The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-02-20 00:00:00

•I -an ••:':, m:Ion the King of Saxony remained obstinately :.• ;rho!, even to tl:e lust moment, to Use cause of I;.e eriehlv " HIS Nlajesty the King of Prussia relies that the Emperor will consent to the union of Saxony with I'russia, and that he will represent to the King of axony, and 'he members of his family, the advan tales which would result to them from the establish ment .offered on the left hank of the Rhino. lli3 :lajesty desires nothing more ardently .than to con tribute, on nue side, OF much as possil le, to a!i that vreserve the intimate union t4etween the great Allied Pun t , rs, in order to obtain the important and for which no sacrifices ought to he spared ; but, on the other hand, his Majesty catinct concoat to any arrango hmitt which would impeso Dom... Prussia alone a per manent sacrifice. M:ij-=ty a.ks only what h.! may justly claim in i-nstqiumice of Ticaties, and of tl.e ilforts st hit h he has made." 10 COltltE PON D ENTS TA. Letter respecting an Irisll Gentleman who has lately crtmled el Channel, and undertaken to Pilot a stoking Journal .%f• intn port, but who Lai unfortunately saanded ne , ,r eertssin College in St. Georgo'i-fields, inadmissible, 10 we lt!see a 'ellnw-feeling for Li, gni:fortunes, not knowing how volt ‘c may have to ^lienutger a similar siislais. 1 1 W 1:a ........ •• • l'r:zrwe I've PRICE OF STOCKS TIIIB S per Cent. red. 65k} per cent Conti Clig 4 per Cents. 81;i per CCIIL Nal.) 940 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Lelig. *inn 161 7-16 in , Eir Bonds 1 1 2 L p lizetw:.l;erll, 2 5 p Ofip,iian 231 C4ILSOL fur Ace. 61j 54 THE STATESMAN. LONDON: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, IFIIS. A plentiful supply of Foreign Papers has been re ceived since our fast, from which we have extracted the most important articles. The latest arrivals are ninth JonrnalK and Letters to the 18th, and a Dutch Mail, brindng Brussels and Frankfort Papers to corre.ponding dates. These reached us at a late hour this forenoon. We tali, therefore, only give a brief arm 13 sis of their contents. The accounts from Vienna, wl.ich are to the (ith, and from the countries affected by the negociations, ure not such as to con firm the impression that the Congress have terminated their dispute:. According to the statements in the rtotich Papers, Lord CASTIttI:EAGII %vat: not to Lave Vienna till the 100. His Leirdvhip evidently nails of soave paint concilved to be of more importance to this country tjan either Poland or 54zony, which are stated to' be settled—how we neetl . varcely say. The point in which it it suppused we are most in. fereo..-cl ii Rt Igium, and this appears to be rather knotty. Thu contentions ;shout fixing the ft ontiers of l'rus•ia and Fr unee,w Idyls are still coatinued, involve the safety and interests of Bolginut and Holland; and it is reasonably supposed that for securing these ob j.'ets, it is necessary that the provinces of the Nether lands should net be separated from each other; but he under one Government, that of Holland. The clay on which all these psovittres %sill be united under one head, and in snprort of the true interests and independence of their colinfrv, will indeed be the f.tirtst in their history ; but they have never beets veuy cosdially united in this object, or agreed as to the method of obtaining it. There are still some milittry indications, for which it is hard to account. M , rslial Over sot. (Doke of Reggio) arrived lately at Alettiz, to take the com mand of the Fieorli troops between Alsace and French Etai.ders. This General, it is affirmed, leaves nutting untried to animate the soldiers with the spirit that is 44 consotia.it to the existing order of things;" and it is remaked, that the prudent mea snres which the French Government has adopted for this perpnv., with equal wisdoin and firmitess, have produced %that is considered a very good effect--the inspiring, perhaps, of a pacific, s i ri it ; yet this is tattier an odd mission to scud Marshal OucitNoT uiron.The remark is Ditch—by "good effect" it can not mean keeping the Prty,siarts at a distance, for we sne it stated in the Ifirritc Cnur,vtl, of the 17th, that " Ei.gland 11•:5 declared, as we are assured, that its do...ire is nut only that Prussia shall receive a great ;pet , aso of territory, but that it may obtain such in. .leimnfici!ions as are the best e:deulated to make it a ct uirt of union het wee', Rol4iurii and Germany." Tile 41 , 10-ruination, 11,:vforP, of the frontiers of litriland, or rather Fe.:2,iires. on the s:,lts of Franco, seems to become one of the,rnost iatportatit points of tire negotiatioos at the Congress. " Fr4lice," say the Vienna letters, " seeks to circumscribe, as much as pris,ible, the influence of England in the provinces, Or its frontiers; but, on the other hand, England strongly insiAs on the qgraadisement of the new kingdom of Belgium." Our Nrgociator ought to have settled this point ultit France before we restored her colonies: IVe I,,e;lght we were not conferring sufficient benefits on France by giving her back the Bouttuoxs,—we must thiu.s into her lap, without stipulation, the colonies u!•o--and now, after we have enabled her to can t with us in every particular, we are to Nubble her, and further impoverish ourselves to give 6 : 7 imsflour to the House of Orange !! Itut this is not all. We have another task (.1 our hands, of equally difficult accomplish --We hare not yet done with Spain.-- ur moral iatlaeace" eve have preached and I, ';'. V THE STATESMAN. fought to a pretty purpose) is to be strongly tinned at the Congress to get the present Spanish Govern ment read some salutary lessons of ethice. But even " preachie and floggie ton," will not, we sus pect, do with such a fellow as 1 ARDINAND and his briars. The statement on this head is to the follow ing effect ; it is from Vienna, of the sth 66 It is now reported here that a principal object of the mis,ion of the Doke of WELLISGTON is to l.iy before the Congress the deplorable situation of the Spaniards under their fanatic and vindictive King, and to obtain for that people a fate which their uoble resistance to the French oppression has so well de• served. It is nt the same lime intended to present the consequences of a revolutionary resistance on the part of that people, which might be attended with many other effects calculated to disturb the repose of Europe." By all means curb the people and reform FERDT. NAND, if you can. But is the political pulpit from which he is to receive his admonitions so very pure and perfect in itself as to leave the royal sinner and his Jesuitical advisers t:o room for bandying back accusation, and disregarding reproof? And will it not continue to be regarded by the liberates as rather too bad to cram the precious brotherhood who have now the reins of government in Spain down the throats of the people, .whether they will reform or not ? The task, you see, Reader, which the Congress has set itself is not an easy one, and accordingly they ate to take time to it. At the date of the advises from Vienna, the Emperor and Empress of RUSSIA, as well as the other Sovereigns, were every moment expected to depart, their travelling equipages being ready ; but their absence will, it is asserted, be but of short duration. The Monarhcs will meet again at Vienna ie the spring, to resume the work of general pacification and human reformation. Row good they are! and how much the world is obliged to them ! —the money spent in fetes and dancing out of the question. Oh the dancing, preaching, nose-count ing, land-meting Congress !! Prince TALLEYR %ND is • said to be expected imme 'timely at Paris. An account of the disturbances at Rennes is gircu in a Brussels article, which we sub join. It is clearly demonstrated that the Sovereigns who have latel s y been called the Liberators of Europe have been actuated by a desire of self aggrandisement alone, and if any one doubts this let him look at the Note of Prince HANDXNEERG, the Prussian Mi ttister, which we have given among our extracts hunt the French Papers. Prussia in this Note, decidedly insists on the whole of Sazonl. .. Austria has been under the necessity of ari*ering it evasive!y ; but it is evident that the object of all the Primers is more to prepare the means of future war, than to secure the happiness and trat;quilaty of the Continent. M (THAT seems to be recognized by most of the great Powers, his Envoy being allowed to sit and vote in the Committee on the affairs of Italy, notwithstanding the vigorous opposition of Franco and Spain. The accounts from Itome are such us we have before received,-and not such as-to add much to the conviction of the Holy Father's in . fallthilitv. From Madrid we have the expression of great apprehensions that we mean to seize upon the Spanish American possessions, foreseeing the impos. sibility of the Government of Somin paying the im. metise sums that we have advanced to her during the war. The Spaniards are also in fear of an invasion from Portugal, and are as much at a loss to account for the necessity of Mr. CANNING'S mission to Lis. bon as we are. The following article from Hanover communicates i particulars which, when token in connection aids the present financial difieulties of this country, will be read with indescribable emotion, by all who bare any feeling or idea of our national embar rassmen t s • and their causes :- 1 ll.oroyen, Fan. 7.—The English are fortifying the City of Stade. The expellee is calculated at twelve millions of franca, about siz hundred thousand pounds. The number of guns, the quantity of ammunition, and other articles of warlike stores, provisions, &c. whi.:l are daily arriving from England, is so itnmenv, that the expence that country must be at is almost incalculable. Added to which, they bateau armpsf near 100,000 men, which they are daily augmenting. So that, between the troops of Hanover, HoHasid, Belgium, and England, not less than 200,000 men can be in British pay. A report from Brussels, of the 13th of February, has been industriously circu lated, that it is the intention of England to withdraw . its troops, and leave Belgium to maintain its own in dependence ; bat this is evidently without foundation. Rowe, Fes. 3.—The Court of Naples is employ ing every means to excite a revolt here against the Pope; their emissaries are placarding the most Nu. riot's reports against him, but his srbjects constantly evince the utmost attachment to him. Baussus, FEB. 9.—Lord Castlereagh is expected here hourly. Two packet-boats are in preparation for him, one at Ostend and the other at Calais. The Officers of the British army in Belgium daily orrivel with their respective corps, as dO detachments of cavalry and infantry, and it is understood that 20,000 . veteran troops of Lord Wellington's old army will immediately join the army here. VENICE, J AN. 28.—Yesterday, at ten o'clok at night, a file broke . oat if the Royal Palace bel l; it was soon got under. There is reason to believe that this was not accidental. BAMSERG, Fie. is understood that the Mil= slan and Prussian plan of indemnifying the King of Saxony on the left bank of the Rhine is completely against the wish of the Court of England. The ge neral opinion is, that he will receive indemnities elsewhere for the cession of the fortresses of Willem berg and Torgau for the two Lusatias, by which, according to a statistical table, lie will lose about a third of his kingdom. FRENCH FUNDS, 7.9 f. 20 C. BRUSSELS, FEB. 16.—Letters from Petit] inform us that there has been a great disturbance at Rennes, occasioned by the imprudence of M. de I3oissay, who called himself the King's Commissioner: he had invited the ancient Vendeans to repair to Rennes in order to give an account•of their services. The Britons are very hot-headed, as is well known, and this imitation displeased them extremely. M. de Bois-Gay we , near being killed ; the Prefect was in sulted, thewindows of his carriage broken, and he wed his safety to the presence of mind of his coach man and the swiftnest of his hones. The town of Rennes presented the appearance of a popular tu mult ; the different quarters resounded with the cries of an enraged multitude, who, however, at last dispersed of themselves. M. de Bois-Gay has re turned to Paris. The Report of the COnstnittee on the Corn Laws is to be brought up in the House of Commons this evening. We had prepared some observations on the proposed measure, which the influx of foreign news has compelled us to defer. For the official particulars of the brilliant action attending the capture of the President, which has most seasonably retrieved the tarnished glory of our naval arms,we refer to the Gazette of Saturday, copied in another part of this Paper. The details are given by -Admiral HoTHAI( and Captain If Aims, of the Dirdestic, Captain IroPE himself, who has added this unexpected laurel to our Naval Crown, modestly furni-hing. only the returns, and bearing testimony to the bravery of his Officers and ship's company, which this heroic exploit has sufficiently testified. -.. ----------- --- I A Meeting of The Borough of Leeds took place in the Court-house, this day week, Jonx Bitootte, Esq. in the Chair, it was very numerously and re spectably attended.—Mr. ToTTIE proposed a string of Resolutions in the usual strain, which were seconded by Mr. CLAPHAM, jun.—A Mr. HALL moved the previous question in the following words : " I conclude, the Minister having declared his in tention not to propose the renewal of the tax, it is virtually extinct, and as I would not kick the poor 'dead horse, which has carried me safe to the end of a perilous journey, as the most respectful way of disposing of the Resolutions just now proposed, I move the previonsauestion."—Mr. . THOMAS IKIN, one of the CommiWoners of the Property Tax, se conded the motion for the previous question, which was, after a long and interesting debate, re jected ; and the original motion carried. And the Petition, which is already numerously signed, was transmitted to the County Members, and will artier, in London, this day, in sufficient time to be present. Pii, previous to the introduction-of the CHANCELLOR of the Excuzetrea's new measure of Finance. On Saturday Ministers received accounts . of the progress of the armament destined to the capture of New Orleans, but the dispatches aro not official.— The troops landed within 10 miles of the town, and 93 miles from the ships. The British had not got more than 2000 men landed, when they were attack ed by 7000 Americans, and . a schooner of 16 guns on their flank. A severe action took place, in which we lost 260 men killed and wounded, among whom were several gallant Officers. The Americans were finally repulsed, and the nest day the troops ad- I winced, and on the Ist of January were within five miles of the town, with the certainty of its immedi t i ate fall. On the 2d they were to advance, and open ' a battery of 30 guns on the place. Our accounts are from the Havannah, where a vessel was sent for pro. visions. The weather of that place was exceedingly cold. The thermometer was at 28, and many men had been frozen to death, though oranges hung on 1 the trees fully ripe. Letters WOIC received on Saturday to the 1 lth ult. from Amelia Island. in which, it is stated, that the Islands of Stialery and Cumberland had been taken 1 I possession o an armament employed for that pur- , ! pose, and fittee out at New Providence. I An Aggregate Meeting of the Catholics was held Fan Thursday last, in Dublin, when a letter from Lord DONOUGHMORE was read and received vi ith • • the greatest enthusiasm, in which he stated thttti he ' 66 agreed with the Catholics of Ireland upon the necessity of Petitiouing, this Session, for full, unqnolifted,. and complete Emancipation e--and moreover signified, that -he should re sent the Petition, and exercise his best influence •to promote its seeress,' bit* present-Session of Partin. • ment."—Another -from ?dr. GRATTAN was also read. It is reached io terms, es usual, cold and repulsive. The Right Hononrable Geutlemah would not. pledge Ihimself to terms. It was impossible for hiM to say 1 whether he would or Would not bring on the Dis t cession this Session, but observes, that whether he or another present the Petition, he will support it, • &c.-,-Much dissatisfaction. -A very serious forgery of bonds of the city of Dub lin has, it is said, been lately discovered. The Board of Aldermen refuse to consider the Corporation ac t coontable for the emount of these forgeries. Lord. CrimantAan is not expected to arrive in town until to-morrow week. • . By some extraordinary mistake; ; the CuAsteer.tort of the Excir RQUER has pricked as Sheriff for the conn ties of Huntingdon and Cambridge, --- MIT6HELL, F.sq. who has .been dead mote than twelve month.). DEAL, FEB. 19.—Agrived his Majesty's ship Plover, from Portsmouth, and sailed for the River. —Sailed the Dextrous gun-brig and Swan cutter, to cruise off the North Foreland. BOROUGH ELECTION. TO THE. EDITOR Or THE STATESMAN. Mr. EDITOR,—Your Paper being much read it Southwark, %%here a large body of military (f !; ,, some cause or other, accidental or intentiot.t, matter which, being A FACT) during the lute election, of a Representative for that Borough, in the eir,c , ,“ Merry THORNTON, Esq. deceasell; and which, it appears, occasioned a formal protest against !I le legality of that Election to be made by the ulirn!; ; ,l Electors, before the close thereof, I am ;NI to trouble you with some extracts from " the speech Earl ;11 ANSFILLD (then Mr. Murray), es Cnutispi for the City and Liberty of Westminster, compte•'. : . ing of an.unclue Election for the said cud on c cco ,„ .t of the nib-olfaction of the tnilitarg during the Puii, delivered before the House of Commons, ott day, 13.. c. 13, 1711." The spirit you have evinced at all times, in oil rir. cutnstauces, and under every species of oppre•siori and cruel persecution, for the mninterrattre of cl e true principles of the Constitution of your country (though you MAY DIE in her service unpitied, unprotrcted by the public you have served), not, I feel satisfied, be appealed to in vain on a su!.. jest sitnl to the liberties of the people; because the Westminster Election having been decl ared void, venture to presume such will -be the case pith the late Southwark, if " free Election" means any thing in the present corrupt state •of the representation, and the Protestors persevere. [EXTRACT FROM TUE SPEECH ALLUDED To.] " 'Fliers is, Sir, a very material fact, concerning the late election for Westminster , —a phenomenon, which, I believe, never appeared in England before that time, that is, a body of troops, armed and ac coutred, coming to the election ; and as it is a mat. ter which may, perhaps, deserve the full comaderatioe of this House, I wiil beg only, to throw oat a pro. position for your consideration—first a general, and next a pat ticular one. The general•is, that a body of regular armed troops, nader military discipline and military command, ought to be present at the place of Election on no pretence whatsoever : and the next is, that in the present case the body of troops came with a view to influence, and in fact did influence the Election and return. Sir, lam aware of the latitude in which the first proposition is sub. milted to you ; that I have said on no pretence what soever, and I mean to argue it (with deference to your future opinion) as largely as it is a constitu. tional propositien ; one of the corner-stones (if may so say) of our hoppyConstitution, is this masim, that ill Elections ought to be free,' for much of the rights and liberties of the subject depend upon ' this House, and the well-being of this Douse-de pends on the Freedom of Elections. Sir, the CQm. mono, so long ago as the third of King -EDWARD 1. • would not rest this valuable right on the bare maxim of the Common Law, but thought fit to hate a Par liamentary Declaration of it ; and (to make use of my Lord COKE'S .observation) was very wisely penned, in such words as to bind the Kisses himself. Can a body of troops armed, with their • pieces load. ed, he present at an Election, and 'carry no terror or menace along with them? Regular troops were unknown to the Common Low, And by the Bill of Rights, after the Revolution, it is declared they are ALL CM/11*(11y to /MT, unless delared by Act of Par. 'lament ; and their PRESENCE at an Election hare been thought so incompotable, that constantly the troops have withdrawn out ,of any town where the Election was to be, and have staid until the Election was over, and this was the opinion of every body. " Sir, in the first year of the last Parliament, on the question incidentally arising, whether it was in the porter of the Crown to LEAVE troops quartered in a town where the Election was ? though the Act recites it never hid been•done, on-the *ire question being started, the Parliament thought fit that doubt should not last any longer, but they brought in a Bill to remove the possibility of a doubt on that head. What is the preamble to the Bill? Why, that all Elections ought to be free; and the conclusion is, that all troops SHALL GO out of the town, and not to return till after the day of election. lam aware of an objection that Kill be made by way of excep tion-; it will be said, what, cannot the troops come to keep peace? A specious pretext indeed 1 I aL LIEVE THERE NEVER WAS, NOR EVER WILL BE, THE CASE OF AN ARMY REING lIIESENT AT AN ELECTION, BUT EVERY SOLDIER 11.19 A DOUBLE VOTE. We need not go into many instances to show this has been the case. The same cause will produce the same effect." Then putting several cases of necessity, be goes on to state, in answer to possible objections that may he taken to his constitutional positions— " That fall argument of contending for Inez. ception to Constitutional principles; that fatal argu ment has brought us many times to the brink of de struction. Nothing is clearer, than that no freeman is to be imprisoned but according to law : what; not if the King knows he is coming to email( him? The argument was _syecious, and the power of judging .was trusted somewhere, nod it took away the whole liberty of the subject. (How prophetic! !I) Every man was imprisoned for a mar:datum DOMini Regis. There was another resolution taken, that no money should be lesied on the subject, but by the consent of Parliament : w hat, not a case of necessity ? TiPy argued, it might in a case of necessity,and that over turned the whole rule; and. when money was raised, it was for uccessity. Suppose there comes an extra ordinary case, never within the intention cr t!.O Legislature, that produced the dispensing poser which dispensed with ail the power of the 1. , ••2i , s lature. It • must tend to lodge a diseretiel , l') power with somebody to judge of that neeess!ts•-- . It must be lodged with the e ilitsry officers; fa it aill tint mend the case, if it is lodged with the te• turning off:cer. ,Shall it be bid down that fro is may go to an Electiln ? These ere fatal nrgotssots indeed ! How far is necessi ty to justify ?Is it "Sollt• dent that the officer suspects or SMELLS a riot? Is it sufficient, ti.hen he knows in his own mind he is going to do a thing which onotre TO reel - our VIE et:one? If so, that will conclude a too genetll discretionary latitude, wherever the returning car thinks fit to have it; and, I BELIEVE. IT watt. NOT MIMI( BE DOUBTED RUT TIE MILITARY OFTICEN WILL EXERT lIIMNELF ACCORDING TO III; CANDI' DATES TIIAT SENT FOR nrn• " Sir ; thtLegislatule, in the Mit I just mentientl 7j. 777'. , 4. * V . 100 the Col