The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-05-17 00:00:00

' All the Members of the 'Pia visional Council of State, also the present Clltnce!lor p and M.Forranti l • Ministers of State. • • Ji* The Prince of Benevento, Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. General Count Dupont, Minister and Secretary 'of the -War Department. Baron Louis, Minister and Secretary of Finances- Baron Malouet, Minister and Secretary of the Navy. Count Beognot, Director-General of the Police. M.Ycrrand, Director-General of the Post-Office. M. Berenger, Director-General of Indirect Taxes. . The King wrote, on the 13th instant, the follow ing Letter to the Archbishops and Bishops of his kingdom : 44 Sin, THE BISIIOII OF ••••••-.--,—Diville Providence bas permitted our return to the capital of our king . , *am, in a manner the most consolatory to our feel \`'e have recognised subjects willing to return • to the practice of their ancestors, to their ancient j. I faith, to obey the laws, and be faithful to the King. To God, ,who holds in his hands the destiny of kings and people, must be attributed this happy • change, and to him must be rendered solemn thanks. This letter is, therefore, for the purpose of causing yeti•on its receipt to have allt.Deum of thanks in air( he churches of your diocese, and that you in • tits all persons and public bodies who ought to assist at such ceremony.—This letter having no other object, I pray God, Sir, the Bishop of to hove you in his holy keeping. ▪ ig Done at Paris, the 13th May ; 1814. • (Signed) " LOUIS. (And below) " Iptron de VITROLLES." Louis, by the Grace of God, king of France auto Navarre, to all those whom these shall concern, greeting : " Desirous of giving a striking testimony of our particular satisfaction in the National Guards of our kingdom, and more especially in those of eur good city of Paris, confiding as we do entirely in their zeal and fidelity to us, we hays Ordered, and do order what follows: " Awr. 1.-=-Our well-beloved brother, Monsieur Count &Artois, is appointed COlotiel-Ggiteral of all the National.Coards of Frailest. • "'t.—Our Cemmlitsieneri fpr the inteiiewdepert seems are Merged with the promalgatien of this sr•. tit. t ~~ Lo (Signed) Lows. " By the King. (Signed) " The Baron OE vt . ritoLLEs, The Provision's, Secretary of State." LEMMA MB BODY. SITTING OF TUE 13TH MAY. .. A Secretary read the Answer of the Grand Master of the Ceremonies to the letter of the Questors„ who had transmitted the unanimous wish of the Legisla tive Body, sitting at Paris, to assist in the service •bich is to be celebrated for the manes of Louis XVI. end I,peli XVII; Maria Antoinette, Queen sierrance, Archduchess of Austria, and Madame Elisabeth of France : The Grand Master of the Ceremonies of France hastens to reply to the Questors of the Legislative Body. There not being time enough to make a suffi cient number of places in the Metropolitan Church, it has been necessary to prorogue to an indefinite pe riod the meeting of the Legislative Body, and to iq vile only deputations of the Public Authorities, in stead of the whole, which seemed desirable. " The Grand Master of the Ceremonies will com municate to the King the defire which the Legislative Body has expressed, as a fresh proof of their attach ment to his Majesty and the Royal Family." The Legislative Body wilt form, by ballot, a De potation of 25 Members. Frlntic Pc:Nils-56R, P. To TnE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE OF TRANCE. " 1 3 ,a_ria, May 13. Sitt,—The article inserted in your Paper of to day, announcing the arrival of Bonaparte at Elba, may. be true, but not exactly agreeable to a piece of information which I have from very good authority. 64 Previous to Bonapatte's embarkation he had in his choiee an English frigate or a French corvette. — He preferred the former, but the 'billet: accompanied him. Her Commander was Captain Montcabrier, and was'of course acquainted with what took place. Ile returned to Paris three days ago, and left again yesterday, and this is the way in which circumstances are reported by those who have been in his company. Bonaparte taking advantage of the last moments of his expiring authority, and knowing that the Island of Elba was intended for his place of banishment, had given secret orders that it should be garrisoned with two thousand fear hutidred. men ; by favour of the distance and the isolated situation of Elba, and the difficulty of the communications with the Continent, as well es by intrigue and by connivance, it was possible to throw into the port of Ferrajo this small number of troops—the probability is, that the inhabitants might easily believe that Bonaparte was still in power; that they knew nothing of his abdication ; and that they could not, of course, think themselves released from their oath of fidelity. When Bonaparte landed, the English Captain tes tified his surprise on finding in the island of Elba troops about which be had received no information, and he wished for explanations which should direct his conduct; but not desirous of takiqg any responsibility upon himself, he desired Capt. Mont. mauler to go to Paris and inform the Government of • . t ns r 1 • • . THE s rATEsmAm - . a circumstance,' which he .supposed it unacquainted with, and to receive fresh instructions. In the mean time he sailed into the Mediterranean with. Bona parte on board. Capt. Montcabrier, after having ful filled his mission, set , oat again for the Mediterranean in search of the English frigate. It is not known what instructions be carried out with him, but they relate to what I have said. I give you this informa tion without pretending to impeach the credit of other. ' reports, but this you may consider as authentic. " I have the honour to be, &c. (Siried) . GS HOTE OF THE EDITOR. We know . welitthe writer of this letter. principle enforced by Mr. IL restricted Trade. 'ln the end, that this is the only policy justice to the conflicting ini the, general welfare of the rat land-holders to be semr id their rents, so immuderatel . "Witt; ? As well might it be pretended. f loan-jobbers and"contractors, mute compensation .from thr ( Con their incomes will andei men depended' on the contia_ in pert, did that of the propri landk,,if justice requires that , _ LAMM, APRIL 30.—Travellers who arrive here ; protected at the expense , l from Denmark continue to assert, that Prince Chris- 1 not also extend the same p ro t ec ti f Ban Frederick is determined to renounce Norway,. But it is attempted t o te rr if and to return to Denmark. A strong party. his prehension of famine. ' the farmers cannot get a s , armed against him, under the name of the Brothers ; , corn, they will cease t o gro , Anker, who desire the union of Norway to Swe- i !depend on foreign nations, w. den, under the guarantee of the ri g hts of the Men might then starve us. This supposes, of the Norlh, and who acknowledge the impossi ! war with almost the whole wog bility of converting a country, so weak in population and resources, into an independindependentstate. ; the second place it supp o s es , MILAN, MAY 4.—The last news from Genoa an. 'nothing to offer to make it ' flounce the arrival, of ,the King of Sardinia in that lions to supply us with c orn , sit t ~ •• vx.4 " r etain case. It supposes further, our colonies and our y. . .-7 , !.. t Venice, MAY, 1 .- -Onr city was occupied on the I l legation of agricultural exertions, Roth of April by the Austrians, in virtue of the petits' sterility on our count following Convention. _ [Here follows the Convention, which provides eaten foreign corn because that the Government shall be administered in the native soil would thencet name of the Emperor of Austria . ; but that the refusing its produce when French and Italian troops shall rennin .in the city •uo loner be procured. N : for some days, till, their destination be determined. anions are probable; the t%r The Convention recommends the harmony and friend. everrirrational. If le can get ship which reigns amongst the Austrian, French, and ' any other country, cheaper Italian troops, as an example to the Venetian home, it is evidently. qplr interes people.] : people who would have been - ' if theft dei - tiot . Continne to be il l meanw. s o i dle. They L be ' ilmr-sto withdrawn' from .ctese foreign core is cheaper be more beneficially employed, and themselves ; and whenever' in price, beyond the cost they Will-again pursue their The greater cheapness of foreigi long 'duration.' The rents her' having been diminished, thong) some time before any cons!" place; .the price of labor we should soon find that grown cheaper than foreign ,Awight of corn is a gre at al .thlsrehirge; - trait whiCh, of - growth is exempt,' gives it a pet edvatitaga ever .that produced evidently no danger of do•nesf Into decay. It would be, ti oppression and injustice to price of so indispensable a n which is the avowed design of , the consideration of Parliamen Anothettliscussion took place last night in the House of COmmons, on the proposed alteration in the (Bern Laws. It,i4 rather remarkable, that on a rsat* 'so 'isientialli important, the leading Par liamentary °tater. should maintain a profound til -1 leuce. Surely, on a question affectingio l deeply the whole agricultural and commercial interests of the country, it is not too much to•expect t t t hat. all the talent Parliameutpossesses should be excited to et. In Ole ',Bence, on this occasion, of these whose eloquence! Illuminates and adorns many less important tepice lets! Parliamentary discussion, we think there is made tesil. Not that we endow! elo- won with judgment, or doubt the capacity of many ,pittln country Gentlemen, Manufacturers, and Merchants, to form as correct an opinion upon the subject as the most flaming orator of them all ; bp because the apparent apathy of more distinguished 1 I men has a tendency to produce something of real apathy in the public mind, and to prevent a just ap. preciation of the importance of the subject in egita , 4ion. Nothing, however, shall be wanting on oar part, to impress upon the Public the importance of this.sobject, and to Convinee Om of the mischiefs to be apprehended froM the ploposed measure. — The long and expensive war . in which the country has been engaged, has placed all our interests in an' , unnatural and confused state. The immense weight' of taxation, together with the unlimited issue of paper currency, raised the price of all the necessaries of life ; this produced a necessity for an increase in 1 the price of labour, in the profits of farmers and ! manufacturers, and in the rents of landlords. The effect of this would have been the utter extinction of our manufacturing interest, if the state of war had , not rendered our naval omnipotence available for the purpose of forcing our trade to the exclusion of all other nations. This state of things no longer exists. 'lf, during peace, our manufacturers are not enabled ) to produce their commodities at a ?much cheaper rate . than they have recently been able to do, the cons,- . ui , qnces i nevitably will be, that they must be ander , .sold in ev.ery market, and completely eicluded from coil- every fi eld of mercantile competition. They c a only be enabled to do this by a very prompt and siderable reduction in the rents of land, in the ' amount of taxation, and in the price of provisions. Still supposing the utmost to be done, they Will hare great disadvantages to contend with. After the ut. most possible reduction in all these particulars has L - • . taken place, the greatest skill and economy will be requisite to • enable British manufactures to vie in cheapness with those of other coun tries. The immense National Debt is a cause of annual expense, from which peace cannot relio , ve us. The permanent taxation which this will render necessary, is so much disadvantage to the British manufacturer in the competition he will have to sustain with the less-encumbered manufacturer of other countries, that all his ingenuity and manage ment will be barely sufficient to counterbalance it.— -The war then must be considered as a source of per manent and unavoidable injury to the manufac turing interest. The measure now before Parlia ment would greatly and needlessly aggravate this injury, byc affording an unjust and artificial protection to an opposing interest, the agricultu ral, and that wholly at the expence of the already burthetted and oppressed manufacturer. And why should this be done? Why should the land-owner be enabled to collect now the high rents imposed, during the war, when the other classes of the comp. munity are compelled to continue the greatest surf ! fires, end to sustain the greatest disadvantages ? We cannot tod highly commend the enlightened Government received a di! the Lie*teeent- Governor pf arrival of tlintaei 'tilt off du .dauftted frigate. Mr. Honat the Continent s we understand statement. The pilot boat schooner Champ . gin, on the 10th April, for Gott& which we rejoice to leairk are pacific. On the '7th of ki House of Representatives, ' against 37,' repealing the Noi also the Embargo. rt was • *Ow pass th Senate almost r e he Prelimi e naries are to ' 'day. • The . following is the , retalni,the Cape of Good IL titf i nd Tobago ; but cede is tch colonies to those , cep Gutd4lonie, which is silo 'Emperor Of. RUSSIA retains ' Warsaw,. ei the Em2eror . and its depentilloglist teffitioe' ciders. 'Tie kingdom' of Si between Austria and Prussia; retain Naples, and King FE( indemnity in Italy for his IsIL 'The Scheldt is to be open, and . 'to he divided between the French " 6 44A/tiers from Paris say, that Senate and Legislative Assemt Is the intention of Isis Males' propels that the Senators sine incomes, and seats for life, he hereditary. And that France there shall be in all f Senate, upon the principle Union of. Ireland with Great say, that upon the death of 'shall take place of one to the it for life. The Senate to be We have authority tampion several grand Concerts will Chapel goys!, Whitehall, for ferers by the war in Germa% of his Royal Highness the Dui superintendeace of the Commit Association, and the Directors Ancient Music. ...4 On Thursday last, no less-t.._ boats were.anchored off Hastings. regularly come on shore, and - cies from the different shopkeepers ot .._ al, _ _ which they give in payment, - Louir d'Ork and' sp' lish Guieees. A feet have presented Ildpoletssis: 4 ' 9 , " • The Staff of the Militia, consisting- tike Adji= In, tants, Qoarter-masters, Serjeants, CafPorali, anal Drummers ) are to be kept up. I &V „.., 7 - .7 - - -- ' ” -. 7:77-•.. - v`,,,` t• 4 " l, '' "'",'. ' '''-' -• '', . - '' • , • - - ..t: ' • s'- t's:- . • -sc. •-• .""- 0 • s' . , , - w. - • , • • - , • . ' • . . . ' ''7. . .'.:;' er,:e.- „;-;:5,... - -.. t ..-----. :. ---"•-- -77- ..':7.4ir . - (-- ~, . . . . . -,- ~,.........-....------„ • . _ , ~.. . -sr . w ee . , PRIVATE CO RR ES PO NDE NCE e • loatrea—of free and 'm- end, we are persuaded, • . --aisaw-- . , . • . which will ensure equal . Pants, MAY 12.—The fighting amongst theietlench end Allied troops in the suburbs and environs of Faris, • , ‘ nterests, and provide for lately assumed a serious a. no loner e community. Art the employed the fist or the sw pp ord but had They recourse g to trod against the reduction their muskets. Considerable bands of Russians :ely encreased daring earance r _ . the Prussians, and Austrians were thus engaged with ' ' • •• . eteh a e d, t h at ..ol th e tr ib e detachments of the Regulars and of the' National . x ctors, (might now to re- Guard, omit the Gen-tParrnerie were •called out to he nation fir thediminu- - separate:them, and put an end to the cont e st ; but , o. The income of these not before many lives had been lost on both sides.— e•g It is thought that this will hasten the return or this• - nuance of the war ; so, Allied troops•to their countries, although they have roprietpr of high-rented but very slowly begun their march for the frontiers. .hat one , class should be Indeed, now'that the French are united under at , e of the people, why ' Motterth whom most love, and all relscotet t . It is, att.‘ protection to the other ? serous to put their patriotism to the test. " When terrify us . .with the :IT- o ' many, r Bonaparte was at our head," I have been told by 4 . 1 we feared nothing so much as his lictoi:les, We are told, that If. • . which would &infirm his oppressive dominibu; hence -,,::.. sufficient price for their • we did not exert ourselves, and fancied 'we saw oar . isst it, and we shall then safety in the triumphs of our enemies ; but now that , I.we have a King and country to defend, let the fo- . who, in the event eta wat, , - PPolias, in the firstfiliuea . reign Powers take care what terms they attempt to- -1 impose upon us. From all that has transpired, they Forlil 'at the same tithe . In ' seem.to be more degredlng than I Itok.otTerea to nclna- . sets, that we should have parte, at the lowest ehb of his fortunes. But thefts - ill ' : the interest of other ea_ defeat their. purpose." Such are the setitiniente,:nqt .-• . „... n $ which, as long as we ,only of the people, hut of all classes., They aro -: never cso be lf A oultdedwu the reported detnand, on the part orthe • r industry, Hies, et tin cession of Alm* and of Luxemburg, her, that a temporislji::re.'... p s t uo u'i l i e, c and Lille, three of the keys of ancient This report itself, is not without fotinda- -rtions, would ;oriel pere4 rmce. 'try, and that having once I Oen. I heed been credibly infoimed that the King of ~. a it was cheaper, nerl•Peossia .had 7 oniployed Mr. Make' Bruno( Danish forward pun i sh us -b y Member.orthe French Inttitute, to draw .flint Of Old tapers a memoir to prove that when Alsaceas ceded • en foreign corn etikcl' w • t 1 • . ' I remain,governed to Louis-XI V. it was on condition that it should None of these sop e - , and should be as a German pro- ..a wo latter . .GS i them are.iyince, That in violation of this agreement, that ,- get cotkiinip,,tssnce, or. .! Monarch united it to France, and governed it as 'an old portion of his kingdom ; by which ho and his r. than we can grow it it 1 ;crest to import it. -The . successors s who'followed his example, forfeited . all I em right to its possession. The consent of EuroPe , ployed in a g riculture j which for a hundred years, even at the time of the be so employed, will not, ; minority of , Louis XV. consecrated the union of ' must do something.- ' -If ; Alsace to France, as effected by his predecessor,- is r : agriculture merely ,kisi. fpurposely kept out of view. But it is to be hoped • • rthan . English, they must; that such clailtlBl notwithstanding all 'the sorhistry tea, both for the country I urged in their support, shall not be allowed. Eng- iti I land, the only Power to whom French gratie at- . ler:foreign corn advances , . , j tributes the restoration of the - Boarhotts, f i also of7tiomestic production, ' looked up to as the friendly guardian of their right's. ir agricultural labours.— . From her, it is confidently expected thli-t she will moderate the pretensions of the Allies, and compel 'artists cortsettonot be of them to keep the solemn word they gave on en t er- ing having fallen, the taxes ing Paris, not only to maintain the integrity of en we fear it will be - -, k rance, but if, as she has done' she recalled her lee o i- siderable reduction takes' inmate Sovereign, to add to he I her ancient territories. ---- our having come down, li ---- , t English corn can he ' it EsoLunoNs ' I can be imported.—The , OF THE PARISH PRIESTS AM) CI,ERGTHETI, Or THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DUBLIN. addition to its cost, and ' -........—. if course, corn of home' ' BRIDGE-STREET Cli: PEI,, TanasnAY, Ni 4 s-12. ' permanent and necessary meth, undersigned Parish Priests an d clergymen of the Arch- aced abroad. There hi' Jiloger-e of Dublin, feel it a rimy whirls we owe to God and unestic agriculture falling ~Mork% to notice the following public Declaration:— therefore, an act of great :, Resolved, That we consider the Document, or I fix a minimum on the I Rescript, signed Quatantotti, as Non-Obligatory upon the Catholic Church in Ireland particularly as 5 necessary of life as bread, it wants time authoritative marks whereby the man- r of the measure now under o dates.of the Holy See are known and recognized; and nent. especially the Signature of the Pope. •Resolyed, That -ire consider the granting to an dispatch yesterday from . Anti-Catholic Government any power, either direct the I or indirect, with regard to the appointment and no- d' Gibraltar stating s munition of the Catholic Bishops of Ireland, at all tat garrison, in the Un- I 'muss, just arrived from 'times inexpedient. i Resolved, That circumstanced as we are in this and confirms the above I I -coosory, webonsider the granting of such a power. . . c hamp/in, left New i r is& not only inexpedient, but .:highly detrimental to the . .., bestsnd deareseliriferests of Relgion, and pregnant enburgh, with dispatcheol . ... e of a nature decidedly with. inciticulable mischief to the Cause of Catholicity :i April a Bill passed 113 aho in Ireland. by a majority - • Iliesolved, That such arrangements Domestic : of ou-Importation Art, anal Komination on beTiade among thetlergy of . Ire : . expected that this Bill land,.es will preclude that Foreigit Influence 9 against • '-- . ' . - . which- those Securities; so destructive to Religi on , aia ; '- ' • st nnaeimously. called for by thel'ailiament. '. he signed at Paris this Weatherefore most humbly anti respectfully do- outline : T —Great Britain . : hereby supplicate our venerablo 'Archbishop, wad . lope, Malta, the Nlauri- l les all the other French we hope : that the Catholic Clergy and liiity of all powers respectively, ex- I , Ire . land:twill join us in praying that he, and thesother ' , secured to Sweden. The i • • nab Prelates , will; without derby, real:militia- • is the Grand .Duchy of against this Document, and represent to his Holi- . Of-A.usTata does Venice Pa,' reinstated ness, and the meted College of Cardinals, now hap- ter with Mantueo is to .be .divided"; reinstated at Rome, the peculiar situation of S ndtP the Catholic Church in freland, and the tremendous , ay exile which we apprehend would inevitably flow from t; ging JoAQIIK, is to • ' the ado p tion of the Principles vr laid dou in said Do- atata_onSicily, with an 1 convent. —Si g ned by 38 Priests. ~. 443 a politau possessions. -1- - and the ships at Antwerp , ' - ' - - • 'tench and the Dutch. "a NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. - hat in the Sitting of the ----.0-- __, • ' rah'' , of the 31st inst. it PORTSMOVYA, MAY 16.—Arrived the Redwing from Ply. . and at The Mintterbank the Sir Francis Drakeftipto jelly LOUIS XVIII. tO lima . ; / , and Hindostaa store-shitS from the Mediterranean, and ate pat , haltokeep their titles and , • under quarantine . The Repulse, with the Meditirtaneshi het ' r, bet that they shall not ' are hourly expected.—Sailed seven Cartels, with Feeneh kir ? , from the Noblesse of iloaers, fur Havre de Grace and Cherburgh. 1 • time to come an elective , i j'ALPIOUTH, MAY 14.—Soiled the Tisiphoiw, of SO grim, and of that adopted on Oa the Francis Freeling,packet, with a moil, for Bourdeaux rand reat Britain ; that is"tis. 'the' Prince Ernest packet, with a mail, for Lisbon. r any Senator an electioh HAiwion, MAY 16.—Sailed the Diana packet, with mails r. he Senate who shall hold l i ' llt P ainell g ers ' for eltabaren •. s ~. - i , , _ • e 200 in all. • iounce, that early in June 1 On Saturday last, Ozestaa BLACRKAN, Esq. ci. ill be performed in the ! tizen a n d g oldsmith, p aid the fine of, 4001..and10 :. • Or the benefit of the suf- / I marks, with the usual fees, to' be excused serving the ny, under the patronage office of Sheriff of London and Middlesex. Rout-. • Duke of Yoga, and the WALLER, Eqs. citizen and cooper, has also paid his mittee of the Westminster fine to be excused serAng that office. tors of the Concerts of ' - The Emperor of Russia and King of PRUSSIA . 7 . i.have signified their desire, that they may not be re- . is•than 14 sail of Frerich•!-ceived with the ceremonies that were proposed.— listings. The men vow i They wish'to come over without the eclat of royalty rid freely 'purchase - it'd:: —and to be treated as private persons. Instead of • keepers Of the town, for-'a royal yacht,' escort of troops, or being received by , ,-. Louie d'Orb and pn i r.-ioe Psiseca REGENT in person on landing, they pro- , .a.: . presented NelpOliarts: t • ' 9 . 6., . to come Over in a common packet, and e'en, if . , ~• . consisting-of 'the Adji-' * . s.. ible, by the night tide,. to prevent osteotation., „. '. trjeants, Caftorali, ana4 a here is tertatuly a wise regard' to etiquette in' this -.• . up. !determination. • , ' .. • • . . - . r •- . , ' • ' ... ''.‘ - .' .0 . • ,: ..i.- .r. . ...--. ~...,; ; : x. 7 c _ ..;3. 7 e• , -, 7.-.:7;,; • r