The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-08-22 00:00:00

- a sows-, TO TI II general ohs to such erg the most in nosily infu PARTE (exi cautious jul could be th condect tot rookl be ne 0!lit it Mil)I such a; tht er d riVen chliged to a an occasion i t . r t to the' Act of Hai not that it i storms of tl ciuns who h those afoul armies of E repose and if lie had bi been entitle which he ha suffering At apparent bi eq. ally tr Mort, that accordingly r reason .or ment of of formal Well no nil it wool roceedingi sills of Ind onstitutio It may follow the ing his ani the persona een direct lliv hid! Winn orig .f the eartl list he who: lid selluctis wet, nod ated or die ery nd peril in pirit, w ti urine, an ' ile of Ty ardihood. isrtment 0 mplies Ste Ti of the sold on•pieao; scslcinic • t 'ack and II he &TWA ror of 1 umernus I ill AI nit a n the m'al- he ar/s has (bastion I nd nations f Legislai learness, led anti I bitrary, 3 shitrary la !ion loon :rest modi alines, an , •that vault their thr rated will ies he was • ir best d 1 hich he fo riot's of ught by 11 11 perm ' lit has in ty, to wt 'test ram .spted it, visitation ienrei, tt voted to hat in the rniliarity spirit, he , re MR Rift MCP ; lifference el); his rdshipi elssi n whi tore of It •re dying cumstanc greater FAINT SkETCII OF 7111 IPMRSO-N A L 'ARACTER OF BONAPARTE. 'DE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN. Hitherto I here confined myself (exceptinK obserrationi ant♦ expressions of sentiment) Irguments as pro►e, that if the worst which inveterate of his enemies have been conti rusing into the public mind against BONA tefipt that they became tamer and more ist before the battle of Waterloo) were or (he truth, it would still he true, that such ,ward him, ns our Ministers have adopted, neither ju•t nor generous ; politic, legal, or ions!: it would still tie true, that it was that any alien, brought by his own desire, by tempests to the Brili.h coast, and stop to refit, would have been entitled, as mad Region!, and therefore temporary cub. protection of our laws, and to that of the abeas Corpus in particular; and I know !Is less true. that having been driven by the 'he political world (and among the magi- hate raised them we °choppily stand first), •rns which hare deluged France with the Europe, he was not less entitled to seek to expect all asylum here, than he would been cast on our shore by shipwreck, hare led to be exempt from the treatment by iris suffered, is now suffering, and long hard lid indignity yet before him, with im other boundary than that of life. It would he true, were he the worst of men and of tt he is no subject of ours—that there is, iy, no pretence which the law of nations will support, when he is once forced from to attempt to bind him by an Act of Par ours; or to ratify that wrong which is 1 and circumstantial, but essential, and of Act of Parliameut can change the nature : ild be equally true, that it is not for such rage of Ministers, as those against hies, that. Indemnity are provided, or admissible, by tho ion. be but just and seasonable, however, to Bellerophon, and attempt (notwithstand iimated picture), at least, 'faint sketch of Jage against whom such proceedings have ,rected. Ib is derived from an ancient Greek and an iglu; two among the noblest of the nations di. And it was a circumstance of value, fo was to encounter all the blandishments join of the highest station, of splendour, and lid external g , menus, without being ener. irerted from great objects and pursuits of 4. and who was to he tried by adversity it all its forms, and be ever usisubdued in I burn a ColtsrcAl, and there passed his ' first youth ; in an island at all times fer mi:, active, and ardent minds, and heroic . That h- entered inififary life in the de of the artillery; 5411,L;,, ;move all others, , cady a 'Trevino, science, discipline, aid .v , ity of ev. , ) i ul for perfecting the habits !flier asuit of the man. That lie %A% ali4e in Council ~mtl in the field, dosing the , trugcles whirl' the violence of •external at- Internal treachery and commotion raised in abut:, That he has been twice adopted Eno. France, by suffrages incompsrsbly more than were ever given to establish any indi any throne. That in the midst of wars, 4st of secret conspiracies, the sciences and we been culti‘sted and promoted by him. more and mote expanded, public economy tonal improvement in all its branches, systems Ilion of the greatest comprehensiveness, and precision, and in their paid branch proportioned, awl alike guarded against indefittiie indulgence on the one side, and latitude of severiN on the other : e ansti iiided on the wisest, most liberal, and lel, accommodated to the national circum twl progressively improved. Kviished Kings have been replaced by him trones ; that captive armies ha►e been li about condition ; that of conquered coun ts raising from the dust the monuments of lays, and meliorating the circumstances in found them ; that the relatives of deceased If genius and public worth have been him to impart to them unexpected benefit t►rent honourable provision ; that living been called forth from neglect and obscu -hatever exercise of its functions in the of his Empire nature or habit had with paternal solicitude. That in the .11 end violence of war, the arts and the edifices, and instruments, and persons !0 their cultivation have been protected. le most sudden and severe emergencies a r with the great examples of antiquity, and 'cart, and intellect, correspondent to theirs, tested themselves in Him : such his tem the plainness of his ordinary dress ; his fee to luxury ; his denial to himself of unwearied exertion and endurance of al sad privations ; his dismissal of the 'ho had struck at his life; his fearless ex- himself to the infection when his soldiers ig of the plague in Egypt. That the smaller aces of his life hare been answerable to —the Dog at the battle of Castiglione) r • r • . 4 • • • • • TIIE ; • 7 ;••• P. 3 • .. 10 1 / I V i r .l 7 "' : "" t . tr . .j . .. p• •• • . 1. ;••••:•••• the Go' herd of the Alps, the . Maiden and 'her Mother in one of his early German canlPaigns— these instances of sympathy, of benevolent atten tion; of self-command, are among the prtinfa of the unaffected and kiud : hearted simplicity of MI nature; the generous intrepidity of his soul. Bet these, it hal been said, are . fictions to exult his character.— Had he any need of fictions ? anal do the forgeri of adulatory stories foi Moniraii possess the heart and the uncorrupted * feelings to fiirge after this manner : some too being of the simplicity, and others of the publicity, which must exclude the idea Of fabrica tion. To the EDITOR or ilex STIT I ESMAN. Sts,—Msy:l be permittbd.ta , jab, litrtlaitit Our widely circulated Paper, whY should the Commind: log Onkel. of a regiment be allowed a contingent bill, and a sum to provide Mai with stationery, if the OlEbera of the Neoj be not showed a sixpence for either? In many cases the Withholding these allowances is iospolitie l besides bring unjust; as atus• ter paper is generally made Use of for ill purpoies to which it can be applied; and I hate knoin this paper to lie ;ctulilly chirged to Government, when stamped at Jamaica, et the exorbitint rate .6f one shilling Ins sheet ! An Admiral some Of a similar character is hit► conduct to' Cisovi, •who remained at Paris in honour, and in the exercise of his noble art, after having refused to model a statue of [3ox.te►a•rs:. C.taovA, I am persuaded, feels otherwise at the present moment. It is not of nothing that his friends are invincibly attached to him ; that his soldiers devote themselves to death for him with transport ; that persons of high intellectual evalilicatintis and distinguished honour, regard it as the noblest ..of privileges to accompany his lot, whatsoever it may be ; anti that even in pre judiced and hostile bosoms he inspires instinctive ad miration, confidence, and esteem. Bat he is ambiliuus.—G ranted :—ambitious to do great good. and prevent or remedy great cril. Am bitious to maintain the honour and independence of France : ambitious to hove deserved of France and of ' order that 70 , ago gave an even a diili progrk. ins" -should he written on not , less than a 001116 of the world as much by peace as by war, had he beets so permitted :—never more disposed to peace thou in the height of his successes. And did either exsAtt or ALEXANDER devote them 'ekes for the nation, at whose head they were, as he twice has done ? Would they have been. satisfied, as he was after the battle of Waterloo, whether his friends, the friend: to the preservation of the empire, to him and in his family, and in that the friends of the nation not less than of him, prevailed, or whether the Re puldicans prevailed ; and evince himself solicitous hone thirst a Goiernment should not be forced on France by foreigners. And, on his sudden re•crunt to the Throne, he would not suffer himself to oppress his enemies by their individual knowledge that he had detected and pardoned them; but, like Czs.tit, he destroyed, on. examined, the papers which would have informed kim who they were. Perhaps, too, like CESAR, he found them unexpectedly in the crisis of his fate in the fold as he had done in the Senate : for treachery seems to have mixed itself Kith the panic. But he has had great errors and greet Push:: some I think I can see ; others I believe, because he is a man—because the ss tisk ind of events with which he has been for years surrounded was utterly incom patible with averring self-possession, during the most eventful and tryiig of rei►;ns—because a fault less mediocrity is not credible of him. But, base and enormous crimes, partly no more imputed to him by the intelligent and honourable part of his enemies, partly without evidence, with out any absolute or relative probability, and partly such as, that the facts, if admitted, would not war rant the to , iclusion, these are indeed to be disregard. ed in the estimate of any character. A 'lost 21. PENGUIN. REDUCTION OF THE NAVY. But had he been like the heroes of antiquity, he would have died a Grecian or Roman death, so we were told upon his first abdication; and, if he had, an event would imbe been lost, more wonderful, more illustrious to his glory than any of antiquity. We are told so 114IW again,—that lie ought to have died by suicide. And that he has not followed their urgent recommendation, is undoubtedly very mortifying to th ese ene m ies whose je4lousies, and whose fears, and whose irrational antipathies nothing else will appease. But it is not because be is less than the heroes of antiquity that he has not do ne this deed: it is be• cause it is greater, more worthy of him, that he should line; that he should triumph over all circuits. stances by invincible calmness and equanimity ; that he should prove that he bats more than an empire in the res•urces of his own mind ; that he cannot be overcome by indignities or w rouge ; that he keeps his faculties serene and free, open to the beautiful and majestic leenery of nature; to the society of those brave and heroic friends who have not by force been hindered from accompanying him; and to the events, whatever they may be, which Heaven still reserves for him. Its his studies he will find comfort; in the recollection of his great energies, satisfaction. If it were held necessary that such. man should be hatetfin England, it is most certain that it was quite necessary that he should nut continue to be seen.— But whether upon that motive, or in compliancewith the Confederacy, those who can act on such viewi and principles are far unsuitable to direct the coon. cils of a great, free, high-spirited, and still—as to a very large portion of the people, how long irritated and deceived soever,—a generous nation! Such the fate for a man like this (even judging by this weak and most imperfect sketch), such the fate prepared for him by the Ministers of England, in the nine teenth century of the Christian Ara; and by some expected to be adopted in Parliament ! CAPEL LOFFT. Trostoo-hall, Aug. tJ, 1815. Erratum in my lag Letter, which appeared in rritist%'s Pottier, 10 lion from the Atittom, for infiretioP, rend infiiders. ANTICIPATION.—We are led to suppose from the immense quantities of 8-ink-notes and Guineas, lying in the window; of CAartoti. and Co. Corsthill, (hitt they intend selling the grsAd Prise of 530,000, beside some of the smaller Cspitals in Gold, all of which must he distributed to the Public nett.Thurs dsy.—They will be paid on demand either there or at No. 26 2 Oaford-street. THE C2IPTURg OF PARIS, • iciTiik *sit. 1652, SY Tkli Yini ,tl.LiEi 1ii0414; Mi. Eitioi,-- 2 the following 'eatract, from the i History of Fiance, under the 31is.istri of . Cardinal iklasarine, may not; in the present state of. that coon. , try, be unacceptable to y o ur readeis. To e himoty ties originally written in Latin by Spur livojamin !Paolo, and translated into. English by Christ.ppnec ,-Wase t and printed in London, 1971, .. 1. ..... nothor; line giving an account of the invasion of kraiicis by the then allied troops, and their suhietioent en, rfr in. Ito Paris, Under the command of the Prince Of t onde; proceeds thus :- . ! P. 314.--" Conde, early in the Morning coming north of St. Anthony's Gate, said ' I do not palliate the danger with words. This dafr we . Must - -ish.- Let es therefore, perish not unrevenged; since aftei the Iteopeir or victor", we arc to die r htiug , 14V! , _. a sheet of fricilscaer, and - fillt:::. .. St p pap ---s. , Sign myself to that part, whither I shall be called.to Interdicted the rise of muster piper hut for the pur- d anger; wh i th e r I will lead not send.' The officers pones, ..,.fo r which it Was supplied. Had that Noble . agreed, and all being prepared for the estremest ha- Admiral not been supplied with Stationery, perhaps lard, theY fought from five in the morning till five in he would have been one of the first officers in the the evening, with Sueh obitinate hearti on both aides - Navy who would have had recourse ter muster piper. that I question Whether eier among the French thers The multiplied use of s t a ti onery s i nce the cornmence- , .. i !reread example o f more s tubb or n co nflict , under ths 9 Walls of the thy; the citilens [noting on, sod waiting ment of last war calls loudly for a supply being for, the issue." . . • made to the Captains ; an d if l og -b oo k s are re q u i re d I P. 111.—js What was more cruel in the afflicted to be kept by each officer, they ought certainly city. than to see Ileresen, Walloon, and I;triain • equally to be supplied. And what pray would troops, march up and dosiri With driven swords, as be the @silence on a grea t sca l e ? Th e though the Ki t * lied been conquered, carrying along Present with them floCks of hir l ieti, n- ocYthian waggons; yet quantity of large paper which is allowed for the had that odious crew billeti assigned them sip the ships' books, might be ready made up into difer- ' places adjacent to the' - iiiinsitiOfSt: Germain's and ant sizes, according to th e num b er o f men b e l ong i ng the Sey n e. Th es e pli r ifi t infia' the barbarous Soldier to each ship, and a reties of foolscap to the largest held, after that he had plindeied Vitleitiviie, Vitryt .: ship, would be ample supply f or a t we l vemosit h, an d and other towns. B u t that Nothing m i g ht be Want. half a ream to frigates and sloops, with a h un d re d of in g to the highest frenzy, th e f act i on nplitereif wear.. ing its colours; then which faction there; being no quills, or ready-made pens, and a box of wafers. thing in nature more slight, the vilest of things, It cannot be expected that if stationery were allowed sY allow straws w er e pl a i te d i n t o st n ee ti y i o f thetrew, was chosen for a eta n dard •Of Seditien.— his Majesty's ship., it would be on the same scale as horse,' Offices and to Admirals. No; I am only gallanter sort, carte, coaches, and s addle h o came not forth without a lock of wow sti c k o n representing the hardship of not being supplied with them; nay, the eery monks had straw oh their wlat is absolutely requisite, and which must, at pre- cowls. They that were chaff-less or stron-less dery sent, be purchased from the pocket of Me Captain; ' beaten. soliciting only to be allow. d that which every other 44 It was July 4, 1652, When . there met in the person whatever, either in a public or private' cepa. Town Hall the chief men, Wisps!, Governor of ' city, is either paid for or allowed. • ' Paris, and the Provost of the Merchants, presiding after the usual manner, when there comes in a tram- Wes a paper-mill to be erected at Portsmouth, pet from his Majesty with a letter, wherein he testi. for example,.or at any of the naval ports, it might be flea that it would be pleasing to him , if the Court . supplied with the worn tit linen of the naval hospi- were adjourned till f.ur days after. So small a spoil tals, end under the management and control of Go- could not be denied the King; the Court is disiolved.' • —The Princes had scarce got into their coach whe t s 'moment might be made to supply a sufficient quan there fella shot with a musket, some-unknown fells,* tity for the general purposes of the navy, at a very mixed with the vulgar rout, with weapens and me. small ramie,. This would at once redress the nacing words thronged about the town-houses. Of grievance, and relieve the publiC from paying a Shil- a sudden the common rout fall on fiercely with ling per Sheet for Navy Muster Paper in future. : rage, arms, fire, and faggot. The forwardest are slaughtered, others stifled with smoke, the house But great minds, however, cannot probably stoop to such trifling considerations as these, whilst the is stormed : that seemed the fatal defy of Paris.— Those that were potent in faCtion strengthened the Americans are capturing our sloops of war. confusion, companies of soldiers are drawn up to I am, your's, arc. the city calls. The Tewrs-hoose will is broiled with flames, so that the sinek's rolls - in a gloomy Cloudy awl had the wind then spread • the , . burning, the' tree :ye _ would Min bee* involved, .being 'dread/: —,-- scorched all over with the dismal fire, which as the • Orders were received i n t he co a rs e of l as t w e e k t o pay or will of God was/ menettni-not aloft, 'but had its the following ships at Portsmouth :—Castor, Cherub, Haircut. power confined to tivehasrer region. It seems, after Manly, !bog love, Urgent, Alder, Snapper. Mastiff, Feller, so maul hazards of the poor • city, this game isad - Coldest, and Pi c kl e . Th e to:lowing are also lit hr paid oft, beets left. uuplaid. Tatty were -tot .contented to here but wit hivit dismantling., SO he re-commintioned t—laroostant, Niger. Pactoltos, Driver, Griffin, itifleintio, Childers. Grecian, eat up the citizens ;they must bore them too. Whilst and Such. Toe follow* have sailed for the ra,lerni ports to the conflagration and riot lasted, Conde assayed to be paid off:—Bssrrnada, Belle Pout., arsine. and Brillion • . Dep s iora t Flo ri d a , F orwar d, Prierme, and Hope, to Wool- run in —Orleans held him, fearing lest the Prince • etch ; Cordrlia aid Rovarto SO Chatham. ; might conie to any misettence by . .the popular com. The Talus, Contest, Harrier, Antelope, 'Cowry, Childers. • ..,„., ion • sp. Orkin* his daughter came in like a stool Satellite, Wasp, Vengeur ; Moran, and Britain, were paid of "'`" there last week. The Nyrap_h, Dr i ver. and Rifleman, acre to virago. The Rama indeed was 'quenched , bet the • be paid tiff yesterday t the Pique and Amphinn this day. . memory • not buried, which - will live for ever its Admiral Scott has struck his lag in the Downs, and the 0. . . . Hospita l having the , weir minas. nit escap ed clanger, Orontes, Erebus, Challenger, hignae.. Pandont, Swan, bust Pioneer, have proceeded np the River to be paid ill'. in a disguise left his house and the city, and retired. The Acosta, Grampus, Iphigeoia, nerd Melpomene have been Beaufort is made Governor of Paris, And Broussel paid oft' in the River. s The tom-port. are • discharging Dot of the service, as fast as Provost of the Merchants, r egalnst theApprobatien the period tor which they acre aired et piret. of the Court. But what . shell they de I Prudence The Lods of the Atlestrairr have determined to grant 12. lay opprest, a secret overpowering Providence driv. must e rs, leave of abseoce moo, °Ayer of the Navy, upon a l4' lay ing its wheels over, and .deriding the politics of phi-Roos to thew. I The Adokirally bare ordered that all Midshipmen nod Ws- ' France," 8". ter's Mates be di sc h ar ged from the service, on their respective 1 bhiP ll _ berg *at into unlittary ; and that no Caplqia or Co,. ooduler do elder oo their ship's hooks any Gruilemen of the • i shove denominatives, even though their miips should be e .oniv i"ordaelsin. It it curvets/only inferred, that is future these ap t ' ntrms will be made by the Ad . iniraly timid. I I Tbe Channel Fleet b otassasea , and• the ships coma o.in g it are ordered to be paid of. Lord Keith struck big flay $ll Thunday ut Plymouth. The lbw. Rear-Admiral Hotlines will do so upon hi. arrival Cro•n Bisque Rands. The skips gi ,r.iog Writ Plymouth, to be lain up in urduonry. me, Ville de Paris SOO Joseph. Boyd Sovereign, Tigre, brartur, Argo, Bads minas Storprare. Preahurre, cud Plisooe. The ship* l.i he pitid at at the above t ors, *tad rr-counniavioswd, are, Eri.tat us, 'llOl 4 Ti.,ai Lee. Conway, c ) prim. °mosaic, Algcrine, Ru• coon. Helicon s Prometheus. mid Whittne. • Tue. Sprinter. 74, Captain Ra 4 gen, was pail of no Wed nesday, ht Plymouth, and re-c•oumosioned for a gustrd-ohip.- - The Isepresualbl4 Ma.t.i, and Superb. are to be the other grardskips 1,1 that pun. The Twosome Ittimilie., Bulwark, nod Albion, ore to he the hardships in the river Thames. Gr.asoow, Alto. 15.—The Opera of the Cabinet wet performed last night at our Theatre, hi which Mr. SINCLAIR and Mrs. Coastal made their sp., pearance as Orlando and Floretta, , Mr. Srect.arit , paid us a visit about' two years age, but. is most wonderfully improved since that lime, both. in his singing and as an actor ; hisioice is rich and ,uacom• moldy delicate, and in the mazy tbrillings of the delightful music of the Cabinet he delighted the audience. In the Pollacca be was rapturously 1 encored, as well as in several of his other *twigs. Mrs. Commies was lively and pleasant in Florctfra, atorexecuted her songs its a very pleasing styles— The house was very well attended, but we were sur prised to observe so few Lidies in the hoses. Those whn are fond of music will seldom have their lasts so j highly gratified as by the display of the rich an* highly scientific powers of Mr. SiNcLala.--(o4usgera l Courier.) 64 I expect to he transported next week," says a gay Hibernian to his friend. " Transported !" said the other—" Good Heaven ! what offence have you committed, that should subject you to so disgraceful •Ounishment ?" 44 Faith, I have been making Btu attack upon a lady—dime Fortune, my dear :---f have jest bought a l l'icket in the Lottery—and as I hope to get one of the Capitals next Thorsdaf, I ex pect to be transported with joy !" As OBSRitVER. 1 ...m--,-...............,-r I The remaioder of BonarAaves- followers, con. silting of two Generals, two Lieotrioant.Colonefs, and four other Officers, are on board the &tram frigate, which will sail for Malta, where it is Glider. stood they are to be confined as prisoners. A PV. mouth letter, in contradiction to this, states, that the Euroias ;ailed for France. 1 On Friday last, GEonor. Mout.nati Eaev.it, the 'infant son of JOHN VAVAOLIR EARLY, Esq. while playing in the garden adjoining his father's house, in , Winchester, accidently fell into a small stream of 1 water whirls runs through part of it, and although medical assistance was immediately procured, and `every means tried to recover him, we are sorry to say they were ineffectual. The mail coach from Cork to Dublin was attacked a few days ago near Cashel by a banditti, though guarded by two armed dragoons. The villains fired from behind a fence, wounded one of the soldiers, and shot the horse of the other. The coachman and passengers escaped without receiving any injury. A few days ago • lady of pleassre, who had been oitt in a. corricle with • gentleman to Richmond, Rampton Cow , Windsor, &c. was persuaded by her spark to .hothe with him in a private part of the Thamei, near Windsor, for which purpose they, for privacy, went without any attendant to the river side, when they both stripped and bathed some time; but Allured by the pleasantness of .the day they en.. deavoured to cross to the other site, whiCh they effected. On their return, however, they hid the mortification to find that some person had made of , with their clothes, which they had cunningly, as they thought, staffod into a hollow tree; they were there. fore obliged to remain Shivering till night name on before they could attempt to travel, when they for. tonately nost.,with A person, to whom they failhfelly related their dishpans, and who, on promise of a re ward went to the:lnn where.** Gentleman had put up his corricle t a i d returned With a post chaise and some necessary articles of clothing, to take them from the scene of their indecency and their well merited run:ill:neut. • te- 1