The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-02-06 00:00:00

• • I 4 t t ,k • . • , a~~,- ~. THE STATESMAN. TO CORRESPON DENTS. jects without die comMantlingtatenis of that Chief ? • Maine*, US. 19.—1 n the Journal of this City A WZSTIIINSTER PATRIOfiI Cidosndededion hots been rcceiv- I t is 614 al* BONAtARTE objects to being divorced a very long article is taken froni the Frankfort Ga rd, and shall have an rally iipersiall. .from the Archduchess MARIA Louisa: We cannot tette, relative to the acquisition of Poland by Rus believe that any proposition has been made to him sia. It states that Poland added to Russia will give a for such consent by those who had a right to make most decisive preponderance in Europe ; that coun it. The protest of the Ex-Empress herself for the try, fortified by the Northern Ocean, is always at rights of herself and son, if she has actually made liberty to carry its attacks Southward. Her troops, such protest (and the one report is as well entitled accustomed to the most "frightful deserts and cli to credit as the other), sufficiently shows that she mates," will find nothing of fatigue in a Southern looks to a reversion different from the fate to which campaign, while experience has proved that all at tempts to follow them home are fruitless and ruinous. It finishes with this passage—" It is a most execrable principle'to seize upon countries and their inhabit ants, as if they were beings without a will of their own, like a field and its crop; and it has never been contradicted, that a people so invaded have a just right to make all possible resistance, a memorable instance of which has been given by America, Swit zerland, and Spain." ;nat. line ;1 France Lisbon 1 Hatabargb ... Holland Malta ... ........ ... . . PRICK , 11 1 'MOCKS Tlll5 DAY AT ONK crcs.ucK Sac. 238 j 9 Lyng. snn. 161 7-16 , per Cent. Ked 644 Nadia Booth 17 18 p H per Cent C , lib. 661 Exchequer Milts 3. 6 p 4 per Cents. 89jj I Ehnuittm 21 d b per Cent. Navy 9411 1 Comte fur Ace. 65j 5 rumour had consigned her. The opposition which Austria nowfinds it necessary to make to the plans of Prussia must show the tittle likelihood of a onion such as has been mentioned between the houses of Prussia and Austria. It is net easy, says the Times, to conceive why BormAnrk's objections to a divorce should be attended to. And would the Learned a vilian, who writes in this cruel way, consider it a just dispensation were his objections in a similar THE STATESMAN. LONDON: mosu.tv, FEattuany 6, 1815. --law— • French Papers to the 3d and 4th inst., have been received since our last. Whatever political differ ences may exist among the negociators at the Con gress. the Sovereigns seem again on good terms. The Pa pert received this morning bring us an account of the long.projected sledge party to Schoenbrunn, in which their respective Majesties. are represented as driving each other's wives in the true sand AM jorkey style, while 44 all irerjingling bells fantastic Folly rings." If any final arrangementi, lee been determined upon in the Congress, they hate not yet transpired. thedifficol ties relati►e to Saxony, dm instead of being removed, are again asserted to be farther than ever from being adjusted. We know not what degree of warmth • unhappy predicament to be treated with equal con , tempt? If this is his feeling and his idea of justice, he is unworthy of the endearments which lighten adver t sity and humanise mankind. The august FREDE• iiCK considers the momentary possession of a coon try, which he had obtained by following in the train of Rowt44ture, and to which he has no other claim to urge, just ground for requiring indemnity to an equal extent; BONAPARTE, 'who has many more', tights of this kind to urge, is conceived to have no just claim even to his wife and family. The following are from the Papers received this forenoon : VIENNA, FEB. 23.—For some time past oar may be infesed Into the notes and discussions of the Plenipotentiaries, but the statistical calculations in which they ere represented as still engaged, appear to us of the coldest and most repulsive sort. The French Editors have long denominated the Congress a bore, and on the subject of these execrable slave trade higglings about the inhabitants to be trans ferred, we find the people of Vienna venting the most biting jokes. They call the Commission for adjusting the parcelling out of the countries and people seised upon, " The Commission of Souls" (La Commission des Ames). We would recommend to.substitute instead of the word souls, that of car. canes, or to amend the designation to La Commission des S i quelletes (skeletons), as the political morality ■ow . preaching at Vienna may have a greater relit.' Court Fetes have been discontinued, and yesterday a heavy fall of snow afforded a favourable opportunity for their renewal. A sledge party of the utmost splendour took place. The sledges were decorated In the most magnificent manner. The cushions were of green velvet embroidered with geld; the harness was covered with little silver bells. The Emperor of Austria conducted the Empress of Russia. The Emperor Alexander drove the Princess of Aners burgh ; the King of Prussia the Countess Julia 'Lich ; and the King of Denmark the Grand Duchess of Weimar. Several of the Sovereign Princesses did not chose to expose themselves to the severity of the air. The whole illustrious party rendexfoosed at Sanenbrunn, and returned the same night to . Vienne; The Cosmographic Office has published • Report tion to corporeal than to spiritual affairs,and be better calculated to reduce men to skeletons, than to work out the sal;ation of either soul or body. The reply of the Austrian Cabinet to the Prussian Note is expected Kith much anxiety. It seems the plan (,f the Germanic Constitution, as proposed by Prussia, lq, in the first place, that there shall be no Emperor. Ambition is not content with raising itself —it n,ust sink its neighbour. Another singular de mand is said to have been made by Prussia. She says that having possessed Hanover in 1806, she must bare an equivalent for it. The possession which Prussia obtained of Hanover was momentary, andl entitled The General Guide (L' Inclicaleur Universel). It shows, that after the Treaty of Tilsit, the whole territory of Prussia, including every thing, amounted to 4958 square miles. With a population of 10 millions ninety-three thousand souls, a number at least 40,000 beyond any former population of Prus- Sia, even incloding Hanover, which she only pox sessed for a moment in 1806. In this calculation the departments on the left bank of the Rhine to the Moselle are taken at 1,921,000 inhabitants, which is even perhaps exaggerated. The Baron de Lich tenstein is at the head of this Cosmographic Office. VERONA, JAN. 18.—A large detachment of caval effected by violence: Her demand of an indemnity for this act of aggression, is of a piece with ber con duct towards Saxony. This odd claim upon Lord CaIIITLER AGM'S new-made kingdom is rather embar rassing, and with the utter waist of arrangement in the other particulars of the negotiations, may ac count for the prolonged stay which, it is asserted, his Lordship will be obliged to make at the Congress. ry and infantry has been sent to clear the roads be tween this city and Mantua of the banditti which infest them. They have attained a pitch of impu dence almost incredible. They lately stopped the Vienna Courier, and after taking from him his dis patches, wished him good day, telling him that every thing went on well. 1 PALERMO, JAN. Court of Sicily has con \Ve are informed at home, that his Lordship has in timated to his colleagues, that " he cannot return to England before the end of this month, the nego. tided its interests entirely to those Soveieigas who are allied to it by either blood or treaty. VIENNA, JAN. 23.—The difficulties relative to ciations having met with new and unexpected diffi culties." What his coadjutors are to do in this case is tint yet clear to any understanding without the pale of the Cahinet—perhaps not even to their own ; but the dilemma is doubtless a distressing one at head quarters ; a number of new and important measures, as well as expiring laws, demanding the immediate attention of Parliament. Saxony, instead of being removed, appear to assume a more serious appearance, Prussia Wring rejected every other proposal which has been made to.her.— That Power has declared, that having possested Han over in 1806, she demands au equi►alent no. for the loss of it, having the same claim to it as Austria hat on Venice. She repeats all her old arguments of dis tance, want of cultivation, &c. of the Countries of- IVe find by the Papers received to-day that Italy 1 fered to her; and, in shorty insists upon Saxony-- is in a state of convulsion, and that it will require • She acknowledges that the country on the left bank all the energies of the Congresss to repress the vol. lof the Rhine may be good, but that it will cost im. clinic eruption which threatens the peace of the Con. 1 mense RUM to construct fortresses, drc. hcc. &c. The tinent from that quarter. Austria, it appears, has reply of Austria is hourly expected. No- doubt it by one of those indiscreet engagements which poli will be firm and well composed. tics and zeal mixed together seem to have led to, ± in the plan of the German Constitution, proposed and the consequences of which might well have been by Prussia, there is no Emperor. foreseen, after recent events has guaranteed to the I A Public Journal, in alluding to the Prussian ob. Pup'e the restoration of those provinces which Mo. jections, says, that if sterility of country is to be stAT occupies ; and as the latter appears of BONA. • argued on, all Germany ought to be evateated, and r t RTE'S opinion that his Holiness's kingdom is not of the fertile provinces of Turkey seized upon, sending this world, in other words refuses to make the required " the Turkish dogs" to occupy the cold lands of Po. restitution, the sor-rei4ii Pontiff is roaring like one land and Russia. of his own Bulls ie their better days for the rights NAPLES, JAN. 14.—Yesterday the king presided of the Church. The Pon: is undoubtedly playing a at a Council Extraordinary, at which, for the first .• dangerous part; but he Lkows that BoNAPARTE is time, the Queen assisted—it lasted six hours. The in Elba, and, though his Neapolitan Majesty could report is renewed that Austria will at least disconti overwhelm him in a couple of days, yet there is a nue our alliance, even if site does not take part host of piety in his Most Christian Majesty, and against us ; and this is confirmed by the conduct of sufficient fanaticism, or the mockery of zeal, if there the Pope, who would not venture, unsupported, to be nothing else, in the breasts of the other restored ' adopt his late strong measure towards us, as we Monarchs, to back him in his holy attempts to re. could, in two days, dispossess him of all his posses new the age of corporeal as well as mental slavery. I sions ; indeed, it is even said that orders are cdreculy There is some mention made of an intention on ! gives: for our• troops to occupy Rome—bat, on the the part of the Austrian Monarchy to form its ha. other side, they say that such a measure would Tian territories into a kingdom, with a separate Con. draw upon us the hostility of all Europe Ilsoviever stitation like that of Hungary or Bohemia, states this may be, certainty much anxiety prevails io oar _ _ %!,I:ich are occasionally told that though they are Court. united to the Austrian Crown, they possess separate: BRUSSELS,. JAR. SO.—Our troops are all in mo. independence, but which perpetually feel they have tion, as are those also of Prussia, whose army on none. Is this project connected with any scheme to the borders of the Rhiue is far more numerous than voi;re fIuNAPARTE to power ? And does the Ern- is supposed, and the troops of the best class. No- pPrOr Fu.tNcls despair of managing his Italian sub- thing of the cause of this is at present known. .•?`._ ENZ. from the Riv er isd remain.—A r , prim priz e , ei , d is 'Arcade, °fo o d Indies : she we , tnvoy, but spokn led that an Arne. Channel. Also ✓ London ; %e s . 1 privateer pu ss „ by two iaa brig St. Xi, s R/tiw, Bin erni eral ships to th e d. lerdsi the r won. killed the (4' Q . rileY the Prince Lord Nel son ' packet, for Got. .he .idive, with ay the Jk'p er ' 1 der 79, Com. ['rarer DI, tilt .om Woolwich, C tba 47th met, from a reen,,cli f on a tock !II aunts Islands Ind one seaman the crew (13 ia. Friday !light to 1!_ i ." 40 ved it t the attempt. ad Chas. Jack.' he former len.. er a wife, being Se cargo floated was plundered ince been reco. gh it good deal tstorog. trage was corn. me of Deakin, As, the parti- raper at the covered as to eet, and trans. that be would of his misfor- r. packing up is feared, tuts his former sc. ; r cats any accts. I him, although , ds offered for inued in rather outrage at the ansions are em tened his fate; thibarbartres • treated him is in finishing t anonymous eatening that Shepherd and make it more The folly. er rennirlribln heels' indusatn ritten Joseph en, I thought I I will remember oods by refusing I* T. 41. ilf gNT. Agee, or are )epartment of ds Mr. Ales- Mc. William ▪ vacated by t is sald, will Beard. 41101/010010 ROM 0. ad; and, it of the En- :t is further 1 to have the in lieu of I e Board of I will be ap- Aserve, (hit ttrentel.. ° vire, w ry Repot ti, ud 501, ‘Vhitwort! , ' , . tr. Plunkett The grelt , as Register and, recmr- f Secrets !nt situatioi , .d it be for • useful his acts of tills office, than • . NAVAL INTELLIGENT DEAL, FEN. s.—Came down fn several sail of West Indiamen, and , rived the Prince of Neufchatel America jailed for the River. Pf.xxotrru, FEB. 4.—Arrived the - 1 from Bristol, bound to the West Im proceeding to Portsmouth to join cant an English frigate, and was informed rican . privateer was cruising in the Chi the schooner —, Robertson, for Lot terday, off the Lizard, an American prir her under a press of sail, chased by sloops of war.—Came in the Russian chat!, leaky ; also his Majesty's ships Rhin, and Fly, from a cruise.--Sailed several eastward, that were here wind-bound. FALMOUTH, FEB. 3.—Arrived yesterdi vert, Bonn, for the West Indies. —Sail; rine Maria, for the Mediterranean. The difficulties which had at first arisen as to the J Ilinwicu, JAN. s.—Selled . yesterday accommodation of Mr. CANNING at Lisbon, have, it of Orange packet, for Holland; Lot seems, been removed ; be has been accommodated, packet, for Cuxhaven ; and Dia nne p ac t with his suite, in one of the royal residences. Itenburgh, with Mails ; also sailed the It is said, that the island of New Providence was ; again visited by a hurricane in the early part of De- recryits, for Holland. Sailed t o -d a y eember, which had destroyed a part of Nassau, and 690 , Robert 410 , Thetis 4 87, adder that Ragged Island had every house swept away, ; tierce 321, Trafalgar 661, and 'Fraser with most of its inhabitants, from the vi o le n ce of the transports' with ordnance Stores, from wind and waves. bound to Antwerp. The stagflation of trade incident to the re-orgaal. OCILLY. JAN. 31.—0 n the night of Cation of affairs on the re-establishment of a general i pence, continues to produce considerable pecuniary tinbrig Queen Chadotte, Ray side, f ro , em b arrassment among mercan til e h ouses o f hi g h ye- for Jamaica,with a general cargo, nail4sl putation. On Saturday a Hebrew house, very ex. called Scilly (a small rock f r om which I tensively connected in foreign business, failed. take their name), three passengers anti It is now conjectured, that the report of two Ame- were drowned, the remaini n g p ar t o f t h e rican frigates having been cruising in the fair-way of number) remained on the rock from nide, the Channel was unfounded. The vessels seen by the o Opossum are supposed to have been the MEOW and Sunday morning, and werif:take n r' the Lorejee Family, which, it is ascertained, parted danger, as the sea ran very high It‘ previous to the 23d ult. from the India fleet, which ito save this crew, James Fegd r then arid left Portsmou th on the 18th. 1 , son, of St. Mary's, were drowned, the The Earl and Countess FITZMILLIANI are expected I i nk a wife and nine children ) the latter in town on Wednesday next, from their neat, in Yorkshire. lately married; the greater part of the Fnencn FUNDS, 5 per Cents. 79 f. 30 c. Mr. and Lady ELIZABETH WHITBREAD are ex.. pected in town tomorrow s from their seat in Bed fordshire. • A new Opera is in rehearsal at Drury-lane Theatre. By the continuance of the PRINCE Itkacwr at Brighton no Council has been held to strike the Sheriffs for the year, and there is now scarcely time for them to get ready and prepare fer the Aisizes. It is said that Government has tome to the deter. mination of materially reducing or completely abo lishing the Transport Board, as a separate establish ment, in the event of the ratification of the Treaty with America ; and that most of the officers' wilt be transferred to other departments, retaining their reuk and emoluments. on shore on the island of Bayher, and was by the islanders; but most of it has since vered by searching their houses, ibmsigh is yet unaccounted for. Among the expiring laws which will , almost im. mediately demand the attention of Parliament, are tome of great importance to the country :—The Bank of England Restriction Bill expires on the 2.5 th of March, and they must then pay in specie, if the Act be not revived; and this Bill alone will occupy the two Houses many days, as its revival will not pass sub silentio. The Irish County Police Act also expires on that day; bet that, we suppose, will be permitted to (lie a natural death, as its father is ashamed of it. The Act for the Warehousing and for Bounties on Sugar, expires on the same day-- the Land Tax Redemption Act also expires —the War Tax on Pensions, Offices, and Personal Estates- 1 the Local Militia Service—the Interchange of Mili. tia—and the Mutiny Act, all expire on the same day, together with many other of minor importance. If a motion far adjournment, under these circupt. stances, were really attempted, there must be a division. •• A Preach Paper contradicts the report, that M. MERU!! (better known in revolutionary times by the name of MERLIN of , rlonay),•kati reslgned his office of Attorney-General to the aoyel Court of Cessation. The celebrated sportsman, col. THORNTON, has purchased • capital hotel in 'Paris, formerly the re. sidence of M. BOUOANIFILLE in the Rue Bondy, where he entertains hishiends in great style. Yesterday, at St. James's, a young man, genteelly dressed, with mustachios on his lips, and hevjet every appearance of a foreign officer, entered the Court, and made up to the colours which are fixed to the standard post in the centre; be soddenly snatched them out of the post, and struck them, before the seatinel who was placed in charge of them could possibly prevent it: he had a paper or letter in his hand, and his object appeared to be to have put it on the top of the flag, if he could have suc ceeded. He appeared an entire stranger to the place, as he attempted to leave it by the Engine Court,. selaktiv -is not a thoroughfare. The sentinel having I stopped him so Instantaneously, it did cot appear whether his object was to steal the flag, or to say be had strut k the English colours. SEA EAOLE.--011 Tuesday last a sea-eagle was shot at Rollesby, in Norfolk, which measured from ' tip to tip of his wings, when expanded, seven feet six inches ; in length, from the crown of his head to the tip of his tail, three feet ; and across the wing, when opened, one foot six inches. This bird is found in various parts of Europe and America ; lays only two eggs during the year, and frequently produces only one young one : it is, however, , widely dispe rse d, an d was met w i t h in iotany Bay.; It lives chiefly ou fish, and haunts the sea shore, borders of lakes, and rivers; and is said to see so distinctly in the dark, as to pursue and web its prey daring the night. One of this species seized I and took up into the air a live cat in his talons; but I the latter, after a severe conflict, brought down its antagonist to the ground. The circumstance is re corded by Mr. Bartow, who was an'eye witness of tbefact. Poirswouve, FEB. s.—Atrived his Majesty's ship Hope, from Falmouth.--Sailed his Majesty's ship Amaranths, from the Downs.—The outward-bound convoy still remain at Splthead, but will sail the first fair wled.—Arrived a few colliers from the North. EXTRAORDINIRY ciACUMST Some few weeks back a dreadful outrage Mitred upon a Gentleman of the name in the Shepherd and Shepherdess Fields, , coitus of which we inserted in our Paper time.—Mr. Deakin, having so far recesered return to his warehouse iu Watling.street, act business, hopes were entertained that completely get the better of the effects of .. tune. But on Tuesday night, after packs a small parcel, he went out, and, It is met a fate still more melancholy than his , cldent, as he has not since returned, nor ca t 1 rate information be obtained respecting him, placards have been put np, and rewards , this purpose. As it is affirmed he continued a desponding state of mind since the out Shepherd and Shepherdess, some a pprehensio tertained that he may bate wilfully hastened , but the more probableconjecture is, that Melt wretch or wtetches who so inhumanly treated the first instance, may have succeeded is their work by assassination, as en letter was sent to , his warehouse, threatening the party who began their work Ittibe Shepherd Shepherdess-fields were determined to mkt sure when they next laid hold on him. The ing is the letter in question. It is rather remar s ka, that though the party appears to have been with Mr. D. his Christian name is written instead of Richard. I mu dam'd sorry I did not do your business, ' had—hut this remains for another brush—y.o wil refu3iog me credit, and prevented my getting goods a recommendation-1 then swore to be revenged. Shepherd and Shepherdess, 18th Jenuary. Mr. Jos. Deacon. IRISH REVENUE DEP,IRTM, The following changes hum taken place, expected to take place, in the Revenue Depar Ireland : Excist—Mr. C. S. Hawthorne succeeds ender Marsden as first Commissioner; M. Plunkett is appointed to the 24 Chair, vacated !Mr. Dundee.; and Mr. James Saurin, it is said. Succeed Mr. Plunkett et the Navigation Board. CUSTOMS.—Report states, tha t lAN Cagiffeeol resigns, to be succeeded by the . Right Hon. J Vandeleur as first Chairman of the Board is supposed, that Mr. John Hamilton, of quiry Board, will fill the vacancy. It reported, that the Earl of Westmeath is to Colonelcy of the Westmeath Regiment s it his situation, as Commissioner at the .1 ' Works, to *Mat Mr. Price Blackwood we pointed. " In noticing these changes we hare to observe, Om nomination of Mr. Hawthorne is extreme paler. His conduct at the Board of Inquir may be collected from the Parliamentary . has insured him well earned praise; and with satisfaction, and in justice lo Lord Whi Government, that the appointment of Mr. was the unsolicited act of the Xlinister. attention and services of this Gentleman, as of the Royal Hespital alone, lee onlerstan ( mended him to the attention of the Chief fie, ho, unasked, promoted him to his' present in the Excise. How much better would' Mr. Peel—how much more politic and• conduct, were he to attach himself to acs kind, and to the correction of abuses in off to the fratuin:r, of Penal Bills for this il" Country :—(Dublin Evening Pest.) -- - _ _~