The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-09-09 00:00:00

THE STAz tAt4L DEPOKTATION TO ST. HELENA. re was most imminent and extreine. And —a.— ' such turns, resulting from causes far by oliti oal TO THE EMTOIt 01 THE STATESMAN. means of tracing them, have therefore beds, ei s roilel.- Ste,—ln the lung i" I ""I previous to the meeting ously and vaguely referred to the Fortune of fries 4 l o f Parliament. there will he abundantly too long a And this country has found that, successful beyOssi, sp:lce for Ministers to consider what it is to send its utmost expectation, it has never bets farther an y man into exile and permanent imprisonment, from any beneficial result of its success to itself and i l„,i„i p ieaaure, on the risk of its legality. Of its others, than at present. But the glory of returning illegality I have now additional and high authority a generous confidence with its like, would have bee* that 4carcely any lawyer can doubt it. One for sayilitr , personal, pure, and undivided to the Patrice; tie of t he greatest of lawyers, who is a distinguished General, no Army, no Fleet, or Minister, no l'ab- 4 camber of Parliament, and is recognized as one of tic Body or Individual, would have been partaker is the hest o f men, has said, he thinks that of if , ille• it : it would have been as perfect sod appropriate as guilty no person can doubt. : it would have been singular in its kind, great in its 11.1 t in caw it were unhappily received as law, it principle, and in all its circumstances independent i, material to reflect what the operation of such an of events, and of a lustre unfading to the most dis 4 crum pk would he likely to have on the future state of tite r poster i ty . Carfare; which does not appear likely to be less As it is, this will be recollected.—Ministers made f r equent than it is has been. ! their determination when they might have kept Pao it is votes considering whether wars are meant to Bement assembled ; expecting, as they did, the cap be waged according to the precedent which has been lure, though not the voluntary coming of this so now a ttempted to be made, respecting the head of great individual. They persevered in their determi. the tuition with whom we have been at war, how. nation when they might have convened Parliament on suever he may come within Our power : whether as the day of Prorogation ; and they have still further an enemy or se a friend ; whether in couflict with prorogued it toe late day ;by which time, or nearly, our arms, or having a just ett;.ectation, honourable the Northumberland may arrive at its remote desti to us and to him, that he should find au asylum nation. with us. 1 They hnve publicly and officially announced their There is also another precedent to he made :—that determination, some days after they had carried it in of nation' most widely differing in !...s, Coestitu effect : thinking it sufficient to speak of it as the re. lion, national eh tracter. and manne, v, ,::aiming a suit of events in Europe, in consequence of which plat disposal of the person of such a distinguished in it has been deemed expedient and determined, in con iliridual ; and the natian to whom he has exciastrely junction with the Allied Sovereigns, that the Island soil voluntarily resorted, front his opinion of their of St. Helena shall be allotted for the future real ise's anti motional character, recognizing this Claim of dence. of General NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. And the rest ; iii peejutlice to them, and to that opinion, at the same time, for the perfect security of his per. and to one hither'" received usage of nations at war. son whom they thus designate, they have announced, sp o o l ' this dreadful experiment establish itself that /mule vessels shall be excluded from all cern. (*lnch (trust it casino* it will concern Kings in muttication and approach to that island, during such general , t, look to its effect its future as it concerns time as it shall continue to be the place of his resi themselves. 1 hi . d ente. ft 114.4 rot thus that NAPOLEON conducted m -1 Such is the communication from the Office of the self to. yds tho beads of those Continental Powers Foreign Secretary of State, 26th Aug. 1815, to eansferleta . 4 against him; not thus against the Duke , , wrkucnthe name of Lord BATHURVE appears : Till o'Atto"ui rmt and Louts himself, who :" Pr "'" . " then no name, no official announcement, claimed the thins ~ ..r. ~ : int.:l him. It is easy to see On which merit, er encountered the responsibility of this pro. side the g iie , irus a.ul forbearing conduct has been.— eec disig :--- And a:so will imags, , p, that notwithstanding his ex- • Flew: e.t irsienis Gloria Farti : prrieme fir onm la:il ~.ar and their Proclamation of I hire sent woes pram( vuturrequisquam. the 13th of Mare" —is, hid any of the Continental We have learnt in classic studies the figure called Confederate Sovereigns fallen into his power, that Euphemism, which expresses the harshest and the 'ley would have received such treatment from NA- most chocking circumstance in the most agreeable rottom as he has fro.n them, and with what feelings terms ; we have heard of the Eastern Courts and I compelled by the facts to add, from us. ! their silken bow.string. Assuredly, no Court Vo. Saco an example as is now afforded would cabulary upon earth could supply softer terms for this • us much farther back in time, than any con. or any proceeding. to matt would be • disposed to go for example; Ii Not the golden frog of the garden of the Mope . it would transfer us in space to regions fro"- „ west. .. woo suitga44 t . the ogaeace of its pr.. which we do not seek the rules of civilized warfare.: letting dragon in milder words. But the reality, not And having gone thus far in search of analogies for the language in which it is veiled, will befell by the the caercise of mere power over those who have been 1 soberer; and should be regarded by every English unfortunate in war, we might be led on farther, to . understanding, by every human heart. ices of those countries„ more disgusting to the i Deys, however, and weeks, take their flight, and, tad imagination, but perhaps not essentially at last, Parliament must he assembled.—Atel who. wounding to right feelings than this of ours. 1 they Ministers venture to come for a Ratffication But, unhappily, what is exhibited at once to the end Indemnity, inn a case where there is nothing ca. erikes us far otherwise than the long and linger 'table of being ratified, nothing, therefor., to offer ass g injuries of which we hear at a distance. Such, ground of indemnity, and undoing to have prevented sever, is not the measure by which Executive Go. the Northumberland or the Bellerophon, with their Its or Legislators, Philosophers, Moralists, illustrious charge, remaining in the Channel till Christians,—if they are worthy of any of these Parliament had met, had not Ministers preferred qatlations,—will direct their conduct. I taking the whole upon themselves; this I do say, Is is not so long back,—there may be, and there that whether they at last do resort to Parliament, or re, mobably, soldiers now living, who were in whether they rest on their mill and pleasure, at all `engsgpme , :% when the then header the Houma events, the question of the treatment of the Ex-Em !4°""" king of G "AT BRIWN/ 6 8 blin gs al l yew NAPOLEPEN great and [linguistr as it is, will 1 Alen eith the gallantry habitual to his Om ) " , ' be brought forward when Parliament shall meet.—, alt hare been a prisoner. What should we haft' A n d a graver, higher, more affecting que. • or of ight of I. ts deportation to a remote bland, prison's more soucera to the Laws, and Constjtu s.aed life? What would Europe, what would the' R eam , n a il's p gODLN o f ENGLAND, no Pergiment Id—the civilized world,—have thoughti has eves bad to consider. If it he observed, that it h.: useless to roles to game And then, when that tins* arrives, Thether we ' suppositions respecting those who were &Anew- I regard the most sacred of our laws, and most essen. legitimate Sovereigns, the answer may be, that fiat Is the freedom of our Constitution and its pro. eciines, as in the war respecting the Spanish at+ ' t live pouter, and to.the security of all who are 1, and in various other instances, opposite I placed by birth, or who place. themselves under its .ern may maintain opposite claims of sovereignty ; hospitable avis (tend to suet' foreign visitants, the licit, consequently, cannot both, be legitimate.... :arts, the scienees, the literature, the manufactures, id the farther, that many hundreds of myriads in and commerce of this country, have, in former days, ante (and in every country resides the exclusive : been most deeply indebted); whether we respect the liege to determine in whom the legitimate tight ,s/tioalrous courtesy of darker, or the more refined to talmiiiister its sovereignty), many hundreds of sentiments sod policy of times near to our own, by riads have regarded the Throne and succession of which the stern and Amnions features of war had, Lentos a; established on the only legitimate to a considerable degree, been softened, so as to indation, the will and choice of ?Hz PE". I -.6•-••• partake of the divine image of humanity and justice; id as far as it can appear to other nations it may . whether we feet for the British Navy and its gene. II b e doubted whose throne ever was legitimate if rout unaffected disposition when an enemy ceases to it were nor. i be such, and are anima; to remove the impression But in this discussion BONAPARTE has been contd. ' which this RCP) service, thus invented for it, must (to meet this adverse argument as fair upon its produce ; or whether we revere the sciences, litera •n ground as might be) as a Prisoner. I have al. tare, and the arts, --the glory of arms and of liberal iys objected to his being so considered : I have al- : legislation, and are desirous of paying a testimony 1)1 urged that it be cam e this nation to consider him to them, all in the person of Naratscon-Whtss coat he considered himself ;—as voluntarily coming to ing, thus confiding himself to us; or whether we 'in asylum with us ; and with the same liberal consider the great mass of the community who bare ~, as it was sought, to have given it. In read, or who have heard, or who have seen, or who firm, animated, and pathetic Protest he had have personally contributed to the fame of England, indent cense for saying, that 66 he had expected to by generosity, after the severest struggles, no Imo. for the Pastier REGENT the most glorious than bravery in them. All who, in any manner, by,i .of his reign." Other glories have been chequer. their talents, their exertions, their perils end merle with various alternations of defeat and victory, Ws, in war or in peace, have had their share le i acquisition: they have been ascribable to the adding some portion to that fame,—there is not t ~ the condor', and the success of others. And public body, there is not a class or profession, theta Ipe none have been more sudden and more is not an intelligent and well.dispesed individual, eke' this when the Instant before the dau. has not a right that sach.atoileseuto . is Mil feel*. ..__ __. bie, be slide for the depth of darkness which has town thrown over this colititry, and will continue Id blatant it to the latest times, if this otherwite irietlareble disgrace be not, to the utmolt which Is. ssestisinisible to effect, done away, by the manifes bition of the contrary judgment and feelisig of the Legislature and of Tug !hoeing itself ; for while this disgrace' still presses upon us with all its weight, a man wild feels for his country will &Imola he ashamed to think upon any other subject. they would I yot.cos as hi am I compell Such an carry us me siderite matt or it would which we do And having the rzercise unfortunate practices of sense and in more wound But, oohs rye strikes injuries however, is ',fitments I Or Christian spi ;bijou, Ii it net I are, pi ohab that eog v worts, al Dettingen might Lary I thought di. for life ? world— the Ilk be el and supposi lodged legit sometime., cession, ant Powers ma, which, con And the fa] Fiance (at privilege tr is to Amin 50 ) riads ha NAPOLEON foundation And as fa r well be dot 1.13 were lb But in tl tiered (to own groan ways ohjec wets urged As he ronsi seek an as,!, etotfidence, his arm, a abundant c ► Prepare foe epoch of id .ti with vat 1 055 and am a outage, th, r !lain t Yotii's, CAPPL LOM. Troifon-hall, Sept. 3, 1916. EPISTLE FROM TOM CRIBB TO BIG BEN, concsaistna SOUL FOUL PLAT LT A LATS TRANTACTIOO. What 1 Bee. my big hero, Is this thy renown ? Is this the new go ?—kick a man, *ben lie's down! When the foe has konck'd under, to tread on bins then— By the SA of my father, I blush fir thee, SES! s' Foul = Pull" all the Lads of the Fancy exclaim— CnsaLeT SHOCK is electrilled—attcsast spits Same— And MoLintstlx—aye, even Bzacazz tries " Simmer Time was, when Jour Btu, little diferenee spied Twist, the he at his feet and the friend at his side Whets he Need (sash his hassnar is Ogbting and eating) His foe; like his beef-steak, the 'Sweeter for beating!— Out this come., Master Haw, of your cant foreign notions, Your trinkets, wigs, tbingimbobs, gold lace, and lotions; 'our Nayntem Curacao, and the Devil knows what— (One an ig of flue Ruin* is worth the whole lot !) Your great and small trusser—(my eyes, what a brood! A crow. Inittock f. .tat ate w ould do some of them good .1) Which have spoilt you, till hardly adroit, my old porpoise. Of pure English claret is left in you corral And (a. Jew oars) the only one trick, good or bad, Of the Fancy you're up to, ie . fibbieg, my lad ! Hence it C0., , t4 BOMAN*, disgrace to thy page !,-- Ilavingfluored. by good luck, the Ors* smell of the age, Having ennyiter'd the prime one, that ',dirt, us all round, You kick'd him, old Haw, as he grom'd un the ground Aye —just at the time to show spunk. if you'd got any— Kick'd him and jaw'd him Had toad+ him to Botany Oh shade of the Chresemonger !;—you, who, alas? Doubled up, by the dozen, tlawe Moanseen is brass, On that great day of milling, when blood lay in lakes, When King. held the bottle and Europe the stakes,—* Look do • n upon Batt—see him, dunghill all o'er, Insult 'he tains Foe, that can harm him no more ! Oa., cowardly spoonev!—nralii and again, By the So of soy Father. I blush for thee, Bee. To show the while feather§ is many men's doom, Bat, what of one feather? Bas shows a whole rt.tmz! • Trantported. t A Life Guardsman. owe of the Fancy. who distittolshed himself. and was killed in a lase memorahle set-to. Lxhibit symptoms of terror. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. --.•. PoinsuouTe, Scer. B.—Artived the Britannia, Wallis, from Chatham. Protmouris, SErr.7.—Came in the Hawke trans. port, with prisoners, from Ostend ; Martin and Dispatch stoop of war, from a cruise. DIAL. Sart. B.—Arrived the Scout sloop of war, from Portmouth, and sailed for the River. !Lute sat, SEPT. S.—Arrived the Lark packet, with a Mail, from Holland. The Proprietors of Covent-garden do not trust slave for attraction to the novelty of their Theatre. -They have made many important additions to their company.—Mr. C. KEMBLE: Mrs. DOBBI, from the York Theatre; and Miss iiiticula, the Catalani of Dublin, are among the new engagements. A large swarm of bees on the last market day at Beverley, in Yorkshire, entered the shop of Mr. Oztaby, a grocer, and immediately put to flight all his other at:tomer: ; a general battle then ensued, and it was not until after Mr. 0. anti his men had re ceived I wounds, that the enemy was made to " bite the dust," instead of the sugar. Flat(.—Yestertlay a fire broke out at No. 12, Cel tt White-street, Bermondsey, which, from the confined situation of the place, created great alarm, but owing to the prompt assistance of the In hshitants, and the timely arrival of the engines, it was soon got under. The robberies of gentlemen's !portions in the vici nity of London exceed all precedent, scarcely one having escaped without being plundered of a great part of its fin..st fruit. A few tiny, ago a Gentleman at Hackney, who counted on his walls sixty dozens of the choicest peaches and nectarines, which would have sold wholesale in Covent-garden Market, for at least shillings a dozen, had the mortification the fol lowing morning to find every one of his trees corn pietely stripped. Peorsrat•zust.--On Saturday last, a young man, of the risme of Amos, son of a respectable farmer at Sible ileditigham, Esker, for a wager of 101. under took to run YI miles in three hours, which he accom pli,hod within the time, having two minutes and a half to spare. On Thursday se'nnight a melancholy accident hap ' petted to Mr. Harris, grocer, of Aberystwith, who, ' accompanied by a little girl, went to see the fire ' works at that part of the Castle wall facing the Bay. During the exhibition he had very humanely and frequently cautioned several persons to beware of the adjoining dangerous precipice; but a squib or cracker White close to him, threw him off his guard, and he fell down the rockey steep, shout thirty feet, by which there is reason to fear he has received so much serious injury as to make his recovery extremely doohtful. Mr. Harris had loosed the child only a moment or two before the dreadful occurrence took place. On Sunday night last, in consequence of inform.• tion received by the Surveyor of Excise, at Mallow, in Ireland, an extensive private distillery was de stroyed, slid near 1000 gallons of pot ale spilt oe the towrilend of Ballyanns, In the county of Limerick. 1 The Excise Officers nett day lodged the still, &c. in 1 Ow King's stores at Fermoy, after a fatiguing marc h, 4 the distance being 30 miles from Mallow, and from thence to Fermoy upwards of W. On this *tyke they were assisted by an 0411cer's owl at the Mb regiment, from Mitchebt•wa. To :Its EDITOR or fix STATESMAN. lettecerita ut bate, kit. *ill apply; rhow as *ell is in the days or lioeACs. Human sa tire is pretty much the sane ih every igo-11 IS not the disposition of man to be cohtented with his lot, let him be ever to *ell shutter! lb life ; and this rettleasnesi Ind tontines! with to improve our con dition; plainly prove that this lire is only a Stets of probation. Every profession his its particular irieVaneett, and each man thinks himself worse off than another; notwithstanding this, I shall venthre to point oot the peculiar hardships of the service lb Which I hale Creed employed Since the age of 14. A bby whi has presiobsly been eddrated at ti gentleman wishes to go to sea; his friends have ad interest In the Navy ; the 'Welt litho service they think 100 hard for him, particularly without they' can meet With a Whine Comthaftder ; he is there: foie sent on board one Of the Eait India Company's ships at a Midshipman. Sind in thU station he (vial rally serves two voyages before be can be tithe. Fifth or Sixth Mate; hit Wages, in these Stational are nothing adequate tat the espente of his mess sail his clothes (and he milt Weir tome kind of uniform) which increases the 'spent% of the latter). The harti ships he undergoes are much greatei that is generally Imagined. Besides, being exposed to vkissitudei of weather and varieties of climate, he it the greateft. part of the voyage Ift a hot uftwhblesinne hold, stowing and unstowing, and the confines! Waite by perspiratios (unless hell blessed With an excellent constitution) impairs his health early in life. About the age of 20, he it allowed to pest for Fourth Mate; and becomes a sitotu Officer ; he hag note a cabin to himself and his pay and privilege td trade are I little increased; his espences, lsosse.er, are increased in a more than equal ratio, and fur many years past markets have been so bad in India that a young inexperieuced trader is more likely td lose money than make any. lie nest goes out es Third Mate, and Is nOti in it much more responsible situation, having the charge of the cable, and stowing the hold entrusted to hit care; he is likewise Mester of the Mess, and to hint •all the young Officers should look op for instrectien and good example ; he therefore now begins le feel I some anxiety, more particularly if he has charge of a watch, which no man of feeling can think of lightly : his emoluments in this situation are Serf little preferable to those of Fourth Mate, add td think of making any thing by his Mess would id beneath his character as a Gentleman. Withnet Mita kets sec good, the pay of the service is so small diet ' it will most likely prove lu the end a losing topple. him. I will go on regularly,' and suppose him nest to h. Second Mate, al:hough after being Third he it ,Heil Isle for Chief Mate, if he can obtain tree situation. If* has now done with the betd,•Attfff'nther•Vt?ff Ajar his duty being principally upon the qearter.deck, ...dr to be ready at all times to relieve the Chief; he now time to attend to the lunar observations ate chronometers, and to make himself perfectly qtratta fled either for Chief Mate or C •nsmander on his O. turn ; if he does his duty in this situation there enough for hat to attend to, al!hough many make an idle birth of it, especially those of good interest, and who expect to become Co 'menders without nn. dergoing the labour of Chief Mate. ! Before Igo farther I will do justice to the Cow& mauder with whom I sailed three voyages as Chief, Mate, he and I never bad a word of difference, he i 6 a perfect gentleman, and wets a'l like him there would be no occasion for my writing 'onto part of this letter ; this avowal will, I hole, prove, that It is not merely ou my owe acceont that I have wader. taken such a task. The emoluments of a Cider Map at% lint torsi great—be has M. per month and eight tons of privi. lege ; but, as I have already remarked, markets hare been so bad in India, from the great eat and competition for many years past, that there Is much greater probability of losing than gaining by trade; if he, therefore, pays his expences by the voyage, he may consider himself well of. Many have lost money, and were It net for their friends, nothing but a prison would welcome It in after • long said tedious voyage. There is nothing to be made now except in the China ships, and th • d.fllculty of ob• tainiug a birth in one of thpfm I a. increased since the trade to India has been laid open. There are but few who can escape being Chief Mate; and indeed it ought to be • standing rule of the East India Company, that every man she'll' perform at least one voyage in ibis station Wore Mt is Commander; instead of which 40111.• very prong men get ships after being Second II to, tri.haut the least regard to the feelings of an old Chief Mate that they may have under them. Not having Pit the hardships and anxieties of that station th , mselves, they hare only seen duty carried on smartly, with. out knowing the method, and it mull be so done in their ships, whether the ship . s timpani be bad or good ; and if the Chief Mate, in spite of all his efforts and Wearing out the people, cannot *mom. plish this, some of these Commanders (I will not include all) soon forget themselves, storm and rave, and think nothing of hurting the feelings of a good., worthy, and expettenced Officer by their intemperate expressions. Man is very apt to forget himself in India, where the natives by their Itemllity, feigned or real, teens to justify him in his arrogance' In the service look down upon much contempt, and hardly thin! to behave to them as Gentlemen who are more immediately under suffer most, and if their feelings Wien becomes intolerable. Can it then be wondered at tr Mating been many years in the Mate, and having bad his comet( spirit wounded, and not making livelihood can it, I say, be should at length relingeish a service ChillCt of seer obtaining a command, 1 • 'Many Commanders 1 to their Officers with sok themselves obliged en; the Chief Mates, ler them, are apt to ;s are ar.itte their sita•• that an Officer, aft*, he situation of Chief illation impaired and r any thing bet a wondered at slat 'nice where he hat Imo 5 ; Band, bat only mos i venom" j . ... a.`..._ . a