Chinnery, the late clerk in the Treasury, who was minug about 82,0007, and absconded, is szid tó be pow at Heligoland. On Saturday week the son of the Rev. Mr. Hewlett, was unfortunately drowned while skaiting on a pond in Hampstead, fields. A boy who was immediately behind him was also in | imminent danger, but was happily saved. Several informations have recently been laid against tavern, coffee-house, and ina kéepers, under the Excise Laws, for not having the words " Dealers in spirituous liquors” painted over their doors, or in some conspicuous part in front of the house. Mr. Belton, landlord of the Pilgrim Tavern at Kennington, has | been fined 251, for a neglect of this sort, these two notes, and also two others; and on Mr. Gilbert | acquainted with a gentlewan there, by whom he was invited to Davis being taken before the Mayor of Gloucester upon the dine, he became familiar with his hand-writing, and forged ou business, the Mayor held him to bail, to answer for the offence him to the amount of 501. of having the stolen uotes in bis possession without being able to give a satisfactory account of how he became possessed of them.-Since that time, Mr. Joseph Cripps has discovered a connection between Mr. Gilbert Davis, of Gloucester, and Benjamin Benjamin and Lewis Benjamin of Duke's-place, | who keep a public-house, and trade in fish with Gilbert Davis, They also carried on other transactions together, and the suspicion was so strong that the Benjamins were concerned in the stolen Cirencester Bank-notes, teat Lavender, Taunton, and Vickery went to Duke's-place, and took them into custody, and searched their premises, but nothing of a suspicious nature was found, and there did not appear any symptoms of guilt.We have bad occasion to advert to the execrable nuisances They underwent an examination at the Office, on a representawith which the inhabitants of Warwick-lane, and other parts tion that Mr. Gilbert Davis had received the notes from the Benjamins, which they denied.—Mr. Edward Davis, brother adjacent to Newgate-mafket, are annoyed, by the numerous of Gilbert Davis, stated that his brother had returned to the slaughter-houses in that vicinity, and which are continually ins Benjamins a number of the Cirencester notes. On the 22d of creasing. In addition to this, the concourse of carts, and other December last he was at Gloucester, and as-isted his brother in | vehicles, assembling for the purpose of fetching and bringing packing up two salmon, and a paper parcel between the fish, articles of provision to the market, is not only a nuisance of no commʊn nature, but is attended with danger to the lives and containing thirty-five Cirencester Bank-notes for 101. each, a One circumstance of a very disagreeable number of five guineas notes of the Cirencester Bank, amounting limbs of passengers. nature, though attended with no very distressing effects, nc> 10 386 158, they sent a letter with the parcel, which was directed to Lewis Benjamin, Duke's-place; it was sealed and curred at the office of the Ledger newspaper, on Friday week, taken to the Booth Hall Ino, and booked to be sent by the by an ox being driven into the passage. coach.-Benjamin Benjamin admitted receiving the parcel, being heard by the people in the counting-house, the door was, but denied that it contaived any thing but the salmon.-The opened, when the enormous animal was fouad to have ascended Benjamins were committed for further examination, and in the the steps, catered the passage, and after halting a short time to mean time Gilbert Davis was summoned from Gloucester to give reconnoitre, nearly forced its way into the counting house, and evidence. He accordingly attended on Monday, and the Ben-advanced to the top of the first flight of stairs: but feeling itjamins were brought up to be examined again,— On Mr. Staf- self rather awkwardly situated, it threw one of its legs over the ford, the Chief Clerk, presenting G. Davis with the Testament balustrades, when, finding it could neither proceed nor recede, On his being it begun to bellow most hideously, to the great alarm of the to be sworn, he refused to take the usual oath, whole family. The drovers, having thus far proceeded in their asked his reason, he replied, that he had been advised so to mischievous frolic, thought proper to decamp. It remained do by his Counsel; which Mr. Andrews avowed to be correct, stating as his reason for giving that advice, that as Mr. Gilbert thus fixed for some time, fill at length a person advanced and Davis was under recognizance to appear to take his trial upon extricated its leg from its entanglement, and, giving it a severe the same business, he could not safely give his evidence, and this twist of the tail, it retrased its steps, and nearly brought the whole staircase with it, besides splitting a stout pannel in a pair was recorded as Gilbert Davis's objection. Mr. ANDREWS stated that there would be to objection to his client giving of folding doors with its haunches.-We understand the subject ́evidence, provided it was understood that he was to be re- of the above nuisances is in train for legal investigation.—Times. lieved from his recognizance to appear at Gloucester, and to be received as an evidence for the Crown. The prosecular not accepting the proposition, Gilbert Davis was ordered to the bar with the Benjamins.—After hearing Counsel as to admitting the prisoners to bail, which was refused, they were fully committed for trial. MANSION-HOUSE. On Monday, Robert Bye was brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged by the kast-India Company with having embezzled a considerable sum of money.—It appeared, that the prisoner was employed in that establishment as an Elder, and his duty was to collect monies from the different brokers, and to place it in the hands of the Bank of England.—Mr. Wright, of the house of Boswell and Co, stated that he paid the prisoner a draft ol 1507, on account of the Company. The receipt was produced, signed by the prisoner, out of which sum he had only applied 127. 148. to the account of the Company, which he stated was all that he received. The prisoner was fully committed to Newgate for trial. HATTON GARDEN. On Monday, William Paget, collecting clerk to Mr. Henry Wyatt, ale brewer in Portpool-lane, underwent an examination, on a charge of feloniously embezzling his employer's property, when the prisoner was committed to Newgate for trial. ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, c. | Robinson, the attorney, who absconded a few months since, with property to a very com iderable amount, `is said to be now in custody at Berlin, on a charge of førgery under aggravated | ciscumstances, He went by a fictitious name, and having got | An uncommon noise Such was the extreme density of the atmosphere on Tuesday week, that the Maidenhead coach, on its return from town, missed the road near Harford Bridge, and was overturned. Lord Hawarden was among the passengers, and received an injury by the accident. EXTRAORDINARY CASE.-Wednesday evening the wife of Mr. Mann, who keeps the Marquis of Grauby public-house, in Gray's Inn-lane," left her home, telling her husband that she had got an order to adimit two to the Sans Pareil Theatre, in the Strand, and was going to take a female friend with her. Between ten and eleven o'clock, a journeyman baker, whom the husband knew, called upon him and told him that his wife had been taken extremely ill, and was at an apothecary's in Fleetstreet, and that instead of taking a female friend to the Theatre, she had taken him, agreeably to a long promise. The husband hastened to the apothecary's, and found his wife in a senseless state, and that she had been so for a considerable time. It was the opinion of the medical gentlemen attending her, that she had either voluntarily taken something improper, or that it had been administered to ber by some other person. The account then given to Mr. Maon of the way his wife came there, was, that she had been brought to the shop from a house of ill fame, by three men, but who refused to tell where the house was, of who they were. These being no appearance of her recovering her senses, her husband took her home in a hackney couch, and yesterday morning, at three o'clock, she died. The body was afterwards examined, and some very severe hruises were found on her thighs and shoulders. Mr. Maun attended on Thursday morning at Bow-street, and stated the mysterious cir cumstances, so far as had come to his koowledge, to Mr. BỊR81E,who sent for the journeyman baker from Newcastle-street. On Weduę-day week, with the water in the brain, Bagine Joyce, youngest daughter of Edward John Joyce, of Grange, road. Friday week, in her 85th year, in Gloucestershire, the Ho». Mrs. Talbot, widow of the Hon, and Res, George Talbot, D.D. and eldest daughter of Jacob, Viscount Folkestone. On Friday week, Benjamin Lacam, Esq. Cecil-street, Strand', at the advanced age of 75 years. Suddenly, on Friday week, at his house, in Suffolk-street, John Cassamajor, E-q. in the 1st year of his age. On the 19th ult. Maria Charlotte, aged 7 years, the only daughter, and on the 27th, the second and infant son of R. Gage Rookwood, Esq. of Coldham Hall, in the county of Suffelk. On the 12th all, in action, near Bayonne, Lieut.-Colonel S. Coste Martin, of the first resiment of Foot Guards, who gat luntly fell while commanding the picquets of the first division, leaving a widow and four children to lament his irreparable | loss, The man attended, and persisted in the statement he had origi- || nally made to Mr. Mano. He was not detained, there heing no evidence to authorize it, but was desired to attend before the Coroner's Inquest, which was held on Friday at the White Horse, Baldwin's-gardens. The Jury went to the Marquis of Granby public-house to take a view of the body.—The Surgeons opened the body and the head, the better to ascertain the cause of her death, The Jury then returned to the White Horse. Mr. James Potts, Chemist, in Fleet-street, said, that about half past eleven o'clock on Wednesday night, he was sent for to the Sun Hotel, near Temple-bar, where he was informed there was a Lady in a most dangerous state, having been taken suddenly ill. He accordingly went to the house, and in the parlour, stretched on a sofa, he saw the deceased lying in a state of insensibility. Mrs. Perry, the mistress of the house, two servant maids, and the journeyman baker, were the only persons besides in the room, On examining the deceased, he suspected that she had taken, or had had admin. istered to her, laudanum, but on looking round the room; he saw nothing except a bottle and two glasses, whigh stood on the table, in which there was the appearance of some wine. He communicated his opinion of her danger, and he was requested by the other parties to permit her to be taken to his house to save her character, and that her husband, might be -sent for, as it was a house of il fame.. To this request he consented, and she was removed to his house; he sent for Mr. Owen, a surgeon, in Chancery-lane, who, when he saw her, was of opinien it was an apopletic fit. The husband, to whom the journeyman baker had given information of the event, afterwards came and took her home in a coach.~Mr. Owen, Surgeon, said that he opened the head and body of the deceased. | On opening the head he discovered four ounces of bland on the brain, occasioned by the rupture of a blood vessel, which night occasion apoplexy. He also opened the stomach, the contents of which he had then in a phial, in order to analize it, to try if there was any laudanum, or poisonous substance taken jo, so as to occasion her death.— The Coroner, Mr. HongsON, stated to the Jury, which consisted of twenty-four, that this was a very mysterious affair, and one in which the public were very much interested, and that no pains should be spared to » come at the truth, as there were various reports in circulation. The entire of the witnesses requisite to clear up the matter .were not present, therefore he suggested the propriety of adjourning the inquest, to give the surgeons time to analize the contents of the stomach, which was preserved for that purpose, as well as to have all the witnesses to learn when she left the theatre, and when she arrived at the brothel, for which purpose the mistress and two servants of the brothel should bave notice to attend.--A Bow-street Officer in waiting acquainted the Coroner that he had the journeyman haker, in whose come any the deceased was, in his custody, and wished to be in formed whether he should detain him or not. The Gentlemen of the Jury said it was fit, in the present case, to keep the pan by all means, to which the Coroner assented, and the Icquest adjourned. On the 14th ult. at St. Helen's Auckland, the wife of Capt. Southey, R. N. brother of the poet laureat, of a son and heir. MARRIAGES. At Goosfrey, Cheshire, Mr. Joseph Cheetham, to Mrs. fall. This is the bride's third husband, and they have all ween Josephs. At Beverley Minster, after a courtship of three days, Mr. John Tayler, aged 73, of Dunnington, to Mrs, Hannah Forth, nged 75, of Beverley. The parties saw each other the first time on Christmas day. This is the bride's fifth busband, and the bridegroom's third wife, DEATHS, Late on Sunday night, Mr. Thomas Howard, jun. of S1. Paul's Church-yard, in the 434 year of his age. On the 29th ult. at Brompton, in the 50th year of her age, Mrs. Mary Mac Gougan, of Smith-square, Westminster. Sunday morning, at his chambers in the Temple, in the 68th year of his age, Thomas Lowten, Esq. Solicitor, Clerk of Nist Prius, Deputy Clerk of the Pipe, &c. He maintained his pri vate practice and his situation in the Court of King's Bench at the same time, by the favour of the Judges; but the indulgence was a pernicious one, and ought to be carefully avoided in fu ture.—Mr. Lowten, it is said, has left a large furtune. At Lambourn, Berks, aged 73, the Rev. J. Smith, M. A, many years lear of that parish, some time domestic chaplain to the Duke of Northumberland, and one of the oldest of his majesty's chaplains in ordinary. To the strong On the 17th ult. at March Hall, near Shrewsbury, W. Wood, Esq. He must be long remembered as a man of great acquired talents, and most astonishing memory. features of his mind, reading had given a marked and manly character; and the intercourse with the best of company, an e elegant polish. He was closely intimate with that benevolent man and elegant scholar, Mr. Roscoe, of Liverpool, whom, of course, as he knew him, he held in the warmest veneration. He was Aid-de Camp to Sir John Clavering in India, and an important witness in the trial of Warren Hasting, Esq.; 'a cluse friend of Charles Fox, and well acquainted with both the Burkes. He has left many MSS. relating is those times and affairs, which in his fast hours he requested a learned and literary friend to take, arrange and correct, but who declined the task from diflidence. He was something of a poet, but less of that than any thing. His mind indeed was not of a tone for poetry; it was too strongly strung. Nothing less than a while wind could have awakened its chords; it might have rung to the hurricane of December, though the breeze of May would have passed through itin silence. In a word, he seems to have resembled some land we hear of in Lancashire, whose inherstor found it without a blade of verdure, but by cultivation brenght it to produce every herb and tree for ornament and use.—He died much seduced in strength, and white with years, but with all his wonderful mind complete and unimpaired.—Horning Chronicle. On the 20th Sept. Sarah Auderson, a free black woman, a native of Guinea, of the Congo country, at Providence Grove, St. John's, Jamaica, at the extraordinary age of 140 years i She arrived on that island in 1687, during the Government of the Duke of Albemarle, whom she remembered well, and whose person she described very accurately; and was then, according to her own statement, a young woman about fourteen ; she was bedridden for the last three years, but retained a good appetite, could hear, see, and converse with clearfulness, to the last moment of her existence; she has left 55 children, and children, great grand children, and great great grand Had her life children, 25 of whom attended her to the grave, extended a few months, she would have seen her fifth generation. Printed and published by Jona HUNT, at the EXAMINER No. 316. SUNDAY, JAN. 16, 1814. THE POLITICAL EXAMINER. Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few. SwIFT. No. 307. CHRISTENING AT BELVOIR CASTLE. We turn our eyes this week from the affairs of the Continent and the tribulations of BONAPARTE, to look a little at bome; and while the King of PRUSSIA is mourning his wife, the Emperor of AUSTRIA thinking anxiously for his daughter, and the CROWN PRINCE of SWEDEN with his hands full of business, to see what our own Princes are doing on their parts. Our attention is diverted with the less scruple, because these are the points in which all our ultimate interests are concentered, and to which the eyes of all politicians must come at last. "Belvoir Castle, Jan. 6. "Their Royal Tignesses the Prince Regent and the Duke of York, and the Noble Guests of the Castle, rode to Melton Mowbray yesterday. The Prince Regent is in high spirits, and his Royal Highness's affability affords much delight to the happy throng. We omitted to state, in the report of the christening. the name of the infant Marquis of Granby. He was baptised by the name of George John Frederick. The house contains more than two hundred. individuals, who partake daily of the festivities. The cistern of punch, under the management of Mr. Douglas, administered in the Servants' Hall, on Tuesday, to the household and tenantry, laid many a brave fellow prostrate. The passages of the house reminded one of a castle taken by storm, and the young Marquis, the Noble Host, and the Prince Regent, were toasted until articulation ceased. Many were found the next day in the subterraneous passages of the Castle with symptoms of recovering animation.” Oxford, Jan. 9, 1814. I can assure you, M. N. Now we are pot Churchmen, as this gentleman appears to be, though we respect many persons connected with the Church, and infinitely prefer its spirit, with all its defects, to the damnatory energies of Puritanisms and Methodism; The writer proceeds to inform us, that "Ale at the rate of 21 strike to the bogshead is now making, to be kept till the young Marquis becomes of nge by the blessing of Providence." The public have, of late, been much edified with ac-"And then," says the Correspondent of the Times, 66 precounts of the festivities at Belvoir Castle, the seal of the bably, by the blessing of Providence, Belvoir Castle will Duke of RUTLAND, in honour of the christening of his again resemble a castle taken by storm-its halle, and even its subterraneous passages, strewed with the friends of Church Grace's child and of the presence of his Royal Highness and King" in the lowest state of brutal intoxication, Seri the PRINCE REGENT, who stood godfather. They would ously, Sir, is this the time for uniting the most sacred offices of perhaps be still more edified, if they were aware of a curi-religion with base and vulgar intemperance ? I am neither a Puritan nor a Methodist; I revere the rites of ous secret connected with these and similar accounts of the the Church; I have no wish to check social evjoyment; yet PRINCE'S proceedings,-which is this, that they are nei- neither do I think he was an unwise, or a disloyal man, who ther more nor less than oficial, and are sent round to the said, "Blessed art thou, O land, when thy King is the son of Nobles, and thy Princes eat in due season for strength, and several daily papers by a sort of personal historian, whose not for drunkenness." business it is, among other things, to see how his Royal Highness looks, laughs, and dresses. We do not say, that the PRINCE instals any one formally in this office, or that the historian has a regular patent creating him recorder of smiles and laced buttons; but it is understood, that some one about his person is to take care of these matters, and that the paper next morning is to contain as full, true, and particular an account, as that garbling rogue, the Editor, chuses to insert. Some persons may wonder that this secret has not oftener escaped in the daily papers, and others may have guessed it from seeing the uniformity of the articles in those of different interests. The Editors, ; however, for obvious reasons, generally keep it to themselves; and we were not a little surprised the other day (the historian, we dare say, was shocked), to see one of these official accounts, which contained the history of the Rutland Address and of the PRINCE's "fascinating" mode of reading the Answer, introduced in the Times newspaper with the portentous head of “ Advertisement !” but we have great faith in virtue, and a very anxious regard for public example; and we think that "a base and vulgar intemperance,” as it is at all times`a perniciona thing, is most especially so, when exhibited in compliment to a Prince, and in conclusion of a religious ceremony. Let the reader observe that we are no advocates for the custom of christening, which appears to us not only irrational in itself, but really irreligious as it is generally prac tised. To answer for the opinions of a child is evidently absurd; and to answer, as most godfathers and gods mothers do, promising all the assistance in their power towards making the child a Christian, without the slightest intention of abiding hy what they promise, is as clearly irreligious. But if profane persons like ourselves have Now and ther, however, when there is any thing very too great a regard for truth, and too high a sense of the glorious to record, and when the scene is at a little distance | awful presence invoked upon these occasions, to staud 30 was the true old Epglish magnificence. If the Duke of RUTLAND would have given us a proper specimen of both, he might have been splendid with good taste, convivial with moderation, liberal with utility. Instead of letting his cordials, for instance, run at random, instead of inaking godfathers if any one should happen to ask us,--other persoas, who have no scruple to undertake the office, who profess a zeal for the Church, and whose business it is to set an example of decency on all occasions, should certainly beware how they bring upon themselves the reproach of uniting religion with intemperance, and of fol-people grossly intoxicated, and sending his neighbours lowing up the lessons of Christianity with the practices of a hog-stye. The Courier perhaps will say this is cant; and many a jolly Christian at the Duke of RUTLAND'S (if he could have brought out the word) might have said so too. But what is the meaning of this solema foppery cunt, which we despise infinitely more than they do? It is to dwell with a set tone upón" serious matters for hypocritical purposes. A mere Ministerialist cants, when he talks of his conscience; a mere Oppositionist cants, when he talks of his patriotism; BONAPARTE cants, when he talks of his feelings for the Brabanters; and the Courier cants, when it speaks against the aggressions of BONAPARTE after having defended those of one of his enemies. * Now we conceive it much more like cant to repeat the words and offices of religion with a grave face, and then to goʻand countenance the greatest excesses, than to object to the excesses on their own score and to think such contradictions disgraceful. If the "brave fellows" who were laid prostrate" on this occasion, had heen asked why they lay so, they must have stammered out, "For religion; my lads." Stumbling against a man in a corner, you would have cried, "What poked you there, my friend ?" and he would have told you" The Catechism." Starting another next morning in a coal-hole, you would have said, Who, my good fellow, brought you to this „condition ?” to' which he, with the ceremony shill running in his head, would have replied, “My godfathers and godmothers,” In fine, you would have asked another why he had made a beast of himself," and fre, as iù duty bound, must have answered, "Because we've been making a Christian.mp Bat old English hospitality :-recollect, it will be said, old English hospitality. We do, and we recollect also, that if ever it came to this, it ended in brawls and slashings. The true old English hospitality; which nobody ́respects more than ourselves, was a very different thing, and The Courier, who admits without scruple the accounts of drunken christenings, is a zealous Anti-Catholic; so is the Duke of Rutland; and so, we doubt not, were many of the "gallant Gentlemen" who on this pious occasion lay prostrate. We might call this also cant, were there not a case in point upon record, so shew us how zeal for religion and love for the bottle may go together, In the Citizen of the World, some good fellows, one of whom is a soldier, are talking of a threatened invasion. "The soldier," says the author, taking the goblet from his friend, with much awe fervently cried out, It is not so much our liberties, as our religion that would suffer by such a change; ay, our religion, my lads. May the devil sink me into flanges! (such was the solemnity of his adjuration) if the French should come over, but our religion would be utterly undone.' So saying, instead of a libation, he ap plied the goblet to his lips, and confirmed his sentiments with a ceremony of the most persevering devotion."-This fellow would have made a most orthodox gossip at Belvoir Castle, home to carry confusion among their families, he might have entertained all comers plentifully but soberly, have roasted his oxen, dealt out his ale, and with some useful gifts or indulgences to his tenants, have sent home cheerTul hearts to rejoicing families.. In the same manner, in-、 stead of paying to his Prince the equivocal compliment of making every body about him drunk, and strewing the stairs and passages with sights of brutality, he might have assembled in his dining-room such men of taste and real spirit as would not have chosen to get drunk, and might have shewn him, out of the window, the spectacle of a happy tenantry, joyous with their good cheer, flourishing bý good usage and good example, and exhibiting in a sober elf-possession the strength and healthfulness of their stout English frames.' f We would not make too much of this subject. Allowance is to be made for bad habits and for old want of thinking; but times and circumstances, oue should ima gine, would bring a sort of artificial good sense to those who have little of it in general; and at a period when the Sovereigns on the Continent are making more than or dinary exertions, and procuring a more than usual popu| larity,-when our own countrymen are toiling and bleeding in the cause of good and moderate example,—when in the midst successes that set popular affections loose, our own Prince is perhaps the only one, upon whose appearance the voice of the people is mute,—and when persons are lying in prison, with minds kept disgusted and bodies kept sick, for saying that this Prince has not the character which he ought to have, these things, to say the least of them, are impolitic and unreconciling, and should be avoided by all those who profess to wish welt to the House of Brunswick. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. PARIS, JAN. 5.-An advanced guard of the enemy, under General Bubaa, about 3000 strong, appeared on the 30th of Dec. before the city of Geneva. The armed National Guard had been called out by the Prefect, and was 1800 strong. General Jordy, who commanded in the place, had put it in a state of defence; "he had 14 pieces of cannon; the garrison consisted of 1500 meu; 1800 men from Grenoble were coming to reinforce it, which was sufficient to secure the town from a coup de main. By a sort of fatality, Gen. Jordy was attacked by a fit of apoplexy on the morning of the day when the enemy appeared. The officer who commanded under him suffered himself to be prevailed upon by the citizens, and the garrison left the city.-The Prefect had forsaken it; so that for three days previous, the citizens had constituted them But selves into a body, and had assumed the authority. The every man an enemy, and at every step a combat. Their ima garrison had marched out'; the citizens opened the gates. gination is terrified, when they think, that in their front, on If the Prefect had done his duty; if he had not left Gene- their flanks, and in their rear, your national guards surroundva; if he had been animated by the same spirit as guides and of all hopes of return. They know, that if you sacrifice ing them on all sides, would soon deprive them of subsistence, the conduct of the Prefects of the Upper Rhine, and of the all that is beyond your limi's, you will never deliver to them. Douks, this important place would have been safe. The your own territory. Accordingly they do not so much attempt. Prefects are not mere intendants of the finances; they to combat us to seduce you. They would wish to live for some have the high police. When the capital of their depart-time at the expence of a part of your frontiers. They would ment is a fortified town, they ought to organise the nieans extend their pillage only to those places where their feigned of defence which the zeal of the inhabitants may offer, and moderation should find dupes, or hands without arms. make them concur in the defence. who could believe their proclamations and their promises ? The Prefect of the They promised the Swiss, whose territory they have violated, Leman could not doubt that such was his duty. The two to treat them like friends, and they have just laid heavy contricolumns which were coming to reinforce the garrison were butions on the city of Basle. If they advanced, they would of but at a small distance from the city, when they heard necessity take possession of your wines, your corn, your Rocks, that it was evacuated.-[Here follows a Decree of the Ex- the produce of your manufactures, of your industry. They peror, suspending Baron Capelle, Prefect of the Leman, would pay you on the first day with money, on the second with paper, on the third with blows and insults! But they wil for neglect of duty, and ordering him to be tried by a Comnot be able either to terrify or to deceive you. Inhabitants of шission. the Departments of the Aube! the greatest tranquillity reigns among you; your magistrates enjoy your confidence, and are satisfied with your conduct. You have just given to the arm y hands that were necessary to it; you furnish the horses wh eh are required from you. The Emperor is sensible of the extent of these sacrifices, and his will is, that these sacrifices shall he the last. The National Goard, the formation of which has just been ordered, has no other object than the defence of your homes, and the maintenance of good order in your populous cities. On leaving you, to repair to the departments nearer our frontiers, and more threatened by the enemy, I repeat it to you with the fullest confidence, the danger with which it cloud which the imagination magnifies, and which courage dis was desired to frighten you is nothing, if you will; it is a pels. Shew yourselves firm and ready to arm! the Emperor at the head of his brave soldiers approaches, and you will sor n enjoy a solid peace, which will indemnify you for all your generous sacrifices. But reflect, that since our enemies stil defer the peace which they have proposed, the only means to dignified attitude. His Majesty himself has just said in the obtain it speedily, is to shew ourselves in a formidable and will fly, or will sign peace on the bases which he has himself Senate: "At the sight of all this people in arms, the enemy proposed; the question no longer is, to recover the conquests The Senator Count de Segur, on arriving at Troyes, addressed to the inhabitants of the Department of the Aube the following proclamation! PROCLAMATION. which we had made." GERMANY. NATION. The Senator Count de Segur, Grand Master of the Ceremonies, Extraordinary Commissioner of his Majesty, in the 18th Military Division, to the inhabitants of the Department of the Aube:-GENTLEMEN,-France desires peace; the whole world bad need of it. The Emperor wills it, and you will soon enjoy it, if at the moment when the enemy dares to invade your frontiers, you continue, like good Frenchmen, to shew the good spirit, the zeal, and the courage, which have always distinguished you.-The Emperor sends me among you, to tell you important truths, and to speak to you about your dearest interests. His Majesty knows the evils you have suffered, the losses you have sustained; his heart has been deeply moved at them. He had projects more vast for your glory, and for your prosperity: the inconstancy of the elements, and of his allies, has prevented the accomplishment of his great designs, The Emperor prefers the happiness of the people to glory too dearly bought. He has, therefore, renounced all plans of aggrandisement; he has consented to sacrifices painful both for him and for-us; in a word, he has accepted all the conditions of peace proposed to him by our enemies.-You would then already enjoy this wished-for peace, if these same enemies had not thought fit to delay it. They defer signing a treaty, the bases of which they have laid down; and during their delay, They perfidiously endeavour to make you doubt of the pacific PROCLAMATION OF THE ALLIED POWERS TO THE PRENCH intentions of his Majesty.-No Frenchman can be deceived by them. His Majesty has declared to the Senate, to the Legis FRENCHMEN, Victory has conducted the Allied Armies lative Body, in the face of the universe, that he desires peace, to your frontier. They are about to pass it. We do not make and that he feels as a Monarch, and as a father, how much war apon France; but we repel far from us the yoke which peace adds to the security of thrones, and to that of families.— | your Government wished to impose upon our respective counHe has solemnly declared, that he accepted all the conditions tries, which have the same rights to independence and happiness proposed by the allies; and yet these very enemies delay the as your's. Magistrates, landholders, cultivators, remain at conclusion of this peace, to which his Majesty has consented. your homes. The maintenance of public order, respect for They not only continue hostilities; but they violate the terri- private property, the most severe discipline, shall characterise tory of a neutral state; they enter France; they menace the the progress and the stay of the Allied Armies. They are ́not departments in your neighbourhood. The Emperor, at the animated by the spirit of vengeance; they wish not to retaliate bead of his armies, is going to advance to combat them, if they upou France the numberless calamities with which France, for any longer delay the signature of a treaty, which they defer the last 20 years, overwhelmed ker neighbours, and the most without reason.-Frenchmen! the enemy has entered France! distant countries. Other principles and other views than those You feel what honour and your country require of you!-which led your armies among us, preside over the counsels of You will be faithful to their call! If, till the moment when your army advances, you assume the proad attitude which be comes a great people; if you rapidly organize your national guards as you have begun, you will soon see the enemy stop in his rash enterprize. He will not be inad enough to dare to penetrate into the midst of a nation which rises and takes up arms to stop him. Already the advanced guard of one of our corps has made these foreigners retire, who counted on pillage and have found death! Already they tremble at venturing farther into a warlike country, where they would meet in the Allied Monarchs. Their glory will consist in kasing put the speediest period to the misfortunes of Europe. The only conquest, which is the object of their ambition, is that of peace; but at the same time a peace which shall secure to their own people, to France, and to Europe, a state of real repose. We hoped to find it before touching the soil of France. We come thither in quest of it. The Marshal Prince SCHWARTZENBERG, Commanding in Chief the Grand Allied Army. Head-quarters, at Lærrach, Dec. 21, 1813. |