The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-01-07 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN: modore has at last performed all he calculated upon, Dutch and.4lstrobergif Mails have arrived; ' they do not furnisha syllable of intelligence releti this autumn, but he must still continue on the alert. It is said the AMerican Commodore has laid down to the affairs of the Congress at Vienna. two more 74 gun-ships at Sackett's Harbour to be i ready in the spring. Without an equal 'addition to • An article from Stockhehn, of the 16th ui brought by the Dutch Mail, gives a l u ng accouist our squadron at the same time, the enemy will be superior; as our present force does sot surpass his, the ceremony attending the introduction of the Ni notwithstanding the representations made in the weeian Deputiesto the Roj al Persopage,and.Grand, -American Journals. ' of the Swedish Kingdom, i u the Hall of State, oe On Monday and Tuesday, detachments of the 41st the 14th, when •the Deputies preseeted th e CORStitp W they went in the steam-boat ; it is said they regiment arrived in town. On Wednesday morning . , will be :on the 4th of November. O n thi s occas i on the Nor. (ton a dapted by the Diet, and signed at Ch r i s ti ania landed at Three Rivers, where they will be quartered for the winter. The eyes of all were fixed on the re. ' wegian Gentlemen made a speech in the name of maining number of this gallant corps. Oer citizens their country (how truly they represented . the seir e 'of that country we may geese), rechgni;isig his hailed them as old comrades. While quartered for Swentsn lal a e FeerY as their C'onstitutional Si,. several years in Lower Ca tiada,their good conduct was and liniling Benseuoaie " Kieg here conepicuous everywhere. When the war broke out vereie 11, like the ilitches in' ilftthteih. Of course and Upper Canada - was invaded, those brave men altered in glory with the ever-to-be lamented Brock, after," when Gen. Hull and his army capitulated at Detroit. the Royal ears of Sweden were graciously pleased to On many suhcequent occasions, they distinguished listen to this harangue ; and, though the " woriky Gentlemen" cou'•! not help intredeci ag the menti on on L i ke ' of the rights , o f they free peo l p li l s e, ‘ y i e a j t .e a s s ty it , w w a s s o do ha n i e . i h n eg th o i isi themselves under Gee. Proctor ; and particularly on board the squadron under Cept. Barclay, Erie. The squadron had to fi ght for want of food, ' and Gen. Proctor had evacuated his positions for the " a '' , that ' Y ho p ed • same reason. Those noble fellows, with their Chief, by recognising the rights o f t h , nai i en , w i ll centhiue had an arduous retreat to make, with scarce!~ a to respect and protect them," BER VA nom: made a gra. morsel in their knapsack', while they wore hardly does speech in reply, and said,with becemingatiodesty, "k° . that ns he had te.k is N ireay under ;Is protection , ' pressed by an army of four times their number, i he should take very geed care of it, and the Re pre- lived on plenty. What followed was no wonder ; they did all that men could similarly eircumses need. . sentatives and the.r Cons:it useoe might rest satisfied, Like other regiments in Upper Canada ; their suf ferings have been great, and a grateful country fully that, now they were disposed to return to their duty, appreciates their merit, wheu in the midst of the most he would overlook certain circumstances, a:sd govern trying occasions. the kingdom “ which Divine Providence had to his direction," recording to its Constitetion, and in a manner to justify the " unlimited confidence" which by their •" free and unanimous choice," aild their tender to him of the Norwegian Crown, they had reposed in him. Ills memory will live among them, he says—we believe it. And here ee must conclude our report of this farce, got up so sadly at the expence of the poor Norwegians. unanimity, and self-denial. Heavy burdens are yet on our shoulders--fear and sorrow yet embitter our provect—the-Old wounds which a:2O years aver and oppress' have ate into oar hearts are yet bleeding —our bitter tears yet new for the German citizens' wives, :and childreti, who are languishing in the deepest and most unmerited wretchedness, and who loudly call to God and you for help. Secure them from foreign enemies, and give them internal tranquil lity ; allow them some respite from their miseries, give them some time to gather their strength. The con stitution which Germany is desirous of having, has been su tlicieutly made kuowts ; and the great majority of the Princes have jollied with the people, and called on you to decide. Pronounce then your sen tence, give out the plan of the work, aild the whole people will hail it with joy as the pledge of the peace and tranquillity which it has fought for and deserved by the sacrifice of all that is dear among men." 'aiteatepaeieeeeeeeiease•---_ the French, they were restored to security, trail. (tele.), and prosperity, and all other matters were ;:esrponril four mouths later to a Congress. .1.(, be tits. .11C against France, the •tipulatietis of the Treaty of Ceatininnt were to hr‘ fulfilled ; an English army teolv pesseesion of lieleium, 100,000 Prussians te n:relied in the territory between the Meese and the ?;leselle. Austria had hold of its share of Italy, and enly a few thousands nut of the Austrian and Ba• Talent army were stationed between Queich and the _Pp :elle. . - By this regulation the burden was laid on the gar riecated Pcovieces e hich were taken from the Freed), end they hid the melancholy prospect of a long iii terril, in A% hick half in war aud•lialf in peace, and as it $4 PrP hers , olsli Heaven and Hell, they might in a sort of Purgatory, wait till the expiration o( their eerind of verification. We are nor suelciently ac teininted eeh the way of thinking of the Italian people ; in Belgium, the rice nation by whose army it is occupied. provides amply for its support, which liehretis the ter; dee. The complaints come from the Ti g er hark of the Moselle, where separate taxes are imposed for the maintenance of the 10,000 men . there quartered. in order to lie able to send the ordi nal y taxes out of the country s expressly contrary to Cu' , ii,•truAiwis en en by Marshal Wrede to the ad ea, ee ra ti, n , i e fereetzmieli, on their entering on the ileties of the iroffice. • But the hardest oppression of QUEUE, Nov. 'n.—The pleasing intelligence of all ;s (ci; liy the 'err : o ry bet w ee n the Meuse and the the abandonment of Fort Erie by the enemy, and o f Herne less. s' their retreating to their own side of the river Niagara, Tee inhale ente ;of this laud gratefully acknow- ; is a gratifying close to the campaign, particula r ly as ledge the good (sill o f th e Gmernment, which hns • it will enable our troops, after a most harassing arid ' dew( every thing eii its power to alleviate their situ- trying service, to go into comfortable winter-q u e r - Item. It has reealled a part of the troops, it has ; ters. We repeat a most harassing and trying because, to the common evils of w ar a re decreed a certait; sum by way of indemnification to ; service, the inhabitants ; o r the quartering, and it sends from; superadded the local calamities of an une l eare d country, such as the enfeebling, and n e t s e ld om time to time, 41c far as the exhausted state of the , , mortal, disorders, of fever, ague, and diarrieta ; to another ronn4y will permit, monee for their cover , say nothine of the occasional difficulties of receiving ina, and ( nbraces willingly every means of allele the requisite supplies and reinforcements; or of the sting :lie eppression. They extol the honesty and ; privations of the comforts and solace of society. from the actitety o f the General poventor, wee feels for . their V: l fortunate situation. They cannot avoid also . which they are precluded by their distance from a n y praike the order and discipline kept up in the army thing like a town. In s f the behaviour of the soldiers. They know that , These local calamities, which are eqaally felt las „W eir wretched situation has been brought about by both parties in this unhappy and unnecessarily de unfortunate circumstances, arid that it cannot be; elated war, must ever operate as a check on the ems / ' bettered till the conclusion of the peace. But it can. i my's being enabled to raise and bring any tkieg like not be expected that while they are slowly roasting overwhelming armies to the Canadian boiders ; be. . 'Afore the lire, they should exclaim, like the Mexi- cause, even without a stroke being struck, it is an den Emperor, they are lying ou thorns ; and it uncommonly destructive service. It is not thee mat would be sporting, therefore, w ith the misery o f ter of wonder that the Arnetiean Government finds it necessary to oiler such large bounties, in lauds,eo en the people to say, that they are coontented with their , site:item. - ..• ; gage men to enlist. li• it,. part of the department of the Rhine and : We have before touched on the futility of such pro ------ th. '.',l ,, seile, an the dominion of the Prussians, r (erred bounties, particularly where they are held opt as a lure to desertion. As the subject has again oc- By an arrival at Greenock from Quebec we have amid which contains somewhat above 100,000 inhabi- Papers from thence to the 25th of November, some fonts, 18,000 mea and 80(a) hoist. are quartered.— - cur red to us, we will hazard a few words more, by of a warning to all who might be disposed to be. r days later than any previous arrival. The peaCe that The Government fierees to pay out of the taxes for ' way the meinteliance of each man 50 centimes, and this , • come their dupes. And here it must be observed, I has been concluded with America, and the cessation with what is allowed for the horses, makes a monthly that North America is chequered with both good and iof hostilities, on account of the approach of winter, outlay of 200,e00 lie-dt•llars. At the present price, bud lands; with tracts well watered, and with other! leave us little room to expect important intelligence of provisions, the landlord must at least add to this tracts totally destitute of water. Of the latter, in? from that quarter for some time. But the present an feral sum, so that this district has sacrificed the state of Keutuckey there are many millions of 1 advic.es give some account of the state in which mat. daring the sit mouths of this regulation, 2,400,000 acres, called Barrens, that are totally uncultivatable. We find that it was not to Mr. H MI? D AVIS a l one I ters were left, and are otherwise of such interest that ri (el•illais. The tale.; at present amount only to These are the kinds of lands that they will give in about 400,000 r i e .thet ar s, so that at an average, the bounties.—Their good lands they sell at ten shillings I we - hare made as copious extracts as the late hour at that the Earl of L IVE R POOL add r ess e d a kn ee r e. inhabitants will not receive one mantis's proportion ' per acre. Both in the States of Kenteckey and which they a rr i v ed will glow. Whig written to othars of the devoted and expected specting the continuance of the ProperlN Tar; —but . of their promised indemnification. If we take the taxes i Ohio, to which the latest emigrations have been made ! The articles which we quote relative to the close I at a teeth part of the income of the country, during , not a man sits down on any new land, without being 1 of the campaign in Canada, are highly to the honour I • towns , r equesting ieuds of the Treasury in different these six mantlne, we may say that two-thirds or the most severely taxed with those afflictive burthens al of our brave countrymen. Both our seamen and i I them to feel the public pulse on the occas i on, and let I him know the result. A letter of this kind from Or" /I'Mo:if (interne has been swallowed up; and before ! ready mentioned, fever, ague. and diarrhtea. From the i Lester, rap to which we are told fled soldiers have had 66 to fight for want of food ;" the Congress will ; temptation of such bounties, where is the man of the land ' the Noble Earl, addressed to Mr. Geenseoirr, of at bust s i n , the w h o l e p ro d uce o f the year will becon. ; least common sense, who does not most fervently , as the Montreal Letters say, taking all their writes ' Liverpool (tile friend of Mr. CANNIN O ), was sh own stinted. W hen it is considered that a great part o f ejaculate the praye r —G oo d L or d deliver us! The; and circumstances of difficulty into consideration, about by that Gentleman, with great self-importance. the land (.11 tine llS•ine, Moselle, and Aar, is a wine , apple with which our first mother, ott the instigations : for 6 6 t h e i r enem i es were four times their number " It stated the anxious desire of Gover n m en t t o l earns country, that the vintage of this year has totally of the serpent, tempted her too easy companion, was : on most occasions it is no wonder that what has whether the loyal Town of Liverpool w ou ld a pp rove failed, an•l that the ten former years were late arid scarcely pregnant with greater evil, than are theirs- / happened should have occurred. It will be observed of the continuance of the Property Tax for another year, to wind up the expanses of the war, and re. unprndurtire, the •tale of the ;teethe:nes may easily , sidious allurements of American guile. questing to have an answer. It is s u pp ose d at Li. the Montreal articles speak in bitter terms of the be imagined. In the towns there are few rich 'lnlia. ! lf, notwithstanding these evils and the hardship, I biteros and many be jars, and the middle class, 6,11 of a first settlement in a wilderness, rho States have I conduct of the Americans ; and our f r ie n d s i n Cn- verpool thaf Mr. Gcsnsronc has repli e d i n th e air- St horn the e bole but den falls, is altogether exhaust.. ereatly i n creased i n population, by emigrationtefrom , nada who write these account, doubtless smarting mative. But the sentiments of the great majority of ea. During the passa g e of the Russians, the misora. • Europe, it has arisen from the emigrant's ignorance ! under the severity the commercial men of their disappointments, and the ther e, is so opposite, and the lee remains of their former prosperity went to the of eteat he was to endure ; and his afterwards havin g I local calamities still threatening them at the date of feeling is so universal , that a Meeting is to be held v, 4 nh r ohe r s, all their savings leaving been long no alteenative.—When mice he was sat down in the ; , tuese accounts—calamities which are confessed to be on the subject, and in this theToriesthemselve take ago drawn from them by the French. This nunier- woods, the spot becomes his only home, and he the lead.---;This may serve o Show to the country at cans class, the uphold of every state, look with ; mast, since he has taken it, keep for better and for 1 eq ually felt by both parties "in this unhappy and large what is becoma necessary for them to do; and s i esuns a s „ s y to tine f u t ure ; th e y have no prospect, worse, as he dVes his wife. Why he emigrated '• a 1 unnecessarily declared war,"—now, we hope, at ant how important it is to beware of the insidious artifices •no reinurce, no hope, no capital, from which to hope restless disposition; involvements, a h ar d landlord ;• end,—touch with a hand which will be perceiv e d t o of the known agents of the Treas u ry. for a mere suppertahle situation hereafter. Feet> , ; low wages: an impoverished country by the coati-' be influenced by considerations we need not men. - It LADI NG., J.l.x. s.—TheDank of Niesirs....M•eitele s day dr sws teem deeper and deeper in rein, and they ! nual absence of its geeitry; one, some, or all of , .on, on the bounties of land which the American DEANE, WE•TBROOILE, and Co.: (this place, st o pped bare en n (Ass to ward it oil; a callous indifference , these must speak. ;lion, ; Government have offered to those who enlist in the payment at half-past eleven o ' c ' oz k thi s morn i il l and the resignation of despair, break down Every I The Telegraph yesterday announced twenty to attempt to depict the consequrnse wo u ld h e f ut il e , spring of iee.tion. Many, tritely thousauds eat no- I square-rigged vessels, fifteen of them are said to e regular service. We could not expect that the Ca- it ca n be better conceived than de cribed I The firm thing e , e r , e , e an d salt, an d t o add to their inisfor. ! a fleet front Conic with 19,000 barrels of pork, two ' nadians, writing for the English Government would had opened as usual, at ten o'clock, and at the above. mentioned time announced their insolvency , ; the tune, tincir potatoe harvest has failed, and they give I only with troops. They sailed from Cork on the 2d speak in terms of high approval of a measure which _ shock was electrical, and numerous the flesh to the soldiers which they have purchased '. of October. A proof that if Great Britain thinks of had for its object the invasion of their country. families are, to by the sale of to•morrow's bree4. Such is the hien.; us it is not with sine' a knowledge of the country as w . all appearance, involved in utter destruction. nth these prefatory observations , not altogeeher tint of tile country , arid the modesty and reserve , good helmsmen should possess. A part have entered unnecessary, we lay the extracts we have made from Letters had been received at Bombay from Benares, wiSin always accompany honest and unmerited po. , the harbour ; for their arrival we must be thankful ; stating that Colonel ltrcrianesort's detachment Ined received orders to move onwards, in consequence of ye r ty, have thrown a veil over the whole, under I but the thanks are due more to our good fortune the Quebec Papers before our Readers. I We have before observed on the probability of a the Nepand people having declared their resolution to which the people support their misery and their hard I than to the judgment of our British land pilots. resist all at tempts at our establishment in the dis Pated fortune as well as they c:ii. Alas! this is the picture It is said that some vessel, arrived to-clay, brings new question arising between this country and Ame- This districts. The troops were exseeted to 'pass at least of tile greatest part of Germany ;it is painful to all, .an account that the American frigate Constilution , rice bth e , y expe diti o ns a ga inst Pensacola. but it is certainly excesable, if it is most painfully lis taken. all the hot months under canvas. . . ' A Hambureh Paper, under the of Hanover , express from place is. the capital or West Florida, to which ' fete by reuse who are sinkiiie after the restoration of I MONTREAL, Nov. 19.—The last Dec. 23, contains the following : , -- 46 ill a late sitrin: also Foie Mobile in fact belongs, although the latter their coutery, as they feet m u st the hardship of their ; Kingston moteunces the arrival of tine fleet in that s 1 4 t e a Ito after the co n clusion of peace perish in an , port, having his Honour Lieutenant-General Drum- has been seized and occupied by the AmeriCans as of our States-General, the question, wh e th er the ei s . epireh tameit. I mend ow board. It is confirmed, at last, that the I part of Louisiana. Fort Mobile being thus in the i cussions of the assembly should be c•;ndietted in pub- Forand hearers be admitted to the present ? was twenty years through, this country his been , enemy has evacuated the Niagara di s t r i c t , li e ' had ' possession of our enemies, we undertook to expel I lie/ ;decided in the negative, saa..rine under different Provisional Governme n ts, 1 blown up the works in and about Fort Erie, after. by a majority ef only one them; but unfortunately the attempt failed, and the until it is at I act oil the brink of Two. First Hour- ! having had possession of the place four months.— have been proposed, that each Member should have a ; vote. had the decision been otherwise, it. was to assailants were forced to seek shelter at Pensacola, belie, thee Feeder, afterward; Gillet, Jauhert, i Thus has terminated a campaign, as bloody, in pro. Nt'‘ent ripened they way ; all of them promised li- ; portion to the number of troops engaged, as any in within the territory acknowledged on all hands to be: card, on which he might wr it e an or d er o f a d m i ss i on berty and prosperity, and all of them carried off our 1 the records of war during the time it lasted. It has Spanish, a n d consequently neut r al. If the Amerie for one ef his friends, so that the 'neither of bearers motley and goods. Then came the Central Govern- I ended most honoarably to the British arms, and tits • cans do not embrace this opportunity of enlarging I would have equalled that of Members." meat in Mx, then General Roche, and afterwards 'gracefully to the enemy. The coutending armies their territory, by retaining these possessions, the' The West India Islands hare for some.years pre followed a band of Government Commimaries, pro- bore no proportion in point of numbers ; that of the ferret! complaints arrainst the berdeosonie expeeres question will be, who is to indemnify Spain for tine s consular powers, thrones, princes, dominions, and Americans was at first treble ours, and never less . incurred by the large Military Stall' attached to the cherubim, all of the empire of Lucifer. The picture than double. This trial of valour will teach the' loss of her colony, and on whom is tine odium o f the , t 1 Colonial Garrisons. I n some o f th e I s l an d s , e mi. of all that we have su ff ered under ttSese various Go- enemy how frui t les s It is . f o r bins to pollute oar , war to rest? ,i derstand, there are as many General Officers ereelae • vernments, would exhibit a system of extortion, happy soil.—Without saying any thing farther on ; The full confidence entertained by Ministers that ed as regiments on duty. ' thievery, pillage,impudence,and shamelesedepravity, this topic, it is proper to say something about the the Treaty of Peace will be ratified by the Govern- I Ves•retley af;etnoen, soon after four c'eleck. which has never been equalled since the worst days of I Lakes. It is of the highest importance to have the Lore G Am went of the United States almost immediately on the . • MLR arrived in lowniug.street, in a Rome. command of the whole el them ; but of Ontario, in of Mr. Began in the United States, is openly chariot and four, ,where his Lordship had an inter- It is at last high time that est end should be put particular. Sir James Yen, by exercising his activity arr i val view with Earl I.l,seounsr. The Noble Lord pro to this state of things. The whole people anxiously and talents, has succeeded in driving the enemy's avowed. We understand that, as according to the seeded from the Secretary of State's office to the Ad- Nog to be placed in something like a fixed and fleet into port, and has thereby been one of the chief Constitution of the United States all Treaties mast miralty, where lie saw Viscou ß t MELvi L u s f or seine settled state. The whole people of Germany with instruments in relieving the Niagara territory of a be sanctioned by the rRESIDENT, conjointly with the time.—Lord Gasnerzit left Ghent on IVionday lutist{ s one voice call out, " Emperors and Kings !ye to barbarous and unrelenting foe; whose cruelties have Senate, the preseut Treaty will require their united . at Doter on 'Thursday evenin g , • a n d p roc e e d e d to taint Ind confirmation. The ratificatlqns are to be whom the destiny of our country is entrusted, in equall ed those of the Hu ns and Vandals. in these Canterbury, whe r e he slept, an d p rocee d e d f ro m whose bands its prosperity and peace, its freedom, and days of civiliz ation, it would be an insult oft .the there to ) London tosterde •• mornin 4 d • .-. • Si r -3 - twesen stschange t and future existence are placed, listen to our memory of Atill a, t o compare General Brown's con- 4 . A. at Witshington, and. it fortunately hap- General Jolts; NtclutAT is arrived in England. .sepplieation, and put a speedy end to the great work duct with that of the barbarian. I vela that both Houses of Congress will coatinuealt- and was yeAertlay at the Commander in C:iters wheel you so gloriously began,in the spirit of heroism, Worn with anxiety ; °argonaut and esteemed Coat- tits until the dth of March. • ''-• ‘ • '' '• " • office. This is the voice of the people ofihe Rhine and on every German river; those who hold another lan guage, lie in their hearts, and no truth is in their words. QUEBEC PAPERS. . Mhits . Lisbon One Ilamhurgb ..... . Holland 0 ICE (11 STOCKS THIS rtan k per Cent Red. 65;1 I per Cent Cun•. 65ibi ex div. 4 per Cants. 8`.41 5 per Cent. Na” fella DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Lima.: Ann. 1611 India 8uc,16 '2O 19 p Exchequer Hills 3 6 p Omnium I} Consol. for Ace. 663 i We have in letters frOm Cadiz and from the Spanish Capital another proof of the grateful remembrpirce in which the Court of Madrid holds the exertions of Great Britain in its favour. This fresh example of Spanish gratitude is given in another act of part& thy to our commercial rivals on the ConanLlit. It is positively stated, that a tariff has been established between Spain and France, favourable to the mono factures and industry of the latter, in which she will obtain an advanta . le, in some commodities, over the same description of merchandize prepared .in Great Britain, to the amount of 10 per cent. It is per fectly obvious that it would he in vain to attempt any competition with France, under such discouraging circumstances. THE STATESMAN. SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1815. 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