The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-02-14 00:00:00

~~ i • 4 . 11111:43 FRENCH PAPERS. BERLIN, FEB. 2.—The ci•derant Councillor of the Russian Government in Saxony, M. de M. has arrived here, charged with a mission from two great Pursers to the King of Saxony. He has offered to that Prince a territory situated on the banks of the Rhine, containing 700,000 inhabitants, as well 119 considerable endowments for the functionaries who wished to follow him upon the condition that le would renounce the Crown of Saxony. M. de M. at the same time addressed himself to the King's Confessor, Father Schneider, but all these attempo have been rendered fruitless ; the King, faithful to the character he has displayed, has rejected all these propositions. Lestugx, FEB. s.—Letters from the banks of the Rhine and the Meuse state, that within the last 15 days, there have been several movements amongst the Prussian troops, the motives for which are unex plained. The garrison of Luxemburg has been rein forced, and the Prussian corps cantoned in the cir cles of They, March, and l)inant, have marched to the banks of the Rhine. All the Prussian cavalry, it appears, will be stationed on both banks of the Rhine. The Prussian army, it appears, is much more numerous than is generally believed. If we may credit the intelligence from Treves, a numerous corps of the army of Kleist de Nollendorf will be detached to occupy the important fortress of May ence. ilur.oGna, JAN. 28.—The situation of King Joa chim becomes every day more critical. King Fer divand has numerous partisans, who begin to speak in a high tone, and who quote the example of France and Spain. The people in general are discontented with the state of uncertainty in which they are kept, and manifest no disposition for war, at the motnent when all the world is at peace. The sol diers &set t, and cannot be induced to march to hunt the Iluly Father from his See. It is supposed that Murat will take precautions to place himself and his family in safety, if af f airs do not take a more favour able turn. VI E:YNA, JAM. 30.—Nothing has yet been agreed upon in Congress, but the cession of the Republic of Genoa to the King of Sardinia. With respect to every thing else, not only is nothing concluded, but nothing advances. All that relates to Poland and Saxony is far from being arranged. Russia and Prussia persist in their views, and the measures pro posed to conciliate these two Powers, have not hi therto produced any satisfactory result. It cannot be•dissembled that the Court of Vienna is at this moment in a situation of great delicacy : the power of Russia disquiets it, and the state of Germany is not very consoling ; every Prince and every State puts forth separate pretensions: On the other side, it cannot be dissembled that Italy loves not the Aus trian regimes, the spirit of the Italian people is no longer the same, the Revolution which has passed over them has changed them. It is said that the Plenipotentiary of a great Power has proposed to our Government to give a particular Sovereignty to' Lombardy and the Milanese, and not to extend our f:ontlers beyond the Adige. The 27th, an English Officer arrived here, with in• ti lligence that Lord Wellington will arrive at Vienna on the 31st of this month, or the Ist of February at latest. Lord Castlereagh will set out immediately afterwards for London, by the way of Brussels. It is remarked with some astonishment, that the , Austrian regiments are completing, the recruiting being very active. For some days the Aulic Chancellery and the War Office have been very busy. Yesterday morning an Officer set out with secret and important instructions to Milan. Several Couriers have also been sent toi Croatia, Illyria, Venice, Rome, and Naples. It is unfortunately but too true that Italy will soon be. come the theatre of singular events, of which it Is difficult to calculate the consequences. A coldness is thought to be perceived between Sar dinia and Austria, on account of some portion of territory claimed by the Court of Turin. The people of Genoa claim their independence from Austria ; Venice sues for her's to the Emperor Alexander, whilst Ragusa, with a similar view, puts herself under the protection of the Grand Turk. The change of Ministry which has been spoken of has not taken place, but the Prince de Metternich and Count de Nesselrode no longer represent their re•pectivc Courts. The Western World seems resolved not to be be hind hand with the European Continent in violence and outrage. It is but too true, that the warfare carrying on in the province of the Caraccas by the Royalist and Independent parties is of a description so sanguinary as to be disgraceful to human nature. It seems to be a systematic rule, that whichever party gets the upper hand, butchers the other in cool blood. We have accbsiiiti froth Laguira as late as the 10th of Dec. and from St. Thomas of the Bth of or PRINCE TAELETR %ND TO PRINCE METTER- , the same month, which communicate various parti- ICH, DATED DECEMBER 19, 1814. culars on this distressing subject. The Independent party was not entirely extinct, as had been sup. I have hastened to fulfil the wishes of his Imperial posed ; but they were so far subdued as to leave and Ito%al Majesty, expressed in yoor Highness' l the Royalists masters of all the strong places. The, lettnr, and have transmitted to his Most Christian ' towns of Caraccas, Laguira, Puerte Covello, and Majesty the confidential note which you addressed ; various other principal points, are in the possession I to Prince Hardenberg on the 10th instant, 'of the latter. The Independents are only in force and which you officially communicated to me. To at Maturin, under the command of Ribes. 'This prove the satisfaction which the resolutions an- General has quarrelled with his colleague Bolivar, nounced in that note will give to the Ring, it is sufb- and it is to the disunion between them that the over (lent to compare them with the orders which his Ma- • throws and misfortunes of their party are ascribed., testy has given to his Ambassadors at the Congress. ISuch is the inveterate hatred between the two parties, , France had not to bring thither any views of am- that they murder each other without remorse. As hi; ion or self-interest. Replaced in & her ancient the Blacks revolt daily, the Royalists must have boundaries, she no longer thought of extending them, " reinforcement, from the mother country, or in time --like the sea, which makes no inroad on its Shores, 11 they will be outnumbered. The Commander at La but vs hen it has been roused by storms. Her armies, guira is a Mulatto, and the people of that colour loaded with glory no longer aspire after new : possess all the places of profit and power. The conquests. Delivered from that oppression of Whites act towards each other with the same barbs % hich she was less the instrument than the Tic- pity as the people of colour. tim, happy on having recovered her legitimate WEST ['min.—The Antigua Paper, of the 22t1 of Princes, and with them that repose which she had , December, contains a Proclamationisso;d by SliJames It was discovered early on Sunday morning, that a reason to fear for ever lost, she had no reclamation, Leith, pru c limimi ng martial law over the island for sit closet in the Long-room of the Custom-douse at to make, no pretensions which she wished to form ; days, and ordering the militia to be embodied. The Portsmouth, bad been broken open, awl Bank-notes she has not put forward any, and she will not. But , motive of this measure seems to be an apprehension to the amount of 6801. stolen therefrom. The mo lt remained fur her to desire that the work of resti.! that the slaves, who were allowed some holydays at ; Ivey was deposited in the closet at a late hour on twit:in should be carried into effect for the sake of Christmas, meditated designs inimical to the general Friday night ; and the watchmen left iu charge of the all Europe, as well as for her own, that the spirit:tranquillity of the Island. A Barbed's*, Paper bf a. room. of Revolution s h o uld even n ow and for ever recent date asserts, that the Porteguese Governor of The remains of Corporal Ka,, of the Royal cease : that every legitimate right should be rendered , Cayenne had permitted a cargo of slaves tot* sold at Horse (Wards, were interred en S u nd a y l as t i u t h e sacred, nod that every ki n d of am bition or enter- p ublic auction, and had sanctioned the fitting out of new burying-grount4 St. John's Wood, Mary-le prize should find both its condemnation and a per- three veseeli within his jurisdiction, for the purpose of bonne, with military honours. He was the tallest . potent ohcfnc'e in an explicit acknowledgment and at sailing to the African coast, to engage in dill law • man in the eorpi, being elk fad tax Inches high ; be t - LONDON furmnal guarantee of those very principles, of which man traffic. bad been in the regiment 19 years. IiTS, FEB. 10.—The letters from Italy, received yosterday and the day before, are still silent as to the occupation of Rome by the troops of Murat. It is obable, therefore, that this intelligence is untrue. NOTE As Madame Ses,i and Mrs. llickons were return ing in her carriage from tl:e Drury-lane Oratorio on Friday night, the ceatinnan being inhreicetted, foil (rose his box, when the horses ran away with the carriage; they were fortunately stopped without the ladies sustaining acy injury, except being extremely frightened. • Primed and !Published b D. LovutL, al • STATBSW‘n °write, 87, Fiert.klrret. THE STATESMAN. the Revolution had been only a long and fatal ob- H v i,. l4 This wish of France must he that of every European State hich is not self-blinded: without such an order of things none can deem itself for a moment certain as to the future. Neter eras a nobler object presented to the G overnments of Europe; never was such a result more necessary ; and never could the hope of its attainment be so strong, as at a pe riod when all Christendom was for the first time sum moned to form a Congress. Perhaps it would already have been completely at tained, if as the King had hoped, the Congress, on its first meetings, had, by laying down its principles, fixed the limits, and traced out the only road by which it can be reached. Doubtless, in that case, we should not have seen some powers employing that as a pre text for destruction which can only have conserva tion for its end and object. Certainly, when it was the spirit and meaning of the Treaty of the 30th of May, that the ultimate result of the proceedings of the Congress should be a realand durable equilibrium, it was not then understood, that territories and na tions were to be thrown into one siugle mass, in order to be afterwards divided according to certain proportions. It meant, that every legitimate dynasty should be preserved, that every legitimate right should be respected, and that vacant territories (that is, with out a Sovereign) should he . .distributed in conformity to the principles of political equilibrium, and, which is the same thing, to principles conservative of the rights of each, and the repose of all. It would besides be a very strange error, to consi der the quantities which political arithmeticians num ber out, as the only element of this eqoilibrium.—. 1 Athens, observes Montesquieu, had within herself the same physical force both when she ruled with so much glory, and whe❑ she was in base subjection.— ' The balance of power would be mere idle words, if it be separated not from that ephemeral and deceitful force which the passions produce, but from the true moral force which consists in virtue. But in the mu tual relations of states the first virtue is justice. Penetrated with these principles, the King has prescribed it to his Ambassadors as an invariable rule to pursue in preference to every thing that which is just, never to swerve from it in any case, or upon any account whatever, never to subscribe to or acquiesce in what is contrary thereto ; and in the order of legitimate combinations, to adhere to such as may most etil , ctually contribute to the establish ment and maintenance of a teal equilibrium. Of all the questions to he discussed at the Con. gress, the King would have considered as the first, 1 the greatest, the most eminently European, beyond all comparison with any others—that of Poland, had 1 it been possible 'for him to hope as strongly as he wished that a nation so worthy of the interest of all others, from its antiquity, its valour, the services which it in former times rendered to Europe, and from its misfortunes, mild have been restored to its ancient and complete independence. But the ques tion had become foreign to France by anterior trea ties ; it is no longer any thing but a simple affair of partition and of limits, and there remains to Frauce only the wish that you should he satisfied with the result of your discussions, and to be so herself if you were so. The disposal of Saxony, according to the chtims now set up, pernicious as an example, will be espe cially so by its influence on the general balance of Europe; a balance which consists in the recipro cal force of aggression and force of resistance be hinging to political bodies. France, like Austria, may say with truth, that she cherishes no feeling of jealousy or animosity against Prussia ; and that it is precisely because she has a sincere regard for her, that she cannot wish to see her obtain apparent advantages, which, acquired by injustice and dangerous to Europe, will sooner or later become destructive to herself. Let Prussia acquire all that she can legitimately obtain; France will not only not oppose but will be the first to ap. plaud this ; and if cessions on the part of the King of Saxony are necessary in order to restore to Pros sia an existence equal to what she had in 1805, the King of France will be (he first to press that Prince to make such as the interest of Austria, and the in terest of Germany may permit, which in this point constitute the interest of Europe. D BIM 1r..L.1N E THEATRE. LAI+ INTELLIGENCE. TE L LIGE NCE. -_ —40...._ Mr. KEAN assumed for the first time last night COURT Ole CtrA,NCER Y. FEL 13. the cheracter . of Reuben Glenroy, in Town and This being the last day. of Hilary Term, several Country, and by the excellence of his exertions con- motions were made of a peremptory nature. firmed and increased his fame. The style of this BOOTLE V. BLUNDELL. Comedy, one of the best which MORTON has pro. ' The LORD CHANCELLOR, imniedistely on his en. duced, indeed offers many speeches, and its plot many tering the Court, pronounced himitedgment on the ' situations, which powerfully 'assist the performer ; motion for a new trial, of this impoilket cause. and even ije in the is deprived closet, where the work began by stating, that he had read, with e mu of the illusions of scenery, and the energy of action, attention, the answer of the Defendint, the tlep n . cannot fail to delight the mind and affect the heart. sitions of the profestional gentleman *ballad m a d e But these aids, however propitious to mediocrity, the late Mr. Blundell's will and codicil could never raise it into greatness. Like the quarries ; and lastly, the short-hand cotes of what passe up n ,',- ;of Faros, they only supply precious materials, which the trial at Lancaster. His Lordship entered ve ry the chisel of a dunce may torture into something like much at large into the impression produced on the human shape, but to which the soul of a PHIDEAs mind by these several documents ; that neither can alone impart the • true proportions, the elegance, and the beauties of real life. In the hands of Mr. the will nor codicil could possibly be impeached.. His Lordship also expressed his opinion that s KEAN, they were cast into the most perfect mould. will of real property could not be established i s Reuben Glenroy is a mixture of bluntness and of , equity unless the three ttitnesses to it were all o f humanity, of sound reason and acute feeling, them examined, which he 000sidered as a g ene . great self.command and spotless honour. Like the ral rule; and that as but one attesting whites, flint, with a rough outside, it contains a bosom of had been examined in the Court of Law, h e fire. It is, in fact, a counterpart of Mr. KEAN'S should have thought this cause a fit subject for a genius; nature shines equally through both, and second issue. But he apprehended it was competent when employed in enlightening each other, their ito the heir at law to wave any benefit the law gave mutual excellencies incorporate, and form a gem of him. lie might have waved the issue before it was unsurpassed brilliancy. Were we to descend to par- : granted, and when it was granted, he was at liberty titulars, even after the most severe scrutiny, we 1 upon the trial to wave the necessity of examining the should not be able to mention any passage marked three witnesses. His Lordship then said, that spot with weakness or inattention ; whilst such a crowd reading the short-hand notes, he was of opinion Mr. of beauties would present themselves as would 2soon Blundell had given the matter up, adding, "Al. compel us to generalise again. We shall, therefore , I though my opinion is that no will shall be established"' confine ourselves to the scene in which he learns the . i if the heir at law wishes it, unless all the witnesses supposed elopement of Rosalie, and that in which i are examined, and although when this Court directs he thinks he meets the man whom he thinks her an issue, it is an erroneous notion if it is thought te seducer, whose life he bad saved ; to whom he be a species of investigation that is to be carried oa relates ke tale of his blasted happiness, and whom he in the same manner as an i jectment. For it is as persuades to marry the girl for whom his heart i 1 inconsistency to say, that if a will is to be proved by In these it would have been impossible to express the I still beats with lore and breaks with despair. three witnesses in thi • Court, those witnesses are not ;all to be examined upon the trial at law ; yet (guards varying feelings of nature, and that reviving energy le of mind, which ultimately controlled them all, ing the case as a precedent) I think lam bound say that I ought not to grant a new trial, for the hew with more force and fidelity. Had Mr. KEAN never at law has judged for himself at the trial; and I played more than these two scenes iu his life, we state this with the less reluctance, b 'cause lam per. should feel no hesitation to pronounce him one of seeded that it is quite impossible that the heir at law the greatest expounders of human passions that have should ever be able to shake this will,,or the codicil." ever ascended the stage. A most crowded house Merited to share our opinion, and the universal ap- This was a novel motion made AYLAM O. ATLA b S! y Sir. S. ROISU LT , please, the shouts of hundreds, and the waving of hats throughout the Pit, which attended the close of supported by Mr. HORNEit. is performance, were renewed with equal enthu- It was an application for ad order to examine i this cause a person who was the attesting witness tea siasm when it was announced for Saturday next. deed, without which the Plaintiff's title could not be It won'd be unjust to DOWYON, MuNDEIi, KNIGHT, supported. and WALLsce, not to say that their exertions in The Learned Counsel admitted that it was a we. their respective parts kept pace with those of Mr. tion of the first impression, for which hehad net bees KEAN, and that all of them were greeted with sm. able to find a precedent, since allesecb orders were ral rounds of applause at their appearance, and re. grounded on the facts of the witness sought to be Elm. peated marks of the public approbation throughout the performance. RAE, Who, with Mrs. GLOVER, mined' de bent esse, being in dangerous sickness, and likely to depart this life before the time of trial—et Mrs. Home, Mrs. lisaLowe, and Mrs. SPARKS, had being above the age of 70 years—neither of *hide hat comparatively little to do, also did that little with was the ease here. them in the best manner possible; and we have never T t he h i egrounds iu this case for the onskodes.. wom b SOeti a Comedy, in which every part was better sus. i material sitnesa was now moles ssmipittal . hatted, and harmonized that so well into a rich and faith- . in prison upon a charge of cap i tal felony, fi ne Je s s i e fell picture of claimers and pauions.. 1 he might be convicted and executed before ths'iStie , of trial, and, of course l his testimony lost as stoll as the cause. The LORD CHANCELLOR asked, if nay case like It could be cited ? and being answered in the negative, observed, that it required serious consideration how to dispose of such a motion ; and, therefore, promised, that in a few days, after every enquiry possible, be should give the best judgment in his power.—Jude mint was postponed. His Lordship rose early to atteld a ColkaiL Beewuns.—When Malt (says a Correspondent), was at 9%5. Porter was sold at sd. per pot; now it is about 70s. and Porter is 54d. per pot. The amount of the superfluous profit of one penny a pot will ap pear from the under statement:— MS to 1814. Profit of Id. Barclay 262,467 Bairels Z 157,580 4 0 bleue 161,618 99,3;7 6 0 ib.nnury 145,121 870/2 12 0 Whitbread 141,104 84,662 8 0 H. Nene 100,776 60,465 19 0 Calvert 100,571 51,134 12 0 Coombe 95,989 47410 16 0 MUM' OP KING'S BENCH, Fes. IS. . Goodwin 69,019 37,014 14 1 Mr. Jones moved for a rule to show cause wily Boxrec.—A baker, of the name of Mankth yes terday entered the ring with Croxley, at Wilsdon a Writ of Certiorari should not be directed to the Green, where a rope ring of 25 feet was formed at Magistrates of sessions in Berkshire, calling upon two o'clock.—Oliver, the Westminster hero, second- them to remove to this Court the proceedings in an ed Croxley, and the bottle-h o lde r was Scro*gins.— , information under the Game Laws, beard before Manby was seconded by It. Harmer and Paddington I them. The :-` , rmation in question was filed against Jones. Betting six to four on the tar. ft wou ld b e 1 two men, Western and another, and heard Wore iMpossible to give the rounds of this very manly fi g h t 1 two Magistrates, by whom the Defendants were con in detail.—They consisted of 12G, which occupied i victed, and ordered to pay certain penalties speci two hours. In the first rotted the baker made two i fled by the Act. The Defendants appealed against short hits and slipped up, without mischief on either ; this conviction to the Sessions, and the Magistrates side. Two blows were exchanged in the second ,at Sessions not alone confirmed the conviction, bat round, but the ground was slippery, and the baker further directed that the Defendants akeold be im went down by accident. In the thi r d rou nd, t h e prisoned three months, and at the expiration of that ' baker having got his proper length, he hit out and time, be forwarded to the military depot of. the. Isle drew first blood with his left hand on the head, and I of Wight, there to be enlisted to serve his Majesty, knocked the sailor down with his right. Jack Ito inflict which punishment the Vagrant • Act em looked about him, and went in again undauntedly I powered them. Mr. Jones msde his motion, first, to the fight.—The fourth round was also in favour ! upon the ground of informality in the information ; of the baker, who planted a heavy blow, which' and, nest, upon the fact of the conviction having forced much blood again. Betting was now six to taken place subject to the opinion of the Court s of four oh the baker, but the odds fluctuated materially ! King's Bench. He did not place muck reliance every ten minutes, for the state of the ground was ; upon these points, but the Defendants, from the n eigh that there was no certainty in planting blows.— I verity of their sentence, conceived themselves bound Tbe seventh was a good rallying round, and the ' in duty to themselves, to seek the' oplisivre of la sailor received a severe blow on the neck, which higher Court than that before which they had been caused much blood to flow inwardly from the ear convicted. throughout the battle. Croxley turned the odds in hale Nisi granted, to show cause at Chambers. his favour again after this, and kept it until the 84th WILSON V. KEMP. • round by determined fighting, each haring made a In this case the Court held that in the case of an I gallantstruggle. The baker took the lead again for Insolvent Debtor, who, after he had been discharg several rounds after the 84th, and he gave his ad- .ed under the Insolvent Act, made a promise to pay Iversary two very clean cross-buttocks. In the 100th' a debt incurred previous to that event, was not liable round both were s o e x h aus t e d, th a t th ey wen t d own , to arrest, and was entitled to his dis c h ar ge upon upon their faces, and were unable from weakness to "tun" bail. The debt should be considered as re... extricate themselves without the assi s t a nce o f th e i r i 'rived, and a ground of action e s t a bli s h e d b y common seconds. Tice baker got weak soon after this, and . boil Process only- Croxley won at last, but with much difficulty. Both 1 WEOTT V. DUNN. men showed determined courage throughout the i In this case, which was an nction for Clint. COIN —a new trial was granted, u p on t h e groun d of Bre fight, and weight brought the sa il or through.---A Defendant not haying had a n o p por t un ity t o b r i ng i lecond battle was fought bet ween t wo hack ne y. Soachmen. _ , witnesses in his defence. This being the last day of the Term, dig Ot* proceedings were of an uninteresting nature. ;~ r;, !Tr S;t Tt b. I Coo ►rt Ri Ri, It