The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-03-05 00:00:00

nr• " PRICE Mrt.litOCKS :THU DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. • Bast Stork 484 be 'lB5 5 per Ciat. Navy 'losel penfeate Ned. 7910. 'lndia Heads 95 97 p 3 per Cent. Causal) 781 lark Cowls/1111r Ace 7811 Long Asia. 4 per CAIN. Nil • • Exclorfer Hills 10 15 p - STATESMAN. LONDON: • TllllllOll3l. 'MARCH 5, 1111& —w- Extract of a letter free the Agent to LLOYD'S, at itsmsgste, dated 4th March, half-past 11 o'clock at bight, recei►ed by express : " The Glory, of Aberdeen, from London, boend to Montauk!, is on shore on the Main, to the Northward. It is blowing a violent storm ; several Vessels are coming in, one dims:tett, but it is im possible to get on board thorn yet. A man has landed on the Pier from the_ Wopfash, of G'►ottenborgh, from Amsterdam to ; and by all accounts a member of ships are on shore, sod s great many wrecks. The co . ndect of Ministers and their Collectors, in re. Ord to the Propeity Tes,pots us in mind of the saying of a Scotch Judge, 'who told some appellants whom he iid not •much like, that they should have justice but no mere,. In like manner we are at last, it ap pears, to have justice from the CHAncet.Lott of the Excuzotan In the matter of the dead Property Taz, but no mercy from his Ts: Inspectors in respect to the meant of the confiscations made by virtue of the horrid Act. In the noise of Commons, -last night, ltdr.Bno'uotrast brought forward his motion for a Commiiiee to enquire what steps had been taken to secure the deitruction of the Property Taz Returns. 'The motion produced from the CHANCELLOR of the .Excutquatt a declaration of some importance to the country. Ile was so open and unequivocal on this occasion (a rare occurrence) as to state that he consi. dered therroperty Tat applicable only to a state of war,and he had no intention of proposing a renewal of that itnpost so long as the'nestion should continue to be blessed with Peace. I Looking at the spirit in which the powers given by the fate Act to a host of interested myrmidon., and to a Government equally ' 'rapacious for the spoils of industry, have been and still continue •to be exercised in some places, we cannot but consider, with the eulogists of the Ninistry l . thls declaration a very gratifying one.— Now that such a Tim is admitted to be wholly unite. cesw►r, we earnestly trust the Representatives of the spirit df the Government wilt be directed to infuse little more lenity into their proceedings, under the authorities of the abolished Confiscation System new so inapplicable to the state of the country, than •appear to tintrilatety cliseneterised the 66 whirlwind warrants"of a certain Inspector of Tares in the Bir mingham rj:strict. A curious article on this subject has reached es, which we may yet insert, bit cannot And room fork tmday. hir.Titnottr's motion for an account of Bank stows orstitendlng, was agreed to by the House. It , gave hint on opportouity or remarking upon the vast locrea4e of issues by the Bank of England within the last eighteen mort•he, to an average eatent of uearly three millirins annually. In the course of the evening a Petition mr3s offered . to the !louse, pray log for radical Reform, but the nottourable House always considers itself insulted by such Petiliuna. • More Paris Papers (to the 2tl inst.) have reached • ur, but their contents are unimportant. The Chem. ' her of Peers has a topic fruitful of discussion before it, in the endless subject of the Recruitment Project. Only two speeches out of 38 recorded to be delivered have yet been made. The Committee of the Deputies on the Concordat were to assemble again on Monday, and-the meeting was to be attended by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Keeper of the Seals, and the Minister of the Interior. . - The Emperor of Russa, it ita.said, is expected at Vienna about the !tiddlers( May; and also the Kiel; of Painters, and several of the Sovereigns and Princes of Germany. • As _ from Camel contains a statement, *Ski very i l accords with the reports in this country, of the Doke of CLARE/ICI being about to be united In marriage to a Lady of English birth. It'states that a! marriage has been proposed, at Camel, between the Duke of CLuitancu . and a Princess of Hutt, youngest! daughter of the Landgrave Femmes, brother of the Elector. The negotiations for the marriage are . said to base actually commenced. Though this is the; . family into which the Duke of CAXIRIDGC is about to enter by marriage, it is probable that the Paris • Papers are cot altogether wrong, in supposing, that the Landgrave's family will give a bride to another of nor Princes. lie has two other daughters not much older than the third ; And the Duke of CLARUNCE is supposed to be convinced, that his choice must be directed, according to the ordinary course of the al liances of our Royal Family. -•v►- Private letters are said to express a confident be lief that a Treaty has actually been concluded between the Allied Sovereigns and France, for the evacuation of the French territory by the Army of Occupation in the course of the next summer, and the psi meat of 600 million, of francs by the French Government uJtcr liic • debul lure rf the hoops!!—According to TIM STAI the same report also, there will hei a smartie nego ciation entered upon between the agents of Russia and France, for the purchase of the horses belonging to the Russian corps d'armee, who will return home by " If these happy rumours," says the Coo , rier,4 should be confirmed, it will afford tbe . strong. est proof of the confidence of the Allied Sovereigns in the power of the legitimate Government, is the wisdom of the Ministry, and in the weakness of parties. It will also become the concluding pledge of a true European reconcilistion.°—These are very dif f erent accounts and views of things from the statements that were laid before us previous to the Generalissimo's being shot at, and the Conscription• Law proposed. The ides of the removal of the Allied armies before the money was paid, has, till now, been far from a favourite one. What has given rise to these " happy rumours" we know. not. We find, in deed, by Ovate communications not likely to God their way very rapidly into the Journals that give fortis the above intelligence, that the sounds with which every coffee-house and cellar in Paris nightly resounds, are honour, glory, sod the independence of France; and that the very partial and inter repted reports that appear in the Public Journals of the debates and proceeding in the Logi.- I lair. Assemblies, are owing to the same sen timents being proclaimed from the tribunes of the Members. We have before us the Sentinelle d'llonneur, a work suppressed indeed by the Police, but only suppressed because it empresses too openly the sentiments of the Members of the Chamber of De. paties."• Thatan English Pro-Consel,"saystheaothor, " 6 proud both of the successes purchased by his na tion, and of the abasement of a People whose glory and whose energy not long since made him tremble, should come amongst us to insult our misfortunes by feasts and rejoicings, is a elm' instsoce that only adds to the indignation of every tin* friend of oar national glory; but that Frenchmen should give themselves opts, joy, while the country is in mourn. ing, overwhelmed with humiliations, weighed down with imposts—bave we not a right to be astonished at seeing the days of festivity and pleasure return in France before the days of Prosperity and Glory ?" The author cites the ?ample of the Romans and Athenians, and then continues, " Like them, French men ! suspend your songs of joy : perhaps we shall soon behold again the fine days of Marengo, of Austerlitz, of Friedland, and of Jena; and if at the voiceof the TURENNES, the CORDES, the CATINATS, our fathers ran to victory, let us remember that we still possess heroes to lead us thither also." On the words " feasts and rejoicings," the write► has the Mooing note Sir CHARLES STUART gave a ball on the occasion of Lord WELLINGTON'S return to Paris ; end we have learnt, that several Frenchmen of high rank were present at it." This last remark is leselled against MONSIEUR and the other Prince. and Noblemen who paid a visit of ceremony to the Ambassador of an Allied Power. Such then, it appear', are the real sentiments of the French People. We need add no further remark than that the stability of the legitimate Government May be guessed at, if this he the manner in which all parties contemplate the victories of the Allies, and the conduct of the Bourbon Princes. Those who recollect the praises and the money be stowed upon Romig's Cirolry by Lord CASTt.t• REACH, will be aware of the advantages which France must derive from the possession of this Our strument of war. The Russians, upon the whole, if our !Violaters are equally accommodating in giving them a paqsage home by sea, will drive a good bar gain in winding up their campaign by the sale of their horses to the French. Yesterday evening the QpEkw, the PRINCE RE GENT, the PlittMM.. AUDUSTA and ELIZABETH. and the Prince of Ilussx-liostuuka, dined with the Duke and Duchess of Yo u, at York-house, St. Jantes's Palace. At ten o'clock there was an evening party. The new Qoeen of SWEDEN twofers to wish to re main in incognito : site lives at Paris cruder the name of the Countess of GOTIILAND. Buenos Ayres Gazettes. to the Bth December, have reached as. Au 018cial Report states, that from the lst November to Gth December 33 prises taken from the Spaniards bad been condemned by the Tribunals, during which interval eight more had entered the River, and remained for adjudication.. Seven chests of Spanish correspondence had also been captured, principally from the MilitaryCommanden in Centre's, liavenneb, Lima, Mexico, &c. We hive it length obtained intelligence' from Algiers, on which we can depend, and from which it appears that no insult has been offered to the English Consul, though the condect of the Ds! has been out. menus. By ' , letters from Gibraltar,deted Ilse 20th February, we kern that a serious alarm has been occasioned by in order recently received by the Governor from England, directing him to eppoint Commissioners to enquire into, and examine the claims and titles to all property in the place, with a retrospect of many years. This has excited a very considerable sensa tion, as transfers of houses sod plots of ground have been made and acquiesced in, which may now be re., garded as doubtful, though sanctioned by long pos session. The Critit. Cow. cause, whieb lois attracted so much attention, is postponed to the Sittings after next Term. Colonel Astox, the l'liintiff in this case, ie a nephew - to the Marchioness of' Hearstoen, his MIK ther having been one of the Ave ce-heisesses, wtie weft t h us marr i o d—one to the Marqois of Heim rows, one to Lord Wiwast Goaoos, one to Sir . Joists RAystme, one to HARM An'ON,•Efq., and ens to IthilltgLL, En. r . • i, addy trispatehee .Weisi: tie . ideal/eta .id mire! Sir st tOHARD 'RIND at Triocomilee, and from Al. miIKAMPEN at St. Helene. pi:patches we r e s t.n 'readied at Earl &Tavares office from SI Hokin, Lois, at St. Helens. PRINCESS ELIZA BETHIA MARRTAGI.--4 4 4610Riblit. repokt says, it is definitively arranged that the MI r. dap of her Royal Highness the Princess Plitailsru, with the Prince of llcssz.liaseutto, shall take place in Easter week. After spending two or three weeks at Crenbourne Lodge, which is preparing Cot their reception, the Royal couple will proceed direct td liamborgh, through France,. by way of Collat.— Lady CAMPIELI. and Lady ELIRAIRTII MONTAGUE , will have the honour of attending her Royal High. nest en the journey, and Sir Ilaitair Csmener.b still also be of the party. Travelling equipsges for the occasion are ordered to be ready in vii weeks at farthest from the present time.--;The• whole rirtite ' domestics on the establishment of her goyal High- , ness were discharged on Friday last. The second son of the Duke of A-- has dirty peered in a manner that hats caused mach alarm to his rfriends. Information has been given at the Marl, # borouph.etreet Polkmoffice of the circumstance, and hand.bills erg circeloted in all directions &erasing the youth, with the otter of a large reward for is formation respectinOsim. He is supposed to have , imbibed missionary irtioos of religion, and to have adopted some prelitel Of . . taking a mission *poi; himaelf. ... , .. .!,* . . . &MAU * . .Thiß "AMU'S Titi A L.-.-Th• Cattrier says iris Aereeeass eon *mice the sequillel of this man (the Keeper of Reading Jail), after- a . trial of, wine hours, on the indictment prefetred against him for refusing' to permit Ste Mseistrates to diivws• with the State Prisoners lately confined in that jail—This cease, which eahibits the insolent hiss of jailers and their employers in • strong degree, ha• beet; can vassed both In and out of Parliament H. virtue a an Act of the 3lst of Geo. 111 , emposef leg and • directing Magistrates. to visit the Jails, and to es. I amine end report the situitioti of the . Prisoners,. Lord FOLICESTODIF., a . Berkshire Magistrate, iii tins months of June and October last, demasstle4 admit. tapee to three State Prisoners in & w ing; J a il. Ihe Jailer, FAstaff, refused to tirlo.it his Lordship, by order of the SECRETARY of STATE, warrant and di rections, which ordered him to admit nose but the Visiting Magistrates to persons e , 44.441 end- r sus piciun of high Treason. ' On tilt- Defendant's .i.ie it was argued, that the Act could not have State Pri. loners in contemplation.--Ott this ground a verdict was Riven for the Defetidant, after a trial of almost' lee hours, in a most crowded Court.- THE Stotts —Last night a most tremendous storm of wind and tarn came on from the south-west, whiib we fear has done great damage at sea, and must hare been severely felt even in the Downs.— The rain has continued with little intermission all this forenoon. Many houses have sustained most serious damage, some of them being entirely unroofed v and .1 stacks of chimneys have been blown off in various l dirktiops. We have heard of some personal in juries, but happily unto( any Bees being lost. A very Jorge notinished new bonding, clove In the Co. beers Theatre, belonging to Mr, Short, of Newing ton. Wes blown does' with a tremendous crash ; a Lady end Gentleman were but a few minutes before mkt% shelter within the preinisesfrom the ttsite.-1 Several passengers had a very warn, escape. ,We have heard of many other similar effects. RICHARD WILIAM" Esq. of Grosvenor.sqosre, , while hunting, at his seat, on Monday last, near Mel ton Mowbray, in.Leicestershire, was thrown from his horse in • leap, and pitching on his head,• he re ceived so 'erne an injury that though he was imme diately taken to his house, he lingered till half-past seven o'clock on Tuesday morning and expired. • A great number of females in the vicinity of the Strand remain ill, iu consequence of the fright et easiotted by She late calamitous tire in the etrand.- In the ease of Mrs. Jackson, the wife of Mr. Jack son, bookbinder, in Vitliers-street, it hes proved Waif Sts was among the fist persons amigos) to thew*, and had arrived just in time to see the un fortunate MT.. Whetter traversing her MOM in a state of distraction, with her child in her arms, the moment bef o re she threw it from the winds*, and was herself shortly after enveloped by the filmes.— She soon after espiriel its a fit of-epilepsy. MAE, SI ARCH 4.—Arrived and sailed for the River the London Parker, Comely, from Snrne, a lt well.—Sailed his M s je s t ) 'is %loops Alert soul Cad , mos, on a cruize.—Th• Asia, Grey, from Bombay, lost an anchor this morning; end tie Louisa, Hill, an anchor and cable.— The out - Ward-bound ships re• main all well. - MARGATE, MARCU . 4—The follnwieg ship' are at anchor in Palmist! . Hole, ilz. : —tee Victory, Braithwaite, from Calcutta ; L4lll Melville, Allen, from Bengal ; and etc Phaenia, I)4nald, from ditto : the latter has lost ess•.enclsor this usornies.,—The Wellington, Nichols, from Calcutta, iso(aecher in oir Roads, and has landed testers. . POHT4HOUTII, MARCIE 4.-k—Peeied pp Chennel the ' Ann., from St. John's, N. 8... its 34'-da l e—sailed the 29th Jan. and hes experiented very bad weather all the passage ; the Comet, - Bell, was to sail the day after for Cork, and lb, Joho and Robert for Liver. pool on the id Feb..., , ,„ • . •. . Yesterday Morning, at Eleven &Clock. the lint. tery began, immediately after which No. 8,963 was drawn. and being the First-drawn Blank . was, entitled to Four Pipes of Port Wine :—The Ticket teas shared by T. Bun, in Two Quarters, Two Eighths,• and four Sieteewths,--ln the course of the day the following Capital- Pries.. were . drawn, the whole of which ware also Sold and Shared by T. BIM, .viz :••-• • . ...• . • _.. No. 3,101. is Prize of 30,01)0. • 11.771. il.tiai I 11.3tUi - .2110 3,817 Vs • 3,0 8....:. S 0 ' 12.070 Ma 1 11..64 - .204 • 2.863 . . When • this Paragraph went to. Press, neither of the e 30,000 -Prises had made their appearance ; but• T. Bust' hopes he shall have the gratification (as usual), of stating that. they were divided amongst his Friends. The Second Day of Drawing is the 17th Instant. . . The fees paid upon each pardon greeted antler the Greet Seal, amount, according in a Return just made to Parliament, to no less thaw SOL 171. Bd. Rohl:01Rn I RePhY TO • coil) ACATRukitv re HJLLAND'S MOTioN IN M :RCH LAST. A Maiming Paper Morels. et dist i Aisnuieripi • bas found non . d , oitshiewfavtoytnm o to this iin d country frzi3,:.kh in Heir c .na4 entitled the Mose of Peers on the I gib of Mriteh..lBl7." These observations are stated to base beeti . irinen in the early pert of Ist' duue; and they are preceded by • sort of imprinutter; dated Longitood4 October 94 1817, and signed " Napolent'," in *hith be asp= proves of them, and.deiires that they may be Mina by the Sovereign and the• People of Etigistol. There is e memorandum prated iii the bind-striating of lier. ttaml, purporting. that they (the origins( of grit cliplitstei•it stay be inferred) were sent Sealed to Sir Hudson Lowe, to the address of Lord Liverpool, en the 7th of that month. A large appendiz of oil. gist papers is subjoined, containing copies of tint iestrictions made by the present Governor of Sr: Soled', Slr Hodson Lowe, sad some hetets of la- , 'correspondence between that eke' , and the persons acting as Secretaries to Boneparie.-- We very much suspect that this is au- interested attempt to practice upon . the creduloof curiosity. of the Publ c, by another of thole iageoloos fabrications which have found their *or in the same Manner, whethet from St. Helene or not,. into a is isle circa. lotion. The work, however, thus annnenced, is only " shout to be poblillied in English." As it purport', to appeal, in the name of so great II pers o n s/ iv ea Napoleon, to tire:S .voreign and People of Erigiand throegb the noollium of the Press, and di oUr Reader, sit' cap pt from as some novice of %Orli Solo! does. reent. , , it-is consistent with Eattllsh t fa i ir i a i t f ih e:lie ‘d no4 tlin psr .: ticolarly toward a man in captivity, h tege4 of the Press should he afforded .4 o such an appeal., rt. fro:lowing acceent is commuinceted of Ike *twit. This 11,c.der who has attended to ihe wino; loiters hat torte been published es owning from St, lielens4 l e II ';',• ser that much of the matter tiros ...roost ep iir esti, is composed of the very doobtfoi stale. omits that save appeared in these lettere. The *ohseteAtions are written in the Mintier of slime comments on the speeches from the Bri.ish Throne, which.occasiohelly appeared to tt , e blot:deur while Bonaparte was Ruler of France. He oc casion in the outset to piotest against ta. WO to Par liament of the 11 th April, 1816, whirls he calls an Act of Proactiption similar to those of Signs. • Ho denies the authority of the [Sri i iso Peri...or:nem to place him at the *disposal of Ministers, anti to invest them it ith the right oi placing him under* restrictions. HO denies their power of delegating that right, col then proceeds to argue against the restrictions themselves —namely, the detention at St. llebote ; the name im posed of General Bonaparte; the pfultibition of going abroad on the island, unless mcoompstiled by a Bri tish thficer ; end lastly, the obligstion of having all letters which . he may write or receive opened lades.' amined by the British authorities. He quotes in tot ['cession the principal statements in Lord Bathorm's speech, . respecting 'the treatment to whidfr he is sub jected at St. Helens, and severally contradicts them in very round terms, entering much into 'detail occa4 tinselly, and esecratiog the conduct of Sir Hodson Lowe, as capricious and cruel in the 'sheath degree. These arguments and declemations are strangely mixed up with certain domestic disclosures respect log hie personal condition, from which it appears that she finds himself very ill accommodated at Loilgodod.. house, which he describes es having been originally a barn, sod is sitosted on the moot unhealthy and excreted spot on the' island, destitute of water, trees, shade, and verdure. The Governor. whom he coo (Moony styles the Commandant, having reduced the range originally allowed him; having Ed, hidden him to hold conversations pith the inhabitints, or go jot° any house; and having also insisted, that an English Officer must accompany • him when he tides nut, he has discontinued his favourite esticise., not having been on horseback for 18 months. Under the conditions prescribed for his correlpoodence, 11. Will not write or receive any lettei: Such is the dearness of living at St. Helves, Olathe stipulated allowance of 8,0001. a year, divided by the number of in dividuals in his establishment, will scarcely amount to 1104. per diem, which, he says, is " soolies's ply." The flour was so bed latterly, rttrolve did not taste bread for three menthe. He has bet..ken him self to a sedentary lire ; his lege begin to steel!, and the scurvy has attacked his gums. He declares that there exists an intention to terminate his existence by agonies so protracted, as to make it appear that he dyed a natural death. The following is a specimen df the obseevations r it These four restrictions are costrtry to the Law Of Nations. It was not then to ameliorate the lot of the detained persons, that the Ministers caused them. s;lves to be invested with the right of making re strictions. No instance can be cited in the history of Greet Britain or France, in which prisoners of war were sent' to be detained in another hemisphere, on en isolated rock in the midst of the seas. If th e I onfy object was the safety of the detention, Viers was no want of castles or beams in England ; but the grand requisite nag the devouring climate of the Tropic ! " The second restriction (that of the title of Gen. . Bonaparte) has also no relation to the security of the detention • it has the effect of tendering the position of Oil Prince more grievous. Prisoners of war, when they fall Into an enemy's WNW, are rerog. .nite4 h* the title which they hove borne at hornet 'Elul the Bourbons ceased not -So reign in France; Ai.. Republic, and the Court% Dynasty, were not bogie timaie Governments: On what ere these new pries , ciples founded ? If the English Government sc. knowledge that the Bourbons relived in France at the timeof the retire .of Amiens, in 1802, they cc knowledge that Cerdittal'Yook reignerLiti ENgtasid at thelreitt Of Peace in 1783; that Chides MIL Jost 'Viet rein' le Sweden. To sanction these prin. rips would 'be to throw - all thrones into disorder, • and to propagate the germs of revolution swung all , nations." • • a, - .. . , PLYXOI3TH, ii ASCU 3. 7l r e ylike :' M tee rennin* sloop of war, from Irelaod:j.,,o'f , : _ The Bristol, Brigs, froes.afiesmisok ; end the Hi bernia, Graham, both shipsforlefiNork , put into Belfast the nth ult. * in distresi s it,sd • most &theme to repair. ~ . , 11 'I Mk >-~.,~:. - _ - _