Star. — London, England, 1815-05-15 00:00:00

~~ THE EVENING STALL LONDON. MONDAY, MAY 15, 1815. WHITtIVIO ND A T.--Holiday at the Bank. Formes Report on the State of France [see the .AR ••• .-aturday] was followed by a Decree of N. 'LECA, reviving all the revolutionary laws of pains, • nalties, confiscation, and death, against Emigrants all adherents of the Bounsox Family—under the ale pretext that singular times require singular .rasures. Thus the New Constitution, pretended to re been given to France, is proved to have been a •re trick :—* juggle to procure the acquiescence of ne men to what may be considered as ISoNarateres liminary steps for the resumption of undefined, at is unlimited power, and, as will soon be made inilest, the revival of his mad project of 44 the -itnd Empire" —or, in plain language, of Universal ownion! Has he cheated the Republicans ? or have they illy been induced to forego all their principles, and concede to the Tyrant the resumption of Rule shout any other law than that of his own will ? e think the former is the case. Our Readers may :ollect that on the Coalition taking place between and them ;—on his submitting to the stipulations which they were willing he should be allowed to gn, we mentioned the probability that they would am that moment endeavour to circumvent the pro. •its of each other, and that the probability was that axitraare, by means of the army and the iafluence nnected with patronage, would prove the stronger the two in the art of cheating. The event has rifled our opinion. But however this may be the open and undisguised iumption of the •ile principles which had nearly iced all Europe, leaves no choice to the other )wers but that of individual and mutual defence. BONAPARTE can so soon disregard his solemn pro :se to the people of France, when cajolling them ch the farce of a new Constitution, what reliance n be placed on his professions of desire to maintain _ace with other people ? Peace indeed ! Yes, if he .uld lull them by the pleasing word into a state of racily and false security, they would have that !ace that the lion gives to the prey which he leaves ideroured till he is hungry. The undisguised resumption of the revolutionary • .sterr may be considered favourable to the cause of e Allies. The Report admits the existence of par. es inimical to the authority of BONAPARTE—that :ey are alarming and numerous. The new Decree will crease their number ; and it is far from being int , risible that the party which principally called back lAPOLZON, may now exert themselves to dethrone im. We know, and on the best authority, that this eery party offered the Crown of France to the Duke -I ORLEANS. BONAPARTE has deceived them, and it is ertainly possible that they may now be forced, ffkim ctual experience, into the conviction, that the royal romise of Louts XVIII. may be relied on, while •hat of BONAPARTE is not worth a rush. Yesterday we received the Paris Papers of Thurs !ay. BoNAPARTZ was still there—aad, as we have -epeatedly stated, we think he is afraid to quit his fen. He knows that he has incurred the hatred of men whom he has outwitted, and he will be slow 3 give them any advantage by withdrawing from locus of action. These papers, except in as far as they tend to chew the existence of a spirit decidedly loyal, in different departments, are comparatively unintcresting.—That this spirit exists very exten sively is proved by all our private accounts, and in iked by th,• arrival in our out-ports of French Offi c.rs uho are debuting in great nurnhert, and come t. our ports as the surest means for being enabled to in the stindard of the KING.—See the letters sub :, ncd to t.ur Army article. This morning a Mail from Flanders arrived. The rtiligence which it has conveyed to us is interesting. `i'.ie dispatch published at Vienna from MURAT, so. Iziting an Armistice, is a curious document. It &s -ilty: much duplicity and low cunning, mixed with t,e most abject and contemptible fawning. He is .Ifact beaten at all points. VIENNA, MAT S. A vurier has brought dispatches from General 1; iron Frirnont, dated the 26th April, of which the filing/in is the substance s While Count Neipperg executed in so masterly a manner the attack upon the Ronco on the 20th. which !.is Already been spoken of, Major Pirquet advanced 'wards Sesenatus with ?inners Yagers, forced the Bridge with the Yager; and a deuchment of Tuscan iragnons, and Captain Hirrrucker penetrated into the 'awn, and by his brisk attack threw the enemy's de ! ichments, which were much stronger, into confusion, Intl caused them a great loss In killed and wounded, .a.l took 300 prisoners, among whom is a Captain of t!le general Staff. Our loss is one killed and 47 '+ounc;ld. The enemy having so soddenly absodormi, with. tut waiting for our attack, his strong position on the savie, which he occupied on the 221.1 with about 20,000 men, retired to Rimini, and had on the 24th rear near Sacryttano: Field.Marthal Lieutenant Bianchi was, with his resin bxly, attortona on the 25th, and espectod to be at Feligno on the 28th. Xing Joachim has again attempted to open s so geeiation, but his overtures have been rejected, like the receding ones. The following is the Mier sent by General Millet de Villeneuve, Chief of the Staff of the Neapolitan Arrriy, to the Austrian Commander in Chief, 'on the 21st of April, to obtain an Armistice: 66 GENERAL !—The King of Napier, in the just uneasiness respecting the security of his suite's, which the negotiations :it Vienna excited in him, and after the unexpected events which seemed likely to rfnew the coalition of the European Sovereigns against France, thought that he ought again to occupy, and that he had a right to occupy, the line which he held during the last war, in consequence of a formal con vention, signed 'by Generals Nugent and Livion, 'which he has not renounced by any later stipulations, and from which the Neapolitan army retired merely in consequence of a conventional arrangement. His Majesty flattered himself that this line would be given up to him without difficulty, and perhaps no hostilities would have taken place if your Excellency had received the communications, which have been prevented by unforeseen accidents, and have been too late informed of. " As the Austrian troops at Ceseno had fired upon the Neapolitan troops, the King could not but believe that it was by your orders ; and that your Excellency had positively received from your Court instructions to act in a hostile manner towards him As soon as. his Majesty saw himself engaged in war against such a great Power, without having intended it, he thought it necessary to make use of all the re sources which had long since been afforded him in Italy, and the extension of which he did not even further attempt to realise. The movements of our army towards Bologna. Ferrara, and Modena, are known to your Excellency : while they- were exe cuting, the King saw by communications with Lord Bentinck, that the hostilitiei commenced against him were not the consequence of a settled plan, because the English General stated that he had reolved no notification on the subject, bat at the same time his Majesty saw that England, with which he desired to remain at peace, might take a part in the war if it were continued. 6 6 This double istformit'on excited a wish that a reconciliation with the Austti in Court might be pos sible; his Majesty therefore signified to Lord Ben. tinck his intention of making a retrograde movement, and he would have proposed an armistice to your Ex• cellency, had he not found that such a proposal might have been considered as a means to check the activity of the military dispositions against his army, at the moment when it began its retreat. " Now that the Icing finds himself with his whole force in the line, which lie thought fit to choose, now that he has sufficiently proved that his movements were not compelled, and that he is fully master of them ; his M ijesty authorises me to acqtt tint your Excellency, that he has required at Vienna new De clarations, and made overtures to your Court, from which he expects a happy result: " Meantime, his Majesty orders me to propose an armistice to your Excellency, to avoid all unnecessary bloodshed. His Majesty wishes, General, that you may' accede to this proposal. " Tim King would then name a General, with full powers to ris, with whomsoever your Excellency shall appoint, the line which each of the armies shall occupy. I have the honour, &c. (Signed) •f MILLET DE VILLENEUVE, Chief of the Staff and Captain of his Majegtis Guards. " Head-quarters, April 21." The CLief of the Staff of the Austrian army re turned the following answer : 64 GENERAL !—When his Majesty the King as sembled his army in the Marches, as all his prepara tions announced the plan of a war, the Imperial Austrian Court, which was absolutely ignorant of any cause for the armaments, required an explana tion concerning them, and as they seemed to be di rected against the Legations which were occupied by its troops, it added the declaration, that any viola tion of this territory would. be considered by it as a formal act of hostility. " It is not, therefore, a few single musket-shot at Cessna, that decided the question of war ; it is the act of his Majesty the King in advancing with his whole army into the territory of the Legations, occu pied by the Austrian troops ; it is his Proclamations, published it Rimini on the 30th March. N The views and the sentiments professed in that Prticlamation, must serve his Majesty the King as a standard to judge of the reception that his new proposals will meet with. At the same time, that, by order of the Commander in Chief of the Ausuisn Army in Italy, I have the honour to answer the letter which you addressed to him on the 21st April. 64 am also charged to add, that his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief has received the most posi tive orders to continue the operations with vigour, and therefore is not authorised to check their coarse by an armistice : that, however, he has not. delayed a moment to ask orders from superior authority re specting the proposals contained in your dispatch. 44 I have the honour, &c. a Head-Quarters, April 24: "To General MALI LT De VILLANIVTL" The accounts from Brussels by the above Papers are to the 12th. The •icinity of Valenciennes is laid ander water by the French Generals. The inhabi. tantt of Daniirk are ordeied to lay in twelve 'mills prtivisions or to quit the plate. The disturbances created by the Sam troops at Liege were soon put down by the Prussians, and the former were very properly expelled from the Allied Armies by the gal lint &mime. The inhabitants and National Guards of Liege behaved uncommonly well on the occasion, and cooperated zealously in punishing the mud• neers. The French Monitear gave a pompous account of this fracas a few d.tys before it actually happencr: ! After this Paper was put to Press we receives the Paris Papers of the 12th inst. at which time DONA PARTi had not left the Capital : he was employed in riding about and visiting public places. These Papers do not contain any intelligence that can he relied on. —There is in the lusernal de 1' Empire an a: tide tinder the head of Milan, April 29, in which it is stared that the Austrians were beaten by the Neapolitans at Foil with the loss of 'ROM men ; that Mt9tivr beat the Austrians in three actiOus ; dint Lord W. BgN TINCK was recalled, and that three FI nth ships bear ing the tri-coloured flag, had entered the port of Genoa. We do not believe one word of this news. CARROT had accepted the Presidency of the So ciety called 4g The Free Society of the Friends to their Country And to Ilumanity."--The 5 per cents. had risen to 62 fr. This day we received New York Papers to the 14th, Boston to the 16th, and Halifax to the 28th of of April. The following is the prin.ipal article in these Papers : " NEW YORN., APRIL 10. " Arrived Within the Hook, the Btit; , h sloin of war Cyare, of 42 32-pound earrotrades, two long Vs tr, her g n deck, and ten IS-pound carrunatles on her quarter d.: and c ortcastle, Ariz• to the United States frigate Constitution, C*l)ialit Stewart. This sloop of war, and another, the Levant, was :. lien In with on the Mk of February by the Constitution off Madeira, ard after action of 50 minutes, they both ►truck to the frigate. The Con. stitudon had four men killed and even wounded " The lost of the sloops we have not learned, but when o w Cyane comes in, we shall probably obtain the par.tcolarA.— During the enlacement one was on the bow and tile other on the quarter of the Constitution. After the battle, the Co•i•ti u• tion with her prizes proot•etled to St. Inn, where the priistter, were landed. Early on the morning of the Bth of March, three heavy ships were discovered standing In shore, on which the Constitulon and her two prizes cut and run, the frigate and L. vant steetin one course, and the Cyane a contrary one. When •he two former were lost sight of, they were about two miles to the witidnard tif the fleet in pursuit, the Constitution, however, shoo leg altea I of the Levant. " Late in the afternoon a heavy cannonading was heard on hoard the Cyane, in the direction of the above vessel=, an.? the ,supposition was that the Levant bad been overhauled. Fro' the suptrior sailing of the Constitution, it is hoped she has es caped. Rr•tish ship Cyane (prize to the Constitoti,n), came up yesterday afternoon about fuu: o'clock, and an• chortd in the North giver, near the frigate Cutistellxion. As the Clane passel Castle Williams, she fired a salute. " The Cyane is a frigate 1 silt ship, mout:ts 34 gun•, and above 700 tons burthen. From the Officers of the Cvane, we learn, 4st whcn'rh+•y lost sight of the Convirsitinv, she was full four miles ahead to windward or the liritish and leaving them very fait." This day, be: - .g a holiday at the Bank and Stock Exchange, nothing but private business was done.— The principal I.lmkers have been all buyers, and bar. gains to a great amount have been effected. Consols began at .SS;, at one o'clock were 5.5.. This morning the Gentlemen waited upon the CIIANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER to bid for a new Lottery. The following were the prices offered: Messrs. Richardson. Goodluck, Banister and Co. sets 7 11 Messrs. 131 sh and Cu. 14 13 o Mr. Sivewrizht 13 - - l5 0 • The PRINCE REGZNT left town yesterday morning for Windsor. The Duke of Yon* left town on Saturday morn ing, for Windsor, and returned in the evening. Yesterday the Princess-CrianurTE, accompanied by the Countess of ILCHESTER, Mitt COATES, and Co lonel ADDENERORE, attended Divine Service at the Chapel Royal ; after which her Royal Highness re• turned to Carlton House, and then went nut in an open carriage to take an airing to Twickenham, hu the rain coming on, her Royal Highness returned in an hour. Lord CASTLEREAGH gave a sumptuous dinner, yesterday, at his house in St. James's-square, to the Portuguese Ambassador, the Earl of A DERDEEN, Lord Mzuettax, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, Count ORLOFF, Count LYNCH, Sir G. WARRIVIDER. Sir B. SPENCER, Mr.W. DUNDAS, Mr. METHUEN, &c. The Flying Fish has arrived at Portsmouth from Havre de Grace, with P. STEWART, Esq. the B 1 itish Consul, and Mr. EDWARDS. the Vice Consul at Havre, retursing by the order of the British Government.— The Consul was detained ten hours before he could obtain permission of the Prefect to embark. The in habitants of Havre expressed much regret at the cir cumstance, as they considered it as the signal of hos tilities between the two countries. Execution of :Pillion Sawyer, for Me murder of Hamlet Gadett—This morning this unfortunate man was exe cuted in front of Newgate, pursuant to his sentence. Hewas decently dressed in black, but seemed so much affected with his awful situation as to be unable to support himself. He was, therefore, conducted, or rather carried, up to the fatal scaffold by the execu tioner and his assistant. Alter remaining a few mi. nues in prayer with the Ordinary, to whom he seemed to listen attentively, he was launched into eternity.— He was about twenty five years of age, and was rather handsome in his appearance. His behaviour since his sentence had been calm and resigned. His friends in the course of Friday and Saturday made repeated applications for the Royal clemency, 'Waugh the proper channel, but without success. COAN.EXCHANGE. MAY 15.—We had no fresh ar rivals of any Grain to-day, but a good shew of Wheat from Essex, samples of which came by land carriage, and which sold at last Monday's picas. Barley is Is. per quarter dearer, owing to the small quantity at market. Oats are Is. per quarter higher from the same cause. In Beaus, Pease, and other articles there is no alteration. tsurilz MAILS I atos. DOC Dot!din • - 2 I Li.bnn M'aterford - , 0 Pram's! Guernsey and Jersey .0 0 I Flandt.r4 liatnburgh 0 1 (; ,, trenburgh I Holland • 0 I Malta HIS DAY. AIR. nit 0 0 2 0 • 0 0 0 1 0 1 • FA I.MOUTI-J, MAY 32. Arrived the It.:lttler from the liarannah, in 37 days; and the Joseph and M iry Sailed the Selina for Amsterdam.—Weld NV. PI.YMOU I H, MAY 14. Arrived yesterday the French chas;e-rniree Nitre Dame. Nothing else arrived nr sailed tn.day of the least conscckuence.—Wind S. POtTSMOITTI4, MAY Arrived yesterday the GANYNIEIOI.: :Ind NICZIiZ rr-irrs Bermuda ; la Marie, French higFer, !mom time I.!e , •t Bis bound to Cslsis, with wine, sent by t!.el'h Came into harbour the ArsLios and CIII.:•terl rac , :d in quarantine, the Mr:vt:Lisus. die CossAmc. sail-d the EuitrAi.us for t::e Sdie:dt. Arrived to-day, the TnAvE, WEsEit, and ItAvv , , from the Coast of America. Alm arrived severast transports with troors from Amtrica, and a-e t i rt tinder quarantine, having been previno , iy 71. , Mediterranean. Also arrived the Counew, and SuttLr, from a cruize.—Wmnd W. DEAL, MAY 14. The two French ships that the Drr st - ton of war detained on their passage from I?tcst to Dtit!k;rk. were released the next day, and saled for their dest;. nation. Came down from the (firer the Cirnatie, Wellington, and Union East Intliamen, bound to India ; the Charles Mills, frr the C .pc and Cal cutta ; and the Patton, from Hull for Ittdil. Also the Dart for St. Thomas's; Phoenix for Queher: ; a•;d the Charlotte for Lisbon. Tfw Gant.es East India. rmin did not put back as stated iast Friday, but with several otheta of the ontward-bound, remains at sea. DOVER, MAYI4. By a French beat which nrrivcd here yesterday, n report was received that Valenciennes had h. tste•l the ihite flag. Sailed early this morning the King George packet, Captain Kim), widl a mail and pas sengers for Ostend. THE AR mr. Our latest letters from our Army in Flanders men. lion that all is bu , tle, but every thing ut tr , Cat order, and that they expect instantly to be led to action. The inhabitants of the country in and near Dit , s vse with each other in sheaving every attention to ur army. They arc not a little stir pi iced at our military offering payment IT every necessary. —Th y are the . only foreign soldiers that ever did so in t'lat twiny: y. The .79th Regiment embarked at Dublin on Vvd nesday for Belgium. The 9th Light Dragoons sailed from Dublin on Tuesday for Liverpool, to replace :the 2:id Light Dragoons, nt4lered to join Lord Witt.LINGTON. The 6th Dragoons have replaced the 9th in Dublin. The Ist battalion of the 4th (or king's Own) Re giment, arrived on Stitid.iy last at Portsmouth, atter an absence from England of five years. This Regi. inent, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Bit , oKr, was engaged in every priLeipal action under the Duke: of WELLINGTON, in the Peainstila ; and particularly distinguished itself at Badajos, 1 .arnanca, Vittoria, and Sr. Sebastian's, at the capture of which latter place it formed the storming pnty, and was di.- lint regiment to enter the place.—ln America, in the c - tion near . Washington, its gallantry was consp:ctinii. and it was mentioned in the dispatches as having. taken tile enemy's guns and turned his right ; and at Baltimore, for the successful charge it made against the left of the American army. It has lost in killed and wounded, since leaving England in 1810, tip wards of 2500 men and 80 officers. MILFORD HAVEN, MAY I3.—Arrived three trans ports, with part of the brave 42d Highlanders and 13th Light Dragoons on board, from C•irk, boned to Ostend. Transports, with the rernaiiiila of the above Regiments, are expected every haur. ltAstsoAre, MAY 14.—Twii sqtriiirnos of the lit, or Royal Dragoons, marched in lime yesterday, and embarked on board regular trana2o;:s in the elms:. of the day for Ostend, whither they sailed this mere ing's tide, and as they have the wind it. is expected they will reach their destination long N..fore dark.— Arrived from the Downs several transports, to I n ' in readiness to receive the remainder of this remarkable tine regiment, which will be here for embarkation to-morrow or next day. Commissary General Dam( r, Assistant-Commissary General Rontost, General MURRAY, and other Officers of distinction, took their passage to Ostend in the transports carrying over the first Royals, which sailed this morning. Military men are highly gratified with the facilities aff , rded at this port for the embarkation of cavalry, which is effected here with great facility and perfect exemp tion from hurt, owing to the advantageous construc tion of our admirable pier, where ni..vvards of lorry good•sizeable vessels may lie alongside its walls and take in their horses and troops at the same time. Sn perfect are the arrangements that more th in 'ZIG herses have been shipped within the hour from the cranes alone, which are placed with much Judgment on different parts of this spacious hatbour. Arrived the Doverpacket, of Dover, from Ostend, not being able to reach her pert ; Lord and Lady Aut . sner, and Mr. ARMYTAGR came passengers-i-t they left Ostend yesterday afternoon, but bring no news whatever : they speak of vast preparations, but of no tigllting. We observe the Chischester, Captain 11a:rum', the Dover Post-office packet, beating up fir Dover—we have had her in sight trom this port tor some hours. Sailed on Friday night after post, the Mar.hal cher, and Resolution, extra Ramsgate pa.Lts, for Ostend, with passengers and horsts. GRAVESEND, MONDAY MORNING, MAY 15. 1 . 1 / 4 1.4n7 Officers of distinction have lately deserted the cau , e of the Corsican and are flying in all directions t:riii France to the Netherlands.—Yesterday embarked :it Gravesend, by the Sarah packet, for (Mend, many other passengers, Colonel MURINIA:;, and Cr- . lonel and Captain GRIMIER, wi th two gentlemen o f a noble family, as volunteers to join Louis XVI IL— These had escaped from Havre last week in an open boat and landed at Dover, and they report that many more of their comrades were anxiously waiting a fa vourable opportunity to follow the same exami;le. As they sailed with a strong wind at S. W. they expected to reach Ostend the same night. The passage from thence being seldom More than fourteen hours—ar the UM time also embarked the 1•8 th regiment.