The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-02-11 00:00:00

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But that restric t' he proposed to do away in this instance, in or der that our colonial produce should be enabled to compete with that of the French and Spaniards in the Mediterranean, and that therefore the importer of our colonial produce into Malta should be at li berty to take back, as a return cargo, any articles he thought proper, or should not be obliged to take to the colonies any return cargo whatever, but at li berty, on discharging its cargo, to pursue, like other British ships, such course as it might deem expedient. It was, however, proposed to provide, that such ships as took a return cargo to the colonies, should not convey to the colonies any articles likely to rival our own mannfa , turec. But there were many articles to be had in the Mediterranean which might be im ported into, and which would be valuable to the colonies, without creating any such rivalship. That class of articles it was obviously desirable to render as extensive es possible ; and a specific schedule of them it was intended to annex to the Bill hereafter to, beintrodoced ; but at present he thought it ne cessary or.ly to state the general outline of his ob ject. Upon the introduction of that Bill, the mea sure would be open to any discussion which might be deemed necessary. Ile had further to propose, (hat all articles in the Levant Trade, which could net by law be exported from any other than the country of its growth, or from certain specified ports, should he hereafter among those which might be exported from Malta, together with thrown silk and mohair also, which could not now be legally exported from any other than the place of its growth ; subject, however, to the payment of the usual duties to the Turkey Company. This Company was, it would be recollected, entitled by charter to these duties. It had no objection to the proposed arrangement, and there could be no fair objection of the payment of its dues. For this Com pany had nothing of the character of a monopoly, it being open to any one to become a member, on the payment, he understood, of a very few pounds. Be shies, the produce of the dues paid to this Company were not granted for the bonelit of individuals, but appropria , ed to the public service in defraying the expence of our diplomatic Agents at Smyrna and elsewhere. At one time indeed the expeuce of our fbmbaasy to Constantinople was paid out of this fund ; hut that practice had been discontinued.-- Still, however, our Consuls and Dragomans in the other offices connected with the embassy, were paid by the Turkey ;ompatiy, and it was deemed right to continue she practice, because in the quarter al hided to, prejudice was so notoriously fixed in favour of an ancient prat lice, that it was not c niceived ex =3.t to introduce soy change, : lest such change ,prove (Asada antageous to our commercial io. , lleveiiiiree. - - Several Resolutions were then proposed agreeable jw-tho lion. Gentiernan's statement, as was a Reso legion to Impose upon any nines imported from the Mediterranean into the West Indies, the same duties as are ttow ,utvable upon :riadeirs. Mr. FOR RES enquired whether it was intended to ' , styled *be prittbiple of this arrangement to East In dia produce also ? Mr. ROBINSON replied, that no such extension °obi -at present be proposed, becesise it was thought ilifficult to epen Malta to the East India trade, with out opening that trade to all other parts of Europe. Upon that point, therefore, a difference of opinion prevailed, which would probably give rise to cons'. sleroble. discussion, and from that consideration he avoided the point at present, confining himself to that arrangement only upon which no objection was Anticipated. The Honourable Gentleman concluded with observing, that his Resolutions applied merely to Welt articles es were at present prohibited to the trade of ;Melte. The Resolutions being agreed to, the House re murted,and the Report was ordered to be brought up san•Monder. • Mr: Serjeant ONSLOIV moved the committal of the Rill for the better securing the liberty of the sub ject, observing, that he merely meant to have the blanks filled up with regard to England, proposing to postpone the farther consideration of the measure until the arrival of the Gentleman who had ex pre:led a wish to have the provisions of the Bill ex tended to Ireland. • • The committed and reported, and or deal/1010 thoonigatted on Monday, the 20th ins'. • The Order fur the ateond reaiing of the Ilelstone EL:cants flill.waupstpaned till Nednevist r ott the 'of Mr. Sergeant OSSLOW. • 0:: tut‘tion of Mr. LUSHINGTON. the Com mittee the Bunk Loom was postponed, s:td the Correspondence between the Hank and the Chancel- Itir of the F.*hequer was ordered to he printed. The Countititwe of Supply and Ways and Means *'ere postponed till Nlfinday. . Mr.*LUSIIINGTON obtained leave to bring in the usual Ball for inthencifying dies. who have omit. led to qualify according 'to law. • Adjourned to. Monday. FRANKFORT AND BRUSSELS PAPERS. CHEN; Fut. 3.—The Te Deum which was to be celebrated to-morrow, the 4th, on account of the -happy deliverance of our provinces, will not take place ; the Mayor has sent the followiug circular to the pPraOlif invited : " The Mayor has the honour to inform that the Clergy having refused to chaunt ati Te Deum to-morrow, Saturday, the 4th instant, this n tneung will lot take place, and there will be no pro cession." llittstscr.e, Fre. s.—The anniversary of the deli verance of the city of Ghent, and of the entrance of the Allied troops was celebrated on the 4th by in illumivation, during which the city band performed term) marches, tkc. on the parade. The TC &OM THE STATESMAN. to which the Civil and Military Authorities, &c. were invited, did not take place, as we stated yesterday. 11EnNE, JA`r. 14.—King Joachim hewing pee posed several persons to fill the vacant Sees in the Neapolitan States, the Pope, it is said, has given him no answer, A Spy, who came from the Isle of Elba, has been arrested at Civita Vecchia, and brought hither. - - , ANCONA, JAN. 16.--We are full of expectation of the events of which Rome is going to be the theatre. i A rupture seems inevitable. ' BOLOGNA, JAN. 13.—The Neapolitan troops that were to come to garrison our city, in place of the Austrians, who are reinforcing themselves in Lom bardy and the Venetian provinces, have received counter-orders. It seems that numerous forces are collecting in the Marches. The accounts from Naples speak of a declared rupture between King Joachim and the Holy See. It is said that a certain Power has in vain offered its mediation, awl that neither party will abate of its pretensions. It is thought that his Holiness will make an appeal to his subjects, and that a new religious war will ensue. But can one believe, that in the 19th century, and in the middle of Europe, religion can serve as a pretext to kindle the flames of war' It is thought that the Congress will have decided on the fate of all Italy by the 25th of January. Masks have been prohibited in the theatre. This !regulation, which nothing calls for, has given rise to expostulations. Our country is tranquil. The Austrians know very well that we do not love them ; but they do not appear to have intended by their conduct to gain our affections. Our University has been opened with much so. lemnity. The speech of the Secretary contained some passages remarkable on account of the spirit of liberty which they manifest. The Governor appear. ed displeased at them, and has caused a reproof to be given t., the Orator. CREMONA, JAN. 15.—This evening a warm dis. pute took place at the Theatre, between two Ger man officers and some young men of this country.— The Governor caused the Germans to be desired .to leave, to avoid the consequences of an irritation which might become general against all the Germans who were in the Theatre. i FRANKFORT, JAN. 31.—The Russian army which leaves the North of Germany, will occupy the two Banks of the Vistula, Thorn, Dantzic, and the other strong places. This army is stated to amount in the whole to 150,000 men of all arms. A second Russian army will remain upon the Niemen till all the affairs of Europe shall be settled. Prussia is increasing its armaments ; Bavaria and Hanover do the same ; France puts her armies on a formidable footing, and throughout all Germany no. thing seems to be thought of at this moment, except the organization of fresh militia. At the sight of these threatening dispositions people enquire, with uneasiness, what will be the consequence of them ? VIENNA, JAN. 26.--The friends of peace and public happiness cannot look without fear on the present state of Germany. Russia has 650,000 men under arms, exclusive of their regular corps ; Austria has above 500,000 actually .embodied ;,„Preasit . 300,000; and the other Germati States arsniee . numerous, as to be out of all proportion to their pike i pu lation. What terrible preparations . .. • • • The Brussels Oracle says, the Correspondent. 6t the 30th ult. (probably the Nuremberg Correspon dent is meant) has this phrase All confidence in the speedy dissolution of the Congress has again to. tally vanished." It is csattlently believed that the Duke of Wel lingtoo is the bearer of instructions which will have a seri decisive iulluence in the negociations. A letter from Ghent of the 25th ult. says," many English traders visit our provintes with goods which they offer at a low price, but for which they by no means find a ready sale, either from the viMionality of the people, or from inferiority of manufacture, our establishments having attained a perfection which fears no competition." The Gazette de France contains a long account of the re-occupation of Martinique by Count Vangiraud in the name of the French Government. It states, that thotigh a number of French merchantmen had arrived out before the delivering up of the island, they suffered nothing from the delay, but had an excellent market for their goods. It is added, that an order had been issued for enforcing the Decree of the Council of State of the 30th of Aug. 1754, in relation to the trade of foreign nations with the island. The ports of St. Pierre, Fort Royal, Trinity, and Marin, were to be opened to foreign vesse!4, which were to pay 2 per cent. of local dues, and one per cent. additional, on their cargoes. They are to pay similar duties on their exports. FRENCH PAPERS. PRAGUE, Jill. 27.—We learn from Vienna, that Austria has made demands on Rossi* for reqoisitiens, military lodgings, relays, &c. exacted from the 4,us, trians by the Russian armies in the wars of 2805 and 1813. The affair has been arranged to the Wis. faction of both parties, Russia having engaged to pay by different instalments a sum in way of compensa tion. Already the first payment, to the amount of three millions, has been made in specie. On the 12th of February the anniversary of our Sovereign's birth-day, we expect a definitive declara tion on the affairs of the Congress. VIENNA, JAN. 27.—1 t continues to be believed that the Emperor Alexander will leave this capital on the 13th of February. The appointments of Count Saurau and the Prince of Hesse Romberg, the former to the office of Civil Governor, and the latter as Military Governor of Milan and Lombauly, are confirmed. Among the new rumours in circulation, there is one that Bavaria will restore. Saitzberg and. Berch.. tolszaden to Austria, who will dispose of them to the Archduchess Maria Louisa. In this case the Duchy of Parma will form part of the new kinodoes of Italy. Oar Coarse of &chose falls daily ; a nJ at ere i'` s talk of some new grand scheme of fittauce to relieve us from embarrassment. CA 1)11, JAN. 16.—While the commerce of other Powers resumes that activity which must be neces sarily increased by a state of peace, our's remains stagnant. Our relations with our Trans. Atlantic pus. sessions are suspended, and in the mean time we have reason to fear a rupture with the Regency of Algiers. Our coasting trade, our last resource, will thus be interrupted, as we have not sufficient naval force to command respect. These circumstances have a mis chievous influence on the commerce of all the Spanish ports, but particularly those on the coasts of the Mediterranean. We feel our misfortunes the more severely when we compare our situation with the constantly increasing prosperity of our neighbours, The Portuguese, whose maritime commerce becomes daily more flourishing. Portugal formerly used to send only two ships to Canton, now the pain ber of other Portuguese Indiamen is 80. Ili port of Lisbon now presents a very animated spectacle. PAttis, FEB. 7.—The report was general yester day evening, that 9.0,000 Neapolitan troops had en tered Rome, and that the Pope was no longer lo his capital, though Joachim Murat had not quitted Na. ples. We must ohseoe, however, that pridite let. tern from the North of Italy say nothing of this strange news. AMERICAN NAVY. The Nullona! Intelligencers to the 26th of Decem ber, contain a variety of public documents, all tend ing to the elucidation of the political affairs of Ame rica, but which are of too voluminous a nature to ad mit of their being given at length. That to which the American Government naturally pays the greatest de ference is a Report from the Secretary of the Navy to the Senate regarding the naval establishment of the United States. The emulation evinced by the Ame ricans in this Report to rival the naval glory and strength of Great Britain, ought not to be over looked by the British Government. It may be re collected, that as far back as the 18th of March last, the Senate came to the resolution to direct the Secre tary of the Navy to devise and digest a system for the better organization of the Department of the Navy of the United States. It was in 'obedience to this resolution that the Report in question was made. The Secretary sets out with saying, it had been gene rally admitted that imperfections existed in the civil administration of the naval establishment; and hence it had been inferred, that a radical change of system could alone remedy the evil. Mr. Secretary, after observing at length, on the waste, bad agency, and other defects of the naval system, next refers to those qualities and causes which have exalted the reputation of their infant navy, in the following terms : 44 That our navy is not excelled in any thing which constitutes efficiency, perfect equipment, and general good qualities, it is believed will be admitted. That our seamen are better paid, fed, and accom modated, is no less true. That all the imported, and many of the domestic articles of equipment, and of consumption in the service, are exceedingly en hanced ; that the wages of mechanical labour more than double that which is paid by Great Bri tain; that our expenditure is greatly increased by the interruption to navigable transportation, and the great extent of the local service, is equally obvious. Yet,uuder all these circumstances, it is demonsteabte," ; ithest Opet. a comparison of an enualquantlty of ton nage and number of guns and m e n ;/or in proportion to the number of men alone, mir naval expenditure is eonsideriUly less than that for the navy .of. Great Britain, in: which ' one hundred and forty-five thousand men are employed, at an expellee of more than twenty millions of pounds sterling, annually.'" The manning of large ships of war (745, &c.) now out of commission, is recommended by Government as the cheapest and the most effectual mode of de fending the American toast. " The nature, con sttuction, and equipment of the ship:, &c." con tinues.the Secretary, " which constitute a navy, form the basis •f its efficiency, durability, and economy, and the most important branch in the civil admi nistration of its affairs. " The defects in this part of the 13ritish system have been the theme of criticism and reprehension for many years past. The most minute, laborious, and able investigation, has, from time to time, taken place, under the direction and scrutiny of the Par liament, yet nothing approximating to radical amendment has been adopted ; and the advocates of reform, either from the subtle ramifications of the evil, or the agency of some sinister influence, ap pear to despair of success." Mr. secretary next speaks of the diversity in the form, dimensions, and proportions of the British ships of war in general, and illustrates his argument by the following statement : " When Lor d Nelson was off Cadiz, with 17 or 18 sail of the line, he had no less than seven dif ferent classes of 74 gun ships, each requiring dif ferent masts, sails, yards, &c. so that if one ship was disabled, the others could not supply her with appropriate stores." The consequences resulting from this defective or ganization cud want of system are strongly illustrated in the fact, related by a recent professional writer of rank and talents, that " out of 538 ships, &c. in the British navy, now at sea, there are only sixty-nine which are in reality superior in the discharge of metal or force of blows, but inferior in sailing, to some of the American frigates; and that there are but 18, which, unless in smooth water, are equal to contend with the United States, leaving 451 out of 538, which are admitted to be incompetent to engage, single handed, with an American frigate." " These facts," says the Secretary, " are eacourag. ing: and if the American navy is made formidable upon the principle proposed, the host of British frigates and smaller veseld on the coast would be struck out of the account, or added to the list of the American navy, if they came in contact. " These veiws, it is true, are prospective, but, with a stable, judicious, and liberal system, the resu:t would be realized at no remote period. " having noticed these exceptions to the civil ad. mitiistration of the British navy, it is but just to ob. serve, that the organization of the military part of their system is much more perfect." After pursuing the subject further as to the system to be adopted in dockyards, and' in the other depart ments of the naval establishment, he concludes by submitting, with great deference, a new system for the organization of the department of the nary, which he presented in the form of a Bill. A rr. Lichon 1 1 0 0 NRICI: OF sTocKs THIS HauL per Cent. Red. 610 i per Cent, 64 4 per Cents. 8111; 5 per Cent. Navy v:;ij I DAT AT ONE OT,Lo cK Long. Ann. 161 7-16 India Bonds 15 16 p Exchewier Hills 3 6 p ()minium 3/ 3 d Coma, fur Acc. 61iii THE STATESMAN. LONDON: SATURDAY, FEBZUMtY' 11, ISIS. Late last night we received 'Pails Papers to th Bth inst. and a-llamburgh Mail has arrived to-day, The extracts we make from the Papers that received, will show how little is known of the state of the tiegociations at Vienna, which have tired the poi. ence of every body, and excited a general feeli ng o r distrust, and even contempt. An article from ger. • lin, in the Dutch Papers, contradicts the r(Torts of warlike preparations by the Allies. •There are ako some further statements from Vienna regarding the negociations concerning the Slave Trade, concluding, what is very unlikely to happen, that Spain mid Portugal will agree to abolish it on the terms pre. scribed to France. France has given no indication of an intention to abolish the traffic ; • , 11 the con. trary, she has shown the strongest desire to revive it. zlbulition, therefore, means renewal. It is nut front Sovereigns, who are numbering. •parcelling out, and. transferring to each other huidarilseingS in the dis. graceful way that we hear is daily done at Vienna, and from such benign and religious Monarchs as in the first transports of their gratitude to Warm for restoring them to the thrones. of their sot:Wars, sought to sink the human species to the level of the brute creation, that we can expect to see men receiv ing charters of liberty, and the ennobling boons of emancipation and justice. The Dutch Papers also inform as, that there hare been some further disturbances in Norway: Italy and Germany are far from being in a state tran q uillity. A rupture between King JoAcima tai the Pure, and such pions Princes as deem it theii dal to support the holy Father, is inevitable. His Neapii, titan Majesty, though his state be appears well prepared for the contest. Ile has 100,000 am in arms. As to Germany, a letter from Vienna, of the 20th, in the French Papers, says.—" The friends of peace and public happiness cannot look without fear on the present state of Germany: Russia has 650,000 men under arms, exelusite at irregular afrrps ; Austria has , fps 'embodia;. Prussia 300,000 in! States, armies so numerous as to be 'out of all pts• portion to their population. 46 The Correspondent of the 30th (probably tie Nuremberg Correspondent is meant) bas this phrue, —" All confidence in the speedy tilaSslion of the Congress has again totally vanished, • " It is confidently believed that the Duke of WELLINGTON is the bearer of instructions whisk will have a very decisive influence ou the negocia tions." BERLIN, J tar. 31.—1 n order to contradict still i more fully the reports of warlike preparations I making by the Allied Powers, which were circulatle.l in many German and French Papers, it is in terestingto !adduce as an indisputable fact, that four nuts* regiments of infantry and tea regiments of cavalry i have just left the Rhine and its neiebourhood to re. turn home. The Order published by the King to , this effect expressly indicates, that when these troops reach their provisional destination on the Elbe and the Oder, the farther destination to their future gar risons in time of Peace will most probably take place. VIENNA, JAN. 4.25.—1iis Majesty the Emperor of Austria has been pleased to confer on Count Men• ster, the Minister of the King of England, the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Stephen, as a testimony of respect for his distinguished services and patriotic sentiments. LETTER FROM VIENNA, JAL 2;3. The negociations concerning the Stave Trade seem now, in consequence of generous sacrifices on tha part of England, likely to lead to the conclusion, that Spain and Portugal will agree to abollsla it on the terms prescribed to France in the Treaty of Pa tis—that is, in four years. Several notes have again been exchanged about l'oland and Saxony, without leading to any official publication of the results so • ardently expected. Though none of the Powers is willing to give the first cause for war, when, after l atch long struggles and the best founded hopes of peace, it would be highly 'unexpected and generally !detested throughout all Europe, and most destrac tire in its consequences, yet eac`i of the Allied Powers abides so firmly by its principles or prcteo-. sions, that each expects the firs) concession to ca;tre from the others. CnitisALlNlA, JAN. 14.—A Marine 1301 rd of Wal is now established liert , , of which, Rear-Admiral la bricils and Commodore Failing are MeniLors. Z E ALA ND, JAN. 25.---We hear that some dis turbances have broken out in the northern parts of Norway, but they are said to be of uo impgrtance. IfAmuunGir, J.tx. '23.—The illastriuus 'friend ; of oar city, Count Bennigsen, left us to-day to get to Hanover, which boasts of having given, in him; to the great etni)ire one of its most illustrious Geners to the cause of liberty one of the most distinguisll,..l 11 6 ern est the les ! I yeti twc ctrl to I tbi vat thi deb or jut vc 11. 1r ob sta sui thl thi thr cit Je hal an tie an ell SC th tc ti ti ti ic It tl a ti a 1 1 0 1 •