Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1819-04-30

/ has communicated 10 the Cantons the
! | Royal Decree, according Ia winch oil To-
reign Adventures, mo may be taken I'M
dee arms under the hanurrs al HE Anne
ricam insurgents, or furnishing them with
, ammunition or arms, viii be punished
with death.
Particulars yespectiag Tie taie Sham Plot al
brussels.
Ii was pretended al the time ihai Il
u,an named Piger, n currier. MAS al ihe
head OF plot, The object ei which Mas 10
seize the Emperor Alexander. and 10 de-
tain him as a hostage, until ship, pre-
pared for that purpose, should have re-
ceiyed on board the prisoner from 81.
Helena, and transported INN 10 England
although they could moi find either the
ship, or any other means of carrying II
INTO execution Only four or hve poor
wretches wcre arrested, and supposed 10
have bee the auNillarir> in tl,senierprisc.
,ao OF whom have been released since,
Nv there was not even sufficient pre-
sumpiive. proof 10 support The charge.
! Piger lauXuishcs in PRISON, the process
winch has been coMmenc Il against INN
has been stopped, and he has been at
1 tackled by "a serious ma!ady. There was
| "a great uproar made al The time OF his ar
resi-, and pompOus preparations tor II !:
and The last time that Alexander came 10
| Brussels, the road from AiX la Chap-lle
was covercdwith gensdarines, earabIneers
aud escorts Of all descriptions, both IN and
out oil uniform. His Hotel was constantly
surrounded by the police. No evil dis
| posed person, however, presented him.
| sell, no attempt was made, and there Is
| ever, reason TO believe thai this plot was
purely an invention of some persons who
! wished TO thus acquire title to receive
some reconpeiicr.-Tlle result of the in
vesiigalion will he most probably similar
TO the mountain in labor, in The fable.
This grand plot turns out TO be of
nature similar 10 the hoax of The ST. He
lena plot, which was goi up by The Min
listers about the same time.
[Liue,peol Mercury.
From tie London Courier IF March IS.
In the Noniteur there is a sort OF oaici-
| al exposition of the causes which led to
the recent nominations in the Chamber
OF PEERS, which is deserving of remark
The writer boldly discIaims, al the very
outset, that the mealy created Peers were
called in TO extricaie Ministers from
temporary eAigeney. No: il Was mea-
sure deliberately taken, for the express
purpose of enuobling the revolution, by
calling to the service at the Grown lis
ancient euen les. So tar as we can I'M
dcrstaud this motive, wc dccn II repre-
iicnsiblr one. We are Tar from supposing
IL would he praciicabie,a aud even II IL were
practicable, we do not think il would be
wise, ia tie Government of Louis XVIII. 10
aci up0namavovei system of xcluslon in
aspect TO all and every person connected
will, The revolution. To do this, he must
put The whole nation under an Interdict.
Besides, hide0ms and detnrmed as that
great event became in lis progress, we
have never wished To conceal from QUIZ
( selves that France has come out Of the
terrible ordeal, with better political ex-
isicncc than abe had before. She has
taken her stallion as a free and indepen-
dent nation; we wish 10 see her continue
so; and we wish, also, TO see her tempe
raielv and Seriously widen and coi,soli-
date HE foundations of her liberty. 1t
would, therefore, he eulpablr, and
foolish experiment, To draw broad line
between The men Of The revolution, and
The men who fed from The revolution.
But We must say there are two classes OF
Tie former, by whose presence the Mo
narch's Court or Council ought never 10
be polluted. We allude 10 the regicides,
| those who advised, defended. or parlici.
paied in, the murder Of Louis AVI. and
ry, abandoned Lonis XVIII. These mem,
who We say. should be prescribed. so
far AT least AS relates 10 the besiowsl OF
hOnors, diguiiies, and confidence. Nay,
if we bad To choose between which Ofiiie
two we should the more willingly pardon,
we should have no hesitation i'll fixing
our choice upon The men of 1892 and
1893, rather than upon those OF lSl5...
The former had the madness of The I'D
ton 10 plead for their crimes they mlg;t
b. hurrird EDWARDS with the headiong
stream of popular phrenzy they might
be infected with the universal coDlagIOn;
they might yield TO the impulse OF that
bitter wrath which the sense of long
suffering sometimes inspires IN the mo
menf OF iriumph and Of vengeance. Blu,
the trcacliery of 1915 was All ACT vi cold,
calculating aud deliberate inrpiinde, and
until We unlearn all our notions OF honor
and morality, we can never forget Tie
! true character of their perjurcd rebellion
Upon every principle, therefore, Of de-
LEGACY TO the sovereign, and OF justice TO
loyalty, those men ought to have been lett
I in the privacy To which their conduct had
consigned them. We learn, however,
nov, from the Non;teur, That The poll
! tics.i cXistenccs which have hoDoabIy
marked ,Ic intermediate space between
| The ancient Monarchy and the conSiIlu-
iianai Monarchy, the recent services"
&c. should hnd place III the arstocracy
| of France. AHoug lhoSerecent services
must be included the hundred days OF
! 1915, for HE constitutional Monarchy be-
gan in 1914. Sucbci, M0rtier. Davousi,
&c therefore, rendered servieesio France.
| by using their best cndeav0rs 10 prevent
! the restoration OF Bourbon and for
those services they are now specially
summoned TO defend lis Crown. Why,