The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-11-05 00:00:00

, 111 1 1 - • :• Portuguese vessels, among which were three India werr of KIP.' 'Niue. This privateer is said to hare brootht intto this port upwards of 200,000 dollars in specie. • " The Portognese Corrsol-General has commenced 'sundry suits, to eildeasour to procure the restitution ,of come or this property. lie is SOO In have attached a -quantity of apecie deprotited io mien(' the banks,soll , 1n have libellp.l a law Portuguese ship andcargnoshich lately fostered this port as a prize In the Fortuna : he bea,*howeier, directed prosecutions to he under r-lielt leo egairtat rhereluted owners of the privateers is 'this di, In tilegrVer trop value of four of Oro captures; .411 A the Joidge - of the district Court has ordered tiled* to give hail each to the amount of 580,000 dollars t The following persons have been held to bail—John S. Skinner, the Postmaster of this city ; Ileribese ihiurres, the Sl•erilf of 13061110 re county ; Joseph Karrick, .John Synder, and Joseph Patterson. The affair hos a;somed a serious complexion; and ita the Conant is auccvs.fol, .as' can scarcely be olotibterl, most,- frotwthe magnitude of the claim, be attended with almost eprtsie ruin to the parties, and prOhittly to their bail, who, it is amid, are liable to the fall amount of whatever may ha the recovery argeinst the ;owlet's prosecuted ; there being in this • rettitect a difference between the Admiralty Law and • the "mason Lair. The same persons have also been wrtested upon a criminal charge of violating the Act Congress, in putting out the privateer 4.h of July, ,and have been held to bail by order of the Judge to -attend their trial in November next, • TUE ANERICAN FUNDS. • A depreciation basing seen experienced in the A my , Ikon Fends, considerable anxiety was excited in the • publir mind by this enforeseen event ; we have coo. :aid...A.4 it oar duty to tarn our attention to this its. portant subject. ' About thts time last year, American Stock was •telliug in London at about 106 per cent. and their . Rink Shares at an advents of so per cent, ou the prime cost, even before the President's Message had been rereited in this country. Nothing could be more brilliant than the financial prospect laid before Con. g ,., ss —nie statements exhibited that, after paying ,11.1 the civil and military sixpences of the Government, fortificationa, increase of the navy, and interest on. the public debt, the United States Treasury bad b. eurplus of six millions of dollars, which, by adding .241 milli. us to he received in 1818 for bonded duties .accrued i.t 1817. and other internal revenue, ea• lorded the receipts for 1818 to 3of millions of dole bars, front wlttit, deducting 21,800,000 dollars for, 1101011.41 charaeo of the Gmternment and Sinkiiig Fund, a PUriON, at 111,. tanner PA of the cutrent year would 71111 I,p l e tt of 8,700,000 dollars. s• lc h Ism . the pro:uteri held nut last year, and, ea the si 'pooh of it, the Kinle of the Louisiana Debt -was In be pai.lite 1819, and the other Loans in 1845. It was further pieti.A that, in 1830. the Untied Stain, without any land, property, or ass e ssed times, 'would be fre'ed (tom all footled debts, with the' et ception of the Three per Ceots, which it only a trifling, sum, and not redeemable at the will of Gioc eco ment, In short, the grand total of rite United State* Na. tingle! Debt nn Ist Jimmy, 1818, amounted only to about OR millions of doll:Ars, hardly twice the annual amount of our Poor Rate!. With an nattering a prospPet before them, many capitalists in Europe iniested their property in the American Storks, and in shares of the Book of the United States. By the last accounts the former are at par, or six per cent. lower than last year, and Bank sill comparatively lower. Tote cause of this unexpected depreciation has alarmed many people, and given flan to a report that American Rank Paper is at a discount, and the whole Paper System under discredit. • Y ! w~ t, That the depreciation certain cannot be denied ; be' the heat informed persons do not attribute it to ay iliscrerlir. Of all national finances it may he said that none offer • better pledge than those of the Urited States—lit. On account of t►e inconsider able amount of the funded debt, which, in the course of a very few years, must be extinguished ; and, 2dt-y, On account of the rising prosperity of the country in its population, agriculture, manufactures, and corn. raerce. The above pursuits evidently leave larger profits in America than in Europe, and consequently people have subsequently engaged their capitals in them, am) by withdrawing their property from the Stocks have causal N fall in the prices. The rust dividend declared on Bank shares at Phi ladelphia, was 4 per Cent. for silt months, the second at the rate of only 31 per cent. FRENLII PAPKRS. -............ PA mu, Nov. I.—Yesterday the King received the Portuguese Ambassador, Marquis de Mariales, and took as airing at three o'clock, on the side of Vin cennes. The Duchess and Mademoiselle d'Orlesos visited the K•tia of Prussia, *4 one. THE DUKE OF Fwerta.—We just Yearn, that Mar shal the Duke of fe..ltre is dead, at his country seat of Neuviller, neer &teem', in Alsace. M. Clarke, Duke of Fehr', descended of an ancient Irish family, was born at landrecies, Oct. 17, 1755. The new mail carriages have been constructed in the working.rooms of the messageries ?pies, with great haste. These carriages are light in their form, commodious and solid. The first started this day ifyr Thoulowee. Each carries (oar passengers, at a franc and a half per post. French Funds.— Fire per Cents. 71f.60c. CilnliTIANI A (NORWAY), OCT 7.--The Deputies elf the States-General of Sweden, who were present at the Coronation of the King, at Drontheim, have in sectel the following article in our Papers:-- "The Deputies of the States-General of the King dom of Sweden, after having fulfilled the honourable and satisfactory task of assisting at the Coronation of his Majesty, in Norway, bring back to their homes a delightful and strong recollection of the happy Jays, which they passed in the midst of a People of bre thren. Witnesses of the love and respect for the King, and his illustrious heir, which the Nor wegian nation share with their brethren in Sweden, it istheir duty to communicateit to their conntrymen,as a pledge of the prosperity and tranquillity, which we ere permitted to expect. We return to rue several .1 •I ~• 7 °. ~. -, L L 4 -~ • 1 tow7INTI of the softest trifled by the couviction, • re•onised the two esti* attain his' object-4he Norway end the Norwegians and . See& A IX-I.A-Cll A PELLE, OCT. IV....The Ministers M. sasobled hese-ems prepared to &pert, from the 121 fir to the 1.51 h of November. However, the time of closing the Congress will net be definitively knowo until the return of the Emperor of Russia and Kiog *of Prussia. The Prince Royal of Prussia, and his brother, Prince William, are espected here in a few days. The Empress Dowager of Russia is 'stinted by the 2d or 3d of November. It is-probable she still meet her august son here at that time, and is iv few days proceed to Brussels, where she will be sota roulade& by four of her children—the Emperni Alexander, the Grand Dukes Constantine and Min; clug, and Princess of Orange. It is sopposed the) , Grind Duke Michael will spend the winter in Italy . 1 M. de lleritelt, Minister of the Grated Duke of Baden, arrived here yesterday evening. It is now,l thought the affairs of Biden will be settled without delay. Count Mousier, the Hanoverian Minister. and M. Anitett, the Russian Minister to the Diet of Frankfurt, also arrived yesterday. It is thought for certain, that the consideration of the affair of (he mediatised Princes will come before Congress. This . is a subject left, among so many others, musettled by the Diet of Frankfort. , . Bonds, Bsden sod Darmstadt, grant these Princts nearly all they could reasonably ask. Prussia and other powers have as yet given no definitive ezplans tion. Wirtemberg rejects their claims, and the me diatised House of La Tour•Tesis has made a formal complaint to the aet of the Confederation. The to tal of territory possessed by the mediatised Princes, in Germany, is 450 square miles, with a population of 1,500,000 souls. Gut rowoist PLOT.—Holiday at the Public Offices THE STATESMAN. E STATESMA F; ----. \ • lick) of bet Mutstfis 4 0 Ka More. Net. 3. alight. and the symptoms of same as yesterday. ' (Signed) F. AI LMAN." Throughout the whole of yesterday her MAitsic . Continued in the same debilitated stile as on the pre ceding, without any perceptible alteration for the bet. ter. Her suf f erings are gradually - exhausting her.— Sbe awoke yesterday from a night of heavy lethssiic slumber, feverish and onrefresbed, in which situation she continued daring the day. A circumstantial cc coent of her state was slant off expredit yesterday to the PRINCE REGENT, and the different branches of the Royal Family. The ItEoltrr again omitted his usual visit last night, but his ltoyal Highness sent down an express to receive the evening report of the Physicians. The various contingents of the Army of Occupa tion are rapidly withdrawing from the French ter ritories, with the exception of the few troops to whose custody the fortresses are still entrusted. The removal of the British Army has been proceeding far several days with a favoerable•celerity. On Tuesday the whole of the infantry, with the exception of the Guards and the 52d regiment, which are left in pos session of the fortresses until the Ihth inst. had arrived in England ; and in the transfer of so large a num ber of individuals, amounting to 15,000, comprising men, women, and children, it is satisfactory to know that only oils casualty has happened. Their embarkation at Calais was effected in the short space of 7'2 hours. Yesterday the embarkation of • the cavalry commenced, but we fear not under equally ,propitious circumstances on account of the weather, which has changed exceedingly within the last two days. Our shipping intelligence of yesterday ap prized us that some of the transports from Calais had, been unable to enter Dover, but were obliged to rim into other ports for shelter. It is stated Spots what is considered respectable authority, bet we can scarcely believe such a state ment tree, even-et Lord CASTLIREAoIi, that in Con. sequence of a representation made 'Mongrels by the Prussian and Dutch Envoys, of the absolute neces sity of keeping up a considerable *Diary force in the Netherlands, in Consequence •af the opinions of the natives, Lord CASTLEnCACII has been prevailed on to give op, by way of subsidy, the two millions to be received by this country from France, to enable the King of the NETIIattLAmDS to defend hit torn territories. If this report should be verified, it cannot fail to roast T . pobiic indignation. At the very moment when the necessities of Great Britain requite that a large proportion of our troops should be disbanded to save a sum short of one million, are we to sacrifice double that amount to defend a Power who ought to protect himself? We trust that this report will torn out to be unfounded. The French Pepers to the 2d inst. have been re ceived. The King of Pitts•stA and bis son were still in the French capital ; as was alto the Grand Duke CoNSTANTINe.. These personages were going about visiting the various Institutions, Civil and Mi litary, of Paris. The Emperor of RUSSIA has been liberal in his presents of valuable snuff-hoses, mount ed with diamonds, In the persons appointed to attend him during his stay in France. But we do not tee it mentioned that these presents had been taken by authority from the persons to whom they hid been thus made. The French Funds hid not yet recovered much from their late drepression. The Five per Cents. left off ou Saturday at 71 f. 60 e. The intelligence from Madrid and Cadiz is to a re cent date. It is surprising that Spain should remain so tranquil as it dove under its present circumstances. The hangers on at Court were in better spirits than they had been for some time previous, in consequence of the arrival of some specie from Lima, and the pro. spect of a further supply to replenish the exhausted Treasury of their Sovereign. The vessel arrived at Cadiz from Lima, has, it is said, brought a million of dollars on private account. She is the second of a squadron of foer, which left Lima in June last ; two others are yet 'sported at Cadiz ; and hopes are indulged, that as the two first have escaped, the two last will not fall into the hands of the Insurgent pri vateers. The accounts brought by this vessel are to the same effect as those brought by her con sort, representing the state of affairs at Lima as very favourable to the RoyaHirt csuie.—Men. sures, it is said, were in train for augmenting the Spanish army in Chili to 11,000 men, including in that number about 3,000 of the troops which sailed from Cadiz in May last. Several armed ves sels had sailed from Callao to blockade the ports of Chili in the possession of the Independents. The Cadiz merchants, however, it appears, entertain no hopes of the Royalist sqoadron being able to keep the sea, in opposition to the naval force whi c h the Patriots were preparing for Lord COCUUANT. -.0120....- We are glad to receive the assurance contained in the folloning important article from the Waterford Mirror, of Monday last, that there is no prospect of scarcity in Ireland, and that the local granaries of that country are considered as able to supply any de ficiency left is Great Britain. This is a most com- J• F `-no- foekabiebesertoe at IR!, atommetseeme a when nn small.,publie distress may be appreb t The danger likely to arise to agriculture fro portation, la het , however, in the present sr the Corn LOW% 50 interlineal IS IMO. to I% the apprehension of some persons in Ireland. .• It appears that some London Mercha n t memorialised Government for permission le purchased in espectat home &boot 99,0°0 (leerier, of Wheat sad now stored on their account in the Mediter faw „, they corer This large supply was the British ports remaining open ; bet as II quarterly average has disappointed that expe l and closed the ports, they wish to go throng C i l e r a a v r e t n h i St ft t a be rti b t a f l their speculation in spiie of the spirit and the sion of scarcity as mote fully sufficient (orates( their application. lint i , s if i r t an is ic ea t o dndd gearineenpwaprr,eileetshee.nontrditelded, Ireland to that may have been felt in Greet Britain. WI to add, however, that (he prayer of the Metn, said to have been in danger of being granted, b an eminent mercantile house of London, into a counter-Memorial. Delay has been allowel time has thus been given fair enquiry and ewer Liverpool and other places have already stepp ward to support the true and solid interests of and Irish soil, and the permanence of egriculte courseement. But it is to Ireland olifewthBe*iClhoorapeLbauwsl. etAenacesmus,6ipeuepat wdly, ell chiefly that ii y i e egs b l i o e :t a l g e l :l l ll: c sure is vital. Ireland, essentially agriculteral, in commerce, precluded from manufactures pediments *Web she lemma hope to remove, I giving a real, almost en missive, prefer,. British commerce end manufactures, should every nerve, should move every lever to prey preference which hos been enacted for her spit from becoming nominal and illusive. Cork at terford have, ne.sederstand, already taken tl in this truly patiolic enterprise; they have e Memorials, and we should hope that no pet the mercantile interest of Ireland will be se this trying crisis. Nor should the landed ish silent, although necessarily more slow in etp an opinion. Vigour, unanimity, and tape& necessary, for it must not be concealed than has transpired to make the friends of helm an early and unfavourable decision of the got Another ease of estreme distrait:scoffed day, as mill be seen by the I A man, 6Q years of age, node tan exam for attempting self.destruction, *mt it appei the testienonr of a Gentleman prget, who lo the office of Constable in the parish t t o happy man belonged, that many instances of acts of suicide had come to his knowledge, fro culpable misconduct of the Overseers of the refusing the necessary relief. This is another holiday at the Stock Esc, g bat some busine.s has been done at a bell _pet lower than the price of yesterday. The Mike of Yong transacted military b yesterday with the PRINCE RECiiNT. Yesterday the Hanoverian Minister and the CHANCELLOR had audiences of the PRINCE It at Carlton-house. It is again asserted in the fashionable ch that the Duchess of KENT is pronounced to favourable way to give her Royal Consort a and that the Duke and Duchess are to return I land previous to her accoochement. Reprt I stated the pregnancy of the Duchess of CI.) It is essential to t►e principle of legitimacy th should be no possible doubt as to Royal hint precautions taken in this country to eethentii births of our Royal Family, requiring the attr of the great Offices of State. if nut their act; sence. to prove the interest that is attached to remittance. The object of the Patecu RECUT'S OM I sington Palace has been misstated. It was pay a visit to the Duke of Sum*. es he km his Roy al Highness was et Teubridge Wells, count of his health; but to 'semi°. the ups lately occupied by the Princess of WALT'. did, and the servants left in the care of the merits, nine in number, as we before slaty since received noli ce from the Loam Cu LAIN forthwith • lci l tielt possession. The re that his Royal -110.714 m wilt use ihesn.hissell Carl ten-house is undergoing some splendid site, Yesterday Mr. Justice ABBOT was ' , sworn i Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, LORD CHANCELLOR, in his private room, Court of Chancery, Lincoln's Inn. Mr. BATLEY accompanied the Lord Chief Justice Justice DALLAS will perform the same referee day, es Chief Justice of the Court of Comma! Yesterday a Court of Directors was held East India.house, when Major-General the 11 CIBARLES COLTILL . E, K•C.B. was appointed matiaier.in-Chief of the Company's Forces a hay, in the room of Lieutestant.Genetal Sir NIGIITINGALL, K.C.B. The following C were sworn into the summand of their rem ships, viz :—Captain R. T. I)ALRYMPLE, Vsusittart, for Bombay and China ; and Cap NA I LINK , to tl e General 1( 3 d, for Madras and The whole of the Infantry of the British A Occupation, with the exception of the Goat the 52d Regiment (left in possession of tit*' to until the 15th instant), have been emboli kid ailed from Celsis, in the short space of 7'2 They ate all safely landed In England. number, including men, women, and c amount to very nearly 15,000 persons, besid knrset. On Monday the embsikation of t lery commenced, and yesterday IWedoesl• clvalry were expected to begirt eSgrting. °fla , T 111; QU Ett recollections, and peoe• , . 6 ,n, that the Soseeiign, salvo has Thelolsoloteg is tad 13011 . 1 'ions of Scandinavia, ;wilt soot .health tit independence and glory of honiedtiio morning :- z ia .. 44h0 onion and prosplaity of " McQuaid, ties hall a restless et, eredos." her Nature's disease remain these, LONDON: Tuna/DAY. NOVEMBER . 5, 8{ 8. American Papers to the Ilth ult. reached us this morning. Considerable irritation exists at Halifax in conic. (pence of the order of the American Government re specting the trade to Nova Scotia. The interdiction of British vessels from Nova Scotia to an entry into the ports of the United States, commenced on the Ist of October. This proceeding of the American Go vernment is considered at IfsWs: as excessively ill. natured. Two reasons,it is observed, arreaviiipied : 111. That the act of opening the ports of Halifax and St. John to American vessels is limited in its duration ; and '2d. That it restricts the importations in them to certain article.. Had the Act been pissed, say the Halifax Papers, without the limitation and restriction alluded to, " the American Cabinet wosid, we have no doubt, discovered by Its selfish policy, some other grounds equally plausible for the adoption of the harsh and unfriendly measure." This is perfectly true. The American Government would have been at no loss to discover plausible reasons sufficient in our own anti. Commercial and anti-American policy to justify the retaliatory measure it has adopted. THE FLORIDAS. It is almost certain (says the New l'Ork Gazette) that Mr. fal A uTsstz,who arrived here in the brig Bon r donor. brings out a Treaty, from the Court of Ma drid, ceding the Floridan to the United States. The fact is mentioned in a postscript of a letter from France by the vessel in which Mr. M. arrived, and he is mentioned as the bearer of ibis highly important news. Passengers lately from Buenos Ayres report, that the Director of Paraguay, FRANCIA, has been put down by the People, in consequence of a belief that he had been gained over by the Portuguese. Some of them also state, that his successor entered into a friendly understanding and connection with General A ItTIGAS against the Portuguese. They state that 'this fact was known, though net published, at Buenos Ayres.—( Censor.) The important MO of Commodore TAYLOR, men tioned in the Baltimore article under the head of " The P►ivateering S) stem," in another column, was argued on a point of law in the District Court of the United States, New York, before Judge Van Nits& Suits had been instituted against him by the Spanish Consul, to recover the value of sundry captures made by TAYLOR. The Court decided— _ First.—That it had no jurisdiction over prize cases as between Spain and her colonies ; or the co lonies and any other power at war, where the vessel making the capture was not fitted out of the United States. . Secondly.—That where the vessel making the cap tore, was alleged to have been fitted out of the United States, bot was cruising on the high seas, un der the commission and authority of one of the bel ligerents, the Court would not interfere, sonless the captured property was brought withiu the jurisdiction of the Court. Thirdly, That the Court deemed the question •f damages to rest entirely upon the question of prize or no prize; that not hawing jurisdiction of the latter, it could not have any of a matter necessarily grow• ing out of, end depending upon it—and, therefore, that it would not hold Commodore TAYLOR to bail in the suit instituted against him for damages ; the properly not having teen brought within the jurisdic tion of the Court. . .-. • . . , . , " _ - . .. • . .-, • • . - •• . . . - • '.;oi- '. • ' •• " • - ;... : : .V. i " " . . . a . t • .CI .•' : A: '. '. ' 4 ' • . 1 1 '7l • 11 P