166 Trial and Execution of Marshal Ney. Regency and Cortes, and representing that the alliance at present subsisting between the two countries affords the most favourable opportunity for the interference of Great Britain. The learned gentleman was most satisfactorily answered by Lord Castlereagh, who pictured the Liberales, as they have been generally termed, as a party desirous of destroying all the ancient institutions of their country. His lordship farther stated, that not only had the British government, but all the four allied powers exerted their interest with the court of Madrid, as far as they could do consistently with the delicacy due from one state to another; they had not indeed gone to war with Spain, but done every thing short of such a step. He dep.ecated the adoption of the measure now proposed as likely to counteract British influence on the Continent. The motion was negatived by a majority of 81 to 42. On the 19th both Houses were called to the consideration of the treaties between Great Britain and the continental powers. In the Lords, the Earl of Li verpool, and in the Commons, Lord Castlereagh, entered into an explanation of the views and policy of the allies, and moved an address to the Prince Regent, expressing the thanks of the two Houses for its communication of the treaties, and their approbation of the measures of the British government, and of the unanimity and vigour of the allies during the late contest with France. An amendment was moved in both Houses, founded chiefly on the objection to the maintenance of an army in France, but negatived in the House of Lords in favour of the original motion by a majority of 104 to 40, and in the Commons, after an adjourned debate, by a majority of 240 to 77.. It is confidently announced that the youngest brother of the reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg,who has arrived in this country is about to receive the fair hand of the accomplished Princess Charlotte of Wales. This Prince, whose name is Leopold George Christian Frederic, was born in December 1790, and accompanied the Emperor of Russia and King of Prussia to this country at the time of their visit in the summer of 1814. One of his sisters is married to the Russian Grand Duke Constantine. Lord Amherst and his suite sailed on the 8th of February in the Alceste from Portsmouth, on his mission to China. As a matter of record, not of novelty, [March 1, we have to state, that the Northumber land arrived, on the 15th of October, with her too celebrated exile at St. Helena, where he is doomed to pass the remainder of his days. Buonaparte landed on the 17th with his suite, and every precaution which human foresight can sug gest, is adopted to prevent the possibility of escape. FRANCE. We In resuming the summary of political events, interrupted since our 25d number, the first circumstance that claims our attention is the continuation of the proceedings against Marshal Ney. have already stated that this officer appealed from the competency of a military commission, and insisted on being tried by the Chamber of Peers. Accordingly, after a considerable delay allowed for the summoning of witnesses, he was brought, on the 4th of December, before that tribunal. As the fact of his treasonable conduct in deserting the cause of the king and joining Buonaparte with the force under his command could not be controverted, the defence of his counsel principally aimed at a palliation of his guilt, founded on the alleged difficulty of the situation of the Marshal, who was hurried away by the force of circumstances. It was also urged at the trial, as it had previously been in a note addressed to the Duke of Wellington, that the convention concluded for the surrender of Paris held out security to the persons and property of its inhabitants, whatever might have been their political conduct anterior to that event. The ministers of Louis XVIII. contended that this convention could not have any reference to the king's dispositions and rights as sovereign of the country, that he never acceded to it, and that consequently he could not be bound by any of its provisions. These and other less important grounds of defence proved of no avail to the prisoner, who on the 6th was declared by the Chamber to be guilty of high treason.On the following morning he was conveyed to an open place near the Observatory, in the plain of Grenelle, and there shot by a detachment of the troops. Count Lavalette, another of the taitorous adherents of Buonaparte, was tried by the Court of Assize on the 21st November, on a charge of previous correspondence with the usurper, and with having, on the 20th March, before his entry into the capital, taken possession by force of the direction of the post 1816.] Escape of Lavalette-Law of Amnesty. office, stopped the circulation of the king's proclamations, and otherwise facilitated the enterprise of Napoleon.He was sentenced to die, appealed to the Court of Cassation, which confirmed the verdict, and at length found means to escape, on the night of December 20th, in the clothes of his wife, who was permitted to visit him in the Conciergerie, where he was confined. It was at first very generally surmised that the king, or at least some of his ministers, had connived at the escape of this culprit; but it has since been discovered that be was assisted in his plans by three Eug lish gentlemen of some distinction :-Sir Robert Wilson, who, as a soldier and a writer, has strongly manifested his antipathy to Buonaparte; Capt. Hutchinson, of the Guards, nephew to Lords Hutch inson and Donoughmore; and Mr. Bruce, son of Crawford Bruce, Esq. banker. The French government having obtained satisfactory evidence to this effect, caused them to be apprehended on the 13th of January. Their application to be allowed their liberty upon bail has been refused, and they now await their trial for the offence with which they are charged. Whatever may have been the motive of these gentlemen for their interposition between a convicted criminal and the injured laws of his country, we cannot but deeply regret that they should have suffered themselves to be betrayed into so gross a violation of those laws, and so daring a defiance of the government of a friendly state. Nothing indeed can be better calculated than such conduct to afford some colour to the charge repeatedly alleged against England, that wherever an opportunity offers for involving France in civil or military broils, there her interference will never be wanting. We know that this idea is so strongly impressed upon many minds, that in various parts of the Continent our government was firmly believed to have winked at the escape of Buonaparte from Elba, in the hope of again plunging our national rival into all the calamities of anarchy and irretrievable ruin. On the 8th of December, the day after the execution of Ney, the projet of a Law of Amnesty was submitted to the Chamber of Deputies by the Duke de Richelieu, but it was not adopted with out considerable discussion, and the proposal of various amendments which went even farther than had been contemplated by his Majesty's ministers. The 167 law as finally adopted, is dated the 12th of January, and is as follows: Art. 1. A full and entire amnesty is granted to all those who directly or indirectly took part in the rebellion and usurpation of Napoleon Buonaparte, saving the following exceptions. 2. The ordinance of the 24th July shall continue to be executed with regard to the persons comprised in the first article of that ordinance. space of two months, dating from the pro3. The King shall be empowered, in the mulgation of the present law, to remove from France such of those individuals comprised in the second article of the said ordinance as he shall keep on it, and who shall not have been brought before the tribunals; and in this case, they shall depart from France, within the time prescribed for them, nor shall they return to it, without the express authority of his Majesty-the whole under pain of deportation. The King shall likewise be empowered to deprive them of all property and pensions granted to them gratuitously. poleon Buonaparte, his uncles and aunts, his nephews and nieces, his brothers, their wives, and their descendants, his sisters, and their husbands, are excluded from the kingdom in perpetuity, and are bound to depart from it in the space of one month, under the penalties denounced by the 91st article of the penal code. They cannot enjoy any civil rights, possess any property, title, and pensions granted to them gratuitously within it; and they shall be bound to sell, within the space of six months, the property of every kind which they possessed by onerous 4. The ascendants and descendants of Na title. 5. The present amnesty is not applicable been commenced, or judgments obtained, to persons against whom prosecutions have before the promulgation of the present law; the judgments executed conformably to the the prosecutions shall be continued, and laws. 9. Are not comprised in the present amnesty crimes or misdemeanors against private persons, at whatever period they may have been committed. The persons guilty of them shall be liable to be prosecuted according to law. 7. Those of the regicides who, in despite of a clemency without bounds, have voted for the Additional Act, or accepted offices and employments from the usurper, and who, by cileable enemies of France and of the legitiso doing, have declared themselves irreconmate government, are excluded for ever from month, upon the penalty inflicted by Art. 33 the kingdom, and are bound to leave i. in a of the penal code; they shall not be capable of enjoying in it any civil right, or possessing in it any property, titles, or pensions given to them gratuitously. In a subsequent ordinance dated Jan. 17th, the King, by virtue of the power of revision, vested in him with respect to the individuals named in the 2d Article of the ordinance of July 24th, 1815, continues the list in its original state, and commands all persons included in it to quit France by Feb. 25th, at latest, on pain of transportation. That these measures should excite great dissatisfaction among the adherents of the usurper, as well those who are, as those who are not proscribed by them, was no more than might rationally have been expected. At Lyons, this spirit actually burst forth about the end of January, into an open insurrection, in which Generals Meunier and Le Grange were implicated. The rebellious attempt, however, failed; the former was killed, and the latter afterwards secured, a few leagues from the city. Indeed, the French papers themselves convey no flattering picture of the disposition of the country in general, throughout, which numerous apprehensions for disaffection, are continually taking place. It seems that this spirit has even spread its contagion to a class of people, whom we should have supposed least likely to fall under its influence-we mean the collectors of taxes. Forty of these men have been suspended in the department of the Aude alone, and 550 persons employed in the collection of the indirect taxes have been removed since the appointment of M. de la Barente to the general direction of that branch of the public service, for having manifested opinions unfavourable to the government. The violent attacks on the Bourbon family, in which some of the English newspapers have indulged, and the malicious fabrications to which they have given publicity, were in truth well calculated to feed the flame of discontent, which is far from being smothered in this unhappy country; their introduction into the reading-stalls and news-rooms has in consequence been forbidden; and they are [March 1, not to be procured except upon such terms as nearly amount to a prohibition. With the departure of the chief adherents of Buonaparte, whose interest it was to keep alive and aggravate the feelings of dissatisfaction, we trust that these feelings will subside. Cambaceres, Soult, Massena, and many other revolutionary characters have sought refuge in Belgium, whence Merlin has embarked for the United States of America. Carnot is gone to Russia, and Fouché, not long since sent as ambassador to the court of Saxony, has been superseded and forbidden to return to France. Generals Debelle, Drouot, and Cambrone, are imprisoned at Paris, awaiting their trials, and legal proceedings have been instituted against Grouchy and others included in the first article of the ordinance of the 24th of July last, though they have not yet been apprehended. The last posts held by the British in and near Paris were delivered up to the French in the last days of January, by which time the allied troops composing the right wing of the army of occupation had taken up the positions assigned them by the Duke of Wellington as Commander in chief. They consist of 30,000 English; 20,000 Russians, and 15,000 Danes, Saxons, and Hanoverians. The Saxons and Danes form a line which extends to the French fortresses in Artois; the Hanoverians are concentrated about Condé; the Russians have extended themselves farther into the French territory-their left wing is supported upon Charlemont, their right upon Maubeuge, and the most advanced troops of the centre reach to the frontiers of the district of Laon. Behind all these positions are the English en echellon, extending from Valenciennes to Somme. All the fortresses in this line have numerous garrisons, and the positions are so chosen, that the Allies can at any time cut off those strong places which still have French garrisons from all communication with the interior. INCIDENTS, PROMOTIONS, BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS, &c. IN LONDON AND MIDDLESEX. With Biographical Accounts of Distinguished Characters. Bulletin of the King's Health. Windsor Castle, Feb. 3. His Majesty has passed the last month in a general state of tranquillity, and in the enjoyment of good bodily health. His Majesty's disorder remains unaltered, Mr. Dodd, the engineer, has announced the design of a magnificent iron bridge, which he proposes to call the Tontine Waterloo Bridge, and to carry across the Thames from Rotherhithe to the opposite shore. According to the plan of the projector, it 1816.] Promotions and Appointments. should be so constructed as to admit vessels to sail underneath it, and without spandrels of arches to obstruct the sight. Promotions and Appointments.] Colonel James Bathurst to be Lieut.-governor of the Virgin Islands, vice Lieut.-colonel Napier, resigned. James Robt. Matthews, esq. to be his Majesty's Consul at Cadiz. Adm. Sir Chaloner Ogle, knt., General Banastre Tarleton, and General John Floyd, to be Baronets. Major-gen. Sir Hudson Lowe, knt. to be a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. Lieut.-col. Baron Tripp, and Major the Hon. George Dawson, to be Companions of the Order of the Bath. James Allan Park, esq. to be one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, vice Sir Alan Chambre, knt. resigned. Rev. Jas. Stanier Clarke to be one of the Deputy Clerks of the King's Closet. Lieut.-gen. Sir John Coape Sherbrooke, K. G. C. B. to be Captain-general and Governor in Chief of Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the islands of Prince Edward and Cape Breton. Lieut.-colonel Charles W. Maxwell to be Governor and Commander in Chief of Dominica. 169 Viscount Bantry to be Viscount Beaxhaven and Earl of Bantry. Visc. Mountjoy to be Earl of Blessington. Baron Sheffield to be Viscount Pevensey, and Earl of Sheffield, in Ireland. Baron Cahir to be Viscount Cahir and Earl of Glengal. Baron Frankfort to Be Viscount Frankfort de Montmorency. Baron Adare to be Viscount Mount Earl.: Baron Ennismore to be Viscount Ennismore and Listowel. Baron Kiltarton to be Viscount Gort. Sheriffs appointed by the Prince Regent in Council for 1816. Bedfordshire-Henry Brandreth of Hough ton Regis, esq. Berkshire-Rich. Powlett Wrighte Benyon, of Englefield, esq. Buckinghamshire-Thos. Tyringham Bernard, of Nether Winchendon, esq. Cambridge and Hunts-John Whitby Quintin, of Hatley Saint George, esq. Cheshire-Sam. Aldersey, of Aldersey, esq. Cumberland-William Brown, of Tallantire Hall, esq. Derbyshire-John Peel, of the Pastures, esq. Devonshire-Sir Arthur Chichester, of Youl ston, bart. Dorsetshire-John Herbert Browne, of Weymouth, esq. The Duke of Richmond to be Lord-lieute- Esser-Nicholas Pearce, of Loughton, esq. nant of Sussex. James Buchanan, esq. to be his Majesty's Consul at New York. Wm. Dawson, esq. to be his Majesty's Consul in the State of Maryland. Major-gen. Sir Fred. Phillips Robinson, K. C. B. to be Governor of Tobago. Major-gen. George Wm. Ramsay to be Governor of Antigua and Montserrat. Thomas Probyn, esq. to be Governor of St. Christopher, Nevis, and the Virgin Islands. Major-gen, Phineas Riall to be Governor of Grenada. Patrick Savage, esq. to be his Majesty's Consul in the State of Virginia. John Leach, esq. to be Chancellor and Keeper of the Great Seal to H. R. H. the Prince Regent. Wm. Draper Best, esq. to be Attorneygeneral to H. R. H. the Prince Regent. Wm. Harrison, esq. to be Solicitor-general to H. R. H. the Prince Regent. Matthew John Tierney, esq. M.D. to be a Physician in Ordinary to H. R. H, the Prince Regent. The Earl of Ormonde and Ossory to be Marquis of Ormonde. The Earl of Londonderry to be Marquis of Londonderry. The Earl of Conyngham to be Viscount Slane, Earl of Mount Charles, and Marquis Conyngham. NEW MONTHLY MAG.-No. 26. Gloucestershire-Daniel John Niblett, of Harefield, esq. Herefordshire-Kingsmill Evans, of the Hill, esq. Hertfordshire-Daniel Giles, of Youngsbury, esq. Kent-Alex. Evelyn, of St. Clere, esq. Lincolnshire-Nevile King, of Ashby, esq. Northamptonshire-Sir James Langham, of Northumberland-Matthew Bell, of Woolsington, esq. Nottinghamshire-Sir Robert How Bromley, of East Stoke, bart. Oxfordshire-John Phillips, of Culham, esq. Rutlandshire-John Cole Gilson, of Burley, esq. Shropshire-Sir Thos. John Tyrwhitt Jones, of Stanley, bart. Somersetshire-John Goodford, of Yeovil, esq. Staffordshire-John Smith, of Great Fen 170 Ecclesiastical Preferments, Births, Marriages. Surrey-Benj. Barnard, of Ham Common, esq. Sussex-John Ingram, of Rottingdean, esq. Warwickshire-Wm. Holbeche, of Farnborough, esq. Wiltshire-John Hussey, of New Sarum,esq. Worcestershire-Joseph Lea, of the Hill, esq. Yorkshire-Richard Oliver Gascoigne, of Partington, esq. Carmarthen-John Colby, of Pennywern, esq. Pembroke Hen. Mathias, of Fern Hill, esq. Brecon-Edw. Kendal, of Dan y Park, esq. Carnarvon-Thos. Burrow, of Benarth, esq. Denbigh Edward Edwards, of Cerig Llwydion, esq. Flint-Geo. Boscawen, of Marford, esq. Cornwall, Sir Arscott Ourry Molesworth, of Pencarrow, bart. Members returned to Parliament.] Viscount Barnard for Winchelsea, vice Calverley Bewicke, esq. deceased. Sir Charles Cockerell, bart. for Seaford, vice John Leach, esq., who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. George Bankes, esq., for Corfe Castle, vice Peter Wm. Baker, esq., deceased. The Hon. Henry Caulfield for the county of Armagh, vice Wm. Brownlow, esq., deceased. Ecclesiastical Preferments.] The Rev. JOHN ASHBURNHAM, to the vicarage of Pevensey, together with the rectory of Guestling, Sussex, Rev. S. COLE to be Chaplain of Greenwich Hospital. Rev. STUART CORBETT to the rectory of Scrayingham, York. Rev. JOHN DAVIS to the rectory of St. Clement, Worcester. Rev. JOHN DOLIGNON to the vicarage of Gooderstone, Norfolk. Rev. BENJAMIN EDMONSON to the perpetual curacy of Wetherby, York. Rev. WM. ELWYN to the rectory of St. Mary Abchurch, with the curacy of St. Lawrence Pountney, London. Rev. WM. GREENE to the rectory of St. Olave's, Southwark. Rev. CUTHBERT HENLEY to the rectory of Rendlesham, Suffolk. Rev. JOHN HOYLE to the rectory of Comp ton Martin, Somerset. Rev. WALTER KITSON to the rectory of Chilton Foliat, Wilts. [March 1, Rev. T. MORGAN to be Chaplain of the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth. Rev. C. PENRICE to the rectory of Hamp net, Somerset. Rev. THOS. PRICE to the vicarage of St. Peter, Worcester. Rev. WM. WEBB to the vicarage of Litlington, Cambridge. ter. Births] Lady Sarah Lyttleton of a daugh The lady of Major-general Beatson of a daughter. The lady of Rear-adm. Sir Geo. Cockburn of a daughter. The lady of the Hon. and Rev. Geo. Herbert of a daughter. The lady of the Hon. Charles Law of a daughter. ter. The Countess of Ashburnham of a daugh Lady Harriet Paget of a son. Lady E. W. B. Webster of a son. Lady Ponsonby, widow of Major-generat the Hon. Sir Wm. P., of a son. The Duchess of Bedford of a son. At Hampton, Lady Edmonstone of a son, The lady of Sir John Chandos Reade, bart, of a son. At his house in Great Coram-street, the lady of James Elmes, esq., architect, of a daughter. Married.] Ant. Hammond, esq. of Sa ville-row, to Theodosia Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Nath. Gostling, esq. of Earl's Court House, Old Brompton. Major Thos. A. Brandreth, R. A. to Sarah, eldest daughter of the late Geo. Curling, esq. of Cleveland-row. W. M. Peacock, esq. to Sophia, only daughter of the Baron La Cainea, consulgeneral at Nice. Capt. Francis Baker, R. N. to Caroline eldest daughter of the Rev. Dr. Price, prebendary of Durham. Capt. Henry Pigott, 82d foot, to Margaret, eldest daughter of Scrope Bernard Morland, esq. M. P. Capt. Wood, of the E. I. C. service, to Ellen, eldest daughter of Jos. Murphy, esq. Spencer Perceval Mansel, esq. son of the Bishop of Bristol, to Agnes, daughter of Dr. Ainslie, of Dover-street. Hooper, daughter of the late Mr. Henry H. of Thomas Pain, esq. of Windsor, to Miss Cheapside. The Rev. Wm. Wescomb, rector of Langford, Essex, to Jane, grand-daughter of the Hon. General Douglas, M. P. Thomas Barnewall, esq. of Colemanstreet Buildings, to Mrs. Allan, of Quebec street. R. N. to Eliza, eldest daughter of Mr. T. At Edmonton, Wm. M. G. Cobbe, esq. Hammond, surgeon. Died.] In Burr-street, Jas. Flower, esq. 49. In Mount-street, the Hon. Apsley Bath Rev. H. LLOYD to the rectory of Llangei- urst, second son of the late, and only brother tho, Wales. of the present Earl Bathurst. |