The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-10-11 00:00:00

To roe EDITOR or rex STATESMAN. e te ,—Whatever may have been the excesses of the French, intnsicated by their brilliant achievements under BONAPA RTE, tie it former guilt affords no.es e cuse to the Combined Powers for violating their most solemn engagements ; nor does it redound to their cr edit that they should abuse a victory for wh?ch they are more indebted to treachery and chance thin to valour, heroic as it was, by treating France ai a conquered country. If the fatal victory they ob tained on that memorable occasion, ensured them an uninterrupted march to Penis, the very circumstances under ellich it was obtained, and the very extraor dimity gem! fortune that ensured them the triumph, should have inspired them with a moderation equal to the heroism that achieved it. It ought to have bound them the more strongly to the fidelity of their oti ti spontaneous Declarations. I will riot, however, t res pa s s on your time by discussing political goes. tions, which are likely to he decided at no very dis tant period, in a mariner not very pleasing to those who have so injudiciously provoked them. I shall confine myself entirely to the indecency of destroy ing a museum, which, to the credit of the French, w a s rescued from obscurity, perhaps ultimate obli. iion, and had been brought by thjr zeal and efforts. to a fon-4 as it were Tor the inspection of all man kind. The metropolis of France had become the repo. sitery of the arts, to which genius could always have freely access, and which the artist or the traveller were allowed to visit without restraint ; where the former, ambitious and impatient to improve his talents, was at perfect liberty to devote himself to study undis turbed, arid the latter to gratify at once his curiosity end his taste, in contemplating the assembled pro. duetioos of genius. It will not be denied that, a central situation for the splendid display of the arts, was far more desirable than their remaining widely dispersed in so many different quarters, as to render ' it almost impossiWe for the y utnig artist to have ac cess to them. It is out elways that genius is blessed with wealth, neither is it always that afflaelice is ac companied by taste and liberality. The funds neces sary to defray the expences of yelling are, of course, very scanty. A journey to It is not only an expensise, but sometimes a hazardote. Jeder. I taking ; and yet it is to tie . .graded metropolis of an ancient Empire that our paiiite-s, sculptors, mu sicians, and architects, were obliged to tinsel to im prove themselves in the arts they respectively stu died, and amidst a people whose morals, owing to !, the combined influence of climate and of a religion pretending to extreme piety, but shamefully profligate in the example of its Priests, are most shamefully perverted. The French Government very properly rescued those precicus monuments from Rome, the centre of ecclesiastical deprasity and vice; and in making Paris the depository of the arts, Lied of the Ti 'loos of antiqwity t they restored thews as it wereel ,rope and to the world. The metropolis of 31k.... as tieing more central, independent of other en „ not less important, ie surely better 1 , 1 , 111'.." , l for a vilin4ilory of the productions of s It4o Irdy. Peis rippers to be, without receive's*, the hest situation for general collec ti et of a t.,1 hasp beer., n ith great pro priety demen: im ell the European M 40.11111; r o d were the aft Ist: of sit witions required to decide the question, I have no doubt hot Wit Paris would be :elected as the spot best ralculeted for an empo. riern of the arts. It is, therefore, on the sc"te of general convenience. that I contend the Allied Powers ought In have allowed whet they see pleased to call plunder, to have remained in France; and if they thought any compensation due to those States which pretend to hove been plundered, it would have better secoided with their taste to have stipu lated diet a college should be erected ndj loins the Museum, for every description of artists, the centre buildiug of which to be rreproprdoed f ur th e recep tion of twelve foreign artists in succession, each artist to be allowed a residence of two or three years, and to be lodged and boarded for the trifling sum of 400 or 500 litres (say 201. sterling) per annum. Such a stipulation, confirmed by treaty, would have bevel an ample atonement for the attppoied wrong done by France to the different Powers leagued against her. It would, it. its effects, have proved a stimulus to genius throughout the civilize(' world, and led to improvements, the beneficial effects of which would have been felt by posterity. France, from her love 14 the arts, and her acknowledged liberality, would have cheerfully submitted to terms, which, though carrying the appearance of chas tisement, would have ensured to Europe n Museum of equal splendour and utility, and preserved pro euctions which will probably be lost to their owners and the world, by being transported in various di rections to nations little qualified to estimate their value, and only reclaiming them from a vindictive spirit of revenge, which is of no use to them, arid becoming contemptible, like impotency contem plating what it cannot enjoy ! Such, Sir, would have been the conduct of the Allied Powers, if their invasion of France bad only for its object, as they falsely pretended, the peace and salvation of Europe; and however the disreputable prejudices of my countrymen may be flattered by the fallen fortunes of their neighbours, the future historian of 'the pre sent times will not fail to brand the conduct of the Allied Powers, as !I mean and cowardly exaltation ever vanquished France, overwhelmed indeed for the present, by numbers corruptly purchased to eats due her, iu order to more effectually subdue the ttik STATESMAN. liberties of mankind! Thence It will be found, when men come to well reflect on the tralsactiont • and events o f th e present day, and 'ttv 'examine the general conduct and pernicious education of Princes, the general system on which they act with the great bulk of the people, combining the whole with the despotism so frequently and so wantonly exercised in their respective States, that the cause of France may possibly be considered as the cause of all man kind. If it be meant to fence delinquent Kings from • the block, and to establish a fotmidable ennsp;TaCy of Princes against the tights of the people, these Gentlemen must, as I have already observed, be met by combinations no less 'formidable on the part of the people, and must lirn.ty adhered to by them, until the former are compelled to tespett the source from whence their authority (which is only a de legated trust) is derived. I am, Sir, your hemble servant, • Oct. 10, 1813. aLGULUg. DISTRESS IN IR!,.:LAND. [FROII THE DUBLIN EVENING POST, OCT. 7.] We fear the following letter dol., not by any means live an exaggerated picture of the distress felt in the Country. The letter is to a Merchant in town, and we can vouch for its authenticity "and the veracity of the writer : " Drughecin. o.t. 2, ISIS. " At no former period do we remember any thing like the present distress of the Farming People of this County—auction of stock, &r.—Farmers throw ing up their lands—labourers seeking employment— Tithe Proctors threatening citations—no rents to he had—and we poor shopkeepers not a jot better off; for our dependence resting chiefly ou the Agricultu ral Classes, who are now unable to purchase our wares, feel it nearly oat of our power to meet the pressing demands of the Dublin Merchant ; taxes exorbitant and heavy, levied without mercy or re. morse. Were alt those evils of a transient or tempo rary nature, vs e could bear them with Christian for titude ; but not a gleam of hope remains for industry to cling to ; not a shadow of better times to cheer our drooping spirits. Of what avail is it to the Farmer that he has fine and prosperous harvest —a full haggard! when lie can scarcely get as much for his produce as would defray • the ne. cessary expellee of seed and labour. How is he to live? How can he meet the demands of his land. loid ? Impossible. As an instance of the depres sion of lands, you will perceive by the Drogheda Journal, which I now . inclose you, upwards of 1700 acrrs of di ff erent farms advertised to be let, motsty in the neighbourhood of this town, the realer part of which were thrown up by farmers unable to-hold them longer, and who, together with their numerous families, are now turned adrift on, the world for support ! " P. S. The second worst landlord in this county has, l hear, at length yielded to the pressure of the times, and made a reduction in favour of his tenantry, of one guinea per acre. It is remarkable, th it the worst landlords in this part of the country are Homan Catholics, some of them loudly demanding Ernicipa lion, and occasional Chairtnen of our Catholic meet. ings. " Our graziers are likely to experience no better fate than the farmer; some of them have already found their way into the hands of the Sheriff; others to the Four Courts' Ma rshalsea. What the end of all this may be, time only can develop." We are ;domed by a getitkinae who has recently left l'nris, that the I)!ike of 11' ELLINGTON constantly wears five cockades in his hat, each above the other; his dress in general is very plain ; but when at Court or at public places, his Grace's coat is completely covered with the most brilliant and splendid insignia of all the principal orders of knighthood in Europe. A REMARK IDLE COINCIDEMEIL-.- 46 We feel con fident our readers will not require an apology for our devoting so great a portion of the Journal to one subject, since there is scarcely to be found a family o here there is not one or more in it afflicted with blindness, or some affection of the eyes •r eyelids; consequently we presume that the in formation contained in our pages of this day cannot hut prove universally acceptable. It will be recollected we announced in our last num ber it was the intention of Mr. WII.T.I.AMS, the Ocu list, of No. 3, Red Lion-square, to be in this city on Friday and Saturday ; we find he arrived at Mr. itoc.Erss',., diaper, opposite the White Hart Inn, on Thursday evening, hut was scarcely in the house before an old man, of the name of ROBERT BAI LEY (at present working with Mr. LILLIWRIGHT, of Exton, near Bishop's Waltham), brought his daughter, who, it seems, on that very day corn. pleted her thirty-sixth year, but who had been blind in both eyes nineteen years, through a violent in flammation ; and it is most pleasing for us to state, that the woman can now see to walk (with a little precaution) about these streets, without a guide, within the small compass of three days, although her case had been (as we thought) very ably treated by several eminent Professors of Medicine, without any benefit. The whole family have been at this Office, and evinced the most lively gratitude to Mr. WlLLisms for the wonderful change effected by the application of his truly invaluable remedy. We find that several others have also received benefit In this city- , -one of whom, the son of Mrs. Youso, of Cole brook-street, although the case scarcely admitted of hope. We are happy to add, that for the sake of the numerous poor, the Doctor is resolved to remain in this city instil seven or eight o'clock on Sunday even ing, and that all persons afflicted with bad eyes or blindness, may obtain his opinion without a fee, at any time bet stem, the Cathedral services of the - day, after which, we have learnt, that he is determined to re turn to London."—( Winchester Chronicle, Oct. 9.) CORN. EXCIIINGE, OCT. 11.—We had a good supply of Wheat this morning, consisting of what was left o►er from Monday's market, and baying but few buyers, the trade was exceedingly heavy at Monday's prices.—Barley is dull sale, and rather cheaper.—ln Peas, Beans, Oats, and other articles, tbere is little or no variation. ,41 TBR RIFECTRD BILL OR BILLS OF . RATIFICATION ..4NI) INDEMNITY. 4 7 , 41111*67.. TO THE EDITOR — Or THE StATESPAir . . should nbt bspieet Seth Bi'Poi were it not clear that by the 144,41 Ministers cannot sup: port themselves le the depottatiun of the Ex•Em. i peror NAPOLEON beyond the seas durieg pleasere.; and in the farther steps which they must take to keep by force, him whom by force they have re. moved. I do not say by actual torporeal force, fol., tritil that indignity, it seems ; he was only threatened; but, by force, I mean violent teetotal against his wilt and solemn protest. And tootle portion of the civil, naval, and land powet of this great and glet . rious country must he consta n tly empl o y e d f or , man y ) ears, according to the course of natare, on this so unworthy service. ; • NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Alai.* Nlittsstotma, Oct. 10.—Arrireil Hi Tortoise itoeis . of 'liar, from Danti't ; and Delphine, from fiarre.—Seiled the Orlando ilonpof *tar, and Tho isms Grenville, Patterson, for eniall4 FALKOUTII, Ocl. 8.-AerliPd 110 Amottenii hilt Pohakon, from Virginia.-41.41 th. Pr o rldpire e . f or St. Michael's; Thom*, for .Lisbion ; mid Countess of Chicketter, for Ifolillearl: nARWICIii 9L.r. 10.—Arfil* the 144 Pitreati Packet, atitb tl Mall from itallalhargh ! .. • •Pt.Tmotrtit, OCT. A rrif4 fhn Ph re e Fel e n c t s4 li.oherti; Thetis bad Jane, from Si. i!efersburgh .Eleantsea, froth gwinemunde ; Coreatand 1 Rut Indianian, entwetd-bound ; Roby it , frhm Memel, and Constant gun-brig, from a cruito.—S94d the Pheasant sloop of war, and Laity Borrlit;4,n, for Trinidad. It is true that, at the vast disteince at SI. tides., we shall not only see nothing but hear nothing; not I will the myriads, end tens and hundreds of myriads, T h A Report of at joint Co mm i t t e e o f t h. C ounc i l mu d As of his friends in France, hear any thing of him ;of, R e rifigua Journal of the 31 s t u lt. &mea ns thd his health, his situation, Sr his treatment. But this 8 uglily, appoi n ted to Ne e into c ons td erv ;„ t h e is nee of the peculiarcharacteristic evils of this ea. ' present distressed state of that Colony, 6 arising bounded punishment with ou t t r i a l. . from co ir e . tse w . to n f al. 9 1 . the total suspension of all eernmef e t.l i n t er . For . , as Sir IVireram BLACKSTONE his 'desirably o muerte', notw vessels it arrivi hsiand g iegrom all the 1. .ited the tatifleatitin at." of t'se said, in speaking of the Habeas Corpus, which our great and wise ancestors termed the great point, the i r a e r o T u r t e i a n t n Y ,,t P her eace i th .l e '— y r T er h o e n , C :Zi i s lt h e :, l ;:l b e s illit a . : ;: pee era d i . one point, thinking that, whe n th e y had s e c u r ed as the sentiments of both tinkles, a n d trainteetted to dust, they had secured every thing, es some bare, the Mother-Coentry, as the best memd o f o b. , i • Inc relief. 'they complain that in c onsequence o f t • .. re. thought" (and assuredly so every English, ever free; sent state of things.,•the only inietcourn they tee en. i i er eh rit e r i ze o h ho th u e , man ought to think,) " that unjust attacks, even albolneddto of fit. I w 3a i r th tho tb lo e m U ew ni , te f d ro g in tat w es h upon property or lire, at the arbitrary will of the mode n of commun ication, the expeeces o f the necessity Magistrate, are less dangerous to the Common. i wealth than such as are made upon personal supplies amount to" treble the sum f.r c Inch they i 66 liberty. I could be landed direct from the United el a t es . Th e by ter from them t o hi s Ho i To bereave a man of life r or by violence to . Committee, therefore, res o lv e th a t a espy o f . t h e i r re- I 1 accompanied w the President and-Spestke r , c lotioos be transmitted bya joint let ornmander-in-Chief, 66 me confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, wl would be such a gross and notorious act of despotism Moor the request !as mast at once convey the alarm of tyranny through- ' ing him to represent to hit . Majesty's J oternment net the kingdom. But confinement of the person the great less and inconvenience- which the inhabit by secretly hurrying him where his sufferings are sn. ants of Antigua sustain from such an exclusien of known or forgotten, is a less public, a less striking, American vessels from thei r p or t s ; an d, at t h e same will please to grant suc h s p ee dy ega d_ e ff e , etua l re li e f tile e, !earthly to pray that his M a jesty' s G overnment and therefore a more dangerous en gine of arbitrary • Government." i as may soit the extreme urgency and itatalship of the ! Ile then says, that it may be sometimes necessary ease." . to do this ; and, therefore, that Parliament is en- ! Yesterday a Court of Aldermen was held a t G a ild. trusted by the Constitution with such a power ; hell, at whichthe LORD MAYOR presided. IVILia tat Lewis, Flirt. being reported as having paid hi s fi n d which he compares with the dictatorial power granted by the Senate of Rome in extreme emergencies. , into the Chamber to he excnied.soralog the Offlce of Now, it is difficult to believe that there almost Sheriff, a Common Hell was appointed for t o - m o r . row, for the election of another person In his stead ; ever can be such a necessity. In the present instance t to serve with Thomas Btu, E 4 q. Th e Ch am b er . who would gravely declare that it would have been lain presented an account of the maples of the Or. dangerous for BONAPARTE to have remained on board plians' Fund, which was read, and the sons of 17,3001. was ordered to be paid o f and annihilated, the Bellerophon, or lit the town of Plymnuth r until and six months notice given to the parties interested, Parliament, if it were just and fitting, wete* to be We understand that the very extensive Code of proposed as a question, whether each power should , signals, which was presented to the Adatirally by beaaeraised as has been "" eki w i l without Par "' . Sir HOME POPIIAM, is likely to be intmedietel, edere• meat, and without law, till Parliament should be A : it has undergone a very minute etantinevlon by assembled, and determine on the place, the circa's. I Committee of FlageOecrell ••vhscw 'Moll it has I stances, and the nature of the detention, if any ?—.: been printed. Was it respectful. as it just to the law, to the. Co- i A new telegraph has .also been sehmilled to Co. stitution, to the person and the rights of NAPOLEON, vernment; we believe by the same Oticer, which, from its simplicity and comprehensiveness , ' ls most to remove him f-ora the Bellerophon in order. to send ikely to supercede all otter telegraphs. The Duke him off by money shi ; to be alarmed, i and to end* iet YORK has ordered some to be made for the use of i the law, and its apprehended protection of hint, dud the army. , 1 , ..,, r ,. the investigation of this great question ; end to ta k e - .ns ..sru.to ED Meernecter.—We are authnrited such hurried care that, whatever Parliament might :to state the following extraordinary occurrence that . detertniue, this heroic visitant should be deprived at took place on the 4th instant, in neweinieh, near Dublin :—A Police Magistrete, in his sociable jaunt. least of all immediate benefit ; and suffer, at all ing-car, retiring from hislosgisteriel evocations to his events, exile, apparently hopeless elite, and hurl. country villa, near Cullenswood, between two and sonment beyond the seas? : I three o'clock, was seen in -the act of. threatening, And this engine, more dangerous to the m i ime- Kith his hand and head, some person on the road or pity and to freedom then if it struck the life of the ,path r way. • Mr. Alsop, who lives in that neighbour. I hood, was on•the path conversing with another Gen. individual, this very engine, Ministers, after having when they heard. the Magiterate call nut in prorogued Parliament when they tweeted an oppor. I tieman ' • a most violent manner to his driver to step. Ile got lenity, by capture, to use it (for they 'knew them " I t out of his car, ran along the road, collared a poor . selves too well, and urn ton little, to have much inoffenrive ono, who was quietly leading a horse and hope that BONAPARTE Mould voluntarily put himself cart, knocked the man's head against the horse's In their power)—this engine, Ministers, unless they head, and against the shaft of the cart, and asked him, ' 6 " Do you know, you villain, who [ am ?" will face the Act of Habeas Corpus, and all its sane- . 51 lions and all its terrors, without any shelter what-' No, answered the poor trembling man.---" Don'tyou Lwow lam a Magistrate ?"—Mr. Alateeetepped . ever, must be obliged to ask Parliament to inclem- forward, end said, " If you are a :Magistrate, you ' nify them for having used, and to enable, them to are acting very unlike one. Utilised the poor mast ; continue to use. Will Parliament do this ? 0 ugh( what has he been guilty of, that he should receive such Parliament to do this ? Can Parliament do this with- ' treatment ?"—The Magistrate let him go, saying, out the highest breach of the Constitution ; .without 44 he was not at the side of the road he should he." violating those nights and securities which it i s t h e i r " You must mistake, Sir," was the reply; " he is especial duty to maintain and fortify ? . . going on the right side, and you, 4ir, ate going on the wrong."—" 'lon dare you interfere ?"said the And let it be remembered, that this would be to be done, not against a subject, not against a persons wh o , Alaxisrtal.'• 6 ' Because I see the man is right, and being resiunl among us, had offended any of our laws; you are wrong," replied the other -.-*" Teen you are an impertinent officious scoundrel," observed the but against a person who came with honour arid senera. lion to those la ws,who has incorporated their best prin. Magistrate.—" You lie, you swaggering bellying ciples into his own immortal Code; who has establish- rascal," was the reply.—The 'Magistrate then rant ed a penal system of unrivalled mildness, precision, back the settle ground, and mounted his tar, not to hien and clearness, under which the securities now vin- a triumphal one.—(Deilin Evening Poo.) lated against himself are completely established ; who' A. laugheble accident, though "'Atilt:led wait eonsi. came to honour those laws, and to pass his life under &rattle lon to the party, occurred erg Monday in their protection; but whom Ministers refused to re.. Hinde-street, Manchestet-square. :I wo men who, ceive with even the momentary courtesy of permitting were employed to carry a large lonkinegises, stop. him to set his foot on our hospitable shore; and pad where a showman Was 'exhibiting Mr. Leech over whom. therefore, disclaiming all relation , and his family to a gaping multitude, they put downs of benefit to him, they were hound to have disclaim- ' the glass and placed it securely against the iron rail. ed all penal relation, all afflictive coercive power; ing on the opporitit aide of the street, covered over which yet, for ezercising unbeendedly against him, with a sheet, whilst they went forward and stood 'in it is considered by some as i thing of course that they . tip-toe behind' the crowd, attentively enjoying the should ask for parliamentary ratification against him, exhibition ; in the mean time some mischievous boys and indemnity to themselves! 1 who were at play threw up'the sheet and left the elisa Examinees I—lt is utterly without foandalien, exposed ;at the same mnetent a fine he-rat, which generally trans sneer the hit, s; emitted from the eppoe without all precedent, and without the shadow of site Mews, went up to the glass, and seeing as he principle-I—this deed of your Ministers. And any fancied another goat In the elan, he retired back a suffering, any loss, which the power of man , or the visitation of Heaven, might inflict would, he better few pates, and rearing on his hind legs darted fore than that, by silent acquiescence, .we should fix such w a rd with ail his might and made a desperate Plana an evil as this on the English name and C o nsrit e ti eno , et hie supposed antagonist, going hesd and shoulders , through the glass. The crowd deserted Mr. Puncb and on our posterity for ever. . Tout's, &c. I and his family, and joined in a general laugh at the , 1 QtrEl. Win. mischance of the two unfortunate on; Troltoa•balL I 1 41 • 1 1 Rs 's. 4 to nd bie ila. Fr ef N'