The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-03-22 00:00:00

, 1 1 1 I 0 I' i ' , t 1 .i Iv, 1 1 g i Ili 'i . I.\, kC- ) l it ', - 1 ) 1 i • ! I Tire following is the letter of a young Gentleman, sited 14 years, to his mother : " lavosts, M ARCH 14.—1 confirm to you at pre sent my last letter of the oth ult. in which I men. 'tinned the arrival of Napoleon in France. I told you that we were in the gieatest tranquillity, and I ascot'. you that this tranquillity has not been dis. turin-d. He entered Lyons on Friday night, all the regiments in garrison having joined him. The next day he reviewed his army, and I had the plresure of seeing that phenomenon, for he is no. ►ing else. I 1141 w . him three different times daringsolt.' , reiiew• 1 'taw him Mice Sunday morning, at his windows, again Yesterday at the same place, and also yester. day when he left this town. He is going towards Paris. He has advanced 240 miles into this country, has taken the second city in France, without having tired a single gun, cannon, or pistol.—My next letter will give you the details at full length. I hope my next letter will be longer aid more interesting than this. Lyons is now as trantiolt skit nothing had hap pened.,' 4 . 1 ! The Proprietor of this JOURNAL having uniformly op posed the CORN BILL since its first iotroductioo into Parlia ment, under a conviction of its being a most impolitic and dan serous measure. trusts he may with confidence claim the .rapport of all those who entertain the same sentiments.—He hopes therefore, that his pretensions to support will not be overlooked, and that he may at least share with other Jour " " 1 nabs (most of which were in favour of the Bill at the commence ment) in receiving the Advertisements, which the present mo uncut out question may produce. Mr. Lorna. trusts tl.at his political conduct, during his captivi ty, hal likewise given general satisfaction, considering the numerous difficulties which have necessarily attended his pro tracted separation from his establishment. Newgate, March 22, 1815. la the Fifth Year of his Imprisonment. 11 rr. Mails. One 1 1 1 Gottenburgh MICE OF STOCKS THIS pint.k 5 per Cent. Red. per Gent. CODE 60 59 :5 Vet ....trite. 4 pet .1.4 x. Nary 9013 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. I..mx. Ann. India Bond. Exchequer Bills 3 6 p Otani= Cnnioli for Acc. 63.1 59 7 ' FIE STATESMAN. LONDON: WEDNESDAY, )1 41101 '22, 1815. BONAPARTF,'S ARRIVAL AT JOIGNY, WITHIN SEVENTY MILES OF PARIS. BONAPARTE pursues his march, his triumphal, uninterrupted, march to Paris, where - he in all pro bability is at this moment. We express no wonder at this, and feel uo indignation at the silly stories put forth by the French Government to deceive the public, for we happen to be pretty well acquainted with the situation of the public mind in France; and we see similar attempts to mistify truth, and stultify the understandings of men, practised every day. But truth will out at length. Then woe to that infatuated policy, the most fatal of all weaknes ses, which relies alone upon endeavours to disguise the actual state 'of things when such dangers are t;►reatening, and digs its own grave; and the grave of public peace and security, in *the self-created shades of vanity and error. _ _ We have to.day received the Paris Papers of Sun day last, which admit, we can scarcely call it as. Jounce, the important fact of BONAPARTeS unchecked advance to within seventy mile 3 of Paris. Not a shot has yet been fired at him. His path seems strewed with palms. He precedes his advanced fitiard irks magnificent calash, with about only forty drag sod no one raises an arm to oppose him. NET .vs at bis leisure, or acts as a guard of cot abeam re .. 'to the man whom he was sent to cap ture. • is acknowledged by the Monileur of the 1. ~ hat on the 18th 130NAPARTE had quitted Autan ; and the Gazette de France, in a Second Edition, published on Sunday morning, states, that he reached Auxerre on the 17th, having travelled, if the date is correct, arty miles in one day! and that he would occupy Joigny, a town still nearer Paris on Sunday evening. Ile would then, we be lieve, bn not more than seventy miles distant from the Capital. Notwithstanding the addresses from the regiments of the line, with which the pages of the Monitcar have lately- been crowded, and the repeated assurences that numerous corps of regulars were marching to stop and surround the enemy, it doei not appear that any force is really collected on any point save Melun, twelve leagues from Paris, where the only stand is to be attempted ; but even then, that force seems to be entirely composed of the KING'S household, volunteers, and national ~arils, men upon whom the KING may rely, but no 1 ~, e l 4 p i n his sit , •ation would. I" " setn by the private Correapnndence ; l ore, and which will be found very in- Oat .te apprqaching Sovereign of Elba ,ii • e •t site ti hey• his troops arrived at Lyrins, t • s!••d 1.4 a garde du iorps, who had been taken prisrnr;, to infor.4 the King. tLat he, NAPOLEOX, a' nhi he at Paris on the 23th (quarterclay!), at It would also appear, that Louts and his farril►. !withstanding all their protestations of &kg i t t;efeace of France and the Charter, have 'Atm the hint, and really intend to asove-oter again to this country. We would not treat a subject of such gravity as this, with the slightest portion of what might be construed into levity or irrevevence ; but when we see it exultingly b:aled in a Government Print of this morning, that—" All the crown jewels are safe;" that " they ate now in Loudon ) par. W 4 .% THE STATESMAN: titularly the dleseesel which BONAPARTE wore in duties of putting him down directly. Whether the the hilt of his sword, which is said to be the most august " deliverers" will by a repetition of their valuable of any now in Europe ;" and learn that magnificent and high sounding promises to the people " the Duchess of WELLINGTON brought over these of the Continent, get as many to follow them precious articles !"—we cannot hear of such wise as they did before; and whether they themselves precautions, and, of a lady with a lapful of crowns, will stick as closely together, as they did before they without thinking it is prudent to provide against , knew one another so well as they now do, is not for robbery, and that the owner of such articles may us to say. naturally be expected to follow them. I But we do not believe that the Allies will be rash As BONAPARTE approaches the capital, the up- in invading France. Their measures and movements prehensions for the fidelity of the Royal Army and are doubtless only precautionary. The Uritish troops the populace increase. What can be expected of have certainly advanced towards the Frencli tron men who, when they are sent out to give battle to the tier, but they have not yet passed it—nor have the invader, cry out Vine l'Empereur! The Tuilleries Prussians, as yet, though a letter in one of the Pa have been provided with cannon, but what safety ris Papers asserts it, penetrated the boundary.— can there be even in the Tuilleries, when the life of . We are fully persuaded that nothing but that step is the King is in danger, in the very Chamber wanting to unite all the armies of France, national where the Peers assemble. It is stated, on the au- guards and all, against the unfortunate Sovereign thority 'of a French Nobleman, who arrived yes- i now on the Throne. A camp is forming at Peronne, terday, that a conspiracy against the life of his go miles north of Paris, as the means of falling Majesty was attempted to be put into execution on lback on the British troops in Belgium in the last ne- Saturday last, but was happily frustrated. " In I cessity. It appears certain that M*SSINA, with his the morning of that day," says he " the Chambre great army, had joined BONAPARTE, and the fidelity of all the rest of the Marshals is very questionable. de Marechause (an apartment wherein the Peers as semble when they are in waiting to see the King) We understand a messenger arrived this forenoon was crowded by persons of all descriptions. On a with dispatches to Government from France. No sudden, by a pre-concerted signal, a considerable thing is allowed to transpire of these communica tions. Lord FITZROY SOMERSET was, it is said, body cried out, Vire l'Empereur ; on which they pre were joined by an immense multitude of confede- paring to leave Paris. - rates, who occupied the gardens of the Tuilleries.— Tie object of this clamour was to distract the at. tention of the National Guards, and to give cre- dence to the report of the arrival of BONAPARTE; they (the conspirators) judging that the confusion of the scene would afford them a favourable op portunity for the execution of their purpose— the assassination of Lovis.—Tbe guards on thig occasion acted with great promptitude—they seized the ringleaders; the partisans of the latter in terfered and a desperate scuffle ensued, in which several were killed and others desperately wounded. In the midst of these horrible scenes, the Peers mustered around tha person of the KING, who re- moioed perfectly collected. The gallantrpf the Na. tional Guard prevailed, many prisoners were mAde, and tranquillity restored." Our informant assures us that NAPOLEON was expected to arrive at Fon- tainbleau on Tuesday, and to make his entre into Palk this day. it BONAPARTE'S near approach to the capital also extends the circulation of his Proclamations. We give in this Paper copies of two of them, one to the People and another to the Army. They are at last noticed in the Official Journal, and a torrent of in vecti% e is poured upon the expedients of the invader:. In the mean time the King is carrying on the war of . Proclamations with what the Courier will probabty call equal vigour, when it next sets oat with the astonish;ng detail of the" vigour of the BOURBONS." But the true and never-failing " expedients " for creating courage hill be found in the French Monarch's prompt imitation of what has been termad by scoffers in this country the di:- Order of the Bath. The King is creating (" a breath can make them, as a breath has made") hundreds of Knights of Sr. Louis and the Legion of Honour, and taking all other commendable moans to inspirit the people to maintain their liberty, and defend their Sovereign. But what is more worthy of notice now is, the preparations and determination' of the Allied Powers to invade France " to maintain the tranquillity of Europe !" This intention is absolutely announced in the Gazette de France. The article informs as that 46 the Emperor of RUSSIA has resolved, in maintenance of the Treaty of Paris, to march six hundred thousand men into France ; that all the Austrian troops are under orders for France and Italy ; and that all the other Members of the Con gress will second these generous and necessary ef forts." The East India fleet under convoy of his Majesty's ship 4cbar, sailed from Plymouth on Monday last, the 20th instant. Hamburgh . and Dutch Papers received to-day, confirm this statement, and give a curious. account, which might furnish abundant matter for the pencil, of the uproar occasioned at the Congress of Vienna, by the intelligence of BONAPARTE being again in arms. A letter from Berlin, of the I.l . lli,' . saysi=i= 66 We apprehend that the news of NAPOLEON'S I With the French letters there are none whatever from Italy, and the.stoppage of the post is naturally i attributed to the situation of BomapARTE, which is i in the immediate line of the communication between I that country and Paris. We have a few .letters from Catalonia, but none from any other part of Spain. Those from Barcelona are its late as to the 14th inst. but they bring no political intelligence. NAPLES, MARCH 2.—The establishment of an 11. 1 - 16%triodi English Visitor at this place, has recently been thrown into considerable disorder by some per. sonal feuds, which have extended so far, as to have occasioned the dismissal of one Lady of the suite, and the resignation of another: Great anxiety is manifested by their Royal Mistress for a speedy re. I re turn to England. 4.i,. Yesterday a letter was received in town fusel a '-Gentleman attached to the English Embassy in Paris, • dated the 17th inst. stating that Lord Finnoy So. miasET was making preparations to leave Paris. The following anecdote, which we believe is not • generally known, will show how sincerely NLY was. once attached to the interests •of BONAPARTE. It ! will be recollected that NET was one of those sent' ,by NAPOLEON to the Allied Sovereigns at Paris as his Plenipotentiaries. Finding some difficulty -in ob taining the terms which he demanded, he expressed himself with so much energy, that the Emperor'of I BOsSIA observed, " you defend Nmeoz.tos very I warmly." " Sire," replied the Marshal, " my sword iis still left me to defend trim better." ALEXANDER. ! having then pointed out MARNONTIS conduct as ! worthy of imitation, NET added 9 " I trust your MA-', I ,ZESTY does not confound me with men who betray their Prince and their country." Whether he will , ! still be actuated by the latter sentiment in the pre-1 !seat circumstances, time alone will show ; but strong reports prevail of his defection, and of that of 1 MAssxxA, when they found that no efficient obstacle seemed likely to be opposed to the entrance of NA POLEON into the capital. 66 Corporal Violet" (meaning BONAPAILIC), is the favourite toast among his partisans in France. When leaving the country, he told them he should return with the violet season. Hence the title, and the badge of distinction, a bit of violet ribbon, adopted by his friends. The Sucatm were to wait upon the PRINCE RE GENT, at two o'clock this day, to know hie Royal pleasure when he will receive the Court ofsCommoo Council with their Petition, praying Mm to refuse the Royal Assent to the Corn Bill, and to dissolve the Parliament. It is expected they will go-lip to morrow. escape will detain the Emperor ALEXANDER at Vi enna, though letters of the 6th announced his speedy departure. The news spread consternation at Vi enna. Another large tinily of troops is'preparing to march to Italy, and Prince SCHWARTZENBERG iS ex pected tq go to Milan to take the chief command." The Prince Sovereign of BELGIUM has got a dreadful surprise in the midst of his Proclamation as Sovereign, and the ceremonies attending that auspi cious event. On the 17th, the Prince Sovereign assumed the style and title of the King of the UNITED Nrristawariq, and issued a Proclamation to kis sub ject, accordingly, giving the dignity erPrince of ORANGE to his son. The intelligence from France, we are told, had excited great a dour and diligence of pre paration for the defence of the barrier. The chief for tresses are provisioned, arid the line, comprehending Maestricht,Venlo, Nimeguen, Grave, Breda, Bergen. op-Zoom, end Antwerp, is ordered to be strength ened by 30 battalions of infantry, and ten regiments of cavalry% The Prussian forces under General limas were between the [thine and the Meese. The Duke of WELLINGTON is, as we have said before, to be Generalissimo of the Allied Armies ; and as Lord CASTLEREAGH says, we can never have any peace whilst BONAPARTE has the least sway on the Continent, the Duke is to enter on his arduous Lord WHITWORTH, with the Duchess of DORSET and suite, visited, on Thursday, the Hon. CECIL JENEINSON, at Pitchford Park, near Shrewsbury, on their way to London. The youthful Demosthenes, who, in order to dis . - cuss the Corn Bill, mounted into a tree, seemed de termined to consider the subject in all in branches. Incat ‘sc or TUE POotr.—lt has been calCulated, from cfficial and other documents, that the number ' of persons who received parish aid In 1812, amounted to 2,079.4320nd that the Poor Rates' then reached .the prodigious sum of 16,432,5561.1—Here are then upwards of two tallions of paupers in Eng. land and Wales only, (for Scotland and, Ireland hare no Poor Laws :)—that is, about every fifth - person, in those parts of the United Kingdom. The sum levied for their support, is between sixteen and seven teen 'millions sterling. In 1785, the Poor. Rates amounted to 1,943,6491., when the number of pau pers was 878,851. An eagle was lately shot, by DAufn CLARE, Esq. of Slagary, Scotland, while preying epon one of his sheep. The distance between the tip of the .wings, when extended, measured seven feet four inches.— The body and wings were a dun colour, shaded, the tail white, the legs and bill yellow, and talon; black. Yesterday morning, about two o'clock‘ as the watchman was going his rounds in Chicksand-street, Bethnal-ween, ha found the body of a young woman naked and quite (Enid. It was removed to the bone. house to.be owned. Cwowocn To AN Excres.—A countryman finding some difficulty in walking up Cheapside the other day, could not help esclahning, 66 'What can •be the cause of this rush to the City ?"—when he was an swered by sewers,' voices—We Are in quest of the tuineas at Ban% or of one of the Three 30,0001. Prises, which may all be draws au Wednesday ) the bib of April next. imoir NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. / DEAL, MARCH %1, Snarl the Drontedery st oop of war, for the River.—The East Wham, remain. —Arrived the Britannia, Unit.y, *Mar y , Charlotte, and Thomas transports, for Ostend, and remain for orders. l'oaTsmotrn, MAacn 21.—Arrived several sail from the Downs; throe colliers from the North; two chips from London ; and the Zephyr and Pickle, fro& the Westward. FALmotrru, MARCH 10.—Sailed the Eliza, for Plymouth, to join the Achar, for the East Indies. A letter•from Brillion), dated the 17th i► st. says, five sail of merchantmen had sailed from thence to join the Warrior at this port; they have not yet ar. rived. N. B. One of the above ships has just arrived, the other four have put into Plymouth. HARWICU, MA mu 21.—Arrived the Beauloy packet, with a Mail and Passengers, from linllaud. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 20. -- Came in the Shad, ake, from a cruise; Ind three ships, from Ireland.—S a il e d the Thais and Re solute to the Westward.—All the merchantmen, &c. detained here by coutrary winds, have sailed for Falmouth. MINORITY AC AINST THE THIRD READING OE VIE CORY BTU. DUKES. Essex Aiontford Sussex Stanhope Grantlev Gloucester Want ick Gremilie Somerset Fortescue D) norm. MARQUISES. Grey W , elleslev Buckingham VISCOUNT. Pr. sirs. Douglas Torrington Duke or Devonshire EARLS. BARONS. Earl Spencer Carlisle King Marq. of Blandford SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING on the DEJIBY, OAKS, &c. MARCH IL h:RBY. Takeo--7 to 1 agst. D. of Grafton's br,,taer t o wh a t e b ice. 8 to 1 nest. Mr. Wilion's c by Sorcerer. 13 to 1 apt. Ld. Darlitattou% Sir Thomas. Taken-14 to 1 agst. Mr. Thornhill's Anticipation. lb to 1 apt. Mr. Payne's e. Waxy. Token-16 to 1 opt. Mr. Watson's Si ugrave. Taken— 6 to 1 apt, General Gower's Raphael. 18 to I apt. Ed Itous's Equator. Taken-40 to 1 apt. Mr. Watson's e. to,. Dick Andrew,. Taken-11 to 8 on be. to Wkpleboneagatnot Mr. Watson's two. OAKS. S to I apt. D. of Grafton's Minuet. Taken—lo to 1 apt. Id. G. 11. Cavendish's f. by Si, David. • It to I agst. Mr. Farrall's Lhasa. It to 1 ago. any other. • CORN-EXCHANGE, MARCH 22.—We itagio wore enquiries after Wheat this morning than on but the sakes were oot so brisk, •yot wlial Ifni dis posed of obtained Monday's prices.—r4erleyls Is. per quarter higher.— Beans a►d -Peai are rather dearer.—ln Oats and other articles then is little sr no alteration. Tuesday night a• Cotonees Inquest was held a Mr. Hume's, the Peacock, White ,Cross -street, upon the body of John Tunes, a police.ottiter, who shot Maisel( on Monday morning, hetweeo the hours of two and three o'clock.— Verdict, Insanity. Yesterday se'nnight an Inquest was holden by Mr. GREEN, at Lymington, on the body of Sarah Wit. lis t a young woman, who lodged in a room in thegarden belonging to the Bricklayer's Arms public-house. i.t that town, under the following circumstances The landlord of the house, a little before eight o'clock on the Sunday evening, whilst s. his cellar drawing some beer, heard the repented cries of "Ok Christ, I am murdered !" and nu running to, the place before mentioned, and opening the.dnor, saw the deceased standing up, and asoiclier of tbe foreign Artillery standing by her, who, on Ms Open ance, ran off, and escaped that evening. There he ing a candle in the room, and the soldier being well known to the' landlord, from having frequently drank at Ms house, he was the next morning identi. lied on the . parade; and from the circumstances which came out, not only from the witnesses, hut from the woman, who lived about an hour, the Jury returned a veklicf of Wilful Murder azainst him, and he is committed. His name is tread Iliscnaur. The deceased had been stabbed' with a knife. On Blyth Sands, on the 14th inst. Mr. G. Gletl. stow, of Blvth, butcher, wagered 51. that he would ran one mile backwards sooner than Mr. H. Carr, of Plessey, tailor, could walk, forward the same distance. The wager was won easy bn the latter; Mr. G. giving in after he had run about two hundred yards. - Bosv-STREET.—Tnesday a case came on to be heard before Mr. NARFS and Mr. BURNIE, under a charge against three at the navigation men employed by the Regent 's Canal Compeny, for h riot and violent assault on some men employed by Mr. Agar, the barrister, on his grounds attached to his house, neat ' the Veterinary College, Camden Ton it. Alr.'Agar stated. that in the Act of Parliament passed fir making the Regent's Canal, there was a special clause that ibc line of the Canal shotild not interfere with his estate. He 'mid that the law held that the assembling of any number of persons above three to do an illegal act, constituted a riotous assembly. That on Monday morning the Private's with others. to the num. ' ber of about twenty, said to be employcd Ithe Regent Canal Company, mat. to his Land and forcibly wicked down his fence, and some men ernplos ed by him on protecting his re pesty, had been knocked down and violently araulted. He sob. milted to the Magistrates. that no possession of property yield be taken by force and violence, bat that it must be dune is& legal way, and in n due course of law Mr. Edwards, the Clerk of the Regent's Canal Compaq, avowed that the prisoner, and the rest the navigators *ere employed by the Company, and that they had act don Mr. searl lands as they had been ordered. In Justification of their cots duct, he contended that the Act of .Parliament did not direct " that the line of the Canal should clear or not interfere with Mr. Agar's estate. lle then stated the proceedings in Chancel , and that they considered the dismissal of the l4uoction o'aansfd against them as a decision in their favour, andestabllshiag their right to proceed with cutting - through Mr. Agar's estate. The Magistrates observed, that they had nothing to do din giving a legal possession, or with the coibtruction of the Ac Parliament it the main question in dispute ; but that they I jurisdiction over a forcible poss-ession being made.. In this ease, however, it was considerably altered, by Mr. Agar statinuinsi number of men to resist the other men, is if they had ace ire there no riot ormsault would have taken place, they accordir discharged the Prisoners. Mr. Agar declared his intention of bringing an action fo , and desired to know by whose orders they acted. makes, informed him it was the act of the Company. THAMES Ponca OypecE.—On the 16th kat. Charles RI brought op for reexamination . no a charge of throw a overboard front the Princess Royal Gravesend-boat, on the inst. on her passage tip the River, and re-comm i tte d till Sd April next, from the singular difficulty of asccrtainiag name of the deceased. It is hoped that any person wbo enabled to give information respecting him, will it to the Magistrates at this Office. i LONDON t Printed sod Published h 7 D. Lovaii., iTaTEIIIIII Orrice, 87, F 100—!reef. Watson's two. . ry Sir David. 1 • 'Pao wore . re ag ',pi di:• are rather •, e is little et i was held at street, upon r, who shot 7,t he hours of •••, '4l* olden fr by f Sarah Wil• the garden is-house,. in ..;„ notarises :—• iefe're 7 elgitS • his celint . ief git ‘i . • , sing to, the • . ?.door, t be (oieign tut An his -olipelr. tit There be. being * well 11)1 th• frequently . Mug identi• ao• reumstances 1 triesses, but 11 r, the Jury zniost him, .nw Iliscnaur. - 0„ 111 r. G. Gletl: at he would r. 11. Carr, MI 1 the same, the latter; dy two hundred 1/11 1 : . ' i r i o l ars v ac t r u t d rn h b b r yp e e r e f ; y r i r i f . ! 111 : 4 ; iv house, neat .nt passed fir , 16: 44 blase that the e, He slate' ber of pergo f tons assembly.. s, to the aunt. Repot Canal , , lied down his tfk I thing his pro- 1 / 4 1 [lied. He sub' ropers; could be dune is teal CorapanYr sigaters sere on Mr. Igoe§ of their con• lid not direct 'fore with Mr. In Chancery , gin') o'.iaiued tbllthiiig their estate. g to do 'tit° 11 of the Act s , that ibrS had r a In this ewe, Ge tr stationing i As • had no: ince y accordingly rib ei action ford's ate y acted. 31r. mny. Gig tries Rile d row ing a at, ott 4 4 e, • MI y co 2i; n t g_ahl th e It netted '