The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-02-24 00:00:00

1V THE REY. CHRISTOPHER Wl' Pitl. ,coups, partisans. The following comes by our ex tiaadinary express from Paris :—• LBTrEft XVIII. - NORWAI Y. ........4 ._, " .. History always records with peculiar pleasure tho Strike, hilt heart devotions and sacrifices of a people in Woes , of ne. . .- . DEAR Sta,-!lure, after reiseatedly etsticNlS•ist Bona! - independence. Such instances are honotrab other publications, as well all in tileSPi . ectart r a radial and complimentary to the human race, over witeinfre 4 cal error of the " progressive," the 64 stepaby-steps; • part of the world they are scattered. It isitelf JAI Reformists, I must advert to it once more. For.wrat et nature for man, nor in the nature a men idasself,' having discovered the essential difference bet tern a me.? chanicai and a moral, a physical and a Foliticad ope+ to be the slave of maq. Men are become too en. ration, their minds are.chained down to the vulgar lightened to endure it-too seuelble of their own notion, that 'because a geographical journey must he dignity to submit to It:- • performed stage by stage s or a mountain ftnended ~. ' 4 Nor will they more, by utilise sabbve4 ti step by step, which are operations of the body .sind, , f• Rim the oppressor's rod, a sirleteli amiliteir." „ the limbs; therefore the same process is necessary lit .., _ political Reform, which is a moral operation of the We have:thts day glvetkan abstract of the Ameri- We little thought, the e4h day, whoa we eitediti mind, proceeding 46 from the Mnrill feelings of the can Budget ; which , exhibits the financial effects of part of i sublime saalata a chaining English podif soul." Merely to notice the distinctioe,ol%.to ex , the unhappy war whiCh rages between brethren of (who refused to be the Lestsrect) to the followitit , pose the error. And closely allied to tittlis an , the tame stoek.. ri will it, seen that the loan to be 1 purport-that tlaS tifsi of freedom was to' other kind of vul g ar error, of which, in the letter raised for the present year is heavy, being upwards break fort h s e soma ihat. very frozen region al- I received under Sir GEORGE G ALE Y ' S hand and yoor • , of 29 mifi dollars , tons of dolla, or about seven millions laded to. That poet toys:- .. . ' NAVAL INTRL LIM:WOE. , seal, thaws copious speciesettinted in appiopriattei ,• !. leitguage. t 'Orli* Thus tO America, after having nearly ex- 66 ' The sited Freedom, from tele:thawing, , a • • ' -..eara-- .••• - '7" • - .. - Whi , to. iat a radical Reformist; •Oderessing-tnytelf tinguiSherd: her old debt, obliged to plunge into a “ O'er every clime new bliss 'Wiling; • _ ,___, .st - • ..,- I ..-V_. 1. - Yea. 29.-Arrived his Majesty ship Nelms, one Ae- to the ',h o l e na ti on i nc e scr i m i tk etetyk to all 'clashes',' weer °est, Sireadt, amounting to nearly 10 millions " 1)14°1 " the mental fr(ist "en*. /::: ". thre cotters, from the Roompok-Cante down from high and-low, as equally ' , interested in elte.enjoyment• 66 Go slain Larked's dark domains," ~ ~, f , , . Vr4OFf s ea . . sterling.' It is too obvious that war, whether ellen- And we may hope that this goa . rdiao angel will con. 'lloE.Blversttlse Diadem, for Tarregaira l eat remain is the of liberty, I persue the meet • maid, convect, and. of s igh t 13seese, mith his Majesty's 'hips tisamiesse, c mose y, G r iff on , rational coarse fur bringing iboisaxational ussanimity s . etve'orAefeniive, prosecuted under a Monarchical or tinue her benign flight, sca tt ering her rays , . .esessivr Rinaldo east Cracker s theAlumersee sod Jabs sad or, in order words, that all thistm'Clieses be .of one; Republkaa-form of Government, must be supported or in other, but synonymous the sed and' . ' ' words, e ntaisietensaning transports, and& divi.loo of troaspontwith OPINION ;as well as for obtaining o.declaratiott bia: by swat* means, and is attended by •the like cola. pabulum o r l ib er ,,, , ~ . , „; .., Petition, for ascertaining to Parliament wluds.tlait , ,ileitgermais Legioa ea beard, for Geemaay. Onus r.esolls.' If there be a solitary, consolation 7. .. _ .. • public-opts/tow really is • or, in other *optic- *Mk bit " Till from his Imlotstoodt despot shall be burnt, ' PILTINVTIE, Fa. 21.-Arrived the !deadens frigate from a - .. ' the . arising Oub of this subject for the philanthropist, it " And reasoo bear doet the fame of slie world." 4 ; mar{ Clamed's, Morey Broestsrst, Admiral Gambier, Dollop, . . thedecision of natronac rteraLtecypeertanmest it, that offensive wars are generally the offspring, Gratinute, and nri tremserts, nretation of this conduct in that letter is . thatl • Ow from Passages , ihninah,• r - I S From the int t this distantcountry ( itb ' ems . ; , Gale, from Waterer owe, Daniel, from Goblin.- old infirm man, in a private stitian{ sued ''of a very op cupidity and ambition, whereas defensive ones t h e mos t nor th ern point of Europe) is likely to ex- The 'amiable, F mime, laden with brandy and humble fortune, am actually aiming to' effect rny' , , are the legitimate consequences of liberty and lode- cite in the minds of all who love freedom, wise, captured ky (ii it may is* schooner, and arrived at Ply- purpose, not through the agency of reason operate . 13 . endince. The English politicians prophesied that ing on the public niineleautlAgg,ettiog by the force' be desirous to possess some knoirtedge of its p osh- ` 14 " 1/11 ' • - the. American Government would not be able to • of truth and the power of jllllc.i, an effect* public lion, and of its inhabitants. it Is-t h e most westerly Th e Barcelona, from Havannah to Cadiz, raise a loan. This prophecy might be founded spew was s ent iment; bet, that lam pursuing my. abject by part of the ancient Scandinavia. It is bounded in taken on the 3d inst. by the Atalante and 7'er si- actual force, and even by rebellion ; fdr I am PPM the idea that there were no Loan Contractors In chore French frigates , retaken his Majesty ' s 4 t• ' part by the Northern Ocean, by gwedish and Rus- 0Y ships charged with having been petty of seeking out America, and that the monied interest was 'dune . .Rtpors and Menel aus,and is arrived at Pl y mouth . -- man Lapland, and by Sweden Proper. From Its Imob Petitions even in the ver I f I • y wart o a most unpr aci- - to the war. If by the fulfilling of their predictions 1 rocky and northern position, it is not populous in pled, senseless, and blood-thirsty rebellion ;" and am• 1 , , they hoped the Government would be forced to endeavouring to" head" and to " lead" mine hundreds proportion to its extent. Eight hundred thousand i By a letter from an Officer of one of his Majesty's make peace upon any terms, they are much disap- souls be its largest computation. It may ' ,ships in, Halifax harbour, dated the 18th ult. we of thousands of a rebel erew, when they can be cot. pointed. It may have happened that the great lease, that a Lieutenant had arrived there a few days lected together froha various and very distant parts maintained an army of its own amounting to 21 000 of the kingdom , ' to carry my point by the .mars weight of the monied interest is i .America, which ! s previou , 'with dispatches from Sir J. if. -OEM YEO, . ' foot and 6000 caval ry. Their troops are m ' uch animal strength of their bodies, and the activity ' , as to be found in the sea-ports, and amongst thosecommanding upon the Lakes, to Sir J. B. WARREN, , . . }esteemed for their braver d like the Swiss y r en , moon - representing the absolute necessity of having a rein- of their limbs, under the savage fury of their ea". merchants who were hostile to the war in its I taineers , worked up to 46 anarchy and Toro.: are exceedingly attached to their country. forcement of 300 seamen to man a large frigate of p assions, celmencement, has had a new direction given to it.; lutionary rage ;" that, to this end, I court the aid ;They owe their excellent code of laws to Galerial. 54 goes, building on Lake Ontario, to be called Ceentercial had its are certainly awkward to change, :the Vittoria, and which will be launched in March ; of incendiaries, assassins, and murderers ; fete no,. ledthem the instance 'of C FELD, who comps at - thing else can be the meaning,when I am said to fo as- . but via- c . , gain is the sole object, a bonus of 13 ne •' ! 'Mt . V., N the great Legislator of his country. In this iu order to his endeavouring to strike a blow sociate" with " General Lun ;" that I stimulate , cent. ,td 6 per cent. interest upon loans may have *previous to the launching of a frigate of the same „ code is the II cl* of Norwa leffect pa a tem y. Its is claim a senseless mob" to " bawl out for Reform ;" i which the enemy are building on that Lake. roved a powerful sedative to the angry passions,that I am for " demanding right at the head of as: visible in the different appearance of these p eo p le The ' Admiral sent his Flag board Captain on the and tlralized ill opposition to the Government. ! many thousands of the people as I can collect." wha. epor .otlter ground, how can we account for the ; it 1 from some of their neighbours. It secures the free- different ships, to communicate to the crews that their tom of theofthe former, while of peasants shall " hand up their Petitions on the point of a spear,'! end " with three hundred thousand of my outs/lot ~.. facrlliy* th Which these loans have been procured, ' that the Admiral would not direct them to go ; he latter are enslaved vassals of their masters. These ue orm in a summary way," the Reform bark.- and the lanb,like silence which has, for some time only hoped they would volunteer. Such an appeal to ales • rf * people possess much spirit (as, indeed, they have just ti t . , If there be a ray of sense in this raving, thatifbrat: past, previted amongst that party in America which manifested), and ar s e tank oand ad des! • , pen, t.. .aet a„.... ,,._ e could wet fail of success. Oa his • r kite WM li . Yt g ■ en beard tile Name' , Captain LAw. . 1 all connected with the import of the words, *Ay • was the Icruloat II! Agit' cries altotpet the ward t , , yet not ins°ter l L - TilerPaY a pro per respect its but lame, then repining the 'damages she had sus- the serious and angry tone of rebuke ie your 4 AD., never fawn upon, those above them. Although van,. pined in the hurricane experienced in that harbour DRESS," some should indeed seem Wise intended,' - Tnifiiilo . whg' Is' given in a • Seciitid Edition a tbethen Is it a specimen of declamation, wi foetid . .. itoe`ning gerstd:- getation is so quick over a great part of Norway, that some time ago, the cree, on being made acquainted I . . h ick, _ ,;., with his mission, instantly gave three cheers : an d ganty, may challenge the coarsest enuston Of ..34 .• • the corn is sown and reaped in seven or eiglit weeke FLAG OF TRUCE FROM FRANCE. • it, ' Lieut. Helene KENT, first or that ship, stepped ' 1 Giles's, or of Billingsgate. If meant for satiriCall " Elem.* o'Clork..M. y et A the country does not produce sufficient grain for forward and placed his name at the head of the list. bit on me, it .was thrown awa y , for the satire' I' se An express has just arrived from Dover, with its own consumption. The innocent and peaceable Their services were accepted. They were I to leave I could not discover ; alai, to my -capacity and taste,t , au account of the arrival there of a Flag of Truce . inhabitants have cruelly suffered on this account, Italtfax on the `Zeal ult. and proceed in the Manley' it appeared nonsense to the extreme of absurdity.-o . ahsur i . . ' i Now, whether the Baronet were nettled at the' seem . from Calais, by Mr. Ronnesow, who accompanied si n ce the present mad war has extendedto Denmark. and Thistle to St. J ohn ' s, Ne w Brunswick, where , Lord. CASTLERNAOIi to Cannon, and landed last ' It has rich pastures, and consequently prOdisres much those vessels were to be laid up, and tbeir crews to ; cess of a con ct . founded in pinin . ,,.common ICONS: night. It is_reporteal that, besides diplomatic di:- . cattle. The fisheries are highly prothictiik, having Proceed through the woods to Kingston, on Lake; exposing the folly of a ridiculous scheme, ie • which' • a " wealthy association" were to " pledge 'them • • - . a journey of nearly 600 miles. Their ; patches or great importance, he has brought to Go- • ; supplied the Danish sailors with ,alosese till they- Ontario, fl ; selves" to do something, wl.ich should- he exactly clothes and b e d d i ng were to o low them by the way 1 • vernitent official' details of the battles between I consume. of Q,eebec s as they were only to carry a knapsack, equivalent to nothing ; or whether, through an ex - Reneralsaumnaa pill BtiNAYARTE, from which it I Their extensive forests of oak and pine yield them : with four shirts, some flannels, and a blanket. cm of zeal on behalf of this precious scheme, he i appears very little advantage has been gained by the considerable wealth, and the birch affords them co. t • Elitis:tofu letter from an Officer on board of one ' , -were hurried into . this harmies . s nonsense ; either of • * enemy, and tint the Prussian commander bad effect. vering for their houses by its bark, and . wine from • . jet' .tr e esls in the Roompot, - dated the . 2,oth in-,1 which effects might have for its cause an emptiness ... I ' stint 1---ts We have no particular news to tell you, ' , of argument, I was, in fact, equally complimented; 61 queetion.with Prince ScawAorzEsetralau." its sap. Their exports, besides masts, spars, and r except that we have sent the' Antelope and a and, of course, could only 64 blush" for an indis ,.. • -.........- planks, are tallow, butter, salt, dried fish , t 41, "II" Banks frigate, phut Flushing , to the Nymphen' cretion not my own. ..- '..A Dutch Mail arrived this morning,bringing Pa. I. , and horned cattle, silver, copper, iron, alum, and and oor mill squadron in the West Scheldt. ()Lir 1 After all the striving and titraitting' to c l ose 14 1 pers to.the TV, from which the following are the Pm . nmental eye ogninst political li g h t- all tbe aris.', blue. Sweden was separated from Den. first sgoadron, consisting of the JV, ymphen and Forth nipstintfortant extracts :- .-- lc writhing and attd. twistin *to frigates, and Cretan and Onnterer brigs, went past tocrat _ ► i wriggling , . . 11, ~, ' mark by the valour and address of Gu ed i STAXVIIIAiA ; Her.votesa.tras, Fan. 22.-An O ffi cer inatarrit Norwaythe walls of Flushing iithout the loss of a man.- elude the gras;) of common sense, and for withhold. . inued inviolabl atta c h e d , but has cont y to the , from head-quarters informs us, that Sir Thomas Gra-1 - We have not yet heard hoer the Antelope and Russian ing English Liberty from the Ettglish . Peeple-aeifter, of Denmarkti ll (drown; f ate, or rather **f i erce of cif.- I frigate succeeded in going by. There seems to be all the old womanish, panic-stricken agitation, or' ham was again preparing to advance upon Antwerp, ems . 'since., would wrest it frail ikkt IttnereiflntY, i little going on above Baez. Bergest.op.Zoson still t__ he _ pretence of it, at the terrific appearance of 6e and only waited the arrival of Congreve rockets, and attach It to the fortunes of the adventurous and holds east, and at preterit we have not a sufficient* “ Hydra of Freedom:"-after all the puerilities of . . which it was expected he would receive this day. lucky late Serjeant Beeeinorre, now Crown Prince betterhvg toile to restate it, 'When we have a few ' the half:thinking, half-measure, SteP-byistell, per:r . .. • Batriatt.s, Fait. 14.-Troops are continually pass-m er e gew-boate and bombs, we hope that both places blind sticklers for mere mummeries,' tiabi. (Wpm/mi . , - h d nti It • h- pi 'ted Nor. of Swzroxx-bat the hart y a et s riled ing through our town.will be seen brought to surrender." of Parliamentary Reform the PlaitCtititti is trite. . . , . 9 , .. Wegiang wi ll not, like the cattle and other stock on l ,he *hates dories her late - crease, chased the there never can be any such Reforar, but as TVf:lkti n : • COLOONS, FES. 3.—Count D'Artois oa • ssed a Nobleman's f red to another • ' estate, be trans er °r American brig Rue lilootkit Yankee, of 13 guns and been sought by the radical Reformists. -h here at half-past five o'clock thi s morning, I ld what Englishman, but of a bastard Igo wen, for some boars, - Which she gained , When the Baronet and yourself' have beenl44\ , " PARIS, FEs.l9, Six P. M. " On the 17th, at Nangis, the Emperor beat Prince SCIIWARTZENBEIW : he pursued his successes. On the 18th, in the morning, between Fontainbleau an d 'Winn, he marched against the enemy, who were at Montereau. There was a warm action. The enemy fought obstinately—he was defeated and pursued. We have 3000 prisoners, and one Gene. fel, and five pieces of cannon. 14 No official accounts a the battle of the 17th had reached Paris late this night." throug under the Haute of Count de itiediieu, on his way to Basle: ' Ati-Lt-CHAPuts, Fts. S.—About SQOO Russian troops, infantry, artillery, and Commits; arrived here yesterday, or iu the environs, and set out this morning for their ulterior destination. any owner,—am. bread, would wish it should be otberwealitt STATESMAN OFFICE, TWO O'CLOCK. The reported arrival of a Flag of Truce bas not produced any effect upon the Funds, as the fact is doubted. Omnium for Money has been within a small fraction at 28, and Consols about 704 all the morning. The Steck-Jobbing Fraud practised on Monday is not yet discovered, but enquiries are still going on. The .4kmena and Ephigenia, French (piggies, are taken by his Majesty's ships Venerable and Cayenne. `Sir Thomas TYRWHITT is expected to leave town in a short time for the Continent, as is said, for the purpose of accompanying the Queen of WURTEM• REDD to England. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East-India Rouse, when Mr. THOMAS WOODHOUSE urea appointed Deputy-Auditor, in the room of Mr. TRADER, deceased. JOHN CALLEYy E s q . was appoint ed the Company's Agent at Torbay. Wednesday se'nnight, the 81st regiment, after be ing on board the transports for nearly sir weeks, were landed at lielvoetsluys; and it is an extraor-. Binary fact, that, at the time this regiment was dis embarking, a transport lay on the opposite side of the river, on board of which were detachments of the regiments of Frankfort and Nassau, that were opposed to the 81st at Maids. In addition to the above short statistical accoant of Norway, we think it opportune to quite imam passages frees a pamphlet, entitled " Cabers 1.. marks on the meditated attack on that watery s " lately üblished. The patriotic writer gives a most grati --: fling description of the character of the Norwegian.' is not true that Prince CIIBISTIAN has but lately I ne thither. He was some time ago called , a s Viceroy of Norway, " by the voice of the people to I the glorious and enviable post of being at the head of a virtuous, valiant, and unoffending nation, who had been left to choose between the basest submis sion and all the horrors of war, accompanied by the still more terrible ravages of famine." Bet the Author adds, that no sense of danger will make them acquiesce in any transfer of their allegiasce to Sweden. " Never al any nation display greater courage,# unanimity, amid fortitude, in a contest with enemies of far superior power than the Norwegians did des ing the war with Sweden in 1808 and 111014 altletties: the latter wet by the naval co-operation of asigkiedoi which created a third enemy, who might welt Mats' daunted the efforts of the Norwegians. Bat they even beheld the horrid, front of remise with cam-, posure, Red firmly awaited• that heneflotel change in the politics of their adversarim, of which the futile and versatile conduct of .the ilt.adoised and unfortu nate GL'STAVUS (as be is now called by those who affected to be hie , best aeonsellers and his firmest friends) afforded the surest presage. " Toe Norwegians feat intimately persuaded, the Crown l'rince of Swum 0111100 t promote ' happiness, even if he had a better title to than a system of starvation; they have #1 t during ttirNer fait, and at length reached so near' s to begin to unite and co-operate with real ;efo6nists, on con in her small sails; preparatory to laying her stitutional ground, viewing the incitation through e• larent Ode. The chase heisted an Amerlcaut ensign false medium, and with art averted ; , ye, the answet. asell pendant, end rail oat her guns, but finding the has hitherto been, " No." -When invited to joins AIMS* MI gaining, elm threw her spars, boats, and " a wealthy association" already prepared to your glee overboard, and eat her anchors front her bows, -hand--an "association" professing nothing but what which gave her so decided a superiority in sailing, 'yob yourselves have profes,ed—an " association" that she left the Achatea at the rate of half a mile an m'ade select by a landed qualification, the same as hoer, and ni,ght coming on, obliged Capt. Moanison fot a seat inParliament--an "association" display to bail off the land, the Isle of Bas being about two ing public virtue, rank, erudition, and genius—and Pupa distant. • It' was in contemplation, at one air "association" admirably formed for a nucleus of 'Cue, to throw herguns overboard, close with the national unanimity, yet, under the influence of pre • •Ameriean, and board her. . judice, the answer has still been In refe. At a late hour last night an officer arrived at Lord rence to the first of these invitations, in which union -13ATuo - ases residence, with dispatches from Sir is on the same principle as that on which all ranks, "Gaoling Pitevosx, in Canada. The intelligence he high and low; unite in public worwhip'withOut any brings Is, we understand, of a very favourable nature, invidious distinctions, the Baronet (as already no 'iitki relates; most probably, to the more recent suc- ticed ip my ',Chit Letter) tolls us, " tto nio4 liberal gems on the Canada frontier, of which we have been of the country gentlemt:tt area est rentoly shy of the Ittihad° informed only through the medium of the mob." In reference to the second, be s'.s s, " I see . llimeritan Papers. several attempts amongst you Burdii, liontpckta I A:barbarous murder : WU committed on Monday ". Glob-men, to make a junction with the getttry, but-, 'evening at a village called Newtown, near F enn y - had you tried us first, .end his liftfiesty the People 'Stratford, in Buckinghamshire, on the body of Mr. second, you had done the twined:" Now, not in 'Varsity, an aged man, who kept a chandler's shop / lay any stress on the Baronet's civility to such a in that village. It appears that he was robbed, and , body of noblemen and gentlemen, it so happens afterwards most inhumanly murdered. A Bow- (see Letter X l.) that twice before thillanteden Club street nicer was yesterday dispatched in pursuit of was in existence, the Baronet was personally in. t h e ...e.notratora_ vited, and although on the first occasion he replied in animated terms, as a radical refor,list, he de. dined " to make a junction with the gentry': then associated, and with them to co-operate in "AI Luso siness." Then, again, in reference to the pro. moting of free niscusston, the proreus Baronet, this minute in one shape, the next, in another, bay', 64 Rein a moderate, 1 cannot subscribe to your book plan." Those who themselves are so chlui;r:. Tory large fortunes have been 'made in the Away, during the last Month, by the rise me—but this opportunity was confined to siq eas•—in the course of next Week, how swiwirlos. events oust transpire, which wits pot letylesittiato the pockets of the public in general 0...+40466 to the 'Drawing of the Two Twenty Thoesside kslkit Lottery on Friday, the 4th March. TriESTA.'VESMAN SPIRIT Oi c IORPENDZNCE 17;* gun, and will continue to oppose, all the resistance, • ' which, under the blessing of Providence, the justice of their cause, the warmth of -their hearts. and the 'energy of their arms may enable them 'to offer. Yet, though the Norwegians hare been said not to be apt to forgive their enemies, they will, I am satisfied, cheerfully forget tbeir•sufferings, rendered still more *cute by a consdoianias of 'their being wholly un merited, if the Croy* Prince of SWEDEN shall be able eventually to vainly the:world, that the attempt on Norway has in no imirnib , counteracted the . giorinub and happy effects *lhl 'were so generally, so ar dently, and so reasonably anticipated by mankind." " Under the guidance of the illustrious example fur nished by the late Prhrce Cnatertax, the present leader of the Norwegians 'mill, in defence of the most honest cause for which thse sword was ever drawn, satisfy the Court of Sweden in its own words, that 4 the strength of notions consists far leggin masses of men or rich treasuries, than the impulses which are given to them by patriotism and military honour"' 7M ..2. .:..,~ 1