The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-11-27 00:00:00

THE stAimsiliAi4.

—••. • • •
K About a month before the expedition to Eghst, The insurrection in the South, excited with the one
he offered me his wife's niece, Mademoiselle Brian. hand, and repressed with the other, has drawls forth
harnois, in marriage, as a proof of his esteem.-- - '
a threat of punishment from the Government. The
AVhen I left the military service, he named me Di.
Gazette o.l)icielk contains ass Ordinance of the King,
G rector.eneral of the Posts. It is for those who .
Mee had aoy relations with me while in that situa. directing a prosecution to be commenced against the
lion; it is for my colleagues, and even those em. assassins of Gen. LEUARDE, and the individuals
ployed by me, to state what has been my general concerned in the riots at Nismes, and troops are or.
conduct ; for myself, I can affirm, that my cots. dered to be quartered on the inhabitants till the as.
science does not make me the least reproach."
SASSilli are given up. But the Duke of AenouLeme
M. Teietea, the Prisoner's Collll}lo, made a most
eleq tient defence. He instanced several contradie_ has again returned to Nismes; and he will, no doubt,
Cons in the evidence given against the Prisoner, a 'id take care that his party shall not he put down by the
attempted to justify the stoppage of the ministerial orders of BA ISME M:11111019. it is stile(' in thv Papers
dispatches and journals, by the absence of several before us; that the assassination of LtaAnne has
office clerks, and its consequent eh;olute impossihi. been followed by other excesses, and that the Public
lity. Ile concluded by chill several instances of M.
Functionaries are openly insulted.
Luallete's impartial conduct respecting those persons
who had embraced the Royal cause. ! Every thing indicates that France is on the eve of
At eight o'clock the Jury retired, and at half-past a new revolution. The measures taken to prevent it
eleven returned into Court, and gave in their verdict are hastening the evil. The execution of the law
of Guilty—Death. The accused heard his sentence ' against the suspected is secretly carried on to a dread•
with the greatest courage and calmness. The law
ful extent. These new letters des cachet, we are
allows him three days to appeal from this sentence.
confidently assured, can be obtained by soy nue who
OKOONNANCE OF THE KING. Iwill apply for them. Great apprehensions are still
;s, by the Grace of Goa, &c. I entertained of the military. Four more Generals,
.rocious crimelas sullied our city of Nismes.
tuce of the Constitutional Charter, which re-, BELLIARD, ORNIANO, COLIIZUT, and CAMPS, have
'le Catholic religion as the religion of the been arrested.
which guarantees to other worships pro. ! The Treaty, it k said, was to be communicated to
. liberty, a seditious mob has dared to op. the Chambers on Saturday last. It is given out in
Inning of the Protestant temple. Our Mi-
the Paris Journals that the conditions are not such as
Commandant, In endeavouring to disperse
persuasion before resorting to force, has the foreign writers have represented them. The
issassinateri, and his assassin has sought an Funds are still low-5 per Cents. 55.
lino the pursuit of justice. If such an of- i PARIS, Nov. 41.
Id remain unpunished, there would be no l CHAMBER OF PEERS, Nev. IS.
her public order or government, and our 1 TRIAL OF MARSHAL NEY
,/-
would be guilty of a non-execution of the The CIIA!VCELLOR opened the :slot% at eleven
o'clock in the morning. He ordered tbraccused to
be brought, and the witnesses to he introduced, who
were more in number than at the preceding Sitting.
The Duke d'Alhufera was one of them.

replied to the Altorney-Generil, nho afterwards
made Some observations upon M. I:lupin's reply.
The CuAnccri-ow asked the Ailvocates for the
defence, if they lied any thing more to add ?
M. Betitiii,Ett asked permission to in4ke a few
observations, which he briefly ei,l•
The Chamber withdrew at three o'clock, to deli-
berate, and resumed its gittings at three quarters
past four o'clock, %Olen the Chamber pronounced the
following arrPt

"'The Chamber of Pceri, Without stopping or
prqiit any regard to the objections brought forward
in behalf of Marshal Nei•, which are not well found-
ed, orders the examination and discussions to be
proceeded in.

The CHANCELLOR asked if the wituesset fur the
defence were a%signed?

M. LIMITER answered, that the short interval or
daisy hod prevented it.
Th• PRESIDENT asked the Adocates to inform them
of what importance the witnesses to be summoned
might he to the cause, and who they were?

Ilenut•eu gave the particulars, and mentioned
among other nitnesses M. Passenge, Baton de Pre-
; champ, Marquis de Solam, M. de Sr. Amour, Baron
de Mongenet, M. Bertrand Bessieres, and Count
Ileudelet. •

A diwussion then took place between the Attor-
ney-General end the Advocates of Martial Ney,
upon the necessity there wac of hearing these wit-
nesses; after which the Chamber withdrew to delibe-
rate at half-past five o'clock, alien the Chancellor
adjourned the Chamber to the 4th of December, at
10 o'clock in morning, without any other delay,
for the examination and the opening ofthe discussions,
end the trial and the beefing of the witnesses for the
defence. Thelpog then broke up.

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The annual Meeting of this !-istirution vr-iis held
nn Saturday, at the Fieereasenst Tavern, where a
very tiunternus company, including upwards, of s')O
Ladiee, assembled. At one o'clock, the DA* of
Bedford took the Cl' ti r, eu ;Tented. ,on his right
by his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, and on
Lis left by 'leery Brougham, l' q.—llia Grace hey.
lug stated the object of the Meted% to b- the re-
ception of the annual Itaport, it was read. in ccittio-
quetice of the illness of Mr. Joseph Fox, by the
Itevo9i.Collyer. It ceettaieed the substance of the
various revorts which bail been receised from the dis-
tant and suttertlinate S irieties, emanating from this
parent institution. Sttne particular points were
particularised, and eciine passaees quoted, but the
details were reserved for publication in the Appendit.
Amongst the new ettablishmetos, were one at Car-
diff, melee the auspices of the Marquis of Bute, awl
one at Bristol, where flue sum of 450% had beed
reified. The representations made from the Schooli
at Tewkesbury, Gudalniing, Kingston, Lewes,
Plymouth, said other places, were gratifyiag in a
high degree;, inasmuch as they not only proemd the
extension df the as s'em, but its success in erne-
liorating the condition, and improving the Moral
character of those who received instruction
under it.-c---in many towns (he Imurs were de-
dicated to education and reading, wMch were once
employed in bull-halting and every spirits of licen-
tious brutality, under the name of sport and recrea-
tion. In the prosecution of their greet object, the
Auxiliary Bible Fincielitts.atel the Society for educat-
ing exclusively on the National or Madras severe,
had effectually cooperated, so that, by the. onitea
efforts of the whole, there was now a prospect that
every men, woman, and child, might not only have a
Bible, but be able to read it. The time saes not far
Institut when legislators, perhaps,
:would prefer the
prevention to the punishment of crime, an object re.
commended at once by humanity and orudence, as it
could'easily he shown that the expetice of one gaol,
or penitentiary bonse, would more ,than suffice for
Marshal Noy was plserd at the bar. I COURIER V.XTRAOR DIN ARY, Friday Ws: lag. j the erection of 50 schools. Although the Institution
M. M. Counts Martinis, Minister of Justice, and i At this moment (six o'clock in the morning) a nu' had had to struggle with many embarrassments it
de Cages, Minister of General Police, assisted at the , merous detachment of Gend'armerie and horse Na- 1 might now hail the dawn of a brighter day, in the Op..
Sitting. . I holed Guards is escorting Marshal Ney from the I cession of support which was flowing in from all
The Nestor:4.r ordered the names of the Peers to , Chamber of Peers to the Conciergerie. 1 quarters to a common centre, that might soon send
!forth its enlightestieg is). to every part of
be ca'led over. 1 It seems that yesterday Madame Lavalette obtain-
the habitable glebe. Well might the foreigner
The Cuaivcceeon then said to the Advocates for ;ed an audience of the King, and that she remained i exclaim happy England ! is hoseelomestic con•
the accused : . some time with him. The result of this step is not tensions were fraught only with Public good.—
" You are at liberty to adduce any reasons of known. ! The report then went on to describe the pro.
nullity which you may entertain.". I The assassination of the Commandant of Nistnes (tress of the system in Paris, which had been en.
iitterrupted by the alarms of war, or the agita.
M. B/ISRYEW advanced t'le five following reasons ; has been followed by other eXCPSSPS. The doors of
tions created by political events. —Under Mr.
of nullity :—.l.t. e :met of the ChaMber of Peers i the church were broken open, and many. function- Martin, and four French gentlemen, a school for
of the 13th inst. had not the siaeatures of all the , aries violently insulted. The Mayor of Nismes im- 600 children had been established, to which the Yin-
Peers who concurred in it, but only those of the ' mediately issued a Proclamation, offering a reward ciety had contributed 1001. and it had Webs !Igen
The
Chant', ilor and the Members of the Itureste of 3600 francs for the arrest of the assasin of Gen. sanctioned by a decree of the Prefect of the Seine,
disposition tattle 134th Article of the Code of Criminal ' Lagerde. and imitated by the Mayors of the different arron-
Instruction is fennel stn that head. I It is announced that on Saturday next the Mini-
dissemens. The Duchess de Duras had exhibited a
signal instance of philanthropy, iu establishing a se-
2d. The substance of an arrept of putting under ; liters of the King will communicate the Treaty of pirate school fur 600 children in her own house, to
accusation, for it is a fact, that the putsister.ansharc:-Penee to the tom Chambers. I
Chamber,. the support of which she had obtained the contribu.
accusation is not pronounced by the suet of the 1a
I The delay which has taken place in the commend. tions of the King and the Disc _t• (seers. .ft _ was cat-
13th of November, nor by that of the 17th of the . cation of the Treaty, is owing to some particular culated that there were about 40,000 children in
Ps wholl uninstruct, and that the
same mouth, which confined itself to decreeing the II arrangements amongst the Allied Powers, who were "
mm~ced iny re that gat e
Id ity, wire chiefly depredations
custody of Marshal Ney. This nullity is formidable; i not entirely agreed. Although the French Plc&
by children from 12 to 15 ye rs of age. A similar
it results front the precise test of the law; it is like- 1 potentiaries did not intermeddle in these arrange- I,l,,l;,tin,eat has be'', firmed at Bourdeaux, undter '
wise founded on powerful considerations of public' scents, it seems they are of a 'velure to be made pub."! Count Lynch, and the.e was every prospect of the
order. The 231st :bade of the Criminal Code of i lic with the Treaty. ! same spirit gradually propagating its.lf from one end
Instruction imperatively requires that an suet of j The Police has seized a Surreptitious and comae. 'of the kingdom to the other. It was pleasing to con-
Putting wider accusation should precede the sending queuutly incorrect edition of the Treaty and the C 011• alder, likewise, what might be the result of a visit
paid by the Emperor Alexander to Mr.,Martie's
of the accused before the audience at which the dig. ' 'echoes establishment,
lately signed at Paris by the respective Mi- •
cussions are to take place. I
, sisters of the different Powers. IVe are authorised the system penalised io which he le d
attentively examined, as it was his habit to examine
3d. We infer from supposing that the arret of the ,to disavow this hasty publication, which can only every thing of greet and evideut utility. The report
17th of November, pronouncing the taking into cue- - base its origin in the clerical infidelity of a Foreign concluded by stating, that the amount of the Society's
tody, might he considered as the arret of putting . Office. : funds was 52001. invested in public securities.
1 .1 rs .I._ of sz
• :ite &same rs,LNT MP to submit the first Resta.
under accusation, required by the law. This arret I Yesterday morning Count Livelette appealed ' . .
I boson. Ira said be should trespass upon their attest-
ought to have been followed, and not preceded as it against the sentence of the Court of Assizei. tion but for a few moments; for, often asthey bed
'm I
'moon ano. has been, by the Act of Accusation, drawn up by Charlemont was not surrendered on the 16th to met before to receive a Report upon the success of
7 , are the , the King's Commissioners. 1 the Prussians, as had been announced ; this fortress the British system of education, they had never yet
of Wed-; According to the tenor of the 241st and 24211 Ar. lis strictly blockaded. heard one which went so completely horns to their
if the pro- ; tides of the Code of Criminal Instruction,! it is from lOn the Bth inst. ther Sub-Prefect of the district of feelings and hoioms, as the present one. It not only
detailed the provess of the system in this country,
uesday, on', the arret of putting under accusation that the public Tours ordered to be shut, for 15 days, the tavern at
but also in foreign parts; and in the latter, its pro.
iclusion of Ministry should collect the facts analyzed in its act : Beptomont.la-Ronce, kept by one Roegcrais, for gress, though iii its infancy, had exceeded the most
. of Assize ; of accusation ; in this case the order has been in- . having suffered to continue upon his sign the picture sanguine expectations of its warmest friends and antic
red to-day), vetted; the act of accusation was revised and pre- lof the Usurper, and the emblems of his Government. porters. France and England had Ion.; been rivals for
the Peers : sented to the Chamber the 16th instant ; the Chem-1 M. Tripier, M. haealette's Advocate, has appeal- dominion and power; but, be , trusted the smells-
her ordered the annexation of it to the arret, by 'ed apinst the sentence of hi*Client. •
; would he the earnest of a change in that rivalry, and
• which it decreed the custody of the accused ; there-
;e their ob- that they would no longer contend lor political su-
ture this objection is completely valid.
which had Mr. Ceoun, the'Messeneer, arrived in Downing- premacy, but strive only who should most excel in
sth. It has not beemi n i °OW to the accused that'he left Lord CAI•
street this morning from feria, the labours of philanthropy and general good to.
themselves,
the law allotved him five days to propose his means wards mankind. Lelpplause.) For many years, this
teed into a . TLEILEAGII at Dover.
CAPITAL FACTS, which set al defiance all idle couutry, and &trope in general, had had to lament
of nullity ; Insides, this delay has not been granted
urged and
to him iti all its latitude, since, in fact, the intima- Notions about Possibility and Probability.—Oil Si. the consequences of the French Revolution ; but
shows the turtle), last, the Lottery of 15,000 Tickets fioialled, now, by effording the meatus of iustruction to the
him was given him out the 18th, and the public in.
any of the when 3 immense Prizes, amounting to 2110,000, poorer s
oorer classes in Fraitce we were offering to them
struction commesiced on the '2lst inst. were drawn, being one Prize of R 60,000, and two the best remedy for all the evils which that Revolution
string any ; In this respect, doubtless, the infraction of the Prizes of 220,000, besides many other Capitals, bad produced, and the best security against their re-
rshal NCI.' 096th article of the Code is precise; but the point which were all sold and shared. We understand currence. With respect to the Emperor of Russia,
ins he had of view in which tee ought especially to recommend the scarcity of Tickets and Shares was so great, that he was authorised to add, that it was in the contem-
lourned to
many persons were disappointed, who had delayed plalloa of his Imperial Majesty to carry the British
this objection to the deliberations of the Chamber is, , purchasing until Friday afternoon.—lf 15,000 system of education to a great estent in his vast
trshal with the cli,:.ictilt situation in which we are placed to give Tickets were not sufficient to meft the public de.
dominions. Ile believed it was sufficiently known to
,) and his to the defence of the accused all the latitude which it !nand, what must be expected, in the new small all those who had the opportunity of au intercourse
submitted reqttires. . but capital Lottery, of only 5000 'tickets, with with his Imperial Majesty (lupin his short stay in
delay, the rhe act of accusation imputes aratP character to Two immense Prizes or 250,000 ! !?—at.r. OF this country, that there never was a sovereign who
•
and the
WIIICU MUST DE DRAWN Thursday, 7th
December; wa; more solicitous to inquire into every thing which
the which it behoves Marshal Ney to efface. crime, it
inueeu, has been suggested to the Contractors to could benefit his subjects by being adopted ; and if
rich affords There had beets, it is said on his part, a premedita. divide all the Tickets into Shares, so that no ad. he succeeded in establishing the British system of edu-
and imp ,-
tion which would render him the basest and vilest of venturer shall take more than half a Ticket,—this ' cation in Russia, he would acquire more true glory,
lags of the men. Ile feels a wish, a necessity to justify himself would enable them to meet the public wishes gene- , than from any conquests which be might achieve, or
considers- on this chief point, and to call witnesses who will rally ; mod as the Scheme is so arranged, that two from any schemes of ambition that he could pursue.
delays Halves must have !vim chances to get 025 000
.... -- -•, An opinion prevailed that the Madras system, as it
December ! setisfy your consciences. Grant him
the
and Two chances to get 250,000, whilst a whole Mas called, was a system hostile to that which tit .y
up his wit- are morally necessary to him, and then,
when the T 1 .ket could only have had the Two chances to gain adopted. It certaiely was not hostile; it pursued
been taken Marshal shall present himself in the struggle, you a 250,000 Prize, such a plan cannot fail to receive the same cenernl enil, but by more contracted means.
will no longer have to complain of his defence being universal approbation. ' if the Madre* system did less gond than the British,
0111N-EXcHARGS. Nov. 47.—The Merkel wn, hut shinty yet it did much gond ; and their wish was, by eiteni -
condemned difficult and crooked ; thee, we shall hope, that in c . tins
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mon
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supplied with Wheat. 1.1".1 i., . be able to accomplish that
ow, k,,,t„st,, 4.1,„ ,„ _Bade; ing both, that they might
the Court reproaching him with reason for a great error, you will au ha., molutly sle tees for fine. it .• •
-benevolent It. lusser.-0,4,2". Inwer.-0, her articles na,vints.l4o, 'tient wish which our revered Sosereign express-
he absolve his conduct of a more heinous designation.
appears saItTitYINLD MARK). T. - Nov. '27. . !ed when Lancaster's semen WAS first 'promulgated.
lieved his sen- The ATTORNEY-6 EN ER AL (Beller° replied to T.. eit.k the Oral, per stow of eat..' • ••' 'flue British system Kamgronuded upon principles that
Beet ... 0! to he. 41. j Heed of Cattle th1e.441,1 vit d . .
ry ; fo• 411
tlititY. LA-M. B.m fr. end endeavoured to answer the argu- „intim .4s 01. t. 5. 41. j Perms ....
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2190 w- Id' tid the tf
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, Veal ... St Oi• I'' 7s. 0:. 1 Sam .
looks niece menet of M. Berryer.
Pbrk ...- as. 'Bl to 5.. d'. 1 Caives . ..
j M. Deers, the ether Advocate of the Marshal, Lome . an. Oa. eta ei. e!. 1 11;:s

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of Guilty—Death. The accused heard his
with the greatest courage and calmness. '
allows him three days to appeal from this sea
ORDONNANCE OF THE KING.
Louis, by the Grace of God, &c.
An atrocious crimelas sullied our city of
lit defiance of the Constitutional Charter, s
cognises the Catholic religion as the religio
-State, -bet which guarantees to other worshi
tection and liberty, a seditious mob has dare
pose the opening of the Protestant temple. i
litary Commandant, In endeavouring to
them by persuesion before resorting to fe
been assassinated, and his assassin has sc
asylum against the pursuit of justice. If sot
fence should remain unpunished, there wou
longer either public order or government,
Ministers would be &nifty of a non-executic
laws..
For these causes we have ordered and do
follows :
Art. 1. Our Proeureur-General and our
reur-Or&itaire shall proceed without delay
the assassin of Gen. Lagarde, and against the
.•coricerned in the riot which took place at N
t the 12th inst.
4.. A sufficient number of troops shall In
Nismes to remain there at the expence of thi
tants, until the assassin and his accomplic
been brought bef.ire the trihuns Ir,
Such of the inimbilsnts as are ti 'it eilfillerl
part of the Noional Girtrd, shall bu disarm
• Dated Nt.v.
. .
4,411, Mr. UMW., having hvl a very severe indi. to.
Month past, Ind. liiinself greatly in wear• with son'
whose obliging letters still rem. to unattvwPrud.
fore, trusts, under the e cirea.n•tances, they will
a goodness to exeme the delay ; and, brine now some
ter, be will take the earliest opportunity to au
esteemed favours.
No. 4, Selisberpectert.Fleet.strret,
Nov, SI, ISIS.
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THE ST,ITESMA
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an LONDON:
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MONOAV, NOVEMBER 27, 1815.
st
'lwo days French Papers, of more than
forest, reached us yesterday, and this listen
s• Cher day's Journal, came to hand. The,
Ih
Ad Papers of the 22d, 23d, and 24th. Those
din nesday and Thursday, contain reports of
dr ceedings in the Chamber of Peers on Tue
the case of Marshal Nov, and of the cone
th the trial of liayst.xerre, before the Court o
tit and the Papers of Friday (the 24th received
rrol furnish the result of the deliberations of
ran, on Thursday. NEY and hii advocates hs
th peared in the Chamber on Tuesday to make
r
jections, the argument in bar of the trial I
s t
re been before Made by some of the Peers th
'she that the Chamber could not be constitut
Criminal Court but by a special law, was
stns taken into cansidesatian. The decision
riga
doubt which prevails in the minds of mat
Peers on this subject. Without rollout,
cal judgment on the objections started by Mars
ere" lie was required to submit all the objection
ions
to make oh Thursday, and the Court adjr
toy
that day. Having again met, and the Mat
Ms witnesses, (among whom is SUCHET,:
Advocate being in attendance, the latter
ce various reasons of nullity and grounds for c
alert
validity bf which have been admitted ;
air!
Vier Chamber, with a cautious moderation whi
ilea, a striking contrast to the intemperate heat
tacit- Bence of the Ministers, and the proceedin
god
other Courts, hes adjourned the farther
cr
(ion of the Marshal's case until the 4th of I
;nags
D de- chiefly in order to give time fur bringing tI
nesse, and making his defence. Ile lies h
lirrh, back to the prison of the Coticiergerie.
4 hi,
LAVALETTE has been found guilty, and c
. te, to death. Ile had three days to appeal to
Of Cassation, and had appealed ; but it is
expected no relief from this. It was belief
Aiil• tense would be executed upon him on Salon
Ind I vst.srrE married M idemoiselle Bssusisut
of the Empress JOsETUISC.

would stand the test of every inquiry ; foe no one will
venture to dispute the 0410 which ocrry holism bein;
possesses of worshipping his Creator in his own way.
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