The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-01-06 00:00:00

GIAL 1/..1N AND nguss ELS PAPERS. VivssiA, Die. 22.—A public Print affirms, that the note presented by Prince Nletternich, in answer to that of Wirtemberg, turns on two principal points. Ist, The territorial extent of the Powers which will form in future the German Confederation. ^_d. The political Constitution of these S.ates. The solution of the first question, says the Note, depends on that of the Mita of Europe; consequently the. Committee for the aifairs of Germany cast employ it self only on the 12a qnestion : the particular know ledge of all that concerns the territorial changes is net necessary, in order to terminate the federal act. The Members of the German Committee are, besides, aofficiently acquainted with the principal relations which will take place, and trifling deviations can bare no influence in this respect, since, when at a late period, the drawing up of tile federal act shall be proceeded upon, it will be easy to add the changes that ropy have loot judged necessary doting the Con gress. The wise representations of Bavaria, Han over, and Wirtembeig, had caused it to be deter mined to abandon the first plan that had been pro posed. It could not be left to the option of a German Prince to accede or not to the German Confedera tion ; and the advantages resulting from this Cott fetioration to the totality of the German nation, could not be graithd, except :lc a compensation for the sa ciWees Ntliich the good of the e hcle nation requires. The object of the grand alliance. es far as Germany is concerned, was the abolition of the Rhenish Con 'federation, and the re-establishment of the liberty and constitution of Germany with some modifica tions. The Gazette of Arau states the 12 articles pro posed in the conferences between Austria, Pros4a, Wittemberg, Bavarii, and Hanover, as a basis for the arrangement of Germany :- 1. The States of Germany (including Austria and Prussia for their German dominions) are united by a compact, which shall he called " The German C'-nferleration." Each of the Nletribers who shall join their alliance, shall renounce the right of se parating from it, without the consent of the others. 2. The object of this Confederation is, to procure ahroarl,•peace and imlependence, in respect of other Vi w er s ; and at home, the constitutional rights of all classes of the nation. 3. In joining to attain this object, on which the gond of the country in general depends, the Mem bers of the (ivrmao Confederation reserve to them selves, conjointly acd intik idually, the free and en tire nit-nt of their rights of Sovereignty, so far as they rh•ill nut hate bean restricted by the. object mentioned in the vreceding article, a:rd by the li -111.1'1';'"tt especially C prPSSPti in the f e d era l 4. The ohint of thi: vornpact will be fulfilled (4) by an A‘lini;iii:ration combine,' with the division of lulu a certain numher Of circles, which A'•l:inistration tiali consist of a Council composed or 'icc,hers of the Co-estates (9, by the influence %Lica every Dire:l,r of Circle will have over the States of 1:k circa, accordiog to the tett of the Art of Con fedymtion, and under the superioteadance ..of the As , ....ntidy of the Confederates. 3. In the Conia:il of Directors of the Circles, Anitrta shall lia•o two vote,, Prussia two, llinover, 13.varia, and Vt:irteniberg, one each. This Council s;.all hir perruaomit, and he always assembled in the same city ; it sliail recitle according to the nvijority of voreq. and as rtiany circles shill be formed as there shall be voices in this Council. Its attributes 01411 be,— TILE STATESMAN: with other Powers, it shall be left to the decision of the Confederation to take part in it or not, on• the proposition of the Power which shalt make war. 10. The German Princes equally renounce the right of making war upon each other, and submit bur differences to a judicial decision, 'which shall be given conjointly by the Council of the Directors of Circles, and a Tribunal of the Confederation, ac cording to the regillations which shall he determined upert. The - tribunal-established. for this purpose shalt. decide al , o on the complaints which shall be hroeglit before it, concerning the viola'itais of the conditions of the contract in different parts of the country. 11. The federal compact itself establishes the ne cessity of a Constitution of the States in each coun try, • which is a Member of the Confederation, and it fixes a minimum of the rights of the States; but every country in particular is left at liberty not only to grant more extensive rights to its States, but also to give them a Constitution adapted to the usages and the nature of the country, or to the character of its inhabitants. 12. The federal compact fixes certain rights which every German must enjoy without constraint in every part of Germany ; for example, that of emigrating under certain restrictions, of engaging in the military or civil service of other German States. These two last articles leave Austria and Prussia at liberty to attend in their execution to the extent of their dominions, which include counties that are ea part of the German Confederation. A rr. Mails. 0 . 0 1 0 r.Pipm.v4v.-11oliday at the Nthlic glrec”:. line TILE STATESMAN. LONDON: FRIOAY, JANUARY 6, 1815. We have Paris Journals to the 3d, Brussels to the same sate, and Frankfort Gazettes to the 30th ult. We were led by previous acco.ints from Vienna, to su'pend our expectation of authentic intelligence re garding the arrangements of the Congress, until the 25th or '26th. The communications from that city in the Paris Papers are only to the 23d ; but the Frankfort Gazelles give an Extract from the Chro nicle of the Congress, dated Vienna, Dec. 26, which stales that the atfairs of Germany were going on in the most desirable manner, and the 'frau Gazellc gives the Articles of the new Germanic Constitution, .as proposed to Congress by the Powers principally interested in the decision of its fate—namely, Ain* Iris, Prussia, Hanover, Bavaria, and Wirtemberg. likvin,g given these articles at length, we shall refer tIrA 'at. present without comment. Russia and Prussia seem to have, digested their plans to some purpose previous to entering the Congressional Assembly. No doubt whatever, is any longer en tertained of the definitive annexation of Saxony to Prussia ' notwithstanding all the protests upon the subject ; and it is daily becoming no less certain that Poland will be governed by a Russian Viceroy. The articles from Vienna repeat the statement of an in tended matrimonial union between the Archduke CHARLES and the Grand Duchess CATHARINE of ! I RUSSIA, with the addition that they %sill hold their Court at Warsaw, and that Poland, in that event, will be placed under a mixed Russian and Austrian , 1 Government. It is also reported, that the Belgic nation is to be extended to the Rhine; and all the 1 I necessary arrangements of amity and alliance are , stated to have been concluded between Austria, l 1 Prussia, Bavaria, end Wirtemberg, I I. Some of these reports cannot be true; they em brace points that will never be yielded but by corn- I , pulsion of the most forcible' kind by the parties t ' whose honour and interests they materially affect. I There is much reason to apprehend that France, in- ' I stead of tamely looking upon the enlargement of the I kingdom of Belgium, by such an eVension into her I , i former possessions, will put in her claim, backed by 1 the great military force she is now preparing, to the whole of the Netherlands, and urge, in its justifica tion, the ettlargen4ut of that ambitious and danger ' 'bat ,ival Prussia, and,the aggrandisements of the 1 other powers. Our 'Ministers, in the midst of all these great objects and contentions, and the nea a of the necessary peace with America, are looking very small on the Continent. Oar good Allies begin to fear that we cannot pay much longer for the con tinuance of the Congress, and of affairs as they are; yet are in no haste to relieve us from the berthen of maintaining the immense hosts who are rioting in our 1 hard-earned means. , I It is officially announced that the State of Genoa is to form an integral part of the dominions of the ' King of SARDINIA. The PPANCI: REGENT of Portugal, bring desirous that his " faithful vassals" may share in the 'nippy COTISCZI uelices of the cessation of hostilities in Europe, though he himself took care to run very little risk in the efforts which .have brought about this extraordi nary change, has published a Decree, directing that his said vassals in Europe " shall enjoy, as soon as possible, the great benefit and advantage of free com munication with all nations." The Edict to this ef fect is issued from Rio Janeiro, and runs in this way :—" I have been pleased to order, that the ports of my States, from the date of this my Royal Decree, shall ndmit the entry of the ships of all na tions that may be presented before them, and the de• parture of the same, whatever destination they may have received, that as much as possible the friendly relations and reciprocal interests with their respec tive countries may be re-established." We have advices from Norway, commenirating some further modifications of the Constitution form ed in May, when that country declared itself inde pendent, as was flattered with the prospect of a dis tinct national will and character. We know hew independence and Constitutions are frittered away under false. semblances, when a .ROzereign Sway is established over the minds and actions of a people. 7-- I The article which makes us ucrptainted with these allocations in the Constitution of Norway will evince the specious nature of the policy which has subverted Norwegian freedom. The Paper. (in the Danish language) which furnishes the article in question con tains an introduction, sirtting generally the author ity over the two Kingdoms as TPeted in the rciguillg tio vereien of Siseden. This is followed by a recapito !aqui% of the principal Articles 9f the former Consti tution, classed under the respective heads of Reli. gion, the Royal Family, the Diet, Commerce, &c. Ste. and two 'new Articles ate supq-added, by the one of which a National Bunk. is to be eslablisited exclusively for Norway, and by the other It is pro • tided, that the Flag for the purposes of trade shat be distinguished as the ancient Norwegian Bannerf but that the flag for the concerns of war shall h e those of Norway and Sweden united. The funda• mental law is :hen recognized in a short letter f!.” 11 the Svvedisli Commissioners, in which they accept the Constitution in the name of their Monarch; and the whole is closed by a Declaration of the Line of Sur. cession, which is determined in favour of JOHN CHARLES (BEHNADOTrr.) OiCAn his son, on demise of the present occupant of the throne o f • Sweden. Tuesday evening Mr. SttAwv, the King's Me'. senger, attired in Downing-street, dispatches frr.sn Uhent. The Hereditary Prince of WIRTEMBERG was mar. vied on the Stib of June, Is )8, to tho Prince*s CHARLOTTE AGGII3TA, daughter of t s .f (iv. 'TAMA ; but wry are sepatht d , and a divorce Ices been obtained, or is i• 1 iirogrei*. The tnartiige of the Pittxtce thetrfor, , . with the I/ache:is of OLDEN. Bur.Gs is balikTed.to be i ptded. 'lt was said-.in some Papers yesterday, that the plate wrought as a prevent, to the value of ‘200,0/JOl, to the Doke of WEi.t.itvirvoN from the Nam Re. gent Of PORTUGAL, is manufactured by Italian artists. We have the p.rticutars through the medium of st Genii-man who saw the workmen engaged upon it at Lisbon, mid he a•ittres us Etat it is executed un der the direction of M. VIEIRA, a celebrated painter attached to the Bragatiza establishment, who, from patriotic motive*, has employed the native P u ri m . geese artisans only 'upon it. It is exquisitely beau tiful, ind•is suited to accommodate at table fr,ua six to sixty persons. The sets are in sixes, and to at multiplication of that number up to 60, they .are complete in their centre-pieces and appropr iateembel lishments. The candlesticks are composed of spears, the triumphal arches are decorated it:s banners and weapons of war, and every distinct piece is of a tary character. A general Brevet promotion, it is said, is imme. diately to take place in the Army, secording to which, all Captains down to 1815, inclusive, are to have the rank of Major. The new commissions to be dated from the Ist of Jan. 1815. . On the arrival of a division of the French forces to take possession of Martinicine and Guadeloupe, the tnen belonging to the 3d battalion orthe &nit re. gimeut had deserted in great number , , but General. LINDSAY had entered into a negotiation witiv the French Commandant, to give up•all deserters on both aides, which was notified by Proclamation in. the Martinique Gaze tie. JCIIN LIYESEY, ESQ. of Stourtnn-inal, shire, has, in consirl6ratiet of the extreme pressure of the tinws, signified his inteutiun of reducing the rents of his tenants one-third. We understand that the Portugese intercourse with the East Indies is very much extended. For_ merly only two or three ships were employedle the China, and double that number in the Bengal trade. Now we ore informed, that thew are t welve ships en. gaged in the ..ne, and twenty-four in the other. Through r. , 41 int .rtnediate cheunel we had accounts yesterday from Fortugal, and we are sorry to be obliged to contradict the favourable representation that was g7ten of the quantity and quality of the produce of the vineyards. It was said to he both abundant in one respect rind most excellent in the other. The truth is, that in each particular it Is de ficient. A valuable interchange has been made at the eastern and western extremities of the globe. The Maranham Cotton, cultivated so abundantly in the Brazils, has been transplanted into the East Indies, and the experiment has been attended with groat soc cess. Under the patronage of the• Prime Minister A RAM)°, a number oft ea plants withChinesegardeners have been imported into the Brazils, and the planta tions formed under their management afford every prospect of a rich harvest from that important vegeta ble. The decoction prepared from this exotic is said to be equal to that produced . frum the commodity on its native soil. PA RIR. DEC. 31.—Sir lIENRY WELLESLEY has this moment arrived from Madrid, after an uninter rupted journey of fourteen days, passing throug:t Vittotia he waited on the wife of the gallant Gen. 01. Av %, to whom he gave some consolatory informs. tion respecting her husband. Sir EinNitY travelled in an English harnoch, accompanied by Mr. Kits'sLev, a medical Gentleman attached to his Embassy, and an Officer in the Spanish uniform, of the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel ; passing through the Sierras they saw several bands of armed then, who wide:- standing who the travellers were, not only suffered them to pass unmolested, but cheered them by re peated virrts--:the brother of the Duke of •WEL LINGTON had nothing to fear. His E‘relleacy looks rental ',ably well, he is considerably teller than the Doke, and hears n very prepossessing appearance.— To-morrow, Sunday, he will be presented to his Ma. jesty, and, no doubt, will add to the brilliant aF semblage on the New Year's day fete. We beer that Csrsitirm VAv.sl N, Isq. Secretary of Embacsy (assisted iy Mr. A. lirtesE), remain in charge of the husittess of the Embassy, pro tempore. Sir lIFNRV proceeds to England, it ts:said, by the' way of Bres. seis —Yesterday Was married at the parochial church I I of St. Denis ' and subseqnently at the Eugli•h sador's Chapel, Major-General the ifot.'li. Capri. i .brother-in-law to the Rid of Eastx, to DOHA Ban ; &ARITA NlOaturrt, late of Cadiz, niece to the BrI• Oilier of that name, who accorupanied her to Pani•. happy to escape the persecution of his beloved Save t l reign and Master. Brigadier Warm is well know• to the ()dicers of the British army for •his musical Clients, his conviviality, and attachment to the Bri tish ; the latter quality gained him no favour in the " Secreturio de Guerra of Madrid."—We hear that the Generals DOYLE, WILITTINpIIMS, DOWNIE, are in high favour at that Court. On Tuesday last a numerous and respectable Meet ing of the Parish of Clerkenwell was held at S! James's Church, fur the purpose of taking into con• sideration the propriety of petitioning Pag!iAme , i: against that oppressive and obnoxious tax, the Trt upon Income,. which they unanimously carried, Wi stro.l Resolutions. PARIS. JA N•. I. Your Readers have, no doubt, observed lately in The 31,adteur that the celebrated chemist. Guytoit de Morveaux, one of the Sevens of the expedition to Egy pt, had rei , 4lterl his office of Administrator of the Mint on account of his advanced age. Nothing is more incorrect than the official statement. This veteran in the learned world, this inventor cfr the simple and ingenious mode, now universally prac tiseil, of purifying, by means of the oxy-muriatic acid, the atmosphere when impregnated with mephi tic matter, has been dispossessed of his office, which was intended as a retreat, in the close of a life de voted to science and humanity. This has been ac complished to gratify the vindictive passions of those who consider no cultivation of talents or magnitude of services an atonement for political errors. I do not 4 recollect any instance of individual oppression which has excited more general dissatisfaction. A circumstance which has considerably diminished the popularity) of Excelmans at Paris, is, that he is known to have acted in direct contrariety to the advice of Marshal Oudinot, his old and staunch friend, inhabitant of the same town with himself.— As no character can be more enthusiastically admired than the Duke's, his frank and unqualified opinion has been of the greatest weight. During his resi dence at Berlin the King of Prussia honoured him with much personal friendship. He modified, on every occasion ' the Revere orders he received from Napoleon, and upheld, instead of degrading, the Royal dignity. On quitting the capital, the Govern ment offered him a present of considerable value, which, notwithstanding the mediocrity of his fortune, he declined accepting. When the Allies took pos session of Bar, Prince Henry caused all his estates to he respected, he was exempted from military con ibutions and quarters, nor was one of his sheep of fat oxen, of which he has a large collection from Switzerland, molested in his stable. Placards , placed on different parts of his land, explained in illeuent languages the reason of this honourable distinction. They invited the troops to respect the property of a man, who, in times of general pillage and desola tion, had alwa . as displayed so much rare disinterest editeis. Swap time since the King sent him a pipe of the Great Fredetick's in a golden case, he most spectfully accepted the former and returned the latter. A thousand similar traits can be cited of him. Ist. The etclusit e direction nod the exercise of the exclusive power of the Confol.eratiou ; the repre sentation of this in circumstances when it must appear as such 11!I 1:s relations with foreign Powers; the decision upon peace or tsar. 2d. The Administration. conjointly with the Council of the Princes and States, of the objects which belong to tit: , resort of the latter. G. The Council of the States is composed (r) of a certain number of princely houses : the% shall bo chosen according to the antiquity of the dimity of l'il'acs in the families, the splendour of them, and the population of their States; so that, besides the ancient princely house, there may he some new (toes, but only in the case of their Possessing in the whole n i,palroinn of 100.)00 souls (d); of the other ptincely houses nod free cities, with the vote known by the iitune of Curial Ile this Coun cil has only the Les,islative power of the S'otifeder,_ 'inn, in rotirett with the Council of the Directors of su.-11 a 'eviller. however, that they form two separate vote Cliamliers for their deliberations ; r.otser e sently it is rhiollv employed ou general tegu lasions. the (+jeer of which is the good of the inte rior ; •it mect but once a year, and continues sitting on 10.15..5r than is tier, s:ary to terminate the affairs it has each time to discuss. 7. 'n l)'ust.'tor; of Circles have n:I the same rig`.ls; nary Anstsia has the (;nection .f the atts.:rs in Om t L . :wee:Os ; b which is meant merely the manner or rateldetieg them. s. i v • tyre :leis of each Circle .4 charged f ) to maintain tip fels!..t! alliance and its de •i6io , • • (f), _ _ . e s e.r:se et the severeign potter in the as- CHILD STEALINC.-0,1 Wednesday afternoon, tr.o ('i,ek, on the atisirs of war (s); Mary Ilulpit, a girl about 8 or 9 years of age, Fe w; s i iii-Nning the as.ettiliSio , of the Ore's - ; with siding with her parents, No. 37,. Chatidos.stseet, tribunal-, the last ittstatice for the • was entrusted to take out a female infant, about States of Cie t ir. 11 . ..ich, b ythe Conditions c: the fly: , or six months old, the (laughter of NI rs, Thomas, compact, are to have themstivas no tribunal in the I a lodger in the same house, and at the top of St. last instance. Ilis pnrtiruiar reF.ttons with the its- Martin's-line she WAS met by a lusty fresh-coloured diviildal States of the Circle will he determined by young woman, dressed in a red stuff gown and their greater or less extent, and tit:; may be.r. !us ellp hat, who conversed with her respecting Weil upon the d;'cision before pointed out of the the infant, pretending to kuow the parents. She state having w h a t v .,e eami virile or coriql rotes.— as!'ed the girl to go on an errand for her, which she 'Tile Dirv:•tor of the Circle sln.ll not etrereise the st clined doing ; she, however, urged her to go to rights with which he is invested by the federal act, by No. 21. King-street, Soho, to fetch a small bundle, virtue of a power iithereat in him as scvereNn of 'he' and, that she might go with the greater speed, she country, the other German States haling in this view agreed to take care of the infant while the other Che same rights as himself ; hot lie shell esercise ran for the bundle, for which she promised to give them merely as charged with the alrairs of the her twopence. The girl went, hut could not find , the house: she returned to the top of St. Martin's It is a lamentable thing for the ancient nobility of France, that from having been so long unpractised in the routine of affairs, there really are none of them to whom the public can look up with confidence. PoOr Monsieur Dupont was delighted at quitting an arduous situation which he was most completely unqualified to fulfil ; but who could have ever supposed that the many opprobrious acts of that Revolutionary General .4oult), the battle of Thouloarte, and the contemptuous epithets applied to the Due d'Angonleme, would ever hays been forgitett and forgot ? What a total dearth of men of talents does it a r gue, when he Rho in an ordre du jour announced to his soldiers th• arrival in the hostile camp di; nomme Angouleme Emigre et Corwin should be placed in direct relation with this Plince and appointed Minister at War. The satis faction this nomination caused to the army is undeni able. lie is known to possess all the qualities suit utile for the times. Resolute and intrepid he will carry into dint every measure of his administration. Ile had all the gaming-houses of Paris surrounded and every 01,:,er found• therein was commanded, the sting t o join his respective corps. He pays little heed to solicitations ; his orders are general, and 114 one is dispensed from obeying them. cot:Wry. 9. To hinder any particular State of the Confec!c- I,pe, bnt could not find the woman or the intent. ration from compr o mising the estenet security , each j fironsray Itosagair.—On Friday evening last, of thowt who have no possessions out of Germany as Mr. Stet:dry, a respectable farmer, residing at engages not to make war separately with foreign Speldhurst, was ping home from market on horse. Powers, to take no part in it, and not to conclude bock, he was stopped b a r two footpads between without reserving the consent of the Confederation, .Sevenoaks and Tunbridge, who knocked him off his 3nv alliance relative to war, or any treaty of subsidy, horse, and beat him in a troel manner ; they then or for the furni‘laing of troops. If the first States rifled his pockets of about 101. and mounting his N:3) hive possessions out of Germany engage in *sr -horse, rode away ) leaving him insensible in the road: te 4 r• `4, 1 ♦' -"4llhre- *Lf