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. 4 .,9be.ar %IP • 43. • " to rizt EDITUR or 771 A STATESM4N. —.No— Sts,—Bad as my hand-writing is, I did not think that the erro► would have been incurred of 44 sever;" instead of "serene," in speaking of the deportment of the Emperor NAPOLEON. I thought that my known sentiments, and the statement of his conduct, even in the most hostile Papers, would have pre cluded the possibility •f soch a mistake. I entreat you to correct it immediately. It occurs in the beginning of my Letter which you published in your Paper of the 15th. His enemies accuse him of what they call Illachia .telian policy. I know net that MACOIATKL moot to recommend such policy : I am one of those who rqspect the contrary. But, be that as it may—others have followed the examples which NlscittxTer, states, in their con(llct against BONAPARTE, rather than he against them ; our policy, however, iu this last shocking instance will fall under no name or descrip tion. lioxAemat is rather the man of PutitAnctt or of • LIVI- ; and he pa)s the tax of being so much supe rior in magnanimity and generous confidence to the spirit of the age in wbkh he lives. Eventually, however, we are throwing the fine upon ourselves rather than upon him. For it is more than a tax--it is the heaviest fine which a com munity can incur—a fine which from age to age we shall be paying, but never clear—the fine of merited censure in the present and all future ages, which, to the well-deserving, either individuals or nations, is most severe. . How much more worthy of us mould it have been to hate sent out the Nett/sunderland, or any other considerable British ship, with the best astrononsi. cal instruments, and proper persons, to observe the &Okla of Mercury at St. Helena in November nest I I I think too highly of astronomical science, in theory and observation, to wish to see it combined with such a purpose as that which Ministers appear to have determined to carry into effect. Elysium and can hardly be regarded as more opposite one purpose and the other. every alleviation is due to this most Mus lim, of whom, as a theoretical and praeti. looser, LALAII,p thought so highly ; and if go, an alleviation it would be to have such observing. can we, ought we to speak of St. Helena as fined place of perpetual confinement of such 'destined, I mean, by narrow and creel hu. y) without shuddering with indignation or at the thought ? never forget, that unknown to him and his faithful friends as I was, I did yesterday _ approbation with which that most illus. person has been pleased to honour my princi. to express himself of the zeal manifested rose. In that zeal not only ms is concerned what human heart ought he not to excite it cpUNTair, her Laws and Constitution — of every inhabitant of this Island ; for at to think himself secure that the law will 'fringed against him if NAPOLEON be not, lenity as he is, and above all adventitious .noes, of the rise or fall of thewbeel of human ides. The law of nations and of nature, re \nd humanity, are deeply interested in the thick our Ministers are consigning him. And not forget, because, perhaps, is it softened .urnstances, what it is radically and essential substance. -- Perpetual exile, imprison .•ing pleasure, strikes its horror through speciosa appearance which may be contriv. veil it, and speaks every thing which , lish bosom is born alike to abhor, whether )r inlet it. I shall regard his approbation .buts, unsuccessful as they hare been, and they were to justice and to the character of 2ry, and the common interests of mankind, 4reatest honour which I ever can expect on Bet on the great question itself,—if it is to be iste,tion„—l felt in the same manner when mr was neither expected nor imagined which thus received. And I do urge, as I should me indefendently of that motive,—.that it not become us in this instance to enquire . St. Helena might have some advantages to against its great and obvious inconveniences, to bo visit it upon choice or whether the Ingle such a lot, have not some circumstances infection of it may allow or introduce to palliate it ; but the question is, whether and Constitution will endure (much less such a proceeding ; whether the principles of nations and of natural right are not re m it ? If they are, as I trust that I have .hey most assuredly are, no Act of Perna change principles and reverse the moral things; and no parliamentary indemnity be imagined possible. I am, yours sincerely, CA PF L LOFFT. ionAtaH, wear BurT. Sjßolk, Aug. 16, 1815. Immittee of Managers of Drury-lane The , it is said, in treaty with Mrs. Nlonarr tin, to the stage, from which, it seems, she was I by imperious circumstances, to retire. i. INCLEDOV, SLA DER, and Ilitommeit6..r, EGEnvom, have ceased to form part of the latent of Covent garden Theatre. F.XC II NGE, AUG. 18.—Our ben' trnde cantina and price- are smositutl. having , nn buyers. •nr Oats is large, and sales are exeredisiely heavy ► nll.. per qn.irier.—W Tate Peas are nearly agnate • Grey Nose, Beane, :sod other artitice there is as al- v la••• ••• spirit of th Eventual upon oars more than ;minify eat shall be pa] censure in to the wel is most see How ma to have sal considereb cal instrum trawl! of A I think toe and obsen such a pu have deten Tartarus than the or • Still, •I 1 trious yictn cal astrono they will g means of But, cat the destine a man (dei man polic; and horror I shall n brave and learn the trious per pies, and for his cam (though in it) but out r . the liberty who ought • not be infi • great inhere • circumstan sicissit udes Nina], ani fate to whi let us not in circurni ly in suit tient dun every ape ed to we tf • an Englisa o it suffer of d of my etfo due as the] my countr as the Brea earth: Bet called a lie Mat bonne a. I have the ly have done would no is whether S set against of those who Lion of it ay lef which the south or I our Law lb. sanction) on of the la w ar• pa• pegnant to Rtl yroved the an mut can den nature of aril ought to b tar re• ToostonAto pre* The Cot I to 7 etre, are, to return too compelled 'Se a Messrs. 7ar sod Mrs. on establishm Coam-F.: ,t,t• rto 'lull W. ti 54 1 TN. 41. • dr. l t ine • tcrativo. • ~~ ,; • • r _..•. ~.........._.. - THE STATESMAN: A PRoPHECY FULFILLSD. ferdatben ; and its his issue male has failed, it ,may be fr ,ed TO TIIE EDITOR OF TIM STATESMAN.. Sitt,—Being a few days since musing in the corner or a retired coffee-house, I overheard a discourse be• tween two learned men, and being struck With its singularity, with the aid of steno/go-Dishy, f am enabled to state the outline, which, if it be worth a place in your Independent Journal, it is at your service. It is pfnper to remark that one of the Gentlemen had the nmes in his boat!, end la) ing aside his Spectacles he thus addressed the other t—The scurrilous lan guage of 044 Journal midi respect to BONAPARTE, and frequently aided by Fetiteticei taken from pro phetic writings, has led me to consider, and perhaps I am not the only one who does so, whether that ex traordinary man is not an instrument in the hands of Divine Justice to correct the miseries which the Royal Fandly of the Csev:xs have entailed on the world by their strict adherence to those bigotted tenets of Popery which the enlightened Catholics of the present day view with horror and disgust : I mean the persecutions which have beets fomented in Europe against the Protestant by thnt bigoted race of Monarchs, who for nearly a thou sand years have been the servants of their Ilolinesses the Popes, the supporters of their power, the Minis ters of their vengeance, a nd,conseq uen tly, the scourges of the world. 'lids short historical account, chiefly collected from Bower's Lives of the Popes, will, per haps, elucidate what I have advanced, and may prove, whether the great succession of Kings, named Louis, on the throne of France, is not pregnant with mystery, particularly as they are universally known to have been at all times more intimately connected with the Popes than any of the other Sovereigns of Europe. In the year 755, PEPIN, King of France, gang the Pam the Esarchate of Ravenna, aid afterwards the Dukedom of Rome, before which time the Pore had only a titular sovereignty. CHARLEMAGNE (the prototype of BosAp.vivrx) re ceived the Imperial Crown at the hands of the Poet, who in return confirmed to him the actual sovereign ty of the City of Rome. The Pore then became a temporal Prince •. Lunovicus I. in 814, prostrated himself three limes to the earth before Pope STEPHEN IV. at Rheims. Ltinoncus VI. called the GROS, supported Pope CALTXTUS 11. in his claim•to the Right of Investitures, by zchich means the Port's supremacy over all the Clergy in Europe was by degrees established. This King patronised the. sentence of ex-communication, fulminated by the POPE, at Rheims, with the cere mony of burning torches against the Emperor and the subjects who adhered to him (or asserting the rights of his crown. Thus, rebellion was fomented, anal en. couraged by the head of the chnrch. LuDovictis 11. met Pope ALEXANDER 111. two leagues from Paris, attended by all the Chief Nobles of the kingdom—be dismounted from his horse so soon as his Holiness appeared, and having kissed his foot, walked by his side, holding the stirrup. In his time that hellish Canon was made at Tours against the Waldenses (the Protestants of the time), which continued with unabating fury up to the reign of Lunovicus VIII. ; and Luaorictis IX. surnamed " the Saint" even proclaimed a Crusade by the Pores consrnand against his own people, and caused it to be executed with such savage fury, that it is sup posed no less than a million French Protestants were slaughtered. Fuastcts I. having formed an alliance with the GRAND SELGNOR against the Emperor Cuatuts V., his religious principles were suspected ; but being willing to vindicate his reverence for the Church, the (allowing occasion enabled him to show it :—The in discreet zeal of some of bis subjects, who had im bibed Protestant opinions, had affixed to the gates of the Louvre and other public places, papers contain ing indecent reflections on the rites and docuities of the. Popish Church. Six of these persons were dis covered and seized. The King, in order to avert the judgments which it was hinted by the clergy their blasphemy might draw down on the na lion, appointed a solemn procession. The holy Sacrament was carried though the city in great pomp„—Faascis walked bareheaded, bearing a torch in his hand: the Princes of the Blood supported the canopy aver it : the Nobles marched in order behind. In the presence of this numerous assembly, the King declared, that if one of his hands was infected smith heresy, he would cut it off with the other, and would not spare even hie owls children, , if found guilty of that crime. And as a proof of his bring in earliest, the six unhappy persons were pub- lids burnt before the procession was /mi.-hell, with' circumstances of the most shocking barbarity +. The remaining part of the 16th century *as chiefly employed in wars and tumults about religiou. But HENRY IV. s lin was bred a Protestant (but appa rently turned Papist) put an end to them, and esta blished Popery in France, for political reasons ; but at the same time, by the Edict of Nantz, he tolerated the Protestants; hence arose the popular cry of rive Henri Qualm. 5 - . - - - - • 1. o - 5. . . . An the Princes from his death have borne the name of Luoovicus. Louts XIII. revoked the Edict of Mintz, and in obedience to Pope GRtGORY XV. made war against his Protestant subjects. Louis XI V . added still more severe edicts against them, which drove them into foreign countries In the days of Louts XV. and to the Revolution in the reign of Louis X VI. these severe edicts still remained in force —the Edict of Nalitz was still re voked ; so that it will be seen, that persecution on account of relieiow, ezisted by the law of France against the heretics (the Protestants),up to the time of the Revolution in 1793, though certainly not often put in force by that weak monarch Louts XVI, His blood being shed, it has been thought by many devout persons, that it was ordained as an atonement to his people, for the errors end persecutions of his 666 REkentr PRisONS. ,~.: _ lairly presuiro.-.1 hat the family hath limits race. • • That the genealogical tree bath ceased to put forth . . • ~ •., looter:lstvan.] its fruit, and has been o holly rooted up by the con- . [A s the Report of the Committeoef $e Bosse of vulsious which followed his demise. Families and Commons on the Xing's Bestch o Prisons, &toile empires are like trees, they die Aryl wither away. important mod interesting , information, we. coutinee Did not France cease to be a kingdom and become' an ' our extracts from :in a foresee Patiero will .be empire? a new dy n asty pretaiied—n new tree was found the facis which it states. w ith planted, and it h as b orne ( ru st. .regard tho N* ll ° has a right Marshal arid the eubordstiele officers employed about to gather it, but the French.people!---!Many I ' the King's Bench ,Pricon. • • We now oubjein those nent divines, and others , look forward, with parts of the iteport.that refer to its internal arrange satisfaction, to :he go o d effects the lite mews and aecomniodatiosts.] . . • 'troubles ae have witnessed (though boilibleaciattink I , The prison contains within .tbossalls altimit WO of) will - produce to the world, in a civil and rooms, eight of. which are called state sooms l sod are Cos point Of view. The absurd notions of the age i lett for 2s. Gd. each, per week,. ustfurisiobed p the re of reason are exploded, th e see d s o f t ine liberty mining 192 are (or ought .to be) occupied by the , they y destroy ed, for the more cannot easil prisoners, who are rompe il ed to pay .weekly s tk. for the e single room, also nisfureisheil.; if tvro.persens• live i roots are disturbed, the more they will propagate. .n the same room; 6,1. each •if three 4d Boothe Bigotry also lied from Fla"ce o snout as Marshal states that. he never demands any rent Onus liberty held up her mirrot. The host; therefore; those who ale unable to pee. .On a. prisoner's ar s being carried in procession through Paris, the edght7 rival at the gOte; he is called . upon to pay his commit, tionS at the shrine of Sr. Lutes, the ftill-dreM ' digs and embr o id ere d gowns of the tisints and client fees; wlitch amount on 10'. Gil tee were assured that whether the fees he paid, or Hot, Sointesses*, witnessed in 1811, ill accord with the he receives on dens., ld wehum-ticket (as it is called) sentiments of the generality of the French peo ple, who are of a diff er e n t na t ure to w h at they eloich is a ticket o f admission on. some iennolei the . were prison. The Committee, however,. ohs—ring that 30 years si nce; an d n i ne ou t o f ten s a r i- the M I bute these ceremo n i es t o th e e ff ec t o f wea k ness •rshal seemed to consider that he ead a right of intellect, and not t o its t rue CO OSP ) a bigoted to refuse the ticket if the fees lie net pale, thought it essential to remark, that a question as !r education, handed dow n f ro m f a th er t o son , to t h e pH's' of such a refusal was put to Mr. Templer, who present generation, from the humble Louis I. Hence v i s it ant i n 1791, an d 1,i.; ausner was, that any person the danger of resorting to the like absurdities. They immediately upon going into prison has a right to ti say that the Protestants now labour u n de r a perse- roam, or a part of one, if nay shall be found capable rutin', in the south of France—it is reported that of receiving him, althoug:; at such time he should be 600 were lately butchered at Niomes, and their l i n a ble to pay a ll y fees. The principle UPOn hielt he USCS pillaged—that others have fled to the moon- this ohummage takes place may be thus explained tains of Cevennes, pursuer) by bands of volunteer suppos i ng the 192 rooms in the prison are occupied Itoyatists (the Papists), who serve *about pay, and by one prisoner each, and there is an sit of tresb have hem, organized by the Duc d'Anooutonat: !!! po sous, ws'ch in term time often occurs, to the number This is scaocely credible; if it be true, who can of 20 or 30 of a night, and chum-tickets are demand wonder at the convulsive state of the country. ed of the chum-master; if the prisoiser . so d•onandieg Louis XVIII. is said, and generally believed, to a ticket, is of decent appearance, and has the air of he a mnit of sense, but void of vigour; and, perhaps, good circumstances, one is given bins upon a room he i s t oo zealous a Cath , :lic lu judge for hinaelf in already occupied by one in his station of life : if the mutters of religion—treiding hi the steel: of his an. ' applicant be poor, he receives his ticket upon one rectors by adhering to the er ror s o f Mo n ki s h times, ! who is able to pay him out ; that its , to give hint so instead of being guided by his ();i n good sense, ab- much per week, which generally amounts to 53. bisected from P. riestci an, which will render his Throne w h ere by he yields to the existing occupier the whole instable. Perhaps he does not knot: that his verst i sight to his room, and pays for his lodging with per. ; ,wme is clothed z:ith nsysiery.—LuDovicus is as am.; sons of his own etas, and situation : so that it is ant racteristic of France, from the great succession of ; uncommon to find six or eight persons of the poorer Monarchs of that name, as the Pita ROAlla and anises sleeping two in a bed, or on the floor in a PTOI.O3ItES were of Egypt ; and that in hints ! room of the dimensions of sixteen feet by thirteen or his late lamented brother, ma y b e fulfilled f ee t. S ome a l so o f t h ese s l eep a t t h e t ap , on b enc h es that prophecy which is contained: In verse Lehi. of and tables, and as many as 48 have slept there at ono chap. 13. of the Revelations, which his so much time. The choice, therefore of the chummage is per , perplexed the learned of all ages. The words fectly optional with the chum-master, who is one of are these:—" Here is wisdom, let him that hath un- the turnkeys, and has the sole management of the derstauding count the number of the Beast, for it is business, as far as the ordinary rooms are concerned ; the number of a man, and his number is GO." Here but those of a better description, from their situation the Beast means a kingdom, governed by a man are considered as being at the disposal of Mr. Broo whose number is G6G. What man's name beareth shooft, the first clerk to the Marshal, end whp has, 'that numlwr ? You will be surprised alien I show in point of fact, the direction and management of the it—behold it ! 1 whole prison. The prisoner aho has sold his share of his room is considered ins entitled to re-enter when ever he chooses to break the bargain, it lasting only for one week; but it appeared iu evidence that this right has been denied or is evaded, end that persons who have interest with the's:Ace's of the pris o n may either keep a room free from chummage, or prevent those who are chummed upon them from returning to their rooms, if the payment of ss. per week be regu lei ly made : ip this latter case the person insistino on his right to return, is shifted front his own room and chummed upoifiriether. No care is taken to aceaaint the pelts:mess on their first entrance of the prison, that I chum 'ticket is .1 be obtained on•applicistion. Some hale hem, several days within the walls, paying a heavy sent for their lo s ighigs, before they !pained from their fellow priaustera that they had a legsil right to a share of a room. Persons left in this ignortint'e have paid 85. and 10s. a eight for abed on some occasio.to ; but the usual price is (ruin 14s. to 11. Is. per week. The rule of cliummage is, that the persori who* has been longest in prison keeps his room free from tho intrusion of another prisoner, till all the rooms held by those of a junior date have a prisoner chum med. The system thus purports to be One of rota tion. Committee sat several days within the prison, and endeavoured to understand the manner of deli vering the chum tickets ; but though there be a rule stated to exist by which this delivery Ii regulated, yet it appears that so many exceptions are made to it that the whole system seems to be One of favouritism and, partiality, and liable to grist those. It is in evidence that contrary to the orders, and, what is more extraordinary, without the knowledge of this Marshal of the King's Bench, the turnkey criers, waiter at the coffee-house, &c., hold rooms widths the prison which they furnish and let to prisoners, the criers and waiter of the coffee-i:tiuse having no wages or salary but deriving a portion of their in come from this resource. It was also admitted by Mr. Morris, the Chum Master, and confirmed by kr. Brooshooft, and by souse of the parties them selves, that a person of the name of Gore was pri soner within the walls of the prison, that as such his was chummed ort a room, that he pis, out hi. com panion, that he furnished the room and let it ; and that though he now b 9 out of the prison, living with his wife within the rules, being also no assistant tipstaff, he was permitted to keep possession, of his room, mid to let it to prisoners at the rite of 20s. per week. It appears also, that Mr. Morris end Mr. Brooshooft were both acquainted with all the ciro enmstatices of the case, and voluntarily winked at. the abuse. ' The Committee have to observe, that the slate management of this branch of the economy of the prison is most defective. Though the Marshal hiss not be made by one prisoner on another, and no at. published an older, that extravagant demands Alta terations shall be attempted in any of the rooms, and Ithat a system of ancient date for the successor to a room to buy the fixtures, and ply for the alters , lions of his predecessor, shall be broken through, and no longer permitted to exist ; yet the practice is most prevalent, and several witnesses have declared, • that they have paid considerable sums of money for fixtures. Great abuses prevail in theswhole system, and the orders and regulations of the Marshal ere nu gatory. .01 the 19`2 rooms in the _prise% theseh • BONA PARTS placid lb! blip...Pi:ll COMA OR hiS bead him self usid bnaself King of Itnly.reduce-1 the Pori again to a mere Bishop. 'belling's Hhlory of Charles V. Number, settled iu Spi.aldeids. and rstriblifbed the Ca lmat their descendants we Melt still. • sc.& ZAlizt•N :~:~. I) ' Therefore I conclude, and with great reason, that France is the kingdom meant by the prophery. It is a subject worthy the consideration of the alines of the present day ; a time big a ith the fare of nations. The present icing is the 18th of the name of Ups:Onus •, but I am inclined to think the late king ended the dynasty, for the reasons before stated. Why was not Louis XVIII. crowned a year glove ?-1s it ordained that he shall not be crowned ?—Can the inscrutable ways of Providence be searched into ? The French people are now tasting the Vial of Wrath, with which their armies so plentifully deluged the rest of Europe during the last twenty years. Must not the pride of the people be humbled, and the crimes of the nation be purged by affliction before they can be fit to receive the blessings of a Constitution founded on true princi ples of freedom and toleration ?f—To judge truly, you must decide by contrarieties; therefare, ous of the present confusion of this people order will is- dose time be restored, but by whom I will not attempt to say, or by w hat means it will be brought about. I was here interrupted, and had only time to coN lect a few scattered senteocec, which 1 shall endea vour to reduce to form at an early opportunity. JAN US. • This tans out be earrect Entikb. but it arcing I, apply to sainted damsels. whose jasmines 4l•ed tear urensionally, tte. "The late dispatches from India return Ensign Wai. TUUNF.R, of the Light Compa►►y of the 27th Natisie Infantry " in she attack on Fort Jumpta, on the 26th January last. We have the satisfaCtion to state that the friends of that Officer have received letters which mention his being .lightly wounded, but had succeeded under great difficulties in reaching the British camp at Nahuts in safety, four dais after the action. Alajer Putnam and Captain Csimeact.t., very ex perienced Officers of the Royal Staff Corps, have ac cepted the very arduous and important appointment from Government to explore the source of the River Niger! They wilt take their departure early in nett month, to enable them to reach Senegal in .sufficient time to commence their proceedings before the rainy season; and being provided Kith every necessary, and such troops and artificers as they ►nay require, together with all the previous information obtained by NIOPIGO PARK, the result of their discoveries may be expected to produce more conclusive evidence of the source of the Niger than we have yet obtained. Mr. Shrigley, of N.,. 2, Millie Temple-lane, was seized with a paralytic stroke on Wednes.lay after noon, as he was walking, along Cheapsiie, in com pany with a friend, in his way to his sister's, where he was engaged to dine. He was taken, apparently lifeless, to No. 54, and afterwards carried home in a coach to his chambers, with little hopes of recovery. The whole of the Lottery will be drawn NEST THURSDAY;—the Office; ire tro tided daily. • .. . . • . 4 .... ' . ' . :•.it. ' '... 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