The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-01-30 00:00:00

~r 1 ' . I 1 . • k r • r • • • f I I . , i IA A • •. .*• 4 7 1 11 1, • • • • . • . - N,~L. ard E. Millis, Great tlitikiford-street, Smithy/ark, smiths iu genenal - and T, \l.,rd, Nen castle, nltor nies—J. Shepplml o r al 11. Knight, jun. Rotelille, Etaveotier chauls -J. a n d J Shrenshor.,,, plasterer.—Nl. Simp ho We-ihorp, :mil it talk cheapside, warehmise men-6. Ituthei lord :lid .1. %%, rigrt, sea. Glasgow—W. Ulease and W. Crostini, Liverpool, coopers. The Average Price of SUCAR, for the Week, ending Jan. '25, is 73i. 1)(1. per Cut. Average Prices of CORN of ENfi N D and WALLS, pet qt.artcr, from the Itetliro, ending Jan. (21: — Wheat. I Rye. I Barley. I Oats. I Reaas Pease. ()atm .. d• Is .1. s. 4 s. .I.ls. d. Is. d. ! a . r i. CO 8 38 3 •._ 9 10 '22 3 3ti 9; 41 5 : j , 2 4 %%erage Prices of Ili: ITISII COHN, in SCOTLAND, by the 4,,Narter of eight Vt torliester Hushek and of Oatmeal pet 11 , 11 of 12811 ts. Scotch Troy, of the Four IVeeks immediately preceding Jan. 15 : Wheat. 1 By e 1 Barlett. Oats. Beans. Pease. i Oatm. s. d. N. Si 1 '. d. t. if. .. S. t. d. 1 s d. 51 4 i 3 0 29 6 22 5 31 2 :5-1 51 19 U BRUSSELS PAPERS. Blttlstl.t, JAN. 23.-I.ieuteriant-General Count Excelmans, after having escaped from his house where he was guartlctl by gens-d'armes, had engaged in writing to surrender himself ns soon as he should be le! ,, tlfy summoned before a competent tribunal. Though two of the charges against him have the pc-laity of death affixed to them, he has punctually fulfillud his promise. On the I Ith, he repaired vo luntarily to Lis-le, where the Court-Martial is to inset and wrote to Lieutenant-General Count Er- Inn, Commandant of the 16th military division, Pre sident of the Court-Martial, the following letter : " lisle, Jan. 14 ' 4 The measures taken against me about the mid dle of last month, having appeared to me to be illegal, 1 thought it allowable to withdraw from their effects. However, when I got out of the hands of those who had constituted themselves my keepers, it was my duty to engage, and, hi fact, I did engage volun tarily to Present myself as soon as the tribunal formed to decide upon my conduct should be know n. " The fulfilment of this obligation which the ne cessity of defending my honour prescribed me, did not then giv". me any fear, because I was convinced that no criminal act could he justly imputed to me, and because I was too well assured of the purity of my intentions in all I have said or written, to fear the consequences under a Prince whose justice 1 al, sways admired. " now ccquainted with the Members of the Court-Martial who are to judge of my conduct, full of confidence in their justice nod enlightened senti ments, I come to declaro to you, Count, that L am seady to appear before them, and that I entrust to them with the greatest tranquillity my honour and my person.—Please to accept, &c. ;en. Count EXCELM ANS " After the delivery of this letter, Count Excelmans surrendered hinis •If prisoner at the citadel of the town ; it was not till then that the charges against him were made known to his Counsel. They are laid dos in the report made to the King by Marshal Soul!, Nliiiiiter at War, on the 29th of December last. Toe Minister expresses himself as follows: act, of which Lieutenant-General Count F.scrlmatts has been guilty are of a nature infinitely 800 ions. _ _ • ' 64 I. UP has kept up a correspondence with the i the master hands have been completing at Vienna,— . .-- en(lnly without n permission in writing from his st. i this happy fulfilment of the magnificent promises of per:ors, while he was employed in the character of , Ins'pector.General of the cavalry in the first military , the Allied Sovereigns, we are given to unde rs ta n d, division ; J say with .the enemy, because your Ma. I is the complexion of the great Treaty 'which -has jesty. has not recoznised Joachim Murat as King of i given the finish to the princely work of Europa's Naples ; and even if he had written to a Prince w Ito • redemption, and to which the Duke of WELLINGTON, was a friend or ally of your Majesty's, his conduct would Irive bmit reprehewil4e. . , among the rest of the liberators, has gone to set his " '2. AI 1014 commit„ an ad of es l ona n. d and lise,, . . ~.stra_ 104 his country. If there're any more •lOt;-4 146. . wrilitie to Joachim M urar , th at ' * thoniands of cheering light - lila this great exhibition of Royal latent .hiare officers, formed is his sch. al, and under his and liberality,weareyet onabletodiscover them. Lord ergo, ‘s pu:tl irtv.2 been re'atk a t his call, if things had CASTLEREAGII may be able to show (another show not taken such a facourabl,' turn for hi.-n.' I wan i‘ ill certainly be wanted) where the beauty and '.• 3. Ile has wri , teit things otlenske htttli to the . . , rch j are to be found. The great Unionist, who is perstiii and the power or your Alajesty. c, 4. Ile has disobeyed the orders given him from all submission and acquiescence abroad, is, however, your Mejesly by the M ini4er t.f War. " 5. 'lle viola. r! the (ath which he took 'Alien be res.-nived the It.t.r al and Military Order of St. Louis." sorry trouble, as it has done with his Colleagues, to get it out of him. We hear, notwithstanding, that Jest his Lordship should not•he ail/enough to stand the pointed quPstions of Mr. WIIITCREAD,ancI such other friends of general liberty and universal justice in the Lower House as may feel disposed to call this all-suffi • cient iJ inister to an account, it is positively determined , to remove his Lordship out of the way of such weipOdy artillery. He is to be called to the Upper ; and Mr. CA, NINO, whose brows, it is pre sumed are by this time sufficiently fenced with diplo matic ,laurels of Portuguese growth, and so power ful by his late draughts on the Treasury, that he can stand any thing, is to have the lead which he so much wished, with the Secretary of Stateship for the Fo reign Department. Whilst we are on this topic we shall add the other arrangements_ that are reported as determined upon, for an immediate change is con fidently anticipated, Mr. Husitissom will replace Mr. VA NSITTART, as Chancellor of the Exchequer; Mr. A naorr, the Speaker, is to have a Peerage, and to be succeeded in die Chair of the House of Com mons by Mr. MANNERS SUTTON, the Judge Advocate. Marquis WELLESLEY certritily comes into the Cabi net; and it is reported with no less probability that Mr. Cnoamt is to 1, removed from the office of Secretary to the AdmisWitit_litt whether he will be appointed to any °Mee -in another department, or Will be paid of)' " for his great services" with some of the Grand Crosses which lave been so plenti. fully dispensed during his Administration, is uncer tain. The Court-Martial which sat at Lisle on the '2:,d inst. unanimously acquitted Lieut..-Gencral Count Excolmaus. 171 E NCI! P PERS. •-•• frx"..r.4cr OF A ritivATE Mt onto, J ts. hasten to inform you of the changes we are on the eve of witnessing in the measures hitherto taken against the Li"erales and the ...(fiancesa(ros. The new Minister, Don Cmullos, cm:winced of the fatal effects likely to result from the system of persecution, has presented to the King an energetic Memorial, advising him to put an end to! the arrest and peroecution of the Liberates, and to grant a full amnesty to all his subjects expatriated for political opinions of whatever kind. It is said' that his Majesty very favourably received these re- pro , eutalions. England says she is dissatisfied with us. Mr. Can ning, who continuos to reside at Lisbon, affords food for conjecture to a small number of politicians, who combine obstinately to think that Spain has a part to play beyond her natural limits. Certain it is, that the preserve of an Ambassador (hitherto engaged in tb' weightiest affairs of England) at a Court without a Sovereign, and dopentlent on the dispatches to be received from the Brazils, is a phenomenon calcu lated to excite the cuniosity of politicinus. NAPLES, JAN. ..,.—Last Saturday the Princess of Wilis lave a grand fete to King Joachim. The Queen, the Court. the Ministers, and all the fo -reigners of distinction were present. Among the foreigners presented to the King on Now Year's Day were the following Englishmen : lotid Grenville Somerset, Lord Stanhope, and Sir Fit:gibbon. -~- General EXCELM ANS has been tried at Lisle and unanimously acquitted! Our Readers will remem ber that when he withdrew from Paris he solemnly pledged himself to surrender, as soon as he should be legally summot.ed before a eompetent Tribunal.— Though two of the Charges against him would, if proved, have subjected him to the penalty of death, yet be redeemed his pledge. On the l Ith he volua- A reward of 401. is offered in Saturday night's Cozen., for the discovery of the person who twice flied a pi,tol at Mr. IL Wr.s.r, of Sydenha.n Com icon, in the ovenirn; of the 4 / h inst., with a promise . f n'frre pardon to any utcomplice making such•dis- I u ry. a THE STATtSMAN. tarily repaiflatto Lisle, and wrote, immediately on 'his *arrival, a letter to Lieut.• General the Count s'Est.obt, Commandant of the 16th Military Divi sion, and President, of the Court-Martial, which letter will be found among our extracts from tl►e French Papers. The Court-Martial was composed of the most dis tinguished Officers of the French army. The Count n'ERLON, the President, an old opponent of Lard WELLINGTON, is an Officer not more distinguished for his skill and bravery than for his high and un impeachable honour. The acquittal of General Ex- CELMANS has enraged the Times almost to madness! Our Readers will hardly believe it possible, that language such as the following, could have digraced the columns of any Journal in any cirilised country —language as indecent, as it is insulting ! This is the way in which the Thnes congratulates a brave and in dependent Officer on his honourable acquittal from the Charges which had been preferred against him : " Ve are sorry to see that ExcELmAss, the fellow who broke his parole of honour in England, set all military discipline at defiance in France, and engaged in a treasonable correspondence with MURAT, has been unanimously acquitted at Lisle, to w hich place he' went to surrender himself for trial, well assured, no doubt, of the result which awaited him. This, we must own, is one of the most unpromising circum stances, we have observed, in respect to the feelings and conduct of the French nrmy. This ExcErmaxs, after all he has done in France and England, has the audacity to talk of his ' honour ;' awl no doubt. he will find at Paris a number of worthless partizans, who will represent him as the object of a tyrannical persecution ; but the l'ari&ians ought to turn Bark. to the early pages of their revolution, and there they will see the consequences of encouraging Military insubordination, and conferring popularity on scoundrels." Now, it is impossible that a greater insult than this can be imagined to the whole French nation ! The rancorous malignity displayed towards General EXCELMANS is lost in, the infuriated and wild attack upon the Members of the Court-Martial, and the whole French Maly, and this, too, in a Journal which has been openly charged with being in the pay of the French Government !—a charge to which the Times has never 'Orly replied, never expressly de. nied—only by a sort of side-wind prevarication.— Now, can any thing be more monstrous than this ? General ExcEt„mAms is charged with offences 'touch ing his life—he is tried by a Court-Alartial, eom• posed of the most distingoised Officers, selected by the very Government, nay, by the ♦ery man, Sours, who preferred the Charges, and by this Court-Martial he is acquitted ! Yet the Times stig matizes its Members as traitors ! And-can it be sup posed that SOULT, who organized this Court, would ha►e placed on it men on whom he had not every re liance ? men who, if possible, Would hove strained a point to oblige the great Leviathan who is at the head of the French Army ! Bat a still greater proof of the detestable foulness of this attack is, that not one syallable of the details of this trial has yet reached us—nothing but the bare fact of Gene. ral EXCELMAN'S acquittal ! and yet the Times dares to charge the Court-Martial with fret'. son, for having acquitted him!--Why, perhaps (as is most likely, from the circ.imstance of the Court being all men who had served under SOULT, Count.D'EaLos himself having been with that Chief for several campaigns, but p; .rticularly in that the North of Spain and South of France), perhaps nut, a single jot of evidence appeared against General EXCELMASS, and that he clearly and manifestly proved the falsehood of the Charges! " Ile is una nimously °quitted .' Does not this speak something too plain to suppose it possible that there could have been even a shadow of foundation for the charges on which he was amigneil? And yet he is called a " scoundrel," and other most degrading epithets are applied to a roan, who, by the highest Tribunal of his country, a Tribunal, the Members of which, be it remembered, were appointed by the very man who prosecuted him, by this very Tribunal he is unani mously acquitted! The - whole British nation should express its indignation at such dreadful libelling as this. But this attack gives rise to considerations of stilt greater importance than at first meet the.eye. What will theiteaple of France say to it ? It is well known, that the rimer is openly patronized by the French Government, and it has even been asserted, is in its pay. Will it not be a fair conclusion, that the sen timents now expressed are those of the French Court ? Would the TiMes venture to insert them if they were not so ? Do we pay our servants (aye, and well toe) for acting in opposition to our wishes? What, then, will be the consequence, if, as the T'imes. would imply, the whole army is indisposed towards the Sovereign ? Will this most indecent and most vulgar abuse tend to conciliate any existing differences ? What will the people say ? But, alas ! the people have never been estimated by the Times, but merely as humble machines, sent on earth to be the slaves of 'the " great privileged orders !" but we know, and the'BouttllONS ought to remember, that the people have a voice! and they have spoken, too, in a rr.-ist audible tone. Witt such vile slander as this draw the bond of amity closer between the So vereign and the subject ? It will be observed that SouLT,' in his Charges against EXCELMANS, styles Muftaz the enemy. It appears also that SOULT'S government is .apprehen sive of danger from some quarter, or meditates some ttvlitary enterprize of consequence. -He has recently given an order for the purchase of horses to a great extent, and by the description they are designed to mount the artillery.--We have also authentic intelligence that there have been serious and alarming disturbances at Rennes,_ The troops refused to act against the people, who resisted some demand made for the fetid of the re, latives of Royalists, and for five days they were itt possessiontof the place. A report, that seems nowise entitled to credit, i s • transmitted fromHarnburgh, that an• offensive and defensive alliance has teen concluded between the Ottoman Porte and France. There is also a talk of an iovitation made by sere. rafgreat Powers to King JO ACHIM to accept the three l egat i ons o f kiologoa, Ferrara, and Ravenna, in ex change for l die Crown of Naples, which would be restored to the BouItRONS. It is even said they hare alleged to King JOACHIM the illustrious example of the Crov:n Prince of SWEDEN, who, it is said, has offered to renounce all his rights in case the restora tion of the family of GUSTAVE'S should be judged advantageous to Europe. • This report ill accords with what we haste hitherto witnessed on We part of the illustrious CHARLES John. Ire did not 66 wade through slaughter to a throne," to give ►t away in this manner.. IThe EvEmpress 114,tntit Louis has presented a • strong protest to the Cong►ess, demanding her rights, and those of her son. This was presented at one of the•last Sittings of the Council, and made a lively seusation. Something of consequence seems in agitation re. specting "Be!gium. The font:Wing article came to hand %int flesh Dutch Jouruals as our Paper was going to Press : " li.tave , J Ax. 22.—A co arier arrived very lately from Vienna, dispatched by the Ambassador of hit • Royal ❑ighness the Prince Sovereign at that capital. Immediately after M. Baron de Copelin set elf for Vienna upon a special mission." The followiog was this morning posted at 14coYD'S :—" His Majesty's ships Okathapr,liombay, Larne, and ',Zephyr sailed ye , terday from Ports. mouth in search of the American It igates. His Ma jesty's ship Centaur, York; Liverpool, and more, which sailed from Plymouth is search of the American frigates, were driven hack to that port art Saturday:last, by contrary winds. Sir G. Cowart In the L'ander with the Newcastle and Acosta gates, were of Fayal, ou the 1 lth inst. iod the Euphrates frigate was at Fayal on the t3th." We experience the livelie , • satisfaction in directing the attention of our Readers to the conduct of that manly and most disinterested friend of his country and the people's interests and rights, Mr. Wm- Bat An., at the meeting of the Proprietors of Land in liedfordsl►ire, held on Saturday se'unight ; the particulars of ishich are given in this Paper.— Mr. W., who is verily and truly a patriot of Me soil, 'and has as much interest in what concerns the pro sperity of our agriculture a 3 most landlords in the kingdom, has &dared his opinion against the pro priety of petitioning for a Corn Bill, and has sup additional argu,,,,lts, which must carry convic tion even to minds biassed in favour of such a mea sure, showing the inutility and injustice of legis lative Interference to keep up the price of cook Fri(ley evening Mr. Fist's'', the King's Messen• ger, wns sent with dispatches from the foreign-ofrice, to Viscount CASTLEREAGH. The E I and Countess of LiTrapoot, and family, are expected in town to-day, for the seison. On Wednesday the of I,llmmoot. will enters bin all the Cabinet Aliniiters in town, to dinner. Large orders have lately been given for the Ameri. can market. One bookseller's house in London has received an order for 9-0.0001. worth of books. The daughter or Marshal MASSENA is shortly to she her hand to the French General Rex', to whom she brings a fortune of 2,000,000 francs, equal to about 84,0001. of our money. Indeed it is pretty well understood, that Victory took peat care of her• darling, in all pecuniary matters. • An alarming fire broke out about four o'clock OR Saturday morning• at the house of Mrs. Watroun, in Ciniduit.street, which burnt with such furious ra pidity, that in less than an hour the whole of the premises were destroyed. The furniture was very valuable. The early hour et which the fire was discovered threatened destruction to part of the family, if not the %hole, as they were all in a state of repose, and the flames were rapid in their course. The fe male servants, for some time, ware in such a state of consternation, that they seemed to be stunned with fear, and could hardly be induced to move from the spot. In additioti to the loss of the whole of the property, which was only in part insured, Mrs. W. has to deplore that of a son 1.5 years of age. CORN-EXCII A Nine. J AN. 30.—There was hut 01 thin sispil'y of %%'herst this la. riling, and 5441.► elle , let At na alertwe of 4s. per quarter .11nnd•IN'i. prices.—lVrlev 1.. In 25. dearer. Ow., Pew", and Beaus ate a ready Dale at to %. dearer. Wheat ( Lnglislt) . 42 68 Ditto (Foreign) 44 75 RN e 2B 91 Barley 'l4 32 Neu ditto — Matt ' 6 68 Whit , Peas , .. 96 4‘..! Ni .w ditto .... ....... _... _ Beans Old ditto . Tick do. 26 36 Old Oat, - 30 Fine ditto Poland do. ..... 45 Feed ditto 18 211 Fine Flour ..... (Al Secoudc ..... 5) fra Ditto linilen 45. (iley Peas 52 96 SMITIIFIELD SI _ . To <it* R•of Ng. fl.. t' Multott . 5, Ut. t. ti.. 01:. Vent 7• Vd. t. Pork ... 0.. GI . $0 7s. 4'. Lan,!, o th to t 4. Alt K VT.—Ja s. 90. prr shale of Nit.. Head of Cattle this day t ;tempi StletT ...... • 12,74:0 Calves • . lOO Pigs 354 Art. Mnib. Dne 0 0 • Jtambargh 1 0 at [be Publi c (Vi ces . KING CHARLES'. MARTY R lltddg TN A' ST I'I'ESMA N. 1.01;1)0 N: MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1815. The arrivals from tlte Continent, since our last, have put us in possession of Paris Papers and private letters to the 37th inst. and German and Dutch Jour. rials to the same date. The intelligence from Vienna is to the 15th, at which time Lord CASTLEREAGft still remained in that capital. Ilis Lordship would, probably, protract his stay till the arrival of the Duke of WELLINGTON. It is asserted that the So vereigns have come to a perfect understanding, that every thing is very neady agreed upon at Vienna, and that the Duke of WELLINGTON, on his arrival there, will have little more to do than to sign the Treaty conjointly with Lord CASTLEREARII. The definitive decisions of' the Congress, it is added, will be all signed and published within three weeks. Of the basis of the Treaty of Pacification nothing new is communicated; but it is understood to be nearly similar to what has been stated in previous accounts, namely, that Poland, excepting what belongs to Austria, and what is to be given to Prussia, has, by the help of that Committee, of which Lord COME.. R EAGII was rt member, and which was appointed to adjust the affairs of that kingdom, been placed under the absolute controul of Russia, to swell the mighty mass of that overgrown despotism—her independence, national existence, and the hope of an honourable termination to her struggles for liberty and right, being sacrificed to the chief author of her wrongs ; that the quondam electoral House of BR ANDENBU RGII (Prussia) which has all along been endeavouring to trend on the necks of the other Princes of Germany, has been" won to relent" in favour of the King of SAXONY, by having the half of that unfortunate P►ince's territory given to her, together with some parts of Po•aud, in order as well to satisfy her rave -1 nous cupidity, as to give her the power and the will to assist the magnanimous ALEXANDER in his plans for I i keeping down and bowing the Poles to his yoke ; and that his Saxon Majesty is to be what they call re stored, that is, permitted to retain some districts of • his former kingdom, and some indemnities for that which he is robbed of, sufficiently distant to render his power perfectly innoxious to the great Sovereigns who are now lording it over him. This, with the intermediate and mifior touches of the same sort which have been represented as filling up the great picture of European happiness which