The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-06-06 00:00:00

VIENNA, MAY V.—The passage of troops through our city begins to diminish daily; those from Moravia 5 ,d Galticie have almost all passed. The recruit ing continues to be very active as well here as in Hungary and the other hereditary dominions. M n ct of the reinforcements are sent to Upper Italy, whence a n army of 90,000 men will enter Provence. The accesses of Austria in Italy have consolidated its in fluence there. All the Italians now have in this rwer a point of union, and by all the accounts re. c eived from Upper Italy, it appears that the most fivoarnbte dispoitinn towards Austria prevails there, ; nuticularly at Venice, where the eminent qualities of the Archduke John, and his affability, have gained him all hearts. Ai • • • • • ••11 , • :1/rS '.~`. r.lc= ar ' rye L.;av%.4 TILE STATEMIA N: BRITISH A D FOREIGN SCHOOL SOCIETY. Yesterday a number of the Subscribers to this So.' ciely, which is perhaps better known to our readers • as the Lencasterian System of Education, met at the Freemasons' l'lvern. to celebrate the Anniversary of that Noble Institution. Lord Dancer i, who was ',advertised as Chairman, having been prevented by in ldisposition from Attending, the Duke of KENT was unanimously called to the Chair. " The king and the Prince Relent, the liberal •benefactors of the Society," having been drank with appropriate demonstrations of severence and attach ment, the Chairman entered into an historical state merit of the origin and progress of the Society. Ilk Royal Ilightiess said, that Joseph Lancaster, whose services were duly estimated by every fiiend to this Institution, commenced his labours ill 1795, and in 1804 obtained the patronage of those distinguished and meritorious individuals the Duke of Bedford and Lord Somerville. In 1807, however, Mr. Lancas ter's System was found to languish, but it was sus tained and invigorated by the exertion of a Committee of Gentlemen. who formed at present its principal supporters: lit 1810, he (the Chairman) himself be came, as far as lie was competent, an active friend of this liberal establishment ; and in 1811, its interests was found to suffer so botch through the indiscreet conduct of Joseph Lancaster, that it was found ne cessary to place it under other management. He was ns unwilling as any man to say n word that could be supposed to disturb tee feelings or to depre ciate the character of Joseph Lancaster, but it was doe to truth to state, that it became problemati cal in the miuds of those best disposed towards that whether the Institution could succeed, if left to his guidance. The most reflecting indeed, had reaarnt to apprehend that it must sink, if not conducted upon a i'ifferent plan. Hence the change which load taken place, and which had been found peculiarly advantageous. Among the consequences of this establishment, he was glad to notice one of great importaece, timely, that of the National . stitution, with regard In which he trusted that Meet ing was inc - ipahle of feeling any mean jealousy, al though that Institution started as a rival. For as it wits the objet of that Meeting to promote general instructioto it could not possibly view with an eye of i jealousy any other establishineet calculated to answer that cud. Such au establishment must, indeed, be I rather regarded as an auxiliary, than envied as n come petitur• It could not, however, be forgotten that the &Oct:4 of the National Institution were con fiqed, while those of the Society which he had tho honour to Z:tltireSS LAW'S no liberality en tire atol utejualitied was its basis. This liberality was indeed so extensive, that its effects were already felt i r every quarter of the world. For a school emahatiii . g from this Society was estnrilisheil not onl3 at the Cape of Good. Hope, but at an but:dyed miles distance ft om Cape Town lint teartot children were instructing under it auspices. —Nay, several Africans were at present training in this country for the purpose of propagating the elementary principles of education.---In France, also, an Institution had been establised upon the system of that Society, and when tranquil ley should be restored to that country, he lirped that %%loiterer Government might prevail, the Inte rest of that excellent Institution would be promoted. For lie fa Hy believed that nothing would operate more effectually than ePe dissemination of learning to apply a radical cure to those principles which !lad so long disturbed Fiance, and so severely desolated the world. Cut to revert to the immediate interests of t:,;, testi! lake, it was found expedient in 1814, to alter its derominatinn, and to withdraw it from the conduct of Joseph Lancaster, for whom he felt every possible respect and regard ; but yet he was among those who thought that the object of the Society shoel.l vot be lost through any reverence for its founder—that the child should not he sacrificed from a regard to its parent, who would still, should he alter his habits, be received as a welcome adjutant •by the Society. The affairs of the Society were, iii fact, in such a disordered state under the direction of Joseph Lancaster, that it could not have gone on ; iris Majesty's ship Mutacca, of 35 gnns, arrived off its debt had become conoderable, and it was evidently Falmouth on Saturday mornitig: she left Voidras Ist necessary to provide a fund of I() 0001. in order to in of January; Point tie Galls 10th, with the Company's sure its success. For this purpose he was happy to ships Europe. Snrrey, Astell, Lord Keith, and state that through the exertion of individuals no Alexander, and rie IT/iv:dhow transport, and -.rrived ' ' in Table 13a% eoth of M ase r, e ; „ ;ailed from the cape i-ss than 3,7001. hail already been collected. But yet how immaterial was that collection to the sum of 7th of A;,rim, olth the Cumbel land, of 71 eunS, and to0e:o01. possessed by ties National Institution, whose the follow it: !hips. •i7.:— only (ject was the instruction of one sect of Chris- Eur. , ne, eurre.. K, Indus. Too.. or..eie e ee, earee. tta, r, lore . rte. tines ; for this Institution refused instruction to any dark, F o r t (' •rpt...l!, r , zat•riim. but those ere" yrould subscribe to the creed of that sect. chartutte. .r . LOI.I Nel son, Led flys%orf-rd, •c , •, Civo I t.-, He was liitnolf a member of the Established Minorco and Maine Church, cordially embracing its tenets, but still as a separated o n the Ott, ; Irrirra al St. Helena the 20t4, friend to universal toleration, %shirk lie felt to be and sailed for England he 231. Tire Grampus ineo sauctiorcil and enfoiceil by those tenets, he had no of war, with 10 sail of Chinamen, Iteitation iii preferring a system which off-red iii eliphieocne. Nen*: 11111.140. Orley lluntlev, Ne•ailee, struelion to al!, to that which would grant it only Dor,,ts!oire, We'd . ..A V. Thom", Greilw it Lady .to particular class.--[ Loud applanses.l—lf a Ca. titetylite, told can tv.i. were waiting at St. liclerra the arrival of the Cant. tholie or .toy other dissenter who valued his religion, Berland and lien cnnvey. The r.l),Vr . Chlirt ships were told that Isis child could only obtrtio instruction sailed from Canton nt)nat 01" `:-IFt of January ; the upon the condition of abandoitieg that religion, he secrind fleet was expecool to follow in a few days. declared that he should like the parent who rejected The Bengal was I”.!rnt nt 1 3 611 t de Grille the the ;tropositieti.—[Werin applanses.]--If the Na m, o f January' : Capreitt Nrwche, of the ettee- vocal InsOtution envitel that Society, he should only antler, lost his life on the occasion. Th...! 11:milia . ry say, that tae pitied the members of it ; but on his got aground in the Str;Cts of Sunda on the 1i.P.11 of own part and that of the Society which he had the February - , and after wards proceeded to Bombay to honour to address, he felt confident that no unwor tereir. , thy sentinieitt existed against that establishment. The A r , SSPI is arriVer! it Falmouth, which left Balti- Royal Duke concluded with proposing " The res. more on the '29th of Ap il. At that period, the perity of tile British and Foreign School Society, and ! American Government li , f! just leai by a French may that pi esperity he as extensive as the liberality vessel from Roceelle t o f the a rr ival of LEON of the principie upon which it is founded." at Paris, and the departure of Louts 1V 111. for This toast was drank with acclamation. Flafiders. 111 r. C. BA IZCLAY proposed the health of the Deice The western end of Cornhill never leAeil so gay of Kent, stating, that he, as a .Member of the Esta as at present. The whole of the Lottery Oiiices ate blislied Church, was anxious for the success of the newly painted and orni - mented , aud no ten / o l i o of Nationel I:;eitution, ys hich, [weever, he regarded as fortune ever shone more 111.1 lit. e the child of this esialdishment, to which, front its think the Proprietois might have chose', a more pro- comprehensive character, the first consideration was per time foi this operation. Tlip smell of paint . is, eminently due. at no time, n,revelae,anti , particularly at this warm The Duke of Kea r, after returning thanks is a season, we should km - 12We it must be tather au an- truest impressive pr4yosed, "Ile Earl of noyance to the ',timorous adventurers, who are in- Darnley, stud better health to him." duced, by the splendid scheme of the New Lottery, c rank, ',pun the proposition of Sir Richard Jackson, [poll the health of the Duke. of Sussex being to visit them—hot, '4O SUppoSe, they disregard tee c Fail, and think unit' of the GI LoiNG Ills 110):11 Iliel.tiess rose amidst universal ap. . Mr. KimaLe is so much recovered that nothing re- plause, amid pF•faced his thanks with nn appropriate Mains of his late veal' severe illness but the weakness compliment to his Royal Brother, the Duke of bent, who had tt:euuoubly eserted himself in the promotion And languor that must naturally result from it, Prince Stahremberg, who was Austrian Ambassa dor in England in 1805, will fill the important post Intendant-General and Minister, in the army of general Baron Frimont, and will immediately re poir to his post. By the last accounts the head quarters of this army were at Turin. General Ba ron Frimont will command the centre; Field-hlar shal Lieutenant Itadivojewich the left wing on the side of Nice ; and General Count Bubna, thdright on the side of Chamberry. The Archduke John will soon join this army, to which our Court directs its chief attention. Baussms, MAY 31.—During the time that Prince Blucher passed with the Duke of Wellington, it is presumed that all the military measures still remain ing to be regulated were finally arranged between those great Commanders, upon whom all eyes are now turned. The Prussian army will be reviewed in a few days in the plains of Fleurus. The Allied armies continue to concentrate them selves on the frontiers. The English and Ihnoverialls have left Ghent to advance to Courtrai', Merlin, and the environs. The ether corps, wi.tich ere reviewed at Grammeot, a re also in motiwi. The Ilrun.;iiick corps, which is still in the tici,;llbourbood of this city, is to be reviewed before it marches to the f on tiers. In short, all is preparing for the openi.rg of the campaign. The newly.arrived English ars form. ing here into brigades. 4he Scotch troops have a re markably fine appearance. It FPcms, by what we loarn, teat the arrival of Bonaparte is not considered in the French army on our ft (millers as being near at !rind; it is rather sup posPd that he mill not come eNcept 4 Oa 1:1st ex tremity. _ ~~ The Extraordiivtry Gazette pnblished last night, which we give, detail?. the progress of the war which has wreated from MURAT his kingdom. It appears by the French Papers above quoted, that be arrived at Paris on Friday last, and thus the expectations so confidently entertained at the time the dispatches in the Geeetic were written, that he would be made prisoner and sent captive to Vienna, are disappointed. Though Ancona, Gaeta, and Pescara were still in possession of Watt's troops, and though we know; that Ancona cou:d hold cut long enough to tire all the force sent against it, we hove be. Hering, that Naples and the a Loie of the Neapnlit4n territory is by this time in the possession of the Al lies ; and that if it be considered for the interest of Austria, the first blessing that they will think of conferring upon he Neapolitans, will be the King of SICILY; but we are not yet wit.out our suspicions of the policy of the court of Austria. If she shall side with France, it will be the same thinc to the other Allies whether Italy be in her hands, Or those of MORAY. of a cause which was so well Elustratcd by Mr. Pope in his celebrated flymt, _ " Father of :011, too «,e ) fY ,. • The illustrious liuke, iu , recur clAkg, with manly and conititutienal energy defonded, boldest sense, the right of religio:s maintained its inoparable connection with a free stao, anti eloqueet lv poiated nut the immense be nefits Which flowed from its adoption. lie argued strongly in favour of the objects of the Socie!v, ob serving, that the Naiional Institution, emanated Gom it, was Sul:ported by evert engine of power, while th;tt Society was loft to lolontai v s.ih seription ; but that subsciiptioo would, h e be found amply sufficient to inure its sovec,s.--The motke, indeed, to prompt That subs;:lipiiim, was poweifol Mott li:ynal Minds for the object w..s to pinmote taii:ser,al toleration—to dis tlibute iosiructiowand charity by wholesale, instead of that system of retail which formed the basis of the rival lostitution to which his illostiious Itobitive had alluded, in terms ton forr:ble to ba forgott‘ll. [.-Ipplauses.]—His Royal Highness concluded uith proposing " The health of the Duke of Redford," who was the distinguished friend 41f this Society, and whose name was, he observed, most eminent upon every occasion where war and destruction was not the object. _ This toast was drank µ•ith the utmost demonstra tions of regard. The Res. Mr. ScitwAut, who is foreign Secretary to the Society, impressivt•ly stated the results of his industry to promote instruction in foreign coutt , ries. Upon the health of the Committee being and especially that of Wm. Allen, the Treasurer, and Mr. Fox, the Secretary, Mr. Fox eloquently enforced the utility of the In stitution, and ace a very favourable account of the progress of the subscription, which had been, he ob serve.!, peculiarly promoted by the exertion of the Ladies' Committee, among whom he men:ioned, in terms of the warmest ztatitude, the Nlarchioness of Tat istock Ladies E. Whitbread and S. Itornilly. Several glees were s:itig during thP evening by Mesirs. I.rtrr, %r.„ EvAss, nod TERI:Am. The Royal Duke quitted the Chair about teat o'clock, and shortly ;11%er tne whole of the company retired. NAVAL I. TI I. LIG ENCE. JusE s.—Sailed for the River the r;r . zinic, Wooten, front Norfolk.—Thn Oceaa Wood. man transports, with five companies more of chi 431 Regiment, from America.—Sailed the S-can setter, with a convoy of transports for Ostend; atte srecval of the outward.bound have winked anal• t,a the westward.—Arrived the Chichester paeL't, from Ostend, and landed a Mesrenger sod a Mail. FALMOUTH, Jt;mt:3.—This morning 'sanded here firm his Majesty's ship Malacca, Lieutenant I.2 , lward Walcott, late Flag Lieutenant and Secretary to t;:e gallant Sir Samuel Hood, who died at Madr; , s on the evening of the 2-Ith Dacem!?r, after a short but severe ilines of three days. Lieutenant \Vulleott was charged with dispatches for Government and the East India-House. PuaTsstourit, JU rs: s.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Malacca, from the East lndies; and his Ma jesty's ships Lacedentoniall, iiuniy, and Terror, front Bermuda.—Came into harbour his Majesty's ships Ronal Oak and Radford.—Sailed his Majesty's ship. Minktue. c.n a erui.e. THE KING'S BIRTII-DAB: Ili% Majesty's birth-day happening on Sunday, the usual demonstrations of public rejoicings were postponed tilt yesterday. The flags on the church steeples continued flying yesterday : it was observed as a holiday at all the Public Offices. Several of the Fire-Offices men, in new dresses, paraded the street of the metropolis with bands of music playing. At one o'clock the Park guns discharged a double royal salute. The usual entertainments were given by Mr.Vidler., the manufacturer of the mail conches, at the menu. factory on Milbank-row, Westminster, to the Mail Coach Contractors, where, after the (hitters and guards had drank the King's health in the open air. they drove off in grand style with the new decoratod coaches and harness, the drivers and guards in their new dresses, through the town, with their usual route. The Prince Regent gave a grand dinner npon the occasion. The Theatres, some of the Sabseti'!i'm Houses, and all those of his Majesty's tradeln ople, were at nigh: illuminated in theusual manner. EXTIIAOIIDINAMY NOTICE TO TRAVELLER9.—The following is painted upon a hoard affixed at the entrance of l'etersfield, namely—" AU persons found r:ithin this borough will be apprehended as vagrants." ACCIDENT IN TILE PARK.—Yesterday a metal.- choly accident attended the celebration of the usual ceremony of firim; guns in St. James's Park, in bo nour of his Majesty's birth-day. During the firing, an immense numlAr of boys contrived to assemble within the enclosure, and the consequence was, that four of them were dreadfully shot with the wooden plugs. One boy was quite dead, and three others severely wounded over the head and body, two of whom were taken to the Westminster Infirmary.--.. From the abdomen of ono of them was taken a piece of wood three inches in length : it was expected that he could not survive the night. A aosumt Inot.-0n Saturday night, the 3d inst. about twelve o'clock, the family of John Young, Esq. of Corsham-house, South-street, Newport, were alarmed by two rubbers, who had scaled the garden wall, and were roternpting to break open► the parlour wi n dow. Mr. Young seized a gun loaded with shot, ncul fired from the bpd room windota, the contents of which killed one of them on the siva, who proved to he Henry Birchell, a private in the 23d foot. The other, in making his escape, wounded himself with the glass on the tap of the wall, and was recegnized the ,next morning about ten o'clock; his name is Thomas Wood, of the same corps, and he is now con fined in the Bridewell. A Jury sat on th.t body of the deceased, and returned a verdict of jmglijiable . homicide. This is the third tune in less than a fort oi;ltt, that Mr. Young's premi;es have been entered, ad several articles stolen. _~ _f` . . PE I:1.1 1LL!..1.11 ENT. IP :USE OI•' LON Tiq, The Vind•or l'ore.t Bill. St ir'iog ;7a , t . t. :.no Gno STs liandkereilicfs i'ore:t•n 1. i':to: e , •: • u..re brouz:.t tro lite Otnirowis. and :t i,.t The Igo: Import, f),,ty 1173‘1 . 1).ick the ar.d other.. we.rr rro:1 a ,•rood far I: ii ynrt Pri w;t from tho Admirat!). pn•sen:ed le:i:ertt to the —l.ai,! on the tat:ie. CATITOLIC CLAVIc, nu F. V trin , et:. , ii.• 11..0r4‘ ~o , e nvtred ror riTtiv tky, oo the 5i.!..1,•;:t tt,‘• el v. hilt he •tatt.d. iti.it the consi,irrat;ors t v' rr lti:. The 'Marquis of LA NSDOV:NE mom; 'he com mittal of th,t e‘lat e Trade Cto:.if;1 1 "/•., The Eat 1 cf '.V Olt LA NEI seid, thel itn is with repel that st to lautt n ' he coincided in the priu..iitly of puffin.: Slave rade carried o t t by tormeo Poe (wild not help repeafine his objt c:iens sinus of this Bill. on account of the ris the innocent were exposed by thim. lie, that by the provisions of this Bill, It appe, that any person in this country by his a : money which might be applied to the 5 though entirely without his know !Mel liable to be tried as here the act was comm might he in any part of the Vet ledie coast of Africa : so that n friend of the (leis now at Madrid (alluding perhaps to land) might be hurried away from hit tried before the West India Tribunals, o' Learned Serjeant of Sierra Leone. I known that the trials in these places w , ducted with the same order and' regulai and, therefore, this was a grievous hard, respect to the clause against lending mm security of property in the foreign islam son here or in the West Indies Might he a trial in those t ribunals,because' he ml debt due to him for goods cr.e.tigeed tlr and this was the mere d tneerm.s, bna sou to whom the moues was lee: as 11161 ed in this trallie, was not eely to be to got fiee of the whole debt : the re wa the clrongest temptation to bring loaned trial, ifany colour of crireinalLy could as to afford a chance for conviction. • It be observed that the late Act had never L. in this respect so as to attempt the supprt ( renee by the preuniary penalty. The cations were against persons directly t the traffic, and they knew the issue of th Leone, where the.learned Sergeant NC' The Marquis of LANSDOWNE s:k clause as to the !calling money on seed f:)rei i . , ,n islands extended only to moc laud, and not to security on the produci out such a clause. whole provisions would be nugatory. With respect to i sous, the Act extended only to those wh• and wilfully lent their money for this pa pose. There were, however, a few which he wished to propose. As to tl they wore such- as existed for the punish cy, which this offence very much roseml Lord ELLENBOROUGiI did not persons could be carried out of this tee this Act, to be tiled by the foreign tri as to these tribunals, the proceedings in to be according to the usual. forms of [AW, as in a late case (probably that of the 01(1.Bailey. But he confessed that titulars the offence did not appear to hi scribed with sufficient certainty to mak' subject of felony. If a person in this money transactions in the foreign West I and happened to make a mistake in an a, might be submitted as evidence to a Jur was not felony under this Att. He di oppose such a Bill us this, lest it should that he was friendly to that which he Iv in abolishing: but to make a crime w' ject to so much uncertainty li..hle to the of felony, with all its consequences, cessively unpleasant. lie belt; it very conscience' not to give it a cordial might be made the subject of treble retail case of usury; but it was barbarous ' make it a felony. He was anxious, the it should be reconsidered. The Ebel of WESTNIORLAND, in had been stated by the. Notle Marquis, had :tut alludeu to the danger that intim might be punished. but to the danger .rought to trial at such distant place . An:! he was atili.of opi cordieg to ti:e records of the Act, prosi, trial should take place w here the offence mitteti, persors might lie taken from this bn tried before those triounals. Loud GRENVILLE staid, that the the measure was to bare it declared, . guii'y i f this atrocious ct ivie mere to bi atind. - ;:is criminals, aid to i)e punished by the time ti:' , tinais which were app , punishment of pir:ey. As for the pecutti it had been found thlt the profits of this traffic were sorb es to ovehrilance it. to check the offence was to degrade engaged in it from that rank in socim crime rendered them unlit to hold. But that the severity of the puiiishment rer more necessary that the law should be cl .cise in its e n actment:, end he hoped hi Learned Friend, whcse powei rut aFisi.n business of the Abolition he well mine; would always remember with gratitude, his aid in gibing the Act all the precisiel was susceptible. The Earl of LI VERFOOL ,nugget most prorer plait would be to agree t. mews of the Noble Iliarvis, and then Bill printed, that the clause might see perfect state, and then decide whether be necessary to have it recommitted. Tt.i; was u:;reed to. The amendment' duced, acid the Bill ordered to Le prtutt ed.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Parish Apprentice Bill was read a second The Irish Ship Lettcr 8.11, and Irish Malt r read a first time. 411P7 ?, ~' r this rill, as ti end to tlo n (Ts ; h... in" • • to Ito , provi.‘ • s l .c 2:41'.1 :1! Wd* Ad to hint agent let , d;tig • trtatlic, :e odd he milted, which eS,, or on die it Noble Mar. o ford 1101. is place to he or before the • ' .t It was ete:l sere not con: arits , as here, .• tlshic. Willi • . • otipy on tilt „ ids, any per ti t - 4 , sob:rt.:A to nitzlit h.:re ts, brie for sole; USP per. t: t was e,..p10y. ' lzrdotied, :sat a., theiefort s nt pers.ins to , . I he set up so t was also to Leen enfot ced Iression of the , only prose... ;; coitrern c.tr Ist tit oso at diet ra ?•idt , tl. Said, that the • ecurit) In. the Itgages of the ce --and ts s of the Act • innocent pr.r. ho „knowingly tarticnlar pur.. wine. ')meats tht• • Oi •: tbted. of think that :wary, under ribunals; and n them ought the COMAIOU If Sawyer) at t in some par- him to Ise de. ke it a proper • country had India islands, sccoutit,whick ry whether it •(' lid not like to d be imaL:incil had concuritkt ,Itich was sub. lie puci4introt ,as to hint stuff of die astent. rabid laity, as in I'l4 legiAation herefvre, tikt• • ,! reply to adOet , said, thatVle °Gent ,porseue of their Ldnir, ps .and before linicti that eq. titling that the • 11CP kt ,COrßs his country to e of , .that poi-SOUS to regarded, as as such, end iv-tinted for the niars , penalty, is aliominahle Thocnly wey those retsons Ply which the . ut he admitted 'ndered it the deer and pre. 'is Nohle and ,ifance in the embrrrtl, and P, would !end en of which it ?strd, erat the to the amend- ta hate the , it inits most r it might not its were intro. 1 ' ted as amend. 4 S. Ind thee. Duty Bill, weep e • iaiamm -~+ 6 i l, r , ~~. -~ 10iPE: