The Statesman. — London, England, 1806-07-24 00:00:00

r- TO CORRESPONDENTS. Ib:pressureot toreir.n late legator, snd other temporary ter, obliges us to deter till to-Morrow our pi , rnisedsci ▪ fooesroxiso , - with •CCIJIIATI. tOllllll • LLI Tie (WIC thi Prim , Colonel to 111114Ata ad of pet k.atipr and mut bawled Reify, O'ATESAWAN. tROPOSITI TLMAX. LONDON: THVIRSDAYp JOLT =4. Tee extensive circulatTon of this Paper in the col.:,:rs. rendering it necessary to go to press at hal/ tast two in the afternoon every day, we were to content ourselves with giving a Copy of Sptecb in our Second Edition of the STATESMAN scsterdas ; and we therefore feel it our duty now to insert it again, for the satisfatlion of those Readers, to v.hons we could not send it by last night's post. I: torrvs the most interesting part in our Report of the ;'.irliainctitary Proceedings. it is not horn any impulse of vanity, or from the still meaner motive of indulging in an angener_ was it i o olph user our rivals now silent and covered with e cnfusion, that we beg :cave to call Wee/6- [i= of our Readers its a candid review of otu communca:;ons on the subjeft of Pacific Overtures, won the truth of which the Speech, or rather the R o , a l NI, tl-..livered from the Woolsack yes. tend* , 1:;!s impressed the sta:np of authenticity. At a time when most of our cotemporaries, mis. led by erran.ous oonjecturt, or plausible reports, , and some phis' under the worse influence of stitercsted ,peculations in the funds, were stoo. H ning us with the echoes of &lion or imps. ' tare—with accounts of Flags of Truce that At: - ter arrived, of Foreign Personag's that were never sent upon a mission to our Court, and of Dispatches from the French Government that sever found their way to Mr. Fox's Otte, we assured the public that no overtures had been InEtte ED this conotry by France, but in the form of vague, and what we called taxiimg professions of a wish to pmt a stop to the calamities of war, without any sjrcific P roposal whatever. These insinuations . always accompanied the re. lease of any prisoner permitted to return to Eng. land, till the bad faith of the French Government in what related to the honourable, though tacit ex change of prisoners, provoked some little acrimony of remonstrance Da our part. Thii is what led to th: direct correspondence between Mr. Fox and M. TALLEYRAND, of which we did not delay one instant to inform the public, in order to guard them against the Stet4.j.6birs schemes of the enemy, and the base co-opetation of too many of our own countrymen in the same fraudful attempts. We need not repeat the daring assertions at that time m de use of on - the Stock Exchange, and pub lished in several Papers, regardless of their charac. ter or credit. it will bt remembered that we stood alone, and animatrd by a just sense of public duty, and by the tullentroofidence in the accuracy of our', information, we singly opposed the voice of truth to t: e united din of falsbood and imposture. Wc alternately employed the force of ridicule and the seriousness of argument, to demcnotrate the absur iity of the extravagant &lions then in circulation , respecting M r . Aoma's going to Paris wit h, 'AI. lilies* it ; Lord YARMOUTH'S creden. vats to treat with the French Minister; the success of the noble Lord's tiegotiation ; the arjustrient of preltminavies that only waited fur the signature of I.old HOLLAND; this Statesman's de_ ' parture for Pain, ; the unfortunate circumstance of his getting no farther than the King's Theatre in di:. Haymarket ; the time afterwards lost ih jacking up his Lordship's baggage, and put ting his travelling coach in proper order ; his being superseded in the mission by the Earl of LALUSIDALI, StAt lastly the long continued and very wars debates m the Cabinet oh the propriety of 'ma t Puy Ambassadors instead of we, as Lord could not be deemed able to face Tm.- LtrltAsis, si , j'e-haaded, and must therefore have the Right 11011UUSADie THOMAS GRIMVILLS for his orcah! or auxiliary. Sarh nacre the outrageous insults to common sense, winch uelusion propagated, and which credulity sometimes swallowed, in spite of all our warnings. •I•he must respeciabk of the Daily Papers grew ashamed of their former Mistakes, and had the can. +lo..ir to returti their op►nlons of a negotiation, t . ty that no person bad been authorised to treat either by the French or English Govern- A few avoided hazarding any opinion of Ih:it own on a suhjea of which they entertained radtiy d-C.):s, l:► short, we do not find that the Condutlor of any Newly:Ter has attempted, since the Speech frcin the Woolsack yeartday, to pal. Late former errors and incons4tenctes, except the Lid Lash, at the Brigid: Prrn, of whom we must now 64 some little notice. this poor •'Nlaared Sikl, who stains her leaves piophc tic nonsense, and thou tatters them to t rc er.deavours now to reconcile her publi econ of Yrdiminary Articles of Pace with the I . . . - . ow- ••••• _ Royal Declaration of being with a view to that desirable enii, hut the &Uteri. 01 which must depend do a vetrespendltig disposition on The pate of the enemy. • But we shol root sting the ificr 4yVil into madness by any pOinted cons. matt on her imbecility: We kite her to the mor tifying sense of having provoked public ridicule and public contempt. Tat two Hatriborgh Mails, which became doe on Wednesday and Sunday last, arrived this morning, and have furnished. is with some interesting extraCts. Part of the intelligence is, however, too god, in the common phrase, to be true, we are sorry to add, too improbable. to admit of the least belief. It is dated from Munich, July 5, and mentions a report that General BaLt.acAacie, with his troops, going to receive Catarro, was taken by the English, who are, now said to be in possession of that important post. Was this lie intended by the French echo in Bare. ria as an insult upon English credulity 1 Or was it meant as a set off against the French Minister's owl i :famous pamphlet published at Hamburgh, maw the title of Notice sur la Mott de PAUL I. IS. ptrcur de Russie," charging the British Govern meat with the foul crime of having proeured the lassamination of that Monarch / Before we presume to make any farther remarks on this Pamphlet, she oheelation of ...filch no means ate omitted to extend fi tier the Continent, we must consult the deep Politicians, or rather Conjuror s at the Stuck-Exchange, to kern from them, whe ther we are to consider the French Minister's Pamphlet as an introduCtion to a separate Peace be tween France and Russia, or as a proof of the cot. responding disposition on the part of the enemy, on which the success of our present pacific discussions depends ? One would suppose, that the accounts given of the greet naval and military preparations at Con stantinople, ate also the progoitions of a French pen. One hundred and fifty thousand men, all well-disciplitied, will soon be colleted ; and as not a third part of them can be wanted to quell the rebellion in Servia t . dm rest must be destined, for some grand enteeptise. which is to spread tbli .I,lory of the Turkish name and the terror of the Turkish arms to ilia utmost extremities of do oath 111 •• • - Last night we tad whatia -fisherman would call a skit of French ?apart to she i 4th, and Dutch to the Letp 19th inst. lls 'up tliCsi* . trietaphor, let us . it 4., 16 6.1... ......„ express a nope eoauraeg yi,iii be found to tae .. . semble a good net, retaiitiagehe large fish, and' let. sing tha little ones escape.. • The intelligence diretlly from Paria,l44o,olllA, that'. we could only selett one article, -and the; merely for the purpo)e of marking the date, mmier chewing how .tligirmu_s' friteloiu occurrences - tic swelled law impeoliner. by the :Owlets style of French amplification. But Italy and Nalles altord us some news more deserving of notice. the poor Pore, it seems, has nothing bot his prayers re trims to, and the insadO aid of french and Italian troops to guard hit ports, and to prevent the approach of English and Russian vessels. Surely bis Bins:44:s could do nothing less than consign to martial law s and immediate execu- tion a butcher, who attempted to sub a French man, in the streets of Rome: The fortress, 'caeca, still holds out, but is now lug the fiftieth time delcribed as incapa ble of resisting the vigorous attack in great prepa. ration, and the formidable batteries erected against it. OM huudred pieces of cannon and twenty-five Etter to _...as must shake the little Gibraltar; but the besiegers have already an excuse for their future failure, the loss of their ablest engineer. The Sortie from the Curium of the 6ih of last month is mote circumstantially describes than in unmet- accosets, and of comae, with additional embelliihments. We are tol4 that King Jos is imployed in the 0011 t beneficent efforts to repair the ravages and ca. ff !amities caused by the dreadful explosions and deco_ lining lava of Vesuvius. We have repeatedly hinted at the mote irreparable, because more per manent, evils of a despotic government. Both shores at the Adriatic are new completely protected against English of Russian cruisers by formidable fleets of Venetian Geadslas, filled with able* seamen, who - voluntarily rush on board in . crowds, to manifest their courage and their loyalty! Atter the aftion on the #th of last month between the french and the Montenstrins, the latter arc said to have concentrated thennelms, and to have drawn towards Ragusa, with large nieforeements. The troops, that were to have received from the 'Russians, sailed ftnm Trieste the 19th ult• but were driven back by conitsr, winds two days atter, and sailed again on the sad. .A Courier, with an ac. count of its evsenstion by the Russians, was el . Feted it Munit.h on the gth inst. Among other curious pieces of information from Gerininy, we hear that more *dual Kings are to be created, among whom the Elaturs of BA u of kisssz, and of Ifasse DARMSTADT, as well as the Ddke of CL&vas, ate particularly ID:utiuncti. NTI4 "Save given ampin.4lollll • *- 1 1 1 4 4 , tan of reithl serrici- to—;;Sstledish Pomerania, and the total i.banie 4; 1 0 Government and P9a: siltation of Aai tatrptry by the Ku u© of Swi-, out, who has &trail, that his German Posses sions shall be governcl by the law In &gel! il k stst Kingdom of Sweden ; and that the l'onsetagiona and' Swedes shall henceforth form one People.' 411111111111•1 • • • Monday, the Duke and Princes of OthiPtteted dined with his MA.IE:Ty and the Painttssas, At Frogmore; as did Viscount and Vignettes* SouLar. In the evening they walked oil the Terrace. Tuesday morning, his MAJISTY, the Dukes of KIN T and GLOUCESTIX, Princesses AUGUSTA and SOPHIA, attended by Lady A. CUSIAZI LAND, &c. rode on horseback. Her Mkiassv, Princess ELI. AAA STH, and Countess of ELY, took an airing in a coach and four. Princess M*.av and Lady 'BOOTH. followed in a landaukt BY, au._ all S itivu._ .. Yesterday morning the Duke of YORK orris,— Windsor, and laid before his Mai &STY the Returns of the Army, &c. The Duke of YORK held a public day on Tues. day, at his Office, which was attended by near forty Officers, The. Earl of Dose Hassan had an audience of his Mo.' MI on Tuesday, and took leave palletises hp his setting off for Milieu Abbey. He .is so very. infirm, that ha is alio* to bocastiod in and out of hisearrisso. .. .. .. . ~, His Royal Higiniteis the bike of CUMBIti LAN& has appointed the Rev. JOHN KILARNRY I A. M.son of the Bishop of Ossuar, cobs one of his Donseitio Chaplains. Yesterday, at three o'clock, a Cabinet Comma was held at Mr. Fox's Office. . . Yesterday the PORTUGUASI AMBASSADOR tram . &sifted business at Mr. Fox's Office, as did the Duke CA PORTLAND at Mr. WINDHAw'S. Admiral Ss 'stint' left town yesterday rimming for Plymouth, where he is to hoist his 11.1, and is expelled to proceed immediately as a Secret Ex. 1 peditioa. The KING has been pleased to gram a pension tool. a year to the widow of the lire Sir ANDRA" MITCHLLL, and *5l. a year to her daughter. -- It was SIT EDMUND HARRINGTON who be* the dispatches from Ceylon. . • The Hon. A. GRZY left town, yesterday, fie Durham Massey, Knutsford. The Marchioness of DONEGAL and Miss Coo. roar, are at Worthing. The Duke and Duchess of Rostov° are at Bel. roir Castle, Rutlandshirr, dispensing their elegant hospitalities through the neighbourhood. The Duke of Gtoucassaa risised Lord Gls'. v 1 lAA on Tuesday evening. li The Duke of PORTLAND enterui . large par ty of distintlioo at Dinner yesteriii r 1 - 0 t his house .., . is ? iccadilly Mr. morrow about 5o Reverend Hintiver _, Honourable sod gave the happy pair away, in the.presence of MI. and- Mrs. Bouvsait i Countess of Motions. TOII,• her Grandmother, Lady A. Cogaliii SMITH, her Aunt, Honourable Mr. and Mrs. Vt waits, ke. &c. • At the same rime was Married, lot) at the same church, ROBERT CAMPISILL, Esq. of Seodand, to Miss H. WYNN'. Mr. CAMPIIb.LL was accompli nied to the altar by the Duke of ARovi4 . l COk and Capt. Cmcvact.t. ; the Bride was accomptuedl y Mr. and Mrs. is witinson, her sister, Miss 11l Wynne, with her mother; Yesterday a Court of Direftors Was held at the East.lndia House, when Captain George kerning, of the ship Esti Stesm , r, took leave of the Court previous to departure for Bombay direct. • Sir GIORCH HILAItIO BAHLOW was appointed Third in Council st Fort William, in Bengal , and to succeed to the Government on the death s resin. nation, or coming away, of Lord MINTO; and jcitiX LVIIISDEH, Esq. Fourth in Council. •=•••=11•II A fleet, consisting of too sail of merchantmen, were appointed to sail float Jamaica on the :sth June, which were ordered to rendezvous at Port Nigrd, and sail through the Golphb under convoy of L' Hernele, of 74 guns ; Sasmtillmor, of 36 guns; Feetswie, of 36g00s ; Smelt, of I 6 gums .oasedmer, 'of 16 guns ; and Lek*, of 16 rtes.:. The following paragraph was pound yesterday morning at LAMM'S : . . " The Uhlman. of London, and the Sims, of Leith, ate taken in Gressiluxt, by three French trivets, which captured se the beaks ut Newfoundland, the William, or Greenbelt, at andther vessel, name unknown g sod as the 7th instant Souk the 'apse, rot Yarmouth, bound to Arshasugel. The Sims is burnt i crew arrived at Aberdeen." • The King's Bench Prison was illuraituttnd on MlStiday evening on the *task* of the Insolvent Delikors Bill having teceived the Ruyal Assent; and the Principal Turnkey was carried three times round tbe building, preceded by tedusis A ing , and accontlianied by the loudest shouts 'use, in approbation of his general COrolue. . evening concluded with much festivity, and many lor d toasts were drank. At Hampstead Assembly, an Irish gentlenian, who danced with great spirit, though not perhaps with all the vice Of a VAST a Is, was observed by a Mae. Carolll s who immediately Ifegan mimicking him in the Wit extravagant manner. The Irishman took no notice for some time; but seeing himself the ge neral Oiled of laughter, cams very deliberately up to the mimic, and asked, " . Why be presumed I to take him off t" " Yea, Sir!" says the other, •I jar 'mistake the matter, ft it acv award guy strienterit." 64 11 it," says the Hibernian, stemiudly accepting the excuse, " Well! to be sure, nobody can.help *bat's' !natural ; but, hark ye, my friend, be sure you con tinue ill that Natural step all night ; tor, by G. a, if you once attempt to make it etreiffeial I will break 1 every bone In your skin." S • . 777 - Dovaa, Jutv 13.-11.116 bear tatotired here to-day, that die ttanapotfa II the' towns, under otdata *rot Coredbellt, ilarelieen ciantermanded lam bairn, by the atrival of an thilress to tha 3siital it Deal; a • ?asked by for LOIAOII I the American ships Orb, Captain Boyer, froth New.tork ; Stud the Riling Captain Hutton ) from Tenerife. i. PORTSMOUTIi, JULY 23.—Atrived hii Majesty's 'ship Throw, 74 guns, wkh a convoy from the Downs ; hrward gun.brig, from a cteite ; Hark_ prix; Captain Harrington, from Hull ; the latial ow Indianian, and ii at the Motherbank. Sailed the Cratirr gun-brig, An ift truite. DitAl. 26.—Arrived the • Bekttr sloop or war, front Yarmouth, and di* Manar gun brig from a eruirr ; and rtMain in the Downi wlth the skips IS per last. . •. MSM!ltlellMe BRIGHTON, iota' s*& The Prince *ill certainly be bete ii-weirreir. Sir John and Lady Lade arrived here last night: The Channel today has again had a -rery bustling and agreeable aspeft, trots the number of floating °Neat that were to be seen ) sad which seemed to arm.' inuckpleasure to the crowded abeintilar of ,eikpreta at Pollard's Marine Losingt. Major tle- Kral Grey is in the last %COE departures: Sir W. and Ladr Jsrningham ant morsegit out most recent arrivals. • BURY ST. EDMUNDI A joim cis On Friday se'nnight, a barn fat Framlingliam, belonging to S. Kilderbee, Esq. of Ipswich, was burnt clown by lightning: Scarcely a day has passed since the libitum-an. tioned, without some seven tempest, in one part or other of this county. Ou Thursday evening la , t the lightning and thunder were Ireiry sharp, when s lambs, grazing in a kid belonging to Mr. 7 ho. mas Parsons, of Great Barton, were struck dead. And on Monday the storm seems to have been one of the most extraordinary ever remembered in this part of the island. From a quarter past one, for three hours, the sky was uniformly and deeply elotided, and the rain and hill, With few and short ir. tervals, came down in tot rents. Soon after the storm began, it was thought advisable by the Magistrates attending to the business of the Quarter Sessions in this town, to take down the great chandelier in the Shire hall, it being deemed a powerful cunduetor ; in doing this, however, mischief bad very n ear ly happened, as t he Clerk of the. Peo.ce.ntirrowly escap. a fatal blow from O K Wl l if,p l ats of it. In a very few minutes after came one of Elie sy i ongest ilashesi and a violent explosion , lir ite &stance of sec. equal to :too feet iSently,itkelittle more than the she 3d of a mile. Ihron-itstothosiler explobions, ilie most distant of w ich (roll the flash did not ex ceed 8 sec. The lightning %val exceedingly red and dense. The only aceitlents that hate yet come to out knowledge on the last sueotioottl.day are, that of a mare in a pasture belonging to Mr. Breton, of Hardwick, being struck dead under a trete, which was also shivered topietes ; a poplar tree, in the. meadows, near Stamford Bridge, which stands be, tween two stacks of hay and stOveri was shipped of its bark, and nearly split in halies, but not thrown down, and most probably, by its attraCtion, re served the stacks from ite. A great quantity of coleworta, which are new generally cut in this neighbourhood, and lying on the . ground, were very materially injured by the heavy fall of hail, and much of the growing corn has been greatly laidi though it is hoped not miterially damaged. The attendance yesterday issiNth Houses *an thin ; the Commons in the Smoke's train ongoing up to the Upper House, about 43. The Lords did not exceed that number. It is said that Parliament bill meet early to Nub. vember. . f The Session pew an end to yesterday. was the fourth of the second Parliament' of the United Kingdom. AnAttomey lately observed, that if Boil A PA Iltt should enter into articles to her, tit les*, it wrfuld be proper to know his sranitit. . At the Commencements held ih the University of Dublin, on Tuesday, the isth. host Site huts:wary degree , of L. L. D. was conferred.celhis Roll! Highness tit! Duke of CouseaanttostChancellnt of therUnivenity ; and also on the Right on. Lord Chief justice Dowses, Viee-thoneellot. The Degrees of Bachelor and Dodo, itt Ctiviniry ereem conferred on the Rev. TuonAs H A wes tes , R e y; ROBERT RUSIBL, and the Rest jonw•blatititt.av; the degree of Bachelor in Divinity on the Rev; R. A. H. KINNY I and of Doftor in Divinity on the Rev. H. NASH ; and the Degrees of Bachelor i n d Dotter of Laws on the Rev. Heron Heston SHIELDS. Same time the ReTb FRANCIS RAN. DOLPH, D. D. of Cambridge, was admitted, ad mann. At the same time, eight Masters of Arts, forty. six Bachelors of Arts, and two Bachelors of Medicine, were admitted. Yestetday, as a Gentleman was drivlbg a tittle_ horse chaise it rather a sharp rate &loot Parliament street, the horse took fright, and running violently against one of the Greenwich stages, by Charing_ Cross, the off-wheel of the clisise was 'bartered to pieces, and the axle-tree brolcat. Thedriter, who we understand was a Mr. Mills, of Oxendon-streett Haymarket, had the presence of mind to jump out before the shock occurred, *A fortunately etcapra unhurt. After plunging some time t h e h orse d rag. ge4 the broken chaise nearly oiposirverais's.co nr t , where he was stopped by a drayaian without !sing further damage. The horse, which sustained no injury, was taken to a liver stab! s n St. Martin's Lane, and the remains of the chaise w..s scared with cords, and ca led to the same pfaee. I I ; .1 i I r ~~11 t t . I acuity. WALsa Porairta gives a tffifritt to. r at his beautiabainskt at Aro, to which So persons of dis(inietion atifditatk .day was niarrie4,,..ly thellitilsourablc and !nd G. Ws s.r.asEiti„. at Oforte'st.hitrch, er.sq — laire, the Hopoura /3aotr t bro. , Lord BAOO,T, ILOI6 411114iful Miss TOLE, Cr Of the Honourable Mr. AV:: Pott r 'nf ey.square. The Marquis- and Marchioness may, Honourable Mr. 'sod Mrs. POLE, 1 1 Ps #7:7P ;1 , 1 11', 1 .. ' • 1 -s . 11 1 . i . 1 !. 1 lil J. .' ,t P . l), • - , T. 1 1 1 1 a, i'.. I , • ,', ,1 a 1 .