The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-02-13 00:00:00

'~ '. r .s ,9 Mails. hi Or on Ijanahtir4h Holland 0 . Malta France PRICE OF STOCKS THIS Hank 9 per Cent. Rid. 6lj 9 per Cent. Cam 64i 4 pit Csott. .81j 5 per Cent. Nay) 93111 DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK Lanz. Ann. 16 5-16/ India Bond► It 13 p Exchequer Rids 3 5 p Omni= 34k d Consols for Acc. 6.11” ' THE STATESMAN. LONDON: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13 v MI Dutch and Hamburgh Mails arrived to-day, and we bare also French Papers to the 10th inst. The latest intelligence from Vienna is of the 30th. Two unusually important articles, of this date, will be foetid among our subjoined extracts from the Dutch Pape's. They revive the hope of a speedy termini'. tion to thiSittingi of the Congress; but whether it will rise in peace or in wrath, is not yet known.— Very important proceedings are stated to have lately taken place. " The 28th was a most important day," say they. The Austrian ultimatum seems to have been given in, and the English definitive declaration was _expected with great anxiety and almost immediately. These are the only known results. The duration of the Congress is now not expected to extend beyond, the end of March. The suite of the Emperor of . 11031 A have orders to be in readiness by the 14th February. We may expect, therefore, soon to hear of th. business being decided one way or another. — There is no word of the parties who have occasioned the disputes giving up their pretensions. It is re marked, as As proof of increasing confidence, that the Austrian State Paper is rising, but warlike pre parations continue ; and we find from a Brussels Letter of the Bth inst. that there is some doubt whe ther it may not be necessary to increase our Belgian army immediately. This, among other important questions remaining to be determined, is for Lord CASTLLREAGII to explain, when his Lordship shall this•k fit to resisit this country. Private letters say, his Lordship was not to lease Vienna before the 2d or 3J, and consequently is not expected here much before the 1 23:1). Ile is expected to pass by the way of Calais, the Commandant of which has orders to stilate •him with lti guns! ! Will the great gon in the Park also announce the arrival of the great unionist? The salute in the House of Commons will' not, we suspect, be quite so flattering as it was on a former occasion. There is nothing certain from Italy, except that Muttxr is waving a fearful weapon over the head of the unrepentant POPE, for whom friars and fanatics only sympathise. There is. no confirmation of Joachim's hating entered Rome; but a letter from that city says, the advanced-paid of the Neapolitan army is seen encamped in its neighbourhood. The following are from the Papers received this forenoon : BRUSSELS, FEB. S.—The Officers of the English corps stationed in Belgium, who were in England, have received orders to join their regiments, and suc cessively arrive. AU the English and Hanoverian re giments are kept qui'e complete, and we daily see detachments, both of infantry and cavalry, ar rive to be incorporated with them. It is affirmed, upon good authority, that oo the arrival of Lord Castlereagh in London, an important question is to be determined, viz. whether the army which now occupies the countries between the Alaese and the North Sea shall be augmented. In that case we expect 20,000 veteran English troops who have served under the great Duke of Wellington, and also 10,000 Hanoverians. Our national army increases daily. lIAGUE, FEB. 7.—We are authorized to declare, that the article in the Morning Chronicle of the 3d of this month, and which was copied into the last number of the Stoats Courant, is absolutely false in what relates to the discovery of pretended intrigues at Stockholm. A young officer in the Swedish Guards, named Piper, has, it is true, shot himself with a pi,t• I, but he was led to that act by motives wholly of a private nature. VlE)rms, .I%x. 30.—Very important conferences have taken place within these few days ; but, it is said, they hare not yet produced a decisive result, though many believe it may be eipected very soon. This opinion seems the better founded, because yes terday and to-day the State Paper has risen, and is ,t•!l rising. This cirrgnistance is the more nereark able, because the Bank-notes fall. Formerly the State Paper and the Bank-notes usually kept an equal pace. The present sinking of the paper-mo rfey (Bank-notes) seems, however), to be partly caused by the insmense man of paper,which the great expenses of the Court as well as those s of the State in general, being brought into circulation. At the same time there is a great deal of ;peculation carried on in these notes, which depressn'the course of ex change extremely. • LETTER FROM VIENNA, JAN. 27. " I am unable to give you to-day any certain in formation respecting Italy. The Italian Officers who are arrived here, speak very calmly and sensibly about their situation. They say, we are said to be i ii, con t en t e d, hat how can we be otherwise? At first it was proposed to disband the whole Italian army, and passports are given us to go abroad. Suddenly roues a counter-order ; and we are restored to our Air THE STATESMAN. former rank, bat the Lieutenant receives, iantead a discharge oc a 411-paid for official situation in a die- SO , Iran's, in silver, St francs in papers tie* cap we tint country.,,, . 7 ''' live upon this ?We are forbidden to wear the well • But how shall wit s td words to do sulicient justidr t -- , earned Cross of the Legion of Honour, without giv• to those master-pieces of the science of " Jobbing .,-- ing us an equivalent for it. This regulation having th ose fi n i s h e d performances of the art—the Master of met' with some opposition, permissionis provisionally the Mint and the Ansbanador at Lisbon ?..= , -The fi given us to wear this order, but the pension belonging poor inoffensive man, far from liking the loaves and to it is not paid us. Add to all this, that we are i fishes, has accepted an appointment where there can obliged, in this inclement season, to make long ,be no " cheese parings and candle ends," no 44 rem marches to Austria, to be placed in other staading tants of office," for there is no such thing as a single' quarters." die at work in his whole mint ! The Bank Directors • - II tNOVER, FEB. 3.—The town of Stade is destined , have saved him the troublesome duties of his offiee.l to be a chief place of arms for the kingdom of 1 Bank tokens, in dollars, three-shilling and eighteen. Hanover. In restoring this fortress which formerly . penny pieces, have superseded all the national coin was not inconsiderable, but was demolished after I (for as to guineas they have been long out of fashion), the Seven Years War, and which can afford a strong and the whole of the metallic stock. of the Mint con position to a considerable army; the heights round i sists of " brass" and copper! Mr. CANNING'S the town, as far as the Black Mountain, will be 4' Job" is really of too serious s nature to be treated included in the works. The expend), are estimated with levity ; such a one never yet disgraced any Ad at 3,000,000 of dollars, and the execution of the ministration! one whkh Sidi- Watt.roLE, the child and plan may take many years. The quantity of heavy I champion of corruption, would uot, in good old artillery, ammunition, and military stores that are former times (bad even as they were then consider arrived at Stade from England are very considerable. ed) have ventured to attempt. What! send an MO The renewed reports of an augmentation of Hanover i bassador of the highest rank, with an unheard-of in the North and North-west of Germany, wants 1 ea t er y, with a suite of magnitude and splendour un confirmation. 'rivalled in our whole diplomatic annals, to the most partitions on the Continent with any thing like that satisfaction, which the prospect of a long and au, distorbed peace in Eorope would produce. Russia has augmented her army to near 700,000 men—A,,. tria to 500,000 —Prussia to 300,000, while We ham an army in Belgium (half of which is British) o f near 100,000. To this account we bye the s t ale. ment added, that " all the moll slat& Alt Germa ny have the whole of tigriarrrtrlnie . does.this mean ? Is this the happy..c.osilitioa of con. cord and tranquillity which " Me.. Deliverer; of Europe" wire to bestow on thiniiiint! the blood. bounds of war, the whole race. , 4 latars, con. tractors,. and *commissaries, are iirg with hope! and if the energy and honesty - o f the British Par. liament does nat, by withholding. ,the lavish hand, which has forso may years squandered the best,blood, and almost the last shilling of the nationi the k w " of war will be again rekindled, and GOD kn ow; where they will stop! Those who think and feel that hreeikleitilieietulr-- high in price, and that there are ale4k sunieirst number of obspicleS to the obtaining: if it, nitil read with a sesitiment that we need tioliowdeaveat te express, the following statement, wit e' w copy _ _ _ it VIENNA, JAN. 30.—The 28th instant vas a most beggarly Sovereignty in Europe, one which is known i from a Morning Paper. The fact annetwles with important day, and considered as definidiely dee- only as being considered a province of England, surd i so much plausibility is highly imperhint. We have :•, site in the course of the uegociations. Two grand where, to give the shadow even of decency to the jso amply stated our opinion as to ,lba ewariii le tie conferences took place, of which, however, the affair, there is not only no Sovereign ' but a certainty I principle of voluntarily placing. tbaratiar Milt id I . the community rst . the Meret,Wl l : i iitdr irwilMa only known result is, that the Prussian Ministers that 'there will be none! wham, consequently, 6 ' native dealers," who at* , .414 VIII* , o. -. pi...i have taken the last Austrian declaration , given in tho 'there can be no duties to warns but what ! an d .. conferences ad referendum.' As the English olti: ,the very lowest 66 Secretary" could . not hare , Protect themeelves, that. we 'wlt , vtrhnitlittten t : . : matum must new soon be here, and the businesi found the means of employment .on !, A Court, marks, though we yet buns .... „ IWO shall then necessarily be decided one way or the other, so con t em ptible, ,that our Ambassador seizes have, much more to say on the ' The closing we begin to consider the close of the Congress as on the Royal residence and occupies le le. au the I sentence iir the erticle which olik would giv e es . , not se fat distant. It is universally asserted that its magn ifi cence o f Vi ce -R o y a l s pl en d our !—A n d yet to suppose that, the mon gentians!' tabo tints bees f duration will not extend beyond the end of March. thi s h as b een ven t ure d a t a ti me w h e n the m ost The suite of the Emperor of Russia have, it is said, g l oom y p resages a pp ear on ever y . Qountenance, es toI endeavouring to obtain is law to coatiteltspC he beef. . ficent designs of Previa:nee, neasovi oboist to mm, orders to be ready to depart by the 14th of February. th e possibility of meeting the enormous demand i plate the duties which ate to ,prcter! ' thiiabliirshist BERLIN, Fes. 4.—M. Von Jagow, the Master of which, of necessity, we must have to discharge: it importation, without any laserwhattv'er, ifiglitlifir. the Horse, who accompanied the King to Vienna, Portugal was oar own it could not cost us more. '' own standard of equity * n4oratio• i•oaek(ty au,' , • • --, 1 , arrived here this morning. But he returns to Vienna, : M r . C sed isn's Embassy is more expensive . " On Saturde r an ' intersi " re°ll P less ` b s ieri e• die it is said, in a fortnight, which seems to indicate that Vice-Royalty would be ; and we have an army I Earl of 1411 " 1 "" ligi i' s 66 " 11111 61 • 1144 "bitir do the return of our King and his attendants is not so 80,000 men in pay, with a Field-Marshal at its Ilea; Potato of Commons on the subject 14 the.i.:orn t ' ' near at hand. Several private letters from respect- and the usual dreadful d cetera, of Staff, Commis- i when a long and interesting ditcossiontoe k pia" I was !skived to on all hands,'that IBill Ice '.l.e. - • • able channels give as the greatest hopes of his return i lion lariat, Hospital, and all the long train of Civil and by the end of this month. . ' / Military-Establishniewts ! and, for what !Is Porta- . I of the A gricultural interests.*( thaimustryarmi r COPENHAGEN, JAN. 31.—The terrible IHATIRL - gal In danger, and by whom is it threatened? bogs - ' ren d ere d ' ' niiispensible, on the priti*Mwt iv cspiditZ • •,, skill, and industry employed iskeeterY other breadth:lo. which still continue, and the quantity of snow that t, thebeloved in vuokilii our excellent Ally , " F has fallen, delay oar communications with both m think of havading-lt ?•-v-Pcror man, he w s h ort ly n Sweden and Germany. His Majesty's birth-day employment enough in preserving his own kingdom.l duce and.tnanufactures, at a late to overwhelm and , celebrated with great demonstrations of joy. H ave we foun d any i ncrease d f ac i l i t i es f or our corn annihilate the native dealer, so ought they to be *heti ! applied to the production of corn. Al titlialllso does merge ? The last Regency Tariff imposed heavy duties on every article of our home or our colonial it was a g reed '''' that In this moat " trial a sit lul l" clew, the rate of importation should be such as to keep 1 produce. For what then is this enormous expense the price of bread-corn at a moderate, sod, ffpomible, incurre d , and what is the object which can be so de at an equal price. It was still thought advisehle that slab's, that, at such a moment, an establishment ; importation shoal& be madtito depend on the avenge tot several millions should be kept up, without a single apparent motive which can justify its. being In- I price at the home market, and the cid qtreetir,n wu, m ! lat what price the high duty on importation, should itred ' 1 casamence, whether at 745, or at . 1 per Spider.— We bare already alluded to the coinage- Ose 1 I Nothing beyond the equity of the 'principle gonads. 1 Readers have, no doubt, observed that the CHANCEL. tided ; there is to be a second Meaing on the se g: Lon of the EXCHEQUER has announced his intention jest to-morrow , %then the last return for the qui* of proposing the continuance of the Bank wilt Restric- w . . . tue rece i ve d, and by which the duties will Ist - iti lion Bill on Thursday 'next. Ministers now carry gulated for the nett three months, withinit the Inter: things with a great degree of delicacy. Previous 'fruition of any new law on the subject." •: , Committees to examine into the necessity of import- --owlm--. , : : (. 1r $ ant ohjects are now totally dispensed with, and the Lloyd's, het- 1j,11113: Minister contents himself with merely moving for The following is an extract of a litter, from the. what he wants, and in that stark-naked way the Admiralty in reply to an enquiry made by the Com- I most important measures are carried through the m itt ee , whether any information of the occoust of Legislature! We observe that Mr. Donnas Ins the capture of tat. Richmond, the ideowe s MI illui moved for a string of papers relative to the Bank other ship of the Sanfleare's cowyWy t bad been rev Issues, which indicates an intention of opposing this ceived at that Office?—" Thera& reason to believe measure—that ought to be opposed. •011 what pus- that the two ships mentioned keie heea captured by . sible ground the Bank can now refuse to pay their an American privateer." • • -. bills we cannot conceive; we see that they generous ly have indulged the holders of °anima with a promise to advance for them the payment of the next (the last) instalment, for ,thls obvious motive, the it was getting every day heavier on the market,whiciai it was the interest of the Government and the Bank. to prevent. It is an old political axiom, that part•. nerships between Banks and Governments do not augur national prosperity—it never was more clearly exemplified. We trust the proposed continuance of the Restriction Bill will meet with as warm an op position as so impolitic and so unnecessary a measure deserves. SzoCILMOLNI, Jaa. 26.—1 t appears from authentic statements, that the batik-notes in circilation at the end of last year, amounted to net. quite 9.$ millions of dollars. In the vaults of the Ha* thesig aid believed to be 11 or It millions in elver aftlk bullion—nine millions there certainly are; If- del Bank would turn its real property into moneOt could pay all the bank-notes in circulation intwedell o , sad would have an overplus of five millions in Specie. Why then are not bank-notes at pars This comes from jobbing, and the maneuvres of speculators, who are found in all countries, and where love of gain is greater than their patriotism. The Govern ment knows the source of the evil, and is intent on means to stop it. The absence of some of the principal Members of 'the Government gives rise to very important conside rations, in a financial as well as a political point of view. When the office of " third" Secretary of State was established by " the Great Man sow *a snore," the immense pressure of public business was the only excuse which was made for it ; the defies of experience now shows us that it may be dia.' pensed with. For upwards of a year past Lord CASTLEREAGH has been, more or less, on the Conti nent, and the business of Administration goes on quite as well as ever without him ; indeed, it is a capital excuse to avoid answering mat apropos ques tions ; 64 the absence of the Noble Lord," is a suf ficient reply to every thing. It is to be hoped, how. ever, that the salary of this office may be saved on the " Noble Lord's" retorn ; either we can, or we cannot, do without it; if we can, the expence of it, in such pinching times as these, ought to be saved ; and if we cannot do without it, : bow are its duties performed in Lord Cesmettemill's absence ?—Mr. Cootie, the-Under-Secretary of State, being also ab sent on a diplomatic excursion to Italy, the same observations apply to him. Mr. Monica is, grid has been doing the duties of the office, and it May be worth while to examine how these Gentlemen or these offices will be charged in the ensuing Civil List Accounts. The second Paymaster-General, Mr. ROBINSON, has not been in England for upwards of a year; he was abroad r several of the last months of the war; this is a proo" positive of the absolute sinecure which his office is, and it certainly demands serious in vestigation ;—the second Post-Master, Lord Ct..sx cARTY, is also absent on a sort of statistical Commit tee, counting noses for the King of PeesstA, at Vienna, and calculating how many millions of the human species are necessary to complete the " arron dissement" of that mighty Potentate's new territories, —yet we sea our letters go and come regularly, and the specelations whether St. Martin's-le-Gaud will predece a better "job" than Fetter-lane orSemeesei house, still continue. It is impossible, thenfere, to argue against retrenchment in that quarter, duce we have proof demonstrative, thitodirtg•Master has, for mouths and months, carried' ontime duties of the department ) while his consign Is engaged in the Yesterday afternoon, at half•past ire o'efedr,..the Patptce REorwr arrived at Carlton4usste front Brighton. His Royal Highness will hold. a Privy Council this day, for the purpose of pricking for Sheriffs for the year ensiling. The LORD MAYOR wilt hold II speck! Court of Common Council to.morrow, at Guildhall, to consi.; der a report respecting the removal of the Post-offico and to consider the present state of the Baokrept Laws, and what measures may be necessary to re. medy the existing evils. A few days since one of the French Ministers sited the Post-office at Paris. On this occasion"; clerk of the office led him to a private don't, AstftgrA he showed him the seals of all the greet and tfis• tioguithed families of Paris, arranged in order. " Year Excellency sees," said he, " that it tektite, be easy to open any letters and seal them up attain, They woelal merely be dispatched 24 hours liter.", Ou Friday the 10th inst., at a Gener a l , Aatembly of the Royal Academicians, held at their 'pavements in Somerset-House, Mr. EDWASID Btnu ef ' Dristof, and Mr. Home Boatman, of Edieburgt:,. were duly elected Academicians of the Rnysl Academy, in the room of EDWARD Buaca and HErtav TILESUAM, -Esq. deceased. Distressed, beggared, on the verge of bankraptey,l as the National Exchequer appears to he, yet we see no single sign of a more provident-and less profuse system. The ridiculous folly of the . New Legion of llonour t an establishment which is already contemptible in the eyes of the whole kingdom, has entailed on us a very considerable additional expence. The fees on each Pa: tent of Knighthood amount to upwards of 1201. ; this, as well as the decorations, which are bestowed gratis, will make a forMidable item in the amount of the Civil List. About 400 of the first and second Class are already created, and, it is said, that there are upwards of 8000,elaimants for the Third Class of this mod proisficOrder ! We trust that this will he properly looked at and scrutinized. It is putting the cation to an enormous expence, for which there is no excuse ; this silly method of rewarding valour, - or rather plan/or increasing parasites, hiving gratified nobody, for not one single individual who has re oei44. the deceedism, feels either proud of or ho noured by ICU 4 " Look which way we willAidreas and matter for just condemnation stares us in the face! and, we confess, we cannot contemplate the atraziog prt. The French Ambassador at Madrid 'Fling take* offence at some articles in the Ato lgo;l. .nowspepir published in that capital, the Editor WU.. aimed by order of Government. was Mr. DISNEY who was shot in the arm at I Staines by Lord CEANSTouN, under circumstances which excited the suspicions of his Lordship; but are denied by Mr. D. • A singular wager was decided on Friday last: A person at Hastert] ondertook, fora bet of onegtdoeo, to go from that place to Mansfield, a (Wanes et 1 miles, in It successive boom s And to Urn' a/bog Off' Mining one hundred weight of 'hot. Ilopenforoted the task int tittle more than seven Imam Tie r. destrian, we understand, is tomewhog adltanced in years. Otte • Pc sry re r'ocv . tla en oui hip I oi ay pd an Oil he CI I t I ^3 to lA : B e of Gr to • 1 4 ti