The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-01-28 00:00:00

c.,, fort ar. ion s heir dT. r.rf i 4o Ike. On. rco, ►ill TIIE STAITSMA!Vi It is known that the King of Saxony refused the Field Marshal Bell garde is recalled from Italy. indemnities which they offered him, and which corn- He is. to be Ambassador at Paris. General Trimont prehended the country of Munster, Padderborn, and succeeds him in Italy. other Catholic countries on the Rhine; as also the There has been no Court since the last day of the universal cry of all Saxony for the restoration of year. Our Course of Exchange has fallen to 272. their beloved Monarch ; and it is hoped that these NA nes, J 6.—The most uncertain and contra considerations will have some weight with the allied dictory statements are daily made here relative to s.,vereigns, if, indeed, as they profess their object is, the disposition of the Allied Powers as to the coati. tke happ;aess qf the people ! nuance of the dynasty of King Joachim on the The Universal Gazette has the following article : Throne of Naples. The hopes of the partisans of Notwithstanding the universal secrecy which in- the ancient dynasty are all revived ; they are active volves the operations of the Congress, yet it is-cer- ly at work, and their zeal and industry causes ittiti that Poland, regene r ated by the beneficent King Ferdinand's party to daily encrease. The little m e sander, w ill cojny the utmost prosperity. The probability which remains that King Nurat will be subject of tityotty is a much more difficult one. The able to preserve his throne, disposes an immense friends of Prussia, s ay that it an e rror to attribute number of peop!e of all classes to secretly abandon siews of ageratldizement to that Monarch, when be his interests. It will be a much more difficult thing demands possession of that kingdom. Ile only wants to prevail on the army to desert him, w hen the i m lemilities, which have been promised him for the number of sacrifices which he has made to preserve s.nlifices %flitch he has made, which indemnities Eng- their fidelity are taken into consideration. It is ne- L in d 5 ;141 Austria ,guaranteed to !limas he has shown vertheless said, that the body of troops which °cell by his Note of the 20!h of October, and it was not pies the Nlarthes, seeing the disposition of the great m.til the 20th of December that they thought of li- mass of the people, desert in considerable numbers, te eiae, these indemnities. This last Note has g'vpn and it is believed that Murat does not count much tic to on that subject, which, although tyou its fidelity ; he therefore intends, it is said, to f very great importaece, w ill nevertheless probably replace them by a new levy recruited lately in Italy. end it appears the King's delicate state of health, the The Midis of Switzerland are settled ; the bi- political events vi hich have lately taket , place, and s h ryr il t of Basle is given to the Canton of Berne. i the necessity which exists for his remaining in the VteNNA, JAN. 'l.—Since the conference of the capital to give a directive to public opinion, will not 29:h of December, which was conducted with so permit him to attend to the distant parts of the king reach heat and violence, the political horizon has as- I dom, in person, although his intention to do so was sumed a most dark appearance. Before that day lately announced. many of the Ministers began to talk of their depar ture, but these preparation; have now all ceased. TWO AMERICAN fue:ATEs IN THE BRITISH CHANNEL. The nt•gociatinns have taken a singular turn. The Note of Lord Castlereagh expressing the determi amtion of England never to consent to the dethrone ment of the King of Saxony, was couched in very strong language, and the answer is awaited with the utmost impatience. The hussidn Minister has thought PLYMOUTH, JAR. 26.—Arri►•ed his Majesty's ship 0 1 10M111, from a cruize, and bring: au account of ttvo American frigates being in the Channel, in con. sequence of which a number of ships are gone in pur -1 suit of them. AsoTune LETTER, SAME DATE. it better to atimer inditectly to Prince Metternich, titan to reply to Lord Castlereagh, and as they are stronity supported by Russia, nothing can be less relF.e, than the language they adopt. They persist The Opossum gun-brig has come in'from the West. ward, and brings an account that two American fri gates are cruizing at the entrance of the Channel; a number of ships are about to sail from hence in pur suit of them. iu their demands. They seem t. consider Prince 111Liternich as (he real author of the English no!e,, although Lord Castlereagh declared posfively that he received it direct from England, of course the A ti.triin Cabinet was very unlikely to yield to Prussia, therefore its reply was most oiler celic. Thus went on an interchange of angry otes, which increased the difficulties rather than eunvidated them ; they were therefore obliged to have ver%nrse to cossferenens, and it is now believed that they tir• - i iu good earnest at work to reconcile their dill:rein:es. As a new war was apprehended by all, so they were obliged to concede a little to each other. The Emperor Alexander explained his views in a very open manner; he declared his sorrow to hear the reports whirli existed of the probable rup tore between the Allies, and his hope that (here weuld be no such unfortunate issue. Russia origi na.: ished to have all Poland under his dominion, by wh "leans he would exteLd his frontier to Silesia an,. • 'oravia, but that he had abated his vi , ws in conseq, .co of the late discussions ; that he mz,7.tri i•e glad to re-establish Poland as a king dom, to it a it a Constitution, but with. oet uniting to it the provinces which had b, en detached from it by the former partitions.-- The Emperor consents that the NVartha shall be the frontier of Poland and Prussia. By this arrange. ment Prussia will acquire many large districts in the country of Warsaw, amounting to a population of near a million. Austria will recover the circle of Turtiapol and that of Zamosck, which she ceded id ltif!9 to Russia. She will possess exclusively the salt-works of \V iliska and Bochnia, but she gives up the left bank of the Vistula and the city of Cracow.. Thorn will be acknowledged free and independent— Da ot z:e restor ed to Prussia. We give, in another part of our Paper, an ample account of the Speeches and proc( edings at the Dinner of the Friends of Mr. JONES BURDETT, who met yesterday at Cumberland Gardens, forthe pur pose of promo. ii;; the election of that Gen tleman for the Borough of Southwark, in the room► of Mr. THORNTON, deceased.—Sir FRANCIS and Mr. JONES BURDETT, together with Major CARTWRIGHT, were present ; and the company, which we need not say was altogether respectable, amounted, we suppose, to about 150 persons. The American Papers contain a report of Mr. DAL- L.ts, the Secretary of the 'treasury, in answer to a letter from a Committee of the House of Representa tives, requesting his opinion as to (lie effect which a considerable issue of Treasury Notes, with the quality of being receivable in subscriptions to a National Rank, would have upon the credit of the Government; and particularly upon the prospect of a Loan for 1815, and as to the practici,iility of getting forty-four mil lions of Treasury 7 .k:cies (forming, with six million of specie, the for a National Batik), into circulation %without depreciation. In reply, after detailing the embarrassed state of the Treasury, he states himself to be of opit:it.ii, that a consider- able issue of Treasury notes, with the quality of being receivable in subscriptions to a National Bank, would have an injurious effect upon the credit of the Government, and also upon the pros pects of a loan for IS 15. Because it would confer, !gratuitously, an advantage upon a class of new cre ditors, over the present creditors 'of the Govern ment, standing on a footing of at least equal met it. Because it would excite general dissatisfaction am rig the present holders of the public debt, and general distrust among the capitalists, who were accustomed to advance the money to the Government. Because a quality of subscribing to the National Bank at tached to Treasury notes exclusively, would tent to depreciate the value of all public debt not possessing that quality ; and whatever depreciates the value of the public debt, in this way, must necessarily impair the public credit. Ile then goes on to express his opinion, that it would be extremely difficult, if not impracticable, to get .11 millions of Treasury notes into circulation, either with or without depreciation. A numerous Meeting of the town and neighbour- hood was held upon the Moot Hall, Ipswich, on Tuesday se'nuight, to consider of the propriety of petitioning Parliament against a renewal of the Pro perty Tax. S. TnouNDIKE, Esq. the senior Bailiff, I being called to the Chair, briefly stated the object of I the Meeting. Mr. BATLEY brought forward the draft of a Petition, which he requested might be read.— The same having been read accordingly, and no ob jection made thereto, Mr. BATLEY moved that the Petition hr adopted ; Mr. BaAmu seconded the mo tion, which was agreed to without a dissenting voice. There is 1 ,- , be a vessel at Calais, and another at This is really the positive state of the nognciatians at present, but they of course dep, , ittl on whatever may be the ul;irnate arrangements made on the sub ject of Stonily. All the Powers have agreed to give Prussia the tame population shz , had in 1805, but she demands a much greater one; `iatiAirill calculations are making daily sti,linut end on this suliject, by a Committee over which the En4Hsi' Lord Clancarty presides, aiol of a hich the Hanoverian Count Munster is a r.ibr, r, and which employed onlencouring to SluTrt.iiii the precise population of Prussia before t'i' battle of Jena. Auit ill with great reason opposes this aggrandise niet,t ef Prussia, because of the S.ixon provinces of i:,zebiag, V11013:1,1, and ,llessen, become l'russian ; iluheinia will be entirely open to Prussia on the t . ;orth. They say that to engage I'russia to desist from her Saxon pretensions, she has been offered, iatlepentlent of a coils:Amiable part of Poland, the country of. El furth, of Thuringia, that part of the circle of Wittemberg on the Right Rank of the Elbe, i,u(l all Liawer Lusatia ; to add also, all that coun try between liollaud and the Lahn, and the entire Duchy of IVestphalia, in which case the Princes of Nassau, D'Aremberg, &c. must be indemnified ekewhere. Ostend, for the conveyance of Lord CASTLEREACM home. Go or come, when he will, his Lordship has •always " two strivas to his how." It states that Miss Pratcrvat., eldest daughter of the late Premier, will shortly bestow her hand upon Mr. Peers, the Chief Secr'tary for Ireland.— Mr. Pam-NAL, the Lady's eldest brother, is also said to meditate a visit to the Temple of ilymen. A French Paper, among the last arrivals, relates the following occurrence:—" Amongst the skaiters echo figued yesterday on the Grand &sin of the 'rhuilleries, there was one who surpassed the rest in agility and ease. In placing himself with grace, like a Zephyr-, he gently inclined towards the pockets of the crowd, and with admirable dexterity drew forth their watches as he fled along, but, being caught in this act of sleight of hand, he was unkindly con • ducted to the corps de garde.". All the Powers who are in favour of Saxony con. tend, that she shall at least retain the countries be tween the Elbe, the Saal, Bohemia, and Franconia ; it is added, that the Emperor Alexander is of of uion that this is a fair offer, and is doing his utmost to prevail on the King of Prussia to accept it. ARMY*. _...."...._ GEN 1.:11A.1. ORDER. horse Guard*, Jan. 16. From the reports which the Commander-in-Chief has received of the Regimental Schools, his Royal Highness 'has the satisfaction of believing, that the important and beneficial objects of these institutions have generally been duly and successfully attended to, by the instruction of the children on the plan of the Rev. Dr. Bell, as proscribed in former Orders, and by the introduction of good order, cleanliness, and regularity. There is, however, another point of scarcely less importance, to which it is the Commander-in-Chief's 1. tilt most earnestly to call the a tt en ti on o f th e o mmandiug O ffi cers, viz. that of takin g ca r e th a t e children a r e, n s ea r ly as p oss ibl e, i nstructe d i n t t 4tte means of making themselves useful and gaining their livelihood, and this his Royal Highness con calves may be effected at a very cheap rate, by em playing the best qualified and best belm4ietl n omen of each regiment in instructing the gills in plain work aid knitting, and employing the tailors and boot and sboe-makers of each regiment in instructing the boys in their respective ,trades; by which means Xte whole may, at a very early age, be tendered useful to the regiment, and be enabled to gain !bait own Sub,istence. Tile Commander-in-Chief is of opinion, that by an econotnical application of the funds lift their disposal, and by a proper arrangement for the sato of the produce of the children's work, Commanding Officers will have it in their power to forward this object without incurring any additional ex pence. By command of his Royal Highness the Cots. maoder-in-Chief. HARRY CALVERT, Aij.-Grn. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL 'S BELTING ROOM, JAN. 23. DERBY STAKES. 1200 & en nestplatst Sir Thomas I.': to 1 nest any other 1250 to L ago Sir Joshua Anticipation it„st Equator 9 to logy br. to Whalebone ON THE OA&S. 300 to 50 agst Minuet 200 00 Mr. Pavne's and Len -450 to 25 agst Ditto ton's tillies apt the above 261 to 2.5 apt Ld. G. Coven- tw•o. dish's f. TEF: RIDDLEGWORT/I. Even betv, eel! i:aphael and Sir JtNana. Diqo ',Ltween Rapliael and Mr. l'a)n..'s filly. ACCEPTANCES FOR THE FPI•F. lIA 1/ICA OS. NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING: Monday—Sweepstakes of 100g3. each, It. fr. B. C. st. lb. I !.. t . lb. Mender Billy 9 2 I Blaster . 8 10 Ihunlet. 9 2 I Cat 8 9 1 Merryeeld 9 0 Cwrw 8 3 Teadale .9 0 Teesday—Sweepstakes of Alcohol . 8 8 Emily .8 5 Hocuspoeus ... 8 3 Wnoo Ball 8 - isesday—Sweepstakes of IC .Cll;,llapitosirrd Colt . : 8 12 licsorbots .BlO Plifii i n a 8 10 (AA me 8 6 aloe:day—Sweepstakes 0 1 Utak:moor 8 0 Haphazard gelding, darn by Waxy 7 11 Spectre Bellaria DN.. each, h. ft. T M. M. Fugitive ~....E 2 ti,;.l. 10 Eaglet ....... . 6 Ir. ea* h. ft. - Aefens the Pint. Dimon llampden ..i Tempest 7 10 Viol,.t 7 0 1 04 3 . each. tuft. T. Y C. Haphazard filly, out of . Trusty'stlaui .7 7 lobo .7 5 Dauntless ..7 4 TRALEE, JAN. 17.—Lieutenant navid O'Keefe, of the Kerry regiment.—This unfortunate Gentle man, whose conduct for some time past manifested the strongest symptoms of mental derangement, has termire.ted his existence in such a manner, as folly proves the state his mind must have been in, whilst ' the manner of his death is sincerely to be deplorA by every Chlistian. The commission of an act of suicide has hurried him into eternity ; n Coroner's Inquest having found a verdict of murder against him, fur having, on Tuesday last, shot a man of the name of John Sullivan, a process se ver, whilst in the act of serving him with one of those orders of law. At the instigation of his family, he fled for the purpose of secreting himself for the present, which he probably would have effected, bad the situation of his mind enabled him to have pursued any rational kind of conduct; but labouring under a degree of insanity, which mnst have been et,6sider ably augmented by the death of the unfortunate man whom he shot, he committed a similar act towards himself yesterday evening in the neighbourhood of Tullarees, about 12 miles from this town, and, by a pistol-shot, put an end to his life ; as the circum stance which led to the death of Sullivan was likely to beeome a subject of legal investigation, we consi dered any notice of it, heretofore, would be prema ture.—(Kerry Erening Post.) On Wednesday nig'it a great part of the planta tion of young trees, on the ground of ALEXANDER MURRAY, Esq. along the road side, from Nether street, Finchley, to Mill-hill, were cut down by some miscreants. They were all left on the ground, not one having been taken away. The PRINCE REGENT has been graciously pleased to appoint Mr. HENRY ALEXANDER, of Cork-street (the Partner and Successor of Mr. WATIIEN PHIPPS, and Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary ft); Diseases of the Eye), to be Surgeon-Oculist to his 'Loyal High- IIeSS: SIR WILLIAM SAMPFINGITIN, BART.—Died, very deeply la mented, sit his hoose in Charles -street, Grosvenor-square, on Thurtday last, in the aPernoon, January Vtith, between the honrs of three HMI row., after a long and painful line s, which he sustaincJ • ith vul. Christian fortitude, Sir William Charles Farrell Skellington, hart. is the 73d year of his age. The fami ly of Farrell was, originally, of the Province of ,connaught, in Ireland, au ! deu , railed from the Priuccs of A nnaly. The direct 1 ancestor of the Sketfingtons was John de Skeffington, living iU ' 1188, whose son, Sir Ocoff:ey de Skeifington, was, in :921, pos sessed of lands at Skefiington, in Leicestershire. Sir William was born June 21, 1742, and served in the First Ite: , iment of Foot Guards for 2.5 years. Ile was ap pointed one of omi:squires : to his Royal Highness Prince Frederick Duke of York, at the Installation of the Knights of the Most Honourable Order a the Batts, in 1/72 ; lie was a Deputy Lieutenant for the Conn ty of Leicester; and he was a Member of the Antiquarian society. At the itiyortant crisis of 1794, Sir William was Co hind the Leicestership• Yesmianry Cavalry, objets was the first regimest of Yeomanry that was completed, and made its returns to Government. Sir Wm. SkeEington was distinguished in private society for the urbanity of hi. manners; and in pub lic life the ditties or his station were up'orld by ardanr, and maintained with firmness. He is succeeded in the title by his only son. Arr. Mails. Due U 3 1 i MAW.. 1 SOUTHWARK ELECTION InNiVER. Yesterday the Friends of Parliameotary Reform and Purity of Election in the Bornagh of Southtvitrk, dined together nt Cumberland Gardens, Va . (Jabal!, N (SILLI L 4, EN. us tile ( . 1. s i r . The object of the. meeting being to select a person to support their .rights in Parliament, and it being known that Sit Francis Burdett and hi , !nether, Wm. Jones Burdett, hay. %sere to honour the meeting e Ott their presence, the company 54 , :as Illltnel'OUS and respectable. Dinner at as served up ie good style at live o'clock. After rite cluth was removed the CIIA I Rat ‘,4 rose, and stated the object of the . nteAing.-17,a observed, that the Independent Electors of Southwark, who were now assembled in that place to give ' , roof of their political principles, and the other Ei••c• Ifs of the same Borough ho entertaitted similar sett'''. smalls, and nein siatilarly aettnued, had. now an op• portuttity of giving a pto•eticol instance of that relief-titian for l'utity bf Election alum! l'ardanveutaly Reform which it was known I fh..v. citesiihoij; and upon which principles depend the salvation of the country. Th:s opportunity of shosti3g their attasit theta to the th.st -rights of the People and the COW stitution, and of surce,:sfully canting theotselves . to procure the retttrn to Rirlilmeni, for the Borotto4 of Southwark, of an independent 111embor, knOVI 11 to rwcrtain•Nueli seill1:11:1115119 TM,' 11 1 , ot: it'iSCCI, was afforded by the death of their la:.1 I\l der, Thornton, on %Otos , • po!ititA ch tone let it was now unnecessary fur him to enlarge. It w.ts happily equally unn icessary for Iti it to punt out the person who ought to represent them iu Parlia ment. The r most proper vorson whom he kpew for That purpose sat on Ilk 11:411i. William J 011 1 ,5 Burdett, Esq.—a man whom he believed they would all concur in opinion was, in every respect, worthy of their unanimous suffrage, for he was no less a foe to Court corruption and Ministerial depettdelice, and as much a friend to the privileges of the people, and the honour and interests of his country, as his estimable brother, Si- Francis Burdett, who had also done them the honour of appearing among them that evening. Ile was aware, that however just their saute was, they had many obstac'es to overcome, not the least of which was, the utter stupidity, sub serviency, and venality of the mass of those who were in the train of their opponent ; who, he was verily persuaded, without makiag any illiberal allu sion to Mr. Barclay's profession, would, for do sake of filthy lucre, return a brewer's horse. lla would conclude by saying, that now was the tim-s for showing their upright and independent conduct in the cnoice of a Representative, and hoped they • would act upon the present occasion as became them. The Chairman then gave the following toasts:— The King, The Cnnititution, the %thole Constitution, and nothing lvd the A speedy union between Taxatiuo and Representation, never to be put anis d..r. Mr. KEMMISII, in a speech of considerable lengt!i, animation, and fluency, animadverted on the Cha. I i:cter of the live Member for the Borough, (Mr. Thornton), and drew a contrast betwixt the conduct of o)rit Ttidividual, and that wh'clt ought to distin. gui,ti the Representative of the free and independent Electors of the Borough of Southwark. Mr. K. took a review of public events during the last twenty years, avid concluded by observing, that the exigeo- . cies of the times and the situation of the countrv, imperiously called for the exercise of such integrity and political principles as were the diAinguishing charactet .;tics of Air. Jones Bartlett, upon whom and his worthy brother, the Baronet, he bestowed some just culogiurns. lie oas firmly of opi,:ion tlt t choice of the Electors of Southwark could not fall upon a titter person than the Gentleman whom they had invited to accept the office of representing then., and he would therefore propose the health of Iturdett, Eeq. 'Tills toast was received with great :mai:motion, and drank with three titnes three. The Hl'Nlau•es were further testified by the discharge of guns from without. Ott t his Mr. W. JoNrs Bveetrr arose and addressed the company. lie said he felt all the fotce of the honour which they had done him, in seleving him as a person fit to fill die present vacancy in the represen tation of the Borough of :iouthwarls, and of watching over the interests, the privileges, and the honouts of so respectable a part (gibe British nation. Whilst he con- fessed this grateful impression, and beheld with pride and satisfaction the manly ito:ication which they had given of (heir wishes and their motives, he was under the necessip of avowing his disinclination of taking upon himself the discharge of so high and important a trust, incompetent as he felt to the discharge' !of it, constituted as the House of Commons at present was. In regard to the imperious duties im posed upon a Representative of the People, and the corrupt state of the Representation, he had to de. dare himself of the same opinion as that so often de clared by a person nearly allied to him, whom he need not name. He was sensible, and the discerning Electors of Southwark would be also convinced, that unless a thorough Reform was effected in the Re presentation of the People of this kingdom in Par. liament, the efforts of an individual would be but of little avail in stemming the title of corrupt influence, and guarding the rights and liberties of the subject against the growing and overwhelming torrent of ar bitrary power. He would here show, from the highest political and legal aitthnrities, the very in adequate manner in which Ow people of Great Bri tain were represented in Parliament, the scannial,,us and Illegal innovations made upon their impre. scriptible rights, and theeneces‘ity which existed for bringing Parliaments to their original-d owl( n, and frequency of renewal, as also the anevec,:ity esktnn4 on the part of the people to assert their Catt-f -: totional Right to be represented in the manner which the boasted palladium of their lil4enties WAS ori .ginally intended to afford to all w h o h a d t he h ap .. piness Of living under that -Constitution. (Air. Jones Burdett here read extracts from Brackstone's Commentaries, the (yew) of Mr. Charles (now Lord) Grey on presenting the Petition of the Friends of the People to the Rms.,. of Com mons in 1793, and from the Petition itself; as like wise from the Parliamentary S;weches of other mi.. Inent orators. 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