The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-10-12 00:00:00

~--~-, . . . lint grit' GENERAL SIR GEORGE PREVOST. To rms EDITOR •r ras sretEs,ll4N. The following following are the Charges which are to he preferred againkt Gem fir Geo. Prevost, and which, It is said, have been served on him preparatory to their being investigated by a General Court-Mar tial :- I•irst Charge —For hiving, on or about the 11th d ay o f September, 1811, by holding oat the expec tation of a cooperation ef . ths Airily under com mand, induced Capt. Downie, l a t e o f hi s m a j esty , * sbip Confiance, to attack the , Americart. squadron on L i k e Ch a mplain,. whet% it was. highly imprudent to make such au attack without .the co-oporatiom from the land forces, and for t►ot having afforded that co operation. ." Second Charge.—For not having stormed the Arne works on shore at nearly the same time that the said naval . action began, as fie had given Captain Downie ren , lloll Lo IPSIICt. Third Charge.—For having disregarded the signal for co-operation which bad previously been agreed cwt. Fourth Charge.—For not having attacked the elle- . toy on shore, either during the said naval action or after it was ended, whereby his Majesty's naval squadron, under the command of Capt. Downie, might have been saved. • Stn,—the Editor of a provincial Joernal, whose loyalty seems to be transferred from his oven Sove- reign to the -13cluesoss, very gravely displays to his Readers the piouX prodetsloa of the Duchess Via. 001ULEMe "to implore the lioty Ghost, at d Grand Mass ordered for the oecatiasi, to remove her bar renness, and bless her with a child!" I do not re. collect having heard of an application of this sort having Iwo made on this side of the Alias since the Crusade, nor indeed of any such interference, bat upon one occasion, which 1 need not recal to 'oar memory. The credulity, hossever, that could hays recourse to such a• inroceti tttt to obtain fecundity, appears to many soher-tninded men to be to the 101 l as extravagant, though not iverhaps su atroefoeti ai the imposture that contends for the efficacy of the smelly. I think that, circumstanced as that good Lady is, I shouhl have confined my intreaties for such • purpose to my hueband, as being by far the moat proper person to be made acquainted tv;th wants of this description, and certainly the most proper to supply them. At alt events, I should hate THE TIM %TY or PLACE.—The following terms of the French Treaty are now given with an air of au. thority. They almost literally confirm the statement gave yesterday. " The terms of the Treaty were finally agreed up. eu before the Emperor of Russia went to Btussels. A rough draught of the Treaty was then signed by the Ministers of all the Powers; but the formal and actual Treaty is not yet executed. It requires greet exactness, reference to many details, and conse quently considerable time to make out the fair and definiiive copy. But this work it was expected mould be finished this day or to-morrow, when the Ninisters of the respective Powers in Paris would very much scrupled, however arslent my desire to be come a mother may be, to hare proclaimed to the world the negligence or impotency of my husband, whose faults and defects I conceive it to be the duty of a wife to conceal, and especia!ly whets such en exposure tends to impeach her modesty. Hut as Priests and Princes have, very properly no doubt, in consequence of their high rank in the State, a code of morals entirely distinct from that of thu people, their virtues 'are not to be measured by the standard of vulgar simplicity. I recollect being told in my early days, - by it eery chi their signatures. And the conclusion of the l sturdy rind facetious Capuchin, at Malaga, in Spain, T r eaty, it is supposed, will be officially announced who was in great request by all the women in his by the English. Governnsent in an Extraordinary qazette, and try a letter to the Lord Mayor, early , district, that when this notable espedient was first nest week.—France cedes in perpetuity : , contrived of married women soliciting from Hearts Landis, ssar.t.oets, Pesipeesilie,,hlarieueurg, Versoye, or w h a t t h ey could not obtain on earth, it was cus. yeeissolcur ow Lithe ..1 Geneva. " The fertifiratiotts of Iluninguen are to be de. tomary, by a species of incantation, to throw the etreyed, mid no fortifications are to be erected within petitioner into a trance, which producing delirium three league; of Basle. France . renounces the right in the distressed female, assured her the blessing she of garrisurinig Morisco, near Nice. France returns sought. This ceremony, as all ceremonies are Are territory in the Netherlands and Savoy ceded by in the Church of Rome, was encircled with mysteries the Treaty of last sear. France shall pay to the too sublime for the profane to assist at —Only t Alliei a contribution of 700 millions of francs ; 10 1 millions sterling. During fi ve }earl she shall main- chosen few of the initiated wire allowed lir lain 150,000 of the Allied troops, to be stationed be present , and even these, I was assured within her own territories, in and trear the fortresses by my friend of the Order of Saint Francis, hereafter named; but at the end of three years, were selected wire great caution ; and as the should the contributions be paid, it may be made a young and the old were, from a loquacity common subject of consideration whether these trenps shill to both these periods in life, were very improper ' not retire from France, and whether the fortresses hereafter mentioned may not be resio.ed. France Persons to be entrusted with secrets of this stature, retains Avignon, the Comte Veneissin, aid Mont. stone were admitted whose ages were under thirty, belliard. The latter is situated steer Befort. . It is a or beyond forty. What passed on those occasions, small Duchy formerly belonling to Wirtemherg . The w h en L a di es a pp ea l e d f ro m their husbands to thee ten former, situated In th e South or rrance, beforb Church to confer on them the proud distinction eil the Revolution belonged to the Pope, who yet insists on their restoration. • i mothers, my intelligent informant could not, ee " The following 18 fortresses are to begarrisoned would not reveal to me; but 1 have since seen it re. by the Allies doting five years : corded in some old chronicles subsequent to the Valenti. mom Cunuir, Illoulteugo, Lindrecr, Le Quebnot, Council of Trent, that all such applications from Cambruy, Give' noel Ciqielement. Alrsiet , s, SWIM', Thi. , nville. Long% y. Etitehe, itluntotedy, Ro.toy, Avesaei, the Scidet- eligible females entitled to the benevolent interposi. bend of Putt [Amis. tiun of their Reverend Pastors, were in general sac " ft is not true that Calais and Dunkirk are to cessful. Faith Dever fails to operate wonders—even be occupied by the English, or that the works at • Cherhorgh are to be destroyed. i - miracles without it, though of divine origin, would " N ,, thitig is finally settled respecti n g flip (1;00. lose their credit.—Hence the honorary distiuction of 'lotion of the contributions : but it is understood the faithful was conferred on all true Believers, and that one.fourth (seven millions sterling) will be in proportion to their credulity they were cherished assietied to create and repair fortresses on the by their Reverend Pastors, as best suited to their northern and north - eastern frontiers of the Allies adjoining France. The remaining twenty.one mil. puvpose, and the least likely to dispute their power lions will be divided into five parts :—one part will or infallibility !—" rcscite et naultipticamini," being go to earls of the four chief Allied Powers, and the a sacred command or admonition, recorded in fifth part will be divided among the smaller Powers Holy Writ. The Clergy of all persuasions In proportions, according to the contingents of troops ' have felt themselves bound to give practical proofs they have furnished. •of their obedience to the Divine Command, " A struggle was made for the occupation of Lisle and Straslturgli, but it was given up. The liee taken, , and especially those of the Church of .Rome, however, it may be remarked by looking at the map, , whenever favourable opportunities consistent with strips France of her iron frontier from Cambray to her statutes occurred. If her Priests hare preserved Alsace, and enables the Allies, upon any occasion i this extraordinary power which the French Princess of necessity, to march suddenly upon Paris. Or • invokes, notwithstanding the wonderful changes and shoed the French make war, by attacking the Ne. ' revolutions in opinions and authority which have therlasels front Lisle, or Germany from Strasburgh, the Allies can immediately advance lido France and taken place in our lower world, since this very en. take them in flank. ! viable privilege of removing barrenness in women by "Alsace, Lorraineond French Flanders, of course the interposition of the Clergy, was conferred on the remit' to France. !Church, I have no doubt but the pious proof which . __ . " For such very favourable conditions," says the Courier, " the French are wholly indebted to the good will the Allies hear to the Boui bons, for the ne cessary delicacy towards them, and the desire of er,ta b,ishiog a solid peace !" It max yesterday reported in the City, on the strength of letters from Barcelona of the 25th OM Popular cornmotions had commenced in gotta_ lonia. elpildt. we shall he able to sire more information nu this suhject in the cou ten( to-morrow. Sosincnr,vso resigned the contest for Os- Wilshire en Tuesday night, and the Freeholders, we hear, ale determined to bring in Mr. A•ltHUithT free • espence. This is at length a complete defeat of the N I Almsonnunti interest. DRURY•LAYE.-11AltLEY last night repeated the character of Dr. Panglos, in the pleasant Comedy ▪ Heir at Law, with increased success. The hooNe, notwithstanding the usifar3urable weather, was far from an indifferent one. the Duchess of ANooucksts has given of her dutiful submission, and implicit confidence in the ability of the Church to grant her prayer, will be speedily an• flounced to a grateful world by her loyal Highness becomitig as round es an apple, to the great edifice. lion of all the faithful, and especially to distressed ladies, who, though married, have not the felicity of being mothers, and cannot perpetuate themselves as it were by a legitimate offspring, without the holy interference of the Church. You and I, Mr. Cut. TOR, are too well acquainted with the malice of mankind, not to know that the grave sanctity of the Presbyterian and of the Methodists of every descrie4 . lion will treat with derision the pious and devout appsid of the Duchess, for extra succour in her distressthl anxiety to place a son as wise es his father on the throne of France. I can even suppose that the obdti. The Lord of th.! Manor, as played last night at Covent-garden Theatre, has undergone a very mate. vial change in the cast of its characters. TAYLOR is the representative of Rashly, vice Inct.toon ; FAR- Lty, La Areppe, vice MATHEWS; SIMMONS, Molt Flaggon, vice LI•TON ; and Mrs. STERLING, Sophia, vice MISS STEPHENS. DEAL, OcT. 11.—Came down from the giver the Sir Francis Drake store-ship, and sailed for Ports mouth.—A Kurt of transports.remain in the Downs. The Fortune, Zimmerman, from Hamburgh, to Bourdraus, put into Sheerness or4 . Torntay, leaky, and proctedtd to Chathaidto repair. eats incredollty of -these people may seduce them into sarcostic , obserretiens, which it will not become me to repeat nor 'rod to insert ; .but, admitting that the power of converting sterility into fruitfulnes through the pious intervention of the Church, has been COP* Hod to the Holy Father and his Sub-delegates, it surely will .not hedonist that such a power can no where be sd properly lodged as with Ecclesiastics, whose vows of celibacy securing them from marriage and releasing them from the necessity of perpetual. jog thethselycs ) leaves tbet it perfect liberty to '~+P!!~ "r-- . -1 ;,* - .1 • - attend to the iiitolt of ' niece thi. Insatiable good ristiiti to reciery from- *hat heresy atioets to sneer et, tlett the ILIAJiTRIOUS on earth, whether Royal br Noble, professing the Raman Catholic Religion, aid else possersing the faith It enjoins, can alarayidePend Upon preserving hereditary Suc cession in their teipective families, Without any *try extraordinary efforts On their pert: •:. • • I am; Sir;' •Vottitilltlat ehedietit horrible Servitit, o*lt OF THE FAITHFUL. A LOTALIFT. ANo O bOURSF. A eittEN6 TO HERE DITARY SuccEbsiol4. Farebanv. Haat+, di.. to COURT OF COMMON COU:.eIL: inoxaDAT. Oct. It: LORI) MAYOR F.LFi7+. • A letfet wet read from Alderrinin *dint, Stied; fyirig his intention to Undertake the dutis's .of oho office of Lord Mayor, to which belted bees e(eeedi for the year ensuing. ,ENI BANk ENTg ON THI RIVER * A Report from the CoMMittee appointed to super = intend the naiigatiOn of the river Thiinte;; antiounc» ed, that the Committee had seceded to noi applieition from the Comniiiiioners far permiq.. lion to make certain emilahknients at 11,ptforti, and had appointed the refit for'tki olisai to be Olin per year. Mr. Dixon witched to knot', whether an indivit dual could Obtain a Moiler Oribilege oft the Puss ternii? tieing inairered in the negative, he sitia he thought GovertiMent had no more right to itiChnis than ehy of hit Majesty's jobjecti. The itepOrt Ivai then agreed to. k ditSRA A Petition wit presented frUM tint Msithilineito praying some addition Their present embiuments. Referred to tie Committee of General Perpisiin. • . NEW Sti Thomas Foster, Esq.. Citizen rind fronmcittger, 110 W TO LOSE A CUSTOMER. —.so— An honest barber, residing in the village of Penton 'Meg had, for a number of years, dissected the beard of a late landlord of a respectable public-house in that place, with much satisfaction and credit to his customer, till the worthy host having quitted the bu siness, and wishing to appear a little spruce, deli vered his wig -bus to the operator, with orders to get it dressed and pressed. The boa containing the jasty was carried off by the peruke-maker, and care hr lessly thrown down in his sh o p to w a it an d e hi s curls in tern ; but no sooner h a d th e b ar began is . . • . ... ~ Pea to exercise his functions on the wi g , th an t o ll, our- ! titioned to be discharged trolls hie nomination for prise he discovered it to he lined with a sort of tissue' Sheriff, on paying a fine of Nit hundred pounds and paper, which, on elaminstion, pr o ved t o b e B oo k . twenty marks, with the usual fees, bite the Masher. of England notes, amounting which was complied with. in value to upwards : * of 9001., which the gelatines landlord had put there I John Gladstone, Esq. lately efectiotSherif, pi 4. for se:urity. Pleased with r el eas i n g the money from sented a petition to be discharged fromiblit elettiot it. perilous situation, the barber immediately put the tolum payment of a due of foul' hundred Pue",,, . . 104 wig in order, and, fearing his old cust om e r mi g ht f ee t twenty marks, with the usual fin into the'VElrMat uneasy, proceeded with all expedition to restore thd bet'. which was compile'! with: ~ ~ • . e treasure to the real assort. On his arrival he found Charles Cooke, Esq. who had paid a fin. tiff l 4ool/ the host asleep, and after causing him to be awaken: to he I.:rutted from hit eleAtii to Sheet', lied thd time returned him, on application, oh recount of bit ed enquired how he liked his wig, and whether he I l'saw any difference in it t %hen his wife, recollecting mate of health not permitting hit to serve the said her husband's bankera, viz., Messrs. Wig, Wig-boz,, office. :and Co., archly said, I should not wonder if the ., Several Petitions, for testes ind otherwise, wer* barber has gut tfie money and all. An explanation Presented to the must Committees. took place—all the notes were safely delivered back, I Thomas Wilson, Est!. was discharged from his eel i and the astonished and .gralrful landlord pressed his mutation for Sheriff, on paying the usual Ads And old friend to take a glass of gin for his trouble, which fees. 1-was accepted—and here the bushel, ended. in due , .., THE gltiCtla STATUE.. I time the barber called again to shave hia.host, but' Sir av st. CURTIS rose to address the Court, epos • question of privilege. Ile observed, that he was in• was thunderstruck on being told that he should not formed on his return from g foreign excursion, that be shaved again by him, as he hail made him appear during his absence from this country, a Gentleman eery ridiculous its mentioning about the story of his ; wig. It is therefore probable that this relation will of that Court (Mr. Waithmen) had thought proper • in tutus'e prove a caution to all barbers to keep such to make an observation respecting his conduct, nit ' transactions silent. . Chairman of the Committee appointed to superiuteud 1 the erection of the statue or the King, which re. fleeted, in the strongest manner, on his chatactee Ma. KCAN.—We have already stated, that Mr. and which be felt it his duty, at the earliest opportu. ' 114 am took a trip to France, at the latter end of last idly, to answer. The observation to which he al. week. The following, as far as it goes, is an accts. lolled, was made at a Court of Common Council, : rate diary of two or three days of the Tragedian's held on the 4th of September last, and was published sidiesitures. On Friday morning last he went from on the subsequent day in the public Papers. In suba ; Croydon to Brighton, where he embarked in . the af- innate, it imputed to him the fact of baring invited ternoon and had a very quirk passage to Dieppe. He t his Majesty's Ministers, and certain other illustrious did not stay long there istei set off for Rouen, where persons, to a dinner, given en the opening of the he looked about him on Saturday t aud in the evening . King's statue s in his own p. sonal character, bat at visltea the rreoch TheidreiF the latter "price. ' lie the expence of the Co , poratiiie. had not been long there before he was recognised by Mr. WAITIIMAN submitted that, as there was I some British Officers, who . very urgently intreated Motion coming before the Court upon this Balkan. , him to appear on the boardi of the Rosen Theatre th a t it wou ld be m o re regul a r if the worthy Baronet ithat night. This he refused to do, but was prevailed would postpone his remarks till the question was i i upon to give some readings from SUARSPEARE at the properly before the Court.. Theatre on the next day, to the great apparent gra- ; . The LORI) MA Tott.said, that he viewed the coarse tification of a very crowded house, composed of taken by the worthy Baronet as midi% on a ques. British, who understood the language of the author, (i nn of privilege, and in that light he considered hie and of French, who, the greater part of them, proceeding perfectly correct. I !could understand nothing but what they collected , Sir Wm. Claims declared, that justice to his own from the silent discourse of the countenance of the feelings demanded of him in the most peremptory Actor. He was rapturously applauded. From Rouen manlier to contradict the assertion alb ca had been •he reached London on Tuesday night. Yesterday so made and publicly announced. morning he again left town, and last night played at . Mr. •Distom said, he had frequently read Ilt• Brighton ! i public prints, but he could not say he had seen any A Hull Paper, of the 9th, announces the comma- speech reported to have bees delieered in that Court nication of the contagious influeace of the spirit Of in the terms which the Honourable Baronet had disturbance to that port:—" We regret to state, that ' quoted. 1 a spirit like that prevalent in these northern ports 1 Mr. WAITUMA /I was quite con fi dent he had never I has been manifested in this town, where attempts' spoken the words ins nun ed to hate bees used by have been made by hand-bills, and otherwise, to I him, and lie was equally confident such words had form an unlawful combination among lite sailors ; not been attributed to him in the public prints. the object here professed, is to prevent any but 1 Sir Wm. Coatis held the paper in his hand to sailors being employed in discharging the cargoes of 1 which he adverted. vessels.—Peter Sarith, Thomas Griffin, anal IVillinin 1 Mr. ‘VIIITIL suggested the propriety of the Re. Barker, mariners, were yesterday committed to the, port being read, in order that Mr. Waldman might' gaol of this town, charged with riotously assembling either avow it, or disavow it, as truth might de. with several cabins, taking possesion of the brig; maul. Jason, and forcibly preventing the said brig from The paper was then produced, and the particular proceeding into the reads, for sea." report alluded to read. Throughout the whole of Although there was not nearly the usual number this, however, there was no such direct insinuatiod of Scotch beasts at Peterborough fair on Monday : as that described by the worthy Baronet. last, not half of them could he turned into money.' Mr. WAITIIII tw said he was ready to avow the The Scotch salesmen complain bitterly of the times. 1 whole of the report in question. as correct. Scarcely any Pilchards have been, taken on the 1 Sir Wst. Cum, repeated that he had been in. Cornish coast during the last week, and unless ap- formed that the lion. Gentlemen who had justspoken pearances should brighten a little, most of the seans : had accused hies of baiting persons in his own pad will be forthwith laid op for the season. I vale character to a dittoes- at the City expense; and We are sorry to hear that the Earl of EGREMONT thiS assertion he begged to characterise as wholly is seriously indisposed• at his magnificent seat of Pet. without foundation. worth. His disorder is a bilious fever. An express The Lotto MAYOR now declared, that he consia went on Sunday last for Dr. BARILIIEAD, who was at i dered the explanation made by the worthy Baronet Brighton. Ile arrived early on Monday morning, I had gone as far as the question of privilege required •, through the whole , he thought, therefere, rind continued with his Lordship Mac the regular business of if that day. On .Tuesday morning the symptoms ' the Court should proceed. were considered more favourable, though the fever Mr. Wairttwax then rose, in pursuance of hie still continued.—The community in general feel in. notice, to move, that the Report of the Committee tereated in whatever concerns this ezcellent 'NOble. I appointed to superintend the erection of the King's man, to whose munificence and public spirit it has statue, and which had been agreed to by the Court been so frequently indebted. ! contrary to the Standing Order, whieh required no. A few nights ago, on emptying the eels-pool of tics to be given of the production of all Reports re. the house in which Mr. Ards, the late Governor of I stinting the disbursement of the public money, the House of Correction, in Coldbatis.fields lived i should be again referred back to the said Committee, its St. Pancras, there were found at the bottom two ! in order that they might state the particular items of iron crow bars, such as house-breakers generally the charges contained in the said Report. He de. Use in forcing open doors ; also two large keys, one i sired to repeat what lie hail erged on a former ocea n double-headed key, which were brought before the! Ann when this queation was before tho Court, name- Magistrates, and tried by Mr. Adkins, the present I ly, that the first idea of the erection of' the statue of Governor of the House of Correction, when on the Kill, arose out of the introduction of a person trial the large key was found to open the great outer 1 who proposed to execute a bust of his Majesty for gales, and the double-headed key, one end was i cue hundred guineas. It vas afterward. proposed found to open all, the doors of the men's cells, anal' that this host should be a complete statue, and an the other end all the• doors of the women's cells, understanding went forth that the expellee would throughout the entire prison. By what means they be very little more. A Committee was then appoint. came to be is each apiece, it at present a cause of ed to superintend the business, the statue was erected I enquiry. and opened, and the Committee made the report of w 4 4 -. 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