Council, 'to stop the importation of foreign corn, whenever it might be found necessary; and by that means make the measure a temporary one. - people were entitled to consideration, in | the proportion of the numbers by which they were signed; for they were much more competent to judge of arguments of food than of arguments of theology; and General Gascoyue moved as an amendon the latter subject considerable stress ment, that this business should be reconhad been laid upon them, in the discussionsidered the first Monday after Easter. of the Catholic question. He deprecated all kind of intemperance out of doors, and, for himself, disavowed a wish to court popularity, while he was ready to declare there was no reason for impugning the molives of others. If the House legislated for the interests of agriculture now, they might have an application from the commercial interests in eight months hence, and the one would be as much entitled to protection as the other. Mr. Huskisson believed it would not be the effect of the Bill to raise the price of corn, the consequence of it might be a Auctuation between 70s. and 80s. instead of tween 53s. and 180s. The average of the last ten years of war was 92s. and the present measure was founded upon 80s. which would give 13d. as the price of the quartern loaf in London, and not 16d. as had been stated from high civic authority. God forbid, that attention should not be paid to the petitions of the people; but upon a measure like that before them, the House was to judge for themselves, and to act according to the dictates of their own consciences. On a division: for the Bill 218 against 56. March 6.-Mr. York adverted to the facility with which numerously signed Petitions on the subject might be procured in the great towns, whilst the poor agriculturist might be reduced to a serf without the same means of uniting with his fellow sufferers to petition Parliament. He appealed to the notoriety of the distress of the farmers. Mr. Protheroe supported the amendment. It would afford an opportunity for considering whether a mediuni price might not be taken, which would relieve the agriculturists, and yet meet the general feeling of the country. General Gascoyne's amendment was negatived, by 187 against 61; and the original motion was carried, by 194 against 54. Mr. Western was disposed to go to any extent for the purpose of conciliation, short of making the present measure an absolute nullity. The free importation of corn, under the present circumstances, would, for a time, be the means of having corn cheap; but by extinguishing the efforts of British agriculturists, it would permanently make corn dearer. The proportion of foreign corn which this country had imported during the many years that importation was free, never exceeded, on an average, a thirtieth part of the consumption. The amount of imported corn went so small a way in our general supply, that he might say, a stroke of the spade, or a turn of the plough, withdrawn from British agriculture, would take from the supply as much as any importation would replace. Lord Castlereagh contended strenuously that 80 shillings was not too high a price against the importer, in the present situation of the agriculture of the country. He reprobated the principle of making it a Some permanent retemporary measure. gulation was indispensably necessary, and every parliamentary proceeding was revocable at the discretion of the legislature Sir G. Heathcote begged leave to call without pledging itself to duration in the the attention of the House to the real first instance. For the sake of the lower question, which was this-The Governorders, who were affected not so much by ment wanted to wind up the expences of the war; the sum was no less than 20,000,000l.; and in order to prevail on the landed interest to support them in the measures necessary to raise this sum, Ministers had thrown out the alluring bait of giving their aid to this measure respecting the Corn Laws. The only way to meet the matter fairly would be by an immediate reduction of the rents, which could not fail to produce the best possible effect, and would render the present very unpopular measure totally unnecessary. He thought it might be avoided by empowering the Prince Regent, with the advice of his Privy an actual price as by uncertainty or fluetuation, he wished to see the Bill before the Committee pass into a law. General Gascoyne's amendment for fixing the price at 74s. instead of 80s. was negatived, by 208 against 77. [This important subject, rendered still more important by the irritated state of the public mind, underwent, in all its stages, the most minute examination; aud was at length finally settled, at the protecting price of 80s. The essence of the arguments are here given: the continuation afforded little new.] of Buonaparte in the French army, his guards with his veterans, was destroyed in the battle of Waterloo; yet, as some escaped, that some is a source of anxiety, beinas-vastation and plunder, as when it invited cause it retains the same wishes for deits chief from Elba; and well it knows, that under a paternal sovereignty, it can expect no such gratifications. They would, indeed, willingly resort to Spanish America, where the flames of strife continue unextinguished; but, to effect this, they must ask permission-and that from a power which they are sure would refuse it. POLITICAL PERISCOPE. Panorama Office, July 29, 1815. THE Drama differs from History, much as whatever subject it treats must have a regular termination; and if that be not analagous to the main sentiment of the piece the critic scowls, and the audience hisses. The drama, therefore, must select would be at peace, were this heterogeneous In short, all the world is at peace, or its subjects; but history is confined to assemblage reduced to its due place in the truth, and is bound to relate facts as they body politic. Its leaders cannot even rerise, without wishing, even, for the distri-sort to America; for America, happily for bution of poetical justice; much less for herself, no longer wages war. the power of executing political justice, on the delinquents whose crimes pollute its pages. History must relate the progress of successful highwaymen on a great scale, equally as of the happiest results from the most benevolent of purposes. Examples are not wanting in history, of succeeding generations taking_warning from the violences of those which went before, and condemning the enormities of their ancestors, by mingling a painful recollection, with a determination of practical repentance. This no drama can shew. Nevertheless, the public mind ever anxious to behold the denouement of the piece, waits for the catastrophe with an impatience proportioned to the interest it has taken in preceding scenes. Nothing can equal the interest taken by the public in scenes which have already appeared of the great political drama, passing before our eyes, and we confess somewhat of a mortification in not being able to place at the head of this paper Exeunt Omnes, as we placed at the head of our last Exit Tyrannus, The curtain has not yet fallen: the Tyrant is not yet executed: the block still awaits its victims: the actors still linger on the stage. For the same reasons as Britain would refuse a passage to South America to the leaders of the French army, she has refused the liberty of the seas to Napoleon, the quondam Emperor and King of all these bands. His presence would be dangerous there to him and to his emissaries, are owing the dreadful sufferings of that devoted Continent. When he was in power, and intent on establishing his brother on the throne of the Spains, he had special views to the ducts of Spanish America. proHis wishes centered there. He commissioned various agents to promote his designs; and these, as unprincipled as himself, might be urged by his presence to further enormities: why not? since trouble and turmoil is their element, their profitable element. It is wise, then, to forbid his transit across the Atlantic, although that transit be transportation. Neither this chief nor his bands can be trusted: the rage for benevolent banditti is over. We shall be more at our ease when the blood-thirsty adherents of Buonaparte, in France, are disbanded; and when a new generation of loyalist soldiers are in arms. The thunder of applause from the assembled world of spectators suffers sus pense, though the whole audience with every hand uplifted await: but the moveIn the mean while, France is ravaged by ment of a triumphant hero to rend the a war, that well deserves the name of civil şkies with their acclamations, and crown the whole with their hearty, and even out-ant horrors: and towns taken by storm, or war; in many places it brings its attendrageous, plaudits. Truth, however, is truth; and those who discerned in our last, a triumph somewhat inferior in tone to that of certain public journals, have probably by this time recollected themselves, and justified a caution derived from experience as well as information. The chief support and stay of the power villages consumed by flames, instruct the French people a little in the nature of those calamities their armies have inflicted on others. We say a little because we have heard well-authenticated reports of more than savage barbarities perpetrated by the French troops, beyond any in the power of their most inveterate enemies to retaliate. We have said that Paris capitulated: this took place July S. The principal articles are, that the French army shall put itself in march to morrow, to take up its Familiarity with such reports has-possibly had its inherent effect on us, as on others; and we too, are touched with that induration of heart, that apathy which repels compassion, as it would start into ex-position behind the Loire. Paris shall be ercise, were a people of simple habits and innocent manners, under the same, or even less painful misfortunes. Principally, however, this feeling, or rather, this want of feeling, becomes operative when the guilty Capital rises before our indignant imagination. Paris was the great focus of sedition at first; the soul and center of Jacobin strength. Who overturned the throne and the altar, if not the factions of Paris? who brought their benevolent Monarch to the block, if not the sans-culottes of Paris? who spread desolation throughout France, throughout Europe, if not the vitiated citoyens of Paris? and on whom did the late sanguinary tyrant rely, if not on the Fèderés, selected | from the dregs of that enormously vicious metropolis. Let Paris suffer, its sufferings can never equal the thousandth part of what that city by her atrocities has inAlicted on others. Where is the country, the voice of whose blood does not cry from the ground? Let Paris suffer; its inclination will be as rampant as before, when the constraint is removed its power must be reduced; and then its inclination may be staggered. : Our readers have seen in our preceding pages, that in the battle of Waterloo, the French Army was destroyed:-that Lord Wellington profiting by his victory, marched on Paris, in conjunction with the veteran Blucher;-that Paris, though reinforced by the corps of troops that had escaped from Waterloo, to the number of 40 or 50,000 men, capitulated, and the French Army retired to take quarters beyond the river Loire. In the mean time, the King of France returned to his capital which he entered July 11, and where the Emperors of Austria and Russia, with the King of Prussia, and other potentates, their representatives, are now his visitors. In effect, the Congress is removed from Vienna to Paris. Need we add, that the Buonapartean House of Peers and Chamber of Representatives are dissolved:-that just as they had finished-finished!! A NEW CONSTITUTION! for France, they were ungraciously forbidden the use of their own hall, in which to read it, and found the doors shut against them, and locked. Miserable representatives of a miserable people! Yet report affirms, that out of eighty-five departments of old France, forty-five had not sent deputies aties to this National Assembly. completely evacuated in three days; and the movement behind the Loire shall be effected within eight days. The French army shall take with it all its material, field artillery, military chest, horses, and property of regiments, without exception. All persons belonging to the depots shall also be removed, as well as those belonging to the different branches of administration, which belong to the army. The wives and children of all individuals belonging to the French army, shall be at liberty to remain in Paris. The wives shall be allowed to quit Paris for the purpose of rejoining the army, and to carry with them their property, and that of their husbands. The officers of the line employed with the Fédérés, or with the Tirailleurs of the National Guard, may either join the army, or return to their homes, or the places of their birth. To-morrow, the 4th of July, at mid-day, St. Denis, St. Omen, Clichy, and Nonilly, shall be given up. The day after to-morrow, the 5th, at the same hour, Montmartre shall be given up. The third day, the 6th, all the barriers shall be given up. The duty of the city of Paris shall continue to be done by the National Guard, and by the corps of the municipal gens d'armerie. The Commanders in Chief of the English and Prussian armies engage to respect, and to make those under their command respect, the actual authorities, so long as they shall exist. Public property, with the exception of that which relates to war, whether it belongs to the Government, or depends upon the Municipal Authority, shall be respected, and the Allied Powers will not interfere in any manner with its administration and management. Private persons and property shall be equally respected. If difficulties arise in the execution of any one of the articles of the present Convention, the interpretation of it shall be made in favour of the French army and of the city of Paris. This observes, the Duke of Wellington, is a military operation only, and touches nothing political. The French army in consequence, retired behind the Loire, under the orders of Davoust; thinned by desertion of those who wished to make their peace with the King, and augmented by such as determined to oppose to the last. In the issue and after hope of effectual resistance has expired, it has affected to make an equivocal submission to Royal Au thority: it is evidently treacherous, and | faces, across the Seine: and the Bridge of will prove delusive if trusted to. In other parts of the frontiers of France, principally along the Eastern boundary, resistance to the Allied Forces has been maintained with different degrees of vigour, and much blood has been shed. The peasants have appeared in arms against the Austrians, the. Austrians have massacred the peasants, Towns have been bombarded, -taken by assault, by escalade,--or have resisted in mere despair, and some continue to resist. As they can have neither orders, supplies, reinforcements, or combination, this becomes cruelty in the com manders and garrisons. : The King is certainly in a very delicate situation restored to the throne by armies not his own, and couscious of the necessity for destroying by means of these strangers, that strength which should be his defence, and that of his nation. Conscious too, that these armies whether friends or foes, are devouring the country, and that the expences incurred in a single day, will embarrass the finances of France for years. Nor is this all: those who look forward are not so positive of unmixed good, ap- | proaching as those who merely indulge their wishes, and contemplate only the present. Contradictory reports affirm that Buonaparte was intent on new plots, if they would have met with support:-also, that the army invited him to resume his station among them, and to continue his Dynasty; but that He refused the offer. He professes to have shed blood enough; and to wish for repose. He certainly fled to save his life; and by abandoning his army at its utmost need, he has completely justified that character for selfishness and insensibility, which has constantly been ascribed to him in the PANORAMA. Austerlitz is become the Bridge of the Royal. Botanic Garden. Will the other monuments of Victory be also removed, or destroyed? Certain it is, that Blucher terrified the Badauds de Paris by undermining one Pier of the bridge of Jena !!! Berlin, July 15.---It will be remembered, that Marshal Davoust wrote a letter on the 30th of June to Prince Blucher and the Duke of Wellington, in which he desired a suspension of hostilities, on the ground that Generals Frimont and Bubna had already agreed to an armistice. To this letter Field Marshal Prince Blucher returned the following answer: From my Head--Quarters, July 1. It is a mistake that all causes for war are removed between the Allied Powers and France, because Napoleon has abdicated the throne; he has done this only conditionally in favour of his son, and the resolu tion of the Allied Powers excludes from the throne not only Napoleon, but all the members of his family. If General Frimont has thought himself authorized to conclude an armistice with the General opposed to him, that is no reason for us to do the same. We follow up our victory, and God has given the means and the will to do so. Do you, Marshal, take care what you do, and do not again plunge a city in ruin; for you know what the enraged soldiery would allow themselves if your capital were taken by storm. Do you wish to bring down upon yourself the curses of Paris, as you have those of Hamburgh. We are resolved to enter Paris, to protect the well-disposed against the pillage with which they are threatened by the mob. No secure armistice can be concluded except in Paris. You, Marshal, will surely not misconceive our situation with respect to your nation. For the rest, Marshal, I must observe, that if you wish to negociate with us, it is strange that you should detain, contrary to the law of nations, our officers who are sent with letters and packets. He has been, in this last attempt, the tool of a party: that party exists, and will give trouble, though we hope the Sovereigns on the spot will take effectual care that, if the Serpent rear its crest so far as to According to the usual forms of estab hiss, yet that its fangs shall not again dif-lished civility, I have the honor to call my, fuse their venom, and reduce the body to a self, M. Marshal, putrifying gangrene. With what sentiments the Prussians have once more entered Paris, may be judged on from the following reply of Marshal Blucher to Davoust's application for a suspension of arms, also, from the war-contribution laid on the city by that Commander, and from the necessity which has obliged the King to change the name of certain public edifices: The Bridge of Jena, commemorating a victory over Prussia, is to be called the Bridge of the Lvalids, whose Hospital it Your servant, BLUCHER. We think it our duty to mark these facts explicitly; because we should not be at all surprized should occasion offer, to witness an absolute denial on the part. of French historians! must we call them ?that ever the Allied troops entered Paris, or that, that city capitulated; or, that any contribution was levied on it, &c. &c. Such is our conviction of Gallic veracity! We shall have occasion hereafter to congratulate our country on the progress of the principles of the British Constitution Ney, Labedoyere, the two brothers. among Continental States. The King of l'Allemand, Drouet d'Erlon, Lefebvre DesPrussia has given notice of a representative nouettes, Ameilh, Brayer, Gilly, Mouton Body for his dominions. Let old Frederic Duvernot, Grouchy, Clausel, Laborde, Derise from his grave! The general scheme belle, Bertrand, Drouet,. Cambrone, Laof settlement for the Germanic Constituvalette, and Rovigo. tion, as arranged at Vienna, has appeared; 2. The individuals, whose names folit is evidenly intended to be final, and per-low, shall in three days quit Paris and manently pacific. retire into the interior of France, to places which our Minister of Police shall appoint to them, where they are to remain under care, till the Chambers shall decide between those who shall be sent out of the kingdom and those who shall prosecuted by the Tribunals. Those who do not immediately repair to the places assigned to them by our Minister of Police shall be arrested: Turning our eyes homewards, we have to report an adjournment of Parliament, during Summer; the general peace of our country, and its settlements, the prospects of a bountiful harvest, with small exceptions, and the certainty that hitherto, the price of corn has not risen, as some feared, and others hoped. May these prospects be realized, and all hearts be gladdened into thankfuluess! The following particulars are introduced, as being the latest which have come to our knowledge. be Soult, Alix, Excelmans, Bassano, Marbot, Felix Lepelletier, Boulay (de la Meurthe), Mehee, Fressinet, Thibaudeau, Carnot, Vandamme, Lamarque (General), LoThe King of France has issued seve-bau, Harel, Pire, Barrere, Arnault, Pomral ordonnances from, which we extract the following passages. FIRST ORDONNANCE. Art. 1. The following individuals no longer constitute part of the House of Peers: Counts Clement-de-Ris, Colchee, Cornudet, d'Aboville; Marshal Duke de Dantzick; Counts de Croix, Dedeley d'Agier, Dejean, Fabre de l'Aude Gasscudi, Lacepede, and de Latour Maubourg; Dukes de Praslin and de Plaisance; Marshals Dukes d'Elchingen, d'Albufera, Cornegliano and Treviso; Count de Barral, Archbishop of Tours; Count Boissy d'Anglas; Duke de Cadore; Count de Canclaux, Casabianca, de Montesquion, de Ponteroulant, Rampon, de Segur, de Valence, and Belliard. 2. However, there shall be excepted from the order as announced above, those individuals who shall be able to prove that they have not sat, nor wished to sit, in the soi-disant Chamber of Peers, to which they had been called, provided they make this proof in a month from the present Ordonnance. (Signed) By the King, LOUIS, Prince TALLEYRAND. SECOND ORDONNANCE. Art. 1. The Generals and Officers who have betrayed the King previous to the 21st of March, and who have attacked France and the Government with arms in their hands; and those who, through violence, have seized upon the sovereign power, shall be arrested and brought before competent Councils of War in their respective divisions, viz.: mereuil, Regnanid (de St. Jean d'Angely), Arrighi (de Padoue), Dejean, younger; Garrau, Real, Bouvier Dumolard, Merlin (de Douay), Durbach, Dirat, Defermont, Bory St. Vincent, Felix Desportes, Garnier Forbin Janson, eldest son; Le Lorgue Didede Saintes, Mellinet, Hullin, Cluy, Courtin, ville. 3. The individuals who are condemned to quit the kingdom shall have the liberty of disposing of their property in the course of a year, and to dispose of and transport its produce out of France, and to receive during that time the revenue of it in a foreign country, by furnishing, in the mean time, proof of their obedience to the present Decree. Another Decree suppresses the Offices of Inspectors-Generals of Artillery and Engineers, and places the inspection in the hands of the Central Committee of Artillery and Engineers, at which are to preside the oldest Inspectors-General of each species of force at Paris. Another abolishes the general inspectionof the Gen d'armerie. July 4th the intendant of the King of Prussia in the department of the Seine and Oise made known to the Prefect, that the whole department (and not Versailles alone) must within the shortest period pay two millions as expences of the war, and that it should furnish besides clothing and equipment for 1,600 infantry, 600 cavalry, and 200 artillery; which raises the total of, the sum imposed to two millions three or |
