The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-05-12 00:00:00

7 ;' I. To S.IMUSL tPII4MREAD, Esc. Quo; Dees suit perdere, pries dergentat. SlR,—The writer of a letter addressed to you, in a Paper called the Dag, after professing great ad. miration of your talents, sagacity, and experience, describes yoo as one led away " by the democracy of your passions," a phrase so elegant and ex pressive, as to extort our applause for its keenness, against our better judgment, and win our admiration for its folly, in spite of our reason ! But it is not the language of that letter, blundering and ungram matical as it is, full of ill-assorted metaphors and tinkling phrases, which induces me to claim your at. sention. As to the ornaments of his opinions, I leave him in the midst " of the fermentation of insatiable ambition, settling into some innocent rob or jelly," to use his own expressions. The only compliment I can pay him is a willingness to give credence to his belief of the ridiculous doctrines which he preaches ; and, if he does believe them, to pray for the restora tion of his senses. He directs your reflection to the assertions which Bouaratrre has made, since his ie-ascension to the Throne; which he absurdly de scribes as arising from the fear of leaving behind him provinces or communes, doubtful or dissatisfied. Before this letter sees the light, over 99-100111 parts of France will wave the tri-coloured flag. This fear, which is conjured up to account for the alteration in the language and conduct of NAPOLEON, is j 'lSt as ridiculous as the numerous stories which were told of the rebel, whilst on his march to. wards the Imperial Throne. --- This day he was deserted by his troops—the next lie had fled to the mountains, leaving his cannon behind—and the succeeding he was depicted hopeless and forlorn, a wanderer, from the dread of the 66 loyal" peo ple, who were about to rid the world at once of a " base assas , in," and a " furious monster !"—These stories were circulated as long as there were gudgeons to be caught by the bait ; bet when the State. fishermen could no longer deceive by their lying tricks, they assumed much gravity, glossed over their knavery and folly in silence, and prepared other litres for the ignorant and unwary. The most sac eessful, lit the passing moment, is at once extravagant and inconsistent. It is, that BONAPARTE marched through• the midst of the French people to the Throne, against their inclinations, and by the aid of the army alone ; although the National Guard, whose hopes and desires are identified with those of the people, might, in many of the departments, in an instant, pat an end to his power ! For the men, who are so silly as to credit this absurdity, Bedlam is the proper receptacle- It is notorious that nineteen-twentieths of the population of France unite with NAPOLEON and his cause, and that the other twentieth part is composed of lovers of the old Regime, of the Gabelle end the Bastile, with a few admirers of the ancient House of CAPET. Evident as is this fact, equally evident are the causes which produced it. The re storatiou of the good Louts at the point of foreign bayonets--the assumption of the title of King of France by hereditary right—the pretended grant of a Charter by one man to millions, instead of the King's acceptance of it, as a compact between him and the nation—the 'suspension of the Liberty of the Press—the restoration •of the reign of faint ticiem—the loss of all conquests—the infractions of the Treaty of Fontaiubleau—the aggressive system of the Congress—the fears of the new proprietors, as to the return of feudal times ;—these were the causes which operated on the impassioned French nation to make them ardently wish for the restora tion of NseoLuost ; and these causes, like the burst ieg of a mighty volcano, overwhelmed, in an instant, the power and authority of the race of Bounaosm in France. After indulging in an infuriate strain of vulgar abase, the writer winds up the climax by depicting the French nation as "utterly decayed and rotten," and consequently unlit for the unsullied purity of the BOURBONS. They therefore need not regret the event, unless '' they would rather rule in hell than serve in Ipavea." His description of the army, as composed of savages, banditti, robbers, ruffians, and cut-throats, is quite ludicrous, except as a contrast to the other armies of Europe, which are formed of civil, well-disposed, and gentle beings, who use their muskets only as pop-guns, their swords as razors, end their cannon harmlessly to announce the , approach of a birth-day ! Moral depravity unfortu nately takes an extensive range; and while fornica tors, adulterers, gamblers, dehauehees, contractors public peculators, and insatiable placemen, are per mitted to riot in the sunshine of Courts, hope of re formation dies in the bud, beneath the chilling klasts of pestilential depravity. What Constitution the assembly of the French people will produce in the Field of May, it is fruit less to conjecture; a few short weeks will tell the tale, and denirnist rate whether the iron hand of ad versity hes expelled from the heart of BONAPARTE that inordinate ambition, which . made him one of the curses of the world. if he is grown wiser, he will see the folly of sacrificing the interests of millions to gratify the vanity of one little animal. In fact, the whole of the reasoning of this writer, if argument may that be called which sense has none, comes to this at last : that France has no right to expel the reigning Monarch, imposed on her by fo. reignen, and to elect another iu his stead. Shades of our ancestors ! you who would not bear for a moment the interference of -foreign nations in the internal affairs of England, what would you say to your degenerate sons, who threaten war against a people for making choice of a king ? Who endeavour to paint it as the interest of the Allies to restore the legitimate Horse of Boustans, and to crush the illegitimate House of BONAPARTa ? The flourishes about the vices of the latter, are accompanied by no tinge of the colouring of sech actions of the former !—they are all angels, he a devil. It is not vice in the abstract, or vice in . bit friends, Which the writer abominates, but vice only in an enemy. In the work of Congress he sees nothing but justice—the dismemberment of Saxony —the slavery of Poland—the transfer of Italy— the destruction of the Republic of Genoa—the union • of Belgium with Holland, with or without the con . currence of the inclinations of the millions tbas disposed of like herds of cattle, by the stroke of a pen, was all good, . all just, and all . wise. The atriiihilition of the Cortes—the to; )," 1 ; ,i ! I , ' / : ~ Ttit STATESMAN. re-establishment of the Inquisition— t eincarcera tion of hundreds of noble Spaniards, and the com plete slavery of the Spanish nation the re erection of the temple of superstition at Rome, and the extinction of the little freedom of the subjects of the Pope, draw forth no teer, excite not a sigh. No! these are the acts of legitimate Monarchs, and there fore must he consonant with equity, and founded in justice. But the age is too wise to be imposed on by such puerile attempts. Truth will triumph—justice will prevail. For twenty years we have contended for the restoration of the House of BOURBON, we have spent hundreds of millions of treasure, and sa crificed hundreds of thousands of lives. Through the insatiate lust of power of BONAPATE, thrimsgh his rashness and folly, the day arrived when the BOURBONS were restored. For a few short months England enjoyed a seeming triumph ; the sun of success gladdened the sky—all at once the horizon darkens, the BOURBONS descend from the Throne, and again the exile is re-established on it, amidst the acclamations of millions of people !—For i this soon-fading scene England is overwhelmed by , an incumbrance, enormouse in size, and ponderous , its pressure • for this GLORY, as the wretched friends of destruction and desolation call it, our country is subjected to innumerable ills, and re linquishes many of the advantages which nature I has conferred on her • for this raree-show of a day, dearly purchase d by the loss of an hundred lives, or fthe expence of a few thousand pounds, the nerves of the artizan are strained beyond their tone, and the peasant eats in sorrow the bread of 'excessive fatigue. The last war was stigmatised by one of the greatest of Statesmen, as a war of Kings against the people. The ruthless ambition of BONA. PARTE taught Europe to dread his power, and it be- I came a :ear of the people against a Trent and a King! Success then followed, it was the cause of i justice, it carried with it the good man's prayers and the wise man's hopes. But to argue from that suc cess, in favour of a war, which will be a crusade against the rights of mankind, for the restoration of the pretended sights of the House of BoUmgoN, is madness and folly in their worst form ! Colour it as you will, this is its effect ; and it re . quires no spirit of prophecy to predict the consequence. Let but an hostile flag wave on French ground, animosities will cease, diisensions will disappear, the friends of the Emperor end of the King will draw their swords against those who would tarnish the glory of the great nation. In a few short weeks her soldiers will be on the borders Of the Rhine, and their victories will be hailed by thr;cries of Italians and Saxons, Poles, Genoese, and Bolgians! To refuse to listen to terms of peace from Bosarawre, is to give him cause for war—it sanctions his thirst for conquest, if it still exist, and sanctifies the appetites of the warlike part of the French people. Oh ! was there in the Governments of Europe but one master mind, he would prevent this plunging of the Powers into miseries, alarming in their nature, and in extent unbounded. Had a philosopher guided the affairs• of this great empire for the last twenty years, instead of the narrow souls which nature appears to have made in playful mood without care, how different would it appear. It would have been a terrestrial paradise, if he had ex pended but as hundredth 'part of the treasure la vished on works of desolation. Innumerable useful hospitals, splendid palaces, well stored museums, learned universities, fine roads, and navigable canals would on every side have gladdened the eye of the traveller; instead of which, through the ignorance and folly of a few men, we enjoy the blessings of a monstrous debt and inordinate taxation, the deprive. tion of some of our brightest privileges, and the ad: vantage of seeing more than two millions of our brethren dependent on parochial relief! May these blessings come home to every man's mind and bosom, and induce every good man to cry aloud for peace until, the hell-hounds of war are chained. It is in peace alone that the people of France can determine between BONAPARTE and %unison : in war the throne of the former will be raised in seas of foreign blood. April 21, 1813. DECIVS. IMPORLIIVT STATE PAPER. . COPY OF ♦ LETTER ADDRESSED BY THE KING OP NAPLES TO MS ROYAL FEMMES§ TUE PRINCE RE GENT. . . gulated the cootie end the reciprocal advantages of these importaut commercial relations. The honourable engagements contracted with tee by the English Government, have, in fact, in my mind, a sufficient guarantee; but they do not fulfil, with respect to Europe, to the English, and the Neapo-, litany, the diplomatic acts, which alone can fix irre vocably the interests of the two States, and the in terests of the two'Crowns. These considerations determined me to send to Lord Castlereagh ' the 29th of December last, a Note, which had for its object to solicit from your Royal Highness the immediate conclusion of a formal Treaty of Peace and Alliance. These considerations determined me to address directly to your Royal Highness the same demand, and to propose to open without delay a negociation at London, between the Minister whom I have accredited to this effect, and him whom your Royal Highness shall judge proper to appoint. I know that it has been said that every thing which ' concerns Sicily and Naples will be regulated at the Congress at Vienna; but this Congress, whose pro gress is shackled bydifficnlties which afford but little , hope of a speedy solution, ought not to occupy itself ' otherwise than in indemnities which may be due to the King of Sicily for the promised renunciation of t Naples; of my renunciation promised for Sicily ; and for the indemnity which has been assured me by the isame Treaty.. All these questions are foreign from any relations of friendship with England, or rather suppose these relations; and I do not think that there is, in any respect, any impropriety in England rendering its stipulations of amity and alliance with me subordi nate to the determinations of the Congress of Vienna on these secondary objects. I have a Treaty of Alliance with Austria. This Treaty, which has been forthwith drawn up and signed, without the participation of the British Mi nister, was modified by the Minister of your Royal Highness, and I adopted the proposed modifications, because he assured me that such were the wishes of the English Government. An Official Declaration, made by Lord Rentinck, and repeated declarations made by Lord Castlereagh, of which I have had so many occasions to appreciate the unilter .ble fidelity, have assured me that my stipulations with Austria should have the assent of the English Government, and that England acceded to it. What obstacle can now prevent a Treaty between the two states con formable to these declarations ? Such a Treaty appears to me imperious on England by the first of all interests--honour : it is to the King of Naples, by all the interests which come imme diately after that ; and, above all, by the solicitude which he feels for the prosperity of his kingdom ; to happiness. I govern a sensible and generous nation, which is truly affectionate to me, because it knows that its glory and happiness are the sole objects of my efforts and my wishes. The love Which it bears towards me, the Watery which distinguishes it, the devoted. nest of which it -is capable, render me sufficiently powerful to fear nothing while it is under ams ; but nations ought not always to remain armed. I wish to make mine enjoy all the advantages of peace; and I rather wish that my tranquillity should be founded on a Treaty with England. To retard this Treaty, is to delay the happiness of five millions of brave Neapolitans. If difficulties, which I could not foresee, prevent ! your Royal Highness from accelerating as mock as I • wish, the negociations which I propose for peace, I pray you to enable me to attain, in the most conve nient form, a positive declaration of your intentions with respect to the kingdom of Naples, and I accept your word as a Treaty.. On your word I will act as the friend, as the most devoted ally to Great Britain. My situation glowi me, Sir, my Brother, only to think of the happiness of the nation whose interests Providence has confided to me, and I will devote myself entirely to the noble task of procuring for it all the happiness which it is worthy to enjoy.— Your situation, the glory, the power, the character of the nation which you govern, allow you to con ceive the greatest designs, and to obtain the most extended influence over the destinies of the world.— Every thing noble, generous, and liberal, is pleasing to my. heart. The sentiments which I profess for your Royal Highness, and for the . English generally, induce me to embrace with double transport the glory of seconding projects worthy of a great Prince, and of a great nation. I pray you, Sir, my Brother, to receive the as- ' sorances of the very distinguished consideration with which I am, Year Royal Highness's true Brother, Naples, 18th Jan. 1815. (Serned) JOACH IM. land, as, according to the old observation, th e Scotch afro came South of the Tweed seldom or r t e. ver recrossed it to Scotland, adding, that the obser. sation of one of the adverse Solicitors that he shou:d have all the costs of the Commission or none, out Caesar aut nullus, would here fail, since, in the event of setting aside the first Commission, no costs would be given. Mr: LEACH contending, that such a practice should be discouraged by the Great Seal, as that of the Solicitor suing out a second Commission, without which the first would be valid, es the bankrupt pealed by, and was addressed by, th e sirname of Laidlow, in letters and bills of exchang e , which he passed or negotiated, as by the name of Laidlaw. Sir S. ROMILLY, for the second Commission, and against the first, denied that the evidence of receiv ing letters of bills of exchange, replying to the let. ters in an incorrect name, or passing acceptances as they came, proved the assumption of such a name by the person addressed, any more than the many let. ters addressed tooted answered by himself, under the barbarous name of Rumley, changed his name to one which he deemed more agreeable or dignified; con tending that the party himself can alone originate the ascomption or alteration of a name, which was not here proved, and, of course, the bankrupt would not be crimi►►ally liable under the name in the first Commission on any prosecution, any more than Mr. Law (Lord Ellenborough) here quoted, could be responsible for a Mr. Low, who practices in tins Court. His Lordship desired to read the affidavits, to see if he could decide this question without the expellee of an issue at law to ascertain the reality of the name in question.—Judgment was postponed. :COURT OF RING'S MAT 11. BACON V. BROOKS. This was an action brought by a Bow-street Officer against a carpenter, for the seduction of the Plain tiff's daughter. It appeared that the parties had long known each other intimately, as neighbours et Kensington, and that the Defendant had undertaken the burial of the Plaintiff's wife. Upon her death the Plaintiff'e daughter was obliged to quit a real. dente in Lord Holland's Lodge, Kensington, which she and her mother had enjoyed in respect of the latter's services, and to go to live with her father at the Goat Inn, Kensington, her father having lived there before, and being separated from his wife on account of disagreement. No strong case of sedoc. tion was proved, but as the girl had been pregnant in consequence of her acquaintance with the I).. fendant, Lord ELLENBOROUGU ruled the Plaintiff entitled to a verdict for the loss, during her confine. ment in the parish workhouse, of the small services his daughter had been accustomed to perform for him; and also for the cost of certain trilling neces saries incidental to such confinement which the Plain tiff had provided for her.—The Jury gave him 101. OLD BAILEY. THURSDAY, MAY it. Edward Webb was indicted for burglarionsly breaking:lnd entering the duelling-house of flannel Mendes Dacosta, Foy. and stealing therein plate, linen, and apparel. The Proseemor resides in Prescott-street, Goodman's-Gelds, and the Prisoner was formerly his servant. On the night of the 14th of April, the house was broke open, and the property as laid in the indict ment stolen. A female servant was awoke by the ringing of the kitchen bell at four o'clock in the morning, she went down stairs with another maid servant, and a person from without desired to see the master of the house, but the servants at that time took no notice of it, and they retired again to led. Soon after the bell was pnlled.agaie, and the servants then under stood that something in reality was amiss, and they found that die kitchen door had been forced and the property stolen. The Prisoner wag detected by Forfeiter, an officer, in making of with the booty.—Guilty, Death. Ann Rooke was capitally convicted for stealing *sheaf, valise lb. the goods of Richard Taylor, privately in his shop. As Were also Joh. Cherch and Thomas Beckenham, for trailing 14 pair of woollen blankets, value il. ss. 6J. the pro perty of Robert Guuson. in his dwelling-house. George Brown, a youth, for privately stealing, in the shop of J. Hupp., a quantity of silk, value bs. was also capitally convicted. George Sherrington Was indicted far stealing two Bank of England notes, of the value of 11. each, in the dwellieg-home of Thomas Martin, in Peter -street, C.Jerkenwell. The Prisoner, it appeared, west he the keine of the Prose cutor. wins is an iniffrnt old man, and'repnrarating himself as de aont of a benevolent society. proposed obtaining relief hr him and his family. To this his wife Matte some objections, thinking others more deserving. The Prisoner, however, de scribing the institution to which he belonged to he one on a liberal scale and to be patronised by the Prince Regent, the proposed relief was accepted. The Prisoner then desired the woman to sign a paper, and to put op a little money for fen, Ice. and to come with him. Sire accordingly put some Mier and two 11. motes iu a bag, and while she was putting on her cloak, the Prisoner contrived to take up the hag, and draw out the notes. She observed his hand tremble, and baringlook ed into the bag missed the notes. Upon asking the Prisoner what had become of them, he run out of the shop; bat anakarra being instantly given, he was secured, and the notes wen taken Irons his hat by himself, and delivered over to the woman, saying, " here is your money, I hope yon don't think 1 meant to rob you." The notes were identified, and the Fri. saner was found guilty. Richard Patch was found guilty of embezzling the rum of 801. on the Bth of February last, the property of Stevenson, Remingtous, and Co. of Lombard-street, bankers. SIR, MY BROTIIER,—If I go aside from the ordi. nary and established fprnss used between Sovereigns in addressing *this letter to your Royal Highness, I trust you will only sec in my determination the homage which I wLb to pay to the nobleness of your character, and the iuterest I attach to the establish ing a direct and personal intercourse with your Royal Highness, although at the same time they may not perhaps have all the solemnity which they ought to --- possess. I also pray you, Sir, my Brother, to con- COURT OF CHANCERY, MAY 11. ___ ....The . siegular circumstance of MAATIS and C'''• sider, that I fiud myself, with respect to gagland, . wi issioss Eft. ALIAS ; hating shared and sold, in shares, the only fl ( Vg' l hi a situation quite extraordinary, and which may IN THE MATTER OF ALEXANDER LAIDLOW, !Prize in the last Contract, induces the strongest tr require that I should seek, by an act of mine equally I ALEXANDER LAIDLAW,' A BANKRUPT. lief that they will share and sell the only £3o,:;etl extraordinary, explanations and assurances netts. ! This very curious and interesting case came on this Prize, the greatest in the present Lottery; indeed, airy for the regulation of my political conduct. ! day, upon an adjourned motion from the last Term, the annals of chance furnishes repeated instances of I am, by my inclination, by my principles, by ' and excited much wit and humour at the bar between t his my most evident interests, the friend of Eogland ; Si r Samu e l R om illy, supp or ted by M r . Montagu, fornature , for it will be found (list a run of goo d and on all occasions, even in the midst of the most the motion , and Mr. L eac h ,suppor t e d b y M r. Cu ll en, SIIAKERPEARE evidently was of this opinion, when terrible war, every Englishmap, who has had occ,a- ' against it. he said, " There is a tide in the affairs amen," lion to know me, has found in me a friend. I The motion was for an order to supersede the first &c.—No. 8, Cornhill, and 110, Oxford-street, are My kingdom can find,, in the alliance with Great of two Commissions sued out against the bankrupt Fortune's Imperial Offices, where Tickets and Shares Britain, nothing but advantages the most positive, , in the' last month v within a few days of each other,' the most immediate, the most completely exempt : on th e gro u n d o f misnomer in the first Commission, are new on sale, and where the Gol len Prizes wil l . from inquietude ; and it is manifest that my alliance . in which the sirname was made Laidlow, inst ea d o f . be paid in Guineas, as soon as drawn, by MARTI. and Co. Stock-brokers. To-morrow the Lottery with the English Government can be equally ukeful. . the true sirname Laidlaw, which the supporters of . Filled with these ideas and • these sentiments, I the motion contended, on the authority of many afli- gins and finishes. trusted without reserve to the faith of the British davits, was the real addition of the hankiu twho . usi " . " 1 3 s rollectiti4 clerk iii the e :.ploy ..t 51 , --rs. Barclay and to. ay i Minister, and I took in the last war a part which lived and traded long at Hull, in Yorkshire. 'sn •rsortaay charted with be IEOI. the proPell f A I.L.—A. younc min, who has been for sorn , r 1117_ The PriAmer. was not without influence on the destinies of En- I On the other side it was argued that this was a l lii' en T i "Y e "' cort-Ilioney °WY. and la the cour:: , - of the cwt two yeitr I D "! rope. . ! race run by two Solicitors, who had each striven to received a ,Isos of not les:. (ban:ROAM. Go Altling• his arcing! I have had under my orders English troops; they h ave th e w hal e profits of the Commission, the latter 1 on the tifli of last month, tber, appraied to be n deticierac . Y 4 ": have fought and conquered with my troops. But al- having been taken out without leave of the Court, in ; 11301. for sa hid' he e , •ii:d ii t 4ereannt ;he was aet.t?rdit.. though the war has now been terminates) many the self-confidence that the name in the first Commis- , ias s ., into custody. and hrought up for a mud examinatiam . 1 1:: at :iipeztrecl, wits colledor c, . Solucit..r attended, niA conseret. d that Otte was no itrrn t;' 1 : months, and a general peace is established in Europe, sion was wrong, while on the ()the; side there were : yet no aothentic stipulation . places me'state of many affidavits produced to show that in Scotland, . whatever on the part of the Primmer, feloniously to eetz_ -, I spy pare of his employer's property. It vin a mere ow e . r . , ' a ; friendship with EuglarnL I have no accredited bli- and the contiguous parts of the North of Scotland, ! intricate and exte.sive account :old the deficiency i s ' . some itriccoraev which, if tint,:ons allowed. inaht he rern!r* nister at London; there is no English Minister at the letter A was pronounced or sounded as 0 which i T he P ri '""" "s* , t i A.siz-i., on a specific charge of embeszling4s:. the pmp- 3 Naples; and although already the commerce betweeu constituted the difference. 1 itis employers. the two States hns assumed great activity, and though The Loan CHANCELLOR observed, that it world —..w...._•-- :.--- - - however, fiiiv e,anmi« , d f u r tri:,l..ar:, r•;1 my harbours and eofrepots are 'filled with English bellificalt to God a Yorkshire Jury to give a verdict LONDON . P r i tse d .std putaiihed to , D. 1 ., ) ,„ & . a' tenets and English prisehicts, no •conventioe has re- upon such 'evidence of Scotch pronunciation in Eng. 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