The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-08-27 00:00:00

~,-- NArLitt INTRLLIGENCE. DEAL, Avo. W.—Arrived last night and sailed for the River the Norfolk Hero, Doily, from To bago ; Albion, Allen, from Nliramichi.—Cime dowo from the River the Paragon, IKoei,e, for Calcutta ;* Thalia, Coulson, for Madeira ; Cyrus, Hall, for the south Seas : the whole h.tve sailed incept the Ninon, which ship remains in the Dnarlis with the Cicero, fur the South tiers ; Princess Mary, for the Veit Indies; end several others—particulars un- - known. PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 213.—Arrived the Venus, Peck, from London for New York ; and schooner Lord bololgnite, Moppet*, from Plymouth, with ordnance stores, and sailed again to the Eastward.— C4me into Harbour his Majesty's ship Driver, to be paid off —A large American s hip i s l ay i ng too oat side f if the Letige, and refuses to come . in, iu conse quence of her light money being 701. ThelAtl) Sherhroke,Phelan,Newfoondland,esoght ire in Waierfood Riser, en the 24th inst. and was sank. The hienr), --, of North Shields, was fallen in' aro h, 4 ,nu the 301 h ult. in lat. 49. 9.0. long. 39 43. wrf. , r-logg.(1, bowsprit and foremost carried away, the upper i►srt of the latter lying along the deck—all hf r. cattle., hangers, warps, rails, and provisions token sway. aNn the wormer chests and bedding; th• 4 (Irk'. (:earth remained on deck, and a boat with the 04111 P o: •• Jno. Chaplin," on the stern, and o ie anchor on the larboard.bow, by the Collins, Woud. ENG LISII OPERA.IJOUSE. The Privateer, a comic Opera, founded on Cud *ARLAND'S Play of The Brothers, and prodeced at the Lyceum its years ago with greet applause, was last Hied revived with no less success. In the first act, Mrs. CuarrEaLxv, who sestaiiied the part of Kole tin, was much indisposed. and could not proceed without difficelty. Mr. Barmay, on this being observed, came forward'and informed the audience that Mrs. CuartauLEY had kindly under taken to appear that night, that it might n•it be tie ci.s.ary to change the performances, though her bealth was in such a stale, that they must have per. ceived if. would have been mare prudent in her to have remained at borne. As she had come forward • in assist the Theatre, and (as she hoped) to gratify the Public, he trusted she would experience their usual indulgence. This 'Adieu was well received, !entl.Mra. LUATTERLEY met with the kindest moo. ragement. NUMAN, in the Junior, and Ettoannuarr, in • the Senior Insipid, eseried o.eir vocal pooess with grest ',t4Tefit. HARLEY, as Ironsides, gave a very satiafacrory portrait of the rough old Tar. The gharacielistic klutitness and rude honesty of the privatsering Captain, he depicted with great force • and humour, and was t wiry encored. Isxxcs, in Coothcin, ~ b ittitted moth applause ; sat) CHATTER LEY was very aukuaing in Sir Benjamin Dove. Miss KELLY pourtr , i)ed, with ail her wonted skill, the o ,p.ayful mirth and .cote sensibility of Sophia. Lastit •41 Dove and Gioodicin's Daughter were very fairly re.. pre•ented by Mrs. Gacive used Miss J. *mamas * and the result was ail that could be desired. Laugh. tee and applause attended the Opera to its clnse, and i• t was announced for repetition this evening amidst the acclamations of a crowded and elegant audience. ' It is certainly of its kind a drama of the first order, and its revisal reflects such credit on the taste of the Manager. STAGIe COACIIEb.-- At 9 Meeting o f the T r ustees o f Wrotham Death-road, lately held at Malting, iw Kent, to take into consideration the accident tableh recently occurred on that goad, and the Wiry see. taiued by the passengers, in consequence of a coach, travelliug at • furious rate down a bill, was overset, and 10 persons precipitated from the etset• it was ordered, that if the Gate-keepers tew the road shall wiled to give information spinal Drivers of Stage Coaches for offences oessitted by them egainst the Act, they shall be imam. diately discharzed from keeping the gate, and any fresh warrant refused them.. And that they way not plead ignorance, it was ordered that an Ea tract of the Offences and Penalties contained in the Act for regulating stage Coaches, be printed in large characters, and sent them; and that cards, adapted to the sit,• of the pocket, describing the some Offences anti Penalties. be printed, and distri- buted gratis, to any persons who may apply for them, at the Clerk's Office, in Town Malting. This is a regulation well deserving the adoption of the Trustee.; of every road in the kingdom. In the case above alluded to, the owner was fined 401. and J. Salmon, the driver of the stage coach, 101. for fo rieusly (Living ; and the latter not having appeared en his summons, a warrant has been issued to commit him to the County jail for three n n tnths. We uoderstaittl4be grouse have been very numerous this year, and no where mote so than in the Marquis of fluirror's Moors. The Duke of BEDFORD and another Gentleman, on the 14th, killed 72 brace, out of which his Grace bagged 37 brace and • half. On the following day his Grace killed 38 brace, and was home each day by three o'clock. The remains of General KLEBER were, on the 18th instant,. to he removed from the chateau of If to Marseilles, ft ton whence they are to be conveyed to Streshurgh, his native city, and deposited by the sidle of those of Marshal SAXE. Mr. and Mrs. BARTLEY are preparing for a trip to America on the close of the English Opera. The Egham races commenced on Tuesday, bet al. though the sports were excellent the course was bat thinly attended, and there was not that equipage which .formerly graced the Ronnymeade, and certain ly fewer people from London were never seen. The building of the new Military Club-House, Waterloo. place, has cost upwards of thirty thousand pounds. Friday morning,' : while Mr. Evans, a uctioneer, of was gelling some lots of furniture in a room erected over a brewbouse in 134-411-street, that town, the floor gave way, and all the persons present were precipitated Into the space below. Three people were much hurt s and taken to the hospitaJ t apd others injured. r - 7 V fa asauszsay go LISV $ _ aiLLIA NG& L It- is stated. Ma the. Emperor of Aestrit has for bidden his subjecii in his Italian dominions, to print sty work, until it has been submitted to the Censor. There all the labours of the poet, politician, philoso pher, and writers of every description, intended for the press, must be submitted to the inspection of some slavish lairs of the Court. This Is one of the blessed tyska of the conduct of the Holy Alliance Gentry, who openly laugh at mankind, and believe that they 'possess the divine right of chaining the minds of their subjects, as well as fettering their bo. dies. Such a birbaroes attempt to check the spread of knowledge,• might have been made in past ages eithoot notice; bet, in the present day, the outrage creates alarm; god whilst its mischief is condemned, its folly is despised, es its elects not only injure the subject, bet also sap the foundation of the Throne. . Power happily loses its vigour, when employed against the social rights of man ; and those who would place, others ender the curse of Ignorance, suffer themselves from the evil they would n osed. Toe vanity, the imbecility, and the ty. rannical inclination of the Ministers of the Legiti• mates, are daily beconsh.g more apparent : the reno. seams of the terrible, but sacred, Inquisition in Spain—the restoretioo of the ancient fooleries in France—the seestwal of the religions antics at Naples. —the procrastination of the Wog of Prussia of the long promised Representative Government—the abo lition of all liberty of the press in the German and Italian States—the annihilation of the ancient privi leges of the Genoese, end the diabolical dismember ment and distribution of Venice, Finland, Norway, and Poland, against the will of the. People, to satisfy the huge appetite of legitimacy, cry to Heaven against these Counsellors for redres. In the minds of those who know the condition of subjects on the Conti. pent, the cruel policy of its Governments mites no astonishment ; where the Governors profess the mon strous faith of many made for one, there the one, as Ig g i_eglie has the ability, will treat the many as his caprice directs or bis whim dictates. Whilst millions 'really enough to bear with patience the innumerable calamities which pride inflicts, they will be regarded by their masters, not as flier,. but as machines; not as human beings, but as beasts of burthen, which they may eseas they please. T. e comfort, the happiness, the int. provement of the People, will be left to chance, or be re strained by the tulle hand of authority, when Ruth°. rity considers that either their improvement or their happiness is inconsistent with i.s desires. Uttswed by fear, holding justice in contempt, it boldly pun. sues its way to dominion ; and, bounding its views only by its inclinations, covers its path with ruin, unshaded by remorse. Whilst the mass of society marches rapidly on to the temple of • isdom, its di rectors and rulers bend their steps toward the ease of ignorance. Old prejudices fill the seat of r f.a.i o n ; an tique notions cloud the judgment; and worn•out magi= guide ton many of those, who, from their rank and influence, ought to be foremost among sages End philosophers. Inattentive to the progress of civilization, they act as if folly was the best substitute for knowledge, and at If benevolence and since were of less estimstion than glaring pomp and splendid show. Instead of gently gliding on the stream of opinion, weak as they are, they throw themselves into the torrent, and try to stem its strength: they galenist their powers in vain projects to role by force, rather than by love; they court ad miration, and twits contempt, and, by their wheal. colaticuts. undermine the authority they wish to pre. serve. They trust to the bayonet, not to the laws, and perceive more virtue in the sword, than inks. tice, beneficence, and mercy I—The greatest insult that can be offered to the human understanding, Is to compel mankind to read only such works as Bile Courtiers permit—works, which tend to res. tier map submissive to oppression, and heedless of public wrongs. It is the armed force alone, passive and obedient to the will of the despot, on which he relies, whoa thus he tramples on his fellow-mortals ; it is the fear of these tigets of civilized society, that perpetrates the miseries of nations, god protects the vices of Governments. Were there us men se de praved as to become the willing slaves of tyranny, there would be no tyrants. The confederacy against mankind now so openly avowed, will necessatily produce either abject slavery or intestine wars. If the People of the Continent quietly resign themselves to the will of their oppressors, thence will follow ig norance, poverty, stretehedness, and despair ; if , they conteud against their oppressors, contention, confusion, anarchy, and destruction, will mark their career. Wise Statesmen would try to avert the ills of tyranny and anarchy ; try to provide a shield for the oppressed, and to procure for Sovereigns every prerogative useful to mankind. lint in vain do we seek for such wisdom among German Ministers : they own no abhorrence of slavery, feel no disgust of despotism ; mere creatures of precedent, mill. horse or ceremony, rigid. votaries of custom, they know no liberty but the liberty of the file, no rights but those which are to lie found in the imperial rescript. Even the Regency of our gracious Sovereign, issued in his Majesty's electorate, in the year 1794, a Royal Ordinance, to prohibit the proprietors of libraries from lending any books, not included in their catalogues delivered to the Police: and this disgustful document, so roach at variance with the general conduct of our good old King, ends than :—" Also immediately to seise such 'writings, mentioned in the catalogues, as are known to he DASGEKOUS or PROHIBITED, but in doubtful Wes to apply to our Regency for further instruct. 'ions." This is enough to make us pray to Goo to prevent Englishmen from imbibing German notions, following German policy, associating with German Ministers, or admiring German slavery. Ppsterity will unwillingly give credence to the Historian, when he describes the projects of the Congress and their consequences, that Britain, once the freest of the free, sanctioned its plundering!, countenanced its ra pacity, and participated in Its misdeeds; but, with horror will it view the ground of its defence, which Lord Castlereagh designated by the name of 6 ' tnrilexpediency,"—a preparation for the nest mighty game of murder. that will be played for the amuse. ',tent of the GREAT I. THE STAITSM.kN - M.l.===. MR. ARBUTHNOT:I::: - ' k't AL ANIWIIINOTT TO THE COMMANIIING 011/Cit PORT GAINES. "White Risen March 3, ISM " The Read Chiefs request I will enquire of tttr. why American settlers lire descending the Chemis*. cbie, driving the poor Indian from his habitatioa tnd taking possession of his home and cultivated elds. Without authority, I can claim nothing Ore* you; bet, a humane and philanthropitiprincipla gold in me, I hope the 'mot *ill influence )m.; and 'if such is really the este, and that the hue marked out by the Treaty of Peace between Great Britain and the United States, respecting the Indian nations, has been Infringed by any of the Gideon' of the latter, •you will represent to them their improper conduct, and prevent its continuance. " I have in my possession a letter, received from ~he Governor of New Providence, addressed to him by his Blitennie Majesty's Chief ecretary of State, informing him of orders giien to the British Ambas sador at Washington, to watch over the interests of the ,Indlan nations, and see their rights are faithfolly at tended to and protected, agreeably to the Treaty of Peace made between the British and the Americans. " I ion in hopes that ere this there is arrived at New Providence • person from Great Britain, with authority to act as agent for the Indian nations; and if so, it will 4;evolve upon hint to see that the boundary lines, as marked out by the Treaty, are not infringed." COPT 01 A TALK CENT FROM VIII HRITIett AGM IN RM.? FLORIDA TO THE RIO WARRIOR, HRAD-CUIRt OT TUC ORME NATION OF INDIANs : When the English made peace with the Americans, they incleded the whole of the Indian nations, viz. Creek, Choctaw, Ci•ickssew, and Cherokee. Those nations were paranteed in the quiet pomession of their lands, arid the Americans engaged to give ep seek lands of the Indians as they had taken possession of duriug the war. If they have not done so, or if they have been making further encroachments, the chiefs have only to represent their complaints and the aggressions of the Americans to the Governor of New Providence, who witi forward them to England, er get them con ge,ed to the British Minister at Washington, who has dots from the King of England to see that the rights of the nations above mentioned are protected, and the stipulations contained in the Treaty, in their favour, are faithfully carried into elocution. The Am' deans have no wish to go to war ; they will not, therefore, do any thing contrary to the Treat„ and what encroachments have been made moat he without the knowledge of the Chief of the Am►rican Gosernment; and so soon as he is in formed thereof by the Brisish Minister at Washing. ton, he will order the American people who have taken possession of Indian lands, to draw back 40 their own posaeasions. The Indian nations are all one great family; they possess lands their great forefathers handed down to them, and they ought to hand then► down entire to their children. If they sell their land, what do they receive for it ? Nothing that will last. It is wasted away in a few years. Whether, therefore, they sell or give it away, they are robbing their children of the inheritance they had a right to expect. As a great family they ought to live as such with each other ; let the four nations join in bonds of brother ly love; let them smoke the pipe of peace; let the , cultivation of their hods be their chief object dur ing spring and summer, and hunting their diversion during •hiter, and the produce of their labour will be bought by good people, who will come and deal with them phen they know there is any thing to be purchased for goods or money. If the Americans or other nations live near them, let them live in friendship with them, and keep op e good understanding, bet on no account sell or give away any of their lands. IL recommend this as a 'fiend of humanity and of good order, Okelokoa, March 11,1917. A. ARBUTHNOT?. The Had Chiefs of the Upper Creek nation hove desired me. Oponey, to get the straight for them; what is written in the foregoing I believe to be the true and straight talk received from an Englishman who carried two Deputies to New Providence, and has returned with them to Okolokne. I, Oponey, have been sent by you, the Head Chiefs of the Upper Creek natioo, to see the Seminole Indians; I bate done so; they lies quietly and peaceably, and wish to do so, with all their Red Brethren in every part of the nation. Opoy Hatch° has desired me tin see those things : I have done so: end see all quiet, and had the talk I now send you, end shaken hoods with the friend oho gave it me. That the friend I have met came over with goods by desire of the Chiefs of the lower towns, and is a true friend to the-Indians. The various and tontine talks that you send se from time to time, anon be made by some person, an sweaty to all us Red Brethren, and ought not to be' listened to; let inc know who they are, end seed:mil inenswer 11. soon as possible to the present talii:,:-A ; ” - ' qrqs lilt, Nast work. Witten by order of the ofeillseid Opewey, the 11th March, 1817. As ARBUTHNOT?. Whew, ARON MOM - A merry Hibernian was brought before the Magi'. crates, on Thursday last, at the Town.hall, at Brigh. ton, for drunkenness, and was ordered -to pay.ss. lar be placed in the stocks. Pat, however, remarked that he should never forgive himself if he chose either ; theegh he had no fear of the first, net having silt peace in the world, and it was not a proper thing for a man in his circumstances to be dabbling in the Stocks._ DAntoo Rososay.—Yesterday morning, about eine o'clock, as the family of Mrs. Clarke, in Lower Grosvenor-piece, were at breakfast in the kitchen, a fellow got over the railings into the indoor (she window being open on account of its being fresh painted), and took from the side•board'a •eleable clock, with which he made his escape. The robbery was not discovered for some time-afterwards. About 11 o'clock a man passed by tho house handcuffed, with the identical clock, having offered it for sale In • very suspicious manner. JHrs. C. bag Wolfed it as her prope►ty. .~„_ . , LAS CAS. ! '-a 7. .! --• A 'hank, entitled "Memoirs or Collie Latr y ine, o v . Vitas neon pablistled. We subjai an ettiact hum a letter *riven by him to Lucien Donapsrte 2--• "On ifilving as LonA'iriOlii:fit? Emperor enriedo v,oured to take oh , itniiAsek • the • os•1111.ei ordinary activit y of his fatly Of e rende red et*? it.' terreption of it dangeirons for him, and vi* ; perhaps already, that Coivis4rt recommended this species of eserilse to him, by stise of fprereotiv• et a disesie with which lie is lb eslentsit The brOolidsa 1411 within which' we could range, without bell/ Ora [unintended by strangers, were pretty limited. 'rhull . gmperor, k is well known, is accustomed to long siolent riding;., but here the limited apace, the , ialw tomtit) , of the place, rho constant unaasied which gave his rides in seine mea.ure the appekrapee api a mallege lesson, filled him with &alma., • sod Ins , Was soon induced to renounce that pleasetwaltoo gather ; and neither our eihortiitioas nor air *root aatteaties could ever afterwards induce Mm to alter his resolution. • It is improwllde for me,' be Mould say, • to tern myself In So cosiiined a cirri,* *hew I have a horse under me, Ai fro, it • tousles' desire to give it the rein; and this is a desire which I nous gratify here; it is p torture which cannot heat: The island is from SS to SO =UM in circumference. 'rite Emperor was allowed to ride ewer every pert et ' it outlet the seperinteodesee of an Eliglisk. ; bet this is a ceastrelet toybieb be could emir NA belt kisaself. 66 Neither the Mersin :sin the colour of the elotb, ofr his being surrounded by men of Wdiferent na. don, Is au annoyance to the littejiiteiret kr,' says he, • whoever hes received the baptises of dre le, In my eyes, of the same religion t' but he miter wished to go into the open air except for recreation t on sects an occallolt he might have wen desirous of epenine his heart to es 'Wheat reserve, bet the pretence of:a stranger would have rendered this imposoilele; he might have been dispoied for a moment to kip/ his unfortunate situation, but the presence of his jailer would have perpetually recalled it to his rement. braece. • Every thing In human life,' he *aid: ',is settject to calculation, and evil and good mart be balanced : the good which would accrue to my body is try no means eqintl ,to theinjory Which my mind mast thereby necessarily suffer. • " One day Admiral Cockburn, with much entire tesy, espressed a eillingness to allow greater fiber'? to the Emperor when be rode out ; but this was but for a single day, for the following morning, whether he repented of what he hot done, or had some other reasosi, it was pretended that there had been a mile unilerstaniling, sod so the matter was dropt. " Th. principal occupetiiin of the Emperor con. sists in reading in his apartment, or in dictating to one of us the chief events of his life. Tie time spent in tit. Helena will not be altogether lost for Naiory and the glory of France. The campaigns of Italy and Egypt are already written; Mils a work worthy of the great subject of it; it belonged to bias who performed these is otsdera to dearribe them. Th. Emperor has seq hied the Enellsh language s and to me the fame is due of having instructed him its it ; in less than 30 lessons he was able to enderstan4 the English Journals; he now reads already every English work. • • • • • • " The openness and honesty of Admiral Malcolm, in particolar, deserves to be mentioned in high terms of praise; nor i;ritability in our misery, as well as the peculiarity of his official situation, have aloes prevented us from giviag expression to the feelings which he and Lady Malcolm, far whose character we have the most cordial regard, have excited in our breasts. " One day this Admiral, in a coversation with us, -happened accidentally to discover that we hod no shade, and that we had it in contemplation to procure a teat for the Emperor under which he might occa sionally pass the day. Not long after this covet ss tion the Emperor was enabled to take his breakfast in a specious tent tepidly constructed oot of the sails of the frigate. This was a piece of European politenest, which was here quite unespected by us, and it could not fail, therefore, to produce on us a deep impres eon. The Emperor has often used, and still uses this tent, but not always without interruption. flow often on she approach of a troublesme enemy has ha been obliged to break I.ff in the middle of his conver sation or dictation I Ile would then say, ' let us re. torn to our but ; they grudge use even the fresh air which I here breathe.' " Every thing, even down to the aunt petty de. tells, betrays the personal character and disposition of our jailer ; he pots into our hands the Journals in which we are harshly treated, and keeps from us those in which we are spoken of in less hostile terms; he retains the works which are favourable to us, un der the preteat that they did not come through the heeds of the Ministry, and be displays the utmost zeal in furnishing es with every libel against us from I his own private library." daysege,.atr.leate workmen were opening sp e ems pia* oflFeld it the fost of Donsinnatte bill, in which arc still some remains of Macbeth's vitrified fart, they came upon an ern of considerable dimensions, containing half•calcitieni human bones. It seemed to have base completely cowered with large stones, end was a good way below the present seance of the ground. Circumstances make it highly probable that the deposit was made after the battle which was fought in that place in 1054, between Siwaid end Macbeth. The ern is in the possession of J. M. Naito, Esq. of Donsinnane. Mr. BRAC1[••111.1•1r, fOrMegli a celebrated thane. ten ea the Tort, died a few days ago at his seat of Raithby Hail, near Spiliby, in Yorkshire, in the 66th year of his age. By bls will, he has left 10001. to the Bible Society. A paragraph appeared in our Paper of Saturday lest (copied fronts MorningJoernal),stating,t bat as a dray belonging to Messrs. Weekly was proceeding etung Ster.eorner, Bermondsey', (see of the wheels came in contact with a cart 'high was standing by the side of the road ; that the cart was upset by the shock, and a MR who was Inside had both his leis broken, and was taken to St. Themes'. nospitol. We are de. sired to contradict the statement, as being utterly SWIM. I •• c t iu ar' its 1511 I P ° EIS. ~:itra ~ ~' i~ ‘l 1 i }: