The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-08-30 00:00:00

4` • P I I a ' • ~" JULY B.—liotract of a letter from etrit:o kt rol, ,l • olpd Ilae Hitti uliima:— •• You will learn from paseerigers who proceed from here.. i r the Tennis frigate, the actual state of tt o interior of Olio country ; and I can assure )au I have now not the leria dread of the Spanish expedi tion. l'he few Indians, and t.ther desperate bands of Teeple of Colour mod Blacke, who united with the Spaniards, hawe had lemotity eunugh to enter B iranquills -anti' Moves r they Le hevei compelled to retreat to the Cienega of Sams Martha, leaving B.igndier-Gerieral Peat-josh) possession of Monpez, and Cliiniorl Rieult, now comminute at Barampills. " The lust expross from Santa Fe brni.o I:lToura ble intelligence, and folly confirm* prior :recounts IthnevPry thing is tranquil in the quarter. Some of 11•P'intiritutets Isere are .now very sorry for having , boen'sn.riteeipltare to send off th .ir goods, nod they are gin;erally determined to remain here. Some are now priparing to retire into the interior. Briga. di-r-Cenerals Castello and Palaries are on the best terms." BULLETIN OF TffF. INDAPENDENT ARMY ON THE MAGDALEN A. CARTH tGEN 1, JUNE 16.—E:tract of a lever from the Commandaat.Geiiesal of the Army on the Magda lena : '• The enemy are posted at the fort of Carabano, witb a part 4 their light troops ; and in spite of the threat. they have held out, and the panic with which they have struck the inhabitants of Baran q •i'IA they are on the point of falling back upon the (Aeneas. " 1 hare been informed by our spies at Sabana Grande, that the inhabitants of Monpez have put to the sword the Royalist garrison that were in that city ; the unhappy victims are variously numbered ; so nie a counts soy 200; some accounts, on the con. War), 500. One woman alone killed five men with ber own hand. 66 ThP 111. 1 411 is confirmed by the spies of Morambo, w o have heard it at Cienego." PERSECUTION OF TILE PROTESTANTS IN FRANCE. MR %CT FROM THE BULLETIN OF NIMES. On the sth July several domains belonging to Pro.. textants were burned, and on the 6th a still greater , reber. The Steward (Gerisseur) of the Estate of GJiraudin was stretched over a fire. After his death th'y took him down and exhibited the body to pas sengers. The 7111, Bth, and oth were more Calm dap: ; there were only pillages. On the sth they , re •sset•red almost all the prisoners who were Pro t.. A pretended national guard, formed of, ell he malefactors, and of all the worthless «• •ti lies of tho environs and the town, are ac eosed of these crimes. One of the Captains is a poison of the name of Toislajon, a sweeper of the stunts, who alone has killed 14 Protestants. They bloke open the grave of a young Protestant girl to throw her into a common receptacle of filth. Those Protestants whom they do not kill they esile, and throw into prison, and yet there were a great num ber of Ito)alists among them. From the 10th to the 14th July no Courier from Paris arrived. On the 16th the King was proclnim. ed b) if e Urban Guard (composed of men between 40 and 60 years of age•), followed by all the most respectable persons iu the town, and the white Gag W 3% hunted. O, the 17► h armed bands of brigands, and the National Guards of Beaucaire came to c li.a r m th e m i. litary, who sustained an assault in the barracks, and they were almost all massacred. Their numbers amounted to 200. On the 18th many peaceable citizens were massa cred—many houses pillaged. On the afternoon of that cruel morning, the mad wretches run about the town calling out that they wished a second Saint Hirt helpmy. On the 19th the Prefect published a Proclamation, recalling the peaceable persons who had quitted the to% n ; they obeyed this order, and a great number we! e assassinated. From the 20th to the '29th the pillages and assassi.l nations did not discontinue. Those who sought their ; surety in flight were assassinated on the roads. Some mete conducted into prisons, where they are still groaning. Qn the 79th the Prefect of the King arrived. The other Prefect had been named by ---, the Royal Commissioner. On the 30th a l'e Daum was chanted. On the 3lst the new Prefect published a very prudent Proclama tion, but he quitted Nismes. ► Oti the Ist of August, M. de Calvlere, the person whom the Royal Commissioner had named, resumed the functions of Prefect, and siateen Protestants were massacred. They went about seizing them in their houses, and they cut their throats before their own doors. Many were massacred in the fields.— The night bet ween the Ist and 2d was the most cruel. M. de Calriere cause,' an order to be posted up, wl.ich seen) to hive somewhat calmed these pre tended Ruyeli.its. On the 4th several country seats were set on fire. The peaceable citizens, the Members of the Ur. ban Guard, have been again forced to flee to save therncelves from destruction. The Prefect sent an order to them to return, under the penalty of having the laws respecting emigration put in force against tliem. Thee ‘ilin returned into the town ezpe. rienced either death or captivity. It is uncertain vo i ..ther M. de IV. atocalm.or M. de Calvlere is most goilty of allow ieg or causing the commission of all these horrors. but suspicion falls principally on the termer, who is Royal Commissioner, and whom, it Is said, the King had a considerable time ago ordered to (Taste hist.incions. Nothing promises any senility to the friends of en!er; for all the Authoritirs, with the exception of sro persons, are composed of the mast timid and !erde men. The Attarnies Notoires) and the 'howls have fnr'eed resolutions ry,t to retain or to receive into their bodies an) but 'man Catholics. Nismes has lost its 'auk nniongst the com mercial too ns. It t.. on the blink of complete mini hil7titut. by th ' k King was a M. d'Ar- We P refect TI - 11.•d the ling t.e is dune :.0 good. The foteigis troops hare TILE STATMIAN. been implored to force the briginds to repose, and to asskt the true Rays!Jolly for the Brigands abuse this nu -te,.which they will sender universally odious. The itoreber of deaths is prodigious; we hare not an evict /numeration. liorrors of the same kind are continued in the neighbouring toiling." who have united to preserve the civilization of Europe,' to smother the seeds of revolution, and destroy the spirit of conquest," as the toast, so strangely attributed to TALLETRATin (to TALLEY RAND the very Awing Ptid ' , rummer of rc,volu tions!) styles the, Allies, will not find their object, if this be it, in the annihilation of France. All the troops they have in that country, and all the reserves they have out of it, will not accomplish this. " Nations never die." And is not Louts, the Saint, one of these civilising Sovereigns? And who are they to whoin this high title is applied ? Not those who, in their resolution to "destroy' the spirit of conquest," united to overrun Poland M ith flame and sword, and gave au ever-memorable in stance of their desire to " stifle every where the germs of revolution," by the violation of Saxony ; who have said to the French people you shall have no Govern ment but that which you detest. The sword is a bad cisilizer of mankind ; and ever since the days llof ATTILA, who was not such a hypocrite as to say he came to civilize the nations he overran, we cannot think of civilizing mankind in this manner without horror. As to the interference of power and am. bitioa in the Government of a free and highly re lighted State, it is one of those presumptuous and un hallowed instances of political injustice which cannot be inveighed against with too much force and mum. tion. If in private communities, that man is suspected, wbo presumes to interrupt the sweet concord of so ciety ; who sows dissension in a family distinguished for amity and peace; who destroys the confidence ,of friends, the intercourse of neighbours, and tits ; tunes that string by which the harmony of order and the interchanrs and dependencies of life are made to vibrate;--hnw mach more should we doubt and execrate that wilful agency that tramples upon every moral obligation, and reduces at once a whole country to anarchy and despair. If France is to be dismembered—if her territory is to be dislocated—if she is to be plundered of her fortresses—if her Iron Frontier is to be henceforth a barrier to protect other nations—if. upon the North and the East, she is to be left defeuceless and open to invasion—if the sword of the Foreigner is to give the law—if Requisitions are to continue —if the consequences of War are to exist after the stipulated condition of Pence has been fulfilled, then adieu to till faith in the DI:CLARATIONS Cr Princes—adieu to the principle upon which the Independence of nations has been supposed to rest —farewel the hope of any lengthened period of tranquillity in Europe—that hope, if heretofore cherished, must fade away ; for, under such a state of things, the contest between French honour, or if you will, French pride and French freedom nn one side, and despotic power and a barharous policy en the other, must at no very distant day he revitod; and, es the renewed struggle would, indubitably, be, productive of either the complete enfranchisement the unqualified slavery of Continental Eurnpe,should it be wondered at, that we dwell intensely on the state of France, and upon the shamefully advocated polity that would either consign her to a night of darkness and suffering, or lay the foundation of an other war, not less sanguinary than the past—less doubtful, perhaps, and more to be lamented in its issue'. A•• , lAiiii„ 1 0 O O - .... . I laiobitrale .l 11 I I Doe lOt wQ 1111* P 10 1 ,4 • • 3 per rent. Red . . FA%) • 3 yet Vent. Cow 56 4 per f.ent 71 5 per treat. triwy UAW AT ONK O'CLOCK. Lag. Van. 14$ 9-46 4ndia Rood. b 8 , Kzebegnor Hill. 2 5 d Onaiinn Cessols for Act 5611 THE. STATESMAN. LONDON : WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1815. Our foreign arrivals to-day are extremely meagre. We have none from France,—that land of strange events and source of national agitations, to which our thoughts and eyes have been accustomed to tend so intensely that we can scarcely consider any Ithing of importance that comes not from or relates not to that quarter. The contents of the Paris Papers of Saturday, and the Dutch and German Journals, on which our morning cotemporaries animadvert, were given by us yesterday. The only fresh articles that have reached as this forenoon are some further ex- tracts from that miscellaneous farrago which has been' published under the title of BONAPARTE'S Portfolio, and a few private letters from Correspondents at Paris. The scraps under the former designation, which our brother Journalists are retailing in the ab sence of more important matter, allowing they were genuine, have not, in our view, a particle of in terest or historical value in them. Had they been of the least valise to the parties to whom they be longed they would doubtless have been better taken care of. The trash we have received te-day under the de.. seription of reports contained in this Portfolio to the EMPEROR by Commanders and Authorities in the South, employed in raising troops for the army,' previous to the battles which decided the war against NAPOLEON, only show that the supplies and the I strength on which he had calculated were withheld from him by the influence of the Priests and the No bles, who by means of the money which was se' liberally dispersed among them by foreign Govern menti, and the aid of superstition and intrigue, suc ceeded in paralyzing the efforts of their own, and mainly contributed to reduce France to the deplora ble duration in which she now is. The Private Correspondence addressed to our selves, does not come down later than the date of the public Journals—the 27th. The letters give a representation of passing occurrences in France, very different from the picture drawn in the Newspapers. The latter have been almost filled with details relating to the celebration of the fete of ST. Lours, and the honours paid to the King and the Saint together.— The former and more credible channels of informa. lion state, that neither the Saint nor the King had much reason to boast of the honour done them on their anniversary. The scenes and the counte nances in rneral, which the forced illumina tion tended to exhibit, were not those which used to give the features of heartfelt gaiety to the Metropolis of France. In spite of all the secrcl service money distributed, the Vices le Rol, and the Vices le BOURBON were "but few and far between," and the groups and music, which are said to have given such a loyal appearance to Paris upon this lac. easion, are stated to have been far more or a military cast than the description which the political Police Reports of FOUCIIeII Press have stated them to be. But this is of no consequence. The Jubilee is over, and it were well for France, if her causes of regret were over also. A capital illuminated, and in a tumult of joy, for what ? And a nation in the depth of sorrow and the darkness of mourning— the contrast is one which France can only afford. But the Treaty—the Treaty of Peace which was to appear, and give additional reason for rejoicing—to give glory to the King, and peace to the people— what is become of it ? The French expected to have seen the Treaty of Peace on Friday last, which was to guarantee the independence of their country, and fix the period of the retreat of the armies who are weighing them down, and threatening them with annihilation. They called for it in vain: No one could give them a satisfactory answer why it was not produced—why the word of promise was still " kept to their ear and broken to their hope." The expectation of such a Treaty as has been spoken of grows fainter and fainter every day. The feeling of disappointment is consequently Increased, and dissatisfaction at the measures of Government the natural consequence.— Reports are therefore renewed of changes in the French Ministry; but the changes which can ef. fed a durable peace for Europe must, we suspect, he on the other side. No Government can exist in France which shall compromise the national inde pendence of that country, and the great interests for which that enlightened people have struggled with honour for ID many years. gi The Sovereigns It will be seen by the extract we make from the Bulletin of Nismes, that the descriptions hitherto given of the outrages committed upon theTrotestaute fall short of the reality, and that numbers of them have fallen victims to a persecution, which rivals the horrors of the dark ages of superstition, and is a stain and a disgrace to that in which we live. The following is the list of the Council of War appointed to try Marshal NEY The Duke of Cmnegliano (Mance)), Praidcw. The Prince of Eys ( Dlostroa). The Duke of C-ogliglioni (Augereau). threw! Jourdar. L;eni.-Ora Ma6on. Goveraor of Paris. Gea. Lino.-Geo. Clespare4e. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORVMOUTII, AUG. `_.9.—Ar rived yestord„ flajo.sty's ship Chesapeake, from the Cope of G Hope ; Marchioness of E,:y and !Vomit Foist lndi men, from India, and have glow for the D iwt:3 ~Pictuts, from Guernsey.—Sailod the At m o ir Sophia, for the Eastwood, to he void .off the (4 /il k,. for the Eastward. PLYMOUTH, A cc. 28. Came in the Brown, from NVilmi ogton ; Censor eon', o f front a cruize.—Sailed the Pheasant, : U.MOUTII. Ana. 27.—Arrired (he Duke rf g par%Pt, from Lsbon, in eight day s, Arrived this evening Capt. Morphow, of thex t . t. , packet, oith a Mail from the Leeward Island:, i i „ . ing landed it in Moura's Bay this morning, o w , passage of 42 days frrm St. Thomas's. On the 13 ; k inst. in a heavy gale, the Nocton carr:ril a)c rry mainmast and lost three me;) overboa:•ti, sad oflt7. wise damaged. II AR% I dlt, AUG. 29. Arrived the packet, from Holland; and Leicater ' , inlet, to , Cuxhaven, with Mails. Dt: L, AUG. 29.—Arrived and sailed f.t. th e r the Mai chioness of EIN and , ft m the Aboukir and Bellerophon, from : I)mautd, sailed for the River to he paid ell: COURT (IF CHANCiiRY. EX-PARTE NEM' 1M V. NEEnumw, Ex PIRTE 304r,p4 V. NEEDHAM, RX•PADTE KIN:tit:AK V N,Aii %N. The CII A NCELLOR. text MA ter of (spa•te Needham, and ex-pail.: Jo eph in the sem.. ILA. ruptcy, I have to mention that I !tn•e ~ Petition of Needham, prayieg a Ce.tificate . att , into the Petition opposing it. anti I do not that the Chancellnr can say ha' he 00;M to matt h. Certificate in ncch a case u;ton rieti!ion anis; t rl conceive that it must undoubtedly depoild upo.t view that I shall take (after a mature anti ileiihe consideration of the whole vest.ons at isvu• Int what ought to be done as to the Petition of Mr. K n. near, which has been presented in the same Balk. ruptcy, relative to Needham the Bankrupt. and KiA the A'tornet, at Manchester, and whether I rat grant the prayer of that Petition or not. If tits matter, as stit d in that Petition of Kinnear, be wola founded, then th- Bankrupt himself is as deeply totted in the c-im . nality of the basinesi as any he.ly else, yet I feel an anxiety not to suppose that, h e case is substantiated by prcof, until by la p•ated et% inclination of the circumstat ces my mind be fully confirmed that it is so: and with reference to the public. I will not part with this Petition until ferthie eitamina inn, for a graver case than ti.at stated in this. Petition of Kinnear never came before me. Ti •cir. cumstances amount to nothing le-s than : that thy II ttikrupt and Solicitors, together with persona whe are no creditors upon this es'ate, combine to rear up a fic itious debt of 12001. for the ;:urpose of littlthq the (-finite of assignees. Justice calls upon ma .tat t•, suffer any impotation to rest upon the prude:, u!,. til further eaamituvion and enquiry ; but if 'or,' out that I nius! put the question into a roar o , f examinitioti anti enfiuiry, either in a eritn'ai; or cit•il Court, it is cleat that the Bankrupt • canna _•t his C , rtifwate. Thore are circumitatieett i na affidavits conaected with Kinnear's Netiriot• are by no means so satibfactorily answered a. IC ad have wished. Lord Citeßut; Lt. has not yet, it seems, se" , fo ti fiente to the SPEAK ca,of his efeva';on Per •• age , • ill consequence of which the wri' ro eters .4 :W e rnhe r for Oxfordshire reinaisis unissued. B.'S the cindidates are, however, actively evntalsin; county, and the contest will, its all printability, lw I must severe one. All line of batt!e ships on the peace Intv! are to have six Lieutenants. 16 mates woe midship men, and a complement of 300 men, inc udia, fii•eris ; and all ships of three dreks are to have all addition of 50 men. In future, &India,' basis: commands, will have the privilege of nantitset:ag their First and Flag Lieutenants ; and Gaputiiis et guard ships their First Lieuteirtot, only ; older* will be selected by the Admit a!ty . FlRE.—Monday morning, the ne;glihnerl.onfl Castle-street, Westminster, was thrown i•it g confusion by a fire which broke - out with much 'wy at Mr. Bowen's, No. 7, ill that street, sal WW I threatened the most alarming consequences in t' e'l'• struction of Elliiit's great brew-house, &c. By timely arrival of esiginesi,• and the as to n ishing effa•'• PARIS, A co. ^3.—When Imam ) TERE wag shot, of the firemen, an d the brewer's men, the brow.lino 4 he obtained leave to be without the bandage on his I was preserved almost untouched ; and the filmes SG •' • eyes, and to give the word to fire. He saw IL ; duet' after the de s t ruct i on G I t h at one h ou s e, cannot fear to die who have seen death in so many I some injury to others. No lives were lost, tra: shapes; and I who have so often given the word to ! c hild was rescued b a most tours sous exertioe. — French soldiers to fire, maybe permitted to do so' The fire broke ant s 1 the first floor of Na. 7. I this once, and for the last time." He advanced with ! female having just prepared her husband's breakils'i a fi rm step to the Veterans who were appointed to' but she went nut on some errand, locking the do'i shock him, and when within four or five. paces, gavel and leaving a c hild i n b e d ; w h en the h ouse a - I''" the words—" Ready ! Present ! Fire r'—They ban", a fireman mad e hi s wa y t o th e roo m, kd obeyed most steadily, and he fell dead in an instant. escaped unhurt with the child on his shoulders. Count ILEGNAUD Sr. JEAN D 'A NotL y, I We ate able to state, upon authority, that it r". ' l ister of State to BONAPARTE, &c. has set off for the intention of the Sub-Committee of Dtur.f•lt' Havre de Grace, accompanied by his son, to embark Ito make any alteration in the prices of admission for the United States of America. lie had been con. lthat House. fidentially informed that wisdom and prudence fen. Died, on the 15th instant, :sir. Wm..May,1 41141-r tiered such a voyage necessary. of the Angel, et Clay-cross, Derbyshire. " 1. confirm . busily engaged attending,on his guests (it being :1! ` Letters from Poictiers, of a re cent ofatthees mitilary .feast week) the account of the infamous con duct and much company in his how; towards the Duke and Duchess of ANGOVLEmt.— dropped down and instantly expired, being in liPtio - The Duke behaved with the greatest courage on thi s rent good health but a f ew minutes before. occasion, and cut down , with his own Land, two of r Sunday aennight Mr. Susan, farmer', of Lidfeat the men who attempted to remove the white flag 'S u ff o lk ; w hil s t . wa lki ng in apparent good health, h‘' from the windows of his hotel. was met by a neighbour; wh o e n q u i r ed how h• Admiral Sir GCORGE COCKBURN is appointed Go. .did ? To which illr. Swam answered, 66 I thank C vernor of the island of St. Helene, on th e cleatli or I never was. b e t ter ." . N o sooner had the riT :' escaped his lips, than " its the twinkling of an e:!•,.. resignation of Niajor-General Sir Hensom L owe . Mademoiselle MARS, the celebrated French actress, he canght • hold of his friend, and sunk to the t' t; t.' lately a pp eare d at a Paris Th ea tr e , d ressed in the breathe no more. first piece i n r e d, i n the second in w hit e, an d i n the . Coitri-Excusteni, AUG. 30.—We le.tl no ft • 1 thi r d, i n blue. 'Phis tut-coloured exhibition eras re- arrival, of nay Gralu to-aley ; •but the 11 It"' ceived as an ingenious device for the HirirlassiirE was dull at Mentlay's pikes. Fine Oats se!. i• colours, and was honrured by the anditucewith un- freely, but inferior Corn goes off slow It. In i• bounded epp. sese „ ' • • - Beans, and other articles, there Is no aitetalieot 1 1 1 1 1 • • I 1 1 ti r, • 1 t. •