The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-04-18 00:00:00

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Prudence njoined him to advance a few steps, to watch is m ore closely, and the necessity of covering iogdom has obliged him to take up military po ts in the Roman States." Whether MURAT'S oions and conduct will be so altered by the ~e , l tone which " the High Allies" now find it ..nry to adopt " to the person" (as TALLEYRAND lately been calling him) who rules the little „b ra o f Naples, as to act against France,—and are the " better foundations" on which he vo w strengtening his power and reposing security—are not yet quite so evident; but guesses, LE) : not far wide of the truth, may be formed on eject. Was not the restoration of the POPE ; temporal dominions, one of the blessed and ating effects of the triumph of " the holy ie ?" If Mutt tT, who is now giving law in Italy, i e of the friends of the" holy cause," why has the pole Pattie taken fright and claimed the protec d N trot.cox- 44 the mitre'!" Iyitevor may be the conduct which the jealous of S troreor may deem it necessary to pur a,,d their intentions are now pretty clearly • 1 1—tl;ey sill find France armed for the main ice of her independence—in defence of the man :an alone secure that invaluable privilege to her, *hese name and existence is inseparably blended its pre,ervation. Fatal will be the error if !lies calculate on having got the start of their c , .at. Fatal to the interests of the House of awls, for which they are again going to war, AA Proclamations a; the deposed Monarch i:minz. Louts XVIII., and his Minister E ( Duke of Feltre), have issued a Proclamation Frankfort, telling the people of France " that all v. ha. ntlopted his rause ;"—and all the French ~ y and the French people are demanding of Fulmer to be led forth against "all Europe," 'Pieitt that cause succeeding. " Frenchmen," he Monarch who has been represented as loath :I one single drop of French blood, and who ul his own and that of his family spared by a lanimity which it will be in vain to descry or 'resent,—" Europe," says this humaxe Mo. • " advances. Her innumerable phalauxes soon pass your frontiers. All the soldier& mire much under the same banner, and it is 4 . liiy." Will soon pass your frontiers ! ,i'v then enters France as an invader, to be ited by foreign hands, ana to he watered by the auJ Oar; of the country, over which it is ant ic to rule ! But if that is to be the reigning r of France, and these are the means resorted order to fit it, must not these foreign hands re to preserve it in its place, and must not the same Sul inoi‘ture flow for its support, or it will again ttiiihed from the French soil ?—And is this the to obtain the love of Frenchmen, and secure the mess of France ? a Flanders Mail which arrived last night, we some further particulars, to which we refer, of military preparations and movements in the lerlandi, the departure of the POPE from •e, and his arrival at Florence, inconsequence of movement of Muevr's army upon his capital. wide from Vienna states that the Congress has Id in favour of MVRAT keeping the Papal .I,es. and Its t a Definitive Alliance was expected formed between him and the Allies. leimportant notice was given yesterday, through ual channel, to the Stock Exchange, that the •tcr proposed to fund eighteen millions of Ex ler Bills, on the folio% terms :—the stock the Navy 5 per Cent!:.; the dates to he those of ear 1814; the dividends to commence in Jann the funding days to ho the 26th, 27th, 2Sth, !fit') of April-1171. to be given for every 1001. is reported that an urgent application nas made, wt success, for 10.000 Prits , ian troops to bp .N 1 under the immediate command of the Duke t.I\CION; Rud,%e untie stand, no corp.; (.1 . hit:, A :sstr:a Os, or Pruscians, are to act under Inect orders of the Eng!ish _ P , erdav morning Mr. II tsrit.v . us, brother of the or Secretary of State, arrived at the Foreign Downing-street, with dispatches from Con li;mule. Ile also brings dispatches from Vienna I- I, u-sels. Lord CAsTLI:e. LICH, after taking the NCE REGENT'S commands, consulting with the of Livineout and BATLIURST, and othors of l• n 1 t ;s: misters, but opt in regular Cabinet, nil \lr. Cuncorsi.e, the King's Messenger, with c gs to the dispatches brought from llrnssels. APKTL t 2.—The following list of the ps marching against France circulates here:- 225.000 2:5(1,14X1 P , II a ver!ari+, Ergh.d., Utotch, . 10 1 ,. I , 0 n. f t i , ):111.. mt i l irtoil.belgers 11:161) nr Germ a) Stars N rn i •ui .. Tom! .... ( )VENT...GARDEN Tra.urnE. —The Tragedy of au Cesar was last night perfJrmed. Mr. K $ f n the first time this season, sustained the cha ry Brutus—and delineated, in a very masterly the Roman patriot, philosopher, and soldier. "as ve , y highly applauded throughout—but more ieulJrly in the celebrated quarrel scene. Mr. 'Nu's Caddill is a bold and energetic piece of I. In severs) of the SUMPS Mr. YOUNG justly led the applause of the house sish Mr. KEMiLE. C 4 4 / 1 /0/7y was ably represented (in the absence ! r. C. Keatstr.e), by Mr. Cosw aY. His delivery le fine oration over the dead body of Crew led much approbation. The tuna, was crowded a early hour. WAR OR PEACE! LETTER 11. TO THE EOITOIt OF THE ISTAITSM SI R,—l wish, as concisely as possible, to remind my CouNTltVbt sN in what state they are. Great ex ertions were made for the Repeal of the Property Tar. A wan hangs over us, (see of the least of whose evils will be the renewal of that tax, and yet this prospect seems to be regarded with indifference. At the same time it is manifest, that; unless by the instrumentality of BItIT SIN, there CA N be no war at present ; and that, if we express no dislike to it, no concern as to its consequences, there will be war ; and a war, which, once commenced, will hurry us away with it, and leave us no command over its con tinuance; while its effects, any way, must' be ex pected to be of a magnitude,. of a nature, and of au uncertainty sufficient to startle any degree of rash ness at the thought of beginning it. Could there be 1 1 any assurance that these mighty movememts would he limited to simply precautionary and defensive measeree, they would be what the circumstances jus tify and require. Rut as it seems that they lead to offensive war, and as I there appear no symptoms of that temper and mode ration in the Allies which would be content with any thing short of this, it would well have become TUE PEOPLE Of THIS ISLAND to show, that when 20 such years of war, as we have sustained, led to no better, juster, or wiser arrangements than those of the Congress of Vienna, in which were all the ele ments of a new political chaos, ENGLAND would net silently, and without expressing her sentiments in the manner recognized by the Constitution, drop, as in slumber, into the abyss of another war, which must either, virtually and politically, annihilate the most civilized nation in the world, and the most highly advanced .in literature, arts,, and sciences, except our own, and by so doing, convulse and disorganize the general equilibrium of Europe at its very centre; or if that be impossible, and FRANCE should over come the attack under which she sunk for a moment under very different circumstances, what other result does the war which appears to be on the point of breaking forth present, which can justify the ques tion—ought we to commence it? I have offered this warning in the strongest and simplest terms I could. If ever there was a moment which called forth to the public ear, be a:oake now or abide the consequences, .uou and your posterity, which no foresight canfathom,and n o fortitude contem plate unasved,it is the-present, in which the wreck of national property and credit is but an inferior part of the peril. That FRANCE is determined not to be the aggressor appears to be certain. And infinite is the responsibility of those who shall, yet those who could prevent an esil by speaking, and stand by in silence do, in effect, command it. I am yours, sincerely, CAPEL LOFFT. Treston-Hull, near Bury, Suffolk, Oct. 1L NAVAL LVTE f.LIGENCE. PO,RTSMOUTII, APRIL 17.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Ramifies , froM the West Indies : St. Patrick, Kenne►ly, from St. Domingo ; James Harris, Carr ; and Cyrus, Lawson, from Jamaica ; Trafalgar, Ridley, from Cork, with loss of rudder ; and Bri tannia, Wallis, from Waterford.—Came into har bour his Majesty's ships Pique'nnd Herun. DEAL ' APRIL 17.—Arrived the Nightingale and Bana sloops of war, from Leith ; and Mary, Hunt, from. Waterford, and sailed for the River.—The 71st and 91st Regiments disembarked ) eiterday from the transports, and were put on board of smacks and proceeded immediately for Ostend. The liflth was landed here in order to te. supplied with such necessaries as they stand in need of, after which they will proceed for their destination. HARWICH, A exit. 17.—Arrived the Mafia packet, Nll‘Dotiough, from ielv'oetsluys, with Mails and pis:ongers.—Sailed the Lord Nelson packet, with iils and passeNers for Coxlmten ; and Albion packet, with Mails and passengers for Gottenburgh. N 1.111.0 Vrt, Aral 17.—Arrived the Britannia packet, Fnx. from ()stood; sailed from thence this morning about six o'clock. A courier from Turin, with dispatches for the Sardinian Ambagssdnr, came over in the packet, and proceeded post for Lo n d on . The Duke of Wellington was expected there last night, and was said to tare arrived early this morn ing before the packet sailed. DovEn, Aram 17.—Theportiqcoese brie Pheni x , that came in here yesterday from the Brazils, is bilged and full of water, and is feared will be totally lost. She is laden with tobacco, tea, coffee, bides, and tallow. DEAL, APRIL 10.--4everal Fail of the West India fleet arrived, and sailed for the River.—Came into the Dawns his Majesty's ship Armida, from Bermuda, and remains with the fleet of transports from Cork, ..with troops for Ostend. They are prevented die. eml:arking to embark again into small craft to pro. teed for their destination by the strong N. E. winds. —Sailed his Majesty's staffs Protector, Hasty, and Sparrowhawk, for off Flushing, and the whole of the homeward-hound for the River. FALMOUCII, Aram 14.—Arrived yesterday,. the Eclipse and Dolphin, from Gibraltar. Sailed the '27th of March with the Elizabeth Bill, Rachael, Elixir, Rolla, and several other vosel% for England without convoy. His Majesty's &tip Earsalus ar 7 rived at Gibraltar the 25th of March, from the Chesa peaket in 23 days. 7 -llis Majesty's ship Elizabeth, Admiral timing, arrived at Gibraltar the 25th of March from Cadiz, in lat. 45. 56. long. 12. the Eclipse spoke the Isabella country ship, all well; Since writing the above, orders have been received for the Snake packet to sail for CC/n[lllla. orlin ST, IEsNIANst To rat EDITOR or , rtc STATESMAN. Slit,—Lord Meelrma; in asserting, in conjunc tion with his no less able colleague, Lord LIVER. root., that the whole fleet of Great Britain could not blockade Obi, showed a thorough • ignorance of naval Wain, and gave a flat contradiction to the doctrines and measures of their respective parents. When the father of the former was man of all work to Lord NORTEt in the iniquitous war against Ame ricas' be inslined'on blockading an entire sea-coast of ONIt THOUSAND leagues, with a view of stirr ing the Americans into unconditional submission ; and from thence Mr. HENRY DOW/ Is, who was more indebted to an abuse of the prerogative than to merit' for the Peerage conferred on him, obtained the nick name of "STARVATION." When that very in defatigable Gentleman, who, in our interregnum, was also on the stand ready to be hired by those who coeid beg pay him, became a man of all work to Mr. PITT, the notable scheme of starvation, though it failed in America, was resorted to, and in 1793 and 1794, famine was compel France to a retro. grads motion from liberty to slavery ; and Mr. DUN DAS endeavoured, and with equal success, to starve . the French, is he had before attempted to starve the Americans into an unconditional submission to our usurped authority. Mr. CHARLES J ENKinson, the no lest indaatigible father of Lord LIVERPOOL was a party to the blockades in both instances, and with this freshens our memory, their sons gravely assure us that the whole naval force of England cannot blockade an Wand 36 miles in circumference ! If this is not only insulting Parliament, but the common sense of mankind, I really do not know the meaning of the word. If Ministers, however, did not feel them selves culpable, why refuse to produce Papers which ' I would prove either their guilt or innocence? The very refusal is a tacit acknowledgment of the former, and sheltered as they are by a majority, which gives no additional lustre to the House of Peers, the na.', tion can have but one opinion respecting the deli& gleficy of. Ministers! Their defence is as poor as poverty, and want of intellect, as well as went of principle, could have made it. They tell us, or rather that very amiable and moral Gentleman, Lord CASTLEREAGH, informs us that he arrived too late at Paris to PREVENT the ar rangement that had been made with the Emperor of FRANCE at Fontaiubleau. This implies that he would have prevented it, had be come sooner to his post, but be has not explained to us the cause of his delay. Perhaps his Lordship was unwilling to re. noance the luxury of drinking Burgundy in per. fection at Dijon, the capital of the province that produces that delicious beverage.—but holding the purse which fed their Royal and Imperial Majesties, their Secretaries and Generals, he surely had that kind of controul or coercion over them, which wealth gives to less ostensible hands over the inferior classes of society,—and a menace well timed, artfully insinuated, in a manner well known to his Lordship, frank in appearance but ambiguous in meaning, yielding, yet resisting neither one thing nor the other, and suited to his Lordship's general diplomacy, might have proenred for our Foreign Secretary, Ambassador, sad Gacituosirswhal besides, that..ecoramanding po. sitlon which the representatives of the British nation was entitled to, and would certainly have obtained, although he reached Paris " unfortunately too late," If the abilities of his Lordship had been in any degree equal to the trust reposed in him. But this is not all. This Lord, and the First Lord of the Treasury, and the First Lord of the Admiralty, all of them claiming first rate penetration, acknowledge that Elba was granted in FULL sovereignty to the Emperor of FRANCE.—That he was allowed a ship of war, with permission to go whereever he pleased, except with an armed force to France —or to any other country with hostile inten tions; hut having no right to coerce him by land, nor to place his Imperial Majesty under " a naval police" by sea, as that wonderfully able and very modest Gentleman"`, srho presides over our naval department, calls it. Ministers ought not to be responsible for the escape of the Emperor—:cer thinly not. All treaties might to lee held sacred ; but if no coercion was to be exercised as a matter of acknowledged right, nor meant to be employed in violltion of (Le puNie faith, how comes it that a tnitit.tty olliccr, of the sank of Colonel, was station ed at Elba, and a Vice-Consul appointed, certainly as unnecessary as it has proved :5 ie:eless expellee to the country? If, to come back to the new-tangled phrase of the Secretary and the First Lord of the Admiralty; " no police" was to be employed at sea, how are we to account for the authority which Admi ral HALLOWELL presumed he had to seize the Emperor, if he attempted to kali the Island allotted to him hi FULL SOVEREIGNTY? Really, Sir,'-it is an ahuse of your patience, and a waste of time to dwell upon such puerilities, and expose such gross iucapa city to the derision of the world. . I That the men to whom the honour and interests of; the country are confided, should commit such pueri n lities lon nothing in it to surprise us—the astonish,' menu is that the nation should submit to . it. Portiou,n.strare, April 14. REGULUS. FRENCH PAPERS, • 1 hriVe Owen told teat Mr. CROKER put these words into the mouth of Lord MELVILLE, his Lordship druve . to the House of News. DCATH OF MR. Mufti DDON9.—We are sincere ly concerned, that we have to announce the death of this Gentleman. The melancholy event happened on Wednesday the Pith i n st. it Edinburgh." His dig• order was water in the chest.—As an Actor, if not in the first line of excellence, he was always judicious . , and n►auifested strong feeling, as well as critical knowledge of his author. lie *possessed literary talents which have often contributed to public grafi fiCation in novelty, playa, and poetical effusiens.— When our great actress, Mrs.:Strboxs, first bunt forth on the London stage with a blaze of excellence that' probably never will be equalled by any other actress, the Gentlfmuns whom we now mention per. ! ' !formed the part of her child in the Tragedy of Isabella. lie was some years at the Charter House, and was intended for the Church; but a strong hereditary attachment inducetd.bim to devote himself to the stage. He was the the Patents and Manager of the Edin• burgh stage. He pestseased 'a -character in private life of the most amiable nature, and• Was held in high and merited' estasita by all - connected with him, in business and in fasivitlq. • • .(sigei) " Palace of the`Touilleriei,'April II." COUNCIL. Or TAR. MINISTERS. APRIL 2. TFIE COUNCIL OrSTATE. " We agree with the Minister of Declaration is the work of the Frei tiaries, because those of Austria Russia, could not'sign an act whid and the people to whole they beioug disavow. " And besides, these Plenipotem the most part hall joined in the T• knew that Napoleon has been - rev preserving the title of Emperor, and the Isle of Elba ;.they should have by these titles, and not departed from form which they impose. " They should have perceived the nation's, the Prince who in the can ness Of his States is least powerful, civil and political character the righ , Via Sovereign" Prince equally with fel Montirch ; and Napoleon, recogi title of Emperor, and in quality of by all the. Powers, was not more amenable to the bar of the Congress " The oversight of these pringi, cannot suppose in Plenipotentiaries rights of nations with reflection, is or ing when manifested by some Fri whose conscience reproach them will treason, whose fear has produced bosoms, and whose remorse deprives 66 These persons might risk the publication of a piece such as the pret tion of March 13, in hopes of stoppi, of Napoleon, and abusing the Frenr the true sentiments Of foreign Pow , cannot judge as these Powers do, of :wino which they have mistaken, bet, up to the arms of the foreigner. 66 This brave and generous nation every thing which hears the name oppression; its affections rise when them is menaced or attacked by a gl ' and the assaslination which the iirst Declaration of the 13th of March e no arm to perform it among the.twee ''of French, or whom the majority gparded, protected Napoleon, from titne'en to the Capital ; nor among the 2 lionsof Italia/li, the silt millions of I.„ - . - tti'litil?itttAti6Vus banks of the. Rine, mesons liotr i e‘Germany, who, cotijunctu tti!vitt,Attereci his name • recollerthoS s trr- c in the bosom of English' Milton, whelp honourable feel; the langlege which has-Astfidly been al , igvereigns. t •t: "'The: people ,of Europe,, are judge of 'the rights of Napoleoe,...the Allied Princes, and those of the Beorlso, • " They. know . that the, Cooreutitsi bleau is a Convention among Sdterelg' I Lion the entry of Nhpoleon nil the V could not, like - everylpfraetien of a . Girt everyluistiteinvaiion, bring on. be' war, of which the result could not be . son, but to-be conquered er conqueror, moOer's:of u'a'r ; as to poisessigos t hot theta - or toielhem, to iocreasotheot or PARIS, APlttr, It.--The willies of the National Guar(ls of Dauphinyi which had marched on the rear of the smal troop of the Doke of Angoulem 3 were not diapbserl to recognise his capitulatinn i be el lISP it• had not Vet received the spprobstion of Lieutenant-General Grouchy. l'lrey arrested the Doke of Aog,nuletne. General °roach) rrstlqlnltted an account of thit ocf-orrence by tho telegillph, and took his Mlifesty's orders thereon. flisMljesty-bas written to General Grouchy the following lever : " COUNT Gnottc:tir,z---The' Ordonninde of the King, dated Match 6, and the Deelaretintt signed by his*Mioisters on the • 13th, si Vienna, might autho rise me to treat the Duke of Angoulettie es that Or doithanee awl that Welarntion prvosed to treat me end my family ; but adherin( tb the liens which in. duceti me to otder that the Memlnirg of the Onarbon .Family should he permitted to loose Franco freely, my intention is that you should give orders for con ducting the Doke of Angouieme to Cette ; *here he shell be entlmrked, and that y,;u.strateh over his safe. ty, and prOtict hint from all had -treatinent. You will merely take care to reenter the Money which bas been removed from the public ehe‘ta, and to re: ;quire of the Duke of Aogouleme to hind himself td 'the restiturnlo.of the crowirdianinmls, which are the property of the nation. Ynn wilt also make known to him the, enactinents of the :laws of the National A's`setni>lies Which are renewrii, , rimi which aptly to 'the Members of the It,.turtirlf . • - pf Bourbon Who may enter the Ffeitch territory'. .Yon will in my name thank the National Guards for the patriotism and zeal which they hove manifested, and the attarhrseut which they hays shesem to me in these important tir:. cumstances. " NA POLCOMi REFORF OF THE COWNIITTFt OF Tut raE3IDLNTS or " The Presidents of Iht Sections of the Council of State, in consequence of the referenCe which has been made to them, hate examined the Declaratiork of the 13th of March, the Report of the Minister of General'Police, and the piece“hereto joined. " The Declaration . is: in form so unusual, con ceived in terms so singular, and expresses ideas so anti-social, that the Committee has been induced to regard it as one of those fabricated productions by which contemptible men - seek to mislead the rttintiv and to deceive public opinion.. " But the verificition of tho Ministers made itt Metz, nod the interrogatories of the Couriers, hai left no doubt as to the transmission of this Dectaii.: tion, by the Members of the French Legation at Vienna, end it ought consequerft:y.to be considered a 3 adapted and argued by them. " Under this point of view, the. Committee hang thought it their duty to examiue this document, which has no model in the annals of diplomacy, and by which Frenchmen invested with a most respect. able public character, commence with a species of outlawry, dr to speak more clearly, with a provo cation to essasiinate the Einperror Nr " 7 """" -- **' f Police , that this reach Plenipoten. 1, England, and . ich the Sovereigns g would hasten tot • ..ntiaries who for Treaty of Paris, iognized in it as d as Sovereign et e designated hies om the respeethd • hat by the law O lento! popelotts- , enjeys as to his hts which belong the most power. flized under the Sovereign Prince I than any'. other I of Vienna. • iples, which we es who weigh the tot at all surpris. rench Ministers, th more Ikon one I anger in their s them of reason. fabrication, the etended Declara. ping the progress ich people as to wens. Hirt they f the merit of a trayed, and given n revolts against of baseness and n the object of Oaring injustice; t phrases of the excite, will find ant) -fire millions y has followed, m the Mediter. he eighteen mil. Belgese, or she ne, and the ire. ), at-this solemn tt with respectful f the indignant feelings disavow 4 attributed to the / 1 • tightened ; they ( to rights of the ,!bons.,Fontain- efgate; itg . viola. Preeibk:tergitoy bet an ottetisev 4 its.to 14 per. roe, free or pri. bat to preserve diminish than ; i A