The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-01-15 00:00:00

MUM mg. PRIMP st3c. 26.—Yesterday, at five In the —.tong, commenced one of the most formidable eruplionv of which there is any record in the history of Vesuvius. Happily, though it presented a ter rific spectacle, it caused no greet damage. The ex plosion began by a shower of volcanic gravel, which Acas follo*rd by a violent eruption of lava. This ignited muter having div o ided itself into two torrents, flossed over "the ancient lavas towards the Torre del Greco.? At ten" In the evening, the first torrent el.ppped_i but the second continued to proceed towards Bosco-Beale tintiteico-Tre-Caie. . . •.. —This morning the apparent calm of the tolcauo. was f,)llovsed by an explosion, resembling a Violent discharge of cannon. A 'colomn of volcanic ashes tse in. the .air, and obscured thsheriaon. At.the ometit ire are wilting, the eruptiqhs still continue, ilednubled•shock, make the houses hf the city 011ie, Out bave as yet &Ale no damage. We do not know e direction of iiie lava, The Geverimeot has,taken every rinessaryMea sore to afford assistance to those w ho may have need pt it, Yesterday the King. sent one of his Equerries o iuform himtell of the state 9f thins, and to-day the °Owl canput higsself to Op:l.re the erupt*.— 4 When arri v edict * the oleo() ef the fiery tocref t, Ito •spolee to. every per wi(11 a ffability which gbaracteri:es him and pointed ,o,at to those of ho ap peorli tgrriiiedi that the dir9ction. of the lava .gocurell t/s from any danger. 21111 i inky "77 • kft 4. 1 two o'clock; the eruption appers to • 'ceased. °; 1 1 ° l• , ' V 7 , 4 . : ' .1, ro 1 t ": 4 and the 1 4111 W I were wont to be sold war consumption abro 11, It BO ter • ru 1-J CM, 1 the 00000 O o,odee, sr" , b e e rp t eteirt•tfaorflytilieetoale.es; their irltereet Prussia, which seemed to have Seen raised in a bed into a kingdom, so rapid and unnatural was growth, under its first Monarchs, was cut down the ground by lone blow of the revolutionary a for a while it appered es if it could never shoes again ; but the Russian winter that vritherr pestilent and enormously extended branch French Upae,. revived the root of the Pr tree, and it iiow promises to flourish ohce tr: the Royal forest of Europe, from whir has been so victoriously driven. Russia has learned for herself, and taug ht enemies, what neither probably understood b e t that she is absolutely invincible and i m p re g ne within her Own limits; ,almost every other pro vi of Christendom, in eta, turn, has be e n entw in e, and its original inhollitants dispossessed or envies by foreign aggression ;'Russis has never b ee n it clued ; the changes which have taken p lace in measureless wilderness, since , the days.. etsst S•;•,y thinns; have been yather the slow changes of fife the sudden or violent revolutions produced t i whi c h she i tr; a itsvrelitg strangers. Her security is her climate, 1 II France, she the most formidable Power, of which a d j a c en t State 1 have'en); cause e il being tob e c e . p art live. Next to ;IV 4** .i'- li -7 ' s —___..........___ ' ' their independence, in a great degree, consist ii ft .' POLIPICAL REFLECTIONS. keeping France and Russia as far asunder in polies as nature has placed • their bouudariei; separelad s --simes--- , . . : they may balance the extremes of East and West : 1 Looking frnm the privileged shores of Britain over ! combined they might crush all between them. Europe, we observed the two countries from•which , fall the rest derived arts and refinement sunk in the ' ' Poland has been blotted out of the roll o f n od e s' s-, siosest state of political degradation. The descend- and Hungary, once a powerful nation, is now utterly -"tits* the anciont Greeks resemble their progenitors absorbed by Austria. s.I n the new Constitution 'Of as much es the thistles of modern Lebanon resemble Europe, the last of these wilt be overlooked, as it will put in no claim,for the restitution of its oboe* , `AM forests of cedar that once flour ished there,—to. _which they claim no better affinity than that of grows independence; bet the first must undergo a further dismemberment and Anstrie, Prussia, and Ruda I ,411 g, 4ti re later age, on the same soil. But war or ce in ju Christendom will little a ff ect their condition be its accusers, judges, and executioners in their . ll,„ent, the Turkish tyranny under, which they cause. What may be expected from their justice ° groan Ines not yet filled up its measure of iniquity, know not, —and who ever heard of their mercy is met It is probable that the French Revolu t i on has Poland? , proceastieuted its inevitable destrUction for half a Sweden has made a conspicuous 'figure in f' ceotpry at least. late campaign, and requires aggrindizement in ' s Italy, the yOungest sister of Greece, and the mother portion.' By the cbnsen - - s opiv most warlike people that ever existed,—now are now called the in ;lathe dotage and decrepitude of senility, presents ago the •legitinate King s tidicrops and yet pitiable spectacle of fallen grate- mantic , enemy of Hot deur, emaciated beauty, and drivelling intellect.— use -le, who had been . r 11teiiitrliasti et best are only plaister casts of the bile was shortly tobecoeue k Ad , Romans, preserving the forms of grace ansl ex- was made Cros s • cellenre in frail and worthless materials. I tal y has - Gustavus y isloite s eatermii. never beep a nation since the Goths over - r a n it ; : Although thirssiScsimagined Crate is no common interest, no common feeling, plished by Fianich : - arndegrhe motley creatures that people its numerrfos n , t Arc tiffOrositids and • rordant states. It is true, that all these states c s•eols,sint; but, et are css erect with the iron crossee, mhich Bonaparte r s eticroachmeut teas asts4rned ; but that Italy should remain a pro- t • 1 1 4 :: origin. , vinceaf France, its the future econotirey of Europe,.. ,• d i rsslancl s t, . is eutni all question; it must almost,necessarily fall ;;the ss : ertylittto - in pieces again, like the ill-cemeeted limbs of a: s a.sliie• .to be 1 .brokeft statute, and be parcelled out as heretofore•yessilit , , I but • • into - petty aristocracies, repohlics, and monarchies,. ; Lind, i ', es s tr , • exhibiting Austrian only s :winos forms of despotism : or if it be wit'. respect ti • reserved for a nobler fortune, it may slowly rise in t o , p eace with it, Ai as follows arm:- one united kingdom, under n succession of wise and minds us of' A. si's :'Y:t toguarn o. _. y, patriotic Princes, —ate event nearly as improbable plot to confiscate NI vineyard. The - consisting of infantry and light cavalry, under .the 1' as the resuscitation of' DrUillg ate' Cassius. , Prince has not relinquished this claim ; and Deo - • .- The Peninsula of Spain and Portugal presents two ' mark, between France and the Allies , havi ng been command of the General of - artillery , Count Van rare phenomena in the resolutions of Empire. Tile . stiliequently forced into war by the former, and re- . Buttes, has entered this town. An unusual number • King of Spain abdicated the throne of which he had . evilly forced into peace by the latter, he, tioatoubt, of people were moving the whole day through the dispossessed his father, and submitted to become the perfectly satisfies , himself of the justice of his pre. streets.—Every thing remains quiet. His Excellency • dupe of a foreign Usurper ; but his people, of whom : tensions, and having conquered Holstein, retains General Von Wattevyl hat arrived here. • he was unworthy, asserted his.rights which he had possession of it, airoweflly as security for the sur- I. aus tvPi E, Dec. 28'.---Yesterday the first Aus -7.reliti q n i 44 (I ) in maintaining their own, which, from ' render of Drontheim, in Norway. Of Denmark we ! ,man troops entered this place. They cons isted of • weakness or pusillanimity, he had betriyed ; and shall only add, that her fault has been her mister - with the assistance of Great Britain, they have re-con- ' tune—and her misfortune, that she could neither i Aloy's and Lichenstein's regiments of hussars, a bat - quered his kingdom for him, while he remains a pr i. resist a gg ression, nor commit it successfully. t talion of yagers, and some infantry. These troop - cotter in France. On the other hand, the Prince of ! Holland ) as weak as Denmark, and m or e e x p osed immediately took the road to Geneva, and were di- Portugal, flying from the vengeance of Bon a p arte, , to hostile inroads, after long subjection to alareign rectly followed by Blackenstein's regiment of • Berets the Atlantic, transferred the Court of Bra- • : yoke ; at one time a republic, in the cant of the pelves from the shores of the Tagus to those of the I revolution, free and indivisible: at another a me- hussars, with artillery, and a strong division of in - 13ratils, establishing the precedent of an European' Pantry. The troops observe the best discipline.— narchy under a brother of Bonaparte ; and at length - bionercley its the western hemisphere. The Mother- {incorporated with the Ureat Nation itself , --Holland, ; ceentey, mean wliile, has been restored to him by ample, one from Payern to Yverduti, and another the • inert auspicious moment started into her propeeplace, . vulnur and policy of his ancient Ally, who has also ! and discharging her French oppressors, snore like from Freyburg to Buile and Vevey. restored, in a great measure, the extinguished spirit of - unworthy servants, than expelling them etetyratini- BASEL, DEC. 28. —The report gains grouted of - s • his people, and made soldiers and citizens again of ; cal masters, recalled her fugitive Prince, and laid at slaves and fanatics. For firs' yeats past the Alps and , Isis feet the very liberty which she ha d j ust recovered. Geneva !saving declared against the F rench. is she Pyrenees have stood he the +c ay of Peace. I '-'he Yesterday the French garrison of jigen el sk oo th ' There is something strange, if not prema tu r e,- in the • might of Wellington has removed the latter ; and,;of . 400 mete strong, were brought in here a s p risoners of sudden assumption of sovereignty by the Prince the persevetance of Austria will probably soon suisa, ,1 Orangel before it was possible for him to it wow the war. • due the former.!so' :: minds of the people, whom be came 3os govern ; On the 25th of December, '2OO Bavarians, w , Switsm-land, the least but th e no bl es t o f former : especially as he affirms that it was against • his own had been wounded before Iluninguen , were brought independent Powers, was inevitably overwhelmed ieclinations and the British Ministers affirm, that it • en here. The trenches before Huninguest are opened, • "midst the convulsions o f ne i g hb our ing states, and was without their sanction. But if floilaseo be only and advanced to the redoubts ) one of which has beep ' buried under the opposite ruins of France and Ger- isdependent in herself, it is of no • consmoence to • many ; out of these it will be dug like the precious ; any body but her own population, imrhtifthst thetaken' G enera l Bl anc h e t comman d s in the fortress, but relics of Herculaneum, but more entire, we trust,i Prince of Orange be called Stadtholder, King ) or ; that they : the hour may not be far distant when its Great Mogul. :is in want of 'many necessaries. The garrison con- • venerable institutions shall he revived, and liberty t - I i • lists of 3000 men, of which scarcely 300 are old once more make I,er dwelling among thnse mouse - - ' troops of the line, the rest are scraped together of grins, where she found refuge for ages when banish- 1 Tot REJECTED TDEATRE.--Tlie 'appearance, at ed from every other corner of the continent. Bo- I this ssason, of the first Number of the Rejected National Guards and Conscripts. mimic has not betrayed one snore decisive *pop- I Theatre, is calculated to occasion comparisons un- ' The dispatches and letters vs hichhave been inter tom of totessious weakness than the earnestness! favourable to the performances at the different pub- cepted, contain a lively picture of the confusion with which he has clamoured for what he called , lie places of amusement; for it is well known, that caused by the passage of the Allied Armies across the neatrality of Switzerland ; this affected forbear- 1 out of a wilt to gratify their juvenile M visiters, t h e M a- the Rhine, its the neighbouring provinces of France once was in fact only deprecating its hostility. nag , -ith the greatest haste they are endeavouring to put Germany, emphatically called the Henn of Eu- h''' I ' the tenable places in a state of defenc e. The sur rope, into which the veins of surroustling nations Ol periodically seed their blood, not as in the animal I yi eider of two (not inconsiderable) French f orts, one which was taken, after a short resistance, and the body to he renewed and returned more vigorously 1 Is ! through the ss stem, but to be poured out like water I r her by a courageous assault thandskroon and Bel through wounds in that heart, Which are never i mont or Blanso29 shows how little this 'step was ex- suffered to heal before fresh cues are opened b y the i-- . a. pected in France. The higher persons its the Go- swords of contending Potentates. Germany has tsetse 1 publt almost as much deranged throughout its anvient4 present s e rnment forsake their posts on the approach establishments by the French Revolution as ?ranee ! t of danger, and leave their subordinate Officers itself. Of its future state little can be conjectured, I woe! fill their places ; these . latter desire' only peace, except that it will •of course he divided like spoil, i thr and even military persons of high rank express them won in battle by those who can possess thenit this occasion. We have every portions, with just as much regard to the c; - with the behatiOur of the itehalsi , former lords of the sail and the animals , but s co_u p te t t o r v y id is id pofooir,aann:i.lt equalh the Magistracies , distribution e brute, th-tt grew upon it, as cannot be w ithheld , Otte consolation to those, who feel concerned ' uhabitauts of such petty principalities, whose berthens, have sbsebndetk - 'Sever " communes . rous ary, • . r.., , r. - agers have lung made it a point of duty, during the with the greatest haste of Fu- 'l holidays, to exhibit a more showy and lighter class t._ the tenable places in a nat i ons 1 of entertainments, than at any other pelnd of toe animal i year; so that, i f the c ontents of the wets. had been render of two (TA ilea ;orously I very inferior, they would have had a greatiadvantage of which was taken, el ,e Mater 1 arising from this cause alone. We do ;not mean, other by a courageous e never' honever, in making the observation, to detract from moat, or Blamont) shr Ib y t h e lthe merits of the work, which, in coven-ton with the nected in France. T I has been public, we think altogether highly creditable to the • sfir i en t i present state of the dramatic genius of the country ; vertiment forsake th s F ra „ re I but. we think its importance'', interest, And utility, of danger, and leav lectured, would he extended, if, in addition to gqisteed Plays, 1 to fill their places ; tt k e spo il, ; the Proprietors would embrace within per plan, the and even military pers ; R o ve , o f I occasional re-publication of aatient .Diataas; end selves very - freely on t claims of I also, now and then, . admit pieces .which base met cause to be satisfied wi anal , and' been offered to the Managers; feetre know, that , thlield.— such is the impression on, many authers,•of the diffi- ' tants ; but the county, ,•d for the culty of getting a play incepted, that many excellent I who should have prim me .bones dramas are never'offeresi at aIL. ' ' . of the barthens, hare . - . . .„.• . . .. • ..-- - 11,141ILAkt,..A..;iiiaffiiihiuuk& ' '",,A 44 S . '.-. - - - 11: , ....a:-.,'' . • .:. 4.,.... . ! . '• . II ERRA' be Lotto: of J. C I, _ ILI T or.. • - rut, Lore's Letter, .STATE . _ CE Or STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONK O'CLOCK L 250 2 India Bonds par 1 p r Cent. Red. 64 6 Escheeloer MIK Skia. r Cent. Cons. 65th Ditto Sid. 46 p • • r Cents. 821/ 'New Omni am IR/4 . p r Cent. Nnvy 95/0 Consols fur Acct. 6/// r. Aun. 16 1716/ rgn 'ERY E STA 'SIVIAN. LONDON: S ATURDAY, J ANUARY 15, 1814. / Is Dutch -fifting •arrived this morning; and the Aeltigence brought by then, is oil considerable im porismcet as will be imp . by, Alm following : . 14LENIIIN, Jaw. S.—Dermal has, at length, given op the centesbLegainst the Allies. A': Treaty has been concluded: wherein it is stipulated that Norway is to be ceded to Sweden in exchange for Pomerania ; and also that Denmark shall furnish 15,000 Men to join the Allies, in • immediately commencing the blockade of Hamburgh. HELVOETSLUTS, lAN . * 13.—A Dutch Officer, who made his escape, from Antwerp, reports, that a few . Islays before he left it, the French removed from 60 to 70 pietei of heavy ordnacce from thence to Brus , s ; the inference is, that they are about to ell cuate Antwerp, ' • 'Accounts have been received here, that Gen. 'Bulow, with 15,000 infantry and 5000 cavalry, lad joined Gen. Sir T. Graham, and that their com bined forces were advancing towards Bergen-op- Zoom.. They further state,' that Gen. Bennigsen, 'with 30,000 infantry. -id - it quantity of heavy isle, that infantry lace. In as heard artillery fortress already ,000 mon. were to , mad requires aggrandizement in pro. with 30,000 infantry, and a great quantity of the cement or permission of those w-h 0 artillery, had arrived at Bomtnel. ed the Allied Sovereigns,•fietne pearl ARAM ) 'Dec. 25.—They write from Basl mate King of Sweden. the most...pow on the 24th, several thousand men, both i of Bonaparte, was dethroned by 'bes R l 4 / 1 -and cavalry, again passed through that p la id been his guardian, and as the ly to.hecome extinct, a French Gellert! ; thenight of the 23tr, the report of cannon vas awn Prince and heir of the famil - of' from Huningueh. On the 24t1i, the heavy 8 Ill e the,exterminator of foreign intrers.l o f t h e Alli es was II to begin to play, and the was Imagined to 'have been 'W m ' i seriously attacked. The number of troops .0116 intrigue, the new Crown Prince! . wards set his faCe against Freis.4.en. ; i n A lutti . a ' is estimated at upwards of 100 , 01 pi rit 1 According to the report of the Officers, they sut,at the same time, masa '.. ti . , eut in himself, quite eenge,o: e.O hiss continue their march to Franche Comte. He entered inter a treaty 4 4 .thi'otailloi. On the 22d, Huninguen bad not surreudei whereby ... largellishopria; ' N(r,241. we heal on shot. fired.--Git the 2.3 d, ni ? 4, isersbotO.A.ottrian trocr, n4it infaritry At of Denm ,W IA . l -es/ e obtatue , quiet,lied be l .mot fog cesj@wosuril , it etherwiseto be taken 4 kr..., 4, , ith :Dine artillery,,,passed .„ e , was at waP ,with fa ir m i rk 0 bet,: colours flying and drapesl)tsii thro ilt W titt4 s more ire to Sweden and Russia, wit' , were attpected there. • this meditated purchase or ste •,,.; P re -_l The Berne Paper of the 23 d, states as fo l khaki'soverture to huy t and Jezelsel'al The vanguard of the Imperial Austria' cate Nabothic vineyard. The Crown consisting of infantry and light cavalry, u - ha►e loudly elpressed their joy on the German troops. LEYDEN, JAN. IL—According to report, the Prus. siert General Von Blucher passed the Mille. be tween Bingen and Caub, on the 31st of December, with upwards 100,000 men ; and on the folloeing day, General Von Priest entered Coblentz. The , Allies have been received with great joy in those parts. IL - . --'s •• . We farther learn, that the Rusaiatkallee.—Xon Be- low has received orders to push iritoirabalu *id? his whole force, which, by the junction - with—dm. fßussian troops under Gen. Benkendorf, and with . ! tire corps antler General Borstel, is increased 'to : 40 or 50,000 men, to sup ort the grand eperViocis on the Rhine, and is accordingly.advancing through Altena, the Langstriat, and the. Barony of Brerla, , , probably to (Law tae Frencl from the heights of Woettevezel, and attack Autwerp itself. We learn from Gorchen nothing-farther than that the enemy, on the sth inst., fired some shot at our . flotilla ; the Commandantlitirgeve orders to re: tprp the are, which was done with so much success that the enemy's fire was thereby totally sillenced. _, We have giro some further eztOrits from :ha. -Paris Papers, of the last arrival ; but they fareith very little information, from which any prohable du gory can be drawn, of what may be the final issue of the unexampled hostile proceedings in France. We cannot say we are surprised to hear some of our co- Lipmporaries predict the speedy arrival of the &mire rtif the Allies in the French capital ; for the energy and promptitude of NAPOLEON appear to have for• sakes him with his prosperity. We have already observed, that we knew of no awmblage of troops in any pirt of aucient Franc, which could be called en army, beside that under Marshal Sour..t. We may repeat the same thing at this hour e)ace-eaery step hitherto taken does not go an inch,'beyoutl the line of preparation.. At the breaking out of the Revolution, there • was, it is true, bet. 0114 or army to resist the invaiion by tit* Duke of Baulk "'to( ; and that army Was i oueprinded by the noted -Dumou!trea. But then the 'oll and experienced Marshal Lirettnett . (he was afterwardereiefortu r.nately, put to death on the scaffold) was indefati gable in forming volunteers for service ; aud dispatch ing them to the menaced spot,. ,40., kr des i tillnee y ,• -point of the frontier en they 'side of fterbeenias .. 'Neared.. We hear of no veteran so employ 4 .4or do we hear that volunteers offer themselves in n berg, so as to warrant a jest expectation that the love of eottutry, so natural to the people of ai us. tines, is tint counteracted-by some dead! c oT i eirtent. than Cr a reheredon in the minds of these people, who hare ; en cruelty fatigued. and exhaa Pir."! - .1 • 1.V. , ' t .9. "i v ''' . -- i , • •tiO the preeont eel of iffeNAPARTE, (14 ;10,.. ic the breasts of the susceptible Frt•nch,"it is idl er that they will'itto* the - Allies to continuetwf, pen,- ' trate into the country, as they have lone, unrnithlted : • much less would they submit to-onerous enaction., similar to those of the Cavalry General, Collet WREDE, at Hoesingen. There are most assuredly very few veteran soldiers at chi- orlus.mt disoilled over France ; but then the National Guaediiihrt he estimated at seven or eight hundred thesonotii;,-ind what might not such a force achieve owlet a benignant Government and a patriotic leader! 1 Here lies the question. To thi must we always revert, if -wo would 'form a conjecture what so surprising a people are likely to do, under so uncommon a state of things. This is a, conside ration which ought to strike Kings in pirtiooler, and mankind in general. In the almost universal , despotism of the former, and the consequent slavery of the latter, some consolatior may be drawn from the powerful example the great scene before as holds. out to nations. Among all those who have watched and admired the growing renown of the late fortu nate Chief of France, there is not one who wit deny • 1 that he has not abused, like a prodigal, thepower with which he operated that renown. Whetk..r an amende will he accepted, or a punishment - insisted on and inflicted, cannot long be. a probisim.— The Duke of REGGIO, it seems, has been sent for to Paris, and is said to be going to take the coeimaail of a body of forces : but, vfliere those toren are, and of what description composed, we are not told. Tho Duke of TREVISO has atm fece•Parts terfrpair W .] Langres, where, in all probability, great exertions will have been made to assemble a force of some ' kind. The hilly grounds and vineyards of Burgundy, : are well calculated to a ff ord an inexperienced army an appal"; in case of need; and to this eastepi pie rf the territory of France, no doubt, the siiiferetil - streams of military defence, will be directed. Pr next arrivals of French Papers cannot hit be hig.l4. - interesting. The situation of Langres and llesiocitit. seems to offer to BONAPARTE, the choice of whic!. sorter of the invading - armies he may endeavour to impede or repel. Colonel Humanity left town on ThUrsilay 'even-) ing, for Lord Wr.r.unaTon's head-quarters, Wi - th,; ' information, as it is presumed, which will iistiuq his Lordship to make a forward 'movement, iiittet.. operation the design of the Allies, who are 04;,, vancing on Lyons. The question of peace, and the nature of it, cannot long be unanswered. -Do' terms or basis offered by the Allies, akr,lhe answer ;nude by BONAPARTE to them, music*, tiewcm) 1 this moment, apecrot, - • 1 • ~ • • - • } ; • • • t 4 4, } • .«.4;; I: