The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-05-16 00:00:00

~► MO ~~ ~~ F 4 ,{ WC' ~.. . • ~,.~ r-larlysontributed to cake she public fowls. (The French 3 per reels tier. on Thursday at (S'2 fr.) One thing is certain, that the Au.trian Government has resolved pro‘isionally on leaving free the passage of loiters and travellers, not suspected,coming from or going to France. _ _ _ NUN, Mtr 3.—We learn from Madrid, that by a decree of hiw blitje.:y the Coort is ordered to be in peourning annually on the Sci of May, in commemo tati,oi of that fatal day. This is very honourable• to the. memory of the victims who perished on that fatal o c casion ; hut in truth we cannot account fat the silence of the French,as to the true details Of that affair, in which impartial witnesses do Poluscribe Cie aggression to the French army. It was attacked bX the people of Madrid; and there were more French, sacrifited than' Spaniards . because the former we* not on their guard. The Council of. Castile, which did not seek to diminish our loss, did not make it I amount to more than 140 persons ; the French lost more than 400 in killed and wounded, and in Cu hour's time were masters of the city. We cannot conceive what political motive induced the Bulletin %toilers of the Grand Duke of Berg to exaggerate so al.surdly the number of Spaniards who perished ; while it i 3 certain that the French army did not wish to render a victory sangninary of which it was by no means proud. The rea.nn why people havedeelaim.l ed so loudly against this 2d 'of May, is because the military execution of a few-men taken with arms in their hands ss as regarded as an assassination by a people accustomed to see authority yield to all its caprices. It is better to throw a veil on all these horrors, than to seek to eternise their recollection by impolitic ceremonies. FIENcu Fortha-60 f. 30. c. RlO JANEIRO, Mer:ct 10. Since the arrival of the English in this quarter, the Creoles have discovered hou hardly they were formerly used by the Portuguese, as they can pur chase the goods they want at one-third of what they .gave, and as by this advantage, their capitals enable them to carry on a more extensive trade, they have gradually been getting rich, and hence are become of more consequence. Whilst this class is living frugally, and augmenting its wealth, and progres sively its power, the other, which formerly was the support of every thing, is reducing its opulence by the expensive style of living into which it is led by thexesidence of the Court. rrons what I have before stated, you will imme diately•pereeive that there is a wide opening for a serious disagteemeut between the Cabinets of London and Rio. In such circumstance' you will, perhaps, *A why this Government permitted your's to send out ships of war. The party which is desirous that the Prince should ,*torn to Europe, perhaps con cluded, that if thii step were taken his Royal High ness might determine upon going, and therefore en couragement was gives to such a measure. The op posite party, calculating upon its own strength, and desirous of overreaching Lord S. who is hated by both, may have held it to be prudent to admit the experiment to be tried, taking care, however, not to commit itself, for should the ships come out, and his Royal Highness decline going, it is natural to conclude that your Governtne..t will gravely enquire bow his Lordship could send (or ships, without haft ing the most positive assurances P:at the Prince would embark. The party appears to have succeeded in ha I purpose, and it is given out, that his Lordship has! received orders to return to England immediately ; and report states, that the orders are worded in a srly indicating much displeasure. All I can posi ti%ely say is, that since the arrival of the last mail S. Ills applied to Admiral Dixon for a frigate, such could not be granted ; and rumour says, that on this disappointment Admiral Beresford has ten - c!eied to his Lordship a passage on board the Duncan; , from which it may be inferird, should the rumour be I correct, that the Prince has declined leaving the Co. t The American privateer fliarrior, was, by the last areotn,ta, Bahia, am! it is said that there are no • less than three oil Pernambuco. The Inconstant fri- gate and a ,loop of wnr %ailed for the north a few day, ago, ill consequence of the receipt of this gence. INDIA. PARTICULARS OF TIM UNY , )RTUNATE AFFAIR UNDER ‘JOR-GENFIAL GILLESPIE. You will proi. Oily have heard, before this reaches you, of the oatlike operations carrying on at our north-east frontier. The irruptions which the Na paulese have made for some time past upon the bar. tier tent:, the villages that have been plundered, &c. &c. are the reasons why war bas been declared. Cotertitnent attempted to put a check to ipjuries ofi sacs magnitude, by negociation and mild measures, he, the endeavour was unsuccessful. Two grand divisions of the army were formed, the or • to enter Napaul Proper, by the east, cud the other to act in its north-west provinces ; ether de tacaosents were assembled to assist the two grand at. tacks. Major-General Marley commanded one of the grand divNions, consisting of about 6000 men, I and Major•Geueral Gillespie, of his Majesty's 25th Light Dragoons, led on the other, who was unfor tunately killed on the 31st October, in an attempt to storm the fort of Kullingah, or Nalapance, iu the Debra!' Dhoon. The army was formed into four columns of attack, with a column of reserve.—The columns under Lieuteuaitt.Colonel Carpenter and Major Ludlow, were repulsed, after au obstinate and murderous struggle. With three companies of his Majesty's 53d regiment, and two six-pounders, I t he gallant General Gillespie moved on to the attack, and after making two unsuccessful assaults on the tort, in the third, while in the act of cheering on his !lien, within 30 yards of the gateway, he received a', mortal wound. Colonel Ma wby, of his Majesty's 53d regiment, at the head of the advanced guard. made an attack . on the fort the 24th of October. He had fired about 100 rounds, when he discovered that the place was too strong to be taken by assault with the force he '4;autelailed. This, with the three attacks subse tineL;ly by General Gil espie s make altogether four altrtnvis to carry this impregnable fortress ; in the course of which fire Officers have been killed and fifteen wounded, two of whom hnve ,since died of their wounds, and 245 rank• and file killed, wounded, and missing. WHIT Tv MOAT .—floliday at the Pilafs Ojtesik. THE STATESMAN. LONDON: TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1815. Mr. Roamsem, one of his Majesty's Messengers, arrived this mnrning at Lord Castlereagh's Office for Foreign Affairs, with Dispatches from his Excellency Field-Marshal the Duke of WELLINGTON, the con tents of which are said to relate to the degree of co.nperation to be expected on the part of the Allied Forces with the troops of his BRITANNIC MA.. JW.STY under his Lordship's command. The infor. nation on this head is reported to be not very en couraging. We need no further proofs of the stability of the new French Government, and of the falsehood of the assertions so impudently put forth in this country by the hired railers, regarding the state of public confidence in France, than what are offered in the Paris papers which have reached us since yesterday's publication, namely, the Journals of Friday and Saturday last. It will be seen from the extracts we make from these that the French funds have risen greatly and rapidly. In one day, at the very moment we were told that all was dissatisfaction, inconfis deuce, disorder, and alarm in France, the funds rose three per cents. On Wednesday they were quoted at 59, on Thursday they were 62. Though on Friday they left off at 61 f. 30 c., the public intelligence of that day was calculated to inspire a still greater de. gree of confidence, by strengthening the hopes of peace and national safety. It is generally believed, say the French Papers that Austria has determined to remain neutral in the case of a war. The accounts received on this subject have greatly contributed to raise the funds. " This is certain that the Austrian Government has determined provisionally to leave free the passage to and from France of letters and unsuspected travellers," and certainly this does not lonk very much like war. It is added in the Papers of Friday, that 44 it was reported on the Exchange yesterday that an Envoy Extraordinary had arrived from the Emperor of AUSTRIA, bringing communi- •, cations favourable to peace." if such be the line of conduct which Austria has resolved to pursue, the i Allies may well pause on the brink of that dread- ! fel precipice which they have sworn in their fury tol overleap. Whether this be the case, and what ever may be the cause of the Allies slumbering over their declarations of hostility, it appears certain that NAPOLEON conceives there is yet no great necessity for his presence on the fron. tier. It is announced that the journey of the Emitzeon is deferred, and that his equipages have been ordered to retrograde. No cause is ass signed fur this ; but all the accounts and specu!s -i lions favour the conclusion that NAPOLEON has sa. tisfied himself that his enemies cannot be on the frontier in the strength and at the time announced, and that, in fact, there are at least some of them onwil:ing to hazard (he danger of an attack upon jFrauce. IVe perceive ) however, by t! e Monitcur THE STATESMAN. of Saturday, that McieTtrit (Duke of Treviso) has been dispatched to " fulfil an extraordinary military commission in the Departments of the North." 4 This commission, we' are given to understand, re lates to the provisioning and putting in a proper con dition of defence all the fortresses ; but there is some reason to believe that the fortresses have been pretty ! well provisioned and strengthened already, other- I wise the Allies, who have set themselves the task of taking possession of all these strong holds, have, i by their inactivity, been pursuing a policy more !complimentary than wise in their situation, by not ! taking them when weak, provided they themselves have had the means of doing so. But they have evidently !been reckoning without their hosts, cud now they must wait for the appearance of these, before they can felicitate themselves on being the masters of events, and the destinies of great nations. We cannot but hare the warmest wish that the enemies ! of human liberty and right may be put down ; but ! who are these enemies? and who are overleaping the bounds of their countries, and seeking to belts masters of others ? We do believe the Allied Powers are in a rt.torlary as to the poiicy of the course tube adopted,•and we would fain believe that the justice of it, as well in a moral as a political sense, forms a part of their consideration. The French say, they are now in a very ditterent'AiH position of miiid from that in which they issued their first Declaration. " All their embarraisments," add they, " is how to get decently out of the di lemma in which that Declaration placed them." On the subject of die power and willingness of the re spective proscribers to carry their Declarations into effect, the Paris Papers contain some observations which appear to us be perfectly correct.—They tell us that " Russia is uneasy with respect to Poland and Turkey. Austria is at least as much ! afraid of the Emperor ALEX OIDEP. as of the Emperor NAPOLEON. The Prussian Monarch seems quite tranquil respecting his possessions; but the Nobi- ' lity and Capitalists-of Prussia are ruined ; a number of young people have no other hopes or resources' . .but in war. The Government has only found Mali' of maintaining A sort of public credit at the expense - of private fortunes; it is therefore by no means master of events." • These latter remarks we know to be founded opon facts. The exertions which Prussia has made to cbtain the ascendency hi Germany and to humi liate France, who humiliated her, sild'eve her Mo• narch back his cross n, have impoverished het; surd she has no other means of recruiting tier resooseei but by foreign acquisition, subsidies, and ag gression.--In truth, there are too many of the Continental States in the same situation ; and though France is represented as wiehing only to subsist by war, there Is not a Stele on the Continent but herself that requires not esternal and artificial aid to sopport it; end hence If she coalition of partitionists shall be deceived in the fate of the war,and their hopes of new aggrandisement. and partitions from the French territory shall be distill pointed, we may expect to see those States which .could thus repair their strength, and attempt to es tablish their security by aggression rather than time and the arts of peace and honourable industry, crumbling under the stroke of retiihutive justice, and France again the mistress of the Continent. We have spoken of meditated partitions from the French territory. We believe such contemplations are indulged by some of the Allied Powers, notwith standing Louis XVIII. says they are to fight purely for the purpose of restoring him his kingdom entire as the Treaty of Paris and the arms of the Allies gave it to him. The Allies do not say this, whatever they in their liberality intend or may do. Lord CssmEnzaou and the paper which he laid on the table of the House of Commons, from the pen of the father of his school, NVILLIAM Parr, assert that the States of the Continent never fight without the hopes of being well paid for it, that they have particularly an eye on one another's territory, and likes to be paid as much in the shupe of kingdoms as possible. Hence the parti tionings, and squarings, and rounding!, and king dom-makings, at the late adjustment of accounts at the Congress of Vienna ; and hence we are told "the pleasing hope, the fund desire, the longings after" a cut at the French territory, which those Powers appear to be indulging, who hate advanced their borders so close to France, and want " securi ty," and those wish to be realized who have rather been sliced down themselves, and left to the mercy of chance, rather than rewarded with any extraordinary qnantity of " indemnity," or pay, for their exertions. Hence also we hear of the usual divisions of opinion prevailing as to the conditions of co-operation, said by King Louis to have been settled entirely in bis fa. tour, and of such assertions as that we, even 4.e, are not to fight this time for nothing ; for rumour ten. tore; to say, that the British Cabinet are supposed to have already cast a longing eye on Lisle and Va lenciennes " as a frontier for the kingdom of the Netherlands! !" —for British objects truly ! Be this as it may, the Powers menacing France with subjugation, if not partition, do not seem to advance. There are some retrograde movements among the forward Prussians. What means this ? Must they retrograde because NAPOLEON'S carriages have done so? A Telegraphic dispatch from Marshal GitOUCHY, at Lyons, stales, that the King of NApLEs has ob tained a great success; and that the Austrian troops, whose arrival in Pied:pont was announc:.(l, have not appeared. AMERICA N PAPERS. New Yoai, APRIL 10.—Arri‘ed within the look, the ilritish sloop of war Cyane, of twenty. two 32-pound carronades, two long nines on her gun-deck, nod ten 18-pound carronades on her quarter-deck and forecastle, prize to the United States frigate constitution, Capt. Stewart. This sloop of war, and another, the Levant, was fallen in with on the 28th of February, by *lief:on:Wu/ion, off Maneira, and after an action of 3t► minutes, they Luth struck to the frigate. The Constitution had fr•ur men killed and seven wounded. The loss of the sloops we have not learned, but when the G:yaue comes in, we shall probably obtain the particulars. During the engagement one was on the how and the other on the quarter of the Con. dilution., After the battle, the Constitution with her prizes 'proceeded to St. Jago, where the prisoners were landed. Early on the morning of the Bth of March, three hea♦y ships were discovered standing in -shore, on which the Constitution and her two prizes cut and run, the ftigate Mid Levant steering one course, and the Cyenc a contrary one. Wheo the two former were lust sight of, they were about two miles to the windward of the fleet in pursui!, the Constitution, however, shooting ahead of the Levant. Late in the afternoon a heavy ennnonarling was heard on board the Crone, in the direction of the above vessels, and the supposition was, that the Levant had been overhauled. Froth the sttpesior sailing of the Constitution, it is hoped sin' has e ped • The British ship (Jane (prize to the Constitution), came up yesterday afternoon about four o'clock, and anchored in the North River, near the frigate con stelldtion. As the Cyme passed Castle Williams, she fired a salute. The Ojai? e is a frigate built ship, mounts 31 guns, and is above 700 tons burthen. Fro .n the Officers of the Cone, we learn, that when they lost sight of the Constitution ' she was full four miles ahead, to windward of the British aqua. dron, and leaving them very fast. • - • ••••• • Malls A rr. Dee - - 1 0 ...... Malta 0 • 0 1 NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. DEAL, MAY 15.—Sliled the Sustr.:, and . Catolin2, for Batavia; Entsnius Ostend.—Carne down from the River, Scott and City of London East cater s hips, and remain. POIITSMOUTti, MAY 15. - -Arrived the Ale.tlidcr, Genturiqn, Sceptre, Lord Wellington, Ro il i ng , net, Filen, Golden Crot.e, .luptirr, 414 ano th er isnimitort, from Bermuda nr.d th e !hi m . nab ; Lis Alaje,ty's s',ips Bale Polite, I! rti hunt the CCM of America ; ..is Maiestj's shit, chits, from the Westssts•d ; his 11::jesty', s hi p i!we. lid sod Bermuda, from a cruite; Mwetcc, 1,„ 1 , Lynn ; also his Majeoy's ship /) xtroas, fr. 7, e,, IliastwaiLL—lt was she A.,Liorougle •raospers th at brought the Mail forward t.i Lows' )esteid: L y...._ ( his Itarb,sur his Majesty's ships Norgimil, aad Gorgon. The following is an extract of another letter from Portsmouth, same date :—Nos. 74, 35, 2.5'2, 682, 430, 687, 221, and 106, all transport c, ar . rived at Portsmouth, from Havanuab and Uerclu(l3, and are under quarantine. P. s.—Saßed his Majesty's ships Cord:liu at.d Surly on a creize.. Letters from Brussels complain bitterly of v :a heavy burthens imposed on the inhabitants, In hi!. !cling the superior Officers. The house of a pri;;;i. pal Banker, for instance, is occnpied by one die. tirignished person of the privileged order, who has a billet for his whole family, coEsisling of hip wife, two other English ladies of distinction, an d f air ' teen servants ; of course, the proprietor has been compelled to coat. And this is the way we begin tin: war for the maintenance of the family of Europe! A Paris Paper says, " 111. KERTE E, a merchant, re. siding in rue Richer,. has constructed a tnachine, by means of which he can fabricate every kind of paper, of an indefinite length, and of the breadth, of from 11 to 45 inches. It is afterwards reduced to sizes useful in commerce. This machine has been constructed at Paris by M. CALLE, and the trials that have 14.5, made leave nothing.to be wished." On Saturday the magnifice.nt services of plate and cot glass. which his C race the Doke of IVELnisaras p ossesse d when Iy was the representa ire of •our Court at Paris, arrived in town. The I) ,, ke's steward wss the hearer of a letter from Ctuaix coure(Duke of Vicenza), in which his expresses the highest respi.ct for th.tt great General. It appears that esen the licusehnl&furniture anal pictures sera sent off, properly parked, and the whole owlet a military escort, to tifn nearest place of emharhatinn, whrre a v"seel was provided to convey this valuable property to England. ni,,ce GUSTAVUS. son of the EvKing of Sittotli, has entered the /Lis. ian military strvic.P. His titer has lately published the followie.z curious wire:— " The Bente Gentile has published under the head of Austria, an order on the part of the Emperor and King, to enquire into the utility of Freenme ; t7v, for the.putpose of seeing whether it may be ph.tm ' to modify the existing regulatioP, szainst these on. eleties. In the order, th, Pt ince W Ines. ;he Et. King of Swcrms, and Gen. ,11 °an vc, are in .'runt as friends of Freemasoary. The Ex-Ke gOl ' 4 'lE. DEN, however, since the Recoil:tin:l of the 1:;th of May, 1809, no longer belongs to the Fre.mns;;;;F. " 0. A. Duke of HOLSTMN-!'l; rt\." The Ist battalion of the 27th, 41th, and 85th re giments, with three troops of the 14th tic r tiro goons, have arrived from America. 'rho 'NO, tie and which has been 10 years in the Peninsula I :Mediterranean, have since disembarked at Gosp ,, r, to be equipped, and to embark again .816 soon as v .. sible for Ostend ; and the 85th is ordered to he ' Downs, for the same destination. The 11th and the dragoons remain waiting for orders. lArrived on Saturday at Portsmouth, from :11r ! rim, the 2d battalion of Royal Marines, common ;o1 by Lieut.-Colonel Sir JAM CS MALCOLM, after an sr doous service of three years. It is a sinolir fart that this battalion was at the storming of 0 41 Viirs (led on by their gallant Colonel, who was the first so escalade the walls), which is the Northern froctie. fortress, and Point A'Petero, in Georgia, which is the South-east extremity of the States f Americo. r Tile battalion likewise bore a dissioau:shed part a the battle of Riadensberg, which as follt;wrl by !L, surrender of Ws liineton, arid at Bal.im-re, wht the gallant General Ross fell. No.twititstJad'qt battalion receireil numerous reinf;•reercessts its absence abroad, it has returned to this counny perfect skeletea. We under land it is Ge intention of Nlinisters s present, that Parli ;meet sisal! bevrot-egend about 128th June, it being Eup y osed ttoit the public I will IJJ conelnded by that time. ; The intended matrimonial match between an IVO trUlottS Dub , and a German Princess, appears rl'' l ' have boots made p. p. and is therefore said tab' efl mutual consent, without eithar mit g forfeit! Sir ALL/LAN/3Ln COCH RA 'IL will not strike his. at Portsmouth, hut shi . t it from the roomy/ I other ship.—Report assigns to the gallant alicalj the command of an Expedition to rckin potteoic` of the French West India Winds. A quantity of handiome and saleable French ch .° has loely been seized at the London Dxkl• being entered under value: it has In.ea viewed at t. King's Warehouse by many o f the Sol...litY• The nccounts from all ports n in representing the pr e so li t sestsan I" ir known for meny vents flip 01!( Whig initc,r. (the truth ~ f whia is vouched to us beyond 3 dent outdoes all that we bare before heard ot Creasey, of Fri*kney, n ea r haa !An fnllowving, ing, produce from le)3 ewes:-1 ewe, 4 17 1 3 each ; 78, pairs: and 7, bingle ottes.--04131 ford Merczny.) COVENT-GARDEN TUTATRT..—Mr. KEINPIT wr soddenly taken El yesterday, in co•.q - o,1 0 '"? which the part ti or Corinlune was last fl Olt Slitii:ll' lby Mr. coNw.tv, who aci t nitted bia , sa a vry cralitab:c aad etkc:ive q) . of the ki"g"lncnj''.. 'CE. , If Is fri le, r„ * 1 Rep, aad fe w 1 the .41e.r.vd c r, )", Pleata ri , ,r, Ajqx. 441.4 t.d U u , !I: 1," , r.crl Shiti I ) ', ship '.'e. dlftWelec, wts, fr. evs • rampo r i 'h et rei day.— ( aifia i'unt,;:c, her !vier from 3 5, =52, h transports, at. and iiermudt, Cord:liu atal Ir" . F P 1 111 W.* ~: ~i ~"a` 1 I~ t (1 , - II • 77i