just and equit-
able laws, where now is thy fearless magnanimity,

thy generosity to thy enemies, the protecting influ-
ence of those laws which give liberty to the slave, and
justice to all ? NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, the man who
shook every nation in Europe but thine own, is a
!only suppliant on thy shore, a suppliant as much to
thy justice as thy. mercy—end yet you dare not re-
ceive him. We may well wonder at what we daily
see. But we cannot believe all that is stated on this
subject. It is said that our Government, acting on
the principle which seems to govern all the actions of
the confederated despots on the Continent, appro.
hensive of leaving NAPOLEON the disposal of so large
a sum of money as he is said to possess (only two
hundred thousand pounds, not a very great
matter after all to one who has hers an Emperor,),
tve resolved on bereaving Was of the effects
which his fallen fortunes have left him. We say we
cannot believe this—we cannot believe that the Bri-
tish Government could be guilty of any such act, for
- cannot conceive any thing more unjust, cruel, or
;, than loch an outrage on private property, on
imprescriptible right of a man who has volunta-
sought the protection of British law. Upon what
Ind is this protection refused him—upon what
mil fit-Calm:in WitTLAnks- arrangement to be
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