The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-01-20 00:00:00

The United *toes brit Saranac took poisassion of • prise 11 , n Thursday last, going into Amelia. Florida will be taken posseeinn of by the United States troops. as soon as the frigate John Adams, brims Prometheus and Enterprise. and schooner Lynx dn• i she, w hich were expected daily. There was a ranardir at Amelia, that a British expedition was ittieg stet in some of the West India Islands. for .the ponrposa of taking possession of the Florida,..At Melia the *lost Assorted outrages bare been committed by Aery's troops; several murders have been per petrated by titre with bapenity-- neither life nor pro -forty IMO oak; if within the teach of these free- Seaga and bripods. • • 4.: • { CONGRESS. •, IN SENATE . , Ds& 15. 14IM rellotring Motions were babe tke table* Consideration g—. - . • '- • " -14 Mr. WILLIAmr, of -MhtitelpitC.:Reselika; That the-Coownittee all the 3udie:llo bilnitioited to etwilite whet koviaiens owe twicestiarytiVsfyie ef fect to theleists of the United Stuns; iiithinWitiite et Mississippi. .. ' l 4 • 1316 Mr. Tuipt--Itesolted, that do PI rsidile Abßled .13tatee m . be imeisestettiO; anon telloOnitt lefekt the flesetrtioch inheinstiot is touching the inteastlbs of',-t011 , 1,41 7 0t th e iv* kr.' tiete'ef-Alle late Treeii of Peaim Ategfrilikikeits his tisiteunie blejtistrand thr United Stated' ifittekt ries .034 relem to 'the Itestitiftbie Wf.'Slertii ems' • which has •• ; •-tim.F4r. HOIAPE•ikitIeRKSENTATIVES. Dse. • 15: !MA'S U.AND GALVIMON. The follow in( viiiiitirsieftlitba therm. . _ . ' di S. Alt•iii.4ls .. •r , •‘ . • " *Wane , Report 4s re., the pro f . *save to census iiersons,whislately took peesessiow ef'Ameda blegtraid Goteeiten. " JAMES MONIitOE. is Weiblecten, We. 13;1(07." Tim a illaND OF CEYWN., • It is right that the People of this &entry should be undeceived respecting the boasted- advantages of this new acgolaition. The managemdot, or. rather, we shoild lay, the mismanagement, of the island l of Ceylon, forms a lamentable contrast to the boast. i •fel description which the Ministry give of the coon try itself, and the benefits which they pretend the 'lotion Is to 'derive from it. Though it have some advantages which we shall ,presently enumerate, it Is very far from Win the rich island," the 66 fertile island," the " fioe Island," and, " the veleable island," with accounts 'of which the poor incredelees People of this coun try have been tee long doped and &soled. A pos 'lleetion of twenty yaps, doting every one of which 'they have paid from their pocket. for the *minty 'wince, might have brought themto reason on the Sell4ect. !Ceylon, of all the cisentries teL which the itiodelnisitetlims bare n'ee'ded, is -biter the least ow'''ned. As proof selliciest, we assert, that. the 'People hat' 'ride little progress in the commas arts •ssf life, sod !tone at AU in any that imply the least perigees la * selinetamit. Frireigners meet cow and pick op' the iffy pearls which abound on their coast. digrieeltere Itself is in so low a state, that Aii coun try alone, of all the Indies, is enable. to raise previ sion! sollicieet for its scanty and abstemious popela. Lion. This tiltilits mere than a thousand rhetorical toorishes * from my Lord Castlereagh or my .Lord Ilathurst. Thidensity of the population is not in one half the ratio of any of the civilised nations of Ifindestan, or any other A,iatic country. The bar barity of the ;plash' tants will, however,• scarcely ac count to 161'01 extent for the barksstiOness of their igriculterrs: and 'the. scarcity of the necessaries of life ; and it is impossible not io some measure to sus pect the steillity of the soil. 'Appearances io the latitudes of C. kin are imposing and -deeeitfol. An abundant sdn and moisture clothe nature. is eternal verdure,''Each consists mostly of the indigenous wends. or •useless forests of the country ? . while the useful' plants, mostly exotics, require .s rich soil. The scanty crops of rice; the bad..pepper,., the bad sugar,' the bad coffee,, and bad tobacco of Ceylon, will at least be admittiml is grounds toi. this. . ionjrcture. The bowels of the earth are these morel unequivocally 'sterile than its surface itself, though. this subject, too, has been made the topic of many a senseless panegyric. In the first place, it has nei ther mines of she precious metals, the sernt-metals w nor the useful metals. In the second, we observe, that of all the precious stones, poor 'Ceylon yields but one—the amethyst, the most inferior of . the gems, sod here, unfortunately, of en inferior quality.— Tile nest_ are a parcel of coloured ihrysials, less brilliant and less Valuable — thaw our ibmaion pastes. The subject is too ridicolons, indeed, to dwell upon. Do the foiests produce any_ thing valuable, any oak, any teak wood ? Not. stick, not a piece of timber fit for ship-building, all most be imported, from the largest timbers to the most ordi nary spans. The advantages of the commercial posi tion of Ceylon have been much vaunted of. -They have, in our htimble opinions, been mach ersggent. ed. We even think that Ceylon possesses fewer ad. vantages in this respect than any other port In Asia, which a judicious person would, without meals isms tigation, point to. Besides its own evident defects, it wants a good neighbourhood. The country imme diately opposite to it is one of the most barren and most inaccessible to commerce of all Hiodostan.— China, Japan, and the other countries and islands to the east of ,the Ganges, are too far away for a busy intercourti, and•there neither is none, nor his there ever been any considerable intercourse between them. --Persia and Arabia are poor and distant, led whit they want is not what Ceylon has to gin .* With Europe, our free trotters can tell bow little they beeefited by this only Atistic settlement of the Crown. With the single exception of Mr. Heilaseets,- it would indeed be difficult to point est surfrider of tisk', country. that has tasted of the sweets of the crabq aletce of that ardarabk. island ! • THF, STAT PRICE OF STOCKS THIS I) ‘Y AT ONE O'CLOCK.. •4lask Stock. SIO• .• • .4 OPT Celt! . 'Navy ISSI. S per Cent. Red. 9.-. 11 Wee Roads Intl NS 3 per Cent. Cow& t4l - 1 Aunt 141^ Consoltlbr Ace 4 a mi l Left Ana. • 4 per: COIL 994 NMI 19 R 9 T H 11; IirbTESMAN. . ... .LONbury : ft:glair.' s Amp Aix . 10, fllts.. ff . • 1 : - Y . • Walton received New York Papers to the Stihd of December. theysnateiially strengthen the, double .we expressed on the . nie t iirney of the intelligeteew w kith the SpinsiOVfcasi4ts 4elegicr and . the Com:** on that.most eengeeial aut t eriti, so cnolidentlyead, ~ . esiltingly triinpittiOeetb. 4 Thoeccoants We pelor i lished yesterday of a battle bang beesgainekbj the Independents,. between. *Op* end Vera. Cgs* * , eel nor that the s ievolution is telemphieg in its Chlek 40mi:tea/ter, aSd the compost..el the New Yesk l Papers,. Oridels we are noticingt.ersa,veltich the Cos. 'tier cireftilfi'idisialued , troll f i . fierMe 4 9o3 ring* :gr triads forlreliee , Ing'' tisse,lis t i ~,T' a ,!ti . -,re . pectins t - lAtiri's captite l pisoi l e f feetslas : th e Revoker • ~. tiottie Math*, hen es feeedat,oq o netteithstaadl iog positivii'o4.rtifrtioraistiiirt ii;* ykaftevdell.: The 'icons, t• Cif SI i s A's dereit l ianiionveyell i;i New ..York from Itiiiietnab by th e Extraordniork. Go-, 4.41e ' Ojai lie received, bee it was suspected at the dim that it las spurious, ersd intended to injure the , coma, of• the Patriots. The intelligenco from New etauf of the 27th of Noiember; stater; that Gen. AlserA' was Wilily in'the vicinity of Mexico, with eta army of topoo sole, enjoying the coofideece of the People at' largei •and with every probability of sltillete mews.- - t . ''• i Whillsy bid% Shat the Revolution n Mexico, * • ~•..i.. has terminated wi . liiiNell " fejt and ill-concerted expedition,"' it a iirield be made known that it • was not Mini who seised the Revelation in the Meeks, Provinces, or chiefly kept ii alive. It is now nearly seven years since this Revolution first brake est, quite in the interior "of the country, at a distance from external influence, and coasequently rejected and aided by no one on this side of the Atlantic. It. was, in fact, the result of real suffering sad oppres sion, in Melia), as well as every other section of that unfortunate country. Since that time it has 'existed, notwithstanding the repeated assurances of the Viceroy and Spanish Government to the contrary, equally contained in Extraordinary Gazettes.— As to the situation Of other 'Patriotic Chiefs, and the progress of the Iteirolution in the Veeezeelian ,Provinces —we shall just observe that the real dif- . fierier* between the Royalists and the Plitriols in• Venezuela, at the present • moment, is; 'llstA 'the former possesc. Ave isolated town's, and thfiehioit•ii will, whilst the latter hold Seven provinces ; ;Otrale :their resources and most of their towns, the navigation of all the rivers, and the command of all the cattle. The former depend on enemal supplies, and the latter on those they have in their own hands. — Having fully attained an important, though distant object, by the captive of the two Guyana., the Patriots see returning to meet MORILLO in the rear of Ceraccas, where the decisive battle the Courier wishei, so doubt, will be fought. Advice' were on Saturday received from St. Thowas't, three doss later than the other accnents, which, whilst they re gret the time unavoidably lost by the Patriots, express no deubt es to the issue of the streeele.— Thißoyalists are aiready..seekine safety, and it is well known several, .hsve arrived at Jamaica with thole 11111111110. Letters from Hatannah, of the 6th December, atsitated in "town, and say nothing of bitei's captirei' . .in . the Provinces of Taus also, ether-Patriotic 'sillies are in existence. . We may ' , specs to fled the Southern contestkeeeme very shoofly the subject of discussion in Congress.— Ott the 15th last the FRESIDZiT,.itI pursuance of a vote of the House' of Representatives, transmitted to them communications respecting the motives that induced the Governmentie issue orders for the seizure of Amelia Island end Galveston. - dotiotiOn has also beets made andearried in thi Senate, requesting the PassrevEr tebeve all Papers relating to Negocia dons with Spain laid before its Reese, The debates aohae4ooot4. thee* osuoutue)artioirvialltrbe veedl this country with peculiar interett.. The AMiricii Colonel, • BirmekAo, with the United States ;room; have arrived at Point Petre, preparatory to taking possession of the Island of Amelia. ~'` The_ Paris Papers to the 17th have reached Os. The Law relative to the Recruiting of the Anny continees to be the 'abject , of discussion in. the. Chamber • of Deputies, where opinions appear to be extremely divided. The points Wiest warmly disputed are tht Conscriptive part of the Project, and the Prerogative of the King to move ail !Axil Bodies. The sticklers for the Royal prirstgitive, Abe chief spokesman of whom is M. nu Cowarmtoec, consider it dangeroes that asy military bodies its the kingdom -should be rendered so far local- as to require the enactment a pattieniar - Law te . tillable tke King to march them beyond the limits of. their several Departments. IR was inteasisteet, be said, with the prerogative of the Crown, and might eeentaally.reeder them a Patna messtary Army,. obedient rather to the Law than to the Kiag. W on Sotto' proposed an Ameadniesst, tkat the Teti of the Ana/ shoad be anneal, is it is In En4land ; sod the Baron de Bitdbrit, in support. ing : t,isia-,endenent, remarked, that, each - was the the time of BonallAßTE, and added, that ,if they wag iiii.anure eonstlealienst !hi* the En' ' ingbe .pot to he lea •sa'llima BonAeARTE. This proposition . of the Baron Is muioestionsbly 'good one; flat though the Boustposs can reconcile theaseliati to the Conscription Liws of BoNApARTE Mee' in a time of peace, they, stem little disposed to 7 sabmit.to any-Ither comparisons.:' Their authority, however, appears of very sickly strength, when such o . o.mtalsory meisures are required to raise a few ':lboosand 'men. The Chimber of Peps sat ou Thurs. "Ny, *hen thibßeport'of th otntpittea was nide on tt,e Project 'minding .tbe...P.riesi t ; and' 'discussion wai adjoatned yesterday . :In .convection with .; this tobject - we notice the rircamitanceood e curious tinie it is, tint the liberty whccb - CroWned Despots.are ,gmclouilY dißpond to ,to: She .Press, k Ginty iilksiratesi•by the statement which we mitt in, these Papers, tliefthe Journal of Weimar * ohkb had di : -, pleased the Plillitnotit and beer, rovisi•asiiy sew ,isestded sine. Navalnbar last, 4:10• again appearede belt is compelled in tie first 'number to publish. as! ,4ciftldertsreoloa offenceound a promise or joule beindoek. • whet the Courier agonsestsically cilia " Liberty ! of the rnels tri. ! impact:* over Ili: A rOwsikh I,.qoAdoid Irmo a BrasseislotiinaT which slates, that at the period. of the insurrection at Pernambuco, two French Officers- were arrested in the Brazils; on. Whom were foond important papers, respecting the insurrection, and that they were tried in consequince,condeinued to death and esecited. ~,. Oar Private Correspondent,. at Peru, has trans milted to as some coricial paiiicsibri, which we in ' tiert, of tba insurrection at Lyons in June lasi, and the state of the Southern Dnyer l tt . nents'ofFrapce. It appears from these sloe be" In' trigues bate been carrying on ID Reece to excite in sorrection and disturbance o lt•t , :hy.- the pr..thans of -Revolution or of Bonaraavar•hat by the Priests, Emigrants, and Bourbon' Ethisseries IS the army . ; awhieh have been so sitatneruill i bxerted nearer bawl, c to crests olnitis for :liiifitary intefference and rem* trunqures of coercion- against the Peopb.- , -' 'Theindkpertinoois are .said to be kept.in a tensional' et te of fermentation, fomented . -inieritionally, for . Ai purpose of accusing the inuorent, bsciting riots, that the Arithorities and the : Military may have the glory of •qielling:them, *and ,the hands of .the GO intrement may be fUrther streagthaaeid by accessions of military power, obtained . upon •ihe pretence of Iteceesity. Another nn less dsngero.us furor iipaising over France, like ohs pestilence, in the diffusion and the attempts of religious Witticisms emanating from the Ultra and Priestly Missionaries, who are over. !tannins the Provinces, preaching and stolen din passions Wherever they go, and the authors and sop. porters of the new Concordat---the Imperial's MlA purl., 'which fetters not only the King, but the *Went. Strange instances of the ostrarragance of these fanatical riffles, and the effects produced by them on the public mind at Saintes, Tereascon, and other places, are mentioned by our Correspondent; and if abet he states respecting the protection afforded to these missionaries by the Duchess D'AnctouLtnE, be true, the Salique Lsw, .which the French boast, the Constitution promised by the Charter . , and the Iran ' goillity the Allies pretend to maintain, .. are etrumply preserved in France. " It'Oras- hoped," toys our Correspondent, .under date of :the 10th— ee that the Concordat would be withdrawn and leis .ilearcely possible to conceive the general joy which this hope occasioned, though it rested - On no bitter foundation than the opinion eqiiivric s aYy a:pressed, of M. DE CAZE ; now, however; this., hops is totally vanished, ind the case affords piothee, lareentabli proof, to the many already exhibitedOlibt the King is. not the brat personage in the'kingdotri The tpl Salique does not permit a woman - , to lOgn over France, but the Deehess D'Ascoutial at such a law, while, aided by the Priests nod Emigrants; she can palraysethe King's G overnment , ..-cati !tureen Ambassador of her own chooslngteiNsnd to Rome, andoonclode wititthe Pora - aCrincordircesteriding the power of the Holy See andtheltigit Clergy, .to a pitch. which the POP& hiniselL :neter, ; (44l l 2l.sSf IL* P and iii. alone, if theweetiirotentstrolthstfriest r it • • scud iTiitras, - Nesbit iltittit4ry:Altisalr; bead Vanes' sooner or later: 'to 'the fate df Voietifion- The . . -King wishes to govern Cootitntliknally But it is a twines inidlamentablefact Chit I t ibirty has no official prdtector in France esteptlthe Mirijspik of Polite. and be, isnlesti assisted by thi .Powers, must give op the unequal colt . *, 4.0 tolls"' Con. cordat, it is Buie to pass. 4 111 lidentra gu ball ordered the Commission to tar, iii Report ready . 'Othionday oeM." ' ....** * . The Circular of 'Lord itese sidered Ministerial Members . frsillto mow, intimates that beshiesidassfibrtance'srill oc• copy the attention of ParliadietiihaVlY,ln the Sessioo. Independent of this, the cligemstiatioisfitit being the` last Session of the present . rtoliatentut' will' &sham insole a very foil attendence of . Meriber,v: If MK sisters can obtain an easy °signifies, 'Nitta their pee csniary 'demands, the Session - will be a Avon one..-4 The interest of the Members-sod *tint tountry receive a new 'test speedilly—vie hope boat' sill per font the duty which now urges itself with interitasiog t eams upon them. Violated liberties, oetregid ,1111.1.t5, suspended laws, and a plOodered, impoverish ed nation, crying to Heaven for relief ffotti the abuses, of temporal authority, like Conacienaei will "meek in thunder when the deed Is dotze.". -'. 1 if r Mech palns t has been taki_ est of it, to represent the alrehs in the environs of Lyons, in Jose hist, es as Man. sive plot to overture the "listing Gneeremieet, .14 . however, we eumine the 'natter impartioll7—lf conselkspebtle opinion-1f we sok disietereited mee t who have been WilfteillOS'of the facts as wall-es esr.. seises, sod who have seee the pacts performed by tielrirreilal actors, we "hell nee form a very dir. fententeonetesion. ,On the 11th of jam, about ive in the evening, the ' tocsin sesitiml in 11. common's of the Departmeat of .the Rhone.' Thies which displayed the greateat era door eand . they wen the sealltet number) only for. Dished the revolt with 30 to 40 men each, many of whom were not armed k in ail the rat the instigators could not eacite more than ire to ten each of seeable wretches, the very seed of society, and in • ne - itee common" did the population . rise to take part . the trolt. or five days previously detachments of troopr • •ihr hints observed placed on all the intermediate. • , potato : raid on the. fi rst mond of the tocsin theeesle- • • gtaehmeaii - hastentl to the agitated commeises; slaty • who the parttes assemtiied • were dispersed on the arrival bf The military,, without opposing the least-re. sistanei. That of St. Genii Laval (at the head of which Was Captain ONPIN) was the most considers ! . • Me, but it took to flight on the arrival of an ad. minced-gtrard of four gendirrmes ; a few shots were fired, it is tree, hi this commune, one of the gendormui rind weended, bat this momentary re.- sistance was only owing to its being night when the gendarmes arrived. BefOte seven o'clock the nest morning the most perfect tranquillity was re.establlshed on every pale, and there was :oaths least'vestige of the agitations of the preceding evening. ear, Jan. 1. Face and took Om Such are the literal facts; and we most not lose sight of the circumstance, that the .. .Bepartment of the Rboa is nue that has mosfsuffered from the pe. nary of •sujnistence, which powerfully aided the plot 'or thelostigetora. In the city.Of Lyons there was no crowds, no see. picious meetings ; the fact Is plain—for the armed force had not to disperse one single group. From the morning of the Bth of June, all the garrison of Lyons 4 end.a part of the National Geard, were under arms for the solemnity of the Fête Dieu. The pub lic mind had for some days previously been kept in agitation by theieparts of a conspiracy going on, bet it was Waited for with a calm which proved every one to be a stranger to it; .and when k was learnt that the toisie was esinnderi in different communes, the inhabileate Of Lln'tis (the majority of whom, attract. ed ;by the iirneession, was on the quays and in the' politic placeslretired peaceably to their homes; there was•nii 'other agitation than that of the armed force, which had been pat in motion to Combat enemies whip were oo where to be found. Two events served as pretexts for these Measures,:— • • 1. Oise 1.,a DAV*, Captain of the Legion of the Yonne,. was killed ino street, in trying, as it Is said, to arrest a man suspected. ' 2. A workman of the lowest class was erretted at the Barrier of Valor., and in a working jacket he car ried in his hand was found 200 cartridges. • These are the only facts that can be cited ass ' proof of a Repent conspiracy, and .the imminent danger ran by the city of Lyons. The labourer was `instantly given up to the PrevOtal Court, condemned; and executed without delay. Re never ceased to pro test.to his Judges that be was ignorant that the parcel contained Cartridges;' that a workman at the plaster •quarriei l i whOta he only knew by sight, from having drink *ith .liiin at Abe pubticabouse, bad begged him • • ... _ . to carry. it f or h im beyond the barrier, end who no , away Oen ,be saw hi. stopped. Were there any loom. to believe hi Ibis existence of a conspiracy, :why be . its i*t baste to get rid of a witness who nsighparve been so useful? The Public only saw, in lfiis:pieciPltaiteaecution, a means of imprinting an 14, 1, .4 a:, conspiracy, aid it concluded from the ue easily of fncersing to such means, Mkt there was no real cowsplritcy; indlt is now known what perfidies* • harstletlthis unforturrateond innocent • wombats to l cl. " d 4 tin iotiotro . as, ,Judges•tres - gielth' In It, et 4 . titigaratioe, ; and it tread, That wherever he goes be litecitiA4 'mei before his eyes the pala bloody bead itt .. bisiletila. • . ' . • .. . • • -. •• __ s .Vllistebr'Lf-Daux., who, ever sinew the morning .1 1 . 1 0 leiroatthe almost violence, galloped . though the lotteets, creesedjlni• peweessions, and talked,of no. ; thing. artsisilitera t arrests, itc., was designated by 1 thopehlk . velcs as hiving been connected with them wire l it !i o sne . -. W riguded ell koeW as it tb tbe at eb l: r w s a o s f o t n he e i o n f ili t ffec he p ti rre... pal instigators; two: subalter n chiefs,. condemned. :L siliiiiih:by - cotiieurs - cy, accuse him of having led LI 'lnto*, is promising the co-operation of the Arliflirsot ko :which be belonged, as well as part of the' onion,. Their families loudly pahlish the fact, arid: itts•isid that Gevernment.bas in its-possession pv• *Mee -reefs oil tbe **fleet; to sai, "le will deserved inrch infrivies."—Lz Dr accomplices, or rather him come oat from a 'J~ :~. iv; I !Loyalist Georal.. Ono raisba who had N s ts •, •, • 4, skieni• *Ms Wiled ileitis by d. J; falooiltit &Jo $ ereisky. : ;— • • • . . • •,ttirlrT.Ottisovas or niteivitirrnotrii. • " leb-CSocomiilitho lioailotioo of 'tkollt of &One , ti r voilif4b.:lol-ifitis south, suit,. for: thos,inihroatio* of: tips :House, Age! fror‘,o4Seefolary Snit,. with the doriturtitt ferriskio in it, containing ail the J 00 1 ,4114001! of Eseculive #Lich it is Proper to disclose...o;th "0 1."Mil a r iirO V .-tameN^ kTers Jan. L left S otw o ai ld b le ik ts i : ti ar d b e ; be on e e n ho li f es h r i d s . , • erted flip fate,. wby middle in o S& long o.sfereaee with au Ultie ::::: r had been int 40111 140111 WO 0