The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-08-02 00:00:00

V I I ¶l' SOUTII AMERICAN PAPERS. CAlrrii “:Ev 1, iusE 5.—A ship which anchored yesterday evening off the poet of Santo Domingo, haring sailed from Saida Martha oa the '2.1 inst. has communicated to us the following:— " That place, far from having received any rein forcements from Spidn, or from any other quarter, as . . has been propagated by those who wish sach to be the case, has h•on entirely abandoned. • " Thirty soldiers are the whale that compose their garrison, pith 10 wider the command of an Otficer of the name of Martines ; they have not one rial, and sthithersnever they wish to go, misery awaits them. Notwithstanding all this, the Capt.iii-General, mis led by a false idea of our rPSOUT req and intentions,; deceived by the inglorious successes uhich their troop?. have obtained over a few defenceless and deserteif towns, and forgetful of our renewed operations in the )ear 11412, Hatters himself with delusive prospect% sail vain expectations, and in his delirium has threatened the English inhabitants of this place with the confiscation of their property, if they come here, or in u hatever part they may be, extending also hit threat to Britiih vessels, if such visit this port." ati . Lima Gazettes to the Ist-of Apr ' Marti Marti ceived, and in one of them is given patch from been re- General Bsgagoitia to the Viceroy of exice, detail. ing the paarticolars of the recapture,by the Loyalists, , under Colonel Don Juan Rimirez, of the rich city of Cusco, and also of the province of Arequipa, herb , ' ing again declared in favour of Ferdinand VII. Foot, Irigates from Buenos Ayres were cruizing on the 1 ;oast of Peru, for the purpose of intercepting an es. pedition expected from Spain. 1 Arr. DIM • • Lisbont 0 O O ...... Malta ..... 1 O . Holland 1 PRICE OF STOCKS THIS Mink 3 per Ceat. Red. b7l 3 per CPR OHM. Me 4 per Gent. 7261 b per Gem. hurl 11163 DAY AT ONI (1 CLUCK. . I,,sig. And. 144 9-16 . I I India Bonds 2 d ftelbeleffKill. 1 p nossisio Couloir for ACC. 541 THE STATESMAN. rt t *, - - ,,Mitsfsters have received dispatches • from Lord CASTLEREAGH at Paris, it is supposed conveying the in it resolution of the Jury of King, and Ministers it Paris as to the residence and trarstment of Nano- L EON BONAPARTE; and we understand a Council is to be held to-day to deliberate -tin the best manner of carrying that resolution into o.ifect. We thought all these points had been 'herded before, for we have been told that Admiral %Byrn, as Admiral on the station, had officially gotified to the French Emperor the determination a the British Cabinet respecting him, and that Sir licsraT BoNsuitir, Under Secre tary for the War Department, who had gone down to Plymouth osi this matter, is expected in town to day, with a remonstrance from the Ex-Emperor against being sent to St. Helena. Bat our modest and unassuming Ministers in this country, may have been-belied in this respect, and may have been all this while—during which the man who has puzzled them and all the Powers of Europe se much, has been rocking about on our shores,—in as utter igno. ranee as to what was proper to be done in regard to him, as the veriest and most bewildered speculator on the subject. But Lord CASTLEREAGH, and the Con gress whom we have paid so well to enrich themselves, to tear the jewels of Empire from the Crown of Ni. *OLSON, and place them on their own brows, have instructed Great Britain how to act towards this ter r r of arbitrary Sovereigns !—they have meted out the quantum of generosity to which the proudest and most humane nation of the earth is to show to a fallen foe who has thrown himself on the justice and mercy of Engtand That England, which dares not take tim into her hallowed sanctuary even as a prisoner, though he has declared his political life to be termi nated, but is, as report says, to gratify the un quenchable revenge and ambition of the enemies of a fallen man, by conve)ing him to a desert island in the midst of the Pacific Quail, and there making free wets prisoners also by watching over this devoted victim !-0 land of freedom, and of just and equit able laws, where now is thy fearless magnanimity, thy generosity to thy enemies, the protecting influ ence of those laws which give liberty to the slave, and justice to all ? NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, the man who shook every nation in Europe but thine own, is a !only suppliant on thy shore, a suppliant as much to thy justice as thy. mercy—end yet you dare not re ceive him. We may well wonder at what we daily see. But we cannot believe all that is stated on this subject. It is said that our Government, acting on the principle which seems to govern all the actions of the confederated despots on the Continent, appro. hensive of leaving NAPOLEON the disposal of so large a sum of money as he is said to possess (only two hundred thousand pounds, not a very great matter after all to one who has hers an Emperor,), tve resolved on bereaving Was of the effects which his fallen fortunes have left him. We say we cannot believe this—we cannot believe that the Bri tish Government could be guilty of any such act, for - cannot conceive any thing more unjust, cruel, or ;, than loch an outrage on private property, on imprescriptible right of a man who has volunta sought the protection of British law. Upon what Ind is this protection refused him—upon what mil fit-Calm:in WitTLAnks - arrangement to be I LO. We ripeat ) tharNistolEON SUtIVIChI/eii On + - Inn k - l4B Ci rope II / 4 ; the is • My 51 ---..., growl 0 0 .611 vivlat LONDON: 'WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1815. E. rei.Sf y'S :kel s Cna s ... • Cu hug 14 London. is for ord er nab ; Ifce rvir t i Henderso : lira, lig Maim. I the At, :9 Majeu ) ) q lkisjeity i olio, Pe r , —Sailed Li smooth. • Friends ti rd the For. r, and .ll ty Maio Ilarr4, to of blobbff, liars oflbeia era 3 8511, Et nrp e 4, Elia molly 4, w oe . hflyer 4, Nnr abe:b 8, !Corti, ails I, Ito ! I law 3, Eques. hers, aad Ova. poll tee slot. 1 iew musical Irought oot, 1 se from be. rely humour toily aoi. Ward, Its, [age is auy 411. In tits er, the par. ly drawn.— j :b pore per. t Theatre of it be over. 1 of the ex urstand hal 4y dialogs is said sni to compact' 1 Performer their low, it and 4. of the lien 1 ew of Mrs. Itif tO awry rd by, Fre. by play at tiniature of for the pie. it gives !in hn, throagh him for fl.t fiat Dashag er the too e rood thief The yak, it Mr. Han. he was very sung with RLoire per i.e and pro. r this night ad it will be I - I be passed le ARTE 111 per• the humani. Meld in nor ailed Ma? M unlace, lot t o 11544. IMMitted I in 1/arch, ',ing to 104? was pasQi [son—at nG G co Iva i• DIRGE 10 • snuot bolo PARTS I%lo' abroad. • lan, an Of. MP the Cm. the contet by a youi4 neighbour one of 01 from lid rr, mt Owe intelligent! y, that, act If the hap! as Intertol !I thus P"' young Ger f, and with' Balmd that although hr ring in th r France' in the dot its has v" they h" le, and ete suit.; onsists tattrtio P'' misted h . ' I tied (P. ! 'stuns. , ' a thi) • ' TLIE STATESMAN. the understood condition of being taken to England, tied being allowed to remain there. .Will Capt. MAIT LAND feel justified in honour iu giving him up to a destiny different from that which his premise of (inking Nirotrost to England gave the latter reason to expect ? —But Captain MAITLANo must obey the Orders of his Government. NVe know not exactly what are the rights of a King, but have reason to suppose they are not inferior to those whom they call subjects. N trorEON has been ackiwe !edged a legi timate Sovereign by his present persecutors, and is the father of a Prince, Who may one day avenge his fate; in requesting permission to reside in this ceun tfy, he desires to become a subject of the PRINCE REGENT Of ENGLAND, and to conform to the laws of oar land. Shall•it be told that the Patece REGENT of ENdLANO refused to accept the voluntary sub . . missitni of the ConqUerer of the Continent, and assumed a power over the 'person of this sup. pliant at his Throne, which the laws of this country did not give him, and which no este. blished law whatever can justify ? His Royal Highness's mind must revolt at the Counsels ebich would advise him thus to compromise his own and the national dignity. Security may demand such a sacrifice. We deny it. The security of Great Bii lain can never be purchnird at the price of its honour. Great Britain that defied NAPOIAEON in the zenith of his power, when he rolled the cloud of subjugation from the Southern ,Peiiiiisula to the wilds of Russia, does not require for her security that the Man who is now almost frieAless on her shores, and a captive in a British ship shall not be allowed even to inha bit one of it er prisons, but shall he "'‘fixed like a rock amid tile watery roa r."—The idea of our security demanding this extra-judicial proceeding towards an Individual, now rendered harmless and apparently disgested with his own country, is absurd, and car ries nothing with it but fear, founded on injustice and the most settled malice. As for the States.of the 'Continent, their best security will be found in the resolute assertion of their own rights against all in vaders, and in the respect which their Sovereigns shall pay to these rights.. This also will be the best security of these Sovereigns themselves. if they continue the career of injustice and contempt of national and individual right which they condemn. ed in the fallen Emperor, it will siot be the sending • of NAPOLEON to St. Helena that will save them fro e his fate. See the example which this conduct to conquered or denounced Sovereigns holds out.— Do the banishing Kings and Emperors decree this act of vengeance, as a precedent worthy to be tot- ! - -- lowed in all subsequent cases of conquest or ex- New York Papers to the 17th of June seated yesterday. They state that some of the Indien im pulsion that may happen ? Let weak Monar ch, tions continue the war, although they have•been np beware of establishing• such a precedent.-- prised of the peace. The extraordinary rise of the What would these Sovereigns and the friends of Mississippi, which has overflowed it bunks, and Royalty have said, had NAPOLEON sent the Em- rendered pursuit difficult, is supposed to have en • • °twice(' them in this course. any or of IusTRIA or the King of PRUSSIA , o r even c - • ' any inferior Legitimate, whom he overcame in battle, The Lotto MAYOR ordered the price of bread to be continued at 11F" the quartern loaf wheaten, and to end their da) in a dungeon or on a desert ? snd • • - household 100. what may yet be the fate of Loess XVIII. and the BONAPARTE...-- 46 How the mighty are fallen!"— Princes who are to perpetuate his dynasty, if Sole- NAPOLEON, the Emperor of France, that Potentate reigns who may be driven from their thrones are to on whose behest the fate of Continental Europe at no distant period depended— !he founder of the Cnn. slderation to heads that are now wearing crowns an be so treated in their adversity ? We leave this con. no System—the champion of the liberty of the d seas—has surrendered unconditionally to the British dealing forth fate to all not equally favoured by for. navy, and cast himself upon the hospitality of the tune; for we have seen, and some of them have of most powerful, the most constant, and the most late felt, that reverses may come, and that the " divi- generous of his enemies. This most extraordinary character is now on board the Bellerophon, oft' the nity" which they boast cannot " hedge" them so well from calamity as the affections of those whom their English coast, awaiting the decision of the British Cabinet, by which his fate and future destination are divinity would set at nought. The wave that to be decided. The letter of NAPOLEON to the " rolled not back when CANUTE gave command," PRINCE REGENT is characteristic of the man; it is paid as little respect to BONAPARTE. short, comprehensive, and admirably adapted to its Let us not forget whilst thus canvassing the power purpose; it is the appeal of a fallen enemy to a great .of conquerors over their prisoners, to admonish them and magnanimous ir? and yet it is calculated to produce more effect people: it contains nothing cring *of what one of the hest legal authorities of our land in his favour than the most abject servility : it dis hes laid down upon this subject. . 7 Ike BLACK. arms all resentment, it humbles the proud, and fills norm says,!'" War is itself only justifiable upon ! the mind with wonder at the instability of human principles of self-preservation, and therefore it gives ' greatness. Had lioNeeAtere been able to set limits no other right over prisoners than merely to disable to his ambition, he would never have suffered this !complete prostration of his power. Had he possessed them from doing harm to us by confining their persons —much less can it give aright to kill, torture, abuse, common prudence he could never have fallen so low. is true; but if lioNaeAterE had been able to set plunder, or even enslave an enemy when the war is li m i ts to his ambition, he wonld never have mounted over." The war was over, or ought to have been over the throne of 'France ; had he possessed common the moment BONAPARTE abdicated the power against ptudence, he could never indeed have fallen so low, which the Allies said they made war. Lord CASTLE- and for this palpable reason, because he would never REAGII has limited it on oar part to the surrender o have risen so high. It was his unlimited ambition NAPOLEON—he is, therefore, by this very act, a that made him Emperor of France, and his disregard usl common prudence that laid Europe at his feet.— prisoner of war, if a man, who surrendered as he did, To the reflecting mind it will be clear that his rise should be held a prisoner at all. ! and his fell are to be traced to the same cause.— We yesterday mentioned that his Empress is still (Leeds Mercury.) attached to him. We have to-day in private letters At Hereford Assizes, last week, in the Special from the Continent, s confirmation of what we have. Jury cense, the Earl of JEnsEr V. SmiTli, on which a property worth nearly 200,0001. is dependant, a for some time suspected—she also is a prisoner. She has special verdict was taken, finding facts which were been separated from her son, who is now called the principally admitted on both sides, the legal effect Prince of PAnsta and is confined under what the of which is hereafter to be decided on argument be. fore the Court of King's Bench. It is an action in French call Surveillance, at Baden, thirteen leagues which the Noble Earl disputes the validity of nu from Vienna, where she is permitted to have no corn. merous leases granted by the late Lord VERNON, who munication with any one but the Governor, was tenant for life of the property in question, under ' We have no French Papers to-day, and deem it a . teasing power. The only fact which was submitted unnecessary again to discuss the contents of those re to the Jury, and upon which the parti e s cou ld not ceived yesterday. I agree between themselves, was, whether the lease under which the Defendant claimed to hold the pro . Yesterday being the first day of the new quarter perty, was in conformity with the usual and sic:. of the transactions of the Commissioners for•the Re. customed form of granting leases on the estate in ques no purchase li on , an d thi s was f oun d by t h e J ury i n favour of the duction of the Nati ona l . D e b t , as u s u al, was made by them in the Funds. To-morrow they tenant, and was accordingly embodied in their special will begin with purchasing 90,0001. according to the verdict with the other facts upon which the parties diminution admitted under the new arrangement with ' were agreed. Es regard to the Sinking Fund. It is supposed that this , On Saturd a seitinight, as T. G oo dl a k e Esq. of change in the daily co n tracts for the public account,. B en h am , near %Vantage, sleeks, was trav elling from will have 4 considerable effect on the Stock-market. his seat to the latter place, his rig was unfortunately Yesterday a Common Hall was held at Guildhnll,: overturned, by which accident his thigh was broken, for the election of Sheriffs, when Virseeless ki rot, and he was otherwise so much bruised, that, we are sa erge say ) feint hopes are entertained of his re , Esq. citizen and cooper, and Ttsossu froi csorp co Esq.-citizen and clothworker, wore duly *gold; 11 Ma. WI DD ING TO N'S SECOND LETTER TO THE LORD MAYOR. - MY LORD MaYoa,—As your Lordship did not condescend to notice my Letter of yesterday, I have reason to he mortified at your objection at the Com mon nail this day, to my moving the Resolution I had candidly submitted to you► Lordship respecting the banishment of NAPOLEON BONAPARTS to Helena. The time, however, is not far distant when the still and certain voice of reason will be heard—when the Publicist and Historian will recollect how odious is the character of the Emperor LEOPOLD, for detain ing RICUARD 11. returning from the Holy Crusade— the liberality of the Continental Powers towards our CHARLES H. and his brother JAMES—the urbanity of our own ancestors towards the pacific Lord Pro tector RICHARD, and the Corsican Chief, PASCIL PAOLl—with massy an illustrious example from the pages of antiquity, and form an awful contrast with the extraordinary conduct of the Ministers of his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT towards the unfortunate Sovereign of Elba. In thus claiming en inherent right for my Fellow. liverymen, I have discharger! my public duty ; c temporaries and posterity will do the main your Lordship's humble servant, Loudue. Aug. 1. S. Fk;RRAND WADDINGTON. x..., '1 arf ArTESIM AIV OFFICE, TWO O'CLOCK.. • NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Major EIROWWIttoo, son of General BaolVerettic, arrived at Lord 13sritunsr'it Office this morning, Ear.motrrn, JULY 30.—Sailed his Majesty' s ,. with dispatches from the Governor of Ceylon, bring. Castilian on a cruise; Duke of Kent packet, lug an,ocrount that the %hole of that Island is In the worth, with a Mail for Li-bon ; Arnoricen brag possession of his Britannic Majesty. Two English per, and Swedish brig .Rokgheteen, for London. and four native regiments, amounting to upwards of • Dcm., Auo. I.—Arrived and remains for 4000, and the Candian army, consisting of about the Neptune, Cowham, from Havanna!' ; 6000, were engaged, when the King of Candle was sloop of war from a truise, and remains.—/ taken prisoner, and all his troops. The sceptre and and sailed for the River the Elizabeth, sword of the King, together with the colours, are from Mogadore ; Sally, Phillips, sad Eliza, Br( brought by the Major, and the sceptre has since been from Plymouth. sent to the Prince Regent. The Major came from l'oarsnouru, AuotTsr I.—Arrived his Alsip !) Ceylon in the Africaine Aloe to the Cape of Good ship Ringdove, from the Downs; and the Hope, and from thence in the ..Nriger frigate, in four traosport, from Gibraltar.—Sailed his Mei N , months from Ceylon. shill . SmAiger, for Guernsey. Before the Major left the island, news had arrived Pr.vuourn, JULY 31.—Arrived his M a i ct , there that an insurrection had broken out in the shit Acteon, Wanderer, Pheasant, Rolla, Mahrattas, but he brings no particulars of the af. vian, and Bloodhound, from a cruise. —Sailed fair. Majesty's ship Vanguard, 74, for Portsmout' When the Niger past the Sound, at Plymouth, he ' RAMSGATE, AUGUST I.—Arrived :the Fri was led to understand that BONAPARTE was still on Caiter transport's; from Ostend.—Sailed board the Bellerophon. max, Apollo, Union, Samuel, Neptune, I • transports, with troops, for Holland. Hem, JULY 31.—Arrivel the Waller. Captain from Greenland, with 6 Ash. 411 seals, and . l6o butts I From Captain H. we learn the following prirticulars cess of the ships belongiaA to ibis port :—Aurora 3 thers 1, Cato 6, vro, 3, Duncombe 11, Everthorpe hero 7, Gardner and Joseph 2, Gilder 4, harmony 4 rat* 5, Eggiuton none, Friendship none, Hightlyer Manchester I,old Manchester 5, Mary and t lizabert Briton ?, PerseveranCe 1 ,, Prince of Brazils George 2, Richard ?, Silets4; Thornton 9, William trus none, Zephyr none; the Cyrus, Aistert, Brothers, combe, were in company with the Walker. Upon the fishing has been very had this season. LYCEUM THEATRE.—Last night a new Farce, entitled " My Aunt," was brot and receited with uni,aerrupted applause , ginning to end. Indeed the spirit and lively with which it is pregnant, seemed powerfully mate the performers, particularly Mr. We whom we never saw with more advantage character than in that of Captain Dasluttl. delineation-of an easy, dissipated gamester, I trait was accurately and most pleasantly di We could not avoid remarking how much more, fect the enjoyment et good acting is in ► Tbrotre this size, than where the eye and ear must be • strained to catch an imperfect glimpse of the pression of a petformer, or to understand only of *bat he otters. In . the livelir of this little piece, every thing that wu said !done came intelligibly and clearly' to thsi''eompn in every pail of the house, and the Perrot themselves weer nee Wird onto stretch their Ii or to distort their features to give point and cacy to their representation. The plot of the Is well imagined. Dashall is the nephew of Mr Corlett, by whom he is invited to her house town Ernina. who is in love with, and beloved by, derick Vincent. VerirarY,is first ruined by pla; • the inn ; and afterwards shoeing a miniature Emma to Vincent, engages him to play for the • lure, and in his turn ruins his friend, but glees the picture.—Vincent meets the Aunt, who, tt the efforts of a humorous Valet, mistakes him for nephew. But a subsequent interview with himself undeceives her, and opens to her the character of her nephew. So the piece cc with the union of Vincent and Emma. The, Rattle, presented another fair occasion for Mr. If LEY to display his comic humour, and he was successful. Mr. Pleas and Miss PooLE sung si sweetness and simplicity, and Mrs. HARLowt formed the Aunt with her usual good sense and priety.—The Farce was given out for this amidst uuiversal bursts of approbation, and it deservedly a favourite. it is generally believed that a Bill must authorize the Government to keep Bo:tars:eye in petual imprisonment, a thing unknown to the he ty of our laws. There is a curious precedent in hooks. JOHN BERNARDI, commonly called hlo BERNARDI, Was said, with BLACKBURN, M EIDRI and some others, to he implicated in the plot to as ! sinate King WILLIAM 111. lie was committed Newgate without being brought to trial in MP ' 1696. An Act passed to empower the King to him in gaol during pleasure—a new At was , to enable Queen ANNE to keep him in prison-.-. 91 . death a new Act passed to aeiloorize King Gros- . , and again a fourth to authorize King Genaot 11 and the man died in gaol in 1736, after Ming years without trial. Ministers therefore must ' a bill of indemnity for transporting BONAPARTE out trial ; as well as an Act to keep him abroad. On Monday morning a young Gentleman, an firer in the. Army, and lately returned from the' tiotent, after having signalised himself in the . at Waterloo, came to town, accompanied by a yt lady, with whom he had eloped from the neigliht hood of Colchester, to be married at one of City Churches, not a hundred miles from 'Change; the Gentleman's uncle, however, on he is wholly dependent, haring received intelli, of his movements, pursued him so closely, that, eompanied by two porters, he laid hold of the bridegroom in anticipation, just as lie, was ant the Church with his fair companion, and thus vented the ceremony taking place. The young s 'lemon, however, soon disengaged himself, anti al' drew, accompanied by the Lady, declaring aloud t nothing should prevent his having her, although risks losing 20001. per annum by persisting in match. • PAntstAm FASIJIONS.—The Gaseae de Fr , Saturday, describes the following novelty in t: of the Pa risian Ladies:— " The dress of the Scots Highlanders has frightened our belies ; on the contrary, they imbibed a sudden taste for this costume, and Magazines de Mode now exhibit complete suits , female dresses a l'Ecosstiiv. The dress consists red spencer, a short petticoat of Scots taffeta' Scots short hose. The whole is surmounted le , black hat adorned with red f ea th ers , an d tied a , ' the chin with a tartan ribbon. This cesium.' be exhibited for the first time at the Opera this • ing." _~~_. •4 ) 1 t ~~ [3' i '