The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-05-22 00:00:00

lawful Sovereign; the Colonel of the 3d regiment cr Cuirassiers, in garrison at Lille, arrived at Ghent within these few days. On the other hand we hear that the National Guard of Lille has been disarmed ; t he excellent spirit which animates those good Frenchmen excited distrust. We Ore, in another page, extracts from a Mani ffsto of Louts XVIII., drawl] up in Royal Council it Ghent on the 2lth, by M. LALLY ToLLENnAt.. A lone report on the state of France, by M. DE CEIA. tt TLAUGRiAND, follows, but we have not room for it. , The Crown still glitters with irresistible charms in the eyes of the banished Monerch—it even seems to become more dear and precious to his heart the . farther it is removed from his feeble gripe. To ob tain it once more, he renews his pledge to maintain ' that Charter, which, ere the sceptre was an hour in Lis hand, he violated with the characteristic ingrati tude and arbitrary pride of his family. lie pledges himself to preserve inviolate all existing property without any exception—so he did before ; but how is he to preserve it ? Ile has not the power, although !le had the will to do so. Who are those whom he would restore to power, and what are their interests toil views ? He, or Tor.t.ssto vt. and CHATEAU , . salos, stilt bestow the epithets of perfidious trai tors on the whole of the French armies, and on all alto actively or inactively support the present Go vernment of France. The wisdom of thh way of attempting to insure the affections of a nation, or of that part of it who may be supposed to feel the im putation of dishonour the most keenly, and have the means of most forcibly repelling the charge, is, it our view, very questionable; and Louts XVIII. will find that accusation is as bad a weapon to fight milt as any foreign spear ',et raised in his cause; it i 3 not the parent of love and esteem, nor is it a proof that he is the most Christie.) and forgiving of fathers. The new Champ dc Mai is also held up as an object of derision, without knowing what may be its deci sion. It is apprehended that it most decide in favour of BONAPARTE—the French people must be rebels —this shows that BONAPARTE'S influence is more' than nominal—but if the same people musi decide in favour of foreign Power and Louts BOURBON, where is that loyalty and affection which they are said to cherish for their former Sovereign, and where is the freedom of choice in the one case more than in the other ? The Courier will call these nobly. Addresses, but Addresses, and such Addresses will not place , the Crown of France on the head of the unfortunate issuer. The Moniteur has some articles proving that the army was not perjured in abandoning Louis—there SNaS a condition in their oaths to him, which was not fulfilled on his part. The army were the gua -a+►teea to NAPOLUJII for the performance of the Treaties with him. The conditions of these Treaties were not abided by.—There are also some obser vations io the Gazette de France, on the tree mo tives of the Coalition, which we have translated, 3isd which will be found well worthy of perusal. The Duke of WELLTVGToN teas issued orders for Pie troops to be exerciser' nt least three times a week ; the divisions are to march upon this occasion from Ce place where they assemble six miles, and return h. the same malt:entre. B u llion has fallen a little, being now at 51. ss. per Ounce. price of vilver is 6s. 7d. Sir J.istes Yr() hai arrived in town, from his cor wand on the Lakes in America, and had an interview nit!! the Board of Admiralty on Saturday. Alt the troop ships at Spithead are ordered to be fisted out at Portsmouth, with all possible dispatch, giving the preference to them over ether ships. Government.have entered into a contract with the Witningham manufacturers for all the arms they can minufarture, bat the contract is to cease on ainonth's notice given for that purpose. The commercial Intercourse b'tween Great Bri tain and the . United States is already so active, that many ships with valuable cargoes have already Mr. rived, and considerable shipments of British mailine tin es have been made in return. Liverpool, Greenock, and Bristol, are particularly benefited by the re turn of peace. Mr U.aFiFhpic, under a new diplomatic arrange ment, is, we understand, to remain some time longer tt Lisbon.—(lierahl.) We rejoice to say, that Mr. KEMBLE was yester iLy declared by his Physicians, Dr. BAILLI z and Dr. Plum:atom, to be out of danger. LORD COCUIRANE.—A motion is to be made on 'Pilaff of his Lordship in the ensiting Term, for a grit of cedivrari, to hav, , his mai brought on at toe Fittings after the Team at Westminster, as if he xaits till the Assizes, he May be im i ,risoned till August, the offence imputed to him not being Lei'able. Mr. Janus, the Marshal, we understand, consents. Boni FICTIANGC. MAY tr 4 V'td wish * heat i fine flt" 1 le ° r', but no demand (-4 tnt ,, el —dats !s. to %. lower.—ln otb 41 :mt ( Eng lish) 4O 74 l ~..., •ittir (c t.• oreig../ 44 74 k‘ e 9O 96 krie v . 46 391 Neu ditto Wall 6O — 76 Ilibt,. p eu 44 461 N tuilito.... — v nrlo Boiler. • 48 &I Boiler.. 'ea, 92 96 .—The Market was well sup- My sold ren.'ilv Ht %lrmiay's rior sorts. —Barley 2.5. cheoper. er grgiu were is Do alteraisoa. Beans Old ditto — - Tick do. 3O 33 Old - Oat. Fine ditto .......... Poland do. ..........24 29 Feed ditto l9 0 Fine Flour ..... 60 65 Seconds ..... 6# SMITHFIELD MARKET.-MAY 22. To sink the Offal, per stone of 81h. 11 ,,° f da. 8,1. to ss. Bd. head at Cattle this t on • 5.. Od. to 64. del' t Beasts .... ...... 2 12 0 Od. to is. Cit. Sheep .•4 ' 13,750 ik•r k 64. 0.1. to is 0.1. I Calves 120 "" , t , Od. ti 9s o'. Piss HAY-MARKET. 41. li.. cut. to 51. 11.. 01. ". vor EN. Od. to 71. 0,. 04. 11. 143. 01. to 2w us. od. t n i I i I t i niE STATESIVIAV. POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS. it, on the contrary, will endanger her best interests , TO TfIE EARL OF LIVERPOOL. ON THE TILLIE MOTIVES OF TIIE COALITION. and the smaller States of Germany will he ruined by it. White England, whose Ministers wish it f o r ---:.0.. —..11. ON TIIE NAVAL FORt'!'. (IP TOE mg rrni) STAirtil [Most THE GAZETTE DE TRANCE, mAT 17, 18151 reasons of their own, and to establish a fantastiCal OF AMERIi A. • For nearly two mo n ths man y f ore i gn nat i ons have barrier for the new kingdom, will find In it the cer. Mr L ORD ,—From lite bogittning, and I ?Afore the menaced our frontiers; hut such is notwithstanding fain and Mal ruin of her FIN - AN - et:l I Before eren beginning, of the late war with America, I thought the British Ministers had obtained the n om i na l Con the solidity of our interi or G overnment, t h at t h e sent of Parliament to its Lord Clancarty h a d si gne d it my d uty to warn you, that one of the Corse- yoke of truth is free And uncontroulee. The thoughts • bsithery treaties with all the Monarchs of the quences of that war would be the creating of a great of a French Citizen (says the Minister of the Inte. : aa Coalition, and a Russian loan to a large amount wag hovel force in that tountry. I endeavoured to des dor.) °tight to be as free as his person. In fact, I • • guaranteed in Hollatid. scrihe to yitu the immense means of America for such there can he no real liberty without unlimited free- i • 1 T hus it was that the Cahinete of Europe occupied a purpose. Der fine rivers, beys. •Itl hart:Ours dem of speaking anti writing—whatever other points , themselves during the two months : in hostile negocia- her Pec, , llerit shie-buielers ; her hemp, iron ; pitch, of difference may exist, the whole nation is agreed . . : lions ag ainst France, in agitating and arming the and ember. ell of her own product.; eed, above all; on these subjects of civilization and security ; taught i . People against us, and in mdrching their troops to- her matchless sotweit. Of the troth of this account by experience, it neither wishes to fall into the : • i warus our frontiers in all haste--every prospect of you and your colleaguos most. by this time he frenzy of a revolution, nor the lethargy of slavery— • 7 peace appears then to have vanished. Indeed, it ie pretty well convinced : but, I cahoot help quoting; it is united in one sole object, the repulse of the . ! said, that the last political arrangements of the COW. and addressing to you, a paragraph from Thr Times stranger if be presents himself, and the maintenance i gress were concluded on the ite.l of April, and the Newspaper of the lath instant; in the following of its independence and the integrity of its territory. , all the subsidiary alliances has ar- words :—" Etiract of a letter from Plollii , !elphia, Passion and hatred impel the tempest, which the ! r a tifi cat i on . of rived from London. The Declaration of War is ex- dated the 17th of March :—' Congress hater at length Government, by wise and moderate councils, will ' avert with safety—instead o f organ izi ng •th e w h o le . pected every day. But all France is also o n th e det erm i n ed t o h ave a w avy —d Bill h as passe d the power of France and decla r i n g i n d e t erm i na bl e vva r r , , alert! The whole population will com e f or th w i t h Legisleture, appointing a Navy Beard. Comrhoe . . arms in their hands, and the Allies will not find an dotes Hull. Bainbridge, and Rodgers, it is (see The Emperor makes an appeal to the nation and acts enslaved people ready to be conquered. The French peeled, will be appointed Admirals, and put le cern: only on the defensive. While negociations were going on to unite all E uro p e aga i ns t hi m , h e was nation will show its enemies that the ar mi es o f th e m i ss i on . A v e r y power f u l f orce, en d er the com.. occupied in giving the nation a Constit u tion, by Allies are powerkss against ' a .country which fight s wand of Co ••-ulore Bainbridge, it 11 , a ! 61 ' I • , f out which persons and property a r e g u ar an t ee d i n see n- for liberty ! : f ur Al g i ers :i t w ill con si s t o f two new 74-gbh WWI; city—which assures th e lib er ty o f th e p ress , an d o f We will examine in our n e x t ar ti c l e t h e C oa li t i on : fi ve frigates,end ten sloops of war. If I am tint in ai. clone m a resourcesthis • of France. i provoked the v eog ?an c e o f o u r ta rs . l ' oe G uer ri cre , May test this with the conduct of the Alli e d M onarc h s at pu u r i l a m . port yesterday for New York, where the it to bd Vienna. we shall find there nothi ng b u t precipita tion and animosity, and a system which undermines : NAVA L LVTE LLIG ENCE. joined by the ConStellab'on and Java frigates, front the whole rights of men! We will not recur to the! —owe-- Dr et, MAT 21.—Arrived the Cieardet frigate, from the Chesapeake, and the United Stales and Moced4- nian froM Long Island Sound: these frigates, with celebrated Manifesto of the 13th of March, which! six sloops of .war, raid the fi rst .1 on ,ig* grist all Publicists consider as a stain upon civilized so. • a cruize; Leveret and Sparrowhawk, sloops of war. . - • Algiers and it is said that 2,000 of Brown's rifld ciety, we will only mention that of the 25th, which from off Dieppe.—Sailed the Alert and Mercurius ' . veterans will go with the squadron. The whole tea. declared perpeetial war against France so long as it sloops of war on a cruize.—Camedown from the River tion is decided for a rutty : the Pr-rms./Amnia, a 7-is shall choose to place Napoleon on its Throne. The eighth article distinctly expresses the filed determi- to - d ay t he Swallow, for Surinam ; L o rd.Cath ca rt gun s hip , w ill b e l aunche d at It i s place in the month nation to re-establish Louis XVII I . nnd hisdynasty e , for India ; Th omas, for Surinam s and the Earl of May. Large quantities of tin.ber are t inily but the Cabinet of the Prince Regent of England in Lonsdale, for Jamaica.—The Fast Indiameni nv . br o ug ht down the Delaware and Schityllkill for ships building. It is no more eztraordivary than t ru e e a pnclerior declaration, says it has not the intention received their final instructions by their respective . i of imposing any particular Government opon France; P ursers , an d on l y wa i t a f a i r w i n d. ith what d'spae h•i ey build eta s 1 ar ti i L i s country. The Peacock, of 18 gurus, wit built at and Lord Castlereagh, in full Parliament, has de. : P a ORTSWOUTII, MAY 21.—Arrived y este day the om y r N. iry Port in ei , liteen wor Kill slags I The dared, that it eras only intended by England to get Hyena store-ship, from America; his elejesty's Wisp was built at New Yolk in twenty day sl Toe rid of Napoleon Bonaparte, and that the re-esta. blishment of the Bourbons was not to be a sine T at. ships Amelia and Spartan, from the Downs.—Came Superior, Commodore Chauncy's Mtge- ip, ot 64 non of peace. • Into harbour his Majesty's ship Cossack.—Arrived gu"'s on Like Ontario, took up only thirty . 'lays from the laying of her keel until she had' Let us suppose that the rest of the Allied Powers to-day, his Majesty's ship Chanticleer, from Ante- . all her guns on hoard, and was ready for a will adhere to this reetriction of England, let us rice; and his Mlaj-sty's ship Cephalus, from Foe cruize. It is said Congress ibtend to hate the frames see what it means. The English Government does mouth; also, the Trent and Mariner, from Ostend. o f t h e L a k e squa d ron remove d to t h e Atlantic .' ".- •. not pretend to intermeddle with the internal affairs . — Afew Colliers and several ships from the Downs; Now, what does your Lordship think of this?—D o of France, but yet it prohibits us from choosing the ' A .. not known. tt f Culars you think that it indicates any thing of that desi r e, only Chief eh° can guarantee our independence! 'r is it possible to proscribe the Chief of any Govern. l HARWICH, MAY 21.—Arrived the Alliance packet , of which you were pleased to speak some time ago, people to put themselves t e part of the ment without violating the first principle of political 1 with a Mail from Gottenburgh.—Sailed the Success on h under the protectionof iris M ' t ' G L ajes y s ..veriiment ? liberty ? Is not such an attempt a most direct at. ' packet with a Mail for ditto. Or, do you now begin to think with ITIP, that It in. tack upon national independence?—Besides, what . FALMOUTU, MAT 19.—Sailed yesterday the Snake di ca t es t h e spee d y appearance of an American fleet Claim of confidence have the Allies for such a power? packet, with a Mail for Surinam .—T .e Walsingham of 10 ships of the line and as many frigates on the Hu their conduct towards Poland, or Saxony, or Genoa, or Naples given them a title to it ? packet, for Corunna ; and the Marlborough packet ocean ?—Really, my Lord, this is of far greater co If England tins re as in consequence of the natu of for Lisbon, are gone into the Roads. This evening in of sequence to us, and to the'world, than the erect.. Hanover and Holland into kingdoms. The" 66 its Government. had a sort of discussion as to the or d er s have re a c h e d f or the fo r mer t o s a il, an d s h e i s g regular Governmerit" of Melees will now flint, I question of peace or war, the other Powers have at now getting under weigh • and the Marlborough to fdare that itmustchange its course; bat , say, once proclaimed war, even without the forms of deli- •weft for farther otderi. 7 esellee -- .. 7 . * • American navy win not be employed solely ag a inst ..- . • beration—.lor sue), ctivtitiely is the declaration of the this very "regular Government."' It will, and it King of Prussia of the 7th April. He calls the The Fred-rick trankport, Christie, with part of the must, make a figure in the world. h must act a Emperor and his army " perjured soldiers." It is gallant 42d regimentof foot board , . on from Cork great part. Four years will swell it to a respectable nonsense to talk about violations of the Treaty of for Ostend, put into Kinsale on the llth inst. with siee.• Before the end of that time, if we have war Paris, because it is clear that no nation coule give the wind at S.S.W. and on the 12th (last account) with France , I Pill t thatshall A i pr c ,we see an Amer i. up the right of regulating its own Government, remained theit wind-bound. . . can fleet of great force, carrying its " bits of striped without acknowledging at once the most shmish state , bunting" across the Atlantic. of suhject ion and dependence. To THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN. It Is for you, my Lord, who are a Statesman end If the Emperor Napoleon had been less moderate, _ es , a Prime Minister, and for your bright colleague, and had only followed the impulse of State policy, who has recently returned from Vienna ; it is for with what immense advantage he could have attacked M. Eorroa,—The legitimate Rulers of the Con- d f you, an not or me, t o say precisely what will be the Prussian army which was isolated in the coontry tinent inform us, that when they place their fellow. th this e consequences o f very important chatige in of the Luxemburg!, ; he clearly had the right to do creatures without the pale of c i v il an d s o c i al relations, the naval power of the world ;-but, as it Is a I'aioser so, for hostilities to not commence by the discharge they do riot thereby mean to point them out as the subject, I wilt venture to guess, tt•tt the friendship of cannon, the real aggressor is he who first draws the sword. But he was too honourable to avail him- first victims of assassination ; but will the Lorded of s lnaothen will soon begin to be courted by ever y nation t ea g has either stdos or commerce and, that, self of any pre,r..i. for war, until France was her- anointed tell us, in their might and - mystery , what Peen allly, 'some 6f them have their eyes upon al. self attacked—the Allies wish to make France a it is they do mean? Do they meawby placing a man !lances to be formed with him, in order to deprive scene of carnage and desolation—they attribute to i without the pale of civil and social relations, to place us of the power of exercising a mastership on the the Emperor the design of renewing that series of !him without the pale of war, taxation, and starve- high seas. At present the main use that I would conquests which had made France so celebrated andi tious If this be their meaning, it is a boot' indeed make of the above information/ is 9 to urge it ow so formidable to the whole universe, while they know e ' I well worthy of their might and majesty, and we pre. you as a reason for remaining at peace with France. that such an attempt can never again be made. If • nations are to declare war on such pretences as these, i some N‘POLEOM was first made the object of it, in Ido not want to see an American Newepeper to the true spirit of Christian charity. know what the people in that.country will think of every body will be for exterminating his neighbour. ANTONY PASQUIN. the threatened war in Europe. I know they will But let us examine into the real causes of all these not have patience to read one single article in the preparations for a war so truly anti-social. Shall we SUICIDE.—On Thursday afternoon, Mr. Lunn, an Times Newspaper without throwing it down, and not find tnem in the new interests of the King of the eminent in Soho Square , period his crying o ut for more ships to be built and bookseller put a to manned.— Netherlands, of the King of Prussia, and of the existence by • IHe of grea t The war ended in a way to provoke and at the same a pistol shot. was a man Regent of England ? The two first Powers having respectability, easy circumstances, and cheerful die. I time to encourage them. The past, the future, re divided between them the provinces taken from France * position. On Wednesday, in company with some , sentment, glory ; every thing will concur in favour. consider the overthrow of Napoleon as a safe gun. friends, the conversation turned on the kind of death l ing wishes for a new contest ; and, though they rantee for the possession of Belgium and of the left which caused the least pain —this, he contended, was build ships very quickly in peace, they would do it bank or the Rhine. England itself has seized upo n Iby a ball. After the b us i ness o f the day, he t oo k a more quickly in war. all the sea-ports of the North-west of Germany, and I walk in the Park, returned h o m e l a t e r tha n usual, and i Some will say, that, seeing this danger, we ought, looks upon Belgium as a barrier, which covers the apparently much agitated. In the morning he break. i without delay, to fall upon Napoleon, and to de.. l eow kingdom of the Netherlands against France ; ! fisted with his family, and afterwards said he was i stroy him, conquer France, and burn er capture all `and the new kingdom of the Netherlands is esta. !going to his room to write a letter. In a short time her fleet before the Americans have lime to build a blished as a barrier for the new English kingdom off I after, the report era Pistol was heard ; his daughters large Aeet. Yes, if you could be sore of doing all Hanover; for this object England has hunted all Eu- flew to the appartment, and found him bleeding on the this in the course of this summer. But, if you rope for alliances—she wants to become an integral' floor. Surgical aid was immediately called in, but he should fail. Failure is possible. It is snificient foe part of the Continent, and runs the risk of the total roil, the I almost instantly. It appears that h e h a d p l ace d us to know, that it is possible . . We may, Weed, of her finances to maintain an immense army on tee t the pistol beneath his right ear, a n d th e b a ll h a d do all that is wished ; hut, we may be obliged to Scheldt and on the Sambre: this system of continental ' passed through his neck and came out on the opposite come to a peace without doing any part of it ; trey, interference will be a source of incalculable evils.— side. Mr. Lunn had lately prepared a splendid edi- we may, as in the war of 1793, draw the French When the English nation shall become a Continental Lion of the Classics, which was printed at Oxford ; armies out of France to overrun our Mlles. Louis Power, with an immense permanent system, there this had long occupied his mind, and the repeated le Desiree ascribes the former sucesses of Napoleon will be an, end of her Constitution and of her Aber. disappoinments respecting the work which he had to Providence, who permitted him, for a while, to ties—from that moment she will cease to be formida- I recently experienced, are supposed to have ca u s e d a mak e c o nquests. Bur, as Providence has permitted ble. Her really great Statesmen feel this, and hams temporary insanity. The Coroner's Jury, which sat on him to come hack to France, and even to put out the stated it in Parliament - le but, nevertheless, the Eng. his remains, on Friday night, brought in their verdict Bourbons, why may not Providence permit him, in lisp Government, by a blind fatality, is adopting _ Lunacy. case France is attacked, first to defend her, and theta . • evtee measure for the national humiliation. Moo. Bow-STREET.—in consequence of the surgeon to sally forth in pursuit-of her assailants ? teequien says, " she will fall, as soon as her fiber- having declared that Leeson, the Waterman, who If this should be the case, I think we may rely ties are no more. Rome, Lacedemon, and Car- had the ferril of an umbrella thrust into his eye, was upon seeing the American Admirals in our Sells ; and, thage have already done so ; she will perish when the out of danger, Mr. Forster, of the Ezcise-office, who therefore, this should come in as an item in our esti. Legislative Power shall be more corrupt than the had done it, having compromis d with him for the mates of the consequences of war, if now rude Executive." This prophecy appears to be every day injury , was discharged. ' against France. With a stout American Aeet at sea, approaching its accomplishment. AGRICULTURE..—From the contistuanee ofrain,end our West India Colonies, and the Azores, belonging If wi• look still more at the causes which operate alternate warm weather, the growth of grass, this to our Ally, Portugal, would be in any thing but a with the Powers who wish to set all Europe in a spring is the greatest ever known; and the price of satisfactory state. In Short, it would requite fifty blaze, w e shall find that Russia is stimulated by am- hßy may be expected, therefore, to be lower than was ships of the lisle and fifty frigates to defend them all. bition, the King of the Netherlands is compelled into ever known for the lest ten years. The Slave Trade would soon be at an end, and the it ; Russia wishes to establish herself still more in The Acorn, Kerslake, from Liverpool, is arrived whole face of the naval one commercial world would Eur pe ; hut Austria can gain no advantage from at Rio Janeiro, after being taken and, plundered by be changed. The fleets of France would revive.... the Grand Turk privateer, and it is 'apposed ra. Example, emulation, hose powerful effects. In , g . - - .. . . / tiie to ' • Corrulpti of C , ,not Carom to the Prefect'. Vide Lord Grebe . 'lle's and Mr. Whitbread's opseehes. taken. to dint Retl, iuti in time, of tbese .~ :~ :: `5... -: .~yy? ,~~ ter. ~h:~~, .~. 3~seSh".,sa~ ,~ ;~ •••• L t", 7 . ' 1 •