The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-04-05 00:00:00

.. FROM THE WESTERN LUMINARY, DATED APRIL 4. VItNNA, MARCiI 21.—Sine% the return of Napo leon, various reports are circulated every morning, which are regularly contradicted at night. It is however known that an Army of Observation is as tembling on the Rhine, to be employed as events may repire. The Emperor Alexander leaves us about the end of toil month for Munich and Carlsruhe. The Em hi3 august spouse, will meet him there. The departure of the Kings of Prussia and Den mark is postponed. The Emperor of Austria has changed his intention o f going to Italy, and is about to proceed to Frank fort. Lord Wellington leaves as on Thursday for Brus sels. The communications with thit city are for a mo ment suspended. The French are permitted to go, bot not to return. The English, it appears, do not count much ou the Belgic troops ; they place them in the rear. By the arrangements relative to the quartering of w o n the following regulations are established : Every Colonel ie to have three rooms furnished— e„,), Mnjor two—Every Captain one—two subal tern, to a room. We have seen a Gentleman this morning-, who left on Monday last. Re says that the greatest nations are making in all the military departments for the departure of the EMPEROR to join the army, in the event of the Allied Powers not agreeing to the proposils made by the existing Government.— li e S iS6 says, it is not true that the Easesaox is in the 1111)4 of concealing hiwself, as asserted by some, but that he is very much in public, in perfect health, and in good spirits, and that the greatest tranquillity prevail; in Paris. It has been stated this morning that a 'Messenger had arri%el to Government with the intelligence of sn insurrection in Paris, and of a contention between the Royalists and the army of NaeoLcoro. No such Nies:eller or intelligence has arrived. The state rent probably originated in the discovery of the (-lips of assassins, mentioned in the Paris Papers. I Spain appears on the verge of a Revolution. There I is Report of All insurrection at Madrid, and that FERDINAND had been obliged to leave his capital.— A Royal Order which we observe in the Madrid Gaz,lle of the 18th, for the preservation of the puhlie peace in that city, gives ground for belief in th.a rumour. i'ILMOUTIi, APRIL 2.—Arrived the French lug- Rrr L'Espertme, front Bandeaux, which place she left on the 27th tilt. and has brought over Colonel tke Baron LABRAD 4.11" E, bearing dispatches from the Dcchess D'A NGOULRIME to bis Majesty Louts XVIII.I Win was supposed, at Bourdeaux, to have arrived, Loudon). The accounts brought by this Gentle- Ma❑ are most favourable to the cause of the BORIS. lONS. lie states that at Bourdeaux there are 6000 National Guards, and 4000 troops of the line, all of whom may be depended on, and have again sworn fidelity to Louts XVIII. The Duke D'Aeraou /DIE is said to have a force in the South of France of 60,000 men ! and the whole of that part of the country are stated to be rightly inclined ; they want a supply of arms and ammunition. The British at Bourdeaux, as a measure of precaution, have em. ba-ked their property on board of vessels in the river. A fleet was lying at the entrance of the totide, under the protection of two British frigates. The communication from the Patxce REGENT to Nr!iament on the subject of the present crisis, ' which is expected to disclose the views and Intentions of our Government, is to be made on Thursday night, sot this evening, as was expected, and will be taken ! into enottideritints Friday.—Lord CASTLEREAGH Lid before the House of Commons, last night, some Piprs relative to the Slave Trade and our Treaties with r friends abroad. The Decree of the pro sc'AiPil Emperor of FRANC r, abolishing theSlase Trade t and for ever, might very properly be placed 4% the side of those important State documents M! ich fleerihe the great and successful exertions of imr , l Ctirti REACH, and the sincere desire of Louts XVIII. to effect the abolition of this horrible traffic. The ecespe of NAPOLEON from Elba was alluded to by Mr. FitrostAßTLn, who asked, whether any mea sures had been adopted by the Government of this country to prevent NAPOLEON'S escape from that i!and? It will be seen from the report, that Lord CAsnrecastu, who has lowered his tone so much as scarcely to be heard or understood, replied, that " he understood cruizers had been stationed off that i li"t!" And so did we : and so, we dare say, it IsillaPpear was the case by the Admiralty accounts. — But Sir Nam CAMPBELL is come to town with a dandle of papers, and he, perhaps, may be more 'IsPliCiA In his I n f orma ti on . M r . WYNNE also spoke et, this subject, and asked, whether the British Commanders in the Mediterranean had any autho. risY to details BONAPARTE in Elba or prevent his Lest Lord Carrizauxon, instead of answering this question directly, said he did not mean to er gve a s point ;" and when further pressed for an esPlicit answer " made no reply." The point, however, will be 66 argued," and if no clearer in- r orantion k given from an official source on this abject, deeply involving the honour of British Com manders, conclusions will be drawn, as they have leen already, no ways favourable either to Govern brut or the uational character. I t leo wit bo' If oer i. ma of . t mA of fol It • eel IS mt T. • bo co tri }:I eV to M PA * tot in thi ai f lit Itl th bo 4 ati PI et at N of r. h. IS til at A hf G, . re Pu M. th at e" Fee le( •a, r a (" nd i " 'C a d of 5(! li t LI of Co !f• a 1) rig ti tc te 17. w Ma 01 a rie is, e.* a at- Ins 1 To• IPT Ist Fs- -111 de lell of i kis h irk ID Is- trt Cll t TAE STATESMAN. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. To ris EDITOR or rya STATESMAN. --no— PLYMOUTH t APRIL 3.—Arrived the brig Albiotr, Sari -e Servile and base, to the utmost e x t reme , a s i s Bollett, him Bourdeanz, with passengers', which tbeltreatestpartofthe London daily Press, yet it might hate hopednel the pert she left this day week, when ne ar ly th e w h o le he hee f th ze e s w no e r re th b e o c u o n u d r a i r e i t es w , o b u e ld . yo v nd which neither the t of the . British vessels were got down to the mouth of .__ _. the river in safety. The passengers by the .41bion nave cumin to ven t ure . Th e f ormer P aper o f th i s morning outdoes itself in scurrility ; but as it is tint report, that all the British shipping were detained understood to have any immediate connection with by our men of war, at the Mouth of the Gironde, the Government, the wild ravings of its furious mad. in order to take on board the English who were ar- am are below contempt. Not so with the Courier; this Journal, on all possible occasions, endeavours riving at Bourdeanx. It is also said, the English to assume to it se lf a frigate Cyrus is detained at Brest, by order of the sort of demi-official character , and therefore it is entitled, if not to more considera ' French Government. Lord Viscount Ilowarden and lion, at le as t t o more not i ce. Family came passengers in the Albion. Arrived off i It appears by the Parliamentary Reports, that this port this morning, the French ship Deux Mr. WHITBREAD took occasion on Monday, in the Antis, Ronpe, Master, from Martinique, with sugar , House of Commons, to animadvert, with equal jus coffee, &c. and was standing into the Sound, when ! lice and severity, on th e l ate atr i c i ous D ec l arat i on o f the Allies, which (u it is reported) he considered as holding forth th e E m p eror N APOLEON to assass i n . - a pilot from hence boarded him, and informed the Master of the cheap of affair", when he immedi.. lion. ately altered his course, and steered for a French The Courier of this evening takes this opportunity port. of indulging in a most violent invective against the Emperor and M r . WHITE:MAD. Perhaps in the FALMOUTH, APRIL 2.—Arrived the L' Reperanr,e, Leuendre, from Bourdeaux ; and several vessels annals of political writing such word s a s are a ppli e d to NAPOLEON weer before disgraced the Press of any from the Eastward, to join the West hulaconvol t . country. lam convinced, Sir, your Readers will under his Majesty's ship Warrior, which still re- hardly believe that the following is an extract from mains at this port; his Majesty's ship Phoenix, with the article I allude to :—" Mr. WHITBREAD, with his the Mediterranean convoy ; and the Thai:, with the usual seal for the p r ot ec ti on o f B OVAPARTE, l ast night stig matized the Declaration of the Allies as an East India ditto, which sailed from hence yesterday, attempt to excite assassination and Mr. VANstTrART were seen this evening off the Manacles, standing to very justly denied that It had ' any such effect or ob the W.N.W. and as the weather is fine, no doubt j eet . A felon cannot be assassinated though a re. they will keep to sea. The L'Esperance French ward be advertised for his apprehension; but if he m chaste mares, mentioned above, landed a Colonel in were to resist a warrant for taki ng hi m , an d d ea th were to ensue, no crime mould b e in cur r e d. If 8 0 . the French service, he is the bearer of dispatches, said to be of importance, with which he is going to NAPARTE were summoned to surrende r t o his King,and were killed in resisting, his death would be justi town this evening. fed by the laws and practice of nations, since he is DEAL, APRIL 4.—Atifva the Acbar frigate, Ad- notoriou s ly a f e l on an d a t ra it or !' If t hi s i s no t miral Martin, from FlymMth, and sailed to take justifying assassination I know not what is. Some time the command in the Scheldt.—Came down from the ago a political writer in this country, who now con ducts a weekly Journal, submitted to Government a River the William Pitt East Indiaman ; Neva, for plan for the organization of a Corps of Assassins! Jamaica; and the Jane, for Buenos Ayres.—Pet whose duty it was to have been to get rid of, in this back the Marchioness Wellesley East Indiamanf horrid manner, all Potentates and public men who and the Endymion, for the Cape. might be hostile to the Government they served. It Poarsnouru, APRIL 4.—Arrived the Surly cut. is needless to add that the offer was rejected with be. ter, from Guernsey. coming indignation. Perhaps, however, if this L , 'Chieftain was now to offer the services of his corps TORBAY, APRIL 3.—Arrived his Majesty's amp . . he might be di ff erently received. Plover, from Portsmouth, to take the ships &sum- The writer in Ole Courier thus continues—" Re bled here for Newfoundland.—Arrived and sailed abolishes the 4lave Trade, he employs the Consuls of again his Majesty's ship Podargus. Louts XVIII. he restores the liberty of the press, except in the Departments, that of Paris being under his own eye; ' he is to have a new Constitution, favourable to the arts, to commerce, and to ; peace.' This is what the Allied Sovereigns dread, tit:co:ding to the Morning hronicle,— as if the Allies do not require pt-ace and wish for it, as if they had not es tablished and rigidly observed it. No ; ' the Despots,' as they are indecently called, do not dread the ski. 'dry of peace, freedom, and the arts ; it is the vici nity of a robber, dl murderer, a faithless, perjured, bloody tyrant et theahead of a military bandit/i, pant. ing for conflagration and pillage, whom they dread. In his vicinity they cannot enjoy repose, they cannot sheath the sword nor close an eye, well knowing the genius of fire, famine, and slaughter is watch ing his time to surprise and destroy them." Now, Sir, I here it to any man, let his politics be what they may, whether such languege as this is to be endured, and 'specialist in a Journal professedly the organ of the Pitistcst REGENT'S Government.— What 'must all Eurepe think of an Administration which suffers a Journal so connected with it, to thus describe the lawful Sovereign of France ? For if the will of the people gives a legal title to a throne,- (and surely no advocate of the Rouse of Baum. WICK will venture to deny that it does) NAPOLEON is the lawful Sovereign of France, and Loots is the Usurper! It is worse than nonsense to talk of his being brought in by the army! What! could a man who lauded with but six hundred men, and marched more that .six hundred miles through the most populous, part of France, generally advancing a very considerable distance before his little army, alone and unprotected, could he be said to be brought in 'by the army, against the wishes of the people ? The BOURBONS had it all their own way for a year ! They had new modelled the Army, the Navy, the Admi nistration, the Finance, the Jurisprudence, the Le gislature, every, thing, in short, was in their own fiends • the very Press was at their devotion, through their Censors, and the poor Emperor, as may be supposed, suffered accordingly. While he, shut up in Elba, deprived even of printing materials, was unable to reply to the poisonous calumnies which all Europe teemed with against him : yet, with all these idisadvantages, he lands with 600 men, and marches (generally, as nave already said, alone) through out the most populous part of France, where, if he had been, indeed, the monster that the Courier de scribes him, or even at all obnoxious to the people, • every peasant had the opportunity of dispatching i him by a single coup de fusi l ! and yet the vile hire. I ling Press of this country, in the full plenitude of its prostitution, dares to apply the detestable epithets I have extracted from the Courier to a Monarch who has proved, by the most undeniable demonstra tions, that he is the chosen Sovereign of the most powerful and enlightened country in the world! I will trouble you, Sir, with no further comment on this detestable violation of decency. I trust the people of England are not yet so lost to common sense, not such , perfect idiots as to suffer themselves Ito be mach longer duped in so outrageous a manner l as this—these are feverish times : the people of I France have shown a great and astonishing example, i and if any evils should arise therefrom, elsewhere, it Imay be attributed to the pernicious effects of the hireling press.—l am, Sir, your rut admirer, PETER QUILT. The French Mail received this morning at the Post Office came direct from Paris. A Government Paper of this morning says, " Lord H tuttowsT, Mr. WILLESLEY Pot.e, and General 'roues's, have sailed from Dover for Ostend, from whence they proceed' to Brussels. The object of their mission, contrary to what has. been stated, in• some of the Papers, will bete urge the altar vigeveee.- ly sad simultaneously by all the Stelae of the tingle, unless the Usurper hastens to descend 'from — the Throne of Prance, and atone for the villainy of his conduct by the humility of a timely submission. The Commissioners who went to Paris to settle the British claims, have returned to England, against the apparent wishes of the French Government. No direct overtures were made for their ►emaining at Paris ; but it was intimated to them, that they were perfectly at liberty to do so if they thought proper..' Mons. de MouTnor4 2 who is sent by the Emperor of the FRENCH to Vienna On a special mission, is the old and confidential friend of M. de TALLEY,. RAND, and who has been employed by and with him in all his most important negotiations. The object of this mission may therefore be easily imagined.— M. MOUTRON is an ancient Nobleman, and a sag of very acute faculties. A number of small ships were yesterday again tiked to - , vev , and stores to Belgium. up _ convey troops _ The Military Departments, we understand, terse been occupied during the last week in preparing plans for the new levy. The country, it seems, is threatened with Mr. Pirr's old Parish Bill, and the Army of Reserve Act, under new modifications; and u a dernier resort the expensive mode of obtaining len from the Militia by double bounties. The regular Recruiting Service has fallen to pieces under the new ill-digested arrangements by which it has been lately conducted ; and a general reform in that branch of our military economy will he islispensible. From the Accounts of the Civil List, •it appears that the following sums have been paid to Lords CASTLEREAGH, CLANCARTY, and STEWART, within a period of about twelve months : Lord Castlereagh—Spccial Mississo - x 34,623 Salary u Secretary of Slate 6,000 26 4v—Special Mission - 16.479 •48 Salary as Postmaster - 2,400 •-111,973 Lord Stewart---Embamy to Vienna. and outfit • - 10.114 Thus, THE FAMILY have received 57,7081. in the coarse of one year for their eminent services. This, at least, cannot be called the "cheap defence of.-aa tions." Lord CI Yesterday the Duke of YORK held a Military Levee, at his Office in the Horse Guards, which was numerously attended, there being about sixty present. Among them were,—Lieutenant-Generals Sir M. Burgoyne, Wemys, St. Leger, Sir W. Clinton, Mackenzie, Taylor, Sir H. Campbell, Linsingen, Sir C. Colville; Major-Generals Clay, Sir James Erskine, Donkin, Sir Thomas Saumarez, &c. fsc. The Home Circuit aided on Saturday, at King. ston, when sentence of death was passed on 17 ca. pital convicts. It was expected that Lord COCHRANS would have been removed by Habeas Corpus, to plead to the indictment found against him for break ing prison, but this was not done. It was a simple Courier who brought the dispatches to Dover on Sunday last, and who was dismissed without being permitted to come to London to deliver them. He wore simply the Eagle, as our Couriers I wear a Greyhound. He was charged with sealed comEzcliastoz, APRIL s.—Having but little letters to Lord CASTLIREAGE, to the Comte de demand for Wheat this morning, and a further sup. CHASTaZ, and to Monsieur RAYNKVAL. lie was ply from Suffolk, in addition to a considerable sent back to France on Monday, re iptfecia. t quantity left over from. Monday, the sales were We understand that Lieut. Gaoftaz BLACKMAN is heavy, yet that 'of hue qualify maintains •litst Ma•u appointed by the Lards of the Admiralty to he Flag' day's priees.—Fine Barley goes off readily at from Lieutenant of the Bore man of war ) Admiral UMW 335. to 34s.—Ia Pau, Betas, &WOW, there is uo ExwoUTIL. • alteration. Petticoat-lane, London, April 4, 1815. • ttt . 4`* To rive EDITOR of rffs STJTES4I.4N. Sate—The present is unquestionably the most awful crisis which Great Britain has ever known • since the Revolution—whether we look at her rela. flints internal or external. At home, our manufac, turers are impoveri hed,our merchants embarrassed, our commerce declining, our finance failing, pntl, as the last resource of our exhausted Etchequer, the Administration has been reduced to the tieces , ity of s o ul i :je p c , t ,lit w ic i a ti l ch ec h o i :om bee y n to cu b n e sid o e f r a ec i t i legislating o w n rit a er by every others the most delicate—the food of the people. Abroad, we have the prospect of a war about to be commenced to re-establish an expelled id irt'iecile family on a Throne, from which they have bead cast, after a year's trial, by the universal voice,er con.. sent, at least, of the people, and a legitimate Monarch' seated upon because he is celledlip it by., that same voice which has expelled this Biduatsois ; andhow are we to do this? By inundating tbet.s6ll • country with hordes of military adventesteacklyirg; into effect, upon a le •E!er scale,tlrat tery soretuef NM POLEON'S in regard to Spain, which caused suet, tit: outcry throughout Europe, and actipst which de Wife'. spent so much blood and treasure, with:Ate . midi . • tional disadvantage of not having the. ostenalble pretence which N.seocros had—the declared wishes of a great part of the nation. But how most the mind of every honest Englishman revolt it' the horrid Proclamation which I perceive lets been • (after much straining) avowed hi the Boum of Commons by the CHANCELLOR of. the 'Exalts • QUER, signed as it is by focir of our accrei dited Ministers. As to Lord Ciewcattei*; • l sup,. pose he is a mere tool of Lord CASit . .eakkeis'i, tan& acts, in his absence, as an automaton reffrativlttyl , .s but how two brave soldiers, like LordsW2Lttlittroir and:STEWART, could be induced to affix. did/ ; elgtsie • tures to a paper breathing horror and clestiallod every line, and countenancing t&at nitst:daimeable of all doctrines, assassination. I can, hardly dentilte. hend ! find not Mr. V ‘ststit,twr ackeovaleised.thil authenticity of this Paper, I should time felt irtitia . to the honour and character . of .theke : Liirt/P,:to have considered it as a vile forgern and: It lOTA on the noble sentiments of soldiers . -Alniti would the Times and Courier, and Hie )4 . 1.i Orf ling Press, ring with the flowers fl tory, if the Emperor NAPOLEON, in returnoteeto a Proclamation calling on all the stuff ecti ~ lied Powers to revolt, and to hold oot . the , itteriti .‘ vitation to the discontented no assassinnte Ai4eit s t 'DER, FREDERICK WiLLIAW, FRANCIS,' Thin: NAND VII. of .Spain, and our most reseakl Piinat t the litchi; whom GOD IWOISIISIIO4IIuW, I aye Sir, 'and • how deservedly, 'would. seek such a detestable invocation be abhors-616y ate man. kind ! and how • properly • would 111,. Eire* Wm unite to riestroy the wretch who could be bliss enoegkl • to put it forth! . . . That a crusade against the people'lf Francais de..• termined on seems to be certibi. :. What success with attend this-holy league,, is yield be proved ;- but Fet us suppose that the expedition abcceell td the fullest extent—that Montmartre is again 'covered, as the Times threatens, with hordes of comicks, andLoras the Expelled is again placed in* the Theilleries, is it intended that the foreign force which. is ti;re seat'hioi on 'he throne, is also to continue.*Milti, his support?—lf so, how is it to be rueiatainitii...- What will the French nation say to such Thittps?' • • aid what sort of a Monarch aid a Government- must that be which depends only for ,existtnest on the fo reign army by which it is introduced ?-r-What beau. Wel lessons on this subject embeltishiihe pages' of all theGoverntient Journals during the ltePenittsular war !—How applicable are they to the present occa sion ! NeroLeost has only to - order them to be re published in France,aodhe'srill administer a very suffi-' • cient set-off to the bloody,ferociuot, and assassinating Proclamation of the Allies, displeeful as it is to ill civilised nations, and blotting with an indelible stain the accomplished era of the 19iht century ! Rut, after all, supposing that we de again eons.. mence•this abominable crusade, we are told that fife millions are demanded to set the troops of oat dis. interested Allies eien In motion ; and how are we to be assured that we shall not be left in the lurch, when affairs come to a crisis, as we have often been, by these same magnanimous Allies? The evidence of the last campaign; is no proof of sincerity in another, which will be different in every feature of Its form, object, and constitution. Austria, we already see, has a difficult job to occupy her in Italy, where she has to encounter a very formidable neighbour . in MußAT,whose Mtn lesstalents,und whose attachment to his political creator, are already viewed with great suspicion ; besides, it is elready found necessary to confine, in the Royal prison of the Imperial Palace; the Empress M ARIA LOUISA, whose attachment to tire husband is well known to be (as it, ought naturally to be) most ardent and affectionate. The rights of the King'of Rome having Ipt est solemnly recognized by all Continental Eurosiistteetiot tie antiihiieted without a violation of those .40$1Vituss whirkform the tenure of all Th raiteS• A 44'4 we to make ne *Hosteller for family ambiiion ? it tsetbing to lee his ditiiihter 4io - werfol Throne the Coothient ? it . etrooottili Empress of FuAnc!, his grandsop hek to tite most to say that these feelings did not operate on the lam o reust.;ll, because it is by no means dier that the Emiwros Fit sacis ever meant lows the lengthef do. posing .N iroLson, until actidtaistd cirettewances the defecti.los. which NAPoLausi sa%taiiiml; end the con.equo,ut possession of Paris, p . r Anti(' •soch a ca. , l as h is is well known that FRAIICiII iti11.,11;04 the hope of seeieg bitowlf on the Imperial Throne of Germany, Instead of which, we Mel that every thing tit boo beat *um, , been to aggrandize his nehiltbOUrl i p tit 14011 . . dully to hatuilige . . .~ liable demonstra- sospicien ; besides, it is already tounu necessary 10 *iv of the most confine, in the Royal prison of the Imperial Palace; in the world! the Empress MARIA LOUISA, whose attachment to lire • further comment husband is well known to he (as it, ought naturally mcy. I trust the to be) most ardent and affectionate. The rizlits of the "Z" -- • lost to common King . el Rome basing been solemnly recognized by all • suffer themselves Continental Eurcliw;carinot he •hilated *idiom! a .;,, it, trageous a manner violation of those' eau's whirkform the tenure of 4 : the people of all Thrones. A , 'we to make no allonsoce for di ta 4 f onishing example, family ambition ?Ai it ftothing to see his daughter "om, elsewhere, it Empress of FUANCT, his grandson heir to rite most los effects of the powerful Throne of the Contilient ? I. it . ertopenel ear admirer, to say that these feelings did not operate ow the late . . . PETER QUILT. occostOit, becauer it is - by no mean ch;ar that the . ! •Entiwrog Fe kNcic ever meant to;n the length ff (la. ' posipg . NAPOLEON, until OCCidt4l/11 ch:CUlplOillinlet•l4 Raving but little the defecti,itis. which NAPOLIMUI *.u.tsiiio, sett the aid a further sup- cnii.equent possessioti of Paris, produced stitch a ca. o a considerable testi nto.? ilesities, it is midi known t hat FRAScisi ,• . ~ the sales mere ifiel..litori the hope of seeing himself asain•seated on intains •last Moo- the Imperial Throne of Germany, instead of which, . r readily at from we Mitt that every thing .. that has been deny, hail ithiti l titers is uo been to aggrandize his iseighbours s ybidlis Wipe . • . lively .to him*, iiinuelf. . . . • .. • . , ... • • ..ce " '' ' ' ...a-a.— ".L....0....i..—.,-- .... •••._ • ' ' '.