The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-05-12 00:00:00

THE STAI Excellency's first attention was directed to the pri sons; and he learned with satisfaction that, b 1 the orders of the rrefect, mire than 4,0 indieiduals• had been already restored le liberty. • . The ,12 lortresses.of the Deportment of the North .have been freed from a state of siege. • • FnAtezeonT, MAY 3.—The Duke of Saxe-Cobur . - 1 - will to-morrow take possession of Mentz. We ex pect with impatience the arrival of the Ments boat this evening, ns, according to recent Intelligence, the garrison of that town is in a state of insurrec time The 011icers have arrested one of their Chiefs, whom they accuse of having retained money destined for their pay. The National Guard bas taken•up arms to maintain tranquillity. . . ' LEGHORN, APRIL 15.—0 n the 13th, arrived herei ' four deputies from the Provisional .Government of Bustin. According to their report, the 'inhabitants Itad.risen in arms, being exasperated by the violence exercised to extort from •them a sum of 500,000 francs. De Launay, the Commandant of the for tress, pointed the guns upon the city ; but the Inha- 1 hitatits were already masters of the port of SI. PRICE OF STOCKS TlllB IGeorge, and bad repulsed Geii. Casalta, who was 1 Bank tsoi e . :coming with reinforcements. The citadel was taken, 1 p ?.:L. n e " t ` . . co ii_ j v n u s . . 41if e I the garrison disarmed, and tote Commandant, with I per Cents. Sliif iii sent, Staff, arrested. The garrison of Bastia, at pre .. I L ,7ic A e n ti n t.. Li ! v i iiii sent, consists of 300 Croatian prisoners, who had ',' ' been released. Events of a similar description have; ••-•-•-•-' I taken place in various parts of the island. • i Berthier is at Ajaccio, where he seems dis defend Itheself. Next day, a Provisional o ...... ment of 13 members was formed. All the impris clergy men have been liberated. The deputation come to apply to Lord Llentinck. for the protection !England. -' The politics of England are so tortuous, that it is BREMEN MALL. as difficult to trace them as to find the way out of a —rem— ! labyrinth. The streams too of our remaining wealth BREMEN, MAT 3.—General Fooche, who, as Tun into other countries throu g h so many channels s Commissioner from the King of France (according , : that we defy the ablest financier, with the most inge to the 3d Article of the Convention of the 23 d nit.) is to cause Hamburgh to be delivered up to the nuous disposition, to tell us what our expellees of I Allies, passed through this town to-day on his' way :. Government are, or what taus are likely to be to H am burgh. . _ • . continued or discontinued, from the termination of BIE EN, MAY s.—Accounts from Blenkenese of . the war. Well might our present CIIANcELLOR of the 3d, say, that the (lay before above 50 of the , the ExCLIEQUER be at a loss to speak positively of t principal citizens of Ilamburgh visited Ahem, with . French passports, to the great joy of their friends. the expiration of a most on erous, and consequently a more General Bennigsen fixed his head-quarters there the I most odious, impost, viz. the Property 7'a.c : a burden produce the results of a maximum in any. of .thewr. same day. j which thousands of widows and aged helpless people' tides of the fist necessity, is tremetelous to our LEG,HOItN, APRIL 14.—The brigantine, the St. ! considered themselves as sure of being relieved from at view. The trade in such articles should be free ;it Catharine, which was dispatched yesterday after: 1 ; the expiretion of' the war. Numbers of poor crew- seems to us impious to lessen, in the remotest wee, boon, at two o'clock, by the Provisional Govern. ment at Bassist, arrived here to-day under atog of turfs, in thin pitiable condition,- would scarcely' wish the bounty of Providence towards the poor. Bread, i , truce, and with French colours, with above 300 men to live but with the hope of relief from this creel as a st.stenanee, only concerns the poor as to in of the French colonial battalion. ' Half an hour after privation. Ten per cent. taken from their p itta nce, price : the rich are scarcely affected thereby, ~lice. arrived a felucca, with four Deputies froth the Pre- arid as much or more added to the price of articles Bier the loaf costs one er two shillings. :•visional Government, from wheel He learn the fol. o f , t h e first ilocessity since it was. laid on, have lef t the Petitions which hare bean presented by the lowing particulars : . them only enough to drag on ► a miserable existence. .different manufacturing towns against the' Corn Bill, 1 The inhabitants of Bastia, weary of the French ! ~ G overnment, nod incensed by the violent measures 'To add to all this, they are told by a Parliamentary will no doubt influence the minds of many inde i. which General Berthier sought to employ in order Baronet , not to expect b r e a d to, be so chea p as the pendent Members of Parliament, and we select the .to compel the payment of 500,000 francs, made, on I abundant crop which Providence pours upon following from the merchants, manufacturers, tra the 11th instant, an attempt to deliver themselves.— . the earth might ante it to be, for that un- dins, and olber inhabitants of the Town and County ... Mr. de Lauhay, the Governor of the fortress, who I less the price of grain be kept up, the farmers of Newcastle•upon-Tyne e--- • had 2000 men, pointed the cannon against the town ' • - 66 That your Petitiohers, ever anxious for ,the but the inhabitants had already .seized the St. cannot pay such high rents as are demanded of them. But then it is in the nature of the question happiness andprosperity of United the Kingdom, George's gate, and General Casalta, who endea ' veered to bring up a reinforcement, was compelled - which • Madame ne Genus puts into .the mouth of have learnt with the deepest regret that certain al to retreat by the firing which the inhabitants kept tip, - the young lady, in one of her jevenile Comedies, terations of the existing Corn Laws have been pre. The citadel was then taken, the garrison disarmed, t who being tortured lws the crimping irtins of her posed to Parliament, ha v ing f o r th eir 'avowed ab , and the Commandant, with his Staff, placed under i. r iseur, complained how much she suffered, and jest the raising of the import prices 61 grain. arrest. Three hundred Croats, who were thus set d: d 441 free, now form the the garrison of the town. was told by her mamma, that she must suffer to be a i That your Petitioners are of opluion that does . , Similar scenes have taken place at St. Fiorenza, : fine lady—when thechild, with more plain good sense :alterations are of a nattire calculatedito,,insohe the Capraja, Porto Pernik), in Corsica, and other ' than her proud parent, replied : is there any neces- n vital prosperity of the country, and to compromise places.—General Berthier is at Ajaccio, and seems' city to be a fine Indy, then, mamma! : The dialogue - its commercial greatness for the temporary advantage inclined y to defend himself against the citizens. The tanzu next des a Provisiotnil Government was formed of in French is, 64 Oh an aniline je souffre! of the opulent Landholders of the kingdom. lb •11 find soulfrir ~our etre belle. illais farm a i " That your Petitioners cannot but remarlrwith 13 Members, of which Mr. Velem' is President, and . man 2 " So we do not d ee ,. , the most unfeigned regret, the unhallowed attempts a new Nlunicipality—M. Cicione, President. All . etre belle donc ma . J i the Priests who were in prism' are liberated. : but that the price of corn, and the other pro. jof the men who are not only endeavouring to render j It appears. that the Deputation desires to ask : duce of the land, must be kept up to enable ;of little advantage to the people the enjoyment of the assistance from Lord Bentitick. the farmer to pay such high rents—but is it of . blessings the Divine Goodness is now pouring upon i BRUSSELS, #PRIL 26.—The following particulars : necessity that such high rents must be demanded?— die nation; but also to spread ruin and devastation irespecting the fate of the Empress, on the approach Must Legislators employ their time and ingenuity to throughout our manufactories, annihilate the fereigit of the allied troops to Paris, have been made known : :put such things out of the course of nature. Must markets i , and force the emgration of our artists to upon authority that may be depended on : 4 4 The eyes of most people were turned upon the: they legislate to avert, or lessen, the bounty of Provi- countries where the means of supporting them may i Empress. Many proposals were made to this Princess dente: towards the people, in order to secure great.. be the more easily attained." Ito leave Paris. and to throw herself on the protec- incomes from the land to its proprietors?--The —saie-- - ' lion of the Allies, but she rejected them all, said de- , . The Journal des Dchais says, 44 For some days re- Seriptures say,' It was ordained that the eartta claret! fast , at that she desired to be spared all.per ports hate been circulated in Paris, that the public should be mati's inheritance. The Representatives suasion to t hi s and s i m ilar steps, she 1 . 1 as , wits trot y tranquillity of N:iples has been disturbed. The Ger- resolved to share the fate of her husband, whatever of the men of Kieland, surely, will not consent to man Jourtia!s seem to give some countenance to it might be. She abided by this revolutioit ' and he- have their constinients considered as. interlopers on these rumoers. The " are letters, however, from cause Napoleon either wished that slut should notthe soil which gave them birth? These reflections Naples, dated 27ib April, which state, that the . e , • i ive t h e city, except in case of the utmost necessity , hare, i n most profound calm reigned there, and that the King 9 ave a great measure, arisen from what we read she remained there as lona as possible, and it is, ' was expected every moment from his head-quarters,in foreign. journals, respecting the profuse apt:once- not Ithatleft the city h 'N' therefore, rue she ie y A it which were at Bologna on the 25th." of English money to the views of almost lions , every ' every hour the disorder and confusion encreased.-t- one of the great personages now figuring on the con service of Bavaria, arrived here on the 30th ult. It • I'he real adherents [of Napoleon showed more and tinental theatre .of politics. The following, fur in is believed that he has brought dispatches relative to : more that they knew not what to do. Their Coon stance, is extracted from the Brussels Gazdte; and the evacuation of our fortress. The sending a Bava- sits an d orders, partly contradictory, partly ire- • Tian ollicen for the evacuation of the fortress would t h ough there are other sources of information.more practicable, only increased the confusion. As the confirm the opinion that Bavaria gives up the Inn-to be relied on than that, yet wherever there is smoke Icoming of the Allies was wished or varitros feared, Viertel and . • the 'Tyrol to Austria ; and that thet reports for against the probability of it, were and heat, thelat must be some fire or fermentation ; Grand Duke of kVurtzlitire will be reinstated in the e . spread. A crowd of people assembled on the place the article comes too, accompanied with other cm- Grand Duch - of Tu.-an : j . y but as it appears certain , Vendome, and were preparing to poll down .Na- tentative intelligence , gives it ' air that that Mentz wll he also given up to the Bavarian ; , poleon's statue, when they were deterred by another p ro bability. troops, we may augur that Aschatfeliburg and some : swarm who lt is as follows : I assertedth had, swarm, Sm other district; will serve to connect Mentz with the " The great preparations that are here making for peror would enter th e city in the evening as coo. other Bavarian possessions. queror. On the 28th of March, a disinterested spec- the reception of persons of distinction, are probably . 1 nnoCee al ATION. ' later might foresee what would happen. Already not preparatory to a Congress, but to the arrives of " The Impeilal Commissary, Hannibal Marquis Seminarian, &r. takes possession in the name of the j white cockades were , distributed, and the .adherents' the Prince Sovereign of the NEVIEKLANDQ, to whom High Allied Toners, of the departments, districts, of Napoleon diminished more and more. 'Those, .it is affirmed that Austria is to cede the Netherlands, however, who either out of inclination or interest towns, and all other places that have not yet been and to receike for them a large sum from England conquered in the kingdom of Italy by the Allied still • adhered to him, ardently wished that the Em- - • s press might not leave Paris, as they hoped to obtain, : which sum is to be employ n ed n in redeeming the Vienna enders. " He invites the people of Italy to•wait with con- by her means, ;Oa r-mone ) .." ' • a reconciliation, with the Emperor o f .{lager-motley. . • . • fidence and tranquillity the precious benefits of peace, Austria, and through him with all the rest of the —lf we are in this manner to be the paymasters of . which, thanks to the glorious exploits of the Allied Allies; but the majority, who were already gained - every Court in Europe, powerful or petite, We shall for Louis XVIII. endeavoured to obviate this re have will he spread over all Europe. have need of cheap breach, 'at least to encourage 129 r T 44 Ile confirms the Provisional Regency at Milan, source. o this end they mixed among a crowd Of manufacturers and artisans, so as to prevent a rivalr y anti all the public functionaries who have not qu i tte d people whom they strove to ponvince that any . their post either in the said city or in the above- diadem it. weich the Empress might succeed, woeid .In the competition of other countries in the produce I mentioned departments and places. prolong Napoleon's sway, and with that the misery of British merchandize, or we can never draw that • v. anlaa, evil 26. SOMMARIVA." of France. The people flocked to the Palace of the money back again into our exhatisted coffers. Empress, and uttered threats if she did not withdraw. A Vienna *article of the 21st April, 'states, that " This Princess had now no choice, and she left England is to he indemnified with respect to other Paris (not on the 28th of March, as was said by some, but) on the 30th, not 24 hours before the Allies en. dishersements of a like nature ? . in the Empire, by tered it." . 1 keeping the.Duteh colonies; and that not only the nightleses for makings pcobisioll for 'And Beresforti. Lord Vi.c. wit NI Jill , in A rPW words, bore tilc merit: cf Lord Lieresiord. The Add %yip' agreed to nein. ills:. All tho .v(!iiros!,es were ordered to he presented to his Ro . al iii ; liness the Prince Regent by the Lords with ‘ , 4. like staves. A rr. Malls. • Due • 1 0 • Cadiz O O 0 • Heligoland DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Stork 196 India Build, 7 S p Exchequer Ili% 2 5 p Omnitun 19tt1 Pay ditto • Cuiuthis fur Acc. 67iii and of the far if the called be requi rents? I by legisl bounty Yet eter tors, li _7 4 11E STATESMAN. LONDON: TITUASDAY, MAY 12 2 1814. owners, pect ou French claratif if they examp' is the : d - uty of so are un • French Papers to the 10th instant, were received this morning :-- Pmts, MAY P.—Yesterday there was a rnerli review in the Carousel, and in the Court of the 'fbuilleties, of twelve legions of the' National Guard of Paris, the cavalry of the same. guard, numerous corps of the ancient guard, likewise the ancient in fantry and cavalry of Ihe line of all descriptions. • The. troops &Mod for three hours before the Kin', who was surrounded by the Princes, Marshals. and great Officers of his Household. An immense crowd filled the Careusel, the quays, the bridges, and all the surrounding places. In passing before his Ma. jesty at the sound of martial music, which played the favocrite natio n al airs, the officers and soldiers incessantly shouted Vire le Roi! The cry pecan e universal, and enthusiasm at its height. Afier the review, his Majesty showcd hintsel sensible to the acclamations of an immense multitude assern'yleil upon the terraces of the gat-den, by oppearin4 seve ral times at the balcony of his apartments, art, beill4 greatly affected at the shouts, a thousand time; rt. pealed of Vice le Roi ! fire M:rd. la' Dlcitc-r,:: d'Angoulemc ! Vicent les Bourboav ! .To-clay the King will hold a Levee in the Hall d the Throne, for the Dukes,, Marshals, Spattibh Grandees, Ambassadors, men doing the hotrours rf .the Louvre, who could not he present at the last. — In the Hall of Peace, for the Generals of Brigade who have not yet been preseit'ed to his Majesty ; the General Officers of the liar establishment of 1792 . ; the Prefects, the men who had been pro. seated to Louis X VI. and others in divers offices nod places who shall only receive notices.—At eight o'clock in the evening, in the . Hall of the Throne, the Lathes of Dukes, P4rsbals and Spanish Gram. Lisr.r, MAY 4.—Marshal Mortier, Duke of Tre viso, Extraordinary Commissioner of his Majesty, yesterday received the Authorities of the Depart ment of the North and of Lisle, at his hotel- His tr.‘";al: • • -4 • The great preparations that are here making for Empero the reeptiett of persons of distinction, Oe probalt I Tata, .not.preparatory.to a Congress v itut to , the arrival of portan\ the Prince Soiereign of the Netherlands, to whom it sum to is affirmed that, Austria is to cede the Netherlands; and to receive from them a large sum from England, y ears /3 ' which sum is to be employed in redeeming the Vienna i paper money. This A Vienna article of the 21st of April, states, that i • England is to be indemnified by keeping the Dutch the domesti Colonies, and that not only the Emperor of. Russia of its i, but also the Emperor of Austria are to go to London, b e rem more to accelerate important business than to pay a ' mum. mere formal visit. The sum to he paid by England is corn ini to be paid in ten years by instalmentS. - &nil pus _ _ except scarcity posed, i absolute curing ticipate country . t'.‘ 4 %. -. iiil.%V. •AiVIV> . or 01l ‘... also ths E tnperpr l of Au: ' illi ar b.i n, *nate .to ireCelerate Sat. ►t AP(t. die e it bushman than to paza mere fqrm4 44 2ite Ihe 1. La • bad tat Id tia oeilk lity ogilvd .be paidllet. sot by instalments. , Tki a'i NA ° 7 '. an CORN TRADE LAWS. shi ; topic, than which a more interesting one to • - of nestic economy of England, and the comfort Fc inhabitants, cannot be. taken up, is again to , Lt !ousidered to.morrow in the House of Com. , sh The several duties on the importation of Ito this country are intended, to all intents ' ' th krposes, to act as a prohibition to importatioit, ' ' titt in the case of what may be called an actual s • to y, and dialer of famine. Tho laws, as sow pro. . k th if such should be enacted by our Parliament,nre rely protecting laws to the land owner, by sr. . , his rents from the farmer. But we will not an. , *. • e what may be done by the Legislators of our C •y in favour of themselves against those of small, • PI 'no fortune at all. We know and allow th . l . Ii rmer will have a diP.:cuity to pay his Sent, produce of the soil falls to what may he . a peace price. Mit why then m ust he . ti iuired to pay such high, such en o r mous , It • d If the war rags of land must be maintained F.; I ~ islative enactments in time of /Seste t what a , 1 r is here held out for war, if not incessantly, malty to be renewed! Should the Preach Legisla. i 1 like our own, be composed chiefly of land- t i s, and be actuated as we have reason to sus. iurs will be, it will operate no advantage to the , ..` . t h people to have a veto upon their King's De. } 1 ion of War. They will have a compe nsa ti on , ' s •, don't feel a bias for war, by adopting our , a • •le. A bounty on the exportation, indeed, , • .1 , same iu effect on the one hand, as a high i a t on im . portation.—But this is a questi on A 1 fearful and fruitful a magnitude, that we I t (willing to proceed further ,on it till we have documents before us. Whatever tends to , k i i l i PP thy rygnits of a inasimuna in any. nf iha-ar- • A 1 • lIALF-PXY. The Duke of•NOR.FOLK, in a low tone of voice, said a few worrig telative to the situation of officers iu the army nod navy, who had served their country with and fidelity, and whose merits ought not stow to he (tic egn 0.41. The Elf lof LIVERPOOL said, that the subject of Half-pay eras 110 W under the consideration of Co. vornmeni, awl he he , l doubt that toms measure ss . out(' bo t a view to the comfort of the m-ritorious t% horn the Noble Duke • bad al:uded.—Aejouroed tid toot: orrow (this day). FOZ.7:;•', OF COMMONS. These %tr 11• 101 l 35 Member* present at four o'clock, consequently the noose was afljourned till to.u►orron. IT EA Gil PAPERS. l'Ants, MAN" 7.—The Kii will tn-trorrow review all the Nat i,nl;il Guard, and different COrpl of troops of the line, in the Cliany de Mars. Ills Majesty, it is said, will honour each legion with the gift of CulOu rs. • His Royal Highness Monsieur, accompanied by the Duke de Berri, this day reviewed in the Court of the Thuilleties several legions of the National Guard. He complimented the of on their zeal, the line appearance of their corps, and the devoted ness tif the whole National Guard to the King. MORE ANECDOTES OF BONAPARTE. A private letter from Avignon, dated on the 30th ult., contains a fact which ought to be added to the details which we Gave already published respecting Bonaparte's journeV. As he was very much agitated and terriiiefi at the dangers which beset him, he dis guised bialwlf in the manner which we have already described; hot he carried his precaution farther.— Ile did not wish to remain in the carriage, and yet • lie was aware that he must necessaiily form part of the cavalcade.. To reconcile every thing, he sug gested the hie), of his own accord, of disguising a courier, named Vernet, as the great Bonaparte, and this man took his place in the carriage. This person quietly heard the most shocking imprecations uttered a # ;ainst bisii:aster ; tout very luckily escaped with no vlbfq• (Win:At. ihrlit losUitS clod f' Irses. A Gewicmmo %vita has arcked frrin the South of France, an:: vs ho met the r,,,.0rt of Bonaparte, when c ha n ging horses, slates, that it was truly a frightful spectacle. Th, rrpolace assembled round his car. TiaV, anJ, h t .teitif , g 014 to the impulses of hatred and reogea.N*4' s addressEd a thousand reproaches to him, Oil eatet.ing him with death, and attempting to seize his person. Oa one occasion, the military force which aceoo , pailleil was overpowered him by the yin b. At a foreign General who attended • him haiaa4u.al th e multiinde: he told them, 64 that it was better to allow the Tyrant to live, hvcause au instant death would deliver him from all his trou bles; whereas he would suffer a thousand deaths iii the recollection of his crimes," &c. During this speech the horses wet e changed, and the carriage was allowed to proceed. Bonaparte, when he found he was trite safe from this new danger, turned to wards his preserver, and said to him, " I thank you, General ! I heard all you said,—you spoke like an angel." When he came to Rapheau, he was offered either a • French or I s aigiish frigate to convey him to Elba, but he preferred the latter. One of the very fer Senators who, under the • regime of linnapaite, reserved the right of hazard ing some usotal truth, said to him, a few days after his warn loin Mo4cow, when speaking of a most obnoxious Decrev A filch the Despot wished the Senate to subscribe, " For God's sake, Sire, propose some thing to us which we tiny be permitted to reject— this Ain loasp op appea ranres."— Bonaparte paid no ru,ty,ittal to this hint, lest the example should be fol. lowed on other occasions. , I I