The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-11-05 00:00:00

• The librrty, honour and independence of Norway N I ere the objects the Diet .bad to labour for. If this end could be obtained by a renewed combat ; if the means and resources of the country were adequate for conducting a war, perhaps a protracted one, against a superior enemy, who had already acquired considerable advantages ; if there was a sufficient hope for the fortunate result of the contest to sanc tion the exposlnglgreat part of the country to the ceJamities of war ; if; aftar—thu..yeatest success, it , could be expected that the frontlet might still be de fended, and peace on the ocean, so necessary-to Nor way, be obtained ; or if the liberty and independ. mice of the people could be secured through an ho nourable union with Sweden; protected by the main tenance of the Constitution of Norway ; these were the important traations which the Diet bad to dr : chic on. The Assembly followed the dictates of duty by endeavouring to obtain better informatiim of the real situation of the country, as well with regard to the departmeets of war and the commissariet t ; ea „te its !Mace& Commissioners front Mt' Swedish Majesty made proposals of changes la the tanstitution, which they considered as memory far the union with Swedmi. 'flat these proposals will be modified and 6zed sn as to make them compatible with the liberty and honour of Norway under the lesion, of this the Conventicle et Mom is the guarantee. _ Thehour in which a resolution was to be taken attired, After the •matorist deliberation, ani mated by as equal seat for the honour of Norway,. and for Its peace,—with a view to the spirit which the representatives of Norway in every district knew to prevail,—and not unmindful of the polltkal and econdadcal advantages which an trulent with, Sweden miyyrocure for Norway,—.the Diet has yes.. Order taken the following resolution 46 Norway shall, as an integral State, be united to Sweden under one King, with the preservation of its constitution, subject to such necessary alterations as the welfare of thicoontry may reqoire, haiing at the lame time regard to the-onion with Sweden. — These *lterations in the constitation l .which his Swe- Ash Majesty has acknowledged in the Convention of Mots; dated 14th of Aegust last, are to- considered and•doterrained on by the Diet as speedily as pos sible; and le soon as this has , been dose, the Diet • *ill solmanly elect and acknowledgOise King of Sweden,. his Majesty Charles Xlll. lathe constito liemil King of Norway." • During thi.consideration of these changes in the c'oustitation, care lor the liberty of the people and the security of atti State shall govern the labours of the Diet. Countrymen ! _Pm Representatives of Norway, honoured by oonfideooa with the high calling they are folillieg, are assured year approbation will r . iword'their exertions: that you, with a disposition which h Katona. to Norwegians, will receive: their deterrninatteet • and that you participat e - with them In the hops, th at au honourable uniost with a neigh. . bnuring country will contribute to the welfare of , old Norway, which was ever free and independent. )tehig-of all the Representatives. ..r CHRISTIE. Pre tempers President. Chriotinakkie PlOrwrii o .Ldlidnedlieley Viet, the 21u of Oc. titer, 1814. k" "Jr ' Arr. ~~~. . . . .. - • s • • •••.. 1 ,.. * tiot timbal/1i ..... 0 7 .' 0 ••#.1,1•4,. Lillbell 1* ( • • 1 •••,4 . . . . ••• •• • 1 .4.4.• • 0 C... " .. .•4 • ••••4 ........ Wi e :S t 9io• ••4 r'l .oietie•••••••••••,•• IFMNIIP' . ' - /00 If". 0 roar tei Pahl* Olin& THE STATESMAN. LONDON: GATVILDAY, NOVENSEIIt 3, 11114: Paris Papers to the %I inst. are arrived, furnishing Intelligence from Vienna to the id alt. The French writers, and their correspondents, are still harping on a string which " grates harsh discord" to their ears—the dominion, or, u they cull it, tyranny of Great 'Britain on the ocean, and which they tell us is still a subject of contention at the Great Con-. gress. They assert that the Plenipotentiaries of the other Powers assembled, finding, no doubt, all other weans ineffectual, are making a war of. per& suadon upon us, with the view of getting us to abandon the exercise of our nasal supremacy on the seas; end that Primo Teztairitatrn and ,Lord CASTLEREA4II ) Wales* iball stock of eloquence and instisctiOns upon the points at issue, without having come to an agreement in gimlet), have sent Coolers to their respec tive Courts for further guides 'to their conduet. Lord C+sytsasacu, methope is not quite so Igoe ,rant of his duty as to need this reference. The path of honour and justice, which is that of right, and must lied to tranquillity, is not intricate, and "already filed to all nations ; it is only requisite that there should be a Power sufficiently supreme to ea t .force obedience to the established laws of natural :right and justice among those who, by secret arts of :erasion or open violence, seek to couutaract tit* ins mutable rules, and no power among the cations el the "earth is so worthy to exercise this sacred authority es Greet Britain. There will be instances of a daps,. tote horn moderation and justice, perhaps there erste. many, on the part of those who are delegate! to carry with power the authority of their oemetry into • execution on the rude and boisterous element, .61911 is known not to have the effect of civilizing natimts already sufficiently intractable; but our creed Is not the less just, and firm in our minds, that where there • are rights bestowed by nature, and guaranteed by convention, these rights ought to be preserved in violate ; and where there exists, and is manifest, a disposition to elude cud disregard them, an ezerciSe 1 . • ik THE STATESMAN. of inspecting and authoratire power is necessary to enforce. obedience. May Great Brieals long possess this pOwer to, secure her own interests and honour, and guard ,those of other nations, by commanding obedience to the laws of equity from all the world I The intelligence from Italy continues to repre serrthei coanixf in a 'very *unsettled and dissatisfied state. For the views taken of affsirs there, we refer to our subjoined extracts. FERDINAND of Spain has had a At or benevolence and returning reason.— Tfie French Papers bring us, under the head of Madrid, the annunciation of an amnesty; issued on his bisth.day, in which certain descriptions of offenders,' wider tho laws of the new Constitution, are pardon. ed ; but this net of lenity appears only a half mea sure, and the arrests sad measures of oppression continue to be as isiterons'as ever. . . The debate in We French Chamber oti Douai. on the subject of the restoration of EmigOant -Oses. , petty, which has been so warmly' conteitodi'4o several times adjourned, was resumed en Motidayolye . have neither time nor space to go into,ile iteport: M. BEnocu l Reporter from the Commission op:, pointed to examine the subject of the claims, spoke five hours, and conceded by saying he had not yet re plied to all the olijections to the plan of the law. Minis- I ten seem to yield the point a good deal those who _ _ have expressed dissatisfaction at the conduct of the Governspet. The discussion was split adjeereed to Wedeesday. VIIIIRIA, OCT. 21.—Reports *elk la eirealation that the Marquis del Gallo, Minister for Forette Affairs of the kingdom of Naples, had, passed by this city in the night of the 17th, repairing in all host* to the Congress. The Minister did not -Wjsh to be known. The reclamations of the kingdom of Naples, by the,Court of Sicily, assume an alarming character for Ring Joachim. Many persons even think that .the 'stay of the- Neapolitan troops, which occupy the Marches and Romagna, will net be prolonged, as those countries will form part of the Indemnities which will be given to King Murat. 'rho cense of that country is pleaded at this poment by several excellent writers ; they reclaim the liberty and independence of Italy. They feel i mitable that It is impossible for the Italians to live happily under the many uncertainties to which their are abandoned. • They reckon always upon the magnanimity of Sovereigns, who ought to have for their aim the welts'se and repose of the people, and who should not ba willing.to treat Italy as a pro vince that the conquerors should divide. We expect daily the arrival of Cardinal Oppizoni. The Emperors of Russia and Austria, and the King of Prussia, willing to recompense the Russian General Baron do Tetteaboru for the signal services which he rendered la the last ranipalgts, have agreed to grant him a considerable portion of land In the _ - , • . , ,4 North of Germany. ~ They make, as it appears. at t he. Congo*, war upon the Cabinet of England, as England Matron Bonaparte. He wished to extend his despotism over the whole Continent; the Congress is willing to per. soade England to renounce the supremacy which she exercises upolf the seas ; but will they be able to Per suade her? The Ministers labour more than ever ; ' but the result of their discussions is stilt a secret. Pumice Talleyrand and Lord Castlereagh have sent; touriers to their respective Courts for instructions ' upon several important points. The couriers atom peeled to return before the end of the month. Cotton is very dear here, in consequence of tatt merous demands which have been made; and it hi feared it will be still higher, as all the magazines are exhausted, and there is none to be found at Trieste— and on account of the plague which has desolated Smyrna and the ports in the Levant, there is no hope of eny arriving before the bad season. They do not receive much colonial produce at Trieste ;tut the commerce of the coasts with Italy and the Isles of Greece is very brisk. MADRID, OCT. 110.—It has not been forgotten, that towards the end of June last, the Lieutenant of the Viceroy of the City of Valencia received au order, bearing t apparent signature of the Minister of War, by w h he was ordered to arrest and shoot the Captai General of the Province, Limit.- Geo. Elk, withopt any form. The same fraud was put upon the Authorities of Andalusia, to induce them to put to death generals O'Donnel and Villa vicancto. The prudence of the Chiefs to whichlhoso orders were addressed, rendered abortin 000400 of the forgers. . After great exertions have been made to aver the authors of the crime, Government have to-day published the result of a proceeding followed with tory against M. J. de Sevilla, one of the Chiefs of Division of the War Department, whose writing appeared similar to those dispatches ordering the arrest and death of three Commandants of provinces. , The result is, that' he is perfectly innocent. His Majesty, acknowledging the injustice of the suspi cions which had been raised against him, and re establishing him in his situation, has assigned a pen sion of 1000 francs to his eldest son. It appears that the authors of the crime will never be ea covered, as many of the 'culprits hue used muck ad dress in 4heir combinations.. His Majesty published, en the day of Ms fate, ati amnesty in favour of all those who are detained in prison, or absent from the kingdom, for other crimes then the following, which aie excepted Ceito crime of high -treason against church end state;. isnassaditated assassination ; coining; the murder of* peigai j in/ Majesty, their fiction at the result of its dtlibe. eitiens, as well they might. As the declaration of the Diet was very manly and firm, the speed% of the Cominksioners affects sentiments of moderation and liberality. 0 ! for a convenient power of swallow./ log what is sometimes attempted to be crammed 4oi►sr Oer throats I m to open the caeremehp:tyhigeonustiouti, will i nfleb the cendiaries• taking out articles probibitadv . d „, ° /abhor smuggling; ia at t ..'" State. The . ke r_ ipaii _. 7l : of.theamnei ree_ ty ta ei n teed % . ~..., j •-1 ., , .. anus ~ft a. i ces; 4iianewehiolef three dolling ;, ante', malversation °Utile ins • li .... ' :4,... - expen i Ce nt of ic freight , ct'an' totodo fe ed mad al ' . . • Ormous sum. ' t hese are &oriel coa t i eitose'individinila oho are found out"tif *min as - i '"it . gitives jidged bjtAstfaelt, provided, that thel pr -, `themselves le the iodise of. a year tribunals, and that they are not of the., . , to . 0 : • •-. • t home—has the peac e p ro d utet'i en crimes iti ~ above specified. . , :. , .. • . . Have our Ru le r ajtared n n „ s ii We are not bold enough twee* that this liberal kelegie ,I for the better ? : APPOUT tem* artnials4 disposition of his Majesty will annul the urfisnie n. pt : hie they a chance of f- O n teit4 rigour of 4 •; .f Moo • - teit, that regard itiriiit-,;hre we not told that Mfaktetters are obliged tact,. pit/lite& fatsi 4. ' ' * those white have bee; tikietthit• Englititi inquisitiiti v the • Property Tas I ,since•againeft.' j' .1' ~ ns and the purchasers of a has been so long and so patiently submitted t o ; ,national gal* . , .4 40 ` Is contiue, and several cities because it was sslrinlillimelaret to •be a W al ofthe late - Aar - • _,..,, Cited his Majesty, as a fa- alone 7 And how lire . we to meet tittle sour, the' right..o • r, r . . ng from their territories ampled difficulties? by the feather which divers perm . ' niirko - die . ' upon theta to Seek an MuNsfEis has just placed in the Pit m r i en asylum. .-. ..• , f f i cp...... .►''' • cap; the sillyaddition to bra titles of aG. . . dam! One wound imagine that it was . . T- , Norway and Sweden e 4 'Oared to be united. Tie ~ .• a Diet have, after the Puns may prefer his new kingdo m t o t " 'all, doubtless with t Bully Bensanorre ... "', . r eyes, voted their power to be placed in—the Sovereign of afn Bully sent by a consider* .` jority to the co:sedan unfettered people ! But will this new arms , eit• their count ry . i , Thet i tgibial declaration of their double regality, diminish. the burdens of hi g '- wok on is girl 7 '—... bef Column. This important, subjects ? Will it add to our commercial mini* laint was deter . ....3lion the 30th ult. The day fol- or aid' our manufacturers in the present b el e lowing the Co. 4 : : •17. , .. en of the King of SWEDEN their ' distress ? Will it .preveu4. the noes ,proceetled ~ to . ' it , -t, to express, on the parker his' a new loan of several millionsi. which the t 1 )oking 11;1/ _ . . salary difficulties in which the CUA the , - Ekesitottea ' "ends himself will oblige hive imam to ? No, no : but it will do 1 rani by the gratification of .a silly vanity, _ Ministers •more firm in „their seats, by showing - t - ;,' their Master that they are more attentive to his* ? tonal wishes than to their high and important deliss of administerinkftatitageously to a great hats, feting nation. kik reported that it is not iateia to ' negociaie -afttmmercial Treaty . with' Ponloi —me fear WS dare not do it in a comonilfit 'point of view, :for there is no article iiAkii we should not be undersold ; our manafaetatig would lose even the - demand of eat Hs' .. consumption. • Otir Manchester trade wouldisili; isibilatedbe it is well known, that if Frenchist. 'ton goods were admitted into England, they can be manufactured so cheap abroad that all competilita 'on our part would cease. The same applies toevery other article—the silk trade in particular—eren al present, the Spital-fields weavers are doing nothiag. Daring the war, our naval preponderance, aed indeed the convulsions which agitated all ko repo enterrdto v us a market for our goods, wherevetoe . could gal admittance for them. But now that the high reed l the ocean is open to the whole European world 1, case is very materially altered. And if RI . that the great nations of the Conan ent. ere still and more desirous to depress our commereistirtak ness, because in the proportion in which we falti j they must rice. A silly article, which we notice' yesterday, the palpable invention of the laisellei English Press, has been circulated, with the toni dence of truth, stating that Prince TALLMAN and the other French Ministers at Vienna, yeti told, after the presentation of the Note whit!, has been so much talked of, that if they presumed to interfere in the great continental arrangements then under discussion, their passports were reap for them, and they might dep , rt whenever tht pleased: And is there one in all the United Kingdod,' all the readers of the whole hireling Press, oae, en one, sufficiently stupid to be pilled by this? Pat porta! their passports ! for what? Passports at time of profound peace, when every body is at libee ty (or supposed: to be so) to travel wherever thtl please, without interruption 1 , And France mutt not interfere in the Congress ! France, that great nation, certainly second to none in Europe% of thin millions population, the mistress of civilization, aeil as a military nation, iucoutestibiy the first on the KS of comparison ! and she is not to' interfere Of 1 such a beggarly set as the German new-made Kin/ ititecilt ind carve up Europe'at their discretion 1.41 And yet thee* are. Readers to be found who sin swallow this! If to r Ministers may go on as &I ,please. • A Mail bas arrived from Halifax, but the letters and papers that hove reached town are not of a date subsequent to that of Mr. MADIsON's hlessage. **porta have been In circulation that Ministers had received dispatches, containing the officiat detail:ref the late affairs at Plattsburgh, and the other !flier cessful operations on the Canadian fibs - tier; bat if tbeyhave, they have not thought preper.lo till or set thing - of their nature ; bat come when thet ilea, FrdeArtnadi — inough to convince us the histories. et; our - late exploits In th e quarter it to 1• I will not be very consolatory.--There have .inn: been ;amours of •an armistice, and of prell r: 1 minailei of peace being agreed upon' under the. sanction of the British Admiral xommanding on the American coast, in consequence of which, it has been added, fresh instructions had been sent to the Corn-. 1 missioners at' Ghent ; bat this is a very unlikely Istory, and would argue most unlogicatly for the ho : nom of our Commanders, and very unlike an adhe .rence to the promises with which we set oat. It ap peers by the Halifax Papers, that. Sir GEORGE CoL. rails,' is the. Leander, had sent a challenge to the Censtitutlon, 4ihich ship the Leander had long been. , blociading. We believe the ships are' of equal force,,and, *e hope, equally manned. If so, and , the challeugeshoutd be accepted, we have so confident I a reliance on' British skill and valour, as to believe the American Constitution will become English. • It is impossible to see, without something more than cqntempt, the efforts made by " the hireling Press" to blind the eyes of the people to the present dilution of affairs—the Morning Post, the Morning Heralci, 'end the Courier, strive most anxiously in a jitorious rivalry of misconception, while the Times adds to their falsehoods the charms of the finest flowers of Billingsgate rhetoric! When it could no longer be disguised that we had met with a very ! severe reverse on our Canadian frontier, the whole blame' was thrown upon Sir GEORGE PREVOST, and that Officer, even before his own statement had ,ar tired, his own , ex planation of these melancholy facts, ;was the subject of the most unqualified abuse. No doubt he has a different tale to tell ; and it would have beery but fair to have heard it. The reinforcenients he, received were seat to him by such driblets, that he bad not sufficient strength to carry into effect the ardent which it is stated he positively received from tome, to take possession of the &strict east of Penob scot ; particularly as it is well known to every per• son at all conversant with the Canadian affairs, that a strong spirit of discontent exists in that country, and that bi advanced into the American frontier with tt apprehensions for his communication in the.' •, leaving, at he was forced to do, little or usit soldiery to protect. the reentry ; and, seeing aX`bk did, the Anger of trusting to a people who were decidedly ' and avowedly dissatisfied.— . . . The campaign may be considered as closed—and wet. •It is utd.that ilit,' Ling of piwiso will isseekt.t.„. cannot disguise the fact, that it is ended without .title of 'Emperor; . , In order•to place himself off .0 .! tql** either glory or advantage to the British name, The *Y O RUSSIA. AS% vriti - the'lllesiferois of AoStaritael . , lose of two entire fleets, the discomfiture and flight of our Captaln-General and Commander-in-Chief, have We lament to say, that the fourth son of GREY is - given over by' his. physicians.' The metairo given spirits to the energies of the Americans, galled. choly situation of his family will, we fear, a rea and excited as they are by our most Injudicious con- ' t h e Noble Eari'from attending Its his place on TuiP dad, 'in wantonly destroying public buildings and day next. . . . . private property. It is impossible to doubt that the i A Halibde . Mail is arrived' 'at Falmouth: the lei' Proclamation, taking formal possession of the Penobs- ; ters The expedition which sailed from BROWS II and)*(tert are expected ielown to-day. n _ ~ til lir cotcounty, was written at home, and Sir O. Parvos f - _. last; under' General isItCPITING I ALS,'.Im, it IS MP , , made to calculate on theskin, before he bid killed thie r ! - t wo - fi l ia • o li ef t_th e reductiod et the Wind et Bow; and by having exposed to the Whole world's him, which seminally belongs kr the 'Dutch,. "determbration to conquer American territory, an op- bee erected several forts and factories in it; end_ _ posidon will undoubtedly be trotted against us which estimation of the pirates,'who West the seas in !b . " l tregib' more moderate and judicious, measures would have parts and d n r o osts t eaniti'rtagcr, th rde ithosid kept down. The five winter months which-the Am t . l'attomi the tlvierirrAl. de Coocutnir. ' lb* rictus have to carry on (with the certainty of being , coa djore ;,fiekteseihdred.ll Govern lie undisturbed) all their preparations for the next year s paragraphs in the Times and Count's*. ' ~~ The Courier of last alight .has the following porn► gragh t on which we shall forbear to otomroent (magi than to say we hope It is untrue t, 46 Private accounts from. Paris Veto; tat at tit late review of the troops ,wear 'Park there were se* rat fatal occurrences; two•er three men were titled. FOur, or fireballs whistled very -near where the Dultl r ot WELLNGTON and the Duke de &haat stood." al MI I