and Louis the Fourteenth, are those, who were the most adored by their subjects. The misfortunes of the late king may have excited compassion in many a bosom, but not a note of admiration is ever uttered

of Austria will not wink at assassinations, nor suffer any victims to be entombed in dungeons; and the petty powers will no longer sell their subjects like Bullocks!-while, in England, we shall have only to put an extinguisher upon corruption, and a spunge when he is mentioned. He is called le pauupon the National debt.- -Others may,vre Louis seize, le malheureux Louis seize, perhaps, with a malign eye, view this Royal Alliance in an unfavourable light, and maliciously suggest, that they intend monopolizing that for which they have been fighting-the Liberties of Europe.- But many circumstances prevent us from being of this sentiment. Among others, the frequent appeals to the people made by the Allies, in our opinion, serve to show the consciousness of crowned heads that nothing can be done without the people that the people are not only respectable, but also formidable and that, with the people, resides the foundation of all power. The Allies are in Paris: the white-flag may be unfurled, and the white cockade may be worn by a small number of individuals. But the Allies have not yet safely got out of France:-the Bourbons are not yet peaceably seated on the throne: -Bonaparte is not yet exterminated: neither is the French nation yet prostrate.— The fate of war is various :-the conqueror of to day may be the captive of to mor

row.

BONAPARTE AND THE BOURBONS. Mr. Editor,-Having observed in your invaluable Register of the 12th of March, an article entitled "Magnanimity of Bona parte," in which there is an extract from Anne Plumptre's narrative of a three years' residence in France; I beg leave to direct your attention to the following remarks of the same able writer on the Character of the French Emperor, which at this eventual moment, when the restoration of the Bourbons is so much spoken of, may be deemed acceptable to your numerous readers. Speaking of the accusation of moroseness of temper, which the enemies of Napoleon have brought against him, Miss P. observes" But even supposing Bonaparte's manners ever so violent and unconciliating, he has a hold upon the public opinion of another kind, so forcible, that, while supported by that, it is difficult to conceive it in the power of any thing else to shake him. Military glory is, and ever has been, the idol of the French nation; and the greatest military heroes among their kings, Francis the First, Henry the Fourth,

while the names of the others are never
mentioned but with enthusiasm, as Fran-
çois le grand, Henri le grand, Louis le
grand. If such their fondness then for
military glory, with what sensations must
they not behold the emperor Napoleon!-
Is it possible that he should not be the ob
ject of their admiration?—I have more
than once observed, that if in the midst
of repining and discontent with the revolu-
tion, and the present government, the days
of Arcole, of Lodi, or of Marengo, have
been mentioned, a glow of enthusiasm in
an instant animated every countenance, and
seemed to inspire every bosom; all other
feelings were immediately absorbed in
the idea that it was by the victor at Ar-
cole, at Lodi, and at Marengo, the nation
was governed, and the two following lines
from one of their most celebrated tragic
poets, were immediately applied to him:
qui sert bien son pays, n'a pas besoin d'ayeux.
Le premier qui fut roi fut un soldat heureux ;-
CORNEILLE.

A lucky warrior was the first of kings;→→
Who serves the state, no matter whence he springs.

Will the days of Ulm, of Austerlitz, of
Jena, of Friedland, of Aspern, and of
Wagram, have contributed to lessen this
enthusiasm? -If among those who were
the most forward in expressing general dis-
satisfaction and discontent with Bonaparte's
government, inquiries were made into the
reasons of their discontent, it appeared that
these were not very easily explained. Was
he addicted to gallantry? No. To the
pleasures of the table? No. Was he a
gambler? No.-Did he squander away
the money of the country in gratifying idle
fancies of his own? No.-Had not all his
expenses some great public object in view?
Yes.-Had he not restored the nation, ha-
rassed by faction, to unanimity and tranquil-
lity! Yes.-Had he not extinguished the
dreaded flames of civil war? Yes.-Had
he not restored the emigrants to their coun-
try? Yes. Had he not restored their re-
ligion to all? Yes. Were not religious
opinions free and unshackled? Yes. Did
he neglect the duties of his station? did he
leave to others the business which he ought
to attend to himself? Oh! parbleu non!

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He was always at business, he would hardly allow himself time to eat or sleep; nay, he would scarcely even allow those about him a moment's respite from their labour. His private secretary was kept so hard to work that he was obliged one day to remonstrate against it, and beg that a second secretary might be employed, to take some of the burden off his hands: but Bonaparte, instead of yielding to his remonstrance, answered, that he certainly should not take a second, that he only regretted the being obliged to have one; he wished nothing so much as that it were possible to do all the business himself,

herents of the Bourbon cause, if they should ever again obtain the ascendancy, is sufficiently demonstrated in the outrages committed by the Sabreurs at Marseilles. They plainly showed that they had no objection to license and anarchy, when they were themselves at the head of it; they only objected to it when they became its victims. To restore the family of Bourbon to the throne would now be only to sacrifice one faction to another; whereas the way to promote the general peace and prosperity of the country is to keep a vigilant eye over them all.- -But there is yet another question to be asked, Is it in Bonaparte's power "Let Bonaparte restore us our lawful to restore this lawful king?-would the "king," say some, "and we will then nation at large permit his restoration?—I "confess that he is a truly great man." am firmly of opinion, not. However atThese are of those zealous royalists, "who, tached these zealous champions of the royal "seated comfortably by the fire-side, with cause may be to the ancient dynasty of their "their feet upon the fender, declaim in kings, it is by no means clear that the sen> very severe terms upon the dastardly be- timent of the nation, taken in the aggregate, haviour of their countrymen towards corresponds with theirs. Bonaparte might "their monarch; and who, it might there- overthrow his own power in attempting to "fore be supposed, had done prodigious restore Louis the Eighteenth; but it is far "things for him themselves; but who had from certain that he would seat him on the "in fact deserted him on the first approach throne: the nation, which has delegated to "of danger, and left him to scuffle through him the task of governing it, would scarcely "his difficulties as well as he could; the choose that he should delegate that task to ❝ consequence of which was, that he could another, without their opinions being con"not scuffle through them at all: yet now sulted upon the subject; but, if he propos"they are very zealous for the restoration of ed to quit his station, would reserve to "his heir." But would Bonaparte do a real themselves the right of deciding who should service to the French nation in restoring to fill it. Such an immense mass of inthem their lawful king? This certainly terest against the return of the Bourbon may be made a question. What sort of a ser- family has been created by twenty years of vice did Monk render to England in restoring revolution, that even if Bonaparte were as the two sons of Charles the First? A very great a tyrant as he is represented, and his sorry one indeed;-one which occasioned tyranny should become ever so insupportthe necessity of a second revolution only able to the nation, though they might make twenty-eight years after. And is there a him descend from his present eminence, better prospect in the restoration of the they would not invite a Bourbon to be his Bourbon princes?-have any of them ever successor. In the time of the League, a evinced the talents requisite for guiding the priest of that party once, when he was to helm of a great nation?-are they so ex- preach took for his text the passage in the alted by their virtues above the rest of sixty-ninth psalm, which in our translamankind, that they hence derive a just tion runs, Lord, deliver us out of the claim to command and rule over them?" mire!" which he translated, Seigneur, or is it to be expected that in returning to debourbonnez nous !-In such a prayer I power they would bury all their animosities believe ninety-nine out of every hundred, or in oblivion, and not execute what they perhaps nine hundred and ninety-nine out would call retributive justice upon the au- of every thousand, among the French, would thors of their sufferings? Nothing, that now join." Let Bonaparte restore me has hitherto appeared in any part of their all that I have lost," say others," and I conduct, gives reason to answer these ques- will then acknowledge him truly the friend tions in the affirmative. What then would and benefactor of the country." This is mobe the prospect of the country in seeing dest; it is identifying the public good with them restored, but to become a prey to their own individual ease.-One trifling fresh scenes of carnage and desolation? objection, however, stands in the way of The conduct to be expected from the ad- accomplishing what these gentlemen, who

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result be beneficial to the inhabitants of Oxford, the liberal and philanthropic mind, it is hoped, will not be disposed to object to the publication of this correspond

The two letters formerly given, were con fined to one side of the question. The following, which I have since received, is intended as an answer to the one that appear

has already been published in an Oxford paper, together with the subjoined reply, from the able pen of the writer of the first letter:

are indisputably of the faction of the impatient, require,-that the thing is impossible. Supposing Bonaparte ever so well disposed to comply with their wishes, yet where is all that they have lost to be found?ence, merely because it is of a local nature. -But have they forgotten that many of them were once strangers in foreign lands, wanderers on the face of the earth; and that they have now a home and a country, with the means of subsistence, though noted in the Register of 26th February.-It of living in their ancient luxury? To attempt the restoration of all their possessions, would be to plunge the country into worse calamities than those from which it has recently been rescued; to relume in its MR. EDITOR, I will not intrude upon bosom the flames of civil war. Instead then so large a portion of your valuable columns of murmuring and repining at petty incon- as has been occupied by the writer of a letveniences, which they find personally, and ter from this place, which I have read in attributing them to the present government, your paper. I have only to observe, that they should reflect, that a very great length it is utterly false that the Proctors of the of time is necessary to correct the number- University exercise or possess any right less abuses to which such a period of whatever of being judges in their own anarchy has given rise; and consider that causes; and I need not say that this is the the work of destruction is the operation of main hinge upon which all your Corresa moment, while that of regeneration is of pondent's subsequent observations turn. It necessity extremely slow. The one is the is equally false that the statute cited by your impulse of a hasty movement executed Correspondent conveys the power of a gewithout reflection, under the guidance of a neral search-warrant; inasmuch as the heated imagination; while every thing re- power of entering the houses of the inhalating to the other, must be poised in an bitants is given to those Officers of the exact scale, weighing deliberately the ad- University, solely and expressly for the nevantages and disadvantages which may re- cessary purpose of ascertaining whether any sult from any measure proposed, without of their own body are therein; and cannot suffering passion or prejudice to give the therefore, authorize them to proceed in the least preponderance either to the one side manner in which they would be entitled to or the other; and recollecting always that act under the authority of a search-warrant. the general good is the main object to beIt is absolutely false that any prostikept in view, not the particular convenience of this or that individual."-I am yours, &c. ARISTIDES.

Edinburgh, 4th April, 1814.

tutes have been apprehended "for merely appearing in the streets, though walking orderly and quietly in the day-time;" they are at no time put into confinement without suitable warning, nor without the most earnest endeavours to reclaim them from their vicious mode of life; and it is especially false, "that an instance is well known to have occurred in Oxford, of an unfortunate prisoner being driven into a state of insanity, from which she never recovered."

OXFORD UNIVERSITY. Two letters having already appeared in the Register, on the abuse of the Procuratorial power in the University of Oxford, the subject, which certainly is of great importance to the inhabitants of that cele- The discipline and authority of the brated place, appears to have excited a University, which are of vital importance considerable degree of interest, and to have to the interests of the State at large, cannot given rise to a discussion which, it is to be be impaired by the sophistical argumentahoped, will lead to a radical reform of the tion of your Correspondent; but it is perabuses which are said to belong to the pro-haps due to a cause, however strong, to curatorial office. In giving publicity, how-shield it from wilful misrepresentation of ever, to these letters, it is not my intention to pledge myself for the accuracy of the statements which they contain. The writers are unknown to me; but, as truth will probably be elicited between them, and the

facts. Of such misrepresentations I have selected only some of the most glaring specimens; but I may safely assert, that there is scarcely a sentence in your Correspondent's letter, which does not contain some

thing of the same nature.—I am, Mr. The words of the Statute are these:"In Editor, your obedient servant,

Oxford, 11th March, 1814.

sessor.

APSEUDES.

MR. EDITOR,-From the style and manner of the above letter from Oxford, I have great reason to suppose it to be the production of one of the very persons, whose conduct I exposed in my "Observations on the Statutes," &c.-The anger of APSEUDES gives me much pleasure and satisfaction. I am gratified in seeing that my animadversions have taken effect. "Let the gall'd jade wince.' -But now for matter of fact. The following short statement will, I think, sufficiently shew what claim this writer has to his assumed name of APSEUDES. -If APSEUDES will take the trouble of consulting the University Statutes, he will find, notwithstanding his assertion to the contrary, that the Proctors have the right of sitting as judges in the Vice-Chancellor's Court, without any restriction, "whenever they may think fit to attend," along with the Vice-Chancellor, or his Deputy or AsThe words of the Statute are these: "Cui [Curiæ] præsit Commissarius sive Vice-Cancellarius Universitatis, ejusve Deputatus; assidentibus sibi duobus (cum ipsis videbitur) qui pro tempore fuerint, Universitatis Procuratoribus.' TIT. xxi. 2. This, however, is not "the main hinge upon which all my subsequent observations turn;" for I stated, that it is a court"in which there is no jury;" a court, in which "the process is tedious," and in which "the expenses are so great as to operate to the total exclusion of the poorer clients."If APSEUDES, while the Statute Book is in his hand, will turn to TIT. xv. § 4. he will find that the Universityofficers have the power of searching houses both by day and night; a power equivalent in effect to that of a general search-warrant. I will, however, take this opportunity of pointing out an important difference in one respect, which seems to have escaped the sagacity of APSEUDES; it is, that their power does not extend to the forcing or breaking open of doors; though I heard an instance, a few years ago, in which this power was illegally exercised by them.*

The officers of the University have not the power of forcing doors, or breaking into a house, if refused admittance, in any case whatever. If any person refuse them admittance, he is liable to a penalty of twenty shillings for the first of fence. On a repetition of this offence, if com. mitted by a non-matriculated man, he is to be

subsidium Vice-Cancellarii et Procurato-
rum, potestas sit Præfectis Edium Domos
Oppidanorum intrandi; ut explorent an
aliqui e suis illic versentur de die vel de
nocte." If APSEUDES from his own
knowledge is not sufficiently acquainted
with the fact, he will find, by making the
necessary inquiries, that within the last
twelvemonth (though, I believe, not be-
fore) prostitutes have been apprehended by
the Proctors, and committed to prison by
the Vice-Chancellor, for "merely appear-
ing in the streets, though walking orderly
and quietly, in the day-time." Indeed the
fact speaks for itself; for before this illegal
severity took place, women of this descrip-
tion were frequently seen walking in the
streets in the day-time, but now very rare-
ly; and, I am ready to allow, that if this
alteration could have been brought about by
legal means, exercised with proper temper
and discretion, it would have been desir-
able. But the Proctors have not any
power in the streets, in the day-time, over
any but matriculated persons. The time
of watch-and-ward does not commence till
nine o'clock at night, and it ends at five in
the morning, and it is only during that time
that the Proctors have any power in the
streets over those who are not matriculated;
for all jurisdiction over them in the day-
time belongs exclusively to the Mayor. I
must here add, that if any endeavours have
been used to reclaim prostitutes from their
vicious mode of life, they are solely owing
to individual exertion, and not to the officers
of the University in their corporate and
magisterial capacity.- If APSEUDES will
condescend to ask almost any inhabitant of
Oxford concerning an unfortunate female-
prisoner "being driven into a state of in-
sanity, from which she never recovered,"
he will learn that her name was Susanna
Gray. She was a prostitute, and was sen-
tenced to imprisonment, at the Quarter-
Sessions, for being concerned in a riot.
The circumstance happened nearly twenty
years ago, and, at the time, made a great
impression on the public mind. I have
reason to think, from information with

deprived of all intercourse or commerce with
privileged persons; and if committed by a privi-
leged man, he is to be deprived of his privilege.
See Stat. Tit. xv. § 4.-How these penalties are
to be enforced, we are not informed.

†Their walking used to be checked, in some
degree, by a kind of compromise or agreement,
that if they did not appear in the streets, in the
day-time, they would not be molested by the
Proctors at night in their houses.

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own door, with words to the following ef"Unless you go into your houseTM immediately we will take you to gaol.". He replied, that he had done no harm, and that he did not like to be driven like a dog into his kennel :" on which, without further parley, they instantly ordered him into the custody of their assistants, and he was taken to the county gaol, where he was confined two nights and a day, without being confronted by his accusers, in the vagrant-cell, a cold, damp, detached building; a place very improper for a man of his habits and situation in life, and still more so for one of his age and infirmities.

which I have been favoured, since I ad-
dressed "Observations" to you, that fect:
my
she was not committed by the Proctors.
At any rate, she affords a melancholy in-
stance of the effects of imprisonment (how-
ever deserving of punishment she might
have been) on the constitution of females of
that description; which was all I wished
to prove, and is all that was asserted.-
So much for APSEUDES, the detector of fal-
lacies! If he will point out any other as-
sertions, which he conceives to be false,
for he says, of the misrepresentations he
has "selected only some of the most glar-
ing specimens ;" and by so doing give me
an opportunity of noticing them, he will
make some amends for the coarse language
into which his zeal has betrayed him, and,
at the same time, confer a considerable ob-
ligation on, Sir, your obedient servant,
Oxford, March 26, 1814.

Y. Z.

Another Correspondent has transmitted the following::

MR. EDITOR,-The great power of the Proctors, and the frequent abuse of that power having become, in consequence of the letter which appeared in your Register of Feb. 26, the chief topic of conversation in Oxford, I send you the following case, which can be supported by the testimony of many respectable persons, and request -In the you to lay it before the public,summer of 1800, a few students of this University, met several successive evenings, at about eight o'clock, towards the upper part of the High-street; and violently assaulted those inhabitants of the city who happened to be passing.On the third evening of their continuing the outrage, the Proctors came, and sent the students to their colleges. On that evening, Mr. Bayliss, of the parish of St. Martin, in this city, was quietly standing at his own door, in Queen-street, at some little distance from the scene of riot. Mr. Alderman Yates came up to him, and inquired what was the cause of so many persons being assembled. They were soon afterwards joined by Mr. Thomas Ensworth, sen. of the Corn-Market; when the Proctors, with their attendants, came up to them, and desired Mr. Ensworth to go home. He said, he was standing on his own ground, that he had purchased the freedom of the city, and that he should go home when he thought proper. One of the Proctors next accosted Bayliss, who was a feeble inoffensive man, and upwards of seventy years of age, while standing at his

-The consequence of his being confined in that cold cell was, a severe fit of illness, which lasted several weeks; a violent cold settled in his limbs, and occasioned a lameness from which he never recovered; his mind, too, suffered so considerably from the thoughts of having been confined in a common prison, the receptacle of rogues and vagabonds, that he never appeared to have regained that happiness and serenity, which he had previously been accustomed to enjoy.

-This unfortunate man was a fishmonger. He had kept a shop for many years in the High-street; but when this affair happened he lived in Queen-street.

-An action at common law was com
menced against the Rev. William Wood,
one of the Proctors; but the acting officers
of the University pleaded their privilege,
obtained cognizance, and moved the cause
into the Vice-Chancellor's court,His
friends, being aware, that in a court in
which there is no jury, and in which the
defendant, being Proctur, had a right to
sit as one of the judges, he could have but
little chance of redress, very prudently ad-
vised him to drop the prosecution.
widow of Mr. Bayliss is still living, and
resides in the parish of St. Clement. She
can speak to the truth of all the material
parts of the above case, and is willing to
answer any inquiries.

Yours, &c.
Oxford, April 4, 1814.

GIVIS.

THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND HIS ARMY.

-I shall not be induced to give up the title which I have chosen for this article, until I find that Bonaparte has not an army to command, even although the sovereign power should be assumed at Paris by Louis XVIIIth; because I do firmly believe, that the French people are warmly attached to Napoleon, not only from interested mo