The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-12-07 00:00:00

on e k the French Colonies, born since, has been born free. There are laws passed by the same Legislature which emancipated the Colonies stfll in force; why should this one be abrogated? Why should a Government which professes to act upon liberal and Christian principles, and can alone be supported by acts of justice and magnanimity, at tempt thus to disfranchise and reduce to the level of beasts of burthen, men who are giving proofs of a capability of redeeming their species from imputations injurious as they are unjust? Why will they willingly darken the prospect which has arisen of perfecting, by the most natural and likely of all means, the ci vilisation of the millions yet sunk in barbarism and mental darkness ? Lee them look at the crimes, the perfidies, the outrages, which this document details, committed by Frenchmen, and then let them talk of superior civilization and refinement. Let us hope a repetition of these will not stamp an everlasting blot on the mild reign of Louis XVIII. The Manifesto expresses a hope, not indeed marked with much confidence, that the independence of Hayti will be recognized by Louts; but the expedition for the subversion of St. Domingo, and the statement that Martinique and Guadaloupe have been de livered up to France, will not allow us to repose any extraordinary confidence in that hope which • we could so fondly cherish, and which the nes . tions of England for the abolition of the Slave 'Trade, on which the Haytian Proclamation be. stows a just panegyric, have done so much to accomplish. We will, ;however, continue to believe and desire, from the gratifying signs of moral rege. aeration and improvement, and the resolutions manifested in the condoct and declaration of the in habitants of this extensive Colony, that the rank which the Queen of the Antilles, as Domingo has been styled, may yet enjoy among civilized State", and the influence and connection she is calculated to possess with the unlightened natives of the Conti nents which stand in need of the blessings she has received and can impart, may be the radius whence improvement shall be diffused to the Black inhabi. tants of every zone; and that from this focus. a con. siderable degree of benefit to the Negro tribes has al. ready emanated. The ties of interest and of nature, allowed to be extended is this way, by native sym pathies and similarities, will do much more to ac complish the object of civilization than all the white preachers that have been sent out to the black re gions of the earth. At Cape Henry there are about 5000 infantry and 1500 cavalry, with a very good park of artillery. The whole of the regular military establishment is calculated at 21,000 men, and the militia is said to consist of 33,000. Fort Henry, or the citadel of CitalsTonts, is a stupendous work, and appears im• pregnable. It is secured by its extraordinary ale sation from any sudden attack : its fortifications are constructed with great skill, and amply pro. sided with water within 1 it is supplied with previ sions and ammunition for six thousand men for two years. We have nothing fresh to-day from the European Continent. The current report on the subject of the Ghent negociations is, that es the British Com missioners lowered their terms, the Americans raised their's. The former, agreeably to their instructions, having agreed to give up the sine pus non of the Bri tish Government, the American Commissioners im mediately proposed, as a basis, tire status quo ante bedlam. In this state, it is said, matters are at Ghent, and that (without breaking off the Negotia tions) the Americans find it necessary to refer home for farther instructions. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the Fo.• reign Office, which sat till five o'clock. Commodore ()weir, who distinguished himself off 'Boulogne and the Dntch coast, has been sent for ex press to the Admiralty. It is mentioned that he is about to proceedato the Lakes with a large force; and it is added, that Sir JAMES YE°, from has requested to he relieved in the command. ;ow Sir SAMUEL Ron ILLT has been seriously indisposed from a neglected cold. He was attacked by an in flammation on the chest ; but we have the most lively satisfaction in stating, that he is out of danger, and in a fair way of recovery. The transport which sailed from Cork, and was supposed to have been lost in her passage to Queltec, I with 487 soldiers, and 24R women and children, on board, has been heard of. The Crocodile frigate, on approaching the desolate Wand of Anticosta, ob served a part of the crew of the transport on shore, where she had been wrecked; and succeeded in bring big away the survivors, who h-.d been on the island , 37 days. The Militia Regiments of Great Britain which re main embodied are the Bedford, Berks, Buckingham,' Cambridge, Carmarthen, Cheshire, Cumberland, Derby, Dorset, Essex, ast and West, Lancashire, lit, 94, and 3d, South Lincoln, Fast Middlesex, Monmouth and Brecon, Oxford, Salop, Somerset, Ist and 94, East Suffolk, Wiltshire, 2cl West York, North York, Ayr, Edinburgh, Forfar and Kincar dine, and Renfrew ; and of the Irish, the Artnagh,l , North Cork, Donegal, Londonderry, North Mayo, Roscommon, Tipperary, Tyrone, and Wexford. CORN-EXCIIANGS, OCT. 7.—Our market con tinues abundantly supplied with Wheat, for which there is so little denssud, that the sales are very limited, and our prices nearly nominal; no con siderable quantity could be got off, even at a reduction of from .24. to 4e. per qtsarter.—Birley is full Is. per quarter cheaper than oa Monday.—ln Peas, Beans, and other Grain, there is no variation.—At the close cf Monday's market, and after our statement of that day's prices was gone to the press, the fleet-factor reduced the price of Flour 6s. per sack. TR STAT.% rstic EDITOR or rue STATESMAN; Ste., , 4•The Navy List, " by mithority", for the present urontb, exhibits the following Catalogue of Qificers,,tiorr employed on the Impress Service, vit. General Rendezvous, Tower-Hill—One Captain, Three Lieu tenants. Bristol-08e Captain, Two Lieutenants. Cark--One Captain. Two Lieutenants. Dublin—One Captain. Two Lieutenants. Falmouth—Duty performed by Olken of the Guardship. Fowey (Cornwall}—One Lieutenant. Gosport—One Captain, Three Lieutenants. Greenock—One Captain, Two Lieutenants. ..- • Leith—One Captain, Two Lieutenants. Liverpool—One Captain, Three Lieutenants. Shields—One Captain, Four Lieutenants. Now, Sir, reduced as the existing Parliamentary' Vote for Seamen stands, and there being consequently immense numbers discharged, I humbly presume if any man in England can devise a plausible pretext for keeping up such a List of Officers, with their pro. portionate number of subordinates, on the above enormously expensive establishment, he will, at least,. not lack ingenuity. Ido not sag a reason Wed Igoe be found.—l am, Sir, your humble servant, HORATIUS (MINIUM. linterprize Farm, Surrey, Dec. 4. no THE EARL 0 livEttpooll . - carrying 65 goes , as be stated in bi -11, t 'official report t ON THE AMERICAN WAIL i Which report, by-the-bye, fully justifies our Mud. . • — .NW— . - I ratty as to Lake Erie. I take the following para . reams cos IM P 8 excise:lE4 . I graph from his report to his Government upon this 1.4.1ThR 1. - , ' occasion :—" I also beg your instructions respecting MY Loßb,—From the report of year speech, on the wounded. lam satisfied, Sir, that whatever steps the Bth inst. it appears very clearly, that your Lord- I might fake governed by humanity would meet your ship is, by the reporter, made to entertain an opi- approbation. Under this impression, I have taken nioh, that the DIVISIONS amongst the American upon myself to promise Capt. Barclay, who is very people are already such, that we tesy rationally dangerously wounded, that he shall be landed as hope, by a continuation of tie war, to produce near Lake Ontario as possible, and I had no doubt either a compliance with any conditions, or an over- you would allow me to plrote him. Ile is snider the throw of the Union, in which Union alone consists impression that nothing but leaving this part of the the stre ngth aed the prospect o f f u t ur e grea t n ess i n country w ill save hi s lif e . T here is also a Humber that rising and' fast-grbwing Republic. The words, of Canadians among the priscuers, many:rsko have as given in the report of your speech, were these : families." "He (the Earl of Liverpool) had seen much stronger I Captain Lawrence, in the brig liornetitt .lk tacked justifications of the conduct of our forces at Wash- and sunk, in 15 minutes, our beig the Peacocic, killing ington, which had been published in America, than between 30 and 40 of her milli, while the Hornet any that had been published even in this country. lost but one man killed and two *minded. Thos Not only were they not more hostile to us, but the says the American report. Ours I have not at hand. -reverse was the case. In places even where the Bri- Then comes the following letter ; New York, i fish arms had been successful the people had shown 27th .11(r.ch. 1814. " Ste,—We, the surviving Of- I themselves in our favour, and had seemed well dis- ficers of his Britannic Majesty's late brig Peacock, posed to put themselves under our protection."— beg leave to return you our grateful acknowledg- Your Lordship is net singular in your opinion, if it ' meets for the kind attention and hospality we expe be your opinion. It is the general opinion in this rienced during the time that we remained on board country. How that -opinion has been created - and the United States sloop Hornet. So much was done kept alive, I will not now enquire. The means to alleviate the distressing and encomfortable sites.. made use of for this purpose, the " most thinking lion in w hi c h we were p l ace d, w h en rece i ve d on people" know nothing o f. They have opinions fur- . board the sloop you command, that vie cannot better nished them by others as regularly as soldiers or impress nor feelings then by saying, ' lfe ceased to sailer, are served with rations. The lower class are,. . consider ourselves prisoners;' and every thing from their poverty, wholly without the pale of in. i that friendship could dictate was adopted by you, and formation true or false, and appear to know and the officers of the hornet, to remedy the inconve care as littleabout the acts of the Government, and 1 . nience we would otherwise have experienced front the state of public affairs, as the earth, or any other the unavoidable loss of the whole of our property substance, on which they expend their time and their 'Tend clothes by the sudden sinking of the Peacock. !physical force. The middle class are so incessantly 1 Permit us then, Sir, impressed as we are with a I employed in pursuit of the means of keeping them- gra t e f u l sense o f your ki n d ness, f or ourse l ves an d ' selves from the horrors of pauperism, that they have: the other officers and ship's company, to return you no time for discussion or enquiry. Many persons,' and the officers of the Hornet our sincere thanks, in this class of life, have asked me, whether the ' which we shall feel obliged if you will commute- Americans could speak English. Few men in the sate to them in our name; and believe us to ramie, higher ranks of life {mow any thing worth speaking ' with a high sense of. the kind office; you have mo ot; with regard to the American Republic, a natiou rderiel us, your humble serritite,—P. A. Wright, Ist nearly equal in population to Great Britain, and in Lieutenant ; C. Lambert, 2d Lieutenant ; Edward hahited, as we now feel, by men full as enterprising Lott, Master; J. Whittaker, Surgeon; F. Donni. slid as brave as our own soldiers and sailors. Evert • throne Unwin, Purser; James Laurence, Esq, • the writers, who have fanned the flame of this I Vnnmander U. S: sloop Hornet."—The American bloody war, appear to know nothing at all about I papers added, upon this occasion, the Waling : I the real state of America ; for, though they have me ' " It is a fact worthy of uote, tied in the highest , desire to promulgate truth ; though it is their trade ' degree honourable to our brave tars„ that on the day Ito de( ive and cheat the people, they show by their ' succeeding the destruction of his Britannic Majesty's staten.Lnts, that they are ignorant of facts, which, brig Peacock, the crew of the Hornet made a sub. if they knew them, would make them able to de- ; scription, and supplied the prisoners (who had I 0 I eeive with less exposure to detection. This being I almost every thing) with two shirts, a blue jack :.e' 4 1 # 1 .( i the case, it is no wonder that the whole nation is in and trowsers each." la state of error as to this matter of primary import- Now, my Lord, without going into more parti.: 4 '. 7 i ance. On the day when the news reached the conn- callus, let me ask you, whether you think that this I try, relative to the capture of the City of Washing- conduct towards our officers was the effect of dist(- ton, I happened to call, on my way homewards faction towards their own Government, of dim). from Sussex, at the house of a gentleman, who was I probation of its conduct, or of hatred.of the war, likely to be as well informed as any other gentleman , and of " a disposition to put themselves under our in the country. as ti this or any other political oat- protection P' And, if you answer ‘ in the relative, ter. [Then follows the dialogue.] as you must, I suppose, why do you think, that the Such was, as nearly as I can recollect, the dialogue I humane treatment of our officers elsewhere indicates upon this occasion ; and, as lam sure, that the war such a disposition ? Does your Lordship see no pos ts continued in the hope, on the part of the nation,' tittle danger in dtawingsuch an Inference ? Do you at least, of deririug success from a breaking up of the think, that it is wholly out of all belief, that your Unroll in America, which lam thoroughly persuaded being reported to have drawn such an inference may we shall ni.t effect, or see take place, I will end's- reader the treatment of our officers, prsinners of your to show, that this my persuasion rests on good ! war, less humane and kind in future ? Seeing that grounds; and, if I succeed in this endeavour, I shall a disposition in an American citizen to put himself not yet abandon the hope, to which my Heart clings, under the protection of oar King is a disposition to of seeing peace speedily restored between the two commit treason, in the eye of the laws of his coon. countries, upon terms not injurious to the interest or try, would it be so very surprising, if, in future, character of eith.-r. the Americans should be very cautions how they ra in turning back, now, to the reported speech of posed themselves to the merit of such a compliment ? your Lordship, I perceive, and I perceive it with great 1 mast, however, do your Lordship the justice to regret, that you are, by the reporter, made to found observe here, that what the proprietors of our news your opinion of Americans' disaffection to their Go- papers have published as your speech, might never vernment, and of their attachment to our King, in have been uttered by you. I would fain hope, that part, upon the fact of their having treated our offi- they have, in this case, put forth, under your name, cers, prisoners of war, with great liberality and kind- the suggestions of their own minds. 1, therefore, ness. I noticed this in my last Number. 1 chat. ,comment on the thing as theirs and not as yours. lenge(' any one to show the instance, in which they In order to show, that there is no good founda had ever behaved cruelly to prisoners of war. I cited lion for the hope entertained by people liere, - ated so the memorable case of Mr. (now Sir Charles) Aegyll,. often expressed by our newspapers, of dividing the Re. and I appealed to their uniform conduct, during the public of America, I must go into a history of thepar present war, including the instances of Commodores ties which existin that Republic ; give an account of Bainbridge and Perry. But as the conduct of the their origin and progress, end describe their present former, in this respect, has been most basely slander- temper and relative force. The population is divided ed in some of our public prints, I will be somewhat into two parties; the REPUBLICANS and the more partite's, as to both instances, adding that of I FEDERALISTS. The latter also claim the title of Capt. Lawrence. i I Republicans, but it is, and, I think, we shall fend, Commodore Bainbridge captured the Java, off St. with justice, denied to them by the former. • Saleadere, on the 29th of December, 1812. His fri- l These two parties have, in fact, existed ever, since gate, the Constitution, carried 44 guns, and ours 49 ; the close of the Rev nary War, though their aiii -4 guns, according to the American accounts. Ours, I mosities have nee . red to be so great, nor to be says, had upwards of 400 men on board. The I threaten such serious' sequences as since the corn- Republicans killed 60 and wounded 170 of oar offs- I mencement of the French Revolution, and especially cars and men, and bad themselves 9 killed and 251 since the first Presidency of Mr. Jefferson, whose wounded. After the battle, at their pressing request, i exaltation to the Chair was the proof of decided Commodore Bainbridge paroled them all. The Java 1 triumph on the part of the Republicans, and had on board Lieutenant-General 'Helots •and his i plunged their opponents into a state of desperation. Staff, together with several supernumerary officers The Federalists took their name from the Gene- Rea oft. The following letter of Gen. Hislop to Com- sal Government, which, being federative, was modeve Bainbridge will best speak for the latter :(--- called Federal. ' Some of the people, as well as 66 Dian SIIL,—I am justly penetrated with the some of the Members of the Convention, who form felled souse of your very handsome and kind treat- ed the Constitution, were for the new General Ge ment, ever since the fate of war placed me in your vernment, and some were saint it. Those who power, and I beg once more to renew to you my were against it,.and who were for a Government of sincerest acknowledgments for the same. Your ac- a still more dcmocraticat form, were called, at first, quiescence with my request in granting me my parole, Antifederalists ) but, of late, they have been call with the officers of my staff, added to the elaligation ed Republicans._ in opposition to the Federalists, - I had previously experienced, claims from me this who were for a - Government of an aristocratical, if additional tribute of my thanks. May I now finally not of nearly a kingly form, and who proposed, in latter myself, that in the further extension of. your the Convention, a President and Senate for life...-. I generous and humane feelings, in the alleviations of : There was at this Moe a great struggle between the the misfortunes of war, that you will have the 'good. parties ; and the opposition of the Republicans spoiled ness to fulfil the only wish and request I am now . the projects of the Federalists : and the Government ace anxious to see completed, by enlarging on their I was, at last, of• a form and nature, which was - prole (on the same conditions you have acceded to wholly pleasing to neither, bat which did not, on . w.ith respect to myself) all the officers of the Java the other hand, greatly displease either. -fien on board your ship'—a favour I shall never The Federalists, however, took the whole credit tease duly to appreciate by your acquiescence there- to themselves of having formed the Government ; _. to.—l have the honour to subscribe myself, dear and, as General Washington, who had been Press. ~., Sir., your much obliged and very obedient servant." dent of the Convention, and was decidedly for a The request was instantly complied with. Men Federative General Government, was electid the and all were released upon parole. In the case of President under the new Constitution, the Federal. commodore Perry, the battle was fought on Lake Ist:, at once, assumed, that they were the only per. sons, who had any right or title tokarre any thing to Erie, on the 10th of September, 1813. With vessels, 'earning altogether 64 guns, he not only defeated, do with that Government; treating their opponents I the whole of oar ' fleet, six Tesools,as persons isteeriarily hostile to, and, of course, unfit !ZeS l 4:7;" B ..„L:e..44.24114 NAVAL INTELLIGENGE. 6.--Caine dews frost the Liver about Mara dozes sail sad moats. Ptornowrzt, Dice. 50.-Arrived five salt of Colliers frost Sasderland t the Lord Kelso. and the Edward Bond, letters of marque, frost Lasdon.—Sailed the Orpheus sloop of war, os a cruise. Poirsmovre. Due. s.—Balled his Majesty's ship Tay. for Plymooth.—Went out of Harbour his Majesty's ship Toy. TWILIT, Dsc. s.—His blajesty's ships Swif'sure, Arazis, Drake, Redwing, and Buffalo, have sailed with the West India convoy. The Jenny, Janson, from Lisbon to liamburgh, lost her masts the tist November. The Two Gesusters, Akerman, from Lichee to Lisbon, is pot into Cuxhaven, leaky and in distress. • . A galliot, from Havre to London, laden with wheat and flour, was run on shore in Rye Bey, on Sunday—only the Mate saved. The Union, Pain, of and from Havre to London, was lost near Rye on Sunday. The Mary, Mathews, from Stockholm to Dublin, was driven on shore 10th November, on the Falcon berg Reef—cargo expected to be saved. The George, Becher, from Danzic to London, was lost near Memel the 17th inst. The Marquis Welk:ley arrived yesterday off Dover, from the Isle of France. ST. Domitrao.—At the Cape there are about 5000 infantry, and 1500 cavalry, with a very good park of artillery. The whole of the regular military este blishaieet is calculated at 2.2,000 men, and the mi. Wit is said to consist of 33,000. Fort Henry, or the citadel of CHRIITOTHE, is a stupendous work, and appears lava egnable. It is secured by its extra ordinary elevation from any sadden attack ; its for tifications an constructed with great Fkill, and amply provided with water within ; it is supplied with provisions and ammunition for 6000 men for two years. The MUNOZ REGENT is expected to visit CHOUNONDELET, at Houghton-hall, Norfolk. On Wednesday evening, as the Earl of Warwick was travelling in his carriage, on the western road, near London, his trunk, containing wearing apparel of value, was cut from the carriage between Turu ham-green and Hounslow. FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday a curious occur. mace took place at Astley's Theatre, which, we re gret to say, terminated the existence of a very re spectable saddler, of the name of Stevenson, who i keeps a shop a little below the Theatre. The cele- 1 brated stag, well know by the name of Zephir, hay ing been kept up since the close of the Theatre last season, had got very fat, and, as it appears, vicious. Mr. Parker was desirous that the collar which it wore should be extended in its dimensions, and sent for Mr. Stevenson for that purpose, and shocking to relate, that upon his approaching the animal it ran furiously at him, and gored him in the abdominal parts. Mr. S. bled so copiously, that he expired in a quarter of an hour, notwithstanding medical as sistance was immediately resorted to. An Inquisition was held last week at Ashton. upon-Mersey, upon the bodies of a young wortiee and her infant child, found drowned in the Mee.. say. The deceased had been courted by a young man, by whom she had the child, and was after. wards slighted by him, and resolved to drown herself and the infant. The Jury brought in a Verdict-.'. Lunacy. A HORRID MURDER.—We are extremely sorry to be under the necessity of noticing an act of atrer city, which seldom has been equ'ulled in any part of the country, but certainly exceeds in enormity aay ea thing which has ever occurred in this neighbourhood.] A young man, of the name of Hasson, was attack , lest week, near Lyng, his place of residence, on Ms way from the fair of Ballymullans, in open day, on the King's high-way, and within view, it is said, of l ' several persons employed in digging potatoes, set, not 40 yards from houses, and was deliberately mar.!, demi by three (my account says five) ruffians, who I appear to have lain in wait for him. One of them knocked him down with some heavy weapon, and the others continued to beat him with bludgeons un til life was extinct, while the potatoe-diggers stood aloof with their spades in their hands, seemingly re gardless of his cries for mercy and assistance. 'What is equally extraordinary and very improbable, those who witnessed the shocking scene deny all knowledge el the murderers, and notwithstanding the utmost exertions of the agistrates, they have not yet been identified in i neighbourhood where every individual is almost universally known. liaison was reputed to have been an Orangeman.—(Londonderry Journal.) Mr. Lorsueove, whom the Bath Papers sd pre maturely sent to his grave,_we are happy to be assured, is not only not dead, but is pronoonowl out of danger, and in such a state of recovery, that he • is shortly expected to resume his professionaLetation . ""_' • =SIM " -7 - - oiggiA, 1, . i i f ) i t • . 1 , t < * t . • I ' 1 g : 5 ' , .It I t 1 „.,.. IP' lir M its. •I 4 - C