The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-12-19 00:00:00

A t - A 1 • um the Ore 411 ok• • ~_ . _ . was At the head of the yarn?. but universal conspiracy . 'neNi , Is I.alv contained within her bosom, the name ' Of Victor Emmanuel Would have burst from every lip.' Hut when reasonable men were codstrained to aban .,.. a:.n the sweet illusions cf enthusiasm , they wee*. re-1 .` loetAntiv compelled to acknowledge that the noble, chief of the Italian conspiracy entertained a repair' nonce to one of the measures best calculated to ensure its success. I have already said, that Victor Emma - rilei - virt startled at the 'iaiir at aConstiiitiOVlVo 7 moment. Netterthelessite rectitude of his heart was satk that the reunion of those loyal aid, twwwegobits eremite who s had represented to him-the dstieswhieh his political situation, end the weifikre of his people imposed upon him, would have surmounted ail his • objections. Yes, this good Prince woull have yielded, notwithstanding the influence of the Queen and his affection for her. Victor Etonanuel loved his sub jects also, and the honour of the nation above every thing. He only wanted to know the truth ; but how was he to know it? What King can ever flatter Lim- self with knowing it, in a cointry where theabsence of every liberal institution raises clouds of impeietrable darlcness between the Throne and the people. These clouds, however, were dispersed when the Revolution in Spain sounded like a clap of thunder throughout Europe; and taught crowned headsitiat the age of absolittemonar chies was past. This reedit was the fi rst accomplish ed by the military in belt' . iof liberty. Oar ancestors had seen an English army cut down the Long Partin . went ; we have ...en Free)* grenadiers first destroy, '"tend then a second time clitiii. an assembly of legisla • tors; bat the Spanish solaUrs did' not elevate an OH - &Jeer Uromwell, or a ilonaparte, on their shields : It was mite laws of their country that they displayed on their • triumphant flags.' It had been generally acknowleged % 'in Europe, that all nations reduiii seep initititioni as may in some theisye tempera' III& eithorltx ;' but a potent Monarch 'Ultima; ;and many have theated it after !sins, that thike itistititions' ought to.kinanate from the thione ' itself. • ' The 'Pilni.ire 'tan te 'be very tine, bnt may I be ',chatte d te'ask in retnin,' -what is to he done, wheti 601111010 es emanate triiia the throne? If a King. doom to death, if he Plunge into dungeons, if he - exile men who bare bravest every danger to replace him on his throne, and to .s'-cure its intirpenflence and liberties to their country, then is a nation to endure and suffer in silence ; or to see without monitoring its hopes extinguished, is laws violated, and all the soirees of its prosperity I. hs•ked up ? opm whose heart the most powerful crown in the world has not yet been able to corrupt, deign to say, if the heroic Spaniard cueist to hide his Lead in the folds of his mantle yet wet with the blood that Ise has shed for his King, and submissively stoop to receive blows from the very band to which be has so lately restored the sceptre? There are those in Eu• rope who would dare to answer yes ; but they are those who consider the people as no more than sheep given up to the discretion of their driver. Alexan der however is not of this description. The Spanish I revolution was a pillar of light for all the armies of ab s.llute monarchies, and its rapidity made a powerful impression upon the people, and particularly upon tiiat portion of soc'ety which is the most interested in the preservation of order, and make the most sucrifiees towards maintaining it. It taught these persons that it was tossible to pass speedily and happily from a state of opprer,sion and misery to one of liberty and felicity. Pilylntont felt the stimulus of this revolution hut in a lees degree than Napies did : because the ima gination of the Piedmontese is more calm, and because they flattered themselves that the government of the king would profit by the terrible lessons which astound ed all. TURKEY, Rt'S.lf.l AND PERSIA. Extract of a letter from Constantinople, Nov. 10: —The charge of Ministers here happened at a most inennverient moment. Important communications hail joist been received from Russia ; and the English and Austrian Ambassadors were already engaged in negoeiating a favourable reception for them. It Was th,mght that the removal of the Reis Effendi aas con nected with those negociations ; but this is certainly not the C7ISP. lle was removed, because he was given to indu:gence in lignor, and had been seen more than once it: a state of intoxication, to the scandal of all trne nssulmen. Lord Strangford and Count Tait 7ole appear to be perfectly satisfied with the new Reis EtTen.li, and they do not seem to have lost any part of Chart influence from which, only, we can expect the preservation of peace. They are indefatigable in their exertions. and appear to act entirely by them selves. The Porte has certainly considerable reliance on the British and Austrian Uovernment,,. We do not vet know the nature of the Russian an ewer; but rumour says, it is not pacific. Still, from the confidence which prevails here, it would appear as if war were yet distant. We arc perfectly quiet here; though we lay our ac count for dreadful exaggerations. when our English friends receive the intelligence that yesterday thirteen 11101466Ln prisoners, chiefs of the insurrection, awl taken with arms in their hands, were executed at Con stantinople. One of them, a butcher, formerly re siding in Vera, was put to death in the Frank quarter, opposite the house where he had lived before he turned Patriot. Lord Strangford was offended, that the exe cution should have taken place in the vicinity of the Foreign Embassies, and sent a message to the Porte, insisting that the dead body should be rrmoved. This was accordingly done, and a proper apology made to his Loidship ; though it is the custow to expose the bodies of criminals for three days. The Porte seems resolved to punish the Chiefs of the rebels who are taken with arms,.and to pardon those only who sur render. At the intercession of the British Embassy, forty-four prisoners taken in Samothrace, were spared about a fortnight ago. They had not, however. cons mitted any hostility, and had only manifested their in subordination, by refusing to pay the poll-tax, or ha ratch.—(Courier.) Extract of a letter from Paris, dated Dec. 15 : After the close of 'Change yesterday, I saw a letter from Bucharest, which had been expedited to Vienna by an extraordinary conveyance, and was forwarded thence to this capital by the regular post. It states, that netts had just reached Odessa, that. shortly pre vious to the departure of the courier, all the Russian Officers who were on leave had received orders from Government to rejoin their respective corps with possible expedition, It is, in troth, written by s leek merchant, but be adds, that, ere his letter ar- THE STATESMAN; wives at its destination, the Russian troops will Wel liltjy have passed the.Prath., Ibis letter Is nut . Owl only on. °Me Saint tenor wiii tali teenfurcepredti Paris; Wilts I. am particniar l ecrupolonj in iivifig t confidence to Commercial ad e tees, I shOrid irarealy have paid any attention to it,_ had not several. persons, 'beat isfurnid in . these antra; lb 'the icaltie oriVertieti leg, upraised to me their:colifidentoOnion that every moment would bring news of the.commencement of `fiiiitilities. They did not . say officially that the first cannon had been fined ; but they 'regatded it as cer tain that the-intelligence of such an event musrarrive ere long. .. . . . . .1 1 Unara.—The following account or Pirsia is ez-1 tracted from The Ilainborrgh Journal The population of Persia, very touch diminished by the civil wars of 1722 (the epoch of the overthrow of the dynasty of Ismael Sophi) anti of 1743 (the year of l the assassination of the celebrated Schell Nadir) is ' estimated at twenty-two millions of souls. The num ' bee of.provinces is 38. The reigning Sovereign ascended the throne in 1797. He is called Peth- Ali,Schah, and is about 53 years of age. Ile is reckoned a good poet. Ile has 63 sons, and as many daughters. His third son, Alolas Mirza, is destined to succeed him, although Prince Ali Nlirza, who is re jected by this choice, is distinguished by great per sonal qualities. In the peace euneludetl with Russia, the 12th of October, 1813, the Emperor Alexander agreed to a stipulatioti by which both himself and his successors are bound to maintain by force, ou the throne, should it be necessary, the Prince who is des tined to succeed, in order that no foreign power shall interfere lathe internal concerns of Persia. i. . require - if l isitt the Ministers of the Monarch Flow y iperels at sir head in a monvicliral.4lirection---tita . c i lllOyalipsodatiould no longer be javideil and triatecr the entitnies of royalty ; andje finir t ghat it sliontil be acknowledged that neither the principles nor thr men that ovens-reed the throne could .b- capable-pf consolidating it. These conditions were so reasonable that it is astoniAsing they were not accepted. The choice which his Majesty bas made of the per sonages composing the new Ministry, is a certain guarantee that there will henceforth be a perfect ana logy and consequence between the regulating pri"el ples of a legitimate Monarchy, and the acts of the flore(ntnent and the ailmini-' equally devoted to legitimacy, enemies, the slight shades guish without dividing them in the union of all sentiment pears Blanc) PRICE OF STOCKS TIIIS Bank Stock 2361 S per Cent. Re ..... 7611 S per Cent. C0n. ... per Cent S7fi 4 per Cents 06% per Cent5.Nary........... S pert'ent Long Ann.... 19 3-16 7.16 Imp.' 3 per Cent Irish 5 err Cent . 1 !tuna for ditto.. Coo. for .tect.....7,4 Lott. Tit'ket4 IS►r. NIGH WATER AT LONDON.ERIDVI: TO-MORROW. Morning S 7 m. after io.—Evening 7 usltt. after 11. 4tatt4imltt. “ Tel sumsw STATESMAN " If INCORPORATES WITS " TAZ STATESMAN." • • %%%%% "nitration. Royal ift all . et et, ty, and ready to cooMV its of • ,*on. which distil,- 31 ini! n, a onf.tuntled five' Its "• — (Dra - rrstr, will I . _ DAY AT ON o •CK. If 6 , India 5t0ck...... •• • anno Ditto Son's 7Os 71: South Sea Stock— . of k South Sea Old Ann.... ntetti E. Hill 2il. 1000/. Is 2s. —SIXII. par. Is. 2s. pm. alter Small 25.. 3; p m ' nor THE NEW FRENCH MINISTRY. M. de Villele is of an ancient family in Languidoc and entered, when yonng. into the Royal navy o France. About the age of IS, be embarked fur the - East Indies, and far near 16 years resided in the 14 of France. On bis.return,to bia native country. he fixed himself at Toulouse, of which he was afterwaltl , appointed Mayor, by the King. He came into' ptitilit life as a legislator, in ISIS, at the age of forty-two... Lauriston, says The Tine:, whoa' we spoke of yes terday as a new Minister, was a metnher of the late Atitninistration : he observed, when the changes were in contemplation, that as he wished nothing better, than to form part of a Royaliq Ministry, he paw no reason to leave his place. lie is supported by M..de Villele, with whom he is connected by family ties, EXTRACT OP A LETTER, tos•rno PARIS. REC. 16. Of the new appointment?, that of M. Peyronnet to be Keeper of the Seals bas excited considerable sur prise. He is neither known for family honour., for political influence, or extra , •rdinary talents. He was originally an advocate at litandeaux of which he is a native : and by the interest of M. Leine was appointed Proenrenr-Heneral of the Royal Court of Bourget+, in the department of l'Ain. The patronage of M. Lain. and M. Nave;, his townsmen, brought him to Paris, where he obtained the appointment of King's Procu renr at the Court of the Chamber of Peers. In that rapacity be conducted, last spring, the trial of the al leged conspirators of August, I S'2o ; and the trial of one of them, Mazion, who was condemned about a month ago. Having thus made his appearance on Paris political and judicial hoards, he was found' useful to the late Ministry for his seal; and by their in. fluence was elected member of the Chamber of De pnties for the department of Cher. In the Chamber he has spoken only once or twice, and without any suc cess. His accent, as the Parisians express it, soli& strongly of the province. He is said, however, to pos sess the power of extempore defence. Ile appeared yesterday on the bench of Ministers without his robes of office, which, from the suddenness o f his appoint ment, could not be ready, anti excited a smile in the Chamber, at the figure he cut in his court-dress with a sword. .4 See," said one of the Deputies, " J ustice, with the sword, but without the balance !" It is said that M. de Serre is to be sent as Ambassa dor to Berlin, anti that M. tie Chateaubrian I is to be appointed Master of the University, with a seat in the Cabinet; but these are mere rumours. M. de Serre will most probably remain in the Chamber of Deputies, where his friensls will require his aid. M. Laine has given in his resignation as Minister of _ _ Among the rnmonred appointments is that of the Deputy Benin de Vans to he Prefect of Police. (young A MINISTERIAL PARER.) Purina thirty years past we have been so repeatedly conducted from inconsequence to inconsequenre, scsi from contradiction to contradiction, that the absurd has almost constantly predominated. It may be said, that we have so adopted the habit of false positions, that a position which is just and natural seems to us something new, hold, and somewhat embarrassing. A vague and transitory state, protracting itself under various modifications, had become in our eyes a positive and stable condition. —Repeated exceptions had assumed the place of the rule. We have seen the Ministry perilously placed between two oppositions, whose perpetual shock, whose conti one!' collision, could not fail to shake and injure the administrative machine, which had so much need of a solid support in the legislative power. Was it not most IleploraVle to see the zealous friends, the most ardent defenders, and the most experienced servants of the King and his cause, placed in the ab surd position of opponents to his Majesty's Ministers, who were thus, hy an error, in which a false-love made them persevere, deprived of that natural and powerful assistance of an imposing majority, composed of homo geneous elements, and representing in the Chamber of Deputies the grand and intimate alliance of the na tion with the King, of the intervals of the people with the rights of the Crown ? Deprived of these noble auxiliaries,' the Ministers, to whom a majority was a thing to he gained at all ha zards, sought to obtain it by th:t most wretched com binations, formed, modified, and destroyed in one day ; and by unsolid alliances, founded anon no just and te ciprocalinterest. The Ministers were condemned to manceuvre pain fully between two oppositions, when they could by a single movement have enlarged their ground, and strengthened themselves with an immense force, which, however, they rather chose to fear, brave, Batter, or combat, according to circumstances. Those who had this force at their comtnatal did not put too high a price on their alliance. They merely LONDON! 'WEDNESDAY EVI.:VING, DECEMBER 19, 1821. New Brunswick !Inters arrived this morning to the 14th November, but brim,• no:hing of impottance,— Halifax papers also arrived t.) the 25th November, • from which we extract the following :- (41'ClIEC.—Arrivetl, I.rig 11.trriet, from Jamaica with limn. She was boarded by two schooners under Spanish colours off Cape Antonio, which kept possession of the big five hours, and plundered her of every thins, with 6,000 dollars. The Sophia and Sarah left at Kingston brig Union of Liverpool, to sail next day ; brig Mariner for this port in five days; brig !lemony had •ailed eight days before ; schooner Sally, one day ; brig De spatch, from St. John's, N. H. •ailed in company ; brig Beaver do., was beating up from Port Bengal, when the Sophia and Sarah came out. The Ida spoke iu the Gulph Stream ;—schooner Mary, Swann, from Annapolis fur St. Harts, out live days, lost part of her deck load. The Alert left at Harbadoes, schooner William, Jewel, of this port, to sail in four days. EXTRACT OF A LETTEit FROM ST. LOUIS, NOY. /. -General Atkinson and Major (rFullon (Indian Agents) arrived its this place on Sunday last front Council Buffs. The latter gentleman brought down with bite a deputation consisting of chiefs and bead men of Seven Lands of the Missouri Indians, in all six•een men. Their destination is Washington City. We learn that the various tribes of Indians inhabiting► the country on the Missouri, as high up as the Great Bend, whence our trade has been carried by the enter prise of the Fur Compauirs, remain friendly towards the whites. The Ariaras, some 2011 miles above, still evince a disposition to he troublesome, which nothing but the sbew of our armed force will quiet. Some hostility occurred last mummer between the Onsslsa nation and the tribes of the Sioux. A battle ensued and the Omahas were driven off the field with the lost of 13 warriors. It is believed that all the disquiet,as well as ►he petty warfare, made by one tribe against another, among the remote Indians, will be silenced by the sheer of an armed force in the ports of the Missouri they inhabit, and it will open to our traders a road to the richest fur trade in the world. Views to this effect are contemplated by Government, and will no doubt be speedily accomplished. Ample means are in the hands of the military at the Council Buffs fur the fulfilment of this 'rand object. The Paris papers of Sunday contain the following Royal Odinance. " Louts, &c.—On the report of our Minister Secretary of State for the Home Department. " Wishing to recompense the zeal which Dr. Bally has manifested at Barcelona, in devoting himself to the study and treatment of the contagion which spreads its ravages there, we have ordered and (loonier as follows " Art. I. The Sieur Bally, Doctor of Medicine and Member of the Royal Academy onledicine, is appointed Knight of the Royal Order of the Begins) of Honour. " 2. Our Minister Secretary of State fur the Home De partment, and the Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour, are charged with the execution of the present ordinance. (Signed) " Louts. " Given at the Tuileries, December 5. (Counter•signedl) " SI3IICON." The news contained in these papers is not of much importance. Before mass, it appears, the Bureau of the Chamber of Peers, conducted by the Chancellor . had the honour to present to the King the law projec t relative to the sanatory system adopted I.y the Cham ber in the sitting of Friday ; and at one o'clock, the new Ministers, with the exception of the Marquess de Clermont Tonnere, presented by the Marquess of Lan riston, Minister of the Royal lionsehol.l, had the honour of taking the oaths before the King. Count de Serre, the late Keeper, brought the Seals to his Majesty, who delivered them to M. Peyronnet. An article from Frankfurt, Dec. 10, says the Court of Vienna continues to maintain silence on the con tents of the despatches lately received from C.►nstanti_ apple and Petersburg. The friends of peace augur nothing favourable from this reserve of the Austrian . Barn' Chief of. the Staff of the first army, arrived on the 2Sth. October at Tschernigow, where he reviewed the tr.lopt. He then proceeded by the route of Kiev to isi% ulterior destination. Corsiderable purchases, it is said, are now naki pt in the North, of wood for ship-building, on account 0 the French nary. In some of our preceding columns we bare con tinned to.furnish such information as we could col * concerning the character and views of the iie t , isters of France. By the lute change, the alt rx , , re of that kingdom have been relieved fron t the .aint of which they complained, and one of them he found to speak a very extraordinary laNnare, le new Ministers mean to attempt, what is there !ounce& " a perfect analogy between the principle, , gitimate Monarchy and the acts of the G orent „ It," there is no saying how far they will carry their t : r cc iy , rations. Neither what they bare al rea d y dme, nor what they are expected to do, appear t o have given satisfaction to their late associates. The rea di ng of th e Roy a l ordinance was received by th e Liberals Oh what k termed impatience. The p ro j c t f ar t h e re. naval of the obnoxious decree proposed to restra i n t h e Press, is prefaced by an intimation that an o th er pro j et is preparing fur the regulation of the Journal s . Wh at the character of that law may be, we must wait tome: what we knOw it is wished to be, by the a d vocates , legitimate government, we may infer, fro m th e l ap . 4n3ge of The " In what they" (the new Ni aisle s lys this jesuitical adviser) " hav e d one , t h ey en be said to hare redeemed their pledge, which was foolishly O. en and may be beneficially retrartet.— They merely say, we will release yolk from the h o d, which our predecessors h id prepared for you, h e t ae shall provide you with others of one own manlike. ' tore." Such iluplieity, however, much as it may her . on• ,sistent with the character of French p:iiitirians ender the old rebridic, will not accord with the to of the French people at present. It can only dsceive the men who use it. Suspicion has airei.ilv begun to work ; and some very stranue constrnetions base been put on the ambiguous words of rho Addrons to the Kinir, respecting the compromise of the dignity of France in her forei ! ..tt ieistiens. ft is POW suspected that the meaning tea-, not th,t Vrance should have prevented the invasion of Laiy, lint have pre• vented the advantages which Austria by that event had engrossed to herself. In the s;..e,e nr.nner his apprehended that the interference its•::riateti as ev tial to the succour of (recce, may oe!y signify such an uppkreition to the views of Austria as Way defend or promote the interests of France, end place theliorern• went in such au attitude as, when under the principles of legitimate neap, she might avail basilic( own tunities of advantage oragv,ranclizement. The penny sttbscriptions of the radicals, we appv . head, will not be sneered at any nn , : hc the Crows and Bible men." Joh;" Buil reprobated t h e radio of calling forsuhscriptions to indetti,:ifr such meets Sir Itouzity Ws Lsox, and those who had inclined Mi nisterial displeasure, and were pis se-uted and ruined by Ministerial malice. 's he " beAr:/im; lox," 410 1 •4 said, should never be &t.:: t round ;—but 411.4 has to pay a fine, and the reforr. even the Crown and Bible-John finds k convenient to inv.;!re the charity 0. 1 hi s supporters. It k trite shucking that Mews. SUM:Kt:Lb. Antio:vS3fl•l'll and Wi:Avnit. slodd have become 1. the victims of the law." Incarceration and 3 or 4,000/. law exliensrs and fine, are a serioas pu nishment for these" and alt!P defenders of the English Constitution" to endure. The " begging box," there fore, they have sent round in good earliest; het to the credit of the British people, be it said, few individuals have ventured to incur the contempt of their counlrymen hv ann. inning, their names as Subscribers. 1. All ;isie iatoli ord . ' and mute half dozen others have skulked uni:er an..nynials - . l;,;natures. Beet a Sir 11. Less ar..l a M. Cnesett.is (t.eithrr el whom probably wottiel telieve • distres..ts of a poor man,) hare set tht it names, tile tot user :tt 4 Sulpwric tion of 10 guineas, and the tat ter to if 31. This voluntary effort will Ito doubt ; svi , t Own, a certain quarter. It l- mks like an mire rti :meat for thew dirty work done here." We c„,,r, ,„ , ! , etre ver, that we know nut in what li!rlit to c.e:sider this " Beg ging Box" affair.. have th.ss b : hi .3 t h e scenes da serteel the Cats-pair, am: pu• to t he dire IteCeSsi t i of asking alms; or is it inewel a flu! to deceive as% make us believe that ./ohm has :m unseen cn -ad j aierlf 11'hielt ever way it iv, these v:.gabwois n•ill, is time, work their own ruin. Th ty 'nay for la bile gull the pub' lityind help to prop a sinking system ; but the slay far dist;:nt,when the instigators of their foul calumotes will have to render imp their brief anthoril w i and their underlings sink into their former obscurity. is not The fate of Tnrksy approaches to a crii which its crimes against human nature have revon 11 ' expect. We have long regretted that the lardy of religious fanaticism should have procerdeil g° 54" b sanguinary lettgas, and would hail j al1" . rl petiient to check its dialaaiicJl consequeuecs. while We see the subjugation of the MOSStI.II the perspective, ue are nut without ap,): het,,ion that the Emperor of the North may try to avail liroself the spirit of lihet ty now so glorion,ly kintileil 1:i :.recce, and subje.gate the 11:Ave Ore. iss u• th-r his iron yoke. Yet Alesamlrr p..,sessys h o t:.,reaq.i nut ,. and emulsion sense, ant! he mu st be aware ;1 at it 411 be ‘.; \ tiorirendteat.. `Pe ba!g, h sib j Baroni)rbitrb, iac aron Debiteb, Adjutant-G enera l to the Einpeeor, , t.:-e -.e 0.-a .3 _ ~' ' _ R