The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-11-11 00:00:00

MR. PHILLIPS. upon herself, and that ell the •irtees of the an• tient world were but so many studies preparatory to the patriot of the new. Individual instances, no doubt, there were, splendid exemplifications of some single qualification—Geser Was mer. -cifol—Scipio was bontiuent—Hannibal was patient —but it was reserved for Washington to bleod , theas all in one, and Uke the lovely chef d'aunre of the Grecian artist, to exhibit in one glow of use. ciated beauty, the pride of every model, and the per. fection of every master. As a General, he marshalled the peasant into a veteran, and supplied by discipline the absence of experience. As a Statesman, he en larged the policy of the Cabinet into the most com prehensive system of general advantage ; and Both was the wisdom of his views; and the philosophy of his Councils, that to the &Odier and the Statesman he almost added tile character of the Sage. A Conqueror, he was untainted with the ° crime of blood—a Revolutionist, he was free from any stain of Treason ; for Aggression commenced the contest, and a country called him to the command. Li bertr-unsheat heti his sword—Neces sity stained—Victory returned it. If he had paused here, history might doubt what station to as. sign him—whether at the head of her citizens, or her soldiers—her heroes or her patriots. But the • last glorious act crowned his career, and banishes he- Who, like Washington, after having freed a country, resigned her crown, and retired to a cot tage rather than reign in a capitol ! Immortal men ! He took from the battle its crime, and from the con quest its chains—he left the victorious the glory of his self-denial, and turned upon the vanquished only the retribution of his mercy.—Happy, proud Ame rica! The lightnings of Heaven could not resist your Sage—the temptations of earth could not corrupt your Soldier ! - f-- . [•ROM THE DUBLIN EVESING POST.) • During the late Vacation this distinguished young Matheson received many demonstrations of public g ratitude from communities where he had been per sonally unknown.—The public dinner given to him is the city of Cork, and the Address of the Ceti's,- hig or Limerick, inviting him to a similar distinctipu in that - city.• have been already communicated to the Public. At Killarney, he was received with accia ,, l ibations and bonfires—and the unusual, but interest ing, spectacle of hunting the red deer, was cele brated to do him honour.—At a dinner given in the neighbourhood of Killarney, at which Mr. Phillips, and Mr. Payne, the American actor, were present— s toast was given in combined reference to the two • 'Olinger', and the two countries to which they be longed. Mir. Pitman, after the toast was drank, replied fo the Company in the following Manlier : It is not With the vain hope of returning by words , the kindnesses which have been liberally showered j upon me during the 66'0 period of our acquaintance, that I now interrupt, fot a moment, the flow of your , 4estivity. Indeed it is not necessary—Au Irishman needs no requiem for his hospitality; ies generous im pulseis the instruct of his nature, and the very con sciousness of- the act carries its recompense along w . ;lb it. But, Sir, there are sensations excited by en allusion. in your toast, under the influence of which, silence would beimpossible. To be associated with Mr. Payne, must be to any one who regards private virtues end personal accomplishments, a source of peculiar pride, and that feeling is not a little en hanced in me by a recollection of the country to which we eite indebted for his qualifications. Indeed, the mention of America has never failed to fill me with ; the most lively emotions. In my earliest infancy—that tender leaser), niters impressions the most permit- EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM PARIS, DATED NOT. 5. item and the most powerful are likely to be excited' "It is asserted amongst the well-informed circles the story of her then recent struggle raised a throb at Paris, that although TALLEYRAND was the first to in every heart that loved Liberty, and wrung a re. l p ONP ronounce the impe being Oppression. ) equally enervate, and the legions that would intimidate— ! prompt to declare for the restoration of the Botta fist ppon for the recal ef 4hing from L her lips the poisoned cup of Euro- I °ON ' The onal outs XVIII. r is said to ro have ositi proceeded from the Se pals servitude, and through all the vicissitudes of ; i nator BARTHELEMY, in revolutionary times one of the het protracted coufliet, displaying a magnanimity deportee to Cayenne ; and he, it appears, was stre. *hat defied misfortune, and a moderation that ores- I I nuously assisted by PCRIGNON, a jurisconsulte of high mented Victory. It Ives the first' vision of my seminence and character. M. TALLEYRAND ) it is sus childhood2—it will descend with me to the grave.- 1 peered, looked to some distinguished share in the re. Asa man, then, I venerate the mention of Ames -geucy which would have taken place on the succession I rica—but as an Irishman, I concede her claims on of a Minor. The short and most eloquent ipeerh of the I my tafeedon.• Never, oh never, while she has bar President, ALLatese, in the Chaesber of Deputies on ! memory left her, can Ireland forget the home of ; Thursday last, gave an immediate turn to the feelings key Xmigiant, and the asylum of her Exile. No of that Assembly, on the 'l 6 th clause proposed by matter whether their sorrows spring from the e rro rs! M. BEDOCII I B commission to be added to the law re of sitithasiasm, or the realities of suffering—from ; specting Emigrant property. M. Luxes treated the fisocy or infliction—from faction or from fact—that amendment (whibh was designed to render the pre- , *must be reserved for the scrutiny of those whom the sent measurenal with regard to the Emigrants) as' lapse of ages shrill acquit of partiality. It is for t he, fi but ; inhuman in its iutention—a nil in its adoption, as ab. Jaen of other ages to investigate and record it ; . it is for the the shelterl men of every age and love the feelin to hail the hospitality surb. For if it were cruel to check the course of ; that re , justice, now its its earliest stage towards redressing a ' g received ' ess, ; series of manifest and admitted wrongs, it was surely Heat befriepded the unfortunate. But if America not less foolish to attempt by mere words to stretch , gulls lisi our gratitude for the past, how deeply does I i the power of the existing Legislators ever futurity—e 4 she, drayrupets our interest as to the future. Who the and to prevent those who etey reamed them kWh( can My, that when, in its follies or its crimes, exercising the same right which they have dont4l old world dud' have interred all the pride of its pewee,. and all the pomp of its civilization, human' of discussing the questions upon which they hare' mature may not 'find its destined renovation in the l been th competent to enter—and ave of fully administer- at justice w hich they h left incomplete. new. Perhaps, when the temple and the trophy ' in g , The clause of the commission was rejected.-- !hall have mouldered int* dust — when the glories of and • A striking result of .he want of confidence produced your name shall be but the legend of tradition, by had governments and stormy times, is to be foaad the light of our discoveries only live In song—Phy.' in the value annexed to different kinds of property its losophy may rise again in the sky of her Eranklin, France for some years past. Land sells on the m ind glory rekindle at the ant of her %Washington.— rageat 25 years' purchase ; while money, lent on Is this the vision of romantic fancy ? I appeal to other security than mortgage, has hardly ever itistory—the moMemental record of national rise any !the brought ass interest of less than 10 per cent. • so that and national ruin. Tell me, thou revered chroniele person who buys an estate is satisfied with of the grave, can the splendour of achievement, or ' 4 per cent. interest for his capital, knowing that the solidity of success, secure to empire the per. ' immoveable property, except in the case of the• mattence of its possessions? Alas, 'Croy thought ' unfortunate emigrants, has been always respected so once, yet the land of Prism lives only in song— by the ruling power : whereas, Ist, the declaration Thebes thought so once, yet her hundred gates have of a national bankruptcy early -in the revelation crumbled, and her very tombs are but as the dust' has given such a shock to public credit, that none they were destined to commemorate—so thought would purchase the new created stock but at an Palmyra ; where is she?—so thought thecountries of : eno rmous discount; and, 2d, -the number of mas , Demosthetees and the Spartan, yet Leonidas is ! sacres—the loss of lives by war, the natural effec t trampled by the timid starts, and Athens insulted by of a military despotism, which kept every metes the mindless Ottoman ! The days of their glory are person at its own disposal—and the precarious bonds es if they had never been, and the island that was . then a speck, rude and neglected in the barren ocean;.! which held together a community so g i ve n to en g a g e stow rivals the wealth of their commerce , the glory in desperate foreign enterprizes, and a pp arentl y so exposed to inward convulsions, have destroyed to se a s of their armr, the fame of their philosophy, the el o- a degree all personal credit between man and man, (pence of their senate, and the inspiration of their that 10, and frequently 12 per cent. (that is, double herds ! Who shall say then, contemplating the t potent as she up _ 1 the legal interest its case of mortgage), have past, that England, proud and the regular prices 'of money laid out at interest.—Ast. pears, may not one day he what Athens is, and the i ' assumption of the regal title by the Elector of Mae yours,: America yet soar to be what Athens w a s?-- Gym, has caused a great sensation at Paris, as a Haply, wisest the European column shall have moral . ' new mode of aggrandizement to Great Britain, and tiered, and the night of barbarism obscured its very : a provoking proof of the boundless ambition which ruins, that mighty Continent may emerge f rom the I animates the councils of the PRINCE Iteerxe. There horizon, to rule for its time sovereign of the as- . ` is great improbability in the rumour that Aus tria will cantle n t ! . I receive Lusatia in exchange for her Polish territory. Such, Sir, is the natural progress of h uman o p era- All parties, on the other hand, seem agreed, that if tioni, and such the unsubstantial mockery of human I Saxony be broken up as a separate monarchy, Prus. pride. But I should apologise for this digression—'sin should have the whole of what lies to the north the tombs are at best a sad although an instructive ward and eastward of the Elbe— thus making that 'object. At all events, they are ill suited to such an . great river her military frontier, as in the phrase o f hour as this. I shall endeavotir to atone for it, by the day it may be termed her' natural boundary.'" , turairtg to a theme, which tombs cannot kern,. nor revolutions titter. It is the custom o f y our board, —.mi..-- and a noble one it is, to deck the cup of the gay with . A certain Noble Lord has lately entered into the, the garland of the great, and surely, even in the eyes holy state of matrimony with the reputed wife of a, of its Deity, his grape is not less lovely when glowing fiddler, at present an inmate of the King's Bench. — beneath the toting.• of the palm tree and the myrtle. The fiddler has stipulated to receive two thousand Allow me to add one flower to the chaplet, which, I p ounds, havin g made an affidavit that "the Lady"' though it sprung in America, is no exotic—virtue has , was never legally married to him, the ceremony planted it, and it is naturalized every where. : ing only been performed by a Roman Catholic priest. The Lady" has seven grown children by the son of No matter what may be the birth place of such a I " man as Washington. No climate can claim, no APOLLO, and the Jehu Peer having as many by his former wife, a comfortable f am il y p art y is p roduced country can appropriate him — th e boon of Provi- by so happy an alliance. It i 4 said the Lady under deuce to the human race—his fame is eternity, and stands the art of keeping the circulating medium its his residence creation. Though it was the defeat motion, and as she is a perfect adept in all the duties of our arms, and the disgrace of our policy, I of the stable, no.doubt she-will well "curry" his almost bless the convulsion in which he had, his origin ; if the heavens thundered , and the earth Lordship. • rocked, yet, when the storm passe d, how p ure At the late Durham Quarter Sessions, it was re. was the climate that it cleared—how bright in solved, that the penalties allowed by law should be • .the brow of the firmament was the planet it revealed to enforced against all townships where any premature ns?-11t the production of %Washington, it does really deaths should occur, and the bodies - • hypear, as if nature was endeavouring to improve out a Coroner's Inquest being held spot I give you, Sir, the Memory of George Washington. ": , • - ermt SPATE MAN. - dAtERXIN IPAR. WdßellOtiosa 4CI A few weeks since, a - Rose , Noble of Edward 111. 1 1 in a very high state of preservation, was turned up by i the plough, In a field, at Wilmington, Sussex, belong ing to Mr. King. The above ancient coin, which is ' now in the possession of Mr. Putland, jun. is the,se. coed of its kind that has been recently ploughed up in 1 that neighbourhood. ". Coats-Escuanoa. 14. v. 11.—There being oo arrivals of Whew this naming, Sae qualities met ready sale spoil is good terns its no Wedowaday. Rarity, being in short supply, is Is. per quarter dearer, and ready sale at that advance. Other amides mania the sloe, Maim (llhaggith). e.:. JO 82 Beans Ditto (Pareiga) • • 46 76 Old dial _ Rye - 11••.311 44 Tick do; .34 40 44 31 Old .•...-.•,•••.•••60-.• - =Ma 30 37 Oats . _..a. III SO Malt 6B 72 Fine 0at5.. ..,. ' s.s.. White Peas 45 50 do. 92 28 24 New ditto_ —. * • ...... l9 Ditto Boilivs 5O 56 ...... ... 61 65 Orey Pew 44 48 . ....'.... ... 16 60 ... iIIfiTNEIBLD MARKET.—NOT• 11 • • To tick the Oltal, per sum of Ink • 1 Beef 6 ...45. Gt. to ss. Bd. Head at Cattle tbisilay t Hutton ..ss. os. ts , 6s. Od. Beasts Veal ....7s. Od. to lh. Od. Sheep perk ...Als. Od. to 7i. 6d Calves Lamb •..01. Od. to 06. OA. Pigs ... , 420 HAY-MAJIKET. 51. Or.' OS. —......-.. . .............. tWe bare leech pleasure is giving publicity. to the fallowing . Y es t er d a y ano th er meetingtook placed the Meta motieseett or Mr. Montgomery ' the, Edw.r of the Shellield chants of Landon upon this subject. Iris.] Sir C. Pities took the Glair. Ile stated that it The Message of the American Pressdent . to Con- was with great 'sorrow that h° had to InfOrM the stress has been received. If it breathes a spirit of meeting, that the conferences which their Committee untamed and vindictive hostility, can we be sun- had held with the fjords of the Treasury hid nut prised, wheti we recollect that it was delivered .on been produative of the effect • that they hoped and the spot. where Washington once stood, but where expected. ' The Lords of the Treasury Informed Washington is no more,—no more the metropolis of them, that no sufficient grounds had been laid before a flourishing republic, daily rising in magnificence them to induce them to change their opinion. If he and splendour, but only a few insulated houses alone had waited on ' the Lentil of the' Treasury, he without a public edifice among them, scattered like should suppose that this die/appointment proceeded sheep without a shepherd, or orphans left without from his want of ability; but the Report which a parent, in the wilderness? Can we be surprised would be read to them would satisfy the Meeting at any bitterness of reproach, any pride of defiance, that the Gentlemen of the Committee had urged all or any tone of exasperation, in the language of these arguments that naturally presented themseltes such a speech, 'meditated by the President in his en this important question. They had been received flight from the field of battle ; written on the scene of with rather a cold reserve, .and it seemed as if Mi llis humiliation, while the wind wafted the ashes of nisters did not consider them as representing the mer his smoking palace into his eyes ; and rehearsed be- chants at large, bat rather as deputed by a small pot. fore the Council of a great nation, assembled in a lion of merchants interested in the question. It wooden shed, in view of the ruins, still lukewarm would, therefore, be necessary, by the number and from the flames, of the Capitol in which they were respectability of sig. atures, to show that the Corn. wont to meet ? If there was a drop of nude. mittee had really spoken the sense-of thIS - Aveat body generated British blood in his veins, it must, on of the merchants of the city of London. such an occasion have cried out for verigeance,— The Report of the Committee was then read. it though vengeance be but another name for resistance was of very considerable length, and stated not only against further aggression, in a contest, Where the what had taken place at the conferences between the utmost that the weaker party can do is to stand in- Committee and 4he Lords of the Treasury, but con. vincible in self-defence. Such a cry, at such a mo. tamed a great variety of arguments to show the lie. ment cannot be in vain ; the blow struck at Wash- cessity of preserving the Warehousing System as it had ington, the heart of America, so far from being ( eaub established for many years. It stated the ne• mortal, seems only to have let the life blood at eessary accumulation of imports for many years past s liberty, which was before stagnated, and sent it in ias a return for manufactures exported. If all this quicker circulation through all the extremities of the accumulation were now forced to a premature !res state, making one man, with one mind, and one pur- or to an immediate exportation, the consequent:Mt pose, of all the divided Members, that form the imight be absolutely ruinous to the merchants. The complicated body of the Union. The Republicans , t i me that the Treasury intended to allow for exports and the Federalists, that is, the French and tne i l i on was only to the 14th of next mouth, and it was English factions, have become an American people, I well known that the middle of winter was not the in this crisis of their country. Rufus King, the time that merchants would naturally wish to export head of the latter, has consented to coalesce with I !their goods, particularly to northern ports. It was James Madison, the head of the former,--so that considered by the Committee that a system which instead of being hurled from his seat by the misfor. 'heti so long been in force, and which had made this tune which overwhelmed the capital, he has been seta. , country the emporium of the trade of Europe, ought blished upon it by the voluntary support of those i not to be destro‘ed on 80.41°0 a no ice .18 had been who most envied and opposed him in thV possession I . given. It was not about the payment of the duties of it before. Thus the longer the war with America that the merchants of London had to contend, but is continued, the more hopeless it becomes on our the preservation of the Warehousing System, which part, since our very victories, instead of reducing they conceived to be of the greatest importance to the strength of our enemies call forth into more ever- ; 1 the commerce of the country: getic exertion, while by defeating them on their own i I Mr. BAINBRIDGE then addressed the meeting, and, territory, we are teaching them ultimately to repel i stated, that if the,Treasury would have but consent us from every gloater where we assail them. Never : eel to prolong the time of paying the duties till the, since Britain was a nation had she less to boast of in 31st of December, arrangements might have been competition with her mightiest antagonist, than she made by the merchants for that , pu.pose, without has hitherto had in this parade of skirmishes with producing the ruinous effect, which might follow her Trans-atlantic descendants, and it is pretty evi- frbm calling upon them after so short a notice. If dent that if the quarrel be perpetuated as long as the 'they would have consented to postpone the time of late revolutionary war in Europe, disgrace anti dis. exportation until the Ist of June, instead of requiring aster will be multiplied and accumulated upon our- it to be effected in the middle of winter, this would selves, whatever chastisement we may be enabled to be also a material relief. He then read a Memorial . , inflict on our puny but unconquerable adversary. which he proposed to be sent to the Lords of the Mr. Madison's Speech commences with an apology Treasury on the subject. for calling Congress together earlier than usual, on i 'Mr. BARING apologisil for his absence on the for. account of the wants of his treasury, and the necessity,i our occasions, by declaring that 'he cnncelved the of being provided" fin; the result of the negociation on . arguments against the measure proposed by Govern • foot with Great Britain, whether these shall terminate ' meat to be so clear and decisive, that be really had in peace or war. How they should terminate in I net entertained the least doubt of their producing peace, while the war is carrying on with progressive their full effect. If the former meetings were not more violence and aggravated malignity on both sides, is i numerously attended, he believed the reason was not very apparent; negociation,' under such circum- I that the merchants conceived that the Treasury could stances, is like a parley of setonds on the field of ho. not.persevere in the measure that they had threat pour, while the duellists are firing pistol after pistol at ! , oiled. He regretted much, that Lord* Liverpool one another. He nest alludes to the British cxpedie sad the Chancellor of the Exchequer had not con tions against Washington and Alexandria, and while f descended to state the reasons why those argue he admits what is inscribed on every stone that remains i meats appeared to them insu ffi cient. Ha was quite of the walls that are tottering around him — the at a loss to guess whet their reasons were.— triumphant success of these bold enterprizes, he ,As to a certain clamour that had been raised flourishes over the precipitate retreat of the conquerors,' about monopolists wishing to enhance the price and inveighs against the illegitimate warfare against fof merchandise, he believed that every body. ac.. Public Buildiugs, which has occasioned so much ab- . quainted with the principles of trade, matt too*. surd exultation in this country. He proceeds to re- that the stocks which wholesale dealers kept in their , capitulate and boast of the glory of the American armi possession were the best security for the public being on the frontiers of Canada, on the Lakes, at Etat& regularly supplied at a reasonable rate. The perish more, and on the ocean. Ile then acknowledges able nature of the merchandize was of itself a suffi. the difficulties in which his country is placed, its cient security against it being too long withheld comparative weakness and poverty—opposed to the • Trom the market. He thought that the Memorial undivided power and inexhaustible resources of Great 1 Should be generally signed by the Merchants, and Britain ; bat he confidently appeals to the patriotic he did not think that it could be supposed that the fervour of his fellow-citizens to supply men and Merchants of London were not desirous that the money for the conflict, and extols the proud exam- revenue should be fairly collected for the support of pies of disinterested self-sacrificing heroism already the State. If the object of Ministers was only to' manifested among them. Ile concludes in the usual I prevent abuses in the Warehousing System, and . strain of opening Speeches in times of strife, by pro - 1 making it more perfects there was no doubt but that fessing a sincere desire of peace, and a resolute de- they would receive every assistance' from the Mer. termination for war! Something of the kind we chants. may expect in the Speech to be delivered at the open- I Mr. CoLveta, from Plymouth, presented a letter ing of the British Parliament ; and we fear that i from the Chamber of Commerce of that t own, in sup these folaiiiiliting vapours, ascending from opposite . port of the sentiments of the Merchants of London on shores of the Atlantic, will meet like two Clouds 1 i that subject. charged with positive and negative electricity; and A. similar letter was reellind from Liverpool. lighten and thunder over both nations, spreading Thauks were then givmmi to the Chairman, and the terror with the noise, anddestraction with the Rash, Meeting adjourned. • • wherever they are heard, or seen, or felt. COYETT-GANDEN.—The Mountaineers attractpi a_ numerous audience to this Theatre last night.— Keating, as Odavian, displayed all that ability and skill which first gave the character celebrity. We are never weary of admiring that operation of intel lect which regulates, and superir,r taste which em bellishes his everyperformance. The almost super natural energies which he sometimes puts forth in this character, furnish splendid exceptions to the ge neral tone of his acting. To us it is highly gratify lag to see, that he (like his astonishing sister) can still so far, set the hostility of all, assailing time at de. fiance, as to sustain even the MOIR youthful parts in which he formerly distinguished himself, with undi mtnlished eclat. Loud and'iong continued plaudits 44releenily'burst.from the audience to cheer the pro. gross of thtplay, and when the certain descended, the whole Pit seemed united idone cry ot..Bravo. •One of the most' elegant compliments fa tte splen did abilities of Miis O'NEur, is, that silent atten tion with which she Is listened to, even by those un happy females who usually seem to hare lost all feel log, and are only apparently delighted in laughing at it in others; she draws tears even front them, and " When stones weep, sure the tears are natural." At Leeds, during last week;the price of mould cow. -- - - 3, . e E• : ',o :. ' ....s. . it i " " ' ./. n 3 . , . . ' . . yri * . . . , . . • " '.% ' ~ 5; . • , . A: . . '. .. • . . ' .. , .. . . • i 1 ' • ; where any premature HAY-MARKET. makes be buried with. i Hoy Clover : At Leeds, during last week, the price of mould can. held upon them. . I Straw ' . • . - . . .. . • , -