The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-01-23 00:00:00

Pr ~-~~~ ~- ~~ ' dressed n yvelf to yew in all circumstances sitifill might iniloence the consolidation of that order of things which was established principally in France, by ) our glorious exploits. Your energy in action, your pined/lice in council, have never ceased to pro duce th - r Most desirable results. " Now 'that the question of private claims on France acquires e critical and decided character, on semen. of the affinities presented by the literal mention of the Convention of November, I could . stet tbitag It right to towel my.opinion from At Monarehs. Monarehs. my Allies, on the mode of considering this boedenanme engagement, so silo prevent its in fraction, and to render its execution possible. " TheasseytiOns of the French' Government are known to you. my Lord Marshal ; my Minister at parls his received directions to communicate to, you the Memmial whirls was dro.n.op under my eyes, eele , ivetellila important question. I invite you to Ss all your attention on the connection of the motives cif right and pukitieal espedieswe,which are laid down iri thica4cument, in support of the principles of ac. commodation„ which can 'lone simplify the compli. coition inherent in the pi)ment of private debts which were Impose) upon Fraoce at a time when it was not easy to foresee their.revelt. • " You, doubtless, appreciate, my Lord Marshal, ell those graver considerations which plead in favour of a system of equitable conciliation : you will bring' ill the warmth of a soul elevate'd to the height of the oceasion toe question, on which depends, perhaps, the repose of France, and the inviolability of the most sacred engagements. - Moderation and good faith have been, in our time, the 'winces cif a healing mild beneficent power; and it is for him who pre. pared sod furthered the triumph, to cause to be heard, in all critical moments, the langtalge of that Same mod,ration, and Othat same good faith. " Itt-this conviction, if I had still a nish to es. press, it would he to see you conducting, with the consent of my Allies, and that of the parties in• terested, the principal part of the negotiation which may be opened at Paris on the question of the pri vate claims, and ou the most equitable mode of de ciding it with the common consent. Receive, Marshal, the reiterated testimonies of my entire esteem. (Signed) " ALEXANDER," AMERICAN PAPERS. r/11024 Tut HERCARTILE ADVERTISER, DEC. 22.) In addition to what was given in last Evening's raper from the South (says the Savannah Republican, of the 10th inst.), we bear that all prize goods which bare been twilight over from Amelia, and bonded in St. Mary'4, were seized by the Deputy Marshal on Monday last, in Spanish properly, amounting to op-1 wards stf 100,000 dollars. The Marshal, in the Pee cation of his duty, met with considerable opposition, but the United Stites officers on that s t a tion assisted him in the seizure, and secured the property. The prize vessel which the Saranac detained was from the coast of Africa, with . slaves, captured by the Nor glans, and ordered into Amelia. We also learn that three of the Patriots, who had been taken and carried into St. Augustine, were hanged en the lst inst. by order of the Governor of that place. [YROH THE SAVANNAH RIMIDLICAN, DEC. ll.] MILITARY MOT EME.N Yesterday morning was received the following Order from *dor-General John Floyd : •' DIVISION ORDERS. " Quadra County. Dee. 4. "SIR, —.having been required by the Governor end Crummier in Chief of the State of Georgia, by his General Order, dated the 24th ult. to furnish from my division a force not exceeding five hundred men, on the requisition wf Major-General Gaines, or tire Officer commanding at Point Petro., and as it ap pears to meet morn immediately the views of the General Government to raise such a force from that part of my command most contigooes to St. Mary's, I have therefore to order and direct you, without dodgy, to cause to be detached and organized, agree ably to law, from your brigade, five hundred men, exclusive (Workers. These will be raised by draft, unless volunteers should offer, in which case they mill be received, and be held subject to the Order of Major-General Gaines, United States Army. I rely with confidence on your diligence in carrying this Order into effect with alacrity, and that the exercise of your vigilance will guard against the trait evasion of its entire execution, in furnishing the full comple ment of men demanded, whenever they shall be re quired to take the field. You will acknowledge the receipt of these orders. Lose no lime in furnishing we rt the same time with a detail of the force in re qvisitioll. 66 I have the honour to be, respectfelly, 66 Your obedient servant, •• JOHN moYD, M. G. " To Brigadier General Francis Hopkins." [ln conformity to the above Order, Brigadier-Ge. neral Francis Hopkins has required from the Ist, 3.3 d, and 36th•Begiments the quota called for by the Major. General. We understand that the nembei of WWII required 'from this city is 200, ozCluarb4rAffid CM. Whether these troops are to co-operate Mita , Major-General Gaines, in indicting punishment I. the hostile Indians, or to aid in the accomplishmelli of the taking possession of East Florida, or any other object s( importance to Georgia, time will soon de. termine.l The Baltimore Advertiser of December 20, says, that letters from New Orleans state that the number deaths by fever l at that place, was 1200. [FROM THE JOSTOH PATRIOT, 01 DEC. 20] IMPORTANT. Extract of a Hiner to the Editor of the Baltimore Patriot, Sated Washington, the 14th of December : " It is mentioned here with apparent autheoticity, that the British Minister, Mr. Begot, has, by cons mound of his Government, entered a protest agaisist our coming into possession of the Florida', by pee. chase or otherwise. I state what I beer, not what I know; such interference can hardly be espected.— The Private Secretary of the President, as. I presume you well know, is a younger brother to him, not ne phew, as has beep stated ; the Secretary is a Gentle man of plessiejaddress, and every way fitted for the station. We give the above as received, but cannot think it will eventually appear that the British Go vernment bare so far presumed to interfere in our taaceras." Z . THE STATESMAN. will justify. The same Paris Correspondent, who transmits the Imperial Letter, says" Count PALDIELA, the Bra anion Minister, is• gone to Loudon, only to pass a few days, end to meet with his family. He will re-' tern at the end of the Month, 'boot : the unto time es the Doke of WEEEtsozos. Every thing announces," he odds, "that the tiegociation between the Coons Brazil and Spain will terminate happily, which is•roodered the more probable, as the Duke Dc Vtitwax*Nuttiz:has received full powers from . his Court. What has resided the progress of the ne gociarion is the adjustment of the double question, about the restoration of the IA Plata and'of Olivenza. —The destruction of Mute: and his beads," con tinues this writer, 66 has prixleced here a great e ff ett The Spanish' Ambassador has testi fi ed the greatest joy. No dimhtis entertained, that before the lapse of a year, all the Spanish Insurgent provinces will '•hertereterne4 to .their allegiance:" We shall soon see if such Metering anticipations will be fulfilled.— They must have very limited ideas of the Itevolotlon in Sooth America, who can believe this. To per sons who hove no better notions on this great and interesting question, we would recommend the pe rusal of the Estract which we this day give from as American Pamphlet on Southern Affairs. LO PUN: FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1818.. We have received a variety of American Papers of some intevest 'end late dates. The New York Paperaof Arend ult. bring into consideration a subject o f g o on importance. Ono of them contains a letter from Washington, which states, though with some appear• ance of doubt, that Mr. BAGAT, the British Am. bessador, had pintested again'st the occupation Of the Florida. by the United States, in whatsoever manner the pos4ession may h.. attained. There is great pro bability that the espected encroachments of titeNotth American Government will lead them Intogreat embar rassments—Florida may be considered is the key of many of the Ile dish West India Islands; but if. every .thing is to be regarded as our concern,we may as well plunge into the South American contest at_once, and boldly venturing on " this sea of doubts!' by one act of British magnanimity 6 6 eud them." This reported act of the British Minister is not, howevir, credit. ed, nor are we led by the tenour of the Paassnmes Message to anticipate any such disagreement between America and Great Britain. General } :LOTD, corn• mending iu Camden County, has ordered out SUO men from the districts contiguoos to St. Mary's ; and to be placed ostensibly under the orders of General GAllas. Whether the Indian war, or the seizure of East Florida, is to find employment for these troops, we are left to conjecture. Two Dutch Mails have also arrived. Thp Papers by this conveyance attribute the Duke of WELLSNO• TON'S recent arrival in England to caws of the ut most importance. Count GOLTZ, late Commissary- General of the War Department. is to be indemnified foc the loss of his office by an Embassy, or amicable lbanishment, to some German Court. The work of M. SCHEFFEnt for which that Gentleman is now un der prosecution at Paris, being calculated to mite strong feelings of uneasines at the continued presence of the Army of Occupation iu France, is rigorously searched for in the northern departments, and every copy sent off to Paris. An article from the Maine states, that the inhabitants of Frankfort had de manded of the Legislative Body an account of the arrest of Colonel Von•MasserinActi and M. Faux. DfSPORTI2. A courier, litely dispatched by the British Resident at Constantinople, has been mar dared near Mosel, and his dispatches' seised. A nember of agents from the Pacha of EoTes are said to be now busily employed at every capital from mirth to south of Europe, in prosecuting, on his be 4balf, some objects either of a commercial or political Were. Paris Papers to the 1 20th have come to hand. The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies on the Con cordat assembled on Saturday, when the Duke de RICHELIEU, M. !AIRE, and PORTA LIS attended the meetiug. Nothing is stated respecting the result of this conference. The new powers and wended ad vantages to be given to the Priests and the Catholic Church by this Concordat are beheld with the utmost abhorrence by a large portion of the French People. The project is the work of the Duchess of AsGond LIME'S faction. Even the Port never aMtde such propositions. The mysterious circumstance of the murder of M. FUALDE4I and the preparations for the trial of the persons implicated, constitute the domes tic subject which chiefly occupies the attention of the French People. Madame Manson's tondoct, under the suspicious that attach to her, is as perplexing as . ever. ......wm.-- But a poor woman's secret is a trifieto the Political As the Courier had volontered a strong tirade in mistifications that seem to be carrying on. The Pros- favour of the continurd imprisonment of the EVANSEI, siatiCouticillor of State, M. JORDAN, is said to have we looked for a corresponding orimment on the li fully succeeded iii the negotiation which he was en• beration of these men, and another ealogium on the joined to open with the Austrian Government. It is' humanity and political virtues of Lord Stowes'', added, that the purpose of this mission is the firm including the " deep discernment" of the Police establishment of good order and public tranquillity ; Knight, who arrested the unfortunate prisoners.— words, of course, which may mean any thing, and But the Courier has all of a sudden become silent on cover any thing. It is better understood however, t hi s " momentous subject." With the escape of the that the object of the Prussian Minister was to destined victims he has lost his cue. Ile has there engage the concurrence of the Court of Austria in fore gone back to a subject with which his memory certain measures for the regulation of the German i s better aitietainted—to the Parodies. This is to Press. The task of M. JORDAN was probably not a gra tify the same rancorous feelings of spleen hard one. The possessors of power, are supposed to a n d disappointment *Melt the persecutors of have a pretty strong fellow-feeling as to whatever cit.- innocence and freedom seem doomed to experi- COMStaileff may touch the nature and eatent of their ence. The Public have witnessed the noble subscrip authority. It is therefore, •not unlikely that they don of the Duke of BEIWORD and the Marquis of should profess the same creed upon the dangers to be 'Femmes to Mr. Hone. The sanction of the illus. apprehended from the free impression of popular seri! trious House of Boma. to the protection of priori dements, and may readily come to a perfect understand- pies of freedom, and the cause in which the best ing upon the system best calculated to keep it down. feelings of Britons, as well as their hereditary at- It is announced that Austria and Prussia were never tachments, might be espected to be most warmly en so closely united as at the present moment, and it gaged, was not likely to be withheld, when the test is inferred that all dissension in the Germanic Diet of honourable and patriotic sentiments was so widely will be at an end. Many of the Germans will pro- given. The House of Roma., so identified with bably be of opinion that this intelligence forebodes no resistance to tyranny, and endeared' to Britain and good to the cause of public liberty in Germany. to Coastitotional liberty, has on this, as on all other From Warsaw we art Informed. that the Polish occasion', testified its hereditary love of .freedom in treoPas bitiletto maintained by the Russian treasury, the generosity of its character ; and.when men like are henceforth to be paid by Poland kerma . it 15 the Duke of Morons) and thefslarquis of Taverrocw, -conjectured that an einem* of about. 40 millions of distiegeished less by their illeetrieu rank, the highest Iglus will thus be incurred by thutifter kiligclien.— in the rea Insi Abate by the maiwent qualkies with • hich ITtini is I part of the advantageous avis free system they adorn it, give the sanction of t h eir names to which the Poles are to enjoy from the establishment any measure, little doubts may be entertained of its of the power of the great " Liberator of the North" juslice and propriety. The light in which the late pro in Poland and in Europe. • " ',Cations have been viewed by the most intelligent as Its connection with this notice of Russian inea• well as the most interested persons in the kingdom, sures, we shall direct the attention of our Readers may be seen from this subscription. The Courier to the document, and certanly ti remarkable one it again, with Matchless impudence, represses great in-, is, which is communicated t is privet* letters from Pa- dignation at the subscription of the Duke of Bate lie of the date of Suudayawd Monday last. • It was T.ORD and the Marquis of TAVISTOCIL, as if ,brae` some time ago stated that she Emperor of Russia had ;noble Personages, or any other discerning part of the addressed a letter to the Duke of WeLtattorort, community, could experience say other feelings than proposing to his Grace to mediate between France those of contempt at sect dissumites. The imbecile and her private creditors among other nations, parti- fallacy of • the arguments, built on the approbation of colarly those of Preemie, whose demands were the profane writings, is beneath detection. Host most argent and Widest. This statement is aethen• I himself disavowed the object of ridiculing the , I 1 Scriptures. Yet the Courier meditate Se take his ticated by the prodsimien of the Metter of t he Rus sian Emperor to the Duke,however, a copy o f w hi c h we have I stand, for be lets no ether, en this rejected ground. inserted. His Imperial Majesty, it will be observed, i The writer of thew Pion valtortalion s, I never recurs to the pages of the Cou rier for a prac recommends that the -utmost indulgence should , ill tical est ratl on of th e purity of its present decetines. be shown to France. Th y motive for this m iom- 'lt would " disturb the harmonious proportion." of meudation is not very apparent. Bet it probably Isis argument, and probably the gravity of some of his appears that thuogh France-is moth depressed, she is readers, were be to do this. - 4 , -•-. ••• : ~..- • of tn. ~1111.4 States, and is understood to be the productiue of ilb individual in the cusifidesece of the Ateerican,Gotern. meet. Independently, however, of its claim on see attention, as a poblicalion proceeding from such * quarter, and illustrative of the vie AS of Americo, the knowledee which it displays iss South American at: fairs, and the able and erasers(' views which it takes of the contest with :pain, recommend it to the par. Ititular notice of the English Reader. With respect to the cause a the South A mei t, cans, the writer observes, Thee are slow. a s we once were, nobly contemns( egoists. opt •re , sors mist. waders, in a causessuctified h$ jcstiee, in demote Mire just than oar: —for where zer had one reason to caw.. plain,theyhatite. thoustiod." In a note new riter (Arose observes, 66 I carte.' refrsitied from coveting lists the question of the right of the Colonies to declare thetas selves independent of Spain. Never was there a cease more easily supported. On the side of Sinsin there is nothing but lawless force. • On an ellen*, gemination *of the English writers against our right **declare ourselves independent of the British Goo reestitnent;' i find these things distinctly admitted by `them as incontrovertible I—That the relative c0n417.. Ben _of the iolooy to the colonising state, is Ind the same as that of a mere province, partakes more et that of allies, and having distinct interests from the Mother Country, may lan fully throw elf its oath°. rity, which a province under no circomstalites As the Colonists were not conveyed to distant coun tries in order to be made slaves, or to be subjected ti the peesi , hliess or oppression of "the parent state, If they thought themselves closed to such treattneet they might renounce their allegiance, claim insfs: pendence, and apply to any foreign Commonwealth for aid." These are the very mords of one of the ablest and most strenuous advocates for Gieat Bd. tails. It entered the head of no one at the time to argue that nothing would justify the revolt of the Colony. We believe the right of the Spanish American., to establish their independence, is not seriously called iss question by persons of any consequence either in this country or America. The absurd paragraphs which occasionally appear in home of our Papers, by way of return for correspondent Enna deeds. can mu*. lead no one possessed of the least penetration. Th I only qoestion is AS to their ability to eitahlish their independence. The doubts which a few people is this country still entertain on this subject. are chicer attributable to ass ignorance of the silt' resice between the state • of the N..w World aid Europe. " to contrasting," says the America's writer, 66 the of. forts of these People to throw oil the Spanish yoke s with our own efforts, and with those of other isatimic we shall find that on this score there will be s o reason to . despise them. • * * • • There are massy things in the histdry of our struggle:of which we have urn much reason to be proud. 7 1Ve had tnattg &nub., to encounter a mongst ourselves; nut of a population of two millions Red a half, it was withllts greatest difficulty we could raise itsconsideralsh• ar mies, while their supplies were always deficient.- - A contest, which, if we hid united, if the vigorous had fought, if the rich hall furnished means, if all had persevered with constancy mill firmness, to act their parts, would soon have terminated, was pros meted for seven years, and with the aid of a power. fel nation. We ought to make some allowance f the South Americans. The iccidents of our revo lutionary war, do not authorise us to speak with contempt of the efforts of a People, who labour sa. der a thousand disadvantages, which slid toot neces sarily belong to our situation. The contest in !South America has already lasted 10 years, with a variety of success, but its general progress has been retarded in the same manner as ours, by the pro.rt t of re.. conciliation. Before the formation of the Constitoo tine, by which the Colonies were placed on an equal footing with Spain, the Patriots were every where successful, by this they were lulled into datigeroes security, until they found that, instead of a ratifica tion of this instrument, which had been the means el restoring Ferdinand to his Throne, this ungrateful Monarch, eoddessly• threw all his disposable troops into different portions of the Continent, and directed all his effort - . to reduce them to absolute subjection. lie paraded a system of cruelty and extermination unparalleled in the history of the world; the monsters who perpetrated these atrocities, will be held up in the darkest page of the bloody • and monkish reign of Ferdinand. It is not surprising that the Patriots Ishould have experienced reverses, it is set surprising ' , that in the elitist of these scenes •of horrid corsage they should not have bad time to establish every where well ordered Goiernments.-:-Bet we find that they are 'gain regaining the ascendancy, even where the Spaniards sprarect at first to tarry every thing liefote . them. • Notwithdanditig the fa brications of the enemies; of the Patriots; stubborn 'facts prove to us that they are in the lull Bile of secs 1 0112. ill the nit Provinces of Granada, Vetressets„ land Guyana, the Royalists have little wore this a right foothold on the coast and in the cities, obis 'all the interior acknowledges no subjection, bet is. continually sending out parties of armed mete, which, like our Militia, cannot be long retained in a bedis or'may not be . .efficient in fronting a regular disci pliant force, yet meat ultimately destroy the enemy in detail. The contest in this part of South America Can scarcely- be doubtful ; a cauntry asoreestensio• than the Old Thirteen States, inhabited by two slits lions of People, scattered over its vast surface, caned ,be subdued by a few thousand foreign temps. Thetes l in feet, perish on the sea coast, wittily/it daring lo penetrate the inferior, while the Spaniards welsh! make Ins believe, dist because they have taken a few est' time toasts, the country is therefore subdued. If " a inconsiderable territory of Holland or 51,11teria.. could resist with sitcom, why may not coutitr iell twenty times their estent,. resist invaders who 04, cosopelled to traverse an email of three ther m miles ?• The conquest of sveh countries is a re* madness ; Spain may send armyafter armpit esecetio• era to be destroyed, w hile the G o loairs will lvt ever day gathering fresh ttressgth aid resoludeniand 401 0 Mem MAMA P N j l arki sy of t their go tioto *pin I Ni! h of a m O&M , with a paseloo •! i"!P DEA Rich's+ for Us trannsh down I SoeCPI for Gil Po R Winter FA L pocket, Londot on the The re water i special pellent -• • ' "- - . v.4151. 7 17 "" . "‘rr -i ;.- ,•-'w..C' ~ _ -A ' •t • • „,,A, -:;-•--,•,•,-,4:.,'"il THE STATESMAN . s , . YRICE OA STOCKS THIS DAY At 0,11.: o'elAk11•1 still in a condition to recruit her army, and that the Alli t 4iltB ar soUrit ;ii.fgal k -, 4 ',. aiiii Honk Stork 491 5 per Ceat. Karr 103.1i1 105 - 'LAI ..) -Ir.-4 A ' fll lit NAN 3 periretst. lied. ROM lama iso fi d, to/ Kg - advecatiqi.ht . ussian claims Iroald not p1....*0 The following la au tract from eh intervitint k,lo p 3 yet Cont. emir& WA 794 I V eiti tk 2 in • imalikinii .. in France. V(e 1111 1 o.rra irla rie N d Pamphlet on the affairs of S.;ath America printed • • MAI" Cipleiblo for Ace. OM 901 1 4 , • • ... .0 I per etest.ilo44 ni s 0 9911 Eleirerpter Hitt. 19 h. whelline • rof WEL,Lisorlhas isocepted OAP, a Letter to " James Si roe, President of the cite! *r , . • .‘ • - 4 1. -- ' ',, '.. 4. EYTD:OOl.9t.rk- . - shodlition.. . 'titer to Mk:Grate is, seignientiy , S tates," bearing dal 13th fetoher, , mad Ifsbiell published at the offi of the . Nattird • ty of 9 ' 4l' .-'. . c ... ' f, Carrirrir , rod 18 t•C"" tr Y' strett tattering. There is more of 'Royal and di plomatic .. . zen of Par i s •Washington. ft speaks, we are informed, the scud- their II . - ildree N kilt lb " the history of the -- rr - - - meats of the great body of the People of the Ufile94 . Nolo 0, . • - a_ _ _a_- ----11:....a1....a f ~ ..i. amain Sew, r. Si id ass I reds This ichei d Di hnu London - pie mei compte a cocoa The Ki the Mil or send may So shipped ltsm —A of the of sin bosit, Gowen good ceased] each 11 terra* only ti times i %JUAN( were a this to of con 1 to the , Num 13 • WZI Seni o r berty, • (> Mal sifted tleiam • • • . . ■ I 4 . I ~r T A &-' - t 7 ~, t ~ t. • 1