The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-11-23 00:00:00

ATATESMAN.

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MARS/Lit, NEI. letter I% the Winistet of ,General Police, for the de— NE/CT SATURDAY MORNING.. NINE 1:PCL(1
fetes of Brdyarte, with whose enterprise it is wish- THE LAST DAY OF DR AWIND TR I.: lAA* TICK
1•11)\S HEsPECTING HIS TRIAL. to sasociate him' —TIIF. WHERE IS SIVITIILESA tIT CON+)
-- Is he not still the seine re3n, Who knows only how I THREE PRIZES OF .C.io,iinO,
.TWO PlillZES
1-;;LO RE lIIS AUTHoRI IV ) to' cumltat; hives wily his country, and always *Cht)l).l* 6"
ion would most probably advise, is wishes to prevent its ruin ? I Arr. • .
waits, • 0.
very one should obey tiro laws of his - /10* Mail)! Maishals of France have been delivered 0 .. - Lisbon
is advised by Socrates, inspired, he up to the sword of the law ?Is there one who ever 0 ' Gotientnegh !
0
to Counsel. And what would reason had for his excuse so many changes in forms of Go. 0 .... ...... ... Malta P
except that our duty has ne other rule Irerillnelift or "eh rer""t"P" in the return of 'Pei- 0 • France , ,
It is fortuitous' And among mac) ? Is there not in this an accident v. Well stands
pen an affair which was capital become single an I/ the examples *Lich our history for ten Putcc tse• SToCKI THIS DAY AT wilt trcLt
. And we have even, according to the ages atr"rtis? Kant 4.017, Ann. 15 5-Ifi
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the fortune of war, Halite to be one Was not the fault of Marshal Ney an involuntary 13, ;ere'. :1.4"",• ,P 44,,,,. :9,1:i
tnian:groidioranß7ol6lndsll4l4k " p
treason, human and divine, our order ? Did it net take place at a moment when he 14 per Cent 75i;
under the mercy of injustice, and was stunned by a fetal concourse of extraordinary ' h Per C44/1. her/ 1,2 Consols for ore. 621
o of a few years•possesaion, assuming, cotohitialiosts ? I •
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rice What thee, will philosophy What premeditation preceded the moment in which i
essity ? That we should follow the he ceased to be faithful to his duties towards the 1 7'llF; STA 7'F,S3I-4 N.
„,,y, that is to say, that floating see King ? Did riot his posterior conduct demonstrate . ,
of is people, or a Prince, a hich ail! the innocence of his mind ? I LONDON:
me in as many colours and re-pro- I And did not alt France, subject to the irresistible i. . •
as many faces as the changes which itillueuce of the same causes justify, by approbation ' TREISSDA‘, Doreaisru 23, 1815.
re caused."—( Montaigac's Essays.) and silence, the audacity of the Usurper ? •
for 25. years, has not awed to corn. If the Addresses of Civil and Military A.uthori- ARRIVAL OF TM:
of our armies, whose name is attach- ties, if the Deputation of the Champ-de-Mai repre.
tds of arms which have illustrated his seated only the wish of a missotity, what complaint TREATIES OF PEACE.
'rem the rank of a private soldier, has, can be made on the part of a majority of so mach
and without exciting envy, risen by apathy, that it never showed itself until after the Mr. PLANTA arrived at the Foreign Office
• the highest dignities—the pupil,.the • battle of Waterloo ? , morning with the Treaties of Peace, or Cenventi
tulator of the Klebers and Moreaus— Would it be right to judge the morality of the at-- • between
lion the Allies and she King of FRANCE. I
'our children, on whom the countryevents posterior to that action,— .
were sighed at Paris on Monday last. Immedia
hopes—can such a man be regarded events which have entirely changed the position in ,
eject of accusation ? • w hich all were placed at the moment of the storm ? after the arrival of Mr. PLANTA, Lord BATIII
period is he tried ? Is it not at the( . Would it be wise to etercise in the lime of peace a communicated this agteeahle intelligence by the
eery irritated passion torments public rigour, the effect of which might be regretted in time lowing t
...etter to the LORD M Aliott 1*
iof wet ? t
which has occurred been foreseen by i Witulti not posterity, which is always equitable, i 66 " Downing-11feet, Nov.'
because it is without passion, revolt wiled too se- M Y Loao,—lt gives me great satisfactior
i tried militarily, what would have , yore a decision ? And were Marshal Ney to fall, hare the honour of informing your !..ordship that
Weald the friends of the King have ! would not the Muse of History engrave this re- PLANTA has just arrived with the Treaties, signe
imps, paratory s, or the discontented more re- . epitaph on his tonsb---" liere lie luent.Y- Paris on the 20th hot. between the Allied Pot
an exampte of chit kind have caused five years of glory and one of error ?"
i and his Most Christian &Messy, by which the bless
le viewed in a different manner ? The obscure man who submits these questions to
Bible for this illustrious warrior to be an impartial public,
has never been a Jacobin, and : of Peace are restored to Europe, and I beg to t
'
erminate his life, would not universal has never lied occasion to change his character, in patellae your Lordship on the happy terminatio
should order to prove his attachment to the outpost dynasty; War.
moment the shades of death
us forehead ? - which Providence has restored to u Owing so! 64 I have the honour to be, my Lord,
mere recollection of the immortal re- , gratitude to Napeleon, who cruelty persecuted him,
It, where less than 20,000 men ar- • be does not even torte to be known to those who dis. 46 Your Lordship's,
h of 80,000 Russiatts—of Portugal, ' pease the favours of the present Government. The 44 Melt obedient bauble servant,
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(rut::.l-;;Ln Ili HIS AUTHORITY )
'' irasOli would most probably advise, is
gene. ally it.mt every one should ohey tho !aws of his
C 00011), ac was advised by Socratic, inspired, he
said, by a INcine Counsel. And what would reason
vlects re titer ebv except that our duty has ne ether rule
then th.o a hick is fortuitous' And among
us hest 1 h.,ve seen an affair which was capital become
I.leful And we have even, according to the
uncerteinty of the fortune of war, liable to be one
day guilty of high treason, human and- divine, our
justice falling under the mercy of injustice, and
woho the pace of a few years possession, assuming.
a coultriry essence What then will philosophy
say it, 114. tvecete.ity ? That we should follow the
lies of atm country, that iv to say, that floating sea
of the opinions of a people, or a Prince, w hich will
veint jastice to me io as many colours and re-pro-
euce her with as many faces as the changes which
passion shall have caused."—( Montaigsm's Essays.)
A man, who, for 25. years, has not ceased to com-
bat at the head of our armies, whose name is attach-
ed to all the deeds of arms which have illustrated his
htt- has

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country—who from the rank of a private sot " nas,
without intrigue and without micitilag envy, risen by
hi► own merit to the highest dignities—the pupil,.the
cumrad., the emulator of the Klebers and Moreau,—
the father of four children, on whom the country
may found just hopes—can such a man be regarded
es a common object of ■ccusatiou ?
And at what period is he tri.•d ? Is it not at the
Moment when every irritated passion torments public
opinion ?
Ilan the case which has occurred been foreseers by
say toe ?
Had he been tried militarily, what would have
. been the result? Wneld the friends of the King have
,been more numerous, or the discontented more re-
signed Would an esompte of that kind have caused
the. t to be viewed in a different manner
ore it possible for this illustrious warrior to be
condoles:tad to terminate his life, would not universal
regrets arise the moment the shades of death should
*over his glorious forehead ?
Will not the mere recollection of the immortal re-
treats of Gusted', where less than 20,000 men ar-
rested the march of 80,000 Russians—of Portugal,
where three regiments of, infantry distracted, during
. eleven days, the talents of Wellington, at the head of
the hale Anglo:Pr

In the night by seductions, falsehoods,
sforeseen arguments which he never had
imbat ; urged by all the recollections
inflection with Napoleon; subdued by
icy of that daring man whom the Soya-
earth had deified by their homage; forced
the instant between the evils of civil
II wished to avoid, and the cause of So-
int none had success in defending; finally,
an irresistible fatality, did not the uts-
y sink under the difficulties of an nue:-
ion ?

at thrown into the torrent, impelled, as
nce, dazzled by a fatal meteor which had
en above• the horizon ? Could he alone
iseless reeistlince which all France had
?wand him?
now boast of your ardent zeal, of your
lity, Royalists of the South, of Bur-
'ratiche Comte, and of Paris, what was
in these critical circumstances ? Did
ation of your sentiments depend en.
the conduct of a single mass? Would
us to throw upon a single individual all
)ility of an event which each of you
tempted to prevent? Who fired a sin-
Ither before or after the pretended de.
larshal Ney ? Do all the acts of adhesion
ren to Bonaparte count as nothing in the
trace ?

,he King himself, surrounded by his
iusehold, and his most zealous servants,
capital, and of the resources of the
, choose to retreat to save his people
iry of a civil war
1-Ith of March at Lons.le-Saulnier, with
its, afford n better opportunity for corn.
civil war than that which occurred at
so army of Royal volunteers and chosen

Ird has Marshal Ney received far this
Ach H said to h.ve been so useful to the
Ind which It is wished to tarnish with the
mimeo?
disfavour and exile his rewarcl? Arid
merely recalled to the field of death, the
,Igium?

4e any to the Climber of Peers in hh

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AItRIVAL OF THE
TREATIES OF PEACE.

apathy, that it never showed itself Wit after the Mr. Pctsva arrived at the Foreign Office this II}sians, in a most lively degree, to the asisff
battle of Waterloo? morning with the Treaties of Peace, or Conventions, of their situation, and it is supposed to bat
Would it be right to judge the morality of the 41.- between the Allies and the King of FRANCE. They led the conclusion of the Treaty. The
tiros of a man by events posterior to that action,—
were signed at Paris on Monday last. Immediately! ‘VELLINGTO24 has been peculiarly unfortiteste
events which have entirely changed the position in
which all were placed at the moment of the storm? after the arrival of Mr. PcaPera, Lord BATHDRSY , his Ceosentioirs- and Ids- explanations
, . Would it be wise to exercise in the lime of peace a communicated this agipeahle intelligence by the rot-Even the Treasury Writers in this coin
rigour, the effect of which might be regretted in time lowing
Letter
to the LORD M A YOR I* that his interpretation of the 12th Ai
of eat ? .
1 o 1),,„„;,1_,1„,,, pi„,. gs. which Nor rests lib defence, is one whit
Would not posterity, which is always equitable, 1
" M Y Loao,—lt gives me great satisfaction to in the words of the Article, or the whole
bet 'use it is without passion, revolt against too se-1
were a decision ? And were Marshal Ney to fall, hare the honour of informing your Lordship that Mr.! Couveution, or even in the construed '
would not the Muse of History engrave this re- PLANTA has just arrived with the Treaties, signed at of the parties, will bear out.—" The
paratory epitaph on his tomb—" Here lie A:l.)dg- Paris on the 20th inst. between the Allied Powers I touched nothing political ;" did it
five years of glorN and one of error ?" t
and his Most Christie,. Majessy, by which the blessings the lives and safety of political men, who
The obscure mats who submits these questions to ,
an impartial public, has never been a Jacobin, anal of Peace are restored to Europe, and I beg to con- feted to withdraw in consequence of its
has never lied occasion to change his character, in inhibit* your Lordship on the happy termination of bet who are now its prison, and destined
order to prove his attachment to the august dynasty ' War. I appetite of remorseless vengeance? Was .
which Providence has restored to uis. Owing no.I " I have the honour to be, my Lord, 1 thing political in the property of the Memel
gratitude to Napoleon, who cruelty persecuted kiln,
" Your Lordship's, was at least reclaimed on political grounds,
be does not even wrest to be known to those who dia.
peisse the favours of the present Government. The " Most obedient bauble servant, pretty, openly denominated political kroperly
friend of the Country and the King, whom he has " BATHURST. States who claimed its
bad the good fortune never to offend, whotit• he is 1 "Ti she Right Hest, the Lord Mayer of Leaden." . .
ready to serve with perfect devotedness, be proposes ' ST AT Mtn AR OFFICE, I PAST TWO OTLOCI
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..ie whole .nglo;Yortugue.se army—m Moscow, - lrk
where so many Frenchmen were indebted for their his doubts on . . .. a subject which every one vsew• sin his , The Conventions an said to be four in number, t 4
We have this instant raitefired- Pans
lives to this man, so singularly distinguished in the own manner, and which it is important to judge and dedicated to four distinct objects. One is aim- •
Monde), taut. do e f et the.
field They cy not
field of battle—speak 'gore loudly than the faults without passion. i ply a 'NW, of Peace, en which the others depend. of th
e capital by Drop troops, tea we ,
Happy would he be were this series of questions, to
with which he is pow riproaclsed, or than the cla.The second is a Convention for the subsistence of
which ethers might be added, totwaken the interest : on the subject of the conclusion of the Treaty,
moors of the spirit of Party ?
the circumstance, •no doubt, of their being '
the semi i 'tiny of those men who possess an in.. or . . troops, the occupetiod of fortresses, and the like;
Is it not proved by the unanimous testimony of
men worthy of the bigbest credit, that the conduct lleence over the determinations of the supreme au- :, the third arranges the mode of raising and paying .
in the morning.
thority,
laud consequently on the destinies of the the contributions; and the last, which is sopposed
of Marshal Ney, flown to the 14th of March, indi-On Tuesday the Plenipotentiaries '
cited the purest intentions, a sincere devotion to country . Ito have been the most difficult to settle, provides for /
lust Convention, annesed to the Tasty at
_
the cause of the King ? Do his letters to Marshals ' ! the terms of payment to the foreign, and particularly .
Woos' Este OF VIE COURT-MARTIAL !alive to the city of Hamburgh.
Suchet and Oudinot leave the least doubt on that I i .
1 Upon Lie Report of Field-Marshal Count Grand. the British creditors. We shall doubtless be speedily .
pointf There is. no report of any further Sitting.'
Is not the justificatory exposition of Bowyer, mo. ler, and after heaving the request of the Commis- : made better acquainted with the terms of this long' There
of Nity's case. The Bureaux have'
sinner Ordonnateur Joinville, King's Couusel,
dest as it is, though but a simple glance cast upon , :* pending agreement ; and glad shall we be to find,
tiewed in the Chamber of Peers.
The Counsel considered,
the map, sufficient to convince the most prejudiced i that it is such as shall preserve the tranquillity oft .111 e Peers were to assemble for the triel ,
minds r Ist, That Marshal Ney was a Peer of France at
' tbe he whoa its committed the offence fute.which Europe, by better teems than by binding it to sup.
shit Nuy at iiiue o'clock en Tuesday morning.
Arriving at 'Lens-le-Saultiler,-i
-a the midst of he was brought to trial, inconformity with the'Ordi- ' port the Bouesoseon the throne of France, and the .
j On Sunday evening, while the 10th Regt.
troops whose fidelity had been shaken, surrounded .
mince of the King of the 24th of July last. t
with insurrections and alarming reports, without,
2dly, That a person charged with crime ought al.
counsel, without news from the Court, believing .
ways to tee arraigned in the rank, and according to derstood that Paris would be given to the care of the White Flag, a tumult was excited by aver%
himself placed at once bet weeu the country, which is French troops at the moment of the Signature of tbe .
&crying out " Doe n with the White MCI
the quality he possessed at the moment he committed
always the same, and Princes, whose rights bad so
the offence of which he is accused. .. 1 Treaty ; and yet we are told that the Erg' ish army will ! This is almost all the intelligence wlfici
long been disputed, what could he undertake against 1 idly, That the Marshals oi. France have never 1
ac. not be withdrawn from the Capital ! that there are Pros t!Papers contain.
the Usurper, who was already more advanced than ]Cup,
I
....,i under cum Kings other jurisdiction then
visions in the Conventions just concluded, for the he on the side of Paris—that Usurper %ies,. ow tri ,
ttat ~i , I.: Perlis tit of Paris; a hich,from the moment •
had been a sort of triumph from Grenoble to Chalon,
of their creation to the present, they have declared 'subsistence of foreign troops in France, and that that
whose mere approach produced one scene of delirium .
to be competent, as a High Court ; and that consi. I country is to be placed in a condition which is any
to Autun, to Dijon, and throughout all the sin-
. deriug Nlarshal Ney a General d'Armee, in order , thing but a state of freedom or peace. At what a
rounding countries; that Usurper, in fine, whom the
to apply against him the provisions of the law of oment are we told a Peace has been concluded, end
efforts of the most distinguished Officers, the voice i
4th Fructidor, An 5, they have formed bytnalegy a i a'_Whilst
of Macdonald, and even the presence of the King's !
tribunal, the existence of which is not recognized by. congratulated on the termination of war 1
brother, could not for a single moment arrest in his !
y ! any law. - i the whole ls. France is in a ferment, and ready to
4thly, Thit Marshal Nay, is accused of the crime rise at weep the obnoxious Government which has
of high treason, also' of an attempt against:the safety I been imposed upon It from the earth. can it be said
of the State;
ad by the terms of the 33d Article of .
we have concluded a peace with France? No !
the Constitutional Charter, the connaissanae of these
crimes belongs to the Chamber of Peers. The Signature of Louis XVIII. and his emigrant
sthly, That the Ordivance of the 24th of July, Ministry is a nonentity. The Allies dare not with.
which prescribed theserrest and bringing before coin.: draw their troops. They may call their Conventions'
petentfficers, Cand ouncotherindividuals, am ils Of War several Gener
hatals er
those of
, su
the'
pior ; a peace; but very little of she benefits of a peace will
ol t
i result from them. France dares not repose under
24 of August, which sent nil the accused named int
such Conventions. She has seen one, that on which
that of the 24th of J.aly,before the Permakent Council
of War of the first military division, prejudging .an honourable and a lasting amity should have been
nothing with respect to the competence of the Council I founded, openly violated, and pronounced a mere es-
of War ; as well as that of the 6th of December, ,
pedient to obtain possession of an unlimited power
which sent back M. de la Valetta, nominated in that . .
of the 21th of July, before his natural judges
over the lives and properties of millions of persnns7
cording to the terms of the Articles 62 and 63 of ac- i
the I she dares not resign herself to the defenceless quiet
Constitutional Chai ter, give room to think that the of confidence and security; whilst her Government
derogation to the laws and constitutional forms pro. is issuing Decrees which set all notions of judicial
nounced by Article 4, of that Ordinance does net i
give it competence. Ipropriety, justice, and humanity at defiance, whilei
And ooteithstanding flue requisition of the King's; her senses are disturbed by the tocsin of Wirral, and
Counsel, declared by a majority of five voices against j her ears are shocked with eternal imprecations of
tett, that it is incompetent to try Marshal Ney. I vengeance. The tenderest mercy of the Bourbon
The Council having reentered into a public Silting, ;
ong.s I
Government is cruelty and death. It leas lhoww
the President pronounced in a strong tone, that( .l
judgment of iucompetence was admitted by the,Coun- 1 that it cannot forgiver and wants only the Pnweel
cil of %VII-. Ito put its Nero-like wishes into effect. Let the,
The Council enjoin the Reporter to read the whole Reader look at the project of the laii for an amnesty
of this judgment to Marshal Ney, in the presence of which the Royalist Deputies have been maturing in
the guard under arms, and to anticipate (hit the-law
I secret for some days past, and vs hich is now .sent
allows him 24 hours to apply for revision, and, more-
over, to get the judgment executed in ever); respect. forth as a proof of their etceiding• clemency—let
5.151!.•d by m.iisioit..mtißilAN (Pre4.1051), M ASS i:- the Reader look at this preeioes form of an amnesty,
‘ 't, AU t-;1•At li AU, MORFILR ('Revisit). awl llv and say what is the merciful ;forgiveness of the
i.i..0.-notit-Geornd 4the I( int's 4" t GAZ AN,
N I IL% l' EV, nu.l CIA PAREDE. • Royalists. This act of clemency would condemn to
-death or transportation, One Million Five Hundred
' Thousand Persons ; and among these the men whom
France sUlately honoured with the name of its Re-
presentatives, such an act would indeed deserve the
name of an act of oblivion. We cannot believe that
such a proposal will pass iiitqt hew ; bat it is proba-
ble that it will be attempted to carry it into esecatioe.
Armed with, the, power pf unlimited imprisonment,
with the means of dragging individuals before tribu-
nals about to be establiibed) which will be obedient to

1 The PlttNcE REGENT, en-Morrow, svi
i Cottneil at Carltan.hou.e, when the REEOL
r make his report of, the convicts wider seuteice
;
death in *nate.
Last night the exterior of Carltoo.hoese
1 ed, with gas. The Secretary of State's Oifice
'Home Departmtnt, in Whitehall, was also
1
with gas for the first time, on the outside,
Letters mention that the Spanish Government
, issued a Decree, which allows the entry of
lett goods, warehoused before the last day
on payment of the duties of Mt. Sach
the same description as have arrived in I
i year may be esported oe the payment of
duty. • .
Malls from *ate and Crittraftar arrived
day, brought to Falmouth by the Stratitre 1.-
-Sailed from Malta the 11th of October, and hew
Gibraltar the 7th instant. Generals Spattv, Lsttr.
m Amps &c. have !mots landed, and sent into Fort
Manttel, where they are strongly guarded. flit
Walsinghaus and Montague packets from Falwell,
arrived at Gibialtar on the 6th instant.
MAMMAL Sour.T.—A manuscript copy of his Mee
Gloria! in justification of his conduct has been re-
ceived—it is a very long one. It takes up the al"'
shad's life " &it from his boyislido}s." "The Ito-
volution found me ie camps end left me in limn''—
'. Ife then declares
.himself to have always been 1
strawr to faction, and to hive lived bet for hit
country. He confines himself to the period that hr
elapsed since tbee r'esteretion..ln .1811, to the Of-
ad‘firoutearremßonocle.ihroptfmeltithTiesst:2l4titenhithaJ.4„.lya,647;s6.
hitldle„S,lssiglaeledtli''.:
:rose him a letter ill.
provleg of his conduct. appeals to his etfor..,
when Minister, to melioiale all pacts of his silly
stistratinn for the advantage rif the King—l.e wee`
Into a view of the military state of Antibes, the VI••
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and Grenoble, when BortArum; landed. A 04.
ji
llomarte•re arrived It Paris, lie (SOuvr) retired IN,
his country seat, and only left it after two oritcn
from RoNAPAETE. lie confesses that he fov,lii it
Waterloo ; bat be insists that he was justified ;',
taking up inns to defend his country aga:e.r 14)114 ,
invasion ; and he instances Admiral St.sa.C3cutiti..s.
in the time of Cnostww..
Mother forgery has been discovered et the Ca"
. snisaioners for victualling the Navy, ihirk, it ortenr..
was PfPciqd near two years since. The perperst•. •
has hitherto eluded detection. •
A severe frost and a heavy fell of snow took 0.••
in the• Middle of the lest week, in the Not th an.ll:7'
Kitting* of Yorkshire, which have, for the pre-0
put an entire stop to the pursuits of agricuituoi, 4''
all the sports of the field.

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Attacked in
adroit and unt
the skill to cor
of his long cot
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the ascersdenry
reigns of the es
to choose en ti
war, which all
vereigns, witon
i the victim of 1
fortunate Ney
, .
ampled situat i,
. . Was he not
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was all Francs$
I suddenly risen
attempt an usi
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spotless fideli
gustily, of Fr
alone by you i
the manifests
tirely upon th
it be generous
the responsibi
might have all
gin musket oil
faction of Ma
i• profusely give
i ! political Wail
I 1 ' Did not ti
Alilitary Ilou
master of the
Government,
from the fury
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four regiment!
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1.4 • . 'Milan with a
troops ?
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What rewat
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~. . Usurper,. and
most odious rt
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was he nut mt
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