The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-07-03 00:00:00

AIRES DOCCAIRATS. official dispatch of M. Gurnee, Sa voy . Paris, to the Cloveronient of Buenos Ayres, date& June IS, 1819 :-or " Under date of 15th ttlt. 1 informed you that 1 was incited to a conference by his Excellency the linister of Foreign Affairs. '1 his various accidents retarded till the lst instant. " After his Excellency had strenuously Manifested • to me the great wishes of the Ministry, for the happy issue of the glorious enterprise in which those pro. vinces are engaged, and explained the considerable embarrassments which preven:e.l him from taking a determined, active, and open course to protect then., proceeded to inform me reflect:ng on their i true interests, he had heron.e convinced that these r.le intimately connected with the form of govern ment that taigitt he established, under the influence of which the country sionl.l he able tranquilly to enjoy benetits of peace, and this form of government 't ^ conceived ought to be no other than that of a Con s!ittitional Monarchy, fixing on a Prince of Europe, whose relations would give to the State a new respect ability, and facilitate the acknowledgment of its na tional imlependence. That, penetrated with these a thought had at length occurred to him, which te considered a happy one, and he would proceed to ettolain it with the greatest sincerity, by proposing a Prince whose peculiar circumstances were the most suitable, in order to remove all obstacles attendant on a similar project, considering the different interests of th • principal nations of Europe, and the great di s..ency in the political views of the respective Celli rets. That this was the Duke de Lucca, the ancient licit to the kingdom of Runde, and connected by the tnaternal. line, with the august dynasty of the Bour bon.. That he considered this choke would nut create jealousies in the principal Courts, but would rather meet with the approbation of the Sovereigt s, inure particularly of the Emperors of Austria and Rnssia, openly decided its favour of his person, and in a great degree favourable to the general Interests of the Continent : That England could find no just and decent motive to oppose it : That his Catholic 'Majesty would rut behold n ith displeasure a nephew of his own, seated sir the thruur of provinces, which had once been under 1.. , dominion, and from which he might ex-Fect sonic consideration in favour of the commerce of the Penin -10-'n, at least, such as vivre not incompatible with the a!rulute independence of the new nation and the tio bey of its government. Bat that particularly his Alo , t Christian Majesty, whose sentiments were known to him, ;sunlit slew it with special complacency, and e::•ploy In its favour his good offices and his powerful irPuence with the other Seitereigns, without at the s a me time sparing w hatever means might he in his power to protect it. as well with regard to the necessary aid of all kiwis, as the measures requisite to convince his Catholic Majesty to desist from the war in which ke tra. eugagest spasm those provisoes. " lir added, that it would be the particular care of his must Christian Majesty to obtain from his Catholic Majesty the tersolsotion of the war and the acknow ledgment of the independence of those provinces. fiat the Pi ince de Lucca could contract a matrimonial ailiance with one of the Princesses of the Brazils, un der the express condition of evacuating the Eastern Rank, renouncing also all demands for indemnities on the part of the Brazil Uoverninent, by which means likewise the siscreasion of the Crown would be secured. 'I hat his moat Christian Majesty would contribute, by aids of all kinds, the same as iii a similar case he 'boob' have done un behalf of a Prince of the Blood, and, above all (he again repeated it) all the poss:ble is earls would be employed to realise the project, and with it the prosperity of the South American people." Extract from a memoir on the subject stated to con lair the sentiment. of Baron de Heneval:— * The Frenrh Govenonent takes the most lively intr. rest in whatever regards the situation in which Buenos Ayres is placed, and is disposed to act in every possible in order to afford to that country the means of con suturing itself into a Constitutional !Monarchy, as this is the only form oftiovernment that ran suit the reciprocal interests of both, and ensure to Buenos Ayres In failure all the necessary guarantees from the Powers of Europe and those established near the River Plate. " The French Government being compelled by poli tical circumstances to act with the greatest circumspec tion in order to steer clear of the obstacles which may rite up, more particularly on the part of England, I. the course of a negociation so important, will not isaalfest, at so early a period, in an ostensible manner, Its wishes to connect itself with the Government of Buenos Ayres, but will out disregard any favourable opportunity of evincing to the latter more positive proofs a t • interest it feels for that country. " In consequence whereof, and in order that the South Americans may arrive at their desired object, which is, their total independence of the Crown of Spain, and lay the basis of their Constitution in a solid and invariable spanner, which may place them in a situation to treat with other Powers,' the French Government proposes to take the necessary steps In order to obtain from all the Courts their consent In the phriar .w-oho Thommal Smatis , America the Prince of Lucca and Rtruria, to whom it a ill give every necessary aid, as well in naval drams as in eupeditionary t roop s, is such manner, that he will not only cause bio tec h to be respec ted, bet also be em shied to sustain himself, in case should be neosmary, against whatever Power seeking to oppose his emit. tailors. " This Prince, now eighteen years of age, is of the family of the Boathook and although connected with that of Spain, there is no fear of his principles being opposed to th e Interests of the South Americans, whose cans* tandoubtodly he will embrace with enthanisam: He powwows all the eminent qualities that could Bo dm sired, its well in his moral character as the military ode.. calico he has received, which has been one of the most careful; and in every point of view he offers *UMW dattorlitg prospects. " In order to consolidate and secure his dynasty, it is proposed that in ease this Prince suits the United Pro s-joust,. an alliance with one of the Princesses of the Brasile will be solicited for him, which wadld offer in calculable advantages to the two Governments, which. united by the ties of blood, would feel an interest in drawing these still closer. Another advantage, and not one of loss importance is, that the principal mastitisu of this alliance would be to oblige the Brazils is resettles the poasessioo of the Eastern Bank, without 'seeds& any compensation, and to form between both a treaty of all, offensive and dofeasive. With roped to what relates to the United Sea" as aGave nothing to wtehead from say ono be Eng mad as it Is is dude Interest to live is good harmony Swath Americo, It la orient that it would sot be Moab Woven's. the obstacles which aI(M arias is niBUENOS Pstrart from an voy at Pis. to the i $, i I 4 ) $ , I . 1 1 / 4 4 1 ii 1 4 ; 1 4 : i i . i 1 e I ' • i V . tit , THE ST, are often of the highest importance. A separation to.•k place, without either party quitting their joint residence. 'ln this painful state matters remained. till April, 1796, when a final separation occurred, ex %ally twelve months after the marriage, and three Nsonths after the birth of the Princess Charlotte of -Wales. It was preceded by some negociation, in Which M EMOI RS : - 4 16Ord and Lady Cholunnately took part, by conveying or • lb his Royal Highness a desire on the part of the THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE or HER MAJESTY • Princess, to know the tenors on which they were to live. QUEEN CAROLINE. i " From this period, her Royal Highness resided in --or- I Montagu-honse, Blackheath, without baring any cons- Under this title ix a copious article this month, in naunication with her husband. There, in 1601, she 60'd and Nat skurrae'm bundtm .11ayszine. of which became accidentally acquainted with Lady Douglas, the following is an extract : i the wife of Sir John Douglas, who, as au officer of " Caroline, daughter of the late Duke of Brunswick, , marines, greatly distinguished himself at the siege of aas born on the 17th Jay of May, I;6s, ti er " g i ber St. Jean reAcre, when that place was so bravely de lves sister to our late Sovereign. lieor f re the 'I bird, : fended by Sir Sidney Smith, against Bonaparte. and she in consequence was first cousin to his present , Lady Douglas and her husband soon became extremely Majesty, her husband. I intimate with the Princess. •Iler Royal Highness, " The earlier rears of the young Princess was spent . whose chief fault appears to be a want of suspicion, at the Court of her father, in acquiring the arcens. and a too easy confidence in the representations of plishments, and imbibing the Ideas necessary to her others, distinguished Sir John Donglas and his Lady dignified station in society, and consistent with the by every mark of kindness and condescension which peculiar customs of her country. The quickness of she imagined they merited. !laving treated them in perception, and strength of memory she displayed is Alias manner for some time, they be_gan to consider her childhood, teemed indicative of powerful intuitive themselves entitled to those favours; auk& conduct talent, and the harl•ingers of a mind afterwards to be certainly not of a very justifiable nature, provoked the richly stored with intellectual intelligence, and suf. Princess to dismiss Lady Douglas from her society. fidently fortified with that strength which was ti:ces. Exasperated by this insult, as they termed it, their sary to endure her ecru ttttt laird calamities. !often -repeated protestations of duty and friendship he " Every one, however, who is at all acquainted with casuesuddenly metamorphosed intudenunciationsof ven the state of society in tienuany, must be well aware! trance and revenge ; and it was then, in the character that the custom of the country allows the ladies a very t o( informers, they preferred their dreadful charges considerable degree of latitudinarianism against their Illustrious benefactress. in manners. , As we, by a stricter line of conduct, and a severer tidal (To be emetiared.) of discipline, denominate that licentious which is not so in itself, but which may by possibility conduce to it, we are induced to condesim the freedom and gaiety of our fair northern neighbours, however innocent in its motives, or amiable in its intentions, as being very MAN. that quarter against the establishment of i Monarchial{ tiovernment. .• The French Gorernment, en the other hand. wild undertake the diplunoatic negotiations in tin• affair, and promise.' to grant to the Prince of LRCM, all that sup port, a;rl. and inotection, it tumid bestow in favour of a French Prince. indecorous, if out altogether indecent. The young Princess of Brunswick was edarated in a Court, and at a period when this apparent 'amity of morals had arrived at its acme; and any frivolity TIIE QI'EEN. " Brave, brave. by Ileavens--she deserves a Crows!" MI that had bren intexdrd towards her Majesty was hemmer, candour. jrrlh,g, and be nerolence. - -Mr. Css tteastis. Jame 7, lOW. We are governed by a set of drivellers. whose conduct takes away all dignity from distress, sad ma►es even ca lamity ridiculous."—ttir R. Wray of expression or gaiety of conduct in her subsequent Larvae X. life, might cagily he attributed to the iufluence of sack! TO THE EDITOR OF TILE ISTATF.SMAN. an education, without ascribing it more uncharitably I and unjustly to immodesty of principle and itunsoralityl Su—After all the recent vacillations, tergivena. of practice. tions, marchings,and counter•marchi op, advances and " During time latter end of the year 1791. it was retreats of " the Greed Bog .IdministrAtion;" after deemed desirable that his Royal Highness the Prince their facetious exploits. of " turning their backs upon of Wales should be united in umaersage to his Oomnain themselves," anal forming " contrasts to themselves." of Brunswick. anal it was generally heliesed that thif the first inquiry which men, anxious for the public desire was not hostile to the private sentinsimts of both welfare. daily make of their neighbonr., is, " What parties. Captain Payne, with a strong squadron, was step do you think Ministers will take next in respect appointed Comnorlore, anal hoisted Lis broad pendant to the Queen ":" He At be truly a conjuror who ran on board the Jupiter, of 50 guns, to ronvoy the answer a question which would puzzle the actors them- Princess to England. On the 2d of March, 1795, seises. I should as soon undertake to designate the the squadron set sail, and after ena'onntering some thicket into which a mad dog would first enter, having tremendous stornms. and immense mows of ice, what' the whole range of a forest before him, or what per had nearly proved fatal to four of the vesselr, they son he would next attempt to bite, from amongst a arrived at Cuxhaven in safety, although in a shit- numerous assemblage of people—a man, woman, or tered condition ; and on the itith of March received child, a saint or a sinner, a chambermaid or a queen. their Illustrious passenger on board. Actions which depend upon the changing expediency " The Princess was attended by Lord Malmesbury of each asonsent—actions which set all modesty and and Mrs. Harcourt, and other distinguished characters; principle at defiance, cannot even be made the subject and after an agreeable voyage, the weather continuing of rational speculation, much less of probable infer with very little hsterulission very fine throughout. on race. We mast, therefore. wait patiently fur the ac the Sth of April went by the barge to the Princess tual development of each Ministerial expedient, as- Augusta yacht, which nas appointed to receive her. tiered, to judge from the past, that every successive As she passed Woolwich the whole band of the Royal project will surprise us, or excite our laughter, at Artillery played" tiod save the King." The military least, as much as its predecessor, if it dues not sue cheered, and thousands echoed, with merry hearts and pass it in extravagance and baseness. I remember at loud voices, the joyful and unsophisticated busses'.— school to have read a Latin adage :—" Qwcwo dews It was the first burst of loyalty and feeling the fair ralf perdere prime dessievetot." Whether, and how far, German had heard on English ground, and t h e tears lied takes any concern in the affairs of our modern that streamed from her pale but lovely cheeks set& statesmen I w ill leave to be propounded by the saints ciently demonstrated how powerfully she felt it. , anal other casuists in both " Ckawsters" of Parliament. " (In the arrival of the Princess, in company with Of this, however, I am quite certain, that if the re those dtstingcished persons who had been appointed port at present in circulation, of the expedient which to conduct her to the British Court, she was received they next meditate, be correct ; if it be not a slander with all those marks of respect to which her intended one rumour raised by their political encodes, the pro connexion with the son and heir to the Throne en- cess of dewentation, with respect to Ministers, must . titled her. The public journals of that day were be already completed. It is, within these few days, lavish in their praises of her beauty and accomplish- I find, currently reported, that it is now intended by ments, and spared no pains in giving due eclat to the Ministers, having for the present Session sufficiently ceremony of the marriage, which took place on time tith embroiled the affairs of the nation, having manfully of April, 1795, in presence of the King and tancen. l misted all inquiry into the causes of the grievances, and of all the persons of elevated rank in the kingdom, ; starvation, and massacre of the people, and having at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, and was sulennsised I piously set the renewed persecution against her Ma. by the then Archbishop of Canterbury. jcsty in due train, to recommend the immediate pro " The celebration of this splendid ceremony was rogation of Parliament. With respect to the taxation, bailed by all ranks and orders of people with rushy- want of eusploymeet, starvation, gagging. and other siasm. The thundering expressions of delight by the grievances of the people, they are, it metes, accord cannon in the Park and at the Tower, were answered lag to Mr. V. Rol hued, the principal author of time by the fleshings ofa million tapers fantastically shining Corn Bill, as stated in his reply to Mr. Maxwell, i n a ll s h a pes and dimensions, and illuminating the mere "abstract ideas," which it would be ridiculous houses of every inhabitant of the metropolis. to investigate by a Committee, and ov•ht to be left to " It may not perhaps be forgotten, that at the time find their own level. flue we see, that, in seasonable when this marriage was on the tapia, the Prince had sallies of humour, exquisite jukes, and pungent re incurred considerable debts to the amount of 6311,590/. partite, the members of as the Grow Beg ..4ishoinistra. r „„ g .., is was sa id, h a d Wen made imAksgrtain . don" may be said (Observing the (*nauseate' prim quarter, to discharge these debts, without Ys applies- riples of the diction of my heel Castlereakh) to be. tion to Parliament. Whether this was the case *not, in respect to their other great qualifications, " a pa there is not sufficient information to state with certainty; rend to thensaelves." I should very mach like to see bat it appears that the subject was actually brought this facetious gentleman, for a few weeks or menthe, before Parliament, and the King, in his message to diveited of his emoluments as Treasurer of the Navy, both Houses, in about twenty days after the marriage President of the Board of Trade, ice., and enjoying hie took place, asked for an establishment to be settled due proportion of " abstract starvation," along with upon the Prince and his august spouse, and telling the great bulk of his fellow-subjects; and, after that pie. them at the same time, that the benefit of any such rind, to hear his sentiments respecting an inquiry into settlement could not be effectually secured to the the causes of the national distresses. His asste,: a t Prince, till be was relieved from the incauslttances prebend, wonld be very mach a lt ere d. Il ee under which be laboured to a largo amount. Upon this then hate fused his proper level. To him and bit ground, the Prince's annual allowances from the station colleagues I would repeat the reproach of an ill were augmented. They were to be raised at once from Kimura, addressed to a conspirator against the2ll 80,0001. per annum to 125,0001. per annum ; and of welfare of old, " Qee ae rie a b itere o d iu m ," p p, this sum, 25,000/. a-year was set apart fur the dis- dentist NH/re." With respect to ParliamentJaslemle charge of his debts. To this was added, a supa of I knew there are many personas, labouring seder tk. 27,04101. for preparations for the marriage ; SOW incurable malady of " eternal disconteat." who think for jewels and plate ; and 26,01115. fur furnishing that they have not done one single act fee the good Carlton-house. Thus, at least, the Prince was relieved of the nation since their assembling, and that it could from pecuniary encumbrances ; sad if this slaw was therefore be of little detriment if they were prorogued ca l cu l a t e d to ensure his quiet, all might have been well. to the day of judgment. Would to lied that that " Within a very short period after the anotriage, day for them were at hand, sea that they were to b e soma nofornowaro circomitaucts arra. calculated to judged according to their merits. • disseib the haribony of coaanbial Mk. What these Those oimmorrotioos are illy t hi ng b et tneirtast to circnosaustoo were, will be better roaceivod than de. her Majesty's cam; aad I wUI nodertake to slew. as soribed I and It would be useless to dilate epos those far as rem esing is gook th a t t h ew ipato,se, who may trifling dillocroces which is 4beasseiree are Illueethy represent to the Qom the wisdom or oupodlooty of of wooklboadoo, although in their sosseivesees they draining a line betwrea het own interests lad feelings C . r' ~ and those of her people, either do real state of the question at issue, mina ' and are is so far unfit to give standing them, intend to betray. ' tions to which it is essential that atteution should be called at the her real well-wisher, seeing that ever deplorably deficient in real talent crafty, vigilant, and practiced in even erg, stratagem and deceit ; that, irap he r Majesty into false measni failed, they will endeavour to procrastii logs, in the hope that the tempest :ions have raised up will subside it opportunities may occur of devisii by which they may hope, by the ' alteration in the public mind, to diminution of her Majesty's forces, crease of their own, of which they ler her destruction. Let not appearances baow the enemy well : huil I affir m .1- alehinations, the wren-fold shield M Ile great, and only protection Is essential, then, that nothing should swinish the strength, or to divide opinion. Her Majesty now stands in that ing attitude, in which she has nothing to the treachery; ef Wk. or the pbusillaniwilty counsellors. Ist poraesstor. stand machinations ars exp. 4 d to the world, fortuity. They are the contempt, of the present generation ; anti will of posterity. Their very partisans them. They are prostrate before hand sad foot. With respect to their ptatritfeed pe w ;Bette green bags, to give credit to one iota of their villainous contents would now stamp& man for eM * ideot : to pretend to give them credit would skal,* a knave. It is not, therefore, from her • * from their charges, that her Majesty has any dee m to apprehend. But with respect to the danger, Wi t h does really exist, as the lookers ea ftequentlywe were of the game than the players, so disi n t ereste d o h. servers may discern mote distinctly lisa these awn Immediately concerned. The pablk, w h o are, an. doubtedly, sincerely and efilvieztly her Majestyb friends, have seen with sorrow that sentiments hes t found their way into some of her Majesty's answeno t h e a dd res s es of the people, which, in as far as they can have any etfeet upon her cause, mast haven Is. juriona one, and were most assuredly wholly invalid for ; sentiments which they are, however, far foe s supposing could have emanated from tole ow, signor and unsophisticated understas :ing. They can, I. deed, very clearly discern their source: sad tide anxiety may be pardoned tl at the impressies which the promulgation of such sentiments have made, ad which the repetition of them would be likely le confirm and streugtheis, should not remain asking to her Majesty. To iodate her Majesty M minims in the validity of the reasoning of her Mends nig doors, and to direct them to be acted upon, if ens contrary to the dictates of " absolute wisdom," a doors, it is, I am persuaded, only necessary to reelei her of the real nature of the parties, on both oat of the question at issue. On the one side, we have the interests of her Majesty, of her Royal Comet, and of the nation at large; for, Goy are one, aed inseparable : whilst, on the other, we hare those of all the old hacks of corruption, who are actually in place, or in hopes or expectations of succeeding to office, together with all their satellites, greet and small. Here, then, we have the grand onirr sf battle: a few feeble, besotted, infatnated, sleek-faced partisans, on the one side, against the whole ham and soul, and spirit, of this great nation, embodied to the other. Of the latter, her Majesty is at this se meet, from her peculiar position, necessarily the ce menting principle. This is what Mr. Canning wadi presume insolently to call being" the rallying psis of disaffection:" And surely three cannot be a better title to the support pod admiration of the pab lie, than being an efficient rallying point of disalbe tion to all the infamous proceedings of this moth statesman and his associates. Under these rims stances, it is impossible for her Majesty, without titre parable injury to all parties, to separate her mew from that of the people, which Is also, as sin took se elution very justly to observe, that of the king. It was, therefore, to be lamented, that her Majesty shoed have been advised, in answering an address, which merited any thing but an answer, to terogaise a per, poetises which the people of finghtad tusanimerelp disavow. The address itself, in the face of thee. dared opinions of the mattes, would have 'faded a convincing proof, if any bed been still wanting, that the sentiments of the people of Ragland are not rep* sented in the House of Comensoes. If that haat bod been a due representation of them sentiments, it mild have been quite impossible that the dastardly, Mee geom, unconstitutional. and unhallowed premed* against her Majesty, should ever have bees NMI! wined, proposed. or ovvirtangterd: tidelrotatterit admission, therefore, whilst it was at all omen am called for, and therefore at least superfloses. Ws OA trecuely (considered la relltreme M OW rra, whatever it might be with respect to ether 1- leidats), as being in direct opposition to the declared opinions of the whole British sacks, with fisting** of her Majesty's enemies alone. This coacessiose,hder as it was, sot only not conformable to truth, but there' verse,was as much beeped' thedigaity, salt teas to = the tattiest', of her Majesty. Nor could such a ing possibly, by the most remote routings's"-, crew any good purpose; since it is the nature of comp tionists, uniting the qualities of the spatial' and cur, to be se far trees being capable of lefoilesig led by concession, or compliment (if the week Iv question were eves words of course). that agli ant of forbearance. no She part of orlwasetif only the art of readrrhig then more hopleall! sad ferocious. Bisproseleas therefore, fahe in thei r selves, sad cossestaently ',dignified; expresdesse which road ;modem es effect We these to whir, they were addloseed I see meant say advsatag e ai reve i l z a rr these. whilst they were to whole war of the profit • when hand raider they antneiesn, night alwo ban be.. essilleins to kw bee Majesty the drelMwNM o=l4 the prjill4'W 'be people "" set tit dist they night ant be the remake centime-li A , II r / .., Ilni 0 et do sot anderstaail Ai issue, and of th e p u k rt give com •m.]; o f , mi h e or. These are emisikiii • hat her Majesty's the present maineti,h that he r enem i es hes; • M lig il talent a n d Mai o% ft , i n every specie 4164 41 rat, all their ellovi sies Immures haviag how l to procrastinat e pro 4 peat which their pev a * r ide into a c a l m, aid y 44 [nixing new *gel* Ifi the interrelation atieni la, to witn ess some reads, i prcet, or some relsolnyki, 11 hey m a y ava il theowilm al ppearanees be trusted. I affirm that, against thk I shield of pith* "kilt e Lion of her Majesty. k e rig should he dime teal s livid, the current 4th that pseud and ream* I nothing to fear hat bu s 1 le pnalllanialty of timid I stand unmasked. Their 1 ;be world, in all their& mpt, scorn, aid deehi s a 1 1 ril will be the exemalha I artisans are ashamed if Mort her Ila:esty, had i to thei r putrid &alp I *. edit to rag.. L.o. —t .• •