The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-05-05 00:00:00

ME STATESMAN.

throughout all Illitantsy. lit Pry thing is in the most
perivrt order at Rennet, notwithstanding the eu-
thusiam.

Ina CITIZENS OF tf tsTri, Ramey, AND TARED,
AND Till SCHOOLS OF
.1.511, :I,ID SUHRERY OF THE
$.131E TOWN', TO THEIR VELLONT-CITIZE.NI Or
BEITIMET : FEDERAL COMPACT PROPOSED TO TILE
FITE HETARTMEETS or attITASINT.
TElPltly4lre years have elapsed since oar old
men confederated for the conquest of liberty. Bei-
taney feel the glory of giving the signal.
Our rig:,ts, our liberties, our privileges, the pur-
chase of so tench bleed generously shed, the reward
of so many immortal exploits, were all torn from us,
lint a few days aeo—all except honour. From citi-
zens we were becotte vassals ; from freemen, slaves.
'1 he nation shuddered : the whole arms, unanimous
in Ps wishes, immovable in its fidelity ; that army
w hies; as betrayed, but never vanquished ; that
army wr ,se glory was an eye-sore; those veterans
covered with s..ars, who were indignant at the pros-
titution of their honours ; these warriors who saw
at once, by a crime uaesanrpled in 'history, 50
fortresses given tie at once to the enemy, without a
combat; our cannier, our ships, our most valuable
dock-yards surrendered a itlmut compensation ; the
domain of heroes, the most legitimate, the most se-
cmd of all property, v. hich 10 solemn treaties had
guaranteed, abandoned without a single diplomatic
lie havieg been consecrated to its defence ; 30,060
relicors, tine' it so many bettlea, driver, out to make
f rr men' who, instead of a statement of ser-
sieve presented 25 years of nullity, some days of
emigration for 10 active campaigns ; treason re-
warded like virtue. and the star of the brave shierag
on the breast of melt whose hands still dropped with
the blood of their slaughtered fellow-citizens.
No, the army could not remain insensible to so
much ignominy ; the 'mires could tint choose to be-
come the by-word and laughing-stock of all people,
to resume the most degrading fetters, to replace
itself under the most shameful yoke, to tear its 'privi-
leges, tread under foot its imprrscriptible rights, and
consent to pass for an assemblage in a state of revolt
and sedition for 20 years.
Thus the nation and the army had only one wish,
and the same cry burst from cities and garrisons,
from town and cantos, the- moment the deliverer ap-
peared. Millie delayed, the national impatience
would not have waited for him; it was at its height.
‘V hat an event, what a march, what a triumphant
course! What a spectacle to the world! Napoleon
appeared, the nation was delivered, the army re-
sumes its attitude, and glory floatcwith the Imperial
eagle and liberty over intoxicated France.
1.3.1 t it is said, Bretons, that foreign war threatens
us. What treaties hare we violated ? What tel ritory
have we invaded ? What outrages have ireighheuring
States received from us? Have we attempted con-
quests. or does the tri•celouredlig wave upon the
Mime ? No : the baud which so Often impelled our
heroes into the midst of hostile nations, holds hack
and chains hr their valour on our old limits. Are
we no letver, then, a sovereign and independent
nation ? Have me less right than our fathers to ele-
vate on our shield the Wal I ior whom we wish for a
monarch ? Has not the nation four times invited
NapoleoN to govern and reign over it ? Ilave not all
nelPionv saluted him with the name ref Emperor and
Augustus ? Is not the blond of Kings commixed
with that of the man of our choice ? His rights, and
those of his sort, are they not our's ? Has net the
holy oil been shed upon his head ? Is not his dynasty
our work, consecrated by our will ? by four millions
of authentic votes, 15 years of victory, and espe-
cially by this last triumph, the finest of all, in which,
while an ephemeral Court tied, abandoned, shaking
incendiary torches, the • people and the army bore
their Monarch to the capital which he had covered
with trephine, and to the palace which he had filled
with great recollections? IVere l'haramond, Clovis,
Charlemagne, or the Carts created Kings of France
in any other way? Is there one of these heads of
dynasties to whom history assigns a more incontest-
able legitimme What ! shall we be less free than in
the sth. 7th, 9th,, or loth century ? Are we ire
longer the escendates of the Franks real of the
Gaols? Were our fathers sold like a worthies: herd ?
Are we the property of one family ? If a descendant
of the Stuarta still existed, must all Europe declare
war against Great ni Rain in order to replace him on
(ha throne?
It is unnecessary to say more. Europe is enlight-
ened, and her Sovereigns at this great period will
• show themselves worthy of their age. Bat if our
wishes be deceived, if France must resume her arms,
war and iirrery shall s,sl for ever the rights which
we hold of God and by our swords ; the war shall be
national and victery, as prompt as the necessity of
vaprquishitig, shall he :merenge
We, rise!g Bretons, the souls of fathers who have
loft us a precious legacy to defend, have, for the
good of France and that of Britanny, which is so
dear to us, duties to perform and engagements to
contract. Our country suffered keg; and here,
more Shari elsewhere, the • feudal system made the
most obstinate efforts to overwhelm us--that system,
whose branches, lately ready to spread, are for ever
broker, and scattered.
It is said (but we repel the thought) that there
are some of our fellow-citizens who invite the fo-
reigner, and dream of the devastation of their coun-
try. It is said that civil war will become his frightful
auxiliary-
No; civil war, which all the gold, all the power
of the Court could not light up, and of which the
preoence of its Princes could not excite the least
spark, shall riot break forth in our provinces.--
Our fellow-citizens know who are their friends ;
and while we contribute with all Frenchmen to the
sareess of the national cause, we, here, with a firm
hand, will maintain respect for persons and pro-
perty, we will give supremacy to sound doctrines
acid the equality of rights, the first condition of re-
conqiiered liberty.
In this view, Bretons. we propose to you a fede-
rative compact; we desire that close ties should unite
us, and by mutual aid guarantee to our intrepid war.
riora, that during their absence, their homes shall
he safe, and that no attack shall escape the severity
of the laws of which we ere the defenders.
Art. 1. The Cal/Ants or the five department, of Breams.,
re at came and the Emperor. are confederated;
e rls. winfinn wr.ieb unites them takes the title of the Breton
1 I:

?.. The object of this Confederation is to consecrate all theft
weans 1.. the p- •tHtg:ttion of lilterul pruitiplei, to npp.3se truth
In impos ere. to !quell Relit oolong's misled melt, to support
spirit. to maintain public safety in the interior, to em-
ploy nil our it lluemse ant Credit to retain e•ery one within the
line of duty togros4l4 the Prince and the country, to afford
itrompt not effectual aid on the first requipition of public nu-
to nssist Ore:tie:seri cities, towns and villages, to count-
leritet all plo.s a,uitat lihei v, our Ci.nlittition-. and the Em-
peror, Lind, iu shunt, In lend reriproienl nss.sttinee and protee-
Slott according to rirt umslanees and eient
3. All the C....federates are specially hound. to conform to the
neerre of 'he 10M. relati%e w INr arming of the Citizens.
4. The Confederation has no roliti,Alnutboriiy, but it ever-
irises liver its Nleoitters n inor.il police, persuaded drat the
greatest punishment itcan Intl ct, ii the expulsion of it Member,
a hen he rot foto. hi: ho. our. . _ .

J. Every Citazeit deoring in contribute to 11. e object of the
iti;soeiltiim, is, admissible, whatever be his rank, situation, or
profep.itin.
6. 'file Confc,lerates iterecotrily form part of the National
(iu•ird. a.,,lc.,nx:itute no d corp.. The Conf,-derati II
F. simply a means of uniting snore pull. Warty all the friends of
the ssssss rv. of liheity„ owl the Fmperiir, by leaving in ni -
graceful abandonment the small number of Frenchmen, nit-
worthy of !hit name. who shall invite the disgraceful yoke of
fiiteignet:,, or commit excesses in the interior.
(There are a variety of other regulations relating to the inter-
nal management of the institution, /Ind to the whole are said to
he attached xr).) signatures.)

0.11 Mr. Lo► ELL having been congratulated by
some unknown Friends on his supposed liberation
from Prison, in consequence of the late discussion
in the House of Commons, begs leave to acquaint
them that he has 'not
.yet been so fortunate, as to
obtain his liberty, but he hopes and !rugs the day
is not far distant when it be in his power to
announce that desirable and long looked for event.
Newgate, May 5. 1815.
In Ihe Fifth Year or his Imprisonment.

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THE STATESIVIAN.

LONDON:

FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1815.

Brussels and Frankfort Papers arrived this fore-
noon, bringing the articles which we subjoin. It
will be seen from them, that the movements of

hluaaT are not considered as accounted for by the
success said to have been gained over him. A suspi-
cion 15 entertained, that MVRAT has some object be-
yond security in view in retreating; and a conjecture
is hatarded, that he and Austria now understand one
another better. We shall submit these articles, and
reserve our comments for others:—

AUGSBUILGII, APRIL 24.—A1l the letters received
to-day from Italy agree, that the fears Quite() by
the approach of • Murat% troops are wholly dis-
pelled. The Neapolitan army, after having been
beaten in some actions, is retreating, thougli no suf-
ficient reason can be given with certainty for this
retreat. According to some, it is in consequence of
the negociations of Count Neipperg ; others attribute
it to a landing of Sicilians and English, but it is
easy to see the fallacy of these two suppositions.—
If the retreat of the Neapolitan army was in conse-
quence of a negociation, it would not be harassed as
it is by the Austrian Army. Besides, how can it be
imagined that A t:aria, while victorious, would nego.
ciate with a man, whose constant aim has been to
deceive her and whose bad faith she has actually laid
open in her Manifesto. Impossible as it is to confide
ill the new promises of Murat, peace with him would
have for Aurstria all the inconveniences
.of war,
without any of its advantages. As for the landing
of the English and Sicilians, this is of the same de-
scription as that of the Declaration of War by the
English, who have hardly had time to be informed of
Murat's treachery. This landing will take place
without doubt, but the news is premature. It is
much more probable that'Murat, who had hoped to
take the Austrians by surprise, reckoned on a gene-
ral rising of the Italians on the one side, and
upon the active co-operation of Napoleon on the
other ; finding himself beaten by the Austrians,
notwithstanding their inferiority, he does not think fit
to wait for the arrival of the reinforcements which
they will soon receive, for fear of being overwhelmed
by them.
Th roads from Milan to Parma, Placentia, and
Genoa, are quite open.

CoeItTRAY, APRIL 22.—Tbe number of French
who abandon the standards of Bonaparte increases
daily ; every moment we see them arrive in this
town, wearing the white cockade, and going to
their lawful Sovereign. To-day we saw WO arrive,
armed and equipped, with a white flag at their head ;
the soldiers were preceded by officers of rank, who
, repaired post to Ghent. They have informed, that
the greatest want of harmony prevails among the
soldiers of Bonaparte; there are. as many who cry
Vive le Roi as Vive l'Empereur ! At Lille citi-
zens are often met in the streets with the white
cockade, who cry Vive le Roi! and loudly express
their contempt of the partizans of Bonaparte.
1 BRUSSELS, Aeatt. 30.—8 y letters from Trieste
we learn, that several vessels, with troops on board,
have sailed from that port, so that there can be no
doubt of Murat's haring by this time, the enemy in

his rear.
Count Alexia de Noailles,one of the Ambassadors
of Louis XVIII. at Vienna, has passed this line on
his way to Glieut.

VIENNA, Aram 19.—1 t was in consequence of a
letter tram his Majesty the Emperor, that the Prince
Archbishop of Vienna ordered public prayers and
processions on the renewal of the war.
FitAwavonT, APRIL 26.—The last Chronick of
the Congress contains the following article:-1 com-
municate the following extract from the territorial
arrangements, from very authentic sources :
Bavaria cedes to Austria—

In Salzburg
In Ilausruckvierlel
In Ina V lend
inls

92.112
92,!i93
115,00
791

i Total - 3 3,1466
It ohtainq from Wirtemherg, including Orrimten 81.256
I From Baden, the Circle of the Main and Tattler 9138.2
Circle of the Neckar, to the Ll,euz - 0 . 39,0
Of Yseaberg - -41000
Of Ilim*, with the town - 45,000
Of Fulda 2 ~FBl
. -
' Reclaim - . - 3000
1 A Bailliage of Fulda . • 21.83-1

Total 3.5i,411
laden receives for itc indemnity 176,000 souls on
the left bank of the Rhine.

Mirms'adt receives for its ceshions to Prussia, Ba-
varia, and Hesse Cassel, 325,982 souls on the left
bank of the Rhine.

The cessions made by Virtemberg run along the
line of the Jagst. Its indemnities, necordiag to se-
veral amounts, is to be the Black Forest of Baden.
Darmstadt will be almost wholly on the left bank of
tl.e !Vine. On this side it keeps the principality of
Starkenberg, in which Darmstadt is the capital.

All accounts agree that the countries on the left
.bink of the Rhine, not yet disposed of, are to be
given only to Baden or Besse. If the latter con-
tain together 500,000 sonic, Baden will have 180,000,
and Hesse Darmstadt all the rest.

lo the new plan of the German Constitution the
rights of the mediatised Princes are placed under the
guarantee of the Confederation. The 14th and last
Article says, " A meeting will soon he called at
Frankfort, in order to complete the Constitution in
its full extent at the Diet."

AUGSBURG, APRIL 2-I.—(From a letter from
Hamburgh, April 14.)—The reports of armaments in
Sweden seem not to have been wholly unfounded.—
It is thought they were occasioned by the demands of
Prussia and England, who, at the request of Den-
mark, called upon Sweden to give up Pomerania as
it engaged by the Treaty of Kiel. The armaments
were, however, not considerable, and were certainly
not of a description to make Russia uneasy respect-
ing Finland.
BASLE, APRIL 19.—Several of the Cent Saisses,
as well as the first division of the returning Swiss
regiments have arrived here. They bitterly complain
of the treatment they have experienced in the way
from Paris. They had only five sous a day and no
rations, and were ill used in many places by the
people. In general, great ill will towards the Swiss
prevails in the nearest French departments.
The French at Hunisigaen aro busily employed in
raising new works, we suppose them to be batteries
to destroy the bridge over the Rhine, at Basle, in
case the Allies should again attempt to cross it.

We give the substance of some more Hamburgh,
Dutch, and Flemish Papers which have reached us.
One of the statements in the Vienna articles thin re-
' ceived is important. We allude to the article of the
1 19th ult., contradicting the assertion which we had
yesterday by the Brussels Papers, that the Declare-
tion of IVar against France by the Allies was
signed on the 11th. The intelligence we have to-day
is, that " the second Declaration which the Congress
intended to issue against BONAFARTE will not take
place, because they could not agree upon the terms
in which it was to be couched." It is thus admitted
from Vienna that the Congress, which is still sitting,
is by no means agreed on the subject of war with
France. Some of the Powers composing that As-
sembly may now see the necessity of altering the
style of their Declarations, though they certainly
have not been very scrupulous about style in their
former issues ; but we suspect it is more an alteration
of policy that is deemed necessary by some, and that
it is not merely terms of language that they are
squabbling about—there are other terms and points
of consideration to be attended to. ‘Ve do not
wonder at their increasing difficulties—there is now
more to be struck than the bargain. After the
fire and fury which we have seen emitted from the
Royal Conclave, we expected to have beheld before
this time the ‘. valiant band, each a torch in his
hand," firing another Troy in the heart of France,
or dancing on the grave of the chief object of their
hate ; but we find that the departure of the Sove-
,l reigns, to their respective posts, is not yet fixed, and
that it was imagined it would not be before the middle
of the present month. As the passage of troops
going to join the army still continue till the end of
June, and the Allies have determined to reserve the
commencement of hostilities till they have assembled
all their strength, and can act in force and in line, the
lovers of war are not likely to be gratified so speedily
as they have expected, in seeing the battle reddening
along the French frontier. Some little time must yet
elapse before the men of vengeance can have the
sublime satisfaction of seeing Paris in flames, and
BONEY'S hones bleaching on a gibbet. France i$
not the only object to which the High Allies have
now to direct their attention. There can be no
doubt that Poland is in a state of insurrection, and
I that the presence of the !tocsin Emperor is deem"d