The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-09-22 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

• 8,10. I. 1815.
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`1" The herisroi of Pnris is unusually gloomy ; the
Islet of the Allies 1, ins to be earavelled.—What-
eser may ba the constituent principles of the revise-
live patties iti France, there is one feeliog in which
thsy ail unite—it jest alarm at the proceedings of the
Ai Even the King himself, imbecile as he is,
no's poreoives his danger, and regrets, too late, the
disment'rerntato of tie' A rmy of tire Loire, the last
remitant- of the pride of Franco. Tiiis step was ab-
solutely dictated le him by the Allies as a sine quo
non; I,e (-emptied with it ; and tiny hailed with
pleasure the destruction of tile last barrier to !Lair
ambition. Since the army has been disbanded they
have assumed a stiO higher tone; and one would
imagine it was 'deb enough before, us the King pos-
sessed barely the shadow of • sovereignty without a
particle of power. Tire Tyger held out his paw to
the King to feel how soft and velvety it was, and ut-
terly destitute of even the principles of injury.--
LOUTS put out 'his hand—' soft, indeed, and per-
fectly harmless,' said his Majesty,—' the story
of the Tyler's claws is a mere fable, a bug-
bear for children; I will instantly disband the
army, and rely entirely on the peaceful, gentle na-
ture of my friend Tyger.' The army was disbanded
—the Tyler yawned, put his net twos and muscular
powers in melon, and discoveeed the same paw armed
with the most dreadful claws. The King was
I.:;glltettc(l—t
,whale of the oratory' %vele
fri,;t.tetitd ! ' What is to be done— e here is FouctiE
—a here is my dear TaarooritaNn?' 1 he two latter
entered ; the former bold, inflexible, and undismayed,
said, I have long told your Majesty so, but you
would not hear me—the longer is great, pers.:hie,
we must all unite to * * **,o. so sure as I
flow arl;lress your Majesty, the inevitable cousequence
%ill be " * *." Hence, thou messenger of mis-
chief! 1 sent for Thee to pour the balm of consola-
Lion into my wounds, hut gall and wormwood are less
bitter than your potions. Come, my faithful TAL.,
LEYItAND, O hat say you ?' Tato.evitasio, with that
ninning grace which lots always enabled him to be
the Vicar of Bray, ever since the commencement of
the Revolution, made a low bow to his Majesty.—
' Ile not ale mail, Sire;' it is true, the Ty ger has claws!
I knew it lona ago, but it was not worth troubling
the repose of y our most Chtistiati Majesty ; for
between ourselves, Sire, there is more to fear
from France herself than from the Myles ; as
to the latter, if me can (oily act the sisortlto follow
the trace of the pee, ill will he well. I was your
Majesty's A trobassador nt the Cee4ress of Vienna.—
Never, sorely, were (he destinies of Europe committed
to such hands. The Allie.l Sovereigns were like a
banditti, who had made an eacelleet booty, but could
riot agree r-,l)nut the dlvi,ion of it, and mere than
cnee they were on the eve o' riccirlieg the point by
toe rottiora rmiu regunr,vihair;. i uel.l etly encouraged,
ouly the whole of the. Allio,l troops were without
shoes, and vs ithoet motley from England they could
wit march a leagrie. The Ministers at Congress were
like so many waiting women, the mimicking
moulk-pkres of their masters, without an idea of their
own. In this sketch your Majesty will be pleased
to recollect I always except my Lord Viscount
CA,TI.I:REIGIf, Who is a marvellous proper man for
an Amhzsooler, only it is a pity that he does not un-
deroanti tither French or Latin, being obliged to
write his notes to the Congress in plain English : he
is a perfect master in diplomacy, and gained the con-
fidence of all hurtles by making a confident of each,
and exhibiting complaints against all the rest : besides,
he was the only one who had any thing to give, and,
therefore, was flattered by each in their turn, and
—pardon me your Majesty, did you ever see a gobe
snonche ?" Never.'—' Nor L but once, Sire.—
BAt to return—l know the character of every tore of
the parties ; and whatever pains they take to make
what they fancy a fires contract, I will introduce a
eause to render it it ugvtory ; added to which, your
Majesty, one of the great Powers will be bankrupted,
and the rest quarrel amongst themselves in less than
three yenrs.'—',Witat,' eaelaimed F---E in a rage,
is the honour, the salvation of France to depend
on the contingencies of one of our enemies, I mean
o r friends, becoming bankrupt, and the rest clear-
?' and with more violence than good !weed-
ing he hastily left the room.—' That is a most au-
dacious impudato fellow,' exclnimed the King, ' who
three; to tell me that nil France cries out against my
tiovernmeot.'-- Ile is vielrat, your :Majesty, tool
unfortunately trowel ful ; it is, however, (tat:genius
to he without him. lie has honesty enough to he
faithful to Lis employer, even when he has ceased to
approve of his curtduet ; but once accept his resigttas
tion, he Own thinks himself free, and becomes
a dangerous enemy. But the Allies, what do they
intend ? To retain a portion of France in their
hands, in the first place, us a security for the es-
pences of the war ; and in the second, as a security .
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for the peace and goo(' behaviour of France.'—, I,ISM or l',„ NGLAND.—Yeoerdav a Court of Pr(-
why did I disha;al the at my I'—' It was a wise step, piriet2.i.tis was held at the Brink of Eel:Fold. when
your Majesty ; it pleased the Allies--relieved yeti proposition for the accust.,nred
from ea pence and iliquietude. The army is disba eleer;oi an ame„dmetoof 5 per
cent.
Mr.
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ed, trot destroyed; sound the tocsin of tiaiional per
(Pot.
Afterailsh a resolution to di,ide
danger and every man will rejoio his raidor. 0;1 ILt.. veniE• witridrew motmiLconve' tt rstion,
Mr.
some sehjects there is hut flue saptinicot in al: 1"srol by onother Proprietor(Mr.
France, but the moment 1101 arrived fur develop. bill per Eip„„ the shy 4,
of
bands,
;I: diode
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sag it ; and let Fouctis.: say Aka lie 'may, when the .11-ire"'.'trit-deotislareil.the ques.ion to be , against
occasion arrives I can, in two months, produce (tor,
con ifi,r o:s c.i.di,videi-vd, nal the orijoal resolu-
IR the eili;MiLir The Court then PO- .
of the fittest and most numerous armies in Europe, 11 as caress,.NlL "s":"""
dividend
elf
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entirely devoted lu your Majesty.' %Vhat the Allies journal.

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intend, and what TALLETRANCI means, time, the
revealet of all finings, will semi discover. Certain
it is,-that discontent and disaffection run rapidly
through every vein of the body politic. Au owlet
crisis seems to be preparing, at which all seem to
shudder. Three hundred thousand bayonets may hold
it in check, but tine flame is ill burst forth, and when it
does, terrible will be the result. The French begin to
lose their patience at t heinsolervee of the foreign utficets;
how a high spirited nation has borne it so long is
what surprises many. When K. was so barbarously I
murdered, there was written on a wall near the
Palnis Loyal—Ceti est l'heare k pins heureux
ma vie, car je rims de Ince an Gud-dam-4 this is "01"
the happiest hour of my Lie, for I hare killed a (led- us""ls very scanty.
dam' (an Englishman).. As to lieuteeant CARROT., The Gic:elle Wick& announces the appoint
of the 4311., whose quarrel OCCAbit.leril the shutting up of the Duke of h's:L:n; lcotooloheciviomiurs
mstuiNeme (It
of the Rotunda, it is very generally believed that he Military Division, 1
was in the wrong ; but so careful is the French Go-
12th. The appointment of these Officer, to htvernment of gi% ing offence, that the National Guards, • vernors of Military Divisions, allows the tura
because they.folloiccd him into a house to disarm him, affairs are taking in the Cabinet, and the desi,
have been severely censured, and an official itteestiga- expedients which are resorted to in order to nab
lion is to take plare—but it is impoisible that this the Royal Authority..
order of thiegs can continue lung. The National As the Meeting of the Chambers approaches,
Guard, the finest body of troops in the world, crisis which is to decide the fate of France becoi
possesses the seeds of discontent, antla very strong , more alarming, and the Cabinet of Louis mar
Order of the Day has been issued ; amongst other • traded. *The King still seems to be Eoatieg Inc
things they are .iliseatisfied with their Colonel, his two parties., and giving satisfaction to none.
Rey t Illgimess the Duke of * .^l'F, and publicly-de- said in some private accounts, that he Ii
mewl auet her Chief, what is to be the result is con- cided to declare in his opening Speech I
coaled in the womb of time. The King trembles at Assemblies, his determination to *hide iv
his own weakness, but he recollects the greatness of Constitutional Charter (of 1814), and to
his ancestor, Ileeny I V., and bids the world look all attempts at re-action. It is added, ti
at his virtues, and respect his lineal descendant ; in" :give au impressive assurance to the country flee
deed, this is the only claim he pretends to have to I is the system by which he means to act, and
the affections of the people, and that is certainly'
countenance the party of White Jacobins, wl
very weak one, for this descendant of sixty-three
for the extirpation of all liberal opinions, I
Kings,' can only find One in the whole number vs horn
written a letter to the Duke of ORLEANS, refit
he dare claim relationship with, so that it may be bin
to come over and assist at the opening
proved arithmetically that the blood in his veins he
two Chambers on Monday next ; and that the
dare not own, compared with that which he dare, is as
of ORLEANS has actually set off for Paris, to
62 to one. But after all the King is more to be ,
his influence to those who think that the Royal ,
pitied then !stained ; he was never made for scenes of!
difficulty and trouble: is man that is ,cry infirm, and j thorny should be the bulwark of the national
priest-ridden into the bargain, what can he expected berty, and the national liberty the base of the P
of. him but weakness and irresolution. This is se; Authority. If we can believe the Maniterr •
universally felt, that whatever turn affairs may take 29th of December, 1789, Lours XVIII. was
no personal Jaeger need be ninprehended by the King; serf of thi3 (Pinion, when, with a little nu
:dour of mind and decision of character, he expressed
but this cannot be said of any of the Royal Princes,
whose pridikand insolence create every day new ere- himself thus to his fellow-citizens of Paris, after
mies. It was supposed, after the grand review, that the arrest of the Marquis de Feyees, his agent,
the conspiracy :—" As to my personal opinions,'
armies were all going, which was strengthened by
posting bills of the British army for carts and waggons tie, " I shall deliver them boldly to my fell'
for the transport of the British army: This was ; ci!ieene. From the day en which I delivers('
succeeded in a day or two by an advertisement, an.; seetiteents in the second assembly of the Not
tinuticing that tine King of PRVAiIA and the Doke of, upon the question upon which tnett's mind!
WeeresterON had commenced timber-merchants, and :still divided, I have never ceased to hope a
that their stock in trade, consisting of the palisadoes Revolution, of which the King, from his
put down for the defence of Pails, were now to be lions, his virtues, sod high rank, ought
sold oil their joint account, by their agent the Baron • the head, inasmuch as it could not be use!
de Prue. %Vise custom they have had fur these the nation, without being equally so to the Menai
goods, in selling them to their light owners,l know not, c itt a word, that the Royal authority should be
but the thing is ridiculous and disgraceful to all the bulwark of the national liberty, and the oat
parties concerned--hut strange things happen now.a. liberty the base of the !toys! authority, &c.
days : who has not felt the full force of the ridicule' changed my sentiments and principles, and
of Ileticuees with the distaff, and who does not se- never change them." Thus spoke Louis X'
crelly laugh at the Duke of W giving tea in 1789. What has been his conduct
parties !! I—a Let which has been announced with j the world well knows. What his personal opii
great formality by the Paris Journals, which are, as still may be is not so clear ; but it is sufficient
usual, vele, barren of political intelligence. It is-
ietteed, in the English Newspapers only that the Pa.: dent that if they are of this liberal class still,ho
never he permitted to carry them .into pact
risians eepect to find any teal news .as to what is'King of France, He has bound himself by tna
traosacting in the political sphere of their own capi-
an alliance to Powers who are interested in pr
tai. The Liberty of the Press had never atronger
ing and upholding a very different doctrine,
sharl.les i Nsse.; on it by BONAPARTE than by the
have ester changed their system end objects in
mild and gentle Louis. A curious work has slipped
of what the mass of people hate been calliog
through it in a very singular manner—The Die.
ideis for a quarter of a century, and allow mternary of Weeitherroeks, of which I shall semi yeti
lapses to such a system, especially in those
some extracts. It is the contrast of authors ate!' poli-
they have set upon Thrones to maintain their
ticiatts, retch wit It himself wee lee his recorded opinimet
at mes;„es eiyeehe of the it,,,,heioo_the empire of of things. The Duke of ORLEANS and the Cci
Roe sPARTE and the reign of L •cle XVIII. As tutionalists may thick as they please, but Frau .
might be es peeled, so singular a work, wee pee_ live no other Constitution than that which the
cided, asnubb he tweeted ; it has, in a /like neta,, cause to give her, while she allows their true;
%Munn., entitled 7'/re ('viant• if the I),:rtionary rf maintain posseslon of the coutery, and the
IVcathercock.r, and whines most ss meat hetieeilv at her &like atise Assemblies with instant desire'
the cruelty of such n pubiication ; lint, in fact, th. How art though fallen, bind of Welt, and ft
sign of the Weathercock is nearly universal in Pates; nod trodden under foot by the f;'es whom yet
the word Emperor is exploded, the tome tieing seise'!—tlespeiled of the !slightest of your trii
painted over, or a slip cf paper paieed over it, pt'. by enemies that shuened vin in battle, an
"'ding " eitcnut'lln'Ts• I 'l's' know cuexcels strniteers to the fil of Sietory
lien to this silly meanness:. Lori that is, in La Piave ;
des Victoitrs, w here nn testiest woo"en-tinti.rr Too Eeipc:or or Ri•sste is expected to set 0!
tinups to hang (timidly at his deme c. a I'lsm/'errnt j., his return to his slonlinions snout the Clis: rl
consistency may be a mines, hit to be a weathercerit "eel; •
to se.y. (hr. least of it. T. sines, except are •o'of B • state
Nothing is- said of the departure of the
must be always falls,
and r. stetteely quarrelled its the King's presence.-- peti ton a russe.s
tnNssines. 'l'. i,tri2ined coiiltl that the King of PuusstA is expected in
urgoil tle.-isise
raring to glide with the stream to (User( its ronr:e.;
„„,y 11,;„:.,.
~,petkr policy,
and by
ap. towards the end of the pr ',tnt month. While
accounts represent the Russians as in no haste
luiseas:netnecuoefd, attars, on
t!,,a
wilfullyoriiitit.
fc
tarrtenieilitl vntt -, the rest vi OAI lie, as "ill ree'ivinC
which was trot , a Dutch Hail just arrived. !.rings ace
F. sent tis re sienetiese
which represent the :necessity for the preseecc
ter the masons I have given."
; Russian troops on their own fi (steles, es dads' her'
. i leg more pressing f:orn the prepeeitionts of the
The troubles in Sereirt seem rather the pretext
tha canse of the immense errnements which Turk
now sending forth ; and on the put of ALEX 5%1
3 protest also is only wflnsine he leave France 4'
good dace, wire he can expert to obtain till
niataut possession, and set with the inch
• wears which he has lately obtained, a pow'
:once, well appointed and disciplined to wa'
Euroesete expenee, the attainment of what
Ilassiett Cabinet has so long wished and conteui.l6l
It r—tv e,:teml and consolidate her rw.; CU

CORONATION.—IIatieIay at the Prhtic

751114.: STATESMAN

LONDON:

FRIDAY, SEI•TI:IIDER 242, 1815.

The rids rapei s of Tuesday last arrived tliii
Ihe intelligence which they convey