The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-03-28 00:00:00

• - ' • • •t orcap or atino territory could not be pro. I'HICE THIS DAV longed two years, although France were a prey to P ref i l l: P Nll . ttt e . t. '•• • •' 5 P sl ' agitations which threatened Europe. France is calm 3 per Ce4t. Caw& Mt • —she wishes for pear,: she wishes for it with the Voold.r A. 780 Laow Ana. lixdimuer Bills same energy with which she has made war. Since Per the Treaty of the 20th No,. she has passed through w=tiareentelloommemirs all the wretchedness which nature and policy could - heap "lion her. She has encountered them with heroic patience, or ise should rather say ao" nanitaity. •' Do. foreigner who lives among ea is astonished at not finding here those factiona who appear only in the Gazettes of his own country, or is the ill-rega lited beads of -some• noviciate orators. lie sees here a power acting with strength and independence—a King adored as a father, respected as a sage—Princes who reproduce his Hovel virtues--e nation whose noble charaiter has been purified in the crucible of adversity. ..ton proud to be ever subjugated, bet too Wise to disturb the peace of the world. •• The 4overei4os most be struck by the fidelity Kish whirl the has esecuwd the Treaty of the 20th November. the severity of which has been so new to France: They will see France as she is. We cannot doubt ►et they will echnowletke that by her noble attitude in adversity, she has deserved wall of Europe and of hereelf...-(Moresurs of epprobation.)--There remains, C.:violent**, one mire convincing argument, bet it is a painful it is that Estate is arrived at that degree of exhaustion at which it would he im. possible to support mach longer the charges which hue pressed apon her for the last three years. It le rr duty to &tips* it to you, because oar enquiry ot the last three months have convinced os of if.— lore is the term of our sacrifices---because here is the term of our means. We must then reckon upon the trithdrareing of the Foreign roof)* at the end of , this year. •• The king of the amount of the claims of fn. 'vipers upon France is matter of negotiation. Them is reason to hope that you will knew the result be fore the end of the Session—and that it will put an end to exaggerations which have had a baneful effect upon our credit. •• The Committee propose to grant a vete of credit of 16,000,000 of Anuoilies, or to raise a Loan to that snseent."- The Reporter then went into various other details, and contioded them with recommending that the *usncisl year should commence with the lit of July. The Chamber ordered the discussion of the law on the Budget to be opened on Monday the 30th March. The Sitting then rose. - -...0P......- • • CANTI LLON. The following details respecting Canfillon, the person who has been apprehended on suspicion of having attempted the assassination of the Duke of WeMoven, are communicated in a Letter from Paris of the 23d instant:— " Ile is a man of 30 years of age, of estebordinary strength and ferocious courage. Being in the Ist Hassan at Ething, he made an attempt on the life of his Colonel, from whom he pretended to have receiv. ed an affront, and he would inevitably bare been shot, 1:241 not his extraordinary bravery procured him his pardon from the Es• Emperor. He entered then into the chasseurs a chew' of the old Guard, and there attracted the attention of the Chef d'Escadron, Brice, who has been capitally condemned par conlumace for his conduct during the 100 days, and who has taken refuge in Belgium. 64 As has been already stated, the plot against the life of the Duke of Wellington bed its origin in Bel gium. Generals iligaud and Fressinet, Colonels Brice, Chambure, and Saosset ; the Editors of the Revolivionary Journals, Cauchnis-lentaire, Isidore Guyet, and 'rests ; all these individuals, and several others, appear to have been privy to the plot, ,as well as several Belgic officers, formerly compa. 'lions in arms of the refugee French officers. Caotillon was at Brussels about the end of 1817, where he weed Colonel Brice almost in quality of a domestic. They cast their eye on him as a fit in strument for the attempt; he accepted the mission, and returned to France for the purpose of executing it. It was known that he was in Paris to early as the Ist of January last, and he doubtless * failed in accomplishing hit object at that lime, on account of the too short stay of the Duke of Wellington. 'Phis man was very liberally paid ; for it is known that he has spent much money at Paris. " After the affair of the firing of the pistol, he had the extraordinary audacity to present himself, on the 'morning of the llih, before the hotel of the Duke of Wellington, probably to learn the result of his at tempt. Alarmed at the rigorous searches of the Po lice, he set out from Paris on the 13th of Feb., two days after the event, proceeding to embark at Ant werp; but as his pssaport was not drawn up in a pro per manner,, be was arrested at Charleroi, and con ducted back to the French frondirs by Belgic police. Having returned to Paris on the 2d of March, he there concealed himself under a false name and in a different lodging. He seldom welt out except at night, and dressed in a peasant's frock. In spite of all these precautions, the police, which followed his ' steps, succeeded in arresting him, and the evidence against him is said now to be so overpowering, that he will not be able to evade condemnation, although it may be expected that he will make no confession. This wretch was born at Paris ; his father, a respect ' able old man, is a modeller ; he himself was a jewel ler by profession, but, accustomed to vagrancy, did not labour. Ile excited attention in his regiment, less by brilliant actions than by deeds of cruelty to veerds his enemies. His fanaticism was so raised in Belgium by the French refugees and others, that he never spoke of foreigners, and especially of the Eng lish, without paroxysms of rage and fury. Accord ing to every account, this new Seide could not have been better chosen for the execution of this foal plot; end if he had sot been arrested, he would peripips have renewed his execrable attempt. "Be has already been interrogated several times by the Comte Angles, Prefect of Police, and it is said that be persists in a system of absolete denial.— Every thing announces (bat be will soon be brought before a Coed of Assize." • A serpent bas been killed off the island of Ceylon, *bids at as 33 feet 4 inches lons. THE STATESMAN. LONDON: lIATITILDAI4 . III4III4II 28, 1818. French Papers to the '2sth inst. have arrived. The proceedings in the Chamber of Deputies on Monday, and the Reports of the Finance Committees are the most important parts of their contents. The subject of the Supply was treated by M. Rot, and the Ways and Means by Count BEUGNOT, the Reporters. The length of the speeches, and of these espositions of the expenditure, as furnished in a supplement to the Moniteur (seventeen columns of nitich are occupied by one of these Reports), allow us to touch but upon a few of the principal topics. These official views of the financial state of France and the opi nions accompanying them on the absolute necessity of the removal of the Army of Occupation, wit! afford matter for serious and interesting reflection. The total supply for 1818 is estimated it 993,000,000 francs, exceeding the expenditure of the preceding year by about 11,000,000, or 360,0001.1 sterling. This sow total is divided into three heads-1 the Debt and Sinking Fund ; the Extraordinary Es. ponces; the Ordinary Expences. The interest on the Debt, and the Sinking Fund together, are stated at 180,000,000 francs, equal to 7,500,0001. per annum ; of which the Sinking Fond absorbs 40,000,000 of francs, or between a fourth and fifth of the *hole. The Extraordinary Expenditure is taken at 312,000,000, of which the French army entails upon the nation 140,000,000, or 5,830,0001.; and the Army of Occupation 154,000,000. This ar ticle is pecolisrly, and naturally enough, disagree• able to the Committee and its. Reporter,, who, after various comments and demands of explanation, &c., proposed the sum of 301,000,000 for the Extra Ex penditure, being a subtraction of 11,000,000 from the amount demanded by the Minister. Among the ordinary charges, the sum paid in Pen. sions of various denominations is not less than 96,000,000 francs. The Military Pensions amount to 48,000,00 d ; Ecclesiastical, to 12,500,000 francs. The King's Civil List is 23,000,0(X) francs ; the maintenance of the Royal Family, 9,000,000; the Department of Foreign Affairs is set down at 6,500,000 ; that of Police at 5.900,000. The M inistry of the Interior 96,000,000—0 f War 164,000,000 — of the Marine 44,000,000. M. Rot, towards the conclusion of his Report, adstits that the continual increase of expence is quite alarming ; and finishes by the observation, that unless an im..ediate end be put to the extraordinary burdens which press upon France, she must endeavour, io the year 1819, to do without a Budget. Count Bauasov, in the course of his speech. re. (erred to the enormous profits supposed to be made by the foreign contractors for the last year's Loan. He dwelt, as his predecessor bad done, upon the dreadful state of exhaustion to which (they both as serted) France has been reduced, and upon the sb bolute necessity for the removal of the Army of Oc cupation, hinting his expectation that the foreigners would depart by the end of the present year. The Loan already spoke of, to the amount of 16,000,000 of rentes, was one of the topics adverted to by N. BEUGNOT, as being likely to cover the whole of the deficit anticipated by the Government for 1818. The Austrian claims upon France are said, in some of the articles by the Dutch Mails, to have heen already ascertained in a negotiation, conducted by the Duke of \VELLINGToN. Twenty houses in Gottenburgh hue stopped payment. in consequence of the aati.commercial decrees of the Swedish Go. vernment. The indelicacy and inhumanity of Mr. CANNING'S mode of refuting the charges of cruelty brought with too much truth against Ministers and their Agents under the Suspensiop, by sttemptipg to turn We? ridicule the sufferings of the poor aged OGDEN, in prison, in irons, and whilst - writhing ender the knife of the Surgeon, bare been justly and indignantly animadverted upon, and base doubtless elicited a still more general sentiment of detestation, thoogh such revolting and sickening attempts at wit still meet the support of Mr. CANNING'. friends at the Courier. — That Paper labours bard to justify the disguving allusion, and imagines it makes a notable discovery and defence t: hen it finds it stated by a Mend of OGDEN, who depicts the extreme severity exercised towards the harmless, helpless old man, that be had been for years afflicted with the malady so slightingly spoken of. Therefore, according to the conclusion of CANNINo's defender, OGoen's imprisonment and " ponderous irons were not the cause of the rupture." This is a specimen of ex treme imbecility, as well as of the most eneundid mode of reasonsing. No one bad asserted that the imprisonment or ponderous irons were the cause of OGDEN'S malady ; bet it cannot be denied that they might, and did considerably aggravate the distem per, and rOadered the subsequent operation neces sary. This is quite independent of the extreme cruelty of loading an infirm man of 74 years with heavy Was, not only on his journey, but for stances should be blazoned ebreedw•tbat they should be rung in the ears of the People of England, as the consequences of surrendering the Constitution to the discretion of the Ministers, who will so far abuse their powe► as to punish men without the form even of an accusation, will then ridicule the sufferings of their victims, and laugh at the sympathy's:pressed by others at the story of their anguish. Some most ridiculous articles of news from AMP. rice were last night put forth by the Courier, and have as faithfully been copied by some of our dis cerning and ten rned cotemporsries of the meriting. One of the alarming pieces of intelligence thus com municated purports to tie from the Barbadoes Papers, and is an extract of a letter from St. Mary's, inti mating that all the shipping of the United States had been stopped at Cuba, and of some other hostile proceedings on account of the occupation of Amelia Island by the United States. Now it happens that this St. Mary's is in America, and constitutes an es. treats part of the island which the. American forces now occupy. Thus the Americans tell us, by the way of liarbadoes, of the stopping of American ships in American seas, but, as might be supposed, we are apprised of no such intelligence from any other quarter.--The geographical information of the Treasury scribes is equal to their memories, and sometimes very amusing. They bare always news, because, though an article may have made the tour of all the Papers on the Continent or in this country, as well as.a voyage across the Atlantic and back again, it is not the worse for use in the columns of such Papers. It would be tedious, and some would say invidious, to adduce instances in proof of this re mark ; but any one who attentively peruses this and some other Papers must lately have bad sufficient op. pottunities of comparison. The Bill now pending in the House of Commons for the suppression of Climbing-boys. and the intro. duction of machinery for cleansing Chimneys, has naturally mite(' the attention of the MasterChimney sweepers, who feel themselves much aggrieved by the proposed measure, and have published their case in a temperate manner. Part of their objections to the proposed Bill in its present form ere given in our Paper of this day. They have also published the outlines of a Bill proposed by themselves, which we shall insert on Monday. Many consideie. lions affecting the safety end comfort of almost every family in the kingdom, as well as the in terests of helpless humanity, are incloded in this subject, and we consider it our duty to lay this docoment before our Readers, and to recommend it to their careful perutal end attention.--The Petitioners compAin of not having obtained a pa tient hearing, to which they are evidently entitled, and if a shirt delay is likely to throw any farther light upon the subject, we presume it will not be de nied to so useful and necessary a class of men On Thursday Baron O'NAcirrcis hod an audience of the Puma REGENT, at Carlton.house. After. wards the Baron left town for Windier, with some dispatches for the Prince of IlEstc.liomuutto. The Baron returned at a late hour at night. Yesterday evening, soon after six • o'clock, die Prince of liEssE-HOMBURG returned to St. James's Palace from Windier, when Marshal KRA N and Mar shal GERNING, who have lately arrived from Hesse- Homburg, and 'Baron O'NAGMTEN, dined with his Serene Highness. Yesterday the Duchess of GLOUCESTER and the Dukes of YORK, CUMBERLAND, and GLOUCESTER, visited the PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton-house.' Prince LEOPOLD returns to Claremont on the 30th inst. from Weymouth. His Serene Highness will probably visit the Contineut in the course of the summer. ORIGINAL ANECDOTE Or %NAPA RTE.—I, is well known that NAPOLEON is whet Swirr quaintly said of Prince EUGEN E— a great taker of snuff' as well as of towns. In * conversation he had some time ago with Gen. BERTII AND, Mr. RALCOM BE, whose house he then occopiod, happened to he present. Ob serving a snuff.bnx, NAPOLEON made the usual signal for e pinch, by a sortie with his finger and thumb, but upon opening the boa suddenly, the hinge unfor tunately gave wee. This disaster was, however, quickly compensated by the Es-Emperor, who, after expressing his regret for the accident, very graciously presented Mr. B. with a magnificent gold box, erns. melded with the Imperial cypher. Mr. BA LCOM RE'S box which had the honour of being thus unhinged, was a wooden one, of the celebrated manufacture of Laurence Kirk, where it has been sent by the owner to be repaired. There are letters in town which mention, that the Society to promote the interests of Emigrants from this country, formed at New York under the an. spices of THOMAS Avon Emmert, and other distill. guished bishoten, is likely to suc ceed in the appli cation to Congress for a grant of lands, upon which to form an extensive Irish Settlement. An agent from the Society has been for some time at Wash ington negociatini this desirable measure, and the prospect of the object being attained is most cheer ing. The Parent Society at New York is ably supported by one at Philadelphia, and by similar Associations in different parts of the Republic.— cOublin Evening Post.) A new Tragedy, by Mr. Sum., the Author of The .4partate, is in preparation at Covent-garden.--- The scene is laid in Tunis, and'the plot founded on an historizal fact, the lasorrection of the Christian Slaves. It draws out the whole tragic force of the Theatre. , =1 obserTcWon tile - Jorth Pole, copied from till S• Courier of yesterday, and m oo orning Papers of this day, it is stated,that 44 M. SCORESBY inform, as, that the wate r f sly sea of Spitsbergen freezes its a cold of 2 deg, by e centigrade thermometer." New, if this be Lbamiss y it must freeze at a higher temperature than com sat fresh water; for the centigrade scale ceesteence, at the freezing point, which is marked 32 deg. 011 Fix RENHEIT'S thermometer ; and each degree of the tirade is equal to one fen -fifth of Faunzattetris• therefore, if the water near Spitsbergen (rem% at 2 deg. of the centigrade, it would freeze , at thi r t y . five shrte-fifth deg. of FAHRENHEIT, which wa s • yet the case, even with fresh water. It is e l k known that water which lipids common salt is We, tion requires a greater degree of cold to liemeig than water that contains no salt. The slat here alluded to must evidently be erroneous. , Ti e temperature at which the waisr of the ocean N em% is about 28 degrees of Fattaconcyr,. which is It least two degrees below zero of the centigrade steed of two degrees above it. Arundektneet, March 28. Cl• • , 74TAL DUEL. •• • „ An unfortunate event took place at Granola se the 10th of February, the singular eirceurstaaom of which are thus detailed by Capt. Rippisley, the surviving principal in the duel which it ineatioes e in a letter to the Editor of a Morning Paper. Ty e feelings which such a narration mull excite will sap. ply the most appropriate commed on the Imam. lions 66 You are &nastier' not entirely ignorant of the existence of a Regiment raised by Colonel Hip. piste', and destined for the service of the Smith American Patriots. 1 ani son to that Gentlessa, and left England with him in the ship Emerald, so the 9th of December, 1817. We arrived at Gfo4 nada, on our way to the Spanish Main, on the 4iii of the present month, and but for the numerous in. terroptions we met here to the farther progress of nor voyage, I should have been spared the recital of the melancholy catestropho of which this letter is AI record. "On the night of the 9th of Fehroa ry an ettercatisi ' arose between myself and an Officer of my father's regiment. The origin of the dispute was trilling, bat my temper, Wl:tined by an imaginary offence, I (over leaped the bounds of moderation, and vented my anger in terms of severity, which a moment's refit. lion would have shown me the impropriety Onto. cising. On the ensuing morning, however, I plaialy perceived my fault, end, convinced that true corrap does not so much consist in the punishment of auk. suit as in the acknowldgment of an error, I moiled to make all the atonement is my power; accordingly in the presence of several °dicers, I apologist;die . Lieutenant Braybrooke for the espressions Arhish passion had elicited, and entreated that he woraid coon sider it as merely the irritatintn of the moment. lie accepted my extended hand, and I regarded thOlisie as finally and amicably adjusted. Judge then, Sir, my surprise, at receiving, after en hour had eiipseo, a message from Mr. Braybrooke, demanding satis faction for the offence which hid been already cam. promised! My rank as so Officer—my reputation as a Gentleman—nay mare, my feelitiga as a man, all combined to assure me, that a second attempt at coati. Winn would be degrading to the dignity of the one— disgraceful to the character of the other—and cower . thy the appellation of either. 1 felt myself obliged to concede to his demand, and we proceeded to the ground, accompanied by our respective seconds and two surgeons, as mutual assistants. Tie distaste was measured—we took our stations, and at the se. - coot! fire my antagonist fell ! To show you the rash principles by which the deceased was *clouted, must acquaint you that, in opposition to the wish of my friend, he insisted on meeting me at the short distance of nine paces! 'Humanity, not fear, prompt ed me to consult my friend Oil the propriety of oar standing so close ; informed by him, however, that such was Mr. Braybrouke's decision, I considered further remonstrance as useless as unbecoming, sal though I foresaw fatal issue to the proceeding, honour compelled me to abide the hazard of the , die.' The result too fully justified the prediction. 4 6 The deceased has been decently interred; HMI may regret his untimely fate—none more sincerely than myself; and unhappy as I feel at havidg been the instrument of his death, my conscience is sot troubled by the stings which a premeditated act of homicide could not fail of producing." TEST OF PURE TE4.—;Make your tea as usual ;a your best tea-pot, if you have two, since that wW probably be the largest, and afford more scope 1 0 your eiperiment. Then pour off the firstfilitie-sp of water, and instead of replenishing the tea-pot for a second cup, turn nut the leases on a plate. If they are real tea, they will retain the usual colour • b u t if they are sloe or ash, or any other such pro duction. the false colouring matter will have been carried of in the water, and the leaves will remain quite block. Mr. I SCLIEDON.-11 , 0t ItPrS were on Thursday re ceiced in town, which slate, that he never enjoyed better health, and that his success continued to side gree unprecedented. From New York be visits the Southern and Western parts of Americo, with his own performance of the " Wandering Minstrel," and front thence to the North, as far as Quebor, Albany, Montreal, and Halifax ; this will °co' him soother year, when he will return to Engirt& He cleared 15001. sterling in the first three mouth , ' performances. The New York Papers continue to speak in the highest terms of his vocal abilities: .4 the Theatrical Company, to mask the sense they es• terrain of his unequalled talents, have given him a public dinner at the Concert Hall, a compliment new before paid to an English actor. At a late hoer on Wednesday night, or early on Thursday morning, the workshop of Mr. Edoord'a North Audley-street, was broken into by thieves, and plundered of a quantity of Venetian and other blinds. A chest.which was in the place fur the Per ' pose of bolding tools, was broke epee and al." robbed. The robbers pilled entraooe by forci4 I one of the back windows. Trim STATESMAN. • . 0 . --, i - - - ___.-,....... VAT ONE O'cLACK. some time triter bis Commitment, ',dine, by tilts pape r s To ral EDITe i Cat. Nary' tobi 1 laid before Parliament, it app 4lo . eare,at the man bpd s"!tt,—ln some ob sB3es p - e s *sud wi t ' not been accused of High Treason, )ost was merely Ann. iwdation to the Nora esser Bills 16 15 p ' detained on suspicion'. It is right such circus'. Papers into the am i!lik.:_the Morning Paper' stances should be blazoned abroadup-that they she _ t - ,• J , i e :i EDI lt=ll brill' JUN. I some obse467Jon' tie nu. the North Pole. copied from the F red the Courier of yesterday, and mai ag Papers of this day, it is stated, tha t assay iofollllll us, that the water of sly ;herrn freezes in a cold of 2 leg.bra thermometev." New, if this *Ai e el me at a higher temperature than commi e ,; for the centigrade scale comseeece, at g point, which is marked 32 deg. en PAL, thermometer ; and each degree of the qual to one fear-fifth of FAURBEINIIT'I • f the water near Spitsbergen freeen t i • ae centigrade, it would freeze at thi r t y . ifth deg. of FAHRENHEIT, which was mew t; se, even with fresh water. It is ear t water which holds common salt la ads, res a greater degree of cold to (milk that contains no salt. The slat ed to must evidently be errooeoes., Tbe e at w hi c h the water of the ocean frame, 8 degrees of FAHRENHEIT, which fir . at degrees below zero of the centigrade j,. o degrees above it. mei, Much 2t3. G. • .14TA L DUEL. •• • „ 4 donate event took place at Crania ea ' et February, the singular eirceurstaiom are thus detailed by Capt. Hippisler, the principal in the duel which It stemioes e to the Editor of a Morning Paper. The deb such a narration mull estate mill sap. tat eppropsiate cosseted on the HUN& , are doubtless not entirely ignorance( tie of a Regiment raised by Colonel flip. destined for the service of the Smith Patriots. 1 aim son to that Gentlessaa, ngland with him in the ship Emerald, se Drcember, 1817. We arrived at Grp. our way to the Spanish Main, on the abut month, and but for the numerous in. we met here to the farther progress of I should have been spared the recital of 'holy catestrophe of which this letter is ll* • night of the 9th of Febree ry an ettercatitil teen myself end an Officer of my faille. The origin of the dispute war trifling, bet , inflamed by an imaginary offence, I own. bounds of moderation, and vented my erms of severity, which a moment's refits. d have shown me the impropriety of net. "• it the ensuing morning, however, I plaialy my fault, end, convinced that true coorrsp a much consist in the punishment of solo. he acknowldgment of an error, I 'mild 1 the atonement ia my power ; accordingly %once of several Officers, I apologisitte t Draybrooke for the espresvions Arkieb elicited, and entreated that he would cm. merely the irritatiosti albs women!. lie ay eatended hand, and I regarded theiffait and amicably adjusted. Judge then, Sir, e, at receiving, after an hour had elipsert, 1. from Mr. Braybrooke, demanding setts- the offence which hid been already cam. t . , IN S Ott b o dy of I Bettofil I for the Os mninielair The Cu • Inability . da re d thi freedom goo of at Meeting I person, h bet lie bel the motet m The El and NOW seat, at tit purpose of resee ilet4lea. 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