The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-02-04 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN. lay the spiking the guns, he nevertheless ordered all an idle turention by r his enemies, to answer their the spht•rical ease shot to be fired away, and the own purposely in order to give the story some show powder to he cle,ttored. About 20 niinutes after- of authenticity, the authors took care to 'name the ward% the counter-order came. The last order he re. vplace to. which he was to be transported, and tho collected to have received on the 12th of June, was names of the pretended perpetrators of the deed.—; brought by Lieut. Drew, which, after the many The measures taken for some days with regard to the orders and counter-orders he had that day received, King are of a nature to render it more a' matter of he desired him to repeat, and, in the presence of doubt whether his return to Saanny can be prevented, Ca pt.Wcstern rind I.ieut. Lloyd, he took down. The than to give alarM for bis personal safety, which hae witness then produced a copy of the order he had taken; never been threatened. it was dated June 12, half-past one P.M. and directed The Dukes of Saxe-Weimar and of Saxe-Coborg, the withdrawing all picquets, and destroying all the both near relations by marriage to the gmperor gins within the lines. The witness then detailed the Alexander, wilt- obtain considerably additions to instructions he gave in consequence of those orders, their States. These august personages have not yet and said he reported to the Commander of the quitted the Congress at Vienna, and aujoy the pecu- Forces the deviation he had made from the orders re- liar favour of the great Monarchs assembled there. ceived, and his motives for having done so. Sir J. Murray assented to what he had done. —The witness withdrew. A rt . NA* i DUO I Fame .1.. 0 O O . llisibures • ' de • 0 O HAN*. 4 . . 1 0 Admire! Hallowell then gave evidence of the rea. sons which induced him to advise sending the cavalry to Wagner. When with Sir John Murray on the bight of the 11th, after he had decided on abandon ing th* siege of Tarragona, Sir John Murray told him he must get as many guns down as pliable; ai for horses they were out of the question. The wit:: mes s said no; if he would send the ciitalty to Bala goer ~ith a column of infantrv, they would be em barked easily. there, and it would facilitate tke cra bs, kat ion at Tarragona. Sir John Murray, in his statement, had Ecknow led4od that he gave the witness the letter of the 21:1 MI the 3d, before hr went en shore; he had no yes let by w hick he could send it immediately ; the Ga. osymcdo ar rived on tile afternoon of the 3d—the next mornii.g, as Sir J. Murray was aware, both letters went by the same ship, as was apparent from the letter he held in his hand ; it was from Sir John Murray, it was put in and read, nod fully proved the fact stated. At ten minutes after ten, on the morning of the I.lth, a general signal was' made to the fleet, that an opportunity would offer for sending letters to England: it appeared by the evidence of Captain Milner, that Sir Jew Murray's dispatch was closed about that time, and by the evidence of Captain Sharp, that the Hyacinth did not sail till four o'clock that afternoon. Admiral Hallowell offered a letter from Sir John Hurray, dated the 19th of June, 1813, to prove that the writer himself thought the siege was raised without sufficient cau,e. Sir J. Murray objected to its production. The Cotter, wider all the circumstances, rejected the let try% Sir John Murray declined cross-examining the Admiral, and admitted that he knew perfectly that the two letters went together; he widind to make a few observations on the evidence of General Clin. ton, but he wished to have some ttme to writs them. After good deal of discusion en the point of ad journment, it VMS agreed that Sir 3. Murray should make his observations at the next meeting of the Court, which was at length fixed for half-pad 12 to. morrow, when the Judge-Advocate will reply to the two first chaiges, and on Monday Admiral Hallowell will reply to the third charge. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAT AT ONit O'CLOCK Sent • Lone. Ans. 161 7-16 Per C O3l Red. 6-41 India Bonds IS 17 p per Cent. Cow. 65/ 5 Excheqner 11114. 4 6 p 4 per Cents. Ma ' OiWhim 'if d per Cart. Coml. for Ace. age THE STATESIVIA IY. LONDON: SATURDAY FEBRUARY 4, 1815. -- late conspiracy in that city, have been much ex aggerated. Generals Lechi, Bonfanti, and Colonel Gasperini, who are in arrest io the Castle, walk out at their pleasure; and the General Footenelli, who was arrested at Verona, was immediately afterwards liberated, and is since gone to Vienna. The whole affair turns out to be, that a parcel of thieves at. templed to rob the palace of the General Couut Bel. legardi ; they were taken, and hate been since en claw!. For some time pelt the negotiations in Congress have been extremely active. The Count Rasonowski, the Prince Czartoroswki, Count De Capo I)'lstria have united their talents to those of Counts Metter nich and Nesselrode, as has also the Baron D'Anstet tin. This last is a Frenchman of great abilities, against whom Bonaparte issued formerly some severe Proclamations. A lIPW note relative to Saxony is shortly ,to be issued from the Austrian Cnbink ; it will he in answer to tbelast Prussian one. The affairs of Po land are definitively settled. The Sledge Party has been suspended for wont of anew. When it does take place the Emperors are to draw the respective wives of each other, Kings, the wives of Kings, and so en, down to the Princes of the lowest rank. FRENCH Fusns, 5 per Cents. 78 I'. 10 c. 1 . We i are much mistaken if some mischief is not brewing In the North., We are unable to give any 'awe like a direct clue to the mysterious statements [iges?pbad yesterday from Stockholm ; but we are led bisccounts we have to-day from Bremer!, to con dude that BERNADOTTE is at his old wily policy again. Perhaps the discovery of same such inten tions, and a shrewd guess at their consequences, as we are led to suspect the CROWN PRINCE has formed, icy have given occasion to the proceedings we have We received this morning French Papers to the 2d lust., and the Journals of the preceding day last tioned. The information we have, is, that Swe night. We consider it our duty, as th e French den seems disposed to make common cause with Editors say, to submit the rumours and statements in Pssia its the prosecution of her determination to circulation to the eyes of our Readers, however un. add Saxony to her dominions, and consequently to monopolize the greater part of Germany. The important and contradictory they may be. Ou r motive on the part of the CROWN PRINCE, • for Readers will discover, without much a our help, , thus drawing closer the existing ties of friendship what is entitled to credit, and what may properly be I considered as the daily food of curiosity, and ! between his PRUSSIAN MAJESTY and himself, ought to be received as better or worse founded con. may be, that as the King of DENMARK has gone to jecture. It is therefore scarcely necessary to say that the Congress for the purpose of urging his claim to of official intelligence regarding the first abject of indemnity for Norway, Sweden may deem it her in curet rest to keep Denmark in the feeble state to which curiosity, the Congress of Vienna, we yet have I none. We have accounts from that capital to the she has been reduced. The indemnity sought by 23d instant, but they are still of the same variable ; Denmark could only be obtained in the North of Germany, and Prussia is as much interested, as her complexion as elm 'lt is stated, that up to the 22d, ! ! the negotiations were very active. It was expected plans at present are, in preventing the encroachment that the Austrian Cabinet would issue a new Note re. . f airy new power in that quarter. Ilis DANISU MA4ESTY, therefore, finds many difficulties opposed Wive to Saxony, a Protest of course, hi answer to the last Prussian one delivered on the 12th, insistin g Ito Ids claims, and is now - told that there is no ter in the demand of all Saxony. The affairs of Poland I ritory to portion in the quarter where he had fixed his expectations ! Prussia being under the necessity are stated to be definitively settled ; we need not re of exclusively cultivating her military strength, peat how. ALDKA.NDER has provided ve r y w ell f or himself in that quarter, as well as for the Princes of has no naval force, though she has ports from his ifouse elsewhere, those who are related to him Memel to Embden, and is very ambitious of having got additions to their States. becoming a maritime power.--Sweden, how- The Vienna Papers are solicitous of inducing a be- ever, has at all times a tolerable marine.he lief that the statements in circulation relative to the addition of Russia would make a confederacy Oh late conspiracy at Milt" have Whit tossitosaggswat. of kind very formidable. We know how much Rossi* is inclined to keep Finland, the "seizure of ed, and give the mimeo of some of the G e nerate wh o have been arrested. The whole affair, they say, which gave Sweden a pretext to indemnify herself in turns out to be an attempt of some thieves to rob the Norway, and we see bow obstinately Prussia is bent palace of General BELLEGARDE; but if thi s is ascer• on having Saxony. Accordingly we perceive all t specious tained to have been the extent of the plot, how comes these Powers providing, under the m ost it that the eminent military characters who are men- pretexts, to maintain, by force, the acquisitions they tinned, are continued under arrest, and why wa s it have made. One of these pretexts carries on its face such absurdity as to excite laughter ; yet it is gravely deemed necessary to replace Count BELL/MAIM by a commander of " firmer character ?" mentioned, and many, no doubt, swallow the ruse. "•We learn," says the Bremen intelligence, which is We hear no more of the doubtful relations pre- of the 21st, " that Sweden has engaged with Prussia , railing between King JOACHIM and the Austrian and to protect the merchant Vessels of the latter Power other Continental States, except that 'the Emperor against the Barbary Corsairs; and in the spring a FeAticis had deemed it necessary to call epos his Swedish squadron will be sent into the Mediterranean NLAPOLITAN MAJESTY to assist him with troops to to protect the trade of both Powers. This expedi. preserve his Italian provinces, the Hungarians and tion will also serve to exercise the Swedish marine." Germans being no favourites with the Italians.— —We have also been told, that Sir SIDNEY Smerit Austria requires to have the principal part of her was at the Congress to urge the extinction of these army disposable ou her northern frontier. At pre "terrible robbers ;" and that the whole of that most just sent, however, she is menaced from all quarters, and magnanimous assembly,had declared against rob even to the Danube. bcry. But we really cannot swallow this Barbary The following are the only articles worthy of " camel."—We know how necessary Sir SIDNEY'S translatiou in the French Papers received to-day:— nautical knovkledge is to certain diplomatists at VIENNA, JAN. 21.—The affairs of the German 1 Vienna, and if any Quixotic project of this kind Constitution go on with less secrecy than those of has been set up as a pretence for the presence of I Saxony and Poland. It is now decided, that all the that gallant tar at Congress, it is very fairly little Princes of the late Confederation of the Rhine, met by this chivalrous covering with which the shall recover all their independence, rights, and psi- Baltic Powers seem inclined to veil their de vileges. signs. Being yet without any intelligence that BERLIN, JAN. 16.—A letter from Gruneberg, in we can rely upon relative to the long clouded Lower Silesia, informs us, that a band of several and bewildered affairs of this Congress, which was to hundred banditti, deserters from the Allied Armies, settle the balance of power so equally, we know not i which lately infested this province, has passed Into what collection of materials the British Minister has Poland. :nade to keep the scales in equal poise, and oppose Our Minister,the Baron d'Humholdt, has presented the plans of aggrandisement that have been and are to Congress the new German Constitution, gm- stilt carrying into effect by the Northern Powers, prised in a code of 142 articles. and which look so very like injustice. Is it meant BORDERS or SAIONY, JAN. 20.—The King of that we shall preserve any power at all in future op Saxony went with his whole family, for the first the Continent ? and in case of a rupture with the time, to the Berlin Theatre on the 15th ; he was growing States of the Baltic, shall we be under the attended by all the Royal Family of Prussia. Ile 'necessity of making friends with poor ruined Den has lately purchased two travelling carriages, trom !mark —ruined by our means, and by our love for which it is believed that he means very shortly to go such a man as Beastanorre ? If Lord CASTLEREAGH to the Congress to personally attend to his Interests. ; has found it necessary to quarrel with the great The Saxons are unalierably attached to him. 1 Powers whom we have so much befriended, we cer- VIENNA, JAN. 22.—Travellers from Milan Mate, I taiely have a very pretty set of allies in reserve. that the stories which have been circulated ghoul the Though the speculations in the public Papers which reach us from the Continent hold out the prospect of ^an amicable conclusion to the business of Congress, the private accounts confidently predict the result to be war—none venture to hope the public expectation will be fulfilled. it is stated, that by a Proclama tion issued at Jassy, the Austrians are to occupy the Turkish Provinces above the Danube, in conse quence of a mutual understanding with Russia, who FRENCH PAPERS. Vtatrica, JAN. 40.—Lord Steuart gave here, ye the 18th, a magnificent fete, in celebration of the Queen of England's birth-day. All the Sovereigns, Archdukes, and foreign Ministers, were present. All the politicians who reckoned firmly on peace, and who had framed their plans and their news ac cordingly, find themselves somewhat deranged in their calculations. There ii a talk of a note given in on the 12th instant, by the Prussian Ministers, which is any tiling but conciliatory. Prussia per. sists in demanding the annexation of all Saxony to hei States. We learn, on the other hand, that the King of Saxony has formally declared, that he will exnose himself to every thing lather than cede a single portion of his States. This Resolution be comes tie more embarrassing, as it even runs counter - to the plat: of indemnity proposed by Austria. The fiiilowisig provi , ional determination has ! we are assured, been adopted with regard to Poland:— The Duc!iy of Warsaw will be preserved, with a population of 2,100,0/0 inhabitants. Warsaw re.: rnaini•ig the :vital. A population of 600,000 souls will he detached from Western Poland iit favour of Prussia, which wilt facilitate her communications be- ! tweet, the New Mark and Silesia. The remainder of tile Di-chy of Warsaw will form an independent principality, and intermediate between the Grand Duchy, Prussia, and Austria. The Sovereign of this new state is not yet designated. _ It is hplicwed that the plait of the Germanic Con stitution presented by Prince bletternich will be a.lopted, with some modifications • though we learn that Prussia has just communicat ed another drawn bp by M. De Humboldt ) by no means coincident with that of Austria. FRONTIERS or AUSTRIA, JAN. 19.—People are esi i siiieed that the best understandiug prevails be tween the Courts of Vienna and Naples. It is per fectly true, that in consequence of a demand from Austria, the corps of Neapolitan troops stationed in dice Mark of Ancona has been placed at the disposal of Field-Marshal Bellegartle, Commander in Chief in Italy, and is at present under his command. This arrangement has given rise to many conjec tures. Some people, who pretend to be well in formed,ossert that Austria having deemed it necessary to remove some Italian regiments from her present Italian provinces, and not wishing to replace them by too great a number of German and Hungarian troops, who are not mnch liked in Lombardy, has endeavoured in this way to augment her disposable force in Italy. She therefore required the King of Naples to furnish her with the number of troops stirilaled in his treaty of alliance. King Joachim forthwith assented to this demand. These troops may be sent to every point where there is occasion for them, without, however, leaving Italy. By this means Austria has al way a very fonsiderable force in that country, and is enabled to have the , principal part of her army disposable on her northern frontier, should political circumstances reqeire it. Fitortrikes or SAXONY, JAN. 20.—We are as pired that the project for carrying off the King of whiclt has been so much spoken of, is oil!) i 1 t • I . ' M • 1 t t • ! cedes part of those provinces, which she between the Pruth and the Tyres ; that are collecting in great force along the Dal that hostilities are expected to begin soon. In the midst of all this show of approal cord, France is trarquil and prosperous. ' are improving. Au official account of tions of the Hank of France states the the first six months of last year to be abe lions of francs, and of the subsequent 1851 millions • The following entertaining little artici in thel'intes of yesterday, and , was col cvening by the Courier, and also by the of Morning Papers tb.day. Poor Jonx I he is humbugged. The good people of El enjoy thiejoke much ! and will laugh boa, trick, which, they are totd t ire? player " Yankee," or " JoN4rirds," as is the cant, phrase to designate those btave Am men who, with a fleet of seven sail 0 ) hare carried on a successful war, even Channel, against our whole prodigious na , upwards of twelve hundred men of war of who have, on all occasions, maintained t of their 66 bit of striped bunting" (accordi CANNING'S happy designation of their have shook the very Trident of England, as they have shown to Europe that the Br f is nol invincible,. as it has been ever the England that it should • be considered. however, has most soccessfolly hoaxed and its copyists, in obtaining the grave the following article :- 1 "In support of our belief of a second American s being at sea, we give the Following curious extract of a from one of the Lieutenants of his Majesty'sship Leander. Fayal, Jan. 14. : " In search of the American squadron, we saw . !heather day, which the Captain ordered us to dn, ander moderate sail, so as not to dune any pardrvlar suspecting, from circumstances, the was a ' turgid, and being desirous, if she should prove so; r of the Americairpriae-wiatner, and ty. imposing him as an American frigate, obtaining infbroiation wise we might nor get. Nothing could bars happened , This brig proYed the John, of Liverpool, lately captured I Perry privateer and the American prise master, . ed Yankee, hoisted out his boat, and without any came on beard the Leander. The moment he got • he congratulated 'the officers on the squadroo and in * situation where they would, as be expresse d tornado, share of mischief to die damned English play the devil's game with their rag of a flag. served, that he knew this skip the moment be Mar black painted masts and sides, and the cut of her the President, mhe was in New York jest before after these observations, in which the Yankee e vens,* very well informed, he walked tip to Sir George Collier, and the extreme amusement of us all, making his bow, addrened him as the American Commodore Decatur, reminding hi.. the same time, of having once seen him at New '" Thiante agreed to all this when Ma Yankee John's papers, to show what the was, and comp', crew, which he said were such a set of vile motion°, that his life was in his hand every night, and reqi. fore, some of them might be changed for so many posed President's crew, and that one in particular in second flogging. All this Sir George• promised grivity should be done, and- ordered the First to have as ;natty men toady in exchange fur t plained of. The.Captiiin then asked Jonathon into and retiring for a moment for a chart, returned which the Leander's track was marked, over which " President, from New York, on a cruize." and finger upon these words, as if by accident, they caught the eye of the Yankee, who exclaimed, that the President the moment he saw her, and Nick ' - not deceive him. He was then asked by Sir George, to the Acasta, if be knew her; his reply was, that s' Macedonia ; and when asked what the Newcastle he did not know her; on which Sir George told L the Constitutios; he replied, be recollected she not painted as Me used to be. He then marked cruising ground, and said be had spoken the Whig who told him he would probably soon fall in with Decatur's squadron, which rejoiced his heart, as s'iould then get rid of some of his mutinous crew. no more to tell, Sir George recommended his retTraing John, and in great form returned him the ship's paper';• him a good voyage,and desiring he would not forget to is known he left Commodore Decatur and his squadroaserell. nation took his leave with great apparent sarkftesion. when about to quit the Leander, our First Lieutenant, gall, stopped him, asd apprised him of his real a long time he considered this ajoke, but castiar the English Captain's uniform, in which Sir George then appeared, lie became almost frantic with di.sapp," Now there is not a waterman upon the Rh who does not know, that whatever may be Lion externally, no man can put his foot . British man of war, even of the smallest cli out at once knowing that she is such ; but i that " Jo2 l / 4 - 4215.4iv" went down Into Sii Cowries cabin, and believed the Leaser President, up to the last moment. Now .on board every ship of war in the whol Navy, has the name of the ship distinctly large charactirs on the carriage, and the the Marines, of which corps a certain numi ways on duty, would have stared 64 Joy.s the face on his first entering the gangwa very " Joic4TH4N," be it remembered, wr rican Captain, " a high blooded Yankee," of course, have had some knowledge of di say nothing of the crowd of Officers of Lieutenants, Midshipmen, Masten'-Metes. who abound on the decks of a ship the class of the Leander; and who have been 46 disguiscd,l because, in gel .less they appeared 44 t 0 pads natural& • have no other clothes 'than their unif GxortaK COLLIER. too, it appears, is • duced " in disguise," and then, all at OW comes in his full uniform, rivalling the ha) ertions of our beet Comedians, in the farce of The Three and the Deuce !—Ant are readers found to swallow all this !--So is the present state of the London Press, troth-telling Journal has no chance. The " paid for paragraphing," on any subjv fiance of truth or decency, has got to 501 that no competition can exist, where the hi of truth and justice has only its exn me .. ,: i e: o ;t thef e , ° l tha tsei . wt a l le i t gi l'c x ret hin. lh d e° l bh op: eC ul t il o p l ed n:ge i r ;l e f o ° , P' i tia lu n P 4r ad s i s t r iti loot 304 mil: Btar.! a 'lily at the Uj))ui e fa shionil4 merican of in pill • f all cit4SS. f ; the lintio nt ,ding It) NI-. flab); .4.1e1 ; ilmstut.tl British may be policy of , • Some wag, d the Time.r insertion of rican sgeldrot aer of a lever, Leander, dated SW a large brig draw to, hit Stylar aabiety. WA vessel rap. of getting hull Ibis ship, up* on which other pened hettet.f 7aptored b‘ Ibe r, a high:him& any haiku* of upon deck, being at Pa, premed it, do a aarprwtr,asd If, thew oh. r her, by het ✓ au*, to be re site sided; refused to be Collier, and to sow s addrated bulb% big), at !w York. 81 presented tlb iplaised of Ws inner merino, quested, there- /my of the sap solglit have a rd pet nit Liettleoart sr thole eon• into ilk 'cable, :d with ore is 11 was ;written id placing hit y immediately that he knew himself could me, pointing at abe was the was, be said him she was e was, slough d the Perry's hig privateer, h Commodore as be knew hr After he had 4Tralag to the apers; wishing get to kt it be rownsell. Ja- itislikihni. bet mast, M•lboo- situation : the r an n i upon WWI Collier appeladinent'' • irer rhames e the decep- on board a class, with- t it appears, air Groaor ferto be tbe w every gun 'tole British r Cut net hi uniform et tuber are al. AT'll N" way (zchiels vas an Ame• " and must, hipping), to • au bolts — es, &C. &c. of war o; could not u c- rib ur," the ► i forms I St • firSt pen pce, out La • happiest OF- e laughable id yet they- ;o degraded that a fair, le system of jest, in eg. orb a •pitch, lottest cause 'era to su,,-