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

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Would you have risked the los3 of any part of the troops or equipments, in preference to the aban-" dotting seventeen pieces of ordnance !—A. I would not have advised risking such a loss by fighting an ati‘ll Owlet OW *ells of Tarragona, because defeat then irobld probably Mve been followed by the loss of net rrt of our equipments, but the whole of timid: • „ Q. Would yon have counselled the deferring the embarkation of any part of the troops from the 12th to the 13th ?—A. 1 do not think that deferring the *embarkation of the troops from the 12th to the 13th of June would hare been prudent. The Court then adjourned to ten o'clock next day. FRENCH PAPERS. Van ex, Jam. 13.—The Courier from London ap pears to have brought fresh instructions to the Eng lish Ambassador, who has since more decidedly pressed the conclusion of the Negotiations. It is a very curious question,whether England holds herself bound to continue to pay, iu the year 1815, the sub sidies stipulated by the treaty of Chaumont, it is pro bate that she will refuse, and that the Continental Powers will find themselves compelled to reduce the immense forces which they keep on foot. The persuasion that every thing is amicably ar ranged, is not weakened, but on the contrary, strengthened. Never were the Sovereigns since they met here upon a more friendly footing, which is a guarantee of peace. There seems a general per. suasion that the points on which they are not al together agreed, are not of a nature to produce a new ear. Eaglets(' has proved by her eagerness to make peace with the Uuited States, how much she feels the necessity of it. PARIS, JAN. 29.—1 t is said that Mr. Albert Galla tin, one of the American Ministers at the Congress of Ghent, is destined on en important mission to the French Gores-unmet. i Beaus, Jan. 15.—The King of Sweden, we learn, has engaged to protect our maritime commerce *gains( the Barbary Corsairs, and instructions to that effect, have been gives' to the Swedish Consuls in the ports of the Mediterranean. Rowe, JAN. 15,—The Secretary of .State has never been more busily engaged than for the few last ezpected that the Consul of . Naples is about .qeit that capital; notwithstanding he is always. 'hare, end contents himself with sendin; de clarations, 'justifying himself hero 'accusations made against him. . It is said, that his Majesty Charles IV. has re. dived several. couriers from King Murat, begging hinslo interpose his good offices with his Holiness, to asoid new calamities, and to persuade him not to change the situation of things until the decision of the Cnngres2. His Majesty Charles IV. has seen his Holiness, as is supposed in consequence of the representations of the King of Naples; but it seems that he found the Pope inflexible, refusing to retract his just preten sions in any respect. Bozzoto, J.te. 17.—The order to pay in five days the contributions for our department, and the promulgation of the news that the payment of the first third must he made in this month, hiss occa , sioned violent discontents in our little districts, that have suffered so much, end had not yet bad time to repair their losses, in consequence of the successive passage of the French and Austrian armies. In many parts the notices posted have been torn down, and a refusal to pay at all has been placarded in its stead: in some places " the Independenv of Italy" is stuck up. The .Magistrate has in consequence repaired tot' Cremona, to obtain from the Governor some detach. • melds of troops to maintain tranquillity. The au thorities there did not think fit to take any step upon the subject, but the Government of Milan has been ; written to. There is reason to believe that his Et- cellency the Governor would not by a misplaced persekeratice again disturb our town, and that he I will concede the delay that is required for the pay. • meat of the contributions. I este! thy there passed through here on his way to Verona, an Imperial Commissary-General. It is asserted that the Veronese exhibit a spirit of inde pendence, n hick ha: excited some alarm. Paters, JAM. 29.—The children of the Duke of Wellington, on their way from Paris to London, ar lived at Calais) on the 25th January. The late Cayei natent of Genoa ha►e published a j Declaration, signed by the President, against the annexation of that State to Sardinia, and abdicating j the power which tiad been mitrested to them. They recommend to tha people to be tranquil, ■nd Puttee- your to merit the esteem of their new Monarch.—ln the Declaration it is observed, that " the rights of the Genoese may be trampled upon, but cannot be annihilated." Mr. Gist, the wealthy underwriter, lately deceased, is said to have amassed more than half a million of money, which he has bequeathed to two daughters. He was formerly Captain of a Carolina merchant ship, end afterwards entered Lloyd's Coffee-house, where he proved one of its most fortunate adventurers, and from which he retired about 20 years ago. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—Last week a horsekeeper, named Carter, in the employ of Mr. Smith, stage master, of Chelsea, attempted several times to hang himself in the stables, but being closely watched, Could not effect it ; at last he took an opportunity of going to Battersea-bridge, where he threw himself ever the battlement into the river ; but here again Providence interfered ; he was observed by a Water man, who immediately went to his assistance, at the risk of Ms own life. So decided was he on self-destruction, that he grappled with his pre server, who was nearly lost in his humane enders. Yours to save him from a watery grave l in which he succeeded. THE STATESMAN. Due Arr. Mails. O 0 . 10 .— ..... •'. 2 •.. 0.:L.... .. Malta ... ......... ... O .4 . ' . A ... POItIrCAT:OI, Viaats Mier.—Muliday al Pubtle Officao. from the most inhospitable climates of the North.— Several of them were already decorated with the Order of the Lily. • American Papers have been received fo. the 27th Dec. The state of things at the date of these Papers, which was chiefly marked by the measures taking for maintaining the Sovereign rights of the country, has been rendered of little iaterest, as it must be entirely changed by the peace. The Bill for raising a direct Tax of six millions of dollars passed the House of THE STATESMAN. LONDON: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1815. Two Dutch Mails arrived this foreno , and Paris I Papers to the 30th lust. late last night ' accounts from Vienna, which are not of to than those previously received, though th edging of the course of the Negociations, pacific appearance. The intelligence, howe al her quarters, particularly from the Fren tier, , is very strange and inexplicable. It will b n from the articles which we quote as under from Dutch Papers, that the military preparations are ntinised in France and the Netherlands Kith ictikity than at any former period. The Frei? ps are made more than complete ; the emir omit- ing, the magazines filling, and they ,s *Ray at work on the arsenals. The infere from all these preparations is, that the Belgian proyirsces,l so often disputed, are likely to afford mock ground for contention, and that the business of the 'Congress is far from settled. Representatives, hut it was thought that it would Inot be of easy enforcement. Plundering descents on various parts of the coast continue to be made by our forces, which tend to augment thegeneral dissatisfac tion and alarm, but can otherwise produce little effect on the war, and still less on the peace. The official ! Paper of the American Government speaks of these expeditions in terms of the strongest reprobation.— It men tions.the British Admiral by the title of " the i . ofamous Comet:an." And certainly, if the ac counts are true, the terms that are used are not im properly applied. We can only make room for the following extract from the National Intelligencer: 4 6 We learn that the enemy have descended the Rappahanuock. An account from there states, that their ascent up the river was marked by a conflict every •way worthy of the infamous COCK.. BURN, plundering and burning on both shores al most every thing within their reach.—Their conduct at Tappahannock was scarcely exceeded at Hemp ton for its brutality and wanton destruction of pro. The curiosity at Vienna is still very lively, to I petty. They have laid in ashes the court-house, prison, learn whether England will continue to pay the sub- i collector's office, clerk's office, and a large warehouse, sidies stipulated by the Treaty of Chaumont. If `and scarcely a building escaped plunder or damage. she shall refuse, as we hope she will, having already It appears likewise, by letters published in the Alex iandria Herald, that' the negroes who joined the ene- Dukepaid sufficiently for making the Emperor Ars-Lim: of Warsaw, and the King of Passau , Save- my were armed by them, and turned into the town reign of Saxony, a speedy breaking up of ible won- with licence to commit any excess ; and, 'what we could not have believed of Cocaenari himself, had he derful Congress must take place. Austria ilppears to be much embarrassed in her finances ; end Si her not shown himself capable of any villany, they broke people are threatened with thecontagion of the ittcome ! into the family vault of Col. RITCHIE, and ransacked the ashes of the dead. 6 Five coffins (says a letter) Tax, which has committed such devastations in this i country so long, we do not wonder at their cariosity I were opened, their escutcheons torn off and cast to learn whether we mean volontarily to cautious ,' away, and their mouldering contents mutilated and a prey to that worst of all plagues, that they me) , be left exposed ; the plea was the hope of plunder.' " exempt from it. This Tax on personal West* There are also in these Pipers copies of some more ? ! letters from and to the Commissioners at Ghent.— which is to the amount of 50 per cent. a re to hate been quite unexpected by the Austrian people,,, The conclusion of the Treaty, which renders them among whom it has created a great ferment. The Ordi- . merely of historical interk4,,,Apkes us less regret nance imposing it, and the view which other nation i that we have not to-day speetfer their insertion. entertain as to who have derived the chief advantages, --oar.4 l ' • from late events, are worth attending to. Power and 1 The Courier says, the arguments adduced by Mr. W HITBREID at the Bedfurdihire Meeting against the popular opinion are the same every where. A fetter from Vienna of the 16th says—" It was the general Petition of his brother land-holders, fur Legislative opinion, that the great lauded proprietors had de- aid to keep up the price of corn, "could he easily rived the chief advantage from recent cfrcumstances!P yefuted." It does not, however, try to resits them. but the Ordinance imposing the Tax expressly asserts It contents itself with making an insinoation as the cola, a ry. 1 mach to the credit of Mr. WMTBREAD, as it is 1 -nt to detract from his well-earned itation.— mea, ,ract . , repu. ..- 44 It says, 4 though the general war of twenty Because this Gentleman, whose great stake in the years' duration, which caused nothing hut calamity country is as well known as his patriotism, at a tithe to all Europe, be happily terminated, yet the trap- when almost all the landed interest are uniting to sition from this state of continual war to a stale of keep up a monopoly which threatens to engulph the real and solid peace, is naturally attended with more . means and the comforts of the rest of the nation, difficulty and tardiness than ever resulted from any' and is as ungenerous as it is unjust, has given it as other war ; and the necessity for still keeping on I ihis opinion that bread ought to remain at a moderate foot a considerable military force especially super., price, and that one class of men ought not to in prietors continuing still to bear the charges of war, ' induces a large expenditure. The landed pro.: tercept the bounty of GOD to the human race in ge- neral, he is invidiously pointed out as one of the while all other classes already enjoy the bless. , brewers who are making fortunes by the cheapness lugs of peace, his Imperial Majesty, in order that of grain. This is, indeed, paying a very high corn the latter may also bear their share of the extraor- ! pliment to Mr. Watzaazan's porter, if the insinua dinary and temporary burthen pressing on the State, . . lion as to the motive of that Gentleman's conduct has issued a decree, importing that for the military ! conveys none to himself, for it goes to prove that year 1815, the tax on industry shall be augmented Mr. WHITBREAD approves of malt, as an ingredient 50 per cent., and that this addition, as well as the i old tax, must be levied with the utmost strictness.' of the porter which he is supposed to have a large interest in making. It would also imply that all " This Ordinance has had the most unfavourable . " the brewers who are making fortunes" really and effect on our excharge." I truly, whatever traducers may say, do use a con- Bnussrt.s, J A st. 21.—The accounts which we re- siderable quantity of grain (we would suppose barley, ceire from the French frontiers are very strange and but the Courier has a wider inference) in the menu inexplicable. France prosecutes the military prepa- facture of the beverage they sell, or how can they be rations with more activity than was at first supposed ; I making fortunes now more than at any other time? the corps are made complete, nay even more than ! We will not dispute the depth of the Courier's informa complete ; the cavalry is remounting, the magazines ' lion on the subject of his inspiring theme--he doubtless are tilling, and they are constantly at work on the can discriminate as well between who uses malt and hops arsenals. The organization of the National Guard and who has recourse to extraneous succedatieums, is continued. But on the other side we observe 1 r as between the Outs and Ins; but if it be true, that that France has evacuated the'Duchy of Bouillon, , I the wholesome articles which were formerly used in which lies on the frontiers of the Ardennes. The the manufacture of beer, now form but a small part Prince d'Auvergne is every moment expected fromlin the composition of that article,now so general and England to take possession of the Duchy, which has I necessary in this country, and the health of tw . o. been in the hands of the French ever since 1789. The thirds of the nation is placed in imminent danger by inhabitants of that little country have solemnly cele- the use of less wholesome ingredients, from what brated the return of their independence. Several de- 1 cause has arisen this departure on the part of the tachments of Prussian troops who were cantoned in manufacturers of the national beverage from the pure that part have again received orders to evacuate constitutional mode (for constitutions are here con that part of the Belgian provinces, and of Liege, cerned in reality) they used to pursue in the making on the frontiers of the above meutioned duchy. that necessary of life? Why did barley come to be 1 We flatter ourselves, according to accounts from Vienna, from good authority, that if unhappily war , should recommence, as some still fear, all the Bel gian provinces on the left bank of the Meese will be declared neutral, that a military cordon will ist established from Venloo to the French frontiers; and of another from Namur to Nieuport ; that in this case a very large reinforcement of English and Hanoverian troops will increase the means of impr ing our safety and independence. expelled from the composition, or be used only in such small quantities as report says it now is in the breweries? Because, it will be answered, that malt as well as hops had got to such an extral agent price that to use these as the sole ingredients, and as they used to be, would necessarily have occasioned such a rise in the price of beer as must have put it out of the reach of those who had very little other support or comfort. The brewers were therefore ender the necessity 'Of contriving some method of 11013-I,E.DUC, JAN. 20.—Troops of different new (ions continue to march through here; lately a de. tachment of 300 French prisoners passed through, their healthy looks, good clothing, and cheerio) manners, would baldly let us believe that they cabin supplying the public with their favourite liquor at a moderate price, with as little reliance upon the far mer as possible. Wears far from asserting that this bas been the case s but some such reply may be made to the gees. lion about barley, hops, and is really the case, if the col land-owners to keep up the pri necessary for the composition -has an effect on the value and is now so essential a part of F,i sue, from this circumstance a connected with the lives and tants of this country is the r aces, a just standaid, as to the est use of the intlispensible meal more the people attend to th, will it be for their health awl city of grain dealers and the long used to unreasonable pi much occasion for other attem profit by their distre.s. Is it easy to refute the assert the creation have no right to sl upon the other ? Would not ti turned against the dating ham oos enoegh to launch it against There is no iniquity, moral of that which seeks to convert the for protection into the instrumi Is it a delusion to say, that enough to keep the country, w selves of the superabundance of if defectivecrops are not the ca, —why complain of abundance measure, which is declared by t ment to have for its object the' dance, which mast necessaril, making corn still cheaper? Does laugh at the idea of volonta; Heaven's gifts are courting a, shall say to the blessings of ' to its wrath, "thus far shall ye. Is it easy to refute the assertion , cannot regulate the season" farmer or people? that, although by sad experience, and,that iris that the variations of climate the crops of grain precarious, morn than once on the point of is not a -stifficient reason with of grain being imported from consumed here, unless the arti price as to be very oppressive the nation, especially the lab( benefits only a small pert --Can it be denied that only check we have against on the pig of the holders Can it be denied, that it is neil nor the soil, nor the niggard di, bitauts of this countryy 7 sent, the rare phenomenon of with the most permanent advats quil days, looking with a maligning eye on, we wish we could call it, that busy part of their country.. own has been so greatly advanced , drawing prizes in the great lottery and blanks for themselves—car is neither from natural causes, cal disadvantages may be, as nor from sordid selfishness in the that the tillers of the land are to the extent of their wishes-1 not over the golden harvest, heart, that all they survey is the and that the moral is not every that it is the sluggard alone and is deservedly a prey If this be not the case, and thi Wishing, and less and less ably of the owner, a very little etc will unfold the true cause show that those who should tin diens of the fold have become fattening in sloth and apathy have spared to reward the care the toils of the husbandmat pampered to rms.', whilst hom to the earth by labour which sis:etice, and more than p 1 goading him night and day. D,-, not the landlords com taxes—do not they freely co; nation on earth, however sul slavery, so burthened as we a, complaints founded in justice? new restrictions on the sources mulcts on the proti►s of labour, on the will of the people. We tiun of the agticulturist has bet culty. The extent of the burt , farmer, is sufficiently evident I spectable Correspondent, which P: per. It is there shown win. of the public distress—from them the only effectual remedy. The State amount to one pound per the other necessary expences at believed that the profits of th, exorbitatit. But will the reli he obtained if the other classes Let the weight, if it must he ought to fall, and where it can If our zeal for the Church has patriotic fervour to preserve the Government Is now det►omitn deeper in. the 44 Slough of Despot State ought now to exert tbemsel ops, and so forth ; nod if liii, f the continued efforts of tte up the prices of the articles most position of a wholesome liquor, ratite and quality of that wpirt : fart of Englishmeit'ssustettance, nstance alone, how iutimately yes and comfort of the inhibi- is the necessity of a return to •:o the estimation and a proikr ible means of existence. Th e nd to this subject, the better .altli and interests. The tapa. 4 and the tricks of mooopono t , 1 :nimble profits, have given too her attempts and exPedients 'o the assertion, that one part of ight to shut the gates of mercy ,uld not the thunder of Jove be i Sting hand that would be impi- it against the rest of the world? moral or political, greater than onvert the engine that was mesnt . $ e instrument of oppression. e say, that if we have not wheat )untry, we ought to avail our. indance of our neighbeers? Ind i not the causes of the complaint, I tbundancer Why resort to eit \ Aired by the Reports of Partite, • , il bject the' increase of that abun. I necessarily have the effect of c aper ? Does not common sense t of volentare starvation when e farting acceptance? And who t lags of Providence more than sr shall ye.go, and no further?" f the assertion, that Government t season# to the wish of either' c at, allfitiogh it has been Nina" u td•that 'Within a very few years, t climate in this country render !carious, whereby we have brolly' t e point of famine, yet that t j son with some person, to all .... I rted from other countries to tie ss 'the article bears so midst t tpprosslve to therVL,C IS. " y tba bsbouriog, , il . 101 l pert of thv , . : 4 "'"" ( I nied that impo :". 7 lot.. • ' 1 I r e i e . against exorbira .. ~.,. ' t holders of giid • *r ., - '?". „,- I tit is neither . 11eVitisary .• . . , . Niggard dig:toggle's( thetiolih- • -,,-- aft menon of those wlip *l* a e aifi -' eat advantages, 'tit. V rtuh t ith a matiguent otlidtssati . ould call it, the prosperi ty 44 v countrymen by whom their' . tly advanced, who has . . • great lottery of life, fete ;el v es—can it be cleitslillllltig . I causes, numeroil: as eerie* ' be, as an agricultual . 'nation, hness in the mindi of the people, land are not remunerated eveit s li a wishes—that their eyes switvi 4 harvest, and felicitate the 'full rvey is the reward of industry ; not every where legible to all, .t 1 alone who pines in want, a prey to self-affliction ?... :e, and the flock is daily din& less able to supply the wants little attention, a single glancel t cause of the mischief,—will t should themselves be the guar.. e become the ravagers, and are d apathy on what htud seasons d the care of the shepherd, ARA sbandman. Yes, indolence 4 *Mist honest industry is beset& it which scarcely affords sob., :an Egyptian task-masters et. d day. . : orris complain of tithes ant freely confess that there is ne wever sunk in superstition ot i as we are ? And are not their , I justice? Yet they would have ,he sources of advantage, nee of labour, and additional fetteel .)10. We well know the sitint 7 . st has become one of great dils; f the burtheris pressing upon the evident from the letter of a re- ant, which we insert in this day'4 town what are the rest causes ._ —from these we may judo, of edy. The levies of Church inil wunil per acre ! After reut•,d k t k pences are paid, it wilt noeti'd )fits of the former can be rely • I the relief so urgently craved her classes be more oppressed ? must he borne, fall where it ere it can be hest supported,: hurch has eaten us up, and out reserve the State, as any sift c denominated, has sunk us st 4 ig 4 of Despond," Church md !sett themselves to atf'rt? us Ye. / .