The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-01-27 00:00:00

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I •Y*. \ • • . , Parliament was and cocoa, to be or pbustatioat % of Pepe ..• lily such port, , the laid colonies granted by the Col ;ustonts," this law was intarcourse 116 Pugh 'the sUffices of all detachments called into the employment and placed under the Government of the UAW States. - -'• deserre'the minsilieteition of Congress also, . iirlustser,,Apong other impimeemeele la the militia - tairs,itltice does not require a regelatio*, under aloe precsiitions ) (or tiefrnying the ;expense incident • to the first assembling as well as to the subsequent °foresee* of detachments called , into* She untitottai be borne ; a greater respect for . right% and longer duration pf oar future peace, ado promised, than ,could be eaPoctest wishosst timeerproafs of the us: tional character and tesouttee. .; • . ,yar has proved , ,fteseosiercilhat - cor fine go.. veemonni, iikst *bat free prvernsiinti, *digit slow ini•kilearfxnioveliento, aettairea In He progress st• !ferie'Propostiened to its freedom ;- oud•tbst the uniod of these States, the python , of tiro' freedom and safety of an and of *Deb t Is strengthened by every oettadon . that puts it to.** teat. • In fine, the war, with oti its and the Wm. .vitie , 4 ' To give our vesealsgirarrarlyrablic and private, the sequisite ft - client* in aheiccreize., it is of much im. • rtanre that they shoi;jd have, both for themselves their prises, the. use of the ports of friendly wers. With this ?lea, I recommend to C o ng ress i d 7 do expediency of such legal provisions as may sup. ply the defects, or remove the doubts of the Execs tire authority, to allow to the cruisers of other • powers, at war nith the enemies of the United States, such use of the American ports and markets as may ' correspond with the privileges allowed by auch powers to American cruisers. --- During the year ending on the 30th of September t . . ~llitst, the receipts into the Treasury have exceeded • : - ..4hirty. seven millions Rod a half of dollars, of which ! ~ 4111 U twenty-four millions ware the produce of loans: ' :After meeting all,the demands for the public service, ; there remained in the Treasury on that day, near , . seven millions of dollars. . Under the authority contained in the act of the 94 uf Auguel last, for borrowing seven million; and a • half of dollars, that stun has been obtained on . terms more favourable to the United States thaC those of the preceding loan made during the pre, sent year. Farther sums to a considerable amount • will he necessary to be obtained in the same, way der.. ' ing the ensuing year ; and from the increased capital of the country, from the fidelity with which the pub. Pc engagements have been , kept, and .the public cre. ' ait maintained, it may be expected on good grounds tliat the secessary4seuniery supplies will not be wanting. • . The expences of the carrentyear, from the milli-. . plied operations falling within • it, hags necesseeiti' been extensive. Bet 6u a just estimate of the ann= paign, in which the mass of them has been incurred, the cost will nut be found disproportionate to the ad vantages which have been gained. The campaigubas, indeed, is its latter stages, in one quarter been less favourable than was expected ; but in addition to the importance of our naval success, tha progress of the campaign has been filled with incidents highly h0.,_." .,_." sourabie to the American arms. The attacks of the enemy on Craney Island, on .. lirOrt Meigs, on Stckett's Harbour, and on Sandus. ky, have been vigorously and successfully repulsed ; ' nor We they in any case succeeded ; on either fron ' tier, excepting when directed against the peaceable dwellings of individaals, or villages unprepared or undefended. On the other hand, the movements of the Ameri can army have been folowed by the reduction of . York, and of Forts George, Erie, and Malden ; by the recovery of DAreit, and the extinction of the Indian war in the West ; and, by the occupancy or command of a large portion of Upper Canada. Battles have also been fought on the borders of the St. Lawrence, which, though not accomplishing their entire objects, reflect honour on the discipline and prowess of our soldiery, the best auguries of eventual victory. In the same scale are to be placed the late successes in the south, over one of the most powerful, which had become one of the most hostile also, of the Indian tribes. It would be improper to close this communication without expresiing a thankfulness, in which all ought to unite, for the numerous blessings with which our beloved country continues to be favoured; for the abundance which overspreads our laud, and the prevailing health of its inhabitants ; for the pre- serration of our internal tranquillity, and the stebi- 1 lity of oar free institutions ; and above all,, for the i light of Divine Truth, and the protection of every' man's conscience ii, the enjoyment of it. And al though among our blessings we cannot number an exemption from the evils of war ; yet these will -never be regarded as the greatest of evils by the -- -friends- of liberty and of the rights of nations. Our country has before preferred them to the degrading condition which was the alternative, when the sword was drawn hi the cause which gave birth to our national independence : and none who contemplate , the magnitude, and feel the value of that glorious event, will shrink from a struggle to maintain the high and happy ground on which It placed the Ame rican people. With all good citizens - Ilse justice and necessity of resisting wrongs and usurpations no longer to be ' borne, will sufficiently outweigh the privations and saci Nees inseparable from a state of war. But it is a reflection moreover, peculiarly consoling, that whilst wars are generally aggravated by their bane , ful effects on the internal improvements and perma. vent prosperity of the nations engaged in them, such is the favoured sillatlon. of the United States, that the calatnities of flte contest into which they have . been compelled to enter, are mitigated by improve meets and advantages, of which the contest itself is i the source. if the war has increased the interruptions of our ;commerce, it has at the sarnelime cherished and mul tiplied our manufactures so as to make us independ ent of all other countries for the more essential ,br!uaches ) for which we ought to be dependent on d, is files. of the UMW I vitiates - des, truing the capacity - dlistfh, States, to be a great, a dourtshing,und powerful nation, worthy of the friendship which it is disposed to cultivate with alVathers; and, authorised by its own example, to require from all, as observance of the laws-of justice and reciprocity. Beyond these, their claims hive never extended ; and, in contend. lag for these, we behold a subject for our congiatula. tions, in the dail' testimonies of increasing harmony throughout the nation, and may humbly repose our trust in the smiles of Heaven on so righteous a cause. JAMES MADISON. HOUSE OF ASSIMILY, Meiv,tv, N0v.19. 1813. Mr, Smells, In his place, reported as follows s--- 1 Mr. SPIMILIB i —A Committee was appointed to enquire whether any and what measures have been r adopted by the Ministers of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, for alleviating the distress of oar Constituents, in consequence of the hsurable repre sentation and petition of the Assembly, .Ned to on : . ~ the 10th Dec. 1811. ~ • It is the painful duty of your Committee to state, ,' that although no case of greater distress from Com- i mercial restrictions ever eiisted, than whet "es made out on behalf of the coffee planters, the peOpeiedi, for allbrdiug some alleviation hue both been ett6.l jectea. - The plan for adopting the use of coffee in the navyl had been brought forward by the Committee of West India Planters, and Merchantstin Loodoo l at a meeting attended by deputation,- AwneeilitorYo o lo Glasgow, and Greenock ; and, oat limit ailiaqatt, I the Lords of the Committee of Trials sobselielitler; the oonsideration of the LordsoCeinmissioners of the 1 Admiralty, as a measure which: they were of opi- I neon would be highly expedient, if not liable to objection 011 account of oxpesoo, or found intim. , elotiot with .a duo attendee to.this health. of'tko, i seanien. The Lords of the Admiralty do not red i tore to state that the measure proposed was open i to ohjecdon oa tidier of thew important grounds,' f but they refused to adopt it, because they were i pleased to allege that many inconvenienoes would be found to occur in introducing coffee into the vic tualling •of the navy. Their Lordships have not thought proper to mate any of the inconvenitisiset I which they aotittipated, and youvCommittee ore afraid, to trust themselves with commenting on the cold in difference with which the Lords of the Alottrolty consign to utter destruction a valuable chunef his Mi t , jesty's subjects, rather than otasionkliflMlldimait . , . .to their contractors or agents: . On the important subject of regulating the dud • ' los i no relief has been given, and your Committee retire their observations to a subsequent part of this Re, port. . .. The claim of a right to refine our own bugler can never be lest sight of by the Roust ; but considering the interest of the great cepitslists who - -have en grossed that -branch of the trade,. . it perhaps will ex cite little• surprise*to stete, that - nis meateres. have bean adopted in consequence of the Report of the Committee of the Hops. of Commons, dearly *Ming oar right, and showing that the exercise of it oilbMt In opposit4A4l.-tho rural interests of iliplaitlep. . i"" • ~,, tent of the force required, but the dance tied cannot have escaped the obser gallant and attentive officer now here, the mortification we have pointed _ it be concealed from our enterprising who are but too welt informed of what is passi n g it, the colony. Pursuing the order of esiqoiry pointed out by the Howie, your Committee find, that on the late Session of Pnrliameat, certain propositlott were introduced informed 'of the into the (louse ef Commons, for laying open the the other cola- trade to the East Indies, and that, by the final ar. provisions of the rangement established by law, the monopoly of,the IT no utility. Company ceases on .the expiration of the preseet. Biitith Planta- Chatter except as to the commercial intermit's,. Bermuda in Bri.!. with China ; and that it 'shall be lawful for arty of irrltoriel of the , hie Majesty's subjects to export goods to and imps* .- vessels.; and to per- them from, the countries formed/ within the limits the:said United States, ' of the Company's eiclusive Cbarter. foreign ships Of By consequence ail the tropical productions raised altogether ineffi- in, and imported from, the West Indite, •may be aware of any brought from the eastern settlements, hat mere espe -out ever ' ilkeklii . be &Heed from it, to this cially the important staples, sugar end'ooffee. Island. . ,• . As those territories are exempt from the colonial After stating an 'account of the licence trade, he . regulations-and restrictions impose? on our agrieuts said, If any benefits were intended' to this isl•and ture and commerce, and have peculiar edvantages llegas the power to issue such licences , they were ! front the cheapstesta„ of labour; the abundance of real eyed fruitlesa by the shortness of . the tbne ii• food, an unlimite l t eatiat of the richest soil capable 'lotted.' • . • of,trrigation, and intersected with navigable rivers, '• The intercourse through neutral', except under the it would be impeslitilo ; fer the cultivators of sugar !Free Post Act, being now at an end, the Commit- ; in the old British colonies, to eater into contpetitioit tee are at a loss to conjecture in what channel his 1 with the farmers of 'Bengal, if ,the r shall be encou- Apyal Highness's Ministers expect that we are tore- ! raged to grow sager for the supply of the British Oipre *provisions and lumber, but more especially i market. white oak staves. , •: . • , . i It would be easy fiii your Committee to sheer, that • The horrors of famine have only been prevented itlie production of the soil is richer and more abundant, by a source of supply, altogether unexpected. — Rice ! and that the expellee of•cultiOstion and manufacture and, maize, raised on the fields of Hayti, formerly ! is perhaps not one-tenth of the cost in Jamaica; but covered with canes, .and circuitously introduced ', information 'on this subject is note• very widely dif through the Spanish settlements, have been the prin- I fused, and accessible to all the Members of both tipal subsistence of the poorer inhabitants of the I branches of the Imperial Parliament, who will bare towns, and of the negroes in many other parts of !to decide on • th e policy end justice of adopting each the island. This supply is known to be precarious, i Legislative measures as shall be requisite to secure whilst our internal .resourcea have been itnpaired by to the West India Colonies thecensumption of the visitations over which we had no .controul, ; , mother country, not as e boon, but as a right, for Although food of a certain description may bevels I which a valuable consideration is given by the me - - 1.4 4 1fA/C4. ,- .. ~ wr i „ -,, titatedland substituted for bread corn, by withdraw- i nopoly of their market, , for every ..ride of bee .'ing labour from other object' :—...Y.00r Committee are growth or manufacture, nd - not less necessary foe . . - not SWIM, of-any means by which white oak vtaves, her prosperity, than just towards her dependencies. Extract of a private letter, dalid„Dec. 10, 1813. .equal ta the wants of the planter, atalee procured; ; The sugar of the.. West Indies, whatever be HI up. —" Three laws have passed the Legislature last esoept by importation, through neutrals * from the j minal price to the consumers, is is part received for week, infavour of free people of ooleor,,and whicb. # United States,. and it is quite certain thatmwsubsti- i nothing, as the rent of the planters who are spending have made their evidence good in all -pies againet . tate has been discovered. From Canada,' in its pre- it in the Metropolis, and the remaintleris 'bartered for whites, and allowed them to.possess mime/ to all 'sent state, - none can be expected. manufactures of every description, distributing its. extent, as, by the old lair of titabland, they could 'rbeiscilley of preventing the importation of this . tenance and prosperity through the whole mutat . !not Inherit any property exceeding 2 000 1. currency 'attlehe trowthe United States, through every chan- ' her industrious population. - or 14281. sterling. . .. net lir witich it could be drawn, your,Committee are From Bengal, sugar may be got nominally cheaperg., " There is another law of the island which obliges unit elo discover. • ~ , •• but In all ages the exports from that opulent regime. all persons possessing slaves to have a • white person The last object represented to Administration, was i have been great, the imports trifling; and *Rhine * . serving in the mi li tia in their employ for miry the difeaceless state of the island, from the inade- the latter bare been swelled by the consumption of Iniodrod of them, whi t s view 04. hOePiagitell ! radial save( force _ upon the station, and from the the British inhabitants and army, h y whom a gmat ithe white populatioh ..e • fine of $ 001 ." - r- few ships here not having been employed by the Ad- proportion of the goods sent out wilt be•firead to mg,' seueanY is hilk . : .411 POW- piral,;- .. commanding, fee,thp protection' of eitet hare been Used, thedrein of billion coutinum to be orbital man of who* . AilatAsa It ti , ' Commerce. . velditiou to the aboetaegis one of the ' new By the agent's letter of shy -lid•Slar44 ftuppeats, '7 , .. Report then enters at greet length into agar - L • ._. • „,.... Immense. enables ct.loured-free people to save the... 11,0-1 that a copy of the Report of the Committee of last' peeison of the advaritars given to the importers of • 1 .. , kloucy for each other's property, which they colthilSession, had been left at the Admiralty, and thst on ! sugar and coffee from the East Indies, over those of nit do before. These Importivnt.concession, whkh I earnestly urging an attention to those passages, which : the .West Indies, and states the serious evils that mask ; will greatly ameliorate the situation of 'ts' class of related to the nasal protection of the trade and of the ' ensue to the latter therefrom. . .. people, do great honour to the entightftted-libevelity 1 coverer the island, he had been assured, in the most [To be Continued:3 .. of the Jamaica Legialature,,especially as the hiws • expreeamenner, by the Secretary, Mr. Croker, that passed the Assembly with only two dissecting voices, ! instructions had been sent out to the Admiral com- GERMAN PAPERS.' • ' amidst a great deal of popular clarnoui, and in ote• mantling on the station, to apply his force In the Y . ..mmagappg........ , position to two petitions against the measure from the althea, the Report recommended, at the same timer, City of Kingston. They bast this will convince the letting to his discretion the description of force to I ZURICH, JAN. I.—The Convention signed' fat people of England of the string diapositon existing • beittetiamed in any quarter. , Zurich by the Deputies of the great majoritj• .1' the . in this colony to improve the situation of all classes, ! . Nething farther could be expected, on that part of Cantons, on the 29th of December, is the only way : to as far as is consistent witb . their progress in civilitta.- the application, and your Committee are happy in put a !top to disagreements. The example of Zurich tics% and tend to silence the unjust calumnies which :loins able to give the most unqualified testimony to ought to have great weight ; and we are geneaellr are so generally spread abroad against tilli people of ! the zeal and attention of Rear-Admiral Brown, to persuaded, that the new Constitution will preserve the West Indies." . the protection of the coasts, and the accommodation the division of Switzerland into 19 Cantons. . 'file of the merchants engaged in commerce, foreign and , Deputies assembled at Zurich may not properly form domestic: but the material and more important part a Diet, yet they continue assombled to deliberate ens of the grievance and -reptegentation remains unre- giving the Directorial Power to the Canton of Zurich, dressed add unattended to. The Admiral, command-' and to receive the propositions which the Chevalier de Lebzeltern, the Austrian Minister, is comntis lug here, has not the means of giving effectual pro- de to offer. '!'here is nothing wanting to this tection. In place of an augmentation, part of the , very limited force on the station last year has been ' re-union but the Deputies of Berne, Tessee, and rimmed. The assembled Deputies of the . Cantons he , Underwald. '' When the Report of the Committee was made on i 4thireed the 10th December, 1812, Vice-Admiral Stirling had lander his command five frigates, six sloops of woe, to. renew those ancient federal relations, which sob - Isisted among them, and have solemnly declared the principle, that all dependence on any foreign power and three smaller vessels. . is incompatible with the rights of a free people.— j There are now, as your Committee understand, ; General Watteivvyl has disbanded the Swiss troops, on this station, under the direction of Rear-Admiral and on the 30th resigtied his command at Zurich.' Brown, the Argo and Minerva frigates, the last of a l Mr. Mills Who lately arrived at Lausanne, has I very small class, four sloop of war, and two ! , schooners. If one frigate and two sloops of war I assumed the title of Envoy Extraordinary from his ' be dispatched with the ships announced to sail for . Britannic Majesty to the Swiss Cantons. Great Britain iu January next, another sloop bad Peeitiettes t „.D,gc. 'A.—Among the prisoners who, given as convoy to Honduras, and the fourth take (have Passed through here are a good many Dutch, !charge of the packet to depart the 13th December, .4 . who, in t onialuenee of the change their country has there will remain for the protection of the coasts of-, undergone, • have demanded permission, to return , Jamaica, one frigate and two schooners.. ' • Athither, to assist in delivering it, febni . the French This is a state to which the island never was be. ! yoke; they.bere await 'the decleton of our Grimm fore reduced. And your Committee think thaeltQlneet-. . . - ... - . s I will hardly,.be credited in Great Britain, thatpee- Viten lt, 'De; 31. 7 - 1 0 11 ! Court Gino* - Contains . ., party, which is tuediritely estimated at siamillittna the following:, rr . -. 4 ),‘ -sterling, must be exposed in the harbours, .bays, and , ". The theatre .of the war '11....n0w transferred to roadsteads of Jamaica, from the Ist of January to' the'Firench territory ; 180.000 tubkhave crossed the the Ist of August next, at the mercy. 41 rte active. Rhine between Schaffhausen and Belle., When Ho enemy, peculiarly anxious to extend his fame.eu thiskl nitaguen•wae.intaested, a few prisoners'asere taken, new element, without any protection froin thet • till of them conscripts, who were neithe'r.clothed, navy, which we formerly considered was to xrddl:nor all Of them completely armed. There is , reason off every danger. Your Committee affirm, Withottl ill believe that there is in France en extrnordiliavy fear of contradiction, that if the two heavy frigatadii.'iant of 'mils: the ;realer pariof the f4rtrea'ie :,r•' the President and Congress, which escaped' last. *et provisio ned; and many of them (vett withoi.r Spring, in place of sailing for Europe,, had directed ' eatllliry. In Consequence of the extraordinary torts their course hither, they might have sunk, and burn. st cannon which the French army experienced in the ed property to the value of several millions, without tire last. campaigns, most of the fortress had been the possibility of the Admiral commanding at Jame ca Converted into field artillery. The French arc ega,iv.. being able to prevent it, 'He must have suffered the Iy deficient in artillerymen. ' , • mortification of being' a witness to the destruction. besetting, JAN'. I.—The Austrian corps of Field of the shipping, and cottneenicated. it to the Cora- Marshal *Lieutenant Mayer, which came partly top ~wander on .the coast of America, who, doubtless, -Dresden, and partly from the Upper Rhin ,'" f • 'ha ;would hare detached a whole squadron, when too- palsied through our vicinity on its route to join tt.• late to be of any utility. The planters, merchants, army of Italy. Notwlthstauding the ditlicultles u:' Ind under-writers, must always be exltosed to this so painful- a march at this season of the ;eats the . imminent. Meant, even in the present state of the troops are in the best condition. ' ' ' .Americas navy, unless the officer commanding here, VIENNA, Dec. 29,—The French garrisons Or the of the smaller seessels proper to cruize fortresses which have successively fallen, are new * privateers, shall have at least one ship of the suffering for that license whiCh they exercised to per. frigates equal to meet the heavy vessels of wards the inhabitants of these places . They ; bri i :. titonniuty. with them the most malignant *disorders (rum thoi r ..;: Your Committee ptitond not to point out the ex- cities which they so long and so obstinately, refusnkf . ' - . - - --,- . , ....• . • . , . • -•-:, •-. , . . ~. \ . .... di - . . -ll' . ~ „ • . ..„...,:„..;_, , It - 'l.• k. . ... . . . ''' ' 11l F. . 4 3',. I'A'I'ESMA I / 4 , ir _:_________, ~ - - _. _. ___ _______ ___ ___ --- ______ .. ___ ........ _____ _. ir... deplorable tented '.: e.s. it is lienonnible to them, none • and is even ra ' them an ex t ent , eteskthe 9th isly„illit, an Act of 1 that they . 11*, ' 1 0 . ire it bot i. l lo4er the most which will create *din' , ' - to our future lui ! . . , • 10 . 1 , , . IS sugar, coffee, an ... imperious C. - -Li , k v . ~_. l.' .._ .i. a .t i • humane purpose torcourse with foreir. me 7; .- . 7. - , . .. ' .:, ... pa ~ ‘ . - ajesty's colonies of effectuating a: " . 7 " i r t .“ Oohed usages of • •If itech treaters host . g . .„...,_ , '' ntsiincettildes 5 . 1 .111 - : . __ '.* '.,'. rope, soethnird I liar. 1 r abies porde.* it hiett I ^wlr 9 , , Id ohlects deist: ller 1 1 . ' core lii be imported. from . ,_ The views of, • ' . on the sobs Me is their seise Mid I . ' . -4. ts our .pmr anoint: sod freed*. coiset;of Africa, into the Sects which ha ''''' 4. .. • • to. uegoeia.: safety. ' „,, .. . • . (and plantations; ender licences grantf ton,. have recur ?` •I , . 3 '• . the close If -the war has exposed' tr to increased spoil'. lectors and Controllers of the Custom! ___, of your l a te - ',.,.." .. '''''.- Irienipoteas lions on 046.ot:ease,. and to predatory hicersiott. es only meant to give more facility to an tiary of the Uniseci 1 "...1 ''. :.• ' l n Abed not been I the laud, k hat deyeloped the natioual meams of re- fore permitted. . :•' . enabled, •by proper o'. 7 --. 'to press the ob- ! taliating the flwaser,• and of providing; prwvection Yottreemmittee pretend not to be i jects of his misslou v esptilierib4by his instructions. 1 against the . :ileitee,,p dos ; „all, that adrantqes which may hate -Sow 4 to The militia being alneye to be regirded as the i every blow eletilleksver lattitlash. . ' nee; Is- tins fre. the original Mesielire Of the P • great,bulwark of defies ... es and security for free Sthrer, - I an impulse s 14011*111014 hi ' • niarititne Act now stated; Here it has beitii of and the Coestitution bowleg wisely committed . to the power . : ~...:', 4 .... ._„! . „ Another Actwits'passed, "to allow *edema' authority a use of that forces as the best ; By diffusing ihroo4hAlkt inns of °.itioatilioit • the floe sugar and gioffee imported into 13 , prating* against an duettfe military establishment, as ' elements of military o rpline and lustroelleiti be. tub ps, to -he eiported to the ter gwall Ira a receuree peeoliarly adapted to .a, ,coantry !sugmentieg and dist so warlike pyeparethrits epo &atm, in foreign ships or vesse 'bialys the extlnk got) . the exposure of the United 1 plicable to future use, by evinceug the seal and ye- ion *rticles the production' of the:said "Mates ; I . retoMmeod to Congress a revision effete llour 'with. hich they will be employeti, mid the be imported in* the said hland in f nail& lows, fOr khe purpow of securing more rcheerfolness 'with which every necessary burdin will lessen." This Act has been also a' .. . . . __.._ -_ll-.1 t....,...k., ihe hetrite ..! . water respect for our right% and a tient ,: and icier Committee are net ... . -, . •-• evoti K. . 43 1' • • ) 44 , , • } • • 1 ' • Z . 4 • ; ailiWs.66 - iiiia *IMAM • 2 ie [anger is ohs ions' iservation of thw At i re, mid exposPitto out ; neither can rising m 1,1.1106.4, ' ~- s • • . • • s L '